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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1913
Page
6
Resinol promises relief for infant eczema with ointment and soap. Doctors have prescribed Resinol for eighteen years and thousands of babies owe their skin health to its use. Free trial offer from Baltimore department.
President Wilson will delay any definite U S policy toward Mexico to allow factions there to reconcile without interference. He believes economic pressure from Mexican industry and French finance will drive a settlement, with Huerta urged to retire and European financiers pressing for reforms.
Mothers Training School offers free talks for mothers. Tonight at 7 20 p m Dr C St Leede speaks on The Development of the Child and nurse Mise Harrington demonstrates proper handling of infant beds and clothing at Collins playfield house.
President Hesketh's resolution to submit a charter amendment sets a $2.75 minimum wage for all city employees on any work. The measure, passed unanimously, would nullify a recent Supreme Court ruling limiting the minimum to local improvement work if approved by voters next March.
After a 14 hour deliberation jurors convict Jacob Neilson of dynamiting the Yukon Gold Company's dredge. Judge Macaulay sentences him to 20 years in the penitentiary. Neilson to be moved to New Westminster. Also notes university graduation events and Seattle's growing status.
In Pasadena on July 29 Ranneys social circle collapsed after William St. John Ranney, jailed for embezzling 190000 to pay blackmailers, was exposed. His fashionable friends avoided mingling at luncheons and failed to send cards while collectors sought overdue payments leaving his wife penniless and their baby shunned by neighbors.
The city utilities committee backs purchasing the Seattle Renton and Southern line for 1 200 000, endorsed by the Public Ownership league, with bondholder acceptance uncertain. If acquired it would connect with the municipal line to form a 20 mile continuous route.
In Los Angeles on July 29 Mrs Leah Delmont, who killed her husband after he forced her into a life of shame, finds aid from Mrs Chas Wellington Rand, a society leader who opened her home to the friendless woman. Delmont must prove her story to win the offer of shelter and work in the city jail.
London July 29 police guard Hollog's prison after a suffragist protest. Sylvia Pakhurst, daughter of Mrs Emmatt Pankhurst, is confined there following yesterday's suffragist meeting at Pavilion Hall. Mrs Pankhurst reports a strike, refusing food and drink and pacing vigilantly.
Government suits filed on information from the Interstate Commerce Commission accuse Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways of safety brake and handhold failures. Great Northern allegedly hauled a car with hand brake on and end broken. Northern Pacific charged with a car having a broken side handhold.
Harry Mayou was beaten and robbed in his Phoenix hotel room Monday night by a man he befriended. the assailant was later arrested.
In Vancouver on July 29 several fatalities marked the day as workers and a fisherman perished in Fraser River incidents and a CPR train accident near Ashcroft. Hendricks and A York died after falling into the Fraser while working a Canadian Northern line near Luton. a CP operator was carried away in the river. another unidentified salmon fisher drowned in the gulf. a second unidentified man was ground to pieces on a CPR train near Ashcroft. no one else killed and one person injured on bridge work near Rend.
Local socialists plan to file in Pierce county Superior Court to stop Public Safety Commissioner Milla from interfering with the play The Colonel and His Friends at Eagles hall in Tacoma next Saturday night. Millard Price and Bruce Rogers of Seattle secured the hall Monday and reacted with astonishment to the threatened ban.
In Washington July 23 the wife of the secretary of state drove her own gasoline car with the secretary as passenger. Others joined in hospitality in the rear seat as President Wilson read his currency message to Congress. The carburetor sputtered briefly while Mrs Bryan wrestled with it, drawing smiles from the secretary.
Mayor Cotterill states the city is primarily liable for property losses from the July 18 riot, submitting six claims totaling 3027.50 dollars for destruction to socialists and I W W, arguing police saved lives over property.
Scarcity of coal due to strikes east of Vancouver and on Vancouver Island prompts imports from Japan. The Norwegian steamer Thode Fageland unloaded 4,000 tons into barges in Vancouver today with plans for regular imports until labor troubles end.
The 15 percent recall petitions against Mayor Hindley and Commissioner Fairley were ruled invalid by Judge Sullivan. He found the city council acted within its legal rights in denying the petitions and refused the writ sought by the Central Labor Council.
Twenty nine men from the fishing steamer Welding Brothers survive a 40 mile dory row to Jedway 4 C after their vessel wrecked on Queen Charlotte Island. A sudden storm drove the Weld ing ashore while fishing near Frederick Island and the exhausted crew reached Cape St. James.
Modern, elegantly furnished rooms at the lowest rates offered by Hotel Virginus located at Eighth and Virginia near Westlake. Elliott 803 advertises affordable accommodation with convenient access and tasteful decor.
Dallas police say Florence Brown, a stenographer for Robinson and Styron real estate dealers, was murdered in the wash room with her throat cut while resisting a attempted robbery of the firm vault. No clue was left by the killer.
Spokane July 29 Former Gov. M. E. Hay reports a new farming spirit in central Washington after a five day tour. He says this year shows strong returns for those who keep land weed free and farm properly with estimates of 20 to 40 bushels per acre, while poorly tended fields will fare poorly.
The sound steamer Defiance owned by Captain Matthew McDowell has been sold to C. O. Ball of Long Beach California. The vessel will be moved to the South.
Washington July 29 A national voters league is organized to monitor Congress following earlier city and state leagues. Lynn Haines heads the effort with executive committee members Herbert B Bigelow and Mrs Borden Harriman. Francis H Bird serves as field secretary. The league will record every member of the house and senate and provide those records to constituents at election time.
Interurban railway times between Everett and Seattle show trains at 6:30 pm 4:00 pm 7:00 pm and 9:01 pm with morning runs and related stop notes. Abbreviations and place names appear garbled including Ajax Drug Store and Fifth avenue near Weetles Greenwood.
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