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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1907
Page
3
Christian Emdea of Seattle is celebrated for a July nature tour of Alaska. The event draws attention to Emdea's work and reception by Vice Prentet and supporters who praised the tour and its educational value.
MW Jewing and A GC MaccCormack of Beattie Tacoma Pareball Athletic association and George M Shreeder F P Maskell from Perine Machinery and WB Perine C Vickers W Puertel Hil Logging company in Everett are linked to various sums 10000 26000 and 1000 in a series of names and firms.
Tom Nolan a fireman aboard the Tyee appeared in police court on a vagrancy charge. He testified he had $45 when he landed in Seattle but it lasted five minutes. He received three days in jail to sober up.
The notice touts Denzel Fuhrman as Seattle’s fashionable tailor with years of experience in high grade work. It mentions his shop at 1616 Secondary but text is garbled and partially unreadable.
Arthur Colling formerly of Seattle was arrested in Spokane on a charge of forging John W. Hughes name to a deed for 40 acres near Stones Landing in King county. Colling allegedly offered the land for sale through Empire Realty Co with Robert Maltby trapping him into delivering the forged deed. The arrest followed a staged money transfer at the Lincoln hotel and detectives planned the setup.
Washington state filed suit claiming 24 000 acres of land in 169 fractional sections listed as school lands. The action involves about 200 entries spanning timbered homesteads and settlements now occupied by settlers amid a dispute over land in Buoy this week.
An accord signed today between 81 western railroads and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers raises pay. Firemen on all engine classes receive 25 cents extra per 10 hour day or per 100 miles or less, effective from January 1, 1807. Overtime rules and yard rates set at $2.25 in first class yards and $2.15 in other yards.
Rail traffic on the Northern Pacific main line near Stampede was halted for about three hours last night after a landslide. Trains No. 1 and No. 6 were delayed in reaching Tacoma.
Leonard and Howard Nicholas face murder charges for the death of Margaret Leslie. Leonard is in critical condition and may not live to hear the verdict as the jury trial is expected to begin today. Owls Organization Planned in Olympia. Olympia officials report a new Owls fraternity organized in the city with directors of exhibitions and privileges of the A Y P exposition soon to be named. California Melting Pleasures Advertised by Southern Pacific. The ad promotes three daily trains to California with ticket reservations and literature from Union Ticket Office and 608 First Ave. Ellie, Gen. Agent, advertises Train Trall keys at 1111 First Ave.
The Delphi bark Gladys loads fire brick and pig iron at Tacoma before returning. The Columbine lighthouse tender arrives from Tatoosh to unload cargo from Han Francisco. The British bark Riverside to Tacoma for lumber to South America. At San Francisco Standard Oil steamer Aties arrives from Beattle with oil. Matterhorn loads lumber for South America at Vancouver. Second Officer Natine of Eureka suspended for one month after striking a rock near Victoria. Corwin seeks $46 per ton freight on May 16 voyage to Nome, dropping to $15 if late. Tremont to sail from Tacota to finish loading and call at Orient April 11. President, new Pacific Coast steamer, reports wireless contact with New York from 1700 miles out.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company vessel Montara departed yesterday carrying shingles for Texas. The cargo moves via the Southern Pacific from Oakland. Civil service examinations for railway mall clerks take place today with 20 applicants. eleven are stenographers and seven are department clerks.
Immense shipment of spring clothing held up by railroads will be offered at a special sale by Monarch Ghoe 4 Clothing Co. Store at 1217 to 1519 Firet Avenue will stock the clothing as quickly as transfer teams bring it in. The proprietors plan the greatest Seattle clothing sale at cost to clear the stock.
A boat with nine crew members has been missing for five years after being towed into Newport yesterday afternoon. The entire crew is unaccounted for and authorities continue search efforts.
In OL CITY Pa on April 9 grocer Channes ly Newton found a dollar bill bearing a curious back note referencing a recent market crash and a large Union Pacific sum. The fragment hints at a broader story about financial turmoil and currency markings.
Fragmentary text shows a speaker, likely a grocer, presenting a bill during a public or council discussion in St. Paul involving Northern Pacific and other parties. The note hints at framing the bill as a8 & Rouventr.
The city will hold annual civil service examinations for all departments including fire police and water late this month. Residents of Beattie who have lived there for one year or who will be annexed are eligible to apply.
Governor Mead issues a proclamation declaring Thursday April 11 as Arbor Day in Washington. Beattie women’s clubs discuss plans to beautify the city.
Principal Geiger praised the high school students for exemplary conduct at the Cadets ball held Friday evening. He stated it was the first dance observed where smoking was completely eliminated by the high school boys.
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