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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1903
Page
2
A new mountain almost as high as Mount McKinley has been discovered in Alaska. The report notes the prominence of the find and its potential significance for mapping and exploration.
The Montana Supreme Court overturns Judge Harney of Butte and remands the Minnie Healey case involving mining property valued at over 10 million dollars. The ruling cites judicial misconduct and calls for upholding public confidence in the justice system. The court also adjusts the Nipper case survey and denies a bid to draw down a 125000 bond from Daly Bank & Trust Company.
Reported by New York papers, several prominent Wall Street brokers plan a grand hunt in Abyssinia. One broker is close to King Menelik and will take valuable presents. Some friends say the expedition aims not at elephants but to search for traces of the lost King Solomon gold mines.
President Dickson announces in a circular that one fifth of surplus earnings will be set aside and distributed among employees in proportion to salaries dating from July 1. The experiment, lasting six months, aims to improve efficiency economy and earnings, affecting several hundred workers.
Labor carnival in Seattle. Everett smelter repairs. Clarke county fruit growers plan a packing house in Vancouver. Edward Atkinson installs Masons lodge at Kettle Falls. Garfield Kink sets a new shingles record at Everett. Vashon Island seeks to join Pierce county. Supreme Court rules against stock buybacks to reduce capital. Seattle bonds attract state bid advantage over private buyers.
James J Hi denies a San Francisco dated report claiming he and RE Harriman planned a world timber monopoly. He says he owns no timber and wants none. Weyerhaeuser also disputes the telegram, calling it news to him and stating no contemplated purchase.
Miss Augusta Blase won the midsummer carnival queen contest in Seattle with 17 708 votes, more than 5000 ahead of the runner up. She led as the business manager of the waitresses reunion and received endorsements from several other unions.
Post office inspectors investigate affairs of H. H. Rand former confidential clerk to the postmaster general and now assistant superintendent of salaries and allowances Rand has not appeared at the department for several days in Washington July 24 reports say
Seattle market report lists producer offers for round lots across grains and feeds including oats 21 22 per ton, barley 21, wheat 26 27, bran 21, shorts 22, hay eastern Washington 15 16, alfalfa 11 per ton. Eggs strictly fresh ranch 28 24 per doz. Poultry live hens 13 14 14c lb, ducks 11 18c lb, geese 9 10c lb, spring chicks 3 75 4 75 per doz. Livestock beef cattle cows 8 4e lb, steers 4 5cc lb, sheep 4 4c lb, hogs 6 7c lb, calves 5 7c lb, spring lambs 2 50 3 per head. Hides pelts tallow heavy salted steers over 60 lbs 8c, medium 7c, light under 50 lbs 6 4c, cows all weights 6 14c, salted hips 7c, calf 8c, stags bulls 5c, green hides less, dry hides 12 13c, winter deer dry 14 20c, good but cher tallow 4 414c, grease 1 14 2c.
Wheat at 82 to 78 cents, cattle cattle steers four fifty per hundredweight cows three fifty, sheep three count, hogs six cents. Butter Washington creamery twenty four and fifteen to eighteen cents, honey California comb one fourteen, strained nine, home honey fourteen. Eggs Fresh ranch twenty two to twenty four cents. Oats rolled twenty five to twenty six, feed barley whole grain twenty nine fifty, rolled twenty two fifty, wheat twenty seven fifty to twenty eight, wheat hay nineteen to twenty, timothy hay twenty five to twenty six, bluegrass eighteen, corn twenty six, bran twenty two, shorts twenty three.
In Rome on July 26 the body of Pope Leo XII was interred in St Peter's Basilica after a solemn ceremony attended by about 1,000 invited persons. Cardinals presided, witnesses viewed the bier in violet robes, and the service featured the Miserere and In Paradisium as mourners paid final respects to the pontiff.
A Latin eulogy of Pope Leo's life and reign was placed in a metal tube and interred with his body. The rite included the supreme prayer and last benediction as the choir and clergy offered prayers, smoothing the sad duties with sacred singing.
New York reports the suspension of Talbot J. Taylor & Co and W. L. Stowe & Co following a period of heavy stock selling and price declines. The collapses are linked to speculative pools and distress in the money market rather than broad business conditions. W. N. Stowe & Co operated largely in Mexican Central, with difficulties magnified by Mexican Central’s price drop and high prior levels.
St Petersburg July 27 Director Hartwig of the Asiatic department of the Russian foreign office criticized England for duplicity over Manchuria. He asserted Russia fears no war with five powers and challenged American opinion while denying Russian troop mobilization reports. He questioned Britain’s motives and urged exposing English duplicity.
Dawson reports a rich placer strike near Mount McKinley at the headwaters of the Kuskokwim River. J. R. Henderson, one discoverer, heads to San Francisco for hydraulic gear, plans return via Dawson and the Yukon to the new diggings. Oil copper coal and cinnibar are also said found. a 300 mile westward stake is described. three men allegedly earned $35,000 in four weeks at the site.
Ben Greenwood and Co. selects Seattle for its large men’s furnishings factory. A ten year lease is signed for the Chappelle building at Jackson street and Ocidental avenue. The firm operates plants at Helena Montana and Cincinnati and will relocate both to Seattle.
New York reports Shamrock I will duel the Columbia for the America’s Cup course or at Newport. Edward Morgan at Newport declared willingness to race the Columbia against her former adversary under any conditions and time. Sir Thomas accepted, race certain.
The former ambassador to Russia and noted abolitionist Cassius M. Clay died at Whitehall near Richmond after a period of general exhaustion. He was ninety two or ninety three and had long feared a conspiracy against him. A court appointed committee has charge of his effects and his children were at his bedside.
At a Portland board meeting H. W. Scott editor of the Oregonian was named president succeeding the late Senator Corbett. H. W. Goode manager of Portland General Electric was chosen director general. Ground work for the exposition site is expected to finish in two weeks.
Washington July 24 The war department directs Governor Taft to accept the highest bid of 131 598 for the subsidiary Spanish coin found in the Manila treasury after its fall to American forces. The amount is about half the coin’s face value and the Spanish government has filed a formal claim.
Herman Eppinger of Eppinger & Co. is indicted by the grand jury for alleged false pretenses causing a $11,500 loss to the Bank of Monterey. He posted $12,000 bail. His brother Jacob faced a similar charge last week.
A tented town of 50 inhabitants formed in July on the Bering Sea shore 15 miles above Cape York and 10 miles from Cape Prince of Wales. It is to become a shipping point for tin ore mined in York fields, reported by tin experts J. E. Niven and A. D. McQueen aboard the Nome liner Ohio for the United States Steel trust.
New York reports that former United States Senator Turner of Washington and Alaska boundary commission member sailed aboard the Celtic bound for London on July 27.
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