Hap penings of the Past Week in a Condensed Form
The survey notes seven killed in Madrid election riots and the Pacific cable to Manila due July 4. Montreal forest fires threaten communities north of the city as villagers flee. England plans to wait on Somalia until the mullah subsides. Portland lumber mills suspend work due to labor troubles. Anaconda faces twin municipal authorities with courts to rule. Tacloban postmaster O G Milne, recently found guilty of embezzlement, receives seven years. Minneapolis Expo building sold to M W Savage for a stock food factory. auditorium possibly kept. Gen Nelson Miles aims for Long Island residence after retirement and leases a summer cottage near New Hampton.
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Nelson A. Miles
Long Island
New Hampton
BC legislature adjourns to probe land grant scandal
Victoria May 5 The British Columbia legislature adjourns for a week to allow a full investigation of corruption charges tied to the alleged land grant to the Columbia and Western railway in southeast Kootenay. The grant repudiation becomes law, complicating land and mining claims as a special committee gathers evidence.
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Victoria
British Columbia
Kootenay
Columbia & Western Railway
Col. Prior
McBride
Boers Plan Colony in Mexico Near Santa Rosalia
A Record Herald dispatch reports a Boer settlement project in Chihuahua after securing eighty three thousand acres along the Conchas river near Santa Rosalia. General W D Snyman has left for New York to join General Villjoen and will bring fifty families back to Mexico with plans to settle up to one thousand families. Negotiations continue for additional tracts in Chihuahua and Sonora near the Yaqui river.
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Chicago
Record-Herald
City of
Mexico
Conechas River
Santa Rosalia
Chihuahua
W. D. Snyman
New York
Villjoen
Sonora
Yaqui River
WANTS THAT TRADE
President Harriman of the Southern Pacific met with San Francisco business leaders to discuss James J. Hill’s bid to move transport business to Seattle. Both sides agreed to cooperate and support the city’s welfare in emergencies.
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San Francisco
Harriman
Southern Pacific
James J. Hill
Great Northern Railroad
Seattle
Mercantile
Transportation
Austro Hungarian Battleships Reach Salonica Amid Siege
A dispatch reports two Austro Hungarian battleships and a torpedo boat arriving at Salonica where a state of siege has been proclaimed.
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Vienna
Salonica
Washington State News Highlights
Spokane mill workers strike as Vancouver mills output 300000 feet daily. J T Russell plans to locate Washington mills. King county prisoners arrive at Walla Walla penitentiary. Seattle bartender Mack Wood linked to Duke of Hamilton and a 2000000 estate. Vancouver reserve land cleared for park. Northwest Light and Power advances at Meyers Falls Colville line. Electric distribution to Stevens county towns targeted by July.
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Mack Wood
Seattle
Duke of Hamilton
Northwest Light and Power Company
Meyer’s Falls
Colville
Stevens County
Southern Pacific Slashes Work Force in Oregon and California
Grants Pass reports a sweeping cut down order from the Southern Pacific management halves bridge section and tresfle crews and reduces other workers along the line in Southern Oregon and Northern California. Workers speculate the move aims to pressure wage talks as schedules and potential strikes loom.
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Grants Pass
Southern Pacific Railroad Management
Oregon
California
Anti-Saloon League Picks Topeka Lawyer for Washington Fight
Topeka attorney T. H. Bain has joined the Anti-Saloon League of Washington state as its prosecutor. Bain, a noted temperance worker, will depart immediately to oversee prosecutions against liquor sellers in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
T. H. Bain
Anti-Saloon League
Washington
Bain
Turks Defeated at Logodoashh in Turkish Insurgent Battle
A Sofia dispatch reports a hard clash between Turkish and insurgent forces at Logodoashh. Turkish losses included six officers and 200 men killed as the defender gains were claimed by insurgents.
