Weekly News Roundup of Happenings and Deals
A condensed survey lists plans for extensive wharf construction by Great Northern at New Westminster BC and the New Orleans dower show in Lafay ette square. It notes Hildegarde McKenna and John Legett Paltz engagement, Nave named associate justice of Arizona Supreme Court, a $10 000 Hibernians chair at Trinity College, beef trust prosecutions, a German baron’s Rock Island wreck sentence, King Edward's 64th birthday, Empress steamers for CP ships Vancouver to Hong Kong, NY Life Insurance injunction in Missouri, and a November 28 committee meeting on moving presidential inauguration date.
Congo Commission Report Publicly Released
Brussels Nov 8 The Congo commission report on King Leopold s independent state outlines eight charges. It notes land appropriation caused native confinement and taxes paid by work should be limited to forty hours monthly. It condemns hostage use of women, sentinel overseers, and mutilation claims as native practice. The panel calls for strict limits on military expeditions.
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Brussels
Leopold
Congo Independent
Congo
Oregon Congressmen Seek Resignations Over Land Frauds
Portland, Nov. 10. A local board of trade meeting passed a resolution urging Senator John Mitchell and Representatives Williamson and Hermann to resign over land fraud implications so that new representatives may be elected.
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Portland, Or
Board of Trade
John Mitchell
Williamson
Hermann
Dam to hold logs on Santa creek for future mills
In Santa Idaho on November 8, the River Improvement Company constructs a large dam on Santa creek to reserve waters for log floating. Last spring 3,000,000 feet of logs descended the creek and next spring 5,000,000 feet will be floated toward the Coeur d Alene lake mills. The dam stands on meadows owned by the Coeur d Alene Lumber Company.
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Santa, Idaho
Santa Creek
The
River Improvement Company
Coeur d’Alene Lake
Coeur
Masonic Lodge Organized at Lind and Local Events Review
Washington notes report a new Masonic lodge organized at Lind. Fire destroys H C Taylor lumber mill at Drayton near Blaine. Tacoma Eastern shops in Bismarck to be enlarged. Insanity decline per state board statistics. Since season start 80000 sacks of oats shipped from Anacortes to San Francisco. Oats grown on La Conner and Swinomish flats. Jury awards Miss Rose Grover against J E Zook 10000 dollars for breach of promise. Lewis and Clark medals: four Washington exhibitors win three golds and one silver. Garfield grants Moscow Idaho Light and Power Company electricity franchise. work to start January 1 and current on July 1.
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Anacortes
San Francisco
la Conner
Swinomish Flats
Washington
Garfield
Moscow, Idaho
Chinese Revolutionary Movement Grows Fast
Telegrams from Peking to Japanese papers report rapid growth of revolutionary activity in China with panic in Tientsin as natives flee foreign employment. Empress dowager summoned the emperor after the Peking bomb outrage. guards confined him in a hall with food passed through a window. Hochi Shinbun notes shrieks like a lunatic.
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Victoria
B. C
Peking
Shanghai
Tientsin
China
Hochi Shinbun
Contracts for Survey of Yakima Reservation
Jay Lynch the government Indian agent reports contracts for surveys have been let and allotments made for 600000 acres of timber and grazing lands to open to settlement. Surveys start at once but full compliance may take a year. Irrigation work progresses with costs estimated at 250000 to complete the system and 100000 acres to be irrigated, with 125000 already spent.
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Seattle
Jay Lynch
Yakima Reservation
Lynch
Seattle Market Report Prices for Grain Livestock and Eggs
Market snapshot from Seattle dealers listing round lots f o b prices for oats barley wheat corn and feed. hay eggs poultry wool and live stock values including sheep hogs steers cows calves lambs and various dressed and fresh meats. butter and regional egg prices noted for Washington Oregon and Puget Sound regions.
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F.o. B
Seattle
Washington
Puget Sound
Washington Creamery
Oregon
Washington Ranch
Election results show party gains across states and cities
Washington reports up to 2 am AP results with Democrats winning New York city and state tickets in Pennsylvania Virginia and Louisville city while Republicans sweep Massachusetts Chicago and Cook County and carry New Jersey Rhode Island Nebraska and Maryland Hearst leads in Brooklyn and Pattison appears to win Ohio while Maryland rejects suffrage amendment Fusion contests surface in Louisville with claims of ballot irregularities.
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Washington
Associated Press
New York City
Pennsylvania
Virginia
City
Louisville
Massachusetts
Chicago
Cook County
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Nebraska
Maryland
New York
Hearst
Brooklyn
McClellan
Bird S. Coler
Ohio
Pattison
Douglas
John M. Pattison
Myron T. Herrick
William R. Hearst
Supreme Court
Fusion
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Reform
Philadelphia
Providence
Guild
Draper
Union Labor Party
San Francisco
Salt Lake
Kentucky
Blackburn
Hearst Contests Mayoral Win With Court Order
New York city recount bid moves forward after Justice Gaynor orders removal of all ballot boxes to the bureau of elections. Hearst claims election fraud, cites 1000 inspectors and 30,000 Hearst voters miscounted. Ivins and others react with support and prosecutors pledge probes.
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New York
Supreme Court
William Gaynor
Brooklyn
McAdoo
Greater
Bureau of Elections
William R. Hearst
Municipal Ownership League
Gaynor
Justice Gaynor
Ivins
Hearst
McClellan
East Side
Charles F. Murphy
Timothy D. Sullivan
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Great Northern
New Westminster
New Orleans
Lafayette Square
McKenna
Hildegarde
John Legett Paltz
Frederick S. Nave
Supreme Court of Arizona
Tucker
Ancient
Order of Hibernians
Trinity College
Washington, D. C
Beef Trust
Marengo
Rock Island
Homestead
Edward
Sandringham
Great Britain
Colonies
Canadian Pacific
Vancouver
Hongkong
New York Life Insurance Company
United States Court At
St. Louis
Superintendent of Insurance Vandiver
Missouri
Congressional Committee
Washington News
Lind
H. C. Taylor
Drayton
Blaine
Bismarck
Tacoma
State Board of Control
Miss Rose Grover
J. E. Zook
Ballard
Seattle Market Report
Weaver
Jerome
Mr. Hearst
Ira C. Darrin
Queens County
William M. Ivins
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Aberdeen
Portland
All Points East
Hoquiam
Ocosta
H. B. Elder
N. P. Ry
A. D. Charlton
Lovie
COMPA
W. W. Wrenn
East Market Street
Harper Rye
Fred Hewitt
South F Street
Aberdeen, Wash
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
Thos. Morgan
Pres
Ninemire & Morgan CO
Montesano
Patterson & Locke ,Co
General Insurance Agents
Fred Redinger
Pioneer Barber Shop
Heron Street
Nature
Boston
Toronto
Montreal
Atlantic Lines
S. Locke
W. Draper
C. Collins
B. Calder
A. Ingebrightsen
G Street
Central Restaurant
M. Antich
Herom and
Wishkah
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