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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1914
Page
3
The Mount Baker rose show opened this afternoon at the new clubhouse at Rainier drive and McClellan street. Exhibits include Seattle grown roses and potted plants, with European imports among the displays. The show runs until midnight tonight with doors opening at 10 AM Sunday. admission is 25 cents.
A dramatic finance drive labeled Stop Look Listen funds the campaign against the Seven Sisters private employment reform bill. The Guggenheim syndicate, linked to Tacoma, funds are allegedly connected to efforts to block anti-employment graft legislation, with gunmen and strikes cited in past conflicts. The petition drive urges signing before June 18 and July 2 filing deadlines, with petition locations at Labor temple, Progressive headquarters, Raymer’s, and International Clothiers.
San Diego June 6 Mrs Georga Simms Burke arrested for sending two boxes of poisoned candy to Ada and Anie Dage daughters of Mrs Wm H Dagg. Authorities say Burke knew Dagg a Winslow Arizona banker and husband to the Dagg woman. The Dagg family fears a second attempt as police guard their home.
Washington reports a tense dispute over American arms for Mexican rebels aboard the Antilla drifting toward Tampico. Secretary Bryan denied an official protest and declined to discuss claims that Spanish Ambassador Riano influenced the diplomats.
Commencement week makes campus lively as Harvard graduates from across the country attend events in Chicago and surrounding areas.
Carl Westerfield of San Francisco, president of the Pacific Fisheries Society, will inaugurate the first fisheries congress on the Pacific coast at the University of Washington next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
London news reports six thousand sovereigns, the largest sum ever deposited to guarantee a fight, posted at the Sportsman office to cover the upcoming Johnson Moran bout in the fall.
All Washington congressmen except Humphrey voted for the Clayton anti trust bill yesterday. Every member supported the railroad securities bill as well, marking a rare party line for the state in both measures.
A large mass meeting organized by the Central Labor Council will oppose the Hinky Dink charter. It is set for next Saturday at 8 PM in the Labor Temple auditorium on the second floor, with President T aboard as one of the speakers.
The Moore presents The Passing Show of 1913 next week with songsters dancers and many pretty girls. Open Monday night. Lyman H Howe pictures return tonight and tomorrow with Grand Canyon of Arizona Paris hydroplane fire palmistry sailing and comic reels. Numbers include Easy Troupe seven Russian dancers Orpheus Comedy Four and Woodward's Posing Dogs.
Lessee George J. Mackenzie announces All of a Sudden Penay a sprightly society comedy to lift blues at Ave Avenue Players next week with Mattie Hyde as Mrs O Meara Anda Due as Peggy and the show expected to please. At Pantages the bill features The Lueck of a Totem a music drama of Alaska life with Harry Girard and Alice Cain Brown Co author and composer Girard. Harry Jolson the operatic blackface comedian will provide attraction.
The Orpheum presents a melodrama comedy feature titled Wronged From the Start with a cast of twelve and a press-agent described thriller. Doris Wilson and her two sisters appear along with others on the program. Charles Bachmann and his company stage Willard Mack's Their Get-Away, an interesting playlet. Five female performers offer musical selections and Grant Gardner performs a blackface act.
The U S revenue cutter Bear and the steamship Corwin, which arrived Monday, were forced to return to sea as shore ice extended. The Corwin became fast in an ice floe in the roadstead while discharging cargo, and had to go with the moving ice to avoid being piled on the beach. The Bear then proceeded to St Michael with mail.
C J McQueen a 21 year old cler k of the Union Bank of Hazelton who fought off bandits during a bank robbery and was wounded has disappeared. His bank accounts are intact and he was promised a promotion to the Vancouver bank.
Two women allege Sheriff Cudihee and jailers attacked their visit to the jail and deny allowances of library books. They claim jailer O'Brien was violent and that Sheriff Cudihee blocked book distribution citing Prosecuting Attorney Murphy. They sought judge Frater for orders. Names include Catherine and Estelle Fr.
Portland police press Portland officials to return jewelry unearthed by Spokane deputies in a North Seattle yard. Arthur Waters, a former Seattle boy, reportedly admitted knowledge of the stash. Portland officers insist the loot was stolen from Portland homes and seek identification from Seattle detectives and the public.
Many fine specimens of rose culture were shown in the second annual Rainier valley rose show held at the home of Harry Bruskevitch on Americus Street. Luncheon was served in the afternoon as Rainier valley and Seattle merchants offered prizes.
County commissioners lowered inflated property valuations in Murphys, moving the proposed Stuck river cut off route to Rosalia. The project aims to straighten the river and reduce log jams along the waterway.
Dr. B. J. Lloyd who oversees the local government health service endorses Representative Albert Johnson of Washington on a bill for a $150 000 appropriation to establish a national lepers home. In Juneau on June 6 the hearing of stamp mill worker Joe Ryan was interrupted when he was struck on the head by machinery, but he regained consciousness and could hear.
Right Rev Edward J O'Dea bishop of Seattle announces new clergy appointments and transfers for the year Rev J B Hermann will lead Water ville and missions Rev John Hayes to Tekoa and missions replacing Rev N Metz who goes to Wilbur Rev Charles McAleer to Odessa Rev William Carey to Holy Rosary West Seattle annual clergy conferences for Spokane and Seattle dioceses set for June 9
Blue Funnel liner Ixion reached Victoria after a Pacific crossing from Yokohama. The vessel reported a hurricane on the Puget Sound leg of the outward trip, during which Quartermaster Jacobson was washed overboard and lost.
A cloud burst yesterday washed eighteen hundred feet of the Hanford branch of the Milwaukee railroad and a 500 foot trestle into the Columbia River. The river rose a foot in two hours and water stood several inches deep on the slopes of the rattlesnake mountains during the storm.
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