Shasta Route Schedule Fragment
Train timetable fragment shows a Shasta Route S80 entry with a time notation around 8:30 and a reference to an eight thirty schedule. Readable text is incomplete, no clear destination or service details available.
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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1897
Page
1
Train timetable fragment shows a Shasta Route S80 entry with a time notation around 8:30 and a reference to an eight thirty schedule. Readable text is incomplete, no clear destination or service details available.
A tight party dispute stalls Oregon's 19th session with the senate organized but the house unable to vote on a U S senator until January 26. Joseph Simon of Multnomah is named senate president and C E Cline of Whatcom is chosen speaker.
Braddock Pa. report states Carnegie Homestead Duquesne and Westinghouse workers form a joint stock to build a 2,000,000 iron and steel plant at Port Angles on Puget Sound. The venture secures 1200 stock subscribers worth about 1 million dollars, facilities include 600 acres iron ore and 1,000 acres coal lands, and a 30 acre mill site with wharf and rail rights. Work to start in April with 2,000 employees planned.
London reports the first class cruiser Terrible completed a 32 mile trial off the Cornish coast with an average speed of 22.44 knots, claiming a record for war vessels afloat. Built in Glasgow and launched in 1895, she displaces 14 200 tons and carries 840 crew.
The navy department reorganizes its steel board following a defect survey of plate used in battleship construction. Captain Day is replaced by Commander Coquin as head while Lieutenant Everett steps down for Constructor Daghiel. Chief Engineer Freeman remains. board shifts to expert majority to revise steel specifications guided by the special board’s findings.
Fritz Weyen aged 19 and Don Weyen 17 disappeared after leaving home for a fishing trip near Sprague Washington. A search found Don's body 100 yards from shore while Fritz Mishm remains unrecovered. The sailboat appears overturned by wind. The boys' father works at Spokane railroad shops.
Fon Du Lac Wisconsin January 12 Owen Ferguson clerk of Fond du Lac county shot himself twice last night both shots missed the heart He had suffered the death of his wife in the previous year a defeat at the last election a broken leg and prior crippling condition He was reported to be short in his accounts and is still alive
Fred Foulk was mauled to death by wild hogs fifteen miles northeast of Atlantic while rabbit hunting. He wounded one hog accidentally, attracting others that dragged him into the timber. The hogs had escaped from nearby farms and roamed freely.
A blaze at the American Tobacco Company's large leaf tobacco factory in Danville, Va., gutted the building and its contents. One million pounds of leaf tobacco and valuable machinery were lost. insurance coverage stands at 120,000. The firm plans to rebuild.
Key West dispatch reports Cuban insurgents burning large tracts including the Santa Rosa sugar estate and forcing hundreds of families from their homes. Mothers carry children as hunger and exposure spread while fires light the horizon across Manzanillo Sancti Spiritus and maps plantation routes.
A Hungarian christening gathering in Mayfield Pa ends in a deadly brawl after heavy drinking. Lucetz Krutehas dies from wounds, others are dying or severely injured, and the scene shows extensive violence and bloodshed with a constable and posse interrupting the fracas.
The Turkish Reform League from Brussels accuses the sultan of planning a massacre during Ramadan and asks European powers to depose the sultan and appoint Rheichad Effendi as heir with a mixed Moslem Christian European council of state.
The Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern railways were sold today under a mortgage settlement. Samuel Carr, Walter C. Oakman and Henry G. Nicholls, for the reorganizing committee, bought the properties for 5.4475 million dollars. Utah Southern went to the same bidders for 763000 dollars and its extension for 975000 dollars. W. H. Bancroft named general manager. The transfer covers five western states and paves the way for a full reorganization of officers and staff.
The Indian appropriation bill for the next year totals 7,465,000 dollars, lower than this year but with a 20,000 dollar increase for schools. It funds Dawes commission expenses, pays old settlers claims of 86,200 dollars, and includes treaties with the Comanche Kiowa and Apache, Turtle Mountain Chippewas, and a Hot Springs reservation plan. It also creates three Indian commissioners replacing the current system. In San Francisco, the Durrant murder case may be retried pending Supreme Court action and briefs from both sides.
A head end crash on the Gulf Colorado Santa Fe line at Hazlett two miles north of Fort Worth killed engineer Joe Hagwerty of Gainesville and brakeman BE Palushall. Engineer George Coomt of Gainesville suffered a broken arm and Morris sustained serious injuries. The south bound driver had assumed the switch was set to the siding and plowed into the north bound engine.
Modesto California journal reports Blakely son of T K Wallis aged 17 dragged to death at his home on the San Joaquin river eighteen miles south of Modesto. He was guiding a team hitched to a scraper when caught in the spring the blade struck his head for over 200 yards the fatal injury left him unconscious for six hours before death.
Paris report states the Monte Carlo Casino refused Ellen Terry admission citing her ill dressing and poor attire though the reason was deemed unfounded by some observers.
Reports from Manila state that Spanish forces defeated the insurgents at Montabatan. Sixty one Spaniards were killed in the engagement.
In Washington the second day of debate on the Pacific railway funding bill featured a sensational personal attack by Jenkinson of California on Hearst of the San Francisco Examiner, with Cooper denouncing the remarks as a disgraceful assault on a public figure. Amid the uproar the debate proceeded to recess and Harrison announced a substitute plan for a debt settlement commission.
New York reports from Havana describe mass graves near Guanabacoa with at least twenty bodies and many limbs recovered. Spanish authorities refuse burial, raid homes, and threaten harsher acts as Cuban opposition grows. Spies, censorship, and disappearances plague Havana as Weyler’s regime fuels fear.
News from Kendrick Idaho reports a disastrous fire at Pierce City, the historic placer camp of North Idaho. Several landmarks dating back to 1608 were destroyed and a Chinese merchant lost a $5,000 stock of goods. The blaze threatens the camp's winter provisions for miners.
The revenue cutter Boutwell spotted a distressed yawl near St Johns river with Captain Charles Herman of Providence aboard unconscious and biting his forearm. Herman and Charles Gladding had sailed from Charleston December 26 and were blown off course with dwindling provisions.
M D Logan a farmer ten miles from Heppner was found dead in a gulch near Robert Dexter's residence. Last seen Friday evening while returning home he was heavily intoxicated and may have fallen from his horse, dying from exposure. Logan leaves a large family in poor circumstances and the coroner's jury ruled death by intoxication and exposure.
Garfield Washington January 11 wheat last sale Saturday reached 76 cents a bushel the season high in Palouse country A pool formed six weeks ago representing about 20000 bushels held until wheat hit 75 cents This action cleans up nearly all local wheat within twenty miles and a seed famine is feared before spring.
The house committee on territories agreed to report a bill authorizing the secretary of the interior to lease certain Alaska islands for twenty years to propagate silver foxes. Current law allows one year leases, insufficient for the plan.
A Massillon convention of 1,800 independent coal miners voted to reject a ten cent wage reduction. Operators remain firm and a strike appears likely. The United Mine Workers are expected to follow with a similar action tomorrow.
The Commercial bank of Eau Claire with a capital of 50000 closes after the Allemania bank in St. Paul suspends. President Allen says depositors will be paid in full. In Salem, the 1507 tax levy is set at 4 mills with homes exempted from the main expense basis. Normal human body temperature is 98.6 F while a fish runs around 77 F.
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