Washington and Inland Northwest News Highlights
A Tacoma population of 84,910 is reported for 1906 with a ten thousand increase from last year. Other items include fires at Spangle and Sandpoint, deaths in Leavenworth andSpan ele, and political notes on Cushman returning to Tacoma. Idaho notes cover timber sales, beet sugar factories, and accidents with several injuries. Marconi reports wireless interception direction capability.
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Washington
Tacoma
Hastings Industrial Company of
Chicago
Palouse City
Mike Jennings
Spangle
A. L. Bassford
Great Northern
Leavenworth
Henry Dill
Spanele
Francis W. Cushman
Country Schools
J. Anderson
First Bank of
Kiona
Yakima
F. Jackson
Prosser
Grand Army
Davenport
North Yakima
Georgia
Richmond
W. S. Richmond
Spokane
Mead
Oscar Bradshaw
Alma
Conconully
Okanogan
Grand Lodge of Washington
Independent Order of Good Templars
James R. O'Farrell
Orting
Adolph Kirchner
Spokane Aschenbroeder Society
Inland Empire
Charles F. Hubbard
International Voiage
Boston
John Suarez
St. Louis
S. H. Metcalf
Marconi
Lewiston News Affects Local Figures And Projects
Blackfoot women protest editor W Earl Smith after his divorce and remarriage angering locals. Lewiston plans a streetcar line, irrigation for 2000 acres beyond the city, and nearby construction. University of Idaho building bids open with 45000 to 50000 cost. Weather hits 106 degrees.
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Blackfoot
W. Earl Smith
Southern Idaho Mail
Justice of the Peace
W. P. Hurlbut
Lewiston
University of Idaho
Weather Bureau
Main Street
Hitchcock
Caleb Jones
St. Anthony
Minnedoka
Jones
J. H. Lowell
Caldwell
Idaho
Gerard H. Matthes
United States Reclamation Service
Charles Burns
State Intermountain Wagon Road Commission
Mr. Burns
Success Mine
Nine Mile Creek
Coeur d'Alene
Hercules Mine
Michael Sweeney
Charles Sweeny
Andrew Porter
Grangeville
Joe Mitchell
Montana News: McDonnell Sentenced for Illegal Fencing in Sweet Grass
State Senator Charles McDonnell and partner Edward Veesey were sentenced by Judge Wolverton to 24 hours in Lewis and Clark county jail and fines of 250 dollars each for illegal fencing of public lands connected to the sheep business. The piece notes land-claims in the Crow Reservation with low turnout, a million-dollar Montana telecom plan, Livingston tax rates, a pardons board action, and Forsyth's prosperous year.
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Charles McDonnell
Sweet Grass County
Wolverton
United States
Lewis and Clark County
Edward Veesey
Crow Reservation
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Co
Montana
Livingston
Mid-Oregon and Eastern Railway Incorporation Seeks Oregon Route
The Mid-Oregon & Eastern Railway files articles in Salem to build a line from Portland southeast through a Cascade pass to eastern Oregon and to a Snake River point with capital stock of 13 million dollars. A Panama bond issue is planned for Pendleton Bank and 50 thousand dollars in government securities are noted. A Umatilla Wool Growers meeting is set for September 8 to discuss securing range rights within Oregon while Mazamas and other climbers depart Portland for Mount Baker area climbs including Baker and Shuksan.
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Mid-Oregon & Eastern Railway Company
Portland
Cascade Mountains
Oregon
Snake River
Secretary of State
Salem
Ore
Panama
Pendleton Bank
Umatilla Woolgrowers’ Association
Mazamas
Mount Baker
Bellingham
Wash
Mount Shuksan
Panama Canal Commission Pays Laborers in Silver
Report says workers would receive silver instead of gold after a policy shift. Observers note rising mortality among West Indian laborers and rumors that many prefer starvation to spending gold coins they rarely saw.
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Panama Canal Commission
Czar Issues Urase Russia Parliament Dissolved by Emperor Nicholas
Russia ends its first experience with parliamentary government as Emperor Nicholas dissolves the Duma and calls for a new congress on March 5, 1907. The decree imposes extraordinary security in St. Petersburg and restates autocratic authority, delaying elections and risking further unrest.
