Postmaster Denies Holding 3000 Campaign Letters
Former Seattle postoffice clerk John W McLean alleges that Postmaster George F Russell ordered employees to withhold 3000 letters containing Judge W W Black campaign literature. Russell calls the charges a lie and denies any mail hold up or favoritism amid broader accusations of inefficiency and prejudice.
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Postoffice
Allleges
Judge Black
Russell
George F. Russell
W. W. Black
Will Humphrey
Seattle
Washington, D. C
Victor Berger
John W. McLean
McLean
Post Office Department
Charles L. Lynch
Wayland
Philip G. Knell
W. A C. West
General Delivery Department
William Copestick
Melvin M. Ring
Berger
Washington
Victor Berg
Hitchcock
Closson & Kelly
Fatal quarrel over five cent cigar shocks Oregon
In Lakeview area a quarrel over a five cent cigar ends in a shooting at New Pine Creek. Martinus a Mexican worker on the Nevada California Oregon railway is killed by Peter Follett who is held to the grand jury charged with manslaughter.
Beattie Wife Shot in Automobile Mystery Shocks Richmond
Richmond dispatch says Mrs. Louis Beattie Jr. was killed while riding with banker husband in a Manchester, Virginia auto. Beattie reports a stranger jumped from brush and fired a shotgun at close range. two blood pools and missing trail perplex investigators as coroner seizes clothes and weapon.
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Celted Press
Richmond
Louis Beattie, Jr
Manchester
Geattie
Midlothian
Beattie
Beatties
Midlothian Pike
Woman recounts Northern Pacific train robbery at Tower City
Mrs James Shearer of Byron Illinois testified after a Northern Pacific line hold up near Tower City North Dakota. She described masked robbers firing through the car door and ordering passengers to lie down as bandits seized cash and valuables totaling up to one thousand dollars.
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United Press
ST. Paul, Minn
James Shearer
Byron
Iils
Northern Pacific
Tower City
N. D
Daredevil racer Lewis Strang killed in Wisconsin crash
Lewis Strang, famed daredevil auto racer, was killed near Blue River Wisconsin when the car carrying the Wisconsin Automobile Association endurance tour’s technical committee veered to avoid an approaching wagon and plunged over an embankment.
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United Press
Blue River
Wis
Lewis Strang
Wisconsin Automobile Association
Strang
Heat death and fatal pellagra reported in state hospital
Killed by heat on a Seattle to North Yakima train trip, Alton Dam head of the Columbia River Reclamation Co dies in North Yakima after weeks of illness. Mrs Dam and three sons stay by his bedside until burial services set for this afternoon. In Missouri, St Joseph reports pellagra death at the state hospital for the insane.
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Seattle
North Yakima
Alton
Dam
Columbia River Reclamation Company
ST. Joseph, Mo
State Hospital For the
Miner Leader Urges General Strike Over McNamara Trial
In Butte Montana on July 20 Charles H. Moyer president of the Western Federation of Miners urged the union convention to declare a general strike on the opening day of the McNamara trial in Los Angeles.
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Butte
Mont
Charles ,H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Los Angeles
Man Snatches Watch From curbside Pedestrian
Ed Smith of 533 1-2 First Ave South sat on a curbstone on Pioneer Place yesterday afternoon awaiting a parade when a man who talked with him snatched his watch. Smith suspects the thief sat nearby during the exchange.
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Pioneer Place
Ed Smith
Av. S
Trail of the Golden Girl promises more gold and tickets tomorrow
The Golden Girl tour drew thousands as 2000 free theatre tickets and red envelope gold certificates were scattered today at Pioneer Square and other stops. Tomorrow the trail returns with 2500 more tickets and eight thousand prizes expected as crowds gather at Third Avenue James Street Second Avenue Seneca Street First and Pike and Pioneer Square.
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Pioneer Square
James St
Seneca St
Pike
Pioner Square
Star Office
Pantages Theatre
Joe Harris
B. Ellis
C. Shaw
W. Raymond
Edward Pinkman
Ray Campbell
Hewitt
Everett
Joseph Morton
Vancouver
Lost King Stirs Crowd In Surprising Waterfront Pageant
A crowd of 60 000 along First Avenue watched as a royal procession delayed by 20 minutes. The King, recaptured in the Grand Trunk dock by Queen Daphne, arrived at 2 26 supported by mounted police, officials, and a band before the crowd dispersed toward the Potlatch grandstand.
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Thie
First Av
Army
Navy
Grand Trunk Dock
Daphne
Fridco
Honolulu
2Nd Ave
Potlatch Week Parade Draws 140000 In Seattle Crowns King
Big industrial parade with 25 plus floats and four bands winds through downtown Seattle. Crowds line the roped streets as the King and Queen Daphne are crowned and receive city keys. Eugene Ely later flies over Elliott Bay while Curtiss hydroplane tests draw crowds.
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Potlatch Grandstand
Focal Industries
Ely
Elliott Bay
Robinson
Edgar
Daphne
Arctic Club
B. L. Webster
Eugene Bly
New Washington
Duke of Royal Inns
James Crawford Marmaduke
Seattle Area Weather Forecast Tonight and Friday
Fair conditions continue over Seattle and nearby areas with light westerly winds. Noon temperature today reached 62 degrees as the forecast calls for continued pleasant weather into Friday.
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Seattle
Death of Princess Yen in Seoul as former emperor’s consort
Cables from Seoul report the death today in Seoul of Princess Yen consort of the former Emperor Yitai Jang. The announcement comes from Tokyo and confirms the royal figure’s passing.
