Northwest News Bits From Four States Report Diverse Local Events
Sheri Vinon rounds up a horse case in Adams county. Sugar beet saccharine tests advance in the Umatilla valley. Supreme Court May term docket lists 164 cases across Washington and Oregon with a June start. Spokane starch plant plans loom if potato supplies arrive. Shingle mills close for 90 days state wide. Dredging frost damages fruit in eastern Washington. Sunnyside NP line opens. Lincoln County Fair building burns at Davenport. Colville hosts Pioneer picnic. Chelan grain acreage rises with new farmers. Great Northern line in Similkameen spurs farm growth. North Coast Railway project aims for Spokane to Seattle within two years. Lambing under way across Lewistown Judith Basin Meagher counties. Helena resident Dennis Kane buried. smelter death near Humboldt, Arizona. Walter P. Sales nominated for Bozeman public moneys receiver. Great Falls gas franchise win signals progress for Spokane men. Fergus County gold shipments likely exceed 100000. Gold Reef and Kendall contribute ore.
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Sheri Vinon
Garneid
Hayner
Aiulegen
Mad Laken
Usanogan Valley
Supreme Court
Xembart
Kittitas
Yakima
Chelan
Okanogan
Columbia
Lincoln
Walla Walla
Douglas
Adams
Spokane
H. Bearce
Concord
Seattle
Sedonia
Donaldson
Columbia River
Clayton Miller
Washington
Sunnyside
Northern Pacific
Davenport
Lincoln County Fair Association
Stevens County Pioneer Association
Colville
Chelan County
Great Northern
Similkameen Valley
North Coast Railroad Company
Olympia
North Coast Railway Company
Lambing
Lewistown
Judith Basin
Meagher County
Dennis Kane
Helena
Peter Hocking
Butte
Humboldt
Ariz
Senate
Walter P. Sales
Bozeman
Great Falls
Fergus County
Gilt Edge
Kendall
Oregon Items Umatilla County Prohibition Convened
Umatilla county prohibition convention was held last week, with local officials and residents participating in the event to discuss temperance policies and enforcement in the region.
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Umatilla County
Butte Arbour Day and Montana Mining Updates
Arbor day parade ebullient in Butte. Honeycomb mines in Marysville sold for over 50000 to eastern syndicate. Saltese boom rumors. Judge Hunt delays Great Falls courts May 7 to May 14. J M Kain of Livingston discharged from bankruptcy. J G Morony named president of First National Bank of Great Falls. Five barns burned at Stanford dairy line owner C Doherty. five horses cremated, others saved. Plains flour mill now grinding. Billings horsemen plan May 13 race meet at fair grounds to aid San Francisco earthquake victims. Pesthouse in South Billings burned by city order.
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Saltese
Hunt
Great Falls
Jank M. Kain
Livingston
J. G. Morony
First National Bank of
C. Doherty
Lewiston
Stanford
Butte
MacGinness
New Plains
Horsemen of
Billings
Fair Grounds
San Francisco
South Billings
Idaho Supreme Court Affirms Rights in Flooded Coeur d Alene Farms
Idaho Supreme Court rules landowners along the Coeur d Alene river may sue when floods and grass loss are caused by poisonous mine refuse from the Coeur d Alenes. District court at Moscow adjourns to May 14 with juries to report May 28. Minor health and civic updates include Judge Steel recovering from grip and a new double cylinder chemical fire engine arriving in Grangeville.
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Supreme Court of Idaho
Coeur d’Alene
Idaho
Coeur d’Alenes
Mountain Bell
Lakeview
Pen d‘Oreille
Coeur d'Alene
Moscow
Judge Steel
Lewiston
Grangeville
D. J. Lambert
la Grande
Ore
Council
Richardson Sawmill Company
George A. Manning
Department of Idaho
Grand Army of the Republic
Payette
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company
Snake River
Huntington
McCabe & Peterson
Riparia-Lewiston
Hunter Mining Company
Mullan
Washington Water Power Company
Spokane
Orchard
Milan Miller
Oscar Lafavor
Burke
Shoshone County
Nordhausen Bans Long Dress Trains in Public Streets
Nordhausen city council passes ordinance prohibiting women from dragging dress trains in streets as a health measure to prevent dust tainting the air. Sanitation fervor spreading, likely to prompt similar rules in other German cities.
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Nordhausen
Prussian
Saxony
Germany
Commission to Study Second Class Mail Matter Proposed
Postmaster General Cortelyou urged Congress to appoint a commission to review second class mail laws. The panel would determine necessary modifications and report by December 10, 1906. The source also contains unrelated dialogue about a pianist and Alice Roosevelt's trousseau.
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Cortelyou
Congress
Elections in France See Mixed Results in Sunday Ballot
Paris reports show the government gaining 18 seats with 188 won to 112 for opposition and 111 needing second ballots. Military and police guarded polling due to strikes and property inventories while leaders Briand Millerand Lockroy Millevoys and Bienaimé were greeted warmly. Several officials were re elected and royalist plotters were provisionally freed.
