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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1904
Page
1
A candid from Seattle shows nine young street merchants known as star newsies. Their early lessons in thrift and industry began on rain soaked sidewalks, as they sold papers daily to build futures. The photos capture their cheerful pride amid patched coats and rimless caps.
The famed bookmaker Caesar Young shot himself in a cab on Broadway this morning while with actress Mia Patterson. His wife Mrs Young awaited him at the pier abroad, and the couple faced domestic trouble amid heavy betting losses. Young, once a top racing figure with California ties, left a fortune. four vessels will operate Seattle to California under Union Oil supervision.
Tomorrow afternoon at Recreation park the Seattle lacrosse team hosts Tacoma for a return match. It marks the third game in the local side’s schedule in the Northwest Lacrosse League.
The 37 year old Mrs Martin Engwall, wife of Martin Engwall, killed herself near their Taylor home after heavy drinking. Deputy Coroner took the body to Seattle, found a self inflicted death with a rope and root stake. burial planned in Seattle.
George Joye, a steamboat man, was shot by Mrs. Gertrude Robb after Joye sought access to the alibi he had betrayed. Robb, whose daughter Joye planned to marry, vows she would hang before allowing any contact. Joye underwent surgery at Providence hospital. doctors say he may recover though permanently disabled.
Secretary of War Taft approved allotments for Pacific Coast forts including Fort Worden Washington Fort Casey Washington Fort Benicia California and Fort Rosecrans California with specified funds for each post.
SLEGRAPH reports a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train No 18 derailed thirteen miles east of Buchanan West Virginia. Engineer Handal and baggage man Jeffries were killed and about twenty passengers hurt. Other items note riots in Riga Livonia, a San Francisco suicide, Japanese forces landed in China, Cossack skirmishes, a Des Moines murder plea, and various other incidents across the globe including storms in Lawton and a French Guinea coast clash.
Workers found a baby boy's body in Volunteer park wrapped in a white knit shawl and hidden behind a rock. Coroner Hoye reported the infant lived but died from lack of postnatal medical care as police pursue a possible unknown mother and potential criminal act.
August Bloom of Clear Lake Iowa was killed and nineteen injured when two Missouri Pacific passenger trains, the westbound Colorado flyer and the eastbound accommodation, collided head on near Mastin fifteen miles south of Kansas City. Bloom rode in the blind baggage. Irene and Louis Palmer of Los Angeles suffered head injuries. Mrs. Mary Burneide of Portland knee bruised. William Nichols of Fort Douglas slight injuries.
Washington dispatch says Admiral Glass will bring a large Pacific squadron to Bremerton by July 1. The New York Marblehead Concord Bennington and Nero will overhaul at the yard, with Albany also en route for extensive repairs. Total planned tonnage 18,478 across flagship New York, Marblehead, Concord, Bennington, Albany, Wheeling.
A severe wind and flood event across North Texas causes major damage. Aberfoyle Baptist Church is destroyed and George Davis and his two children are fatally injured. Pacific railroad tracks wash out and Mineral Wells flood. In Indian Territory farm lands submerge with crop losses feared. Kansas floods devastate Chanute oil region with ten to twenty feet of water. Farmers face ruin and late grain prospects vanish.
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