Forty five tills pass in the house and more
The week notes show forty five tills passed by the house on Monday. Portland organizes a municipal ownership club as Speaker Cannon receives a birthday reception in the house. Henry G. Goll, formerly cashier at the First National Bank of Milwaukee under Bigelow, is sentenced to ten years at Fort Leavenworth for misappropriation. French election results influence church state policy. Postmaster General Cortelyou seeks a commission to review second class postal laws.
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Portland
Cannon
Henry G. Goll
First National Bank of Milwaukee
Frank+. Bigeloow
Fort Leavenworth
Cortelyou
Congress
Czar Proclaims New Fundamental Law in Russia
St. Petersburg May 8 news reports a dramatic, unexpected promulgation of the draft fundamental law as permanent state basis. The measure sustains imperial power, limits parliamentary interference, and allows the emperor to fix officials’ salaries and conclude loans without Parliament approval.
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St. Petersburg
Witte
Nicholas
Associated Press
Liberal
Malakoff
Consul McWade Seeks Full Probe of Canton Removal
Washington May 7 Robert M McWade before the House foreign affairs committee charged criminal conspiracy by men he had halted including alleged railway robbery and asked for a full investigation He singled out Assistant Secretary of State Pierce whose recommendation led to his removal as consul general at Canton China
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Washington
Canton
China
Robert M. McWade
Committee On Foreign Affairs of the House
McWade
Pierce
New Steamer Moro Castle Added to Pacific Coast Fleet
The Moro Castle, a 15 knot, 1732 ton steamer formerly running Ha vana to New York, has been purchased by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company for the Seattle to San Francisco route to replace lost vessels and meet rising business. Local reps await verification, but shipping men believe the report.
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Seattle
Havana
New York
Pacific Coast Steamship Company
San Francisco
East
New Russian Ministry Said to Be Forming
The Novoe Vremya reports an authoritative statement from the Goromykin ministry and hints the cabinet may not announce before parliament is convoked. Interior Minister Durnovo is said to have tendered his resignation, and the new ministry includes several surprising names unlikely to win liberal support in the popular chamber.
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St. Petersburg
Novoe Vremya
Goramykin
Dnurnovo
Witte
Reform school in Chehalis reports 131 girls and 173 boys
A April report shows Chehalis reform school housing 50 inmates including 131 girls and 173 boys. The note lists gendered counts alongside other regional updates and corporate filings.
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Reform School
Chehalis
Justice to Probe Oil Trust and Railroads for Rebates
Washington reports the Department of Justice will open an immediate investigation into the so called oil trust and several railroads to determine possible anti trust violations. The inquiry relies on Garfield bureau report data about rebates and will seek grand jury action where violations occurred. Garfield traveled widely gathering evidence supporting a possible prosecution.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Oil Trust
Garfield
Bureau of Corporations
New England
California
Indicted ex-cashier Adams faces 143 counts of embezzlement
Seattle March 7 George Edward Adams former cashier at the United States assay Office in Seattle was indicted by a federal grand jury on 143 counts of embezzlement totaling 254 895. Adams will be arraigned today.
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Seattle
George Edward Adams
United States Assay Office
Federal Grand Jury
Adams
Gorky to be prosecuted abroad to bar return
It is officially announced that Maxim Gorky will be prosecuted again on a charge of fomenting an anti Russian and revolutionary movement abroad. The intended goal of the process is to prevent his return to Russia from exile in St. Petersburg May 7.
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Gorky
Russia
St. Petersburg
Maxim Gorky
Seattle Market Prices Reported by Local Dealers
Local Seattle market prices show grain oats 29 to 31 per ton bar ley 24 to 24.50 wheat 21 to 22 for chicken feed bran 15 shorts 19 corn 24 hay Eastern Washington 17 to 15 Puget Sound 10 to 11 alfalfa 10.50 to 21. Eggs strictly fresh ranch 19 cents poultry live hens 15 to 16 ducks 14 to 16 goose 10 to 13 cents wool Eastern Washington 18 to 20 Western Washington 21 to 23 dirty 18 to 20 live stock sheep wethers 6 cows 34 hogs 6 1/2 steer 1 cows 34 calves 5 lambs 3 per head wheat club 69 blue stem 7 tea 67 cata 30 to 32 rolled cata 31.50 to 32.2 hay alfalfa wheat hay 13.50 to 15 timothy 20 to 21.50 mixed 12.50 to 17 clover 14 to 16 alfalfa 12 to 13 feed corn 25 wheat 26 barley whole grain 24.50 rolled 25.50 bran 19 shorts 20.50 to 21.50 fresh meats cow beef 7 steer beef 9 to 11 wether 10 to 11 spring lambs 12 to 13 ewes 10 to 13 pork 10 trimmed 12 shoots 2.23 each veal dressed 7 to 9 poultry turkeys dressed 23 chickens dressed spring 17 ducks dressed 15 geese dressed 16 to 4 butter Washinon creamery 21 to 22 ranch 18 Eastern creamery 22 to 24
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Seattle
Washington
Puget Sound
Washinon
Fire destroys depots and warehouses in North Yakima
A Saturday night blaze at Pioneer Lumber yards in North Yakima destroyed the Northern Pacific freight depot and scattered freight. It damaged the NP passenger station and multiple local warehouses including Yakima Hardware, Yakima Milling, and J. M. Perry, with total losses estimated around 15000 to 60000. Workers pulled freight cars between the depot and station to save the passenger structure as flames consumed buildings and contents.
