Week's West Coast Happenings Across Cities
A digest of regional events includes Los Angeles tax rate rise to 1.25 per 100, San Diego outsourcing a coast artillery unit to form a torpedo company, and subway dismantling work along Los Angeles streets. Tacoma endures a rare electrical storm disrupting transit and communications. Los Angeles sees record July receipts amid growth, Bakersfield fights a large grain fire in the San Emidio mountains, and Fresno chemists test sulfur use in fruit curing under new regulations.
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Bakersfield
San Emidio
Beale Estate
Kern County Land Company
Two Million Dollars Moved Illegally in City Funds
Auditer Horton charged that $2,000,000 of San Francisco city funds were moved illegally by City Treasurer Kantel and Bank 1. Horton and Kantel clashed at Western National Bank over the transaction. Kantel says Horton was notified via Wentworth when the funds were moved from the mint after a fire, but Horton and Wentworth do not recall any notification.
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SAN Fra CO
Bank 1
Horton
Western National Bank
Hantel
Bantel
Tantel
Wentworth
Salmon pack for year far below Alaska red supply
Behring Sea packing plants report the season ended with the Alaska red salmon pack at about 50 percent of prior years. The Alaska Packers' Association plants on Behring Sea faced heavy leverage from the failure of the preferred red fish to appear, leaving several plants underutilized and only about half of the expected material used.
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Bellingham
Behring Sea
Alaska
Alaska Packers’ Association
King Edward Reviews A Mighty Fleet At Cowes
King Edward and Queen Alexandra reviewed a fleet of about 20 British warships forming a steel city stretched eleven miles from Isle of Wight to Hampshire shore. The Dreadnought led six flagships while royal yachts passed between lines of ships as crowds cheered aboard Victoria and Albert.
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Fortsmouth
England
Isle of Wight
Hampshire
Victoria and Albert
Brit Navy
Admiralty
Royal Yacht Squadron
Cowes
United States Owns Isle Royale Declared by Officials
Washington reports Advices by the s deyn recount that Cap t he Ninety six Royale in Lake Superior did not raise a British flax flag on Isle Royale and declared the territory part of Canada. State Department officials say there has never been any question of U S ownership and no government action planned to plant a British flag.
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Washington
S Deyn
Royale
Lake Superior
Canada
State Department
United States
Capt. Young
Ottawa
Ont
R. Scott
Isle Royale
Claim
England
Cay
Frenzied Passenger Triggers Panic Aboard Santa Clara
A Seattle report from Alaska says a second class passenger shouted the steamer Santa Clará was sinking amid a gale near Cape Slattery. Passengers swarmed deck as crew restrained panic while guards ferried the ship to safety and one man was put ashore at Katalia. no danger was found.
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Portland
Ore
Seattle
Alaska
Santa Clara
Cape Slattery
Cape
Katalia
Abandoned placer mines rich in gold
In Awa Ontario the Canadian government surveyed Yukon gold districts to estimate recoverable gold from gravel banks hillsides and valleys. Four experts spent a season surveying boring and measuring gravels and estimate nearly 67 million dollars more can be mined from gravels that already produced 119000 dollars. To reclaim the rest the soil advanced method will be required.
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Awa
Ont
Yukon
Meeting of Edward and Joseph in Ischl
Vienna reports a high polit ical meeting on August 15 between King Edward and Emperor Francis Joseph at Ischl. The discussion covers international questions and an intermediary role for Francis Joseph to reconcile Edward and William of Germany, aiming to forge an entente between Britain France and Germany Austria.
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Vienna
Edward
Francis Joseph
Ischl
Envon
William
Germany
Great Britain
France
Austria
Telegraphic Bit Fragments From Around the World
A digest of brief items: Chicago notes Herman Billik’s October 11 hanging for murder by poison. Posen reports deadly lightning and flood damage. El Paso reports three mine laborers killed or injured in a Shannon mine incident. New York describes a blinding light claim by Ralph Scott. Chicago notes Judge Landis fines Standard Oil Indiana 2x? for railroad rebate violations. Liverpool cites Cunard Lusitania’s 48 hour run at sea. Washington reports deviled ham held in Buenos Aires over borax concerns.
Celebration of irrigation work plans in Sacramento feature parade
Plans for what may be the greatest irrigation celebration in history were announced by the fifteenth national irrigation congress. A two week festival will feature a grand irrigation parade with allegorical floats, a Chinese dragon water pageant, and elaborate civic and military displays across California.
