Stampede 10 Fort Yukon Hungry Miners Leave Dawson
Twenty five men arrive in Seattle from Dawson City after a stampede driven by a food famine on the Klondike. They report severe shortages, high prices, and a mass migration toward Fort Yukon as the winter famine looms. Miners fear starvation unless they depart Dawson.
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Seattle
Dawson City
Dawson
Dalton Trail
Jack Dalton
Dalton
Alice
Bella
Canadian Mounted Police
Fort
Yukon
John W. Brauer
United States
Fort Yukon
Wall
McGillvray
Hamilton
Seattle Officer Shot Down by Ex-Convict at Jail
James Wells, a prominent Seattle police officer acting as city jailer, was mortally wounded by Charles Phillips, an ex-convict recently released from New Westminster, B C. After Wells and later officers pursued Phillips, he surrendered after being wounded. Wells died on the sidewalk and the case caused a citywide police response.
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Seattle
Wash
James Wells
Charles Phillips
New Westminster
B.C
Phillips
Wells
Barber
Meredith
Moyer
Philips
Fourth
Main Streets
Reed
Death Before Disgrace Despondent Sergeant Plunkett
Commisary Sergeant Oliver Plunkett, 16 years in the army, killed himself at Boise barracks by hanging from a pulley rope aboard the market building. A note found in his pocket cited despondency from drink during the past week as the cause. He came to Boise on February 16, 1896 after promotion from sergeant major in the Fourth Infantry at Vancouver.
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Boise
Idaho
Oliver Plunkett
Boise Barracks
Fourth Infantry
Vancouver
Westbound travel to Alaska and northwest shows rise
Portland reports B Campbell says favorable signs for a large Klondike gold rush and emigrant travel in the coming spring. Railways issue advertising and prepare to handle increased business. Eastern crop news spurs movement among farmers while expectant travel to the northwest grows.
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Portland
Ore
B. Campbell
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company
Alaska
Klondike
Dogs Camels or Reindeer Sought by Michigan Group
Charles J. Dabney leading about 50 Michigan travelers plans a spring trip into the Kiondike before navigation opens. They will travel to Windivestock Siberia by Oriental steamship to obtain dogs camels or reindeer, choosing the best suited. They expect to return by February shipping animals from Vladivostock or a southern port to Japan for delivery to the Pacific coast.
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Portland
Ore
Charles J. Dabney
Michigan
Japan
Windivestock
Siberia
Vladivostock
Pacific
Josie Mine Sale Reported to British American Syndicate
Rossland B C November 30 reports that British American Corporation led by Lionel Charles H Mackintosh agreed to buy 360000 Josie Mining shares at 30 cents each totaling 210000 cash. Negotiations have spanned several days and a major development push is expected to unlock the mine’s potential.
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Rossland
B. C
British American Corporation
Lion
Charles H. Mackintosh
Josie Mining Company
Josse
Bryan Analyzes Nebraskan Vote Shift and 1906 Contrast
In Lincoln on November 30 Mr. Bryan discussed Nebraska voting changes. He notes fusion electors in 1906 led by Democrats and Populists had a 13,000 plurality and 8,138 majority over all, while this year the fusion candidate for supreme court judge tops all by 11,376, with a 759 gain in plurality and 3,233 in majority despite about 30,000 fewer total votes. gold Democrats polled less than half as many votes as last year. Separately, San Francisco reports the Cordellera foundered off Valparaiso with 14 crew feared drowned, and notes the typical round trip New York to Liverpool steamship cost around 75,000 dollars. It also cites an estimated 40,000 newspapers worldwide, about half English language.
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Bert Nelson
Seattle
Circle City
Dawson City
Dawson
Hanson
Fort Yukon
Yukon
Pelly
Jack Dalton
Herbert Raymond
Harry Robertson
San Francisco
Lincoln, Neb
Bryan
Nebraska
Supreme Court
Gold Democrats
New York
Liverpool
Return
Rome
Nikki
Lagos
Nelson A Miles
Secretary of War
Fort Townsend
Wash
United States
Dun
Yokohama
Kobe
Moorehead & McLean
Pittsburg
Southport
N C
Guatemala
Mexico
Honolulu
John H. Ketchum
Chicago
Felix Seghezza
Genoa
D. R. de Simone
Naples
Ashcroft
British Columbia
Omenica
Yukon River
Baron Gautsche de Frankenthurn
Unterhaus
Austria
Skagway
Postoffice Department
Alaska
Dyea
William S. Sampson
de Lome
Washington
Jance
Four Thousand Witness Map Ate Athletic Club Fight
Tommy Ryan knocked out Australian Jimmy Ryan in five rounds before Maple Avenue Athletic Club in Elmira as four thousand spectators watched the bout.
