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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1905
Page
7
Louise Cole, 18, of Baltimore, has survived two years on milk and ice cream. After deciding to stop eating that diet she has eaten nothing for a week and remains in critical condition.
The health and sanitation committee rejected the Ed Cudihee and associates request to extend slaughter house limits. Local packers allegedly blocked newcomers by plotting to keep rivals out, with Carstens Bros. and Frye Packing possibly owning tidelands and pushing to relocate the slaughter house.
Mrs A A Lewis and Alice Brown were arrested Monday afternoon in the department store at 1 & Southwick on shoplifting charges after an informer claimed they removed articles. Police found a tailor-made and other items. bail was posted by Jack Pat, a former saloon keeper.
Mrs. W Ballard, 1314 Howell, was struck from behind by a heavy instrument on Howell between Howard and Heastlake last Saturday night. She was wounded but not fatally, and identified no attacker. Her husband, a butcher at 1606 Seventh, helps with the investigation while police have not yet been informed. Theories point to mistaken revenge by a rejected suitor targeting a nearby resident.
Albert Bender, scene painter for Jack Daniels, accuses Daniels of larceny by embezzlement after Daniels allegedly failed to pay his crew and disappeared with three water color sketches by Bender. Witnesses include John Cort and J. W. Considine and other theater figures.
The Seattle Car Manufacturing company bids 980 per car to supply 800 freight cars for the Panama Canal Commission. Beattle’s bid is 980, American Car & Foundry of St. Louis offers 1,044 per car but promises December to April delivery, while Seattle expects February start and December completion. The timing edge of the St. Louis firm could offset the lower price.
Robert B. Hunter and associates of the American Improvement Company begin a $35,000 gas plant at North Yakima with capacity for 50 000 people. The gas franchise inquiry may come before the council on Wednesday as the firm bids to furnish the Aluminant.
In a city prison on Monday Charles Mac Cauley was deemed mentally weak and moved to the county jail insane ward. He was sentenced last Thursday to 30 days.
Cyrus Walker aged 78 president of the Puget Mill Co and a leading Seattle figure was struck on the head by a falling iron piece while overseeing an electric crane at Port Ludlow. He suffered a fractured collar bone and multiple rib injuries and was unconscious for an hour before Dr Packer arrived. Dr Bogieson of Seattle departed for the city on a special tug.
The steamer City of Gentile to Shagway and Southeastern Alaska leaves Seattle Monday morning with a full passenger list and general cargo for coast and interior points. The Tremont sails next Tuesday for Japan, China and the Philippines with 14800 tons of freight and several prominent passengers including Frank J. Lavin who will work with the Philippine commission office in Manila. The Tremont cargo includes tobacco machinery hay grain and other merchandise.
In St. Petersburg on October 10 the imperial rescript expresses gratitude to M. Witte for his Portamouth triumph. The note highlights the diplomatic achievement tied to the Portsmouth accord and recognizes Witte’s role in the success.
T. Burke struck a man with a two inch gas pipe in an unsuccessful robbery attempt on Jackson Street Monday night. Officer Philbrick, nearby at Jackson and Becond, chased Burke who tried to throw a weapon during the confrontation. Burke was arrested and jailed.
The Tribe of Ben Hur met at Macabee hall in Puget Sound district court for routine morning business. Afternoon sessions featured talks on Mensata and Arrius by Rev. O L Fowler and on Mother Hur and Amrah by Edon B Lund followed by a discussion on fraternal membership versus old line insurance led by Adolph Exgerth. C B Maxfield closed the day with a talk on Ritualistic Work. Banquets and hospitality marked the event with about 100 attendees.
Mayor Dallinger asked J W Clise to accept the park board seat left by C W Saunders resignation after Clise failed to secure action from Judge Alfred Hattie. Clise, in the East, has not replied. The Third ward’s overrepresentation spurs criticism of park improvements there. Clise lives on Queen Anne Hill in the Eighth ward.
Frank B Hubbell seeks council permission to build a street railway with a counterweight system on Bluff to Terry and Nineth from Union to University. Two cars will operate, one up and one down, offering single trip and round trip fares. An observation tower may top the hill, modeled after a Los Angeles system handling about 2000 riders daily.
Seattle business leaders argue the city cannot safely or feasibly host more than 15 000 visitors for the Christian Endeavor convention of 1907. Hotels and board houses would strain to accommodate guests and food supplies, while organizers push for a broader hosting plan despite sanitation and capacity concerns.
The Italian ambassador Baron Edmondo Mayor de Planches becomes dean of the diplomatic corps in Washington after Count Cassini was recalled last spring for failing to secure American favor for Russia. Mayor de Planches has been in Washington two years and his adopted daughter Countess Marguerite Cassini has been a leading figure in social diplomacy.
Several vessels sail and depart including the Joefferson bound for Skagway with interior merchandise, the Vermont and Tremont heading to the Orient with over 20 000 tons of freight, and City of Puebla arriving from San Francisco with fruit and passengers. The Norwood heads to San Francisco and Los Angeles with lumber and 32 passengers while Meteor sails to Seattle. Burnside ceases operations repairing the Alaska cable. Johan Poulsen launching ends White shipyard at Everett as White brothers shift to California for lumber trade with 800 000 feet capacity and no passengers. Water shutdown planned on East Madison area Wednesday morning.
The United States Navy plans a world class rifle range at Guantanamo Cuba to train sailors in small arms with the winter naval maneuvers. About 6 000 men aboard 15 ships in Cuban waters will be required to qualify. Medals and awards will be given to top marksmen and crews will be ranked by shooting records.
In the next 24 hours some 4,800,000 feet of Puget Sound lumber will depart on ships bound for California South America and Australia. Vessels Yosemite Curzon Nottingham Norwood head to sea with large cargoes, signaling an unprecedented export boom and expectations to exceed 20,000,000 feet in October.
The Great Northern train robbers remain at large with no new reports on Tuesday. Sheriff Smith and officers intensified searches of likely spots while pin kertons stay silent. Detectives keep watch but have yielded no results, and investigators suspect the robbers may be in Seattle spending the loot.
Union Pacific shareholders held a noon meeting in Salt Lake City Utah and nominated a slate of directors who are expected to be elected. Named are Oliver Ames W D Cornish Thomas T Eckert C Frick E H Harriman Marvin Mughitt Otto H Kahn R S Lovett Charles A Peabody W G Rockefeller H H Rogers J N Schiff Joseph F Smith Mormon president James Stillman H A Valentine.
The New York financial note lists closing and intraday figures for copper sugar gas steel and railroad stocks including Amal Copper American Sugar B T Peoples Gas Metropolitan U S Steel and several railroads with bid and ask style figures shown for the day October 10 1905.
Fragmentary entries list Pac and Un Pac institutions with numbers 695-8 681-8 691-8 and 133 1321-8 1821-2 plus Ill Central 1801-4 1793-4 1801 N Y Cent 1495-9 1495-8 149, with a note Sales to noon 245 900.
Chicago market notes show December wheat at 857-8 851-4 855-8 and May at 867-8 863-8 865-8. December corn at 447-8 443-8 443-8, May 441-8 44 44. December oats 283-4 281-4 281-4, May 307-8 303-8 303-8. Park January 12.37. Liverpool wheat closes for December and March at 68 101-84 and 6s 9d.
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