City Council Acts on Water, Fire Escapes and Park Land
The City Council met and disposed of several items. Water service requests from Rex Spray Co and A D Griffith were sent to the water committee for bids on pipe. A motion ordered fire escapes on multiple buildings including the Cottage House and Olympia Hotel. A deed for seven acres to be used as a park was presented. An ordinance moved to second reading. Sidewalks were ordered on the west sides of A and First streets.
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Rex Spray Company
A. D. Griffith
D. N. Payton
Water Committee
Cottage House
Mooney
Bowers
Olympia Hotel
W.T. Rarey & Co
Columbia Valley Bank
Great Northern
E. A. Wyman
Drunken husband slays wife then wounds self in Salem
In Salem Oregon Silas Timmons a 37 year old plasterer in a drunken frenzy killed his 19 year old wife with a razor in a rooming house last night and cut his own throat but survived. They had come from Portland five weeks ago the landlady reported the wife had warned of a razor threat yesterday.
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Salem
Ore
Silas Timmons
Portland
Bryan Denounces Railway Officials in Ohio Speech
In Mt. Vernon on October 21, William Jennings Bryan condemned Vanderbilt railroad officials General Manager Van Wickle Vice President Shaff and Assistant Superintendent Ingalls accusing them of pressuring employees to vote Republican. He called their claim that a Democratic win would cut wages coercion and a crime against the franchise.
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Mt. Vernon
Ohio
Vanderbilt Railroads
Bryan
van Wickle
Shaff
Ingalls
Vanderbilt
Belle Foutaine
Happenings of Our Five Cattle Shipments and Visitors
Five carloads of cattle were shipped to the Sound today. Mrs Nellie Leedy of Nome Alaska visits Mr and Mrs G W Coburn. Mr and Mrs J B Adams of Leavenworth are in town today. Mr and Mrs Adam of Quincy were in town yesterday.
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Sound
Nellie Leedy
Nome
Alaska
G. W. Coburn
J. B. Adams
Leavenworth
Mrs. Adam
Quincy
B. Rensler
Seattle
City News Briefs Include Shootings and Steamer Trouble
R. F. Brantz returned to Cashmere today. H. L. Streeter came back from Randell yesterday where he worked. The steamer Columbia broke her shaft at Orondo yesterday.
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R. F. Brantz
Cashmere
H. L. Streeter
Randall
Columbia
Orondo
City sees crackdown after bridge area gunfire complaints
Merril Higley and Sam Williams urge action on unknown shooters near the Columbia River bridge. Police Chief Ferguson vows stricter patrols and arrests for ordinance violations. Local notes include visits, travel, and community events across Wenatchee and Chelan with regional figures and happenings.
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Merril Higley
Sam Williams
Chelan
Francis Littlement
Columbia River Bridge
Ferguson
Death of Pioneer Dike Leonard at Wenatchee
Dike Leonard died at his son Phil Leonard’s home at 4 AM from paralysis. A longtime Wenatchee resident and pioneer, he was nearing 78. Survived by son P A Leonard, the funeral will be Friday at 10 AM from Sprague Funeral Parlors with interment in Wenatchee Cemetery. He had been a frequent World subscriber and visitor.
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Dike Leonard
Phil Leonard
Mr. Leonard
Wenatchee
P. A. Leonard
Sprague Undertaking
Wenatchee Cemetery
Football player Warren Slabanga injured by rock fall
A World report wrongly said Warren Slabanga broke his leg while playing football. He was actually running with a stick when he fell against a rock, causing a badly bruised leg.
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Warren Slabanga
Warships proposed for Alaska-Pacific-Yukon exposition
Seattle officials and business groups urge the Navy to station a large Pacific fleet in Seattle Harbor next summer for the exposition. Plan calls for eight modern armored cruisers two battleships and various other vessels plus historic ships Dewey Olympia Schley Boston Yorktown and possibly Spanish ships.
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Seattle
United States Navy Department
Commercial Club
Pacific
Navy Department
Schley
Brooklyn
Boston
Dewey
Yorktown
Bob Evans
Manila
Hobson
Holm II Ill in Seattle After Ten Day Trip
Republican candidate C R Holm II was in Seattle ten days and fell ill. He returned to Wenatchee and remains confined to the house though reported improved. Officials hope he will recover enough in the last two weeks of the campaign to participate.
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R. F. Holm
Seattle
Wenatchee
Wenatchee barbers close for big Friday game
Barbers in Wenatchee plan to close from 2 30 to 4 30 pm for a big Friday football game. Signers on the petition include F C Smith Mills Whalen M F Flynn and C V Hile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wenatchee
F. C. Smith
Mills & Whalen
M. F. Flynn
C. V. Hile
Cloudburst Flood Kills 100 in Oklahoma Valley
Shawnee Oklahoma reports at least one hundred dead after a cloudburst floods the valley west of the city. Telegraph and telephone lines are down, bridges washed away, and farmers sought refuge in treetops as the crest hit this morning. Communication with flood districts is impossible.
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Shawnee, Okla
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Wenatchee Electric Co
Satelite
Exfor
Washington
F. H. Brand
Palouse Street
J. M. Duffy
Proprieto
Grant & Cox
Mission Street
E. M. Foy
Oakland
California
S. A. Thompson
Francis Bennett
Eunice England
Miss England
Frank Hazen
Bessie Bundy
Ephrata
Rosa Lewis
Columbia River Siding
Ernest G. Spencer
Lakeside
O. G. France
Spokane
The
Christian Aid Society
Sam White
Folgy
Golden Gate
Steiner
Waterville
Robert Gellatly
Mayor Gellatly
Baker City
Oregon
W. A. Grant
Peshastin
Columbia River
Messrs. S. Johnson
Charles Whisnand
Dunham
John Crawford
Entia
J. E. Throw
Odessa
Julia Horan
P. H. Hart
M. Horan
L. E. Paskill
Springfield
Mass
Wisconsin Central Railway
R. B. Winans
M. Ward
Mary Winans
Kate Lugton
Hew House
Golden
Kate Jones
J. H. Fewkes
A. J. Linville
Birch Mountain
Ed Wilson
Painer
P. S. Darlington
Chelan County
Denver
Colorado
Eastern Star Lodge
Bower’s Hall
van Peten
Gam Sumner
Montana
Sandy Chisholm
Holm II
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