Weekend Doings Across the Nation In Brief
King Edward’s birthday observed in England. Hassola steamer wrecked on Astoria wharf. Mount Colima still erupting. Kentucky feud resurges with one dead and two wounded. Russia opens new Dalny port, Vladivostok to be abandoned. Kansas City streetcar service resumed. Unpublished tale on King Alexander and Queen Draya assassination planned. West Virginia storms damage crops. Earl of Rosebery proposes a million dollar English technical college. Nome’s Lawrence hotel destroyed by June 19 fire, $40,000 loss. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay for summer, executive office there. Boston hosts 25,900 teachers for National Education Association. Idaho 1902 mining output totals: gold 1,510,015. silver 7,683,509. lead 5,787,200. grand total 14,980,814.
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Idaho
Landes Leads State Water Resource Investigation
Prof Henry Landes state geologist directs a United States Geological Survey study of Washington water resources. The effort documents springs underground streams artesian wells and city supplies for public use with results to be published. surveys span east and west of the Mississippi with data gathered by letters to mayors and field visits beginning in midmonth.
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Landes
Seattle
Washington
Henry Landes
United States
United States Geological Survey
Mississippi River
North
Yakima
Admiral Glass Leads Pacific Fleet Cruise to Alaska
San Francisco reports Admiral Glass with the flagship New York and cruisers Concord Bennington and Marblehead of the North Pacific fleet will sail July 1 for a cruise along the Alaska coast and Aleutian islands. The vessels may call at Puget Sound ports and Seattle possibly for Fourth of July celebrations.
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San Francisco
Glass
New York
Concord
Bennington
Marblehead
North Pacific Fleet
Alaskan
Aleutian Islands
Puget Sound
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Seattle
First Klondike Gold Reaches Seattle in Major Shipment
The first large consignment of Klondike gold worth $750,000 from 1903 arrived in Seattle Sunday night aboard the City of Seattle. The two tons included gold in strong boxes and shipping receptacles from the North.
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Seattle
Washington state news items from Everett and surroundings
A test of the poll tax law will be made at Everett. Dunkards hold their annual conference at Sunnyside. John 8. Carter, Whitman county pioneer and 13-year deputy marshal of Colfax, is dead at 63. Mrs. C. C. Brown of Everett elected president of the Washington Woman's Federation of Clubs on the first ballot. Rural free delivery to South Park King County starts July 15 with one carrier for about 20 miles serving 490 people. Sunnydale post office to be discontinued. Judge Denney sentences William Moody and Walter Stedman to ten years each for highway robbery of John Carlson between Everett and Edmunds. Twenty-six Seattle barbers, Japanese and white, barred for unsanitary shops under 1901 law. Supreme Court upholds lower court in Dr James G Stewart and V Lawson case. fines of $500 each must be paid.
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South Park
King County
Sunnydale
Everett
Supreme Court
James G. Stewart
V. Lawson
State Board of Medical Examiners
Ammon Sentenced in Miller Theft Case
New York reports Robert A. Ammon, attorney for William F. Miller of the Franklin syndicate, received an indeterminate prison term of four to four and a half years for conspiring to receive stolen money from Miller. Miller, serving a ten year sentence and the chief trial witness, is said to be dying of consumption. DA Jerome may seek a pardon for him.
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New York
Robert A. Ammon
William F. Miller
Franklin Syndicate
Ammon
Miller
Jerome
Spanish Disaster In Bilbao Train Wreck At Neferila River
Fourteen bodies and fifty injured were recovered from the Bilbao train wreck in the Neferila river with thirty dead and sixty severely injured, amid 300 passengers and only six unhurt. London reports a Midland Railway freight depot fire destroying a large warehouse with enormous potential losses and several hours of blaze.
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Madrid
Bilbao
Neferila
London
Midland Railway
Seattle Market Prices for Farm Produce and Livestock
Market report lists prices offered to producers in Seattle for delivery in round lots. Items include train-ats 21 22 per ton, barley 21, wheat 26 27, hay Eastern Washington 24, eggs ranch 19 20c per ton, live poultry prices per lb or per dozen, cattle and hogs prices per lb, lambs per head, butter and cheese quotes, and honey and turkey prices. Includes regional comparisons for Washington Oregon California and other regions.
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Seattle
Ats
Shorts
Washington
Washington Creamery
Eastern
California
Lima
Agricultural market prices and commodities listing
The page lists bids and prices for livestock and feed including cattle steers cows and poultry. It also shows grain and hay values with oats barley wheat corn and various hay types plus beans and peas with assorted prices.
