Boer War Fronts and Domestic News Trickle Across the Day
The report lists actions in the Boer War with Dewet eluding British forces and hanging near an end while British officials doubt a near conclusion. It notes American retreat from China nearly complete, plans for Philippine provincial governments, and various U.S. and local incidents including mine deaths, a Philadelphia oil warehouse fire, a New York court building fire, and a double suicide-murder in La Junta related to a forbidden marriage.
Trade goods shipped worldwide and rail costs rise
The report notes American machinery is sent globally as railway track elevation in Chicago cost companies over 17000. Foreign diplomats anticipate U S action to establish a protectorate over Cuba regarding foreign affairs. In Pekin troops looted a Buddhist temple roof believing tiles were gold but found only gold plated debris.
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Chicago
United States
Cuba
Pekin
State Senate Passes Bills On Land and Trade
The senate approved bills including No. 231 granting U S government jurisdiction over Rainier national park. No. 149 creates boundaries between state oyster lands and private lands. No. 172 allows sale of timber on state land separate from the land with three years to remove the lumber. No. 181 regulates bulk purchase and sale of goods drafted by the American Credit Men's Association.
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Senate
Hamilton
United States
Angle
Welty
State Land Commission
Preston
American Credit Men’s Association
Senate Advances Reapportionment and Other Measures
In an ample session the senate concurred in house amendments to the legislative reapportionment bill and sent it to the enrolling committee. It also concurred in house amendments invalidating foreign acknowledgments before U S consuls. The governor is expected to sign. A memorial from the W T U Spokane urged bills to end cigarette trafficking and slot machines. The pure food bill by Senator Smith King passed. Several other bills approved include Senate bills 205 206 and 157 addressing health funding, stationery funds, and delinquency certificate guarantees.
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Senate
House
United States
Spokane
Smith
King
State Board of Health
Legislature considers bipartisan board and gambling bills in weekly session
The judiciary committee reported for passage a bill by Merritt to reduce the board from five to three and make it bi partizan to implement Governor Rogers annual message. Other committee actions included postponing the drunkenness in office bill, passing the nickel in the slot machine ban, and extending the cigarette law to punish under 18 smoking. Rosenhaupt proposed two gambling repeal bills affecting culpability and fund destinations. Gunderson sought broader fish commission membership, Erlich proposed a three member public highways department with a three fifths mill levy for road funding. Milam pushed freight rate limits and a 15 percent cut on 1901 rates for fruit dairy products.
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House
Judiciary Committee
Merritt
Rogers
Committee On Public Morals
Rosenhaupt
Gunderson
State Fish Commission
Erlich
Department of Public Highways
Hicks
Gorham
Snohomish County
Milam
Spraying Rule Given For San Jose Scale Control
Orlando Beck announces that spraying must begin next month under county fruit inspection. Each fruit grower has a specific time to spray his orchard and must follow the given instructions or enforcement will occur. A bold hold up near Sumner involved Joe Kincaid and a Northern Pacific section hand. they were robbed of $2 to $3 and escorted across the Stuck River with orders to stay away for five hours. The Palouse region gains the first barbed wire telephone line linking Pullman’s True's hotel to farms of J S Klemgard, John Meteker and J M Klengard. The state board of audit calls for 1,000 bales of jute bids to open March 9, bringing the penitentiary total to 8,250 bales for the season and an estimated 1,400,000 grain bales.
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Orlando Beck
Yakima County
San Jose
Sumner
Joe Kincaid
Northern Pacific
Stuck River
Palouse
True’s Hotel
Pullman
J. S. Klemgard
John Meteker
J. M. Klengard
State Board of Audit and Control
Walla Walla
Fire at Lincoln State Prison Forces Convict Evacuation
A Lincoln prison fire began late last night threatening the main building and cellhouse. Warden Davis ordered the inmates moved to the yard under guard as city and state forces respond, with the origin undetermined and communications cut by fire.
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Lincoln, Neb
Lame Penitentiary
Lincoln
Lincoln Fire Department
Penitentiary
Davvs
Davis
Hoagland
Savage
Ringer
Burlington
Surrender of Botha Reported by Multiple Papers
London reports circulate that Commandant General Botha offered to surrender under conditions with Mrs Botha conveying terms to Lord Kitchener. The Sun claims an official surrender to General Kitchener while other papers cite unconfirmed or unofficial sources. In Manchester the Evening Mail says the surrender occurred shortly before 10 am.
