State News Briefs Include Dry Law Victory and New Jail
Medical Lake will go dry as all saloons close signaling an anti-saloon success. A new Franklin County jail, a modern steel structure with eight cells, will be completed in about two weeks. Columbia College Everett will graduate its first class from its new building on June 10. Mrs. M. Louis Blackburn sues the city of North Yakima for 5,000 damages after an January taxicab injury. Navy Yard Bremerton hosts an Enlisted Men's Club fundraiser near 25,000 goal. Judge McMasters sentences Charles Smith to six months to five years for exploiting fallen women. Robbery at Husum lacks clues. thieves loot the store and post office. Irrigation plans near Chelan Valley involve reactivating Indian allotments for Wapato project. Vera Prosser in Libby, Montana, remains silent on a murder charge. Mabton receives two acres for park development. taxes paid by donor. If Iditarod fails, many could be stranded inland. Cosmopolis store looted by burglars. loot includes 100 Ingersoll watches and more. Spokane teens May Schultz and Viola Udell arrested in Everett. return or guardianship arrangements set. Seattle bankers discuss lowering savings rates from 4% to 3% or 3.5%. North Yakima Fourth of July plans budget $3,000 for fireworks. Indians may be barred from liquor sales following court ruling. King County Republicans debate 168 delegates to state convention, amid broader Supreme Court candidate aims. State school funds distributed across counties. total $1,459,850 this quarter and $2,586,060 for the year.
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Banker Is Guilty in Whitman County Embezzlement Case
The jurors found H. M. Boone former State Senator and bank official guilty of embezzling 10,200 dollars with possible larger losses cited at 22,000 dollars. Judge Canfield set bonds at 10,000 dollars. a new trial motion was filed. The trial lasted about an hour and a half, with 65 bank books admitted as exhibits.
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Flames and Water Blast Rock
North Yakima reports a new rock clearing method by W. H. Hassell of Cement Products Co. He built a fire over rock at his home pit, cooled it with water, and the rapid cooling fractured rock to eight inches depth, offering an improvement over powder or dynamite in some conditions.
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W. H. Hassell
Cement Products Company
Hassell
Brute Bites Off Woman's Underlip in Fort Lawton Assault
Mrs. Redding wife of Capt J W Redding of Puget Sound steamboats was maimed for life when a Twenty-fifth United States Infantry soldier in uniform bit and tore out her underlip during a attempted criminal assault at the Redding home in Seattle Fort Lawton. The attacker fled as the two children screamed witnesses to the attack.
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Redding
Oil Signs at Pine City
A. J. Smith & Sons resume work on their Pine City oil well now about 540 feet deep. No pay oil yet, but surface oil on water thickens and is judged by experts as a high grade lubricating oil. Locals have long gathered marsh gas in bottles and burned it.
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Pine City
A. J. Smith & Sons
Gold Bearing Ore Found in Spokane Streets
City workmen digging a sewer in Spokane discover gold bearing ore in the fashionable district. An assay shows over 2000 dollars in gold per ton and nearly 200 dollars in silver. Rumor says shafts may be sunk in adjacent lawns as a stock company forms to work any leasable ground.
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Spokane
Spokane Men Named to Roosevelt Reception Delegation
Spokane figures Lloyd E. Gandy and F. E. Goodall along with H. W. Col ling of Rockford are named by Acting Governor Howell to represent the state at Colonel Roosevelt's New York reception on June 18. Nine more delegates will be selected.
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T. R. Olympia
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F. E. Goodall
H. W. Colling
Rockford
Howell
Roosevelt
New York
Importer of Women Sentenced in Seattle Case
Matsugaro Amano confessed before Federal Judge C. H. Hanford to importing Japanese women for immoral purposes. He was sentenced to two years in prison for a crime committed in 1907.
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Matsugaro Amano
C. H. Hanford
United States
Amano
Sunset Company offers voice culture course to fifty operators
The Sunset Telephone Company engages an expert vocal teacher to run a voice culture course for fifty central operators. The House also adopted an amendment to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct experiments in paper making.
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Secretary of Agriculture
George H. Butters Announces Candidacy for County Commissioner
Geo H Butters declares his bid for county commissioner in the Second District Whatcom County subject to voters in the upcoming primary election.
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Samuel E Leitch Announces Candidacy for County Clerk
Samuel E Leitch, deputy county clerk, announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for county clerk in Whatcom County. He states the race will be decided by voters at the September primary election.
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Samuel E. Leitch
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