History making rate fight ends after two years
In a long battle over rail rate gouging by Stone Webster interests, Washington court rulings restore old fares two years after an initial increase. The struggle united the people of Seattle and suburban areas, influenced the Allen law, and challenged injunctions and press suppression. The October 14 1909 decision by the railroad commission and successive courts culminates in rate restoration effective October 14, 1911.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puget Sound Electric
Railroad Commission
Westen Wan
ebster-Furth
Supreme Court
Stone Webster
State Utilities Commission
Duwamish Valley
Seattle
Fern Hill
Puyallup
Tukwila
W. H. Paulhamus
Sumner
State Senate
Traction Company
Mitchell
Olympia
Overripe cantaloupe and unusual garment notes
A brief item notes an overripe cantaloupe, a corn site, and a blue serge suit with gauze underwear. The fragment lists several disparate details without a clear narrative or connected event.
Ramona wreck details signal North Sea voyage losses
The Ramona wreck off the Northwestern coast is reported with most passengers and crew rescued or saved. officers and engineers remained aboard to guard the ship and recover possible U S mall and balloons. Names listed include Laszlo Schultz, Mrs Lanzio Schultz, Geo Westen, and C L W J Johnstone among others.
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U. S&s
Hope Lean
Ramona
Northwestern
Laszlo Schultz
Lanzio Schultz
Geo. Westen
C. L. W. J. Johnstone
G. Nes P. Thompson
M. Roamame
Aureia
C. Glavin
J. Varto
P. Smokeo
R. E. Jones
W. L. Steele
A. W Jackson
Ernest Russett
C. Hiltom
L. A. Last
H. Krimaon
Grant
Spanish Island
Little Dick Derickson
Capt
Derickson
Coast Geodetic Survey
Little Dick
City Inspector Calls for Funding to Enforce Weights Law
City Inspector A. W. Rinehart cites short weight exposure as the key to stopping butter fraud and urges the next year’s levy provide funds for independent inquiries. He notes lack of money limits enforcement and mentions confiscating at least 100 spring scales that overstate weights.
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A. W. Rinehart
Rinehart
Three Escape With Fortune Bank Heist Shocks New Westminster
United Press report details a bold Bank of Montreal robbery in New Westminster British Columbia. Three masked men entered through a rear window, blew open the vault, taking 315000 in gold and bills and leaving about 100000 in the vault. A Chinese janitor was bound and gagged but later freed by himself. Police suspect Vancouver-linked experts, noting the use of dynamite and specialized tools. A stolen car associated with the heist later appeared abandoned near the Y M C A.
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United Press
New Westminster
B. C
Bank of Montreal
Bradshaw
Vancouver
T. J. Trapp
Stockade Surrounded Lake City Rail Shops In Labor Tension
About 600 carpenters worked in 12 hour shifts to raise an eight foot high stockade around the Bingham Lake City shops of a Southern Pacific subsidiary. Similar fortifications were being erected at Salt Lake and Las Vegas plants as unions and railroad officials meet under labor calls.
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United Freee
Los Angeles
Gait Lake Railroad
Southern Pacific
Randolph
Salt Lake Road
Salt Lake
Lake Temple
Harriman Lines
Las Vegas
Nev
Duwamish Celebrate Victory Over Old Fares
Duwamish people plan a 8 o’clock meeting at Grange hall Foster to celebrate their Supreme Court upholding railway commission rulings restoring former Seattle Tacoma inter urban passenger fares. A band will play and Attorney Thomas Rh Horner will speak as the group vows to resist any return to old rates.
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Duwamish Valley
Foster
Supreme Court
Railway Commission
Seattle-Tacoma
Thomas Rh. Horner
Weather Outlook: Rain Tonight and Saturday
Rain is expected tonight and Saturday with brisk southwesterly winds. Noon temperature today is 55 degrees.
Five Acre Strawberry Farm For Sale East of Auburn
Five acres of strawberries and berries available east of Auburn on a good county road near a store school mill railroad and post office. Sale price is $00 per acre in five acre tracts with $10 down and $5 per month. Perfect title free abstract and warranty deed with final payment.
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Auburn
102 Reasons Anti-Hanging Law Sparks Transit Debate
A Geattie, Renton and South morning car carried 176 people including 102 reasons cited for an anti-strap hangings law. Passengers counted during the ride, with both standing and seated, illustrate crowded conditions and public safety concerns.
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Geattie, Renton & Southerm
Grand central hotel rolls out new towel on boarders
The Hicktown Bee notes a towel installation at the Grand Central hotel for boarders while Constable Hen Tozier is ill at home after an accident with a cracker box in the Emporium. A local traveler jokes about a coffin salesman amid reforms and jokes.
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Grandentral
Tubbs
Hen Tozier
Emporium
Watertower
Famous Robberies of Jimmy Hope and His Gang
An account compares the Bank of New Westminster heist to historic continental robberies by Jimmy Hope and his gang. It recalls the Kensington Bank ruse with police garb, the Ocean Bank basement vault dig, and the Manhattan raid of 1878 that yielded millions in securities and gold before Hope’s capture in 1881.
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Bank of New Westminster
Manhattan
Ocean Banks
New York
Kensington Bank
Philadelphia
Jimmy Hope
Hope
Ocean Bank
Manhattan Bank
Sather Bank
San Francisco
Guilty Verdict in Poor Milk Case Against Dairy Officer
J C Burnam of Northwest Dairy Co was found guilty by a jury in Judge Gay's court of selling milk with less than 3.25 percent fat. Burnam plans an immediate appeal to the supreme court on the claim that individual corporate officers cannot be punished for a corporation's acts. Deputy Prosecutor White quipped that if you want to sell poor milk go in corporate. The judge refused to dismiss the case and the jury deliberated.
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J.C. Burnam
Northwest Dairy Co
Burglar Misses Jewels After Ransacking Home
Mrs Alfred McRae returns from a theatre party to find a burglar had ransacked the New York area home of her wealthy merchant husband. He took several hundred dollars of silver plate but left $5 000 in jewels exposed in a bedroom jewel box. In Bern a glacier discovery: electrician Keimmer bodily remains found after 12 years frozen in the Loetschen glacier.
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Ian Bernardino
Cal
Alfred McRae
Berne
Keimmer
Loetschen
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