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North Yakima
Pioneer Lumber Company
Northern Pacific
Yakima Hardware Company
Yakima Produce Company
R. S. Morgan
J. M. Perry
Yakima Milling Company
Northern Pacffc
W. W. Felony
Pionere Lumber Company
Morgan
Meeks
Yakima Grocery Company
Prominent Men Named in Oregon Land Fraud Indictment
United States District Attorney Bristow announced twenty one individuals named in a broad land fraud indictment. The scheme allegedly sought 200000 acres across Crook Lake and Klamath counties with Elkins Co Dorgan Co the leading movers. Entrymen filed on public land and leaders bought the patents.
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Portland, Or
United States
W. C. Bristonl
Oregon
Crook, Lake and
Klamath Counties
F. W. Gilchrist
Ralph Gilchrist
Patrick Culligan
James Macpherson
Alpena
Mich
H. W. Stone
Benson, Minn
Baron G. A. M. Q. Schlierholz
Little Rock
Ark
Charles M. Elkins
Jack Coombes
Prineville, Or
Benjamin F. Allen
Elkins
J. W. Hopkins
Vancouver
Wash
W. W. Brown
Seattle
T. H. Watkins
Erickson & Watkins
Prineville
Edgar M. White
Portland
Elkins & Co
Dorgan & Co
Zilchrists
Culligan and Stone
Five lumbermen and bankers arrested for Oregon land frauds
A federal arrest in Oshkosh charges five men Leander Choate James Matt Bray Benjamin Doughty James Doughty and Thomas Daly with conspiracy to defraud the government by funding entries and homestead purchases in Oregon. Bray and Choate lead the Bray Choate Lumber Co with sizeable stockholdings. Daly is cashier of the Commercial National Bank.
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Milwaukee
Sentinel
Oshkosh
Wis
Oregon
Leander Choate
James Matt Bray
Benjamin Doughty
James Doughty
Thomas Daly
Thomas Daly. Mr. Bray Is President of the Bray & Choate Lumber Company
Choate
Doughtys
Daly
Commercial National Bank
Camps for Guardsmen to Attend Summer Army Camps
Acting Secretary Oliver issued a circular inviting state militia units to join summer camps with regular army troops. An army appropriation of 2.7 million dollars funds joint encampments August 1 to September 30. Camps are set at Austin Texas Fort Riley Kansas Fort D A Russell Wyoming and American Lake Washington with participating states listed.
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Washington
Oliver
Louisiana
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Austin
Kansas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Nebraska
Minnesota
Fort Riley
North Dakota
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
Fort D. A. Russell
Montana
Idaho
Oregon
California
American Lake
Supreme Court Docket Sets New May Term Record
Olympia May 7 The supreme court docket for the May term lists 164 cases the largest May term docket yet Clerk Rinehart organized by county with dates from May 14 to July 10 including King 64 cases Pierce 12 Snohomish seven Spokane 30 and others across Thurston Lewis Chehalis and more
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Olympia
Supreme Court
Rinehart
Thurston
Lewis
Chebalis
Pierce
King
Pacific
Cowlitz
Snohomish
Skargir
Whatcom
San Juan
Kittitas
Yakima
Cas
Chelan
Okanogan
Columbia
Lincoln
Walla Walla
Douglas
Adams
Spokane
Fire destroys Arlington dock at Seattle harbor
A blaze at 3:50 this morning completely wrecked the Arlington dock at the foot of University street in Seattle. The Sherman army transport docked nearby caught fire but was saved by quick action of its crew. Explosions from Army stores and hundreds of tons of cargo fueled the fire, with only canned goods left intact.
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Seattle
Arlington Dock
University Street
Sherman
Jackies
Directors liable for misused funds at Equitable Life
Albany May 7. Appellate division of the third department holds that the Equitable Life directors are liable to policy holders for money voted and spent improperly. Mrs. Mary S. Young of Saratoga Springs sued James Hazen Hyde and other directors to recover all sums due on her policy wasted in the three years before 1904.
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Albany
N. Y
Third Department
State Supreme Court
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Mary S. Young
Saratoga Springs
Aginst
James Hazen Hyde
Sciety
Roosevelt Signs California Naval Yard and Post Office Funds
President Roosevelt has signed congressional bills providing 100000 dollars for Mare Island navy yard and 70000 dollars to meet emergencies in the California post office department.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Mare Island Navy Yard
Post Office Department
California
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