Civic Union Records City Council Actions in Seattle
The Civic Union monitors Seattle city council actions since March, focusing on three long-standing members and the municipal lighting plant, the American Improvement gas franchise, and water rate issues. The union aims to document proceedings and curb trust-driven price effects while probing correspondence and rights of way delays.
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Civic Union
Seattle
Peporta
J. M. Frink
C. J. Smith
F. C. Harper
Watson Allen
T. N. Haller
Graves
A. B. Kerry
L. Frank Brown
Richard Mansfield White
American Improvement Company
Seattle & Lake
Washington Waterway Company
Thomson
Local Electric Trust
Milo A. Root
The
Corporation
J. D. Farrell
Great Northern Railroad
Seattle Lighting Company
Citizens’ Light & Power Company
JAPAN REPORTS DALNY CAPTURE AND AFTERMATH
Gen Oku states Japanese forces occupied Dalny on Monday with many warehouses and buildings intact. Rail bridges near the docks damaged, while most docks and piers remain uninjured except the sunk main pier. Refugees describe looting and banditry at St Petersburg after evacuation, and a Japanese gunboat was damaged by Port Arthur fire with casualties. Tokio dispatch notes guns captured at Kin Chow in good condition and 2000 wounded sailors boarding for Japan.
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Tokio
Oku
Port Arthur
Dalny
Rome
Kin Chow
Republicans Cant Break the Deadlock at Governor Nominee Balloting
In Springfield at the Republican state convention Speaker Cannon presided as roll call began. On the 60th ballot the tallies were Yates 487, Lowden 296, Deneen 83, Hamlin 116, Warner 41, German 50, Pierce 28, showing little shift from the ten day prior balloting. The earlier 68th ballot before a ten day recess read Yates 483, Lowden 292, Deneen 385, Hamlin 113, Warner 53, Sherman 46, Pierce 19. The deadlock persists with no decisive change.
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Springfield. Ti
Speaker Cannon
Yates
Lowden
Deneen
Hamlin
Warner
Gherman
Pierce
Sherman
Abandons Hillman City Orphans Home
Mire Elizabeth Harp, once operating a bogus foundlings home in Hillman City, left Seattle for Portland with four children and was seen with J G McDonald said to be her husband. She has filed a divorce suit against her husband in Butte, Montana, accusing cruelty and non support. The Charity Organization Society has been seeking to remove the children and place them in a proper home.
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Mire
Faizabeth Harp
Hillman City
Star
Seattle
Portland
J. G. McDonald
Utah
King County
Harp
Society
Washington
Nome Mining Faces Labor Shortage This Season
A city official warns Nome will see a labor shortage this season, predicting curtailed mining operations due to insufficient workers. The forecast suggests reduced output and potential economic impact for the Nome district.
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Nome
Kaiser's Secret Note and War Outlook Stir Neutrality Debate
A Berlin dispatch reports the Kaiser wrote to General Kuropatkin through a special courier. The letter reportedly contains his views on likely war developments, criticizes Russia's weaknesses, and offers European policy advice. Interpreted as indiscretion, it could strain neutrality and complicate government stance.
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Berlin
May Bit
Kaiser
Kuropatkin
Russia
Europatkin
Girl saves father from enraged bull in Ritzville
In Ritzville on Sunday 10 year old daughter of Heinrich Heinrichs rushed to her father as he rode a bull toward a barn. She used a pitchfork to drive off the maddened animal when it gored him in the abdomen. He lies in critical condition with horns pinned.
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Ritzville
Heinrich Hetinriche
Mr. Heinrichs
Morocco Bandits Seize Morocco Amid U S Britain Intervention
Diplomatic tension rises as the Moorish revolt and kidnaping of American billionaire Ian Perdicardis and British subject M. Varley draw U S and British involvement. France and Spain accused of fomenting unrest while US warships pressure for release and noninterference in Morocco.
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Wasington
D. C
Ian Perdicardis
M. Varley
M. Jean Hess
Paris
State Department
Perdicardia
Brooklyn
Chadwick
Washington, D. C
France
Morocco
Ian Peridaris
Tangier
U. S
M. Torres
America
Bandit Frassuli
San Perdicardia
Will Attempt 10 Save Port Arthur
Reports say four Siberian regiments moved from Tasechao toward Kin Chow to relieve Port Arthur. Kuropatkin may have agreed to Alexieff request for troops and plans to attack the Japanese rear as Port Arthur faces assault.
