Weekly News Highlights From The Past Week
A digest of diverse items includes Tillman’s re election bid, Bristol confirmed as Oregon district attorney, famine aid to Japan, court review on rate bill, Germany’s Moroccan stance, Lipton’s America's Cup plans, railroad consolidation rumors, an Indiana baby mystery, storm revelations in Indiana, ships oil rule push, Winnipeg riots, Iowa laws on rail passes and forest lands, miners’ strikes, Red Cross aid totals, gasoline price rise in Cleveland, Governor Pattison’s health, Justice Harlan rumors, Chicago beef trust trial, Panama canal action concerns, Roosevelt pushes Bristol, Mississippi flood risks, China and Nanchang issues, German navy buildup, Tuskegee bequest, and Moroccan conference solutions.
Invasion Plan for Venezuela Reported by New York Merchants
The World today cites a large New York merchant claiming preparations are under way in New York and Paris for an invasion of Venezuela to oust Castro. Promoters say 15,000 soldiers and 5 million dollars will back the campaign to install a Venezuelan leader, with ships bound for South America carrying rifles ammunition and arms including Mauser rifles and swords.
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New York
World Today
Paris
Venezuéla
Castro
Sig
Amer- Carlos B. Fuegerdo
Europe
Great Trade With Mexico Reported For 1905
A Commerce and Labor bulletin shows U S trade with Mexico reached 92 million dollars in fiscal 1905, up from 31 million in 1895. Mexico buys 63 percent of its imports from the United States and ships 71 percent of its exports here. The bulletin notes large U S investment in the region, about one half of an estimated 1 billion dollars.
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Washington
Department of Commerce and Labor
United
Mexico
United States
Ber
Canada
Cuba
Three Trains In Wreck Near Delta Ohio
Three trains collided on the Lake Shore line near Delta Ohio leaving the passenger No 3 on a 30 foot embankment. Two freights rear ended and blocked the line while the passenger plunged after striking the caboose. Passengers escaped uninjured as cars burned, with damages about 100000 dollars.
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Delta
Lake Shore
State to mine coal for institutions during strike
Governor Folk via Warden Matt Hall of the state penitentiary leased a mine near Waverly to supply 165 state institutions with fuel during the present strike. Miners at Waverly are paid ten percent more than the regular rate and do not want to strike. If forced out, the state can operate the mine without difficulty.
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Missouri
Jefferson City
Folk
Matt Hall
State Penitentiary
Waverly
Aca
Hall
Miners Found Alive? New Bodies Recovered At Lens Mine
Lens France April 3 inhabitants again excited by discovery of eight more bodies in the mine where the explosion occurred. Examination shows the miners did not die long before. Deputy Bastly accuses the company of prioritizing property over rescuing miners.
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Lens
France
Bastly
House of Deputies
Elect Viquez President of Costa Rica
Lio nesiado Cleto Gonzales Viques former finance minister won the Costa Rican presidential race and was named president of the republic in San Jose on April 3.
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Viquez
San Jose
Costa Rica
Lionesiado Cleto Gonzales Viques
Republic of
Oregon Seeks to Clarify Direct Primary Law Provisions
Salem officials report chaos around the direct primary law as candidates rush nominating petitions. Secretary of State Dunbar has written to a candidate over petition format while others fear petitions may miss the March 30 filing deadline. Clerks work long hours to verify signatures across counties and precincts.
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Salem
Circuit Bench
Circuit
Supreme Court
Dunbar
Oregon
Secretary of State
Oerats
Roads Across Umatilla Reserve Set To Open
Pendleton reports agitation lasting years for public roads through the Umatilla reservation. An act of Congress now allows road lay out with department approval, correcting prior limits that kept county access restricted by tribal consent. Sheep crossing the reserve has been prohibited for several years.
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Umatilla Reserve
Pendleton
Umatilla Reservation
Congress
Willamette Valley Wagon Road Abandoned Across Cascade
Albany official notes the Willamette Valley and Coast Oregon Cascade Mountain Wagon Road will be abandoned across the Cascade mountains. The company disclaims responsibility for repairs or accidents on the road. Lands of the company’s grant may be seized under the timber and stone act as workers move to take up plots. The road was built about 30 years ago.
