Northwest News Briefs Highlight Sprawling Week
Oscar Lingwall of Spokane is missing and a man died by suicide at Wilson Creek. Sprague Public School Commencement will be at the Masonic Hall. Mike McLellan of Fort Walla Walla fatally injured during drill on the reservation. The first sale of the American Short Horn Breeders association occurs in Colfax with 38 cattle sold. Walla Walla high school wins interacademy track meet by 33 points. Engineer Riley and Brakeman Kittle die in Everett trestle crash. Rev. G Herbert Jones named chaplain candidate. Inland Empire Interscholastic Association formed to regulate high school sports in Spokane district. Attorney General Stratton finds no provision for governor vacancy. lieutenant governor duties continue. Dallas creamery machinery arrives. Salem plans a $2000 Fourth of July celebration. Portland lumber strike ends. workers get 1-year wage agreement. Ex-prizefighter Larry Sullivan beaten in Portland by Mysterious Billy Smith. Weston to host pioneer picnic, normal school events, and lodge hall dedications. Libby Mining stamp mill arrives for West Fisher district. Butte shifts include MacDonald to lead summer work and judge Knowles to donate land for park. Kalispell murders and transport accidents add to a busy week. Mayor orders dance-houses closed May 31 amid debate.
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Oscar Lingwall
Spokane
Wilson Creek
Sprague Public School
W. H. Howells
Eastern Washington Hospital For
Mike McLellan
Fort Walla Walla
Walla Walla
Snohomish Logging Company
Riley
Kittle
G. Herbert Jones
Vincent Methodist Episcopal Church
Roosevelt
McBride
Stratton
Dallas
Salem
Multnomah
Clackamas
Oregon
C. H. Welch
J. T. Yeager
Portland Lumbering Company
Larry Sullivan
Portland
Billy Smith
Sullivan
Smith
Weston
Umatilla County
Oregon State Normal School
John Cowell
Libby Mining Company
West Fisher
E. H. MacDonald
Butte
Professor Knight
State School of Mines
Knight
Hiram Knowles
United States Court
Missoula
George Y. Patten
Montana
Paul
Kalispell
Robert Smith
O'Brien
James Coulter
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Coulter
Northern Pacific
Bedford
Helena
Townsend
Logan
Montana town plans new water supply project
Chinook moves ahead with a new water supply plan to upgrade municipal infrastructure. Officials say the project will improve delivery, reliability, and water quality for residents and businesses. Construction timelines and funding details are to be announced.
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Montana
Decoration day plans and Idaho incidents reported
Idaho Gleanings notes Decoration day preparations in the state. Wallace’s Spokane train hits John Karcher, breaking his leg and hurling him into the river. A year old Heim child drowns at Cataido after the gate to Pine creek yard opens. Arthur Stoddard, 26, English native, dies in a mine accident at Wardner. Mrs. W. H. Savidge elected president of Boise's Columbian club, 187 members, joined American League of Civic Improvement. Night watchman John Breckle shoots himself by a dropped revolver. injury to his right shoulder. Troy considers Sunday business closures, including saloons. Farmers' Club of Latah calls for a northern Idaho and eastern Washington farmers’ meeting at Moscow on June 5 to organize product marketing. Joseph Haupt, Kendrick area farmer, severely injured as horses spook a downed passenger train. Consolidated Lumber of Spokane buys 140,000 dollars of timber lands across Elk and Pack river, from Cartier Van Dissel, former NP landowner. Ulysses Chartier, 33, commits suicide by strychnine in South Boise. former state asylum patient. deeded 7000 dollars worth of property to wife before death.
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Spokane
Wallace
John Karcher
John Heim
Cataido
Heim
Pine Creek
Arthur Stoddard
England
Wood
Bunker Hill
Wardner
Stoddard
W. H. Savidge
Woman’s Columbian Club of
Boise
American League of Civic Improvement
John C. Breckle
Hecla
Troy
Farmers’ Club
Latah County
Farmers
Idaho
Washington
Moscow
Joseph Haupt
Kendrick
Consolidated Lumber Company of
Elk
Pack River
Elk District
E. Cartier van Dissel
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Ulysses
Chartier
South Boise
State Asylum For the
Indian Jim Williams Dies in Tacoma Life Term Prisoner
Indian Jim Williams, one of the Horton murderers on Lynn Canal in 1900, is dead in Tacoma. He had been serving a life sentence at McNeil's Island government penitentiary and was brought to Tacoma for treatment. He confessed to cutting Mrs Horton's throat.
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Tacoma
Wash
Jim Williams
Second cave found at Abbey mine Kendall Montana
Mining notes report a second cave at the Abbey mine Kendall Montana. The new shaft runs 85 feet down the ore body, extends 40 more feet then pitches northeast. Water at the bottom marks the water level 350 feet deep. Ore shows along the hanging wall with no crystals in the walls, and drift work resumes.
