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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1913
Page
8
In Memphis on January 3 local hospitals shut to suspected meningitis victims from eastern Arkansas. A quarantine barred entry for those seeking access. rumors claim officers fired on violators in Arkansas as the disease spread toward Memphis.
City council committee urged condemnation proceedings to build a highway from near Dearborn to within the Rainier Valley block known as Empire Way. Estimated cost for the project, including one property, is 200000 dollars. The plan aims to ease Rainier valley traffic and support a street railway grant.
In Hood River a young rancher Prancis Irwin shot himself in a baseball park after an earlier failed suicide bid by swallowing a unknown substance. Authorities report Irwin died at the scene with paramedics unable to reverse the tragedy.
John Black, 40, who spent eight years in Ingleside county jail awaiting his appeal from a felony conviction, was sentenced to one year at San Quentin in place of 25 years. After seven years he escaped, was captured in Canada, and returned, revealing the long detention as his case moved through courts.
Portland January 3 The government rests its case in the A J Biehl fraud indictment linked to orchard land in Washington. A motion to dismiss was denied and the trial likely will go to the jury tomorrow.
Civil suits filed in Seattle justice courts fell from 15 728 in 1911 to 13 287 in 1912 amid new garnishment costs for plaintiffs. Judge Carroll and Judge George saw shifts in totals while criminal matters mostly passed through Judges Gordon Brown. Judge Gordon, as po magistrate, disposed of 9 022 cases.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a dental office address 1408 Third Ave and a manager named Clark D with unclear city or date. The readable material is too sparse to infer a full news item or event.
Flor a Finch earns laughter beyond the frame with her look and manner. Readers recall her film credits such as Miss De Hosaville in The Hand Bag and Arabian Sports, Mary Gregory in The Unexpected Honeymoon, and Miss Pullom in The Professor and the Lady and Aquatic Elephanta.
A coroner's jury in Ventura reports Carl Bauch died from drowning in whisky at a wholesale liquor house. He was found beneath a dripping barrel spout after reportedly drinking steadily, with the barrel nearly empty and his mouth and lungs hooded by alcohol.
In San Francisco a highwayman attack was met with a loud shout by Jerome Tallant drawing attention four blocks away. The Pacific Cat club exhibit was disrupted by a riot ending with police restoring order. In Budapest a saber duel during a political quarrel left Count Karolyi badly wounded.
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