Haywood Acquitted After Lengthy Idaho Trial Farewell Sentences
William D Haywood secretary treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners is acquitted after a 24 hour jury deliberation. Ballots favored not guilty with ten holdouts. Governor Gooding expresses surprise and vows continued prosecution of Moyer Pettibone Adams Simpkins upon apprehension. Haywood visits his ill mother after verdict.
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Haywood
Western Federation of Miners
Powell
Samuel D. Gilman
Moyer
Pettibone
Gooding
Idaho
Methodist Church notes push for 100 Sunday school crowd
Sunday school attendance keeps rising with four new church members in two weeks. Trustees include Norell Brender Edwards Featherstone and McGivern. The official board plans to buy lots for church and parsonage, build a parsonage this fall, and open a public reading and recreation room day and night to counter saloon culture. Services held at Library hall Sundays at 10 and 11 and 8 p.m.
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E. B. Norell
F. L. Brender
James Edwards
H. X. Featherstone
W. W. McGivern
Ralstons
Learworth
Library Hall
Cashmere votes bonds for waterworks and electric plant
Cashmere residents approve bonds for waterworks and an electric light plant. Wenatchee cannery began operations with about fifty women and girls employed. A new bridge to cross the river near Capt. Burbank place is advancing, aiding travel between Cashmere and Wenatchee.
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Cashmere
Wenatchee Cannery
Capt
Growth of Starch and Alcohol Industry Drives Northwest Plant Plans
Promoters explore using potato starch for denatured alcohol to compete with kerosene and gasoline. The Pullman Agricultural College station gathers Northwest crop data to attract firms, signaling potential large-scale distilleries if potato growing proves profitable. Great Northern electric plant under way, costing over a million dollars, with 75 workers now employed and expected to exceed two hundred by month end. Construction includes a 12,000-foot pipe line, a granite tunnel, a 400-foot dam, and a large concrete power house near Tumwater canyon.
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Northwest
Pullman Agricultural College Experiment Station
Messrs
Caughren & Woldson
Foster
Heine & Carlson
Jackson & Caughren
Messrs. Caughren & Jackson
Great Northern Railway
Sensational suit filed over alleged alienation of wife’s affections
Dee Fisher sues W. T. Eighme in Superior Court for 10000 alleging alienation of his wife’s affections. Complaint says between March 10 and June 15, 1907 the defendant urged divorce for his wife with money offered to divorce and marriage upon success. Defendant allegedly gave 100 to the wife, who then moved to Seattle.
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Dee Fisher
W. T. Eighme
World
Seattle
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