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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1905
Page
5
An advertisement touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a safe remedy for dyspepsia and stomach weakness. It claims the tablets aid digestion, support nourishment, and build body mass by aiding digestion regardless of stomach order, priced at 60 cents.
The initial ship Khyber bound for Melbourne from Queenstown was wrecked yesterday off Cornwall. Of her crew of 20, only three were saved.
NAN Buxbee recounts a Seattle King County Jail visit to the women’s ward. She describes luncheon, stew, and the diverse inmates including Habe Bartlett Lucy Washington Frances Price Florence Farley Gladys Bush and Annie Rooney. She sketches Annie Rooney’s wasted promise, a life of drink and repeated confinement, and notes Sadie Rambeaux the murderess and the absinthe stories shaping the ward’s atmosphere.
In Jefferson City on March 1, factions battle for the United States presidency. Compromise candidate Judge Selden P. Spencer of St. Louis leads with 61 votes while Niedringhaus gathers 5 and Cockrell 78 in a fractured caucus ballot.
Denver police captain William Bohannem died from bullet wounds suffered Sunday during Sebissier’s rampage. The death marks the fifth fatality in the spree linked to the suspect George Schinster.
With 106 applicants for 14 positions linked to the new municipal heating plant, nominations are underway and the field remains crowded. The race favors a strong candidate who can stand out among many competitors in this high stakes recruitment.
Judge Hanford confirmed the purchase of Pacific Packing and Navigation company properties by Rh KR Spencer in federal court. Masters in chancery are ordered to execute and deliver the balance of the purchase price, $205,000.
At St Joseph's church in Parie on March 15 a commemoration service for President Roosevelt was held. Abbe McMullan delivered the sermon praising Roosevelt as American and French flags decorated the church and ambassadors from the United States Britain and other nations attended.
Washington March 15 Jas R Garfield of the Comumi listener of Corporations leaves tonight for a brief fishing trip to the Mouth. Afterward he will go to Kansas for meetings with off interests and legislators. He will visit Chanute and other sites amid ongoing agitation.
In Chanute Kansas on March 15 the state’s case for oil producers against the Santa Fe opened with depositions. Santa Fe lawyers objected to proceedings on legal grounds. Foster Allen testified that freight rate increases forced Knapp out of the oil business.
W B Dimmock, manager of Puget Sound Electric, visited the city yesterday and spoke highly of last year’s business by the company’s road. A new order for Weyhing ton lumber and other home products will be built at the shops, and another equally large order will follow.
University Station reports that Dr Michardson, former professor of Greek at Dartmouth College and recently director of the Classical School in Athens, Greece, will sec.
University audience will hear Mr Richardson discuss Grecian life and ruins uncovered in Greece. With six years of field work, he is noted as a bright and humorous speaker. The event focuses on excavations at Corinth and related discoveries.
King County Superior Court Probate Department sets Thursday March 23 1905 at 9 30 a m as the hearing time for the final account of Mary Emma Parazette administratrix of John W Pratt deceased. Notice to be posted in three public places and two Seattle Daily Star notices to be published March 15 and 22 1905.
Mary Emma Pratt administratrix filed a second annual account and later resigned after moving to California. The court found no further actions affecting the estate since the second accounting and ordered the second account to be treated as the final account. All interested parties must appear in the King County Superior Court Probate Department to address the matter.
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