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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1906
Page
2
Wenatchee Washington Post Office lists business mail as second class matter under the name C A Briggs.
In New York on June 22 at Riccadonna's Hotel 613 members of the 13 club gathered for their 13th annual dinner. Guests sat 15 per table in groups of 13 under dangling umbrellas for a 13 course, 13 drink menu with themed decor. A nail driving coffin stunt and vaudeville preceded a 13 stop trip to Coney Island where the revelers added one to the first figure and celebrated with 13 different kinds of fun.
News from El Paso reports W. R. Slinokars, a railroad contractor, was killed by Yaqui Indians in Sonora while grading for the Umanea Yaqui River and Pacific railroad, a Southern Pacific connection.
Des Moines reports show two inches of rainfall across the state since yesterday, breaking the drought. The soaking rain brought relief to several counties and ends a long dry spell noted in many towns.
Four white men died and one possibly fatally injured in a jailbreak attempt by three life term convicts from Angola state farm, 70 miles downriver from Natchez Mississippi. The incident followed the inmates fight to escape. Also includes a brief classified ad note about leasing a "To Let" placard.
Colon Mich June 21 Mrs Wood grass widow and Nemesis of United States Senator Platt of New York announces she has published Love Letters of a Boss and turned over a bona fide marriage certificate to her attorney. She claims marriage occurred November 1901 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel New York and that no divorce has followed. She alleges Platt pressed secrecy and subjected her to third degree questioning by Abe Hummel J Frank Miller and emissaries from the president and Platt indicating she will fight back.
A courtroom anecdote contrasts evasion with wit as a witness defines accident coincidence and habit. The column then notes a public notice: A L Rogers seeks a water franchise in Entiat areas with a July 2 1900 hearing set before Chelan County commissioners. It closes with quotation fragments and a Want Ad tease.
Topeka June 21 Down with the shirt will be Kansas farmers campaign cry this fall adding an inch to shirt tails as a symbol of unionism and solidarity. Local party chairs caution the idea could threaten modesty in light crops while anecdotes about Lincoln and social ties pepper the piece alongside want ads noting their role in connecting people.
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