YMCA Elects Officers and Plans New Building
The YMCA held a temporary organization at the Commercial Club rooms with Arthur Gunn as president P P Holcomb as vice president C C Bacon secretary and Howard Thomas treasurer Trustees include Gunn Bacon Ward Buck Wells Coburn Collier Pfau Holcomb Marr and others Building committee led by L V Wells will select members A site recommendation is expected at the next meeting Funds raised reach 36600 aiming for 50000 to 60000 with plans for rapid construction Meanwhile in Seattle John H Tripple died after shooting his wife then himself following family troubles.
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Commercial Club
Arthur Gunn
P. P. Holcomb
CC. C. Bacon
Howard Thomas
C. C. Bacon
C. C. Ward
Dr. Buck
L. V. Wells
George W. Coburn
B. C. Collier
George Pfau
Guilford Marr
Clarke Cox
R. S. Ludington
Dr. Schiltz
J. H. McGahan
Commercial Club Rooms
Seattle
John H. Tripple
Wenatchee Postmaster Terry Ross to Assume Duties Tomorrow
Terry Ross will formally take over as postmaster in Wenatchee tomorrow as L. M. Hull retires. Ross has already spent time in the office and familiarized himself with duties. Hull, the retiring postmaster, has made no further comment.
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Terry Ross
City of
Wenatchee
L. M. Hull
Mr. Ross
Mr. Hull
Empire Born in South Africa
Pretoria May 31 The Union of South Africa is proclaimed a single dominion formed by Cape Colony Orange River Colony Natal and Transvaal. Viscount Gladstone sworn as governor general and General Louis Botha as premier with ministers taking oath.
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Pretoria
Union of
Eastern visitors arrive by private car Luseland for West tour
A party of 26 Eastern guests arrives in the city aboard the private car Luseland, led by Luse Land & Development Co. officials. They travel from St. Paul on May 28 and stay until 12:40 the next day to tour the Valley and view irrigated land potential with assistance from Great Northern Railway and Minneapolis Journal editors.
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Luseland
St. Paul
Great Northern
West
Luse Land & Development Company
Howard Everett
Minn
Luse Land & Development Co
S. C. Johnston
Hastings
Nebr
Richardson
W. D. Fackler
S. J. Ellison
Great Northern R. R. Co
Great Northern Railway
Minneapolis Journal
Commercial Club
Sutherlin Valley
Fighting Resumes in Nicaragua Near Bluefields
United States reports heavy clashes between President Madriz and Provisional President Estrada forces near Bluefields Nicaragua. About 200 prisoners were captured by Estrada troops as General Luis Mena refuses to surrender Rama with government offensives led by General Lara.
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Washington
Madriz
Estrada
Bluefields
Nicaragua
United States
Moffatt
San Juan del Sur
Luis Mena
Rama
Chavarria
Lara
Planning for July Fourth Celebrations Show Progress
A preliminary Fourth of July committee meeting focused on appointing subcommittees and verifying subscriptions. Funds surpassed two thousand dollars as plans for large scale festivities include dancing at Recreation Park and possibly moving the skating rink floor. Further announcements and race plans will follow after the next meeting.
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Recreation Park
Great Northern
Leavenworth
Ephrata
Big Bend
Chelan Country
Leavenworth Fans Plan Blue Hats for Wenatchee Trip
Leavenworth supporters prepare a color coded excursion to Wenatchee for a baseball clash with the Wenatchee team. Slats Green canvasses fans about blue hat wearers and Percy Scheble reports 130 pledges while agent Piper weighs in on a special train and reduced fare.
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Leavenworth
Wenatchee
Reds
Percy Scheble
Piper
Commercial club trustees plan summer noonday luncheons
The Wenatchee Commercial club trustees met and voted to abandon regular noon luncheons in summer due to hostesses from churches being unavailable. They will hold weekly Tuesday noonday lunches at hotels. Secretary Coburn will list members by eastern residence to boost advertising.
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The
Commercial Club
Coburn
Great Northern
Wenatchee
Local Ball Club Faces Losses and Possible Exit
Promoters of a recreation park baseball team warn the venture loses money and may be abandoned for an orchard. Monthly salaries total 350 dollars, with profits vanishing when games move to a neighboring town. Business leaders report about two hundred dollars benefited from the team’s visits, but without merchant support the manager says the company may retire from baseball.
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Wilson Creek
Scheble
Twilight game lineup and pitching for Firemen and Tammany
Hot ball six innings or more tonight. Firemen lineup includes Cramblette p Lawrence c Foster 1b Wine 2b Morrison 3b Godfrey Is Throw If Boyd cf Shreve Is. Tammany Whisnand p Costello ¢ Green 1b Dunning 2b Jones ss Clary 3b Schau If Sorenson cf BINGO rf. Brown umpire.
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Cramblette
Lawrence
Foster
Wine
Morrison
Godfrey
Boyd
Shreve
Tammany
Whisnand
Costello
Green
Dunning
Jones
Clary
Schau If
Sorenson
Bingo
Trail by Wenatchee lake linked to Nason Creek option
H W Otis in the city offers to deed a right of way for a three mile mountain trail from Nason Creek to Wenatchee lake to boost tourism. Cascade Garden people will build the route near Cascade Gardens. Wenatchee lake at 2800 feet promises mountain attractions and easier access than Lake Chelan. Also: three court cases in justice court including Thelma Stanley vagrancy bail set and a drunkenness case. venue change in F A Rogers case.
