Cleveland steamer brings 65 passengers and about 500000 in gold
Cleveland arrived at Seattle from St Michaels with 65 passengers and an estimated 400000 in gold dust on board. Purser Whitbeck had about 140000, while many miners refused to reveal exact amounts. Reports describe hunger and looming starvation for winter as supply lines fail and Whisky traffic expands amid the Klondike rush.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Cleveland
Hall
St. Michaels
J. W. E. Whitbeck
Gold
North American Trading & Transportation Company
Yukon River
P. B., Weare
Dawson City
Klondike
Eldorado
Yukon
Alaska Commercial Company
St. Michael
Excelsior
San Francisco
Bering Sea
Dutch Harbor
A. J. Green
8. Groff
John Guyer
James Galliger
A. P. Henderson
L. V. Holder
P. Kelly
William Lowden
F. E. Leonard
Samuel Matthews
John Quiner
George Reynolds
Frank Segerin
H. Shroeder
William Sherman
M. Misomare
T. J. Allen
F. Segerin
P. Schroeder
Miss Lotta Burns
Charles Engle
A. P. Barber
Fritz Kloak
M. Milamore
Hans Anderson
B. Anderson
Jas. Galliger
Bank of British Columbia
Portland, Or
Minook Creek
Circle City
Hunter Creek
Robert
Charles Carlson
Bonanza Creek
Carlsons
Chicago
George Germain
Detroit
Mich
Captain Hall
Hamilton
Portland
New York City
Tacoma
Anderson
F. R. Churchill
Provincial Mounted Police
Ross
Forty-Mile Creek
Albert Bryan
Bryan
Loss of the Whaler Navarch
Survivors recount the wreck of the Navarch of San Francisco after ice entrapment in Arctic waters. Forty two men died. nine survived including Captain C. A. Whiteless and wife. The vessel, 268 feet long and 1783 gross tonnage, was lost near Cahoes Island after a canvas canoe escape.
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Seattle
St. Michaels
Arctic
Navarch
San Francisco
Cleveland
Revenue
Bear
C. A. Whiteless
Cahoes Island
Point Barrow
Kootenai County Sets 1897 Tax Levy at 3 45 Per Hundred
Kootenai County commissioners fixed the 1897 levy at 3.45 per $100, allocating 90 cents to state, 1.30 to county, 50 cents to general schools, 25 cents to roads, and 50 cents to a sinking fund for bonded debt. The total is 5 cents higher than 1896 and 15 cents lower than 1895, with state up and county down from 1896.
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Rathdrum
Idaho
Kootenai County
Lewiston
Geogles
Louisa Wiles
Marual
Limore
Moscow
South Boise
Latimer miners massacre shocks Hazleton town
Hazleton Pennsylvania September 13 1919 twenty one corpses lie in frame shanties and forty maimed lie in hospital as 102 deputy sheriffs armed to the teeth fire on about 150 foreigners including Hungarians Poles and Slavs. Warrants for Sheriff Martin and deputies follow the Latimer strike violence.
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Hazleton
Hazleton Hospital
Andrew Nickowski
John Chobenski
Steve Ureh
Andrew Vehrman
John Franko
John Zernawick
Frank Kodet
John Zahrlack
John Sheka
Anton Greckio
John Turnasvich
Andrew Yureh
Andrew Zimerski
Adam Zimenski
John Burski
Stanley Sackdreski
Sebastian
Latimer
Martin
United Hungarian Societies
Joseph M. Healte
St. George Society
Robert P. Riley
Anthracite Detective Agency
Wilkesbarre
Airey
Gallagher
A. Hess
L. A. Wall
Lehigh-Wilkesbarre Collieries
Lehigh
McAdoo
Miners Face Troops After deadly shooting and siege
News from a city overwhelmed by state troops with 2500 soldiers, including regiments from Wilkes Barre and Harrisburg. Officials call it official murder as muttered protests rise, funerals planned at the Polish Catholic church and a coroner’s inquest undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkesbarre
Lebanon
Williamsport
Phoenixville
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Governor Hastings Calls Out State Forces After Latimer Slaughter
In Harrisburg on September 13 Governor Hastings issued a proclamation citing riotous demonstrations in Luzerne county following Friday's Latimer killings. He authorized state military use to restore peace, pledge protection of life and property, and ordered rioters to disperse or face enforcement of laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harwood
Latimer
C. Pardee & Co
Harrisburg
Hastings
Luzerne County
Commonwealth
Daniel Hastings
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Crop conditions to Sept 1 and copper shipment
The September report of the statistician shows average crop conditions to Sept 1 with corn 99.3 oats 14.6 rye 90.1 tobacco 75.5 wheat 85.7 barley 86.4 potatoes 66.7. The Hall mines shipped 50 tons of blister copper to the Swansea refinery last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Hall
Swansea
Global Misfortunes and Progress Highlight Briefs
A broad miscellany reports fires, wrecks, and deaths from North Yakima to New Orleans. Notable items include the editor Freeman’s home loss in a gasoline explosion, nine struck by lightning near Burns Oregon, and a pilot engine accident near Arlington. Other notes cover racing results in Meriden, a Paris publishing fire, political shifts in New York, and evolving public notices in Spokane.
