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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1899
Page
3
Aguinaldo envoy to sail within three weeks to present terms to President McKinley. Negotiations aim for a Filipino led by Aguinaldo under no US protectorate with free trade and religious freedom, islands ceded to US, and a U S style judiciary.
San Francisco hosts the Pacific Coast Jobbers and Manufacturers Association meeting. Delegates from Seattle to San Diego unify to oppose the St Louis Business Men's League petition before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Wakefield Baker elected president with a coastwide slate of vice presidents. William Wheeler nominated for a Pacific coast seat on the commission.
Reports from Panay and Cavite in Manila on October 26 describe uprisings and clashes as General Pulloin fires on American outposts to divert Visayans. Aguinaldo frees Visayan leaders, while Otis tightens troop moves and censors papers amid rebel activity and prisoners’ mistreatment.
Washington reports recommendations for surveys in Oregon Washington Idaho and Alpha. It urges Congress to authorize grazing charges on forest reserves with rates for cattle and sheep and to permit leasing and entry of lands valuable for coal. The commission seeks greater staffing and witness attendance to speed unreserved land reviews and protect timber. Total unappropriated and reserved public lands listed at 929,308,068 acres.
General Yule's brigade arrived at Ladysmith after a heavy rain night march and outmaneuvered the enemy. Reports from Glencoe camp note Boer fatalities were few as they buried their dead and carried off the wounded. Other dispatches describe Rhodes drift clash with six Boers killed and four taken, Natal martial law, Mafeking bombardment begun with civilians warned to evacuate.
Hernan Olson returns to Skagway from the Big Horn range and finds a foot of snow at Ptarmigan Pass. He discovers a copper and gold ledge 25 to 50 feet wide with ore resembling the Engineer's group rock on Taku Arm and stakes four claims for his principals.
A Washington dispatch quotes Clifton R. Breckinridge, former US minister to Russia, urging the United States to back Great Britain in the South Africa war if any power tries to hinder her. He cites Anglo-Saxon kinship and patriotism as reasons for US moral and material support. The report also covers Samoa tensions and the torpedo boat Dahlgren's test run in Bath Maine.
John W. Gliff Captain B Johnson and wife reach Skagway from Sunrise City Cook Inlet. They note a 14 day journey and a favorable mining season with no major new discoveries on the Kenai peninsula. Established mines Mills Creek Lynx Creek Granite Creek and Upper Six Mile yielded 8 to 100 dollars daily. Turn Again Arm district also has paying streams including Resurrection Bear Palmer California Glazier Indian and Crow creeks.
New York October 28 Chauncey M Depew discloses Cornelius Van derbilt will Alfredo Gwynne Vanderbilt inherits the larger share becoming head of the family The will assigns Alfred about 39 to 50 million with 1.5 million to him in trust and provisions to balance Cornelius fortune with gifts totaling about 6 million to Cornelius and siblings Gladys Reginald and Gertrude receive about 7.5 million each
Alpio Gonzales, mayor of San Isidro, returned after fleeing as Americans took possession. General Lawton has set up a civil government, with missing Lawton scouts and signal corps members feared captured. General Young’s force moved toward Santa Rosa with multiple units. The Filipino congress aims to send priests to Rome to press church reform, while Aguinaldo decries friars as abuses of power. The 34th Infantry under Colonel Connor preceded to San Isidro.
Eleven boxes of gold dust weighing nearly 400 pounds each arrived in Skagway valued at 750000 dollars. The dust was brought by Flyer Line Steamship Company for the Canadian Bank of Commerce and deposited in the Brannick hotel in a room prepared for guards H. E. Rudd and G. H. Burns. Both men are former mounted policemen who joined Major Walsh in 1897. They deem this the largest gold shipment to reach the area and the largest single shipment ever from Dawson.
Telegraphic dispatches report Olympia and Pennsylvania left San Francisco for Portland to embark 1 520 enlisted men plus officers from Thirty-ninth U S volunteers and two companies of Forty-fifth infantry now at Vancouver barracks. Departure to occur within ten days leaving only one company of Twenty-fourth infantry under Major A C Markley.
