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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1905
Page
6
Classified notice listing contact info for offices and drug stores including Bagley's Drug Store at Second and Pike with Bunset 6060 and Ind. 1153 and Fremont Drug Co at Ewing Street and Fremont Ave.
A garbled listing shows real estate bargains near Beattle and near interurban lines, with mentions of acre tracts, water front property, and houses for sale. Also appears bank notices from The Scandinavian American Bank and medical ads for the Washington Institute of Osteopathy and a Beattie clinic, plus assorted professional services.
Geo Wheeler, authorized agent, advertises remaining five and ten acre tracts in Meadowdale. Properties offer running water, new school, railroad station, street frontage, and recorded plats with abstract fees. Prospective buyers urged to visit. monthly terms offered and train access via G. N. line.
Rew Fetate waite at West & Wheeler Colman Block for a large tract of hundreds of farmer ranches, improved and unimproved, suitable for dairying poultry fruit or vegetable. If you want a ranch or acreage call A B Newela 116 Marion.
Listing for rich second bottom land near an Interurban line in Alaska region. Describes cleared acreage with maple and alder, no timber, proximity to school and county road, with improvements and ownership figures. Includes multiple mixed fragments about farms, prices, and available lots.
Owing to close of business on Western avenue markets opened with a rush. Fruita and Blackberries lead the commission row with crab apples from the eastern estate. California plums arrive, hop and hay crops look strong, with vegetable and fruit prices listed for dozens of items including lemons, cauliflower, green corn, peppers, peaches, apples, and berries.
A dense list of grain prices for wheat corn and oats with per ton and per bale figures, followed by market quotes from Chicago Board of Trade and Liverpool and the New York Stock Exchange. Includes brokers Downs Hopkins & Co and Alaska Building, and trading data for wheat, corn, and pork.
Assistant District Attorney Kroted resumes examination of Town Topics books with Justice Dueil’s consent. He has found notable subscriber names including Senator Depew, Clarence Mackay and John Jacob Astor. Town Topics defends its stance on fads and luxuries for the rich.
London dispatch reports continued turmoil over Indian army reform. Despite hopeful claims of Curzon and Kitchener resolving issues, observers fear Curzon or Indian Secretary Broderick may be compelled to resign as tensions persist.
Fifteen former mutineers of the Kniaz Potemkin were abducted by Russian police and pushed across the border. They are now working in a factory. In Cincinnati two more heat wave deaths were reported as temperatures rose. The Northern Pacific launches a buffet grill on the Seattle to Spokane daily train starting July 20, with departures at 2 p.m.
A dramatic Society page item reports on a man known by aliases who astonished New York by writing letters under a different name. He earned money from his letters and had to post cash bail after being indicted. He is described as a big man who did not mind revealing his age.
Thomas P Wickes Yale 74, Columbia Law 76, longtime assistant New York City corporation counsel, prominent bar member and clubman, faced exposure over forged Jarvis letters used to threaten damages cases and manipulate others. Reports note aliases including Jarvis and Jarvie, with investigations revealing possible multiple identities and a rumored mania, while Wickes denies criminal intent.
Albany July 20 the assembly failed to reach a two thirds vote to remove Supreme Court Justice Hooker over alleged corrupt and immoral practices leaving the judge in office.
In St. Petersburg on July 20 Governor Trepoff works to persuade the czar to reinstate censorship on news telegrams. A reported attempt to assassinate Piedmont roff is viewed as prearranged to permit the procurator to pose as a hero. Northern Pacific introduces new trains running daily at 2 p.m.
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