Condensed Week's News From The West
A broad summary notes rising US China trade per consular reports, Mount Pelee volcanic activity with gas and cinder showers, and widespread floods in Kansas Nebraska and Iowa delaying traffic. Also listed are Taft pope interview notes, Gomez pension rejection, Boer leaders to Europe, Panama canal support, Miles to DC amid court martial rumors, Crowder report on Louisiana remount camp, and Mont Pelee ascent findings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
State Department
Mount Pelee
Naval appropriation bill reported with Pacific coast ship option
Washington Jane 4 Mr Hale of the senate committee on naval affairs reports the naval appropriation bill favoring new vessels at house prices but striking the half built in government yards clause. It authorizes a Pacific battleship or cruiser, contracts with the Holland company for five submarine boats, tests and purchases one up to 175000 dollars, and raises the house total by 964942 to 78,166,838 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jane
Hale
Senate Committee On Naval Affairs
Senate
House
Pacific
Secretary of the Navy
Holland Company
Western Federation of Miners Severs AFL Ties
At Denver on June 6 the Western Federation of Miners rejected renewed AFL union ties citing no benefit from past affiliation and socialist disputes. The convention urged notifying AFL officials while advancing interchangeability of membership cards with the United Mine Workers of America to bring closer contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Western Federation of Miners
Committee On the Good and Welfare
American Federation of Labor
American Federation
United Mine Workers of America
Everett and Seattle News Briefs From Washington State
Washington state items report Everett street improvements and a Seattle federal building bill signing by President Roosevelt. The Federation of Women’s Clubs set Everett as 1908 meeting site, and West Seattle plans two new newspapers. A Seattle–Everett trolley survey proceeds and Odd Fellows convened at Whatcom before adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Federal
Seattle
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Pullman
Everett
Seattle-Everett
Lumber Mills Merge in East Kootenay Alliance
Rossland B C June 4 The first merger in the Kootenays unites several lumber mills along the Crow's Nest line of the Canadian Pacific system. The new firm will carry about half a million dollars in capitalization and produce over a hundred thousand feet of rough dressed lumber daily. The merger secures large concessions from the Canadian Pacific railway, promising eventual control of the Eastern British Columbia lumber industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rossland
B. C
Kootenays
British Columbia
East Kootenay
Crow’s Nest
Canadian Pacific System
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Formidable Rival Plans Mega Steamship Syndicate
London reports British and Canadian governments negotiating with Cunard and allied lines to create a vast Liverpool syndicate opposing Morgan shipping. Proposed ships would reach 26 knots, armed with six inch guns, with 16 knot freight vessels carrying thousands of tons. A China, Japan and Australia service from Vancouver is planned with Canada and Australia likely to subsidize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Cunard Line
Liverpool Syndicate
Morgan Shipping Combine
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Uiatl
China
Japan
Australia
Vancouver
B.C
Canada
River Flood Reaches 22 Feet in Columbia at Vancouver
Flooding along the Columbia River at Vancouver Washington measures 22 feet above low water mark with steady rise reported. Farmers fear overflow though prevailing belief holds the river will not climb much higher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver, Wash
Columbia River
Market Prices From Local Dealers For Seattle Delivery
A list shows producer prices offered by Seattle area dealers for round lots on the dock and in the car. Commodities include grains, feeds, hay, eggs, butter, poultry, live stock, hides, pelts, wool, and tallow with varied per ton, per dozen, per pound, or per hundredweight quotations across oats, barley, wheat, bran, timothy, alfalfa, ponies, and regional ranges in Puget Sound and Eastern Washington markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Puget Sound
Washington
Timothy
Abandon Mare Island Navy Yard Faces Puget Sound Rivalry
In Washington on June 5 Senator Hale proposes abandoning Mare Island yard San Francisco and creating a new site on San Francisco bay with a three officer commission to locate a deep water navy yard. Senator Perkins opposes fearing permanent Puget Sound advantage and notes Mare Island is near useless for major repair work under current conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hale
Maine
Committee On Naval Affairs
Senate
