Donworth and Official Clash Over City Franchise Details
City Engineer Themeon and George Donworth, counsel for Seattle Electric, clashed at the corporations committee over a secondary franchise and city purchase rights. The draft was altered to rental rather than city purchase, prompting Donworth to accuse the process of rigging the franchise, while Thomson insisted municipal ownership remained the committee’s aim. President Furth urged postponement to avoid further misunderstanding.
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Themeon
George Donworth
Seattlre Electric Company
Corporations Committee
Dunworth
Thomson
Denworth
Donworth
Thomeen
Gmanchine
City Purchase
Furth
Electric Company
Brother Reunited After Forty Year Separation
A Seattle area meeting tells of Heaton a former soldier who feared a mental lapse and sought Steilacoom care. A woman in Seattle identified Beaton as her long-lost brother after reading the story, reuniting them at the sheriff's office. Heaton was taken to the county hospital for observation and care.
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Beaton
Window entry and theft at Belmont Mats building
A man entered Mae Richardsan's room in the Belmont Mats area at 2 yesterday afternoon and stole a watch. A building resident saw a figure near the frame and the thief fled after questioning, jumping through a window. The witness gave a detailed description of the thief.
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Mae Richardsan
Belmont Mats
Tereieem
Senate appoints mal-committee on Wickersham judge post
A senate mal-committee was appointed to weigh Judge Wickersham for the Third judicial district of Alabama. Members include Senators Nelson Minnesota Foraker Ohio Morgan Alabama. President confirms dismissal of Infantryman David A Snyder for borrowing from an enlisted man in the Philippines. State Dept notes high Chinese commission now open to the United States with 62 people. Bills favoring entrymen lands in Franklin progression in 1997 and 1993 move through senate and house.
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Senate
Wickersham
Alanka
Nelson
Minnesota
Foraker
Ohio
Morgan
Alabama
Fliat
David A. Snyder
Infantry
Philippines
State Department
High
Frenklin Spon
House
Nomination Sent for Alaska Postmasters and Local Patent Issued
President sent the nomination for Postmasters Alaska John P. Clum Fairbanks and a patent to the township of Nima issued by the secretary of the interior as reported yesterday by Senator Pilea and Representative Humphrey.
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Pilea
Humphrey
Senate
Alaska
John P. Clum
Fairbanka
Nima
Secretary of the Interior
Wenatchee Bridge Bill Passes in Senate
Washington D C January 9 the bill authorizing the Ridge Company to build a bridge over the Columbia River at Wenatchee won Senate approval yesterday requiring start within two years and completion within three years.
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Washington, D.C
Washington Ridge Company
Columbia River
Wenatchee
Senate
Free Delivery Desired As Colfax Grows
Colfax reports for 1905 show rising post office business and a push for free city delivery once street signs and house numbers meet postal requirements. Receipts climbed about 7 percent from 1904 to 1905, reaching 16,998.22 and 11,675.36 respectively, amid a well attended Green Lake church meeting led by Rev. T. H. Marsh.
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Colfax
Ewart
Cofax
Green Lake
EB. Reynolds
T. H. Marah
Destitute Woman Reported Near College Street
Patrolman Macdonald reports that Mrs. Joe Saville of Ninth Ay South and College is destitute and in need of aid. Ir Muckley has been notified.
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Macdonald
Joe Saville
Wick
Muckley
Mrs Wakefield Reports House Entered At Night
Mrs Wakefield of 1084 Main Street reports a nighttime burglary. A silk shawl and a brown leather purse were taken from her home, according to the notice.
Typhoid Patient Escapes From Home
Mrs Lane of 623 Terrace reports her husband, ill with typhoid fever, escaped from the house yesterday afternoon and has not been heard from since. She gave no description of him.
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Mra. Lane
Terrace
Waterfront Firestorm Prompts City Action Demanded
Seattle waterfront butchery sparks strong public protest from the chamber of commerce. Assistant Secretary C B Yandel urges the city council to install lighting and improve safety after 13 deaths in 1906. coroner reports trainmen uncooperative and investigations unsatisfactory as Halladay Street traffic is deemed the citys most dangerous and mud strewn.
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Gorgh
Chamber of Commerce
C. B. Yandel
More Are Hehta
Hall Ronday
Detective Adams Recovers Stolen Wire and Dope Fiend Operative
Ed Wilson, an opium fiend, was arrested by Detectives Adams and Corbett after he stole copper wire from Beattie Electric, and a gold headed umbrella. He tried to flee to King street but was nabbed with a stash of wire, brass, and dope at headquarters. Wilson had just been released from Balem penitentiary for grand larceny.
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Ed Wilson
Adams and Corbett
Beattie Electric Company
Cascade
King St
Wilson
Oregon State Penitentiary
Balem
King County Medical Banquet Fetes District Leaders in City
About 200 physicians attended the Washington hotel banquet with Governor Meade Mayor Batlinger Bishop O Deo and Dr K A J Mackenzie among the speakers. Toastmaster Dr J H Lyons led the program and new officers were elected for the King County Medical association including George H Randell as president and G B Peterkin as vice president.
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Quet
King County Medical
Washington Hotel
Meade
Batlinger
O'Dea
K. A. J. Mackenzie
F Portland
American Medical Association
J. H. Lyons
Bal- Mager
Bishop O'Dea
Mackenzie
Frederick Baneman
Meikle
Chamber of Commerces
King County Medical Association
Chamber of Commerce
George H. Randell
G. & Peterkin
H. B. Allen
FP. M. Carroll
Allen dorf Hotel Opens in Seattle With Famed Furnishings
The Allen dorf hotel on Boren Avenue north of Madison will open to the public Thursday evening between 9:30 and 10:30. About one hundred rooms and parlors will be showcased in a grand furnishing display by Standard Furniture Co. Music will accompany the event and invitation is extended to all.
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Seattle
Allendorf
Standard Furniture Co
Boren Avenue
Madison
We have the only cure for piles and all rectal diseases
A long list of symptoms about catarrh head throat ears and general illness is presented, followed by a bold claim that the ad offers the only cure for piles and all rectal diseases. The tone mimics a medical probe questionnaire urging readers to seek a remedy.
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Spelger & Hurlbut Second and Union
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Montana
Fifth
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Medicos
Evi
Dental Parlors
Pike St
Third Ave
Third and
Pike
THE
Allendorpf
Wilton
Brussels
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Tacoma
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