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London
Sofia
Logodoashh
Seattle Market Report Prices Set by Local Dealers
Seattle market report lists producer offers for grain hay poultry and livestock. Prices include oats 21, barley 22, wheat 25, live hens 14 15c per lb, ducks 18 114c, geese 9 10c, cattle cows 1 4 ac, steers 5 5%4c, spring lambs 3.50 per head, butter 15 20c, eggs 18 19c, California honey 15c comb.
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Seattle
Puget Sound
Washington
Butter—Ranch
Washingington Creamery
Eastern
California
Oregon
Commodity Price List Snapshot From The Market
Readable figures cover grains livestock butter eggs honey oats and feeds with values for wheat bluestem oats barley timothy clover alfalfa corn bran shorts and hay. Range examples include hogs 7.50 per cwt cattle and steer prices plus various dairy and egg quotes from California Washington and local ranches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
California
Flooding Rushes Through Yukon Bonanza Creek Areas
A Dawson to Seattle special describes the north's most destructive flood spreading along Bonanza creek from Magnet City to Grand Forks. Water floods road houses and stores, rises in the main street, and endangers hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold dumps and mining equipment, caused by rapid snow melt from the Eldorado gusher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
The
Post Intelligencer
Dawson
Bonanza Creek
North Country
Magnet City
Grand Forks
No. 20
No. 19
Lack of Harvesters Drives California Fruit Labor Push
W H Murray representing the California promotion committee arrived in St Paul to recruit laborers for fruit harvests. He cites severe labor shortages and wasted crops last year due to lack of pickers, blaming the Chinese exclusion act. California growers seek workers in the East, with Murray planning stops in Duluth and New England.
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St. Paul
W. H. Murray
California
San Francisco
Murray
Mr. Murray
United States
Duluth
New England
Kaiser Visit to Vatican Aims at Catholic Drive
London reports the Kaiser seeks to shift Vatican influence away from France and use Catholic power to build a colonial empire in South Africa. He prepared lavishly for the Vatican audience, flustering Italian liberals as Rome strengthens ties within the triple alliance.
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New York
Rome
Europe
the Tribune
London
Vatican
France
William
South Africa
Papacy
Canadian government plans 200000 homeseekers to Northwestern Canada
Seattle May 4 Canada will accommodate 200000 homeseekers in Alberta Athabasca Mackenzie Ain esiboia and Manitoba to settle farms. Thomas P Hughes of the Winnipeg immigration office says the Northwest will see record settlement with loans repayable in five to ten years and title to land after. He notes 150000 farmers were settled last year and predicts large grain output and new towns, stock raising, and meat packing plants aiding world markets.
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Seattle
North Coast Lines
North Dakota
Montana
Washington
Idaho
Northwest Canada
Alberta
Athabasca
Mackatchewan
Aesiniboia
Manitoba
Thomas P. Hughes
Immigration Department
Winnipeg
Canada
Canadian Northwest
United States
MILLIONS IN NUGGETS IN SOUTHERN OREGON MINES
Grants Pass Oregon May 4 The placer mines of Southern Oregon enter the annual cleanup season with over 100 pounds of nuggets and dust brought in recently. Output from over 100 hydraulic placer mines is forecast at 1 500 000 for the year, a 30 percent rise. Osgood mines in Waldo district, owned by I H Osgood of Seattle, continue work with final cleanup expected late summer.
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Grants Pass
Oregon
Southern
Osgood Hydraulic Mines
Waldo
I.H . Osgood
Seattle
Illinois River
Burning Ship Reaches Water’s Edge Near Meadow Point
Seattle reports a large vessel likely a three masted schooner burned to the waterline after beaching near Meadow Point nine miles north of Seattle. Captain Myer of the steamer La Conner saw the burning wreck at dawn and noted no immediate danger to the crew as tugs were dispatched to the scene.
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Seattle
Meadow Point
Myer
la Conner
Secretary Hay Accepts Russia's Manchuria Statement
Secretary Hay acknowledges Russia's stated aims in Manchuria and thanks Count Cassini for Russia's frank declaration of principles. The note clarifies the U S view and records Russia's position as explained to the United States.
