Seattle murder mystery looms as state reward eyed
Governor Ernest Lister met with Prosecuting Attorney Lundin in Seattle to discuss offering a state reward for the Wheeler Swift double murder. Police report 60 hours without progress and believe the crime occurred Wednesday between noon and 4 pm with less than 2000 dollars taken. Coroner Mason to probe the deaths. King Howard J. King to testify.
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Corinne Wheeler
Kate Swift
Ernest Lister
Seattle
Lundin
Gover
Westlake
Mason
Mayor probes alleged unlawful jailing by police chief
Mayor Gill began a Saturday inquiry into what he calls outrageous actions by Police Chief Louis M. Lang. A young married man was jailed without a warrant after being searched for two quarts of liquor, and Lang reportedly ordered detention in a cell called the strong box.
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Gill
Louis M. Lang
Ihe
C. F. Vanderveer
W. J. Carey
Vanderveer
Lang
Poace
Artist's Wife Sues Society Woman for $100,000 Alienation
Mrs. Strauss, an artist's wife, sues Mrs. Arthur Seligman, a New York society woman, for $100000 claiming alienation as part of a separation suit. The case follows background noting Gladys Snellenberg of Philadelphia before her marriage to the painter. Mrs. Seligman denies the charges.
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Strauss
Arthur Seligman
New York
Seligman
Gladys Snellenberg
Philadelphia
Malcolm Strauss
Wills filed for two slain women with mirrored bequests
Wills of Mrs Wheeler and Miss Swift, both slain, were filed in probate court on Saturday. Each left property to the other but named Mrs Prue S Christian of Stephenville Texas as a beneficiary in Mrs Wheeler s will. Between three and four thousand dollars were left by each woman to kin. Christian appears as a beneficiary in the Wheeler will.
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Prue S. Christian
Stephenville
Texas
Wheeler
Miss Swift
Mrs. Christian
Back to Nature Venture Lands Tacoma Woman in Asylum
Mrs. Myrtle De Montis wife of a Spanish aristocrat and granddaughter of pioneer John Carson was committed to the Steilacoom asylum after a startling back to nature venture in Tacoma.
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Tacoma
Myrtle de Montis
John Carson
Steilacoom
Tris Speaker Sold to Cleveland Indians Revealed
Robert McRoy vice president of Indiana says the Cleveland Indians have purchased Tris Speaker. Terms were not made public.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Indians
Tris Speaker
Robert McRoy
Indiana
The Ward of Tecumseh installment kicks off Monday
A serialized plot centers on a white man dying who entrusts his daughter to protect her from a British relative. Raised by an Indian chief, she becomes loyal to Tecumseh and poses as a white boy spy, torn between loyalty, heredity, and love as the tale opens Monday.
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Tecumseh
Alagna Telfair
Jack Telfair
Alabama
Washington Governor Backs Nonpartisan Elections
Gov Ernest Lister of Seattle declared support for nonpartisan election of all state county and city officers. He called for removing party labels and criticized partisanship as hampering legislative work and public measures. He urged a nonpartisan initiative bill to let voters decide on the change.
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Ernest Lister
Washington
Seattle
United States
Gov. Johnson
California
Gov. Lister
Three Cheers for Joe Erects 60 Foot Flagpole
Milwaukee resident Joseph Hasenmiller raised a 60 foot flagpole on his front lawn to fly an American flag from now until the end of the European war, aimed at proving he is not a hyphenated American.
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Joe
Milwaukee
Wis
Joseph Hasenmiller
Beautiful Singer in Poison Mystery Shocks Chicago
Doris Reber the in demand Chicago singer became the focal point of a poison mystery after rejecting a Montana banker at a hotel dinner. She rushed to her studio and was later found seriously ill in a hospital, fighting for life as doctors work to determine the cause.
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Doris Reber
Chicago
Montana
Eight jurors impaneled in Caplan trial in Los Angeles
Eight jurors were impaneled yesterday in the trial of David Caplan in Los Angeles. The panel selection marks the start of the court proceedings as jurors are sworn and trial motions are addressed.
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LOS Angels
David Caplan
Admit guilt of U boat in Sussex case
Berlin reports that Germany acknowledged the Sussex channel steamer attacked by a submarine violated instructions and that German vows to protect armed liners follow the Arabic affair. The piece notes Germany will not pledge to warn freighters before torpedoing them as tensions rise over shipping to the Allies.
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Sussex
United Press
Berlin
English Channel
von Bernstorff
Wilson
Germany
U S Awaits Germany’s Reply On Submarine Attacks
Washington reports officialdom awaited Germany’s preliminary reply to the U S inquiry over recent submarine attacks on American vessels. The answer was expected to influence whether diplomatic relations with the Kaiser’s government are broken. The document was handed to Ambassador Gerard by Foreign Minister Von Jagow yesterday.
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Robt. J. Bender
United Press
Washington
Germany
United States
Abassador Gerard
von Jagow
President Wilson to Return to Washington Today
President Wilson will return to Washington from a weekend trip at 4 p m today. The Mayflower conveyed the update to the White House by wireless and no reason was given for the schedule.
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Washington
Wilson
White House
Jeff Davis Saves and Plunges on War Stock
New York April 8 Jeff Davis known as the King of the Hoboes has become wealthy after following a Wall Street tip on a war stock He now has about 55000 in credits He started the Hotel de Gink in Seattle three years ago to aid jobless brethren and later opened a branch in New York The move marks a dramatic rise from his previous finances and reflects his new wealth and investment risk.
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King Howard J. King
New York
Jeff Davis
Wall Street
Jeff
Seattle
Public hearing on winter streetcar heating needed Monday
Citizens urged to attend the public service commission hearing at 10 AM Monday in the Chamber of Commerce assembly room Central building to testify about unheated streetcars last winter. Assistant Corporation Counsel can be reached at Main 8500 for information.
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Public Service Commission
Chamber of Commerce
$1 500 000 in Mail Stolen Nabbed in New York heist
U S Marshal Carse travels to Los Angeles with James Moran who confesses to stealing 1 500 000 in registered mails at the Liberty Street ferry New York on January 18 Moran says he was double crossed by George Laughlin who allegedly organized the theft Moran claims he received only 200 of the loot and that a mail clerk and wagon driver aided the job The confession details how Moran followed the wagon with Laughlin as a passenger and how Laughlin was handed the truck key by the driver with pouches taken from the locked wagon
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San Diego
U. S
Carse
Los Angeles
James Moran
Liberty Street
New York
Moran
Bureh
George Laughlin
Sharkey
Laughlin
Snowfall Hits East Coast The Atlantic Slope
Snow storms sweep the Atlantic slope with eight to ten inches of snow reported in Altoona Pennsylvania as of April 8.
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New York
Altoona
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John B. Gordon
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