World News in Brief Resume of Global Happenings
The Willamette River rise begins while Maurice Barrymore dies. The Dunsmuir will case is reopened in San Francisco. Dr. J. B. Whiting and Miss Mildred Lee die. Germany postpones Berlin World Electrical Conference. Yukon improvements halted. Grand frank Pacific buys coal lands in Telkina valley BC. Chicago appellate court upholds cigarette paper ban with tobacco ordinance.
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Dunsmuir Will
Superior Court
San Francisco
Grand Frank Pacific
Telkina Valley
British Columbia
Supreme court bans county tract index systems in auditor offices
Seattle on March 27 reports a supreme court injunction ruling that no county may install a tract index system in the county auditor’s office. The decision follows similar actions by Spokane and King counties, holding that public records must be kept as prescribed by law and that saving money by unlawful records harms taxpayers.
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Seattle
Supreme Court
John L. Dirks
Spokane County
Lamping
King County
Mexico adopts gold basis for peso and new monetary plan
Mexico City reports a decree establishing the peso at 50 cents gold with a dollar equivalent of 75 centigrams gold. A reserve exchange fund starts with 15 million dollars as the old mint closes April 16 and the new system takes effect May 1./business circles praise the reform and protection against import losses. In Everett the Royal Arcanum elects officers for the coming year and sets Seattle as the 1906 session site. A Pacific coast consolidation, Selby Tacoma and Everett, is announced in New York, with copper refinery plans for Tacoma and Victoria. The Canadian Pacific may lose the Esquimalt and Nanimo line to the Grand Trunk Pacific.
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Mexico City
Diaz
Congress
Everett
New York
Ameriera
Selby
Tacoma
Woodmen to Build Fraternal Temple in Bellingham
Fraternal order Woodmen of the World plans construction of a temple in Bellingham. Other items note Senator Vandevanter on the road to recovery after illness and a brief storm with only telecommunication damage in Everett.
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Woodmen of the World
Bellingham
Senator Vandevanter
Everett
Direct Wire to Spokane for Sunset Line
Spokane report of fifty men starting Monday to string a direct Spokane to Seattle and Tacoma wire for Sunset Company. Route includes Davenport Wilbur Wenatchee Stampede Pass. Service aimed for through traffic to the Sound by July 1, replacing the Portland route.
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Spokane
Seattle
Tacoma
Sunset Company
Davenport
Wilbur
Wenatchee
Stampede Pass
The
Sound
Portland
Deportation order returns Mrs Norrington to Victoria BC
Mrs Margaret Norrington, 75, described as impoverished and feeble minded, has again been ordered deported to Victoria BC. She was sent from Victoria to San Francisco, returned by steamer, and now faces another northern voyage. She says she originally came from New Zealand seeking a sister.
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San Francisco
Margaret Norrington
Victoria
B. C
New Zealand
Roosevelt Arctic steamship launched at Bucksport
Lieut. Robert E. Peary’s Arctic steamship Roosevelt was launched yesterday at Bucksport. Mrs. Peary christened the vessel. Naval architect William E. Winant of New York designed her, and she is hailed as the strongest, most powerful, and best equipped craft yet built for Arctic ice combat.
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Bucksport
Robert E. Peary
Roosevelt
Seattle Market Report Prices From Local Dealers
Market report from Seattle lists producer prices for grain oats barley wheat chicken feed and bran plus hay eggs live stock hides wool and other commodities. Items include oats 27.28 per ton barley 24 per ton wheat 28.60 per ton eggs strictly fresh ranch 17.5 cents per dozen live hens 11 11.5 cents per lb cattle prices cows 2.0 cents per lb steers 41 40 per 100 lb hogs 6 7 cents per lb wool ranges 11 20 cents per lb and other farm products with no notice changes.
