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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1908
Page
5
Auditor Crocker and assistants completed a thorough report showing $880000 handled with cent accuracy. The 1907 and 1908 resources and liabilities are compared, and advertised letters list numerous names with one cent due on each letter.
Plans call for a Kennewick Northern line from Kennewick along the Columbia to Priest Rapids and on to British Columbia. Articles of incorporation filed in Olympia fix capital at 5 million with Tacoma as main office. Directors include Nutt, Martin, Plummer. surveyors are in the field and location work to start after preliminary lines are completed. The route will serve irrigated districts at Richland and upstream.
The article forecasts Kennewick as the construction headquarters and rail center for a new line linking the Okanogan region and wheat belts. Wahlake is pre laid for market, and crews plan to move freight via steamers and river routes to supply camps, with Kennewick as the main transfer point and yards expected to expand.
The farmer Mr Harden of Silver City North Carolina endorses Electric Bitters as a superior remedy for stomach liver and kidney troubles. He says it is excellent for weakness lame back and run down conditions and effective against chills and malaria. Sold under guarantee at C C Case s drug store 50c.
Taft spoke to the Ohio state central and executive committees tying himself to the state campaign. A special executive committee panel will decide Foraker’s status at the campaign start on September 5, with options to invite him unconditionally, conditionally, or not at all. Taft approved nomination day plans and set rooms in the Vinon hotel as his campaign office. Elmer Dover denied resigning and met Taft for a long talk.
William H. Flagg died at his Nob Hill home on Tuesday morning July 28 at age 67. He came to North Yakima a year ago from Plainfield Illinois. He leaves a wife and four children Warren Flagg Mrs O K Conant Henry Flagg and Burr Flagg. Remains will be taken to his old home for burial.
An arrest notes multiple bad checks totaling over 10 000 dollars. B B Shaughnessy issued payments to ranch livery hotels and auto services, drawn on Spokane Spokane Trust and Yakima banks, with endorsements to Hotel Savoy Seattle and Union Stables Seattle.
S B Shaughnessy, claiming ties to Somerville and Toronto, faced forgery and passing of worthless checks in North Yakima and Seattle. He attempted suicide Monday night in Seattle by drinking poison and leaping an elevator shaft, and is recovering at Providence Hospital with authorities awaiting transfer.
A Selah rancher warned that a dangerous stretch on the east Selah road near the new bridge lacks a fence for 400 yards. He cited a past incident where a wagon and horse plunged an embankment, killing one of Murchie’s horses, urging commissioners to act.
CHICAGO July 28 President Thomas L Hisgen of Massachusetts and vice president John Temple Graves of Georgia were nominated tonight by the Independence party ticket for the forthcoming election in a formal party convention.
Friends of Mr. Bryan pressed to place his name before the convention during the night session at the first national gathering. Delegates listened as supporters urged action and visibility for Bryan within the proceedings.
Warden C S Reid of the Walla Walla penitentiary called at the sheriff's office and visited Dan E Lesh as part of a semi political business tour. He will spend time in Seattle, his old home, after the stop in town. E H Taylor of Yakima was in the city yesterday. Exclusive agency Security Stock Remedies at Camp's Westside Drug Store. Open all night, we never close.
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