World Happenings Condensed Recap
The House passed a bill creating a United States district court for China and defining its jurisdiction. Bank and business figures note Alaska gold output estimated at 14 million dollars for 1906. A general strike in Twin City and Northwestern Telephone lines ends. The Senate approves allotment of Blackfoot reservation lands in Montana and opening surplus lands to settlement. Alaska delegate candidate J P Clum seeks Republican nomination. Equitable Life directors win court permission to mutualize. Notable directors named for Amalgamated Copper Company. Annual report shows net income of 9,161,537 dollars for year ending April 30.
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House
United States District Court For
China
A. F. Zipp
Northern Commercial Company
Fairbanks
Twin City
Northwestern Telephone Companies
St. Paul
Senate
Blackfoot Indian
Montana
H. H. Rogers
William Rockefeller
James Stillman
A. R. Flower
A. C. Burrage
G. H. Church
H. H. Rogers, Jr
J. E. Judson
Amalagmated Copper Company
Government to seek millions in railroad rebate prosecutions
The Garfield report to the Department of Justice alleges railroads granted favors to Standard Oil. It cites waybills shipping records and other documents as evidence for prosecutions. Cases include rebates on over 2,000 cars, notably Chicago, Burlington and Quincy at $1,000 per car. From Whiting Indiana to St. Louis Waters-Pierce Oil cited for false waybills and discriminating rates saving Standard Oil $224,000 last year.
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Washington
Garfield
Standard Oil Company
Department of Justice
Chicago
Burlington & Quincy
Whiting
Ind
St. Louis
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Summer Camp Planned for Washington Militia at American Lake
Governor Mead, via Adjutant General Drain, arranges for Washington state militia to join regular army maneuvers at American Lake this summer. From August 5 to 12 the militia will serve, arriving August 4, with war department funding most expenses. The militia allotment bill lifts annual militia funding from 1 to 2 million dollars. Ottawa reports the Vancouver Westminster Yukon railway bill advances to law, facing opposition over J. J. Hill and Canadian trade concerns.
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Olympia
Drain
Washington
Mead
Oliver
American Lake
War Department
Congress
Ottawa
Vancouver, Westminster & Yukon Railway
Yellowhead Pass
Edmonton
Senate
Governor General
J. J. Hill
Senate approves Lake Washington canal bill without dissent
Washinon June 4. The senate, on motion by Senator Piles and with no extended discussion, passed the Lake Washington canal bill without a dissenting vote.
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Washinon
Senate
Senator Piles
Lake Washington
Seattle civic and business notes from Monday events
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs state encampments met in Seattle while Tacoma Ledger notes a Du Pont powder plant proposal at Nisqually mouth. Seattle Baptist Church plans a new $90,000 building with substantial subscriptions and a police anti speeding drive results in fifty ta executives cited. May receipts total 123,697.86 with 308,195.15 disbursements including 200,000 bond redemption. U S District Attorney Frye seeks case continuance for George Edward Adams due to Alaska witnesses, moving hearing to late November or December.
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Alaska
United States
Frye Monday
George Edward Adams
Union Pacific Survey Underway to Portland Route
Engineer Russell Chase says two surveying crews will map the Tacoma to Portland line rushing to define a lowest grade and shortest route. One group starts four to five miles from Tacoma toward Chehalis and Centralia, the other from Chehalis south to Portland. Construction dirt likely by fall.
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Tacoma
Russell Chase
Union Pacific Railroad
Seattle
Harriman Lines
Portland
Chase
Tacoma-Portland
Chehalis
Centralia
Alaska cable, roads funds approved in army bill
The army appropriation bill reported from the conference committee includes a senate amendment granting 179000 dollars for extending the Alaska cable in the southeastern territory and an extra appropriation for road and trail construction in Alaska.
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Washington
Army
Senate
Alaska
Omnibus Lighthouse Bill Passes Senate with Piles Amendments
The omnibus lighthouse bill passed the senate on June 4 and includes all amendments offered by Senator Piles affecting the north coast as well as the provisions of the measure as it arrived from the house.
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Washington
Senate
Piles
House
Seattle Market Prices for Farm Commodities
Market report lists f o b Seattle round lot prices for oats barley wheat chicken feed and bran grain prices range from 18 to 29 per ton with hay and alfalfa priced per ton and eggs poultry wool and livestock values shown for Eastern and Western Washington including sheep hogs steers cows calves and lambs with varied cents per unit figures and per head values for livestock and poultry.
