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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1912
Page
6
An ad emphasizes that true well being requires daily elimination of waste and toxins. It touts Ayer's Pills as a gentle laxative that acts on the liver and advises readers to consult a doctor.
Rail service details show trains between Everett and Seattle with times and station stops. Ticket offices list locations including Greenwood Ajax Street Store and South and Greenwood. Weekend service notes mention baggage trains and a Creight shed departure in the evening.
An OCR fragment lists items for sale including Morrill Special Saw Set By Automatic Eqn Bester, Galvanized Nails, No 74 Black Gas Lamp, India Old Stone Sank Burner Gas Stove, Jankee Push Brace, and a Blacksmith Cleaver with prices nearby. The ad mixes hardware and tools with likely period values.
Three surviving Maishland family members say Louis Maishland, son John age about 25, and daughter Dora 16 were murdered on a Bing hamton area farm. They accuse Will Maishland 21, another son, who then killed himself. Domestic troubles and alleged insanity cited. Bodies found by the three brothers on returning from school.
Iva R Wood a young American woman obtained a marriage license to wed Kujoshi Otaguro in Denver on February 3. She explained she proposed herself during leap year and did not need help from a man or friends though she joked about the situation.
Henry Baker, city gardener, is bound over to the federal grand jury on a charge tied to a letter he sent to Mrs. William Weartcott. Prosecutors say the letter violated mail-use statutes and prompted the husband’s interest, prompting official action.
Joel 8S. Jones, bailiff in Judge Ronald's court, holds a government warrant for $2.64. He plans to frame it as proof of a clothing allowance he did not receive during the Civil War, noting his service in Company F, Fifth Connecticut infantry.
President Taft will not send Will B. Humphrey's name with other judicial nominations to the Senate until Monday or Tuesday. A successor to Judge Danworth will not be named for two or three weeks as Danworth is ready to resign. The Seattle Bar Association protest against Humphrey's appointment will be received today.
El Paso dispatches report Juarez chosen as provisional head quarters for the rebellion and Vasquez Gomez asked to go to Juarez and assume command. The junta plans to send a representative to Washington. In Chihuahua state Antonio Rojas, freed after an attack on the Chihuahua prison, leads about 400 revolutionists outside Chihuahua.
A government commission opens inquiry into alleged inhuman punishments at Pakoy central prison. Victims report merciless floggings under Col Teherlenkovsky with 50 blows for a poem and 10 more for not crying out after the first lashes.
Chinese revolutionary chiefs say once any world power officially recognizes the pro claimed republic of China they will receive 260 million dollars to support the new nation. A powerful syndicate of American and British financiers tied to Standard Oil would guarantee the loan and gain monopoly rights to oil and mineral development in China.
Mrs. Theresa Martin 22 testifies she drove the knife that killed Charles Muldoon, implicating her brother James P. McDermott in the New York murder case. The dramatic confession arrives as the trial nears its end amid intense courtroom tension.
A three act fairy spectacle at Moore theatre last night and again this afternoon features 100 Seattle performers aiding the Antituberculosis league. Baby Seecamp Dorothy Hendricks and Effie Kyle lead a cast of Scotch and Italian dances with standout moonbeam fairy performances and charming group numbers.
Crowds gathered at the Los Angeles court house as jurors prepared to deliver a verdict in the Bert H. Conners conspiracy case over a plan to blow up the Hall of Records. The 12 jurors deliberated after a late 4 PM return, with a 10 to 2 showing and the foreman signaling a verdict was unlikely.
Emma Kirkweas sues Dra. J. L. Millett C. E. Haggard and B. W. Case in a $25 000 claim alleging the first operation was unnecessary and harmed healthy organs forcing a second operation and prolonged illness from February 1909 to March 1910.
Portsmouth reports the sunken submarine A-3 at Spithead entrance remains unrecovered after a giant hoisting hawser parted. The accident caused seven injuries as the cable snapped during salvage. The A-3 collided with the gunboat Hazard, all hands aboard A-3 reportedly drowned.
President Madero expresses confidence that loyal forces will quell the Zapata uprising in northern Mexico and that General Orozco will handle Juarez mutineers. He says the situation is not grave and that fighting is focused in Morelos, predicting the revolt will be contained within about a week.
The Duwamish valley revives as interurban rates drop after a two year struggle. Seattl residents who left homes due to high charges return, renewing activity in the valley and easing fears of ongoing rate threats. Pension bill advances in Washington with 152 million appropriation and a United States exclusion clause defeated.
MISS EL COLUMBUS February 3 Miss Elsie Leve a senior student at Ohio State University College of Agriculture will become the first farm missionary to India to save hundreds of thousands of lives from famine. She studied farming in Cincinnati and will teach both farming and Christian faith to Hindu communities in and around India.
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