City and Electric Companies Clash Over Obtrusive Poles
City officials and Seattle Electric Company face pressure from the port and business groups to remove disfiguring poles along First and Second Avenues south of Madison. The company has already sawed poles and strung wires above ground, while officials argue for undergrounding at substantial cost.
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Portland
de O'Ly
Sebo
Coun Li
Board A
Seattle Electric Oninens
Madison Street
Electric Company
Ane Mily
Eastern
Seat Enterprise
Tte
First Avenue
West Side Lot Sells for 24000 on Teesday
Walter Beattie sold a lot on the west side of avenue between Pine and Olive streets for 24000. The seller, Beattie, previously bought the property three years ago for 3500 and the buyer’s name is not disclosed. The purchase price was paid and the sale completed.
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Avenue
Pine Olive Streets
Teesday
Walter Beattie
Northern Pacific Ticket Sale At Winona Lake Ind
A fragment notes tickets priced at 75.10 dollars round trip offered by the Northern Pacific. The notice mentions May 12 and the City Ticket Office in Calne.
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Winoma Lake
Ind
Northern Pacific
Calne
P. City Ticket Office
Eee
Earthquake At Bender Abbas Hits Persian Town
An earthquake at Bender Abbas in Persia on April 26 buried 50 persons by a landslide. Two hundred yards of the Kuhgando mountain behind the town collapsed, with daily aftershocks. Nearby villages also suffered as residents camp outside the town.
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Bender Abbas
Persia
Kuhgando
Crittenton Home Concert Promises Musical Gala
The Crittenton home concert at the Grand Opera house features Emma Moffatt and J N Gaunders directing with Al Hart operatic medley and performances by the Famunda quartet Wirt Anderson and W H Whittlesy, plus guitar, banjo solos, and recitations by Vivian Gwendoline Dotting. Box office opens Wednesday at 10 a.m. promising both financial and musical success.
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Crittenton
Emma Moffatt
J. N. Gaunders
Grand Opera House
al Hart
Ben Muraire
Mi. Famunda
Wirt Anderson
Mire
W. H. Whittlesy
Suppe
Misa McCormick
Liner Lake Champlain Missing After April Departure
In Liverpool a Royal Canadian Pacific liner named Lake Champlain with 1,172 passengers and 140 crew sailed from Halifax April 25 and has not been heard from. Reports of dense fog and a nearby iceberg fuel concern that the vessel may be delayed or lost amid hazardous seas.
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Art
Montreal
Think He Is Faking
Olympia police seek Ben Schenke who vanished after claiming two men robbed him of 146 dollars. He described a cedar stick intrusion and a bag over his face. No trace found, and authorities suspect the tale aims to delay debts.
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Olympia
Ben Schenke
Schenke
Weat Bay Street
Bank president predicts big boom for city postwar growth
Lester Turner, president of the First National Bank, returned from a New York trip and said several large capitalists foresee growth and welfare for the city. He noted plans by eastern capitalists to invest here this fall, expecting Beattie to outgrow sister cities once the war in the Far East ends.
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Lester Turner
First National Bank
New York
Turner
Far East
Beattie
Conat
Demure Witness Persuades Grand Jury Against Beef Trust
A quiet Kansas City woman, Mary B. Marcy, once a secretary for Armour, Swift and Fowler, provided damning notes to the Chicago grand jury. Secret service agents linked her writings to the beef trust cases, as prosecutors flag alleged market manipulation and low cattle prices.
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Chicago
Beef Trust
Secret Service
Mia
Mary B. Marey
Kansas City
Ida Tarbell
The
Marcy
Packing House
University of Chicago
Lealie B. Marey
Armour's
Swift and Fowler
Choate Honored as Middle Temple Enrolment Ordered
London May 10 The name of Ambassador Choate was formally enrolled among the great men of the Middle Temple. A simple dinner was held in the old dining hall first opened by Queen Elizabeth in 1570. The queen had requested the performance of As You Sit.
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Middle Temple
Eiszabeth
Dyed-in-the-wool octogenarian mows through winter work
Des Moines residents note active 82 year old Jonathan Myl ler pushing a mower at Union Park while 80 year old "Daddy" Bigler claims to be Des Moines youngest octogenarian. Myl ler says he cut and piled 62 cords of weed during the past winter and similar work in five winters.
