Northwest states news roundup from Spokane to Boise
A survey of regional items notes Memorial Day observances, Colton market day plans, Spokane park work, Harrington electric plant, a Tacoma murder appeal dismissed, and a Bellingham Spokane line postponement. Other reports include Lake Chelan’s stature, Whitman county events, Elberton picnic, a Spokane suicide, and new Great Northern staff appointments.
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Colton
Spokane
Harrington
Supreme Court
Frank Pasquale
Tacoma
Bellingham
Lake Chelan
Washington
Whitman County
Herman Swartz
Keystone
North Howard Street
Rossland
A. I. Goodell
le Roi
Northport
John O'Brien
Olympia
Harry M. Adams
Great Northern
Seattle
J. C. Eden
North Yakima
Yakima
Noah Culleher
McNeff Bros
Justice Taggard
Alena Lillie
Spokane Falls & Northern
Walla Walla
Fort Walla Walla
Idaho News Briefs Touch on Local Projects and Weather
Wardner and Kellogg unite for a Fourth of July celebration. Rain boosts Camas prairie prospects. Kootenai County approves Spokane river bridge contracts at Post Falls. Troy Bank becomes state bank under new law. Idaho Experiment Station Bulletin 48 discusses calf raising from separator milk. Gapie demands 12,000 for logs cut on Boise area streams. suit to follow. U.S. government sues Frank Ramsey over public funds. A cloudburst causes a flood in Cottonwood gulch above Boise.
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Main
Heela Mining Company
Heela
Burke
Weiser
Commercial Club
Portland
Idaho
Pocatello
Boise
Idaho Falls
Reynolds
Kemper
Boise Federal
H. A. Riddenbaugh
Uncle Sam
Riddenbaugh
Wardner and
Kellogg
Camas Prairie
Kootenai County
Spokane River
Post Falls
Bank of Troy
Idaho Experiment Station
H. T. French
EK. E. Gapie
General Land Office
Barber Lumber Company
Cottonwood Creek
Frank G. Ramsey
Ramsey
Cottonwood Gulch
Montana Notes Outcomes in Butte Salt Lake Bout and Irrigation
Sil ver Bow Athletic club reports Jimmy Gardner changing plans to fight Buddy Ryan on Miners' Union day and instead meet Jack O Keefe of Chicago in Salt Lake on June 13. Miles Fuller faces July 24 execution for murder. Harlem irrigation group plans a 150 mile series of suits to determine water rights priority. Bearmouth gains notoriety as trains are robbed. interior secretary preserves thousands of acres as school land, classifying mineral value over agriculture and upholding state ownership despite mineral potential.
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Silver Bow Athletic Club
Jimmy Gardner
Buddy Ryan
Butte
Jack O'Keefe
Chicago
Salt Lake
Miles Fuller
Donlan
Henry J. Gallahan
Fuller
Harlem
Milk River
Chinook
Glasgow
Bearmouth
Independence
James
Secretary of the Interior
McGinty Held for Whipping Post Punishment
Oregon report: Charles F. McGinty, a self confessed die beater, is held to the grand jury by Judge Hogue for punishment at the whipping post. Also notes frost damage to fruit, alfalfa prospects, ship news, and Lewis and Clark fair parade details.
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Charles F. McGinty
Hogue
Portland
Pendleton
George W. Elder
Goble
Ore
John Malcolm Graham
A. A. Lindsley
Washington
H. L. McKinney
Echo
Wyoming
Chicago
Umatilla
E. Z. Steever
Northwest
Sixth
Morrison Streets
U. S
Global Week in Review Highlights Diverse 1904 Events
A roundup touches on Bank of Barberton failure public opinion in Philadelphia and a Spokane suicide. It notes Captain Reynolds death in Florence, Geronimo racing for a purse, Jewis tensions in Lodz, Kinjiro Hirossawa's San Francisco visit, and Norway's consular law dispute. Also reports Oktober frost in Germany, trolley collision near Baltimore, Chilean cruiser sinking rumors, Pike's Peak cog railroad, Vesta Tilley earnings, usury cases in Kansas City, and British Columbia mineral output rise.
