Powder Works Explosion Shakes City and Stuns Regions
A massive blast at a powder works near San Lorenzo Alameda County destroyed the plant and damaged adjoining structures. More than 100 workers were at the site. several were injured and two destroyers attended. Rescue crews faced difficult access as fire swept through the facility and spread damage to nearby buildings.
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Ndro
Roberts
Leandro
Alameda County
San Lorenzo
Beathers Pacific
San Lore
Sherman Says He Appointed Investigation Committee
Mr Sherman announced the appointment of a committee to conduct a dependent investigation for the house. The panel includes Gallings, Raws, Mith, Bimmon, and Pee, with Crea leading the effort as chair.
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MD. C
Sherman
All American Adventurers Overrun Nicaragua Report
Unclear OCR text references an event in Nicaragua involving explorers or adventurers and a confrontation. The fragment mentions invasion, conflict, and overrun rumors or reports. Specific persons or organizations are not discernible.
Unclear OCR note on bread and grain prices
Fragmentary text mentions bread from cottonseed and wheat grinding with numbers like 420 and references to trade. No clear event, date, or identifiable entities beyond generic commodities.
Men’s Per Diem Showdown Amid Company Expenses
A column breaks down a company’s earnings and deductions. Fifteen cents daily from each of 4000 men equals 150 dollars a day, 15 thousand monthly profit from provisions, 3400 hospital and 2000 office fees monthly. Company gains about 25000 monthly while men receive up to 29.70 each, after various subtractions including 15 cents daily and hospital costs.
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Jew
Foreman
Japanese Laborers Exploited by Seattle Trading Co
Four thousand Japanese laborers are allegedly held in servitude on Hill roads between Seattle and St Paul. The Oriental Trading Co. of Seattle is said to contract these workers, taking a large share of their wages while the men, unaware and unable to speak English, accept substandard pay. Reports claim the company earns about a quarter of a million dollars annually from this arrangement.
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Hillroads
Seattle
St. Paul
City Bribery Probe Moves to Quick Demurrer Hearing
The court orders the detourers to be argued this afternoon as Special Prosecutor White insists on no delay in bribe indictments against Seattle police officers McGrath Heper Hinck and Smith. Judge Ronald directs Murphy to notify counsel to prepare demurrers.
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Seattle
McGrath
Heper- Hinck
Smith
Ronald
White
Murphy
Vinceraben
Inquiry Demanded Into Death Of Hans Alberson
Spectators urge coroner inquest after Hans Alberson dies when a house moving contractor’s windlass sweep, powered by a horse, is allegedly missecured by baling wire. The accident near Boat de Beminary leaves a wife and stepdaughter at 18 W. Thomae.
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Hans Alberson
Alberson
Hin
W. Thomae
Coroner Probes Death of Mrs Daley in San Jose
Coroner Harney Kell opened an investigation into the fatal gunshot of Mrs Blanche Pelton Daley, who died in San Jose after a moving incident. Dr H V Gates, a physician at the scene, claimed the death was accidental and urged disinterment, noting the body had already been buried. Daley, recently from the east with a two year old daughter, was said to be divorced and involved in a custody dispute before the shooting while unloading a trunk.
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United Prep
San Jose
Cal
Harney BE. Kell
Blanche Pelton Daley
de. H. V. Gates
Darey
Langford
Pata
Daley
Charles E Head Trial This Week
The trial of Charles E Head a former clerk in Justice Carrolls court and Thomas Tyrer a former county official elector will be heard in superior court Saturday. They face charges of larceny by embezzlement totaling about 3100 from justice court accounts. Expect plea of guilty under old law specifying prison terms from one to fourteen years or up to one year in county jail.
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Charles E. Head
Justice
Record Snowfall Claims Three Inches in City
Weather observer Salisbury notes three inches of snow by morning with a forecast of warming and rain tonight and tomorrow. Historical Seattle snowfall records mention 39% inches in early February 1893 and lighter totals in 1908 and last year’s February 14 event.
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Salisbury
Seattle
Sallebury
Rain Tonight and Friday With Brisk South Winds
A weather forecast calls for rain tonight and Friday with brisk south winds. Temperatures remain mild as a cold front approaches, bringing potential showers across the area and gusty winds along exposed exposed regions.
Crawford Slams Poor Service Over Renton Line
A. L. Valentine, Seattle public utilities superintendent, accuses W. Rh. Crawford, president of Beattie Renton Southern, of stubbornness and unreasonableness causing riders on the Rainier Renton line to suffer. He says Crawford clashed with the board of public works and the Seattle Electrics while a Yesler Way bridge was built, leading to riders paying two fares to reach homes and dangling from exposed counterweight cars.
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W. Rh. Crawford
Beattie, Renton & Southern Rowd
A. L. Valentine
Public Utilities
Crawford
Board of Public Works
Public Utilities Department
Seattle Electrics Company
Rainier
Washington #1
Pike Et
Renton
Yesterway
Fourth Av. Crawford
Valentine
Yesler Way
Army mix up a molehill at Vancouver barracks
At Vancouver barracks on February 17 Gen Maua stated Lieut Col Abercrombie was removed from Fort Wright to Fort Lawton due to mistreatment of officers, not tyranny in fort administration. He noted the issue was blown out of proportion by Spokane authorities, turning a molehill into a mountain.
