World News in Briefs From the Week
Salvador and Guatemala may arbitrate disputes with a sitting court in this country. Three Indian chiefs depart Vancouver for Buckingham Palace to protest white land and fishing rights. Multnomah County denies $60,000 fire insurance for nonsettling firms on a dollar basis. Roosevelt names Wilfley Philippines judge for extraterritorial China district with Shanghai HQ and 10000 salary. Belgian crew wins Helney regatta grand challenge at Cambridge.
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Vancouver
B. C
England
Buckingham Palace
Edward
Multnomah County
Oregon
San Francisco
Roosevelt
Wilfley
Philippines
United States
Congress
Seaboard
China
Korea
Shanghai
Club Natique de Grande
Belgium
Trinity Hall
Cambridge
Exports of manufactures hit record May total in 1906
May exports of U S manufactures rose to over 56 million dollars the highest on record with an average daily rate above 2 million. For eleven months ending May the total reached 551 million dollars and were about 58 million higher than the prior year’s months.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
New railroad firm formed in Southwestern Washington
The Gray's Harbor & Columbia River Railway Company files articles of incorporation in Pierce County with a $1,000,000 capital. Plans include building a railroad and telegraph from Kalama west through Wahkiakum and Pacific counties to the Pacific, with a northward line to Grays Harbor and a steamboating business. Trustees named Chester Thorne A F Alberson F A Rice D A Young H H Scales.
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Tacoma
Washington
Gray’s
Chester Thorne
A. F. Alberson
F. A. Rice
D. A. Young
H H. Scales
Crown Prince Wilhelm Receives Son in Berlin Birth
Berlin reports the Crown Princess Frederick William safely bore a son. Both mother and child are said to be in excellent health. Emperor William learned of the birth by wireless from Kiel to the Hamburg steamer as he sails to Trondhjem. He ordered the child to be named Wilhelm if a son and set August 12 for christening.
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Berlin
Frederick William
Emperor William
Kiel
Hamburg
Trondhjem
Norway
William
Potsdam
Wilhelm
Taft Backs American Lake Site for Pacific Coast Brigade Post
Secretary Taft favors American Lake Washington as the preferred site for a Pacific coast brigade post. The General Board backs American Lake, noting price and maneuver advantages. California sites south of San Francisco are alternatives, but Taft deems American Lake most satisfactory. no auction will occur without congressional appropriation.
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Washington
Taft
American Lake
Pacific Coast
General Board
California
San Francisco
Congress
Washington News Highlights Local Developments
Oroville votes for incorporation while Washington fire insurance rates rise twenty five percent. A Harrington plant for denatured alcohol and a south Everett land deal for a powder plant are planned. A Lake Sequalitche monument marks West Independence Day, featured at the Tacoma carnival. Harry B. Strong resigns as U S district court clerk in Eastern Washington. J D Amos and aides arrive in Seattle to set up the Pacific Coast Steamship auditor’s offices. Moscow Grain Company expands Bluestem warehousing with a 100000 bushel capacity elevator.
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Harry B. Strong
United States District Court
Washington
J. D. Amos
Pacific Coast Steamship Company
Seattle
San Francisco
Rojestvensky Pleads Guilty in Bedovy Action
Cronstadt July 5 Admiral Rojestvensky pleads guilty before a court martial saying he bears full responsibility for the Bedovy affair to save his wounded staff and associates. He seeks only the severest punishment for himself while others including Capt. de Colonga and Capt. Baranoff plead not guilty as testimony proceeds.
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de Colonga
Rojestvensky
Baranoff
Bedovy
Road Across Cascades To Link Corvallis & Eastern
Wallace Nash announces that work will start soon on extending the Corvallis & Eastern railway across the Cascade mountains into eastern Oregon and connecting Portland with Meham a. A new independent line from Portland to Meham a will join the Corvallis & Eastern. Financing is arranged and 269 miles of track are planned with completion expected within three years.
