Prosecutor to charge Mrs Barr and associates with extortion
Prosecutor John F Murphy will file an information in the afternoon charging Mrs Harold Barr and two men with extortion or blackmail following an alleged assault at the Martinique hotel. A $250 check was seized as evidence as all three admit obtaining it from John C Robey but deny wrongdoing.
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John F. Murphy
Harold Barr
Misa May Richards
Victorial Hotel
First Av
Ad Barr
H. W. Roll
John C. Robey
Golden West Baking Co
Martinique Hotel
Murphy
Barr
Robey
Mame
Gerald's Cafe
Breakers
Olympus
Olymps
Carrol
Newport
Rome
Carroll
Handlan
Phillips
Dan Phillips
Martins Ferry
Dan
Statement on my ocean park vote for Gill
The speaker disputes a published wire statement claiming they endorsed Gill. They assert they never signed or authorized the publication and reiterate they personally intended to vote for Gill. The note references their unsigned position and clarifies the misattribution.
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Gill
Gill gang’s fraud exposed by sheriff over Hodge telegram
A telegram alleged to favor Gill was exposed as fraudulent after Bob Hodge returned and denied endorsing Gill. The sheriff rejects using Hodge’s name to influence votes, amid claims of forgery and deception by the Gill group as Seattle voters face the recall campaign.
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Gill
Bob Hodge
Gill Gang
Seattle
Hodge
Dilling Rye
Gill-Hodge
Dilling Rally Draws Overflow Crowd at Grand Opera House
Seattle crowd fills the Grand Opera House for a noon rally led by Dilling and Hanson. Speakers denounce vice syndicate ties to Seattle Electric while urging downtown residents to back Dilling over Gill. The event echoes the Derami and rink meeting of last fall with a strong call for city leadership change.
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Seattle
Poindexter
Derami and
Rink
Grand Opera House
Ee Cherry St
Gill
Diiling
Sanders Attacks Panama Expo Site at Senate Hearing
Gov. Sanders of Louisiana faces questions from the Senate committee as he challenges the Panama exposition site. He argues both San Francisco and New Orleans resolutions would leave the federal government liable to foreign nations inviting exhibits, but with different powers.
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Washington
Senate
Sanders
Louisiana
Lan
San Francisco
New Orleans
Woman and daughter attend funeral then face sentence
In Edwardsville Illinois on January 20 guarded by deputy sheriffs, Mrs Veronica Rebstock and her daughter Anna Rebstock attended the funeral of their husband and father Wm Rebstock. They were later taken to Joliet to serve a 14 year sentence for the murder of Anna Rebstock's four days old baby.
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Edwardsville
Veronica Rebstock
Anna Rebstock
Wm. Rebstock
Joliet
Mary Roberts Seeks Divorce From P A Roberts
Mary Roberts asks the court to grant a divorce from P A Roberts whom she married in Seattle in 1906. She claims cruelty and inhuman treatment and that he is untrue to marriage vows, and she requests to resume her maiden name.
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Mary Roberts
P. A. Roberts
Seattle
Roberts
Tidal Wave Kills 50 on Island by Lake Taal
A tidal wave struck the island home to volcano Taai near Manila, overwhelming villages along the western shore of Lake Taal. Initial reports say at least 50 people died with possible higher totals. an American teacher estimates 200 to 300 victims.
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Manila
Lake Taal
Local Breezy Gossip From Hicktown Bee
The fire sale in the drug store ended disastrously with Henry Tozier stopping the blaze. Jennie Maybelle Bprout visits her mother’s folk, while Hazel Budde travels to Beattie for manicuring. Will Legitt seeks an injunction from Seattle against his wife’s mother as Late Watertower recovers from a weekend in Seattle. The Ladies’ Aid hosts a bone st tonight for Mrs. Late Watertower.
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Hen Tozier
R. Mise
J. Maybelle Bprout
Jennie
Maybelle
Hazel Budde
Beattie
Will Legitt
Seattle
Late Watertower
Ladies’ Aid
Mra
Alaska woman uses horsewhip in hotel room fight
Belinda Carbonneau of Alaska claims she assaulted real estate man A F P Ruser with a horsewhip after he denounced their dispute with Jesse Noble. Ruser says two men held him, a towel muffled his cries, and he will prosecute. Carbonneau says she acted alone and knocked him out.
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A. F P. Ruser
Dome City Bank of Alaska
Thle
Belinda Carbonneau
Alaska
Archibald Hotel
Ruser
Carbonneau
Mra. Carbonneau
Archibald
Washington
18Th Av. N
Mrs. Carbonneau
Women Gather for Mass Meeting to Protest Vice
Seattle women newly enfranchised plan a great mass meeting at the Grand C house to protest the Gill administration and to organize work toward reform. One hundred prominent women will appear on stage and the opera house is expected to be crowded with attendees seeking to sweep Seattle of vice and indecency.
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Seattle
Grand C House
Gill
Opera
Test car fare case to decide legality of second nickel
A damage suit filed by L. W. Fox against Crawford line seeks to determine if a second nickel can be charged beyond Kenyon street. Three Seattle justices of the peace Fred C. Brown R. R. George and John E. Carroll will decide the case within days after it was taken under advisement. The suit is one of five similar actions, each seeking 20 damages, following Judge Gilliam's ruling that the company may charge only 5 cents.
