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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1915
Page
2
Seattle businessmen actively back the Copper River and Stikine River Districts development. They foresee large profits and ask how to invest safely. the reply: buy an interest in the ore in a developed property.
A Market Street mother is hired as a janitress in the Hoge building, as banker Jimmy Hoge arranges. The note arrives with a five dollar gift from a Star reader, who remains unnamed, to support the mother while pension issues are resolved.
About 30 health experts from state, county, and city offices gather at the Hotel Frye for the Washington State Board of Health’s fifth annual two day conference. Dr. Thomas Tetreau opens the session as papers are read and discussions begin.
Sheriff’s office has no developments in the search for John Austin Hooper who escaped Sunday from Josephine county jail. Detective McShane of the Southern Pacific force, assigned since Hooper’s capture at The Dalles, left by train this morning for the South.
Albers Brothers Milling Co. sold a cruiser yacht on Monday to the firm of Alexander and Baldwin. The vessel will be shipped to Hawaii and used as a pleasure craft.
Seattle as a port is poised to take on millions in freight and war munitions once a 30 mile track from Vladivostok to a junction is completed. Talthyblus officers say doubled track will relieve Vladivostok congestion and enable a 5,000 mile railroad run across Russia with Seattle as a base for expanded supplies.
A crowded column lists political, legal, and social items from the era: former ministers and diplomats, a rancher injured by horses near Kennewick, smuggling charges in Bel lingham, a mayoral proclamation for Friday business closures, health updates aboard ships, and planned talks by G. E. Vincent. Also noted are wage raises at Standard Oil plants, Debs leading a labor college, Seattle obituaries, and ship arrivals.
Harry Fields, who forfeited $1,500 bonds two months ago and fled with a forgery charge, was arrested in Omaha. Detective Barton will depart Wednesday to return Fields for trial.
Reports from Vera Cruz attribute recent American demonstrations to the Industrial Workers of the World as border tensions ease. Battleships Louisiana and New Hampshire are due to reach Vera Cruz tomorrow, though the navy department says their deployment carries no special significance.
The Northwest Merchants association holds a bustling event with 1 090 Vish Ore entries and heavy turnout at the Commercial Club. Dignitaries discuss store management insurance and training while industrial movies, tours, and evening entertainment entertain visiting merchants.
Four killed and more than 100 trapped after an express derailed in a Chesapeake and Ohio tunnel near Huntington. Arches collapsed during the wreck and rescuers race to pry free the imprisoned travelers as injured are evacuated from the tunnel.
The Bungalow theatre at 15th Ave and EB Republican Ave hosts a Seattle Day Nursery benefit on Wednesday. A special film Judith of Hethulia will be shown with solos by Mrs. M L Cooper and other vocalists plus instrumental selections.
Posses search for R. D. Neff who shot and killed Allie Wittman after a neighborhood dispute. Neff is believed to be in the timber around Lakeport near the scene and is heavily armed. Resistance is expected if found.
President Wilson named William Whitney as federal circuit judge for Hawaii. The move places Whitney in the judiciary to oversee federal cases in Hawaii, marking a notable expansion of the federal bench in the territory.
Promoters tout Seahurst Washington as the next Northwest ocean resort. Tent city established on Cohasset Beach aims to attract thousands, with warm surf and clam digging. Investors urged to buy lots at 125 now, potentially 2500 later, promising big returns and yearly rentals as crowds grow.
A promotional piece touts Atlantic City style returns from oceanfront lots and cottages. It urges buyers to invest in SEAHURST Cohasset Beach claiming historic parallels with Seaside Oregon and Atlantic City profits and warns that early applicants gain the best plots.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway promotes Cohasset Beach as the smoothest widest and hardest beach on the Pacific Coast promising a wonderful future. The company urges all travelers to visit and make Cohasset Beach their vacation by the sea destination.
The president of a major Beattie bank writes to the Oregon and Washington Development Company, praising the firm’s experience in handling peers and expressing certainty that BEAHURST will be more than successful in its undertaking.
In Tacoma on August 17 W. W. Wingard and J. W. Gosney were jailed for tampering with witnesses in a trial against Rose Foster. A city detective, while hiding under a bed in the New Tacoma hotel, says the pair urged three women to flee to Seattle after the trial, offering bribes to influence testimony.
One year later Belgian government moved to Antwerp as German cavalry nears Brussels. French say Alsace ward movement continues with a regiment captured. Russia reports Austrians suffer heavy losses on the frontier saber engagement. French fleet clears Adriatic of Austrian warships sinking four vessels. Kaiser rumored to have left for Alsace battle front. Wealthy Americans arrive in New York in steerage.
ex Senator Theodore R Burton of Ohio, a presidential possibility, leaves Portland for San Francisco on the steamer Northern Pacific after a weeklong tour in the Northwest.
Fire threats spread as embers smoulder near Issaquah and a blaze one mile north of Redmond grows dangerous. In Youngstown and nearby streets residents fight flames with garden hoses while fire wardens report 2000 to 3000 acres burned in Island county and additional fires across Whatcom, Skagit and Snohomish counties.
In St. Paul, Minnesota, August 17, state officials face a question after secretary of state J. Schmahl asked for an official opinion. The issue concerns whether a bill collector may lawfully bear a firearm.
A dental office advertises graduate dentists with state certificates and ironclad guarantees. It promises up-to-date painless service, high quality materials, and the lowest prices with free extractions presented each morning from 8 30 to demonstrate painless methods.
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