Local notes from the Northwest frontier region
A roundup of weekly items includes new bank opening in Connell, Hatton flour mill prospects, Sprague roller mill trial, rail station at Marcus, election of Mrs Belle Witherspoon as Eastern Star matron, a fatal self-inflicted wound near Addy, church construction in Spokane, Green Bluff fruit growers forming a strawberry market group, and clergy conference postponed. Also reports on hospitalities, rail and grain mill investments, public notices, and regional incidents across Washington and Oregon frontier towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connell Bank
Hatton
Balfour-Guthrie Company
Tacoma
Connell
Sprague
Spokane Falls & Northern Railway Company
Marcus
Belle Witherspoon
Spokane
Eastern Star
Arby Cecil
J. P. Cecil
Addy
Colville
Green Bluff
Protestant Episcopal Church
Jacob Weinhard
Dayton
National Guard
Terrence Mallon
E. W. Newhall & Co
Seattle
Walla Walla
B. D. Crocker
Clarence W. Ide
Senate
Internal Revenue of
Washington
Customs
Port Townsend
Crocker
H. M. Gilbert
North Yakima
Yakima Valley
Snipes Mountain
Sunnyside
Gilbert
Wenatchee
J. W. Turner
W. 8. Gehr
A. W. Tidmarsh
Joseph Albin
Idaho Gleanings Highlights From Nez Perce and Boise
The Nez Perce farmers tramway appears secured while the state normal school awarded 21 degrees at commencement. Knights of Pythias plan the Lewiston session, and Coeur d Alene starts a 40 subscriber telephone exchange. Mrs Godard reports 1000 dollars in hay stack losses from incendiaries. Dewey launches a U S senate bid. Golden townsite rises on Big Creek, Boise interests involved. John Lemp survives a runaway accident on Leo hill, thrown 30 feet into wild rose bushes, which broke his fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nez Perce
State Normal School
Idaho Lodge of Knights of Pythias
Lewiston
Coeur d’Alene
M. E. Godard
Lake Waha
William H. Dewey
United States Senate
Thunder Mountain
Golden
Big Creek
Boise
Monumental
John Lemp
Leo Hill
Long Hill
Lemp
Strikers Claim Action Could Close Half Lackawanna Mines
Nearly 100 fire bosses in the Lackawanna region refused inspection in compliance with strike headquarters orders to quit. Experts say replacing them is unlikely, risking gas, explosions, and pumping disruptions. Deputy Robinson shot. a $1000 reward offered. In Rome, Taft Vatican talks advance. in Washington, Root defends Cuba payments to General Gomez.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lackawanna Region
Scranton
Lackawanna
Robinson
Delaware & Hudson
Oliphant
Woman Kills Five Children Then Burns Outhouse Near Martin
In Jackson Mississippi on June 18 Mrs L Wes trop a white woman living near Martin a small station several miles from town killed five of her children by shooting them to death in an outhouse and then burned the structure over their bodies. She escaped and remains at large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlas
McMinnville
I. Daniels
J. W. Brown
Sumpter
Portland
Morrison and
Lonsdale Street
W. J. McDaniels
Williams Avenue
Long Ock
Happy Camp
Call
Grants Pass
Jackson, Miss
Illness of King Edward III Worsens in London
A dispatch from Alder shot to Exchange Telegraph reports the king's illness has grown more serious. Sunday he was in a low state and laudanum was given to ease pain, with complications feared this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Aldershot
Tacoma Girl Suicide After Love Troubles
Tacoma June 17 Minnie Gay 20 took a fatal dose of carbolic acid about 10 p m Sunday night dying 5 a m Monday. She blamed Elmer Smith Tacoma baseball player for walking with another girl Sunday. A prior statement to this effect was made. Pueblo Cal June 16 Miss Katherine Bullen disappeared from her brothers home owners of Bullen Bridge firm and was found near the Bessemer canal headgates eight miles west of Pueblo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Minnie Gay
Elmer Smith
Pueblo
Cal
Katherine Bullen
The
Bullen Bridge Company
Vassar College
New York
Bessemer Irrigating Canal
Butte Hackman Killed In Montana Road Crash
Butte Montana June 17 Carl Bean four hackman was instantly killed when his back was crushed beneath a vehicle in a dark ditch. Two passengers were slightly injured in the same incident. Tarre Vermont June 18 a cloudburst caused property damage and five railroad workers died when a freight train hit a washout at Middlesex on the Central Vermont railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Mont
Carl Bean
Hackman
Bean
Tarre
Central Vermont Railroad
Middlesex
Spokane Signs Mullane as New Pitcher
Spokane reports Tony Mullane, formerly an umpire in the Pacific Northwest league, has been signed as one of the pitchers for the club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Tony Mullane
Proffit Named Consul to Pretoria South Africa
Washington reports that JJ FE Proffit of West Virginia has been chosen as consul to Pretoria South Africa. The appointment follows a series of diplomatic postings and reflects ongoing U S engagement with South Africa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
