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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1909
Page
1
Olympia August 18. The legislature must adjourn by next Saturday under the 60 day limit. Unacted bills die. impeachment in the archives continues. Governor Hay will call a special session to proceed with the trial and finish pending measures, including efforts to purchase the Wenatchee bridge.
Chief Engineer A P Hoagland in St Paul will award the Brewster Oroville branch contract in Okanogan county. The 70 mile line is budgeted at about 2 million dollars and aims to unlock rich undeveloped eastern Washington lands and irrigated fruit acreage. The route will connect with the main Great Northern line at Wenatchee and may join the Hill system toward Vancouver.
Contractors for the Wenatchee regrade project report steady progress with 58 workers and 14 teams. Work concentrates on the block north of Wenatchee Produce Co with hills to remove and filling to complete. Concrete sidewalks start within two weeks and graders may move to the south section. completion before cold weather and minimal traffic disruption are planned.
The city will use crushed rock on Wenatchee avenue and King and Palouse streets instead of gravel after a conference with Con contractors Allyn and McKiver. A minor extra charge is noted. Election officers for the local option vote were appointed per ward with specified polling sites and hours. A sub sewer project in the alley between Orondo and Palouse from Mission to Wenatchee is estimated at about 675 dollars. Orondo avenue improvement ordinance receives a second reading.
Arthur Bousquet and A G Pogue arrived back from a business trip to Moses Coulee today confirming the conclusion of their travel.
The commercial club’s Wenatchee day committee meets at Hayden Lumber to appoint sub committees and plan the display for the A Y P exposition on September 3. Members include Z E Hayden chairing with Swartwood Halling Edwards Mooney Harlin.
E. B. Norell of this city and C. E. Eberhardt of Seattle form Columbia Realty & Investment to market Dover townsite. Dover platted into 80 lots with 14 five acre tracts, all riverfront and watered by a pumping plant.
O G France, living west of town, will harvest 25 000 boxes of apples this fall from his 40 acre bearing orchard. He says a portion of the crop was offered 2 10 per box but he refused. Other growers reportedly received high offers and also refused.
M. O. Tibbits remains alive but in critical condition with little change reported. Doctors and relatives have given up hopes for recovery and consider death likely imminent.
President Owens announces a board of managers meeting for tomorrow night in the bank to close the season and decide arrangements for the banquet honoring eight teams.
A barn at the Hobson Brothers brick yard burned last Friday around 3 PM. Two tons of hay bedding and clothing of two workers were lost. The approximate loss is $500 and the cause remains unknown.
Miss Azilda Forten and Mrs Geo A and J Forten of Brewster leave today for Chicago to visit friends and take a trip.
Mrs Swetland and her daughter Florence arrived yesterday from Portland to visit Mrs Swetland's sister Mrs Harry Taylor at the Great Northern hotel.
George Noblet known as Frenchy, a 35 year old dishwasher at the Chewawa hotel, allegedly attempted to stab Miss Lillian Trow, a waitress there, after his romantic rejection. The knife blade broke, injuring Noblet’s wrist. police arrested him as Trow fled to Chief Insche. He faces arraignment tomorrow.
Alex A. Allan known as Scotty Allan arrived this morning from Seattle. He won the All Alaskan Sweep stakes dog team race from Dawson to Fairbanks, 408 miles in 82 hours 2 minutes. He is 42, 5 feet 4 1 2 inches, 150 pounds, and will sail for Alaska on the 20th. He is active in Nome affairs and was a top competitor who trained dogs with Jake Berger.
The F. W. Smith five acre Millerdale tract sold this morning to B. J. Hummel of Milwaukee for 12000 dollars. Wenatchee Realty & Investment arranged the sale. Possession by August 25, with Smith moving promptly. Hummel plans orchard development in Wenatchee’s famed fruit district.
G A Harris, inspector for postal routes, spent several days in the city in response to petitions for an additional valley route and another east of the river. The riverbank route covers territory west of Orchard Avenue and nearly all valley areas not served by the other routes.
Parks, arrested earlier in Moscow and transported by Deputy Sheriff Kenyon, faces a preliminary trial this afternoon in the Astoria bank check case. Crass and Porter defend him.
E. A. Brown, interested in irrigation enterprises at Crescent Bar, is in the city today.
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