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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1906
Page
3
Substitution to the agricultural bill relating to meat inspection was adopted in the House and the measure sent to conference. A tally shows the number of bills passed under suspension of the rules. In the Senate Mr. Knox of Pennsylvania spoke at length in favor of the lock type for the Panama Canal.
On Wednesday June 20 the House passed a bill to appropriate 25000 for the president's traveling expenses for the next fiscal year by 175 to 68. Twenty other bills of general interest also passed under discussion in the Senate Meat inspection amendment noted with senators urging adherence to Senate provisions.
Senate approves a Panama Isthmus canal plan by 36 to 31 after a day spent on debate. House discussion centers on a $25,000 appropriation to cover traveling expenses for the president. Conference report on naval appropriation and a pure foods bill are also under discussion.
Friday update notes the Senate passed a bill appropriating $25,000 annually for the president's traveling expenses and disposed of the sundry civil appropriation bill. The House spent the day debating the pure food bill but did not complete it.
Saturday actions include House Conference reports on the District of Columbia and post office appropriation bills, sundry civil bill sent to conference. Senate agricultural bill with meat inspection amendment sent to conferees after extended debate with no instructions.
The United Mine Workers strike in Ohio ends with 35000 miners resuming work immediately in Eastern Ohio nonunion men yielding to union workers. A 6.88 percent wage advance on 1904-5 scales applies April 1906 to March 31 1908, with local conditions to be reviewed in sub-district conventions.
Washington June 22 The senate aligned with the president and house by approving a lock type canal for the Isthmus of Panama. A single negative vote on a motion to table the sea level substitute set the decision and signaled the end of a potential split between the senate and executive branches.
Frenk Kramer the American bicycle rider captured the City of Paris grand prize of 1000 dollars at Vincennes France. Oscar Stevens Montana mine owner and cattleman dies in Denver diabetes at fifty seven. George K Fitch prominent California citizen dies suddenly at San Rafael after fire destroyed his San Francisco home. Two early morning fires in St Louis cause 215000 in damages to a five story office building and a large livery and undertaking establishment leaving fifty horses burned. Baltimore News and Baltimore American buy the plant of the establishment and the Baltimore Herald suspended.
W. R. Slinkard a railroad contractor from El Paso Texas is killed in Sonora by Yaqui Indians. Robert McMillan a prominent Oshkosh Wisconsin manufacturer dies after a long illness. The House commerce committee favors the Bartholdi bill to allow a free bridge at St. Louis over the Mississippi. Wheelock Harvey a 19 year old New York messenger accused of stealing 200000 in checks is arrested at Fort Worth Texas. New York court allows Negro societies to adopt secret organization emblems that exclude others.
In Sioux Falls South Dakota Emma Kaufmann wife of a local brewer was held to the state circuit court without bail on a murder charge. The 17 year old domestic Agnes Poirier died June 1 with forty five wounds noted after exhumation.
A heavy storm in Alton Alabama on June 25 brought hail and a flood of tiny green frogs that hopped through streets. Pedestrians and vehicles crushed hundreds as the frogs were carried from marshy areas by strong winds and dropped over the city.
Minneapolis market report lists wheat quotations for July Stage and September at 88c and 83 4c with December at 83 4c. Barley grade No 1 hard at 86 1/2c and No 1 Northern at 85 1/2c. No 2 Northern 88 3/4c and No 8 Northern at 82 4c.
Wheat on track with quotes for No 1 Northern 8544c, No 2 Northern 81c, July 85%e, Sept 84c, Dec 88c. Flax on track with prices $1.14 for July and Sept, $1.143 for Sept, $1.13 for Oct.
Cattle went from good to choice steers at 4.50 to 5.50, cows and heifers 3.00 to 4.50, veals 1.50 to 4.50. Hogs ranged 6.20 to 6.40. Sheep show Wethers 4.75 to 5.85, lambs 6.00 to 6.75, spring lambs 6.60 to 7.00.
June 23 prices list cattle with ranges for cows and helfers stockers and feeders calves and hogs by class with mixed and butcher hogs good heavy rough heavy light pigs and sheep yearlings and lambs priced per hundredweight figures show typical market spreads across categories in Chicago.
Wheat July 88 1/2 cents, Sept 81 3/4 cents. Corn July 51 1/2 cents, Sept 61 1/2 cents. Oats July 38 3/4 cents, Sept 35 1/2 cents. Pork July $16.95, Sept $16.52 4? cents. Flax cash Northwestern $1.31 1/4, Southwestern $1.08, Sept $1.12. Butter creameries 15 20 cents, dairies 14 1/2 cents. Eggs 12 1/2 cents. Poultry turkeys 10 cents, chickens 12 cents.
The house passed a 25000 traveling expenses bill for the president with 176 yeas and 68 nays. The comptroller of the currency called for national bank condition data as of Monday June 18. About fifty German editors visit London for Anglo German friendship week. Wisconsin awarded 462 bachelor and 40 higher degrees at annual commencement. The illness of the Duke of Almodovar, Spanish foreign minister, has grown grave and the dying sacrament was administered.
The house has sent to conference the so called Immunity of witnesses bill. The news item notes parliamentary action on a proposed measure regarding witness protections.
A joint resolution declares the people of the United States horrified by reports of a massacre of Hebrews in Russia and expresses hearty sympathy for the persecuted Jews. The president and state department officials have not devised a plan to provide assistance.
C W Martin of Minnesota township with wife and three children aged seven five and three to see the circus were drowned when his buggy left a bridge on the Little Minnesota river near Bossco. A horse also died as the swollen river swept them away after dark.
The sultan of Morocco signed the Algeciras protocol after June 18. Fire destroyed two business blocks in Golconda Illinois causing a loss estimated at 100000 dollars. Charles E Tripler of liquid air fame is dead at Liberty New York from Brights disease after two months illness. Dispatches to Duns Trade Review indicate better crop conditions improve business tone this week. Toronto police raided twenty poolrooms and handbook betting concerns with over 150 men arrested. Robert Bruce Burns a Western railroad constructor and longtime chief engineer for Santa Fe dies in Los Angeles.
The committee on the location of the $250,000 Pythian home has selected Decatur, Ill. Mayor McClellan of Greater New York is off on a ten weeks European vacation. The Agamemnon launched at Glasgow. About 50,000 people rely on supply camps in San Francisco. Mrs Wilson Mizner ill in Chicago. Composer Alberto Rositi dies in Kansas City after appendicitis operation.
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