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Port Arthur
Tientsin
Tasechao
Newehwang
Kin Chow
William B. Wilson Dies After Memorial Day Roll Call
William B. Wilson, a G A R veteran and former Seattle water works superintendent in 1892 4, died at his home on Tenth Avenue a few hours after attending memorial exercises and graveside services. He was 64, survived by his widow and two children Clara and Charles.
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William BE. Wilson
Tenth Avenue
Wilson
Seattle
Ronald
Clara
Charles
Alaska feud unfolds over murder plot and insanity claim
J H Ethel accuses Carl A Rook A F Folger Wing of conspiring to kill him after a Yakutat Bay expedition. Ethel, an engineer, seeks bond and federal action while the three miners counter that Ethel acted mad and dangerous, prompting their flight from his employ. Ethel lives at 1248 Fifth Avenue North.
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Carl . A. Rook
A. F. Folger
Ethel
Yakutat
Ethel Liver
Fifth Avenue North
Reed Bequeaths Major Estate to Churches and School
The will of Amanda Reed filed for probate allocates nearly all of a $5,000,000 fortune to charitable institutions and churches and funds a non-sectarian Reed Institution of Learning in Portland to promote practical knowledge. It also leaves The Throupe Polytechnic College of Pasadena $10,000.
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Portland
Qrc
Amanda Reed
Reed Institution of Learning
Throupe Polytechnic College
Pasadena
Cal
Tokio declares blockade of Sinoa Tung coast
Recaer ment reports Tokyo has declared a complete blockade of the Sinoa Tung coast of Piteewo and Pulan Tien since May 26. The measure will be enforced.
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Seri News
N. London
Recaerment
Tokio
Sinoa Tung
Piteewo
Pulan Tien
Water petition to tap Cedar river pipeline for private system
G. L. Berg filed with the city clerk a request to tap the Cedar river pipeline between Dunlap and Renton. The aim is to supply a private water system for about a dozen residences in the neighborhood with city water, purchased by residents.
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G. L. Berg
Cedar River
Dunlap
Renton
Russia to pay for seized Canadian boats in Pacific coast dispute
Russia agrees to compensate for two of six seized Canadian fishing boats after standing claims by England. Carl Kraure filed an insanity complaint against J H Ethel of 1248 Fifth Avenue North. Ethel to be examined by lunacy commission in superior court tomorrow morning.
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Petersburg
England
Russia
Pacific
Carl Kraure
J. H. Ethel
Fifth Avenue North
Ethel
Superior Court
Fisherman Discovers Body in Dickey River Mystery
Port Angeles dispatch reports the body of Martin Erie found upright on a stump after two missing months. Coroner Willson identifies the 30 year old German by clothing and build while Mathias remains missing. their cabin animals starved as the search widens.
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Martin Erie
Mathias Erie
Port Angeles
Willson
Justice of the Peace
A. W. Smith
Mora
Dickey River
M. F. Jones
O. B. Smith
Martin Erle
Erie Brothers
Mathias
Martin
Explosion at Knoxville rail line kills four workers and injures two
In a rock cut near Warwick on the Knoxville Lafollette and Jellico branch a blasting charge exploded killing four men and injuring two. The dead include James Birchell and Son John John Hunley Henry McAllister all Campbell county residents. A river collapse sent workers into the swift Tennessee water as bystanders rushed to aid the struggling. Missing Nora Anderson and a boy found downstream are reported.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Warwick
Knoxville, Lafollette& Jellico
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
James Birchell
John
John Hunley
Henry McAllister
Campbell County
Tennessee
Beelow
Clarence A. Tompkins
Hassel Lines
Esther Morgan
Pearl Holland
Nora Anderson
Drowned at Salida as Arkansas River Bridge Collapses
Five men are confirmed drowned near Salida Colorado after the Ark an sas river bridge collapsed during Memorial services on the riverbank. A child is missing and more than twenty others narrowly escaped death as the structure gave way under the surge.
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Salida
Col
Arkansas
Pittsburg Engineer Kills Woman Then Shoots Self
Irving Wise a noted engineer fatally shot Katie Craff a boarding house owner in Pittsburg. He then died by suicide, with authorities noting Wise was believed to have been rejected by Craff.
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Craff
Wise
Sultor
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Illinois
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Spain
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M. Hens
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Scripps News Ass'n
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