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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1902
Page
3
Tension erupts as Beaton fights his father over Griselda and Vera. Dysart presses a marriage plan, while Seaton rejects a coerced match and retreats, leaving a secret motive and threatening documents to fuel future conflict.
Immigration Commissioner Powderly and AFL President Gompers urged stricter Chinese exclusion under the Mitchell Kallen bill. Gompers criticized Wu Ting Fang and urged courtesy to the Chinese minister while denouncing foreign insinuations about American workers.
A fragment recounts Quakers misfiring on trivial matters. An anecdote recalls a hat with a button and another tale of a drenched companion borrowing a coat. The Reverend notes true religion lies beyond outward show and urges humility over petty appearances.
Secretary Pakrentia and Mr. Lathrop tour Asia to assess agricultural plant introductions and trade prospects in China. They discuss missionaries, Shanghai trade, rising Japanese competition, tea production costs, and American Manila occupation effects on labor, hotels, and living costs in Hong Kong and Canton.
A large terminal station for New York and New Jersey street railways is planned west of sixth avenue between Christopher and Leroy streets. Property purchases have begun. The new tunnel company will lease its tracks to the traction companies, with tracks rising from the tunnel to street surface on a gentle incline over two blocks designated for the terminals.
A nitro glycerine handling accident at the Carsette Manufacturing Company plant in Ardwick Maryland killed one man and lightly injured two others. The blast damaged the building but left eight tons of strength stored nearby undisturbed.
Washington February 6 The house committee on commerce favors a bill to reorganize the revenue cutter service establishing officer ranks equating captain with army major and lieutenant with navy lieutenant, with retirement at 64 and three fourths pay. A cutter loss from a collision off San Francisco valued at $50,000 prompts concern in maritime notes.
A Colorado Midland passenger train traveling west toward Salt Lake and San Francisco struck a standing freight train two miles west of Buena Vista. The crash hurled caboose and freight cars into the creek, instantly killing the rear brakeman. The engineer and fireman stayed aboard as the engine teetered on the edge, narrowly avoiding disaster. The brakeman who attempted to flag the passenger train was badly mangled.
Providence dispatch reports a lockout in four large looms within the American Woolen Company, aiming to curb a potential general strike by about 150 weavers seeking to end the double loom system. Over 6,500 workers across departments face unemployment as funds are arranged for those out of work and plans form to spread the strike to other company mills in multiple cities.
Berlin reports the Kaiser's gift to Alice Roosevelt during Admiral Prince Henry's visit to America. A jewel case studded with diamonds, featuring a central enamel portrait and imperial monogram, was presented as a token.
Word arrives that seven bandits robbed the Puoco Mercantile Company store at Fort Bumner New Mexico. One man is dead another beaten, goods valued at many dollars were stolen and the post office was robbed or damaged in the incident.
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