Tariff Bill Deliberations Move Toward July 4 Final Vote
Washington debate focuses on July 1 vote date for final passage of the Dingley tariff bill with Taft’s approval seen as pivotal. Army engineers seek $1.56 million for Columbia River jetty and $1 million for Celilo Canal plus $2.6 million for the waterway, plus multiple smaller appropriations along the Columbia and Pacific Northwest rivers.
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Columbia River
Celilo Canal
Columbia
Willamette
Cascades
Celilo
Upper Columbia
Bridgport
Wenatchee
Snake River
Puget Sound
Grays Harbor
Beulah Hawkins Falls Into Prolonged Sleep for Third Time
In Los Angeles on May 3 Mrs Beulah Hawkins entered a coma for the third time in two years. She recently battled a creeping malady after days of feeling she would sleep, and now lies at home with only faint breathing and occasional eyelid flutter. Her two prior episodes left her in trance or unconscious for weeks before recovery.
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Los Angeles
Beulah Hawkins
Assay Offices to Open at Fair in Seattle
Seattle will run two fully equipped assay offices this season to handle a record Alaska gold influx. A second office will operate at the A Y P grounds for consignments, weighing, and payout with machinery being installed and ready by June 1.
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Seattle
Alaska
A.Y.P
Mint Bureau
No Monopoly on Sockeye Label Says Government
Washington May 4 A formal opinion from Solicitor Warle states there can be no monopoly on the word sockeye for salmon canned on the Pacific Coast or Alaska. Packer labels need not declare catch locality though sockeye from Puget Sound and British Columbia fetch higher prices than Alaskan sockeye.
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Washington
Pacific Coast
Alaska
Solicitor Warle
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States Fish Commission
Alaska Salmon Industries
Puget Sound
British Columbia
San Francisco Welcomes Japs at Park Event for Navy Men
San Francisco hosted a joint civic and Japanese association event at Golden Gate Park for 600 enlisted men and 90 midshipmen aboard the training cruisers Aso and Soya. The program included band concerts, lunch, speeches, and vaudeville in Hagiwara’s Japanese tea garden with both nations’ flags prominent.
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San Francisco
Japanese Association of America
Civic Entertainment Committee
Aso
Soya
Golden Gate Park
Hagiwaras
Castro May Sue France Over Expulsion from Martinique
ex President of Venezuela Cipriano Castro is said to be consulting with lawyers in Paris to file a damage suit against the French government for expelling him from Martinique. He reportedly contests the forced boarding of a ship and return to France without destination choice.
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Paris
Cipriano Castro
Venezuela
Martinique
Senor Castro
France
Threatens Oregon Judge After Conviction at Tillamook
Tillamook May 4 A rumor of a life threat reached Judge Gallaway as he sat to sentence a defendant found guilty at the circuit court. A reliable citizen warned the judge he would not live to pass sentence, with bootlegger suspected as the source of the threats.
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Tillamook, Or
Taft tariff bill empowers president to wage tariff war
Washington May 4 tariff experts say the senate bill on maximum and minimum duties effectively gives the President power to declare tariff war or avoid it. It allows him to judge whether nations discriminate against US goods and to make trade concessions through proclamations without new legislation or treaty action.
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Washington
Senate
United States
State Department
Longfellow Statue Dedicated in Washington
In Washington on May 8 a heroic white marble statue of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow will be dedicated with President Taft present along with diplomats and relatives. New York sculptor William Cooper created the statue presented to the city by Brainard H. Warner, treasurer of the Longfellow National Memorial Association, which organized the effort about twelve years ago with ex Presidents McKinley Cleveland and Harrison among its early supporters.
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Washington
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
America
Taft
Diplomatic Corps
William Cooper
New York
Brainard H. Warner
Longfellow National Memorial Association
Longfellow
McKinley
Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Dominion to reserve vast timber belt south of Crow's Nest line
Winnipeg May 4 The Dominion government reserves about 90 million acres of timber land stretching south of the Crow's Nest line to the international boundary and east of the British Columbia border into Alberta. It will regulate lumber cutting amounting to roughly 12 million feet annually for sixty years.
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Winnipeg
Dominion
Crow’s Nest
Canadian Pacific Railway
British Columbia Boundary
Alberta
First Panama President Samuel Amador Dies at 75
Panama reports the death of Dr Samuel Amador aged 75 after a lingering illness. Amador was the first president of the Republic of Panama and a key figure in the 1908 movement that secured Panama’s independence from Colombia.
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Republic OF Panama
Panama
Samuel Amador
Manuel Amador
Colombia
Portland markets list grain hay butter and eggs prices
Market figures show wheat prices for Bluestem and Club around 1.18 to 1.28 per bushel, oats near 39 to 41, barley 34, hay varying by region from 12 to 21 per ton, butter from 18 to 29 cents, eggs 24 to 25 cents, and wool and mohair noting regional ranges, with potato values for White River and Yakima.
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Willamette Valley
Oregon
Portland
Washington
Puget Sound
Washington Creamery
White River
Yakima
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