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L. W. Fox
Crawford Line
Kenyon St
Seattle
Justices of the Peace
Fred C. Brown
R. R. George
John E. Carroll
Gilliam
Dilling Meeting Tour Spotted at Three Venues
Tonight a series of political meetings proceeds at Gatewood Meeting House Ware Station and West Side Hall with speakers including George W. Dilling George H. Walker Dr. Cora Smith Eaton A B Eikenberry W A Brady Councilman Max Wardell Harry BE Wilson Ole Hanson and Mrs Peter Bettinger Also at First Christian Church Broadway and Olivest speakers C J France and Albert H Beebe full event details listed by venue and lineup.
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Gatewood
Ware Station
Fauntleroy Car Ine
George W. Dilling
George H. Walker
Cora Smith Eaton
Eikenberry
W. A. Brady
West Side Hall
School House
California Avenue
Max Wardall
Harry BE. Wilson
Ole Hanson
Peter Bettinger
First Christian Church
Broadway
Olivest
C. J. France
Albert H. Beebe
Residence Ward Shows Big Gain in City Registration
Total registration 71 175 with Seventh ward up 75 percent from 1910 and First ward up 20 percent. Uptown hill ward women drive the surge. Comparative ward tallies for 1910 and 1911 list each ward’s counts, showing notable increases across multiple wards.
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Uptown Hill
Soap Box Evangelists Clash With Police on Washington Street
Richard Phillips Clark and G. W. Keaterson known as The Lost Disciple clashed with police on Washington Street last night. Arrests included Kester, Louis Schmidlin, Warner and Edward Forrest. witnesses described abusive language and near riot. The discple and followers were jailed after police tried to control the crowd.
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Richard Phillips Clark
G. W. Keaterson
Washington St
Kesterson
Louis Schmidlin
Ww. B. Warner
Edward Forrest
Iman Waechter
Clark
Waechter
Midhin
Hon
Warner
Forrest
Sciplo Rinald Rinaldo Winchell
Gordon
Senator Falconer Silent War Horse of Olympia
Senator Falconer of Snohomish appears in the profile as a robust partisan voice in the state capitol. The piece notes his role as chairman of the appropriations committee and his prominence on several smaller panels.
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Senator Falconer
Snohomish
Falconer
Senate
Little Boy Ponders Nationalities In Family Quip
In a playful exchange a boy asks his father about identities. The father explains a moving picture company worker left as an Arab and returned as a British soldier, while the mother jokes about him becoming a Chinese mandarin to spur the laundryman to better work.
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Sammy Shutter
Moving Picture
Miss Pankhurst Coming to Coast
West suffragists doubt Miss Christabel Pankhurst will fit the California fight. In Los Angeles reports say she may visit if suffrage passes. Chicago already noted her intention to come.
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Miss Pankhurst
Los Angeles
May Yohe warns of doom linked to Hope diamond gift
May Yohe in Chicago on January 30 predicted Edward MacLean's gift of the Hope diamond to his wife would bring misfortune. She called the gem a Jonah saying it harmed every owner who possessed it.
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Unitea Peene
Chicago
Edward MacLean
Hope
Jonah
Local theatre cleared to show fight pictures with racial limit
In Lexington Kentucky on January 30 Mayor Skain allowed a local colored theatre to exhibit Jeffries Johnson fight pictures but barred white patrons from admission. The decision ties screening to racial segregation policies for the event.
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Lexington
Skain
Jeffries-Johnson
Man Fights Police Incident Ends In Jail
Peter Brovina told nobody he must fight on a Washington st. Saturday night. He picked a quarrel with Patrolman Roseler, was jailed, and later paid 10 dollars plus costs for the incident.
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Peter Brovina
Washington St
Peter
Roseler
Kind Lady and Handout Hal Dialogue
A comic exchange centers on a circus performer who once carried water for the elephant. The elephant’s trainer reportedly received a raise, and now the animal refuses to drink anything but pop, prompting a puzzled reply from Handout Hal.
McCurdy Flies From Key West to Havana Under Strained Seas
Aviator McCurdy started from Trumbo field at 7 30 am and aimed for Havana. He faced rough seas after oil ran out ten miles from Havana harbor, landed on water, then resumed from the Paulding destroyer with Mary B. Carhall aboard observing for United Press. Portugal's republican drift also noted as Taft’s recognition question lingers.
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Havana
McCurdy
Paulding
Key West
Fia
Trumbo Field
Morro Castle
Havana Harbor
Mary B. Carhall
United Press
Ross
Landen Nichols bill on constructive contempt in recall case
In Olympia the Landen Nichols bill to align state law with federal contempt rules was placed on the Senate calendar and may be acted upon tomorrow. An emergency measure allows each side a challenger at recall election precincts to inspect ballots and observe the count, despite earlier opinions on challengers’ roles.
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Olympia
Landen- Nichols
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Seatt
Corporations Council
Calhoun
Seattle
Bell
Collins
House
Six Sons Pallbearers at Hoquiam Funeral
In Hoquiam on January 30 six of Mrs Catherine Sandgren's sons served as pallbearers at her funeral. Mrs Sandgren, age 80 at death, was mother to 14 boys.
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Hoquiam
Paw Ccocccfocn
Catherine Sandgren
Old Character Dies
Memphis Tenn January 30 United Press reports the death of the Lincoln-Douglas debates participant Capt. Joseph H. Sloss, once a resident of Edwardsville Illinois, marking the passing of the last survivor of that famous series.
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United Press
Memphis, Tenn
Joseph H. Sloss
Edwardsville
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Gills
Wappenstein
John Dora
Vanrnenstein
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R.t.hodge
Doctor Cook
John Dore
Dilling
North Trunk Sewer Fund
John C. Higgins
Opera House
Craven
William Hickman Re
Pormer
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John W. Roberts
Gil! Gang
M'Keesport
Margaret Shipley
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