News of the Week Highlights from Happenings
Bulletin summarizes diverse items: death of novelist Guy Boothby. Washington quilt to be shown at Portland fair. Jupiter satellite discovered by Lick Observatory director. Nome tundra placer gold find near shore. Texas statues Huston and Austin approved by House. American delegates to Berlin cathedral consecration hosted by Emperor William. War secretary approves Alaska tolls. cable rates unchanged. Rich quartz ledge near Fairbanks sparks stampede. land staking noted. Ward and Miss Messem er wed in San Francisco. Skagway alum mine with white alum walls in river canyon. alum content claimed 75 percent, ample supply for market.
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Skagway
Skagway River
Simplon tunnel piercing completes under Alpine rocks
The Simplon tunnel linking Switzerland and Italy is finished after seven years of work begun in 1898. The bore meeting was marked by bells and cannon salutes as engineers fought heat up to 131 degrees to secure cooling. The 12 mile route from Briga to Iselle will host traffic by May 15 with a parallel double-track tunnel planned to enable two way traffic.
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Gondo
Switzerland
Simplon
Alps
Briga
Iselle
Senators Expelled Amid Senate Bribe Probe
In Sacramento yesterday the senate debated expelling Senators Emmons Bankers Wright and French after the special investigative committee urged removal for bribery. The committee report passed 55 to 0 with four accused and Walch not voting. In Olympia a stormy session saw land bills recommended for passage by Roth regarding timber arid tide oyster and other lands.
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Sacramento
Cal
Senate
Special Investigation
Emmons
Wright
French
Walch
Olympia
House Joint Committees of
Granted Lands and Judiciary
Roth
House
Spokane doctor bills limits on nonphysician care for pay
Olympia report notes Dr. Doolittle of Spokane introduced a bill in the legislature making it unlawful for anyone not a physician to attend to sick persons for pay. Violators would face imprisonment or a fine, or both.
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Olympia
Supreme Court Move to Tacoma Defeated in Senate
Olympia February 28 The senate defeated the removal of the supreme court to Tacoma after the capital removal bill was vetoed.
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Olympia
Supreme Court
Tacoma
Senate
Seattle and regional notes of interest from Washington
Seattle arrest of clairvoyants noted alongside local deaths and property sales. Hiram Stevens, Seattle hotel man, is dead. Pierce county old county house in Tacoma sold for 45000 dollars to J S Baker. Grand Army post organized at Orchard Clarke county with fifteen members. Seattle bowlers lose in Milwaukee at the Rocky Mountain sweepstakes. Walla Walla valley peaches and pears damaged by recent cold. Port Townsend customs collector upholds tonnage tax on steamship Minnesota. First 25 percent dividend declared for Big Bend National Bank creditors Davenport on 414268 claims. Washington State Elks Association executive committee shifts 1906 meeting from February to June dates pending.
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Big Bend National Bank
Davenport
Washington State Elks’ Association
Northern Pacific to Erect Eight Six Story Wholesale Buildings
The Northern Pacific Railway announces immediate construction of eight six story buildings occupying half a block each on its Seattle wholesale district holdings. The $2,000,000 project replaces two story wooden structures and will create six new blocks at the foot of Madison Columbia and Spring streets with prime rail access. Two blocks start within two weeks and the rest rise over the summer replacing old facilities.
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Seattle
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Madison, Columbia
Spring Streets
Railroad Avenue
Prince Vasilichykoff Assassinated in Warsaw T: Prince Vasilichykoff murdered amid unrest in Warsaw
Warsaw reports say Prince Vasilichykoff, blamed for opposing students and strikers, was killed by revolutionaries. The London Morning Leader dossier notes he ranked No 2 on their assassination list. In Baku, police chief Kondratovitch was shot at daylight by unknown assassins who fled by waiting vehicle.
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London
Warsaw
London Morning Leader
Vasilichykoff
St. Petersburg
Kondratovitch
Baku
Seattle Market Report Price Snapshot for Farm Commodities
The Seattle market report lists producer prices for oats barley wheat chicken feed bran shorts corn hay alfalfa and other feeds in round lots f o b Seattle with values for grain crops live stock livestock products hides pelts and wool and dairy eggs butter and various regional wheat and feed grades. Prices vary by item and region including Puget Sound Eastern and Western Washington with dozens of ton and per pound figures.
