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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1905
Page
3
Portland August 24 The National Irrigation Congress held a general session with Governor George Pardee elected president. James J Hill of the Great Northern Ramsay.
Local notices list multiple Virginia and Washington area obituaries. Entries name widows and heirs, with funeral dates, times, and locations across Vienna, Vienna VA and Washington DC area churches and cemeteries.
Health office death record lists numerous patients with ages from 1 month to 85 years. Entries mention hospitals including Freeimens Hospital Providence Hospital Washington Asylum Hospital and various wards or cases such as Mary Angerson Wiskarton C vant and Lucy Tyser Hr cdven's Hospital. Names, ages, and institutions appear in compact OCR form reflecting historic mortality notes.
Notice indicates marriage and death notices in The Washington Post may appear with extra charges for telegraphing to multiple newspapers including NACRIC TIMES Boston Globe Chicago Herald Philadelphia Public Ledger Pittsburgh Dispatch Journal Romeester Herald Syracuse Post Standard St Paul Pioneer Press Minneapolis Tribune Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The resolution urges maximum cooperation between government and private enterprise in reclaiming arid lands and building reservoirs. It advocates extending federal irrigation laws to Texas, opposing further concessions to tropical islands, and promoting beet sugar production. It calls for eminent domain when needed and praises the Agriculture Department stations and Weather Bureau for aid to the reclamation service.
Internal Department notes deny DOJ involvement in Burton inquiry while confirming a link to Chickasaw warrants. Officials describe a $5,000 yearly payment to Z T Burton from Chickasaw funds, stemming from prior contracts and later handled by his brother after Burton became a senator.
United States Senator J B Barton, resting at home in Abilene Kansas, says Chickasaw warrants issued in October 1901 were payment for legal services rendered to Gov. Johnson before his election as senator. He asserts he received no pay after becoming a senator and that his brother Z T Burton, also a lawyer for Gov. Johnson, received warrants for pre senatorial work.
St Petersburg August 24 Reuters reports Count Lamdorst official denial that Russia will pay any indemnity or cede territory to Japan. Witte remains in contact and may act by Saturday. Reinforcements from Linovitch bolster morale as Vladivostok defenses assessed by European attaché. Moscow ship conscripts and reserves moving to front. Magnolia, Mass. Witte and Rosen arrive. no comment on William visit to Nicholas.
Portsmouth Aug 4 Alexandre N Briantchaninoff St Petersburg Slovo says after Roosevelts intervention optimism cooled but will not surrender. He notes Russian instructions may be more conciliatory and Japan proposes a compromise on Sakhalin. Japan argues rights to island by force and Russia could concede as victories in Manchuria loom.
Roosevelt argues for impartial judges to set a price for Sakhalin and indemnities, suggesting arbitration could end further bloodshed. He notes Russia’s stubborn stance as a matter of money, not honor, and hopes Petersburg will seize the opportunity to glorify arbitration.
Special to The Washington Post from Portsmouth New Hampshire reports a relaxed day at the Baron Rosen and Witte visit with Japanese envoys at the hotel. The Japanese attend a York Harbor lawn party and plan a cotton weaving tour of Manchester New England.
Warsaw imposes martial law as Vistula Railway bridge near Radom is blown and communication breaks. In Elizabethgrad district affrays erupt at a fair causing looting, massacres and mutilation of merchants. Zemstvo leader seeks permission to convene landlord meetings to settle agrarian questions. Cossacks arrive too late to save a devastated village.
Mystic Conn August 24 The Universal Peace Union published a document sent to Russian and Japanese plenipotentiaries proposing paths to peace. It suggests indemnity recompense, peace offerings to populations, naval power limits, freeing interned vessels as merchant ships, and deferring disputes to The Hague tribunal to secure peace with honor.
Bt Petersburg Aug 24 The Emperor accepted the resignation of M Bouli gin as minister of the interior. Count Alexis Ignatieff, a council member and ex governor general of Kiev, is thought to be the likely successor, though Gen Trepoff is also mentioned as a possibility.
The former Russian battleship Peresviet now Bagami arrived under her own steam at Sasebo navy yard on August 23 from Port Arthur. The ex-Russian cruiser Bayan, renamed Aso, is expected to reach Sasebo from Port Arthur to join. Nineteen bicycles stolen in two days as police report.
Reports from Peterhof and Tokyo indicate Japan would accept further concessions if Emperor Nicholas commits to a solution dividing Bakhalin and paying war costs. Witte disputes a hard line from Russia while Japanese officials resist waiving reimbursement and warn against reopening conflict years later. Emperor William’s stance is viewed as an obstacle by some observers.
Will H. Tollefson, 29, released from Concord reformatory today, was rearrested in Boston on a pass worthless checks charge for Grand Haven Michigan police. He is also wanted by authorities in Galesburg Illinois Fort Worth Texas Chatham Virginia and other places.
Washington friends of Governor Miguel Otero of New Mexico report concerns over alleged kidnap attempts against his son Miguel Otero Jr. The boy escaped and guards remain tight, as investigators in Red House camp search buildings while authorities keep a sharp lookout for suspects to be jailed.
John W. Hutchinson, survivor of the Hutchinson family singers, and Agnes P. Hverest wed in Portsmouth as they press for Russian and Japanese peace. The ceremony at the Horn home featured a nonalcoholic punch, a benediction, and a peace song penned by Hutchinson. The couple met in Washington earlier this summer while promoting peace.
New Orleans reports yellow fever under control with federal surgeons pressing to curb intercity movement from infected areas. Conference with Gov Blanchard yields plan to restrict travel. infection spreads blamed on returning Italian and other foreign evacuees. New cases fall to 44, total deaths rise modestly, and disinfection efforts continue citywide with 155 inspection gangs deployed.
A Newport News report said to have quarantined against Richmond due to yellow fever was unfounded. Dr A C Jones inspected arriving trains for days under Washington orders as a precaution to keep fever from entering the city. Old Dominion steamers from Richmond no longer bring passengers, the steamship company bears responsibility.
Grand Rapids Aug 24 a yellow fever case is recorded in Crickery township Ottawa County ten miles from Grand Rapids Godfrey Limburg a telephone lineman from New Orleans who left the city a week ago was taken sick Saturday though a doctor was not summoned for days as his temperature rose He is hospitalized and under care. Also note: James McKinney of Aledo named Republican candidate for Congress in the Fourteenth Illinois district to succeed late B F Mareh
William E. Thorn aged seventy a reputed capital ist of New York City died at Red Cross Hospital last night in Kansas City Missouri The report notes his wealth and status as a prominent financier coming from New York City and dying in local hospital care
The Pennsylvania road will take all graduates from Altoona Industrial School and train them as railroad men. The school, a branch of the city high school, serves many sons of railroad workers. Graduates will receive top apprenticeship pay while under railroad supervision.
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