Governor Rogers deficit claim disputed by state audit
Olympia Washington September 6 the claim that the agricultural college board inherited a five thousand dollar deficit from the prior administration is challenged by the state auditor’s records. The last warrants on the old appropriation dated January 2 1897 ten days before Rogers took office cast doubt on a sudden large shortfall.
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Olympia
Wash
Rogers
Board of Regents of
the Agricultural College
Final crop reports from Omaha road agents
Final crop reports received by Superintendent Spencer show stacking nearly complete and threshing from shocks underway. Wheat yields are generally small and sometimes disappointing while other small grains average. Corn is doing well but needs 2 to 3 weeks of favorable weather to avoid frost. if matured, it will be an average crop.
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Mankota
Minn
Omaha Road
Spencer
Northwest notes on harvests and people across Washington Idaho and Montana
Washington Idaho and Montana readers learn of abundant salmon in La Conner and plentiful grouse in Bridgeport fields. Walla Walla ships about 75000 pounds of fruit daily. Whatcom hop yards rebound. Adams county wheat prompts threshing machine purchases. Dr M Victor Stanley joins Seattle University faculty. Court term set at Ritzville for equity cases. Com pany F N G W seeks reorganization at New Whatcom. Colville raises funds for a new court house. Johnny Hogan builds a sagebrush ranch with 2000 bushels of wheat for sale. Emma Libby catches 81 steelhead trout at Lake Crescent. Lewiston begins Daily Patriot. Rathdrum oats and wheat yields noted. Walla Walla plans public kindergarten. Idaho intermountain fair to Boise October 12 16. State land board to supervise timber land in Shoshone county. Sandpoint church organized. Potlatch ridge flax yields high. Fruit inspector A McPherson to enforce pest free shipments. Clapp of Seattle engineers to resume Snake river works. Census shows 2042 school children in Kootenai county. Montana reports Dillon census 571 and rising. Sugar beet yields in Shields valley. A Herron now in Dyea Alaska. Merchants National Bank Helena to declare 25 percent dividend. Bozeman college building progresses with electric plant planned. Butte building permits surge to record 281 first half. Boulder deaf and dumb asylum stalled over funding. Bozeman Indian depredation cases headed by Loughary toward Washington claims.
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M. Victor Stanley
Wisconsin
State University At
Seattle
George M. Davison
C. H. Neal
Holcomb
Ritzville
Company F, N. G. W
New Whatcom
Colville
Johnny Hogan
Yakima
Toppenish
Emma Libby
Captain Libby
Puget Sound Tugboat Company
Lake Crescent
Port Angeles
Idaho
Daily Patriot
Lewiston
Rathdrum
Walla Walla
Shoshone County
Methodist Episcopal Church
Sandpoint
Morton
Butte
Mont
Potlatch Ridge
John Ehlers
A. McPherson
Custer County
Boise Valley
J. M. Clapp
United States Engineers
Snake River
Riparia
Wild Goose Rapids
Kootenai County
Coeur d'Alene City
Harrison
State Line
Leonia
Bonner’s Ferry
Bozeman
Main
Granite Streets
SIL
Boulder
Lowell Loughary
United States
Loughary
Court of Claims
Washington, D. C
Miles City
Board to sue Cobletz bondsmen over $10000 defalcations
Walla Walla Washington September 5 The board of audit and control finished a three day session at the penitentiary It directed Prosecutor Sharpstein of Walla Walla and Titlow of Pierce to sue Musgrove bondsmen to recover 10000 and pursue criminal action against Musgrove The board also abolished the storekeeper office transferred duties to the clerk and rescinded earlier sacks contracts as illegal It fixed sack prices at 525 per hundred and considered pardons and commutations for several Spokane and Pierce county inmates It will meet in Spokane tomorrow to decide further actions This summary covers the major actions and outcomes from the session
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Walla Walla, Wash
Board of Audit and Control
Sharpstein
Walla Walla County
Titlow
Pierce County
Coblentz
Musgrove
Mosgrove
Spokane
Charles Gilford
Ira Moore
Frank McCain
Isuz
Joseph Young
End of Miners Strike in Sight in Ohio
Columbus, Sept 5 The United Mine Workers executive board recommends to miners a 65 cent per ton price from Pittsburg operators to hold through year end. An ad joint meeting of operators and miners will be held in December 1897 to decide future rates. A delegation of suspended miners will convene in Columbus Sept 8 to act on the recommendation. President Ratchford and the board expect approval.
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Columbus
Ohio
United Mine Workers
Pittsburg
Ratchford
Exports Rise in July with Record Domestic Trade
Washington reports July exports up about 4.3 million from last year with total July exports at 6,725,770 dollars. First seven months show 549,943,879 dollars exported, up from 500,572,005 last year. Gold exports for July are 5,462,869 dollars, while first seven months total 30,559,071. Silver exports for seven months are 52,859,204 this year versus 36,035,559 last year.
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Washington
United States
Official Contradiction Over French Reply to Lorraine Society
London reports an official contradic tion denying that Germany will seek an explanation from France. The dispute centers on a dispatch by French Premier M Meline replying to Lorraine society congratulating the Franco Russian alliance.
