Northwest States News Roundup Bright Outlook in 1904
Washington notes report Governor Mead to deliver Memorial Day address at Olympia and Pioneers association meeting in Seattle. Puget Sound exports to April set a record at 4.70 million dollars while Tacoma smelter completes tallest concrete chimney. Walla Walla parade drew 5 thousand and 60 high grade horses. Population estimates place Washington at 847,000 and Seattle at 154,000.
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Washington News
Mead
Olympia
Pioneers’ Association of the
State of Washington
Seattle
Puget Sound
Tacoma
Walla Walla
Statistical Department
Secretary of State
Western Washington Hospital For
Western Washington Hospital For the Insane
Board of Control
Columbia Irrigation Company
Walla Walla River
Foresters of America
Spokane
Grand Court
Library Committee
North Yakima
Andrew Carnegie
Frater
John Thomsen
Martin Mortenson
Main Avenue
William Crane
Kleinberg Bros
Kittitas Valley
Henry Lutro
Ellensburg
Boise Chamber Names W T Booth New President
Idaho Squirbs reports W T Booth elected president of the Boise chamber of commerce. The Caldwell flourmill was destroyed by fire on Saturday, with losses estimated around unspecified amount.
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W. T. Booth
Chamber of Commerce
Boise
Caldwell
Montana Notes on potato shipment and regional plans
A carload of Minnesota potatoes is sent to a Hollanders colony on Burton beach in Teton county for planting. Anaconda plans a large Fourth of July celebration with invites to Butte and nearby cities. Senator Clark of Montana bought an entire bronze foundry in New York after being unable to rapidly secure work from it.
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Minnesota
Burton Beach
Teton County
Anaconda
Butte
Senator Clark
Montana
New York
Sofety
Albert Nordstrom
Montana Central
Sanders Street
Helena
Carbon County
Bear Creek
Bridger
Northern Pacific
Fairbanks
Portland
Roosevelt
Train wreckers wreck Santa Fe passenger train near Emporia
Emporia Kansas May 15 Santa Fe passenger train No 14 was ditched by wreckers a mile east of town at 2 30 this morning Six passengers were injured and two will probably die The injured include James Euger J O Rice Nate Hendricks J L Cooper E A Taylor and F A Grover The wreck was caused by removing spikes and fishplates on two rails on a curve This is the fourth such attempt in four months with no crew to the wreckers Explorers found a track wrench and claw bar nearby
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Sound
Japan
Tacoma
B. F. Onstor
Mae Onster
Colfax
H. Arao
Spokane
Walla Walla
Rees
Sedro- Woolley
St. John Lodge No. 9
A. M
Seattle
John Webster
Port Madison
Washington State College
S. S. Foote
Clearwater
Coeur d'Alene
William Bynon
Capital News Printing Company
S. A. Sutton
Charles Hall
Kansas
W. F. Kettenbach
Dr. Boston
Southwick
Civic Improvement Committee
Woman’s Columbian Club of
Boise
L. F. Williams
Lewiston
F. C. Bradley
Portland
Williams
Nez Perce
Idaho
Oregon
U. S
C. J. Reed
Henry
F. A. Smith
Adams
Eliza Blaine
Blaine
Oregon Spectator
Greenhorn
Fred Fontaine
Canyon City
James Foss
Hood River
Frank Ries
Lewis and Clark Corporation
Oregon State
Lewis and Clark Commission
State Commission
Fair Company
United States
William B. Gilzert
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
de Haven
United States District Court
Bellinger
Emporia
Kan
Santa Fe
James Euger
Leavenworth
J. O. Rice
Topeka Hospital
Shawhee
Okla
Nate Hendricks
Roswell
J. L. Cooper
Spickards
Farmer
E. A. Taylor
Kansas City
F. A. Grover
Topeka
Outlaw Survives Siege After Melinite Charge Blasts Wall
In Usseau France a heavily armed outlaw held a village house during a siege. A lieutenant of engineers used melinite to blow half the building, driving gendarmes back before the fugitive escaped. Wounded four gendarmes during the stand. The crowd watched as the prisoner, a former gamekeeper, appeared at the scene later.
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Paris
Usseau
Department of Deux Sevres
Cave life drives 5000 dugouts amid new country surge
Reports from towns and new country say five thousand caves are being dug. Hinton public notice describes a sentry in the bell tower with shotgun for dangerous cloud conditions and storms. Lawton notes an estimated rate of activity.
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Hinton
Okla
Lawton
Snyder Dead Rises to 117 in Oklahoma Tornado Toll
Snyder Oklahoma reports four more tornado deaths Sunday raising the total to 117. Names cited include Miss Mize Mr Paulson John McCart and Miss Busser with many injured in critical condition and several still missing. A pocketbook containing 32 dollars found ten miles from Snyder belonged to Mrs James killed in the storm.
