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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1919
Page
12
The text reports Governor Lister’s illness and request for temporary acting duties to be assigned to the Lieutenant Governor or designated official. Dr. Hart asserts the governor’s condition requires rest and care, while ensuring continuity of state policies during rehabilitation and a brief absence from office.
Louis F Hart lieutenant governor acting as governor from Tacoma born 1862 High Point Missouri. Republic Kent Tacoma Odd Fellows leader and parliamentarian with bridge hobby and love of stories. Fourteen family details and public roles listed. wartime draft chair Southwest Washington. two sons and three daughters named.
Frank Jones and Grant Fisher face police scrutiny over a high end gambling den on the Upper West Side where patrons wore evening clothes and rubber heels. The operation reportedly brought in up to 16000 dollars nightly with losses capped at 200 dollars, and investigators seized roulette wheels loaded dice costly furniture paintings valued from 1000 to 10000 dollars meals and a 40 suit wardrobe.
The cruiser Pueblo carrying Company I of the 161st Infantry and elements of the 162d Infantry plus medical and Casual units will arrive in New York February 21. The transport America follows February 22 with 170 officers and 1,980 men including Coast artillery units and brigade headquarters detachments.
Sixty five men of the 30th Newport News casual company and 77 of the 11th Battalion Engineers, with rosters from Washington Oregon and Idaho, passed through Portland last night on the way to Camp Lewis.
Olympia report details Senator Guy Groff of Spokane proposing a bill to lease state lands for oil and gas for 30 years on a royalty share basis. Private interests would receive up to 90 percent of production value while the state would gain the remainder as land compensation. The move follows reports of investors lining up for leases at the state land office.
Olympia reports auto truck Nitney bus and auto dealers and club officials rally against a bill raising auto license fees. About 200 demonstrators testified and telegrams flood the legislature with 634 messages. Senator Landon notes the barrage resembles a Western Union push.
In Olympia on February 13 Doc Carlyon is named president of the senate to replace Lieut Gov Hart who moved to Gov Slater's office. An exdential and longtime organization leader Carlyon with Senator Howard Taylor pulls many strings and has clashed with Gov Lister recently. Quarrels lack consistent explanation but campaign speeches against Lister are noted.
San Francisco has adopted a federal deportation policy targeting anarchists and Bolsheviks. Immigration Commissioner Caminetti and Edward F. White announced a Pacific coast watch on I W W members and others with radical tendencies. The city positions itself as the gateway from Russia, with coasts under similar scrutiny.
Santa Monica, February 13. The bodies of Mrs. T. M. Russell, 29, of Denver, and her mother Mrs. Martha B. Ward, 55, were found shot to death in Ward's Sawtelle residence after police forced entry. Authorities believe Mrs. Russell killed her mother and then killed herself in a moment of temporary insanity.
The weekly luncheon of the members council at the Bon Marche tea room Friday noon will feature Mayor Ole Hanson and Police Chief J. F. Warren as guests of honor. Americanism will be the keynote of the program.
A class of 15 students in the college of business administration at the University of Washington is studying, for the Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club, about 50 potential new industries that could be located in Seattle.
Portland reports Mr and Mrs Charles Fisher honored their 41th wedding anniversary by serving as beat man and matron of honor at the marriage of their daughter Eunice Fisher to Ross McNulty. The Talkal Maru of Frank Waterhouse & Co is in port from Kobe with beans wool and other cargo awaiting discharge before loading steel and cotton for Japan.
A Seattle area legislature morning featured a chaplain praying for Senate bill 96 an appropriation of 500000 for an industrial training home for delinquent women. The measure aims to curb vice and quarantine immoral women as a public health program urged by Major Van Patten and backed by women advocates in the state house.
Special to The Star reports vast wheat losses as German forces destroy half a million tons of grain to prevent Allied seizure. Widespread fires and air raids devastate storehouses on the Western front, with further losses in Poland as independence unfolds. Prof. Kallod estimates Germany could have fed itself longer, while a statistician questions famine claims and notes fat and meat consumption.
Fragments show Smith working behind the scenes to block a plan while Davis avoids involvement with women. The remarks indicate internal group tensions and personal positioning within the circle.
A set of reader testimonials from Mrs. A M Olberg Wallace Vibe A Wooda Mrs W H Gould and J A Reed describe kidney pain backache and relief after using Doan's Kidney Pills. They report limpness swelling in ankles gravel like sediment in secretions and rapid improvement with continued use.
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