Northwest States Roundup Of Accidents And Deals
The region reports a $3,000,000 timber deal pending between William Howard Land & Lumber of Spokane and Stack-Gibbs Lumber of Spokane, while schools in Shoshone county stay shuttered due to scarlet fever. Other items note a major mining dividend at Wardner, a fatal morphine overdose case, a toddler’s death from swallowed matches, a released murder suspect, and various local incidents across Idaho Oregon and Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Howard Land & Lumber Company
Stack-Gibbs Lumber Company
Spokane
Mace
Murray
Shoshone County
Post Falls
Doust
Rathdrum
Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining & Concentrating Company
Wardner
Lee Phinney
Culde
Steunenberg
Oscar F. Brooks
Grace R. Redman
Lewiston
Dublin
Coeur d’Alene
Coeur d‘Alene City
J. M. Hughes
Pocatello
William Wagner
Friday
Coeur d’Alenes
Wallace Hospital
Hong Guin
Boise
United States
Guin
Hong
Youth in Troy Robbery Sentenced to Five Years
William Heard, 19, of Kalispell was sentenced to Deer Lodge penitentiary for five years for a crime committed in Troy on January 4. He robbed the Woods store and post office at about midnight, taking around $100.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalispell
Mont
Troy
William Heard
Deer Lodge
Heard
Woods
Various Northwest Developments Across States and Sectors
Spokane man Ross Brattain heads to Washington D C for consular exam and a Hangchow posting. Chelan County horticulture plans a January farmers institute with a poultry show. Yakima hosts poultry exhibit with 1500 birds likely. Spokane plans $100000 Seattle elevator investment. Everett jewelers’ C J Hill remains missing. Copper and gold mining grows with Spokane Seattle Montana men exploring. Okanogan county rail service advances. Prosser studies a local weather bureau station. Prosser winter cold reaches five to six below. Eldred of Ellensburg reports 24459 pounds milk 1592 butter 358.61 gross income 185.27 feed cost 43.32 net per cow. Sweeny donates 20000 toward Seattle cathedral. total cost 200000. wives gifts valued at 250000. Chinese boycott risk threatens Centennial and Hammond mills. Aberdeen hosts labor federation close with record profits. Yakima area ships 7000 tons fruit. Whitman county improves in 1905 records. Spokane reservation population shrinks from 3000 to under 600. Bellingham to host next state labor congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross R. Brattain
Spokane
Washington
D. C
United States
Hangchow
China
Chelan County Horticultural Association
Farmers’ Institute
Washington State Poultry Association
North Yakima
Farmers’ Grain and Supply Company
Seatle
C. J. Hill
Everett
Twisp
Seattle
Montana
Okanogan County
H. W. Eldred
Ellensburg
Steunenberg
Idaho
Caldwell
Charles Sweeny
O’dea
Emil Kauten
Aberdeen
State Federation of Labor
Whitman County
Schiff warns of panic without currency reform
Jacob A. Schiff head of Kuhn Loeb & Co warned at a New York Chamber of Commerce speech that a panic could come unless currency reform remedies the lack of elasticity. He opposed Secretary Shaw's relief plan, preferring a currency based on commercial paper, a stance that stirred financial markets and caused a sharp stock exchange drop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob A. Schiff
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
New York Chamber of Commerce
Schiff
Scretary Shaw
Stock Exchange
Cornell professor chosen to greet Chinese commissioners
Professor J W Jenks of Cornell university appointed by the secretary as a representative of the state department to receive in San Francisco the distinguished Chinese commissioners arriving to study American methods for possible adoption to improve Chinese governance and people
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Jenks
Cornell University
Ane
State Department
San Francisco
Battleships Run Aground and Collide Off New York
The battleship squadron led by Rear Admiral Evans ran aground or collided near the west bank lighthouse. Kentucky’s starboard side was badly damaged and ordered to navy yard for repairs. The Maine, Illinois, Alabama, and Kearsarge remained off the harbor until refloated, then proceeded to sea for winter maneuvers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Evans
Kearsarge
Kentucky
West Bank
Alabama
Illinois
Maine
Navy Yard
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Tompkinsville
Hampton Roads
Fat Year for the Farmers in Washington Wheat Harvest of 1905
Washington state wheat farmers enjoyed a record year as 1905 yielded 32,516,810 bushels, nearly matching the 1901 bumper crop and close to 1904 totals. Oats production totaled 8,227,000 bushels with a farm value around $3,373,070, while other crops also posted large outputs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evergreen State
Washington
Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Wood In Command Relieving Corbin In Philippine Commands
War department orders replace General Corbin with General Leonard Wood in the division of the Philippines on February 1. General John F. Weston moves to Luzon command and General Williams heads to the Philippines to command Visayas. Corbin to the north with headquarters at St Louis succeeding Weston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Corbin
