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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1902
Page
6
Beattie city authorities tolerate liquor sales at Madison and Leach parks without licenses. Citizens report open disobedience, indecent behavior, and underage consumption. Police and mayor refuse to confirm actions while council debates curb policy and fines.
Spokane dispatch reports Great Northern passenger No. 4 struck an empty box car near Winchester, 120 miles west, at 4 AM. Initial accounts vary on cars derailed and injuries, but a later message says only the locomotive and baggage car left the track with at least one injured. A special train with surgeons was sent, and officials suppressed details while warning of fifteen hours of traffic delay.
C P Woodman a machinist at Sumner Ironworks learns he inherited 15000 in cash and near equal value in property from a Chicago uncle. He travels to Chicago to meet executors and arrange disposal of the estate. Separately Geo S Long drafts plans to convert Everett shipyards and Belmont mill into a 400000 cap shingle mill for the syndicate in St Paul.
Tacoma reports C D Emory, recently sentenced to ten years in the state penitentiary for burglary, identified as Peter F Lowe son of a former governor of Tlowa. Upon recognition he confessed to a two year criminal career and said he has served four prison terms.
In Washington on April 7 the house, in a committee of the whole, passed the Kahn amendment to the Chinese exclusion bill by 100 to 74. It prohibits employing Chinese as sailors on American war vessels, with Adams of Pennsylvania signaling he will seek yeas and nays when the bill returns to the house.
A scattered digest of items covers hot water and steam from a deep Colorado well, acetylene detonator dangers, brewery orders for Cape Town, London smallpox totals, a Nyngan to Rourke railway, a Chinaman author studying electricity in Chinese, Manila peso proposals, Paria alcohol exhibition plans, underground transit concepts for Paris, German sewing machine tariffs, a cancer post mortem study by Hangemann, Jessup expedition findings on North American Indiana origins, wage-earner statistics among Kentuckians, liquor production declines, and Port Orchard freight routing via Skagit Chief.
The president declined to increase the sentence of Richard W. Tubbs of South Dakota who was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for sending an indecent letter to a woman. The president expressed regret at his inability to extend the punishment.
In Brazil Indiana the city school board sent a written demand to Prof Emery Muncie of Meridian school alleging an attempt to embrace and kiss pupil Miss Mabel Monroe. Muncie denies guilt insisting he only tickled under the chin and bowed. board accepts the pupil’s account.
Howard Kent, 16, a newcomer, is jailed for shooting Charles Grubb after a neighborhood feud sparked by clashes among youths. The Grubb faction led the assault on Kent as tensions rose, with families warning of further bloodshed.
A windstorm fire in Mrs. M M White's lodging house at 10 Second Avenue was contained after delayed alarm communication. Fire could have endangered the entire block. prompt intervention by the fire department prevented major damage.
At the weekly ministers meeting in the Y M C A rooms Rev. Donald es resigned as president and Rev. A Beers was elected to fill the vacancy. The remarks included religious statistics on youth church attendance and conversion prospects. Also welcomed were Rev. J M Kennett Rev H A Harteell and Rev H K Pendleton. The next paper will be by Rev H W Gilchriat on city evangelization.
On Friday April sale features forty five horses including ten teams 8000 to 3500 pounds five and BIX years old five teams 2400 to 2800 pounds six to eight years old fifteen head mares and geldings 900 to 1100 pounds six to ten years old all livestock guaranteed by auctioneer money refunded within twenty four hours sale also offers single and double express wagons farm wagons carload of new and second hand buggies and twenty sets of work and driving harness. M J Walker Auctioneer.
The guide lists trains between Spokane and Seattle and other Pacific Northwest routes with leaves and arrivals, including connections to Everett Blaine and Vancouver. It notes multiple daily services, plus express and flyer trains to various destinations and a Sunday pattern, with a final line on Rockwood Cemetery covering 2900 acres and 1000 burials in an area.
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