Summit mine strike on Wild Horse Creek near Ymir rocks $2700 gold
The Summit mine on Wild Horse Creek near Ymir, adjacent to the Elise mine, returns a six foot ledge of decomposed white quartz carrying up to 2700 dollars in gold per ton. Bonded earlier by Fern company on an 18 inch vein, exploration expanded after a 40 foot shaft yielded little. Lindblade brothers resumed work, driving drift adits and shafting while preparing ore for mill testing amid a winter campaign.
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Summit
Wild Horse Creek
Ymir
Elise
Nelson
B. C
Fern Company
Lindblade Brothers
Revolt of Soudanese Troops in East Africa Expedition
Reports from Zanzibar detail a mutiny among Soudanese troops during Major McDonald's lake region expedition south of the equatorial provinces. The attack on Wasoga in October killed Lt Fielding Major Thurston Engineer Scott Civil Officer Wilton and 15 soldiers.
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Zanzibar
East Africa
McDonald
Equatorial
Uganda
Wasoga
Fielding
Thurston
Scott
Wilton
Kikuy
Victoria Nyanza
Frederick Lugar
Juba River
White Nile
Usaga
Caverio
Railroad Plans From Dyea To Crater Lake Via Chilkoot Pass
Henry L. Martens of New York and Tacoma capitalists push a two phase route from Dyea to Crater Lake. First eight to nine miles of standard gauge track near Dyea mouth, 60 workers at $3 daily. A second tramway over Chilkoot Pass, built in the east and shipped via Seattle, to handle 250 passengers and 150 tons daily. Martens predicts 75 000 travelers into Klondike by Dyea route next spring.
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San Francisco
Henry L. Martens
New York
Tacoma
Dyea
Chilkoot Pass
Crater Lake
Dyea Canyon
Seattle
Martens
Klondike
Secretary Denies McBride Pacific NW Land Contest Review
The secretary of the interior has disposed of the land contest case of McBride against Washington state over lands near Tacoma. McBride’s motion for a review of the prior decision is denied as no new legal questions are presented. all questions were considered previously.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
McBride
State of Washington
Tacoma
Will of Henry George Leaves Estate to Widow
The will filed for probate in New York on November 21 bequeaths the entire estate to the widow. It includes the Fort Hamilton home valued around eight thousand dollars and the copyright of his books, with the author’s political economy manuscript to be published in a few months.
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New York
Henry George
Fort Hamilton
George
Progress of Business and Global Affairs Across 1898
Woolen mills raise wages in Fall River while shoe factories cut pay in Haverhill. Deportations ordered for six Mohammedan immigrants in New York. North Pacific fleet reinforcement boosts British power. Trials and bankruptcies unfold in Washington and Wisconsin. China, Japan, and Hawaii face indemnities and trade pressures. Fires, accidents, and political reshuffles color a broad, dated panorama.
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Jesse Eddy
Fall River
Mass
Haverhill
New York
North Pacific Squadron
Great Britain
Farmington
Wash
William Morse
F. D. Mondell
Wyoming
Land Office
New South Wales
McCreigth
Supreme Court of
British Columbia
Szechuan
China
Knappe
Japan
Hawaii
Hosea Brown
Pacific East
Grant’s Pass
United States Court of Appeals
St. Louis
United States
George H. Houghton
Church of the Transfiguration
New York City
Neva
St. Petersburg
Charles Kuharich
Croatian Colonization Company
Denver
Colorado Immigration and Development Company
McKenna
Supreme Court
Justice Field
Madrid
Philippine Islands
Tien Tsin
Woodford
State Department
Lee
Lubbock
Hale
Crosby
Texas
Emmet
Kovono
Poland
Secretary of the Treasury
Stallions for Japan's Market From Kentucky
San Francisco dispatch reports the steamer Coptic carried seven thoroughbred stallions purchased in Lexington, Ky, by Y Matsumokos for Japan. The dark bay horses, all at least 15 hands and averaging 1000 pounds, will cost about 4500 dollars each in Yokohama and be crossbred with native Japanese stock to combine top American and European qualities.
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Paterson
N. J
Cook
Breaks Hill
America
Buenos Ayres
Europe
Argentina
Congress
Washington
McKinley
Vancouver & Northern Shipping & Trading Company
Canadian Pacific Railway
London
Bothnia
Scythia
Cape Mail
Vancouver
Klondike
Milton Artley
Carlton
Mich
Edward Graft
Building Trades Council of
San Francisco
Alva W. Butler
San Quentin
Cal
Butler
Oregon State Penitentiary
Canyon City
W. D. Hughes
United States Navy
Naval Militia
California
Alderman Durham
Minneapolis
Crockett Sugar
California Beet Sugar & Refining Company
Senor Cuestas
Uruguay
George A. Taylor
Bank of
Kansas City
Burrows
Michigan
Frederick W. Griffin
Northwestern National Bank of Chicago
Joliet
American Wood Working Machinery Company
United States
Orient
Japan
Lexington
Y. Matsumokos
Great Japanese Trading Company
New York
Yokohama
Populist Leaders Convene in St. Louis Meeting
Dallas news reports Chairman Milton Parke of the populist national organization committee says the party, opposed to National Chairman Butler, has asked members to meet at the La Clede hotel in St. Louis on November 23 to chart a middle ground policy.
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Dallas
Tex
Milton Parke
National Organization Committee
Butler
la Clede Hotel
St. Louis
Parke
Death of a Noted Baptist Pastor Abbot
Rev Granville Sharpe Abbot D D a leading Baptist minister of California died in Oakland after a long career. The report notes his prominence and ends with the remark that a human heart beats 92 160 times daily.
