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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1905
Page
2
A Chicago Daily News item notes Korea's protest that it remains alive after the peace treaty and Japan's role as its executor. It mocks Korean claims, cites treaty guarantees, and suggests modern powers would dismiss such pleas while warning Korea to build a real state.
The piece mocks life insurance hypocrisy and charitable customs. It contrasts calls for removing Lawson’s funds with Linevitch’s demand to send soldiers home and hints at changes in leadership roles when women influence the White House. It also notes land frauds in New Mexico affecting statehood debates.
A reader reflects on how love endures despite unseen expenses and sacrifices, suggesting emotional price may grow over time while devotion remains steadfast.
C T Mangum Dec 19 Miss Lillie M Campbell 16 defied parents eight days to marry Owen K Bills, then consented to wed George W McCracken, a wealthy farmer. Both licenses were obtained with alleged parental consent, Bills was charged with forgery, later freed, and the two suitors and preachers linger nearby awaiting the ceremony.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. leads the Continental-Mexican Rubber Company which plans a Torreon factory to process guayule into rubber. The $1 million facility would be the largest of its kind in Mexico as guayule cultivation expands. The firm leases thousands of acres and buys guayule at 35 dollars a ton, boosting local ranchers.
Prince Cantacuzene aged five who speaks four languages and Princess Cantacuzene aged one and a half, grandchildren of General Fred D. Grant, arrived on the steamship Majestic in New York. They travel with Mrs. Potter Palmer, their grandmother's sister, and were taken to Governor's Island with General Grant after boarding at quarantine. Their father and mother remain in Paris and will join them in the spring.
Police arrest Isadore Apple amid dozens of complaints from women across New York City claiming he posed as a surrogate's official. He collected advance fees claiming legacies from dead relatives, which proved fictitious. The first accuser is Mrs. Vance Stover, niece of Supreme Court Justice Stover, who paid $35 on a supposed $10,000 legacy.
Philadelphia report describes a murder attempt by Casper Cooper on David F. Rowe. Rowe, long paralyzed on the right side, seemed near death after the assault but survived beyond expectations at a Pennsylvania hospital.
Rowe, shot five times by Cooper then left paralyzed, has regained mobility and declares no remaining paralysis three weeks after the incident. Cooper killed himself after firing at Rowe while he lay on a couch, with Rowe still bearing lead pellets in his arm and a breast wound in healing.
William Newman of Blair arrives with his best man to marry Nora Whitlock in Omaha but discovers she has run away with a patient named Teeters. Newman consoles them with congratulations and a gift. Whitlock, a trained nurse, treated Teeters at a sanitarium and he proposed. She chose Teeters over Newman, proving her right to decide.
A swap for small money offers a nearly new three room house on a 60 by 120 corner lot with good outbuildings. Price 625 dollars, cash 325 dollars, balance easy terms. Address box 278 Wenatchee Washington. Also a five room house on a 50 by 120 lot on Wenatchee avenue three doors south of the courthouse, easy terms. Apply to owner on property.
Property listing describes 45 acres of good fruit land and 15 acres of timber with 200 bearing apple and peach trees and 160 two-year-old trees. 25 acres alfalfa, four miles from Cashmere, includes a ten room plastered house schoolhouse on site large barn and good well. 20 inch water right under a ditch. Priced at $5,000 with $3,000 cash and balance due in four years at 8 percent. Contact G A Virtue 306 Boston Block Seattle Wash.
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