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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1897
Page
3
The legislature debated the Cline dispensary bill and a proposed substitute. A preliminary committee report favored sending a substitute to the people at the next general election, while opponents sought to table the measure. Proceedings tracked a tense clash between advocates and foes with motions to reconsider and vote outcomes shaping the bill’s future.
The senate met at 12 30 P M Monday and passed several measures including an appraisement law for property sold under execution, an exemption of 1000 of personal property from execution, a forest commissioners board, and a forest fire prevention act. A fence requirement for railroads failed, and a soldier home pension fund proposal was ordered engrossed.
The House voted 59 to 17 to pass the freight rate reduction bill and sent it to the Senate. It sets maximum grain and farm product rates at 3.50 per ton for 800 miles with shorter-haul cuts and a 15 percent cut on carload merchandise from January 2 1897 standards. Trooper’s passenger rate bill, amended, advanced toward final passage. The Senate adopted a calendar reform resolution, debated women’s suffrage time, and considered several senate bills on health, forests, prisons, and other state matters.
The house spent the day in discussion and third reading of bills. Smith’s compulsory pilotage bill was postponed indefinitely after Libbey’s petition from ship owners opposed it. Bills passed include Hansen on insurance proceeds, Geraghty on charter freeholders, and Wilkeson on dissolving third and fourth class municipal corporations.
The judiciary committee passed a bill allowing a coroner to serve writs without extra bond when the sheriff is incapacitated. Debate roared in the senate over Parker’s bill to ban capital punishment, with postponement motions and warnings of dangerous outcomes. Other measures advanced or tabled touched licensing, education, and eight hour labor rules.
The house indefinitely postponed Turner's railroad commission bill by 86 to 85 amid a tense hour long debate led by anti Turner Williams and supporters Roberts Geraghty. A close vote and seven absentees hint at a reconsideration and another lively clash. Senate passes Hills bill to amend the constitution for woman suffrage with a two thirds vote. widespread female attendance and applause mark the session.
The weekly market letter traces the long decline in American wheat and flour values to intensified competition from Russia India Argentina and Australia. It notes export shifts due to famine crop failures and lower production costs while predicting a partial rebound toward normal price ranges as excess competition eases.
Portland and Seattle market round up lists prices for Wheat Oats Hay Barley Millstuffs Butter Cheese Wool Hops Beef Mutton Hogs Veal and more with regional differences. Prices shown include wheat at 79 88c per bushel in several districts, butter around 40 50c per roll, hay from 10 to 18 per ton, and beef and mutton ranges listed for top steers cows and sheep. Washington and Oregon markets note varying prices for vegetables poultry and dairy products as of March 2 1897.
Market listing from San Francisco dated March 2 1897 shows prices for potatoes onions eggs butter cheese wool hay tropical fruit citrus fruit apples and more. Notable figures include Salinas Burbanks potatoes at 90c to 1.10 per cental and oranges navels at 1.75 to 3.80 per box.
In the Town of Bubble Nebraska a sickly Mrs Eliza Robinson recounts how neighbor Mary Mason intruded into her family life. Mason overfed, borrowed, and stayed daily, until a final threat to move back to the farm and eject her led to a parting. The narrator hopes peace returns as Mary Mason disappears.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt shows a couple recounting a peaceful home life after past troubles. They fear Mary Mason may return, despite hopeful smiles and a wary glance toward the door.
A New York Herald summary notes the Venus fly trap, native to North Carolina, with leafless flowering stems six to eight inches tall. Its hinged bristled traps lure insects with viscous secretion, close upon contact, digest the prey, and reopen. experts debate its carnivory though it thrives when starved of insects.
A Canary Islands tourist recalls the warm welcome from locals and the diverse trades from beggars to merchants. The piece also notes a Bristol Tennessee inventor, Victor Doriot, who crafted a curiously wooden watch from briar roof, boxwood, and a cow bone face, lauded by East Tennessee watchmakers.
The schooner Robert S. Carter, thought lost after striking Alden's Rock, was salvaged by Charles Bartlett for 70 dollars. A wind-driven drift brought her back to harbor, still carrying a 1200 ton coal cargo. The wreck is valued at 45000 dollars.
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