G N Move Likely for Passenger Depot in Wenatchee
Business leaders expect an official plan to relocate the Great Northern passenger depot from First street to Kittitas street opposite the cannery. The $25 000 facility will include a 1000 foot concrete platform and a small park, with the old depot reused as a freight depot to balance city traffic. Judge Burke’s influence with the Development Co and rising Wenatchee avenue land values bolster the move, which aims to benefit business and evenly distribute activity.
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Great Northern Railroad
First Street
Kittitas Street
Wenatchee Avenue
Loved Dog Better than Husband Relinquished Claims
In Lexington Kentucky on May 25 Mrs Hester Driskel of Bloomfield Indiana relinquished all claims today on her husband, indicating a formal settlement or separation action. The incident centers on an eccentric domestic dispute involving valued companionship with a dog over the marital bond.
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Lexington
Hester Driskel
Bloomfield
Ind
Former husband seeks poodle in court dispute
The case centers on J. J. Driskel and his former wife over full ownership and possession of a poodle that had been in the family for years. Mrs. Driskel No. 1 was arrested on warrants from Driskel and Miss Edna Spencer, and a peace bond was set. She told Judge Riley she loved her husband but would part with him only if he relinquished the dog.
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J. J. Driskel
Driskel
Edna Spencer
Driskels
Driskel No. 1
Miss Spencer
Riley
Agree to Settle Indians Claim on Reservation
Washington May 25 conferees on the Indian appropriation bill agree to recognize the Colville Indians claim for 1 500 000 as payment for the north half of the reservation. Amendment by Senator Ankeny will halt immediate payment but provides for settlement. Oshkosh May 25 August Dundie arrested by Humane Society for cruelty tying his motherless children to a plow and driving them until injuries shown neighbors threaten violence.
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Washington, D. C
Ankeny
Oshkosh
Auugust Dundie
The
Humane Society
Opened Vaults Ignite Fire After Five Weeks
Five weeks after a fire destroyed Pagot Upham and Co the firm opened its new vaults in San Francisco. As doors swung open inflammable materials within burst into flames destroying books, accounts and records. Firefighting crews from Nome to Guacur fought the blaze but no paper was saved. The loss compounds earlier April 18 damage and jeopardizes the firm’s financial claims.
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San Francisco
Pine and
Battery Streets
Pagot, Upham and Co
Big Book and Stationery House
Nome Alaska
Guacur
Rev H G Kemp Buys Columbia Register in Saloon Fight
The Columbia Register, a Houston Oregon weekly in Columbia County, has been purchased by Rev. H. G. Kemp of Rainier. He plans to run the paper from Portland, then move the plant to Houston and issue it there. Ready money is ready medicine.
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Portland
Columbia Register
Houston
Columbia County
Oregon
H. G. Kemp
Rainier
Kemp
Tomainder
Beveridge Calls for Rigid Meat Inspection Bill
Senator Beveridge of Indiana introduced a drastic meat inspection measure in the Senate today. The bill requires all meat and meat products slaughtered for interstate or foreign commerce to be examined by government inspectors and tagged inspected and passed if up to standard. Violations carry fines up to ten thousand dollars and imprisonment.
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Washington, D. C
Beveridge
Indiana
Senate
U. S
Upton Sinclair
Chicago
Wilson
Garfield
Moody
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G. N
Goon
L. V. Wells
Daily World Advertising
Wenatchee High School
Hilton
Episcopal Church
Methodist Church
Wenatchee Theatre
George Lail
Isie Myer
China
Mabel Carden
Tennyson
Grace Livingstone
Shakespeare Frank, Lebeck
Clifford Godfrey
Sadie
Lewis Williams
Acress
A. R. ‘Priest
Lyle Gamble
Sylvia
Gilchrist
Washington, D.C
White House
Skinner
Wenatchee
Wenatche Development Company
Arthur Gunn
Pennsylvania Ave
Nob Aill
Bousquet and Holm
Oxfords
H.l.wiester
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