Fire Ends in Tragedy at First Ave Building
A blaze in the Washington block on First Avenue caused dire scenes as residents trapped on upper floors faced rescue efforts. Mrs Watkins nearly jumped from a third floor window before a longer ladder and improvised apparatus allowed rescue. Maggie Rose and Jessie Rose were saved, while Eddie Sutton helped as a presser. Mr and Mrs Bull perished in the inferno as attempts to escape failed. The Longworths visited Gagamore as Taft’s brother joined the party at Oyster Bay.
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Washington Block
Mra
Watkins
Maggie
Jessie Rose
Brownville
Eddie Sutton
Ball Bros. Printing Company
Mre. Bull
Agnes
Hull
Button
Mr. Hull
Mia
Bull
Brutal Beatings Reported in City Homes
Humane Officer Wappell investigated two cases of alleged child abuse. In the first, a 10 year old girl was beaten with a club then confined in a hen house and found barefoot and partly clothed. In the second, neighbor reports said Moughton Merrick brutally beat a young boy with a rawhide whip and the evidence was secured at police headquarters.
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Wappell
A. Scerdant
East Alpha At
Scerdant
Moughton Merrick
Clark
Merrick
Poor Man Pays Rich Man’s Taxes Across City Blocks
A fragment describes property assessments in several blocks in Seattle area including Walla Walla Add and Renton Hill Add. It lists block costs and high assessment percentages such as 76 percent for block 2 and 92 percent for block 12, with Central Seattle and Yealer’s Second Add mentioned as locations.
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Walla Walla
Add
Renten Hill
Seattle
Renton Hill
Yealer
Small Home Tax Assessments Questioned by Board
The writer argues that wealthier property owners enjoy lower assessed values while small homeowners face higher percentages of purchase price. A table shows five modest homes bought this year with assessments ranging from 76 to 106 percent of their prices. The piece blames the system for penalizing working homeowners who cannot contest their taxes.
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Board of Equalization
Peter
Bis
Fossas
Pickett and Duncan Duel Over Lost Watch Claim
Fragmentary note describes Pickett of Harper Washington and Duncan involved in a dispute over a missing watch. The passage hints at a drinking bet and alleged grabbing by Pickett, with reference to Islington and Heath men. Further details are unclear.
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Pickett
Harper
Wash
Duncan
Bank Clearings August 1906 Report
Bank clearings for August 12, 1906 totaled $1,548,592 with the listing dated Sunday. The item appears as a brief financial note in the banking section of the paper.
Home sites and franchises listed in local assessments
The notice itemizes properties including the Home of J. P. Carbus and the Home of T. & Lippy with several lots in Eastern Add and Terry's Second Add valued at tens of thousands, plus several power and lighting franchises. Corporations pay nothing under the listed assessments. Potential real estate values range from 60 000 to 675 000 with various assessed percentages.
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Lake Park
James
Seattle Lighting Company
T. &. Lippy
Lote
Terry
Advocates Form Campaign for Thomson Street Railway Plan
A committee of 116 led by Judge W. Wood will run the municipal ownership campaign for Thomson Street railway adoption. Subscriptions of 1 from each advocate have begun, with $50 collected, as the group plans engraved receipts and a Pike Street canvass from offices at the Peopleto Savings Bank building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. JD. Wood
Thies
Labor Temple
Judge Wood
Peopleto Savings Bank
Pike St
Dow Loses Vote Start Recount In Firet Ward
The Firet precinct recount in the Dow Mullen election contest shows Mullen and Hurd each up one vote while Dow drops two. Two disputed ballots were withheld for court decision. one likely favors Hurd and Mullen, the other Dow. Recount figures show Mullen 106, Hurd 99, Dow 62 in First ward First precinct. recount resumed at 1:96 pm.
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Firet
B. ©. Raine
Dow-Mullen
Mulien
Hurd
Dow
Croes
Mullen
Thies
Nome Claim Jumpers Roam Nome Creeks in Warning
Report from Nome recounts claim jumpers acting under pretense of assessment work for mine owners. Suspected to mine and steal gold while customers on the Victoria and Northwestern confuse authorities. Passengers say several claims were being worked illicitly, prompting alarm among local mine operators.
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Clain
Hex Boach
Agenh
Nome
Victoria
Tates
Kitsap Beats the Flyer in Steamship Race
A new steamer Kiteap carried a broom at the masthead after edging the Flyer in a race from Tecoma yesterday afternoon. The Kitsap led briefly at 12:15 PM and maintained a narrow advantage as both vessels pushed to their limits, the broom signifying Kitsap's claimed supremacy in the contest.
