Northwest States News Roundup From the Pacific Northwest
Starbuck votes to incorporate as a fourth class town. Washington crop outlook tallies thirty million bushels. Lincoln county prospering for farmers and Sunnyside teachers include two men. Remains of Madden found near Coeur d Alene. unknown body found in Spokane river. Fed building at Seattle progressing toward completion in about two years. Major Luhn relieved from Gonzaga as instructor. Pension rolls show 9 765 Washington residents paid out over 1.28 million dollars. Seattle safe robbed of 328 dollars and a theater safe left intact. Jute mill bids 10 000 dollars higher than expected. A negro shot on North Yakima freight. James Hamilton missing in Seattle. suspected suicide. Central theater safe robbed by inside knowledge. Wheat pool forming among Central Washington farmers to push price. Kendrick grain influx sets record. Lewiston fair in October. Various county valuations and tax figures across Idaho and Montana. Notable deaths in Montana and Washington. new rural routes for Stevensville and Corvallis. Miles City hosts a large monthly horse sale.
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Starbuck
Arrasmith
Washington
Lincoln County
Waitsburg
Sunnyside
Thomas Madden
Great Northern
Wenatchee
Spokane
N. O. Baldwin
Jacob Ledgerwood
Pomeroy
Federal
Seattle
Gerhard L. Luhn
United States Army
Gonzaga College
Commissioner of Pensions
State of Washington
Andrew Jackson
Medical Lake
Fennan Lake
Coeur d’Alene City
Government Weather Bureau
Bellingham
Penitentiary
Board of Control
North Yakima
C. E. Johnstone
Johnstone
James Hamilton
Duke of Abercorn
Arthur Game
Hamilton
Central Theater
Moritz Thomsen
Centennial Mill Company
California
United Kingdom
Hisamidaz
Aimaro Sato
Baron Komura
Minnesota
Spokane & Inland Railroad Company
Colfax
Palouse
Snake River
Northern Pacific to build down Columbia from Portland
Oregon items report Portland says the Northern Pacific will extend a line down the Columbia River. Judge John B. Cleland granted 19 divorces in a single Multnomah County day, a county record. A Lewis and Clark Fair stock donation drive seeks to buy grounds for a city park. In Burns last week two children died: eight year old Ruth Tetreau by strychnine and three year old Zella Thornburg in a fire accident. A night active bee is found in India with six foot combs. Washington police are ordered to ensure helmet alignment. German post office staff face marriage permission rules.
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Portland
Northern Pacific
Columbia
John B. Cleland
Multnomah County
Lewis and Clark Fair Corporation
Exposition Grounds
Ruth Tetreau
Zella Thornburg
Everett ball team wins pennant in Northwest league
Report lists sports events and notes from baseball to boxing across the era. It cites Everett winning the Northwest league pennant, James R. Keene’s Sysonby winning at Sheepshead Bay, and various matchups and results in golf, wrestling, boxing, and track with multiple athletes and venues named.
Witte Praises Roosevelt in Private Berlin Letter
In a private letter from Berlin M Witte extols President Roosevelt as a statesman of large caliber. He credits Roosevelt with dignity tact and clear vision and notes his elevated thoughts and lofty ideals. Witte calls him a soldier on the danger line amid stubborn struggles of the day.
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Berlin
M. Witte
Roosevelt
United States
President Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Aeronaut Dies After 2000 Feet Fall At Exhibition
Baltimore report says aeronaut John August, 25, fell 2000 feet during an exhibition and was instantly killed. The mangled body was recovered. The piece notes other items including Mrs. McMillan’s pheasant farm in Magnolia Massachusetts and library plans in California. It cites England and prison figures from 1870 and 1898.
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Baltimore
John August
Franklin Pierce’s Mexico War Heroism Told in Brief
A Little Lesson In Patriotism recalls Franklin Pierce’s early military service. Enlisting as a private in 1846, he rose to brigadier general by the August 1847 battle of Contreras. Despite a severe knee injury, Pierce stayed with his brigade, spearheading an assault against 7,600 Mexican troops and leading to victory.
