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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1905
Page
7
Prosser contractors Rich and Harris secure a 400 foot tunneling contract for the Alaska Central railroad. Work to begin this winter as part of a broader regional project across Washington Idaho Oregon and Montana.
Sheriff Ed Doust and two deputies seized five slot machines a roulette wheel and three blackjack tables during a raid on Bonners Ferry gambling houses. He ordered all inmates to leave town as part of the disorderly house sweep in Kootenai county.
Rev. D B Price principal of Stevensville training school returns from a southern tour to promote his school. The story also notes a fraudulent mail scheme by Agents' Supply Co of Butte and other local incidents that passed without major damage.
The secretary of the interior orders withdrawal of 160000 acres in the La Grande land district for the Uma tilla irrigation project. A Portland fire destroyed the Stateroom Inn near the Lewis and Clark exposition killing two men, with Thomas Sorenson of Notch Hill B C identified. The other victim is believed from the same place. Weston normal school closure harms local business, A C Ruby to exhibit horses at the Lewis and Clark exposition in September. Weston roller mills undergo thorough overhaul. Sunday closing order ignored by saloons at Weston. Petroleum discoveries alarm eastern Multnomah and Clackamas counties near Lents. Ether first used in surgery in 1846.
Telegraph dispatch reports Japanese forces pushing into northern Korea while Russians retreating abandon advance works and destroy bridges. Chinese bands crushed. Russian defenses near the Amur and Siberian coast receive convoy support as troops surge toward Tumen.
C L Hollister of Springfield Mass set a world best 1 22 4 5 for three quarters of a mile at Salt Palace saucer track beating Walter Bardgett of Buffalo by 33 5 seconds. Goss and Miss Robertson win Pacific Northwest mixed doubles tennis in Tacoma Olympia. State college athletic field gets major upgrade as plans aim for premier Northwest facility.
Apostle Dowie decrees every couple in Zion City must have a baby each year and forbidden courtship kissing or hugging. The order aims to raise Zionist birth rates and ties family size to years of marriage while expressing approval of President Roosevelt and opposition to race death by own action. Members say they will obey.
In Spokane on Aug 21 an unidentified man about 35 was shot at the Amal bar on Main Avenue between Stevens and Washington. The death appears accidental per witness testimony. A letter dated Spokane June 23 read My Dear Frank signed Maggie with a postscript How is the baby. The body lacked identifiers beyond clothing described as workingmen attire and a gray slouch hat.
The government printing office released the Legislative Register of the United States compiled by Robert Brent. The volume covers a history of all presidents and their cabinets and includes many incidents tied to their access to office, along with service records of executive department heads.
Three of a crowd of 50 were seriously injured when a crush occurred on a narrow platform between two trains at the Panhandle railroad station in McDonald Pennsylvania. Several others suffered shock from the panic and crash.
Francisco Tamagno, a ten or more years old resident, is dying at his home in Varez, Milan, with his condition described as critical. Local doctors report the prognosis as grave and imminent.
Braden formerly with American Smelting & Refining in Spokane is named one of three western committeemen for American Smelting Securities Co. He will join his family in Helena and move to San Francisco to settle there, continuing as a key figure in the Pacific coast branch.
Mexico City reports only four yellow fever cases in the republic all in Vera Cruz and isolated. No danger of wider spread is believed.
The article explains that under the customs law a man who receives diamonds with an option to buy any or all remains the owner of the gems for purposes of ownership and controls.
News arrives from Boston of the death of Orest Bimboni composer and conductor in Florence Italy. He directed a grand opera school in Boston. The late Sir D M Petiti of Bombay founded cotton mills in India and gave 2 500 000 to benevolent projects and was created a baron, an honor shared by only one other native.
An article outlines a $30 million revolving irrigation fund growing from Western land sales and settlers’ repayments, with 50,000 acres irrigated and plans to reach $100 million. It praises home building under federal guidance, notes major projects across Nevada, Arizona, California, and more, and discusses timber policy shifts under Roosevelt to favor stumpage sales for future forests and irrigation financing.
A compiled schedule lists upcoming events across the Northwest and adjacent states. Includes firemen, religious, fraternal, and fair gatherings in Lewiston Helena Moscow Spokane Wenatchee Boise Bozeman Roseburg Blackfoot Portland and surrounding areas with dates from August through October.
A piece notes that women buying simple shirt waists priced 50 to 85 dollars may seek storage, highlighting affordable shirt waist boxes costing 35 to 50 dollars. Boxes are cabinets with drawers, some covered in cretonne others in brocade, reflecting taste and forethought. It then adds two quirky lines from Town Topics about marriage and a woman’s speech patterns.
Spokane markets list fruit vegetables grains and live stock prices with per cwt box and crate figures. Also notes wheat prices at Portland and Tacoma and Minneapolis futures, plus reports on Edmond S Meany visiting reservations, MacDonald donation proposal, Formosa coolie trade, and a Heidelberg railway station project.
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