Veteran Lawyer Predicts Aberdeen Boom and California Move
The veteran lawyer Captain L W Billingsley, aged 68, predicts Aberdeen Hoquiam Cosmopolis will form a city of 100000 in ten years with new streets a federal building and vast ship canal plans. He and Mrs Billingsley will relocate to Santa Cruz California citing health and climate. He recalls five cities he lived in and notes real estate will rise here, not elsewhere, with regional growth and infrastructure. A separate note urges cutting battleship funding to fund irrigation roads and rural schools.
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California
L. W. Bigginsley
West Heron Street
Robert Ewart
Grays Harbor
Aberdeen
Hoquiam
Cosmopolis
Cody
Puget Found
Seattle
Willapa Bay
Baker Bay
Columbia River
Portland
North Bank
Raymond
North River Country
Milwaukee
Puget Sound
Olympia
U. S
Orient
Indianapolis
Des Moines
Lincoln
Neb
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry
Nature
Santa Cruz
Cal
County Dads Approve Road and Bridge Changes at Special Meeting
Grays Harbor & Puget Sound Railway pays 500 toward a Delezine creek bridge as grade crossing changes are approved. County contracts for jail plumbing and road work are confirmed, and surveys for multiple roads are ordered with bids to follow.
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Grays Harbor
Thomas Lund
W. E. Johnson
Foss Avenue
Hewitt Street
Ross Avenue
Sherwood
Satsop
Montesano-Elma
McCleary
Max Chehalis
Thurston County
Elma
Aloha
Alaha
Pacific Beach
J. A. Moore
L. I. Wakefield
Hill
H. C. Taylor
West End
Aberdeen
Lytle Logging & Mercantile Company
Hoquiam River
Northwestern Lumber Company
J. J. Carney
Weatherwax & Benn
Katie Hall
R. H. Dillard
Aldrich to Quit Washington and Retire from Senate
Senator Aldrich announced he will not seek re election and will retire at the end of his present term on March 38 1911 Ill health prompted the decision after a New York medical consultation urging increased outdoor activity and reduced burdens He told an AP representative the choice is final and applies to his six year term remaining.
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Washington
Aldrich
Senate
Associated Press
New York
Democrat wins in Monroe county overturns long Republican hold
In Monroe county with 6000 to 8000 voters switching to the Democrat column James S Havens defeated George W Aldridge by about 5000 votes to claim the Thirty second district seat. The district had been Republican for two decades and faced a strong party organization. Havens achieved a dramatic upset in a seventeen day campaign.
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Rochester
N. Y
Monroe County
James S. Havens
George W. Aldridge
James Breck Perkins
Havens
Massachusetts
Eugene N. Foss
Congress
Commission orders interlocking system for Hoquiam crossings
After a hearing the Grays Harbor and Puget Sound Railway Company was ordered to install an interlocking system where it crosses the Northern Pacific main line in Hoquiam and at Hoquiam and Aberdeen streetcar crossings or to have the streetcar company operate on a flag system. The action aims to prevent accidents, with the railroad commission asserting jurisdiction over road and street crossings outside first class cities.
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Olympia
State Railroad Commission
Railroad Commission
Payette Women and Son Arrive From Southern California
Mrs. Mark Payette and Mrs. Ed Payette with their son arrived Tuesday aboard the steamer Norwood from Southern California where they spent two months visiting their mother Mrs. A Payette.
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Mark Payette
Ed. Payette and Son
Norwood
California
A. Payette
Wade 15 Removed Mayor Benn Removes City Attorney
Mayor Benn announces removal of City Attorney Wade after council debate over the Felix Soldowski jail release. Board finds Wade charges not sustained. Tribbitts not sustained. report approved with dissent from Stalding. Several street, sidewalk, and utility actions adopted or referred. oaths of office filed. ferry contract finalized. liquor license renewed. city hall sewer connection ordered. Condolence letter authorized for sick Councilman Weatherwax.
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Benn
Wade
Felix Soldowski
Tribbitts
Quackenbush
Wade-Tribbitts
Officer Tribbitts
John O'Hare
A. H. Newell
D. C. Crivyen
C. C. Quackenbush
A. E. Alexander
Edward Dolan
H. E E. Bailey
Ingram
George Stalding
R. Wiley
Stalding
Terrace Avenue
M Street
Market
First Street
West Boulevard
South
Aberdeen
Carl L. Peterson ‘and Associates
River
Hume Streets
River Street
Wishkah
Highland Hove Addition
C. M. Weatherwax
Los Angeles
Question of veracity in Soldowski release case roils town
Night Sergeant Tribbitts claims Judge Bush ordered the release of county prisoner Soldowski after a grand larceny arrest, with affidavits from Pete McGuire and Jack Huston asserting they heard the judge on the phone. Judge Bush and Mrs. Bush deny any contact, while Dolan and McGuire face accusations of involvement, prompting calls for a grand jury probe into possible telephone ordered release.
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Tribbitts
Judge Bush
Pete McGuire
Jack Huston
McGuire
Ed. Dolan
Soldowski
Dolan
Herald
Chamber of Commerce probes Aberdeen water rates at special meeting
City chamber room filled as businessmen discuss water charges amid apathy at recent elections. Superintendent McDougall outlined the system costs and current meter rates, noting the plant nets about $32 000 annually above operating costs. A committee with the mayor will study management and capacity and report back.
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Chamber of Commerce
McDougall
Aberdeen
Olympia
S. K. Bowes
P. &. Locke
I. G. Jones
Clarence A. Lillie
W. R. Macfarlane
Benn
Water Committee
Chamber
White Star Lumber Co Wins Major Sault Ste. Marie Contract
Word from Detroit says the White Star Lumber Company of Elma posted the lowest bid on a large rail lumber contract for the Sault Ste. Marie canal lock. The order covers 3,500,000 feet of large timbers, with delivery to start within sixty days and complete within ninety days from first shipment. The bid reportedly was $11.25 per thousand at the mill.
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Seattle
Detroit
White Star Lumber Company
Elma
Sault Ste. Marie Canal
Washington
Oregon
West Coast
United States
Ranchers Seek Injunction Against Dam Splashing
Attorneys W S Agnew and Dan Pearsall file suit in superior court for Jeanie Hamilton and R W Wallace landowners on the Wishkah river above tide water. They ask a permanent injunction to stop dam splashing that ruins farmland, arguing it would seriously hinder the Wishkah Boom Co operations down the river.
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W. S. Agnew
Dan Pearsall
Superior Court
Jeanie Hamilton
R. W. Wallace
Wishkah
Wishkah Boom Co
Taxes for 1909 to be 25 million dollars
Olympia April 20 Nearly 25 000 000 in taxes will be exacted in this state for 1909 according to figures compiled by Secretary Koors of the tax commission This amount is more than 3 per cent upon the 800 000 000 gross assessed valuation of all property in the state and includes state county municipal roads and schools and taxes against public service corporations Details show the portion paid by different property classes including railway track and right of way telegraph lines telephone property street railways express companies real and personal property totaling 24 993 876 33
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Olympia
Koors
Tax Commission
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Billingsley
New York Peace Society
Chicago
Salt River Valley
Arizona
Mississippi River
St. Paul
Missouri
Congressional Library
Washington, D. C
New Yorker
Rock
Commission
Mayor Benn
East Wishkah Street
Wilson Mill
Jacob Heater
North Aberdeen Bridge
C. F. Jen
Bush
White Star Lumber Co
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