City Police Court Brims With Characters in Melting Pot
Judge McMahon presides as A J Howard denies chronic begging and is fined twenty five dollars after explaining he sought funds to Everett. C Ruben and Joe Gorick face disorderly conduct charges amid chaotic courtroom scene with Canadan origins and muttered cash reports. Barns pleads begging claim claiming a hole in his pocket and nearly blind backstory. Fine set at twenty dollars and eyes to be examined at City hospital.
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van Ruff
Everett
C. Ruben
Joe Gorick
Ruben
Portland
Barnes
Local court rounds up mixed cases at Davenport beat
Johnson pleads not guilty after knife claim by Kerr. Davenport and Reed clash over a missing watch amid gambling charges. Meisters and Grossman fined for selling underweight gooseberries as weights and measures officials testify. Judges warn against violations.
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William Meister
A. G. Grossman
Loren Grinstead Named as Chairman Amid Standpatter Debate
The piece urges Loren Grinstead for chairman of the June 13 Republican convention, praising his standpat record on the Roosevelt tidal wave and noting past payments. It details King County quarrels with Rainier Valley tracks regrades, Renton injunction battles, and city threats to cover tracks to push regrades, with councilors ready to jail themselves to enforce action.
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Plere
King County
Loren Grinstead
Grinstead
Chicago
Roosevelt
National Committee
Taft
Washington
Scott Calhoun
Seattle, Renton & Southern
Rainier Valley
Calhoun
Rainier Boulevard
Frater
Renton
Erickson
Renton Company
Pierce
Pankhurst Arrest Photo At Buckingham Palace Gates
A photograph captures Mrs. Pankhurst being carried by a burly policeman to a patrol wagon after leading an assault on Buckingham Palace gates. She cries arrest in the palace precincts as she is lifted, the moment reported as a daring suffrage protest.
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Siniing
Pankhurst
HUSKY
Bobby
Palace
Speeders Pay Fine and Gain no Jail Time in Court Session
Thomas McMahon watches as drivers face fines for speeding in a police court session led by Judge Gordon. R. R. Rings, H. Yunoki, F. C. Rippe, and others were cited for speeds from 25 to 30 mph with fines from 10 to 25 dollars. Thomas Coodener and W. C. Brown were fined for above limit driving, while J. W. Considine Jr. awaits a future hearing for failing to report an auto accident.
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Thomas McMahon
Gordon
H. Yunoki
van Rueff
Yunokt
Yunoki
van Ruoff
J. W. Considine, Jr
Mother Jones Granted Temporary Canadian Entry
Word from Ottawa says immigration officials will admit Mother Jones if she enters as a tourist or lecturer. She plans to address coal strikers at Nanaimo after being telegrammed of labor secretary Wilson’s inquiry and Ottawa’s stance. She departing tonight for Victoria and Nanaimo, B C.
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Jones
Immigration Department
Ottawa
Canada
Wilson
State Department
Washington
D. C
Victoria
Nanaimo
B. C
King’s Country
Mother” Jones
Theatre benefit aids National Guards encampment
The fund for meals at the ten day National Guard encampment is exhausted. Seattle theatre steps in with National Guard night benefiting the delicacies fund as proceeds from tonight's performance of The Littlest Rebel go to supplies. Joint memorial services by Rainier and Elliott Bay camps follow at Moose hall Sunday.
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National Guards
Seattle
National Guard
National
Rainier Camp
Royal Neighbors of America
Elliott Bay Camp
Modern Woodmen of America
Moose Hall
Ole Hanson Invades Court for Free Speech in Stevenson
Ole Hanson clashes with county officials in Stevenson Washington as he fights for the right to speak at the courthouse. A rule to bar him from the meeting is challenged in open court with Judge Hufford, Prosecuting Attorney Sly, and the crowd listening to talk on the farmers' bank plan.
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Ole Hanson
Stevenson
Wash
Hanson
Hufford
Remarkable toe dancer Mazie King to perform in Seattle
Dr. John W. Amey endorses Mazie King known for tiptoe endurance. The Passing Show of 1913 will feature her at Moore theatre next week with a noon public exhibition walking on tiptoe up and down stairs and across floors. She has set records on the MetLife and Washington monuments and even London's landmarks. Tomorrow The Star prints her picture.
