Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-01-06
CHRONOLOGY OF 1905.
BRIEF RECORD OF YEARS PRlN-
CiPAL EVENTS.
Internal Disturbances In Russia and
Independence In Norway-CIose
of the War in the East-Many
Great Names In List of Dead.

1905, because it indicates unmistak-'
ably the inexorable advance Of man
kind toward high ideals of liberty,
Justice and perfect civilization, is the
political and economic upheaval now
taking place in Russia. Wearying
under a load of taxation, rem
dered well-nigh unbearable by added
burdens imposed by the prosecu-
ton Of disastrous war, the
peasantry and common people started
a revolt against the tyrannical arts
tocracy, and have been able to force
from their unwilling ruler many con-
cessions tending toward a free citizen
ship. Massacre and rapine, in which
the Jews were the chief sufferers, are
part Of the price paid for the advan-
tage gained. Another impressive proof
of civilizations advance is the blood
less revolution by which Norway has
dissolved its political connection with
Sweden and seated a king upon its
long unusued throne The recent ex-
posures of graft and fraud in high
financial circles and last summers la
Dor troubles in Chicago are only Incl
dents of the constant conflict being
waged for the establishment of JUS
tice and fair treatment between man
and man.
The Russo-Japanese war. after
brilliant series OF land campaigns
during which one after another of the
strongholds of the Russians In Man
churia fell into the hands of their op-
ponents, and a decisive battle on the
Sea OF Japan, that Is said to have been
one OF the greatest naval contests of
all history has been brought to
close, and largely. we believe, by
American influence.
The years list of famous dead con-
tains the names of many men and
women noted in the arts, statecraft,
philanthropy and business
The principal events of 1905 are
briefly summarized below:
January.
2-surrender OF Port Arthur.
3-Towboat Defender blown un on Ohfo
River; 20 lives lost
4-Death Of Theodore Thomas orchestra
leader.
5-Admiral Rojestvensky's flagship Kniaz
souyaron sunk OF Madagascar.
e-Death OF Louise Michel, French an
archist
15-Combes' ministry In France resigns.
16-Secretary Hay advises China to re-
main neutral. Earthquake at shemakha,
Russia, buries hundreds of people
1S-End OF textile strike In Fall River
Mass.
19-Attempt to assasslnate Car and Rus.
sian royal family.
22-Massacre Of workingmen by Cars
troops in st. Petersburg.
cities.
25-Liberals defeated in Ontario general
elections. Gear Issues proclamation prom
ising reforms.
29-Kouropatkin's army driven back from
Sandepas by Gen. Oku's forces
9o-Czar signs document granting great
reforms to Russian people.
February.
1-2-Extreme cold wave sweeps Northern
States and Canada. Glendive, Mont. has
temporal ure Of "a degrees below zero
death of Joseph II. Manley OF Maine.
....S Senate passes Statehood bill
8-Roosevelt and Fairbanks declared elect.
ed after count of electoral votes In Con
gress.
e-House passes Townsend Esch railway
rnte bill.
1O-Death Of Hon. Chas H. Hackley of
Muskegon, Mich
13-Severest cold wave OF winter.
15-Death OF Gen. Lew Wallace
lO-bedln OF Jay COOKE, noted nnancer.
17-Grsnd Duke sergius killed by bomb
In Moscow. :. Frances Willard statue dedi-
Gated In statuary Hall Washington.
20-Exploson In Virginia City coal mines.
near Bessemer, Ala, entombs 152 miners
-. Fire destroys piers and ships at Charles
town, Mass.
24-Boring of simplon tunnel under the
25-$1. 100000 fire in Hot Springs, Ark
-. North Sea Commission announces de-
cison against Russia.
26-Illinois Central terminals In New Or
leans burn with loss Of 50 900, 900. Thirty
FIVE miners killed by explosion at wicoe,
w. Va.
27-Death of Geo. 8. Boutwell, of Massa.
chusetts. Judge, swayne of Florida ac-
quilted by United States Senate. Eleven
persons killed by collapse OF church floor
2s-Death of Mrs Leland Stanford in
Honolulu.
Scar Of Russia signs rescript giving
people a right to representation in law
making body Thirty persons killed In
wreck of Inauguration special trains near
Pittsburg.
4-RooseveIt is Inaugurated. :. End of
bsth Congress. VIII ]. Davis and two
others Indicted as responsible for Iroquois
fire. =. Chas. Thomas found guilty of Ma
bel Scofeld murder.
big traction strike begins In New
York.
s-Japanse win battle of Mukden, after
eighteen days fighting.
1O-Mukden captured by Japanese
11-Mrs. Chadwick convicted of conspir-
acy in Cleveland.
i4-Nineteen lives lost in New York tene-
ment house fire.
17-Death Of Gen. Joseph II. Hawley of
Connecticut.
1s-10-Twenty-fou miners killed by ex-
plosion in mines near Thurmond, w. Va
2O-Exploslon and fire In Brockton, Mass,
shoe factory causes 103 deaths.
24-Death of Jules Verne
April.
s-President Roosevelt leaves Washington