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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1922
Page
8
Early Tuesday a fire broke out in the bedroom of Sendine at 5171 Adams Street. He carried his mother wife and two children to safety as the home was destroyed. Loss estimated at 3700 with fire department response and neighbors aiding victims. Police investigate possible burglar origin. house owned by L Byers.
Trapped by flames in their Kennewick, 8. C. home, Mrs C E Monts and her three children died today as husband watched and fought to reach them through a blazing wall. Rescuers were also injured trying to break through the blaze. Names listed include Mrs Monts, Eugene 15, Clarence 14, and Eugene Dubose Monts 3.
Former U.S. Senator John F. Shafroth died at age 67 in Colorado. A Democrat, he served as governor from 1908 to 1912 and then in the U.S. Senate from 1912 to 1918.
Federal Judge Jeremiah Neterer ruled Tuesday to suppress evidence in the narcotics case against defendant James Foley. The motion to suppress was granted on grounds of insufficient basis beyond information and belief.
Los Angeles authorities press Henry Peavey for 60 details about an alleged associate named Anderson tied to the slain director William Desmond Taylor. Peavey says Anderson sought work in a friend of Taylor's circle, but St Louis clubs and a missing negro named Anderson are questioned. A watch expert studies the time of the fatal shot as a London cablegram from "Mabel" surfaces.
Washington February 21 The senate foreign relations committee favored adopting a reservation to the four power Pacific treaty. Senator Brandegee offered the reservation and discussion indicated it would be adopted with possible similar changes. The measure blocks government action under the treaty without explicit congressional approval on rights in Pacific islands.
Officers found a keg of whisky in a stable at 1829 Ninth Ave early Tuesday morning. SS. E. Shell arrived and was surprised by the heated hounds. He denied knowledge of the keg and was remanded to jail with a $200 bond.
J. G. McClelland, 40, a tourist at a city hotel, died Tuesday morning in the hospital from a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head. Earlier he had fired three shots at R. J. Dupras during a quarrel near Third Ave and Washington St. McClelland's body was taken to the morgue and narcotics officers charged him with possession of morphine. He was alleged to be a dope peddler.
Mrs Phoebs J Pirkey aged 77 died at her home 973 West 65th Street on Sunday. She had been a resident of Washington since 1862 and was a member of the State Pioneers’ ann elation.
Funeral services for Samuel Kreidel aged 66 longtime Seattle resident will be held at 11 am Wednesday at the Bonney Watson Undertaking Company.
F Okada faced trial in superior court Tuesday on charges of stealing a cigar eta cm and cigaret holders valued at 378 dollars. The case centers on alleged theft of smoking accessories.
Mrs. R. W. Fuller, 43, of 920 Fort Pike Street, is hospitalized in Providence after taking poison tablets by mistake for headache medicine. Doctors say she has only a small chance of recovery. she suffered a severe headache and woke during the night to take the pills. Dr. M. L. Her vig assisted at 4203 Fremont Avenue.
Fort Worth reports a family of three killed and two children badly burned when a car struck a natural gas pocket on a highway near Desdemona. An explosion at the exhaust set the vehicle afire, igniting a gun in the pocket.
American federal authorities moved to enforce neutrality laws along the Mexican border. Former Gen. Juan Merigo of the Carranza army was held on a $10,000 bond after an expedition alleged to have crossed from the American side two weeks ago to halt a Mexican national train south of Juarez. Four other members of Merigo's band were held on lesser bonds.
Brownsville reports recruitment efforts among Mexican populations for a revolutionary army of liberation. Agitators promise no stable government and tax removals as soon as the Obregon government is overthrown. Separately, Capt Thornton plans a 26 car ferry from Brownsville to Port Ludlow, with a $23,000 dock cost to shorten the drive to the Olympic peninsula by about 200 miles.
A woman was attacked in a dark alley near 102% Terry Ave early Tuesday. She fought back, freed herself, and neighbor D McKean helped chase off the assailant. Motorcycle patrolmen searched the area for nearly an hour but found no trace of the attacker.
Major A H Cleary of Fort Lawton was badly injured when his automobile skidded into an electric light pole at Third Eve Wallet early Tuesday. The Fort Lawton driver was thrown 20 feet, unconscious at City Hospital with internal injuries and facial bruises.
The fourth rehearsal of Miijah at the First M. E. church drew more than 400 singers under musical director Claude Madden who aims to raise the chorus to 600 soon. The next rehearsal is set for February 38 at the First M. E. church.
County commissioners scheduled a public hearing at 2 Tuesday afternoon on the plan to buy 15 wooden hulls for a pontoon bridge across Lake Washington.
The family of Sam Hileman mail clerk killed when a Great Northern trail fell into Miller river on December 11 received $11,500 in damages from the Great Northern railway in Judge King Dykeman's court. Mrs. Rowe Hileman, the widow, and her daughter Routh were parties to the suit.
Fred May, veterans' bureau contact official, will carry on adjudication work at Stella Coom Hospital. He is to leave Seattle in two or three days to hear veterans at the institution.
Washington reports controversy over a private and semi private sale of about 500 million dollars in Shipping Board materials. Officials say bids are not advertised and details such as timing location quantities and prices are withheld provoking dissent among would be bidders. Budget Director Dawes is cited as supervising the sale.
Two youths described as twin bandits robbed a grocery store at 5617 14th Ave N B at 9 30 p m taking about 5 with a show of arms and salutes. They wore brown salts and brown capa and appeared about 15 years old. A touring car was stolen from Rev Sydney J Johnston and later recovered engine intact. Police report further thefts at nearby addresses including currency checks and hotel room cash.
Roy Erford was elected president of the Seattle Amateur Proag club and named officers including Lb Gourman vice president I Pearl Brace recording secretary Frieda C Davidson corresponding secretary Co FP Noel literary director and F Roy Davidson official editor A challenge from the Bellingham Amateur Press club for an inter club literary contest was accepted.
Chicago reports Emil Merely, cousin of Swiss livery stable owner Max Oner, arrives to meet Mathilde McCormick 16 engaged to Oner. He is turned away by the McCormick butler as no greeting is allowed. Zurich notes Max plans to sell his livery stable and move to Lake Geneva after marrying Mathilde, granddaughter of John D Rockefeller.
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