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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1905
Page
2
A fragmented historic clipping notes a drifting peace process as envoy talks show strain and potential shifts in negotiations. The text mentions dove imagery and rising tension as discussions continue.
The Portsmouth peace conference nears a likely end as plenipotentiaries debate Japanese terms and indemnity. Witte resists ceding Sakhalin while a Russian manifesto lures internal support. Tokyo and St. Petersburg face a decisive Tuesday session with limited chances for compromise according to informed observers.
In New Hampshire on August 18 President Roosevelt, deeply concerned, spoke by telegraph with Secretary Pierce at Crater Bay then at Wentworth Hotel. Pierce offered no details as to the discussion. The AP suggests a Russian envoy may go to Oyster Bay while Roosevelt seeks Japanese channels for a compromise.
North Yakima August 18 an engineer from Washington Irrigation Co R K siftany and five others were arrested at Cleelum while attempting to blow up the outlet dam of the nth Gap Irrigation Co The men were jailed and the company declined to comment E F Blaine Seattle secretary said the firm planned to destroy the dam with a second device linked to a Kowloon Hong Kong case involving a box marked matches cotton and explosive substance. The Chinese Commercial Union of Hong Kong asked to meet about the anti American boycott but the request was refused by Sir Matthew Nathan the governor of the colony.
On the Kuskokwim river July 10 a small steamboat carrying cargo to Bethel from the Volante of San Francisco frightened six native men and boys into jumping overboard when steam escaped from a safety valve. Two were rescued, six died, as the vessel traveled upriver toward Bethel with the Volante’s cargo.
Astoria August 18 The ship St Nicholas fifteen days from Nushagak river Bristol Bay Alaska arrives with four Yolant crewmen aboard The Yolant wrecked June 21 between Eagle river and Queen Hagimiet in a gale She struck a mud flat and Captain Lutgen and crew made shore Vessels owner sold wreck for 125 dollars and claimed government would pay crew passage to port Lutgen boarded revenue cutter Perry leaving crew without provisions Four men Fredericks Form Bowling Exglitak brought to Astoria on St Nicholas Fredericks plans to go to San Francisco to prosecute Lutgen
Chicago August 1 Mayor Dunne ordered a stop to nearly all construction on the Illinois Tunnel Company underground tunnels. No further work is allowed until a method is devised to connect and support the tunnels to prevent building sinking and street settling, with offices and streets protected from undermining.
The American Osteopathic Association adjourned sine die in Denver as Dr A L Evans of Chattanooga Tennessee was elected president. The association plans to meet next year at Put-in-Bay Island Lake Erie with members to discuss future programs and reforms.
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