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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1902
Page
5
Two mail contracts awarded to Northern Co provide steamship service on the Nome run. Routes include Seattle to San Francisco to Seattle with calls between Seattle and Nome. Departure from this city June 3 with the Indiana steamer and Grat mail service aboard.
A meeting of company representatives in Victoria discussed the Alaska trade and Dolphin service. Beattie and W. Miller attended for the Pad Coast Co as talks considered Dolphin to call at Vancouver and Skagway to carry cattle. Local rates for season transportation were debated.
A new flour mill is planned south of the Centennial site, secured through J A Moore. Backers include the Hammond family and others with timber interests. The mill will cost about 100,000 dollars and produce 1200 B daily, with potential to reach 2400 barrels daily for starch production capacity.
In Washington D C on March 28 Mor Foster proposed improvements to the McNeil Island penitentiary including a new wharf brick steam launch and leased land at a required $15. The plan aims to reuse existing buildings and adjust lumber product rates. The announcement caused local dealer unease as rail rate changes threaten previous terms.
Seattle Electric Co plans colored lights on cars to guide riders at night. Colors correspond to routes and streets including First Avenue red for Kinnear Park and yellow for Virginia Street, Queen Anne, and Cedar Street blue. Second Avenue green for Lake and Fremont. Tallard line green for Lake Union red University red Jackson Street yellow. Broadway system green for Rainier heights yellow Beacon Hill red Madrona Park.
The U S Secret Service reports a new counterfeit ten dollar bill in Weatherford Texas from the Farmers and Merchants bank. It is a photographic print in the 1882 series with charter nutcher 975 treasury number Wils828 bank number 5005 and features a green tinted charter panel and yellowish brown seal. The note is printed on two sheets of paper with a few silk threads between.
The sixth star lecture at the Y M C A will be delivered next Monday night at the association hall. Edmund Vance Cooke the well known poet will give a humorous talk titled Pot Luck With a Poet.
Sir Augustus Hemming governor of Jamaica and Lady Hemming depart Kingston for Santiago de Cuba to repay a visit made by Gen Leonard Wood last November. They travel aboard the government yacht Kanawha with consent of Mr Chamberlain and will remain in Cuba for several days.
Two smallpox cases identified in South Seatt ie involve the Harvey and Hall families who recently arrived from South Dakota. Both families were quarantined as the disease develops. Other local notes include a new term at Seattle seminary Rows and injuries to Fremont worker R Woolterton from a fallen sand basket. Mr and Mrs F W Bosworth of South Seattle return from an Eastern tour. Judge C E Remnaberg begins two story residence on Green Lake shore. Mike Golden and wife buy Horton house at Georgetown and settle in with a garden.
Tacoma March 8 John L V Riseland of Arlington was appointed chief deputy fish commissioner by Fish Commissioner Ker Wn. The funeral of Mrs Margaret J Pontius will be held from the family residence 1242 Denny Way Saturday at 2 pm Rev W D Simonds will conduct the services. The boy will be buried in Lakeview cemetery.
Mrs. Frederick R. Bechdoll wife of a well known local newspaper man died in Galveston Texas on Wednesday an telegraphic message arrived in the city yesterday evening She left Seattle soon after her marriage here a few months ago due to ill health.
The ad touts a $60 000 piano sale with heavy discounts to attract buyers, lists brands like Knabe Fischer Ludwig Hamilton and Steinway style options, and promises showings of all pianos on the floor. It invites payments from $10 to $75 down and notes doors open at 8 am daily.
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