Happenings Of The Week Incompletely Summed Up
A long list of world events is touched on including a Danube steamer disaster with many drowned, volcanic devastation in Guatemala, a Meacham Oregon fire rebuild, and Denver minds toward an actors sanitarium. Augustin Chacon hanged in Arizona. Germany faces a growing deficit while Boxer rebels advance in South China. Moody allows navy yard workers to question pay rates. Venezuela seeks European support against revolutionaries. The sultan of Morocco donates to a missionary widow. Chicago three saloons dynamited. Coal miners’ health concerns raised before a commission. Isthmian canal hopes rise as Nicaragua route support grows. A strange incident at the German emperor’s palace ends with asylum for the involved man. A Minneapolis mill will grind Canada wheat for bond shipment to Liverpool. Europe endures cold, Oregon adds forest reserves, and a presidential bear hunt yields no shot. A Great Northern official’s illness ends life. Stockton potato cornering by Chinese investors. Decatur’s descendant enters Annapolis. Anarchist plots in New York attract police notice. Oregon timber frauds, forest reserves and irrigation fuel distrust. Uribe urges peace with Colombia as US intervention fades Liberal hopes. Leopold assassination attempt revives anti-anarchy debates. Utah earthquakes shake chimneys and clocks. Fort Stevens fires investigated by arrests. Coal strike set for a formal agreement. Loss of F A Egan leads to renewed search end. Pell City depot fire kills two, injures ten. A Lexington meteor excites onlookers. Venezuelan troops win a battle against revolutionaries. Elkins backs reciprocity with Cuba. Southern Pacific wreck near Cottage Grove leaves one hurt. An anarchist shoots at Leopold but injures no one. Babcock backs Cannon for speaker.
September Forest Fires Cause Multi-Mollar Loss Across Oregon and Washington
The Bureau of Forestry estimates September fires in Oregon and Washington caused 12.767 million dollars in total losses, with Oregon bearing 3.91 million. Timber, farm property, and sawmills were destroyed. much burned timber in Oregon may be saved due to proximity to markets. 86 Oregon families homeless. 200 with partial losses. Oregon farm property losses 315 thousand. sawmills 149 thousand. Timber losses exceed 45 million. over 170 thousand acres burned in Oregon and 434 thousand in Washington. Large timber stands and logs valued at millions were destroyed across counties including Cowlitz, Clark, and Skamania. Fire causes traced to carelessness and dry seasons. many fires started by campfires, slashings, and sparks.
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Ae Bureau of In Estry
Oregon
Smpire
Cowlitz
Clark
Skamania
Cascade
Bureau
Fire at Alameda Mole destroys ferry coaches
Oakland Calif Nov 22 fire destroyed the ferry at the Alameda mole leaving nine men asleep in a bunk house narrowly escaping. Forty seven coaches were burned fifteen broad gauge and thirty one narrow gauge. The building was built by James G Fair in 1883 and later owned by the Southern Pacific. Officials suspect a coal oil lamp left burning or its explosion as the possible cause.
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Cal
Alameda Mole
James G. Fair
Southern Pacific Company
Japanese naval engineers visit Seattle to study American shipbuilding
Tada chief constructing engineer of the Japanese navy arrives with Matenaka and Higueni aboard the Tosa Maru. They will go to Pittsburg to place armor plate orders and inspect U S yards including Moran Bros. They plan to spend time in eastern yards and then proceed east, saying their government will adopt American methods extensively.
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Tada
M. Matenaka
G. Higueni
Naval Construction Bureau of Japan
Pittsburg
Moran Bros
London fortifications reinforced after war threat
London authorities initiated widespread defense preparations after Lord Roberts, upon becoming commander-in-chief, found London’s defenses weak. Strong batteries are now placed on hills between London and the south coast, and new riverfront fortifications rise along the Thames.
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Lord Roberts
Thames
Outlaws Fire Through Rifle. Shoot Man in Leg
Charlee Dykes and a man named Murphy terrorized Rifle this afternoon, firing at buildings, holding up saloons, and disarming two deputy sheriffs. They shot ranchman David Morford in the leg before fleeing town. A sheriff's posse is pursuing them, with expected rapid pursuit.