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Paris
Chamber
M. Briand
Millerand
Lockroy
Millevoys
Admiral Bienaime
Marcell Habert
League of Patriots
M. Doumar
Chamber of Deputies
Clementel
Roscian Opera Company to Stage Season at Spokane Theater
Spokane theaters announce the Roscian Opera company will present a summer season at the Spokane theater and Palm Garden beginning Tuesday May 8. Repeats of classic works such as The Mikado El Capitan Gypsy Baron Martha The Bohemian Girl Chimes of Normandy Black Hussar and Gi roffa drew interest as revivals unseen in Spokane.
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el Capitan
Martha
Normandy
Black Hussar
The Eternal City at Columbia Theatre by Byron Douglas Co
Hall Caine drama The Eternal City based on uprisings in Rome opens Monday at the Columbia theater. David Rossi leads the people against a taxed government while Baron Bonnelli plots his death. Donna Roma Colonna aids Rossi. Matinee and evening performances with daily program changes. prices range from 15c to $1.00 with box office 10 am to 10 pm.
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Hall Caine
Columbia Theater
Byron Douglas
Rome
David Rossi
Chamber of Deputies
Baron Bonnelli
Donna Roma Colonna
Metropolitan Opera Chorus Stranded in New York
Viola Allen engaged Fuller Mellish for next season while Mellish currently works with Richard Mansfield this season. The New York Metropolitan Opera company chorus of about 165 members is reported stranded in New York. Vesta Tilley plans an American tour soon.
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Viola Allen
Fuller Mellish
Mr. Mellish
Richard Mansfield
New York Metropolitan Opera Company
New York
Vesta Tilley
Roosevelt Press Conference on Hepburn Bill Rate Proposals
President Roosevelt met with thirty six Washington correspondents to discuss railroad rate legislation. He favored the Hepburn bill as reported but supported explicit court review of Interstate Commerce Commission decisions through the Allison amendment. He noted support for the Long amendment was evenly balanced and not worth a fight.
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Corps of Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Senator Bailey
Texas
Senator Long
Kansas
Senate
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Interstate Commerce Commission
Allison
Iowa
Friends
Long
Mining Notes From Northwest Copper and Mining Regions
Reports detail Snow storm leaching plant near Mullan Idaho ready in 30 days to process low grade ore. Great Western mine near Burke Idaho installs drill compressor and motor with power line to Washington Water Power. Kendall mine near Lewiston Montana reports new ore body at 600 foot level worth 20 dollars per ton, expected to raise property value by 25 percent. Klondike railroad concession granted from Dawson City with 30 miles active in six months. Lost Cabin claim near Roselake Idaho optimistic about wealth. Judge Lynn names George P Cragin receiver for Great Western Coal Company in Tenino Washington after debt claims. Mines in Rossland British Columbia locate ore via diamond drills. Jumbol and Whitebear plan extended drill work.
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Mullan
Idaho
Ingersoll
Great Western Mining Company
Burke
Washington Water
Kendall
Lewiston
Mont
Railway Commission of Canada
Klondike
Dawson City
Lost Cabin
Roselake
B. W. Dixson
William Mettler
Lynn
Thurston County
Washington
George P. Cragin
Great Western Coal Company
Tenino
The Rich Mr Hoggenheimer and other stage notes
Theatrical notes report Sam Bernard's play The Rich Mr Hoggenheimer by Edgar Smith receiving attention. Mrs Fiske starred in New York in a new one act by John Luther Long titled Dolce. Mrs Patrick Campbell appeared in England in a foreign adaptation The Whirlwind. Annie Russel plans a brief tour in Friend Hannah.
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Sam Bernard
Edgar Smith
French Colliery Disaster At Courrieres Claims 1200 Lives
Immense mine explosion in the Courrieres district of Pas-de-Calais shocks France. Rescue work continues as 1,200 miners are entombed. fourteen survivors emerge after twenty days, having subsisted on hay and a morsel of food in an underground stable. Public order tightens with bars and cafes closed and military control imposed.
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France
Courrieres
Pas-de-Calais
Keep a Family Record and Prove Identity in Court
The article explains how proving personal identity in court is difficult without living relatives and personal knowledge. It cites A T Stewart’s estate cases, birth and marriage certificates, and family Bibles as corroboration, noting handwriting as helpful evidence and stressing the value of keeping detailed family records. It also highlights Roman antiquities debates on brick origins and early structures built from tiles and legacy materials.
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New York
John Smith
Robert
Mary Smith
Albany
Bureau of Vital Statistics
John
Church
A. T. Stewart
Mrs. Stewart
Ireland
Remains of Ancient Structures Found in Forum Excavation
In ongoing digs at the Imperial Tribune site in the Forum more ancient structures are uncovered revealing new rooms and architectural details. Archaeologists from the temple complex city museum say the discoveries shed light on construction methods and daily activity within the forum.
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Forum
Will of Ice? Parson’s Plunge Yields Strange Ice Will
On a Connecticut dam a preacher fell through ice and clung to the hole. Unable to swim, he scratched a last will on the ice before perishing. The next day his frozen body was found with the handwritten will, making his wife the sole heir.
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Connecticut
One Thing that Saved Him
A humorous sketch contrasts Finnegan and Cassidy with a joke about a family curse and baldness before opportunity. It includes quips about Mrs. Green and a bee in her bonnet, ending with a line on house party etiquette.
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Casey
Finnegan
Cassidy
Finnegans
Philadelphia Press
Baltimore American
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