02 Apr 1910
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1910
Page
1
A Portland jury acquitted the indicted president of the Oregon Trust, after a trial detailing unlawful deposits and management allegations. The volatile case centered on the bank's insolvency and the director's avoidance of culpability, with censure urged by authorities.
In Corruption at ws Meeting citizens voice outrage over graft schemes as Willem A. Magee leads the critique. The assembly vows action to clean tele traction matters and indictments loom for several officials amid exposure warnings.
Reports describe Mount Crater erupting with gas expulsions and lava flow threatening Belipasso and surrounding towns. Residents flee as explosions crack the sky and a wave of ash blankets the area, underscoring fear of a fast advancing disaster.
A jury found the former police captain guilty after a second trial ending with a verdict reported in court. The case followed earlier proceedings and references to misconduct in police service.
Edwin A. Brown launches a movement for a free municipal lodging house and baths for unemployed men in Beattie. Endorsers include Charles W. Doyle and Dr. Elmer E. Heg. Health Commissioner Crichton Beattie emphasizes public health gains and the need for proper management to prevent abuse while citing the city’s scarce bathing facilities and the hardship of lodging house residents.
Eighteen Puget Sound canners at a meeting condemned recommendations by Prof. David Starr Jordan, American representative on the international fisheries commission. They will draft a protest to Congress against placing canneries under government control and send it to Senator Piledrum seeking a vigorous fight to preserve existing conditions.
Daisy Edgar testified before Judge Ronald that she provided a good home at 109 Bixth av N, but her husband J H Edgar beat her over the way she arranged the house. He lived as a lodger, paid board, and after a recent assault she sought relief. the court granted a decree declaring the wife better off without the marriage.
In Washington on April 2 United Press reports H K Love testified that John W Dudley former registrar at the Juneau land office said a Collier's Weekly representative offered to pay him six thousand to ten thousand dollars to testify before the committee. Madison pressed to have Dudley called.
Testimony places Clifford Hartridge paying thirty thousand dollars to 200 female acquaintances of Harry Thaw to recover four hundred two thousand for his services in the first Time trial. The largest payment was eighty six thousand to Mrs Reed, with whom Thaw reportedly lived.
A District of Columbia jury indicted 29 brokers tied to Brice & Be, Boggs & Co, Philadel ay, and Standard Stock Co for bucket shop operations. The companies run about 260 offices across the East and Midwest, with simultaneous raids in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Jersey City, and Washington.
Florence B Caswell testified Judge Ronald that she was beaten by her husband Edmond M Caswell after their 1908 marriage He agitated about employment and gambling when not abusive The court granted her a divorce in the proceedings
Spokane April 2 Charles Neal, trapped in the big water wheel at the Phoenix saw mill, remains wedged as rescuers labor in cold water. His long-run troubles include a past injury from gear entanglement and a remarkable skin graft that saved his life about a year ago.
Governor Hay departed for Kane after dedicating the Carnegie Library last night. Tickets costing 1 were sold yesterday to fund the electric light fixture building.
A Chicago paper urges readers to skip excuses and take action. The statement frames urgency as a civic motto and invites immediate engagement.
Melville Roche, drunk after a 10 day spree, pleaded guilty to attempted burglary in an apartment, entering a room without success. He faces 2 to 16 years in the Walla Walla penitentiary as Judge Ronald applies the standard sentence. His wife had to seek work after his arrest.
The corporations committee voted 4 to 3 to stay out of the fight between E. Co and Seattle Renton & Southern over a street franchise. The dispute concerns temporary vs permanent grants and prior rights to the street. Three councilmen urged action in good faith. four feared legal entanglements for the city.
Walter Henry aged 26 died on a train near Roseburg Oregon yesterday from tuberculosis. He was returning home to die amid prayers for his recovery, with his brother Langdon beside him. The piece frames his death as a tragedy of civilization highlighting neglect of tuberculosis and urging future attention to the disease.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt arrived in Naples aboard the Prinz Heinrich with Mrs. Roosevelt and party. He received a large American welcome, protested against a police bodyguard, denounced a local political interview as false, and pledged not to discuss politics until returning home.
Judge J T Ronald denounces crime in sentencing four young men including Ray Raymond to reformatory terms after multiple burglary attempts. He laments sending youths to prison, cites leniency as earned by age, and contrasts with a harsher fate for William Hardy. Marie Corelli ill with pneumonia follows.
Police seek missing butcher Rinehold Winkler after discovery of blood soaked clothes a bloody clasp knife and a pillow and hat pin in a room at 602 23rd av. Mrs Seigel found the room vacant and Winkler has not been seen since yesterday morning amid a growing mystery.
Mabel Davidson sought a divorce from William E Davidson, an employee of the Seattle Renton and Southern railway, claiming years of abuse. The court granted her a decree and ordered her husband to pay $1,260 as her share of the community property.
EF Madison street property owners who urged a further 10 percent reduction to cover regrading and repaving costs will not receive relief. Ten percent already funded and the finance committee rejected adding another 10 percent from the contingent fund. Also, Commander Robert E. Peary announced in Chicago that he is definitively done with polar exploration.
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