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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1905
Page
6
A damaged OCR page shows a mixed listing of sale notices for livestock and real estate, plus scattered banking and rental ads. Entries reference a fresh cow and calf, payments and cash offers, real estate tracts near a city with five acres, and bank names with officers. Local rental and land-sale prospects appear amid incoherent banking text and ads.
Morning and evening water service adjustments are announced with terms of the week. Os and others have been sold and burned. Wash streetcar offices are referenced, with SeattLe HomeSeeker S Co. noted in the item.
Lot sale advertisement offers plots from 7 percent to 1 dollar per lot near cars on the sidewalk. Terms ten dollars down and five per month. Visit the Green Lake station, walk six blocks north on 4th Avenue to the office in the Alaska Building. Call for details.
A fragment notes multiple ten acre tracts near the Interurban with level land and maple abundant. It mentions sales recently completed or underway, with references to notes and improvements, and a general sense of property activity in the area.
The meteoric advance in the exe market leads the week on Western avenue amid the usual end week rush. Butter prices show uncertainty while other produce quotes stay steady with beans and wax greens listed in small ranges.
A dense ledger of prices for fruits vegetables and grains listing items such as apples lemons cucumbers green corn and cranberries with per box per sack per dozen and per cwt figures. It includes dairy eggs meat fish and feed prices, plus a Chicago wheat market snapshot with July to May futures quotes.
A dense ledger of security prices and commodity quotes for July 29 1905 in New York City includes corn pork copper steel and railroad stocks. Financial indices list daily highs and lows with numerous ticker abbreviations such as U S Steel Atchison Can Pac and New York Central reflecting a broad market snapshot.
In Portland on July 29 thousands of Norwegians Swedes and Danes joined Scandinavian day events at the World's Fair. Governor Chamberlain gave a welcome, with leading Scandinavians replying in the afternoon. A morning parade preceded an evening program featuring the Svea singing society of Seattle. Southern California observers reported mayoral addresses and giveaways of oranges and Lima beans with a Yosemite wine cascade display.
T R Stevenson of Idaho sues Walter Reed optical concession at the Lewis and Clark fair seeking 250 dollars. He and his wife bought spectacles for 17.50 and 5 dollars respectively, were frightened by claims of dangerous optics, later told the glasses were identical and caused eye trouble. He cites false representations and seeks damages for mental agony and bodily harm.
A deputation from Odessa arrived in St Petersburg to plead for lifting martial law. They claim the regime has caused terror, worsened poverty for workers, and harmed tradesmen, and expect the government to grant the petition.
Secret service agents arrested six men in Portland who were found with tools and equipment for printing counterfeit coins during a lodging house search. The suspects identified as F E Parnley James Dooley Edward Burns J Dooley Madge Wilson and James Doyle were all under the influence of opium at the time of arrest and the operation was uncovered while recovering stolen money.
H L Russell brother of the late Sol Smith Russell was discharged from custody by Police Judge Cameron after claiming his arrest arose from persecution by Special Policeman Roy. Russell, an employee at the fair grounds, was arrested when he refused to move on when ordered.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson denied reports he resigned. He has recovered from indigestion and will soon depart for a vacation.
The Northern Pacific introduces buffet grill service on its new trains between Seattle and Spokane. First class passengers may enjoy the new dining option on the daily train leaving Seattle at 2 p m starting July 20.
A Saturday protest to the board of works signed by Pacific Coast Company Moran Bros Galbraith Bacon Co and Great Northern Railway challenged using coal oil on the Snoqualmie fireboat citing explosion risk and waterfront safety concerns while noting burners remain on the vessel as is.
Orders issued to all ministers to supervise re auditing of their departments and redirect surplus funds to the finance department. The move follows discovery that the navy department spent large sums on fittings to replace defective parts from warships of Rojestvensky's fleet, sunk months ago.
Mayor Lane says city ordinances do not grant authority to interfere with gambling at Irvington track, stating he will keep his hands off the pool selling dispute. The July 29 report notes the policy stance in Portland.
Embargoes in force in Mobile Alabama as the board of health announces no more immunes will be allowed to enter the state. A number of people were stopped at the state line this morning.
Bids opened by the board of works on Saturday for the Third avenue regrade with C. J. Erickson the lowest bidder, below the $51,000 estimate. Sunset Telephone requests time to move wires and lay conduits. Additional bids opened for a new Westlake Avenue sewer, a wooden bridge on University Street, and grading on Fifteenth Avenue Northeast.
W G Boyle of Brighton beach shows a five feet six inch potato vine sample from his garden at The Star office. He notes the soil is fertile and this is the second year he has grown crops from the same plot. He claims he can discount anyone a mile on Saturday morning with startling yields from his garden any time.
United States District Attorney Beach in Washington is coordinating with Acting Secretary of State Atlee on the cotton leak scandal. Beach seeks government agents to pursue Edwin H. Holmes Jr. in Canada and John Hyde, believed to be in England, as part of the inquiry.
James Foye confidential secretary to Charles Gates left for Saratoga after a magistrate issued a summons for him to appear Monday and pay his mother the $3 a week allowance set by Magistrate Barlow. If he fails to pay, he faces jail.
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