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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1907
Page
6
Auctioneer G. Bickerton holds a sale on Saturday March 71 at 10:53 AM featuring enamel beds springs mattresses bureaus dining chairs rockers book stand hall tree toilet sets heating stoves steel ranges carpets and more. Phone numbers Main 1001 and Independent 1277 listed for contact.
Fragmentary text from an OCR page shows items and prices in a trade setting. Mentions tote and leterter and Pert Lewtes with a date referring to use later tote between Beattie and Teowes. Indicates price ranges from 7 to 80 dollars and mentions cash payments and rooms.
Liverpool March 22. Pierpont Morgan arrived this morning and told reporters he had never suggested a visit of railway presidents to President Roosevelt. He refused to discuss the railroad question and said his attention would be on a good thing in the Grand National race this afternoon.
Franchise Inspector Wheeler prepared a complete plan of Fourth avenue underground work for the board of public works. The contract will be let Saturday and may go to lowest bidder C. J. Erickson, who faces terms. Independent Telephone and Seattle Lighting hold key interests. temporary overhead wires may be used during grading. Beattie Lighting has 16 inch gas mains and Third avenue pipe work. an eight inch water main will be temporarily moved. Fourth avenue has less underground work than Third avenue.
Dustin Farnum stars in The Virginian reprising his rugged western role alongside Frank Campeau as Trampas. The normally strong cast elevates the melodrama, with the run continuing through next Wednesday and a separate engagement for The Regged Messenger.
Theophilus Elliott, a farmer from Adelaide, was committed to the Steilacoom insane asylum after a commission of physicians found him insane. His wife contested the measures and contended doctors and asylums could not help him, yet Elliott was arrested on a neighbor’s complaint and involuntarily confined.
In Tacoma yesterday the Washington State Federation of Labor elected F. W. Cotterill of Beattie as president after about 26 percent turnout. Other officers named include J. E. Campbell Everett as first vice president Thomas Ivey Spokane as second vice president T. W. Copeland Tacoma as third vice president W. C. Lloyd Aberdeen as fourth vice president M. B. Cutting Walla Walla as fifth vice president and P. W. Dowler Tacoma as secretary treasurer.
Corporation Counsel Scott Calhoun says no law bars billboard firms from tall structures if safety is assured. Building Inspector Place set a 10 foot rooftop height limit, but Foster & Kiviser already erected a 20 foot sign above a roof. If the firm posts a $1,000 bond, it may proceed with unrestricted height.
Councilman H G proposed at a street committee meeting that the dispute between Mr Gill and J M Wedstling and others be dropped. A long discussion also covered grading Thirty seventh Avenue affecting the same property owners who oppose Gill. The owners allege they will not receive benefits commensurate with the cost. Dean Cigar.
Yesterday at Pythian Hall the Grand Council of Arcana Washington elected new officers for the year. Grand Commander Bellingham and grand regent KB Inge were named with J W Upper grand orator and Thomas A Jehr Beattie grand secretary. L M Walla Walla named grand trustee and William B Beattie as representative supreme council. A convention is set for March 21 1908 and the order now lists 1106 members in Washington.
A new Knights of Pythias lodge is to be instituted in Georgetown with plans for a large Seattle delegation. The event will feature a brass band and a prominent Georgetown Inn presence. Officers elected include H B Notes Liam Uder vice C.G. L, Dolph prelate Carl W M J Leonhardt John Beck K of R Carlin M of A K B L Swan Lewis and A lees.
A Yokohama exhibit plans large samples of Japanese goods to be sent abroad for introduction to markets in Central America and the Americas. An MF company representative noted Japan equipped a set last year and shipped it to Bas.
About 90 children gathered yesterday for a children story period at the library. Miss J B Gardner headed the circulating department as the group listened to tales including The Muskrat from the Sa legends.
Prof Herman A of Bonn, head of the Commercial Cologne, lecturing in the United States after being named to an Emperor Professorship at Colon University. He will give a course at Washington, speaking at the campus tonight.
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