Nineteen Indicted Leaders Named in Seattle Scandal
Seattle March 31 twelve local lawyers thwarted court efforts as grand jury returned nineteen indictments. Names include Mayor T J Humes Chief of Police John Sulivan Justice T H Cann and prominent men Jacob Furth Walter S Fulton George Piper S L Shuffleton P P Padden W H Whittlesey Samuel Rosenberg and Charles F Whittlesey. Indictments accuse malfeasance perjury larceny embezzlement immorality and related charges with details on the Cann case tied to a $3.60 court fee and a light franchise dispute involving Furth Shuffleton and the Seattle Electric Company.
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Seattle
T. J. Humes
John Sulivan
Pilice
George
T. H. Cann
Jacob Furth
George A. Piper
S. L. Shuffleton
Walter S. Fulton
Charles F. Whittlesey
P. P. Padden
W.H. Whittlesey
Samuel Rosenberg
Cann
Fred Gardner
United States Attorney’s Office
San Francisco
Mesers
Furth
Shuffleton
Seattle Electric Company
Lighting Corporation
Governors appoint St. Louis Fair commission members
Olympia and Tacoma report Gov Mc Bride naming a nine member St. Louis Fair commission with county representation. The group will meet in Tacoma on April 2 to organize and set plans for selecting the state exhibit. Washington also notes W F Mc Lennon’s Honolulu trip to disburse $1,000,000 for plague judgments and Hawaii bonds up to $500,000.
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Washington
W. F. McLennon
Warrant Division
Treasury
Honolulu
Congress
Territory of Hawaii
Reform Scheme Fails In Macedonia Crisis
Constantinople dispatch says the Macedonian reform plan, though started, cannot be carried out under current conditions. It notes that powers should publicly admit the scheme is too difficult and demand foreign control over Macedonia.
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New York
Constantinople
Standard
Macedonia
Spokane sportsmen challenge state game law fight
Spokane residents plan to challenge the state game law in court arguing it is unconstitutional The objections center on a $1 per county hunting fee and they will also oppose Idaho's $5 license fee for hunting in that state
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Spokane
Wash
Idaho
Uncle Sam Sets Time By Fixed Stars And Telegraph Signals
The United States uses star time to regulate standard time. An observatory transmitter clock sends signals by electricity to telegraph offices in Washington and New York. Time balls drop and clocks reset so all clocks strike noon together.
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United States
Washington
New York
State, War and Navy Department
Riis Slums Sketch Warmth Amid Hardship and Hope
The piece recalls Jacob Riis and his portrait of tenement life. It highlights acts of charity amid poverty including families sharing meals and sheltering a stranger, a nurse aiding a cobbler's lodger from Sing Sing, and children giving pennies for Armenians. The anecdote ends with a humorous note about translating the Siamese word phi to the Siamese king and the British consul discussing it.
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Henry Street
Sing Sing
The Siamese Youthful Curiosity and Western Influence
The Siamese show unusual interest in European ideas while other Eastern races often resisted the West. A Siam king who died in 1868 was a trained linguist who wrote fluent English to British notables. A Mrs. Leonowens account notes his study habits, and a midnight missionary abduction phrase hints at palace intrigues and language refined in colonial times.
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King En Deshabille
Siam
Bangkok
Pallace
Wife of American Minister Heads Havana Society
Mrs. Herbert G. Squiers wife of the U S minister to Cuba leads Havana society and hosts Americans with notable hospitality She defended the legation during the Boxer uprising in Pekin where her husband was secretary of the legation The Universal Apple notes U S apple bearing trees exceed 200 million yielding over 175 million bushels with much exported Each sentence ends in a period.
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Herbert G. Squiers
United States
Cuba
Squiers
Havana
Bossy
Mrs. Squiers
New York
Pekin
Legation
Ben Davis
America
Trumpet Calls to the Unredeemed in Sermon Warnings
A sermon warns churchgoers against asking for money without faith and criticizes prioritizing wealth over souls. It urges humility, purity of heart, and adherence to biblical guidance as essential to true church vitality and mercy toward the poor.
Butterless dinners spark social satire in press
A Boston Star take on a New York essay lampoons men forced to skip butter as their wives chase new modern tastes. The piece imagines prosperous husbands coping by dining at clubs or ducking dinners, while lamenting past comforts and fearing their sons’ repeat of the change.
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New York
Boston Star
Jack
Recaptured Fishing Tales From Norway Canada And More
A Norwegian fisherman loses a pipe in a rapid and, using a fly-bob, recovers it. A salmon fisher gains a sleeve-link by hooking it with a salmon-fly at the rapid. In Canada a trout returns to water after flapping on a bank and is recaptured by a savage cast. The piece ends with a remark on women’s desire to live long but reluctance to admit their age.
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Norway
Canada
Riviere Blanche
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Police
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Van
Shuffieton
Quity
Fulton
Fair Commissioners
McBride
Louis
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Mr. Elsing
H. G. Squiers
John Astley
Sir Joshua Reynolds
London
Rome
Reynolds
Young Astley
Rem
God
THE
Aberdeen Brewing Co
Telephone
A.B. C. Prima
B. Loweis
M. Dembrer
Message
Washington Abstract Company
Chehalis County
Grays Harbor
Heron Street
Aberdetn
Thomas R. Hayes
Bellefonte
Penn
Harry A. Hayes
Hayes & Hayes, Bankers
Aberdeen, Wash
Goseige and
Domestic Exchange
Ceaing
J. G. Lewis
C. W. Miller
Aberdeen State Bank
George L. Hilton
San Francisco Examiner
Heron ST. Aberdeen
R.P. Porter
Choice Brands
Aberdeen
H Street
Montesano
W. E. Crist
Palace Restaurant
S. Baretich, Prop
Wah
Royal Restaurant
M. Francescovich
Central Restaurant
M. Antich
Walters
Heren
Wiehkak
Pacific Transfer
Robert Lowry
Prop
Pacific Hotel
Hacks
Cor. H and
Hume
Fred Redinger
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