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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1911
Page
3
A protest piece condemns charity and Christianity used to oppress workers. It denounces Gary steel trusts and Judge Gary for enriching elites while millions endure poverty. It calls for workers to own means of production and secure labor rights beyond charity and wage slavery.
New York reports the Yale Peruvian expedition has found Pizarro’s City of White Marble in Peru. The team led by Prof. Hiram Bingham and Prof. Isaiah Bowman returned with tales of Inca granite temples. The lost city, built 400 years ago, was entered by white men for the first time.
Actor Hartman, now in Los Angeles, must appear before Judge Graham within two weeks to answer contempt charges filed by his wife over $100 monthly support payments. Hartman’s lawyers warn an appearance would break an engagement and cause substantial financial loss.
Detective L L Levings and Sheriff Mase of Clackamas county say the case against Nathan B Harvey for the Hill family murder is complete with all evidence needed. They note the future history hinges on awaiting Harvey's circuit court trial with a preliminary hearing set for Tuesday in Oregon City.
San Quentin Chaplain Wm. I. Day declares a solution to the ex convict problem and urges drafting a bill for a state farm to provide temporary work for those released from prison before the next legislative session.
Mexican dispatch from Toluco dated December 23 reports a clash near Tanancingo where 13 rurales were killed and several wounded after riding into an ambush by rebels.
Anna Held acted as auctioneer at the Palace Hotel Palm Garden in San Francisco selling donated jewelry and trinkets worth $750 for the antituberculosis fund. She spoke little, relying on eye contact to guide bidders.
The trial of Charles Berryman on a perjury indictment was set by Judge Gay for January 25. Lu dovic's trial was set for the following day.
Chas W. Jones, former cashier of an Oregon hotel, admits he embezzled two to five thousand dollars. He says the money was diverted to personal use and to church work in which he was involved, not to business ventures. He has returned home to face potential action from his former employers.
Fy United Press Leased Wire reports in Portland Oregon on December 23 that two public dance halls had their licenses renewed and resumed dances with the new "bunny hat" and "Texas tommy" dances deemed too startling for the city authorities leading to non renewal of permits.
Mike Geisman a butcher boy accuses Mrs. Helen Kockman known as the grand lady of his dreams of fleecing him out of 5500 dollars in loans. She denies the borrows and says he is love sick.
Mrs. Rena Loveland petitions for divorce from Albert Loveland alleging marriage in 1905 and a violent incident where he used a sharp fork to injure her. She says she has since lost love and respect for him.
In Paris police hunt a ghoul who opened the vault of the late Mme Lucie Lanteime to steal $50,000 in jewels buried with her body. Gases from the coffin incapacitated him, forcing a retreat through a window. In Cleveland Mrs Elroy Avery, a leading club woman, died at her home from heart failure.
Shel ton Burr Eugene Burr Charles Tobey and F Ward Preston pleaded guilty in a United States circuit court to using a mall to defraud after building a $500000 yearly income with a bogus list of 30 fake industrial mining and development companies. They led Burr Bros from California.
United States District Judge DeHaven sentences Dr Grant Lyman of Los Angeles to eighteen months in McNeil Island for breaking federal custody by escaping Providence hospital Oakland. Guard M Courtwright who aided the escape receives six months in Alameda County Jail.
Portland December 23. Wallace Stevie faced with rent pressure pretended to be robbed claiming a sandbagger took $30. The report notes the deception aimed at avoiding his landlady’s demands.
CHICAGO December 25 Attorney Borders for the government’s 10 beef barons opens closing address to jurors in the Sherman anti trust trial urging them to ignore public prejudice. He contends the defendants control only 25 percent of the beef industry.
Aurora Illinois December 24 Henry W Morria of Plano Illinois received a life prison sentence for the murder of Mrs Estelle Dumas of Pontiac The jury specified that on each anniversary of the murder Morria be confined in a bun and fed bread and water Judge Cannes warned enforcement would be uncertain The jury returned a life verdict saying hanging was too good for Morria
Three tramps accepted A. B. Drake’s invitation to ride in his new machine. Drake stopped to buy more juice, and the hoboes left him, driving away alone.
Postmaster General Hitchcock issued a fraud order against the International Real Estate and Commercial Company of San Francisco, alleging operation of an illegal lottery.
Mrs. Abraham Gordon testified she opened a charge account three days before separating from her husband to get even. She bought 11 skirts 12 dresses 24 pairs of hose 4 pairs of shoes and sundry apparel. The bill totaled $334.17 which the husband had to pay.
In the Fleming murder trial at Redding California the proceedings near completion after 4 097 typewritten pages of evidence were presented. The lengthy record has cost the county a substantial sum though the exact total is not disclosed.
Dec 22. The Gaekwar of Baroda who was estranged from King George will not be cited in the divorce suit. The court declared his rank exempts him from its jurisdiction.
In San Francisco on December 23 Frank Sullivan was arrested by a police officer named Sullivan, tried by Judge Sullivan and given the third by Detective Sullivan for stopping Motorman Sullivan's car. Father Sullivan gave him the pledge.
In Los Angeles the federal grand jury investigating an alleged dynamite conspiracy adjourned at 10 16 p m today to reconvene next Wednesday morning.
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