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Sacramento
Board of Control
Fifteenth
Nacional Irrigation Congress
Ely Western
Isle of Is Treasure: A Wartime Exhibit In 1944
A wartime exhibit titled Isle of Is Treasure opens to the public, detailing local heroics and mementos gathered from military units. Curators highlight artifacts, photographs, and a narrative tracing veterans’ journeys through conflict zones and homecoming.
Demand better control of Mexican immigration
SAN DIEGO The federal government through the department of commerce and labor defines new controls for entry from the south. Chief Inspector Engleck announces three designated ports Tia Juana Campo and Calexico where entrants must apply before the U S immigrant inspector. Aliens crossing elsewhere without formalities may be arrested and deported.
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San Diego
Department of Conmerce and Labor
Engleck Maurde Bile
Washington
United States
United State
Tia Juana
Campo
Calexico
Hong Kong Hotel Collapse Shocks Tourists
Hong Kong reports the old section of a noted tourist hotel on the Baad collapsed Thursday. Casualties are rumored but not confirmed. The Hong Kong hotel, a principal tourist site popular with Americans arriving from Manila, draws many visitors.
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Hong Kong
Manila
Japanese Organizations Appeal For Good Will
The New York chain of commerce has received from the chambers of Tokio Osaka Yokohama and Kobe a joint petition to use its good offices ward settling anti Japanese sentiment in this country Copies have been sent to other cities in the United States The appeal is in Japanese with an English translation It notes California attitudes toward Japanese residents and attacks and fears the sentiment may affect U S Japanese commercial relations The New York chamber will acknowledge receipt now but act at its October meeting.
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New York
Commerce
Chambers of Commerce
Tokio
Osan
Yokohama
Kobe
United States
California
New York Chamber of Commerce
Death of Ten Due to Deadly Flareback on Georgia
Acting Secretary Newberry acted on board findings from the July 15 accident on the battleship Georgia that killed ten officers and sailors and injured several others. The navy department now says the cause was a flareback, and orders are issued for added precautions to prevent recurrence.
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Y Newberry
Georgia
Navy Department
Postage Stamp Sales Reach Over a Million
The Los Angeles post office ranks seventeenth in the nation for stamp sales. July sales totaled $81,430, up from $70,538.64 last July, an increase of $10,891.28. For the year ending July 31, 1997, stamp sales reached $17,535.88, with July receipts exceeding any prior month for five months, a strong showing for a typically dull period.
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Los Angeles
United States
Herald
Coal mine deaths in year leave 3410 orphans
Philadelphia report cites over 1000 miners killed in Pennsylvania mines last year. The accidents left nearly 1000 widows and 410 children under ten years old.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
James Roderick
Department of Mines
War talk on Santa Barbara breakwater defense push
The Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce asks Congress for federal aid to build a breakwater at Santa Barbara to secure a naval harbor. Admiral McCalla, retired, endorses the plan in a preface urging early feasibility study and notes coast defense urgency amid war risks and strategic value after the Panama Canal.
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Santa Barbara
Pacific Ocean
D. H. McCalla
California
Chamber of Commerce
Perkins
Flint
Smith
Chanel Islands
Guantanamo
Santiago
Elliott Island
Togo
Port Arthur
Panama Canal
Japanese Sketch Forts Worldwide Reported by Teachers
Four American teachers returning from the Philippines via Asia and Europe recount Japanese activity abroad. They state in India and other British possessions they found Japanese busily sketching fortifications and harbors.
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New York
Phillippines
Asia
Europe
W. C. Moyer
Keats Kas
C. A. McKee
Indiana, Pa
H. D. Fisher
Hunter, Okla
E. M. Ellison
Greenville Town
India
British Possessions
Draw Lots to Decide Which Officer Died First
St Petersburg report says four officers perished when a military balloon rose from Tsarskoe Selo. The craft went missing and later four bodies were found at sea. one was recovered July 27 in the gulf of Finland. General Kovauk’s papers show officers drew lots and leapt to lighten the balloon to keep it aloft.
