Union Enjoined From Picketing In Open Shop Dispute
Judge Morrin of the superior court granted a temporary restraining order restricting the Interna Association of Bridge Iron Workers from picketing the Wire & Plating Works after a walkout tied to the open shop policy. The action follows alleged coercion of new hires and widespread picketing among open shop contractors. The return date is January 17. officials warn contractors may hire replacements if unions do not resume work.
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Morrin
Interna Association of Bridge @ Iron Workers
Plac
Ornamental Iron and Wire Works
Pacific Works
First Methodist
Pacific Wire & Plating Works
W. J. Waddingham
Master Bulidere
Huliders' Exchange
Shingle Weavers Union Elects Officers at Sixth Annual Convention
At Ballard’s Ballard local six annual convention of the International Shingle Weavers Union of America voted officers. J J G Brown Hoquiam was elected president along with Crane Marinette as second VP Malliner Marinette as third VP Nagley Tacoma as fourth VP Willis Hoquiam as fifth VP and Daniel McKee Marysville as secretary treasurer. The session will close with a banquet and ball at Byphers hall tomorrow night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BP Shingle Weavers Union of America
Ballard
Can
J. J. G. Brown
Hoquiam View
J. H Crane
Joseph Malliner
Marinette
Wila
Fs&s
District attorney nominations spark Oregon political scene
United Press reports President nominates Christian hei of Oregon City as Oregon district attorney W C Bristol’s nomination withdrawn on Justice Department reccommendation. Galem Colonel H Crawford named brigadier general. Frisco postmaster Arthur Fisk to be confirmed. fire destroys stock and barns at Stockton ranch as tramp arson suspected.
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United Press
Washington
The
Christian Hei
Oregon City
United District Attorney
Oregon
W. C. Bristol
Department of Justice
Schnebel
Bourne
H. Crawford
Galem
Prisoner Tries Suicide in County Jail
K Yakaiva, a Japanese prisoner in the county jail, attempted to hang himself using a necktie attached to a wooden support while others were in the same tank. He was found and later examined by a judge and physicians who declared him insane and ordered commitment to the asylum at Belleaucom.
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K. Yakaiva
Yakalya
Albert Won
Btellacoom
Big Gold Strike Reported in Koyukuk District
United Press reports a major gold discovery on Nolan Creek by John and Louis Olson in Alaska's Koyukuk district. The old channel was reached at 125 feet with pans showing over $200. a paystreak up to 25 feet wide was found, spurring renewed interior mining activity and new quarrying on Chandiar Creek.
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United Press
Valdez
Alaska
Jan
Koyukuk
Kiondike
Nome
Charles K&. Olde
Nolan Creek
John and
Louis Olson
Chandiar Creek
Population gains in Jefferson county reach 121 percent
Jefferson county shows a 121 percent population gain over seven years. The report notes timber holdings near 500 million feet owned by private interests remain unassessed and untaxed, keeping local taxes higher than Seattle and other large cities.
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United Press
Port Townsend
Jefferson County
Seattle
Infant burns to death in accidental fire tragedy
Edith Ellen Swartwood, 18 months old, died after burning herself with matches while playing alone at home on 20th Avenue West and Aloha Street. She caught fire, skin peeling from arms and legs, and died about six hours later. Funeral planned at Nutterworth chapel with interment at Mt Pleasant cemetery.
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Edith Ellen
B. B. Swartwood
20Th Avenue West
Aloha Street
20Th Av. W
Aloha Ut
Edith
Nutterworth
Chapel
Mt Measant Cemetery
Sheriff Dolan to Move Ex Mayors to Regular Cells
Lawrence Dolan, starting as sheriff, says former Mayor Eugene E. Schmits and Louis Glass, both bribe convicts, will be moved from guards rooms to standard convict cells. He will not persecute them but will treat them like ordinary criminals under law.
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Ban Francisco
Lawrence Dolan
exMayor
Eugene E. Schmits
Louis Glass
Dolan
Schmits
Glass
Ees
Delegates to State Labor Federation Convention in Tacoma
About 250 delegates expected for the State Federation of Labor convention in Tacoma starting tomorrow. By noon today 325 had filed credentials at the Labor Temple, with miners from Franklin and Black Diamond traveling to attend. Delegates also arrived from Spot, Walla Walla, and other eastern mountain cities. Charles K. R. Case is credited as organizer. The convention will run for a week.
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State Federation of Labor
Tacoma
Labor Temple
Franklin
Black Diamond
Walla Walla
Charles KR. Case
Tate Ia
Matrimonial Editor Sets Prizes For Leap Year Proposal
A Matrimonial editor lists prizes for a female led leap year proposal contest. The rewards include dish sets, a sofa pillow, a go cart and other items from Union Bakery McCarthy Dry Goods Bon Marche and more. The article explains rules require the woman to propose and marry a man, with photos and statements from both partners and wedding date notification to the editor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Bakery
Pike Et
McCarthy Dry Goods Co
Bon Marche
Garvey-Buchanan Co
Grote- Rankin Co
Standard Furniture Co
Fair Department Store
Quaker Sheet
Barteli Drug Co
Raven Drug Co
Union Savings & Trust
Timber Survey Report Tops County Assessors Meet
A complete timber lands survey of the county by County Ancestor Parish will be the principal topic at the annual convention of county assessors of the state, which convened this morning in North Yakima.
