Fruit Growers Discuss Topics at Annual Session
Fruit growers gather for their annual session to discuss key topics and plan the coming season. Members share insights, propose initiatives, and set priorities for industry development and advocacy.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1906
Page
13
Fruit growers gather for their annual session to discuss key topics and plan the coming season. Members share insights, propose initiatives, and set priorities for industry development and advocacy.
President C F Dallman of Missoula calls the Montana Horticultural Society to order in Missoula with a large crop display. Apples, welcome by officials, and cups for best exhibits feature the event as talks cover orchard management and home production.
Lord Dalmeny has been elected to Parliament from Midlothian Scotland by a margin over 3000 votes despite John Redmond urging Irish voters to oppose Rosebery. Liberals gain 10 seats, Labour 2 more. totals Liberals 305 Unionists 137 Irish Nationalists 80 Labourites 46.
A ruling from the secretary of the interior restores nearly 1,000 desert land claimants in Cascade County east and south of the Missouri River. The October 1903 suspension is lifted, canceled entries reinstated, and no proofs or contests are required while the suspension remains in effect. About 300,000 acres are affected and rights are preserved during the ruling period.
The senate committee on foreign relations voted to report the Cuba treaty and recommended ceding the Isle of Pines to Cuba. No amendments were made to the treaty.
Milwaukee officials predict the Milwaukee and St Paul system will determine the route to the Pacific within four weeks. Butte Montana will be a main division point with seven survey parties working from Seattle toward the Montana line. Plans call for eastward work from Seattle and from the Missouri River, South Dakota, with a branch from Madison to Sioux Falls. Construction pace expected to be rapid to complete in three years.
Warrants were issued for 146 foreigners believed to be anarchists whose Bard PA headquarters were raided. Police found a cave of literature threatening Governors Pennypacker of PA Pattison of OH and other leaders. Spiba and Burk were taken into custody but refused to discuss the case.
London January 24 The late Marshall Field of Chicago after his September 5 marriage to Mrs Arthur Caton executed a codicil to his will, likely to benefit his bride. Rev Dr Samuel Kirkbride witnessed the document and will travel to Chicago to probate it.
Paris reports say France hesitates over the Venezuelan crisis and will act in its own time. An official denies any blockade order and states France will pursue its rights with absolute resolve when conditions permit.
None of the westbound Santa Fe Limited passengers were injured. The local train sustained injuries to several people including conductor WooM Cheshiro who was crushed between two cars, and others from Pasadena San Diego and Los Angeles with back head rib and internal injuries and shocks.
The state case against John Cravens for seduction was tried in district court with public trial waived by motion of the defense. Judge Loud ordered the proceeding closed in the interest of public decency. Prosecution witness Miss Vence Mullin, a former telephone operator, testified. The trial will continue tomorrow.
Representative Dixon and former Senator Gibson arranged a meeting of the Great Falls delegation with Secretary Hitchcock and Director Walcott in Washington. They will push immediate Sun River irrigation project work, seen as highly feasible for Montana, and seek the necessary appropriation.
Gas blast on the steamer Regulator at St. John's yards during repairs after 1 PM today in Portland Oregon killed two men an engineer and a fireman.
Port Townsend reports eight days since the tug Pioneer left San Francisco towing the French bark Admiral Courbet. No word from either vessel after passing the Golden Gate as stormy weather and heavy fog may have driven them to an isolated anchorage for shelter.
News from Poteau, Indian Territory reports an explosion in mine No. 6 at Witteville, a mining village three miles away, with sixteen miners said to be entombed.
On June 24 at Ormonde Clifford Earp won the five mile heavy weight gasoline car championship in 2 56. Downey finished second. Earp’s time sets a new world record for gasoline cars at five miles with a prize of 291.5 dollars.
The Moroccan conference in Algeciras on January 24 accepted all articles of the committee on contraband arms report and referred them to economic questions. Spain’s determina tion, as agreed and presented earlier, was submitted today. Tomorrow the conference will reconvene in committee of the whole to study the economic project.
District Attorney Morrison wrapped up his remarks in the beef packing immunity case. He argued the packers did not claim immunity during Garfield's investigation and were not sworn when giving evidence, thus not entitled to immunity. The statement emphasized legal points amid yesterday's courtroom dispute.
The convention of the United Mine Workers of America made minor changes to the union working card in its closing session in Indianapolis. Delegates were instructed to pursue practical arrangements for working cards at the international mining congress. Indianapolis was chosen for next year’s convention. the session adjourned at 2 10 pm, subject to President Mitchell’s call.
Kilburne, the steamer formerly feared in Portland, arrived at Astoria from San Francisco via Eureka and Coos Bay without danger. The ship was not in peril during the voyage and the alert in Portland subsided.
In the aftermath of a grim sea disaster, Hiwan faces a harrowing loss as multiple lives are reported gone and rescuers comb the waters. The scene remains bleak with authorities continuing searches and families mourning irreplaceable companions.
Seattle January dispatches report the Valencia steamship wreck near Victoria with 25 passengers clinging to rigging and no hope of rescue. Officials expect about 140 dead as rescuers struggle against the storm and wreckage breaks apart.
Victoria B C January reports from Bamfield say the tug Salvor observers a submerged Czar wreck with two masts visible and the deck under water. No one on deck or rigging seen and rescuers deem rescue from sea impossible, aid awaited from shore.
A Bame field dispatch reports calls to send a boat with coal oil and supplies to aid the wreck. Darling survivors say some are still alive aboard the ship and a gun line will be fired ashore when ready. Hope centers on the Bamfield party for timely rescue before the hull fails.
A Victoria special lists the fifteen survivors from the Beale telegraph hut and the lighthouse boat, naming F. F. Bunker former Santa Rosa schools official, J. Richley fireman, Carl Samuel first class passenger, Mike Hone Seattle passenger, R. Brown a Japanese national, and others including T. J. McCarthy boatswain Thomas Shields and F. Campbell.
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