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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1920
Page
1
The narrator details life at a tent by a pasture brook in the Northwest. He finds companionship in wildlife including an Airedale, pine squirrels, chipmunks, robins, a kingfisher, jays, quail, and cranes, contrasting country serenity with city loneliness. He envies the simple, constant contact with nature over urban social life.
The House Immigration and Naturalization Committee begins hearings at 10 a.m. on Japanese immigration and land ownership on the Pacific Coast with Colonel John P. Irish among first witnesses. Dozens seek to speak as hearings may tour California and possibly Oregon and Washington, with further sessions after a Sacramento stop. The committee members include Alfred Johnson Isaac Siegel J Will Taylor John C Kleczka William Valle King Swope and John E Baker.
The five national judges for the Ziegfeld Salesgirls Beauty contest planned to view winning photos from nearly 100 cities. The victor earns a six week trial with a Ziegfeld show and a six week Mayflower films engagement at 100 dollars weekly plus travel expenses and a chaperon.
Egg wholesale prices advanced with the morning market showing a two cent per dozen rise. Fresh ranch eggs now sell at 60 cents a dozen and pullets at 44 cents a dozen wholesale.
Sacramento July 12 The hearings will hear Governor Stephens outline border immigration pressures. He will tell the congressional committee that border immigration agents report they cannot curb unlawful entry by Japanese and plead for a guarding force. The federal response is described as deaf and the border as an open invitation to smuggling.
Police found seven babies beneath a log in Evansville on July 12 along with chewing gum pencils and knives. The batten were kewpies. The joot had been stolen from a store.
Spokane police pursue theory that a woman found dead nude in a hotel bath tub on July 6 is a victim of the hypo-needle gang active in Portland and Seattle. The victim identified as Sumner, no wounds seen, pocketbook fragment suggests Ritzville or Bossburg area connection.
Monte Irvin hosts a tense evening as a crime related to Sir Lucien Pyne and Kazmah unfolds. Brisley reports sightings of the trio with Gray at Bond Street and Piccadilly, culminating in a secretive late night gathering.
Federal Judge Jank Hi Rudkin in Seattle dismissed Duren’s case after ruling the Volstead Act cannot be invoked for defendants previously tried in state court for same prohibition offenses. Duren had pleaded guilty and served 623 days before federal handling. The decision creates a Western district precedent and echoes Judge Bean’s Portland ruling.
Police Chief W. H. Searing receives a new star from department members. The centerpiece is a sapphire birthstone set in the jeweled emblem, marking the honor.
Police renewed the search for three of seven men who escaped from the Sacramento county jail yesterday while unloading provisions from a truck. Four of the group were recaptured.
Returns from Saturday's plebiscite in St Johns New Brunswick show prohibition passing by almost two to one. The July 12 report notes strong local support and decisive margins across the city.
A burglar entered a barber shop in Redding California, took a bath and shaved, then robbed the shop and fled. Police investigated the unusual break in and searched for the suspect.
Two Indian girls walking near Tacoma were abducted by three Seattle men and a young woman in an automobile. Police arrested Leo Vale known as Blackie and two companions, L H Murray and Ben Neumeier, in Portland. The girls Thelma Wright and Ethel La Croix are held as witnesses. authorities link the suspects to auto theft and a murder case in Oregon as they pursue transfer to Tacoma for charges.
Funeral arrangements are being made for Andrew Carlson 50 who died Saturday after a crane fell Friday while repairing the viaduct over the N P yards at Landerst. He lived at 438 KE 72nd street and is survived by a wife three daughters a stepdaughter and one son. The other three victims will probably recover.
Ex-empress Eugenie of France died yesterday in Madrid from acute intestinal inflammation. Known as Europe's Queen of Sorrow, she had been in failing health for some time.
Forces of rebel leader Carlos Osuna blew up a bridge north of Monterey interrupting traffic to Laredo Texas, according to Excelsior newspaper reports from Mexico City dated July 12.
Walter Fisher lies near death in Sharon Pennsylvania after a dog attack at Yankee dam while swimming. He wrestled a dog underwater to drown it while another bit his arm and a third was killed ashore with a club.
Viola Jackson twenty one of Butte sits in county jail as detectives pursue a second man in a forgery ring that used forged checks to obtain a car and cash. Cuthbert, a youth named J E Bert, and a third accomplice fled after a speeding arrest. Jackson allegedly passed checks for the gang, helped buy a $1600 auto, and tried to sell it downtown before returning it to a shop.
West Palm Beach July 12 Judge ruled Richard Croker Sr former Tammany chief is not mentally incompetent to handle his financial affairs dissolving a March 30 temporary injunction sought by Croker's sons and daughter.
Prof. Israel Friedlander and Dr. Center both of New York were killed by bandits near Kamenetz Podolsk while distributing funds for the American Joint Distribution Committee, a dispatch from Lemberg reported.
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