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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1915
Page
2
The Basement and Fourth Floors are vacated and departments consolidated to simplify shopping on the Main Second and Third Floors with elevator access. The entire building is for rent and the stock must be sold quickly with bargains on merchandise and store fixtures.
June appears as Lee Burte, a Texas Ranger, fought a revolver duel with three Mexicans in El Paso. The incident leaves one Ranger dead and reports state the details are incomplete.
Ninety thousand Shrineras from across the country are expected this summer as Nile temple asks the school board to recruit 1 000 volunteers to dance in the open air. The board declines, citing custom and precedent concerns.
Mino a Jap merchant living at the Great Northern hotel suffered severe bruises to head and shoulders after a car sped down Union street and hit a truck at Fifth avenue. He was thrown head first from the car and taken to the city hospital with injuries not believed serious. Eyewitnesses report the car traveled at least 30 miles per hour and the Lion Transfer Co truck was badly damaged in the collision.
Russian forces in Southeast Galicia reform and harden lines after heavy fighting near Kolomea Nadvorna. Official report says 5 000 Austrian dead beside 700 prisoners and 20 officers. Germans retreating, Austro-German rebuffs reported near Libau and Przemysl as defense around Lemberg tightens.
Delegates to the National Woman Suffrage Association closed their session at the Met La Salle in Chicago discussing campaign methods. They shared state efforts and offered suggestions for improvements.
A newspaper notice from Charles Connery at 88 Sixth Ave N asks his wife Dolly Connery, who left with a man last Tuesday, to come back. He describes himself as not angry, only heartbroken, and implores her to return to care for their six-year-old son George. The Star notes Connery as industrious and temperate.
Advices report sixty thousand wounded Turkish soldiers and 260 German officers in Constantinople needing medical attention. Hundreds die daily from wounds at the Dardanelles and an epidemic of typhoid and smallpox sweeps military hospitals.
Four Englishmen wounded and one killed during a clash between Carrangistas and Villletas at Tuxpam. Victims include Sh. Jones and Thomas Mallard with family, all linked to the Tuxpam Oil Industry. Consuls evacuated foreigners as reports on Obregon victory surface. Local fighting extends across northern Mexico. refugees prepare to depart Vera Cruz aboard a transport.
Judge Joseph M. Glasgow represents six Austrians who fled riots in Victoria British Columbia and were detained on return. They entered the United States as desirable aliens and seek asylum in self-preservation arguing the U S has historically been a haven for refugees. The case questions deportation to British Columbia and detention camps while the dispute with Canada over repatriation continues.
The Svea male choir travels to the quadrennial convention of Swedish singers on the Pacific coast in San Francisco this week. They will perform during a week of festivities for Swedish Day at the fair and participate in a prize competition. Under H. P. Sather, the choir has trained for the event and will give a farewell concert tonight at the Unitarian Church.
London dispatches report a Belgian vessel named Manapler torpedoed by a German submarine. Capt Wirth his wife and daughter perish along with 14 crew. five crew rescued by a passing ship. In 24 hours three Norwegian steamers are sunk by submarines. Bergen SS Trudvang, 1,040 tons, is among the loss.
Portland reports Simon Weyrick aged 60 was arrested for running a marriage brokerage in violation of city ordinance. Police seized about 100 letters as evidence. one letter from a 39 year old widow labeled slob.
Turn your vacation days into profit and pleasure. Have a summer home of your own by Suguttamish. Escape city rent in summer and invest in a fine homesite amid the trees for tenting or a small house.
In Tacoma on June 8 Crescent Oil Co stockholders, after a stormy meeting, decided to wait until June 16 to pursue court action against John C. Slater and others. Slater, absent from the meeting, had announced plans to open the Crescent well on June 15 and holds a mortgage on the property amid accusations of maneuvering to gain control.
The Rotary club plans an automobile picnic in Maloney Grove on Saturday June 19 if plans aboard the Pacific Coast liner Congress move forward. Members were guests of J.C. Ford and R.D. Pinneo of the Pacific Coast 8.8. Co. Luncheon aboard featured a discussion on farm topics.
The birth of the American flag will be celebrated in Seattle Elke on June 14 with support from the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Spanish War Veterans.
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