Child Abduction Case Deepens Family Custody Battle
Theresa Breege files again in court over her son Robbie Breese as Edward Breege seeks custody. A Bellevue hotel move and a Seattle police pick up led to the boy being taken toward Vancouver before return to his father. Lawyer Colonel Mel Cutcheon intervened to locate Robbie with Lilly and Bogardus shipping staff in Seattle.
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Bobbie Breess
Breege
Edward
Seattle
Bellevue Hotel
Robbie
Bellevue
Ivy
Little Gaeaueeer
Dia Chance
Vancouver
Mia
Keene
Mel Cutcheon
Tittle Habbie Mra
Breese
Lilly &@ Bogardus
Thin City
Turner introduces bill abolishing circuit courts nationwide
Senator Turner proposes a bill to abolish all circuit courts and boost district court duties to cut contest costs. The plan rearranges 15 circuits, creating a 16th for Washington, Idaho, Montana, with a circuit to be held at Boise.
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Star
Washington, D.C
Turner Today
United States
Washington
Regen
Idaho
Montana
Boome
Westlake Boulevard project moves through city council
The Westlake Boulevard plan advances despite protests and pending injunctions. City estimates, route surveys, and draft plans proceed while condemnation suits loom and actual construction awaits funding and court action, with at least two years expected before work begins.
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Corporation Counsel
Three IE SAW ALL WT THREE charged with city crime
The fragment describes a prisoner accusing a City Attorney DeBruler and Olaf Neilsen, claiming guilt and detailing a drunken town spree with saloons and caroons. The incoherent testimony ends with the prisoner allowed to break and tour the city while promising to locate a partner.
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DeBruler
Olaf Neilsen
Beattie
Jhow
Missing Vernon youth sought by Tacoma police
A 146 year old Vernon resident disappeared yesterday morning. Police in Tacoma are on the lookout for the missing person, but provide no reason for the disappearance.
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Chase
Pontius Avenue
Vernon
Tacoma
Rance
Army charges in Province of Philip and natives
Reports from Washington on May 6 claim charges against soldiers for mistreatment and torture of natives, looting, and coercion by authority figures. The allegations include water cure and refusals to remove hats during patrols. Details are submitted to a senate committee as investigations unfold. Wheat prices also noted as May 6.
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Gton
D. C
Philip- City
Gardiner
Senate
Wormer
River division plan questioned by King and Pierce counties
Clarence White, surveyor for King County, reports to county commissioners that enlarging the Stuck River channel rather than dividing it between Pierce and King counties would better solve the water problem for both sides. Licenses issued to several individuals in Seattle Georgetown Woodinville Coupeville McMurray. J L Sandall arrested on building ordinance charge. City department estimates for May total 60 402.66.
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Clarence White
King County
Pierce and
William 8. Redin
Georgetown
Annie M. Burns
Seattle
Albert T. Cotten
Marshal Keatwell
Warner
McMurray
Ina Sturley
Woodinville
Rudolph Schmidt
Anna Sold
Coupeville
Wash
J. L. Sandall
Jack Barck
Comptroller’s Office
Council
Five Austrian Workers Die in Harrisburg Steel Plant Furnace
Five Austrian laborers were burned to death at the Pennsylvania Steel Works when a ladle of molten metal overturned on a swinging crane. Three more men were probably fatally burned as the hot metal spilled over the floor, cooling the workers with liquid fire. All killed were family heads.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Chief Sullivan explains raid closures near Rickard gambling house
Chief of Police Sullivan defended closing Tex Rickard's Western club after a raid. He said a line must be drawn and nearby gambling houses could not be allowed to operate just because one was open. He noted petitions about district disorder rather than gambling and promised those houses would be disposed of promptly.
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Tex Rickard
Rickard
Sullivan
Richard
Actors sue Cooley for back pay at Beattie theater
Sidney Platt, Nlamilton Armour, Eleabeth Hale, and Georgia Francis, former Beattie Theater company members, sue Frank Cooley for 400 alleging back wages. Cooley disputes debts, claims poor business, says only 28 balance due, and that actors were paid salaries. case filed before Justice of the Peace and served on the Seattle Theater Company.
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Nlamilton Armour
Eleabeth Hale
Georgia Francis
Dramatic Company
Beattie Theater
Frank Cooley
Renhy
Chariobehes
Seattle
Cooley
Pratt
Mr. Cooley
Bur
San Francisco
Phoenix
Arts
Mexico
Coole
Oueide
California
Seattle Theater Company
A Slumming Tour Highlights Anti-Gambling Faction
A small anti gambling group conducted a slumming tour through several saloons along Yesler Way to inspect slot machines and gather evidence. Four young men who signed a recent affidavit were present, while Lt. Thoma’s involvement remained unconfirmed. Tex Rickard delays Western club reopening as his trial proceeds.
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Thoma
Anid
Thomeon
Sullivan
Fulton
Yesler Way
Stuming
Tex Rickard
Beef Trust Probe Opens Before Missouri Supreme Court
At Jefferson City on May 6 the attorney general began a Supreme Court probe into alleged beef trust activity in Missouri. A single attorney represents all packers while J F Sultzer of Swifts testified of rebates to retailers and price fixing by packing-house managers. He described meetings to dispose of deteriorated meat at any price.
