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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1906
Page
3
Mayor Ballinger declares he will hold the police department responsible to maintain order at the polls. Saloon doors ordered closed from 7 AM to 7 PM as the city braces for a tense election day with guards and officers placed to prevent trouble. Small incidents noted include a few drunks, but overall quiet is expected.
Word reached in Seattle that Mr Burke and Agnes Culberteen wed in Skagway Alaska. The couple, who visited Seattle this winter, plan to reside here after returning from the north aboard the steamer Jefferson, due today.
Olympia reports Washington state plans to claim part of the Spokane river bed at a point in the city where the electric company currently draws power. The bed has never been measured and the state seeks title to the bed as part of a school section grant. Blecker of the Washington Water Power Company of Spokane confirms the firm, which owns power stations and substantial investments in the area, is investigating.
In Tacoma yesterday Ah San a Chinese sailor on the Shawmut swore to a warrant charging Captain Michael Christ an employee of the St Paul mill with being drunk and disorderly Christ was arrested and jailed for a police court hearing. Warrants were alleged against Christ and friends who allegedly cut off the Chinaman's queue in a joke Ah San seeks justice in court over the removal of his queue and threats of banishment from China.
City meeting discusses a planned interurban electric line to Vancouver with backers led by Colonel KEM Imy and F G Faulkner. The plan features combined gasoline electric motor cars to replace overhead wires and third rails, modeled on a Delaware and Hudson test car of 165 feet with 160 horsepower gasoline engines.
The gasoline engine operates a dynamo of 450 revolutions per minute to generate electricity for the motor under the car. The system eliminates Granamia sion risk and costs associated with overhead trolleys or third rails, promising a western first in implementing the new power method.
Young boys caused a loud disturbance at a religious gathering held at the Queen Anne church on Fifth and Garfield. Police were notified after last night's disruption and steps will be taken to place the boys in Judge Frater's court for a reprimand.
The Belasco theater in Portland Oregon was sold to a New York theatrical syndicate for 110000. The buyer plans to reopen it as an independent playhouse with road companies in summer and form an independent circuit with venues in San Francisco Portland Tacoma Seattle Spokane and other Pacific coast cities next season.
Chicago player M Cumber defeated W Johnston from Missouri in a straight rail billiards match at Johnston's Hilliard hall Seattle hotel building. Johnston scored 46 to Cumber 20 with Cumber reaching 100 first. They plan further exhibitions and a future city tournament at Gtnston's hall with prizes.
Riverside Cal March 6 Mrea Gertrude Russell who conducts a water front kindergarten disappeared last night. She was seen at Mount Rubidoux with several children and a posse searched through the fields. She was found in West Riverside this morning in a demented condition hiding behind a palm tree after wandering all night.
Washington March 6. debates over whether Mrs Nicholas Longworth will host as the president’s daughter or Accept the social duties of a congressman’s wife. The piece outlines expected calls and etiquette among political wives and notes her possible role as hostess if she assumes longworth status.
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