Ex-city medical director charged with bribery in indictment
Dr RB C Simpson former city medical director was indicted by the King county grand jury for accepting a 150 bribe from Roy Thornton to secure Thornton's release from city Internment hospital by tampering with test tubes and a false blood test. Other defendants faced varied charges including burglary grand larceny and forgery with sentences to Monroe reformatory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RB. C. Simpson
King County Grand Jury
Calvin 8. Hall
Superior Court
Dr. Simpson
Roy Thornton
Thornton
City Internment Hospital
Harry Scott
Queen Anne High School
Monroe Reformatory
Collins Robbins
Mra
Florence Gage
Co. v. Jarrell
Monroe
L. EB. Robinson
Yukon freighter sails for Vladivostok
Telegraph reports the steel freighter Yukon carrying Russian government cargo set sail Friday toward Vladivostok. Also noted are influenza illness of HH. OH. Hammer, full passenger lists on two warships, holiday returns of soldiers and Californians, and various local incidents and notices from Seattle in 1918.
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Vladivostok
HH. OH. Hammer
Universal Shipping & Trading Company
New York
Youthful veteran back from war smiles in Seattle
Private George W. June, maimed in action with shrapnel scars and a spine injury, returns to Seattle after earning a field gun decoration at Chateau-Thierry. Known as Fighting George, he served on the Mexican border, mailed for France in 1917, and was invalided home after heavy shelling and a crash that left his spine fractured in four places.
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George W
June
Seattle
Coast
Runs
George
France
Chateau Thierry
Ude
Hiruns
Juns
Brung
Freano
Cal
Sintera
California
Lynch 4 Negroes, Two Are Women
Mobile authorities report four Black men, two of them women, accused in the murder of Dr. B. E. Johnson were taken from jail and hanged from a bridge girders over the Chickasabay River.
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Mobile
Ala
Dee
BE. L. Johnson
Chickasabay River
Ren Scovell to Speak at Seattle War Veterans Meeting
Ren Scovell humorist and entertainer, who led the front for several years, will address the Great War Veterans Association of Canada Seattle branch at a Soldiers and Sailors' club gathering Monday at p. m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ren Scovell
Great War Veterans’ Association of Canada
Seattle
Soldiers and Sailors’ Club
Chinese Delegates to Versailles to Be Here Tuesday
The Chinese delegation to the Versailles peace conference arrives in Seattle on its way to France next Tuesday. Marshall Lanhorne of Washington DC representing the state department is here to receive the delegation. A Seattle reception was planned but canceled to speed their cross continental journey. An invitation will be extended for the mission to return via Seattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
France
Marshall Lanhorne
Washington, D. C
State Department
Wife Believes Maj Richeson Is Alive
Mrs. Alice M. Hicheson, wife of Maj. Richeson, believes her husband is alive despite reports of his death. Richeson, 34, formerly of Seattle, was wounded in the left side during the Argonne drive while serving as adjutant of the 361st Infantry. He entered the army as a captain and rose to major in France. He has been recovering according to letters from the front.
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Austin B. Hiche
Perth
Alice M. Hicheson
12Th Ave
Seattle
Thelma
Mary
Richerson
Nobody Wants to Be President of Police League
The Wolice league lacks a willing candidate as Chief of Police J F Warren and ex patrolman Edward J Croken clash over leadership. Two meetings failed to attract a quorum and staff refuse to join. No election date set and a patrolman warns accepting the post would be suicidal.
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Police League
Wolice League
J. F. Warren
Edward J. Croken
Croken
Warren
League
Ioe
Salmon Egg Hatchery Costs Rise in State Reports
State fish commissioner L. H. Darwin says hatcheries hatched 173 325 925 salmon eggs this year at 55 cents per thousand, up from 32 cents last year. The report notes higher costs across facilities and related industry activity, while a Bremerton tug assists the Japanese steamer Eastern Shore en route to Seattle for repairs. Puget Sound navy yard seeks 118 laborers three boilermaker helpers and four flange turner helpers.
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L. H. Darwin
Eastern Shore
Shipping Board
Seattle
Bremerton
Cape Miattery
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Kaiser Caught in Cold Foot Chill
Old Helland portrays the kaiser with a chill and extreme cold feet. The future bears a bitter pill as symptoms surface in the verse.
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Old Helland
Northwest dairyman Alfred Kristoferson Killed in Action
Alfred Kristoferson, owner of a large Northwest dairy and former senior partner of A Kristoferson Inc., is reported killed in action in France. He enlisted at the war outbreak, served in Company A 116th Infantry, arrived in France September 1917, and died October 18, 1918. His mother Mrs. A Kristoferson, 4710 HIGHLAND Ave, receives word from the war department. A younger brother August serves. Kristoferson's death was previously listed as missing.
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Northwest
United States
Germany
Sergi
Alfred Kristoferson
A. Kristoferson, Inc
Restain
France
War Department
A. Kristoferson
High Lane
Kristofferson
Stanwood
Wash
Meret Kristoferson
Hergt. Kristoferson
August
Norfolk
Hoth
Seattle
Alfred
Mexican
116Th Infantry
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DR. R
Simpson
Savings Department
Dexter Horton
Second Avenue
Cherry Street
Dexter Horton Trust
Ireland
Jack Jackson
Edith Wilma
Lucille Krammer
Billie Dunbar
Helen Jewell
Metropolitan Trio
Admiral Farragut
Admiral Schley
Hugh MacKenzie
Pacific 8. 8 Co
The
Chamber of Commerce
Masonic Club
W.S. D. Smith
George Homer
John B. Gordon
Lake Drive
T. H. Palmer
City
Eastlake
First Ave
Washington
Nellie Helder
Fifth Ave
C. C. Tiffin
Thomas
von Gerste
Brown
Galery T
Food Administration
Salvation Army
Wing's
Oldenburg
Kodiak Island
Aleutian Islands
Pacific Steamship Company
Admiral Watson
Cornelius C. Fohm
Navy
Wilson
King County Democratic Club
Good Bats
Aaron W. Edwards
Renton
Pacific Coast Railroad Company
George W. Brung
Lynch
Versailles
Maj. Richeson
the Kaiser
Helland
Madison
Eugene Levy
Madrid
Winter Garden
Mon
Thur
Kristoferson
Marguerite
Clark
Fatty
Jack Clifton
Sweden
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