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London
The
Daily News
Botha
Lord Kitchener
the Sun
Kitchener
All Mall Gazette
War, Foreign
Colonial Office
War Secretary
Broderick
House of Commons
Manchester
Engand
Evening Mail
Too Early for Withdrawal From Cuba Debate
Passengers aboard the steamer Havana after arriving from Havana express mixed views on Cuba’s path to independence. Dr W Phelps of Buffalo urges the United States to stay, citing health and order but warning that most Cubans favor independence while a restless minority could invite foreign debt and upheaval. Journalist Joseph Howard notes potential anarchy if U S troops depart, with capital and trade in doubt and calls for retention of American forces.
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New York
Havana
Cuba
W. ©. Phelps
Buffalo
Sam
United States
Joseph Howard
Trouble Among Recruits En Route to San Francisco
General McKibben, in Texas, ordered 20 soldiers under Captain Beall and Lt Perry to Ennis to meet a train carrying recruits and handle disturbances. No details available yet.
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San Antonio
Tex
McKibben
Texas
San Francisco
Beall
Third Infantry
Perry
Ennis
Russia's Manchuria Demands Reach Chinese Leaders
Pekin dispatch reports Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang discussing Russia's Manchuria demands seen as near total Russian control. Chinese plenipotentiaries fear refusing while acknowledging possible loss of territory and wider conflict. Prince Ching to seek ministerial guidance amid trade restrictions. Also, Private Calvin of the Ninth United States Infantry is acquitted of manslaughter in the French soldier case at a post.
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Russia
Pekin
Prince Ching
Li Hung Chang
Manchuria
China
Calvin
Ninth
United States Infantry
Powers press China over missionary claims and Manchuria
The Pekin correspondence reports Satow and Conger rejecting a Chinese proposal to act as representatives of the powers in talks with Chinese plenipotentiaries on missionary questions and native converts. It notes Russia pressing Li Hung Chang to push the Manchurian issue and warns several powers against China negotiating alone while peace talks linger. The Times editorialized that the United States and Germany might object, but McKinley seeks peace at any price.
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London
Ernest Satow
Conger
Pekin
Morning Post
M. Picheon
Li Hung Chang
Times
Japan
England
China
St. Petersburg
the Times
United States
Germany
McKinley
FOR SMALL SETTLERS
Congress begins to see irrigation as a means to aid bona fide settlers. The plan focuses on reclaiming land for home builders rather than large private tracts, aiming to safeguard water for small settlers who want forty or eighty acres and to farm the land.
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Washington
Congress
Third Battalion Ordered to Manila from San Francisco
Orders issued for the provisional regiment in San Francisco to sail on the transport Indiana for Manila on the 5th. The battalion is assigned to the Twenty-eighth Infantry and becomes the first battalion of that regiment.
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Washington
San Francisco
Indiana
Manila
Twenty-eighth Infantry
British Steamer Castino Returns With Propeller Loose
The Castino, two days out from this port for New York, broke course and ran short of coal, put in at St George's Bermuda February 12 for coal, left February 12, resumed voyage, but refun with a loose propeller February 15. Repairs followed and she proceeded February 26.
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Bermuda
Castino
New York
Liverpool
St. George's
Large Vein of Core Discovered near Centralia
A large vein of coal has been found east of Centralia Washington with quality equal to Roslyn coal. An expert prospecting in the area says coal can be mined here in abundance.
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Centralia
Wash
Roslyn
House Panel Plans Pacific Coast Junket In June Visit
The House river and harbor committee informally schedules a June trip to the Pacific Coast to inspect major rivers and harbors. They will stop in Galveston and Southern California then travel up the coast with invitations from California chambers of commerce and Oregon ports including Portland. The Upper Columbia and barriers at The Dalles and Celilo are expected to be emphasized. The House military committee also plans a Pacific Coast tour to study harbor facilities transport and barracks including Portland and Vancouver barracks.
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Washington
House
Pacific Coast
West
Galveston
California
Oregon
Portland
Columbia River
Tongue
Moody
Upper Columbia
Dalles
Celilo
Chambers of Commerce
House Military Committee
Vancouver Barracks
American Force In China Reduced After Pekin Dispatch
Washington orders General Chaffee to cut his China garrison from about 1,800 to a smaller force. The unit mix includes Ninth Infantry, Fifth Artillery, Cavalry and other troops. The goal is to ease tensions and hasten return to Pekin while restoring normal conditions there.
