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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1911
Page
6
Dispatches from Shan Si report the killing of 8,000 Manchus with foreigners and four Americans among casualties. Letters to the British and American legations describe the violence as savagery and call for action against imperial forces.
A United Press leased wire report says King Ge was visited by several native rulers in ceremonial talks. Princes received a minutes talk and gifts. swords were exchanged for presents. In the afternoon the king and queen attended a military sports meeting with escorts and guards.
Delegate James Wickersham of Alaska headline a public meeting at the Coliseum Theatre Third Ave and James St tonight. Mayor Dilling will preside with Prof. E. S. Meany and Dr. M. A. Mathews also on the program for the Alaska Square Deal league event.
A vintage pitch promises 62 lessons by return mail at no cost or obligation. It urges immediate response, claiming the offer is strictly limited and will be withdrawn once a set number of courses are mailed.
Mrs Martha Cohn of San Francisco sues to annul the marriage of her son Armand Cohn to Susie Lavery. She alleges he was under 21 at the October 9 ceremony in Seattle. The couple honeymoon in East Oakland while detectives failed to stop the elopement.
San Francisco labor council, in a full set of resolutions, denounces the McNamara crimes and demands a sweeping investigation of rumors linking high labor figures to Los Angeles dynamitings. Debates heated over whether to attack the capitalist class and Clarence Darrow.
Encomiums rang out at a Commercial club dollar dinner for former City Engineer R H Thomson. Speakers included three former mayors and other officials who noted his work and answered four questions about sewer outlets and street improvements. A Pittsburg incident reported that Antonio Vere died after grabbing a live wire to save children.
In Globe Arizona at midnight Jim Johnson and Jack Bowen died from a shooting affray sparked by a dispute between American and foreign laborers. Angelo Preventa is seriously wounded. Preventa and another suspect are in custody and steps were taken to prevent a race riot. Bowen was a noted figure in Arizona baseball circles.
Helen Hardy twenty year old maid leaped from a second story window to reach help after believing burglars were entering J. M. Johnsons home in Denver on December 9. Police searched the area but found no intruders.
In East Liberty Ohio a drunken man seized the constable by his whiskers and dragged him through town. The constable was rescued by the sheriff who arrived to quell the assault and secure the offender.
Olga Sanders, a domestic at Dr. O. Vinland’s home on 2827 High Street, screamed as a man followed her for blocks and tried to drag her into an alley. The assailant fled after she yelled.
Dr. Ira Remsen, chairman of the Remsen board, and the Benzoate organization face further scrutiny as the Moss house committee plans to report to Congress on their role in approving benzoate in foods. The board will also report to the U S agricultural department on using sulphur in bleaching dried foods.
Phoenix, Dec 9. Judge King, field lecturer for the National Referendum League, campaigns for recall of the state judges provision and proposes an advisory recall for federal judges. He cites Seattle as an example and says people would demand recall of Federal Judge Hanford if an advisory recall passes.
Harvard junior Samuel Atkins Eliot Jr., grandson of former president Charles W. Eliot, hosted a dinner that drew attention from Harvard’s inner circles due to the guest Emma Goldman. The event occurred in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 9.
Thirteen insurrectos, aged 17, were executed by Ma dero’s soldiers who said they were attacked by their prisoners and forced to kill them. In New York a rug theft led to a New York arrest after a messenger was rewarded for aiding the capture of two thieves.
Chicago December 9 The defense seeks an above average jury for the ten millionaire packers trial under Sherman Act conspiracy charges. They proposes educational tests asking tasters to define four syllable words identify colors describe expressions and share views on politics. The impact on evidence and verdict remains uncertain as lengthy voir dire proceeds.
A local debate flags taxation and land use as barriers to industry. Single tax advocates fault land monopolists while citing Harbor Island as a prime factory site kept idle by speculators. Fisher Bros. faces rising inland land taxes and punishment for improving land, illustrating how current policy may deter development and push the county to lease its poor farm to spur industry.
Washington reports indicate a break with Russia over the passport question is expected soon after a lengthy cabinet session. President Taft and advisers spent two hours wrestling with the problem without a solution that satisfies American Jews without embarrassment to the United States or Russia. Abrogation or modification of the 1832 treaty is seen as the probable outcome.
Tonight at six the Municipal league hosts a plan debate on the Bogue proposal at Allen Dales cafe First and Cherry. Speakers include Robert W. Hill and George F. Cotterill opposing certain features while former City Engineer R H Thomson supports the plan.
Mrs. Harry R. Henry of Columbus writes Denver police to search for her husband who vanished last spring. She says he was last heard of as an automobile salesman in Denver.
In Cheyenne Wyoming on December 9 8 year old William Unwin was arrested for stealing eight cattle from the Hawkins ranch eight miles from town. He tried to sell them for eight dollars each.
In Centralia officers burned a gambling apparatus valued at $5,000 that had been seized in a raid on a fashionable gambling joint two months earlier.
In St. Louis on December 9 a man posing as a phone inspector demanded $2 for service from Mrs. Henry Dittmer and obtained it, then took $60 worth of jewelry after leaving. The incident highlights a suspected fraud by a fake service caller.
Mrs. Frank Bannesal, widow of eight children and mother to twins, has given birth to triplets in Akron Ohio. The newborns include one boy and two girls, expanding the family.
Municipal ownership of docks will be submitted to an election on March 5. The port commission proposes three sites: central dock at piers 3 and 4 along the waterfront from Madison Street to University Street, Smith Cove to the north, and the east waterway between Massachusetts Avenue and the Railroad Avenue extension. The central dock would serve the Sound fleet and moderate ocean vessels and may include a ferry landing. The east waterway dock would host deep vessels and cargo handling facilities. Smith Cove would feature a long, wide strip for warehouses and cargo operations.
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