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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1905
Page
11
Local Yakima newspaper unit Moraid Publishing Co announces operations in North Yakima. Details unreadable in fragment but notes publishing activities and regional presence.
New York painters threaten to strike for higher pay while Jacob Litt, noted theatrical manager, is dead. The New York Produce Exchange considers doubling grain commission rates. E. H. Harriman is re elected president of Union Pacific and O R & N. Shelby of Boise runs for interstate commerce post. Passengers on the liner Manchuria include William J Bryan and family. The Kaiser steamship’s turbine trial reached 27 mph, six mph above contract. Jubilee college in Peoria reopens after half a century. The wreck of the Chatham is blown up after dynamite cargo incidents. Col Frank Rhodes dies in South Africa. Roosevelt returns to Washington from Oyster Bay. Canyon county votes 60000 in bonds for a Caldwell courthouse. Alaska telegraph service plans advance. Odd Fellows select Toronto for next meeting. Admiral Arai ordered to raise Mikasa. Denver chosen for Sons of Herman meeting in 1909. Western league closes with Des Moines champion. Moody to resign next spring per Bonaparte era plan.
Tacoma to host a new plaster mill costing sixty thousand dollars. Harriman interests reportedly bid on tide lands in Tacoma while Adams county’s tax valuations rose by nearly a million dollars last year. Other notes include fires in Odessa, wheat yields near 47 bushels per acre, and local civic actions.
Gen Booth of the Salvation Army announces three steamships chartered to sail for Canadian ports in spring. Emigrants will be guaranteed employment. In Olympia John L Canutt of Whitman county is named oil inspector by Gov Mead succeeding C N Beal who was appointed temporarily when law began.
The Seattle market lists producer prices by dealers for round lots in different categories. Grain includes oats at 25 26 per ton and wheat at 25 26. hay in Eastern Washington 14 50 and Puget Sound 9 10. eggs strictly fresh ranch 40. poultry live hens at 18 to 18 10 per lb. dairy and live stock quotes cover sheep hogs steers cows calves lambs and more with varying numbers across items.
Tacoma October 8 W H Reed member of the state grain commission says Washington Millers Association and the Northwest combine against wheat growers. He outlines a farmers strategy to form cargo lot sales to nonmembers to beat the five to twenty cent discounts on smutty grain and boost farmer gains by pricing heavy test wheat higher. He cites past premiums for bluestem wheat and argues a coordinated farmers' sellers' combine could erode the millers' monopoly and save growers substantial sums nationally and in the Northwest.
A new Anglo Japanese ship owning company with capital around 十000,000 plans to run forty steamships from Japanese ports to Liverpool London Antwerp and French ports. London will host the European office while Liverpool handles management. R D I Sir Alfred Jones and other merchants are connected with the undertaking. The Japanese government reportedly approves and grants warehouse and dock concessions.
A resolution signed by ten deputies in Christiania proposes summoning a constituent storting by mid November to decide Norway's future government, delaying final decision until after 1906 elections. The group argues Norwegians reject a Bernadotte king and favor a republican system, with broad newspaper support.
Federal reclamation fund grows by 4 757 978 from public land sales in sixteen arid states. Washington contributes 522 203 ranking fourth behind North Dakota Oregon and Oklahoma. Total irrigation funds since new laws about 27 795 000. Despite expenditures the fund may not exceed 80 000 000 in coming years.
The Great Northern eastbound overland passenger train was held up near Ballard by masked men for an hour and twenty minutes. They dynamited the express car and took contents from the safe. The amount stolen is unknown. Superintendent Scott says it may not be large.
Sitka Alaska Oct 2 The discovery of nine hot springs at Fish bay on Baranoff island north of Sitka draws more interest than the recent gold find on Chichggoff island. The springs near the bay twenty miles from Sitka five miles off the steamboat route are large enough to outsize other springs in the region. Discovered by John Clements Frank Biles and W R Hanlon the men who gained fame in the race for the gold fields. Water coal sulphur soda magnesia and salts form the analysis. The bay offers water for large steamboats abundant game and rich scenery round out the ideal spot.
Olympia Oct 2 The Washington Supreme Court starts the October term with a cleaned calendar and a few opinions still to file. The court, aided by an increased number of justices, has reduced arrears. The October docket lists 167 cases, the largest for one term, surpassing last October's 151.
Western and southern state officials rally against insurance practices amid New York hearings. They seek reorganized company staffs and threaten action if refusals persist, with Missouri Insurance Commissioner W D Wanderer involved and New Hampshire discussions noting McCallie’s resignation and restitution.
English financiers abroad question American financial practices after disclosures at major insurers. Ernest A. Hamill of the Corn Exchange National Bank says Europe’s financiers fear irregularities like those at the Equitable may imply broader misconduct. He predicts a slow winter recovery amid lingering Boer War effects.
Laborers dig on Main street Seattle uncover a rusty cannon ball weighing about 82 pounds. Professor Meany of the state university dates the shot to the 1855 battle involving the sloop Decatur. The relic will go to the university museum for preservation.
Washington October reports say Miss Alice Roosevelt and Ohio Representative Longworth are poised for marriage soon. Longworth showed special attention on the Taft party return trip and is said to have helped Miss Roosevelt in a perilous moment aboard a Mindanao excursion. The engagement is expected to be announced in Washington shortly.
James J. Hill authorized an absolute denial that he or his party aided the Seattle Washington railroad commission. A party official said there was no reason for the party to meet the commission and no invitations were extended. Railroads handle all matters with the commission promptly.
The Washington Supreme Court sustains an $11,000 libel damages ruling for Press Publishing Company in Spokane. The case targeted an employment agency alleged to procure girls for immoral purposes. The court found the lower court erred in excluding some evidence but says truth of publication bars any damages.
Washington based Oregonian correspondent reports Oregon risks losing full representation in Congress as Representatives Williamson and Hermann face convictions. If Williamson resigns or is barred courts may create a vacancy requiring a special election. Hermann faces similar fate. Officials warn Oregon could have only one senator voting and no house members next session, harming state interests.
Washington reports show 16,979,600 acres of public lands and 77,546 acres of Indian lands disposed of in the year. Home stead entries totaled 19,895,571 acres, timber and stone 696,677, desert land 711,194, and swamp lands 585,607 patents. Total receipts reached 7,017,811 dollars with irrigation fund proceeds about 4,457,978 dollars to be distributed among states. Washington to 639,208 and Oregon to 675,835.
Scranton Pennsylvania October 3 By invitation President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers will visit Tuesday not know exactly what the president wants to discuss but the meeting holds potential to avert a strike in the anthracite region next spring.
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