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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1899
Page
3
A compact digest covers global events: York ships gold to Europe, Boers and Cape tensions, Paris accident inquiry, a vocational convention in Los Angeles, and rains aiding Texas cotton. Updates include U S military calls, Cuban port customs, Dreyfus case notes, and various economic and political briefs.
Reports describe two American ships quarantined at Japanese ports over plague fears, a deadly Birmingham strike incident, influenza and pneumonia threats near San Francisco, a Brookyn trolley strike, and labor disputes from Idaho public lands to tinplate workers resuming pay raises. Also noted are diplomacy shifts with Argentina Japan and the Philippines, naval maneuvers, and a mockery of lynching in Missouri.
Seattle July 18 Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson stays to gather farmer input and urges expansion to export butter and canned goods to China Japan and the Philippines The coast can and will dominate Pacific trade and keep Old Glory flying while promoting self government in the Philippines after the rainy season ends. He travels next to other Pacific states to push agricultural exports and expansion.
A fire at Fort Duchesne destroyed the quartermaster's stables and contents, burning nineteen mules and twenty wagons along with ambulances, harness, and hay. Winds rose as officers feared the quarters would burn. losses reach about 20000 dollars. Suspected incendiaries include Old Sowanee and his band of White River Utes fleeing toward Colorado.
Advices from Manila dated June 11 report volunteers in tropic campaigns badly weakened. Illness averages 20 to 25 percent across regiments, with some under one third fit for duty. Nebraska suffers worst, others like Montana Kansas Washington and South Dakota show high officer and enlisted casualties and sick lists. The Third Artillery sustains 123 killed or wounded among regulars.
Three Second Oregon men from Hubbard and Eastern Oregon were captured near Marilao, Philippines, in April and likely killed by Amigos. Clarence W. Mills Ralph McCoy and James E. Law rence, noted as among the regiment’s best men, vanished after reconnoitering Amigo territory. Captain Poorman confirms they were shot after capture.
Washington report says the pension committee ended a three day inquiry with spokesmen declining to discuss results. It found much printed criticism untrue and that 380 cases cited showed no real foundation for attacks on officials.
The Evening Post reports a failed retaliation against President Cabrera’s regime centered in Quezal tenango. Celiciano Agilar and 60 men arrested. Willis B Housewright of the US Army hospital corps found dead by poison in a downtown lodging house. He left letters to Eastern contacts and Major Girard. In Lansing the 1 percent beet sugar bounty law of 1807 ruled unconstitutional.
Fishermen report improving salmon run this week after a cold season, with buyers paying 5 to 6.4 cents per 25 to 40 pounders and demand rising for canned fish. Packers project an average season if runs stay strong as markets in Chicago and St. Louis grow.
The schooner General Siglin from Cook's Inlet Alaska reports seven men drowned at Turn Again Arm in early June. Five names are known A B Johnson Malone L Louis Peterson Chris Madison Porter Hutchison The men were in a small boat overturned by a large tidal wave.
Reports from grainmen say clouds of grasshoppers alighted on fields near Rolla North Dakota from the Turtle mountains region July 15.
Spear Bros. of Sheridan Wyoming shipped three carloads of yearling cattle from Salem last Monday, with ~150 head bought in Marion and Polk counties for a grand 21 car shipment. Coleman Bros. plan a Ashland cannery and evaporator building sized 60 by 130 feet to handle 2000 cans daily and 16000 pounds daily. Eastern Townships bank opened Grand Forks BC agency, J W McLaughlin local manager. Utica Montana bonds $5000 bought by W E Bell for schoolhouse funding at 6 percent to 10 years. Salem voters authorize a bond issue around $80000 for city debt.
The Portland market lists Wheat varieties Walla Walla 58c Valley 69c Bluestem 61b per bushel. Flour prices include Best grades 3.20 graham 2.65. Oats 42c choice gray 40 4le. Barley feed 19 20 brewing 21.00 per ton. Millstuffs bran 17 mid dlings 22 shorts 18 chop 16 per ton. Butter 85 400 creamery, cheese native and Young America 120 15c. Poultry various prices for chickens hens springs geese ducks turkeys. Potatoes 1 1.10 per sack. beets 1 turnips 90c per sack. Hops 11 18c 1897 crop 4 6c. Wool Valley 12 18c. Mohair Qic. Mutton beef pork veal: listed per pound and per sack. Apples 2.50 8.50 per box. pears prunes 50c per box. Eggs 21c. Flour and millstuff prices repeated. barley rolled 25.26 per ton, whole 23. Portland market shows wide variety of farm staples and dairy prices.
The notice lists prices for wool in regions Wool-Spring-Nevada 10 12c lb Oregon Eastern 8 12c Valley 15 17c Northern 8 10c Millstuffs Middlings 17.50 20 per ton Bran 15.50 16.50. Onions Silverskin 50 90c per sack Butter Fancy creamery 17 18c do seconds 16 17c Fancy dairy 150 do seconds 14 14c per pound Eggs Store 16 17c family ranch 18 190 Hops 1898 crop 15c.
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