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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1920
Page
9
Chal Tuk, a 20 year old Korean student, arrived in Honolulu with a harrowing account of gendarme brutality during anti Japanese demonstrations. He bears burn scars from hot metal and bamboo whippings and says authorities arrested him five times without trial.
A fragmentary account describes a meeting between Tuk and Dr. Rhee of Korea in a local hotel. Dr. Rhee expresses resilience and faith, declaring God is Almighty and Japan is only Japan, while the unrest over liberty and oppression is voiced by demonstrators.
A farmer named William Crutcher near Des Arc Arkansas drowned his four children and then himself after an afternoon at church. His wife and two older children were reportedly at church Sunday evening when the tragedy occurred.
In Wrashoug al Washington on August 4 Justice J P Thomas sent Stegerwald and Homer Mauld to the superior court on branding charges. Walter Groth a man allegedly branded with a figure eight by Groth s own employee was involved as the case unfolds amid defense remarks about law and insults toward Mrs Stegerwald.
Spo kane, Wash Aug 4 A Fleming mayor has formally accepted a nomination by the democrats here as candidate for congress. He is the sole democrat in the field with Corkery Spokane lawyer and J Stanley Webster incumbent as republican candidates. Buffalo Norman Kelly 15, also the slayer of Edward Pok boy scout, shot dead near Sunday.
Emma Frietas, known as Mamma, was acquitted after a two week trial for the murder of her husband Tony Frietas. The verdict triggered tears from Mrs. Frietas and friends as Violet, her 10 year old daughter, cried out that Mamma was coming home. They walked into the street together.
ROTSE Idaho Aug 4 Dr W A Myers former secretary of the state dental board and Dr A Fitsgerald head of the Painless Parker system convicted by a jury for conspiracy to ask and receive bribes for dental licenses were sentenced to eight months in the county jail and fined 750 each. SPOKANE William Fogelstrom brakeman fatally injured when knocked off freight train entering tunnel.
Street railway employees were to appear before the city council budget committee on Wednesday to press for a 26 cent a day salary increase. At Tuesday’s budget hearing, several council members opposed the raise citing a $400,000 deficit in the railway fund and that higher wages would raise expenses beyond current operating costs.
Boston August reports Charles Pons known as the bushel basket millionaire outlined a plan for an industrial project network with a world wide banking and import export system. He proposed starting capitalization of 100 million dollars aiming 200 million later. A crowd of about 3000 gathered at his office for returns while lunch vendors served the long line.
Councilman Thomson protested strongly that action was needed to keep down taxes, stating they had already risen to a breaking point. A lighthearted aside praised Boldt’s apples.
Scores of forest fires blaze across eastern Washington northern Idaho and western Montana threatening white pine cedar stands. Wehanana forest near Wenatchee has six fires with three lightning sparked, Mica Mountain near Deary Idaho alight, new blazes reported at Troy Libby and Jennings Montana, as the situation grows steadily worse.
Charien Ronquist 17 of 0319 Waters Ave was struck by a car driven by H J Beanblomsom of Renton at 17th Ave and Rainier Ave Tuesday night. He remained in city hospital Wednesday with a concussion of the brain and was expected to recover.
The text notes O Henry endured suffering behind bars then emerged to win global admiration. It portrays New York as a Bagdad glittering with life and color, reflecting his life arc from confinement to literary renown.
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