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Seattle
Washington
Puget Sound
Washington Creamery
Peace Conference Talks Reported in Stockholm Mediation Offer
Reports from Washington and Paris indicate a high-level offer of mediation by Germany in the Russia Japan war. Preliminary talks are said to have occurred in a northern capital possibly Stockholm with pacific hopes hinging on Japan pausing to permit Vladivostok driven negotiations.
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Washington
Russia
Japan
Berlin
Europe
State Department
Paris
St. Petersburg
Associated Press
Nelidoff
Motono
Foreign Office
Count Nelidoff
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Diplomats Reticent On Far East Peace Prospects
London officials and diplomatists maintain silence on potential talks with Russia in the Far East. Baron Hayashi says Japan will continue the war until terms are offered. London circles note possible negotiations but reveal little, fearing premature disclosures. Meantime Toronto machinists seek a 25 percent wage rise to equal Canadian Pacific Railway workers, with a strike possible if refused.
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London
Far East
Associated Press
St. Petersburg
Baron Hayashi
Great Britain
Japan
Russia
Toronto
Ont
Grand Trunk Railroad
Canadian Pacifico Railway
Nansen Warns of Danger to Norway Sweden Union
London dispatch reports Dr. Fridtjof Nansen warning that consular issues threaten the Norway Sweden union. He says Sweden’s refusal of Norway’s rights risks a serious breach of faith and may end the union unless equal, unalterable rights are guaranteed.
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London
Nansen
Norway
Sweden
Russia cites war office figures on Manchuria losses and mobilization
St Petersburg reports reveal up to March 12 the war office dispatched 14 087 officers 761 467 men 146 308 horses 1 521 guns and 316 321 tons of munitions. It claims initial Far East forces numbered under 60 000 and acknowledges Port Arthur provisioning delays and a 30 battalion garrison plan.
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St. Petersburg
War Office
Siberian
Far East
Port Arthur
Russia
Army
Germany veto on arms for Turkey shocks Porte
A dispatch from Constantinople says the German ambassador delivered a note to the Porte vetoing Turkey placing orders for arms in France. Germany warns of serious consequences if ignored while the Ottoman cabinet feels embattled and indignant. The French ambassador pursues a large arms order for France.
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Aris
The
Temps
Constantinople
Porte
Turkey
France
Germany
Clergymen Protest Rockefeller Gift for Missions
New England religious leaders plan to present objections to J. D. Rockefeller's proposed $100,000 donation for foreign missions at the Congregational convention in Seattle. The American Board has decided to accept the gift, and the issue will be discussed at the national session.
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Chicago
New England
J. D. Rockefeller
Seattle
Cattle Raisers Endorse Denver Stock Association
Fort Worth report says the Texas Cattle Raisers Association adopted resolutions endorsing the American Stock Raising Association organized in Denver and urging all members to join.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Texas Cattle Raisers’ Association
American Stock Raising Association
Denver
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J. B. Whiting
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Mildred Lee
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New Orleans
James Sutherland
Major Wood
Yukon
Yukon River
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Mexico
Royal Arcanum
Hitchin
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Exquimalt
Nansimo Railway
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MacNeil’s Island
Bellingham Normal School
Lake Chelan
Chelan
Elizabeth Spaualding Warren
Lakeside
Rocky Mountains
George Alleman
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Peary
Seattle Market Report
Tokio
Vladivostok
Palling
Rockefeller
G. la Ovreve
Hotel Northern
Bamboo Furniture
Nelson
East Wishkah St
Aberdeen, Wash
A. Ingebrightsen
G Street
Steamer Harbor’ Belle
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Aberdeen
Cosmopolis
Hoquiam
Montesano
Westport
H. A. Tereda & CO
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Zelaska Block
F. Street
Aberdeen Transfer CO
HAY
Wood and Coai
Canadian Pacific
Boston
Montreal
Atlantic Lines
Locke
J. W. Draper
Transcontinental Machine Company
W. W. Wrenn
Harper Rye
Kentucky
St Tonia
Fred Hewitt
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
Tpos. Morgan
Ninemire & Morgan CO
Ting
Patterson & Locke Co., Incorporated
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