Ransom to be Paid for Two Missing Individuals
From Tangier Consul General Gummere reports cash ransom for the release of Ton Per icardia and M. Varley will be paid today with doubts about bandit compliance. The scenario grows as the sultan of Morocco brings Moors into Tangier, triggering protests from British and American representatives and potential 2000 Marine landings under consideration.
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Washington, D.C
Gummere
State Department
Tangier
Ton Per
Icardia
M. Varley
London
Daily Mails
Mirrocco
Casabinea
Moa
Taneter
Charles Nelson Sails for Rome in Season Opener
The steamer Charles Nelson sailed for Rome early today as the last Meet vessel to depart for the northern metropolis on the season’s first voyage of 1904. Commanded by Captain C C. B Pearson, formerly port captain of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, the Nelson sails under charter to the Arctic Mining and Trading Company.
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Charles Nelson
Rome
Metropolia
CC. BL Pearson
Pacific Coast Steamship Company
Nelson
Arctic Mining and Trading Company
Cheap Seattle Homes Advertised Near Beacon Mill
Real estate short notice touts 06 acres from Beacon Mill to Lake Washington for sale with 2 to 6 room houses and monthly rents from 8 to 12 dollars. Listings claim unbeatable low prices, 70 years of ownership, and easy terms of 2 dollars per month. Details mention a fine 9 foot street from First Avenue to Southeast Seattle and a warning that close in homes are offered at unusually low rates.
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Beacon Mill
Lake Washington
First Avenue
Seattle
Washington Street
Lake Washington Beach
C. D
Hillman
Garden of Eden
Lake Front
Pioneer
Renton
Vaudeville and Theatre Notes From The Grand and Town
The Grand and other venues announce major bookings for next year with Denman Thompson and George W. Ayer’s Our New Minister coming to the Grand for four nights and a matinee. The City of New York opens with cut prices tomorrow and Blanche Ring debuts in The Enchanted Isle next season. Aubrey Boucicault’s divorce headlines local theatre gossip as Otis Skinner heads to The Harvester next season. Maud Adame returns to the Grand in The Little Minister revival with a matinee and evening shows teased for the week ahead.
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Denman Thompson
George W. Ayer
Grand
Seattle
Drew
New York
Maud Adame
Elect a Queen at Mardi Gras Vote Opens Next Week
The Mardi Gras committee plans a queen election with votes sold at five cents each. A mysterious king will be chosen by Chairman Blanchard and kept secret until Mardi Gras closing night. No float designs have come from state students yet, but out of town interest is rising.
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St. Louis
Blanchard
Pier A
Washington St
Thia
Btar
D. Hillman
Ships to Visit During Mardt Oras At Local Port
Numerous inquiries arise about battleships expected to be here for the Mardt Oras event at the harbor. Officials confirm schedule and public viewing arrangements, alongside security details and access points for spectators.
Teachers Head to Fair by Multiple Rail Lines
Between 20 and 30 teachers will depart for the Mt. Lala fair by various routes. Party two left last night on the Princess Victoria from Vancouver while others boarded the Canadian Pacific and Northern Pacific trains. Two special cars traveled on the Great Northern at 6 40 this morning under Claud Meldrum.
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Carioad
Seattle
Mt. Lala Fair
East
Princess Victoria
Canadian Pacific
Vancouver
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Claud Meldrum
Ety
Roosevelt Attends Niece's Hyde Park Wedding
President and Mrs Roosevelt attended the wedding of the president's niece at Hyde Park on the Hudson. The ceremony took place at the home of James R. Roosevelt with Helen Roosevelt marrying Theodore Douglas Robinson.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Misa Carew
Barnes
Hyde Park
N. Y
Knox
Valley Forge
New York
Helen Roosevelt
Mrs. Astor
President Roosevelt
Theodore Douglas Robinson
Thi City
James R. Roosevelt
Hudson
Vandal Visitors Honored Bothell Professor With Shabby Welcome
Ho boes with aesthetic tastes visited Prof. M. B. Durham in Bothell and left the home in disarray on their way to Beattie. The residents returned to find boxes emptied beds slept in and breakfast remnants on the table. Shoes were shined and cigars half smoked. They took only a few trinkets as mementos.
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Bothebls
Wash
M. B. Durham
Bothell Schools
Beattie
Prof. Durham
Durham
Eastern Star Grand Chapter Closes Its Sixteenth Session
The sixteenth annual grand chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star closed today with officers installed for the coming year. It was the largest session yet held in the state, discussing many matters of interest. The next session will be at Bellingham in 1906. Officers installed include Grand Matron Mrs Belle Marcy Montesano and Grand Patron W Baker Colville. Grand Associate Patron Isa Cormick Tacoma and Grand Marshal Lizzie Demorest Tabcoma re elected. Grand Matron-elect Alice Taylor Seattle re elected, Grand Conductress Mrs D Deering Everett and Grand Deputy Conductress Emily Mensing.
