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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1901
Page
1
Spokane restaurant men meet to discuss rate hikes claiming current prices hurt business. Elk's Carnival and the Fruit Fair soon open and visitors are warned not to feel overcharged when paying a few cents for meals and a dollar for rooms as rates have advanced.
The piece calls Lewiston to establish a hospital to treat the sick and injured, arguing the city lacks a proper care facility. It asserts the project would be financially viable and urges immediate action to begin before winter.
A travelogue-like recounting from Lewiston to Seattle describes Spokane’s boom, Yakima irrigation forests, Yakima’s mountain skyline, and flourishing farms including hop fields and orchards. Seattle’s rapid growth is highlighted with a $350,000 high school, new iron brick blocks, 26 miles of asphalt streets, and a thriving harbor feeding the Alaskan trade.
The report notes heavy trade with the Orient and over 2500 dock workers in Seattle loading and unloading ships. Shops and hotels are crowded with people, requiring police assistance at crossings. Forest fires blaze through the Cascade mountains with intense heat felt at windows. A vast rock slide near Stampede tunnel delays the east bound overland train by six hours. About 40 passengers lack seats from Auburn junction to Ellensburg on the N P main line.
The American Tinplate company begins advertising for non union workers as part of its plan to run plants non union President Shaffer says the strike advances will force terms arbitration plans surface as Simon Burns seeks a final authority arbitration panel The San Francisco strike shows little progress while mediation talks drift The Northport smelter faces shortages as new workers quit and ore supply tightens The Western Federation of Miners remains on strike in Rossland A Baker City banker finances 600 tons daily to reopen Northport under union pay scale potential cross border tensions loom
New York August 28 President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America releases a statement asserting that the 1900 agreement between workers and the corporation raised annual wages by 25 million dollars for 200 000 men, funded by 200 000 dollars in costs, a dividend larger than Standard Oil or Morgan Banking paid. He adds that at the April convention 5 000 dollars in concessions were granted, estimated at 2 million dollars annually.
Lewiston city council debated the water question and passed ordinances on horse and cattle restrictions, a fire department fund, fire department organization, and sidewalk construction rules on Main and D streets. A Tuesday meeting considered a committee investigation into water rates, pressure, and purity, with Culver Hastings and Frost named. The fire committee also urged more hose and equipment purchases.
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