American Sailors Win Key Races Against German Fleet
In Kiel yesterday American cruiser and sloop crews won two firsts a second and a third in races against German warships though Germany fielded thirty seven boats to the US five. Prizes were presented by the emperor with Steele receiving a silver cup and Mustin and Rowan getting silver cigarette boxes.
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Kiel
United States
Chicago
Stephen ©. Rowan
Princess Fleury
Freya
Hohenzollen
Frauenland
Ariadne
Glitz
Hagen
San Francisco
George W. Steele, Jr
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
Kearzarge
Lieut
Mustin
Lieut Mustin
Hodrit
Comes
Ensign Steele
Yacht Club
Steele
Emperor William
Rowan
U S Defends Petition Presentation to Russia
Washington officials say precedents justify the presidents presentation of a Jewish petition to the Russian government. No ground for quarrel exists if Russia refuses to receive it. The petition is being prepared by the council of B nai B rith and will be widely signed by prominent Christians and Jews.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Russia
Council of B'nai B'rith
Caterpillars Reported Moving Across Walla Walla Area
Walla Walla June 20 a large army of caterpillars is advancing across the region, reported by farmer Dewit who traveled to town. The line stretched 150 yards wide and two to three miles long as it moved from a wheat field east of Walla Walla toward the mountains. No damage reported yet.
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Walla Walla
Dewit
Smith Farm
Tense War Threat Looms in Adrianople Vilayet
Vienna dispatch reports grave conditions in the Adrianople region with signs of a possible Turkey Bulgaria war. Turkish authorities allegedly persecute Bulgarian inhabitants with villages razed and leaders imprisoned as 14,000 troops mass in the vilayet.
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London
Vienna
Vilayet
Adianople
Turkey
Bulgaria
Nome News batch details Nome politics and incidents
Nome reports the April 7 city election results listing councilmen and school directors. It notes a 600 pound silver tip bear killed on Hungary creek with meat sold at eight dollars a pound, and the bear skin brought to Nome. Bob Griffith set a mail run record 380 miles in five days. Plans include Sib eria excursions on the steamer Mannense and a steel railway franchise application by R. N. Simpson.
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Charles Hammer
Hungary Creek
Nome
Bob Griffith
Isaac’s Point
R. N Simpson
Mr. Simpson
Northwestern Commercial Company
Treasury official rebukes customs workers for outside business
Washington June 20 Assistant Secretary Armstrong returned from New York where he reviewed cases of Samuel W. Thompson and Walter R. Eaton linked to a mining company under Post Office Department scrutiny. Treasury officials oppose customs staff holding additional employment, citing interference with duties and harm to the service.
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Washington
Armstrong
Treasury Department
New York
Samuel W. Thompson
Walter R. Eaton
Customs House
Post Office Department
Treasury
Customs Service
Customs Department
Census Funds Sustain Clerks and Philippine Work
Washington reports that the attorney general’s ruling on the unexpended census fund allows retaining clerks beyond the regular appropriation. The director says no large layoffs will occur, with only less-efficient clerks to be dismissed. Funds will cover next year’s census expenses, including ongoing clerical work and the Philippine census preparations.
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Washington
North
Monaghan Named Editor of Foreign Commerce Bulletins
Dr James C Monaghan has been appointed editor of the foreign commerce bulletins in the new Bureau of Commerce. He leaves the University of Wisconsin to lead data compilation and information gathering for US foreign trade with the Orient and transpacific markets. Monaghan envisions a vast, organized program beginning in July to spur Northwest and Pacific trade growth.
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St. Paul
Seattle
Far East
James C. Monagnan
Cortelyon
Department of Commerce
Pacific Northwest
Northwest
Pacific
Monaghan
University of Wisconsin
Department of Commerce and Commercial Law
James J. Hill
West
Orient
Pacific States
United States
Organize New Division in Pacific Northwest Posts
Washington June 2 An order from the post office department reorganizes rural free delivery divisions. Inspection of existing service and installation of new service in Oregon Washington and Idaho will be referred to the Spokane division of post office inspectors.
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Washinon
Post Office Department
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Spokane
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D. W. Simmons
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Golden Gate Hotel
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China
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O. C. Vammen
G St
Heron, Aberdeen
Humbolt
Fred Hewitt
Propr
Heron
Aberdeen, Wash
S. K. Bowes
Pleasant Club
Heron Street
Aberdeen
Fashion Saloon
J. M. Bowes
Heron ST
H. A. Tereda & CO
Zelasko Block
F Street
Aberdeen Livery and Transfer CO
W. T. McBride
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Fish Market
Michael Finn
Wiehkat
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