Notable National and World News Roundup
A weekly digest notes artist Jean Baptiste Millet’s death and Millet’s brother. Senator Hansbrough backs repealing the timber and stone act. Gen O O Howard urges keeping the Philippines until Christianization. Silverton cable ship nears Manila while en route to Shanghai. Sibley introduces a bill banning government officers from buying convict-labor products. UC Berkeley 1906 summer session dated June 25 to August 4. Judge Gould sets April 16 for Mann Oregon impeachment trial. Cortelyou projects $53,500 minimum for free seed distribution and postage. Mayoytan clash blamed on native treachery with 40 Pulajanes and 10 constabulary dead or wounded.
Printing reforms in Congress push for curbing waste
Two joint resolutions by Representative Landis of Indiana push immediate reforms in public printing. One allows multiple editions of documents and sets new guidance rules, aiming to curb extravagant printing. The other shifts budgeting to hold department heads financially responsible for printing costs.
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Washington
Landis
Indiana
Congress
Joint Committee On Printing
Executive
Anthracite Reserve Seen In Northeast To Weather Strike
New York dated March 26 reports that mine operators within 1000 miles of New York hold over 4 million tons of marketable anthracite. They say dealers and large consumers add to this, and a strike would cause no prior inconveniences as in 1902.
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New Orleans
Southern Pacific
California
Ainsboro
Fla
South
New York
New York City
Bank to Open in Renton Within a Week
Washington news reports a new bank to be established at Renton within a week or ten days. Rain in the Palouse boosts spring wheat prospects and Ballard faces injunctions restraining city contracts. Telephony between Wilson Creek and Moses Lake is proposed.
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Palouse
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Chicago, Milwaukee& St. Paul
Evarts
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Tacoma
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Wash
Western Pacific
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Colo
Utah
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Harriman
Hill Lines
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Northern Pacific
Burlington
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Nebraska
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Harriman Lines
Southern Pacific
Oregon Short Line
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company
Texas
California
Hoggatt Moves Alaska Capitol to Juneau
Washington March 27 The governor elect W Hoggatt says the Alaska seat of government will move from Sitka to Juneau as soon as quarters are secured likely by rental He plans to discuss the matter with Secretary Hitchcock and will leave for Alaska within a week to take oath and assume duties in the territory
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Washington
Alaska
Sitka
Juneau
W. &K. Hoggatt
Hitchcock
Hoyowatt
Territory
Vice President Signs Bill Opening Colville Reservation Lands
The vice president signed legislation opening the south half of the Colville reservation to white settlement. All lands on the reservation will be surveyed allotted and appraised. Actual opening may wait two to three years with surveys likely starting next summer.
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Washington
Colville Reservation
Senate committee backs lifeboat fleet for Pacific coast
Washington March 26 The senate committee on commerce has recommended passage of a bill to appropriate 200,000 for the construction and equipment of a life saving ocean going boat for service on the North Pacific coast and a life saving station near Neah Bay.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Commerce
North Pacific Coast
Neah Bay
Hazing debate signals Navy academy reforms and critique
The Senate passes a bill with a House substitute to regulate hazing at the Annapolis Naval Academy. The measure reforms punishment, allowing penalties short of dismissal and duties to report infractions, amid sharp criticisms of condoning hazing and political interference.
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Washington
Annapolis Naval Academy
House
Senate
Hepburn
Rixey
Virginia
Vreeland
New York
W. W. Kitchin
Franchise bid seeks railway to Dawson from Mackenzie River line
Dawson reports that a franchise application will be filed for a railway line from near Port Simpson to Dawson. The plan, filed by C Du Bois Mason as counsel for Mackenzie River Fort Simpson Laird Post Yukon Railway Co, covers construction from Port Simpson to Dawson City via the Laird and Dease rivers and the Campbell mountains region.
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Seattle
Dawson
The
Post-Intelligencer
Gand Trunk Pacific
C. Dubois Mason
Victoria
B. C
Mackenzie River
Fort Simpson
Laird Post & Yukon Railway Company
Pelly Banks Post
Pelly River
Karn River
Dawson City
Ultimatum of Miners Demands Scale of 1903
The United Mine Workers through John Mitchell presented coal operators with an ultimatum on the wave scale dispute. Miners demand restoration of the 1905 wave scale, a 5.55 percent increase, prompting an adjournment of the joint conference for a day. A definite answer is expected, with a likely refusal and continued fight at the convention.
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Indianapolis
United Mine Workers of America
John Mitchell
Joint Conference
Pater Captured in Boston Then Escapes
Boston reported Stephen A. D. Pater of San Francisco was arrested by Secret Service officer W. B. Burns but escaped after less than 30 minutes in custody. Portland notes 8. A. D. Puter, recently arrested in Boston and later escaped, is convicted in US courts for conspiring to defraud the United States by securing fraudulent timber land entrymen.
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Stephen A. D. Pater
San Francisco
United States
Oregon
Secret Service
W. B. Burns
Washington, D. C
Portland
A. D. Puter
Pater
John H. Mitchell
Puter
Salem
Jamestown Centennial Exposition Funding Recommended
Washington March 246 The committee on industrial arts and expositions proposes a total appropriation of 1 480 000 dollars for the Jamestown centennial exposition.
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Washington
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