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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1904
Page
2
British warships recalled from Canada amid unrest while riots erupt at Austrian university. A steamer sinks off Algeria with 100 dead. A New York ferry collision in dense fog. Port Arthur battles and the Russian advance dominate a tumultuous page of war news and calamities across continents.
AP reports from the front that Japanese forces occupy Riblang and Sungushu mountains and East Keekwan, threatening the town’s east side and likely to enter the main forts soon. Russians brace for a prolonged resistance at Liaoti and Tiger’s Tail, while Bey ond Pacific speed nears.
Three Rosean Squadron officers including Captain Clado arrived from Vigo and met with the Russian embassy. Clado, aboard the flagship with Vice Admiral Korestvensky, drafts the official account. They will not speak until the Petersburg report is delivered.
George E Hall of Kansas City was arrested on a mail fraud charge after allegedly collecting 27 from 200 laborers for Alaska jobs that did not exist. Laborers were sent to Valdez, Alaska and forced to return home in hardship. Ex legislator John A Sheridan, convicted of bribery, died in Jefferson Hospital from tuberculosis while awaiting appeal and pending trial.
Cody Wyoming November 5 bands of men pursuing the Firet National bank cashier killers have the robbers practically surrounded in Owl Creek foothills about 350 miles from here. A large force from Hole in the Wall country is said to be joining. Buffalo Bill with Indian scouts and cowboys has taken the trail and a very time may be anticipated.
Coal prices across grades increase 35 cents a ton as ore disputes impact market. Report notes price hike tied to ongoing industrial tensions and shipping constraints affecting supply.
Washington officials decide to drop one planned building at the Lewis and Clark exposition. The lowest bid would leave only 15000 for wiring and incidental costs, prompting elimination of the forest and irrigation structure to save 12000 while preserving overall layout and space.
Nov 7 Port land. Interior department panel to pick Alaska exhibits for the Lewin and Clark Centennial exposition. Members include Judge Thomas Ryan Edward M Dawson B F Peters and S R Barcha. They will set exhibit space and help promote Alaska to attract settlers and locals to the territory.
Arnold Gundelfinger a retired merchant and his wife were held up in their San Francisco hotel room by a man posing as a bell boy James Gates was admitted under pretence of plumbing and produced a pistol. He compelled the couple to move to another room where Mrs Gundelfinger surrendered a jewel bag valued at 2500 dollars before Gates fled.
Berlin dispatch cites 34 000 sick and wounded Russians sent away after the last engagement. Tageblatt’s Russian front telegraph says Shakhe river positions grow stronger daily. Japanese attack feared to recede with no major clash expected before spring. Francisco dispatch notes a $100 fine imposed in a commerce and labor case.
The text records President Theodore Roosevelt proclaiming November 24 as a day of festival and thanks giving for the United States. It prays for divine favor, notes national peace, abundant harvests, and civic duty, and urges Americans to worship or reflect at home or in churches or temples.
Police in Hoboken arrested a man in the act of dropping a bag containing a drug used in treatment onto a steamer bank. The suspect stated the bag was handed to a person on the dock and that he intended to go to a nearby address.
On November 8 in Chefoo, the Ryeshitemi torpedo boat destroyer crews were taken aboard the German steamer Vorwaerts, bound for Shanghai, to rendezvous with the cruiser Askold. An abrupt return to shore followed as Pekin revoked the permit allowing the voyage under last minute government pressure.
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