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Seattle
Washington
Puget Sound
Washinon
Tacoma Quotations Wheat and Feed and Meat Prices
Market round up lists bid and ask prices for farm commodities in Tacoma. Wheat and bluestem feed oats hay and alfalfa values, corn and bran prices, fresh meats including beef pork lamb veal and poultry, and dairy butter prices from Washington mills and creameries.
Agree On Rate Bill In Nearly All Details
Washington reports that conferees on the railroad rate bill reached agreement in essential points as the Senate bill passed. The panel retained twenty eight amendments verbatim and redrafted seventeen, with key changes to common carrier definitions and the passes prohibition, plus Elkins provisions on timber and product movement and switch connections.
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Washington
Senate
Elkins
Senator Gorman Dead at 67 in Washington
Washington report states United States Senator Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland died at 9:05 p.m. after a five month illness. He was 67, survived by a widow and six children, and had long been a Democratic Senate leader and a frequent contender for the presidency. Tokyo dispatch notes Mukden opened to international trade, with harbor regulations drafted for Port Danny renamed Tairen, and Japan seeking to maximize Port Tairen's commercial value.
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Washington
Arthur Pue Gorman
United States
Maryland
Gorman
Senate
Tokyo
Mukden
Chao
Hagawira
Danny
Japan
California legislature Meets in Extra Session After Disaster
Sacramento reports the California legislature convened in extra session on June 4 by gubernatorial call to pass laws and propose constitutional amendments. Key measures include restoring records, funding state building reconstruction, paying National Guard, using title insurance plots to prove property rights, funding school books for indigent children, adjusting school laws, insurance data requirements, extending foreign insurer filings, raising corporate license tax, and delaying delinquent tax list publication.
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Sacramento
Cal
Pardee
California
National Guard
San Francisco
Campaign of Unceasing Attacks on Bureaucratic Abuses
The constitutional democratic committee outlined a sustained campaign of interpellations against bureaucratic abuses. Delegates noted Warsaw terrorists condemned to death and Riga political prisoners facing trial, while Douma speakers urged abolition of capital punishment as anti democratic and potentially destabilizing.
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St. Petersburg
Constitutional Democratic Committee
Warsaw
Riga
Lumber rate compromise delays June 15 schedule change
In St Paul on June 4 traffic officials of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific reached a compromise with Pacific lumbermen. The minimum car weight under the proposed schedule will be lowered, and the July 15 start is set to allow orders to clear. Details are pending though the maximum may also be reduced. The shift to cubic capacity basis aims to curb improper loading and reduce disputes.
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St. Paul
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Pacific Lumbermen
Nome boats leave for Yukon voyage opens Nome season
Seattle reports the Nome season begins with steamers Ohio and Victoria sailing carrying 1,810 passengers, mostly prospectors headed inland. Vessels take full freight, with fresh vegetables and perishables. twenty four ships are in port, thirteen bound for Nome with passenger accommodations sold out.
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Seattle
Ohio
Victoria
Interior
Nome
Yukon
Cannon Favors Lorimer-Wadsworth Meat Plan
Speaker Cannon backs the Lorimer Wadsworth amendment to the Beveridge meat inspection bill. Government funding of inspection would prevent lower cattle prices for ranchers and shield consumers from higher costs. He also supports the court review provision.
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Washington
Cannon
Lorimer-Wadsworth
Beveridge
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J. P. Clum
Juneau
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Washington Militia
Washington News
Odd Fellows
The
Rebekahs
Tacoma Ledger
du Pont
Nisqually River
First Baptist Church of
Wappenstein
Union Pacific Survey
Seattle Market Report
Wheat—Club
Bluestem
Senator Gorman
W. W. Wrenn
East Market Street
Harper Rye
Kentucky
Fred Hewett
Humboldt
South F Street
Aberdeen, Wash
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
Thos. Morgan
Pres
Ninemire & Morgan CO
Montesano
Aberdeen
Patterson & Locke Co
General Insurance Agents
Orner
Es Sanaanen
C.O.D
Express
Oper
Head Cycle Company
Dept. “Jl
Ill
MacLafferty & Sons
Heron
Hayes & Hayes Bankers (Incorporated
E. J. Bradley
State Bank
Heron and
H Streets
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