Blooded Dogs Exhibition Promoted by Pacific Kennel League
The Pacific Kennel League of California plans a blooded dog exhibition in Seattle within two months. Entries from Oregon and Washington will attend, with a local organizing group led by Josiah Collina as president J Reidelsheimer as vice president and J W Upper as secretary. Prizes will go to top canine specimens across breeds akin to San Francisco and Sacramento shows.
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Pacific Kennel League of California
Seattle
Portland
Spokane
Josiah Collina
J. Reidelsheimer
J. W. Upper
San Francisco
Sacramento
Pacific Kennel Leagu
Prospectors eye rich coast north of Vancouver Island
M Fairchild and J C Banks, recent arrivals from the north, say the coast 40 miles north of Vancouver Island abounds in minerals yet largely unprospected. They believe the alien exclusion act will push development to the American side and that the territory could rival Allin. The partners own claims on Vancouver Island and plan summer development, with interests also in mines near Greenwood British Columbia.
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Vancouver Island
M. Fairchild
J. C. Banks
Messrs
Fairchild
Banks
Greenwood
BK. C
Smallpox Case Reported in Armourdale District
Kansas City Kansas authorities identified one fully developed smallpox case and another with symptoms in Armourdale. RB C Rutt of 11 South Cay Street and his wife are both ill with what physicians call variola or smallpox. The husband has suffered two weeks and is recovering, but yesterday the illness was confirmed as the dangerous disease.
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Kansas City
Kan
Armourdale
RB. C. Rutt
South Cay Street
Cuba
Havana
Manila
Clears
Canada
Isabel
Largest Iowa miners and operators convention in session
In Ottumwa Iowa on March 1 the largest joint miners and operators convention in state history is in session. A joint scale committee meets tonight to draft a scale to be submitted to miners and operators tomorrow morning.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
Orday
German man threatens with pistol at Chicago boarding house
Herman Brockman a German claiming San Francisco as home returned to 163 Chicago avenue and threatened to shoot everyone at the carding house last night Mrs Minnie Williams fled to the street and called officers Walley and Carthy who arrested him at the scene Brockman was taken to Chicago avenue police station and search found a large knife a box of fifty cartridges and a rusty 28 caliber revolver on his person
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Chicago
Herman Brockman
San Francisco
Chicago Avenue
Minnie Willian
Williams
Walley
Carthy
Brockman
Miners and Operators Meet in Pursuit of Corbett Death
Traverse City officials and three hunting party members joined the inquiry into Jude Roscoe Corbett's death last November in a northern hunting park. The body was exhumed for investigation, with evidence pointing to a premeditated order. The inquiry will continue to pursue full facts.
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Traverse City
Jude Roscoe Corbett
Upper Peninsula
Boyne City
Drowning Narrow Escape On Wilson River
Eddy and Judd nearly drowned when a boat drifted into a whirlpool on the Wilson river. They grasped willow trees and climbed to shore after the boat came apart. The incident occurred Wednesday near Tillamook.
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Tillamook
AL. Eddy
Wilson River
Judd
Gold Find Near Old Prospects Draws Miner’s Attention
Marah uncovered a gold bearing quartz ledge after ploughing and sounding a ledge. He sank a shaft and panned three pans of decomposed quartz yielding about $1 first pan and two pans of similar richness. The ledge remains rich, with sinking continuing and historic finds nearby.
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Marah
Explosions Compared From 1894 South Africa to 1898 Battles
A Cassler's magazine summary contrasts the 55 ton 1894 Graaf Johannesburg gelatin blast with Fort Lee 1893 dynamite, Taken Mawr 1895 powder, and Santiago gun cotton shots, noting crater sizes, building destruction, rock displacement, and relative efficiency of explosives across events.
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Graamfontein
Johannesburg
South Africa
Cassler
United States
Hudson River Palisades
Fort Lee
Dinorwle
Lamberia
Taken Mawr
Santiago
Spain
Nernst electric lamp sparks open air lighting revolution
The Philadelphia report describes the Nernst electric lamp with a filament that operates without a glass bulb, glowing in open air after heating to a dull red. Invented by Dr. Nernst of Vienna, the device promises a light quality close to sunlight and could transform electric illumination.
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Philadelphia
Nernat
Vienna
Giant map exhibit to unite US railroads for Paris 1900
A joint American railway exhibit plan advances from Chicago as officials and experts back a massive relief map of the United States. The 140 by 294 foot map will show each railroad route with electric lights and booths, plus moving pictures and train views. The $150000 project seeks national prominence at Paris 1900.
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Grand Pavtte
Chicago
Paria
S'ayeonger
Kaiekern
Hicago & Northwestern
Gener
Buatia
Theshurington
Sebastian
Hook Island
Rentatant
Higgins
Santa Fe
Albrecht
Royal Geographical Society of England
Paul Wilhelmina
Edward J. Carr
John H. McGibbons
United States
Paria Exposition
Cordiel
Ferdinand W. Peck
Peck
Bam
Sporting Motels and Collegiate Sports Gossip
The piece surveys various sports topics including Chicago A A policies, upcoming Boston horse show exhibitors, Penn State and Princeton football talks, Michigan football hopes against Harvard, Cambridge football dynamics, amateur boxing, Harvard coaches, and Cornell football captain debates. It notes international racing activity in Venezuela and kennel club events with Irish terrier stakes at New England Kennel Club show.