FE Whalen visited Dyea from Skagway and reported the town growing as a railroad terminus. The old tram is torn up and a standard gauge bed extends to Canyon City. At Sheep Camp a large commissary and bunk house were built and supplies and pack animals move toward the new station.
Charles Sperry notes an unusually early Yukon ice closure last year. He recalls 1886 at Stewart River mouth with Thanksgiving closure on November 24 when three scows carried 183 men arrived. In 1888 Sperry and partner, with a dog team, faced Klondike mouth ice on November 13 while circumnavigating Cir cle City.
The Times prints a letter from Rear Admiral Champion summarizing a report from his nephew at Fort Churchill Hudson Bay. It states Eskimo traders in the north shot two white men believed to be members of the Andree expedition.
Washington reports Admiral Watson informed the navy that the Spanish gunboat Arayat, sunk in May 1898 in the Pasig river, has been raised. The vessel is in fair condition and will be repaired.
A Prompt dispatch says the president aims for complete sovereignty over the Philippines at any cost and a liberal self government when the insurrection ends. Philippine commissioners share this goal, with the message and report awaiting final decisions. In a separate note, P M Hanson of Rudley California was killed in the Van Anda mine on Texada Island after a powder bag was dropped.
Bennett declares a great boom in Skagway with a lakeside construction boom, numerous men building ecows, and a shortage of restaurants to feed the growing population. Business flourishes and likely remains strong through navigation season.
Georgia honors Flag Lieutenant Thomas M Brumby of the Olympia with a sword for his Manila service in the Spanish American War. The article notes a cornfield claim about Southern Illinois producing 600000 bushels of corn at 100 bushels per acre.
Four students and two professors from the University of Chicago were injured in a chemical explosion at Kent laboratory in Chicago. Many others were nearly overcome by smoke and nitric acid fumes. officials say injuries are not expected to be fatal. A German journal notes two thirds of trained nurses contract tuberculosis.
FE reports buses by 8 Busby the Canadian customs inspector in Skagway say Dawweon enjoys fine weather and thriving business. Socks potatoes hay and oats are scarce in the Klondike capital while provender moves through Skagway mainly for the Canadian Development Company. In two weeks 200 tons of hay have been forwarded. J A Cameron former Walla Walla deputy warden tours Porcupine district with T D Stewart, impressed by mining prospects and plans to stay longer.
Bradstreet's reports worsening general trade and industry taxes tied to insufficient transportation facilities. Car shortages cut across the country, with water routes diverted to crowded rails. Higher freight rates push up prices and may affect foreign trade. lumber and wool show strength, wheat weakens from higher costs. Weekly business failures rise.
Market report lists fresh onions at 1.00 to 1.25 per sack and potatoes at 16 to 18 per sack, with beets 1.10 per sack, turnips 0.75, carrots 0.90, parsnips 0.90, cauliflower 0.75 per dozen, cabbage 1.25 per 100 pounds. Fruits show peaches 0.65 to 0.80, apples 1.25 to 1.50 per box, pears 1.00 to 1.25, prunes 0.60 per box, watermelons 1.50, cantaloupes 0.40 to 0.50. Dairy prices include butter 0.28 per pound creamery, 0.17 to 0.22 dairy ranch, eggs 0.20 to 0.27. Poultry dressed 0.12 to 0.18. Grains and millstuff prices listed for corn, tarley, flour, and bran per ton or per barrel with various price points.
The report lists prices for wheat oats barley and hay across grades and regions plus dairy eggs cheese poultry and meats. It notes per bushel per ton and per dozen or per pound rates for items including butter eggs cheese chickens geese ducks turkeys potatoes sweet corn and vegetables with regional variations.
Wool-Spring-Nevada at 12 140 per pound with regional values from Eastern Oregon Yale ley Northern and Hem tes crop listed. Onions Yellow 75 85c per sack. Butter Fancy creamery 80 31c, seconds 27 29c, fancy dairy 94 26c, seconds 21 28c per pound. Eggs Store 25 33c, fancy ranch 41 420. Millstaffe-Middlings $19.00 20.50, middling $16.50 17.50.
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