City Council Passes Fire Station Funding and Puts Skyscraper Hall on Agenda
City council approved $1200 to complete Green Lake fire station after weeks of delay and $15000 to add a story to fire department HQ for new fire alarm system. Ten more firefighters were authorized. A $300000 bond election for municipal garbage collection was proposed.
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Weaver
Green Lake
Seston Weaver
Bard
Fire Department
Way
Hines
Zbinden
Armstrong
Treasury Department
Mallard
Civil Service and Fighting Committees
Gill
City Hall
Young Men Deny Involvement in Madison Park Shooting
Residents of the houseboat near Madison park deny responsibility for a Sunday night shooting that disturbed the neighborhood. They accuse three visiting men including a Seattle lawyer physician and businessperson of starting the trouble after a drinking party. Police intervened and arrested several participants. The case was later hushed up with all parties agreeing to say nothing.
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Madison Park
Seattle
Roosevelt Will Not Campaign This Year
President Roosevelt will not participate actively in the upcoming presidential campaign. Secretary Loeb sent a letter declining an invitation to speak at the La Crosse fair in September, stating the president cannot accept as he has decided not to take part in the campaign.
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United Press
Lacrosse
Wis
Roosevelt
Loeb
Vaudeville at Pantages Show Highlights Zanzi Bar Arabs
A summer program at Pantages theatre featured the Zanzi bar Arabs, a whirlwind acrobatic troupe, as the standout act. Electra delivered a scientific electrical experiment. Ziska and King performed burlesque magic, Miss Florence Saunders sang, and Mr. Elwell presented Just Someone.
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Pantages Theatre
Zanzibar
Star theatre presents Sirronje Handcuff Queen draw card
Sirronje the Handcuff Queen headlines a new week at the Star theatre as the leading act. Other highlights include Alice Robinson, Florence Modena in a sketch, Eddie Roesch, Don and Thompson, Broadway entertainers, the Pantzer contortionists, and a male travesty act. Three daily performances run until Sunday night.
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Sirronje
Star Theatre
Alice Robinson
Sweet Soprano
Florence Modena
Eddie Roesch
Don & Thompson
Western Federation of Miners Confronts Members Over Butte Strike
At the Denver convention delegates J C Lowney and Angus McLeod traded insults over the Butte Montana machinists strike. They called each other liars on the floor. The body adopted a resolution reaffirming industrial unionism and solidarity of the working class.
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United Press
Denver
Western Federation of Miners
J. C. Lowney
Angus McLeod
Butte
Mont
Fred Myers Examined By Lunacy Commission In Auburn
Fred Myers arrested yesterday at Auburn for trying to stop several Interurban trains was brought before the lunacy commission to be examined regarding his sanity. He fits the description of the poet humorist highwayman who drew notice in Ballard last week.
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Fred Myers
Auburn
Lunacy Commission
Myers
Ballard
Edwin London official improves after appendicitis attack
Harry H. Wolfe, vice president of the Edwin London company, had been confined at home for two days with appendicitis. This afternoon he was reported out of danger and improving.
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Harry H. Wolfe
Edwin London Company
Wolfe
Horse collides with car on Marion Street in First Ave area
A colt driven by prominent contractor H. C. Bromley collided with a car on Marion Street near First Avenue. No injuries reported. The incident prompted a brief traffic halt as authorities investigated.
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H. C. Bromley
Colt
Marion St
Horse Escape Left Colt Injured with Hind Leg Cuts
Morning report notes Mr Hromiey escaped unharmed while the colt suffered cuts to its hind legs.
Taft Completes Speech in Virginia Delegation Visit
In Hot Springs Virginia Judge Taft mailed a copy of his revised acceptance speech to Roosevelt and Secretary. He received a large Virginian delegation led by Slemp urging Republicans to carry Virginia. Taft declined to promise an immediate meeting with leading Virginians next week.
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United Press
Hot Springs
Taft
Roosevelt
Burglar Steals Candies From D Baregia Store
A burglar entered D Baregia’s shop at 1906 Seconday and stole about $15 in candies and gum. Judge Thomas Burke will address the Commercial Club this evening during his trip to the Orient India and Europe. Ladies are invited.
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D. Baregia
Thomas Burke
Orient
India
Europe
Labor Market Outlook Boosts Prices Across Industries
The Pittsburgh district sees over 56,000 iron and steel workers returning to jobs, supporting the labor market and steady wages. Leading lake vessel owners pledge to maintain current labor prices, while New York jacket makers press for a 10 percent raise amid earnings near ruin. Resisting mill owners in several firms, iron and steel workers seek to uphold pace. Navy yard half-holiday and Maryland eight-hour law push limit output to avert price declines. Italian peasants’ 60,000‑strong work stoppage cited as a hopeful industrial development.
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Pittsburg
New York
Iron and Steel
Republic Iron & Steel Co
Western Tube Co
Sligo Iron & Steel Co
Standard Tinplate Co
Washington Tinplate Co
Washington
Navy
Maryland
Italy
Labor unrest and strikes shift aims in Italy and Britain
Italian peasants strike to resist landlords and push for cooperative control of holdings. British labor leader J Keir Hardie’s potential U.S. visit could bolster labor markets. The piece contrasts European labor struggles with a mock “financial editor” look at a typographical union convention and its imagined corporate earnings and worker dividends.