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Corvallis & Eastern
Portland
Wallace Nash
Portland Board of Trade
New York
Co-operative Christian Federation
Cascade Mountains
Oregon
Mehama
Nash
Seattle Market Report Prices for Farm Commodities and Livestock
Seattle market report lists delivered prices to producers for grain and feed, oats at 30.81 per ton, barley 24 24.50, wheat 22 23, hay Eastern Washington 21 01 per ton, alfalfa 12 13, eggs strictly fresh ranch 22 24c, poultry live hens 15 15c per lb, old roosters 9 10c, ducks old 14c, young 160, turkeys 16 per lb, spring chickens 3 5 per dozen, wool Eastern Washington 18 22c, Western Washington 20 22c. Live stock prices include sheep wethers 6c per lb, ewes 5 5%C, hogs 64 7c, steers 45 5c, cows 31 4c, calves 5 7c, lambs 3 5 per head.
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Seattle
Oatas
Washington
Puget Sound
C.c
Washington Creamery
Washington Ranch
Market prices for livestock feed and poultry products
A compact listing of commodity prices including wheat, bluestem, red and oats at various cents per bushel or unit, hay types with per ton or bale figures, feed items such as corn and barley, and poultry prices for dressed birds, live fowl, butter and eggs from Washington sources.
Roosevelt Warns Against Vindictive Punishment
President Roosevelt in Oyster Bay urges fight against wrongdoing without hatred or vengeance. He cites Lincoln's call to remedy wrongs and warns that punishment should curb evils without fueling mass outrage or vendetta.
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Lincoln
Pater Sentenced to Two Years in Multnomah Jail
A. D. Pater, found guilty of conspiring to defraud the government of public lands, was sentenced by Judge Wolverton to two years in Multnomah county jail and fined 7500 dollars. Judge A. H. Tanner, who lied to shield his law partner the late United States Senator John H. Mitchell, was pardoned by the president on June 26, with immunity expected.
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Portland
A. D. Pater
Wolverton
Multnomah County
A.H. Tanner
United States
John H. Mitchell
Francis J. Heney
Tanner
Mitchell
Oregon official Henry Mel Drum sentenced on multiple counts
Henry Mel Drum former United States surveyor general for the district of Oregon is sentenced by Judge Wolverton to sixty days on each of eighteen counts and to pay a fine of 250 dollars on each of twenty one counts. God be havior will reduce the term of imprisonment.
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Portland, Or
Henry Meldrum
United States
District of Oregon
Wolverton
England Warned of Egyptian Danger Speech Stuns Parliament
London July 7 Sir Edward Grey the foreign secretary warned Parliament and the nation that recent attacks on British officers in Tantab were deliberate acts by fanatics. He urged strong upholding of Lord Cromer and the Egyptian government to avoid stern measures, while John Dillon denounced the flogging and executions as brutal.
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London
Edward Grey
Egypt
House of Commons
Russia
Congo
House
Tantab
Lord Cromer
John Dillon
Government offers Panama Canal bonds
Secretary Shaw offers 30 million dollars in Panama canal loan bonds dated August 1, 1906. Bonds bear 2 percent interest, redeemable in ten years, payable thirty years from date, tax exempt, available to national banks as security for circulation. Subscriptions due by July 20, 1906.
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Washington
Shaw
Congress
United States
Department
Japanese Withdraw from Mukden Civil Administration Takes Over
The Japanese military authority on July 1 transferred control of Mukden, Manchuria, to Japan's civil administration. The civil authorities plan to withdraw military control from other interior cities during July and August.
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Peking
Mukden
Manchuria
Japan
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New Road
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Everett
Lake Sequalitch
The
Moscow Grain Company
Bluestemn
Cascades
Seattle Market Report
Oyster Bay
Dominies
Abraham Lincoln
White House
Pater
Judge Tanner
Meldrum
Transcontinental
COPAR
W. W. Wrenn
East Market Street
Harper Rye
Kentucky
Fred Hewett
Humboldt
South F Street
Aberdeen, Wash
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
Ninemire
A. E. Hoefer
Sec. & Treas
Butchers and Packers
Ninemire Packing Co
Montesano
Aberdeen
Patterson & Locke Co
MacLafferty & Sons
Heron
Tel
Actus
Mayinu
C.O.D
Express
Ang Renee Men
Hayes & Hayes Bankers (Incorporated
E. J. Bradley
C. W
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