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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1905
Page
8
Readers express opposition to a senate bill that limits the value of human life and call for the house to end a companion bill with the same purpose. The brief notes public sentiment and legislative tensions over life value debates.
Two engineering students from the university depart by steamship Santa Clara for Seward Alaska to aid surveying the proposed Alaska Central railway toward the Tanana district. Frank Eason will follow shortly to join the expedition.
Olympia notes a push to trim 17 senate clerks through a recessional plan. Kinnear delayed report as clerks mobilized to block cuts, while a special committee reopens the issue to reduce clerks to 38 and to address Kellogg’s inspection bill alongside mining interests protections.
Olympia reports a deadlock in the ho committee on state schools for defective youth over where to build the institution for the feeble-minded. Support splits three for Bretlacoom, three for Medical Lake, and three for the Spokane county location. The bill advances to the house with reports and will be debated on the floor.
The funeral for Jon Leary former mayor of Beattie will be held tomorrow afternoon at Trinity Parish Church and burial in Lake View cemetery. The body arrived from Riverside California last night and is lying in state at the church with Masons guarding the services.
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