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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
1
Los Angeles reports Mrs. Margye Farnel, star of the sensational boudoir divorce, was denied a decree by Judge Monroe who faulted her for not shielding her husband from temptation. She vows to press the fight for divorce and custody of seven year old Harold through higher courts, following an at home party that sparked the scandal.
The Stop-Look-Listen league spends over 250000 dollars to defeat the Seven Sisters initiative measures. Ed Sims of Port Townsend is named as the driving force behind the campaign and is accused of masking the true motive: protecting vested interests and deferment of tax changes tied to land and labor interests. The piece questions the public cost and accuses Sims and allies of self serving motives and opposition to direct legislation.
A Seattle hotel death of Nome merchant Michael D. Samuels is questioned as police probe suicide or homicide after a mystery caller, who says she can prove another killed him, adds a second woman to the case. Mrs Blanche Smith, known as New York Blanche, is detained. Samuels carried $425, a watch and jewelry.
In San Francisco on June 4 Edward B Hastings 39 and Hazel Knapp 20 cousin were arrested on Chicago bigamy warrants. They admitted marrying in Chicago May 18 and Hastings said he also wed Grace Sturgis of Waterford New York seven years earlier.
In Washington on June 4 President Wilson acting for the government accepted a monument donated by the women of the South to the Confederate dead at Arlington. Union and Confederate veterans took part in the ceremony.
Rainier valley prepares for a finished exhibition tomorrow at the valley second annual rose show housed at Harry Bruskevitch home 2921 Americas st. About 100 exhibitors will display varieties and judging may draw local horticulture enthusiasts.
Street cars on the Puget Sound Traction Light Power lines paused for two minutes today as the funeral for Jacob Furth began at the Scottish Rite temple at Harvard and Broadway. Services were led by St Johns Lodge No 9 F and A M with a private family service at Bonney-Watson later. Furth chose pallbearers, with both honorary and active lists, and the body will be cremated.
Militant labor leader Mother Jones is barred from Canada after an unsuccessful attempt to cross the border en route to Vancouver Island. She will seek Redress from Secretary of Labor Wilson in Washington and Canada's labor commissioner.
Mayor Gill left for Olympia after the state paid 5 049 dollars toward Firlands tuberculosis hospital expenses. The United Presbyterian church general assembly adjourned in New Castle, Pa. In Havana a jury found Ernesto Robert and Eugenio Arias guilty of murder and guards with machine guns protect them from mobs.
Chief Griffiths proposes a series of gentle speed bumps across main streets to curb reckless driving, provoking mixed reactions from Mayor Gill and council members. Opinions range from backing traffic calming to preferring jail or police action, with cautions about downtown impact and practicality.
Assistant Corporation Counsel expects to file Friday to modify Hanford injunction preventing city cars on Fourthay. City council rejected a 25 percent 25 year gold brick proposal to Renton bondholders. Rainier boulevard regrade ordered. one man assigned to oversee grade and planking raise.
Judge John B. Gordon is away fishing and Thomas B. McMahon sits as acting judge. Ben Taro pays $5 for speeding in the University district, first arrest by new Automobile club officer Robert F. Booth who says Taro went 26 mph. Henry Weller and H. Wrage each pay $5 for selling gooseberries in boxes advertised as a quart.
Edmund J. Kinsey a teamster living at 1806 Sixth Ave. W. was seriously injured when while trying to board a Queen Anne Ave car he was struck by an oncoming vehicle. Kinsey, out of work a week with a wife and two children, was taken to Minor hospital. The car was driven by Motorman M. Hamilton and Conductor B. Livingston, who reported the accident at the police station.
19 000 face famine and pestilence in Mazatlan as rebel blockade under Obregon tightens. Sanitary collapse, rising deaths, and scarce food plummet living conditions for 15 000 noncombatants while remaining Americans seek safety aboard ships. Rebel advances threaten Round Top Montrosa and La Atravesada. Obregon massing 6 000 troops between Tepic and Guadalajara with rail lines cut and towns like Culima seized.
Reported agreement among Toyo Kisen Nippon Yusen and Osaka Shosen Kaishai to amalgamate, creating a fleet of over 250 vessels. In Oregon, a blinding La Grande snowstorm turned to rain after two hours with no damage after a prior heat wave.
A federal grand jury returned 36 indictments against members of the National Plumbers' association the so called Plumbers' trust all residents of the Middle West charged with conspiracy in restraint of trade. The Homesteaders' society invites the public to a card party on the second floor of Standard Furniture Co store tomorrow evening.
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