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Wenatchee Valley
H. W. Otis
Nason Creek
Wenatchee Lake
Butcher River
Chelan
Cascade Gardens
Cascade Garden
Justice Court
Thelma Stanley
Palmer
John Doe
F. A. Rogers
Sumner
Greeks Strike Over Time Keeper Discharge at Great Northern Yard
Twenty eight Greek yard workers walked off the job demanding the time keeper be fired and Foreman Goodwin be dismissed after P F Connolly refused to relieve either. Four remained on duty as the strike delays June yard improvements between the main and fruit tracks from the passenger station to the freight depot.
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Great Northern Railway
P. F. Connelly
Goodwin
Connelly
Ada Trent Weds Arthur Hollingsworth in Spokane
Mrs Fraank Baker reports the marriage of Ada Trent to Arthur Hollingsworth in Spokane yesterday evening. Ada, employed by Ellis Forde store for two years, and Hollingsworth, a Falls City carpenter, will begin housekeeping at their own home.
Former U S Treasurer Charles Henry Treat Dies in New York
Charles Henry Treat, who served as treasurer of the United States after his Roosevelt appointment, died of apoplexy at the Victoria hotel in New York at midnight last night.
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New York
Charles Henry Treat
United States
Roosevelt
Victoria Hotel
Railways Face Injunction Over Freight Rate Rise
Washington reports a decision to file an injunction against the Western Traffic association to block the proposed freight rate increase. Senator La Follette seeks immediate action to halt rate hikes and a possible joint measure on interstate commerce consent. The action may be brought in Chicago as the central venue.
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Washington
Wickersham
Western Traffic Association
la Follette
Interstate Commerce Commission
Lumber Orders for Sheds Rebuild Great Northern Route
Lumber orders totaling 12,000,000 feet for sheds along the Great Northern railroad in the Cascade mountains have been placed with Everett mills and others. The contracts, chiefly for timbers and planks, total about a quarter million dollars. Grant Smith & Co. won the shed construction contract. under the railroad terms, lumber is purchased by the contractors and transportation is supplied by the railroad.
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Great Northern Railroad
Cascade Mountains
Everett
Smith & Co
Home Team Makes Good in Wenatchee Loss to Wilson Creek
Wenatchee fans praised the home team after a 4 to 3 defeat to Wilson Creek in ten innings. Russell starred for the visitors on the mound while Wenatchee used Brown Rush and Kyle in rotation.
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Wenatchee
Wilson Creek
Russell
Brown
Rush
Kyle
Corner Lot Sold For 6000 To Guilford Marr And Associates
Papers show transfer of the corner of Orondo and Chelan to Guilford Marr and associates for 6000 dollars. Vendor C. H. Black of Seattle, sale handled by Walter M. Olive. Planned Metrop olitan Garage on the site with excavation near completion, affecting future plans for a garage and machine shop. Ten businessmen reportedly join Marr in the purchase as church and Y M C A concerns spark relocation debates. Westbound trains Oriental Limited and Burlington delayed several hours in Montana and Idaho with No. 43 arriving after No. 1.
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Orondo and
Chelan
Guilford Marr and Associates
C. H. Black
Seattle
Walter M. Olive
Metropolitan Garage
Guilford Marr
Marr
Methodist Church
Burlington
Montana
Idaho
Correction of donors list for YMCA still shows error
Yesterday The Daily World admitted an error in its YMCA donors list. The Ellis-Forde company was credited with 300 dollars but actually gave 500 dollars. Some editions already corrected the amount while others still displayed 300.
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Daily World of Yesterday
Ellis-Forde Company
Will Sink Shaft for Gold Near Wenatchee
John Loepp of North Yakima locates a placer claim on the Columbia river near Wenatchee and plans to drill to bed rock to seek a pay streak. He found surface gold recently and believes a six to twelve inch bedrock streak could yield pay.
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John Loepp
Yakima
Columbia River
Wenatchee
Bed Rock
Loepp
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South Africa
Cape Colony
Orange River
Natal
Transvaal
Junketers
P. M. Endsely
Minneapolis, Minn
James Gray
Minneapolis
Co. S. Wallace
E. H. Stowell
Ss. B. Nelson
Luverne
A. L. Ladue
Luverne, Minn
A. Graff
Wellington
Kans
Vv. J. Greiner
Mapleton, Minn
S. Odell
Marshall, Minn
Ray H. Jowett
Long Lake
F. L. Perrizo, Delevan, Minn., Mer
E. D. Owen
Hastings, Neb
J. Schendel
Campbell, Minn
Banker
W. R. Craddock
Pine Island
Hans Engberg
Cambridge
E. G. Eeins
Olivia
F. H. Oehler
Sauk Center
A. C. Buswell
Blue Earth
Frank Seldon
Blue Earth, Minn
R. J. Brooks
Chas. Wood
Waterloo, Iowa
W. E. St. John
L. A. Payne
J. C. Campbell Hastings
J. H. Galloway
W.thorpe
M Hastings
H. Klein
Hastings, Nebr
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E. C. Leedy
Board of Trustees
Great Northern Railway Company
Spokane
D. N. Gellatly
George Farwell
Chicago
Tammany Vs. Firemen
Brown, Umpire
Chelan County
Con
Nelly
Trent-Hollingsworth
U. S
Taft
Department of Justice
Northwest Light and Water Company
Yakima Valley Power Company
Yakima-Pasco Power Company
Benton
Franklin
Robert E. Strahorn
Cascade Division
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Orondo Oppo
M. E. Church
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