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First National Bank
Barberton
Ohio
Philadelphia
W. J. Kline
Spokane
Waterville
B. F. Reynolds
Omaha Water Works
Florence
Lawton
Okla
Geronimo
Fair Grounds
Council of Ministers
Norway
Stockholm
Sweden
W. W. Thomas, Jr
Alton B. Parker
Illinois State Bar Association
Chicago
Parker
Nat Crump
Clay Grubb
Salisbury
N. C
Old Fort
Higgins
New York
New York City
Germany
Moselle
Vienna
Wm. Stemler
Westport
Baltimore
B. A. Worthington
Harriman Lines
Wabash, Pittsburg
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Presidente Pinto
Gulf of Ancud
Chiloe
Chile
Whiteside
Pike’s Peak
Vesta Tilley
Frances B. Johnson
D. D. Drake
Kansas City
British Columbia
Richard McBride
Vesuvius Shows Renewed Activity Near Naples
Mount Vesuvius displays renewed activity with explosions heard ten miles away and lava stones flung about a thousand feet above the crater. The nightly display is described as magnificent. A separate note mentions an inscription over a Poona baker’s shop praising an English loafer to His Excellency.
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Naples
Vesuvius
Mountstuart Grant-Duff
Poona
India
War in Manchuria Yields No Clear Decisive Outcome
The week of Manchurian fighting produced limited results with minor engagements and no decisive victory for either side. Japanese forces under Oyama pressed on multiple fronts while Russian detachments and cavalry under Rennenkampf conducted reconnaissance with losses, as both sides paused awaiting a sea battle to determine strategic mastery.
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Manchuria
Oyama
Mukden
Linovitch
Liaoyang
Vladivostock
Rennenkampf
Japan
Kawamura
Millionaire Monarchs and Their Vast Fortunes
The list details rulers from around the world with enormous fortunes. Names include Nicholas II of Russia Abdul Hamid II of Turkey Leopold II of Belgium Edward VII of Britain and others. Amounts range from one to five billion dollars, highlighting wealth across empires.
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Abdul Hamid II
Turkey
Leopold II
Tsan‘ien Kuang-su
China
Menelik II
Emperor-Negus
Abyssinia
Mulai-Abd-el-Aziz
Morocco
Wilhelm II
Kaiser
German Empire
Edward VII
Great Britain
Matsuhito
Mikado
Japan
Russia’s Long History of Strategic Retreats in War
The text argues Russia is famed for retreating in many conflicts from the Orient to Europe. It cites Napoleon and Manchuria as examples and claims this retreat policy has cost hundreds of thousands of Russian lives across numerous wars.
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Manchuria
Orient
Europe
Asia
Robbery Targets Reform Leader Ellen Lease in New York
Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease, noted lecturer and populist reform advocate, was robbed in her New York apartment. A gunman held a revolver at her temple while another intruder searched the premises.
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Mary Ellen Lease
New York
Father Sues Son Over Million Dollar Bond Dispute
Jeremiah Fitzpatrick of Brooklyn an ex large glass manufacturer sues his son James and James's wife for restitution of over 1,000,000 dollars in bonds securities and fealty alleging they wrongfully took the assets.
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Jeremiah Fitzpatrick
Brooklyn
New York
Pennsylvania
James
Rothschild Heir and Bank of France Governor Dies
Paris reports Baron Alphonse de Rothschild head of the French Rothschild bank and governor of the Bank of France died recently from acute bronchitis aggravated by gout.
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Paris
Alphonse de Rothschild
Rothschild
Bank of France
Russians Suffer Heavy Losses in Korean Strait Battle
Reports from Tokio and Shanghai confirm a major naval clash between Russian Admiral Rojestvensky and Japanese forces in the strait of Korea. Twelve warships sunk or captured, two transports and two destroyers lost, Borodino and Orel among ships reported sunk. Japanese claim victory. Russian fleet dispersed and in flight.