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Tokio
Seoul
Korea
Yen
Yitai Jang
Girl Victim Of Rotten System In Seattle Jail
A 24 year old Burlington woman Mine Annie Bargain was held 15 hours in Seattle jail after a patrolman claimed suspicion. Judge Gordon allowed hearsay evidence and told her the arrest was for her protection before releasing her.
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Seattle
West Virginia
Occidental Av
Main St
Fred Phillips
Phillips
Gordon
Sam
Law and Justice
Will Women Wear Trousers in Work Life Change
New York July twenty in 1920s era discussion. Dr Maude Glasgow a prominent New York woman worker argues business women will wear trousers soon. She believes trousers would grant greater freedom and contrasts skirts with male attire.
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New York
Maude Glasgow
Clube of
Dr. Glasgow
Dentist freed as murder charge dismissed for lack of evidence
Corvallis Oregon July 20 Dr E M North a dentist arrested on a murder charge in the death of Mrs Eliza N Griffith is free after Justice of the Peace Lane dismissed the case for lack of evidence. The prosecuting attorney’s office did not uphold the dismissal.
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Corvallis
E. M. North
Eliza N. Griffith
Justice of the Peace Lane
Wisconsin Senator Stephenson election probe sent to sub committee
The senate committee on privileges and elections referred the question of investigating U S Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin to a five member sub committee. The Wisconsin legislature has officially demanded the probe.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
U. S
Isaac Stephenson
Wisconsin
Nations Day at Elliott Bay Features Boat Races and Parade
A full day program lists sailing races among Vancouver Victoria Everett Seattle and Tacoma callboats at 11:00 AM, motor boat and cruising races in Elliott Bay, naval reserve cutter races for prizes, Lake Washington events, swimming competitions with medals, Lake Union diving and Beattie residents racing, speed motorboat races, a Lake Washington springboard event, rowing contests, a band concert, an illuminated All Nations parade with a Japanese lantern, and fireworks continuing into the night.
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Elliott Bay
Vancouver
Victoria
Everett
Seattle
Tacoma
Flest
Elitott’ Bay
Bedland Sea
Lake Washington
Lake Union
Beattie
Bronse
All Nations
Palmer
Burglars Loot J L Lewis Clothes Shop
Burglars entered J L Lewis Clothes Shop at 707 First Ave last night and took 15 dollars and some postage stamps. They tampered with the safe, but could not open it. They moved merchandise as if searching for something. a young man who bought socks yesterday is suspected. The entry was from the fire escape through a window.
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J. L. Lewis
Lewis
Bandits Will Grow Into Armies Warns Magon
Ricardo Flores Magon, indicted head of the local junta, predicted that within two weeks liberals would form a strong centralized force against Madero and that the government’s “bandits” would swell into real armies.
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Los Angeles
Madero
Ricardo Flores Magon
Blister Fatal for Bard Kin in Oxnard
Christian Gerberding nephew of former Senator Thomas R Bard died in Oxnard California from lockjaw after a blister on his foot worsened into tetanus. He died today at Veptura hospital according to local reports.
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Oxnard
Cal
Christian Gerberding
United States
Thomas R. Bard
Veptura
Lockjaw
Gerberding
Self confessed bigamist jailed after multiple marriages
In Baker Oregon July 20 a woman known as Marion Lake confessed to bigamy. She had married Arthur Lake at Berthoud Colorado after a troubled life in Missouri. She later married John Lang of Rock Creek on May 4 this year. Lang, a rancher, and her first husband pursued legal action once he learned of the second marriage.
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Baker
John Lang
Rock Creek
Marion Lake
Missouri
Arthur Lake
Berthoud
Colo
Lang
Surveillance of Mrs. McManigal Called Off
By order of District Attorney John D. Fredericks all surveillance of Mrs Ortie E McManigal has been called off following Judge Walter Bordwell's ruling that she need not testify before the grand jury in the McNamara murder case. She will not be questioned until trial.
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Los Angeles
John D. Fredericks
Ortie E. McManigal
Walter Bordwell
After Colony of Free Lovers at Home Colony Tacoma
Federal and county officials moved to dismantle the colony of free lovers at Home Colony on Lake Bay twenty miles from Tacoma. Ranchers report repeated nude bathing and public parade by members, with six colonists under arrest for indecent exposure awaiting trial.
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Tacoma
Lake Bay
Brandeis Named Special Counsel in Controller Bay Case
Washington July 20 Chairman Graham of the house committee on expenditures said Louis D. Brandeis of Boston would appear as special attorney to assist in the investigation of the Controller Bay Alaska case.
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Controller Bay
Washington
Graham
House Committee On Expenditures
Louis D. Brandeis
Boaston
Lords Pass Veto Bill in Lords Amended Form
The house of lords passed a bill removing its veto on financial legislation but amended it likely to be rejected by the commons when it reconvenes. Also in Oregon, robbers stole about $500 worth of jewelry from H. D. Smart's store, including rings and eight watch chains.
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London
House of Lords
Commons
Apugene, Or
H. D. Smart
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Charles G. Heifner
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America
Old Sol
Eugene Ely
Portland
Cascades
Duke Harry
Dilling
Edgar d'Oro
Puget Sound
Duke of
Oratory
Ety Ie
Oregon
Stephenson
Shafer Bros
University
Mrs. M'Manigal
LORDS
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Hicktown
Hicktown Savings Bank
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