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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1904
Page
3
The Green Lake Improvement Club meets to consider 26 miles of temporary sidewalks at Green Lake. The city fears damage and delays from awaiting a corporate counsel opinion. Citizens seek an immediate alternative plan if temporary walks cannot be built.
June 29 Kiel reports the handicap yacht race from Eckenford to Sinc King Edward’s arrival prompted exclusion of American millionaires from official festivals. Lipton also barred as the emperor objects to his presence.
Heavy fighting at Simla with Tibetans opposing a British expedition. Tibetans suffer heavy losses. Captain Crasler reported dead, along with Captains Bliss and Humphrey. Five Sepoys wounded. In court, divorce suits filed by Estelle Sturm, Ellen Grist, and William Prather against spouses.
Special to Renewe the Heens reports Dave Brown a young Piute Indian who murdered his grandfather Tom Crow to win favor with his tribe. Cast out and shunned, Brown turned himself in to Indian police and remains silent while defending his action as a deed of courage.
The Board of Public Works seeks a written opinion from Corporation Counsel Gilliam on a billboard ordinance approved three years ago. City officials debate whether signs may be closer than ten feet to sidewalks and if the board has authority to remove signs on private property. Supreme Court rulings cited.
A Nome labor advisory dated June 17 reports a near standstill in clerical and manual work. J M Mc Cray to Earl Brannigan states Nome is well supplied with labor and more arrivals would likely meet disappointment. Similar notices come from Jack Jones in Nome via the Federal Labor Union warning workers to stay away.
The Western Central Labor Union carnival committee opens headquarters in room 320 Arcade block. Matt Doyle of the Southern Carnival Company is in the city arranging for the carnival set for the latter part of August. The committee aims to stage a large exhibit of home manufactured products.
A historical article discusses who controls the Tacoma Eastern railroad and the broader plan to connect Portland to Seattle. It cites Harriman and Rockefeller interests, notes banking links, and describes opposition from the Northern Pacific and rumors of a transcontinental route through Cowlitz Pass into Tacoma.
Fire Marshal Kellogg warns twenty Seattle hotel and property owners to install fire escapes or face arrest and prosecutions. He notes the life safety priority over costs, citing required outlays of about $100 per floor and citing owners including Hinckley, Perrin, Victoria, Rainier Grand, Colman, Arlington, Brooklyn, St Elmo, Seneca, Vendome, Clise, and Kinnear as notified to comply.
In San Francisco on June 29 Buononio Maranta an Italian inmate at the city and county hospital fatally harmed a fellow patient during a frenzy caused by illness. He beat the other man by pounding his head against an iron bedstead.
Elite Al and others appear in Superior Judge Tallmans court on February 7 for trial. Breet, recently sentenced to the penitentiary, is identified as the boy involved. Martin is noted as an ex convict connected to the case.
An insane sailor is taken to the asylum after court doctors found his condition worsening since an examination days earlier. He believed he saw his wife's face in the sea and feared she would die or suffer calamity. On returning from Alaska he found his wife alive and well.
Aurora, June 29. Col J H Plain cashier of the German American bank is arrested on embezzlement charges. He admits misappropriating nearly $1000. The bank remains solvent. W H Martin, joint accuser with Speculation, is said to have caused H Danhaver withholding C A Plain's fall.
John Puchanan of the Semequah Local Union No 2590 United Mine Workers outlines the dispute over the Grand Ridge and Issaquah mines. He cites a December arbitration minimum wage of 2.487% per day and urges reinstatement of old workers, sharing shifts, and avoidance of discrimination as the company changes mining methods. The case moved through supervisors, the general manager, and the state labor commissioner Blackman for adjustment.
Mrs J H Bowles the former postmistress at Tahoe Idaho refuses to surrender post office keys to Dr F M Leitch appointed successor. The mail carrier delivers to Leitch's son but cannot access pouches without keys so Bowles unlocks and distributes mail. Authorities monitor the dispute.
Israel Cohen a leading moonshiner in the South Park operation was captured by Deputy United States Marshal Stringer last evening in a southern city lodging house. He had vanished after a raid on the still and hid until a deputy’s hunch led to his seizure. Cohen now sits in the county jail awaiting further proceedings.
Yale commencement proceeds under drizzle as 624 candidates receive degrees. Honorary degrees go to Don Gatano Arellano, Chief Justice of the Philippines, W. A. Halstead of Johns Hopkins, K. W. DeForest, New York housing commissioner, Charles Van Hise, geologist of Wisconsin, and U.S. Judge Holt. Other honorees include H. C. King of Oberlin, Stewart Means, Frank Damrosch, and Ins Pardo De Tavara, the Philippine commission senior member. First major recognition of the islands by an American university is noted.
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