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Snyder
Okla
Miss Mize
Mr. Paulson
John McCart
Central Washington forms a new baseball league amid towns listed
The proposed league includes Prosser, Pasco, Walla Walla and North Yakima. Other items note boxing veteran James J. Jeffries retiring due to malaria and rheumatism, with his manager Billy Delaney also stepping away.
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Central Washington
Prosser
Pasco
Walla Walla
North Yakima
John L. Sullivan
Spokane
Mitchell
Yale
Columbia
Lake Whitney
Two Feathers
McMillan
Jack O'Neil
Jack Curran
Missoula
O'Neil
Curran
Standings of the Clubs and Mixed 1904 Trade Note
Rochester Union and Advertiser comments on pugilists in prize rings and baseball. A 1904 trade tally shows Mexico importing 137 locomotives and 23 308 tons of steel rails from the United States in eleven months, up from 1903. A London court witness says she earned by lending silk skirts hats and feathers to workers for holidays.
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Mexico
United States
London
Russians Replenish Kamranh Bay During 1905 Siamese Sea Movements
Japanese officials cite sources showing Russian ships left Kamranh Bay on April 22 but returned with 15 transports and a cruiser on April 23. By April 26 most warships sailed, leaving four converted cruisers and a torpedo boat destroyer that took coal and provisions. Saigon became a hub for Russian supply convoys through May with dozens of vessels involved.
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Tokio
Rojestvensky
Indo- China
Associated Press
France
Kamranh Bay
Rese
Loosek
Providence
Honkohe
Stettin
de Jonquieres
Hankode
Assivy
Far East
Saigon
Bogus Queen Vanishes After Defrauding Boston Italians
A Boston woman posing as Charlotta wife of Maximilian and sister of Francis Joseph fled the city after taking about $40 000 from Italian residents. She claimed to be the rightful Austrian throne claimant, promising duchies and ministerial rank to supporters. Over 100 locals are pursuing her as suspicions grew and she left the throne room revealed her departure.
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Boston
Charlotta
Maximilian
Mexico
Francis Joseph
Austria
The
Herald
North End
Brussels
Illinois Governor Bans Wage Assignments In Anti Loan Shark Bill
Governor Deneen signs a drastic measure restricting wage and salary assignments. Only assignments acknowledged before a justice of the peace and served to the debtor are valid, with joint spousal acknowledgment required for married workers. Usury tainted loans void the assignment, and post six month earned wages cannot be assigned. Firms facing improper wage claims may seek a perpetual injunction from a court of equity.
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Deneen
Illinois
Springfield
Ill
Court of Equity
Irrigation Funds Spotlighted For Washington Oregon Losses
Public interest grows as water projects in Washington Oregon and surrounding states are highlighted. The irrigation fund exceeds 27 million dollars with much of it unspent in these states while eastern Washington shows 1.8 million acres of irrigable land and major schemes such as the Big Bang project and Yakima headwaters plan could reclaim hundreds of thousands of acres.
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Washington
Oregon
North Dakota
of Washington
Yakima River
Washtucnacoulee
Columbia
Priest Rapids
Okanogan Country
Kittitas
Nan Patterson Returns Home After Freedom
Nan Patterson arrived in Washington with her father and Mr and Mrs J Morgan Smith and went straight to the Patterson home at Columbia Heights. She ran to greet relatives, hugged them, and told her mother she was home. Her father said no engagements would be considered soon and she would rest at home before deciding on the future.
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Nan Patterson
J. Morgan Smith
Washington
Patterson
Columbia Heights
Nan
Washington important post Baron Rosen as Russian ambassador
Baron Rosen’s appointment to succeed Count Cassini as Russian ambassador in Washington has not yet been gazetted. Russian press notes the Washington post as highly difficult and crucial, with America now occupying a leading role in world affairs and Europe and the near east urged to heed its voice.
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St. Petersburg
Baron Rosen
Count Cassini
Washington
Bourse Gazette
America
Europe
Far East
Near East
Strike Ends as Puerto Rico Laborers Win Pay Increase
Washington reports the 14,000 agricultural workers in Puerto Rico concluded a strike with a 30 percent wage rise and a nine hour workday. Botanists note fade resistant immortelles in the Compositae and Luther Burbank adds to fade less flowers. Tsarskoe Palace rooms feature lapis lazuli ebony inlay and walls of amber and beaten gold.
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Porto Rico
Washington
Luther Burbank
Tsarskoe
Crat’ Palace
St. Petersburg
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