Potential Russian retreat from Sungari lines to Harbin feared in war news
St Petersburg reports warn that if General Linevitch cannot hold the Sungari lower line at Chuńczyateu, Russia may retreat to Harbin and even further west along the railway abandoning Manchuria and Vladivostok. Dispatches suggest war supplies for a two year siege and reinforcements of about 200,000. A peace mood gathers at the Winter Palace as events threaten to shift control to Japan.
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St. Petersburg
Sungari
Chunchiateu
Harbin
Manchuria
Amnor
Linevitch
Gunshu
Associated Press
Vladivostok
Nicholas
Russia
Pacific
Japan
Nicholas Nicholaivitch
Far East
Linovitch
Lake Baikal
Oyama
Winter Palace
Noncombatants expelled from Vladivostok amid risk of forced stay
News from Vladivostok reports all noncombatants including many women were ordered out yesterday to avoid a long stay. The city reportedly has supplies and ammunition stockpiled for two years.
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St. Petersburg
Vladivostok
No World Mastery Declared by German Emperor
Bremen March 23. Emperor William vowed never to seek world mastery at a banquet for a monument to Emperor Frederick. He recalled youth and said the envisioned world power would rest on mutual striving of nations for common aims rather than conquest, ensuring a peaceful, honest neighbor to Germany.
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Bremen
William
Frederick
Railroad Activity With 7500 Miles Under Contract in 1905
The Railway Age notes heavy railroad construction in 1905 with 7500 miles under contract and 9832 miles projected to materialize. Canada also expects substantial activity with several start points on an additional transcontinental line planned to add 3500 miles to the Grand Trunk system.
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Chicago
Railway Age
Canada
Grand Trunk Company
Milwaukee Line to Coast Aims to Reach Pacific Coast
Minneapolis and New York reports confirm Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad eyes a Pacific extension. Earling hints at possible 300 miles of new track this summer to Portland Seattle and Tacoma. Rockefeller investors travel with Earling and may force the western expansion while Hill supports Seattle as a terminus to boost regional growth.
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Minneapolis
A. J. Earling
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Milwaukee
Pacific Coast
Portland
Seattle
Tacoma
New York
Rockefeller
Earling
E.G
P. A. Rockefeller
Mr. van Wyck
L. Sackett
F. B. Adama
C. E. Sullivan
L. B. Juan
Chamberlain
Wall Street Journal
Western Railroad
San Francisco
Northern Securities
Union Pacific
Hill
Pacific
Washington to publish state resources book for settlers
Seattle March 24 George M Allen deputy commissioner of statistics and immigration will compile a 205 page book about Washington resources and settler advantages. He will visit cities towns and counties to collect data and photos for 80000 copies to be printed for distribution at the Portland exposition this summer. He aims to finish by July 1 and the work is funded by a recent legislative appropriation.
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Seattle
Washington
George M. Allen
Sullivan Building
Portland
Waseda Baseball Team to Tour America
Jap Ball in Tokyo reports Waseda University baseball team will depart Japan to play exhibition games in the United States. The student squad from Japan’s mass university is scheduled to begin a westbound tour in March, with matches against local clubs and colleges arranged along the trip.
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Loming
Tokyo
Waseda
Japan
Mass University
America
Wee Sen
County Officers Barred from Tract Indices System
Seattle officials cannot install a tract indices system in the county auditor’s office. The supreme court ruling in Dirks vs Spokane county affirms the law dictates recordkeeping methods and changing the system harms taxpayers. The decision aligns with King county holdings against public title abstracts.
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Seattle
Supreme Court
John L. Dirks
Spokane County
Lamping
King County
Direct Wire Planned From Spokane to Seattle and Tacoma
Spokane news reports fifty men start stringing a new through line for Sunset company between Spokane and the Sound. Work begins in Spokane and proceeds via Davenport Wilbur Wenatchee and Stampede pass to Davenport route. Service aims for operation by July with through business instead of the Portland roundabout path.
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Spokane
Seattle
Tacoma
Sunset Company
Davenport
Wilbur
Wenatchee
Stampede Pass
The
Sound
Portland
Deported Again Aged Woman Set to Return to Victoria
Mrs. Margaret Norrington a 75 year old impoverished woman described as feeble minded has been ordered deported from San Francisco to Victoria British Columbia a second time. Previously sent to Victoria and returned by steamer the case heads north again. She says she came from New Zealand seeking a sister.
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San Francisco
Margaret Norrington
Victoria
B. C
New Zealand
Royal Arcanum Installs Officers Across Cities
Everett March 27. The grand council elected officers for the coming year including Grand Regent C S Bowie Tacoma and Grand Scribe T A Parrish Seattle The next session of the grand council will convene in Seattle on March 15 1906 with officers J T Rogers and others listed.
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Everett
Grand Council of the Royal Arcanum
C. S. Bowie
Tacoma
J. T. Rogers
Morgan Wheeler
Bellingham
A. Parrish
Seattle
C. O. Larned
Chaplin
E. R. Ingersoll
George R. Tennant
F. J. McLaughlin
J.J. Dresden
Peary's New Ship Launched in Maine Harbor
Lieut Robert E Peary's Arctic steamship Roosevelt was launched at Bocksport Maine amid celebration Mrs Peary christened the vessel Roosevelt Naval Architect William E Winant designed it and it is claimed to be the strongest and best equipped craft for fighting Arctic ice yet built.
