British Columbia Electric Railway Buys Victoria Gas
The British Columbia Electric Railway and Lighting Company has purchased the Victoria Gas Company for 192000 dollars. Minister Bowen may be ordered to Washington to address charges against Assistant Secretary Loomis. The cotton crop of 1404 totals 14555547 bales, up 3491586 from last year, per census bureau. Kiowa Comanche Apache lands 390000 acres leased July 1 for grazing will shift to agricultural use. Ottawa reports an extensive fisheries investigation across British Columbia and other provinces. George J. Gould resigns from Union Pacific board, citing planned move to Western Pacific.
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Bowen
Washington
Loomis
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Ottawa
British Columbia
Negotiations on Exclusion Treaty Stall as U S China Talks Reach Abeyance
Washington reports that talks on a Chinese exclusion treaty are practically abandoned and delayed until W. W. Rockhill arrives in Peking. China seeks broader terms for merchants travelers and students to ease entry while American authorities cite fraud in Chinese certificates. Olympia encampment details set for July at American Lake. Seattle land office announces July 13 opening of 38 000 acre tract north of Quinault reservation for settlement.
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Washington
United States
China
W. W. Rockhill
Peking
Wu Ting Fang
Seattle
Government Land Office
Quinault Indian Reservation
Jefferson County
Washington News Highlights From The Puget Sound Region
Grants add two carriers to Bellingham post office. Ballard Bank incorporated with 25000 capital. Seattle streetcar ownership drive begins. Lumber trade targets large bridge timber orders for eastern railroads. NP plans extension in Whatcom County from Deming to Kendall. Ballard hosts banquet for mail delivery Harbor improvements. Pomeroy flour mills and 10000 bushels grain destroyed by fire. loss 25000. Fire origin unknown. Sawmill site near Everett to be built by Rucker brothers with 40000 feet daily capacity. Snoqualmie Coke and Coal stockholder seeks receiver amid alleged large loan risk. Movement to curb Sunday ball playing in Everett. Rev Daniel Bagley dies in Seattle at 7. pioneer minister helped establish state university.
Hop Growers Call Meeting to Form Price Keping Combination
Portland April 26 hop growers summoned to state circuit court within ten days to show cause why an injunction should not restrain them from forming a pool to keep hop prices up. A. C. Iler filed for the injunction alleging the plan resembles a trade restricting trust.
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Portland, Or
State Circuit
Portland
A. C. Ller
Iler
Oregon
Seattle Market Report Prices for Grain and Livestock
Seattle market report lists producer prices for grain oats barley wheat chicken feed bran shorts corn hay eggs poultry live stock hides wool and other products. Includes beef cattle cows steers sheep hogs dressed calves live and various f.o.b. Seattle values with regional wheat and hay quotes and feed costs.
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F.o. B
Seattle
Washington
Puget Sound
Washington Creamery
Puget
Germany to terminate 1900 US tariff pact in 1906
Berlin announces the Germany United States tariff agreement will end March 1 1906 when the new reciprocity treaties take effect but Berlin is ready to negotiate a new commercial treaty with Washington. Germany argues equal benefits must be exchanged for special advantages.
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Berlin
United States
Germany
Richthoff
Russia
Italy
Belgium
Switzerland
Austro- Hungary
Roumania
Servia
Foreign Office
Ministry of the Interior
America
State Department
Tariff War Probable in U S Germany Trade Row
Washington reports indicate the German foreign office and the American embassy in Berlin clash over the 1900 Dingley reciprocity accord. If Germany denounces the treaty without a substitute, the United States may face a tariff war risking vast trade and provoking retaliatory legislation.
General Fitzhugh Lee Dies After Stroke in Providence Hospital
Brigadier General Fitzhugh Lee of the U S Army, grandson of Light Horse Harry Lee and nephew of General Robert E Lee, died in Providence hospital after an apoplexy suffered on a train trip from Boston to Washington. He served in the Confederate army and later held U S positions including consul general to Cuba and governor of Virginia. He commanded the Seventh Army Corps during the Spanish American War and served as military governor of Havana before retiring as brigadier general in 1901.
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Fitzhugh Lee
Providence Hospital
Boston
Sen. Lee
Harry Lee
Robert E. Lee
Virginia
Lee
Cuba
State Department
United States
Cleveland
McKinley
Maine
Spain
United States Volunteers
Seventh Army Corps
Havana
Injunction Used In Chicago Strike
Chicago April 29 Government becomes party to labor troubles as Judge Kohlsaat issues a federal injunction against the Employers' Teaming Association and strikers. The order bans interference with business and non union workers while urging peace. Writ returnable May 10.
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Chicago
American Railway Union
Teamsters
C. C. Kohlsaat
United States Circuit Court
Employers’ Teaming Association
West Virginia
Shea
Teamsters’ Union
Leases On Sand Island Granted By Federal Authority
The secretary of war issues fishing permits for Sand Island at the Columbia River mouth after ruling Washington lacks jurisdiction and its licenses are void. Five bidders win permits for the island fishing rights.
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Washington
State of Washington
Sand Island
Columbia River
Secretary of War
Puget Sound Exports Break All Records
Port Townsend reports export trade rising to a new monthly peak with over 4.1 million dollars expected this month, aiming to surpass November 1904’s record of 4.376 million. The fiscal year ending June 30 is projected to beat previous records by several million dollars. In Los Angeles, a separate note says Harriman Clark Salt Lake railroad bonds of 40 million dollars will be reconsidered as directors deem the timing unsuitable. Senator Clark projects 15 percent value a year hence.
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Port Townsend
Sound
Los Angeles
Harriman-Clark Salt Lake Railroad
Clark
Electric railway planned for Boise valley to Cadwells
Arrangements are made to build an electric railway in the Boise valley extending to Cadwells thirty two miles from Boise and to the Pearl mining camp twenty five miles away. This will be the first electric line in Southern Idaho.
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Boise
Idaho
Boise Valley
Cadwells
Pearl Mining Camp
New University Regent Selected in Olympia
S G Cosgrove of Pomeroy appointed a regent of the state university at Seattle succeeding Richard Winsor of Seattle whose term expired in March.
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New University
Olympia
S. G. Cosgrove
Pomeroy
The
State University At
Seattle
Richard Winsor
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