Pheasant shots and world events in terse notes
King Edward praised as a top pheasant shot behind Walsingham and Grey. Grover Cleveland with a birth at Buzzards Bay. Hazel Steiner, 11, astonishes Sacramento with piano range. Bulgarian ruler Ferdinand fears Afanasiasy conspiracy. Assassination date aimed for September. Brown New Orleans pool nears $10 million profit in cotton markets. July storm wrecks crops in Wisconsin. Chief P. M. Arthur dies in Winnipeg. Mercantile Trust forecloses $16 million mortgage on U S shipyards. Fifty-eight squatters in White Plains ordered to vacate for NY water shed. Farmers migrate or resist. Fresno ships gang plows to South Africa. Luther Stieringer dies in Pasadena. prolific inventor. Tompkins named warden at San Quentin. Stockton car sidetrack sale for taxes. San Francisco Chinese Reform Society to fund Shanghai school. Boer war cost and garrison figures reveal enormous strain.
Irrigation bids opened for Truckee River project in Nevada
The Interior Department opened bids on July 15 for thirty miles of canals and tunnels to convey water from the Truckee River to irrigable lands in the Truckee and Carson Valleys. Bids ranged from $809,849 for division four by the Mahoney Brothers to $1,161,944 by E. B. & A. L. Stone Co. The project calls for removing 2.25 million yards of earth and 250,000 yards of rock, with three tunnels totaling 2,800 feet. The ditch spans 31 miles with initial 1,400 cu ft per second capacity, later 1,200 cu ft per second, starting near Wadsworth and reaching a large reservoir in Churchill county.
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Nevada
Interior Department
Washington
Truckee River
Clark's Station
Wadsworth
Truckee
Carson
Mahoney Brothers
Omaha
Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company
San Francisco
Charles A. Warren & Company
E. B. & A. L. Stone Company
Oakland
Cal
Ragtown
Churchill County
United States
L. I. Taylor
New Coast Railroad Aims For 1600 Mile Route From KC
George Crocker of San Francisco is re elected director and vice president of the Kansas City Mexico and Orient Railroad Company. The project plans a 1600 mile direct line from Kansas City to Topolobampo, Gulf of California, with funds reportedly subscribed. The line will be 500 miles shorter than existing routes, backed by the Stilwell Syndicate, and linked to telegraph and express contracts with Western Union and American Express. A Hamburg America steam service will connect Topolobampo and Hongkong once the road is finished.
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George Crocker
San Francisco
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad Company
Kansan City
Topolobampo
Gulf of California
Crocker
Stilwell Syndicate
Eureka
California
Pittsburg
England
Belgium
Kansas City
Western Union
American Express Company
Orient
Hamburg American Line
Topolobambo
Hongkong
Examiner
Mrs. Harriet Blaine Dies in Augusta at 76
Mrs. James G. Blaine died in Augusta Maine on July 15 at age 76. Her maiden name was Harriet Stanwood daughter of a Maine leader. She and her husband met as teachers in Kentucky. they wed at Pittsburg. Mr. Blaine later edited the Kennebec Journal. She leaves a son James G. Blaine and two daughters Mrs. Harriet Beale and Mrs. Walter Damrosch of New York who were at her bedside.
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James G. Blaine
Augusta
Maine
Blaine
Harrriet Stanwood
Kentucky
Pittsburg
Kennebec Journal
Harriet Beale
Tonopah Company Stock Fluctuations Stir Market Interest
A brief note suggests unusual activity in Tonopah Company shares as a few holders fear a change of control. Despite a price dip the stock remains valued at about five times today’s trading level. The piece warns investors to hold on while insiders and bidders pursue influence.
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Tonopah
Philadelphia
Betrayal of Trust at Independence Day Event
Secretary Moody spoke at the Independence Day celebration in Washington decrying mob violence and corruption in public office. He urged court investigations into Post Office Department scandals and warned that proved offenses should provoke popular outrage. Feldhusen Co. advertised pelove provisions from Sacramento with a free mailing offer.
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Washington
Moody
Post Office Department
Feldhusen & Co
Sacramento
Pelove
Rites Office
Beavers Indicted in Post Office Bribe Case
George W. Beavers a former Post Office official is indicted for taking an 840 bribe to engineer a government sale of automatic cash registers. The report lists multiple officials under investigation or charged and notes a broad potential trial involving many Congressmen.
