World News in Brief Resigns and Revenue Shifts
The Hungarian cabinet has resigned. The Lewis and Clark exposition attendance reached 1,702,000 by September 13. Standard Oil raised all crude oil prices, with Pennsylvania oil up 3 cents and other grades up 2 cents. France’s birth-rate decline worries the National Alliance as it aims to boost population. William Waldorf Astor sues New York City for 1 million over grade changes. American Smelting and Refining reports year ended April 30 net earnings of 8,898,811, up 998,288 from last year. A NZ pilgrims’ group bound for Zion City is detained in San Francisco over contract labor concerns.
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Standard Oil Company
Pennsylvania
American Smelting and Refining Company
Auckland
New Zealand
Zion City
Ill
San Francisco
Victoria Vic toria railway project gains pace in BC
Vancouver Island report notes Dominion MP Duncan Ross of Greenwood pushing charter amendment for the Victoria Vancouver and Eastern line from Midway toward the international boundary. Contractors employ about 1,500 men, with potential for more. rock work costs $35,000 per mile on a 30 mile stretch Sidley mountain to the boundary. Plans filed Keremeos to Penticton. surveys continue for next spring contracts. Completion hoped within three years, possibly two, spurring mine development and capital investment.
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Victoria
B. C
Duancan Ross
Greenwood
Dominion House of Commons
Ross
Victoria, Vancover and Eastern Railroad
Great Northern Railway
Midway
International Boundary Line
Keremeos
Columbia and Western
British Columbia
Sidley Mountain
Keremees
Penticton
Hope Mountains
Boundary Line
Pay Liquor License
Washington notes the revenue commissioner reverses a long standing ruling and requires medicine makers from distilled liquors to obtain licenses as rectifiers and liquor dealers. Druggists and soldiers handling such medicines must pay retail dealer licenses. special taxes will be charged on compounds with distilled spirits when drugs cannot be chemically detected or negligible in amount. The rule slips into effect on December 1 1905 to avoid injustice.
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Washington
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Charters For Steamers To Asia From Seattle
Four steamers chartered by the Frank Waterhouse Company to load on Puget Sound for Japan China and Russian territory. One sails to Japan another to China while two go to Vladivostok. one Russian port short of provisions, efforts to supply before ice blocks port. War end raises demand for freight to Japanese ports and supports charter plans.
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Seatte
Frank Waterhouse Company
Puget Sound
Japan
China
Seattle Annexation Moves Forward Amid Local Votes
South Seattle voters approve annexation to Seattle city while regional church and state officials conduct regional duties. Lambert Naegoele dies at 72 in Seattle. Olympia hosts county superintendent convention with nearly full attendance. Federal timber testing station to open at University of Washington led by Prof Ralph Thelen, joining four other national stations. State geologist Prof Henry Landes and Mines Dean Prof Milner Roberts survey Pacific beaches for government testing.
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Ralph Thelen
University of Washington
United States
Universities of California
Purdue
Cornell
Yale
Henry Landes
Milner Roberts
School of Mines
State grain grades kept at 58 pound test weight
The state grain commission in Tacoma on September 13 voted to retain the 58 pound test weight for a measured bushel of No. 1 wheat despite protests from California and Oregon. The decision aligns Northwest grading with last season and includes a detailed written reply to Portland chamber of commerce, while renaming No. 1 club and f. 8. q. to No. 1 white Walla Walla.
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Tacoma
State Grain Commission
California
Oregon
Portland
No. 1 Club
No. 1
White
Fire destroys large portion of Grangeville business district
Spokane Sep 16 A major fire in Grangeville Idaho destroys a large part of the business section. The Jersey House was the origin. Over forty buildings, mostly wooden, are burned. Loss estimated at $250000.
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Spokane
Grangeville
Ldsho
Jersey House
Judging Opened for Lewis and Clark Fair Exhibits
Portland observers report the Lewis and Clark fair judging began yesterday with fifteen juries of awards handling a total of 8 422 entries before the exposition closes.
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Portland
Seattle Market Report Prices for Farm Goods and Livestock
Seattle market report lists prices offered by local dealers for grains, hay, eggs, poultry, wool, live stock, wheat, oste, hay varieties, fresh meats, butter, eggs, and Washington/Oregon products. Figures cover oats barley wheat chicken feed bran shorts corn hay wool live stock eggs poultry and dairy products with varied regional quotes.
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F.o. B
Seattle
Washington
Puget
Washington Creamery
Oregon
Washington Ranch
Northwestern and Milwaukee rail races to coast line
The Chicago Record-Herald reports a race for the Pacific coast rail line between the Northwestern and the Milwaukee and St. Paul. The Northwestern forms plans at Pierre for a 165 mile route via the Bar River through Stanley and Lyman counties to Rapid City, with connections to Deadwood. Material is en route and construction is expected to start.
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Chicago
The
Record-Herald
Pacific Coast
Northwestern
Milwaukee and
St. Paul
Pierre, Rapid City and Northwestern Railway Company
Pierre
Bar River
Stanley County
Lyman County
Rapid City
Dakota Junction
Deadwood
Middle Creek
Milwaukee
Chamberlain
S. D
Construction Begins On North Bank Columbia Line At Wallula
In Wallula Washington on September 15 workers began actual grading for a railroad line along the north bank of the Columbia River near Wallula. Local reports vary on who funds the effort with speculation tying it to the Hill interests or an independent company backing the project. Charles M. Levy of Northern Pacific is in St Paul discussing a Portland to Pasco route, while officials deny secret ties to a Portland line and say traffic would be redirected to the north bank alignment.
