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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1905
Page
5
Ballard business leaders appoint a 14 or 15 member committee to visit Tacoma merchants and brokers to discuss Ballard goods and counter Seattle merchants active in annexation. The anti annexation sentiment grows with Ballard merchants priced by Beattie supplying about 80 percent of Ballard merchandise.
Wilson Purnans name placed for Ballard city attorney after H W Pecks withdrawal. Lecture on Darkest Russia to be delivered December 10 at socialist HQ. Ballard schools showing strong enrollment with 2209 pupils to date, per superintendent Dickson. Per capita pupil numbers compare favorably with Seattle Everett and Tacoma. Ballard adds scientific equipment and plans new ward buildings with 10 rooms each. Joint Seattle Ballard committees approve a 90 foot boulevard right of way from Fremont to First and Leary. Calderhead of Seattle named rate man for state railroad commission.
Half million bonds added with $600,000 more by Treadwell Mining Co of Douglas Island. The filing covers claims adjoining its own site after a rich strike. Frank M. Stone, director of Alaska Treasure, traveled through Seattle Friday toward Chicago to buy machinery for the new claima.
G W Denny owner of the Van Asselt saloon reported a Monday night robbery and partially identified Frank Mayon and Free Williams as two of the hold up men. Mayon and Williame were already arrested several days earlier in the city.
Work on a new sixty thousand dollar packing house in Seattle will begin February 1. The McGuhre Meat Company plans reorganization of the old firm with capitalization rising from forty thousand to one hundred fifty thousand before construction. Once both plants operate the new facility will handle about six hundred head per day.
The Seattle Electric Company has purchased a site south of Georgetown for new car barns and shops and will spend about $100,000 there. Buyers are urged to purchase nearby property from A Robinson at 60T Alaska R Building with improved tracts priced from $560 to $756 on easy terms. Three of the boys have already bought. See display on classified page.
Fred FP. Sanders, promoter of the Seattle-Nvegetttterurban, aims to enter Seattle by using part of Seattle Electric Company tracks. Talks cover compensation and route choices from Ballard to Denny Way and Western Avenue, with August 10 target for one line. A second Everett line faces hurdles with Beattie Electric.
The Puget Sound dredging company launched a large steam dredge under construction. A conveyor break at West Seattle delayed loading of wheat cargoes. Boston reports a new direct steamship line Horton to Japan and China via the Afgan Prince with 11 000 tons of cargo. The Buckman, bought by Captain B K E Caine, arrived San Francisco after 69 days from New York and will be converted to an oil burner. Dredge work will open channels on Puget Sound. Two men, McCugh and Murphy, pleaded guilty to petty larceny and were fined 100 dollars each after McCugh admitted stealing two hams. Charles H B Foster identified the meat in court.
A. J. Stewart was fined ten dollars for performing plumbing work at 664 Dearborn Street without the required license. The citation references a rate law mandating a licensed plumber in cities over ten thousand population.
Murphy stole umbrellas from a merchant at 102 Pike Street. Both men will be placed on the chain gang.
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