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Kendall
Montana
British Columbia Mining News From Cariboo and Boundary
Reports from Cariboo note Sam Montgomery washing 190 ounces of gold in 24 hours on Lightning creek. North Star Mining shipped ore for Traismelter this week as tunneling advances on a rich lead with three shifts at 75 feet. The Crofton smelter site in Vancouver expands with over 100 workers and a growing brickwork and ore bin complex. Boundary copper ore costs estimated at 23.66 a ton, with copper at 11 to 11.5 cents, led by Dr. Ledoux of Ledoux & Co. The Ymir mine vein near the 1000 foot level remains promising despite rumors, with shaft depth at 700 feet and ore quality holding up.
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Cariboo
Sam” Montgomery
Lightning Creek
North Star Mining Company
Trai
Crofton
Vancouver
Messrs
Breen
Fotheringham
Bellinger
Boundary District
British Columbia
Ledoux
Farcous
New York
Ledoux & Co
Boundary Mines
Canadian Mining Review
Boundary
Ymir
London
Copper plating used on doors and wooden articles
Miscellaneous mining news notes a process where doors and other wooden items are electroplated with copper or other metals after a preparatory treatment to ensure adhesion. The brief item highlights industrial metalworking techniques and potential applications.
Revolution in Haiti as Congress dissolves amid revolt
Port au Prince May 13 reports severe street fighting as Congress meets to elect a successor to President Sam. Deputies clash, cries of Vive la revolution fill the chamber, and the assembly dissolves amid gunfire. Three rival factions mobilize, with General Le Conte, General Wilburne, and General Saint Foix Colin aligning with military, war department, and popular support respectively. The unrest spreads, while reports from the West Indies and volcanic activity in Martinique and Dominica add to regional tension.
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Port Au Prince
Hayti
Congress
Interior
Sam
Chamber of Deputies
Jeannot
Wilburne
Saint Foix Colin
New Steel Trust Formed In Chicago Under Eddy
The Daily News reports a new steel industry combination in Chicago under Arthur J. Eddy named American Steel Founders' Company with 40 million dollars in capital split equally between common and preferred stock. Key figures include FE H Gary, Charles M Schwab, and General Miller linked to United States Steel, with Harris, Gates & Co financing the arrangement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
New
Whic
Arthur J. Eddy
American Steel Founders’ Company
FE. H. Gary
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
General Miller
Harris, Gates & Co
Battle to restrain bed trust filed in Chicago court
May 11 The second step in the bed trust investigation moved forward as a bill for injunction was filed with the United States circuit court. Attorney General Knox District Attorney Bethea and Special Counsel Day submitted the document for Swift & Co Cudahy Packing Hammond Packing and Armour Co Illinois corporations. The injunction request will be argued in court within ten days.
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Chicago
Bed Trust
United States Circuit Court
Knox
United States District Attorney
Pethea
William A. Day
Bethea
Swift & Co
Cudahy Packing Company
Hammond Packing Company
Armour & Co
Illinois
A Poor Rule Etc. Daily virtues noted in Brooklyn humor
A Brooklyn Eagle humor item quotes Mrs Boreum-Willie admonishing not to eat between meals and Willie replying that meals do not affect his appetite. The snippet ends with a quip about possessing daily virtues before claiming uncommon ones.
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News OF the Northwest
Idaho Gleanings
Mines and Mining News
William Douglas
Keller, Wash
Millard Kirkpatrick
Republic
William Ragsdale
Trade Dollar
Dixie Queen
William Hye
West Fork
Monumental Creek
Thunder Mountain District
Larry
Dowrie
North Pole
Sumpter
Columbia
Golconda
Black Hawk
Robinsonville
J. Tracey
F. W. Wheeler
Detroit
Rabbit Creek
Lawton
M. Courty
Yellow Daisy Group
Henry A. Butters
San Francisco
John Hayes Hammond
F. W. Baker
The
Venture Corporation, Ltd
Empire Mine
Colorado
Fort Worden
Port Townsend
United States Artillery
Joe Gans
Frank Erie
Fort Erie
Alaska
Senor Severo
Seronaut
la Paix
Denver
Col
Yukon
House Committee On Appropriations
St. Pierre
United States
Pittsburg
Sheridan Yard
Panhandle
Patrick O'Leary
James O'Leary
Fort de France
Martinique
Rubis
le Carget
Case Pilote
Mont Pelee
Miscellaneous Mining News
St Thomas
Kingston
St. Vincent
Lent
Barbadoes
Unique
Trinidad
Kennedy
Bri
St Poont
Island
Dominica
Lisbon
Delagoa Bay
Portuguese Africa
Per
Viing
Transvaal
Inis Field
Vereenigining
Bort
Pretoria
Lord Kitchener
Amother Steel Combine
Concordia
Kan
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