County Commissioners Complete Three Day Session
County commissioners Ed Hinnman Conrad Jose and J A McArthur finished a three day session at the courthouse with heavy road improvement business. They approved adding four acres to Leavenworth to create Leavenworth Gardens and awarded a contract for repairing the Columbia River Road. A Chelan Falls ferry license was granted and a justice of the peace was appointed. A road survey was ordered near Cashmere and courthouse repairs planned. The session noted limited office space as county business grows. In a separate note a Chicago mercantile firm executive was arrested in Seattle for cash and check theft linked to over 10 000 in cash stolen earlier. About 3300 total cash seized and 2500 recovered. stolen checks recovered from a Chicago drug store.
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Ed Hinnman
Cashmere
Conrad Jose
Wenatchee
J. A. McArthur
Entiat
H. C. Peters
Leavenworth Gardens
John Kulls
John Carlyle
Columbia River
Carlyle
Bird’s Gulch
Red Mountain
Chelan Falls
S. P. Beecher
W. H. Covington
Stevens Brothers
Chicago
Seattle
Washington
Snowstorms Delay Trains in East and Midwest
Snowfall over 24 hours blocks rail lines in the East with snowplows working continuously as all trains run late. In Wisconsin, LaCrosse reports the heaviest snowstorm of the winter delaying Chicago trains by three to seven hours.
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Des Moines
Lacrosse Wis
Chicago
Tornado strikes Albany factory area in Georgia
A tornado swept Albany in the afternoon destroying a large factory and raising fears of many deaths. One body has been recovered from the ruins.
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Atlanta
Albany
Gus Bobbs Sentenced For Embezzlement In Joliet Prison
Gus Bobbs who was captured in Seattle by Special Officer Clark pled guilty to embezzlement charges from Chisago. He received a prison term of one to ten years in Joliet Illinois. The sentence was reported to Seattle by a letter to Officer Clark.
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Seattle
Gus Bobbs
Clark
Chisago
Illinois
Joliet
Bobbs
Big Chelan Fruit Growers Meeting At Ellis Ford Hall
Officers and members of the Chelan County Horticultural Society plan a January 15 and 18 gathering in Ellis Ford hall with forenoon and afternoon sessions. Ranchers are invited to bring lunch and stay all day. Montana’s David R. McGinnis will discuss cultivation and pruning of fruit trees. Spokane farmer K A Jones also slated to speak on an as yet announced topic. The society numbers over 100 members and a poultry show runs alongside in Haskell and Prowell halls, drawing a large crowd.
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Chelan County Horticultural Society
Ellis- Ford Hall
David R. McGinnis
Montana
Mr. McGinnins
Orondo
K. A. Jones
Spokane
Haskell
Prowell Hall
Dads Beat Kids in Bowling Match by 61 Points
The Wednesday bowling event saw the dads win 2019 to 1958. Top scores included Rahe 437, Fenton 429, Van Landingham 418 for the dads while Fisher 843, Holderby 490, Franklin 384 led the kids.
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Ald Weil
Fenton
van Landingham
Rahe
Cowles
Kids—Franklin
Holderby
Frisbie
Oglivie
Fisher
Petition for Two New School Districts Filed
A petition praying for two new school districts was filed in Superintendent Riste's office. West shore residents seek a district separate from the lakeside area and a hearing is scheduled for the 27th. A second petition from Merritt area residents requests forming a new district from part of the Nason Creek district.
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Riste
Lake Chelan
Lakeside
Merritt
Nasen Creek
Depew Asked to Resign Senate Seat
Albany Jan 4 Senate resolution introduced by Senator Brackett of Saratoga demands Chauncey M Depew resign his United States Senate seat over disclosed ties between the Equitable Life Assurance Society and the senator. The measure cites loss of public confidence and urges immediate resignation.
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Albany
N. Y
Brackett
Saratoga
Chauncey M. Depew
United States
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Blizzard Now Raging at the Lakes Head
The first blizzard since late November storms menaced ships and lives rages at the head of the lakes. A mild day gives way to damp snow and main impact will be delays in street cars and railroad traffic.
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Duluth
Minon
Gigantic Land Fraud Exposed in Oregon Trial
In Salem A P Kel Liberal a Chicago lumberman stands accused of forging and fraudulently acquiring 6000 acres of school land. The indictment against co-defendant H H Turner was dismissed to let him testify against Kelliber. Turner confessed the full scheme saying he forged at Kelliber's direction and was paid seven dollars per 320 acres.
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Portland
Ore
Salem
A. P. Kelliber
Chicago
H. H. Turner
Kelliher
Turner
Shuster to accompany Bryan on Philippine trip
Manila Jan 4 W Morgan Shuster collector of customs for the Philippine Islands will join William Jennings Bryan on his southern islands visit as representative of the civil government Galliano Apasible former president of the Filipino junta at Hongkong will accompany him as representative of the radical party
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Manila
W. Morgan Shuster
Tslands
William Jennings Bryan
Galliano Apasible
Hongkong
Radical Party
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Georgia
Depew
Hoag
City
Louis Bigelow
Davenport
O. A. Hoag
Chelan
Douglas
Lincoln
Bigelow
J. J. Inkster
Lincoln County
Walla Walla
Hoag Diay
Woodmen of America
Bower Hall
E. W. Thomas
Wm. Wilson
Frank Palmer
Prince Atkinson
Wm. Reed
Bryan
Arthur Gunn
Wenatchee Post Office
Bousquet & Holm
H.L. Wiester
Rogers
Haviland
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