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Abandor Cascade Road
Albany
Charles Altechul
Applepine Valley Telephone Company Forms In Applegate Area
Farmers in the Applegate valley form the Applepine Valley Telephone Company to connect with the Passe Buttes Telephone network in Grants Pass. Residents around Merlin, Rogue River, and Jump-off-Joe plan a meeting to create a line to Grants Pass.
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Josephine
Granta Pass
Applegate Valley
Appleenie
Indian Burying Ground Unearthed by City Workmen
Workmen clearing a southern city lot owned by M. J. Anderson uncovered an old Indian burial ground. They exhumed seven skeletons with burial trinkets including elk teeth. Mr. Anderson will have the bones and items collected and reburied in a suitable grave site chosen by surviving relatives.
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Dallee
M. J. Anderson
Mr. Anderson
Old Deed Filed For Record In Linn County 1858
Albany deed dated November 25 1858 signed by Joab Powell and Anna Powell acknowledged before Justice Jacob Snoderly. The document, penned with a quill on a large paper sheet, is now yellow and dim. Powell was a pioneer minister with many Linn County descendants.
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Albany
Oregon
Joab Powell
Anna Powell
Jacob Snoderly
Powell
Linn County
Central Railway material arrives at Union for Oregon work
A carload of plows scrapers and grading tools has been received at Union for the Central Railway of Oregon project. Eastern investors in the electric railway venture have arrived at Union signaling the start of active operations.
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Central Railway
la Grande
Union
Central Railway of
Oregon
Oregon Horses for Japan contract sale
John Day Henry Trowbridge and a U S Officer stockmen of the free country have purchased a band of 100 horses for a contract with Beattie shippers to the Japanese government. The horses are young geldings, 15 to 1644 hands high and without blemish. From $40 to $60 per head was not fully specified.
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Oregon
Japan
John Day
Henry Trowbridge
U. S
Free Country
Beattie Shippers
Population Decrease Noted in Oregon Census Returns
Oregon’s 1906 state census is forecast to be about six percent lower than the Federal 1900 count. Secretary Danbar faces slow tabulation due to unreadable returns, no extra staffing, and overtime needed to complete primary, general, and June election data.
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Salem
Oregon
Danbar
Timber Speculation Drives Large Oregon Land Purchase
Eugene reports a major timber deal in Gate Creek area where Olean Land company of Olean New York acquired 15000 acres. The firm is also negotiating for further timber along the McKenzie river totaling about 25000 acres. Officials say the purchases aim at price appreciation rather than immediate logging.
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Eugene
Olean Land Company
Olean
N. Y
Gate Creek
McKenzie River
Electric Line in Six Months to Reach Beaside
Astoria promoter L. Dudley asserts the proposed electric line to Beaside will be completed and in service within six months if materials arrive on time. Government permission to bridge Young’s bay is secured and contracts for the steel draw and 1,500 tons of 60 pound rails have been awarded. Rails to be delivered in 90 days.
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Astoria
W. L. Dudley
Beaside
Young's Bay
Favorable Weather After Freeze Boosts Expected Crop
Dallee Weather reports the most favorable conditions since the recent freeze. Farmers expect most fall sown grain to recover with average or better yields. Some east exposed fields may require resowing, but overall prospects are positive after a cloudy light thaw.
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Dallee
Woolen Mill Starts Limited Operations in Eugene
The Eugene woolen mill has begun limited operations after the new owners acquired the property. Improvements are ongoing and full production is planned as soon as feasible.
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Eugene
Portland markets list varied farm goods prices
Wheat prices ranged from 65 to 68 cents per bushel with oats at 27.50 to 27 per ton. Hay and alfalfa quotes, apples at 1.50 to 2.75 per box, vegetables with asparagus 8 cents per pound and onions 4 1 4 cents per dozen, potatoes 50 60 cents per hundred, eggs 16 cents per dozen, poultry and meat prices across a broad Oregon market.
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Oregon
Valley
Burbanks
Oregon Ranch
Delegates at Algeciras Complete Moroc can Accord
At Algeciras on April 2 a preliminary session led to a complete accord and a committee to draft a formal protocol. The final communique states the settlement covers state banks customs police at ports and distribution of Tangier Casa Blanca and other ports among France Spain and the Dutch declined appointment of an officer. Mr White says the accord secures Morocco’s future and satisfies both France and Germany.
