Trains Loaded as Camp Moves Toward Border
At American Lake on June 28 signal corps and cavalry troops loaded equipment for possible border movement. Infantry lags in readiness with vacancies and gear missing while mess funds grow from local support. Reports from Laredo and Eagle Pass mention rumors of Japanese assistance and executions of U S prisoners in Chihuahua City.
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American Lake
Signal Corps
Seattle
Mount Ver- Yakima
Altho Cavalry
North Yakima
Centralia
Aberdeen
Walla Walla
Alexander
University Company
Chester M. Biggs
Tacoma
Helen Pain
Sixth Ave. W
Thompson
U. S
Eagle Pass
Tex
Chihuahua City
Piedras Negras
Seattle Street Cars Set to Heat Cars This Winter
The public service commission has decided to require heating on Seattle street cars after years of campaigning. The Star acknowledges its role in informing authorities and aiding evidence submission. The decision, praised for fairness, ends speculation of an appeal and promises warmer rides for riders this winter.
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Seattle
Public Service Commission
Star
Orpet Outwits His Prosecutor In Court Test
In Waukegan on June 28 Will Orpet faced cross examination by Prosecutor Joslyn over Marian Lambert’s death. The youth withstood three hours of questioning, detailing his Lake Forest trip and the night scene at the garage while evading main points.
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Waukegan
Joslyn
Will Orpet
Marian Lambert
Orpet
Lake Forest
Marian
Meat for Troops on Border Ordered in Large Quantities
Chicago reports the quartermasters department has placed emergency orders for 1,000,000 pounds of bacon and 500,000 pounds of corned beef from local packers to feed American soldiers at the border.
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Chicago
Quartermasters’ Department
The Blue Lights Opens at The Star Monday
Detective Duvall explains the meaning of blue lights in Arnold Fredericks novel The Blue Lights as it debuts in The Star Monday. The tale links red danger signals and a gold tipped cigarette clue to a banker's kidnapped son.
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Duvall
Arnold Fredericks
Morey Report At War Office Describes Carrizal Clash
Washington June 28 Captain Morey survivor of the Carrizal battle forwards an interview to the war department and suggests American forces may be partly responsible for the clash with Mexico. Secretary Baker declines to call it final and President Wilson says Carranza’s reply is the key element shaping the crisis.
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Mexico City
Wilson
Chihuahua
Washington
Morey
Carrizal
War Department
Boyd
Gomez
Baker
Carranza
Henry Ford to Pay the Enlisted Men
Henry Ford plans to continue salaries for National Guardsmen employed at the Ford plant during their duty on the Mexican border. He has ordered their positions held open and not discharged, contrary to earlier unfounded agency reports.
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Detroit
Henry Ford
Ford
Stabbing and unrest at pier fuel unions demands protection
Following a stabbing of longshoreman H. Poizin at Pier 6, gun displays by strikebreakers, and police fire, union grievance committees met Mayor Gill seeking better protection. Four black strikebreakers and three white union men jailed after clashes. authorities say militia unlikely.
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H. Poizin
Pier 6
Gill
Great Northern Dock
Western Ave
Columbia St
Third Ave
Bianchi
Majewaki
J. Hartman
J. H. Andrews
E. Young
Ed Bradley
Carl Smith
P. McTiernan
W. Veaux
Water Front Employers’ Union
Mexican Cavalry Leader Rushed 1000 Rurales to Arizona Border
Col. Padilla, famed cavalry commander, is said to move 1 000 picked rurales from Badricora to Nacozan Arzpe. Reports say two Americans were seen at Nacozari yesterday amid ongoing fighting and further clashes are feared.
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Douglas, Ariz
Col. Padilla
Mexico
Badricora
Nacozan
Arzpe
Nacozari
Contest closing for mothers to enter babies in Star event
Last chance for mothers to register babies under 3 for The Star contest closes Thursday at 6 p.m. Bring child to photographer Jacobs in the Pol building before then. Mothers receive two tickets to the Clemmer for the mother and baby play Where Are My Children and a chance at cash prizes.
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Jacobs
Pol
Fifteen Year Old Girl Convicted of Murder in Fort Worth
Katherine Vance Harrison, 15, was convicted of murdering W. L. Warren, a hotel keeper, in Fort Worth Texas and sentenced to five years. The jury deliberated since Saturday afternoon and the defendant wept when the verdict was read.
