Permanent ruling on Puget Sound docks limits leases
The Washington state board of land commissioners announces a policy ban on thirty-year harbor leases for piles and planks in Puget Sound. New rule allows ten-year leases unless the applicant plans permanent stone or concrete docks and piers, aiding navigation and preventing speculation. Several pending applications will follow the new standards.
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Olympia
Puget Sound
Washington State Board of Land Commissioners
State Board of Land Commissioners
Witte Likely to Lead Peace Talks With Japan
M. Mara vieff has resigned as chief peace plenipotentiary and M. Witte is expected to be appointed. The emperor's approval and Lamadorff’s audience are needed before the commission is signed. Witte’s leadership is seen as a practical step toward ending the war and may signal a Russo-Japanese alliance.
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St. Petersburg
M. Maravieff
M. Witte
Committee of Ministers
Japan
Lamadorff
Russia
Far East
Sixty Seven Indictments Fire in Milwaukee County
Milwaukee county grand jury handed down sixty seven indictments against 25 individuals, mostly former county officials, in municipal court. The term runs to September 1 as probing continues. The latest batch brings total true bills to 105 with more expected. most charges accuse bribery in hospital addition contracts.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee County Grand Jury
Railroad plans probe Methow valley in Twisp
L H Blanton and a party of railroad men are at Paterase investigating conditions with the aim of building a railroad up Methow valley, according to a reliable source.
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Twisp
Wash
L. H. Blanton
Paterase
Methow Valley
Swift Sues IH Citing Large Rebates and Trust Control
Rodney B. Swift, ex head of the McCormick experimental dept, sues International Harvester seeking an accounting and an end to rebates to railroads. He alleges 1902 rebates exceeded $3 million at the McCormick unit and cites additional rebates via other lines totaling over $1 million. He requests termination of a voting trust arrangement and an examination of books.
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Chicago
International Harvester Company
Rodney B. Swift
McCormick
The
Harvester Company
Swift
Plano
Chicago, West Pullman and Southern Railroad
Illinois Northern Company
International Company
Cyrus H. McCormick
Charles Deering
George W. Perkins
William G. Lane
Internation Harvester Company
Rebate Charges to Be Prosectuted
Chicago plans for federal court prosecutions of railroads for granting rebates to large industrial firms. Assistant Attorney General Pardy leads the case with initial contempt charges for violating Judge Phillips injunction in Kansas City, with action to begin there this week.
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Chicago
Kansas City
Pardy
Phillips
International polar expedition planned from Dawson Yukon
Dawson Y T July 13 steps taken to form an international polar expedition with an experimental Dawson station. Dr A Varicle a Parisian balloonist backs the scheme to gather expert Yukon mushers and top dogs trained for a pole dash. Mules will carry supplies and be killed for food late in the return journey.
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Dawson
Y. T
A. Varicle
Yukon
Yukon Valley
Bering Sea
Greenland
McKenzie River
Pole
Franz Josef
Norway
Weather causes damage to winter wheat on Pacific coast
The weather bureau reports abnormal heat has damaged winter wheat on the Pacific coast while Washington spring wheat looks promising. Haying is good and conditions are generally favorable for other crops.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Pacific Coast
Merchant sailings and fares from Grays Harbor to major west coast cities
Schedule lists freight and passenger rates from Grays Harbor to San Francisco Los Angeles and other points. Fares appear as eight to seventeen dollars for second and first class, with multiple daily departures to Tacoma Seattle Portland and Hoquiam.
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San Francisco
Los Angeles
Professional Cards for Doctors Smits Karshner Hayes
Professional cards list two physicians, Pat Smits and M W Karshner, with office locations in Crowther Wooding block and Hayes & Hayes Building. Includes multiple daily office hours, telephone numbers 135 177 and 493, and offices over Hayes & Hayes Bank.
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Crowther-Wooding Block
Heron Streets
Hayes & Hayes
Hayes & Hayes Bank
Kinnison Offers Building Plans and Legal Practice
U G Kinnison will practice in State and Federal courts in Room 14 Dabney Block and offers building plans specifications and estimates. Thirty years of practical experience with satisfaction guaranteed. Office 94 Heron Street phone 626.
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Zelaska Block
Dabney Block
Heron Street
Reclamation Law Powers Nevada Irrigation Dreams
William E. Curtis reports on the Reclamation Law praised by President Roosevelt as key to irrigating the arid West. The program funds dam and canal projects from land sale proceeds, aims to water 1,121,000 acres across 13 projects, and offers ten yearly payments of 2.60 per acre. Nevada’s Truckee and Carson rivers will feed 100,000 acres, with further plans to extend to the Humboldt and Walker rivers, transforming desert into farmland.
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Roosevelt
Great West
Treasury
Irrigation Bureau
Arizona
Colorado
Idaho
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico
Truckee River
Lake Tahoe
Carson River
San Francisco
Carson’s Sink
Humboldt
Walker
William E. Curtis
Bread Returned: New York Man Discovers Hidden Fortune
Per cival F. Nagle, once a prominent New York figure, learned that a $1,000 loan he made years ago and a hidden property transfer in the Bronx left him owner of 44 lots valued at $200,000 to $250,000. The surprise arose when two strangers asked his price for his property and he investigated the claim.
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Percival F. Nagle
New York
Nagle
Percival Nagle Ford
van Wyck
Bronx
Speaking from Experience
A humorous quip notes someone claiming the rich grow poorer and the poor richer, attributing the remark to old Spuds whose two daughters have married foreign nobles.
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Spuds
Puck
I Shall Put a Bullet in My Head Confession Joke
Comic exchange from Cleveland Leader humor page features Cholly Netwit threaten self harm over Miss Dolly as Dolly Hotshot reacts with morbid quip about the bullet rattling in the head.
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Cholly Netwit
Dolly
Dolly Hotshot
Cleveland
Government Land Information Call in Aberdeen
Government lands information available from Jesse F. Murphy four years register of Olympia land office in Aberdeen room 3 Dabney block. Call for details about government lands and related inquiries.
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Jesse F. Murphy
Olympia Land Office
Dabney Block
Aberdeen
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Milwaukee County
Ternational Harvester Company
North Pole
Cincinnati Post
Independent
Rays Harbor, San Francisco
Grays Harbor
C. E. Burrows Co., Ag
Aberdeen, Wash
Tacoma
Seattle
Portland
All Points East
Hoquiam
Acosta
Pat Smits, M. D
W. M. Karshner, M. D
Physicians and Surgeons
Aberdeen General Hospital
Watkins
Everett E. Lane
D. D
M. Robb Stapp
U. G. Kinnison
Market Street
Co. Cross
Attorney AT Law
H. Fox
Robert E. Taggart
H. B. Elder
N. P. Ry
A. D. Charlton
Oregon
W. Mason
Anadian Pacific
Boston
Toronto
Montreal
Atlantic Lines
Phil
Locke
J. W. Draper
H. A. Tereda & CO
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Zelasko
Hume Street
A. Ingebrightsen
G Street
Continental
O. C
Heron
Humboldt Saloon
Fred Hewett
Heron and
F Streets
Svea Aagag
J. A. Moller
Prop
F Street
Meron
Hayes & Hayes Bankers (Incorporated
Central Restaurant
M. Antich
Wishkah
Fred Redinger
Pioneer Barber Shop
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