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F.o. B
Seattle
Washington
Puget Sound
Washington Creamery
Governor Mead Vetoes Capital Removal Bill
Olympia February 27 Governor Mead vetoed the capital removal bill and sent his message to the senate where a 19 to 19 vote sustained the veto. He accuses removal advocates of intimidation and calls into question deliberation by lawmakers. A concurrent resolution to referendum the bill to the people was adopted and will be voted on next Wednesday.
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Olympia
Mead
Senate
Tacoma
Baker
House
Milwaukee Extensions Planned Coast Route Push
A Sioux City dispatch says the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul will announce plans for a Pacific coast extension from Chamberlain South Dakota, with President Earling denying the report. A V Adams of Milwaukee, secretary, has been in Sioux City a week working on the matter. Surveys from Chamberlain to Seattle are said completed after five years of preparation.
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Chicago
Sioux City
Iowa
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chamberlain
A. J. Earling
A. V. Adams
Milwaukee
Seattle
Judge Swayne Acquitted After Impeachment Trial
Washington reports Judge Swayne was acquitted on all charges after a Senate impeachment trial that ran from 10:30 to 11:45 with twelve votes per article. The highest conviction tally was 35 and the lowest 47 against. private railroad car charges drew only 13 votes for conviction.
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Washington
Senate
Swayne
House
Esquimalt Naval Station Abandoned As Flag Is Hauled Down
Commodore Goodrich hauls down his flag signaling the formal abandonment of Esquimalt naval station. The cruiser Bonaventure is handed to Captain Tourlesse and sails to the China station, while the Shearwater remains for patrols in Bering Sea. All naval departments close. Maxim Gorky is released on bail but immediately detained again and to be deported to a distant city or province.
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Gorky
St. Petersburg
Maxim Gorky
Panama canal plan urges sea level design with locks
The Isthmian canal commission receives a concrete scheme for a sea level Panama canal with a 150 foot bottom and 55 foot minimum depth, including two Miraflores tidal locks 1,000 by 100 feet, at an estimated total cost of 250.5 million dollars and major contingencies. The plan foresees completion in ten to twelve years and caps surface altitude at 60 feet, with lower cost levels for 30 and 60 foot options.
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Washington
Panama Canal
Messrs. Burr
Parsons
Davis
Miraflores
Panama
Colon
Railroad commission bill moves through senate stages
Olympia Feb 28 The railroad commission bill which passed the house advanced through first and second readings in the senate yesterday. It was considered in committee of the whole and recommended for passage by a comfortable majority. It is expected to pass today. Kennedy's compromise bill was deliberately defeated by the commission combine. The proceedings followed the program laid by the framers of the house bill and Senators Graves and Boone.
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Olympia
Railroad Commission
House
Senate
Kennedy
Graves
Boone
House Passes Commission Bill Amid Opposition Shift
Olympia February 27 Realizing the futility of opposition many House members joined Dickson Crane Reiter and other staunch commission men to pass the house substitute by 72 to 12 Houston switched to support after the vote. The bill creates a three member appointive commission with broad powers over railroad rates tariffs and related matters including the right to inspect books and subpoena witnesses and to levy penalties from 150 to 2000 with an appeal process. Express companies included but interurban lines excluded.
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Olympia
House
Dickson
Crane, Reiter
Washington
Houston
Senate
Commission
G Ives
Gaives
G Ives Commission
National Crude Oil Producers Association Formed
Independent crude oil producers and refiners from Kansas Illinois and Indiana form the National Crude Oil Producers Association in Chicago to defend against Standard Oil. Headquarters will be in Chicago. The group aims to prevent discrimination in freight rates.
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Chicago
Kansas
Illinois
Indiana
Standard Oil Company
National Crude Oil Producers’ Association
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Radical Commission
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Portland, Oregon
W.W. Wrenn
N. E St
Harper Rye
Kentucky
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Fred Hewitt
Gray’s Harbor Commercial Co
Cosmopolis, Wash
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
C. F. White
Tpos. Morgan
Ninemire & Morgan CO
Montesano
Aberdeen
Patterson & Locke 60
Incorporated
General Insurance Agents
Hotel Northern
J.P. Nelson
Prop
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Aberdeen, Wash
A. Ingebrightsen
G Street
Nature
H. A. Tereda & CO
South G St
Zelaska Block
F. Street
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