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Freeman
Yakima
Buchanan Station
Burns
Ore
Buchanan
Arlington
George Rome
Walla Walla
Rome
Meriden
Conn
Bald
Paris
Hatchett Publishing Company
San Jose
Guatemala
Barrios
Qresultenan
Plaza San Marcos
Lloyd
Oakland
Juneau
J. C. Boatman
Hilborn
Alaska
Francis A. Coffin
Michigan City
Ind
McKinley
McKenna
Coffin Wa
Indianapolis National Bank
Washington
Tacoma
San Francisco
Toledo
The
Rio Grande
Marlborough
London
United States
Conger
Michigan
John Shackelford
New York Security and Trust Company
Federal Court
Tacoma Gas and Electric Company
Richard Croker
New York
Europe
Tammany Hall
Republican Organization of
Seth Low
Spokane
Nickle
Supreme Court
Spokane Superior Court
Thomas O'Hara
Fle
Spokane Rod and Gun Club
O. J. Fairfield
Unitarian Church
D. F. Wetzel
George Liebes
North Star
Wardner
B. C
Jennings
B. F. Woodman
Spokane Chamber of Commerce
E. D. Olmsted
Trades’ Union Congress
Birmingham
England
Stevens
Wilson
trans-Mississippi
Mississippi Valley
New Orleans
Scott Hyatt
Royal McQueen
Mae
Grain haul and prices reported for Garfield run
Tibbetts drowned in the Cedar River at Waverly Iowa. The season's grain haul into Garfield Washington is estimated at 75000 bushels with about 25000 sold for 70 to 80 cents per bushel. The average price likely 76 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tibbetts
Cedar River
Waverly
Iowa
Garfield, Wash
Colorado Rail Crash Claims Thirty Dead Near Newcastle
The worst Colorado railroad wreck occurred near Newcastle when a Denver & Rio Grande passenger train collided head on with a Colorado Midland stock train at 12:25 AM. Wreckage and a Pintsch gas tank explosion caused fast spreading fire as rescuers, after 12 hours, recovered dead and injured. Names of the dead and injured include J. F. Keenan, Robert S. Holland, Mrs. Hartman and two sons, and engineer William Gordon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcastle
Col
Colorado
Denver & Rio Grande and
Colorado Midland Railways
J. F. Keenan
Denver
Robert S. Holland
J. C. Yeager
Toledo
Ohio
J. Longman
Whittier
Cal
Mary Israel
St. Paul
Denver & Rio Grande
Ad Midland
Grain standards fixed for next year in Washington
Tacoma Sept 11 grain standards set by the state commission after a conference with Inspector Wright and Commissioners Reed and Stewart. Choice bluestem and club wheat equal 60 pounds to the bushel, No 1 club and bluestem 59, No 2 56, No 3 54. The No 1 grade rises from 59, while 2 and 3 stay the same as 1896. A choice standard is introduced to compare with California wheat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Wright
Reed
Stewart
California
Railroads Face Harsh Scrutiny by State Board of Equalization
Olympia news reports the state board of equalization poised to pressure railroad valuations, aiming to set values near 35000 per mile. The panel includes W D Jenkins Robert Bridges and Neal Cheetham, all leaning toward a single tax perspective, with no avenue for court appeal after a prior supreme court ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Jenkins
Robert Bridges
Neal Cheetham
Jenkins
Bridges
Cheetham
Harvest and rail gains across three western states
News from Washington Oregon and Montana reports Tacoma Gas & Electric receiver James Drake named. Wheat shipments rise with 120 cars in Tacoma. land appraisers to survey railroad lands aiding settlers. Montana cites gambling charges dropped, local paving friction, and fresh court actions in Missoula and Lewiston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
James
Drake
Tacoma Gas & Electric Company
William Pershall
Iowa
Davenport
H. M. Morgan
Chicago
Central Associated Press
Seattle
Portland
St. Michaels
Yukon
Dawson City
Tacoma
Washington
D. W. Truax
Tekoa
E. C. Bayne
Northern Pacific
Brown's Lake
Stevens County
Ritzville
Garfield
Harrison
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Hazel Park
Colegal Hill
South Side
Awful
State Commission
State Board
France
Napoleon
Germany
News OF
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Montana
Butte
Rufus Thompson
Highfield
Billings
Omaha
Thompson
Silberman Bros
Nebraska
E. E. van Dyke
Red Lodge
Yellowstone
Jackson
Hole
Baltimore Medical College
John Brown
Boston
F. W. Blackford
Inspector Ryan
C. C. Hobson
Harrington
Hobson
Ryan
Peter Towey
Missoulian
Missoula
George E. Boos
Henry C. Collins
Crow's Nest Pass
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