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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1903
Page
2
Reports list trainmen voting to strike on the Great Northern line and various international events including Turkey amassing troops, raids on trains, political moves in France and Venezuela, and military tensions in the Americas.
Dispatches from Pekin Yokohama and Washington outline Russia insisting on ceding Manchurian sovereignty to China and barring foreign powers from ports while Japan and Britain weigh naval options and US aid. Officials discuss evacuations, telegraph control, and governance under Kuomintang influence.
President George Baer of the Reading company tells the interstate commerce commission he obeys the law and is ready for testimony. He testifies he cannot name all controlled coal firms and defends Reading’s extensive holdings amid Hearst’s antitrust suit and the section restricting mining and manufacturing by non-operators.
The Western Union Telegraph company reports in Butte Montana labor protesters demanded higher pay and fewer hours. Rioters attacked offices with eggs and stones, delaying service. Police protection fluctuated as strikes spread to substitute workers and neighboring lines.
Chandler Anderson of New York is named assistant counsel for the United States in presenting its Alaskan boundary case to the joint commission. Secretary Manderson served on the high joint commission and Bearing Sea arbitration panel. John W. Foster plans to file the United States call in early May.
Washington April 23 Secretary Root plans a perfected general staff ready for operation when the law takes effect in August Officers in the Philippines will report to General Young as chief of staff to aid in organizing the body Special boards may be formed to handle staff tasks while divisions take up questions as they arise The goal is to have officers shift to staff duties promptly and complete the organization by August 15
Major General Davis returned to Manila from the archipelago. The sultan of Jolo skipped meetings, heading to Singapore. Nine tenths of Mindanao Moros reportedly accept American sovereignty and vow peace and friendship. Representatives from 40 towns north of the lake profess allegiance to the United States. A raid by headhunters in Nueva Ecija is being pursued by cavalry.
In Romerville New Jersey on April 28 around 200 workers from Hungary and Poland blocked the Raritan river bridge to the Duke estate amid a 25 cent daily wage demand unsatisfied by James B Duke. Strikers armed with revolvers and clubs deterred workers from crossing as trees were damaged on the property. John Lawson estate manager diverted workers by wagon and was briefly stopped at the bridge gate before firing alarm shots to deter a gunman.
Pamenger train No 103 on the Frisco system left Kansas City at 1130 for Memphis and Birmingham and was wrecked near Bear Burton Missouri, north of Springfield. The engine, baggage express and mail cars derailed and burned. Engineer Freeman and mail clerks Coffman Campbell died. Meade died later. Several passengers injured but escaped with minor hurts.
Washington April 23 considerable attention in official circles to the position Germany is forced to occupy in Washington due to delays in Barom von Sternberg arrival to assume as ambassador. His credentialing and the German envoy’s rank are debated among ministers and chiefs of mission as a feeling of preeminence shifts among officials.
Fragmentary recital from a Sunday lesson shows a teacher testing children with moral tales and Bible history. Phrases mention a dog and pig tax exchange, a child’s cry, and a bid at an old Bible printing by Mark Baskett with a Kieland Greco note, hinting at early American religious texts.
A historical notice from Roseburg Oregon records a timber land claim filing under the Timber Land Act of June by a claimant in Township 31 South Range 10 West, listing Lots 1 3 4 and a sworn statement to prove occupancy and purpose of timber or stone use before a federal land commission date.
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