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Washington
Hay
Russia
Manchuria
Cassini
United States
Collision Halts Adamson As Queen of the Pacific Beaches Nearby
In dense fog off West Point lighthouse the Queen of the Pacific Coast company's liner and the English freighter Robert Adamson collided. The Adamson, carrying 2,000,000 feet of lumber from Port Blakely to Buenos Ayres, was beached to avert sinking. the Queen sustained major damage but docked later. No lives were lost among 27 crew on the Adamson.
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Seattle
Queen
Pacific Coast Company
Robert Adamson
West Point Lighthouse
Adamson
Everettt
Ground Sound
San Francisco
Port Blakely
Buenos Ayres
Cousins
Saville
Steam line opens on the Columbia Wenatchee to Kettle Falls
Davenport Washington May 4 A two-boat steam line to operate in two divisions is to run on the Columbia between Wenatchee Peach and Kettle Falls. The Chelan of 150 tons will connect Wenatchee and Peach, while the Jerome of 119 tons will run Peach to Kettle Falls. The Jerome is already in upper Columbia waters ready to haul traffic. If successful it could unlock a rich mineral fruit and agricultural region.
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Davenport, Wash
Columbia River
Wenatchee
Kettle Falls
Miller
Chelan
Peach
Columbia
Spokane
Jerome
Carnegie backs railway nationalization plan in Britain
Andrew Carnegie, arriving in England, tells the London correspondent he favors Kier Hardy's proposal to nationalize all railways. He argues state control would lower fares and improve passenger comfort, benefiting the people.
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New York
Andrew Carnegie
England
London
the American
Kier Hardy
Bishop Hurst Dead in Washington
Bishop John F. Hurst of the Methodist Episcopal church died at 12 40 a m after nearly two years of ill health and a paralysis strike in London during the Ecumenical conference. The shock of President McKinley’s assassination hastened his decline.
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Washington
John F. Hurst
Methodist Episcopal Church
Hurst
London
McKinley
Beveridge to Lead Alaska Delegate Election Inquiry
Indianapolis May 5 Senator Beveridge says a senate committee subcommittee will meet June 1 in Indianapolis to travel to Alaska and study how to elect a delegate to Congress. He will not accompany the panel, which includes Senators Dillingham Burnham Nelson and Patterson.
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Indianapolis
Beveridge
Senate Committee On Territories
Alaska
Congress
Dillingham
Vermont
Burnham
New Hampshire
Nelson
Minnesota
Patterson
Colorado
Anxiety over Nordensjoldk Antarctic expedition
Stockholm reports growing concern as no word has been received for months. Preparations are underway to dispatch a relief expedition in September if no news arrives by then.
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Stockholm
Santa Fe Files Answer on Grain Rate Move
Washington May 4 The Atchison Topeka Santa Fe railroad in an answer filed to an ICC order says any advance in grain rates it may have made was to restore rates to a normal basis.
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Washington
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
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State of
Madrid
Manila
Montreal
Somaliland
Portland
Anaconda
O. G. Milne
Taclobag
Tyland
Leyte
Minneapolis
Washington State News
Vancouver
J. T. Russell
Kalamazoo, Mich
King County
Walla Walla Penitentiary
Kansas
Seattle Market Report
Tacoma
Yukon
Nanza Creek
Eldorado Gusher
Church
Robert Adam
Pacific
Coast Liner
Carnegie
Bishop Hurst
C. Vammen
Heron
Aberdeen
Humbolt
Fred Hewitt
Propr
Heron and Fats
Wash
S. K. Bowes, Propr
Poe and Billiard
Pleasant Club
Heron Street
J. M. Bowes
Prop
Heron ST
H. A. Tereda & CO
Zelasko
F Street
Aberdeen Livery
Amw Transfer CO
W. T. McBride
Harbor
Michael Finn
Wishert &2
Aberdeer
F. R. Granger
Billiards
Aberdeen, Wash
Fears
Santa Fe
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