Rainier Avenue Baseball Park Plans Discussed By Council
At a Tuesday night meeting the Georgetown council considered fencing the vacant Rainier avenue lot and building a grand stand for a baseball park. Oliver Anderson and Charles Cannon lead the project, aiming to invite amateur teams statewide. The council also reviewed extending the water main with hydrants on Englewood street for fire protection. Horace Nichols was named pound master. A bond for Commercial street improvements, tied to Thomas, was approved. Two men, William Dunbar and Warren Wallingford, were arrested at Everett on liquor transporting charges related to an Indian reservation.
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Rainier Avenue
Oliver Anderson
Charles Cannon
Englewood Street
Horace Nichols
Thomas
Commercial Street
William Dunbar
Warren Wallingford
Everett
Ada Gilbert Arrested Over Advertising Letters
Ada Gilbert was arrested in Bellingham Monday by a Post Office Inspector for sending letters claimed to advertise her sporting house. She had a preliminary hearing Wednesday and was dismissed.
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Federal Grand Jury
Ada Gilbert
Bellingham
Post Office
Wyland
Birch Bark Will Nets Northward Heiress Fortune
Special to The Ster reports in Plaza Washington that Viola Fenn and her sister Preda, residents of Seattle orphanages then Spokane, stand to inherit a fortune from a birch bark will. The dying prospecter McNeill penned the testament while near the Stewart river headwaters, naming the two nieces as heirs.
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M. Nellis
Stewart River
Dawson
Thie
Mrs. Barkley
Mike Fenn
Henry J Rows
William Hice
McNeill
Willem Rice
Donald McCollagan
Stewart
Rev
JOKE ON MACKINTOSH COURTROOM BANTER
In Department No. 1 prosecutors and spectators witnessed the Mackintosh case as Elbert, a black defendant, testified about pleading guilty under a misread charge. Attorney Page pressed him with mock tests using a red book, prompting a tense courtroom moment as Mackintosh fumbled for a formula.
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T. JD. Page
Mackintosh
Page
Page Provokes Laughter as Witness Testifies
A jury box erupts with a loud twelve voice guffaw when the defense attorney orders a witness to step down. The prosecutor comments that Page is getting clever as the witness retreats to the back of the courtroom.
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Tle
Two Rivers boom spurs settlement and irrigation prospects
Promoter W. W. Beck touts Two Rivers in western Walla Walla County as a rising irrigation town near the Columbia and Snake rivers. Excursions draw settlers. town plans include a hotel, schoolhouses, roads, and 6,000 acres for sale at $60 to $100 per acre with guaranteed water rights.
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W. W. Beck
Pacific Block
Hivers
Columbia River
Wallula
Walla Walla County
Northern Pacific
Snake River Irrigation Company
Two Rivers
Clarkston
Kennewick
Irrigation Company
Comany
Columbia
Great Columbia
Palmyra
Old
Snake
Columbia Rivers
Washington
Pullman Experimental Station
U. & Government
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Simpgon’s
Calicoes Se
Bimpoon
Isc
Infante
Normew Hat Seth
First Avenue
Complete Credit House Furnishers
Frederick Nelson
Baleaman
SRE
Holt’s
Carpet and Rug Dept
Bissell
Bissell's
China
Royal Wilton
Brussels
Crockery Dept
Creatt House
Furnnish
Second Ave
Madison and
Spring Sts
Georgetown
Dichardson & Kelly
Heady’s Barber Shop
Cor
First Ave
Washington St
King County
Petard
State of Washington
John Doe
Tritz Kreisler
Grand Opera House
The
Ladies’ Musical Club
Mr. Kreiasler
Steinway
Sherman, Clay &Co
Second Avenue
Seattle
San Francisco
Cal
Oakland
Wees
W. B
Japan
Semeur
Monia
Ulmr iv
Colgate
Ular Ice
Clark
Barbour
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