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ST. Petersburg
Tsarskoe Selo
Gulf of Finland
Kovauk
Wellman Airship Faces High Winds Delays Polar Start
Spitzbergen via Tromsoe reports the Wellman Chicago Record-Herald polar expedition held back by fierce winds. Despite repairs and gas apparatus success, bad weather keeps ships from Spitzbergen, with inflation set to begin tomorrow and a mid August launch hoped, amid reports of Monaco's prince icebound in the south.
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Spitzbergen
Tromsoe
Wellman
Chicago Record-Herald
Pole
Prince of Monaco
Mexican lad first to meet new immigration law
The steamer Curacoa arrived at San Francisco with Zeferina Albarrado a sixteen year old Mexican girl detained by U S Immigration Inspector De La Torre Under the new law effective at the start of the month no foreigner under sixteen may land unless accompanied by a parent and she was not with one The incident marks the first applying of the act on a minor arrival.
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San Francisco
Curacoa
Guaymas
United States Immigration
de la Torre
Zeferina Alvarrado
Supplies sail for the Philippines from San Francisco
Large quantities of merchandise ammunition and supplies for the army in the Philippines are being forwarded to the islands. Four transports will sail within the next fifteen days loaded to full capacity with military stores and 3000 men.
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San Francisco
Phillippines
Repair ship for work at sea fits out by navy
Washington The supply ship Culgoa will be fitted by the navy department as a repair vessel with full machinery to repair vessels at sea. The decision follows a request from Admiral Evans.
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Washington
Culgoa
Navy Department
Evans
Atlantic battleship fleet to voyage to the Pacific
Secretary Loeb in Oyster Bay said plans to send the Atlantic battleship fleet to the Pacific Ocean remain unchanged. He noted no basis for resignations over Secretary Metcalf and said the navy department is handling preparations for the trip pending presidential approval. No protest from Japan has been received or expected.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Loeb
Pacific Ocean
Navy Department
Metcalf
San Francisco
Pacific
Washington
Damage to Panama Roadway Deepens Across Black Swamp
The road bed near Lion Hill ten miles from Colon suffered serious subsidence when the marsh sank, halting both ends of the isthmus. Freight trains faced danger as a section sank within thirty feet of cars while passenger service remained irregular with transfers via temporary paths. A prior subsidence in the same area suggests swamp conditions cannot support the double tracking.
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Colon
Lion Hill
Black Swamp
Ahorca Lagarto
Turtle found with name on back after twenty years
In Little Falls Minnesota a mud turtle with the name M. N. You and the year 1881 on its back was found in a pond. Mr. Young, state representative from the Forty-seventh district, recalls tagging several young turtles twenty-six years ago and confirms this is one of them. He saw the turtles near the lake where the recent find occurred.
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Little Falls
Minn
M. N. You
Mr. Young
Commander Peary Aims North From Portland Soon
Commander Robert E Peary staying at Eagle Island says he will depart for New York then north once boilers are installed in the Roosevelt. He cannot give a definite date but hopes to start within a week and expects winter quarters by September 5. He has no new plans and will take only essentials. none of his family will accompany him.
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Portland
Maine
Robert E. Peary
Eagle Island
New York
North
Peary
Father kills girl too homely to wed
A Hungarian peasant at Neusandra killed his 18 year old daughter. He admitted the crime but pleaded she was ugly and had no chance of marriage. The jury found extenuating circumstances and returned a manslaughter verdict. The court sentenced him to three years in prison.
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Neusandra
Man Suspect Caught In Montana After North Coast Limited Holdup
Butte miner G Clarence Tial ings implicated George Tower in the May 7 holdup near Welsh s spur and the murder of Engineer Clow. He was captured Thursday near Sappington station on the Northern Pacific east of Butte and brought back for questioning. Hastings would not talk.
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Butte
Mont
G. Clarence Tialings
George Tower
North Coast Limited
Welsh’s
Engineer Clow
Sappington
Hastings
Wasps Employed In Willamette Paper Mills
In Willamette Oregon a novel program aims to use wasps as a source for paper production. Jeremiah Tubbs collects millions of insects and sets them in a factory building near town to operate unique machinery designed for pulp processing and paper making.
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Willamette
Jermiah Tubbs
Plan to Refrigerate Warship Magazines
London reports the British admiralty will equip magazines on all Royal Navy ships with refrigerating machinery to prevent overheating after explosion-linked damage. The project, estimated at 2.5 million dollars, aims to reduce magazine heat and improve safety aboard warships.
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London
Admiralty
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