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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1905
Page
3
A damaged clipping from the Richmond page presents scattered names, dates, and notes about a ring engagement and related events. The readable text is incomplete but hints at a local notice or personal update concerning individuals and a February timeframe.
Fragmentary OCR hints at a missing person case or mental note with garbled lines about a hat saddle blanket and reward. No clear names or dates are readable. context suggests a cryptic communication or page damage.
This piece tours a fire station detailing the alarm process from the moment the box is pulled to the dispatch of engines and the tillerman’s control. It explains the house journal, the man on watch, the electric telegraph bell, hydrant familiarity, and the swift horse drawn response.
An article suggests a musher will lead the rush to north latitude nine degrees as a popular belief in the extreme northwest. It explains the origin of the term musher from dog drivers cry Mush on and notes mushers as prospectors and trailsmen who stampede toward new gold fields during the arctic winter.
The piece notes that while many agree punctuality is essential to business, the King of the Belgians embodies strict timeliness in any journey or official visit, underscoring a royal model of punctual conduct.
A man named Mathias Rohrmann from Phalsbourg Alsace Lorraine was imprisoned for two months after remarks describing the Kaiser as having an ugly face. The report notes crude slang about dress and gender disguise but centers on the court sentence.
Spokane wholesale market prices list staples and fruits with per unit costs. Notable items include potatoes 75 cents cwt onions 1.25 cwt cabbage 1.25 cwt oranges handled by nab vals 3.25 case lemons 6 case choice 5 case pineapples 5.50 doz dried figs 75e 1 box figs in bulk 78c lb cranberries 13 13.80 bbl eating apples 2 to 2.50 box cooking apples 1 to 1.50 beets 1.25 turnips 1 rutabagas 1 sweet potatoes 2.75 2.90 cwt winter pears 1.50 1.75 box eggs eastern 7.75 8.25 case fresh ranch 11 case flour local 4 4.25 bbl creamery butter 30c lb celery 50c dt honey 3.25 3.50 case strained honey 8 9c lb cheese 16 44 18c lb fancy California tomatoes 4 basket cate 1.75 imported Amelia grapes 7.50 bbl Ford dates 1.50 box Golden dates 7 8c lb.
A listing of current market prices for feed commodities including bran, shorts, corn, oats, hay, alfalfa, barley, wheat, and sheep skins, with per ton and per cent weights. Also shows poultry eggs and dressed poultry prices, creamery butter, vegetables, apples, potatoes, cabbage, onions, and farm live stock and dressed meat rates.
A factory fire at the Charles M. Schenk company enamel sign works at 7 to 15 Park street in Chicago killed one fireman, Lieutenant Henry Bassett, and injured several others. Walls collapsed burying crew. 40 women and 13 men were employed, with two reported missing, Margaret Becker and Henry Saute. Loss to building and contents estimated at 250000 dollars.
In Portland Valley wheat quoted at 73c with export options between 70 and 73c for club and wuestem 72 to 73c red 66 to 67c. California sales show club 73c and bluestem 75c. Tacoma unchanged with bluestem 74c. Seattle bluestem 75c club 73c 72c and red 69c.
From Tiflis (Caucasia) a report says 800 Mussulman houses burned and armed Armenians blocked exits and fired on firemen. At least 57 Turkish subjects are known to have died with many refugees in Constantinople. Disorder continues at Batoum as government transport Ismir heads there to evacuate Muslims.
The Shahzanda reports mutineers spread from Manchuria to Tomsk where Cos sacks burned a barracks housing about a thousand mutineers. Fire and massacre followed in Vladivostok as Cos sacks set a house ablaze and many were killed in the streets.
In Mount Carmel Illinois two men died and a third was likely fatally wounded after a passenger coach on the Southern railroad was attacked during a custody escape attempt. Constable James Kingston and one prisoner Isaac Marshall were killed. Edward Marshall the other prisoner was fatally shot.
A granddaughter of Senator William A. Clark of Montana was born this morning in San Mateo to Mr and Mrs Charles W Clark the mother Delia Tobin of San Francisco The senator said he would give the child a dowry of 1 000 000 following his first grandchild birth Volcano eruption reported on the island of Sovail Germany Samos with lava about 800 feet high
An extraordinary accident on the elevated New York Central Hudson River line killed J. W. Knapp of New Rochelle and injured about 40 others. Two eastbound trains left Grand Central within minutes, ran on parallel tracks, then collided as the express struck the day coach following the local. Fire units aided rescuers using ladders against the structure.
In San Francisco on December 20 Robert Fitzsimmons collapsed at the end of the 13th round of his match with Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. After the round he sank in his chair and fell to his chest. Referee Graney declared O'Brien the winner as Fitzsimmons failed to continue.
Bakersfield report states Charles Ehler admitted to the county hospital superintendent that he has information on the Goebel assassination. The disclosure, if proven, could clear Caleb Powers, former Kentucky secretary of state, who is not yet executed for his alleged involvement in the late governor’s murder.
An eyewitness describes severe famine as winter arrives in the northeast provinces with thousands on the brink of starvation. Relief measures will be vigorously pursued and aid from abroad is sought. A separate dispatch from Valdosta Georgia reports a violent incident in Ewing with multiple deaths and injuries following a confrontation at a turpentine still.
Mark Twain was guest of honor at the monthly dinner of the Society of Illustrators in the Aldine association rooms. Andrew Carnegie sat to the right of Dan Beard, president of the society, as toast master.
Directors of the Cleveland Electric Railway voted to raise wages by one cent per hour for more than 2000 motormen and conductors at a recent meeting in Cleveland Ohio.
Columbia University faculty has fully abolished football. the council recommended President Butler to pursue elimination of all intercollegiate sports. Also noted: Herbert H. D. Peirce named as first American minister to Norway. Paul Heyse described as a renowned German novelist, famed in America as well as in the fatherland.
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