Hawaii Board of Health adopts new sanitation rules 1905
The Board of Health of the Territory of Hawaii adopts amendments to regulations including no spitting on public places, laundries forbidden from spraying laundered articles, and strict garbage disposal rules. Garbage must be in covered containers, collected weekly, and dumping limited to designated grounds. Public health officials authorize and sanction the measures.
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Tan Boaky
Hearn
HoNoLuu
Hawaii
Ate
Board of Health
Territory
G. R. Carter
Territory of
Island harbor survey and fortification plans progress
Honolulu and Hilo harbor improvements advance with increases in survey funding. Army engineer Lt Slattery delays in Hawaiʻi until spring, while Congress contemplates a War Department backed program including Pearl Harbor fortifications and a 1.75 million expenditure plus dredging and lighthouses.
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Suttery
United States Army Engineer Corps
Sam
Honolulu
Pearl Harbor
Secretary of War
Congress
War Department
Kuhio
United States
Slattery
Pearl Lochs
City of
Leutenant
Misers
San Francisco
Naturalizations Upheld in Circuit Courts of Territory
The territorial circuit courts gain power to naturalize, a ruling with Justice Hartwell dissenting. The decision affects over a thousand residents naturalized since annexation, establishing that circuit courts are courts of record with jurisdiction to naturalize as in states. Chief Justice Frear notes extensive historic use, while Hartwell dissents, saying Congress did not authorize circuit-court naturalizations absent explicit permission.
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Hartwell
Morita Kaizo
Agsill
Grand Jury
Congress
District Court
United States
Union
Frear
Circuit Courts
United States District
Estee
Dole
Justice Hartwell
Politics at Bottom of Charges in Hilo Jail Row
High Sheriff Wm. Henry, visiting from Honolulu, sums up the charges against Jailor Maby and others as politically driven. He notes grand jury evidence relied on prisoners’ testimony and defends jail administration, praising food and noting only minor bread weevils. He finds discipline lax but within Jailor Maby’s discretion and expects no changes.
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Wm. Henry
Honolulu
Maby
Hilo
Tripuan
Mr. Henry
Txrsuwa
Grand Jury
Maby Dor
Oahu
Tropics
Former Idaho Governor Steunenberg Assassinated
Boise Idaho January 1 Former Governor Steunenberg of Idaho has been assassinated by a dynamite bomb. The crime is linked to his actions during the Coeur d Alene strike while governor. Shoeshone County has posted a $10,000 reward for the capture of the assassins and five suspects have been arrested.
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Boise
Idaho
Steunenberg
Shoeshone County
Advocates Currency Reform Speech Sparks Market Alarm
In New York on January 4 Jacob H. Schiff, a noted financier, warned that without currency reform a panic of historic scale would follow. His remarks stirred the stock market and drew wide attention.
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New York
Jacob H. Schiff
Successor to De Witte in St Petersburg Rumors
Reports from St. Petersburg on January 1 revive word that Premier De Witte may retire with Duruoro, the Interior Minister, named as likely successor. The source notes the move as a possible reshuffle affecting the cabinet.
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St. Petersburg
de Witte
Duruoro
Interior
Insurgents Surrender in Moscow After Tormented Stand
Report from Moscow says the last insurgent remnant has surrendered as troops occupy troubled districts. Barricades are being cleared and fatalities appear exaggerated. The Workmen's Council has called off the strike.
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Moscow
Death of Sir Hugh Muir Nelson Australian statesman
Brisbane reports the death of Right Honourable Sir Hugh Muir Nelson Lieutenant Governor of Australia. Born 1835 he studied at Edinburgh and Oxford. He served Queensland in the Legislative Assembly for Northern Downs and Marilta, held railways and public works, colonial treasurer, vice president executive council, premier, chief secretary and treasurer, and presided as president of the Legislative Assembly in 1898.
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Brisbane
Hugh Muir Nelson
Australia
Hugh Nelson
Edinburgh
Oxford
Legislative Assembly of Queensland
Northern Downs
Marilta
Queensland
Morales Defeated at Puerto Plata Amid Clash in Santo Domingo
Reports from Cape Haytien recount Morales landing 250 men near Puerto Plata on January 1 aboard the Dominican cruiser Independeia and warning the governor to surrender within 24 hours. By January 5 Morales’ forces under General Rodrigues were defeated by Caceres, with 150 killed or wounded and rumors of Morales’ death. The San Domingo Congress has moved to impeach him.
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Cape Haytien
Morales
Independeia
Puerto Plata
Rodriguesz
Rodrigues
Caceres
San Domingo
Plotters Thwarted Amid Global Revolt Reports
A fragmentary spread describes thwarted plots by revolutionaries in St Petersburg and Reval with arrests and seized weapons. It also recounts a Waialua cane field murder of four year old Seaman Wharton, with deputy sheriffs pursuing suspect Sam Johnson amid a tense local case.
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St. Petersburg
Reval
Moscow
Social Revolutionary Committee
Qahu
Waialua
Seaman Wharton
Henry Wharton
Sam Johnson
Cox
Wharton
Johnson
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