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Des Moines
Union Park
Jonathan Myller
Daddy” Bigler
Receivers Named for Firm on Insolvency Charge
New York May 10 receivers appointed for the firm of Freese on complaint of W Bowker of Camden alleging insolvency and fictitious brokerage. The company is said to owe customers in multiple states about 1,000,000 dollars and assets have been misused.
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New York
of & Freese
W. Bowker
Camden
Ballard City Council Hears Warrant Claim and Street Upgrades
At a Ballard council meeting deputy prosecuting attorney J Whitam urged payment of a $1000 warrant to Normile for past city work. The assembly referred Crawford street improvements to the committee of the whole. An ordinance set cow limits and bonds for Ship Sloop and Murron streets. A Crawford sub sewer petition was sent to the city engineer. Mary J. Allen, 62, died after a sudden illness at 708 First Ave. Jacob Shaler, Ballard Electric worker, was shocked by a live wire and taken to Ballard hospital in unconscious condition.
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J. Whitam
King County
Normile
Kean
Crawford Street
H. B. Gearing
Crawford
Mary J. Allen
First Avenue
Allen
Ballard
Elevator collapse in Elwood kills two men
John G. Smith was killed and Jack Chambera fatally injured when the Harroun elevator fell during a high wind at Elwood Kansas across the river from St. Joseph. The structure was demolished by the storm.
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St, Joseph, Mo
John G. Smith
Jack Chambera
Elwood
Kan
Armenian Revolt Clashes Kill Several in Bitlis Area
Advices from Bitlis report casualties after a clash between revolutionists and Turkish troops near Mush. Armenian bands are said to be preparing an invasion of Ottoman territory having crossed the Persian frontier.
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Constantinople
Bitlis
Armenia
Mush
Veterans meeting promised at Madrona ball by Cuban campaign vets
The George H. Camp No. 2 Spanish War Veterans announce a meeting at Madrona ball located at Twenty-first and Jefferson this Thursday night. The committee invites all Cuban and go campaigns veterans to be present, promising an active program.
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Madrona Ball
Twenty-first
Jefferson
Drunken Brawl Leads to Arrests at Kentucky Saloon Corner
Clara Keith and Minnie Cloom were arrested by officers at 4 o'clock Wednesday morning after a drunken fight in a Kentucky saloon near Occidental and Yesterday. Mary Winstrom, cited for being drunk and disorderly, reported the incident and was later arrested. The basement location helped the disturbance evade earlier police attention.
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Kentucky
Occidental
Clara Keith
Minnie Cloom
Stewart
Lee
Mary Winstrom
Hart
Expulsion Order Targets Jews in City
May 10 report states the chief of police is ordered to expel many Jews and refuse admission to others entering the city, reflecting harsh policy against Jewish residents.
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Kiepfy
Dinner funds church organ at Trinity Church
Trinity church ladies hosted a dinner in the Alaska building on Wednesday to raise money for a church organ. Special rail fares announced for the Knights of Pythias state convention in Bellingham May 16 to 20.
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Northern Pacific
Koumclaw
Sthome McGuire
Joe Penrose
W. E. Carr
Our House
Sarah Holmes
Richard Holmes
Mae Ostrander
Leonard Ostrander
Sam Terwilliger
Northern Pacific Company
Griffin
Sarah Kendall
Beattie
Presbyterian Church Buys Alaskan Lot for 17000
Will E Fassbender sells the southeast corner lot at Seventh and Spring to the First Presbyterian church for 17000. The church plans a gymnasium and Sunday school hall, while Viret Presbyterian church will occupy until regrade on Fourth Avenue begins, then move to the new Seventh and Spring site. Haynes and Cowen handled the transfer.
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A. Fassbender
Seventh and Spring
First Presbyterian Church
Viret Presbyterian
Fourth Avenue
Haynes & Cowen
Northern Pacific Fare to Winona Lake May 12 Sale
Travel offer via Northern Pacific with a $75.10 fare to Winona Lake Indiana and return. Tickets on sale May 12 only at the NP Ticket Office.
