Northwest States News Roundup Brings Surprising Local Notes
Harvest preparations begin as Stevens county horticulturists report abundant late fruit. Ballard's census places Ballard population at 2000. Spokane’s Northern Pacific turntable project costs 6000 dollars. Pioneer Thomas Warren dies near Northport. Typhoid fears rise in state health board notes. Spokane trucker Gus Deluge dies in boiler accident at Rookery basement. Archie Cannon injured by threshing machine belting. Early crop damage estimates revised as underestimates. J O B Scobey to resign Olympia land office post and move to Portland. Over 20 telegraph operators hired for Tacoma to Portland block signaling. Mazama and Sierra climbers conquer Rainier Tacoma peak. Lester Richardson arrested for burglary with 520 dollars stolen. Columbia valley irrigation to cover 3000 of 6000 acres. A severe hail and temperature drop hits The Dalles with irregular ice hail.
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Stevens County
Ballard
Northern Pacific
Spokane Roundhouse
Thomas Warren
Plains
Kansas
Missouri River
Northport
State Board of Health
Gus Deluge
Grimmer Truck Company
Spokane
Rookery
Archie R. Cannon
J. O’b. Scobey
Olympia
Northern Pacific Railway
Tacoma
Portland
Mazama Club
Sierra Club of
California
Appalachian Club
East
Paradise
Rainier-Tacoma
Lester Richardson
Seattle
Richardson
Columbia River
Wenatchee
Columbia Valley
Dalles
Oregon News Items
O R and N will pay 40000 in taxes and file for a new trial motion past due. Ex judge Del Stuart of Portland died after an operation. Pacific coast bird fanciers await the Lewis and Clark poultry show October 5 to 12 with 14000 in prizes. Dallas saloon license rises to 600. Judge Frazer blocks disputed concessions at the exposition. Golden J Exile, a prize bull, sold by Dave Looney amid ownership ties to Miller bull and Miss Low Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. R. & N. Company
Umatilla
del Stuart
Portland
Masons
Knights of Pythias
Iowa
Osceola
Pacific Coast
Dallas
Frazer
State Circuit Court
Golden J. Exile
Salem
Walla Walla
North Yakima
Dave Looney
Looney
Miller
Miss Low Miller
Daughter Sketched Initials Inside Ear With Ink
Fragmentary report notes a person marked with the letters C M in its ear using India ink. The passage suggests a domestic or labeling act during a broader story. No additional context or names are provided in the readable text.
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C. M
Idaho News Briefs Span Religion to Shipyard Deals
Reports from Weiser to Moscow cover summer union church services and a large log cut at St. Maries. Other items note a $50,000,000 timber contract, Carnegie’s donation for Boise Presbyterian organ, a Metho dist conference in Moscow, a homicide in Blackfoot, sheep shearer Tom Wheeler’s wins, and a proposed Idaho state band for Portland exposition. Also listed are judicial appointments in North Idaho, a fugitive captured in Wallace, a fatal dynamite explosion near Meadows, the Riparia Lewiston rail link contract, widespread farmers institutes, a Paris manslaughter conviction, and the launching of the Idaho battleship at Philadelphia shipyards.
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Weiser
St. Maries
Andrew Carnegie
Presbyterian Church
Boise
Columbia River
Methodist Episcopal Church
Moscow
Frank G. Marrin
Blackfoot
Tom Wheeler
Idaho
Hayburn
Wheeler
Portland
Gooding
Miles S. Johnson
Lewiston
Nez Perce County
United States
North Idaho
Theodore Foust
Shoshone County
Sutherland
Quinn
Wallace
Meadows
Barnum
Carl Brown
Big Creek
San Francisco
O. R. & N.northern Pacific
Riparia
H. T. French
Agricultural College and Experiment Station
Panhandle
Caddie M. Shupe
Paris
Arthur Douglas
Montpelier
Douglas
Philadelphia
Montana Items Reflect Fishing Rules and Local Incidents
The Flathead agency plans require state licenses alongside Indian permits for reservation fishing. Malta’s wool season is closed. Three Zeigler sisters drown near Vancouver. Coeur d Alene teacher Conklin dies after 30 foot fall in Mullan. Forsyth washout wreck kills four and injures others. Missoula hosts teachers institute Oct 30 to Nov 2. Montana Press assn elects Gordon, Butler, Becker, Wild, Aitken, to offices. Great Falls confirms ~100 children at St. Ann’s pledge to abstain from alcohol until age 25.
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Flathead Indian Agency
Montana
Malta
Edna Fisher
Lillian Zeigler
May Ziegler
Columbia River
Government Island
Vancouver
Thomas Conklin
Coeur d’Alene
Mullan
Forsyth
Missoula
Montana Press Association
Billings
Sam Gordon
Miles City
T. E. Butler
E. H. Becker
I. N. Wild
Harlem
Walter Aitken
Livingston
St. Ann’s Cathedral
Great Falls
Lenihan
British Support for Japan Angers Washington Over Armistice
Washington reports Britain will back Japan’s peace terms and withhold aid to Washington in pursuing an armistice. London insists it will advise Japan only from Japan’s own interests, while showing sympathy for peace efforts and questioning Russia’s role in ending the war. The talks on renewing the Anglo Japanese alliance and its wider scope are anticipated after the Washington conference.
