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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1905
Page
6
Real estate ads promote Lang e graded lots with loans and flexible terms. Listings mention $9.0 and $100 sales, waterfront connections to Lake Washington, and nearby Beattie Madr ona districts. Various properties show acreages, barns, orchards, and small houses with mortgage options and local agents including Howard Ht. Lewis & Co and Patten.
A mixed page of price lists and market quotes with wholesale fruit and vegetable figures, grain and stock data. Includes wheat, corn, oats quotations from Chicago Board of Trade and Liverpool, and New York stock prices for Amalgamated Copper, U S Steel, Can Pac, Erie, Reading, and others with noon sales totals.
Real estate section highlights land and home sales around Lake Washington and Columbia City. Instances include 16 acre riverfront tracts, 4 cleared acres near the university, and 10 acre plots with easy terms. Various 3 to 5 room houses priced to entice buyers, with down payments and monthly terms. Listings emphasize proximity to transport lines, parks, and city views.
Land offered at ten acres with small down payment and two pounds per month. Locally situated close to the railway station, wharf, and school with a fine view. The Great Northern train schedule shows a 8:95 a.m. departure to Meadowdale. Agent Geo Wheeler will meet the train and show the tracts. Visit on Sunday.
Modern six room cottage with lawn basement bath all in fine condition located a block from Union car line on Mth Avenue. See it today.
John Gavin and wife Charlotta face verdict on opium possession and smuggling charges in federal court. Gavin guilty on possession, not guilty plea for wife, while daughter Elvira awaits outcome. other alleged criminals delayed as jurors run short. Rockford report notes beet sugar destruction totaling ten million pounds and $400,000 loss.
Firemen lament longer routes from Fourth and Battery as streets torn up slow a two-minute per block response. Impassable blocks from Battery to Vine force northward detours via Cedar. Captain warns risked fires and 20 percent greater loss if incidents occur between station and Pike. City officials to be alerted for action.
Two ex convicts appeared before Police Judge Gordon on Friday. Thomas Franey, a two year Walla Walla robbery veteran, claimed the stolen money paid his work, saying the employer should be prosecuted. Franey received leniency and was released. The second convict, August Bennin, was given two hours to evade Seattle authorities. Police testified Bennin had admitted theft while claiming recent employment.
A large Indian school near Albuquerque narrowly escaped a major blaze last night. The fire destroyed the commissary building valued at 15,000 dollars containing next year’s clothing and supplies. Three hundred children and staff worked through the night to protect the main buildings. The cause remains unknown.
Ballard high school plans a winter program through the Slayton Lyceum bureau featuring Edward P. Elliott Bohumir Kryl Reno B. Welbourn and Pitt Parker. The first show is Navy 22. The school, growing, is a recognized preparatory institution with six teachers and plan for a seventh.
In Iola Kansas on November 17 the prosecuting attorney warned a local physician that he could be prosecuted under antitrust laws for yesterday's price cuts on professional services. The warning underscores ongoing concerns about price fixing in the county.
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