Fifth Session Adjourns as Laws Enacted in Olympia
Washington Legislature closes fifth session with freight rate and general appropriation bills adopted. Many measures approved include taxation changes, corporate filings, road and public works funding, prison and public welfare reforms, and a new state board of pardons. An investigative committee on the fish industry is authorized.
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Olympia
Washington
Legisla
Senate
Bureau of Labor
Acc Insurance
Secretary of State
Seattle
Lyle
Klickitat County
Washougal
Clark County
Marcus
Marble Mount
King County
Yakima
Natchez Pass
Gand Forks
la Push
Montesano
Brookfield
Boards of Control
Eeastern and Western
Spokane
Tacoma
Justices of the Peace
Board of Forest Commissioners
State University and Agricultural College
Columbia
Chehalis County
Chehalis
Wenatchee
Methow
Twisp River
W. B. Davy
Whatcom Normal School
Secretary Kincaid Declines to Honor State Claims
Secretary of State Kincaid states he will not file or recognize claims against the state by commissions normal schools charitable homes and similar bodies without legislative appropriation. The ruling would save about 130000 over the biennial term, affecting normal schools charitable homes pilot commissions dairy and food fish and game departments and others.
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Salem, Or
Kincaid
Hollister D. McGuire
McGuire
Secretary of State
Politics in School Aims to Teach Civics in Chicago
Chicago plans a systematic civics program for students to instill political theory and citizenship. The Civic Federation on education leads, with Richard Waterman Jr and W A Giles among organizers, while the Woman's Club of Englewood and similar groups consider assisting.
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Chicago
Civic Federation
Committee On Education
Richard Waterman, Jr
W. A. Giles
Watt Graham School
Woman’s Club
Englewood
Steamer Al-Ki Sails 245 Yukon Prospectors to Alaska
Port Townsend March 15 The steamer Al-Ki sails for Alaska with 245 Yukon prospectors 90 dogs for sledging and 30 packhorses. Packhorses over the divide are untested. crowding forces 600 tons of freight to be left behind. Also aboard are Willapa City of Topeka arrivals. Ex US District Attorney C S Johnson travels to ask McKinley to appoint him Alaska governor.
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Port Townsend
Wash
Al-Ki
Alaska
Yukon
Willapa
City of Topeka
Topeka
C. S. Johnson
United States
Washington
McKinley
State convention date set for county superintendents
Olympia March 15. State Superintendent Brown designates Tuesday April 27 for the regular biennial county superintendents convention to convene at Ellensburg. The state board of education meets April 24 at Ellensburg to outline reading circle plans and exams regulations under new laws. Washington March 16. A notice states the president has proclaimed the patent convention with Japan, enabling Americans to patent inventions there under the new provisions.
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Olympia
Wash
Brown
Ellensburg
State Board of Education
Washington
State Department
Japan
Tokio
Limit of Debt Upholds Mandatory County Obligations
The Washington Supreme Court reversed a lower ruling in an case by taxpayers of Klickitat County to halt warrants for juror and witness fees, sheriff expenses and election costs, holding these mandatory obligations are prior to other liabilities. A Colusa California report notes Mrs. Hoover killed her husband in self defense with a gas pipe after a feud. Colfax Washington reports a Moscow branch train wreck near Colfax with five cars derailed but no injuries.
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Olympia
Wash
Supreme Court
W. P. Rough
Klickitat County
Colusa
Cal
Frank A. Hoover
Hoover
Colfax
Moscow Branch
February Exports Report Shows Shifts in Breadstuffs and Cotton
The February monthly export figures show breadstuffs at 15,006,657 dollars down about 2.7 million from January while cotton reached 17,190,738 dollars, down about 11.25 million. Mineral oils rose by 0.5 million to 4,561,148 dollars and provisions including cattle and hogs fell by about 0.6 million to 12,408,811 dollars. For eight months breadstuffs total 136,961,789. cotton 186,668,701. mineral oils 41,784,365. provisions 18,778,164. February four-article exports sum to 49,167,354, down about 13,000 from January, while eight-month gains total about 85,220,000.
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Washington
Bureau of Statstics
Attorney Julian Pinto Shot by Mother-in-Law in San Francisco
In San Francisco on March 15, attorney Julian Pinto was fired upon by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Latham, who fled after the shooting. Pinto, who was nursing prior to the act, received critical wounds likely to prove fatal. Pinto had previously served a prison term for shooting a gambler named Bush.
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San Francisco
Julian Pinto
Pinto
Latham
Bush
Fire on cruiser New York at Tompkinsville
Fire invaded the cruiser New York while off Tompkinsville with 2000 pounds of guncotton and 6000 pounds of powder in the forward magazine. The automatic fire alarm failed for the first time in its history as water flooded the coal bunkers and the ship loaded water to gain three feet in draught before being towed to the navy yard.
