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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1902
Page
3
Lum You a prisoner scheduled for hanging for a murder was seen near town yesterday. He fled with a hat and belongings, pursued by Wil Peterson Abner Roney and a search squad near the dark outskirts.
In Congress on the federation issue the minority backed state membership while the majority favored deferral of penalties. A plan to form federation and assign members from Spokane Seattle and Everett failed as towns opposed it. A revised four member committee was formed from small districts but the arrangement was not approved and the federation appeared to end debate.
A family faced police scrutiny with father and mother jailed after a string of charges. Quinn the mother received 15 years in city jail. her 8 year old son was arrested for burglary. 14 year old Quinn faced burglary charges and witness testimony was to be given. The family’s downfall drew public attention as authorities pursued all involved.
A garbled Snoqualmie hotel record claims a smallpox patient is not named. The town notes show a patient treated for acute smallpox and mention various officials and dates, but names are unclear and records appear confused.
The notice outlines a public works project opening next Saturday for the Twenty System on Thirteenth to Sixteenth Avenues with Alder Street to East Spruce Street outlines. The contract covers street extensions and connections from 12th to 16th Avenues, including Firnh Mth Avenue to a point between 14th and East Fir, with lengths and plots described.
Train and ferry times listed for Beattie Seattle Vancouver and Puget Sound towns. Includes departure and arrival windows, notes on Sundays, and connections to Snoqualmie Sedro Woolley Piver Paul and Mt. Paul services. Frequent times cited: 4:45 5. m 6:10 7:50 p.m. Arrivals and departures imply a regional guide entry.
No news has reached port about the Elihu Thomson. Remote southwest Alaska coast cities lack telegraph links and hope rests on mail schedules or shelter in isolated bays. Seattle residents seek information as agents work to locate the vessel while a jury plans to try Rd Nolan, the alleged burglar and pirate captured at Meadow Point.
Police report a man posing as an Infancy work supplier in Seattle. He takes orders from housewives, demands an 81 deposit, then vanishes and does not return.
Revenue cutter Grant arrived at the bay and conducted a careful cruise around the islands near the lower Sound and straits. Officers report no wreckage found to illuminate the fate of the lost collier Mattewan.
The BBalfour-Guthrie Co. sues Northern Pacific Railway before Judge Hanford for the value of cement destroyed when the White Star dock collapsed. Cement stored in the White Star warehouse belonged to BBalfour-Guthrie. dock owner was NP Halfway Co. The day also includes matters on Gem Fung seeking habeas corpus, a libel decree in King & Schooner Beren Sisters, and an intervening libel for wages on the Clara Brown.
Seattle police traced an alleged highway robbery to a pawned watch recovered from a local shop. The watch, claimed stolen from B. H. C. Jones by two highwaymen, was pawned for $1 last night.
White's shipyards at Everett wins the contract to build a four-masted barkentine for the John Peterson Company of San Francisco. The 250 foot overall vessel features a 42 foot beam and holds depth, signaling a new Sierra-class merchant ship for Pacific trade.
The steamer Fairhaven of the La Conner Pot and Transportation Company was floated today at Miller Point near La Conner and will be towed to Seattle. Passengers were safely landed and brought ashore to Ataalady, while the ship was en route from the city to La Conner.
The tug Enigma amused herself by pulling at piles at the Madison Street dock with a hawser, yanking rope ends and leaving most old stumps removed as she enlarges the space there.
The Columbine a lighthouse tender from Astoria arrived at Seattle. Rician Maru of Nippon Yusen Kaisha is due at Smiths Cove from the Orient. Ping Suey hauls near Tacoma for landing and will sail for the Orient. An international Saint Bernard show is planned for Frankfurt next spring. An American rolling mill rises in Mexico City using scrap iron.
Hotels feature notable arrivals today including T. Crocker of Walla Walla and rancher Jas. Gillespie of Coupeville. Also listed are rancher Harry Sergant of Tolt merchant Alex H. MacKinnon of Olympia and guests Haight of Los Angeles and others at Seattle and Butler-Theo hotels.
A fragmented notice lists multiple individuals and their home towns including Everett Tacoma Spokane Anacortes Sidney Waah Kremerton Renton Milltown Vancouver Walla Walla North Yakima Bremerton Danson Chemainus Port Gamble and Vancouver among others as part of a regional charter or directory item. The text presents names with locations in a scattered format.
The coroner s inquest in New York began this morning to determine responsibility for the tunnel collision. The engineer of the locomotive that crashed into the suburban train testified early, under a bond of 16000 dollars, repeating his prior account of the accident.
J Smith and A Kerry obtained building permits for 22 frame houses on Fourteenth to Fifteenth avenues and Columbia to Marton streets. The dwellings will be one to two and a half stories tall with two homes sharing a style. Average cost per house is 2500 dollars, totaling 54000 dollars for the project.