Mare Island Navy Yard
San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
Perkins
California
Naval Affairs Committee
Puget Sound
United States
Secretary of the Navy
Engineering Corps
Army
Civil Engineer Corps of
The
Navy
Congress
Navy Department
Mare Island
Hale Firs
Mare Tslane
Persins
Sans Francisco
Wenert
Saa Francises Bay
Paget Sound
Fruit Cannery Aims to Save Surplus Seattle Produce
Seattle report notes wasteful losses as thousands of fruit boxes rot or are dumped. Golden Northwest Fruit & Vegetable Canning Company plans a cannery near the city with rail access and a Wenatchee warehouse, targeting 500 tons this season and a daily capacity of 60 000 cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Sound
Washington
Golden Northwest Fruit& Vegetable Canning Company
Chamber of Commerce
Tide Flats
Wenatchee
Balliet Guilty of Stock Fraud in White Swan Mining Case
Letsom Balliet was found guilty in a federal court of using the mails to defraud investors in White Swan Mining Company stock tied to a Baker City property in Oregon. Prosecution showed about $220,000 raised with only $25,000 invested in the mine, plus $74,000 spent on other ventures. defense may appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court with potential penalties up to 14 months in prison and fines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Letsom
White Swan Mining Company
Baker City
Balliet
Eel Rhodes
White Swan
Ani
Supreme Court of the United States
Kitchener Reward Toasted by Parliament Vote
London reports Lord Kitchener seeks 50000 pounds from Parliament following King Edward's message. The motion mirrors a 30000 pound grant voted three years earlier for his Egypt service, carried 38 to 44. The king also elevated Kitchener to viscount for ending the South Africa war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
James
Edward
House of Commons
A.J. Balfour
Lord Kitchener
Egypt
South Africa
Beef Trust Enjoined by Court Action in New York
Supreme Court Justice Chester granted an injunction restraining certain west coast beef packing concerns from operating in New York under the Donnelly anti trust law. The order was served locally in Abbany and Troy and will reach others statewide, based on the affidavit of D. W. Meredith former Swift & Co. manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbany
N. Y
Supreme Court
Chester
West
Troy
D. W. Meredith
Swift & Co
Mont Pelee Eruption Continues Emitting Cinders
An official Martinique dispatch dated June 1 reports Mont Pelee remains eruptive and ejects cinders. Provisions are deemed sufficient on the island, so further supplies are considered unnecessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Fort de France
Martinique
Mont Pelee
Fight in Portland Faces Union and Master Builders Clash
Portland plans hard line in wage and materials war as federated unions and the Master Builders Association clash. Employers refuse to deal with boycott supporters, halting building operations until the issue is resolved and nonunion workers secured. Planing mills and sawmills are barred from supplying union mills, and contractors insist on using home mill lumber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Unioin
Federated
Master Builders’ Association
Union Planing
Volcano Active Near Grant New Mexico
Deputy Marshal McKeehan reports Grant residents greatly excited by volcano activity a few miles from town. Passenger trains observed smoke toward the volcano and a man dispatched to the site says the crater is issuing from the region’s largest volcano.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerque
N.M
United States
McKeehan
Grant
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Iowa
Root
Taft
Gomez
War Department
America
Botha and Delarey
Europe
Hanna
Panama Canal
Miles
Kansas City
Colonel Crowder
Louisiana
Duke D' Arcos
Belgium
Indiana
Democrats
Indianapolis
Alfred Schoenover
Joliet, Ill
John Henry Barrows
Oberlin
O.) College
Chicago
National Organization of the Travelers’ Association
Portland, Ore
House Committee On Military Affairs
Cuba
West India Islands
Pacific Coast
Western Miners
Federation of Labor
Washington State News
City
Adams County
Ritzville
West Seattle
J. Newton Greene
Everett Daily Herald
M. E. Hatch
Boston
Great Northern
Elma
Dayton
Fishers Landing
Columbia
Allan Weir
Olympia
Washington Pioneers’ Association
Lumber Mills
Kootenay
Combine
Ness
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Kitchener
Beef Trust
New York
Ack Horns
New Mexico
State Electro-Medical Institute
State Electro-Medical Institute Safe Deposit Company
Waeh
Fred Hewett
L. W. Walker
OPEC
UNIC
Axsnspeed
A. L. Graig
J. R. Nagel
T. P
First Ave
G, Gotzisn & CO
Hans
Herald Printery
Wishkah Street
St. Paul, Duluth, Wia
Minneapolis
A. B.C. Denniston
First Avenue
Seattle, Wash
St. Paul
Burlington
St. Louis
Billings
Omaha
He IG
M. P. Benton
Pioneer Square
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