Wenatchee County News Roundup Highlights Debts and Drinks
The estate of J. M. Tompkins faced a $63,964.56 suit after his death. Wenatchee seeks a new depot via the State Railway Commission. Saloon keeper Henry Ellis and Geo Cary face liquor-sale warrants tied to habitual drunkard Jack Yates, with Yates labeled a habitual drunkard. A $35,000,000 deed transfers St Paul Minneapolis and Manitoba rights to Great Northern. Columbia and Okanogan boats idle due to low water and ice. mail moves by stage to Okanogan. Josh Clary sues Chelan over revocation of his saloon license seeking $6,025.
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Henry Ellis
Cashmere
Geo. Cary
Jack Yates
Webb
Yates
Wenatchee
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
Great Northern
Columbia and Okanogan Steamboat Co
Brewster
Waterville
Okanogan County
Josh Clary
Chelan
Rail Line From Minneapolis to Seattle Draws Financiers
A New York dispatch reports interest in a transcontinental electric railway connecting Minneapolis and Seattle as a future possibility. New York and Boston financiers linked to Southern Michigan railway interests are organizing a company with several million dollars to push the project forward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Minneapolis
Seattle
Boston
Southern Michigan Railway
Tax reform petition seeks tax exemption for property
The Oregon Tax Reform Association circulates initiative petitions to amend section 1 of article 9 to exempt factories dwelling houses farm implements and stock from taxation. More than 9 000 signatures have already been obtained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon Tax Reform Association
Texas editor’s playful note on Day and Week marriage
The notice of Day’s marriage to Weeks includes a verse adding humor as the editor remarks a Day is made and a Week is lost yet time remains. The couple’s union is announced with poetic wordplay reflecting names Day and Weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Mr. Day
Leavenworth to Host Major Great Northern Power Plant Contract
Gerrick and Gerrick move from Wenatchee to Leavenworth to build a large electric power plant with Great Northern Railway contracts. About 50 workers start March 1 on a project supplying power to run trains from Leavenworth to Skykomish. The plant features a 196 foot high water tank, 1600 feet of steel pipe, a 1500 foot tunnel, a dam foundation, and four 1300 horsepower motors from General Electric. completion aimed by July with test runs planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wenatchee
Daily Press
Gerrick
Columbia River Bridge
Leavenworth
Wash
Great Northern Railway
Skykomish
Wenatchee River
General Electric Company
General Electric Co
Johnson's Canyon Stone Draws Diamond Speculation
Two weeks earlier G M Rice, Milwaukee division engineer, found a stone in Johnson Canyon and brought it to Ellensburg. Seattle jeweler Albert Hansen sent it for lapidary testing at the University of Washington, which reported it bears diamond-like properties and may be cut as glass. A Wenatchee World note recalls a similar find near Wenatchee thirty years ago sold for $900 during Northern Pacific survey days.
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Ellensburg
G. M. Rice
Milwaukee
Johnson Canyon
Albert Hansen
Seattle
Rice
University of Washington
Wenatchee
Frank Wilkeson
New York Sun
Northern Pacific Railway
Franklin county to spend on roads and add road supervisors
Franklin county plans about 500 miles of road work this year with an expenditure near 50 000. The county commissioners added seven road supervisors, totaling 11, to push improvements and attract settlers. In Bridgeport area horses are dying from suspected spinal meningitis. The government shipped 5 100 000 in gold coin to Seattle for coin exchange with gold dust. Land near Hanford on the Columbia river sold for 250 000 to Hansord Irrigation and Power Co., showing faith in the region. buyers paid 6 600 four years ago.
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Franklin County
Bridgeport
Douglass County
James Buckingham
Seattle
Hanford
Columbia River
John W. Cover
Wm. R. Todd
Tacoma
Hansord Irrigation and Power Co
Cover
Todd
Runaway Sleigh Disaster Near Colville Endangers Many
Colville correspondent recounts a runaway bob sleigh loaded with lumber and people on Munson hill two miles east of Colville. Thomas Dixon steered clear, warning others as a crash snared two lumber wagons and several families. Wesley Keough leapt to save his wife and two children, then knocked down, while others escaped unharmed.
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Colville
Munson Hill
Thomas Dixon
Wesley Keough
Dixon
Keough
Lash
Eulogist Recalls Roosevelt Visit at Delaware Banquet
Rev J Wesley Hall of Metropolitan Methodist temple spoke at the Manhattan hotel banquet of the Delaware Valley society. He recounted a personal Washington visit with President Roosevelt and quoted the president declaring his resolve to destroy anarchy both at the top and bottom of society.
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J. Wesley Hall
Metropolitan Methodist Temple
President Roosevelt
Delaware Valley Society
Manhattan Hotel
Washington
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J. M. Tompkins
Tompkins
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Wenatchee World
Perley
State Railway Commission
Builders Hardware
Geo. Keating
Hart, Shaffner & Marx
Tharrinetor’ Milling Cor
Harringtons Best
Harrington
The
Leavenworth Mer. Co
Tumwater
L. Lamb
P. Davis
M. A. Marley
Star Livery
East End
Front Street
Lake
J. E. Grant
Vienna Bakery
Desor
Will McGlothlin
F. E. Carlquist
Frank Sutton
Leavenworth, Wash
Timothy and
Alfalfa
Lamb-Davis Lbr. Co
Chewawa
Wenatchee, Wash
Austin & CO
J. A. J. Fleming
Chelan County Abstract CO
Johnson’s Canyon
Bob Sted
New York Dispatch
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