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Tommy Ryan
Jimmy Ryan
Maple Avenue Athletic Club
Elmira
Baltimore
Sacramento
Mordecai M. Moore
Jerry Johnson
Waycross
Screven
Lopk
Diakova
Scutari
Havana
New York Herald
Casablanca
Canton
Quang Tong
Schaeffer
Luxemberg
Crete
Prince Francis Joseph of
Battenburg
Levering
Chicago
Brooke
Washington
Masons
Pennsylvania
Masonic
Philadelpia
Clayton
N. M
Great Range Belt
Missouri Pacific
Iron Mountain
George Gould
Baker City
Elkhorn
Bonanza
James Cagel
Cagel
Thomas Hopkins
Frankfort Zeitung
Stop Women Addressing Mrs Pinkham Offers Private Help
The notice urges women to contact Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts for confidential advice on female ailments. It asserts medical expertise beyond any living doctor and states letters are read and answered by women only. It claims broad trust and invites all women to seek her guidance without payment.
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Pinkhara
All Around Market Report Text From Spokane and West
Wholesale prices for wheat barley rye flour and produce listed by city and region with numerous figures. Includes dairy butter eggs cheese beans onions potatoes lemons oranges apples grapes berries and poultry prices across Spokane Pullman Walla Walla Tacoma and New York silver certificates noted.
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Spokane
Club
Bluestem
California
Louisiana
Pullman
Walla Walla
Tacoma
Jail Suicide of U. S. Marine in Trail BC
A Trail dispatch reports J. W. McCarthy a United States marine held on an assault to rob charge ended his life by cutting his throat in the new jail at Trail. He was serving a four months sentence and died on November 30.
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Trail
Rossland
B.C
J. W. McCarthy
United States Marine
Papal appointments name new New Orleans archbishop and Erie bishop
In Rome on November 28 the pope named Rev. P. L. Chappelle of Santa Fe as archbishop of New Orleans and Rev. Maurice of Williamsport as bishop of Erie. In Tacoma on November 28 the body of 67 year old Mrs. Francis Selby was found in the city water reservoir, with poverty cited as a probable cause of suicide.
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Rome
P. L. Chappelle
Santa Fe
N. M
New Orleans
Father Maurice
Williamsport
Erie
Tacoma
Francis Selby
Edwin M Curtis Nominated for Mayor by Republicans
Boston voters learn that at the republican convention last night Edwin M Curtis was unanimously nominated for mayor.
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Boston
Edwin M. Curtis
St Jacobs Oil Promises Quick Rheumatism Relief
An advertisement extols St Jacobs Oil as a reliable remedy that never delays, acting in a businesslike way to cure rheumatism in any form and at any stage, claiming it helps those who otherwise miss opportunities. The copy contrasts delayed action with the product’s supposed immediacy.
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St. Jacobs Ol
Revenue receipts to exceed prior year by 38 million
The internal revenue bureau records show five months of the current fiscal year will surpass the same period last year by about 38 million. In Bath New York James W Loveridge who was injured in a Hammondsport football game on Thanksgiving afternoon died here yesterday.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Bath
N. Y
James W. Loveridge
Hammondsport
Stratford City Hall Destroyed by Fire in Ontario
Stratford Ontario yesterday city hall was completely destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at 150000 dollars. The report notes a political and social aside about land ownership in China and a tax per capita.
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Stratford
Ont
Autonomy Decree for Porto Rico Circulated
The official gazette in Madrid publishes a decree granting autonomy to Porto Rico on lines similar to Cuban autonomy. The note references Meerbaum meaning froth of the sea and remarks on material properties and historical figures.
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Porto Rico
Madrid
Official Gazette
Blizzard Rages Across Northwestern States
A severe blizzard spread through Minnesota Iowa Montana and the Dakotas with heavy snow and strong winds. Temperatures plunged with Battleford recording 30 degrees below zero at 8 PM. In Chicago Dr Minor Raymond longtime Garret Bible Institute leader died at age 88.
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St.aal
Minnesota
Iowa
Montana
Dakotas
Battleford
Chicago
Minor Raymond
The
Garret Bible Institute
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