The Walla Walla survivors reportedly receive no compensation from the Pacific Coast Co for lost effects. In San Francisco officials offered little encouragement, and under Harter law dama ages are limited to the value of the item. Freight losses covered by bills of lading remain recoverable.
Salt damages totaling 20000 sought from the Steamer Rosaire and Alaska Steamship Co by J. J. Palmer of Vancouver and W. A. Ward of Victoria for detention in quarantine amid an alleged incident.
The French steamer Sidon, bound for the Levant with many passengers, wrecked off Tort Patras. Reports vary with estimates of 44 lost and other sources claiming no confirmed fatalities. Company agents seek definite information.
Report from Victoria describes a race between the steamer Umatilla of the Pacific Coast line and the Majestic of the Alaska B line. The vessels left Port Townsend within 40 seconds of each other for Victoria and raced to the Inner harbor. The Majestic arrived five minutes earlier, prompting business closings and heavy betting among passengers on the outcome.
Joe Long a miner was arrested for begging by Policeman Parkman. Wm Sullivan jailed on vagrancy. Officers Chipman and Searing arrested others during the night. City election registrations reached 4408 by 1 PM. W H Shepherd received permits to build two two story frame houses at 2299 and 852 Fifth Ave costing 6000. August Oner case about minors at a park saloon was adjourned. Justice Cann arrested Michael Cann on suspicion of stealing shirts.
Assistant City Engineer A H Dimmock plans a handsome one story frame residence at 320 Nineteenth Avenue with an estimated cost of $7000.
Occasional rain moves through Seattle and vicinity with light to fresh southeast winds. Winds become brisk Friday as the system tightens, bringing cooler conditions and lingering showers through the period.
The society banquet scheduled for Monday is postponed one month due to illness of Dr. H. D. Kline president of the society. Dr. Kline suffered pneumonia last Tuesday and was very ill but is now expected to recover soon.
Alexander Stewart, engineer of the Great Northern at Spokane, arrived in the city this morning. Chief Engineer J. F. Stevens and Engineer Stewart will confer on matters related to the construction of the new union depot.
The Pacific Coast Co. steamer Cottage City arrived yesterday and sailed this morning for Itka Juneau and other Alaska points. It carried about 65 first class and 15 second class passengers with a cargo of general merchandise. The ship set a rapid pace loading and unloading before departing yesterday afternoon.
Large crowds filled the capitol as A T Cummins was sworn in as governor. The oath was given by the supreme court chief justice after the inaugural address. Officials then moved to the senate chamber for further swearing in. A missing boy, Willie Brown age 11 of 1903 Yesterday, prompted a police search. Classified note: Ladies' furs repaired by C C Berg at 1918 Third Ave with coal and wood available from Beattle Fuel Co.
A. L. Campbell, previously discharged on a $560 embezzlement claim against local contractors, surrendered on a charge of larceny by embezzlement totaling $20 966 18 from American Bonding and Trust Co of Baltimore. Bond set at $1 000, arraignment before Judge Griffin scheduled. Campbell, once agent for the firm in this city two years ago, had earlier been discharged on a $10 embezzlement claim from Gribble and Duhamel. He returned from Tacoma after surrendering.
Pittsburg reports the marriage of Count Guallermoe Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy, to Miss Josephine Owen Holman of Indianapolis. They will wed in New York, then travel to England for the coronation of King Edward next June. Marconi is to serve briefly as Italian military attache at the Rome court, with a June 1, 1902 arrival required.
The collier Wellington owned by the Dunemutrs sails from Nanaimo to Douglas City with coal for the Treadwell mines to replace Triatol’s lost cargo. It will search the coast near the Triatol wreck for any salvageable wreckage.
Kirkland property owners push to sell the old 60,000 pound daily capacity Kirkland steel plant to Jupiter steel makers as representatives travel the city led by John W. Pratt. The plant once funded by Peter Kirk lay idle since the 1890s, with taxes paid on the site while attempts to revive the industry pursue an agreement and a suitable site.
A successful social was held at the Young Men's Christian Association last night hosted by the Christian Endeavor Society of the First Christian church. The program featured piano solos by Mrs. Helen Sachs recitation by Mrs. Sickles vocal solos by W. T. Eiwelt A. J. Kenasley and Mrs. A. Hi. Anderson and piano pieces by Miss Lucille McIntyre. Refreshments followed as attendees reported a very pleasing evening.
The second Lippy medal contest at the Y M C A symposium saw strong indoor records. Tom McDonald won the 1 pound shot put with 41 feet inches, Smith topped the 12%-yard potato race in 43-5, Temple won the high jump at feet inches, Bushell led the rope climb in 63-6, and Temple captured the half mile in 2 27. The final scores: Temple 2581-2, McDonald 3531-3, Smith 2941-2, Bushell 1222-3, Arnold 3172-8, McLaughlin 2982-9, McLean 2601-3, Dohm 1442-3, Myera 2441-3, Atkin women 231, Mitchell 2161-3, G. McDonald 2091-2, Olney 2972-3, W. McDonald 1702-8, Rublin 122.
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