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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
7
The employment office offers to supply men and women for short term jobs to earn money for Christmas. Unemployed residents may place orders for needed work, and the office arranges workers who perform well and earn wages. No fee charged. Located at Fourth Ave and Yester Way. Call Main 296 or Independent 296.
Attorneys familiar with the case warn that injunctions in both superior and federal courts to stop county officials from collecting taxes on corporate franchises could render county tax rolls invalid statewide. The suits challenge the tax on about 800 million dollars in monies and credits exempted by assessors, threatening the entire tax system.
Legal challengers argue 1907 law and unequal assessments undervalue real property while personal property bears 60 percent levies. They contend goodwill from franchise bonds held in other states escapes taxation. Manhattan Trust Co. of New York filed a federal suit against Seattle Lighting Co. franchise assessment.
The supreme court ordered a new trial for Julius Marfauchile who placed a spring gun in a trunk that discharged and killed the landlady when she investigated. Marfauchile had been convicted of murder in the second degree. Fishing rods at special prices for Xmas. Hall, 1111 Pier Ave.
The Knickerbocker club will have a dance this evening at Christensen's Treadway hall. The Minnewatha club hosted a pleasing dance at Christensen's Treadway hall. Community groups including Catholic Ladies' Charity Club and As You Like It club held meetings and socials in local homes and studios. The Alamo Dancing Club hosted a successful dance at Christensen's Broadway venue.
Christmas party events are scheduled including a kindergarten party at the Tabernacle Baptist Church on Christmas Eve. The twenty fifth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Morgan at 102 Bant Fifty-ninth is noted for Christmas Eve. The Minnetonka club hosts its annual Poverty Ball on December 8 at Chris tenwen's Broadway hall with a floor committee including Nellie Werton and others. Jerse Francis Kohler and Alfred Meacham Prather wed yesterday at the Kohler home with a small ceremony attended by relatives. they will live at 4329 Brooklyn Ave after a wedding trip along the coast.
W P Trimble delivers oath to enforce city ordinances during a Seattle rally at the Butler Hotel. Supporters form a Trimble Club with J B MacDougall as president and D Conover as treasurer, endorsing Trimble for mayor and calling for ordinance amendments if needed.
Seattle pastors celebrated the completion of Rev. M. A. Matthews’s new First Presbyterian church with a fellowship meeting. Dr. Samuel Persons, age 84, a former Armenian missionary, introduced speakers. Leaders including Drs Heath Van Horn Keator Rees Harrington Williams Strange offered congratulations. John P. Hartman chaired the event.
A brief advertisement notes Carnation milk priced at 10 cents per pint can. It highlights a bargain in canned dairy for shoppers and emphasizes value.
Washington dispatch reports Speaker Champ Clark’s cousin Uncle Joe Cannon read the anti smoking rule in the House, then ordered enforcement. He privately softened the order with a quip that men may smoke good cigars and avoid jail, criticizing reforms while urging restraint.
Frank W. Cotterill and C. O. Young, delegates from Washington, returned this morning. The Central Labor Council will meet January 16 with their reports as the special order of business.
J C Marmaduke, manager of the New Washington hotel improvement company, announced yesterday that the New Washington will be completed and opened early in April. A large party of S J Louie capitalists interested in the company will come to Seattle to participate in the formal opening.
John M Wolfe filed a candidacy with the city clerk for nomination to the City Council from the ward. The action marks Wolfe as a candidate for the upcoming election in that ward.
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