Fasting Signals Signal Battle On Mountain Summit
A 1904 account by Douglas Story describes heliograph signaling from a mountaintop near Liao Yang as the Battle of Wafangho opened. Russian officers, four operators, and two escorts observed flashes that carried orders to Kuropatkin’s HQ while artillery thunder rolled from distant hills.
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Douglas Story
Wopgrecht
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Liao Yang
Russans A
Snowdon
Mukden
Tadena
Kuropatkin
Battle Warning From Peak Amid Asian War Tensions
A narrator describes a night atop a mountain during the Watangho battle period. He notes early signals from telegraph stations, the heat of the sun, and an imminent assault. He argues espionage ties eastern powers against Russians, depicting a global struggle beyond Japan.
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Watangho
Russia
Japan
Germany
France
Britain
United States
Liao Yanu
Mukden
Big fire devastates Dawson hotels and shops
A revised loss tally from a Friday blaze in Dawson totals about 120000. The fire began in the Cecil hotel kitchen and gutted properties along Queen street and Second and Third avenues, including the Cecil and Flannery hotels, Stockholm hotel, Pugam & sons, Butler Grocery, and others with varied damages.
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Dawson
Y. T
Losmen
Cecil Hotel
Queen Street
Second
Third Avenues
Ceecil
Stockholm
R. V. Vining
Klondike Thawing Machine Company
Butler Grocery Company
Flannery
Pugam & Sons
L/Abbe
Shaw & Co
Clark & Co
Central
Donovan
Anderson Brown
A. Mchonald
Aran. Dranty
Acquitted in Spokane Murder Case of Granddaughter
In Spokane the jury found Mia. Jeanette Harris not guilty of first degree murder in the death of her granddaughter. The defense cited temporary insanity, which led to the acquittal after a late Saturday verdict.
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Spokane
Mia
Jeanette Harris
Admits Guilt in City Burglary Case
Albert Bradley confessed to burglaries after police caught him in stolen clothes Saturday night. He described loot from the home of Daddy Sipes at 1211 Twelfth Avenue South and led detectives to hidden goods in a Lake Washington camp tent. Bradley, a Moody Bible Institute graduate, claimed kleptomaniac tendencies.
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Albert Bradley
Adama
Daddy” Sipes
Twelfth Avenue South
James Street
Lake Washington
Bradley
Moody Bible Aboole
Chicago
Flrst Presbyterian Church
Rancher fights state over tuberculosis herd ruling in Renton
R Sartori owner of 64 cattle in Renton seeks state relief after 17 cows were deemed diseased with tuberculosis by Deputy State Veterinary Surgeon Kydd. Sartori disputes the diagnosis and intends to call State Veterinary Surgeon Nelson to verify Kydd’s findings. If corroborated, he may demand post mortem examination to prove the illness.
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R. Sartori
Renton
Kydd
Sartor
Nelson
Sartort
Committee Won’t Talk On Petitions To Revoke Licenses
Petitions to revoke licenses for the Seattle Har and Monte Carlo saloons due to poker games will be heard by the license and revenue committees this afternoon. The committees avoid stating positions, aiming to uphold Mayor Ballinger, while church protestors from the Methodist Protestant church at Third Avenue and Pine Street oppose new licenses.
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Jamen
Seattle
Third Avenue
Pine Street
Trains Crash Near Newmarket Kills Dozens
Sixty two people are dead and the death toll may rise to seventy after a head on collision between two fast Southern railway passenger trains near Newmarket on Saturday. The wreck is blamed on the westbound engineer who failed to meet the earthbound train as ordered. He rushed through the village at high speed despite clear instructions.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Southern Railway
Newmarket
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Wafangho
Ager
Signal Mountain
Taien Chan
Leutenant
Rome
Oregon
Iowa
Adams
Washington
Rian Tea
Big Blaze
R. Bartori
TION
L Holmes Furniture Co
Second Ave
Pike Street
Bmart Clothes
Herald
Tabor
Ohio
Third and
Pike
West
Ste
Ph. Kellmay
Mat Syndicate
Marion Street
Beattie
Wash
Sa Pune
MR. McCarthy
MR. Miller
Bsc
Soc
Panama
Goce
Samson
Goc
C, &Sc
McCarthy Dry Goods Co
Second Avenue and
Madison Street
Warn
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