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Commander Robert E Peary plans another Arctic voyage with Mrs Peary aboard. Fraser river fishers reach 12 1 2 cents per fish for six days weekly season price. State dairy and food commissioners meet in Portland this week starting Monday. No more gambling licenses in Mexico City after August 1 and Gov Tands vows to end gambling. Lord Roberts faults British army as unfit for service since Boer War. James Hamilton Lewis named Chicago corporation counsel by Mayor Dunne. Verona house of Juliet sells at auction from 1200 to 2900 paid by the city. Panama Canal Commission to import 2009 laborers each from Italian, Chinese, and Japanese groups on 500 day contracts for three eight hour shifts.
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Lord Roberta
House of Lords
Panama Canal Commission
Conference with telegraphers sparks Northern Pacific tension
President Howard Elliott and General Manager H J Horn reached St Paul after a four week tour as rumors of conflict with telegraph operators rise. Company plans include contract hires and dummy agents while union leaders mobilize to pressure for terms. Horn plans to confer with operators soon to gauge their demands and seek a fair settlement.
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St. Paul, Minn
Howard Elliott
H. J. Horn
Northern Pacific Railway
Northern Pacific
Chicago
St. Louis
Seattle
Parham
Wohn
Horn
Russians in irons aboard the Garonne voyage
The Seattle steamship Garonne carried Russians from Shanghai to Odessa via Singapore and Theodosia. Disturbances aboard led Captain Robert Lawe to place ringleaders in irons, seek Russian consul aid, arm the crew, and subdue mutineers. The ship reached Theodosia safely amid a siege in Odessa.
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Seattle
Shanghai
Odessa
Garonne
Ge Riorous
Singapore
Robert Lawe
Lawe
Theodosia
Lane
Frank Waterhouse
Escaped Japanese Prisoners Captured Near Seattle
Seattle July 11 Miatt Moor and K Takeuchi two Japanese prisoners who escaped from No Neils Island prison have been captured one near Ravensdale and the other on Vashon Island. This leaves three of the eight escaped convicts at large: George Wade W D McCarthy and Clyde D Castle.
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Seattle
Miatt Moor
K. Takeuchi
No- Neils Island
Ravensdale
Vashon Island
George Wade
W. D. McCarthy
Clyde D. Castle
Waiteburg Builds New Theater and Regional Plans
Washington news notes Waiteburg opens a new theater and Portland offers a Philippine exhibit to Seattle as a permanent display. Odessa will receive a traveling library, and 152000 grain bags were produced at the penitentiary jute mill with 250 convicts employed.
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Portland
Seattle
Penitentiary Jute
Moscow Police Prefect Shot In Assassination
Moscow reports Major General Count Shnovaloff, prefect of police, was assassinated this morning while receiving petitions. The gunman was arrested.
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Moscow
Count Shnovaloff
Ministry of the Interior
Taft on Exclusion Policy in San Francisco
Secretary Taft in San Francisco en route to the Philippines discusses Chinese exclusion. He defends a stance favoring welcoming Chinese merchants and students to bolster trade, arguing harsh exclusion could harm commerce with China. He notes California concerns extend beyond laborers to merchants and factory operators.
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San Francisco
Taft
Philippines
Pacific Coast
China
California
Ciagr
Western Fuel closes Brechin mine amid union dispute
Nanaimo British Columbia reports the Western Fuel Company shut Brechin mine as fewer workers attended since its opening to oppose the United Mine Workers of America demand for recognition. London notes a Japan loan deal nearing completion.
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Nanaimo
B. C
Western Fuel Company
Brechin
United Mine Workers of America
Japanese financial expert Kanako at Sagamore Hill talks with president
Baron Kanako, the Japanese financial expert who may shape Russia's indemnity terms, spent the night at Sagamore Hill and left for New York. He acknowledged discussing Far East affairs with the president but declined to give details.
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Oyster Bay
Panama Railroad urged to cancel lines and open ports
Washington reports Bristow urges cancellation of the Pacific Mail and South American contracts and opening Colon and Panama to all lines. He recommends double tracking and port expansion and a United States favored traffic policy while preserving Panama New York service and possible Colon gulf links.
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Washington
Joseph L. Bristow
Panama Railroad and Steamship Company
New York
Colon
Mr. Bristow
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
South American Lines
Panama
Gulf Ports
United States Pacific Coast
United States
Bristow
Central America
Tehuuntepec
Mexico
Pacific
Chambers of Commerce
Pacific Coast
Atlantic
Los Angeles
San Diego
San Francisco
Pacific Mail
Pacifico Mail
Liverpool
London
Europe
Sacola
Mobile
New Orleans
Galveston
Central
South America
Panama Railroad Company
Gulf
Panama Railroad
Canal Commission
Isthmus
Fraud order issued against St. Louis bank
Postmaster General Cortelyou announced a fraud order against the People's United States Bank of St. Louis its officers and agents and publisher E C Lewis effective July 9 The action bars the bank from the mails after a postal investigation The funds not borrowed by Lewis and his enterprises about two thirds of total remitted are deposited in banks and will reimburse stockholders numbering over 65 000 The postal department will work with Missouri officials for investors and depositors' interests
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Washington
Cortelyou
People’s United States Bank
St. Louis
E. C. Lewis
United States Mails
Immigrant Fraud Suspected in Austro-Hungarian Measures
Marcus Braun, U S immigration inspector, reports in Europe that Austro Hungarian officials foment and subsidize low rate immigration to the United States. Immigrants are urged not to become citizens but to earn money and return home, freeing the regime of undesirable residents.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Marcus Braun
New York
United States
Europe
Department of Commerce and Labor
Braun
Pulls for preferment will pull backwards
Oyster Bay July 10 an important order from the president directs army and navy officers to rely on service records only for promotions or assignments any solicitation of influence will bar advancement Everett July 10 telegraphs say J T McChesney and associates have taken over the Cannon Hill interests in the Everett Improvement Company and McChesney will control the company’s affairs
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Oyster Bay
Army
Navy
War
Everett
J. T. McChesney
Cannon-Hill
Everett Improvement Company
McChesney
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