World News In Brief Strikes Resume In St Petersburgh
A condensed digest notes strikes have resumed at St Petersburgh. Johaan Hoch a noted bigamist has been indicted by the Chicago grand jury for murder. The Congress session closed with total appropriations near 700 billion dollars. Immigrants arriving in New York exceed 19 999 in a week. Alaska cable earnings topped seven thousand dollars in February the best month yet. The Texas legislature endorses President Roosevelts Standard Oil policy and beef trust action. Dr Charcot reports Antarctic expedition aboard Iran cais arrived at Puerto Madrin Argentina and all members in good health. Mrs Stanford will probate her will leaving a million to one brother two million to another and various bequests to relatives. Servants on estates receive about one thousand dollars each.
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Charcot
Irancais
Paris
Puerto Madrin
Argentina
Stanford
Columbia River and Northern Changes Ownership
The Columbia River and Northern railway has been sold for about 1 million dollars to Eastern capitalists, with transfer imminent. The line runs 46 miles from Lyle to Goldendale and includes four Regulator steamers. It aims to connect with the Northern Pacific through Yakima country toward a northwest junction.
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Portland, Or
The
Oregonian
Columbia River & Northern Railway
Northern Pacific
Lyle
Columbia
Goldendale
Columbia River & Northern
Yakima Country
Experts on Trade Send Experienced Men to Far East
The Examiner reports E. H. Harriman and J. J. Hill are dispatching experts for their railroads and Oriental steamers to study enlarging markets in the Far East, notably China, for American cotton products. The findings may reach cotton merchants and the government if a commission is created to promote export of U S cotton goods.
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Hill
Harriman
Far East
Aminer
E. H. Harriaan
J. J. Hill
China
House Passes Direct Primary Bill Amid Opposition
Olympia March 7 Representative Shobridge’s direct primary election bill passed the house by 42 to 9 with four extra votes to spare. Kel logg of Stevens and Lambert of Whatcom led opposition as several members left to avoid voting. The senate has a similar measure on its calendar.
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Olympia
Shobridge
House
Kellogg
Stevens
Lambert
Whatcom
Senate
Hoquiam Guard Company Receives Expert Marksmen Medals
In Hoquiam on March 6 the National Guard of Washington Company F was awarded medals for expert marksmen sharpshooters and riflemen. The unit is the state’s youngest yet ranks second in marksmanship and efficiency with sixteen expert riflemen two sharpshooters and twenty five marksmen.
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Hoquiam
National Guard of Washington
Derelict sighted near Columbia by British ship
The British ship Pythomene under Capt. Spiney reports sighting a derelict off the mouth of the Columbia near Portland. The report covers events from the preceding Saturday before daylight during the voyage from Antwerp.
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Portland
Pythomene
Spiney
Antwerp
Columbia
Montana Legislature Adjourns After Veto on Supreme Court
Helena March 6 The Montana legislature adjourned before final session Gov Toole vetoed the bill to raise the supreme court from three to five justices and the senate sustained the veto by a large majority.
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Helena
Mont
Montana
Gov. Toole
Supreme Court
Senate
Seattle to get a crematory and other city notes
Washington news reports Seattle set to receive a crematory. A Twisp commercial club formed. Wenatchee excited by coal prospects. Memorial services for ex State Senator Sharp held in Olympia. Tacoma hosts Washington Lewis and Clark fair commission meeting awarding the state building contract to SK J Linne and J D Carroll of Seattle. James A Moore and Jacob Worth of Seattle offer $100 scholarships for science and liberal arts students. W F Sheard of Tacoma donates a Kodiak bear cub with a model den at Point Defiance park.
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Sharp
House
Olympia
Washington Lewis and Clark Fair Commission
Tacoma
Fair Grounds
Portland
SK. J
James A. Moore
Jacob Worth
Seattle
Qoue
W. F. Sheard
Kadiak
Point Defiance Park
Kadiak Island
Indictment Finds Congressman Binger Hermann For Destruction
Washington reports that Binger Hermann congressman from Oregon and former General Land Office commissioner is indicted by a federal grand jury for destroying public records. The charge centers on erasing thirty five copy books of official communications prior to his 1903 resignation. Bail set at two thousand five hundred dollars.
