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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1906
Page
3
Regional telegrams report multiple accidents fires and crimes across Washington Oregon and Idaho. Notable items include a Tacoma post office staffing change a Waterville arson attempt a Snohomish district fire a Smiths Cove murder and a Spokane freight collision.
William Bowman pleads guilty to arson and gets one year in the penitentiary. C S Van Aucker, Rainier bank cashier, captured in Portland on larceny charges and denies taking bank funds. A tragic Portland accident kills two year old Andrew Beakey and later his grandmother Elizabeth Beakey after a collapsing stable door injures the child.
John Alexander Dowie speaks to his church at Shiloh with plans to build a great mansion on Mount Carmel for the coming of Christ. He says he is not sick but has a broken heart from 25 years with his wife, Dowie asks followers to aid his estate and tithes while he contemplates Mexico and a return to Zion City.
The Pettit mine at Atlanta Idaho has been sold to Bagdad-Chase Mining Co of Rochester New York for 150000 in cash. John W Ivers head foreman of Tiger-Poorman mine Burke Idaho and Ellis L Hale master mechanic of Bagdad-Chase had a quarrel with Ivers drawing a pistol wounding Hale in the left hand. Ivers later slipped and lost two toes under a moving car. Hecla Mining Co near Wallace Idaho declares 110000 dividend bringing total paid to 890000. 340000 paid in 1906. Canadian Oil Co buildings in Toronto struck by lightning and burned losing about 100000. Centre Star mine Rossland British Columbia reports a 40 foot wide ore shoot at 1600 foot level assays 48 per ton and some believe second enrichment found. Joseph Leiter owner of Zeigler Illinois coal mines defeats miners union in prolonged Illinois court fight on permanent injunction against union interference.
The Bullion mine is rapidly developing into a large low grade property east of Burke. A wagon road to the area is completed enabling ore hauling soon. Idaho Montana property facilities include a boarding house bunk house blacksmith shop and several sheds. A compressor has been ordered and stock trades at 10 cents a share. Springfield Mining contracts 300 foot tunnel extension to reach the vein. J H Smith manages Catella mine on Nine Mile creek. Alive shaft house rising near Mullan. Iron Spar mine gets 200 more feet of tunnel in the Mullan copper zone.
The piece describes Sakhalin as harsh and infertile for farming yet vast and potential rich. It notes penal colonists and exiles fleeing to Siberia, the Isle of the Lost, while highlighting abundant forests coal and oil prospects. It mentions Japanese interest and near shore oil regions with accessible harbors for large boats.
Near Baconyia Mexico along the line of the Kansas City Mexico and Orient Railroad cliffs house caverns inhabited by a cliff dwelling people. They speak an unknown language and jump between ledges, retreating underground when strangers approach. Local anthropologists study their communal living with no fixed domestic system yet established.
The first known use of bells in Christian worship comes from Polydore Vergil who records that Paulinus, bishop of Nola in Campania Italy, adapted bells for his church in the year 400.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat notes Bess Gace admits she is aging and keeps a playful streak, saying she spelled her name with a y until age 88.
A friend examines a photograph and comments that the fiancé is worth the price in a translated Tales from Meggendorfer Blaetter panel. The lighthearted dialogue hinges on appearance and value in a comic context.
A Philadelphia Record piece recalls a chance meeting on Chestnut Street where friends discuss moving to Germantown. The tale includes a comic memory lapse about recalling a telephone number and the playful idea of inviting a friend to visit. Ice cream sodas draw dogs and their owners, a trend noted by the New York Sun with shops improvising dog receptacles at counters.
A physician notes there are over fifty headache types and says common forms arise from specific causes. Forehead pain links to dyspepsia, back-of-head pain to the silver, temple bursting pain to malnutrition, top-head ache to overwork, and brow ache to eye strain.
An excerpt from Use-Success Magazine condemns stagnation and a fixed mindset. It argues that lack of personal growth leads to metaphorical death, stressing that many reach 50 spiritually dead due to attitude rather than age.
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