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Oakland
Cal
Granville Sharpe Abbot
D.D
Northwest items show uneven progress across states
News notes report Idaho inheritance law upheld, Washington apple shipments to Honolulu trial, Montana grain and timber projects, and Puget Sound salmon and cod trade. Seattle elects mayor, jail break at Mount Vernon, and local harvests, land deals, and rail surveys unfold amid scarce cars and rising prices.
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Puget Sound
Japan
Wenatchee
Hoquiam
Seattle
T. J. Humes
W. J. Woods
Mount Vernon
Kendrick
William Oxley
Delta
Banner Mining Company
Wallace
Pierce City
Nez Perce
Leland
Honolulu
Port Townsend
Eastern
Washington Fir
Flathead County
Montana
Attoney General
F. A. Hazeltine
South Bend Journal
Peruvian Congress
North
Takiwa
Michigan
Bravery of a White Officer Quells a Black Riot in Jamaica
Nov 20 Jamaica New York. Black soldiers of the First battalion West India regiment riot in Kingston Jamaica. A white officer Buck leads a cavalry dash into the parade gardens, restores order, orders prisoners to form, and arrests several rioters as provost guards arrive to dispatch further arrests.
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New York
West India Regiment
Kingston
Jamaica
Zollas Market
Buck
Man Reported Missing After Pend d Oreille River Trip
Charles V Ackerman father of Jessie Ackerman, a W C T U leader, is missing and presumed drowned after his rowboat vanished on the Pend d Oreille river near Newport Idaho. He was last seen returning home from Newport Thursday afternoon. goods from his purchases floated downstream the next day. No trace of Ackerman or boat has been found. He was a longtime respected Stevens county resident.
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Newport
Idaho
Charles V. Ackerman
Jessie Ackerman
Pend d’Oreille
Fatal House Fire Claims Fortuna Invalid
Eureka Cal Nov 21 Mrs Rolley an invalid from paralysis was burned to death yesterday in her Fortuna home. While on a sofa near a fireplace her clothing ignited and flames could not be extinguished by her son who was seriously burned.
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Eureka
Cal
Rolley
Fortuna
Court martial opens over Captain Lovering brutality case
Chicago November reports Captain Leonard A. Lovering of the Fourth Infantry faces a court martial at Fort Sheridan for conduct prejudicial to good order. Witnesses recount Hammond dragged by the heels from the guard house to the adjutant’s office with kicks, sword prods, and bloodied clothing. A prior inquiry led to a general court martial to pursue charges sanctioned by Major General Wien and President.
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Chicago
Leonard A. Lovering
Fourth Infantry
Fort Sheridan
Hammond
Bernard
Lovering
Advocate Hunter
New
Brainard
Dompany
Colonel Hunter
Corporal Ward
Corporal New
Plattsburg
N. Y
Bainbridge
Captain Lovering
Alger
Brookes
Wien
Death of Lewiston Pioneer in Chimney Collapse
Thomas D. Worden, a prominent Lewiston resident, died after bricks from a falling chimney crushed his skull while he and a crew removed an old building beside the Raymond hotel. Authorities note a deadly accident yesterday in the city.
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Lewiston
Idaho
Thomas D. Worden
Raymond Hotel
Noted Minnesota Lawyer Martin Dies in Jail Suicide
Stillwater Minnesota November 22 Attorney Van Martin once a prominent lawyer and politician killed himself in jail by taking morphine while awaiting trial on embezzlement and forgery charges.
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Stillwater
Minn
van Martin
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Coeur d'Alenes
George W. Cook
Butte
Basin Country
Butte Inter Mountain
Col. Cook
J. F. Horner
Crescent-Catalpo
Leadville
Placerville
Boulder, Mont
High Ore Gold and Copper Mining Company
High Ore Gulch
M. L. Hewett
Winston
Mont
Stray Horse
East Pacific
Robert Bell
Heela
Burke
Coeur d’Alenes
Milwaukee Mining Company
Mammoth
Prichard Creek
Smelter Trust
Mexico
International Metal Company of
Omaha Grant Smelting Company
Omaha
Great
National Mexican Smelting Company
Monterey
Philadelphia Smelting and Refining Company
Pueblo
Col
Guggenheim Smelting Company
Perth Amboy
Argus
Yosemite
Murray
Sondon
Payne
Everett
Ruth
Kaslo
Martin Bartholomew
George Roel
Robert Loren
Kolb Pit
Mascoutah
Ill
Thomas Edwin Cook
Bessemer Limestone Company
Carbon Limestone Company
Mahoning Valley
Ohio
American Railway League
Telegraphers’ Political League of America
Kentucky
News OF the Northwest
Hamilton
Eastport
Kan
Missoula
Whitehall
Beaverhead County
Sand Coulee
Potato Hill Lakes
Phillipsburg
Burt Tarr
Lewiston Land Office
Fort Peck Indian Reserve
Missouri River
Yellowstone Park
Yellowstone
Board of County Commissioners
Clinton
Elmore County
Genesee
C. E. DeBow
Charles Greiser
Kootenai County
Anderson
Hailey
State Teachers’ Association
Spicer
Potlatch
White Pine
Salvation Army
Justice McCreighth
Slocan City
Hiram 8
Sweet
Northwest
Kootenay
Kootenay Lake
A. Jones
Grand Forks
Columbia & Western Railway
Anec Torsprot
Christina Lake
Arrow Lake
Pend d' Oreille
Sahara
Africa
Ded
Peet
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