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Northern Pacific
Winona Lake
Ind
N. P
Oce
Great Northern Railway Offers Travel Passage Options
Daily effective through May 15 offering prepaid passage for relatives or friends by mail or wire. Terms include money back on unused tickets and reference to Ket and Yeatler.
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Great Northern Railway
Ket
Yeatler
Sympathy Strike Shuts Toledo Church Leads to Walkout
In Toledo Ohio on a Sunday service the Industrial Heights mission faced a full sympathy strike. The congregation denounced Pastor Rev G Hoover and left the church after he urged Sunday School Superintendent Hartman to resign. Services were held at a corner grocery while Hoover prayed alone.
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Toledo
Ohio
Industrial Heights
G. Hoover
Hoover
Hartman
Star Chamber Session Probes Equitable Affairs
New York May 10 The star chamber investigation into the Equitable Life Assurance Company resumed. James H Hyde vice president of the society was brought in for questioning and is expected to be asked about the Cambon dinner and the alleged syndicate profiting from Equitable funds.
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New York
Star Chamber
Hendricks
Equitable Life Insurance Company
James H. Hyde
Hyde
Equitable Funds
Property Corner Sale In Flint and Pine For 56000
Joshua Green via agent George F. Meacham sold the northeast corner of Flint avenue and Pine street to N. Grinstey and W. B. Allain for 56000. The lot, excavated and valued as a top neighborhood site, previously cost 13000 to Mr. Green four years earlier from Mrs. Grass. John Davis & Co. represented the buyers.
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Joshua Green
George F. Meacham
N. Grinstey
W. B. Allain
Flint Avenue
Pine Street
Mr. Green
Quartet Arrests Spark Police Roundup After Early Morning Sweep
Jack Castor Frank Morley Henry Hicks and George Mills were arrested by Sergeant McDonald Patrolman Cameron and City Detectives Freeman and Hubbard early Wednesday. Castor is an ex convict known as a stick up man and safe cracker Morley is also an ex convict. No charges yet. held on suspicion as records and rogues gallery mention.
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Jack Castor
Frank Morley
Henry Hicks
George Mills
McDonald
Cameron
Freeman
Hubbard
Castor
Rogues
Morley
Littl
Polies
Portland Police Seek Castor Over City Safe Breach
Portland police ask for the arrest and detention of Castor after a safe was blown open in the city and the suspect escaped. Authorities request public help to locate Castor and secure the scene.
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Portland
Castor
Suing His Children Over 80 Acres of Land
In superior court Henry Stanley sues his three children John William and Marion Stanley over 80 acres claimed as community property. The children say the land and improvements belong to the mother’s separate estate. A guardian was sought for Marion Stanley, aged 15, and Frank Southerd was appointed.
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Henry Stanley
John Stanley
William Stanley
Marion Stanley
Himseolf
South Dakota
Frank Southerd
Travel preparations for coast trip as fair opens
Burlington agent M. P. Benton returns from vacation and notes large travel preparations for summer. He cites New York birth reservations two months ahead and many tickets sold for groups attending opening day of the fair.
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M. P. Benton
Burlington
Grand jury weighs Collins bigamy case in San Francisco
Telegraph briefs report the grand jury in San Francisco is hearing evidence today on the Collins alleged bigamy case with indictments likely. Also noted are the death of Wallace N Hills in New Mexico, the president's Illinois stop in Dixon, and a warrant for William Barrett in San Francisco for a $20 000 bank theft.
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San Francisco
Collins
William Barrett
First National Bank
Brooklyn
Portland
Ore
Benedict John M Hamilton Weds Frae C Benham in Portland Honeymoon
John M. Hamilton known as the strawberry king on Western Avenue married Frae C Benham on Tuesday night at F R Ebright 806 Fifteenth Avenue. The couple left for Portland for their honeymoon after the ceremony.
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John M. Hamilton
Western Avenue
Forged check linked to Chehalis Lumber. suspect sought
A forged check drawn on Chehalis River Lumber funds signed by manager W R Francis was discovered at Lee's Pharmacy. The signer John C Toplin is being sought as police investigate the fraud reported March 26. eyewitness James Lee notes the man had one hand bound.
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Lee
John C. Toplin
Chehalis River
W. R. Francis
First National Bank
Chehalis
James Lee
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