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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1908
Page
8
Readers are invited to a cash sale of silk dresses from The Bon Marche. Two hundred dresses from a canceled Chicago order are being offered at half price due to winter return, with emphasis on early arrival to secure preferred styles.
A government census of Panama canal area mosquitoes reports 36 species previously unknown to science. Researchers note varied breeding habitats from artificial water containers to tree hollows and bamboo notches, with some species spreading yellow fever or malaria and others harmless.
Donald Hafferty aged 16 months died in the city on May 19 and lies in the Bonney Watson parlors. Andrew Lewis aged 52 died in the city on May 19 and remains are at the Bonney parlors.
Ottawa reports Dominion House approval to build a line to Pt. Churchill extending west of Hudson Bay. The project ends the 1656 monopoly of the Hudson Bay Co opening the north for fur trade and wheat routes. Ft Churchill, at the Churchill River mouth, will become a trading hub linking Kuswati n Saskatchewan Athabasca and Northeast Alberta with inland waterways and steamers.
United Press reports two American women linked to a plan to kill the Sultan of Turkey and seize the throne. In Constantinople authorities arrest Mary Jameson and four other women among nearly 100 prisoners, most Armenians and Turks, accused of plotting to blow up the Waldiz Kiosk and other targets. The alleged bomb cost about 200 dollars each. The fate of Mine Jameson remains unclear as American officials with Leishman have not intervened.
Funeral services for F. J. Paesnecker are set for Thursday at 2 PM in the Bleitz parlors with burial in Mount Pleasant cemetery. G. W. Pratt's services were held today at 2 PM at the family residence and burial followed at Oak Lake cemetery.
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