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New York
Tompkinsville
Governor’s Island
Navy Yard
Postal Clerks Plan Twenty Second Annual Convention in San Francisco
Local postal workers prepare for the twenty second annual convention to meet in San Francisco on Tuesday. Eastern delegates will join with escorts from Postal Inspector Irwin. Mayor Phelan, Mails Superintendent Flint and President Waring will address the opening session. A promenade concert follows the business session. Delegates will travel around the bay on the steamer Ukiah and visit Santa Cruz, big trees, with a Baldwin hotel reception.
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San Francisco
Irwin
Redding
Phelan
Flint
Waring
Bay
Ukiah
Santa Cruz
Big Trees
Baldwin Hotel
Chicago aims to ship corn for India's relief famine aid
The Chicago Ministers Association and city officials join the Chicago committee linked to the board of trade to secure corn for India's famine relief. Mayor and San Francisco leaders will coordinate with the navy to send grain free to India and the railroads will move corn across the Pacific.
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Chicago
R. G. Hobbs
Jacksonville
J. P. Bousingham
Chicago Ministers’ Association
Chicago Committee
Board of Trade
C. C. Bonney
E. C. Keith
Metropolitan Bank
San Francisco
Secretary of the Navy
India
Pacific
Memphis levee breach prompts river excursion reveals flood scope
Memphis reports the Neely plantation levee failing as floods surge, 1000 acres at risk, and two large excursion steamers offer trips west into Arkansas over submerged farms and villages amid record high water. John L Sullivan hanged in Dorchester for murder of Eliza Dutcher and her child. Epidemics sweep across Mexico with scarlet and typhoid fever. Gulf cities report similar outbreaks. William Jeffrey jailed at Sing Sing for 20 years after robbing 40 cents in Peekskill. Susan Smith elected sheriff in Virginia.
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Memphis
Tenn
Neely
Arkansas
John L
Sullivan
Denver
Colo
Mexico
Republic of Mexico
Japan
Vera Cruz
Gulf
Mining Dividends Declared by Bullion Beck and Mercur
Salt Lake March 15 The Bullion Beck mine declares a monthly dividend of 5000 dollars and the Mercur Mining Company declares its regular monthly dividend of 25000 dollars. Total payments reach 2117000 dollars for Bullion Beck and 650000 dollars for Mercur.
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Salt Lake
Bullion- Beck
Mercur Mining Company
Bullion-Beck
Mercur
Reprieve for Walling. clemency denied Jackson
Frankfort officials announce Governor Bradley refused Scott Jackson's appeal for executive clemency. Walling is reportedly reprieved to an undetermined date, with his attorney Colonel Washington confident execution will not occur. Bay City reports an immense ice floe broke from Saginaw Bay, sending over 200 fishermen adrift. most were rescued, with three fishermen reportedly lost.
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Walling
Frankfort
Bradley
Scott Jackson
Alonzo Walling
Washington
Jackson
Bay City
Mich
Saginaw Bay
Lone Tree
Madison Island
Wisconsin Battleship Keel Laid at Union Iron Works
San Francisco report notes keel laying for the battleship Wisconsin at Union Iron Works. The ship mirrors the Oregon in class, with two sister ships Alabama and Virginia built elsewhere, contract around eight million dollars.
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San Francisco
Union Iron Works
Wisconsin
Oregon
Alabama
Virginia
Flood Loss Hits Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Rail Line
Chillicothe Ohio March 15 The estimated loss of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroad from the recent floods and wrecks is two hundred thousand dollars.
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Chillicothe
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad
My Little Girl Forever In Georgetown Herald
A father recites the contrast between his past child and his fourteen year old daughter now grown. He clings to childhood, hopes to delay fashion and growing up, and affirms he will keep Grace as his little girl forever despite her maturity. The poem closes with a pledge to maintain their father daughter bond.
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Papa
Grace
Harriet Francene Crocker
Georgetown Herald
Wee Wung's Predicament at Pekin Theater
Two to three years after returning to Pekin Wee Wung, famed as a top Chinese female impersonator in San Francisco and beloved by Chinatown patrons, is drawn into a sudden offer from a cab-hail woman promising five dollars for an unspecified service. He steps toward the curb, curious and cautious, as the driver’s passenger lures him away.
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Wee Wung
Pekin
Chinatown
San Francisco
Wee Wang
Wee Wong
Wee Wunhg
America
Wee Wung in Stage Mixup at Washington Theatre
Wee Wung agrees to be paid five dollars for a domestic disguise. He joins a lecture on Chinese dress by Mrs. Pinkley-Creston in a theater full of women, then reveals his true identity, causing chaos as he escapes back to Chinatown.
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Wee Wung
Depont Street
Wee Wong
Mrs. Pinkey-Creston
Wve Wung
Mrs. Pinkley-Creston
Chinatown
Mrs. Pinkley- Creston
Laula Weslyn Jones
Kate Field
Washington
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