Senate Passes Japanese Bill and Alaska Delegates Row
Senate approves a Japanese bill allowing exclusion of Japanese adults from white schools while permitting Japanese children to enroll with whites of the same age. It also tightens immigration, permitting entry only with passports, a move seen as excluding laborers on the Pacific coast. Delegate Frank Waskey denies misrepresentation and says Congress remains accessible to him.
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Alaska items total 209000 in sundry bill
The sundry civil appropriation bill sent to the house from committee carries 209000 for Alaska. Items include native schools 100000 reindeer service 9000 Nome courthouse and jail 30000 Cape Hinchinbrook lighthouse 50000 and completion of government hatcheries 20000.
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Four Knight Island Claims Bring $40,000
The copper property known as the Fissure group on Knight Island sold for 40000. The four claims located last September lie on Drier Bay next to Knight's Island Consolidated. A W Tibbitts and Grant Chase made the sale. buyers unnamed. the owners learned of the payment when notified the funds were credited.
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Dunne Wins Nomination From Carter Harrison
In Chicago yesterday the Democratic city primary yielded a close, bitter contest in which Mayor Dunne appears to have defeated ex mayor Carter H. Harrison for the mayoralty nomination. In federal court The Standard Oil Company faced a motion to cap penalties at twenty thousand dollars if found guilty of rebates in indictments totaling 838 million. the court denied the motion. Prospectors report finding four dollars per square foot on lower Fairbanks creek.
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Immigration Study Ordered by President Round of Restrictions Considered
The president signed a bill creating a nine member commission to investigate immigration including Orientals and Europeans and to propose admission restrictions. In Tokyo Japan officials expect no protest over a school dispute while noting opposition to admitting Japanese laborers. Experts say naturalization could resolve the quarrel, but total exclusion is deemed too costly.
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Lost Cabin placer found on North Chandlar River
Dawson police report a rich Lost Cabin placer discovery on Firth creek a branch of the North Chandlar river by McLeod. A stampede began as Seward closes gambling per Assistant District Attorney Clegg instruction. An almost perfect mastodon was found in Cleary creek by W E Thomas.
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Radicals Sweep Russian Elections Across Nation
In St. Petersburg on February 21 radicals won parliamentary elections nearly everywhere. The constitutionalist party is set to hold a large majority, with czar supporters a minority in most districts. Government efforts and intimidation failed to overturn the trend. constitutionalists won most seats in St. Petersburg.
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Honduras Declares War on Nicaragua Under Bonilla March
Dispatches from Mexico City report Honduras has declared war on Nicaragua. President Bonilla leads the Honduran army toward the Nicaraguan frontier amid unresolved boundary disputes. Despite appeals for arbitration from Spain and the United States, Honduras is pressing to settle the issue by battle.
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Legislator Webber Found Insane in Olympia
Olympia February 22 Representative William Webber of Walla Walla was arrested on the floor of the house for insanity. An inquest found him insane and he was committed to the asylum. Overwork seeking a Snake River navigation appropriation blamed the breakdown after days of maudlin incoherence.
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Berlin Steamship Sinks After Collision Drowns 143
Cable report from London recalls that the steamship Berlin struck a rock off the Holland coast and sank within minutes. 143 passengers perished. Princess Henry helped rescue a survivor in a lifeboat. Nine remained aboard as seas carried them away.
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Walla Walla Is Cut Off By General Road Washouts
Walla Walla is completely cut off from travel as railroad tracks and country roads into the city are washed out. Heavy rains caused the washouts, isolating the city from outside areas.
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Shea acquitted on second conspiracy trial in 1905 case
Chicago February 22 jury acquitted Cornelius P. Shea on his second conspiracy trial over promoting the teamsters strike in Chicago in 1905. The verdict comes after lengthy proceedings and reflects the legal outcome of the high profile case.
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Train Derailment Claims 25 Lives in Harlem Route
A Harlem branch New York Central theater train derailed last night, killing 25 and injuring about 150 with many expected to die. May Ballaine notes Watson & Snow negotiating the railroad construction contract to mile 105, the Welch contract from 75 to 105 ending at Campbell Point where heavy rock work on Turnagain Arm ends.
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New Plan for More Judges in Western Alaska Jurisdiction
Senator Piles met with the President to urge including Alaska in the jurisdiction of two additional judges. The plan aims to bypass a Senate report delay on the Western Washington district bill and the Alaska judiciary expansion, with the President's concurrence expected to help pass the bill in this form.
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Twenty-Five Miles of Track This Summer
On the steamer Northwestern en route to Seward yesterday, F H Stewart Alaska Central railroad treasurer said construction will restart next month and that twenty five miles of additional track will be finished by summer's end.
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Northwestern Sails with 216 Passengers
Seattle February 21 Northwestern sailed for Southern Alaska with 216 passengers. Twenty two were for Seward and most others bound for the Tanana. The vessel carried a full cargo including railroad timbers for the Alaska Central.
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Bertha Reaches Juneau as Steamer Heads North
Bertha arrived in Juneau last night after nine days from Seattle. She is expected to pass Sitka this afternoon and may reach Valdez by Tuesday evening if luck holds. John D Rockefeller attempted to smuggle a $75 wig through the New York customs on a $1 valuation and was caught.
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