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State Department
China
War Department
Chaffee
Ts Amd BM
Gintls Cavalrs
Cattwry F
Ninth Infantry
Legation
Pekin
United States
Te Ninth Infantry
Roberson
Great Telephone Combination Forming in Pennsylvania Region
A movement begins in York to unite independent telephone lines across Pennsylvania Maryland Virginia and West Virginia under one management. A committee from competing lines will set admission basis for a new company planned with 27000000 dollars in capital and aims to eventually include all US lines under single control.
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York
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
United States
Million Dollar Mining Deal Reaches London Transfer
Spokane reports a $1,000,000 Palmer Mountain Tunnel Co interest sale now being completed in London by manager John Boyd. A $400,000 stamp mill and concentrator will be built in Okanogan county as the tunnel extends to 9,000 feet and 28 ore veins have been cut. The treasury stock sale funds further development.
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Spokane
Wash
the Chronicle
Palmer Mountain Tunnel Company
London
John Boyd
Okanogan County
Treasury
Fire destroys Fuller house in Walla Walla. losses listed
A house owned by H. V. Fuller on Nowell and Clinton streets burned tonight in Walla Walla causing about 1500 dollars in damage and 1000 dollars in furniture loss. The blaze cause remains unknown and the property was fully insured.
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Walla Walla, Wash
H. V. Fuller
Nowell and
Clinton Streets
Dewet Escapes After Cape Colony Raid
General Dewet suffered heavy losses but escaped with most of his commando. Commandant Hertzog reportedly crossed the Orange River with him. General Hamilton pursued and found Dewet not at Phillipstown but crossing toward Colesburg, amid intelligence confusion and pursuit by multiple columns.
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London
Dewet
Cape Colony
Hertzog
Orange River
Hamilton
Phillipstown
Colesburg
Daily Telegraph
Helpers Strive To Save 21 Fishermen On Lake Erie
Twenty one fishermen were swept onto floating ice off Silver Creek New York on March 5 but seventeen were rescued as high winds and breaking ice left four men stranded four miles from shore with a mile of open water between them and safety. A Dunkirk message prompted a special train and rescuers brought a boat on a flat car to the scene. The seventeen survivors describe their comrades likely perishing.
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Silver Creek
N. Y
Lake Erie
Dunkirk
Buffalo to Host National Wheelmen Meet in August
At the National Assembly in Philadelphia the League of American Wheelmen accepted Mayor Diehl’s invitation to hold the summer meet in Buffalo. The meet, the league’s largest ever, will run during the week starting August 12 with full member approval.
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National Assembly of the League of American Wheelmen
Philadelphia
Diehl
League
Buffalo
Fruit Men Alarmed Over Weather in Clark County
Vancouver March 4. Clark county fruit men fear continued warm weather may cause buds to form early risking a freeze or cold rain later. Winter has been favorable and prospects for a big crop were never better.
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Vancouver
Wash
Clark County
California Town Threatened by Levee Breach
Levee above Washington in Yolo county faces wash damage from high winds. A large labor force works to save it. if it fails, Washington will flood and the railroad between Sacramento and Davisville would be submerged.
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California
Sacramento
Cal
Washington
Yolo County
Davisville
Boers Cross the Orange River at Colesburg Bridge
Fifteen hundred Boers crossed the Orange River at Lilliefontein near Colesburg, with reports naming General Dewet and former President Joyn among those present. Horses were led as the current widened the river, allowing the crossing.
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Orange River
Colesburg
Cape Colony
Dewet
Joyn
Lilliefontein
Colesburg Bridge
Range
Mayas Defeated by Mexican Forces in Fresh Clash
In a new clash near Tabi a Maya position was found entrenched but Mexican troops charged it causing the Mayas to flee in panic as Federal forces pressed the area. The exchange underscores ongoing hostilities between Mexican authorities and Maya communities.
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Mexico City
Buffalo to Host Next Congress of D A R
Invitation extended by John Miller Horton at the D A R meet in Washington was accepted by vote. The Continental Congress event is set for Buffalo on June 14 with local officials coordinating.
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Congress
Buffalo
Continental Congress
Daughters of the American
John Miller Horton
Washington
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