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Denver
Charlee Dykes
Murphy
David Morford
Nevada Monitor Arrives at Navy Yard from Bath Steelworks
The single turreted monitor Nevada built by Bath Iron Works for the United States Navy arrived today at the Davy yard from Bath. She is to receive her second trip in December, marking another milestone for the vessel's completion.
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Boston
Nevada
Bath Iron Works
United States
Davy
Davy Yard
Bath
Oregonunday Brief Review of Industry and Weather News
News from Oregon highlights brief reviews of commercial and financial happenings, with notes on agriculture, infrastructure, and public notices across the state. It mentions a light snow in southern Oregon, an Albany election, a church addition in Oregon City, dam damage near Yolo, farmer institutes, flood damage to dikes, a jail escape in Huntington, apple shipments from Central Point, potential forest reserves in Northeastern Oregon, Chautauqua reorganization, Tillamook hatchery suspensions, streetcar franchise bids in Roseburg, lumber price shifts on the lower Columbia, fisheries damage from freshets, new post office listings at Inglis and Tiller, a Newberg depot burglary, hops sales in Dallas, and gubernatorial pardons and commutations.
Refugees From Guatemala Reach San Francisco After Eruptions
The first Guatemalan refugees arrived aboard the City of Paris after fleeing inland areas scorched by sand ash and pumice. They traveled from Champerico by rail to San Francisco, reporting Indian victims and widespread plantation ruin. Bands of robbers plague the desolated regions as food runs out and aid is blocked. General Barillos and family are said safe, though initial casualty reports varied.
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Guatemala
Pacific Mail
Paris
Champerico
Santa Maria
el Rosario
Portland Markets Prices Digest
Portland market report listing prices for crops and livestock. Wheat varying by variety from 70 to 78 cents per bushel, barley at 2.00 per ton for food and 23.50 for brewing, oats No 1 white 1.12 to 1.15 per cental. Hay Timothy 10 to 11, clover 5, cheat 8 to 9 per ton. Potatoes Best Burbanks 60 to 80 cents per sack, ordinary 50 to 55 per cental. Poultry prices for chickens, hens, spring ducks and other fowl. cheese, butter, eggs, wool, mohair, beef, veal, lamb, hogs with various per unit prices.
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Walla Walla
Valley
Graham
Wool—Valley
Oregon
Oregon irrigation convention adjourns with new officers
Portland reports the Oregon irrigation convention organized by adopting by laws and electing officers. Resolutions praised irrigation projects and backed the Portland immigration bureau. Addresses were given by A. P. Davis and Governor Geer among others. Next session to meet at Baker City in June 1903 and annual meeting at Pendleton in November 1903.
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Oregon Irrigation Convention
Immigration Bureau
A. P. Davis
Reclamation Service
Geer
Alfred F. Sears
W. B. Chase
H. B. Maxson
National Irrigation Congress
Baker City
Pendleton
Band of 1400 Sheep Stolen Near Flower Colorado
Five men dynamited a hut near Flower Colorado and drove off 1400 head of James Brown’s sheep after the hut explosion knocked the herder unconscious. The flock was chased for miles before the men abandoned the sheep and fled northward. A posse pursued the rustlers with Sheriff Baldwin taking up the search.
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Flower
Colo
James Brown
Thie Place
Brown
Sheriff Badwin
Yangtze tensions cited in Orient mail advices
Victoria dispatches report complications in the Yangtze valley as German presses allegedly maneuver with Japan and Britain. Ashi Shimun claims Germany used the Chinese coast crisis to press for evacuation terms that would erase England’s influence in the Yangtze region, with Tokio papers noting France’s involvement.
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Yangtse
Ashi Shimun
Japan
Gerrmany
Great Britain
China
Hanku
Shanghai
England
Yangtze Valley
Tokio
Germany
France
Bandits Rob Gambling Den In Columbia Heights Heist
Minneapolis, Nov 21. Two masked bandits robbed a Columbia Heights gambling den run by a syndicate of sporting men, stealing about 19423 from proprietors and players. Porter Harvey Howard, a Negro, was shot by the robbers as they arrived at dawn. Both robbers covered their faces with dark handkerchiefs and attacked from dual entrances along the trolley line.
