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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1901
Page
4
London reports King Edward is urged by physicians to quit all tobacco due to throat problems and family cancer history. He previously reduced use but has not fully complied, while ministers push reform and royal attention to affairs.
The Seattle Electric Co. will build a street car line around Green Lake within months and file for a permit to lay track through Woodland Park from Andotte Street to the east end. The company will double its tracks from 1st to Ninth Street, with total improvements costing about $15,000.
Mrs BE C Morse wife of Ed Morse a Sea Level mine superintendent died February 25 in Ketchikan Alaska. The body arrived in Seattle last night. She was 11 years old.
Dawson reports dull business and rising sickness as Seattle arrives from Lynn Canal with freight to discharge at Taku Icy Strait and Haines Mission. Pneumonia cases more common amid the cold.
The Manufacturers' association met last night at the chamber of commerce and heard a committee report from Olympia. Senator Preston introduced a bill requiring a report of a debtor's financial condition when goods are sold on credit. The Olympia committee conferred with the judiciary panel and urged a favorable report.
Mortality items show Patrick Gallagher funeral at Sacred Heart church this afternoon. J W Whitford of apartment 4 died last night in South Seattle with body at Henney and Stewart. Marie B Moe funeral at Butterworth chapel at 1 pm. Richard W Johnson to be shipped by Butterworth to Tacoma for interment.
Sousa and his band performed to large crowds with high praise for the disciplined ensemble and encores. Blanche Duffield and Bertha Bucklin impressed with soprano and violin solos. East Lynne drew strong audience response and will repeat tonight. The company closes with Uncle Tom's Cabin Saturday and Saved from the Sea Saturday night to aid Newsboys union president Pred Guttford, who is injured. Pawn Ticket 710 stays two nights longer at the ranch with superb attendance all week.
The Seattle theater scene features a W. F. Davis production of Uncle Tom's Cabin at the Grand Opera House opening Sunday afternoon, with authentic scenic designs and dramatic tableaux including Eva’s ascent. Floward & Doyle’s company brings Gillette's Meld by the Enemy to Third Avenue theater next week with a war drama praised for patriotism and good fellowship without graphic strife.
The Seattle letter carriers held their fifteenth annual ball at the Armory last night with crowds turned away. The event opened at 8 oclock with a grand march led by Frank Coombe and Everett H Hartley, and continued well past midnight as the floor remained crowded with dancers. Committees for arrangements floor and reception were listed, honoring many names including Thos F Rainey Wim G Copestick Ray A Leeman Wm L Lindsay BE. A Webster and others.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Co. steamer State of California arrived from San Francisco last night carrying 114 passengers and a substantial load of general merchandise.
The Pacific Steam Wal ing Co. steamer Newport reached Newport from Yakutat in six days. It spent 11 days in ice en route and did not reach Valdes until February 4 after ten days travel. Capt. Moore saw no Nome mushers at Katmai. reports say the trail to the camp was nearly impassable, delaying travelers.
Dr. F. H. Coe of Beattie school board returns from Olympia opposing the plan to apportion funds by 3000 days attendance in addition to actual attendance. He says Seattle would lose about 40 000 dollars annually while sparsely populated counties gain little. He praises compulsory free text books and supports expanding the state board, removing city superintendents from its ranks.
Wm. Long, tried in Judge Emory's superior court department, was found not guilty of burglary. The notice ends with an advertisement advising readers to visit Z C Miles & Piper Co. for Alaska outfits.
Rochester N Y March 1 A former society girl Mareh 1 A former society girl of this fe roprietor of a butcher shop ma BE Stevenson to the plucky young woman At one time she had a compe tency and never thought of work as a means of livelihood But reverses came She opened a butcher shop about the last sort of business a woman would be expected to engage in Miss Stevenson does not slaughter but she cleaves saws and cuts in a way that would make a man in the same business feel small The beet pie of Rochester are of the society meat stall to and closes her place her cole Iper belting a delivery boy She came of good family and te educated In addition to her butcher work she keeps her accounts and when necesary collects She is always neatly attired in her stall and women call her a wonder.
In Middletown New York on March 1 a strange spirit that dislikes onion odor haunts a house in a Poliah onion growers settlement near Orange Farm in Ore county. A. J. Plummer of a New York commission house leased the empty house and instructed workers to store part of a recent onion purchase there.
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