Mayor Would Compel Rail Extensions by Auction Grants
Mayor George F. Cotterill proposes a plan to end a months long deadlock with Puget Sound Traction Light Power by auctioning city extensions to the highest bidder. Builders would pay 20 cents of each five cent fare, pressuring the company to push needed lines. In Dayton a deaf man named Henry L. Smith was struck and killed by a Northern Pacific train near his home. The engineer reported ongoing whistle signaling but the man did not hear it. The emergency brake could not avert the tragedy.
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Seattle
Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Company
Seattle Electric Company
George F. Cotterill
Electric Company
Whitetree Dayton
Henry L. Smith
Dayton
N. P
Walla Walla
Smith
Washington Federation Elects Ellensburg as 1913 Convention Host
The Washington State Federation of Women's Clubs concluded a four day session naming Ellensburg as next year’s meeting site. Officers elected include President Mrs R C McCredie and First VP Mrs N S McCready. Resolutions urged 18 as age of consent and liquor federal control, plus reforms in evidence and foods. Mrs Anna Christensen faces murder charges in Pasco after alleged poisoning of bank cashier husband H E Christensen. Ridgefield to get a new sawmill with 40,000 feet daily capacity, George W Cone buying waterfront land north of the Lewis River dock.
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Tacoma
Washington State Federation of Women’s Clubs
Ellensburg
Federation
R. C. McCredie
Sunnyside
N. S. McCready
Snohomish
Georgia Blankenship
Olympia
F. A. Hazeltine
South Bend
Wilba Colman
Sedro Wooley
James A. Hays
Indorsing & Women’s Reformatory
Christensen
Pasco
Anna_ Christensen
H. E. Christensen
Bank of Pasco
Walla Walla
Ridgefield
George W. Cone
Lewis River Navigation Company
Spokane
A. E. House
Smallpox Warns Cle Elum Under Stringent Controls
County Coroner T. B. Wasson reports to Cle Elum and City Health Officer E. O. Kirby that urgent measures are needed to stop smallpox spread. Vaccination is compulsory and the disease is spreading among American-born residents rather than foreigners as assumed.
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Ellensburg
Wasson
E. O. Kirby
State Clipping Coupons Yield Interest to State
Olympia The state treasury will receive 117807 dollars in interest as proceeds of coupons clipped during July by State Treasurer Lewis from bonds held by him for the state.
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Olympia
Lewis
Pasco sees courthouse office for Twin City Telephone
In Pasco new court house and a Twin City Telephone office building rise as Washington news items report a northwest Wenatchee blast killed three, an old settlers reunion near Monitor, and gold dust valued at 250000 arriving in Seattle. The Bar association backs Judge Hanford amid charges and a Spokane civil service assembly opens with Hay’s call.
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Pasco
Twin City Telephone Company
Great Northern Railway
Wenatchee
Wenatchee Valley
Association
Monitor
Yukon Territory
Seattle
San Francisco
State Bar Association of Washington
C. H. Hanford
Norman Bruce
William
Vancouver
Puget Sound
State of Washington
Columbia River
White Salmon
Stone & Webster
Clark County
A. A. Quarnberg
Clark
Skamania
Cowlitz
Klickitat
Washington State College
Snake River
Spokane
North Bank Road
Camas
Daniel Boyd
Portland
Knapp
United States District
Cornelius H. Hanford
House of Representatives Committee On Judiciary
George H. Wilson
Archie
Nettie Cobl
Rainier
Supreme Court
Wilson
Thurston County
Hanford
Leonard Olsson
Olsson
Wickersham
National Assembly of Civil Service Commissioners
Marion E. Hay
Washington
Industrial Insurance Commission
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Washington State
Washington Federation
Olequa
Kelso
Roy McNair
Bertrand
Castle Rock
Hiram C. Gill
Gill-Cotterill
Albertson
Gill
Washgoods
Utz & Dunn
Henderson
Tan Pongee
Ercantile Company
Lynden, Washington
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