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Bocksport
Robert E. Peary
Roosevelt
Germany says to leave Santo Domingo debts to US
Berlin states that the German government will leave Santo Domingo and its foreign creditor obligations to the United States and is not pressing the Dominican Republic for payment of debts due Germany.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
Associated Press
Great Britain
Germany
Sanco Domingo
Santo Domingo
United States
Pacific coast smelters form new copper company
New York March 27 reports a consolidation of Pacific coast smelters Selby Tacoma and the Everett. The exact name and capitalization are pending. The venture plans a copper refinery and copper sheet and wire mills at Tacoma.
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New York
Selby
Tacoma
Everett
Immigration rush swamps Ellis Island officials
New York March 27. Over the last three days Ellis Island processed 16,000 immigrants. Since March the port has received more than 18,000 Italians, intensifying intake at the immigration station.
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New York
Ellis Island
Real Estate Men to Organize in Everett
Everett real estate men decide to form an organization for mutual benefit. A committee will draft a constitution and a permanent body will be established once the report is ready.
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Everett
Grand Trunk Pacific Eyes Esquimalt and Nanaimo Route
Victoria report says the Canadian Pacific may lose the Esquimalt and Nanaimo line as Grand Trunk Pacific pursues the road with a potential deal in sight.
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Victoria
B. C
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Esquimalt and
Nan‘aimo Railway
Grand Trunk Pacific
Roosevelts firmness on Oregon land cases urged by Heney
San Francisco March 23 District Attorney Heney says the President ordered prosecutions in Oregon land frauds with no mercy for graft and that any federal official who obstructs the trials will face consequences. Heney will return to Portland April 1 to lead prosecutions after the grand jury’s work continues, with 68 indicted and 150 set to testify. The Oregon public and press are said to back the effort against Mitchell Hermann and their allies.
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San Francisco
Roosevelt
Oregon
Washinon
Heney
Washington
Idaho
Montana
Portland
Mitchell
Hermann
Mithhell
Hitchcock
Pump Irrigation Project Aims to Reclaim 100000 Acres
Walla Walla reports plans to pump Columbia river water for irrigation across about 100000 acres in Umatilla county Echo district. Northwestern Gas and Electric would supply power while engineers survey transmission lines from Pendleton to Echo. The Butter Creek area hosts the proposed land, a site once considered for government reclamation.
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Walla Walla
Columbia River
Echo
Umatilla County
Oregon
Umatilla
Umatilla River
Umatilla Junction
Kuropatkin Named Commander of First Manchurian Army
St. Petersburg reports Gen. Kuropatkin appointed commander of the first Manchurian army. Harbin crowds bid him farewell with tears and cheers as his train departs, while residents grow uneasy and Chinese deposits are withdrawn from banks.
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Kuropatkin
St. Petersburg
Harbin
Gen. Kuropatkin
Notice to China says no power may acquire Manchuria
Peking dispatch via Mainichi Shimbun reports United States Minister Conger informed China that no foreign power will be allowed to seize territory in Manchuria. The policy is said to have backing from Great Britain France Germany Belgium Austria Hungary and Italy.
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Manchuria
Kobe
Peking
Mainichi Shimbun
Tokyo
United States
Conger
Manohruia
America
Great Britain
France
Germany
Belgium
Austria-Hungary
Italy
Hatter’s Conformer and a Line of Presidential Portrait Mementos
A Washington hatter kept outline maps of heads from Lincoln to Roosevelt using a device called the conformer to shape hats. His descendants continued the collection, including many notable figures. Dr Albert W. Ferris argues skull shape does not reliably indicate brain development, challenging common beliefs.
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Washington
Lincoln
Roosevelt
Albert W. Ferris
New York
Combined Morris chair and rocker idea by New York man
A New York inventor, David Holtke, patents a combined Morris chair and rocker with a movable back frame and ratchet mechanism. Also described are collapsible megaphones that fold into canes for easy carry and use, patented by Hollister Stos of New York City, plus notes on the ease of camera use and the challenges of developing negatives using gas light.
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New York
David Holtke
New York City
Gas light printing frame attachment patented in New York
A New York man, George W. Harse, has patented a simple gas jet printing attachment for negatives. The frame holder slides on an arm with an end clamp, allows various sizes, and keeps the frame rigid with a spring. It aims to evenly illuminate all parts of the frame for better prints.
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New York
George W. Harse
N. Y
Death at Bishop Museum Alleged Sacrifice Model
A young Hawaiian, Kukahiko, died after falling seventy seven feet onto a model altar of an ancient Heiau in the Bishop Museum. He had earlier dabbled with seafaring, quarrelled with his mother, and cursed her in the name of old Hawaiian gods before taking an odd carpentry job repairing the Hawaiian hall glass roof.
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Kukahiko
Bishop Museum
Heiau
Kakahika
Kuhinu
Illusion Strengthened by Blood Sacrifice Tale Report
A Honolulu Letter citing the New York Tribune describes a ritual where the thegewi were sacrificed to reinforce an illusion. Natives recount that the victim cursed his mother as punishment for impiety, believed to be his death's rationale.
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Honolulu
New York Tribune
Hopeful motherly woman at gate watches peddler urge
A motherly looking woman stands at the front gate while an itinerant peddler wanders by and offers wares. He asks for parlor matches and she replies not yet, noting three of her daughters are steady company and that something may happen before spring.
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Peddy
Indy
Plea of Guilty Sparks Old West Ice Talk
A humorous exchange features Husky Heo urging a guilty plea with Youse don’t cut no ice. Ly Lew echoes the sentiment saying cutting ice is too much work, capturing a folksy banter moment.
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Husky
Pard
Ly Lew
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Coast Line
Cali
Sound Cities
Royal Arcanum
Peary
U. S
Henry
China
Hollister St. Os
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