Regular council session covers sidewalk grades and licenses
Leavenworth council discusses Weigand building sidewalk grade adjustments and street leveling. They consider parkland proposal from Leavenworth Land Co, approve licenses for Hutchins Kern, fund road work, and authorize jail, sewer, and sidewalk contracts with bids from Hartman Titus and Greve Hogan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woldenberg
Weigand
Big Rock Saloon
King Building
Eighth Street
Sussex
S. G. Smythe
Leavenworth Land Co
Nick Kinchers
George Keating
Featherstone
Corporation
Lamb-Davis Lumber Co
Front Street
Nelson
Messrs
Hartman & Titus
Greve & Hogan
Joe Edwards
Ninth
Town Expenditures Landed For Street Works
Itemized village expenses include A. Roberts for street labor three and a half days totaling 7.90 dollars. County auditor recording fee 0.75. J F Pratt salary 75 dollars. J H Bohnsack salary 85 dollars. Charles Anderson town treasurer disbursing funds 57.10 dollars. L D Lumber Co lumber for street crossing 8.95 dollars. Dr Elmer six visits to smallpox patient 30 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Roberts
J. F. Pratt
J. H. Bohnsack
Charles Anderson
L.D. Lumber Co
Dr. Elmer
Chelan County Votes News Fixes and Local Bonds
County commissioners approve 2467.94 dollars for the A Y P exposition in Seattle. Wenatchee bonds for water system improvements sold at par with 43 percent interest. The state accepts a 10000 dollar Cashmere water bond. Wenatchee ships its first carload of fruit this week, mainly peaches and apricots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chelan County
Seattle
Wenatchee
Cashmere
Tragic Snohomish death linked to dynamite and distress
Snohomish resident Robt Pfueller aged about fifty took his life by placing dynamite around his neck and lighting the fuse. The act occurred in a barn. authorities cite domestic trouble as the motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robt
Pfueller
Snohomish
Snohomish News
Chelan County Exposition Commissioners Seek Local Exhibits
Chelan county west end commissioners H E Carr and Charles Craig urge residents to prepare grains and grasses from this year for Seattle exposition shipments. They seek fine specimens and offer preservation and delivery, warning thousands will visit the fair. Postmaster notice lists uncalled letters for July 15, 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Carr
Charles Craig
Peshastin
Chelan County
Seattle
Messrs. Carr
Craig
Wenatchee Valley and Northern progress update
L M Rice of Seattle firm L M Rice & Co arrived to inspect the Wenatchee Valley and Northern railroad work. Grading toward Beaver Creek Hill advances while track laying continues. steel car shipments from the east have arrived and bridges remain, with grading through national forest awaiting permission from the interior department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. M. Rice
L. M. Rice & Co
Seattle
Wenatchee Valley & Northern Railway
Rice
Wenatchee Lake
Chumstick Valley
Chewawa
National Forest
Interior Department
Doty
Negroes Oppose Taft at Denver Conference
A Springfield dispatch reports that the nationally organized colored voters opposed to Taft held a conference in Denver on July 7. They aim to discuss political affiliation, seek to alter the political balance where black voters hold power, and memorialized the Democratic convention on civil rights and a possible Civil Liberty party option.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Illinois
United States
W. H. Taft
Denver
Civil Liberty Party
Bear cubs captured near Wellington by Cascade workers
Okey Algren and J. R. Meath, engineers at the Cascade tunnel, captured two two month old jet black cub bears a short distance from Wellington. Meath carried them about two miles by the neck, and they shredded his shirt sleeves and scratched his arms. He plans no further captures as two other cubs were killed by a shot and by dogs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okey Algren
J. R. Meath
Cascade Tunnel
Mr. Meath
Wellington
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King Co
Leavenworth Mercantile Co
Yours Truly
Geo. Keating
J. G. Debord
General Merchandise
Leavenworth
M. F. Peake
F. R. Peake
M. F. Peake & Son
General Agency
Timber Lands
Puget Sound
Washington
F. E. Carlquist
J. E. Grant
THE
ADAMS
CARR
A. A. Tholin
P. O
the Samantha
WM. Herder
Woldenberg Hang
F. S. Taylor
Echo
Echo Office
Council
Leavenworth Echo
L. J. Nelson
Frank Brady
J. A. Voyles
Cheel McKenzie
Jack Carr
North Beach
Northrup
G. L. Turner
Barlow
J. M Cowling
Nick Collins
John Conniff
Dayton Johnston
M Jenkens
R O Leachman
WS _ Lewellen
GM Rosenarn
Chris Thorn
G W
J. C. Davis
Wenatchee Valley
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