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Russia
Council of Ministers
St. Petersburg
Senate
Nicholas
Moscow
Last act in the Russian revolution as ukase dissolves parliament
The imperial ukase dissolving parliament ushers in a tense culmination of the Russian revolution. The government faces the people with the army ready, threatening a final clash. The capital is described as an armed camp with soldiers massed for possible repression.
Washington to Inspect State Packing Houses
State dairy and pure food commissioner L Davies announces a statewide packing house inspection at the request of the governor. He plans to begin within days and says prosecutions may follow for violations of the state pure food law after completing investigations and reporting to the governor. He sent 250 samples of jams jellies maple syrup catsup and shredded coconut to state chemist Elton Fulmer for testing with 50 jelly samples yielding 30 percent illegal results.
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Washington
L. Davies
Davies
Elton Fulmer
Pullman
Spokane Market Report Highlights Varied Wholesale Prices
Spokane market data lists wholesale prices for vegetables fruits and staples including Walla Walla cabbage 2.00 per cwt onions 0.25 per dozen and cherries Royal Ann 1.50 per box. Also includes butter eggs flour sugar coffee seed and livestock figures across multiple regions and markets.
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Walla Walla
California
Minnesota
F. C. B. Spokane
Spokane & Inland cuts freight rates to Spokane region
The Spokane & Inland railway expanding freight to Waverly announces lower rates from Palouse towns to Spokane matching the rates from Spokane to surrounding towns. The policy makes two way pricing standard, benefiting small farms along the line as current rates from surrounding towns to Spokane were higher. People push ahead by taking action, not self-praising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane & Inland Railway
Waverly
Palouse
Spokane
Spokane & Inland
Head on collision near Rockingham leaves many dead and injured
A through eastbound passenger train and an extra freight crashed four miles west of Hamlet North Carolina. More than 20 killed and many injured, many victims described as Negro. Telegraph operator failure blamed. Engineer F B Lewis of Hamlet and Fireman Tom Hill killed. Freight train fireman also reported dead. Both trains destroyed and track blocked.
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Florida
F. B. Lewis
Hamlet
Tom Hill
Riots in czar's domain as manifesto spurs mobilization
From St. Petersburg on July 23 liberals fear a mobilizing imperial manifesto. The document urges millions of mujiks to back suppression of the revolution with land promises, while black hundreds are accused of incitement. Quiet daytime, small clashes at night near Narva gate amid rumors of casualties. Parliament members plan to assemble at Viborg and may sail for the gulf of Finland or Sweden if blocked.
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St. Petersburg
Holy Russia
Viborg
Gulf of Finland
Sweden
Spokane Wrestler to Compete in East This Fall
Joe Heinrich, a Spokane youth, will wrestle in the East this fall. An effort will be made to revive fighting in Spokane. Northwest sports interest centers on the international regatta on Kootenay Lake July 27 and 28 with crews from Portland Vancouver and Victoria competing. Louie Long and Johnny Crowe meet in a 20 round bout at Everett. In Denver Dick Hyland defeated Tommy Mowatt after six rounds with Mowatt outclassed.
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Joe Heinrich
Spokane
East
Northwest
Kootenay Lake
Portland
Ore
Vancouver
Victoria
B. C
North Pacific Amateur Association of Oarsmen
North Pacific Coast
Louie Long
Johnny Crowe
Everett
Denver
Col
Dick Hyland
Tommy Mowatt
Mowatt
Wonderland 1906 Travel Guide Highlights Northwest
Wonderland 1906 offers detailed chapters on Puget Sound the Columbia River the Bitterroot Range and Yellowstone with strong claims as the best guide to the region between the Mississippi and Pacific. Send six cents and an address to A. M. Cleland for a copy. Northern Pacific Railway operates three daily trains each direction between St. Paul Minneapolis Duluth and Superior.
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Great Northwest
Puget Sound
Columbia River
Bitterroot Range
Montana
Yellowstone National Park
Mississippi
Pacific
A. M. Cleland
St. Paul
Minn
Northern Pacific Railway
Minneapolis
Duluth
Superior
Great Pacific Northwest
Thaw guardianship bid over possible asylum trial
Friends of Stanford White plan to aid Thaw's mother in moving his trial toward an insane asylum. If Thaw keeps personal counsel against his mother plan, guardianship papers may be sought to prove he cannot care for himself.
