New Shipping Port to Secure Oriental Trade Route
A proposed San Pedro harbor expansion backed by B. B. Harriman and H. F. Huntington aims to create a rapid steamship route from San Pedro to the Far East. The plan includes a new line to serve Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, and Philippine ports, boosting San Pedro as a major Pacific port and challenging Seattle and Tacoma in Oriental freight. Harriman seeks Japan negotiations to finalize arrangements with a Tokyo line to move U.S. bound cargo via San Pedro.
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San Pedro
Great Bay
South Pacific Dome
Los Angeles
Vins
B. B. Harriman
Santa Fr
Pacific Mall Steamshipe
San Franciscn
Harriman
H. FR. Huntington
Hawaiian Islands
Santa Fe
San Francisco
J. J. Hill
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Seattle
Tacoma
California
United States
Pacific Electric Company
H. EF. Huntington
Los Angel
East San Pedro
Long Beach
Domingues
Wilmington Transportation Company
Catalina Island
Southern Pacific
Salt Lake
Ogden
Bhe
Hetle Dontt
Toyo Kixen-Kaleho
Treasury Statement Shows Fiscal Year Deficit and Surplus
Treasury report for the year ending June 20 shows a deficit around 24.5 million, subject to minor changes. Receipts about 449 million, expenditures near 567 million, with notable swings in war, navy, and pension costs. Month of June yielded a surplus about 13.9 million, reducing the deficit from 37 million.
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The
Treasury
Tremeury Wellmater
Secrtary
Pani Canal
Joan
Lovielang
War Department
Navy Department
Pension Polymerite
Bent Yet Restored By Electro Bitters
Mrs Annie Hunter of Pittsboro Pennsylvania describes severe typhoid and kidney trouble causing a bent posture. After illness she recovered with Electro Bitters, regaining strength and the ability to walk upright. The remedy claims to cure stomach liver and kidney disorders and is sold at Tallman & Co’s drug store for 80 cents.
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Annie Hunter
Pittsboro
Tallman & Co
Diversified Farming Pays and Tone Proclaimer Talk
The Proclaimer reports an interview with Louis Lober who says he arrived in Tone on July 16 1904 with a cash capital of ten cents. He persuaded Frank Conklin to join in a venture as part of diversified farming efforts.
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Louis Lober
Lober
Tone
Frank Conklin
Homesteader Builds Ranch After Hard Labor
The article details a man who provided meals, secured a job, and later homesteaded 14 miles from Lone Eight Mile Canyon. He cleared 30 acres of potatoes, 12 acres of corn, and peas, onions, and more on hills without irrigation. He labors daily, plowing and farming, claiming a comfortable home and a bringing-in ranch, though valued at $6000 for a year’s work.
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Lone
Eight Mile Canyon
Lober
Soldiers Discharged From Fort Walla Walla
Wille Walla Jay reports that 14 soldiers were discharged from the service at Fort Walla Walla following wartime demobilization policy. Discharges target men with less than three months to serve as regiments head toward Philippine duty, with units to be filled by recruits. Regimental movement schedules place the regiment to depart Fort Walla Walla in August for San Francisco, then early September overseas.
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Wille Walla
Jay
War Department
Fort Walla Walla
Department
Philippine Islands
San Francisco
PURE FOOD MEN MEET IN PORTLAND JULY
Food purity officials from across the United States will gather in Portland from July 10 to 15 for the ninth annual convention of the National Association of State Dairy and Food Departments. The event will address impure foods amid rising concern, citing infant deaths and recent adulteration cases.
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United States
Portland
National Association of Statte Dairyand Food Departments
Land Open for Settlers Across Several Counties
The United States land office reports 2,250,429 acres of unappropriated government land in the district including Spokane, Stevens, Lincoln and Ferry counties and parts of Adams, Douglas, Whitman and Okanogan. It also lists 115,764.51 acres disposed to settlers in the past year, distributed among Adams, Ferry, Lincoln, Okanogan, Spokane, Stevens and Whitman counties. Additionally, anecdotes recount Admiral Yates Stirling’s exchange with a lobsterman and a note on Mia Elizabeth McKinley, a penniless widow traveling with two children seeking aid and education for her youngsters.