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Franklin Pierce
United States
Franklin
Mexico
New Hampshire
Contreras
Pierce
Valencia
Russell Sage Celebrates His Eighty Ninth Birthday
Russell Sage, a New York City multi millionaire noted for thrift, celebrated the eighty ninth anniversary of his birth. Reports suggest his check would be good for sums ranging from fifty million dollars to eighty six million dollars.
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Russell Sage
New York City
Sage
Notable career of Sage from Troy to Wall Street
Born in Verona New York he grew up on a farm and worked as an errand boy in Troy. He opened a store in 1837 rising to wholesale groceries and served as Troy alderman and county treasurer. He was a Whig congressman 1853 57 and moved to New York City in 1863 to begin a Wall Street career becoming a director in many major corporations.
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Verona
N. Y
Troy
Congress
Sage
New York City
Wall Street
Alma Tadema Discovery Highlights Artist Patience
A botanist praised Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema's painting The Finding of Moses for its lifelike foreground larkspurs. The artist joked that dried specimens found in newly explored royal tombs of Egypt showed the flowers are a recent growth, prompting laughter.
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Alma-Tadema
Lawrence Alma- Tadema
Moses
Egypt
Strangling of Smyrna Editor Cited in Sultan’s Decree
The Hidmet chief editor Newzad Bey was strangled in jail by order of the Sultan for injudicious publications. The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes the irony of a journalism figure named Newzad as a test to the profession. The piece also comments on vacation fatigue and widows’ moods upon return to work.
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Smyrna
Newzad Bey
Hidmet
Newzad
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Northwest States
Idaho
Montana
Oregon
Washington Notes
Sprague
Ritzville
Ben F. Berry
W. R. Cunningham, Sr
J. F. Collier
Fred Kembel
J. F. Irby
Idaho News
Kendrick
Lewiston Interstate Fair
Harry Schissler
E. W. Williams
Stites
State Board of Equalization
Ada
Canyon
Fremont
Bingham
Moscow
Madison Amusement Company
H. F. Alps
Lewiston United States Weather Bureau
Reno
New
D. Shaw
Shoshone
Kootenai
Satah
Idaho County
Nez Perce
Sarah
Latah
Boise
South Shoshone
Helena
F. & A. M. Grand Lodge
Butte
Montana Pioneers
Montana Rebekah State Assembly
Anaconda
Mary Gratian
Hamilton Public Schools
George W. White
Joseph M. Dixon
Post Office Department
Stevensville
Corvallis
Miles City
India
Sporting Notes
Everett
Cutts
University of Washington
James R. Keene
Sysonby
Sheepshead Bay
Leagirt
Clarence C. Orr
Ohio
Spokane Athletic Club
Charley Nehring
Neary
Milwaukee
Maurice Thompson
Eddie Quinn
Harry Vardon
J. H. Taylor
James Braid
Alexander Herd
Scotland
Royal Cinque Ports
Deal
England
Frank Kramer
Newark
N. J
Eddie Root
John L. Sullivan
Caprine Mitchell
Tacoma
Frank A. Gotch
Humbolt
Iowa
America
A. L
Boomer
Spokane Amateur Athletic Club
Northwest
P. C. Mivetogo
Bellinetiany
Vercouver
Pacific Coast
P. C. Aie
Duc
San
P. C
New York
Witte
Aeronaut
McMillan
Michigan
Magnolia
Mass
Herbert Putnam
University of California
The
Columbia Pharmacy
Central
Sheppard
Maarrrara
Kennewick
Morra
J. J. Reed & Co
Animation and Sporting Goods
J. M. Hawkins
Kennewick, Wn
Stag
Sylvester & Roseman
William Dircksen
Prop
Second Street
Kennewick Club
C. C. Powell
Kennewick, Wash
McReynolds & McCane Contractors and Builders
Yakima Street
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