Payne tariff bill advances amid revisions and protests
The Payne tariff bill passed the House after weeks of debate with key changes including making petroleum free and removing some duties. Hides remain free, and the bill lowers duties on several items while raising others. Senate plans reservations on schedules and awaits further action amid protests from glove and hosiery sectors. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, former interior secretary, died at 74.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Champ Clark
House
Ways and Means
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Aldrich
House Committee On Ways and
Senate Committee
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Interior
McKinley
Roosevelt
Calhoun Jury Still Seated in Graft Prosecution
San Francisco April 12 Twelve jurors work through the fourteenth week of the trial of Patrick Calhoun president of United Railroads as city officials project graft prosecution costs. City Auditor Koster tallies nine months of expenses at forty five thousand dollars with estimates the year end total will near one hundred ten thousand dollars.
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San Francisco
Patrick Calhoun
United Railroads
Koster
Bermuda 300 Years Old Celebrations Begin
Bermuda marks the tercentenary of European settlement begun in 1609 when Sir George Somers wrecked there and claimed the islands for England. Festivities, sports, and naval and military participation stem from April events drawing American visitors to Bermuda. Chicago Women Want to Vote in Springfield hearings. suffragists press legislators for municipal ballot rights.
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Islands
Hamilton
Bermuda
George Somers
Virginia
England
Chicago
Springfield
Ill
University critic resigns after church music remarks
Tacoma April 12 At a journalism class meeting at the University of Puget Sound Professor Glazier submitted his resignation after being reprimanded by the president for attending theaters applauding and declaring church music mostly rot and copied from opera selections.
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Tacoma
Wash
University of Puget Sound
Glazier
British Sailors Land at Bushre Amid Persian Strife
London reports the Persian situation edging toward Anglo Russian intervention as British bluejackets land from the cruiser Fox at Bushre. A local proclamation urged action due to inability of authorities to safeguard foreigners, and the move is understood to have Russian approval.
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London
Fox
Bushre
Russia
Indians and cowboys arrive for London exhibitions
A group of Indians and cowboys from the Dakota reservation has arrived in London for summer exhibitions. The Indians wear full war dress and thrilled crowds with their war whoops during the welcome.
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London
Northwest Gets Many Colonists in Spring Boom
Chicago April 13. The Pacific Northwest colonization is surging again as railroads report March colonist ticket sales for Oregon Washington and Idaho show the year will have at least twice as many new homes as last. Railroad officials say they will keep low colonist rates to attract settlers and open up new productive territory.
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Chicago
Pacific Northwest
Harriman
Hill Lines
Northwest
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Ministers Support Open Saloon Hours Bill
In New York on April 13 ministers and other non drinkers push a bill to let saloons stay open on Sundays during limited hours. Rabbi Stephen S Wise, ex Portland, argues the current law is unenforceable and a compromise measure may gain general compliance and become law.
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New York
Stephen S. Wise
Portland, Or
Dr. Wise
Mack to Issue National Monthly Magazine
Norman E. Mack announces starting May 1 a new monthly magazine named National Monthly. It will advance the Democratic party nationwide with contributions from senators representatives governors and other prominent Democrats.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Norman E. Mack
Democratic National Committee
National Monthly
Aoki Purchases Cottage Near Seattle
Gunjiro Aoki and his bride bought a cottage at Dunlap a Seattle suburb and will use it as their future home. Aoki will become assistant manager of an Oriental trading company in Seattle. The couple has not left the city since their marriage and postponed a Hood's Canal honeymoon.
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Seattle
Wash
Gunjiro Aoki
Bride
Dunlap
Aoki
Oriental Trading Company
Hood's Canal
Oriental Quarter
Massachusetts Rolls Out After overhaul at Brooklyn Yard
New York April 15 The battleship Massachusetts completed a thorough overhaul and steamed from the Brooklyn navy yard for the first time in over two years. A sister ship to the Indiana and Oregon she was built in 1893 and will carry about 500 officers and men.
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New York
Massachusetts
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Indiana
Oregon
Zelaya Attacks U S as Nicaraguan Dictator Holds Diplomat
Letters from Managua allege John H. Gregory Jr. former American charge d affaires was a near prisoner. Spies watched him day and night and soldiers blocked legation entrances while his dispatches were seized. Ze laya seeks to drive out Americans and mark them unwelcome.
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Mobile
Ala
John H. Gregory, Jr
Managua
Nicaragua
Gregory
Zelaya
Recluse miner from Nevada learns of Victoria death
Albert Courtney a 70 year old recluse miner from Southern Nevada arrived in San Bernardino. He had seen few people in 15 years and was astonished to hear Queen Victoria was dead and did not believe it until newspapers mentioned King Edward. He had never heard of Theodore Roosevelt.
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San Bernardino
Cal
Albert Courtney
Nevada
Queen Victoria
King Edward
Great Britain
Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy
Western contractor Alfred W. Burrell dies in Missoula
Alfred W. Burrell of Oakland California one of the west’s leading general contractors died in Missoula after ten days ill ness His firm built many Lewis and Clark Exposition structures in Portland and was erecting buildings for the Seattle exposition.
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Missoula
Mont
Alfred W. Burrell
Oakland
Cal
West
Portland
Burrell
Army reaches full strength after Spanish war recruitment halt
New York reports the U S Army has reached full strength for the first time since the Spanish war. An order by the adjutant general stops all recruiting temporarily, except for time expired soldiers who may re-enlist.
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New York
United States Army
Adjutant General of the Army
Market Prices Reported for Portland Regions and Crops
The Portland markets list prices for wheat with club at 1.10 and bluestem 1.20 per bushel, red Russian 1.08, oats No 1 white 39 and gray 38, hay values from Willamette Valley fancy 16 and Eastern Oregon mixed 18, alfalfa 16, clover 14, butter at 32 34c fancy 34c store 20c, eggs 20 2c, hops 1908 choice 10c prime 6 7c, 1907 2 2c, wool Valley 15 16c, mohair 22 238c, potatoes White River 29 30 and Yakima 31 34 per ton.
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Portland
Hay—Timothy
Willamette Valley
Oregon
Wool
Wool—v Valley
Washington
Puget Sound
Washington Creamery
White River
Yakima
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