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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1902
Page
4
A Seattle appeal urges immediate settlement of a building trades dispute to preserve prosperity. It argues delaying fights protects spring construction, trade, and jobs, faulting alarmist reports and urging a two-side conference of ten leaders from each side to reach a compromise plan.
The lockout of electricians and sheet metal workers by the Employers' association continues. A notice on the Miles-Piper Co window shows an agreement with Electricians Local 217 and the Electrical Contractors, plus a Seattle Electric Co. accord, detailing arbitration and union work rules amid ongoing tensions.
Companies B and D of the National Guard of Washington held a drill and dance at the Armory under Maj. Otto Case. The event drew approval from guests and featured Capt. Wm Ina la presenting Case with a gold mounted sword. A band concert and dance followed at Pleasant Beach on Sunday April 6 with the Navy Yard Band. Boats leave Colman Dock hourly after 6 a.m.
About 25 of 68 miners who quit at Renton No 2 in the Seattle Electric Co coal mine returned to work on the vein at a new wage scale. Seven left town after drawing pay. several others expected to return Monday. Captain FPJ Hi notes wages average higher than state mines, with best men earning 3.25 dollars daily and mean about 2 dollars.
Attorney General Stratton of Washington arrived in the capital and aims to secure leave from the supreme court on Monday to file his bill of complaint against the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railways. He expects permission and notes the case centers on merging the lines into the Northern Securities Co. Also reported a local meeting on cement sidewalks and a court acquittal in a separate grand larceny case involving Frank Gottbrath alias Fehr.
The Wineberg and Kessler store at 110 Second Avenue South, closed since March 21, will reopen tomorrow under a receiver. Goods including clothing data shoes and gentee furnishings will be sold at 36 cents on the dollar. Also rubber boots salvaged from the Bertha wreck are on sale at the Outlet Clothing Co. corner Occidental Avenue and Washington Street at 2.90 a pair.
April 4 report from Victoria notes the ship Tinkeley has not arrived and may have been mistaken for a Beattle-bound craft or hove to between here and Carmanah. A local ad mentions rubber booze from the Culler Clothing Company sale at 62.90 a pair.
The Manufacturers' Outlet, at Washington and Occidental, offers a cash sale of a $25 000 consignment from the ill fated Alaska steamer Bertha. Most stock is undamaged and offered at unprecedented low prices at 8 a m tomorrow.
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