Chicago merchant E C Wilson found dead near Colorado Springs
The body of E Crane Wilson of Wilson Brothers Chicago was found on the highway seven miles east of Colorado Springs with a bullet wound. Indications suggest suicide after his gold watch and chain disappeared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado Springs
Col
E. Crane Wilson
Chicago
Wilson Brothers
Fifth Avenue
Congress hotel and annex to rise largest in world
Chicago reports that plans for the Auditorium Annex addition are finished and the new Congress hotel and annex will rival any hotel in size and elegance. The project including land and furnishings costs about 14 million dollars. In a separate item a German soldier is sentenced to eight months for not dropping an apple when ordered during a march at Treves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Congress Hotel
Treves
Orchard at Salt Lake City Ties to Stuenenberg Case
Harry Orchard, suspected in the Stuenenberg assassination, arrived in Salt Lake City before Thanksgiving and stayed at the Cullen hotel with Arthur Dolan. They hunted together while investigators probe if Orchard used fishing tackle linked to the yard bombing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake
Utah
Harry Orchard
Stuenenberg
Cullen Hotel
Arthur Dolan
Cripple Creek
Dolan
Orchard
Thiel
Wiiht Orchard
Slough
Spokane
Nampa
Doath
Independence
Orchard Tol Dolan
January Attractions at Spokane Theater Schedule
The Spokane Theater lists shows for January beginning with Orientals on the 9th and 10th followed by Calve on the 15th, Buster Brown on the 16th and 17th, a high school commencement on the 18th, College Widow on the 19th and 20th, When Johnny Comes Marching Home on the 21st, Bohemians on the 23rd and 24th, and County Chairman on the 30th and 31st.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orientals
Calve
Buster Brown
Johnny
Hom
Bohemians
Theatrical Notes From The Independent Northwest Circuit
C E Alsop notes formation of an independent northwest theater circuit. Metropolitan Opera chorus ends strike with $20 weekly pay and union gains stalled. Raymond Hitchcock finds success in The Galloper while Pauline Hall leaves vaudeville. Patti’s London reception grows cooler. Bernhardt earns over $60 000 in New York. Forbes Robertson sidelined by influenza. Mrs Grundy run ends. Hackett allies with Curzon. Pauline Chase shines in Columbine. Cosima Wagner shows an early Wagner male chorus manuscript to Stock for Weber’s burial rites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwest
C. E. Alsop
Butte
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Gonaud
Faust
Conreid
Raymond Hitchcock
Richard Harding Davis
Pauline Hall
Memory
Patti
London
Sarah Bernhardt
Forbes Robertson
James K. Hackett
Frank Curzon
Pauline Chase
J. M. Barrie
Weber
Germany
England
Grant's Pilot Captain Powers Civil War Hero
Captain Charles Powers, a noted Civil War pilot, aided Union forces at Forts Henry and Donelson and Shiloh. He sank government papers to keep them safe, recovered them, and later earned praise from General Grant. Powers became a successful landowner in Georgia, amassing about 1 650 acres worth tens of thousands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Powers
Charles Powers
Chicago
Forts Henry
Danielson
W. F. Curtis
Pittsburg
St. Louis
Tennessee River
Donnelson and
Henry
Captain Powers
General Pillar
Cincinnati
Shiloh
Grant
Johnsonville
Ohio River
Mississippi
New Orleans
Tennessee
Cumberland Rivers
Richest Negro Farmer in Georgia Bets on Education
The article profiles Cody Bryant, a former slave born in Georgia who built a large farming operation and wealth over 26 years. At 46 he is praised for his success and for donating to common school education in Newton and Jasper counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Cody Bryant
Newton
Jasper
Bryant
Organ Sankey Used Worldwide Since 1870s
Ira D. Sankey's little cabinet organ began public life in Chicago around 1870 after meeting Moody. It traveled to Europe with Moody and Sankey in 1873 where it gained fame as Sankey played Phillips songs on it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ira D. Sankey
Chicago
Dwight L. Moody
Europe
Moody
Sankey
Mr. Sankey
Philip Phillips
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Northwest States
Oregon
Idaho News
Ladd Canyon
Grover Martin
O. N. Preston
Freewater
Pendleton
State
Oregonian
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Astoria
St. Paul
Minn
Eva Toy
Portland
Northwest Fruitgrowers
E. L. Smith
Hood River
Ore
A. J. Mason
Ben Bergunder
Colfax
Fremont Wood
C. A. Hicken-Cooper
View
R. C. Cooley
Bozeman
British Columbia
J. R. Anderson
Victoria
C. A. Towneson
Tacoma
W. S. Offner
Walla Walla
Hays Axtells
Basin
Robert Shadwell
Washington Notes
Battlers
Atlantic
Ters
Wood IS
Command
U. S
Philippines
E. C. Wilson
Colorado
Bell
Teller County
Capt. Powers
Middle
Evangelist
P. P. Bliss
Self
Bowery
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