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Jefferson City
Cromwe
State Supreme Court
J. F. Sultzer
Swifts Co
St. Joseph, Mo
Color Is a Final Bar in 108 Angeles Meetings
In 108 Angeles on May 6 the business sessions of women s clubs continued with talks on reorganization and color questions. A civil service pension was discussed this afternoon and several papers on the subject were read. Further legislation excluded colored people from the federation. Massachusetts offered no protest.
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Angeles
Massachusetts
Autopsy Links Gardener Hause Thewlla Death to Heart Disease
An autopsy conducted today on Hause Thewlla the aged gardener who died suddenly yesterday on Thirty first avenue south found death from heart disease. No traces of atropine or other poison were found in the stomach and the heart showed disease. Bulelde was suspected.
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Hause Thewlla
Thirty-first Avenue South
Bulelde
Mining deal on hand at Heatler Grand
Mining figures ry Minds and Sam Waller of Hutte Montana attend the Heatler Grand. They seek to close a pending mining deal with secrecy until completion, hoping to finalize within a few days as millions hang on the outcome.
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Ry R. Minds
Sam Waller
Hutte
Mont
Bing
Heatler Grand
Itme
Portland’s Ambassadors Herald Centennial Ambition
Two ambassadors George A. Dunham and G. A. Whitemore stay at the Beattie hotel in Portland announcing a long term display. They register their intention with the year 1906 on the hotel reader, sparking curiosity about why 1903 is shown and Portland’s plan for a future centennial celebration.
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Portland
Beattie Hotel
George A. Dunham
G. A. Whitemore
Disappearance of Real Estate Man Tap pan Sparks Concern
Herbert Tap pan, once with W. A. Caruthers in the Globe building, has vanished for over two weeks. Friends have searched diligently but no trace of him has been found, leaving his whereabouts a continuing mystery.
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Herbert Tappan
W. 8. Carruthers
Globe
Tappan
King County Pushes for Senator and Congressman
A Seattle chamber member mocked by reporters sparked a surge in King County politics as the Preston Republican club grows to 4000. Names from Whatcom to Thurston vie for Congress and a statewide convention decision looms on the party’s candidate slate.
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Seattle
Preston Senatorial Club
King County
Preston Partigan
Spokane
Tacoma
United States
Hazel Easton
Kiar
W. Humphrey
Ko J. Albertson
Fred J. Murch
Weat
House of Representatives
State of Washington
Feld
Curhman
Tecoma
Jones
North Yakima
Merve County
A. J. Walkner
Olympia
Thurston County
Congress
Hele
Meattie
Jom T. Behively
Miles Tent
Beattie
Behively
Trade Voyage North for Manulanee and Siberian Cargo
The steamer Manuenee, newly registered in America and painted bright, sails from Morans toward Northern Siberia under Northwestern Commercial Company charter. She may carry furs, buttons, shawls, needles, and other goods, with coal at bunkers and a potential week’s sail north. Other ships, including John S. Kimball and Farallon, push north for Dawson ore machinery, Metiakathia equipment, and Alaska mail, while Thetis Coalier and Mineola prepare for northern loads and Balford rails.
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Northwestern Commercial Company
Siberia
British Columbia
Riberia
Lily L
John 8. Kimball
Kruse Line
Seattle
San Francisco
Farallon
Alaska
Tine
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Dawson
Metiakathia
U. S. Hevenue
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Bay
Roslyn Bunkers
Mineola
Ballard
Guatemala Central Railroad
Mexico
Bertha
Alaska Commercial Line
Alaska Mall
Kinehiu Maru
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
Orient
Victoria
Vicoria
Pasco
Tacoma
United Kingdom
Hoanoke
New York
Volane
L. H. Gray & Co
Candle Creek
Calthoens
Calcutta
Beattle
Huenes Ayres
Elihu Thomson
Thomson
Alice
Calhoun, Denny & Ewing
City of Ta
Pacific Coast Line
Lynn Canal
Lyo Maru
Nip- Yusen Kaisha Line
PIANO SALE OFFERS Great bargains on pianos and organs
D. S. Johnston & Co reports selling 112 instruments last month with prices cut to clear stock. New and used pianos and organs advertised with drastic reductions, warranties, easy terms, and a location at 908 Second Avenue promising high value on standard plano styles and organs formerly priced much higher.
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Second Avenue
Plano
Auction sale of furnishings from 1035 East Madison residence
Public auction by J T Wilbon offers mahogany music case and French plate back dining set in golden oak, Rogers silverware, china closet, bed linens, brass trimmed iron beds, maple dressers, a near new steel range, Wilton carpet, and more. Sale starts 10 30 a m at 108% East Madison Street corner Eleventh Avenue with Madison streetcar access.
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East
Madison
Rogers
J.T. Wilbon
Madison Street
Eleventh Avenue
Civil service exams set for June 2 jobs listed
The United States civil service commission announces examinations on June 2 for positions including Assistant Engineer UU and Penitentiary Service with salaries of 1900 per annum and 450 per annum respectively in the Indian service.
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United States Civil Service Commission
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