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Washington
Japan
Great Britain
London
Russia
Lord Lansdowne
Tokio
Vladivostok
Port Arthur
Sakha
Far East
Sakhalin
Berlin
England
Europe
Gripenberg Chosen to Lead 300,000 Men with Kuropatkin
General Gripenberg, a 67 year old Finnish born veteran, selected to command the second Manchurian Army alongside General Kuropatkin to oppose the Japanese. He was once governor of Viborg and exiled after defying a Finnish imperial order. Upon assembly his forces will total about 300,000, creating a vast Allied front in the Manchurian theater.
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Eral Gripenberg
Kuropatkin
Gripenberg
Viborg
Holy Russia
Gen
Finland
Russia
Italy
Switzerland
Gen. Gripenberg
East
Chicago Record-Herald
La Follette Denounces Rockefeller at Illinois Fair
Governor Robert M. La Follette labeled John D. Rockefeller the greatest criminal of the age during a Sunday speech at the Illinois Baptist Chautauqua on the state fair grounds. He condemned corrupt politicians and monopolies, and also scored Armours and other large packers before Governor Deneen introduced him.
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la Follette
Standard Oil
Springfield
Ill
John D. Rockefeller
Robert M. la Follette
Wisconsin
State Fair Grounds
United States
Armours
Deneen
Camp Lincoln
Wife Shot, Husband Missing in Guthrie Tragedy
The body of Mrs. Percy J. Luster, wife of the Guthrie telephone office manager, was found at her home with a bullet wound. Police report the husband as missing and a homicide inquiry underway.
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Guthrie
Percy J. Luster
Rice Shower Tradition Faces Modern Substitutes
The piece describes the ritual of throwing rice at weddings and its hazards, noting attempts from white flakes to rag eaves and mechanical devices to replace the grain. It cites observers including physicians and statisticians and imagines future rainlike rice delivery at weddings.
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Lohes
Boston
Regular feeding habits urged for infants and books sale by catalog
Advice stresses maintaining regular meal times as babies start solid foods. A proposal recommends selling books exclusively by catalog and newspaper ads to regulate distribution.
Japs seize Rykoff in hot pursuit battles on Sakhalin
Japanese cavalry entered Rykoff on Sakhalin island July 27 and, after street fighting, took the town by 8:30 am. Pursuit south of Rykoff killed over 200 and captured 500 among an enemy force of about 3,000 infantry and four guns. Temperature reported at 103 degrees.
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Tokio
Rykoff
Sakhalin Island
Port Due
Pareonot
Delbenskoe
Nomiha
Chinese boycott hits Getz Bros. in San Francisco
A Shanghai cable to Louis Getz of Getz Bros. & Co. orders immediate cancellation of all shipments and a Chinese merchant boycott of American trade. Manager R. H. Vansant reports suspended business and huge losses from canceling thousands of dollars in orders.
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Louis Getz
Getz Bros. & Co
San Francisco
Shanghai
R. H. Vansant
Getz
China
James Pope Captured After Yearlong Manhunt
James H. Pope, former Adams Express agent at New Salem Pennsylvania, who fled after stealing eight thousand dollars from a package consigned to a local bank on March 10, 1904, has been captured at Carlsbad New Mexico. He evaded private detectives and express service agents for over a year before arrest.
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Express
Express Company
Secret Service
James H. Pope
New Salem
Carlsbad
N. M
Pope
Adams Express Company
Fifty Seven Plague Victims Three More Deaths In New Orleans
New Orleans health report shows 27 new yellow fever cases today bringing total to 283. Three deaths occurred Sunday increasing deaths to 57. There are 41 new foci and an estimated 75 cases under treatment after accounting for recoveries and deaths.
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New Orleans
Broken axle causes wreck on Santa Fe train at Lamont
A broken axle on the California special of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe at Lamont caused the wreck. One man was killed outright, four persons fatally injured, and a score of passengers injured.
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Chicago
California
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Lamont
Novelist Held in Cell for Local Color Observed
Denver report says Hamlin Garland was locked in a narrow penitentiary cell for hours by Warden White as a crazed neighbor screamed next door, an incident cited as material for his forthcoming work.
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Denver
Warden White
Hamlin Garland
Scotty in New York City Attention-Grabbing Visitor
The New York visit of Mr. Scott, the Death Valley miner reputed to own a fabulously wealthy mine, draws extraordinary attention in the city. Official figures show only 20 Britons earn over $250,000 a year.
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New York City
Scott
Death Valley
Great Britain
Night hunting alligators described as eerie American sport
The article portrays night alligator hunting known as shining with lanterns aboard canoes in Florida and Gulf states. it covers methods, risks, and scenes of a ten foot alligator hit and the danger of recovery in a dark bayou with many reptiles.
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Florida
Gulf States
Girl Who Went Fishing
A narrator recalls a fishing mishap and a dramatic catch in which a big fish steals back two hogsheads of water. The moment ends with the narrator trapping the fish and answering her father’s call, amid a long feminine scream.
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Country Life In
America
The Unlucky Man's Idea Questioned Wealth
A New York Herald quip imagines what one would do with Rockefeller’s money. The reply notes the irony of wealth by saying the first action might be simply waking up, highlighting a comic perspective on riches.
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Rockefeller
New York Herald
Radium’s Minute Corpuscles and Enormous Energy
Radium emits extremely fast corpuscles whose energy per milligram equals about 8,500,000 foot tons. The description emphasizes the extraordinary energetic potential of radium’s particles and their minute scale.
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Northwest States
Oregon
Washington Notes
Idaho News
Johnny Bull
Pation
James Pope
New York
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