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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1905
Page
11
News briefs report a heavy voter turnout with Los Angeles approving open saloon after banning prohibition. Other items note a federal grand jury indictments in beef trust, a Whitby Liberal victory, and May fiscal deficit of 2,960,122 dollars.
The Northern Pacific Railway plans June 4 start for $7.50 round trips from Seattle to Portland for 30 days to the Lewis and Clark exposition. Four daily trains each direction will handle crowds with new equipment and improved service. Northbound and southbound schedules are listed with departure and arrival times. Bankers gather in Washington New York June 1 for the American Bankers Association thirty fifth annual convention October 25 26 27 with a trust company and saving banks session on October 24.
Washington notes report the Erie railroad will staff Seattle offices led by Seenee smith, with Warden E C ae leaving the penitentiary and O F Hallagan named deputy warden. Also covered are local weather, law enforcement on wild pigeons, postmaster salaries, Oroville as subport of entry, Spokane bar session, Walla Walla women’s clubs, Seattle racing, Lake Washington rise, and a Trail ballad authorship reveal.
Washington views the Japanese victory as a factor delaying peace moves. Ambassador Cassini expects the war to continue, discouraging early settlement. A possible Russian appetite for peace may emerge only after assessing defeats, with the U S monitoring for cautious overtures.
Harry Weat, lessee of Chehalis electric light plant, buys eighty acres of coal and timber land on Coal Creek from ex-State Treasurer Maynard. He plans a coal mine on the railway route to be built by Coal Creek Lumber for its mill. Weat holds a fifteen year lease on the plant and will move it to the mine.
A White House conference with President Roosevelt Morton Moody the naval issue of the Russian cruisers Aurora Oleg and Jemtwing arriving at Manila is described. The plan favors neutrality, possible temporary repairs or internment, and dismantling if needed with ships allowed to sail only to home ports or wait under internment.
Text notes that detainees will be held at Manila until hostilities cease and that a request for their internment will come from the Russian admiral once he has word from the St. Petersburg government.
Manila June 5 Rear Admiral Enquist with Rear Admiral Train and the French consul called on Governor General Wright. Enquist said his ships were unseaworthy and he sought time to make repairs while awaiting instruction from his government. Wright allowed repairs behind the breakwater, with ships to move tomorrow morning.
Secretary Morton announced after a Roosevelt meeting that the Russian cruisers Aurora Oleg and Jemto bug which reached Manila last week will be interned there. Orders for internment would go forward to Admiral Train at once. Secretary Taft followed with cable messages.
Tokyo reports Japanese losses in the Sea of Japan battle at 113 killed and 424 wounded with Mikasa the heaviest hit. Russian casualties are estimated from 7,000 to 9,000, plus nearly 4,000 prisoners. Many unaccounted for amid sunken and captured ships. Vladivostok prepares for siege as noncombatants evacuate. Russian prisoners to be sent home. Rear Admiral Nebogatoff may refuse parole.
Centerville Washington June 5 The seventeenth annual session of the Washington State Grange Patrons of Husbandry opens at Toedo June 6 with about seventy subordinate granges entitled to representation and a state membership over 8000. Key topics include direct legislation taxation school books state ownership of books road improvements and horticultural inspection law reforms. Whitman county leads with seventeen granges and about two fifths of members.
The ukase of Emperor Nicholas naming Governor General Trepoff dictator shocks liberals and recalls 1880s imperial measures. Reports say ministers resign or consider quitting as Trepoff gains sweeping police control and ponders zemsky sobor while Russia cools public agitation after the Sea of Japan defeat.
Moscow June 6 245 delegates from zemstvos and municipalities arrived for the All Russian zemstvo congress to urge immediate hostilities cessation but the session was prohibited. The order provoked strong indigination among participants and supporters.
Chicago reports a total wheat crop prospect of 670 million bushels for the nation. Estimates from leading states suggest 348 million bushels from fourteen major wheat states, with spring wheat and winter wheat totals adding to about 411 million and 259 million bushels respectively.
Governors of Oregon Washington and Idaho drove the last spike completing the Dalles Celilo portage line. About a thousand spectators rode to Celilo by boat and train from Portland and a steamer from Lewiston joined the ceremony. Officials praised the project as opening vast inland empire commerce.
Liberal extracts from the Frick committee report to Equitable Life Assurance Society directors condemn excessive salaries commissions expenses and offices. The 38 page document urges careful investments and moral accountability, and says management should be radically changed and business conduct restored to legal and ethical lines.
Charles M. Levy, previously assistant to President Howard Elliott, is created as the third vice president with full control of Northern Pacific lines in Washington Oregon and Idaho. His headquarters will be in Tacoma Washington. The board established the position at a recent New York meeting.
A contract worth $140000 to Robert Miller and R P Butler covers 400000 ties for the Spokane and International railway. Road contracts have been let and grading on the roadbed has started. The line is expected to be completed within the year.
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