22 Dec 1905
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1905
Page
1
An official statement from the Pacific Coast Steamship company and the Alaska Steamship company says a full investigation will be made into reports of a potential combine. They deny any such conditions exist and note a petition for a special grand jury was started by disgruntled shippers in smaller, remote cities.
Reports from Moscow and St. Petersburg on December 22 describe street clashes, censorship, and martial law as troops sympathize with strikers. In Poland unrest climbs with soldiers deployed, rail and telegraph lines down, and famine fears rising as strikes widen nationwide.
Judge Hatch denounces the husband for false accusations of infidelity against his wife in the Markowski divorce dispute. He condemns a Polish priest for attentions to the daughter and notes the priest abandoned celibacy, provoking the husband’s ire over alleged improper conduct.
Samuel Cenna, 38, was fatally struck while crossing tracks near Yesler Way and Railroad Avenue. He died at Mission Hospital after ambulance transport and leg injuries required amputation. Other injured included E Ferris, F N Myers, and A H Swin, with additional runaways and pole crash reported.
I W Clise of Wash Trust Company and Beattie Light Co. president faces Petereen in superior court over stump grubbing claims. Fremer Wise sues at work claiming medical contamination and damages while Peterson says he knew stump prices reached 150 dollars per acre.
Fragmentary notice mentions Virginia and Caroline Conte and a troubling amount raised. The text appears damaged with several garbled names and figures, including a referenced sum now at 44 dollars.
The Wyeth post office near the Cascade locks was broken into last night. Three hundred dollars in stamps and coin were taken. No arrests or suspects named yet.
Justice KR R George of Green Lake fined Harry Bunce and his wife $15 each plus costs after a trial over poisoned meat for dogs. Notice of appeal was given. The case drew wide attention as spectators filled the court room following an initial hearing by Humane Officers Vaupell and Clark.
Corinth Kentucky police report a bank safe was robbed late last night without anyone waking. About 2600 dollars disappeared including 1600 in gold and 1000 in silver with the rest in paper money. Securities inside were untouched.
In New York on December 22 witnesses for the Mutual Life testified about reporting practices. Vanderpool, chief examiner, said the department did not require reports of profits or losses from securities and noted methods that concealed real estate values and securities profits. Harmeworth in London threatened to attack the company if a president unfamiliar with insurance was chosen.
President announces he will return the notice of confirmation for camel commissioners and permit Senate reconsideration under the three day rule. The move follows the Senate’s right to revisit the confirmation.
The town of Kirkland filed suit in superior court against saloon proprietors William Koch and John Ferry. Under the local option ordinance the town declared the saloon a nuisance and moved to abate it and seize its furniture and fixtures.
Residents of the 15th ay, B and Holgate streets rely on muddy Lake Washington water for drinking after Cedar River water requests, pending before Superintendent Youngs for six months. Isaac Teller reports finding worms in the water and many fell ill last summer from its use.
Laura Jeanette Matthews sister of Rev. M A Matthews married Frederick Harrison Whitworth Jr at the First Presbyterian Church in a decoratively adorned ceremony. Best man Arthur R Rutherford, bridesmaids and ushers attended. After the ceremony the couple left for a southern California tour.
Financial summary shows rank clearings totaling 657,914.77 on December 22, 1904, with an increase of 341,073.97 over the same date last year. The figures indicate year over year growth and comparative performance for the period.
Core y, wife of the steel Ding, noted in Pittsburg on December 22 as she faced family concerns. The Kanagawa steamer Kanagi Qapa Piian arrived from Yokohama with 119 passengers and 204 freight, carrying tea, matting, and Japanese oranges. Two Japanese women passengers were detained by immigration officials on arrival, awaiting their husbands in the United States.
W D F Hyde, long time official and chief deputy clerk in the local division of the Northern Pacific, will succeed F C Huntington as general superintendent at St Paul. J H Robinson, maintenance clerk, will take Hyde's former post. The change takes effect January 1. KB J Coyle, Vancouver city passenger agent for Canadian Pacific, was in the city returning from Portland after attending a coast steamship companies meeting.
City Engineer Thomson and the corporations committee met with railroads led by North Coast and Kerr to discuss rights of way for Whatcom Avenue. Thomson resisted aggressive fringe demands while proposing six central tracks with outside transfer lines to serve multiple roads. A final decision was postponed two weeks with focus on terminal sites and yardage for Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Chicago Milwaukee and Paul lines.
Several robberies were reported to the police last night and this morning. Mrs Connors of Thirtiethay and Jackson Jr. fought off a man who tried to steal her purse. Burglars entered homes in the California and Oregon houses and stole money, wearing apparel, jewelry, and a revolver.
In a brief hearing Judge Albertson dismissed the case of Peter Fergurson v Griffith & Sprague Stevedoring for $1,500 after counsel A. J. Speckhert said his client abandoned the suit. Speckhert narrated an absurd tale of the plaintiff’s misadventures and escalating costs, including hotel and restaurant expenses, totaling about $45.
Georgetown residents are mystified by a dispatch claiming George Bennington was shot in Spokane. The telegram, signed Michael Dreen, prompted police to investigate as Bennington’s employer and friends seek facts while Spokane police report no confirmation by noon.
Fragmentary OCR text references a Seattle bank and a sum near 1,128,380 with unclear context. The readable items are limited to partial monetary figures and vague banking references without coherent events or names.
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