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London
Germany
France
M. Meline
Lorraine Society
Charge of Malpractice In Wyoming Case Arrests
A special to the Tribune from Evanston Wyoming reports Dr C H Blackburn and Charles Martin an accessory were jailed today charged with unlawfully causing the death of Miss Hattie Staniforth in the Dawson building under peculiar circumstances.
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Salt Lake
Tribune
Evanston
Wyo
C. H. Blackburn
Charles Martin
Hattie Staniforth
Philadelphia Hosts British Cricket Tourists from England
Philadelphia prepares to welcome an eleven organized by P H Warner of Middlesex London to play matches in New York Boston Toronto and Chicago. The team includes G L Jessop F G Bull and other notable players. First match set for September 17 18 and 20 at Germantown Cricket Club. The locals aim to challenge the visitors with strong Metropolitan New York players and regional crews in a bid to win.
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Chicago
Lord Hawke
W. L. Murdock
Sussex
P. H. Warner
Middlesex
London
G. L. Jessop
F. G. Bull
Essex
George Brann
W. Newham
C. L. Townsend
W. McG. Hemmingway
Gloucester
S. M. J. Woods
A. E. Newton
Somerset
G. R. Bardswell
F. H. BE. Cunliffe
Oxford University
H. E. Chinnery
Surrey
Mr. Warner
Germantown
Greater
Staten Island
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Bayonne
Atlantic Seaboard
Colorado Silver Republicans Nominate Hayt and Denounce Fusion
In Glenwood Springs the silver republicans renominated Justice Chas D. Hayt for supreme judge amid opposition to fusion with administration Republicans. Senator Teller and Rep Shafroth urged silver independence while praising Hayt, who affirmed allegiance to Teller and Bryan. Denver gold Republicans also renominated Hoyt by acclamation, aligning with silver stance.
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Glenwood Springs
Col
Denver
Chas. D. Hayt
Henry M.teller
Teller
Shaffroth
Silver
Hoyt
Teller and
Bryan
Jdge
Supreme Court
J. L. Hodges
Ren
Charles D. Hoyt
Downpour of Rain Halts Gold Seekers in Alaska Trail
A Post Intel ligencer report from Skagway dated August 25 describes a three day downpour turning mud from four inches to four feet deep. One hundred men return daily from the trail as horses tire and miners suffer packer shortages. wages rise and supplies shrink as packers fetch 8 to 10 dollars per day and more. Many push toward the lake post haste to reach river routes before snow, hoping to survive winter.
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Seattle
Wash
A_ Post-Intelligencer
Skagway
Lake Wawa gold gleams as prospectors swarm Lake Wawa
A party of 14 goldseekers aboard the yacht Mary Ball returned from Michipicoten Ontario with news of rich new quartz veins at Lake Wawa. They plan to stake 4000 acres and bring back samples showing free gold in the quartz. The camp swelled to dozens of prospectors as tents dotted the shores and a mining rush began.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Mary Ball
Michipicoten
Eldorado
Lake Wawa
Two Soos
Klondike Junior
Love Urged for Alfred Noble Arbitration Fund Reward
Philadelphia reports Alfred H. Love of Philadelphia is upheld by the Universal Peace Union as a leading candidate for the Alfred Noble arbitration prize. Love founded the Union and has long championed international arbitration, sharing Quaker roots with Lucretia Mott in humanitarian work and the underground railroad.
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Philadelphia
Alfred Noble
Stockholm
Universal Peace Union
Alfred H. Love
Love
Lucretia Mott
Millionaire Estate Dispute Divides Quarrelled Heirs
In Mascoutah JIL September 4 a court fight erupts over Colonel John Thomas's $1,000,000 Illinois estate. The late politician's thirteen children from the first wife and three from the second, now estranged, clash over the division. George D. Thomas of Montana speaks for the older brood and Colonel John KE Thomas for the younger. The heirs vow a stubborn contest.
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Thomas Quarrel
Mascoutah
Jil
John Thomas
Illinois
Thomas
George D. Thomas
Montana
John KE. Thomas
Supreme Court Strikes Idaho Appeals from Commissioners Act
In Hoise Idaho a district court applies the Supreme Court ruling from the fee bill case to strike down the act regulating appeals from boards of commissioners. Lawyers anticipate attacking the information prosecution act next. Invalidating these laws could release many convicts and shift criminal cases.
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Supreme Court
Hoise
Idaho
Boards of Commissioners
Elopement Suspect Killed Jumping From Moving Train
W R Ward of San Francisco, linked to a California millionaire Bradbury affair, leaped from a speeding Chicago Northwestern Overland Flyer near an Iowa stretch and died. A Wheatlands telegram reported his body found near Chicago in night attire, with officials noting possible mental illness.
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California
Chicago
W. R. Ward
San Francisco
Chicago & Northwestern
Reward for Their Capture in Idaho Murders
Governor Steunenberg offers a reward for the apprehension of Parker’s murderers near Kamiah Idaho. John Parker disappeared July 31 his orchard was felled and damages noted, terrorizing locals as searchers fail to find him.
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Idaho
Parker
Boise
Steunenberg
John Parker
Kamiah
Consumer urged to contact for Schilling's Best issues
Readers are asked to write if Schilling's Best is unavailable at their grocer or if the product is unsatisfactory and money cannot be refunded.
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