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George W. Beavers
Division of Salaries and Allowances
Postoffice Department
Beavers
Post Office Department
A. W. Machen
B. Y V. Miller
Legal Department
James N. Tyner
Johns
George Christiancy
Tyner
Upton and McGregor
Machen
Diller B. Groff
Samuel Groff
George V. Lorenz
George W. Lorenz
George F. Miller
Edward H. Briggs
John T. Metcalf
M. A. W. Louis
Radium Miracle Hailed By London Surgeons
A London dispatch reports radium as a medical marvel capable of killing superficial cancer in four one hour exposures. Dr MacKenzie Davidson of Charing Cross Hospital cites a nose cancer case cured by radium after X-ray failures and warns results for internal cancers remain untested. The claims suggest radium could transform cancer treatment despite cautions.
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London
MacKenzie Davidson
Charing Cross Hospital
Davidson
Oregon Short Line Deal Sealed in Recent Filing
A Salt Lake dispatch reports the final act in the Oregon Short Line San Pedro deal with three deeds transferring lines south of Sandy and west of the Jordan River to the San Pedro Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company. The stated consideration in each deed is $5. Deeds will be filed in every county where the property lies.
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Salt Lake
Oregon Short Line
San Pedro
Local Fight Expected Over Colorado Coal Lands
Special Agent Max Pracht of the U S Land Office says the government will not permit dropping the contest over Las Animas coal lands. Land proved as coal must be paid for at $20 an acre. He anticipates involvement of multiple corporations beyond Colorado Fuel and Iron and Utah Coal and predicts a major contest in land office history.
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Colorado
Max Prache
United States Land Office
Las Animas
Pracht
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Utah Coal Company
Land Office
Hog raisers mix lime and salt to build pigs bones
A fragmented Arkansas Bulletin recipe describes a hog feed mixture of charcoal one and a half bushels salt four pounds hardwood ashes ten pounds stacked lime four pounds plus water shade in summer and grain when on grass and a dry dust-free bed in winter. It notes pigs will eagerly consume the mixture and stresses ample confinement space to avoid filth. Separately Jacob Eppinger, once head of a bankrupt grain brokerage, has been indicted by a San Francisco Grand Jury for obtaining money by false pretenses. a second brother Herman is widely expected to be indicted. An advertisement from Haynes Parker & Co promotes Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, claiming cure after six months of coughing, with local sale by Mrs. H. M. Schneiders & Co.
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Arkansas Bulletin
Jacob Eppinger
San Francisco
Grand Jury
Herman
Haynes Parker & Co
Lineville
Ala
H. M. Schneiders & Co
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Grover Cleveland
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Ferdinand
Afanasiasy
New Orleans
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
P. M. Arthur
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Winnipeg
Canada
Cleveland
Ohio
the Mercantile Trust Company of
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United States Ship Building Company
Newark
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White Plains
Fresno,Cal
South Africa
Africa
Luther Stieringer
Pasadena
Stieringer
Edison
Assont
Caifornia Board of Prison Directors
John W. Tompkins
Aguirre
San Quentin Penty
Alameda County
Chicago
Stockton
Ortman
Chinese Reform Society of
Shanghai
China
NEW Coast Railroad
Mrs. Blaine
Deorce W. Beavers
Oregon
George Gavin
Fareka
Pacero Staspano
Patisuie
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Salt Lake City
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Forward Freight
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Alpha
Hay Ranch
G. D. Abbott
Supt
Pausave, Nevads
Bank OF Nevada
Virginia Street
Reno, Nevada
Daniel Meyer
Herbert Fleishhacker
Moritz Scheeline
Geo. F. Yurrittin
P. L. Flanigan
Henry Anderson
A. G. Fletcher
Reno
Canadas
Europe
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Turrirrey
Mowitz Scharlinr
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Tonsrins
FTILL
Court House Block
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Eureka, Nevada
F. J. Brossemer
Lodge Directory
Masonic Hall
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Asste Motus
W. M
Fuey D. Forp
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Jouxat Ok
W. M. BR
McCnannes
St. John's
St. John’s
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M. G. Fosves
P. J. H. Jury
Diamond Rebekah
Gaace
N. G
Kate Swick
Alpha Lodge No. 1
Pythian Hall
M. M. Furrowen
C.C. Warraone
Beatie Lodge No. 7
K. of P
Castle Hall
Smith & Richard
D. E. Nostacsa
C. C. Attest
Berwona
R&s
Bureka Lodge
Willow Laway
J. Brosnan Seavey
L. A. Harcourt
Medical Department
Buffalo University
Chicago Medical Society
Sacramento Society For Medical Improvement
Brown Hotel
R. Herz & Bro
Reno Jewelere
W. H. Russell
C. R. Reeves
Fyick
Court
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