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United States Land Office
Spokane
Stevers
Lincoln
Ferry
Adams, Douglas
Whitman
Okanogan
Spokesman- Review
Adams
Douglas
Stevena
Stevens
Yates Stirling
U. S. Ni
New England
Stirling
Deepwoo Lanmiige
Mia
Elizabeth Mckhinley
Phoenix
Ariz
High River
Canada
el Paso
Denver
Society For Aid
Denver Post
Joaquin Miller Visits Eugene During Portland Fair Route
California poet Joaquin Miller arrived in Eugene this afternoon to visit his brother George Melvin Miller and greet friends before continuing to the Portland fair. He remains recognizable by his long hair bushy beard and top boots as admirers plan to meet him in the city.
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Joaquin Miller
Eugene
California
George Melvin Miller
Eays
Portland
Joaquin
Little Mysteries Of Everyday Life
A Pears Weekly’s contributor recalls uncanny events linking telepathy warnings and premonitions. Vivid tales include falling stones from unknown sources near London, doors opening at midnight, a warning dream before a relative’s death, and a dog triggering a chandelier collapse, suggesting unseen forces at work.
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Mentel
Pears
London
No Gambling on Boats Restricts Vicious Custom
Reports from San Francisco say Supervising Inspector John Bermingham has ordered an end to gambling on vessels in California waters with likely extension to Portland and Puget Sound. Locally, Puget Sound boats have seen informal games, though Captain Whitney notes no money change hands in his years of service, while others allege gambling runs on more than one boat serving this port.
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bin Trio
England
Swindon
Beatle
John Bermingham
San Francisco
California
Portland
Pugeet Sound
Columbia River
Whitney
Puget Sound
No Room for School in Walla Walla
Promoters of a proposed Walla Walla College Aborson the plan for a formal school and business college in Walla Walla. After investigation of the canal lone they decided it was not practicable to establish the school in Walla Walla, noting Whitman College already serves the area.
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Walla Walla College
Walla Walla
Evening Statesman
Statesman
Carman
Walla Walle
Whitman College
Fourth of July Bluff Fireworks in Dayton
Dayton spectators gathered as five pounds of powder exploded from a fake cannon cracker set by local youths in front of the Hotel Dayton. The fuse burned, crowds braced for danger, then a relieved cry confirmed it was a bluff, with distant onlookers reassured and no injuries reported.
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Dayton
Hotel
Kide
George Dorr
Dayton Courier-Press
Mexican Ambassador to U S Arrives in August with Family
Miss Coquet tells her servant she is engaged to someone, while Mr Sharp repeats his curiosity about her fiancé. Joaquin de Casseus, newly named Mexico ambassador to the United States, will arrive in August with his wife and seven children.
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Desrie
Miss Coquet
Mr. Sharpe
Joaquin de Casseus
Mexico
United States
Sumpter Valley Railway Plans Eight Miles This Year
Joseph Barton, agent for the Sumpter Valley railroad, says eight miles will be built this year from Tipton to the summit valley. By 1906, the road will reach Prairie City about 21 miles further, linking with Baker City and opening rich mining and timber regions. The extension is expected to boost company revenues and spur rapid regional development.
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Sumpter Valley
Tipton
Joseph Barton
Sumpter Valley Railroad
Sayn
Baker City
Prairie City
Baier City
Sumpter, Whitney, Bourne
Value of Advertising in Welser Signal
The We lser Signal urges careful advertising planning noting that to reach naming people via a 5000 circulation edition would cost about 160 dollars including postage printing and addressing. It invites readers to study the matter and discuss advertising pointers.
New Wheat Variety Promises Higher Lane County Yield
E M Warren heads Lane county exhibit at the Portland fair growing a novel wheat with multiple heads per stalk. Warren tests several new gram varieties at his culture firm and introduces Eugene Guard, a several headed wheat promising a substantial county yield increase.
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E. M. Warren
Lane County
Portland
Warren
Eugene Guard
The New Baby and Family Reactions
A humorous monologue sketches reactions from relatives and friends to a newborn. The mother is praised, the father exults, while aunts uncles and the bachelor friend offer quips about the baby’s sleep, temperament, and daily life. The doctor and clergy voices add skeptical notes as life goes on.
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Life
How to Eat Carp in Old Gardena Tip Sheet
In town from Gardena Frank Sheridan touts catching German carp in the Touchet river and shares a bizarre prep method. He says dry the fish in sun six weeks nail to a pine board cover with salt or mud for two months, then hake two days, remove the nail, throw the carp back, and eat the board but never eat the carp.
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Frank Sheridan
Gardena
Touchet
Freewater Times
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