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St. Paul, Minn
Charles M. Levy
Northern Pacific
Tacoma
St. Paul
Portland, Or
Vancouver
Wash
Pasco
White Salmon
Cooper
Pearson
Great Northern
Portland
Columbia River
Wallawalla
Wallula Pacific Railroad Company
Printers Strike Spreads in Chicago
Chicago typothetae and leading independent printers unite to oppose union demands for an eight hour day and union conditions. A twelve member committee forms to organize independent master printers to resist the eight hour plan while over fifty small independents pledge temporary affiliation. Nearly 100 independents attend the meeting and pledges are made to resist union terms.
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Chicago
Chicago Typothetae
Typographical Union
Typothetae
Chicago Typothetsc
Topeka Printers Strike for Eight Hour Day
Topeka Kansas union job printers have been called out on a strike demanding the eight hour workday.
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Topeka
Kan
Printers in St. Louis Hit Eight Hour Scale
In St. Louis eight union offices called out printers as part of a labor action. Of about 140 local printing firms, sixty are reported to have signed the eight hour scale.
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St. Louis
New Haven Printers Strike Demands Eight-Hour Day
Five five printers in New Haven go on strike over union demands for an eight-hour workday and higher piece work pay from 33 to 40 cents per 1 000. The walkout follows refusals by master printers to meet the union's terms.
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New Haven, Conn
Employers' Association backs publishers in Niagara Falls strike
At a meeting of the Employers' Association of Niagara Falls representing 30 million dollars in invested capital, it was resolved to stand by the local newspaper publishers in their fight against the striking printers.
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Niagara Falls
Employers’ Association of
Brewers Strike Ends After Five Months of Boycott
Seattle reports a settlement ending the brewers strike and boycott against Western Washington breweries. The agreement restores workers to their jobs at pre strike wages and recognizes the union. A three year contract is expected to be ratified after San Francisco unions are notified and 100 John Rapp & Son workers are reinstated. The San Francisco boycott is also lifted.
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Seattle
Brewers’ Union
Washington
Kemper
International Brewers’ Union
E. E. Sweeney
San Francisco
John Rapp & Son
Seattle Brewing and Malting Company
California
Immigration Frauds and Steamship Screening Urged
Dr Morris Fisherberg of New York reports to the Commerce and Labor Department that steamship companies can further reduce undesirable immigrant arrivals. He cites widespread frauds especially in Italy and the use of runners who promise America as a land of milk and honey, though he offers no specific recommendations.
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Washington
Morris Fisherberg
New York
Bureau of Immigration
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
Italy
All America
Gold From Alaska
New York reports that over 215 million in gold from Alaskan and Klondike fields has been deposited in the U S treasury this season. Based on prior years, an additional 50 to 70 million may arrive before navigation ends. Last summer yielded about 19.5 million. this season’s total may surpass that by three to four million.
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New York
Klondike
United States Treasury
Washington Dispatch
The
Sun
Russians Start for Home After Peace Talks
New York reports the Russian peace commissioners began their return to St. Petersburg yesterday aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II after completing talks.
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New York
St. Petersburg
Reclamation Plans Target 250000 Acres in Northwest
SeattleSept 14 D C Henney consulting engineer in the United States reclamation service says government plans will add over 250000 irrigated acres. Near Ellensburg Yakima valley 30000 acres. another project 50000 near Yakima. Sunnyside canal extension 12000. Leadbetter project 50000. Work to begin once water users align on water rights.
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Seattle
D. C. Henney
Portland
United States Reclamation Service
Ellensburg
Yakima Valley
Henry
Yakima
Sunnyside Canal
Walley
Doane States Minister Powell Plans Resignation Over Haiti Unrest
Camden New Jersey September 14 William K Powell Doane States minister to Haiti on leave of absence at his home announces intention to resign to President Roosevelt due to revolutions riots and fever in Haiti Powell cites unstable conditions as his reason for stepping down from duty to the diplomat.
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Camden
N. J
William K. Powell
Doane
Harti
Roosevelt
Hayti
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National Alliance For
France
William Waldorf Astor
City of
Waterhouse Company
Orient
Washington News
South
Methodist Church
Everett
Lambert Naegoele
Washington Statszeitung
Olympia
State
Union
Seattle Market Report
Chicago Record-Herald Authority
North Bank Line
Walla
Walla Walla
Topothetae and
Independents
New Haven
Stand By Publishers
Brewer
Alaska
U. S. Treasury
W. W. Wrenn
East Market Street
Kentucky
Harper
Fred Hewitt
Aberdeen
All Points East
Costa
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
Thos. Morgan
Pres
Ninemire & Morgan CO
Montesano
Patterson & Locke Co
General Insurance Agents
H. B. Elder
N. P. Ry
Charlton
Dregeon
Powell
Fred Redinger
Pioneer Barber Shop
Heron Street
Nature
Canadian Pacific
Boston
Toronts
Montreal
Atlantic Lines
Phil S. Locke
Aberdeen - Draper
Agens. Tacoma
C. Collins
A. B. Calder
A. Ingebrightsen
G Street
Aberdeen, Wash
Central Restaurant
M. Antich
Heron and
Wishkah
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