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Thaw
Stanford White
Dreyfus Decorated Before Returning to Service
On the same spot of his 1895 degradation Dreyfus appeared Saturday afternoon in uniform as a major and was officially decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor in the midst of assembled troops.
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Dreyfus
Legion of Honor
Byron Douglas company to stage Mr Barnes of New York in Spokane
Archibald Gunther novel Mr Barnes of New York dramatized by the Byron Douglas company opens this week with Mr Douglas as the globe trotter Barnes and Miss Browne as the Corsican vendetta figure. Spokane engagement features 40 players from the Stewart Opera company.
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Mr. Barnes
New York
Columbia
Archibald Gunther
Byron Douglas
Mr. Douglas
Miss Browne
Francis Yale
Edwin Anstruther
Henry McRae
Enid
Barnes
Dramatic Notes on Actors and Plays for Next Season
Marie Cahill will start her season in August. Louis James to perform as Falstaff next season. Haddon Chambers, author of Captain Swift, to write a play for Kyrle Bellew. London production of The Lady Burglar succeeds. Rumor of Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus adapted as Clothes. Frederick De Belleville engaged as leading support for Thomas W. Ross in Popularity.
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Haddon Chambers
Captain Swift
Kyrle Bellew
Carlyle
Frederick de Belleville
Thomas W. Ross
City Assessor Reports Big Loss In Tax Roll
San Francisco assessor Dodge files annual report with Mayor Schmitz. The assessment roll totals 375 million dollars, 70 million over estimated revenue for next year, with a loss of 149 million dollars from last year due to the fire.
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San Francisco
Washington Dodge
Schmitz
Dodge
Elks Detained Overnight In Mountain Excursion Train
Three Elks excursion trains were halted all night in the mountains near Tolland on the Denver and North Western line by a broken drivewheel. Bonfires lit the slopes as the crowd sang and danced, arriving at Denver during the forenoon today in good spirits despite weariness.
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Elks
Tolland
Denver & Northwestern
Derver
Moody Murdered in Wyoming Town
Warner Moody town attorney was shot and killed Saturday night at Sho shone Wyoming. He was the son of the late United States Senator Moody of South Dakota. A homeseeker named Anderson was killed while seeking to aid Moody s slayers. Several known gamblers recently deported are suspected.
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Warner Moody
Shoshone
Wyo
United States
Moody
South Dakota
Anderson
Filipinos Kill Troopers in Leyte Engagement
A constabulary detachment led by Lieutenant Williams fought PuLajanes near Burnen in Leyte. Lieutenant Worswick and 12 privates plus Civilian Scouts were killed, 14 rifles and two revolvers captured, and bodies recovered. Reinforcements were sent as Major Neville orders further troops to the scene.
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Manila
Constabulary
Williams
Buraen
Leyte
Worswick
Neville
Worswich
University Kansas
Costabulary
Burnen
Stolypin Named Premier as Goremykin Is Relieved
In St. Petersburg Emperor appoints M. Stolypin premier and keeps the interior minister. M. Sticfinsky resigns as agriculture minister. Parliament building is guarded by police who admit no one except the president or vice president of the house. An ordinary European railway line equals about 900 strength units.
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Goremykin
St. Petersburg
M. Goremykin
M. Stolypin
Interior
M. Sticfinsky
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Heyburn
Rupert
W. B. Heyburn
Wallace
Sandpoint
George Wheeler
Boise
Mountain Home
Walter Helfrich
Nampa
Montana News
Oregon Notes
CZAR
Spokane Market Report
Northwestern Markets
Ritzville
Club
Bluestem
Woodmen’s Great
Pacific Northwest
British Columbia
Wilbur Camp
Wilbur
Fort Collins
Seattle
C. C. van Orsdall
Women of Woodcraft
Fair Grounds
F. B. Tichenor
Rockingham
N. C
Stroyed
Narva Gate
Father Gapon
Sporting News
Wonderland
Spokane's
Stewart Opera Company
Stewart Company
John Cort
Marie Cahill
Louis James
Falstaff
London
Elk
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