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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1909
Page
7
Thirteenth Ward taxes appear lower than last year under Ballard governance. Officials cite a 25 percent difference as evidence of prudent city county state management. Lights deployment proceeds as bonds fund the project, with northern wards planned for numerous new lamps, contingent on bond sales.
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Newcastle miners Joe Daler and Charles Rose return from Olympia to Seattle. They urge amendments to the eight hour bill to remove drivers from culpable officers and to allow shifts to exceed eight hours in a 24 hour period when contracts require it. They insist their local union paid all expenses.
Belgium passes a law fixing minimum wages for certain trades with penalties for noncompliance. Carpenters pavers glaziers and other trades see wage increases while petitions from lithographers bookbinders and bronze workers seek readjustment. The broader question pits guaranteed decent wages against fears of pauperization and broader social costs.
Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the treasury, spoke at the Merchants' Congress in the Metropolitan Temple. He argued the United States could raise 700,000 fighting men in Maui within a month and urged a government subsidized merchant marine to support naval power. He claimed U S battleships rely on foreign coal and ships and warned that without a strong merchant fleet the nation would be vulnerable and that the Pacific will dominate the coming century in the race for markets.
A man named Embrey alias Adama alias Emory, a former soldier, admitted he was wanted for murder in Montana while at a Pacific hospital for a sprained ankle. Police watched him but released him. he escaped via a fire escape and vanished, with officials debating whether he could be held despite the confession. He had traveled from Idaho to Seattle and back, becoming a stranger to the city.
Frank Doran, longtime resident of Seattle area, died at Beattle. He arrived in July 1967 and resided here since. He is survived by a wife and six children. Funeral details to be announced by the Church of Our Lady of Good Help.
Charles Albert a 24 year old laborer was fatally injured at Second and Virginia while on a regrade crew at noon. He was taken to Pacific hospital with suspected back injuries and internal damage. Details on his residence or marital status are unavailable.
Montia Bowman and Mrs. Sarah Frede are jailed facing jail breaking charges and related counts after six days of plotting. Bowman was captured in Vancouver, B C and brought to Seattle with Deputy Zimmerman. Frede arrested on the steamer Whatcom from Victoria, B C as the search for a missing steward continues.
Judge Wilson R. Gay of department No 6 officiates his first marriage since taking the bench. He joins Pearl Copeman and Antone Voneur of Kent in wedlock after the formal questions and a final exhortation to live in harmony.
Aged quips on male virtue and folly. A critic notes the gap between ideal stage heroes and real men, remarking that kindness can spill like buttermilk and that women would best guide men if not for actual men. The piece ends with a New York press quote about money and spending.
Missoula report says General Foreman James Pennidson was killed and laborer W M Wisener fatally shot by an explosion at a rock quarry near the lower Yellowstone irrigation project. A thawing blast ignited dynamite as workers tried to rescue charges, with Eleanor nearby aiding Donaldson when the blast occurred.
Mrs. George V. Parks a Pueblo society woman and wife of the Pueblo Traction company assistant president, committed suicide yesterday after a period of ill health. She was 37 years old.
Reinhold Kramp sentenced to three years in Leavenworth for counterfeiting after confessing to passing bogus dollars. He told Judge Landis he turned to crime when hard up and claimed moving pictures inspired the counterfeit era as he watched films.
In Valparaiso Indiana a rock caused a deadly cane rush between students of the science and agriculture departments. One student is fatally injured and four others seriously hurt as police control the road.
AWABHINGTON Feb 6 The Jones bill provides for repayment to James Huot of Walla Walla 750 for clerk hire while registers the federal land office there Also Cushman bill favors additional 4 for the Western division of the house judiciary committee report notes reimbursement for damages to Hastings Steamship of Seattle 286 from a government vessel
A readable fragment lists prices paid to producers for vegetables and meats. Dressed veal around per pound, potatoes per ton, beets per sack, turnips per sack, cabbage per head, celery per bunch, with various cents and dollars per unit noted. The text reflects market pricing details from an agricultural report.
Inquest by Coroner J. M. Snyder Jr. finds Alex A. Smith died from bullet wounds inflicted by W. C. Dudley. Deputy Prosecutor F. H. Holsheimer files manslaughter charges. Hospital plans to move Smith to Tacoma blocked. subject to arrest and guard in city.
By U Terry Simpson and Reuben Wan indicted by a federal grand jury at Richmond for taking part in a conspiracy that led to the killings of several United States marshals at Stearns at Christmas. The case arises from a mining strike at Stearns.
In Colorado Springs on February 6, Paul Basick age 16 and Robert Edward Piper alias Arthur Davis, son‑in‑law, were arrested on murder charges in the December 28 stabbing and shooting of Charles P. Kesisick, a Woodmen of the World clerk. The coroner’s jury declared them guilty and implicated Mrs. Fiora Pasick, wife of the victim, with guilty knowledge.
Richard Hocking, 20, a clerk in the money order department at Butte post office, is arrested after auditors in Washington disclose a shortage of about $1500. In a confession printed by the Inter-Mountain, he says the thefts extended 18 months and funded pool rooms and race track patrons.
Local G A R Spanish War veterans and women auxiliaries plan a centennial observance with a morning program and an evening event in Bremerton. Steamers leave Colman for Puget Sound Navy Yards for the voyage.
An osteopath from the People's Bank Building claims to cure at least 90 percent of patients using osteopathy electricity vibration hot air baths and other drugless methods. Arthur Holt 407 408 409 Second and Pike.
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