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Katherine Vance Harrison
W. L. Warren
Col Roosevelt To Dine With Hughes In New York
Col Roosevelt arrived in New York to keep a dinner appointment with Charles F Hughes for the evening. Neither man would comment on reports that talks were under way to bring Roosevelt and former President Taft together.
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Col. Roosevelt
Hughes
New York
Charles F. Hughes
Roosevelt
Taft
Mexican Bandits Captured Near El Valle Headed to Columbus
Twenty Mexican bandits captured along the American lines near El Valle are being transported under guard on a motor truck train toward Columbus New Mexico. They are expected to arrive tonight and will be confined in the wire stockade erected earlier for such prisoners.
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el Valle
Columbus
State department awaits Carranza reply by afternoon
The state department expects a reply from Carranza by early afternoon based on a telegram from Consul Rogers received last night. The telegram informed officials of the anticipated communication and shapes early afternoon expectations.
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Washington
State Department
Carranza
Consul Rogers
Funston Prepares Rapid Border Militia Move
Reports from San Antonio say Funston and his staff organize troops along the border to permit a sweeping, multi point movement if invasion is ordered while protecting the frontier. Small detachments of Eastern guardsmen reach Texas though destinations unclear. Carranza forces near Naco are said to be much larger, with Cananea reported as ten times bigger. American units stand ready for potential attack on Naco or Bisbee.
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San Antonio
Funston
Texas
Carranza
Naco
Cananea
Bisbee
Colonel to Put Army in Field
Theodore Roosevelt organizes twelve thousand men into a division to take the field if war is declared. The plan includes four brigades with infantry cavalry field artillery engineers signal corps and an aeroplane detachment. Recruitment will extend across the West and equipment may come from popular subscription.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Signal Corps
West
55 000 Mexicans On Chihuahua Way
Reports from interior Mexico say Chihuahua soldiers of the de facto government are marching toward El Paso with promises of food. Mining men arriving in El Paso from Parral and Santa Rosalia describe troop movements northward and estimate 10 000 more Mexicans en route, boosting total forces in the state to over 65 000.
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EL Paso
Carranza
Interior Mexico
Chihuahua
Parral
Santa Rosalia
Philadelphia Lawyer Grows Cotton on Pennsylvania Farm
A Philadelphia lawyer named Harvey grows cotton on his Pennsylvania farm and uses a drying process to salvage prematurely frosted cotton through artificial drying.
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Philadelphia
Harvey
Pennsylvania
Two Americans Killed In Clash Near Nacozari Sonora
In a clash near Nacozari Sonora two Americans were killed and one captured after Mexicans protested depredations as Americans allegedly cut fences. General Calles reported that Mexican forces killed two Americans J P Hares and A P Dickson, Morton Harden was captured and admitted his companions started the shooting.
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Mexico City
Nacozari
Sonora
Calles
War Office
J. P. Hares
A. P. Dickson
Morton Harden
Harden
Seattle Boy May Be Court Martialed
Camp Brown American Lake June 28 R Sheltron of Seattle a member of Company L refused to take the muster role and may be prosecuted under court martial proceedings This is the usual oath formally taken by recruits in camp.
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Brown
American Lake
R. Sheltron
Seattle
Seatte Girl Injured in Tacoma Auto Crash
Virginia Goddard five year old foster daughter of Col Inglis Seattle second in command of the N G W was injured today when run down at Ninth and Commercial by Mrs Orville Brillings In Columbus six Mexicans believed to be the Parker murderers were wiped out in a border area clash during the night.
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Second Ave
Washington St. Altho
Montgomery
O'Dtrien
al McLean
Ike Gray
Pier D
Lister
J. 8. Gibson
Water Front Employers’ Union
C. K. Magill
8. 8. Co
San Francisco
Henry M. White
Commercial Club
James Duncan
Central Labor Council
Tacoma
Virginia Goddard
Col. Inglis
Seattle
Ninth and Commercial
Orville Brillings
Columbus
Parker
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Garranza
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam's Boys
Laredo
Monterey
Fort Worth, Tex
Columbus, N. M
Seatte
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