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Order of the Eastern Star
Bellingham
Mra B. Belle Marcy
Montesano
W. BR. Baker
Colville
Nellie W. Guernsey
Isa Cormick
Tacoma
Lizsie J. Demorest
Tab Coma
Alice M. Taylor
Seattle
D. Deering
Everett
Emily Mensing
Frats Ordered Out At Seattle High School
Principal Edwin Twitmyer dismissed students involved in Greek letter fraternities for the year to start the new term with a clean sheet. He argued secret societies undermine discipline and that initiation rites have become hazing. The Yale Harvard alumni game is set for next Saturday at Madison Park.
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Seattle High School
Edwin Twitmyer
Twitmyer
Yale
Harvard
Medison Park
Funeral Day in New York Sees Mass Mourning After Slocum Disaster
New York marked a large funeral day for victims of the Slocum disaster with crowds in muted procession. Mourners removed hats, women wept before white hearses, and churches held services as authorities compiled the death toll and identified missing persons. The coroner’s inquest opens Monday and many bodies head to Brooklyn Lutheran Cemetery. The disaster touched all ages with 833 dead listed and valuables valued at about 150000 taken from victims. Constantinople sends sympathy to Roosevelt over the tragedy.
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roweSie Uwe de
Slocum
Maat Gide
Othiera
Brooklyn Lutheran Cemetery
James Corcoran
Government survey outlines vast Palouse irrigation scheme
Colfax Washington June 18 The United States Geological Survey reports a planned irrigation project to divert Palouse river waters to 250 000 acres in Whitman Adams and Franklin counties with dams canals and ditches by T A Noble. The plan includes damming Hangman creek to 6000 cfs and funding to capture unappropriated Palouse waters for three counties with multiple townships involved.
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Colfax
Wash
Washington
Franklin
Whitman
Palouse
Adama
Pasco
Pratiion
High School Staff Reassignments and July Supply Bids
The board of education announces changes in high school staff with Walter EB Bowers promoted to head physics in the chemistry department J C Keith ending mathematics Stephen Bp Dwan named head of commercial studies John Kingsbury ex Georgetown schools head to become city principal The board will award bids for tea and other supplies July 7 in meeting. London dispatch reports two torpedo boats collided during British naval maneuvers off Ajaccio Corsica and one sank.
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Board of Education
Walter EB. Bowers
J. C. Keith
Stephen BP. Dwan
John Kingsbury
Georgetown
London
Central News
Paris
Ajaccio
Corsica
Demand Big Damages in Lumber Cargo Suit
Rothechild and Jones acting for J. J. More Co of San Francisco filed a damage suit against the Scottish bark Ventura seeking eighteen thousand dollars after alleging the captain refused to fill a lumber cargo, claiming noncompliance with the bill of lading.
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Rothechild & Jones
J. J. More , Co
San Francisco
Ventura
Peculiar divorce suit seeks backdated decree in Drake case
In Spokane on June 18, Charles Menig and others petition in superior court to grant a decree of divorce for George W. Drake from Jennie M. Drake dating to March 31, 1892. They allege Drake is dead after a second marriage and that the land north of Cheney, once owned by Drake and his wife, requires clear title. A second item reports J. R. Moore, a Lincoln hotel waiter, arrested for assaulting a Chinese cook over a potato plate.
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Charles Menig
George W. Drake
Jennie M. Drake
Drake
Cheney
Carrie Drake
Menig
J. R. Moore
Lincoln Hotel
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Vtoner & Co
Alcazar
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Maers
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Thureday
Ethel Barry
Cynthia
Abe
Ieabel
Aew
Torentan
McCutcheon
John Cort
the Grand
Third Avenue
Blanche Ring
Leslie Carter
Richard French
Maud Adama
Maud
Aubrey Boucicault
Aubrey
the Harvester
Otis Skinner
Redmond Stock Company
Moma AL Ala
Borippe News Asw'n
C. E
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Turkey
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Adams and
Ketley
Ely
Marton St
Seattle, Wash
Businesa Center
State Street
Dexter Horton Bank Building
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Harper & Son Telephone Red
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Pat Doren
Marion Harland
Frederick & Nelson, (Inc
Complete Credit House Furnishers
Second Ave
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Spring Sts
Ural
Ohio
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Albany
Navy Yard
Wyoming
Paul Jones
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