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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1909
Page
8
A fragmented 19th century style classified page lists various trades and services. Entries include painters and decorators, dentists, chiropractors, contractors, lawyers, and lenders with scattered addresses and phone-like numbers. Abstracters and detectives advertise services, along with banks, furniture sellers, and loan offers.
A heated session at the National Irrigation Congress featured George Otin Smith defending Interior Secretary Ballinger while former California Governor Pardee challenged the criticism. Both men debated land withdrawals, power sites, and federal restoration actions amid claims of bias and influence from agricultural interests.
City clerks at the Youlor way side offices wear blue spectacles and develop red eyelids. The “bine spectacle brigade” grows as more staff seek medical advice from Dr Crichton, who finds only dust or minor grains in the eye.
Delegates to the Grand Army of the Republic convention take shelter after extreme heat. An executive session opened at 6 30 AM at Armory hall and is expected to run long. Gov Van Sant is favored to be reelected as encampment location debates between St Louis and Atlantic City. Emergency hospital records show 170 prostrated yesterday and treated for heat.
Harman Johnson United States forestry agent seriously injured by a dynamite explosion at Darrington Washington yesterday afternoon. Doctors anticipate possible amputation of his left hand. Johnson, 26, was regarded as a rising star in Western forestry.
Cincinnati reports the arrest of Postmaster Philip Smith of Chicago Kentucky as officers claim solving a missing registered mail case. Two officers say they found many letters containing checks drafts and cash addressed to Chicago Illinois. New York dispatch notes and unsettled fragments of names and details follow in the report with limited clear facts.
A Worcester group described as good singers and advertisers toured in New England. Polly the parrot, nicknamed Polly Boy, sparked interest among locals as the visiting party, including many Worcester businessmen, stayed at the Georgian and Wilhard hotels. The event featured a matinee and two subsequent performances.
The forum hears Pardee defend public scrutiny and demand official accountability as Garfield and Babcock officials withdraw land entry power. Campbell urges taking evidence to the district attorney amid cheering delegates.
Blind international singer Christine La Harraque will perform solo next Sunday at the AP exposition with Wagner's band at the Music Pavilion. The program includes two chamber pieces in both afternoon and evening concerts. Funeral services for William F. Goifrey, pioneer of Beattie, Were held at Church of Our Lady of Good Help with interment at Calvary Cemetery.
A water fete titled A Nicht to Venice will be staged in the Court of Honor near the Geyser Basin at the A V.Y.P exposition tomorrow evening. Gondolas will operate on the basin and colored lights will adorn the esplanade as soft water singers perform with a mixed chorus and soloists in a quiet scene.
Maurice Redmond claimed to be the brother of Irish leader in Parliament and was fined six dollars for disorderly conduct after attempting to strike up conversations with women on the Clark Street bridge in Chicago.
Mrs. Eiizabeth H Kahler alleges in a divorce suit that her husband Robert Kahler deceived her by taking another wife before their honeymoon. She cites their April 15 marriage in Coeur d Alene after meeting him in Apokane.
Alvah Emerson Heath Seattle's lone gold star officer from Fremont narrowly escaped an early morning pistol duel with two prowlers on Stoneav near 45th. A bullet whistled past his head as he fired three times, chasing them into the brush. he believes he struck one assailant.
President Chilberg of the AY fair, W M Sheffield and G KB Matton were cited to appear before Judge Gay next Monday August 14 to show cause why they should not be held in contempt for interfering with an order directing George A Custer receiver of the Miniature Shingle Mill to remove the property from the grounds. In Atlanta Georgia August 12 near beer was voted out of nearly half the state by the legislature with passage of a high license bill prohibiting near beer sales except in certain exemptions.
Mrs Alice Mather seeks divorce from Alexander Mather after 25 years of marriage and nine children. The couple wed at Victoria on November 11, 1884, and the husband allegedly abandoned her in 1902. Judge Wilson R. Gay recently denied and criticized the plaintiff.
Veterans of the Philippine campaigns and others will join a Manila day program at the A Y P exposition tomorrow. Major Hettinger turned the Philippine building over to the committee as head marshals, with Col. Wm. H. Miller Maj H. Gallagher and Col. Richard Thompson among speakers in a short afternoon program commemorating the capture of Manila and the conquest of the islands.
Min Helen Chambers, 17, of Aurora Illinois near Chicago, died in a Kansas City hospital after a New Year’s Eve drink spree that led to addiction. She recounted drinking freely in a cafe with two boys, later regretting the consequences, and urged other girls to avoid such choices.
Yakima County Commissioner Haasse offered resignation to attend the A Y P exposition and go fishing but authorities refused to accept it. He denounces local press reports claiming he has no interest in Yakima County and vows to stay through the season, stating he owns about 50 000 dollars in real estate there.
Practically all United States government Department of Agriculture and Reclamation exhibits from the A Y P exposition will be moved to Omaha for the National Corn Show next December. Thomas F Sturgis secretary and manager of the National Corn Growers association is in Seattle selecting the exhibits to be shipped in several cars. The government will authorize the display of such exhibits as Mr Sturgis chooses for the Corn exposition.
The mother of C. W. Geo F and Wo H Smith and Mrs Nellie M Graham Lucy Van Carnap and Mrs Carrie V Perry was held this afternoon at 1 o clock from the chapel of Butterworth and Bons 1921 First Ave Interment followed at Mount Pleasant cemetery.
Crystal Eastman, a Vas sar graduate from Elmira New York, works with the Russell Sage Foundation studying labor conditions in Pittsburgh. She helps uncover injuries in mills and has been invited by Governor Hughes to join a state commission on unemployment with John Mitchell and Henry R. Seager.
Mrs. Sarah J. Nichola, a wealthy widow, secretly marries C. 13. Smith of Oakland. Immediately after the ceremony she will bequeath all her large property holdings to her new husband to thwart her brother J. Lucas who seeks to have her declared incompetent. Big mill destroyed in Tacoma fire.
A blaze at Howell Mill Company at Midland near the Tacoma Eastern railroad and the old Puyallup electric line totally destroyed the plant about 6 50 last evening. Loss estimated at twenty thousand dollars with part covered by insurance.
Chicago August report notes Acting Police Chief Behwetler awaiting legal guidance from Corporation Counsel Brundage to determine if the Oriental dance performed at Amusement parks can be banned. He opposes the dance and seeks a lawful path to abolish it if possible.
New York Aug 12 Judge Rows dismissed the indictment against Mrs Helen Spencer after she was arrested in Ecuador and charged with involvement in the Panama canal white slave traffic. The court acknowledged an injustice had been done.
New York Aug 12 The rise in western farm prosperity empties Maiden Lane stock as importers rush ships for new gems Dealers report a trade surge outpacing supply with high grade stones scarce Even with 5 million dollars of gems imported last month orders from the Midwest and Northwest are urgent and farmers wives are seen as a likely destination for many jewels
Wil Nam Conners of Waterbury sues Nelson N. Dingwell for 100 damages after Dingwell flogged him with a horse whip while challenging his romance with Violet Dingwell, 17. The incident occurred as the couple walked on a dim road and Dingwell claimed he barred the union. Judge McMahon reserved his decision.
J. G. Ostby, a prominent Duluth grocer, was killed by his 18 year old son at his home after a heated argument over a funeral bill for Ostby's child. The incident occurred last evening in Duluth Minnesota.
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