World News in Brief Highlights From Across the Globe
Baron Komura arrives in Tokyo. Grants Pass Oregon to get a daily newspaper. Martial law in Odessa ends by imperial decree. Remains of Sir Henry Irving to be laid at Westminster Abbey. All grades of refined sugar up 15 cents per hundred pounds. Washington orders release of interned Russian warships. Shaw report may urge 30 million dollar Panama bond. Missouri Governor Folk speaks on municipal corruption in Philadelphia. Missoula sale of Morning and Evening mines to Federal Mining for about 6 million. Cuban Liberal leaders urge abstention to ensure votes are counted fairly.
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Washington
Crowded Washington Schools Spark Tacoma Election Issue
Washington notes cite crowded Wenatchee schools and a Tacoma municipal election as a debate focal point. Other items include Pullman college moth destruction results, Olympia bar exam pass rate, Mr. Gwynn selling Garfield Enterprise to C. W. Michaelson, Everett parents agreeing to a free textbook system, Cle Elum streetlight deal with Northern Pacific, and Gov Mead naming delegates to the National Mining Congress in El Paso with several other appointees.
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Gov. Mead
A. O. Ingalls
Edward Fink
Seattle
National Mining Congress
el Paso
Texas
Fred Rexinger
William O’ Donnell
W. A. Gray
Winlock
C. B. Claghorn
Tacoma
Seattle Market Report Prices for Grain and Livestock
Seattle dealers list round lot prices for grain hay eggs wool and live stock with figures for oats barley wheat chicken feed bran shorts corn hay alfalfa timothy clover and various fresh meats poultry and dairy products across Eastern and Western Washington and Puget Sound regions.
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Seattle
Washington
Puget Sound
Washington Creamery
Washington Ranch
Treaty of Portsmouth Peace With Russia and Japan
The text of the Portsmouth peace treaty between Japan and Russia is published. It outlines cleave restoration of peace, mutual non interference in Korea, evacuation of Manchuria, transfer of Port Arthur leases, railway concessions, boundary rules for Sakhalin, and prisoner exchange provisions with ratification steps and separate articles on evacuation and boundary surveys.
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London
Reuter Telegram Company
Russia
Japan
Portamouth
N. H
Nicholas
Russias
Komura Jutaro Jusami
Imperial Order of the Rising Sun
Takahiro Komuro
Imperial Order of the Sacred Treasure
United States
Sergius Witte
Committee of Ministers
Empire of Russia
Baron Roman Rosen
Imperial Court of Russia
Korea
Manchuria
Laiotung Peninsula
China
Imperial Government of
Government of
Port Arthur
Talien
Changchunfan
Kwanchangteu
Liaotung Peninsula
Federal supervision debated by James Beck in Chicago
James Beck, former assistant attorney general, urged federal supervision of insurance firms and interstate enterprises. He linked federal control to national marriage and divorce laws and warned small Western insurers fearing a consolidation push. He proposed three congressionally debated measures and backed life tenure for ex presidents in the U S Senate.
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Chicago
Federated Anarchy
James Beck
Music Hall
United States
Beck
Congress
United States Senate
Portland to Puget Sound electric line plans outlined
A capitalists meeting of the Portland Consolidated Railway Company will announce plans for an electric line from Vancouver Washington to Puget Sound linking with the Portland system. Consideration includes bridging the Columbia River with the Northern Pacific and municipal aspects of the system. Frank L. Brown is named as promoter but provides no new details.
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Portland
Portland Consolidated Railway Company
Vancouver
Wash
Paget Sound
Portland Consolidated
Oregon Shore
Columbia
Northern Pacific
Frank L. Brown
The
Sound
War Ends as Russia and Japan Sign Peace Treaties
The emperors of Russia and Japan signed their copies of the peace treaty on Saturday, formally ending the war. The State Department was informed unofficially by Baron Ro sen and Minister Takahira. Copies will be exchanged later, likely in Washington, within a month or two.
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Japan
Sakhalin
Roteia
Strait of Perouse
Strait of Tartary
Russia
Ohkotsk
Bering Seas
Russias
Tokyo
United States
St. Petersburg
Washington
State Department
Baron Rosen
Takahira
Grants Pass Welcomes First Southern Oregon Smelter
Grants Pass expects a custom smelter for gold and copper ore soon, the Rogue River Mining Smelting and Power Company forming from Grants Pass and Portland investors. Boston capitalists have provided lands for the project and construction, with machinery orders already placed.
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Grants Pass, Or
Firat
Oregon
Grants Pass
Rogue River Mining, Smelting and Power Company
Portland
Boston
Banker Sentenced for Fraudulent Banking
Sioux City Iowa October 16 W E Brown former president of the defunct First National Bank of Storm Lake Iowa has been sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary at Anamosa. Brown was convicted of fraudulent banking.
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Sioux City
W. E. Brown
First National Bank of
Storm Lake
Iowa
Anamosa
Brown
Japs to Withdraw Troops From Manchuria Soon
Tokyo reports the government has ordered Manchurian headquarters to start evacuation of Japanese forces on a set date. A complete withdrawal is anticipated within six months as the plan unfolds.
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Manchuria
Mandrria
Tokyo
Japan
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Baron Komura
Odessa
Sir Henry Irving
Westminster Arbbey
Shaw
Panama Canal
Folk
Missouri
Philadelphia
Weaver
Missoula
Coeur d’Alenes
Federal Mining and Smelting Company of
New York
Liberal Party
Washington News
Wenatchee
State College
Pullman
Olympia
D. Howard Gwynn
Garfield Enterprise
C. W. Michaelson
St. Paul, Minn
Everett
Northern Pacific Railway
Echo
Seattle Market Report
Sakhalin Island
Aberdeen
All Points East
Hoquiam
Cocosta
Quinine
Bor
W. W. Wrenn
East Market Street
Harper Rye
Kentucky
Fred Hewitt
South F Street
Aberdeen, Wash
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
Thos. Morgan
Pres
Ninemire & Morgan CO
Montesano
Patterson & Locke Co
General Insurance Agents
H. B. Elder
N. P. Ry
A. D. Charlton
Portland, Oregon
Fred Redinger
Pioneer Barber Shop
Heron Street
Nature
Canadian Pacific
Toronto
Montreal
Atlantic Lines
Phil
A. Ingebrightsen
G Street
Central Restaurant
M. Antich
Heron and
Wishkah
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