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Algeciras
France
Sef
Magasan
Rabat
Spain
Tetuan
Larache
Tangier
Casa Blanca
White
Miners Accept Perry Resolution Keeping Pittsburgh Mines Open
Pittsburgh delegates to the Miners National convention welcomed the Perry resolution allowing mines to operate if the 1903 wage scale is accepted. The vote stalls a broad interstate strike, keeping 28,000 miners in the Pittsburg district at work with a possible stock-off shutdown. Chairman Robbins praised the decision as prudent and said all Pittsburgh mines would operate on Tuesday.
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Pitteburg
Miners’ National Convention
Indianapolis
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Pittsburg
Robbins
Refuses to be dismissed at Cristobal clash
On April 2 Henry Burnett sent a letter appointing R. Bermudez as commissariat at Cristobal but Bermudez refused to accept. Police halted deliveries as staff quit in sympathy though most returned later. Ongoing stock taking preceded unclear reasons for Bermudez’s supersession and a water shortage looms in Colon.
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Colon
Henry Burnett
Labor and Quarters Department
Stevens
R. Bermudez
Commissariat
Cristobal
Bermudez
Burnett
Delgardo
Atock
Mastodon Fossil Found With Gold In Eye Socket Near Dawson
Malcolm McConnell, owner of the Forty-Three claim near Dawson, reports via letter that a mastodon skull unearthed recently contains gravel yielding 1600 in gold in its eye socket. McConnell, who returned from Alaska last fall with bones of the animal, says the rest of the fossil has now been located.
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Tacoma
Wash
Dawson
Malcolm McConnell
McConnell
Alaska
Censure for Captain Johnson Over Valencia Wreck
Washington reports Captain Johnson of the Valencia wreck near Vancouver Island faces severe censure by the government board that led the Tacoma investigation. The panel finds lack of judgment and poor navigation, noting no wind or tide calculations were made the night of the grounding.
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Washington
Johnson
Steemer Valencia
Vancouver Island
Freeit
Tacoma
German Colony Massacred Report From Southwest Africa
A force of Hottentots surprised a German colony in Southwest Africa and killed 11 and wounded six. No further details are available.
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Berlin
Africa
League of Russian Writers warns of planned anti Jewish massacres
A March 81 dispatch reports the League of Russian Writers urging Russians to unite to prevent massacres of Jews in Southwestern Russia during Eastertide. The appeal accuses police and gendarmes of enabling Black Hundred attacks and cites past pogroms in Kishineff Gomel and Odessa.
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Bt. Petersburg
League of Russian Writers
Russia
Kishineff
Gomel
Odessa
M. Kadlensky
St. Petersburg
Ekaternoslav
League of Writers
Alexandrovsk
Minsk
Brest-Litovak
Rostof-on-Don
Kementechug
Debate Over Size of Future U S Battleship
Washington reports A naval debate follows a House committee plan to fund a 6 million dollar battleship larger than any new vessel. Experts favor 20,000 ton plus ships but question single giant ships versus adding several 16,000 ton units to create an effective fleet. Four ships of similar speed and armament are seen as necessary for real engagement. One oversized battleship alone is deemed insufficient.
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Washington
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Admiral Dewey
Scranton Prepares for Anthracite Strike
Scranton Pennsylvania reports a planned mining halt in the anthracite field with stockades built and guards hired to protect property. Officials and staff have signed to assist in case ofstrike while companies intend to keep operating.
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Scranton
Changes Plan of Tunnel
Baron Loicq de Lobel altered his Bering Strait tunnel and Siberian railway to run due east from Kanek to the 110th degree of longitude and then northeast to Yakutek to meet the national defense committee wishes. Unofficial intimations say Raseia would welcome the concession with an American loan.
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St. Petersburg
Baron Loicq de Lobel
National Defense Committee
Bering Strait Tunnel
Siberian
Kanek
Yakutek
Raseia
New Jersey Battleship Tops Speed Records For Navy
The battleship New Jersey achieved 19.18 knots during a four hour endurance run off the New England coast and kept a 19.18 knot pace over a measured mile at Rockland Maine, placing her at the head of all American built battleships for speed.
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Boston
New Jersey
New England
Rockland
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