West Virginia
Pretoria
South Africa
First Klondike Gold Arrives in Tacoma Steamship Dust Haul
The week reports the initial gold arrival from the Klondike this season. Princess May carried about 150000 dollars in dust while City of Seattle brought around 70000 dollars. News of cleanups is scarce as claim owners keep results quiet and Canadian officials note dust being moved to St Michael when not guarded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Klondike
Tacoma
Princess May
Seattle
Caribou
Yukon
St. Michael
Mining notes show expansion across many BC mines and rail links
Reports from the Kootenay region detail rising ore shipments, new plants and infrastructure. The Snowshoe mine increases workers to 70, and Fog Horn plans an electric plant and saw mill. Northwestern Development buys Gold Finch for 60000 cash. Granby smelter and Boundary mines push output with rail and ore-bin improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Horse
Snowshoe
Phoenix
Golden Monarch Mining & Milling Company
Fog Horn
Ymir
Warner Miller Syndicate
Kilo Group
Nelson
London
Kootenay
Arlington
Trail
Neepawa
Northwestern Development Syndicate
Finch
William Butler
Dan Cameron
Camborne Group
Fish River
Lardeau
Jewel
B. C
Granby
Mother Lode
Sunset
Mining news and deals across the west and Klondike
Mines in Oregon Montana Idaho and Alaska report activity with new machinery shipments and development. Smiths and financiers including W D Wrighter and Charles Skiles acquire or plan mines while plans for smelters and mills move forward. In Thunder Mountain and Coeur d Alene districts copper finds excite investors as crews shift to new operations and leadership changes. A Klondike steam shovel arrives, and a large Jumbo mine sale is reported. In Washington and Seattle, a murder case follows a baby death with a suspect captured near Cedar River. A tall shot tower stands as a regional landmark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Nye
Jackson County
Oregon
W. D. Wrighter
Spokane
Eastern
Surprise
Montana
Violet
Ryan
Charles BE. Skilea
Helena
Marmidhe
Sunnyside
Thunder Mountain
Skiles
Pittsburg
Coeur d'Alene
Wallace
Nick Mee- Gee
Stevens
William Morrison
Mr. Stevens
Big Buffalo
Dawson
Gold Run Placer Mining Company
Klondike
W. A. Stevens
Coeur d’Alene
New York
Packard
Empire State-I Idaho Mining and Development Co
Mueller
Oregon Smelting & Refining Company
Sumpter
Buffalo Hump
Caswell
Boise
Lynch on trial for treason in London case opens
Bow Street crowds witness Colonel Arthur Lynch, MP for Galway, defend against high treason charges. Prosecution outlines his service with the Transvaal forces and Irish brigade, while the defense led by Hon. Charles Russell seeks to explain his actions and seeks a June 21 remand. Evidence notes Lynch’s Australian birth and arms pledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Bow Street
Arthur Lynch
Lynch
Galway
New Haven
France
Edward Carson
Cotonel Lynch
Paris
Transvaal
Sir Edward
South Africa
Bost
Buller
Pretoria
Australia
South Kican
Cares Oua
Natal
Irish Brigade
Irishmien
Charles Russell
Baron Russell of
Co One Lynch
Hamilton Holt
Colonel Lynch
A. H. Hardy
United States
Berne
Switzerland
Herbert W. Bowen
Teheran
Vennezuela
Richardapp
American School
Athens
Trade Report Reflects Shifts in Labor, Trade and Wheat
Bradstreet's weekly outlook notes labor strains easing yet broad effects from anthracite strike, boosting fuel prices and dampening manufacturers profits across the East. Crop prospects improve slightly, fall trade confidence rises, exports of manufactured goods show gains, and raw wool stockpiles tighten. Wheat exports for the week total 3,400,314 bushels with 50 week to date at 241,425,449 bushels. U S failures rise to 165, Canada 12. Market snippets list Pacific Northwest wheat bids and Tacoma blue stem prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradstreet
United States
Canada
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rowth
Oregon Notes
Portland Custom House
Tracy and Merrill
Oregon Penitentiary
Durbin
Cook
Geer
Missoula
Samuel G. Mackey
Boulder
Bozeman
Anaconda Copper Company
George Horkan
Milse City
C. W. Smith
J. Koshland & Co
Paris Gibson
Great Falls
National Senate
Benjamin W. Toole
J. K. Toole
Brice
Montana Central
Canada Road
Miles City
Marcus 8. Farr
Geological Department
Riverside
Shupe
State Land Office
Burlington
Judith Basin
John P. Schmit
L. C. Parker
Deer Lodge
George W. Steinberg
Granite County
Steinberg
White River
Great Britain and Ireland
Idaho Gleanings
Taft
Rome
Philippines
Vatican
Tands
Steinhuber
Society of Cardinals
Root
Gomez
Wood
Cuba
Congress
King Edward III
Miss Bullen
Butte Hackman
Mines and Hining
British Columbia
Republic
California
Big Republic
Quilp
Black Tail
Lone Pine
Princess Maud
Butte & Boston
Mountain Lion
Wyatt
Fatrick Clark
Laneous Mining News
South Bend
Wash
Paul Underwood
Babe
Cedar River
Cudihee
King County
Underwood
Aberdeen
Villach
Carinthia
Lyngh I
Charlies Ruserll
Trade Report
Valley
Little
Bluestem
Club
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