Belmont street vacating and city power talks dominate council
The Wenatchee area council met in regular session approving a ten hour workday for Douglas street contractors to finish in 90 days. It accepted Percy Walker’s Belmont street vacating offer and heard sanitation and manure handling proposals from J B Coombs. Proposals from Wenatchee and Entiat power firms were discussed with a Saturday meeting set to decide the water plant power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Street Improvement
Belmont Addition
Percy Walker
Chelan Avenue
Walker Street
Walker
J. B. Coombs
Coombs
Gunn
Whitman
Whitman School
Great Northern
Kittitas
Thurston Streets
Palouse
First Street
Kittitas Street
Arthur Gunn
Wenatchee Electric Company
Power and Light Committee
Entiat Power Company
Mrs Captain Shotwell Returns After Seattle Visit
Mrs Captain Shotwell of Lakeside spent weeks in Seattle and returned home this morning. Oscar Pike and family are in Seattle staying most of the summer to attend the Seattle fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Captain Shotwell
Lakeside
Seattle
Oscar Pike
Spector Returns to Help Fight Scarlet Fever Epidemic
Spector travels to Spokane to assist in halting the scarlet fever outbreak. On request of local health leaders, Coombs will return in about ten days to supervise house to house canvassing and compel cleanup. City officials vow prosecution if summer conditions are not remedied as flies breed disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Coombs
Spokane
Mr. Coombs
Coomps
English buyers coming to inspect northwest fruit belts
G B Lanham for Wagner & Sons reports that George Shuttleworth, of the Simon Shuttleworth Fruit Company, Liverpool and Glasgow, is en route to the northwest to inspect the fruit belts. He is a major buyer of Yellow Newtons and has previously handled Wenatchee fruit with good regard for its selling quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. B. Lanham
G. M. H. Wagner & Sons
George Shuttleworth
Simon-Shuttleworth Fruit Company
Liverpool
England
Glasgow
Scotland
Railway Officials to Visit Wenatchee From Colorado & Southern
Secretary McKittrick of the Wenatchee Commercial club reports five high officials of the Colorado & Southern railway will visit Wenatchee within a week or ten days. The Colorado road is a Burlington subsidiary. The party will tour the river and Chelan country during their county visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKittrick
Wenatchee
Escape Plot Thwarted at Joliet Prison Inmate Lead Captured
A jail delivery attempt at Joliet State Prison was foiled when guards halted 150 convicts after a breakout began in the quarry. Leader Gustave Vatter was captured by a farmer's daughter two hours later. D. D. Olds and family relocate to Richmond Beach for the summer near Seattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joliet
Gustave Vatter
D. D. Olds
Richmond Beach
Seattle
Chelan County Pioneers Set Third Annual Monitor Picnic
Chelan County Pioneers association holds its third annual picnic at Monitor grounds June 18 to 20 with about 200 members. The Wenatchee Military Band will provide music and a business meeting is planned for next Saturday to decide a formal program.
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Neers
Chelan County
Monitor
Territory of
Washington
Wenatchee
Representatives Favorable to River and Harbor Approvals
Secretary McKittrick receives letters from Senators Chamberlain and Bourne of Oregon regarding Wenatchee Commercial Club resolutions. They express support for liberal appropriations for river and harbor improvements and pledge to assist.
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McKittrick
Chamberlain and Bourne
Oregon
Wenatchee
Jonathan Bourne
Black Hand Plots Tied to Marion and Chicago Cases
United States Secret Agent J F Oldfield travels to Columbus with incriminating letters found at fruit merchant Sam Lima s home tied to the Black Hand. Charles Viccarino of Bellefontaine is arrested as a go between and alleged intermediary with the gang. Detective Longobardi of Chicago s Black Hand squad uncovers a jail delivery plot after being warned by an Italian prisoner.
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Marion
Ohio
United States
J. F. Oldfield
Columbus
Sam Lima
Black Hand
Skull & Crossbones
Bleeding Hearts
Charles Viccarrio
Bellefontaine
Oldfield
Viccarino
Petrosino
New York
Italy
Chicago
Gabriel Longobardi
Blackhand Squadron
Chicaggi Police
Longobardi
River gauge shows no rise at depot this morning
The gauge on the river opposite the depot records 34 feet 1 inch 9 lines with no change since yesterday morning. Forecasters expect several warm days to raise the river again, continuing to rise toward about the first day of July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Robbed in Broad Daylight on South Mission Street
A thief entered the home of Mr and Mrs Earl Clayton on South Mission between 10 and 11 am and stole $20 from a purse on a bureau. Mrs Clayton had left briefly to visit a neighbor and returned to find the purse missing. Police were notified but no trace of the burglar was found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Clayton
South Mission Street
Clayton
Spokane Rate Case Deferred to Fall Review
An agreement between the Interstate Commerce Commission and Spokane rate case interests including shipping groups and railroads postpones contentious phases until next fall. Railroads will file class rates per recent ICC decision while commodity rates stay unchanged until full review.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Spokane
Sheep shipments head to Carsten Packing Co Seattle
Seven carloads of sheep were shipped to the Carsten Packing Co. of Seattle this morning. Mrs Ball departed for Seattle today to attend the fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carsten Packing Co
Seattle
Wenatchee Slogan Debate Sparks Regional Rivalry
The column discusses Wenatchee's slogan debate with concerns over overuse of The Home of the Big Red Apple. It notes Ira D Edwards promoting Youll do better in Wenatchee as a licensed slogan and mentions Tacoma and Walla Walla adopting phrases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wenatchee
Ira D. Edwards
Tacoma
Walla Walla
A.Y.P
Silent gun silencer faces crackdown across state
State game wardens warn the $5 gun silencer risks exterminating game as hunters in King County use it to shoot birds and animals quietly. A local sportsman cites pending June 12 enforcement of the new law with penalties up to five years. wardens plan to arrest violators while Hunter and Allen of Ephrata ship 4,000 sheep to Frye Bruhn Co. in Seattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King County
Seattle
Sound City
Hunter & Allen
Ephrata
Frye- Bruhn Co
Eaters Intention Must Be Good in Lodging Cases
A Spokane Supreme Court ruling narrows penalties for boarding house fraud by requiring clear proof of an intent to defraud. It holds that a hungry person who cannot pay may eat with a belief they would pay if able, while actual flight or concealment could imply fraud. Local lawyers react with caution and humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Mileckle
Spokane
Supreme Court
Mileckle
Featherkile
Senate Adopts Wool Schedule Vote In Finance Amendment
Washington reports the Senate approved the finance committee amendment restoring the Dingley wool top waste rate to 30 cents a pound by a 40 to 30 vote. The House rate stood at 20 cents and progressive Republicans largely opposed the increase.
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Washington
Senate
Finance Committee
House
Youth Confesses Attempt to Wreck Express on Grand Trunk
Chicago June 9 Wilte Osborn aged 15 confesses to attempting to wreck the New York Limited on the Grand Trunk railway two months earlier. He says the act was revenge for a hay stack burned by his father. The engineer’s vigilance averted a serious wreck.
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Chicago
Wilte Osborn
New York Limited
Grand Trunk Railway
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