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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1913
Page
1
The Star states its duty to more than 200,000 readers and presents unemployment figures for the Coast. The report claims careful gathering and truth, noting concerns with local markets and market activity.
A long typewritten appeal from a citizens' committee signed by physicians and business leaders urges rat extermination. The Star endorses strong action to kill rats, noting disease and food loss, and calls for public support and vigilance.
About 250 children enjoyed a Friday night Christmas celebration at the Volunteers of America hall as volunteers distributed joy and gifts.
The Seattle Commercial Club met yesterday to appoint a committee to probe the county commissioners' office. Vivian M. Carkeek chairs the group with Col. J. M. Hawthorne A. T. Katenburg A. J. Puller and C. A. Ewell also named as investigators.
Unemployed numbers swell across California Oregon and Washington with California near 100000 and San Francisco 20000 Los Angeles 35000 Portland 15000 and Seattle 20000 This surge triggers rising crime hunger and desperate acts as relief efforts prove inadequate and lawmakers urge special sessions while no fundamental employment solution is found.
Dr Linda Burfield Hazzard known as the faster leaves Seattle for Walla Walla to begin a two to twenty year sentence for the manslaughter of patient Claire Williamson. She is escorted by husband, son, and friends to the King Street station amid a curious turnout.
The Star reports Seattle laundry managers planned Sunday work to exhaust a full week's output. Prosecuting Attorney John Murphy threatens a test case, citing a state Sunday law exemption for necessities. Laundries listed say they will not insist on Sunday operations.
John Bostick pleaded guilty in superior court to the murder of Southern Pacific Traveling Passenger Agent Horace F. Montague on a trip held up near El Monte. He was sentenced to be hanged.
Coroner J. T. Mason and Deputy Coroner H. BE. MacDonald will travel to Black Diamond tomorrow to hold an inquest into the deaths of two miners killed in an explosion at Mack Diamond mine No. 14 last Tuesday.
G Cordell of 4026 Woodland Park Ave was badly bruised and his Seattle Taxicab Co vehicle wrecked after a collision with a Seattle Renton and Southern car at Fifth Avenue and Jackson Street.
Philadelphia observers report Prof Erte Doo little of the University of Pennsylvania forecasts a death toll from cold in the year A D 15001 3913, drawing on his astronomical projection. The claim appears in a humorous or speculative voice with no verifiable scientific basis.
Weather bulletin orders display at 7 a.m. at the Columbia River mouth and warns of a seaport storm from British Columbia moving eastward. Southeast winds are expected today and tonight along Washington coast and ports.
Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, arrived in Milwaukee with two bullet wounds in the back and a head wound after a brutal attack and expulsion in Hancock during the copper strike era. He blamed the Citizens' alliance and recounted being dragged through the Scott hotel and onto a train before receiving care in Chicago. Tanner, his associate, said the assault aimed to derail the strike and provoke outside aid.
Sheriff Cruze of Houghton County dismissed claims that President Moyer was assaulted shot and expelled from the copper country calling the affair a frameup. He said a careful investigation failed to substantiate the mine leader's story and that no proof of violence existed.
The Star announces the initial pennant in its Art Series. This coupon plus 20 cents earns a pennant at The Star office or any branch. Mail orders require twenty-five cents.
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