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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1918
Page
10
A classified notice in The Star promotes 11 acres for sale. The ad emphasizes land parcels and contact details for prospective buyers, fitting a local newspaper style property listing.
Classified real estate listings, trades and notices from Beattie include farms for sale and land deals in Western Washington, small houses with terms, and requests for buyers. Also present are lost and found items, livestock notes, and public notices regarding bankruptcy and creditors meetings.
Bargain four room cottage with electric lights phone and city water in a fenced yard with fruit trees near a top high school and streetcar line. Price 1250 dollars with 100 cash and 15 dollars monthly terms offered by Burke Farrar Inc at 203 New York Block.
Wanted single or shared rooms with board in a friendly setting. Prefers first hill district location. Rates should be reasonable. Respond to H-108 care of Star office with details.
I Lurte a grocer of 1823 Yealer Way reported to police that his store was entered Wednesday night and a large quantity of groceries were stolen.
Editors from across the state attend the newspaper institute at the university. Dean David Thompson welcomed delegates at Commerce Hall as J. C Kaynor of Ellensburg replied. Topics cover dealer service, circulation, and paper costs, with a banquet planned for Friday evening at the University Commons.
Mrs Florence Kemp Wilson says she has two husbands and earns her living as a chamber maid while awaiting a court ruling on which marriage is legal. She says Warren Kemp abandoned her in 1912, was reported dead in 1914, then married Charles Wilson in 1917 before Kemp reappeared. Wilson seeks annulment of his marriage while Wilson continues to live apart and work.
In Columbus Ohio a new political party formed by withdrawn socialists progressives and prohibitionists pledged patriotic unity and anti war stance. Delegates will be chosen for a Chicago meeting next summer with plans for complete state and congressional tickets. Woman suffrage prohibition and patriotism are core planks.
Daniel Webber a steamfitter residing at 2147 West 62nd drowned around noon Thursday when a scaffolding beam gave way at Seattle Drydock and Construction Co plunging him into the water below.
Prosecuting Attorney Lundin reported Franciscus Von der Heiden was arrested Saturday in New Orleans by naval intelligence and is being brought to Seattle to face a double murder charge. He allegedly shot J. A. Collison and his wife near Providence Hospital on August 16, 1916. The case created a Seattle sensation as Von der Heiden, a former husband of Mrs. Collison, fled and was found after feigning illness. He is brought as an alien enemy and charges will follow arrival. The killer fled to his room at the Rector hotel then withdrew money from a safe deposit vault. Police have searched nationwide for him.
A young lieutenant awoke in the barracks and asked if others heard his scream claiming he had a nightmare of peace ending and being sent back to work. The camp’s staff assures the tale is true.
Prices of coal have been reduced by 10 to 40 cents in Spokane under a fuel administration order. David Whitcomb, state fuel administrator, says a "steam gone" district has been set up covering the industrial area where steam coals are sold cheaper than elsewhere in the city.
Delegates at the annual Northwest Mutual Fire Association field men convention concluded with a war on waste and fire prevention urging unity and action to stop wasteful fires.
Berlin dispatched wireless reports quoted by London say the central powers at Brest Litovsk rejected Russia’s demand to withdraw armies from occupied Russian areas. They stated troops would not be pulled out while the war lasts, but promised to reduce numbers and to consider refugee returns in a benevolent spirit.
A Montana citizen who requests anonymity donated 10000 dollars for the first state athletic building at the camp. The structure will measure 100 by 200 feet and be equipped for indoor recreation for a large number of men, per the athletic director's office.
Lieut. Robert I. Simpson of the 44th Infantry, world champion hurdler and holder of records in high and low hurdles, will be assigned as athletic director at the camp to oversee field athletics. He is a Missouri graduate who set his records at the 1916 Olympian games in Sweden.
J. W. McCune of 2015 W. 62nd St became thirsty on Wednesday. He met two men who bought him liquor for 650 dollars. The trio rented a room at the Norton Hotel, 84 W. Yesterday Way, and McCune woke Thursday morning to find his cash missing.
City railway officials announce Ballard adds an eight and a half mile streetcar extension from Third Avenue to Fourth Street and from Nickerson to West 65th Street linking with Loyal Heights. Four cent tickets apply as municipal service expands. lines transfer with Seattle and Rainier Valley. The project fulfills the bond issue pledge to extend service into Ballard.
Mails from the extreme east arrive from 24 to 4 percent hours late, per G. E. B. Luppold, superintendent of mails. The first mail from Wis D. C. went through Wednesday for the first time in two days. Regular connections are not made east of St. Paul. Southbound mail was an hour late Thursday, a common occurrence, according to Superintendent Luppold.
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