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Kiteap
Viger
Tecoma
Kitsap
May Build Ship Plant on Puget Sound Likely
Puget Sound is expected to host a new ship building yard with Seattle as the probable plant site. John Ke Craig former head of the Craig Ship Building in Toledo arrived recently to survey the Puget Sound area for the project. Craig sold his Toledo works last spring to Syracuse parties but remains active in business and is reportedly on the ground assessing the field. The steamers Indianapolis Watson Buckman Eureka and Tampa, built by Craig, now operate from Seattle.
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Puget Sound
Seattle
John Ke Craig
Craig Ship Building Company
Toledo
Craig
Syracuse
Mae Craig
Indianapolis
Watson
Buckman
Eureka
Tampee
Sultans Illness Eases After Simple Remedies
In Constantinople on Aug 11 the sultan, though a sick patient, refused full treatment yet eased after a physician prescribed simple remedies. The distress stemmed from kidney trouble, prompting earlier skepticism toward complex care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Coast Storms Hit Alaska Trade and Shipping Delays
Weather across the coast delays steamers of the coast and geodetic survey for months. Small craft seek shelter, with ships like Neht draught units on Cook Inlet struggling to navigate. The Neptune grounded harmlessly near Seldovin on a beach but incurred no injuries.
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Alaska
Oregon
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Seward
Cook Inlet
Neptune
Seldovin
Soldier from American Lake jailed for drunken disorder
W. J. Glenn, a soldier stationed at American Lake, visited town on a Saturday night and became drunk and disorderly. He was sentenced to 15 days in the city jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Glenn
American Lake
Esther Mitchell Far From Death in Seattle Hoax
A Seattle Sunday Times tale claimed Esther Mitchell, jailed on a murder charge, was dying of typhoid fever. Doctors say she had no fever and only a mild stomach upset from fruit, while the story was confirmed as false and a Seattle fabrication.
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Times
Esther
Esther Mitchell
Sunday Times
Seattle
Snyder
Storch Battered After Fight at Metropolitan Building
A. Storch, a tailor in the Metropolitan building, fought 8. Zeifman this morning. Storch is at Wayside hospital with a badly battered countenance from an umbrella attacked by Zeifman. injuries are not serious but painful.
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A. Storch
Metropolitan Building
Zeifman
Wayside Hospital
Zellman
Storch
Crops Damaged By Heat Hit Whitman County
General H. M. Livingstone a Whitman county magnate and C. M. Johnston of Colfax report eastern Washington cropland damaged about 25 percent by two months of hot weather. They travel to Fairbanks to oversee mining property clean‑ups on their claims worked this season.
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Washington
H. M. Livingstone
Whitman County
Beattice
MY. Livingstone
C. M. Johnston
Colfax
Pairbanks
Firemen Let Fires Go Down
In San Francisco on August 13, waterfront labor tensions eased as boilermakers and ship smiths pressed for raises from 3.50 to 4 a day, with a later compromise possible. Riggers and Stevedores, about 1800 workers, mostly returned to docks after conceding 40 to 50 cent hourly increases for eight hours and 60 to 75 cents for overtime on coast and deep water vessel work.
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San Francisco
Firemen Arrested After Minnetonka Fire
Nine firemen of the steamer Minnetonka were arrested on arrival, charged with setting back the fires to cause the ship to lose thousands of dollars. The charges were dismissed in court.
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Scrippa News Service
London
Minnetonka
Bonaparte Orders Tighter Navy Yard Meat Inspections
Secretary Bonaparte directed a stronger meat inspection at navy yards and ordered immediate substitution of good meat for bad meat wherever inspectors suspect quality, reflecting a push to improve supply to the fleet.
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Washington, D. C
Bonaparte
Navy Yards
Pacific Coast Advertising Men Accept 1909 Convention Host City
At the Pacific Coast Advertising Men's association convention in Victoria on July 20 21 and 22 the group accepted Victoria as the host city for the 1909 annual convention.
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Pacific Coast Advertising Men's Association
Victoria
Flagship Chicago Heads to Bremerton for Repairs
The flagship Chicago with Rear Admiral Swinburn aboard departed for Bremerton this morning for repairs. The rest of the fleet remains in the harbor with movements unknown. Target practice won’t start for several weeks and cruisers along with torpedo boats will ride at the buoys on the bay.
