World News in Brief Condensed Items
New York labor law ban on employing children under 16 after 7 p m takes effect. Civil service exams may use simplified spelling. Italian ambassador Desplances resigns. awaiting successor in Rome. Seven committees of the National Civic Federation study immigration. U S male teachers fall from 41 percent in 1870 to 25 percent today. Interior secretary withdraws 380000 acres in Kalispell Montana for forest reserves. Seattle to host the State Grocers Association convention. C E Coon of Port Townsend elected president J J Higgins of Seattle secretary. Fire destroys a large flour mill in Toledo the county's only mill amid decline in wheat farming.
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Seattle
State Grocers’ Association
C. E. Coon
Port Townsend
J. J. Higgins
Democratic campaign Centers in Tacoma With New HQ
The state campaign is to be run from Tacoma with chairman Titlow opening headquarters in the Donnelly hotel. Richard H. Stoddard named postmaster at Ferry replacing L. H. Mason who resigned. John F. Keenan named at Taylor replacing Ward Harris who resigned. The Massachusetts Club of Seattle plans to reproduce Faneuil Hall at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition grounds. The state supreme court rules a storage company liable for the actual value of goods lost, overriding receipt language limiting value.
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Tacoma
Titlow
Donnelly Hotel
Richard H. Stoddard
Ferry
L. H. Mason
John F. Keenan
Taylor
Ward Harris
Massachusetts Club
Seattle
State Supreme Court
Northwestern Steamship to Build Docks at Massachusetts Street
Work begins immediately on docks slips and warehouses at the foot of Massachusetts street for the Northwestern Steamship Company. The project costs about 400000 dollars and aims to be ready for the Nome fleet next season. The slip will measure 2000 feet long by 150 wide to accommodate several Northern liners.
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Seattle
Spet
Northwestern Steamship Company
Massachusetts Street
Nome
Seattle Market Report with Local Price Averages
Seattle market report lists producer prices for grains and feeds, eggs, poultry, wool, and live stock. Prices shown include oats 24.00 24.50 per ton, barley 20 21.00, wheat 22.24, hay 10 16, eggs 38 85c, poultry live weight ranges, wool 15 26c Eastern and 20 28c Western, sheep wethers 6c lb, hogs 6 7c, steers 4 4c, calves 5 fr, lambs 3 5 per head.
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Seattle
Washington
Puget Sound
Farm and Stock Prices and Delicacy Rates
A compact listing of farm goods and livestock prices including wheat bluestem and red, oats, various hay types, and feed components. Poultry prices show dressed and live rates for turkeys chickens ducks and geese, with butter and eggs from regional sellers.
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Washington Creamery
Washington Ranch
Democratic Ticket Nominated in Washington State Convention
The Democratic state convention met in Seattle at the Armory and nominated three congressional candidates William Blackman Patrick Byrne Dudley Eshelman and four for the supreme court Warren Tolman Sweeney Hodgdon Million. The platform endorses direct primaries, income taxes, highway improvements, anti fraud in labor advertising, and anti passes for officials with penalties for violators.
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Seattle
Armory
Congress
Supreme Court
William Blackman
Pratrick
Byrne
Spokane
Dudley Eshelman
Tacoma
Warren W. Tolman
Bo Sweeney
C. W. Hodgdon
Hoquiam
E. C. Million
Roads Ordered to Provide Track Connections and Facilities
The Washington railroad commission orders Northern Pacific, Oregon Railroad & Navigation to connect tracks and provide carload and less than carload freight facilities at Connell, Farmington, Oakesdale and Pullman. It also directs Washington & Columbia River Railway and Oregon Railroad & Navigation at Walla Walla to connect and furnish required services. The commission seeks immediate notice if formal legal hearings will be needed.
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Walla Walla
Supreme Court Rules Homesteaders Win Water Rights In Idaho
The Washington Supreme Court enjoins private irrigation ditches from operating on homestead lands if the owner objects. In Atkinson v Washington Irrigation Co and Baker v Washington Irrigation Co the court affirms lower court orders halting ditch operations constructed before patent. Roosevelt appoints H Morgan Shuster to the Philippine commission, joining Judge Magoon to fill vacancies.
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Supreme Court
Olympia
State Supreme Court
United States
B. R. Atkinson
Washington Irrigation Company
Walter Gt. Baker
Washinton
Roosevelt
H. Morgan Shuster
Phillipine Commission
Wright
Gen. Ide
Magoon
Canal Zone
Shuster
Cuba
Islands
Philippines
Hurricane roars through Gulf region toward Alabama
A tropical hurricane moving northeast at high speed lashes the Gulf coast and inland areas. Mobile and Pensacola report extensive damage with no confirmed deaths. New Orleans sees property damage and communications disruption. Rail lines suffer heavy losses totaling around $1,000,000 as Lake Pontchartrain recedes from record levels.
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Louisville
Gulf of Mexico
North Alabama
New Orleans
Associated Press
Mobile
Mobile Hurricane Ravages Gulf Coast Killing and Wrecking Vessels
The storm battered Mobile and Biloxi with heavy losses. Officials report 75 to 100 dead and $54 million in Mobile damages plus about $1 million elsewhere. Thousands of homes damaged. ships driven ashore. railroad docks ruined. the Alert cutter sank in Mobile River. Martial law in Mobile, Pensacola reports $5 million in damages and many mariners dead. A Chicago bank president, Paul O Stensland, works in Joliet pen sorting room alongside ex clerk John A Linn at a broom factory.
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Mobile
Ala
Gulf of Mexico
Biloxi
Here
Alert
Mobile River
Paul O. Stensland
Chicago
Joliet Penitentiary
John A. Linn
Supreme Court
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News OF the
Civil Service Commissioners
Desplances
Rome
Immigration Department
The
National Civic Federation
Secretary of the Interior
Kalispell, Mont
Lewis and Clark and
Kootenai
Toledo
Jweis County
Washington News
Northwestern
Seattle Market Report
Democratic
Seattle Armory
Hodgdon
Million
Tolman
Sweeney
Daggett
Committee On Resolutions
Democratic Convention
Democratic Party
Willaim J. Bryan
Oregon
National Irrigation
Supreme
Superior Court
Pensacola
Gulf
Crescent City
Louisville & Nashville Road
Mobile and
Montgomery
New
Fla
W. W. Wrenn
East Market Street
Harper Rye
Kentucky
Fred Hewett
Humboldt
South F Street
Aberdeen, Wash
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
Ninemire
A. E. Hoefer
Sec. & Treas
Butchers and Packers
Ninemire Packing Co
Montesano
Aberdeen
Patterson & Locke Co
General Insurance Agents
MacLafferty & Sons
Heron
Palm Theatre
Billy McDonald
Pacific Coast
Mattress Works
G. W. Johnson
Mitchell
Hayes
Bankers (Incorporated
R. W. Hilligess General Contractor
West First Street
E. J. Bradley
Miller Cashier
State Bank
N. E
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