Legislature Ends Extraordinary Session Over Shively Impeachment
Olympia July 3 The senate and house adjourned the extraordinary session until August 11 for the Shively impeachment trial. Hay forces in the house yielded on reducing the impeachment board to three managers. The salaries fixed: senators five dollars per diem and managers ten dollars per diem. A French led effort sought to shrink the board to three. the present eleven member board included the speaker Lambert Edge and others. The house sent bills of local importance back to committees. Falconer and Graves actions passed in the senate.
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Olympia
Senate
House of Representatives
John H. Shhively
Board of Managers
Meigs
Sparks
Edge
Conference
House
French
Clarke
Shively
Lambert
Messrs
Buchanan
Frank C. Jackson
Todd
McGregor
Taylor
Hubbell
McMaster
Beach
Weir
Attorney General
Falconer
Ban on Firecrackers In Wenatchee Fire Limits
Due to water shortages Chief Inscho bans firing of firecrackers within Wenatchee city fire limits. This year’s drought is worse than before and police will enforce strict precautions to prevent fires this Fourth of July.
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Inscho
Wenatchee
No Paper Monday at The Daily World Holiday
The Daily World joins local businesses in declaring Monday a holiday with no issue of the paper. Employees will be scattered to Chelan Seattle and fishing parties, all planning to enjoy the time off.
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Daily World
Chelan
Seattle
City sells $40,000 bond issue to fund street work
Three bids were opened for the $40,000 bond issue drawing 5 percent and maturing in 15 years. Harris Trust & Savings of Chicago bid $42,010, Seattle Trust Title Co. $41,064, and C. H. Coffin of Chicago $40,501. The city accepts Allyn & McKiver bid for Wenatchee avenue regrade and will hold their $3,750 bid security to ensure performance.
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Harris Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago
Seattle Trust Title Co
C. H. Coffin
Chicago
Harris Company
Allyn & McKiver
Wenatchee Avenue
Seattle
Wenatchee Power Offers Free Pumping for Fire Protection
After a small fire drained Wenatchee’s water mains, Wenatchee Electric President Arthur Gunn offered to provide free current to operate the city pumping plant for a few days over the Fourth of July to aid fire protection. Entiat Power & Light prepared to operate, with pumping begun at 3:15 p.m. to fill the reservoir.
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Miller
Gunn
Wenatchee Electric Company
City of
Wenatchee
Wash
Arthur Gunn
Ward
Entiat Power & Light Company
Body of missing man found in Bridgeport River
The body of C. E. Jackson, missing since June 18, was found Thursday evening a quarter mile below Bridgeport Land Company's log boom. Eighty five dollars in a buckskin sack around his neck was turned over to the company manager. Coroner to determine cause. Jackson, a resident of Tunk valley, had recent homestead proof and worked for Bridgeport Land Company.
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Bridgeport Land Company
Bert Berry
Land Company
Local grower brings first apricots to market
Cots Cc. E. Lewis of Sunnyslope delivered the season's first local apricot crate to the Depot Lunch Counter this morning. He plans to market 150 crates from 150 trees, a modest beginning but satisfying.
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Cc. E. Lewis
Sunnyslope
Weeklong National Celebrations Dominate July Schedule
Washington reports a busy week with Lake Champlain tercentenary events led by Samuel de Champlain’s commemoration. President Taft attends Fort Ticonderoga and Plattsburg ceremonies and visits Norwich Connecticut for its 250th city founding anniversary. A Russian Polish pageant occurs in Poltava marking a 200th battle anniversary. A White Plains hearing considers Harry Thaw’s sanity. Major conventions include NAEs in Denver, Christian Endeavor in St Paul, and Epworth League in Seattle.
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Washington, D. C
Lake Champlain
Samuel de Champlain
Taft
Fort Ticonderoga
Plattsburg
Burlington
Washington
Beverly
Norwich
Conn
Poltava
Charles XII
Sweden
White Plains
Harry Thaw
Mattewan
Denver
National Educational Association
The
Christian Endeavor Union
St. Paul
Epworth League
Seattle
Wenatchee Valley Apples Praised by Former Editor
W J Curriden, once Wenatchee Advance editor, calls Wenatchee a premier apple belt with strong growth potential. He notes Wenatchee apples command high prices, cites irrigation expansion, and predicts rising trade as orchards spread across the Columbia River valley. Curriden, now in mining interests in Nevada and Arizona, plans to depart Spokane after visiting J L Corey.
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Wenatchee Valley
United States
New York
Alabama
Massachusetts
New England
Chicago
Daily World
W. J. Curriden
Wenatchee Advance
Curriden
San Francisco
Wenatchee
Wenatchee Avenue
Columbia River
Columbia River Valley
Columbian River
State of Washington
New York State
Missouri
Arkansas
Nevada
California
Territory
Arizona
J. L. Corey
Corey
Spokane
Four drunks arraigned before Judge Palmer
Four drunk defendants faced Judge Palmer yesterday afternoon and were fined five dollars each. Some paid the fines, while others will serve the time on the street as court records show.
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Palmer
Mrs J H Miller Burns Fire Blames Gasoline Mis sion Street
Mrs J H Miller suffered severe burns in a Mission Street house fire caused when a match dropped from her boy's clothing ignited while she tried to throw burning items from the porch. She is reported as much easier this morning with burns to both hands and arms.
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J. H. Miller
Miller
Mission Street
River Commission in Session Opens River Improvement Plans
The Columbia River Improvement commission meets in Wenatchee to oversee a $50,000 state appropriation. Members include State Senator A. W. Anderson, James B. Balentine, W. W. Bryant, Herman Cornell, and Capt. Fred McDermott. They expect to open river segments, especially Foster Creek, to aid Ferry and Stevens counties and boost Wenatchee's trade. The group dined at the Great Northern hotel with Commercial Club members and press representatives.
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Columbia River Improvement Commission
Wenatchee
A. W. Anderson
Stevens County
James B. Balentine
Spokane
W. W. Bryant
Herman Cornell
Bridgeport
Fred McDermott
Hay
Foster Creek
Ferry
Stevens
Great Northern Hotel
Commercial Club
Civil suit over deck hand pay against C. O. Steamboat
Judge Palmer presided over Arthur Lawrence versus the C. and O. Steamboat Co for 20.65 alleging pay for deck hand service. Testimony showed a failed pipe fitting throw caused loss of castings, the company tried to deduct 12 for salary, but Lawrence acted under a superior officer and his full salary was allowed.
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Palmer
Arthur Lawrence
C. & O. Steamboat Company
Lawrence
Lost Horse in Fire at East Wenatchee Barn
A barn belonging to D. M. Simon in East Wenatchee burned yesterday. A valuable horse inside the barn perished in the flames while buggies and wagons were saved. Simon estimates total loss around 500 dollars. Simon had recently bought the property from D. N. Payton.
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East Wenatchee
D. M. Simon
D. N. Payton
Race Meeting Opens at Butte Jockey Club
Butte Montana July 3 The mid summer meeting of the Butte Jockey club opened today at the old Marcus Daly racing course. The meeting will continue thirty days and from all indications it will be one of the most successful ever held here.
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Butte
Mont
Butte Jockey Club
Marcus Daly
One Thousand Made Homeless in Ontario Fire
A major blaze in Cobalt Ont on July 2 destroyed 75 buildings leaving about 1000 homeless with losses around 350000. The federal government is supplying tents and relief goods to the affected residents.
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Cobalt
Ont
Provisions Government
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