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Chicago
Swinburn
Bremerton
Repaira
Sunday Tragedies Claim 13 Lives Across the Nation
A string of disasters on Sunday leaves multiple fatalities. In Evanston an electric car collision kills one and injures several. in Davenport five drownings occur after a river outing. Daring robberies and a fatal highway shooting close the day in San Francisco.
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Davenport
Spokane
Winnie Jones
A. H. Burgett
Roy Howard
A. L. Inman
Inman
Howard
Miss Jones
County Auditor's Office
Chewelah Men In Violent Lake Dispute Over Fishing Rights
In Stevens County two elderly men clashed over a Chewelah lake fishing party. The confrontation ended in a deadly gun fight described as the most desperate in local history, pitting men over fifty against violent dispositions.
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Chewelah
Anals
Stevens County
Mike A
Willam Dougan
Brown Lake
Suneday
Tragic Train Crash Kills 18 Year Old Boy in Chicago
In Chicago on Sunday, George Moe aged 18 was killed and Minne Gurachke aged 19 injured when a picnic train backed while they stood at the rear. Moe was thrown under the wheels, while Gurachke suffered injuries as the woman saved herself by her dress catching on the brake beam.
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Chicago
George Mo
Minne Gurachke
Moe
Bank officials killed in trolley collision at Tamaqua
Tamaqua report says M r W Hetsone aged 35 cashier of Citizens National Bank of Lansford was killed and Daniel McGeeha aged 24 assistant cashier fatally injured when their carriage was struck by a trolley car Sunday night.
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Tamaqua
W. Hetsone
Citizens National Bank of
Trolley Collision Kills Several On Fortieth Street
A trolley car crowded with baseball spectators collided with a Key Route electric train on Fortieth Street Sunday afternoon in Oakland. A number of riders were fatally injured or seriously hurt, including Bay Francisco and Los Angeles ball team members and umpire George Hodson who sustained scalp wounds. The crash was blamed on a defective airbrake.
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Evanston
Chicago
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Oakland
Spokane River
Davenport
Brown Lake
Golden Gate Park
Fortieth «T
Abele
Bay Francisco
George Hodson
G. JL. Wheeler
Robbed of 3300 at Tellers Window in San Francisco
Mrs C Lampert of 400 Lopes Avenue lost a satchel containing 3300 in gold while at the San Francisco Savings Union lobby. A man falsely questioned her, apologized, then stole the satchel, a ruse aiding an unseen accomplice. No clue to the thief. Pope suffers serious gout in Rome.
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Bankfrancisco
C. Lampert
San Francisco Savings Union
Hibernia Bank
Mra. Smiti
Mra. Lampert
Mra. Smith
Mra Lampert
Humboldt III Arrives In port with 58 aboard from Alaska
The Humboldt brings 58 passengers including several round trippers into port from Southeastern Alaska. Mrs James Carroll wife of the Spokane captain and Mrs J B Patterson wife of Port Captain Patterson of the Pacific Steamship Co. made the round trip. Dr E C Tuttle of Rostom was another round tripper. The Humboldt calls north again. Comet row night 7.
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Humboldt
Alaska
James Carroll
Spokane
Mra
J. B. Patterson
Patterson
Pacific Steamship Company
Hunboldt
E. C. Tuttle
Rostom
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Gagamore
Scrippe News Service
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Henry Taft
Taft
Robert Ridge
More Mill
Loneworths
M M. Powe
Othiers
Fpoxsas
Ballinger
Rae
Hee
Alee
J Jeet
Jedge Ballinger
Mr. Foss
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George E. M. Fossas
R. A. Ballinger
J. P. Carbus
Geattie Electric Company
Geattie Lighting Company
Independent Telephone Company
Seattle Tacoma Power Company
M. O
Hourd
Ting
John K. Craig
Scripps News Service
Soldier
Diaz
Berippe News Service
el, Paso, Temas, Ave
Diag
Mexico
Mechanical Department
Mexican Central Railroad
Pesident Dias
Mitchell
Cropo
Steve
Dores
Jackies
Will
Chicago & Milwaukee
Elizabeth Slaughter
H. B. Slaughter
G. & Slaughter
Christine Daulby
Slaughter Family
Houston
Texas
George Meikiejohn
Sandusky
Ohio
Jacob Weidemeyer
Harry Stein
Springfield
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Mullineaux
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Tate
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Rome
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