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John W. Amey
Bellevue Hospital
New York
Seattle
Misa Mazie King
Moore Theatre
Mazie
Third
Union
Metropolitan Life Building
Madison Square
Amey
Miss King
Washington Monument
Denver
London
London Monument
Thames Embankment
Star
Insane Woman Mistaken Identity Stuns Courtroom Scene
Attorney P D Hughes tried to coax an insane inmate to leave the jailers at the courthouse. He called to the woman as he moved toward the door and she replied with a startled claim naming Brigham Young, revealing a moment of comic misrecognition.
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P. D. Hughes
Hughes
Brigham Young
Steamship Northland to Start Portland Puget Sound Service
The steamship Northland will begin passenger service between Portland and Puget Sound on Monday. A rate of 4.50 includes berth and meals, cheaper than the rail fare of 5.60.
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Portland
Northland
Puget Sound
Arrest of Sedro Woolley Pastor in Abandonment Case
Rev. D. W. Myers of Sedro Woolley was arrested last night on a charge of abandoning his wife and two children, a crime alleged to have occurred last January. The arrest took place in a house on 85th Street.
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D. W. Myers
Sedro Woolley
Recall Petitions Filed Against City Commissioners
Recall petitions against Commissioners Hamilton and Knudsen were filed with Comptroller Harry Carroll. City voters provided 15 800 signatures against Hamilton and 14 800 against Knudsen, short of the required 15 824 and 15 700 respectively to force an election. Signatures from country precincts will be filed later with County Auditor Phelps after verification.
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Hamilton
Knudsen
Harry Carroll
Phelps
Bandits Work by Daylight in Gotham Street
Highwaymen hijacked a bank messenger from American Can Co. in front of its New York office at noon and escaped with 2700 dollars. Thirty minutes earlier a John Masury Paint Co. pay clerk in Brooklyn was robbed of 3000 dollars, both groups fleeing in an automobile.
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New York
American Can Co
John Masury Paint Co
Brooklyn
Carranza delays in peace talks with mediators
At Niagara Falls Ontario the A B C mediators report Carranza has not replied to their invitation for rebels to join peace negotiations. They expected a leader would take time and continue to hope he will join under proposed terms. Further exchanges occurred between mediators and the American and Mexican envoys.
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Niagara Falls
Ont
Carranza
Four Die In Northern Ohio Storm Disaster
Four persons were killed and many wounded in a severe electrical wind and hail storm in Northern Ohio late yesterday. Immense crop damage and several buildings blown down were reported.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Woman Forces Councilman to Apologize at Meeting
At a Hillman City session, a gray haired woman compelled Councilman C. B. Fitzgerald to apologize for remarks about the Renton car line debate. The council overwhelmingly backed rejecting the 26 percent 25 year Renton deal amid sharp exchange and rebuke from Hugo Kelley and B. B. Moser.
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C. B. Fitzgerald
Hillman City
Northwest
Renton
Hugo Kelley
B. B. Moser
Fitzgerald
Furth
Fitz
Gerald
Christ
Seattle
Two Suffragists Enter Buckingham Palace Court Room
London June 5 two suffragists Miss Mary Blomfield and Miss Eleanor Blomfield daughters of Sir Arthur Blomfield and granddaughters of the late Lord Bishop Blomfield of London gained access to the throne room at Buckingham Palace appealing to King George for votes for women. Court officials moved them aside and police took charge. Crown prosecutors question prosecution while court attaches seek an adequate penalty. The king and queen reportedly furious with mixed public reaction. Separately Breadsall church in Derby burned by suffragists destroying priceless relics including a centuries chained Bible.
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London
Buckingham Palace
George
Mary
Eleanor Blomfield
Sir Arthur Blomfield
Lord Bishop Blomfield
Blomfield
England
Breadsall
Derby
Rockefellers
Progressives Hear Easterner H. H. Wheaton Speak
Pennsylvania immigration commissioner H. H. Wheaton will be the chief speaker Saturday noon at the Fraser-Paterson dining room on the sixth floor, addressing Eastern progressives about migration conditions and representing major Eastern societies. New York progressives urge Col. Roosevelt to run for governor.
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H. H. Wheaton
Immigration of
Pennsylvania
Fraser-Paterson
Wheaton
New York
Col.Roosevelt
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Reed
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R. R. Rings
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Thomas Coodener
Goodener
W. C. Brown
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