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Vancouver Barracks
Abercrombie
Fort Wright
Fort Lawton
Mave
Bpokane
Maua
Department
Spokane
Bank clearings figures for Seattle Tacoma and Portland
Daily banking activity shows Seattle totaling 1,766,182.06 with 272,376.43 in addition. Tacoma reports 934,101.00 and 149,402.00 while Portland posts 1,614,494.00 and 220,798.00 in clearings.
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Seattle
Mother calls suicide after quarrel ends in tragedy
A Ballard case reports Cleo Bright, 26, phone call to her mother before she killed herself with carbolic acid. Her husband Walter Bright, a lard carpenter, had beaten her earlier. Police arrested Bright at Ballard jail after the incident. Two young daughters, ages 4 and 6, were not harmed.
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Walter Bright
Hovor
Mia
Bright
Bee
Ballard
Ex priest Sagese hauled to court over nuisance charge
Lucius Pasquale Sagese former priest and proprietor of the Ruby theatre on Third avenue near Cherry Street is arrested on a nuisance charge. Judge Gordon will oversee the case as opponents claim persecution and point to similar automatic pianos at other venues.
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Lucius Pasquale Sagese
Gordon
Bagese
Third Av
Cherry At
Howard Waterman
New York
Waterman
Sagese
Halley's Comet Visible From University Observatory
University observers report Halley's comet sighted with a two inch lens from the northwest. Prof. Gould refutes danger rumors of cyanogen gas and notes the comet may show spectacular features late May. He says visibility here is uncertain and compares brightness to the 75 year ago appearance.
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United Press
University OF Washing
Oriiz
Gould
B. Gould
Deaia
Where is Sparker brass tag found in sandwich tale
In Los Angeles on February 17, G B Sewright found a brass fragment reading Dog and another with 1448 in his wife’s weiner sandwich. He checked dog licenses at city hall and learned Dog license 1443 belonged to Miss Anna Bell. She asks if he knows where Sparker is and answers only part of him.
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Los Angeles
Cal
G. BE. Sewright
Berwriene
Eity Hall
Anna Bell
Sewright
Sparker
Iceberg Hits the Yucatan Beached Near Hoonah Alaska
The Alaska Steamship liner Yucatan southbound from Skagway to Seattle struck an iceberg in Icy Straits and was beached at Mud Bay 25 miles from Hoonah. There are 70 passengers aboard and no lives were lost. Santa Ana sails to aid the Yucatan. Captain W P 8 Porter of Seattle commands.
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Juneau
Alaska
Alaska Steamship Company
Yucatan
Skagway
Seattle
Mud Bay
Hoonah
Santa Ana
Taft Urges Senate Action On Key Pledges
President Taft, concerned by senate delays, calls leaders to press forward on pledges including savings bank, conservation, railroad regulation, anti injunction, and territory statehood bills. Alaska bill likely shelved as postal savings bill gains priority. Senate leaders aim to back the president on this measure.
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United Press
Washington
Taft
Senate
Alaska Legislative Council
Territories
Tragic Ball Room Deaths Shock Russian Nobility
A Valentine dance hosted by Countess Ty Revited ends in two teen aristocrats dead. Baron Barfatinsky, 15, shot himself after a note message, Baroness Pahlen, 14, swallowed carbolic acid crying I go win him. Police allegedly concealed the tragedy.
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My United Press
ST. Petersburg
Baron Barfatinsky
Pahlen
Editor Faces Jail Over Cattle Rustler Label
In Olympia Washington on February 17 the state supreme court heard arguments over whether editor F W D Mayes of Garfield County Standard may face prison for calling rival editor H C Benbow of Columbia County Dispatch a notorious cattle rustler. Mayes was convicted of criminal libel after the remark and appealed.
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Star Special Service
Olympia
Wash
State Supreme Court
F. W. D. Mayes
Garfield County Standard
Pomeroy
H. C. Benbow
Columbia County Dispatch
Dayton
Benbow
Mayes
Many Women Involved In Burke Mixup
The Santa Noba report notes that at least 10 San Francisco women will be questioned by the grand jury regarding the dynamiting of Miss Luella Smith and her baby Willard Smith. District officials hint at indictments for dynamiting and possible irregularities at Burke sanitarium. A rescue scene involved G A Erickson and Quartermaster Heller pulling a drowning woman from rough waters, with no names given by the women or the boat crew, and all three women returning to Seattle on the Whatcom.
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United Press
Santa Noba
Cal
Luella Smith
Willard Smith
Wtate
San Francisco
Grand
Leo
Burke
G. A. Erickson
Quartermaster Heller
Erickson
Seattle
Port Townsend Girl Leaps Into Sound Near Port Williams
Port Townsend Feb 17. As the steamer Whatcom neared the dock at Port Williams a pretty girl sprang to the rail and leaped into the sound without warning. Two women with her and others nearby tried to intervene. The outcome and identities were not disclosed in the readable text.
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Port Townsend
Whatcom
Port Williams
Injustics at Concert Stirs Remark from Elderly Audience
An eccentric singer performing comic songs at a hinatic asylum concert drew a sharp reaction when an old woman sighed that she felt she was in and he was out. Tit-Dits.
Lost and Found ads in The Star Want Columns
The Star offers lost and found listings at 1 cent per word with ten words costing a dime. Phone orders to place ads in the Main 400 Ind 441, and refunds issued if cancellations occur before publication. If multiple insertions are paid for but not used, refunds are provided.
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