11 Apr 1916
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1916
Page
1
The article criticizes nine council members including Judge Moore and Erickson for voting on firing three clerks. It argues the council is biased by politics, cannot treat the issue as a pure business matter, and suggests the panel could operate without the clerks to cut waste.
In Walla Walla on April 11, Mary Hawn eighteen died with a note to Mrs Nellie Hobbs found near her body in the Grand hotel alongside C M Frazier fifty who shot himself. Police weigh murder or suicide while two notes, one by the man and one by the girl, deepen the case.
Theda Bara writes for The Star about her self view as a screen vampire in Fox Film productions. She calls vampiring the hardest kind of hard work and explains the exhaustion after a day’s shoot.
Five U S troopers were wounded in a clash with Villistas at San Geronimo. Brig Gen Pershing released the casualty list naming Private Thomas Brown Farrier B P Meindeville Private Joseph G Bennett Private Joseph Garbel and Private Peter W Gardner.
San Francisco April 11. Post Office Inspector Morse said Jas Moran’s claim of a $1,500,000 registered mail robbery involving a companion was a dream. Moran was not released from San Quentin until March 25, over a month after the crime occurred.
Gilson Gardner meets Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay for four hours in April discussing a possible Republican or Progressive nomination. Roosevelt signals readiness to consider the heroism and sacrifice he believes the nation must show, if nominated, and stresses duty over rights in guiding the country.
Authorities seized 1000 cases of Rainier beer loaded onto a scow at Pier 9 and tracked the cargo to East Waterway. Seattle merchant W. X. Russell and laborers J. J. Fredericks and Walter Shelton were arrested on liquor possession charges as police pursued a potential Alaska shipment, with investigators weighing state charges.
Game Warden Harry Rief is absolved of charges of incompetency and dishonesty by the county game commission after several sessions of testimony. The commission recommended to the state game warden that Rief be not removed.
In Seattle a horse named Bob suffered a windpipe collapse after a con artist sold and repurchased him multiple times between 1914 and 1915. J Pettwell, an auctioneer, was found guilty of fraud over Bob who then died at Woodland Park Zoo on December 25.
The Senate unanimously directs Attorney General Gregory to submit a full report on his investigations of Standard Oil and other oil interests accused of price Boosting and discriminatory rate fixing.
The notice promotes the next installment of a serial novel titled North of Fifty Three. It teases a young school teacher and a strong woodsman set in the North with a captive girl who longs for freedom. The first installment appears next Monday.
Charles L. Beckingham, a former county commissioner and longtime city treasurer’s teller, was appointed by Mayor Gill to replace Chief Louis M. Lang who resigned. Beckingham, 41, will be sworn after bonding. he vows to tackle liquor issues and bring fiscal steadiness to the department.
Charles Becking ham, appointed city police chief, declares aim to stop bootlegging and criticizes drug stores for selling liquor. He says leader Lang's departure leaves a unclear state and pledges to assess prior conditions before acting.
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