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County Ancestor Parish
Yakima
Garroted and Robbed Near Portland Police Station
A Chinese laborer named Fang Chong was held up and garroted near the Portland police station at 11 PM after returning from Alaska fishing wages. Four white assailants choked him with a rope and robbed him of 612 dollars, minutes from the station.
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Portland
Ore
Fang Chong
Alaska
Steamship Mount Royal Is Safe After Faulty Engine
Queenstown January 7 The Canadian Pacific liner Mount Royal which had been given up for lost today entered the harbor under her own steam. The captain said the voyage began with disagreeable weather from Antwerp on December 7. Early in the trip engine trouble forced a diversion to Queenstown with 300 passengers and 100 crew aboard. The Royal refused help on two occasions and reached port alone.
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Mount Royal
Antwerp
Queenstown
Royal
Affinity case ends in suicide in White Plains field
Alice Maud Harvey a trained nurse killed herself with carbolic acid in a lonely field between White Plains and Mamaroneck. She left a four word note I am the woman. Dr John Arthur Taff of Past Orange New Jersey is jailed on abandonment allegations amid an affair scandal tied to the case. Harvey had been employed at the Hobby residence and vanished on Christmas day.
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United Press
New York
White Plaine
Squires
Alice Maud Harvey
Mamaroneck
John Arthur Taff
Orange
N. J
Taff
Blackwells Island
J. O. Hobby
White Plains
New Jersey
Miss Harvey
America
England
Narrowly Escape Death In Flames
Old Springfield rifles will be a thing of the past with the High School Cadet corps after February 1 as 40 Krag Jorgensen rifles are expected to arrive. Samuel Brown suffered serious burns and Keith McNeil was rescued from the fifth story of the Norris Safe and Lock building after smoke inhalation. Brown escaped by breaking through a plate glass panel leaving him badly cut and burned. The fire began in the basement and spread via the elevator shaft to the upper floors, with damage estimated at 10 000 to 15 000 dollars, fully insured.
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Samuel Brown
Keith McNeil
Norris Safe & Lock Company
Rown
Brown
Norrie Safe @ Lock company
Swift Packing Company
Commercial Pograying Company
Port Patrick Towed into Victoria in Distress
The British ship Port Patrick bound for Portland from the United Kingdom was towed into Victoria this morning after a storm tore rigging, flooded the cabin, and caused one man to be washed overboard. It is believed the vessel is sprung and the cargo will be discharged for repairs.
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Merchants’ Exchange
Port Patrick
Portland
United Kingdom
Victoria
Civil Service for Census Takers Proposed by President
President recommends a civil service law to run the next census with nonpartisan track. A temporary 4,000 clerks would work in Washington, replacing spoils-system appointments.
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Washington
Congress
Civil Service
Magoon Opens Mediation In Havana Masons Strike
Gov Gen Magoon moves to avert a large scale walkout as 26 unions join masons in urging government mediation. Violence marked months of conflict with employers nearing victory until allied unions offered to suspend strikes for government action. A settlement appears possible if negotiations succeed.
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My United Press
Havana
Magoon
Masons
Thaw Witnesses Declined by Evelyn Thaws Mother
Mrs J C Holman mother of Evelyn Thaw says neither she nor Howard Nesbit nor Miss Ida Simonton will testify in the Thaw trial. She favors a verdict of not guilty and says it would be unnatural to aid in sending her daughter's husband to the electric chair. In New York the Thaw juror examination resumes with veniremen questioned and several dismissed. Myron H Thayer was examined. Evelyn Thaw greeted her husband. Charles McCullough and Charles Goss are among jurors selected. Mrs Ellen Sanders Cox, noted local artist, dies of pneumonia at Minor hospital in Seattle after moving there from Austin Minn. She leaves one son, Gilson Cox.
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Pittsburg
J. C Holman
Evelyn Thaw
Howard Nesbit
Ida Simonton
Miss Simonton
Mrs. Holman
Harry Thaw
Attorney Peabody
Josiah Thaw
Thaw
Harry
Jerome
McCullough
Charles Goss
Ellen Sanders Cox
Minor Hospital
Seattle
Austin
Minn
Cis Gilson Cox
Woman Tramp Fleeing Six Husbands Travel Across Country
About 2,000 Union Iron Works workers were reinstated and will stay on through winter with no wage cuts. A boxcar traveling woman in masculine disguise, Caroline Edna Hoyt, linked to six marriages in five years, was identified by authorities but released after no charges. Her trail led from Alberta to Denver and possibly Seattle, with husbands seeking compensation from her alleged misdeeds.
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United Press
San Ancisco
Union Tren Works
Auburn
Caroline Edna Hoyt
Stanley-Brooks - Perry-Thornton
Caroline
John Carieou
Alberta
Canada
John
Des Moines
John Edward Perry
Newton
Seattle
Moyt
Murder of a family of six shocks Kingston area
Irving Baker allegedly killed his wife and four children at Leichhardt Ulster County then slashed his own throat. Six bodies were found by a neighbor. A rough knife fashioned from an old scythe was used. Jealousy is blamed for the tragedy.
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Irving Baker
Leichhardt
Ulster County
Waker
Haker
Baker
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CG. J. Erickson
Shingle Weavers’ Union
Frisco
Arthur Fisk
San Francisco
Senate
Geneval Meyer
Stockton
Cal
Schmitz
Sested Press
Norris Safe and Lock Co
Third Ave
United Prone
Ventremen
Carlson
St. Louis
Chicago
Denver
Kingston, N. Y
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