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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1899
Page
2
An afternoon newspaper advertisement from The Seattle Star announces Wells and Chase as postpay publishers delivering daily except Sunday with mail subscribers receiving free copies. The notice lists Beattle Washington as a delivery point and notes second-class matter.
Pros pectors Divilbiss Condon and Hoffman reveal exact copper ore locations and warn of development challenges. They describe Mount Wrangel as a near Everest of Alaska, report 18 geysers near the crater, and note the natives fear the area. The trio aims to gain recognition from U S and European geographical societies.
The State Bar Association assembles in Tacoma for its 11th annual session in Superior Court room 3 with about 100 lawmakers in attendance. Judge T L Stiles presides. Mayor Johnson Nickells gives welcome. Sessions focus on business and papers on Legislative Encroachments Upon Private Life.
About 200 census supervisors have been chosen, roughly two thirds of the total. Delays persist in several states as senators and politicians slow the process. Kansas Mississippi New York Pennsylvania Ohio and Kentucky are holding back while clerk applications surge ahead for next year.
Chicago financiers form a private New Jersey corporation with 200000 capital to develop neglected Pacific slope gold mines. Hoytema leads the plan with Seigel-Cooper's H. H. Cooper likely to be president. Two year working bonds, monthly gross receipts share, and a reserve fund aim to restore owner profits while letting the company profit if mines succeed.
A collection of brief state and local items notes Colfax smallpox meeting, Spokane strike, Jefferson county weekly paper, Colfax church dedication, Port Angeles saw mill plant, Hay post office closure, Blaine labor shortages, a large band of horses to New Mexico, bicycle ban on Colfax sidewalks, Shelton school age count at 226.
Eugene Brance of Oaks Corners, after brain surgery at City hospital, has regained speech and memory and recovered from right side paralysis. A brain bleed was ruptured by the operation, removing clots and matter from the left brain cavity. Effects appeared as soon as speech returned from anesthesia.
A Topeka report tells how a $76 000 Reno County bond issue vanished when a package blew from an express car door on a Kansas Zephyr. The messenger tracked the woods patch where he found the sealed parcel, recovering the funds and reflecting on the near-miss.
In Kokomo Indiana Pearl Evans age 1 the son of stockbuyer William Evans disappeared days ago. A body believed to be his was found in woods fifteen miles south carried by two men seen by Ben Oren’s family a girl in a cherry tree saw the body in a wagon. Sheriff Harness leads a posse pursuing abductors. Evans was to testify before a grand jury and may have been killed for others accused of a crime.
Captain Walters of Rochester New York was wounded by two bullets in his left hand near Athletic park while walking with a young man. He says no one in Seattle knows a motive or enemy and he escaped fatal injury after being treated at Providence hospital. Walters had been in Seattle three weeks and planned to move to Washington state.
An advertisement asserts NE SEATTLE MINING EXCHANGE is well capitalized and screens listings to prevent fake or risky stocks. It claims Western Washington is near a mining boom and urges investors to buy affordable stocks, promising potential wealth and development funds. Daily call at 12:30 PM, contact numbers 273 and 609 First Avenue.
Captain Burrows reports a valuable row missing on the Seattle and Renton car line. Mrs Graham of Kerry's camp near Dunlap reports a gold watch stolen and possibly pawned. Charles McGul of Wheeler restaurant notes an overcoat taken. M L Wright of the Seattle Messenger reports a small black horse with XL branded on the right shoulder missing. Fr Adrien Monod says his Chinese cook Ab Bar was assaulted at First avenue and Cedar street by three boys about 17. Jexsorme Wilber of Halsey Mason county is short $40 after leaving it with Frank Lyons at 211 First avenue south for safekeeping. Lyons vanished.
A pending deal aims to consolidate all surface and elevated rail systems in Greater New York after Roswell P. Flower’s death. Control appears to hinge between the Whitney represented Metropolitan Street Railway and the Gould Sage interests in Manhattan L. The new system plans about 200 million dollars in capitalization with Brooklyn Rapid Transit taking main lines and extending to Queens.
C Adams colored, who killed a policeman on William Street 17 years ago, was captured in Paria Texas. Adams and another colored man were arrested in 1882. A mob lynched one suspect in the courthouse yard. Adams disappeared for 15 years. He later married in Texas then betrayed by his wife. He resists regulation papers and seeks a writ of habeas corpus.
The trial of August Becker, accused of murdering and dismembering his wife Therese Hecker, and boiling remains to marry Ida Butterlin, nears a possible end as Judge Stein considers a not guilty verdict. A bench warrant is issued for Becker after a nolle prosequi. The defense contests improper witness swearing during proceedings.
Assistant City Engineer Scott left for the Cedar river water system head works on horseback to estimate June progress between Seattle and the head works. City Engineer Thompson plans to depart for the headworks Saturday. A defective sewer is reported near Lawtons nursery on Yester avenue. Roseleaf and Erickson filed completion certificates for the Republican streets sewer system. City Comptroller party expected home from the Eastern trip July 11. Workmen alter the city clerk's office for the City employment office.
May or James Balbirnie was shot and killed by former City Poor Director John W. Tayer in front of Balbirnie’s store on Western avenue Muskegon. The shooting followed Mayor Balbirnie’s refusal to appoint Tayer director of the city poor, a post he held for years before being ousted this spring.
In Columbus on July 6 the Western Canvas Manufacturers' association decided to restore prices on all lines of children's caskets to the level in effect before the National Casket Manufacturers' association disruption six years ago. The increase is about twenty percent over current prices.
Building permits issued to F. W. West to construct a two story residence at 1818 Fifteenth Avenue with an estimated cost of 3000 dollars and to Clarke Davis for alterations in Brooklyn with an estimated cost of 200 dollars.
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