Controversy Over Chalmette Ships to British Army
Washington publicizes correspondence between Louisiana governor and the state department over shipments of horses and mules from Chalmette for the British army in South Africa. Governor Heard argues animals are contraband of war and urges federal action, while Hay orders investigation and attorney general weighs neutrality issues.
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State Department
United States
Louisiana
South Africa
Chalmette
Hay
Heard
New Orleans
Samuel Pearson
Port Chalmette
St. Bernard
Commonwealth of Louisiana
England
Secretary of State
Tne
Sir Richard Campbell Stuart
Tourenne
Milwaukee
Thompson
Yeomanry
Cape Town
Durban
Pearson
Trade Report Highlights Bright First Quarter With Rainy Setback
Bradstreet's weekly trade report notes strong first quarter activity with fair profits and favorable crop prospects. Winter wheat reports are uniformly positive, building trades show promise, and countrywide demand for white and yellow pine, hardwoods, and hardware remains robust. Wheat exports total 4,446,918 bushels for the week, while U S business failures number 176 for the week, down slightly from recent weeks.
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Bradstreet
United States
Wheat Report From Portland and Tacoma Markets
Portland and Tacoma markets show quiet steady tones for wheat as blue stem and valley varieties trade around 64 to 66 cents. Walla Walla bids 64 percent to 65 cents and bluestem 66 cents amid light activity.
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Wheat Report
Portland
Walla Walla
Bluestem
Valley
Tacoma
Club
Grand American Handicap Won by Hirschy at Kansas City
H C Hirschy won the Grand American handicap with a 29 yard handicap. C G Spencer of St Louis, also 29 yards, was last standing among 14 with clean scores but failed to kill his 53rd bird. Purse totaled $12,000 with $683.70 to Hirschy, $588.70 to Spencer, and remaining payouts to Rollo Heikes, J D Pollard, J L Owens, George Roll, Guy Deering and others through 63rd place.
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Kansas City
H. C. Hirschy
C. G. Spencer
St. Louis
H. &. Tlirsbhy
Whitman College Wins Debating Season Opener
Whitman College defeated Walla Walla in a unanimous three judge decision. George Marquis Guy Galloway and Edward Chittenden represented Whitman while C W Woater G F Henry and H E F French spoke for W A C. The subject was that conferring suffrage upon the negro was justifiable. Whitman took the affirmative.
Two unidentified railroad victims named in Ysleta tragedy
In El Paso on April 7 the body of one of the two boys killed March 22 on the GHL and SA tracks at Ysleta was exhumed and identified as Bruce Huces of Los Angeles. The other boy had been identified earlier as Vernon Johnson of Abilene, Texas.
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Fl Paso
Tex
GHL & SA
Ysieta
Bruce Huces
Los Angeles
Cal
Vernon Johnson
Abilene
Miss Ellen M. Stone to Lecture Across U S Cities
Miss Ellen M. Stone, the missionary, has contracted for a series of 100 lectures to be delivered in principal United States cities, with the tour beginning in New York on April 7. Mastor Pond secured the deal for the speaker.
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New York
Abyssinian General to Attend King Edward Coronation
Aden reports Ras Makon nen the famed Abyssinian general is named by King Menelik I to attend King Edward's coronation in London. The delegation from Abyssinia underscores historic ties and imperial diplomacy ahead of the ceremony.
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Arabia
Menelik I
Abyasinia
Ras Makonnen
Edward
Northwest Happenings Mix of Growth and News
A survey of weekly items shows growth across the region with new breweries and banks, railway and telegraph expansions, townships opened for settlement, plus notable events in Spokane, Ritzville, Walla Walla and other communities. A five footed horse and a fatal shooting close the roundup.
Red Lodge Bank to Open Soon in Montana
Montana notes report Red Lodge State Bank to open soon at Red Lodge. Kalispell business men form a business men's association. R D Steel and W B Davidson plan a Bozeman bank with 25000 capital. Elk lodges plan travel to Salt Lake City.
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Kalispell
Elks
Salt Lake City
R. D. Steel
W. 8
Davidson
Bozeman
Harry Stokes
Great Falls
William Hayward
Butte
Freight train service planned to Thunder Mountain
Grangeville freighters will establish a regular pack train service to Thunder Mountain. The Idaho First National Bank of Lewiston has increased capital stock to $50,000. A new lumber company has acquired a site for a sawmill near the Fort Sherman grounds at Coeur d'Alene. The Washington Irrigation and Colonization Company plans to reclaim 100,000 acres of land north of the Snake river near Mindoka. A four foot mastodon tooth was found two feet underground while digging a well on Mrs. McCloud’s property near Payette.
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Washington Irrigation and Colonization Company
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Mindoka
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America
Afri
Australia
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Washoek
Anaconda
Bones
Tonopah
Nevada
Elk City
New Jersey Gold Mining & Milling Company
New Jersey
Big Creek
J. Dixon
Boise
Botha Creek
Yairview
Butte
Engineers’ Union
Scallon
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Kendall Gold Mining Company
Finch & Campbell of
Spokane
R. K. Neill
Northwest
Horse Shoe Bar Ranch
Warm Spring Creek
Moccssin
8. B. Lundlum
Keystone Placer Mining Company
Telluride
Peter Epswich
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Lundlum
California
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Child Minstrels in Trouble in Walla Walla County
After a Saturday night performance by Walla Walla county sheriff and prosecuting attorney levied an attachment on the area stage equipment paraphernalia and box office receipts and took possession in Walla Walla Washington April 6.
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Walla Walla, Wash
Willaona
Walla Walla County
Sentenced to Be Hanged in Manitoba Murder Case
Vancouver April 7 Walter Gordon has been sentenced to be hanged on Tyne 28 for the murder of two men at Whitewater Manitoba. A broken arm is no excuse for a whisky sling.
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B.C
Walter Gordon
Tyne
Whitewater
Manitoba
Mining News From Thunder Mountain and Beyond
Report covers new mining districts, labor shortages, and prospecting in Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia. Highlights include Granby smelter output, Pedro group claims in Canyon Creek, and Thunder Hill plant purchase. Notable incidents include a fatal locomotive accident in Anaconda and a hydraulic giant accident near Telluride.
Mining News From The West And Beyond
A roundup of mining developments including Colorado as the top gold producer with Cripple Creek district yielding 24000000 in 1991, Abbey and Paymaster consolidations in Kendall Montana, a mine death in Anaconda, and global notes on Western mining districts, railway surveys, strikes, dividends, and new leads near Burke Idaho and Sonora.
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Cripple Creek
Abbey
Kendall, Mont
Jas. Ryan
Butte
Anaconda
West Australia
Shissler
Thunder Mountain
Big Creek
Methow Railway & Smelting Company
Methow
Twisp
Washington
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Interior
United Verde
Je. Tome
Ariz
Transvaal
Wallace
Idaho
Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining and Milling Company
Sonora Company
Burke
Lewiston
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