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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1907
Page
5
Crowds packed the public market as hucksters and farmers sold produce amid heavy foot traffic. Vendors report solid business while peddlers deny collusion with a national combine. Grapes and cantaloupes draw praise for quality as public access to fresh fruit expands beyond prior control attempts.
Joseph Blethen plans a new opera after The Alaskan success on tour. Harry Roe Shelley will collaborate as Blethen tackles the project aiming for a broader road run, with Seattle, December visits, and California engagements ahead.
The report recounts detectives Lane and Adams facing a gun battle during a planned burglary sequence on Madison Avenue and Third Street. A suspect, Murray, was killed by police fire as the duo engaged burglars at a grocery and nearby store, with shots exchanged and the crime thwarted on a stormy night.
Amusements describe Edward Pe Ple's The Prince Chap with Cyril Scott and a top original cast touring from New York. The show is said to match a 209 performance NY run and follows art life themes. Also listed are Around the World in Eighty Days at Third Avenue and other theater plans.
The Lola Theater presents a popular youth end playhouse bill featuring Drake's educated acrobatics and talent acts. The current show runs nightly with a Sunday finish and a new week bill starting Monday including the Morton Jewell troupe of Jugglers and operatic duetists Seattle in 1900.
The Odeon will present six new acts alongside moving pictures an illustrated song and Lola Feart's operatic vocalization. Myrtle Victo rine Neal and Dunbar Fuller Yamamoto troupe and Misa Nina Payne join a continuous all week program starting Monday with Harry Firet Co in The Marriage Fee. Also on the lineup are Man and Ford Pope and Knight Ernesto Forrester Roy Meliram and others. Tonight and tomorrow close the current bill.
Concerts are scheduled at Luna Park tonight and tomorrow. The Hungarian Hucar band, regarded as a leading musical organization in BN Brooks Co. T3231 Secondary, will perform across evening and matinee slots.
The Oliver theater the only strictly moving picture venue in Seattle will present an all new program next week. Patrons who missed the pak man program have few moments left to take advantage of advance seats at the Family Theater. The Family Theater and museo features specialties vaudeville illustrated songs the Family Stock Co in an angwaing eket and a museum freak show all for one admission with a program change planned.
The North American Dredging Co. of Seattle wins a $4,000 contract to dredge a channel connecting St Michael Bay with the Yukon channel. The waterway will enable transferring freight from lighters to Yukon steamers decks. Take your girl in the post Labor Day picnic at Pleasant Beach tomorrow.
San Francisco dispatch reports Abe Ruef convicted and to be relocated from luxurious quarters under guard to the city jail. Mayor Biggy now chief of police will oversee Ruef as the city guards change, with Ruef expected to provide key testimony in the trolley bribery trials of Patrick Calhoun and Tirey Ford.
Star Special Service reports in Black Diamond on September 14 a shocking incident where J Baizerereno was stunned and knocked senseless by a bolt of unknown origin.
A fragment notes lightning the other day while pronouncing on the rear porch of his residence. It provides limited context and lacks clear names or dates.
After the G A R officers were installed, the 41st encampment ends and veterans return to their homes.
Whit working on the trestle near Sixthev, Burt Prickson, a laborer, fell to the tideflats below. He sustained bad bruises and scratches and may have internal injuries. Fellow workers aided him and he was taken to Providence Hospital.
Deputy collector of customs Cheatnut notifies owners of the launches Sunny Jimi and May 8 to appear before him to explain a recent collision on Lake Washington. Pleasant Teach tomorrow. Big piente.
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