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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1908
Page
7
Public notice reports Resolution No 1125 proposing an amendment to city charter provisions on license terms bids bonding and publication requirements. It details bidding procedures contract standards responsible officers and publication rules for city notices in the official newspaper with ratification set for March.
The City Council proposes amendments to the Seattle and Beattie city charters. The actions include Article VII and VIII changes, new department heads, and adoption of procedures for local improvements and franchise oversight. The measures are slated for submission to qualified voters at the next general election.
The notice states the assessment roll will be published ten times in the official city newspaper to inform all interested parties and invite objections within at least fifteen days after the final publication. The council will review objections, correct the roll, and levy taxes accordingly before delivering the roll to the City Controller for processing by the City Treasurer. Delinquent notices require thirty six days to pay with ten percent interest. penalties depend on applicable law.
Want ads describe selling charcoal and other items with delivery, contact details, and rates. Listings include furniture, farms, land, rental homes, and photography supplies, plus rates for ad insertion and local agents. Names and addresses appear inconsistently. overall tone mirrors a late era classified page.
A chaotic 1908 classified page lists WANTED TO BUY FARMS and HELP WANTED MALE entries. Advertisements include FOR RENT ROOMS, storage services, and various business notices with scattered names, addresses, and offers.
A mid-century ad page describes irrigated and immigrant lands on the main line near the Columbia River, listing land values, farming yields and potential profits. It notes opportunities in Beattie and Seattle area real estate firms, with bank and loan offers and ads for trades and education. It includes lost and found notices, dental services, and employment ads for construction trades.
A local notice from National Land Co offers a Sunday outing option with warm arrangements and evenings free. Contact Pioneer Main 606-506 for details and reservations.
Real estate notice for a new modern one bedroom cottage located a block from the car line and Woodland Street. Prices show $1,800 for a cottage and $300 cash with monthly balama terms. Listing by H. E. Orr Co. Inc.
Eleven acres offered for sale five miles west of Seattle with lane access on a county road. Property features include good soil for gardening, fruit trees, and poultry, marketed by JOUNETON & CO at Downs Building, room 111, phone Main 2675.
A fragment describes land near a canal town with a church nearby. The land includes a stream and wetland portion, noting a long stretch of water and potential for development in a thriving town.
J Goodfellow & Sons announces new five acre tracts ready for sale near town, depot, stores and church. Prices start at 225 per acre for small lots and 228 for whole five acres with terms of 40 down and 10 monthly. Plat viewing at the office 019-920-071 Alaska Ride.
Walter D. Ottard and Florence V. Girard sue the city of Seattle and treasurer George F. Russell in superior court over the Jackson street regrade district assessment. They contend the condemnation award already offset benefits, so the current assessment amounts to double taxation. The case could decide assessment validity for major city regrades. Graves, Pater & Murphy represent the plaintiffs as city attorneys prepare a strong defense.
Preparations are completed for the fourteenth annual Police Relief association ball to be held at the Lesch park pavilion on February 21. The general committee includes Sergeant Tennant Detective department, Driven Dan Keene, and Sergeant Powers. Honorary committee features Mayor Moore Police Chief Wappenstein and several captains with Dr Walter Poerly the Relief physician. City Detective Griffith chairs the reception committee with Driver Dan Keene as tee and Meyer Peyser as floor chief. Chief Wappenstein will lead the grand march.
G M Butterworth undertaker says abolishing Sunday funerals would harshly affect the city's poor. He notes wage losses for weekday funerals and difficulty for pallbearers, drivers, sextons, and ministers, predicting higher costs if Sunday services are banned. The ministers federation discusses the issue Monday.
The Daily Index is issued in a new dress under publisher L. R. Strachey who aims to rival the Daily Guide of Frisco. The paper will publish a complete sailing schedule with passenger and freight data, trim ads, and condensed Sound shipping. Stradley plans telegraphic updates on ship movements and marine news.
Delegate Cale and Alaska Governor Hoggatt confer with President Roosevelt over postmaster appointments at Skagway and Valdez, both named appointees. A Moscow Idaho move seeks women to remove head gear in church, and federal troops depart Goldfield March 7. The Bowery poor in New York received shoes, four Chicago women press a man named Cossick as husband, a Bellingham fire rescuer saves a doomed woman, Baker City to close gambling March 1, Cale named Republican Alaska executive chairman.
Officials report 1,608 inmates in the two state hospitals as of yesterday. Hoboes smashed a money paying machine at Everett when it refused to dispense coins. They are jailed. County commissioners from 37 counties will meet in Tacoma for a three day session starting next Tuesday. A grand jury may be convened to probe Hoquiam's affairs. Electric power will move the city toward new infrastructure.
Trains over the Cascades on the Great Northern. Real estate at Auburn is being sold rapidly. The Sunday lid on saloons at Wenatchee is to go on forthwith. Kelso had a $6,000 fire yesterday. Bellingham is to have a garbage destructor.
Owen Williams, a street laborer, was badly injured when a mule and two horses trod him down at Third Avenue and James Street while cleaning a manhole. Edward DeWest, 318 James Street, drove the team for Allen M. Packard. Williams says DeWest deliberately ran him over. DeWest claims Williams grabbed the mule’s bridle and was kicked after failing to dodge.
Colfax native Fred S. Ratcliff Whitman county sheriff, noted for his large stature, visited Sheriff Lou Smith yesterday and the two lawmen shared luncheon. Deaths today include Seikkeila 63 and several others with dates from February 1 to February 7. Births recorded include Stockeld daughter and Williams son among others.
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