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Minneapolis
Columbia Heights
Harvey Howard
Minneapolia
Two Kentucky murder suspects captured in Covington
Cincinnati dispatch reports Alvin Burgess of Fleingsburg and George Bentz of Maysilk were pursued through Fleming and Mason counties Kentucky before being lodged in Covington jail. They had been moved from Brookfield as reinforcements gathered, prompting the sheriff to detour routes.
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Fleming
Mason Counties
Kentucky
Covington
Alvin Burgess
Fleingsburg
George Bentz
Maysilk
Brookfield
Pioneer Mining Co to Build Nome to Council City Railroad
The Pioneer mining company led by D C Lindblom Deafer Lindeberg and other Alaska capitalists announced after a board meeting that a railroad will connect Nome to Council City and be in operation by the end of next season. The following season could extend to Salmon River and Cascade Paga.
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Pioneer Mining Company
D. C. Lindblom
Deafer Lindeberg
Alaska
Nome
Council City
Salmon River
Cascade Paga
Stillman Endows Harvard Professorship With 100000 Gift
Boston Nov 21 James Stillman president National City Bank New York presented 100000 dollars to Harvard University for an endowment of a professorship in comparative anatomy The gift aims to support research and teaching in the field and strengthens ties between banking leadership and higher education.
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Boston
James Stillman
National City Bank of New York
Marvard University
May Compromise on 10% Wage Rise and Nine Hour Day
Scranton November 24. Mine workers and mineowners reached a compromise basis to negotiate outside the anthracite strike commission. The rough plan proposes a 10 percent wage increase, a nine hour day, and trade agreements between miners and employers. The weighing of coal by legal ton remains unsettled.
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Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Wayne MacVeagh
Mitchell
Oregon Irrigation Association Elects Officers at Portland
The Oregon Irrigation Association opened in Portland with officers elected: President A. H. Devers, Vice President W. R. King, Secretary J. M. Reed, and Treasurer W. T. Wright. About 276 delegates attended as speakers urged liberal irrigation funding and surveys to match public interest.
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Oregon Irrigation Association
ngGyt
A. H. Devers
W. R. King
Malheur
J. M. Re
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Union
Train Hold Up Near Davenport Rocks Rock Island Express
A west bound Rock Island No 11 passenger and express train was held up by 12 masked robbers three miles west of Davenport Iowa after midnight. They detached the mail and express cars and blew the safe at Gale siding, removing the contents. No injuries reported as the train halted two hours at the scene before resuming.
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Rock Island
Gale Siding
Chicago
Fort Worth
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Filipino Urges Faster Autonomy Promises Fulfilled
In Cebu, a Filipino speaker at General Miles public reception urged swifter fulfillment of American promises including autonomy. Miles replied for peace and patience, expressing hope autonomy ambitions will be finally fulfilled.
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Manila
Miles
Cebu
Navy announces Hancock placed in commission at Mare Island
Washington report states the Hancock a former army transport has been placed in commission at Mare Island California and will serve as a receiving ship in New York. It will not replace the cruiser Columbia but will be retained to meet extra receiving ship demands at the port.
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Navy Department
Hancock
Mare Island Navy Yard
California
New York
Columbia
Me commission notes cholera cases drop to five daily
A cablegram from the Philip, Me commission reports cholera cases fallen to five per day from 34 per day a week ago. The message says the commission is relieved and fears contamination of the Mariquina watershed that supplies water to MBpils.
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Washington
Philip, Me
Mariquina
Diplomat's Son in Trouble in Guatemala City Incident
Washington reports God frew Hunter Jr the son of the United States minister in Guatemala City shot and killed Gelimate Fitgergold of Grand Rapids Michigan Hunter sought refuge and an exemption from arrest has been raised as a question by officials regarding his status and actions.
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State Department
Godfrew Hunter, Jr
United States
Guatemala City
Geliame Fitgergold
Grand Rapids
Mich
Hunter
Wheat crop estimate challenged by state inspector
Tacoma November 20 State Grain Inspector Arrasmith disputing published 1902 wheat totals says 24 000 000 bushels is a conservative figure. He cites 10 percent higher acreage and a 30 percent lower yield per acre offset to suggest at least 25 million bushels, with many counties undercounted and large holdings in warehouses and on farms awaiting sale.
