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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1907
Page
3
A small house with a 50 foot lot on Wenatchee avenue is offered at 1200 dollars. The lot is valued for its location and size without improvements. Monthly rent is ten dollars.
Local quotations from Wenatchee dealers list prices for apples at 1.00 to 1.25 dollars per unit, potatoes from 20 to 25 dollars, alfalfa hay around 16 dollars, wheat hay about 20 dollars, and timothy hay near 22 dollars per unit. The list covers meats fruits vegetables grain hay feed and flour with multiple items priced for buyers.
The fragment notes an establishment named Palm Ice Cream linked to Wauntubee Drag Co. It appears as a brief item within a larger page segment, lacking additional context or events to describe.
J Durant arrested for a criminal attack pleaded guilty in superior court. Judge Linn sentenced him to life imprisonment at Walla Walla penitentiary for the remainder of his natural life in a hard labor term.
C W Corliss of Seattle visits North Yakima en route to Paterson post office to plat the new town of Paterson. The Paterson Land Company, joined by Seattle investors, owns several farms and aims to build up a town with a 250 horsepower pumping plant to supply water for Paterson and nearby desert reclamation efforts under the State Irrigation Company, controlling about 4000 acres.
A. M. Dewey reports progress on an electric railway planned through Okanogan county. Survey crews began January 2 after a December franchise grant, with financing secured in the east and a route extending from the Ruby mines to Conconully and Riverside to connect with regional lines.
A proposed Great Northern electric railway aims to cross the government irrigation project at two points and provide transport for mines and irrigation district products. Developers expect survey completion and partial operation by June 1908 with power plants later replacing steam.
Madrid May 13 The ceremony inscribed the name Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo for the newborn prince of the Asturias before the justice minister and the kingdom s first notary. The christening date was postponed to an undetermined time as the king aims for a more imposing ceremony. Pope Pius IX had been named as godfather prior notice of Edward’s telegram to be godfather was declined due to papal already chosen.
In St Louis on May 13, attorneys for Standard Oil, sued by the federal government, were ordered to appear in St Paul on May 24 to file motions or exceptions to the plea of Addings.
Calendar of community events for Wenatchee includes Farmers Institute sessions May 15 all day and May 16 Band Concert and Dance at Wenatchee Theater plus Memorial services at Wenatchee, Cashmere, and Firr Christian church. Real estate transfers show J S Usher to W Usher parcel near S 28 T 22 R 21 for $1 and Ora C Haines to Edwin A Landon Nob Hill addition Wenatchee lots 4 5 block 1 for $450 with additional transfers listed.
A record of multiple real estate transactions shows transfers of lots, blocks, and tracts in Leavenworth Wenatchee and nearby additions. Buyers include N P Ry Co Abner Z Bowen and Dan Ryan with prices ranging from 1 to 6000 dollars, including cemetery acreage and mining claims.
Land contracts show C O Livingston to LeRue Tice for lots 31 32 block 37 at 1681 dollars. Bevel to Darling for parcel S29 T25 R18 including ne4 s4 nwi4 sw at 6500 dollars. Green to Lemaster for 15 acres in nw Wenatchee Heights. Orchard Co to Ragsdale for Wenatchee Heights tract 5 block 4 at 2500 dollars. Sutton for Wenatchee Heights Orchard tract 3 block 3 at 2840 dollars.
The document lists several land and mining activities including water location by William McKenzie and Frank Goodwin, proof of labor by W P Robinson, allocation of mining claims American Magic and American Eagle No 2, Bell mini m and Southern Bell, and agreements involving Dan Delong and J E B Shore. Power of attorney arrangements also appear among the records.
Water location by S FE Ritchie supplies 50 cubic inches for irrigation of 160 acres at $30 25. National Cash Register sells to R E Blakeney one register for $275. Smith Premer Typewriter sells to Red Apple Real Estate one typewriter. Water location by W A Robison used on Mamie R Robison original homestead. In Probate estate of Hans Nelson petition for appointment of Howard Honor deceased. Estate of Georg Albrirut petition. Petitions for letters of administration to L J Nelson and Wm McCoy among others. Civil case George H Kelly plaintiff versus Mary S Johnson and Isaac N Johnson seeking $1650. Wenatchee Planing Mills receiver appointed for the company.
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