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New York
Chicago A. A
M. A. C. Bostwick
Boston
Chicago Athletic Association
Silay PD
Reed
Managehonette
Committee On Railroads
Pennsylvenia
Princeton
University of Michigan
Harvard
Maranchuset
Sargent
Prise Fetters
Borton
Bargent
Steve V. Donnell
Andrew Dea
Jack McMasters
Cornell
Sweetland
Ithace
Keene Pitapatrick
Massachuertta General Hospital
Fitapatrick
Johnny Harvard
Venezuela
Carcaces
En Mance
Bret
New England Kennel Club
Irish Terrier Club of America
Benider
Beat Brace
Funeral Crowd Riots Over Fahrenkamp Coffins
At a Philadelphia funeral for the Fahrenkamp family asphyxiation victims a mob fought to see the coffins tearing handles from boxes and breaking shop windows. Police used clubs but could not stop the crowd from following the funeral wagon toward Broad Street station for burial in Brooklyn.
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Philadelaraia
Fahrenkamp
Brooklyn
Fahren- Wimp
Broad Street
Civil service reform versus census jobs in Congress
A Washington representative argues against altering civil service rules to block the twelfth census reforms. He predicts Senate Republicans and Democrats will resist trimming clerkships and salaries, warning the decennial census will be a target of political maneuvering and patronage.
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Washington, D.C
National Civil Service Reform Association
Tomove
Apollamen Inecongree
Mark Hanna
Ftn
Congress
Ant
Meinery
Eight New Laws Protect Fish and Game in Oregon
Salem reports eight laws for wildlife protection. The measures include a general act amending last fall’s session laws, sturgeon protection, salmon hatcheries regulations, trout protections, and rules applying to the Alsea district Rogue River and Curry County. Warden MeG He rate leads enforcement.
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Salem
Ore
House
Senate
Alsea
Rogue River
Curry County
Short Paid Letters To Foreign Countries Cited
Postmaster reports Canada dislikes Uncle Sam stamp practices as foreign mail short paid rates trigger double charges. Washington notes that about one letter in twenty five is underpaid, versus one in 140 from other lands.
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Colkett
Canada
Uncle Sam
British Post Ofice Department
Department of Foreign Mails
Washington
Department At
Howe
Post Office Department
Office of Foreign Mails
Washington, D. C
Daily Bulletin
N. M. Brooka
Baldwin Works Receives Chinese and English Locomotive Orders
Om elaln of Baldwin Locomotive Works confirms a Chinese Eastern Halfway Company order for twenty one Vauclain compound engines with forty shipping next summer and the rest by navigation season. Also a supplementary order for ten locomotives from the Great Midland Railway Company of England.
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Philadelphia
Omelaln
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Fastern Halfway Company
Navigation
Great Midland Railway Company
England
Slx
Halrdwina
Schenectady Locomotive Works
Minglish Railways
Philippine Tobacco Industry Seen Expanding Exports
A prominent tobacco man told the New York Sun that Philippine tobacco will face no competitive fear in the U S market. He notes rising U S and European demand as the islands attract buyers, predicts growing shipments, and describes English cigars as popular, bundled in fives or sixes, and priced around $3.60 a box including duties. The tobacco is dense, earthy, and tends to slow the smoker, sometimes misread as opium.
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New York Sun
Cela
Philippines
England
State Should Own It Mount McGregor Cottage Vote Sought
The New York legislature may be asked to appropriate funds to buy the Mount McGregor cottage where Gen. Grant died. The Grant Memorial Association fears sale to profit seekers and recalls Poe House protections. If bought, it could sustain a rail link and preserve the historic site amid Arkell’s financial troubles.
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NW York
New York
Mount McGregor
Gen. Grant
Grant Memorial Association
Grant Monument Association
Edgar Allen Poe
Saratoga
W. J. Arkell
Supreme Court backs Ohio train stoppage law
The U S Supreme Court with Justice Harlan upholding Ohio's requirement that railroads stop at towns with 09 population and run at least three daily trains. Lake Shore Company challenged the rule as interstate commerce interference but the court ruled it serves public convenience, Ohio's law affirmed. Dissenters included Justices Brewer Shiras White Jeckham.
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Washington, D. C
United States Supreme Court
Justice Harlan
Ohio
Lake Shore Company
West Cleveland
Supreme Court of Ohio
Brewer
Shiras
White
Jeckham
Amere can American Cereal Company forms with large capital
Articles filed in Trenton show the American Cereal Company authorized for 23 million dollars to buy grain and cereals and to build operate mills and elevators. Founders include Adrian H. Larkin, Francis L. Pattee Jr., and William Wilson Jr. of Jersey City.
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Trenton
N. J
Amereican Cereal Company
Adrian H. Larkin
Francis L. Pattee, Jr
William ¥. Wilson, Jr
Jersey City
Secreary
Philadelphia Motor Wa« Fon Company
Pennsylvania Electrical Vehicle Company
Comepany
Cornelius W. Woodward
William A. Jackson
Germanetown
Joshua
Dy Bossy Camden
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