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Tokio
Rojestvensky
Morning Post
Shanghai
Borodino
Siail
Oriental
Far East
Associated Press
Strait of Korea
Nagasaki
State Department
Washington
Korean Strait
Orel
Tsingtao
Shantung Peninsula
Oki
Sea of Japan
Japan
Tsingtau
Militon J Palmer Dead at 81 in Chicago Residence
Milton J. Palmer former dry goods partner of Potter Palmer dies at 81 in Chicago. After the great fire he focused on real estate management. His passing ends a long era in local business.
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Milton J. Palmer
Chicago
Potter Palmer
Council
Russian Empire
Passport Commission
Peking
Tientsin
Italy
Amejiljo
Brooklyn Patient Defies Odds Amid Broken Neck Fight Ends
A 22 year old patient named O'Brien survived ten months after a fall and spinal injuries. He lay in a Brooklyn hospital while doctors from across the country attended him. Though initially given days to live, he fought on until death.
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Brooklyn
O'Brien
O’brien
Campania Links Two Continents by Wireless During Voyage
New York reports the steamer Campania arrived from Europe saying she communicated by wireless telegraphy with land throughout the voyage. In mid ocean she was in touch with both America and Europe at the same time, a feat never before accomplished.
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New York
Europe
America
Washington bankers form secret panel to curb forged checks
The Washington State Bankers Association operates a nine member secret committee to prevent forgery and raised checks. They pursue convictions, aid law enforcement, and rally voluntary bank funding to support prosecutions, aiming to wipe out check fraud in the state.
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Washington State Bankers’ Association
National Bankers’ Association
Seattle
Secretary Hay to Rest in Paris After Treatments
Secretary Hay completes baths at Bad Nauheim and will meet Mrs. Hay in Paris. Professor Groedel says the baths helped but urges months of rest away from official duties. He plans to stay at his country home until autumn, declining visits from Emperor William and King Edward.
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Paris
Bad Nauheim
Hay
Mrs. Hay
Professor Groedel
Mr. Hay
William
Wiesbaden
Edward
London
Leopold
Belgium
Ninth furnace for Granby mine to raise output
Jay P. Graves manager of the Granby company says a new shaft costing about 100000 will be constructed at once on the Victoria in the Granby group of copper gold mines at Phoenix B C. The three compartment shaft will raise ore from the 400 foot level to surface and be equipped with a crusher handling 1500 tons in 10 hours. It will be the main working shaft enabling the mine to produce 4000 to 5000 tons daily and support expansion of smelter capacity with seventh and eighth furnaces at 2700 tons daily by July 1. A ninth furnace may be installed this year.
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Jay P. Graves
Granby Company
Victoria
Granby
Phoenix
B. C
Japanese Planed Colonization in Texas by Japanese Farmer
A report to the Department of Commerce and Labor cites a Japanese agriculturist who visited the United States and promises colonization in Texas. Fred D. Fisher, American consul at Tamshui, cites Japanese sources stating 10,000 farmers will be recruited in Japan and 9800 acres will be cultivated in Texas as the first step.
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Texas
United States
Department of Commence and Labor
Fred D. Fisher
Tamshui
Formosa
Japan
Death by suicide of Deadwood official in Utah noted
Roger Sullivan once city marshal and mayor of Deadwood South Dakota killed himself at Park City Utah by slashing his throat. He left a note stating he wished to meet ex Governor Peabody of Colorado before his act but failed.
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Peabody
Roger Sullivan
Deadwood
Ls. D
Park City
Utah
Colorado
Conger to Take Post as Ambassador to Mexico
United States Minister Conger, fresh from China, will depart immediately for Mexico City to assume duties as ambassador to Mexico.
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Conger
Mexico
United States
China
Mexico City
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Chulahornkorn
Siam
Victor Emmanuel III
Alfonso XIII
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Austria-Hungary
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