Treaty ends Japan China dispute with Liaotung lease
Dec 23 reports from Pekin that a treaty between Japan and China resolves disputed points. Japan obtains the Liaotung peninsula including Port Arthur on terms similar to the earlier Russia lease, with Dalny and railroad grants. Chinese officials deny an offensive alliance as rumored.
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Pekin
China
Japan
Liao-Tung Peninsula
Port Arthur
Russia
Portsmouth
Organize Strike Breakers Plan by Chicago Employers
The Chicago Employers' Association outlined a program to form a standing army of laborers skilled and unskilled from all trades. They would be prepared to relocate to any city in the United States to fill jobs left by striking workers when needed.
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Chicago
Chicago Athletic RV Clubs
Chicago Employers’ Association
Btaes
Shipping rebates raise freight costs in Southeast Alaska
Skagway and southeastern Alaska merchants protest after Pacific Coast and Alaska Steamship Companies set a new rebate schedule. Formerly a 20 percent contract discount plus quantity-based rebates totaling up to 36 percent is replaced with a 24 to 25 percent minimum rebate and no contract-based signature discount. Small shippers under $500 pay no rebates, worsening their costs.
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Alaska
Skagway Alaskan
Pacific Coast
Skagway
Alaskan
Maid of Orleans Ties Up in Duwamish River Sea Run
The schooner Maid of Orleans, chartered from San Francisco last September to haul explosives for Alaska Central construction, has tied up near Seattle in the Duwamish river after failures to progress north. The vessel will stay in winter quarters, its master donating provisions to Seattle Salvation Army for Christmas. The vessel, built in 1830, has a long and troubled history including a prior capsize and a recent return to service last spring.
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P. Welch & Company
San Francisco
Cook Inlet
Alaska Central
Turnagain Arm
Duwamish River
Seattle
Salvation Army of Seattle
Maid of Orleans
San Francisco Bay
Boy Discovers New Law in Physics at Batavia High
A Batavia Java high school student, Von Erspecuma, observed that when a glass holds water and floating ice, melting ice does not cause overflow. With Principal Dr C M Van Derventer he alerted scientists, and the Royal Academy of Amsterdam confirms a “permanent level” law: the water level stays unchanged as the solid melts. Separately, Juneau Police Chief Roy Burnett shot himself to death, an apparent self-inflicted tragedy.
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von Erspecuma
Batavia
Java
C. M. van Derventer
Royal Academy of Amsterdam
Roy Burnett
Juneau
Keeps Out of Domingan Row
Washington D. C. Dec. 27 The U S government will not interfere for now in San Domingan turmoil. President Carlos Morales fled the capital after cabinet quarrel, with insurrection troops in pursuit. American receiverships delayed. State Department plans no action until disorder stabilizes.
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Carla
Daily Gateway
Washington
D. C
U. S
San Domingan
Carlos Morales
American State Department
Alaska Seals Disappearing Rookeries Face Action
Secretary Hitchcock reports shrinking seal rookeries in Alaska with 12000 seals killed on St Paul and 1300 on St George Island over the past year. He urges government lease settlements with North American Commercial Co, a stop to killing for eight to ten years, and deportation of island natives to preserve the rookeries. A separate USGS note states 98 percent of world natural gas output last year valued at 38.5 million dollars, led by Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Ohio.
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Alaska
North American Commercial Company
St. Paul
St. George Island
United States Geological Survey
United States
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Indiana
Ohio
O Brien Defies Jim Jeffries in Heavyweight Challenge
Jack O'Brien issues a challenge to retired heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries claiming he can defeat him with superior agility a la Corbett. Jeffries has not replied and friends doubt he will fight again. The note also mentions Alaska gray plover migration and Pope income estimates, plus John M Gearin named U S senator and Esther Creek miners planning treasure train to Fairbanks.
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Bob Fitzsimmons
New York
Paris
Will
Odell
Gable
Daily Gateway
Gan Tranchco
Jack O'Brien
Jim Jeffries
Corbett
Sullivan
Jeffries
O'Brien
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U. S
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Mitchell
Esther Creek
Tanana
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