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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1906
Page
8
Eleven year old Bya Patterson used quick presence and swimming skill to save Mrs. C. Spford after their canoe overturned a half mile from Madison Park shore. She pulled the woman free, kept her afloat as they clung to the resting boat until a launch arrived.
Four people solved the Star Rebus last night earning seven prizes for exactness zero errors in spelling and punctuation. The $2 prizes go to H F Bunce G W Ames Robert F Steinberger Anne Bulings Addie Butler. $1 prizes to J Kelley Anna Schneider Gehan Bartholomew and others. Gladys T Ross wins a special $2 fireworks package.
The Monticello owned by Moe Bros competes with the Reliance for U S mail service to Port Madison. Both lines claim contracts and market share as Kitsap County Transportation Company expands service. Farmers and merchants benefit from improved transport while dock disputes and fare rumors fuel tension.
The Star presents high class vaudeville this week with Milton Dawson and Virginia Anderson in How He Won Her. The show runs continuously tomorrow from 2 to 11, with Kidnapped at the Third Avenue theater by Ayorth company, and A Buy Life next week by the Aylesworth company. The Grand features Nat C. Goodwin in The Genius with In a Winze of Glory as a preceding short. Thursday includes We Were Twenty One by Mr. Goodwin.
At John Kelly's request the hearing before the civil Service commissioners was postponed until next Monday evening. Kelly said he needed time to review his record after being discharged by Chief Wappenstein for incompetency.
Homer E. Turner a Democrat and J Edgar Wright a Republican yesterday took the oath as jury commissioners for the coming year. Detectives Phillips and Brown arrested Charlies EB Johnson William Smith and J B Scone in the Vernon hotel on charges connected with gambling.
A batch of brief notices reports drownings and accidents, political moves, misadventures, and local incidents across towns like Ravensdale Spokane Olympia Port Townsend Arlington La Conner Conconully and Bellingham. Notable items include a drowning of Charles Petty, a union vote on incorporation in Spokane, a United States deputy revenue collector appointment in Olympia, and a swashbuckling horse incident near Conconully with officers pulling the rider from the river.
A small fire began last night at the home of B. Rams at 914 Twenty fourth or caused by a lamp explosion. The damage was slight.
Mrs Desire Brothier, wife of a Frenchman deported to Canada, arrived in the city roster day in the cia of Inspector Jobe Wilkes of Townsend. She is described in transit details and under police supervision.
Mr Baker returned from New York with heavy purchases for the McCarthy Pry Goods Co to stock a new store at 3614 1516 1518 and 1620 Avenue. The firm plans a department store layout with Toilet Articles Leather Goods and Dress Goods and will move into the new quarters by August 1, adding two more store rooms later.
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