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Washington
Binger Hermann
Congress
Oregon
General Land Office
Federal Grand Jury
Secretary of the Interior
Hermann
Klondike railway work begins at Klon dike Mines
Dawson dispatch notes the first work on the Klon dike Mines railway has started. Workers extract ties and material from a timber tract on the Klondike river and haul it by sleighs to a spring pickup point for car loading when roadbed construction starts.
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Dawson
Seattle
Klondike Mines
Klondike
Montreal men arrested in Quebec over Savannah River contract
Montreal report states Messrs Gaynor and Greene were arrested in Quebec on Saturday to be brought to Montreal for extradi tion proceedings. They are wanted by U S authorities in connection with the Savannah river contract.
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Montreal
Messrs Gaynor and Greene
Quebec
United States
Seattle Market Prices For Grain Hay and Livestock
Seattle dealers publish current producer offers with varied contracts for grain oats barley and wheat and feed including corn bran shorts and shorts plus live stock values for beef cattle cows steers sheep hogs dressed calves and hides. Regional hay and wool prices cover eastern and Puget Sound areas with wool grades and timothy clover alfalfa and wheat hay notes. Poultry eggs and turkeys list dressed and live rates along with duck geese and squab values.
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Washington
Puget Sound
Western Washington
Roosevelt and Fairbanks Take Oath of Office
Washington March 4 inaugurations marked by a grand national display. Crowds of about 200000 witnessed the ceremony as Roosevelt and Fairbanks took their oaths. A formal parade, decorated streets, a presidential escort by the Grand Army of the Republic, and a lavish inaugural ball capped the day.
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Roosevelt
Fairbanks
Washington
Republic
District of Columbia
War and Navy Department
Army and Navy
Grand Army of the Republic
Capitol
White House
Capitol Hill
Congress
Senate
Fuller
Supreme Court of the Nation
Nation colors drape city as crowds greet president
A citywide display of national colors decorates two and a half miles of avenues with streets, parks, and viewing stands transforming the route for the president’s arrival. Children contribute by placing flags at every home, while committees coordinate decorations to create a grand ceremonial escort.
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Board of Education
Chadwick Trial Opens in Bank Conspiracy Case
Mrs Cassie L Chadwick arraigned for trial before Judge R W Taylor on charges of violating banking laws and conspiring with Citizen's National Bank officials to obtain money with worthless checks. Sixteen counts involve eight checks totaling 65000 dollars. Andrew Carnegie connected. testimony expected. Rear Admiral Stirling to be replaced by W M Folger as head of the Asiatic fleet on March 23. Stirling sails March 15 for Hong Kong aboard Wisconsin.
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Cleveland
Cassie L. Chadwick
R. W. Taylor
United States District Court
Beckwith
Spear
Citizen's National Bank of Oberlin
Chadwick
Andrew Carnegie
Manila
Yates Stirling
W. M. Folger
Stirling
Hong Kong
Wisconsin
Oregon
Russian workmen leader leaves Geneva for London via Paris
Father Gopon, head of the Russian workmen involved in the fatal Sunday incident on January 22, departed Geneva after two days, traveling to London through Paris.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Gopon
Jannuary 22
London
Paris
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Beef Trust
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Seattle Market Report
South
Spain
Union
Court of History
Fifteenth Street
Kings of the Earth
President Theodore Roosevelt
C. W. Fairbanks
Yinancier
Folger
Transcontinental Tachi Company
W. W. Wrenn
N. E St
Harper Rye
Hentucky
Harper
St. Louis
Fred Hewitt
Gan Ligpeonon
Gray’s Harbor Commercial Co
Cosmopolis, Wash
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
Tpol. Morgan
Ninemire & Morgan CO
Montesano
Aberdeen
Tima
Fira
Patterson & Locke 60
Incorporated
General Insurance Agents
Stree
Nature
Hotel Northern
Bamboo Furniture
J.P. Nelson
Prop
East Wishkah St
Aberdeen, Wash
A. Ingebrightsen
G Street
H. A. Tereda & CO
South G St
Zelaska Block
Aberdeen Transfer CO
Fathersopon
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