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Wash
Arrasmith
Whitman
Hold Up Man Arrested in Spokane Robbery Case
Spokane on November 20 reports Harry Corbett and a companion attempted a dry goods clerk hold up in a residential area. Corbett confessed, revealing ties to Kendrick Idaho where he posed as son of H. W. Corbett of Portland. A black sateen shirt with a cutout was found, linking to a Kendrick robbery by two masked men.
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Wash
Harry Corbett
Corbett
Kendrick
Idaho
H. W. Corbett
Portland
United States
Cuba Children Hearing Reopened After Treasury Order
Immigration Commissioner Williams received a Washington order reopening the age assessment for 11 Cuban children amid a request by Mrs. Tingley. She promises substantial new evidence to refute prior charges against her at a former hearing. A new date for the hearing has not been announced.
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New York
Williams
Treasury Department
Washington Today
Department
Tingley
Apples Rot on Ground as Barrels Scarce in New York State
New York reports thousands of bushels of fine apples rotting on the ground. Farmers say barrels are scarce and would enable shipments to England or the Philippines, but supply is unavailable. Dilapidated barrels cost 35 cents each. Farm laborers are also in short supply.
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New York
Tribune
Greenwich
Bank Robbery at Pelarinho Strongrooms in Lisbon
Thieves broke into the underground strongrooms of the Pelarinho bank in Lisbon and stole 165,000. One clerk has been arrested in connection with the robbery as this city experiences a surge of such intrusions.
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Lisbon
Spain
Pelarinho
Train Hold-Up by Masked Robbers Near Trinidad
Four masked men attempted to rob a Colorado & Southern train south of Trinidad. Expr Messenger H W Sherwick shot one robber as the gang fired on passengers. they fled into the woods. Sheriff and posse pursue in Las Animas County. no passengers harmed.
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Trinidad
Colo
Foy
Colorado & Southern
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Exprex Messener
H. W. Sherwick
Fort Worth
Tex
John Guillil
Hei
Stine
Thibe
Rob
Sherwick
Tig
Las Animas
Bond for Dredge Lease Pending War Dept Approval
Washington officials report the Port of Portland must post a bond to shield the government from expenses tied to leasing a dredge for Columbia Willamette work. The Port Commission and Captain Languitt await the Secretary of War’s approval before commencing work and arranging crews, fuel, and operation costs under a $200,000 appropriation.
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Port Portland
Be Beford
Secretary of War
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Willamette
Portland
Port of Port Commission
Languitt
Judge Advocate General
Haa
New Columbia
the of
Engineers’ Office
Grant
Cole River
San Francisco
Fire at North Yamhill destroys five buildings
Fire in North Yamhill on November 1 damaged five buildings including a rat merchandise store owned by Mest Vaulheim. Firefighters struggled due to inadequate apparatus, allowing the blaze to spread before control was achieved around midnight. No injuries were reported. total loss estimated at about $20,000 with some insurance coverage.
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Yamhill
Mest Vaulheim
Reine
British Minister Lionel Cites Reciprocation Debate On Cuba
In Havana on November 20 Lionel reports on Cob and the reciprocity advocates. No estate faced a crisis, far from a throne to the island. The minister stresses Cuba’s need to teach planters thrift and efficient plantation management to lower production costs.
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Lionel
Cuba
Destructive Fire Threatens Welera Montana Homes
On November 20 a severe gale swept Welera Montana causing a rapid blaze that endangered four buildings. Fire brigades and steamers battled the flames as residents fled and shelters were improvised. The blaze spread quickly due to dry conditions and strong winds, with authorities working to contain the damage and assess losses.
British Anxiety Over Afghan Uprising Reported
Fragmentary report from Peshawar indicates British concern as Afghan resistance movements challenge British forces. An Afghan commander and a major in command are noted, with unclear details on engagements and outcomes amid mounting tensions in the frontier region.
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Peshaur
Indis
Ochy
Amn
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