Hazard Well Batter Sees Creekside Action
Hazard Well reports a battering incident at Creekside with local details and police response. Residents describe disturbance and investigations proceed as authorities review evidence.
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1902
Page
2
Hazard Well reports a battering incident at Creekside with local details and police response. Residents describe disturbance and investigations proceed as authorities review evidence.
A local note criticizes Seattle Electric Company for uniform green streetcars on First Second Third avenues and Pike street. It cites unreadable miniature signs and confusing color coding that frustrates riders, urging clearer signals while praising system expansion efforts.
United States navy yard work by Chief Gunner Charlies Morgan on the cruiser Minneapolis builds a hybrid racing yacht torpedo boat. The design emphasizes speed with a four by twelve inch hull, a fore and aft lumber cut, a four foot draft, and a fin keel. Finishing in about two weeks the craft aims for enhanced hold and structural solidity.
Helena defeated Nesnes 6 to 3 as Gay struggled on the mound while Helena’s bats delivered. In Portland the locals won 3 to 1 over Tacoma, with poor base running blamed for Tacoma’s defeat. Church notices and sermons fill the rest of the page with mass times, parish details, and spiritual talks across several congregations.
Church listings show Street church tent services featuring Mr and Mrs Owen Jones at 11 a.m. Daniele. Dulles Presbyterian with Rev. T H Hanna Jr preaching morning and evening. First M E with Rev E K Randell. Plymouth Congregational with Rev Newman. Parish services led by Rev W Theater and Bishop of Olympia. Market Street Baptist with Rev Meber. Roman Catholic services at Our Lady of Good Help and Sacred Heart Church with mass times and schedules.
Gen A W Greely signals chief officer US army says Tanana line will be completed and telegraphic communications in effect between Nome and e¢ by March 1 1902 The wireless Nome St Michaels link will join the Valdes Eagle line about 400 miles long and finished by September 1 The Nome St Michaels line to be completed this fall
The battleship Wisconsin will visit Beattie on Monday August 14 and stay through the carnival, after just departing the navy yard for Tacoma for a week. The event accompanies 25¢ round trips to Al Ki Point with seven trips daily from Lilly-Rogardus Dock, plus Sunday departures from Seattle each hour. Also listed are dancing classes at Ranke Hall and private lessons, with Fletcher and Carpenter as local realty brokers.
The mangled body of Thomas N. McGowan, steamboat engineer, was found on the Great Northern tracks at the foot of Virginia Street. The coroner was notified at 1 15 AM, remains taken to Hutterworth's, no witnesses, clues indicate he fell from the rear Northern train due at 8 o clock, papers in his pocket identify him as a Marine Engineers' Brotherhood of America member.
Reports from Fairhaven and New York note Mrs L T Byrne entertaining at Thirtieth avenue while Brevena Relief Corps held its first meeting in new apartments. Mrs M Laing hosted luncheon on Eighteenth avenue as Woodcraft held a porch dance at adrena park. A grand opera at Chicago and a dance at Mrs J M Frink s home preceded California departures for Miss Frink and others. A late afternoon at Mrs Filnett Holmes on Thirtieth avenue honored Miss Williston Miss Holmes and Miss Turner. A Rainier hotel gathering drew a large crowd for the lively evening. plans for a Sobeens pace next vary.
Sir Gerald Strickland has been named governor of the Leeward Islands to succeed Sir Henry Moore Jackson. He is the sixth Count della Catena, aged 41, and is married to Edeline Sackville daughter of the seventh Baron de la Warr. Daphne Pollard and Irene Finley headlined a local stage show with performances by Ivy Pollard and Miss Pollard, while the company touted gowns and scenery. The period featured numerous plays including The Tide of Life at Third Avenue theater and a thriving circus season with Hingling Brothers, Danvards, and other acts touring Seattle. A divorce suit is filed in King County by Waters & Oldham, seeking custody and relief with publication dates in August 1902.
The Grand opera house presented La Mascotte to a large audience. The production featured energetic child performers and Willie Pollard as Laurent XVII delivering witty, repeated songs that drew much laughter.
Fragmented notices cover cleaning and renovating requests, absentees and local services, employment ads, a prophet King Solomon pitch, livestock and farm listings, and real estate offers. Names: Lyndhurst, James, Adams Nichols, Byers Company. places: Brooklyn, Queen Anne Hill, Interbay. items include furniture, cabinet photos, land parcels, and rental details.
Partial readable lines mention oil operations with unclear names and dates. The fragments reference a site, possibly a refinery, and flow of crude or product with no full context or identifiable entities. No distinct event or outcome can be confirmed from the legible text.
Several property listings describe corner lots and lots with improvements on Fifteenth and Sixteenth Avenues near City Park and Dearborn Street. Mentioned are modern cottages, a new G room house near Broadway, and terms offered by F. W. West, Union Realty.
Real estate notices describe multiple parcels near City Park Capitol Hill and Breasway district. Properties list corner lots on Fifteenth Northweet Aloha Mateenth Capitol Hill corners with asphalt streets sidewalks sewers and city water paid for. Other listings include Seventeenth avenue Dearbors near 492100 and Ninth/Nineteenth avenues with modern cottages and corner lots near Republican streets. Suburban blocks advertised by W. West in Union Block.
A fragmented 1910s style directory entry lists HORT ROW WOUGHTON properties with water access and farming features, includes farm buildings and mail delivery, plus MALTBY and other addresses with real estate for sale. Also appears as a general listings page for services such as furniture, dressmaking, funeral directors, and professional offices in Seattle area blocks.
A brief item notes Ballard creating a small garden on two lots with a home project. It indicates terms as cash with no other conditions.
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