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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1905
Page
2
Reports reveal Japan Viet Vladivostok tensions and renewed German strike threats. Polish police clashes leave hundreds dead while Finland’s procurator’s assassin captured. Damara wreck near Nova Scotia costs many lives and Missouri funds law exposition.
Lawmakers wrestle with Oklahoma statehood as Senate approves a statehood bill and Utah debate lingers over freight regulation. House advances diplomatic and judicial appropriations while tackling agricultural funding and Panama Canal governance provisions.
London cabling reports a Russian aligned with M Witte claims Russia demands Far East gains at any cost. The source says evacuation of Manchuria could occur with China leasing Manchuria and the Liaotung peninsula for 99 years while Russia would keep Port Arthur and Vladivostok and pay nonresistance. A separate Alabama blast at Dupont plant near Boyles Gap killed two and injured many.
Federal grand jury returns two indictments accusing Butte Creek Land Company figures and associates of conspiracy to intimidate settlers and obstruct public land entry in Wirester County. The charges include threats of violence and efforts to defraud the government, naming Windock Wooster and other company officials along with ex officials and clerks. The second indictment targets Henry Meldrum and several clerks and notaries as conspirators in schemes against government land records and homestead claims.
Amid the Helsingfors crime coverage, unrest spreads in Poland where disorders in smaller towns have raised deaths, and troops move to Warsaw and Kutno. In the Caucasus the strike persists. railway traffic on the Trans Caucasian line halts as the Social Democrat Workmen's party calls for armed renewal and mass action.
Copenhagen correspondent reports no danger of a wider Karwan strike abating soon. Propaganda by the Karwan Progressive party is described as insidious. A Russian official fears the unrest could grow beyond last uprising, with seeds sown among soldiers. If troops had joined early, Rasman might face a revolution rivaling or exceeding the Areneh upheaval.
Postal and telegraph lines remain largely down from the Mississippi to the Atlantic as rain and sleet strain communications. Louisville reports slight improvement but Atlanta remains cut off twice since Sunday with no messages for about 14 hours.
Washington Feb 11 No date set for starting Panama railroad investigation. The matter is assigned to a subcommittee of the House Interstate and Foreign Affairs Committee. Chairman Shackelford of Missouri said details will take days to decide. Much information comes from department reports.
New York report says Blanchard Out via Edward Ho Harriman has secured control of the Michigan Topeka Santa Fe railroad system totaling about 72,740 miles of track with stocks and bonds valued at 33.85 billion dollars. The network spans the East West Northwest and Southwest, excluding only a portion near the eastern Atlantic.
London Daily Chronicle cites St Petersburg dispatch claiming Russia cancelled mobilization of a new army corps and that the czar ordered General Kurpatkin on Tuesday to end the war, signaling a shift toward peace.
February 8 report from Santo Domingos says General Cespedes resigns as Puerto Plata governor and leaves for Porto Rico. The Cherokee will carry a protest to Congress from ex Vice President Deschamps and followers who threaten arms to oust the Santo Domingo government if it does not resign.
In Washington on February 8 the supreme court refused to issue an injunction sought by Wire B Wilnos a lawyer aimed at stopping the Treasury from paying to Panama. The decision upholds the Panama Canal treaty provisions and rejects claims that the United States must waive or alter payments tied to the treaty and renewal.
Judge Tanner law partner of John Mitchell is indicted by a federal grand jury for perjury related to testimony on January 31 in cases involving Senator Mitchell and land dealings. Other indictments include charges of perjury, subornation of perjury, and conspiracy to defraud, naming multiple defendants.
Dr Lewin Wilcorson of White Plains and Joseph Tayi with John Smith face federal recovery actions after a $10,000 United States bond stolen from a Manhattan savings institution in 187s. The bond was traced to the subtreasury on Wall Street and tied to a bank avenger. Police report vast recoveries and the case spans years with multiple parties involved.
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