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International Typographical Union
Boston
LT. U
T. UL
Eastlake Club Public Picnic At Jonsen's Grove
The Eastlake Improvement club hosts a public social picnic at Jonsen's grove on Wasilake avenue tomorrow night starting at 7 46. The program includes speeches refreshments and dancing.
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Eastlake Improvement Club
Jonsen's Grove
Wasilake Av
Wreck Cause Found In Tacoma Line Disaster
The coroner's jury reported the Puyallup car line wreck between Laremont and Midland caused by the speed of block lights being out of order. Motorman J M McElroy was killed and 18 injured in the collision last Friday.
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United Press
Tacoma
Unite
Tacoma Railway & Power Company
Bellingham Faces Fast Moving Fire Threat
In Bellingham on July 21 a brush fire threatens fifty acres near York addition. Fire chief Land called the blaze serious as it spreads toward the city with a northeast wind possible. If wind shifts residents may be at risk and rapid action by fire crews and citizens may be required.
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United Press
Bellingham
York Addition
Land
Free orphan's home urged by city residents
Mrs. Ella Jordan of Jevenue Court will push Judge A. W. Frater and city authorities to establish a free orphanage. She laments that preventive care for neglected children is lacking and says action comes only when youth become criminals.
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A. W. Frater
Ella Jordan
Jevenue Court
Confession of dynamiter claimed in San Francisco
The San Francisco Bulletin reports John Claudianes confessed to hiring his brother Peter to murder James L. Gallagher, the key witness against Reef, and claims a larger plot involving Abe Reef associates. Peter allegedly planted and triggered the dynamite, Paudeauvaris paid for the crimes, and police seek Peter and Paudeauvaris who have vanished.
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United Press
San Francisco
San Francisco Bulletin
John Claudianes
Fremont Older
Bulletin
Langdon
Hurns
Peter
James L. Gallagher
Reef
Peltz Padeauvaris
Peter Claudiances
Paudeauvaris
Defense Opens In The Littell Case
The defense opened after noon in the Littell case involving George B. Littell arrested in California for impersonating a U S officer and defrauding Mrs Josephine Dabney of 614 University Street of several hundred dollars. Secret service men H M Moffitt and Wm M Farrell who made the arrest testified and C B Crawford who roomed at Mrs Dabney's home testified. The defense plans to show Mrs Dabney advertised for a husband and paid the money herself.
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George B. Littell
California
United States
Mra
Josephine Dabney
University St
H. M. Moffitt
Wm. M. Farrell
Secret Service
C. B Crawford
Luna Park Petition Withdrawn In West Seattle
John H. Powell and W H Morris prominent West Seattle residents signed a petition asking for a referendum to revoke Luna Park bar license. The group faced removal efforts. 152 residents withdrew their names from the petition after it was filed with the city council a week earlier.
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John H. Powell
W. H. Morris
West Seattle
Ted
Luna Park
Friends of the Aateon
Hand Made Shoes Priced at 2.90 a Pair
Thousands of pairs offered with oak sole leather bottoms in Blucher button and lace styles. Each pair described as hand made, perfect, warranted, and dependable, with varieties in patent colt patent kid gun metal calf box calf and black vid kid. Extraordinary value at 2.90 per pair.
Bankers Charged With Fraud in Nev. Bank Closure
Carson Nev July 21 The state is moved by a report from Receiver Wilder on the defunct State Bank and Trust company Involving T B Rickey president and other former leaders charged with deliberate fraud amounting to several hundred thousand dollars The report says Rickey was aided by the bank directors and the public urges renewed prosecution of the indicted men
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Carson
Nev
Wilder
State Bank and Trust Company
T. BR. Rickey
Rickey
Nine-Hour Day Endorsed at CPR Shops
The machinists and CPR reached an agreement preserving the nine hour day with no wage reductions in western shops. A wire brief notes other items: a law in Louisiana criminalizes drinking from another’s flask on trains. Skagway reports the theft of Soapy Smith’s gravestone. a death toll lists 151 infants under one year.
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Louisiana
Soapy Smith
Skagway
Youth Missing Aims Police Help For Axel Johnson
A 17 year old, Axel Johnson, has been missing from his home at 5702 Woodlawnay since July 14. He has been in ill health recently and police assistance is requested to locate him.
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Woodlawnay
Axel Johnson
Convict Allowed to Visit His Dying Mother in Oregon
In Salem Oregon Governor Chamberlain granted a dying mother’s plea to see her son, an inmate at Oregon State Penitentiary. The governor acted quickly and privately, with prison officials not naming the convict or his parents.
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United Press
Salem
Ore
Oregon
State Penitentiary
Protest Meeting Over Twelfth Avenue Regrade
A meeting of the Eleventh Ward Improvement Club will be held this evening at the Baptist church on Eleventh avenue between FE Union and EH Pike to protest the proposed Twelfth avenue regrade. Able speakers will present both sides of the controversy.
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Eleventh Ward Improvement Club
Baptist Church
FE. Union
EH. Pike
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