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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1899
Page
3
A mosaic of items from the telegraphic world reports mutterings of court cases and political maneuvering. dispatches discuss trials and acquittals, yellow fever cases in Santiago, labor unrest and strikes, naval affairs, and protests over colonial conflicts.
The bulletin summarizes unrest in Guatemala and Manila, martial law in London Ontario, a new rapid fire gun test, oiling tensions in Cuba and Mexico, and various disasters and political moves across the world including rail wrecks, floods in Texas, and political shifts in Europe and the United States.
A Dallas dispatch describes a massive Texas flood around Sealey and Brookshire with 200 plus dead and millions in losses. About 800 African American residents huddle on a half acre mound amid raging waters, lacking food or shelter as boats, livestock, and debris drift by. Rescue access is cut off.
A Seattle dispatch reports a June 20 arrival of 20 horses from Eldorado creek carrying 200 pounds each. Two tons of gold dust valued at $1,006,000 were aboard, with 11 horses laden from one claim. Additional crews bring hundreds of pounds. the voyage lists $150,000 aboard and new copper vein prospects are noted at Williams point.
Rival Dawson newspaper men vie to land the first Thorne typesetting machine in the Yukon metropolis. Evane Allen of the Klondike Nugget bought a Campbell cylinder and presses, with John Filbin traveling to Dawson to set it up.
A consignment of Pabst export beer totaling 25 carloads 8125 casks or 225000 bottles is shipped into the Yukon under W. H. Parsons Circle City merchant supervision. The liquor reached Vancouver from Seattle and will be transferred to the steamer Samoa.
The Neuhaus brothers operate a brick yard two miles from Baker City. They burn 200000 bricks and produce ordinary bricks along with ornamental bricks praised as comparable to the St. Louis product.
Wilbur and Moon advance construction of a 500 barrel daily capacity mill at Provest Oregon with water power from a new Applegate ditch. Machinery will be the latest model and the mill aims to operate by next harvest. Wool shipments surge to The Dalles with prices around 12 to 14 cents.
The Pyramid Harbor cannery boat raised over 1000 fish from the Taku near Juneau. The early shipment signals a strong season under Superintendent Mr. Murray with full crew. The fish are praised as superior in quality and next week the catch appears in the Chilcoot river.
The Union Steamship Company's Setamer Capilano arrived in Vancouver from Skagway with 70 head of cattle and 75 head of swine belonging to Burchell & Howey. She will load more cattle and sheep for P. Burns, totaling 75 cattle and about 100 sheep on this voyage.
The city clerk of Nelson British Columbia invites bids from banks and financial agents for the new issue of debentures. Bids may cover all or any portion of 60 debentures, each valued at $1000.
A dense market list shows onions at 90e per 100 pounds and potatoes at 2.¢ per pound. Beets, turnips, carrots, parsnips, cabbage, apples, pears, prunes, dairy items, poultry, fresh meats, wheat and oats quotes, and various milled goods follow, with ranges for hay, barley, flour, and miscellaneous farm products from Pacific Coast sources.
Market notes list various prices by region and product. Wool and wool blends show per pound rates from Oregon to Nevada, with miscellaneous regional totals. Millstuffs list middlings and bran per ton. Onions Silverskin priced per sack. Butter rates for fancy creamery and dairy, with seconds, and egg prices for store and fancy ranch. Hops refer to 1898 crop.
The Fairbanks Foster Alaska boundary party returns from the north with interviews indicating the watershed behind Skagway and Dyea may be accepted as the international boundary. The Lynn canal area is described as the crucial point in the Alaska boundary dispute with Canadian and English views opposing a coastward line.
Relief trains run daily from Houston Galveston and San Antonio feeding about 20000 negroes as flood damage totals reach 8500000 dollars. Losses include cotton crop other crops houses stock bridges and railroads with 37 deaths reported across 13 counties and mass meetings in Hearne seeking governor aid. A separate dispatch notes a vast Klondike gold clean-up with packs delivering 400000 to 1500000 in dust from Dawson claims.
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