Cashmere Faces Vote to Extend Telephone Line
Cashmere signs with Farmers Telephone of Wenatchee to extend service. Each 180 stock buys four miles of line with central offices in Cashmere and Wenatchee, 24 hour service after 100 subscribers, and phone rental terms for subscribers. A similar plan may spread to Leavenworth and Lake Wenatchee.
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Cashmere
Farmers Telephone Company
Wenatchee
Arthur Gunn
Wenatchee Central
Gunn
Leavenworth
Chumstick Valley
Lake Wenatchee
Chumstick Valey
Mammoth irrigation project eyed by Entiat firm
Geo H Gray and Son of Entiat, producers of Waterville lighting, plan a major Columbia valley irrigation scheme using their excess power. If needed they will expand the plant, signaling large new outlay and potential higher returns for valley fruit growers.
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Geo. H. Gray & Son
Entiat
Waterville
Columbia Valley
Messrs. Gray & Son
Big Bend
Doyle V Great Northern Railway Suit For 50000 Damages
Wm H Doyle and Lottie Doyle sue the Great Northern Railway Company for 50000 in superior court this week. Doyle, a fireman, was burned when a passenger train stalled in the Cascade tunnel and later suffered insanity leading to a bank attachment and divorce suit. The case outlines a long sequence of injury, settlement, asylum confinement, amputation, and renewed litigation.
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Doyle
Wenatchee
Great Northern
Wm. H. Doyle
Lottie Doyle
Great Northern Railway Company
Cascade Tunnel
Lim
Medical Lake
Spokan
Bloodhounds to Aid Spokane Crime Hunt
Dr F M Pike backs a Spokane effort to train Siberian and English bloodhounds to track criminals. Harry Draper oversees training of the dogs owned by Pike, with a view to boosting detection and narrowing down suspects such as Arao the Japanese slayer.
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Spokane
F. M. Pike
PM. Pike
Harry Deper
Texas
Harry Draper
Arao
Sam Chow
Taxes Due Dates Set With Early Payment Rebates
Taxes on real estate are due on the first Monday in February for the year assessed. A 3 percent rebate is offered for payment in full by March 15. If taxes total two dollars or more, installments may be used with half due by May 31 and the other half by November 30. Delinquents incur 15 percent annual interest. An Everett capitalist plans a cheese factory in Olympia upon milk supply from 500 cows.
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Everett
Olympia
Eagles Ball Delights City With First Annual Dance
More than seventy five couples attend the Eagles first annual ball at Thomn Smith’s Opera House. The Eagles’ emblem decorates the hall while the MacDaniels Family Orchestra provides music. Guests enjoy a late supper at the Hotel Overland before resuming dancing until morning.
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Eagles
Thomn & Smith
Opera House
Jas. McDaniels
H. E. Carr
MacDaniels Family
John B. Adams
Wynne Faulkner
J. W. Teshera
C W. Moon
O. J. Wold
Billups
Sau
Steam Heat Upgrade Signals Rail Line Move at Leavenworth
Mood company funds seven thousand dollars for a steam heating plant at the roast area as men lay pipes for two to four inch diameter lines. A large new steam pump will power wash engines and boilers, with rail yard improvements and coal sheds overhauled, hinting the railroad may keep the division point at Leavenworth through spring.
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Mood
Leavenworth
Weared the Worst Priday Wizer Found Dead in Mississippi
A familiar Negro man named Priday Wizer is found dead in Mississippi leaving no church or lodge to pray for his soul. Friends carry the body to the cemetery in a pine coffin and Bob McRaven speaks solemnly at the grave. The Odd Fellows Knights of Pythias plan a lodge hall in We natchee costing about ten thousand dollars for lodge use.
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Priday Wizer
Mississippi
Bob McRaven
Bob
Odd Fellows
Knights of Pythiae
Wenatchee
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George Keating
City Drug Store
E. A. King
St. Valentine’s
A. A. Tholin
The
Tumwater Light & Water Company
OPERA
Seattle
Tholin & Smith
Leavenworth Drug Co
Bjork
J. E. Shore
City Drag Line
L. H. Tcorner
Prop
John Holden
Bagyuge
Superior Telephone System
Chelan County
Commercial Club
Portland
Chenn
Lakeside
Littlefiel
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