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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1916
Page
6
Formal invitations have been issued for the inauguration of Dr Henry Suzzallo as president of the state university. The event will be held March 20 and 21 with educators from across the country and high state and local officials attending.
Fifty five passengers and 96 crew of the liner Maloja perished when a mine exploded under the ship off Dover. The Petshenga and others were sunk. 260 passengers and 322 crew were saved. Bodies of 12 women and six children lay at the Dover morgue. investigation underway.
Sacramento, Feb 28. John M. Eshelman Lieut. Gov. of California died at 5 30 this morning in the Southern Pacific clubhouse Indio Cal The cause of death given as tuberculosis Officials at the capitol received the first word of his death
Government agents arrest Dr William Rose and Chas Kimore proprietors of the HKoyal Medical Co and Frank Mitchell for smuggling dope to Seattle from British Columbia hidden under a Pullman car. Local address cited 1119 Firatave.
IS-year old Katherine Harrison claims she killed W. L. Warren after he wronged her. Police doubt her account and consider possible involvement by her 19-year-old husband Charlies, nephew of U S Senator Culberson. She says Warren attacked her. she fired eight shots on a lonely road. Texas law generally bars prosecution of a girl her age.
Weather observer Salisbury reports January tied as the coldest month here since 1888 with a state monthly mean of 20.2 degrees.
An old remedy advocates flushing the kidneys with rad Salts made from grape and lemon acids with thia. It promises to remove urine waste, stimulate kidney function, and alleviate backache by drinking large amounts of water and a daily tablespoon of the mixture before breakfast for a few days.
A Saturday raid by sheriff deputies rounded up 41 women from disorderly houses and several gamblers in the district below Yester Way. Arrested women were booked at the county jail while gamblers faced gambling charges and high bail.
A vintage advertisement promises eye restoration using Optona. It claims readers improved vision after 15 days of nightly eye baths with Optona dissolved in water. The piece urges immediate care to prevent worsening vision and notes many become glasses free.
An unidentified man about 50 collapsed on a street near 1209 Second Ave Monday morning. He leaned up at a window then fell again. Death was due to heart failure. He wore a black overcoat, weighed 175 pounds, stood six feet tall, had sandy gray hair and fake teeth.
The port commissioners will take their franchise request directly to the city council to secure a continuous right of way for the belt line from Massachusetts street to Smith Cove. Franchise committee members favor postponing four weeks and the committee will not send a recommendation. The commission will revise its application to seek a 15 foot right of way between Union and Viiest areas, down from 80 feet.
The Peninsular & Oriental liner Maloja mined off Dover carried 429 persons, including 119 passengers, with 260 saved. Revised company figures update losses from earlier counts of 409 aboard and 151 died, adjusting totals to reflect 171 dead.
Commander F. N. Freeman ordered an inquiry into the red painted inscription C. P. O. Madhouse on the bow of the U S Whipple while at anchor off the San Diego coal dock. If found guilty, the culprits face at least one year in Mare Island naval prison. The note signals discontent with treatment by certain chief petty officers, the letters Cc P. O. standing for that grievance.
Logan Billingsley one of the Stewart Street pharmacy owners is jailed on $600 bail for assault in the third degree after a plain clothes police investigator was beaten while attempting to buy whisky. Billingsley claims the investigator insulted him when the whisky فروش could not be obtained.
Funeral services for Orion O. Denny, the first white child born in Seattle, were held at 2 o'clock Monday from his home at 1204 Boren Ave. He died Saturday after six months of illness.
Washington February 28 the house ways and means committee voted unanimously to report Chairman Kitchins bill repealing the free sugar clause of the tariff law.
The bodies of the captain and eight sailors from the Wilson liner Dido, sunk early Saturday, washed up today on the Lincolnshire coast.
M. D. Bousman, 63, was charged with murdering Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Akers near Wilder ville ten miles from Grants Pass, after admitting he hid by the roadside and shot them as they passed for Sunday school. He had quarreled with Akers over a boundary fence and previously drank laudanum attempting suicide.
The tortuous Alaskan coast has so many indentations that its actual length surpasses the U.S. seaboard proper, totaling more than 26 000 miles.
An old advertisement extols Pape's Diapepsin as a quick, safe cure for indigestion and dyspepsia. It claims relief within five minutes, elimination of gas and belching, and improved stomach function, encouraging readers to buy a fifty cent bottle from any drug store.
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