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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1910
Page
2
A strange disease known as Hodgkins disease grips Nick M. Pappas 88 in a city hospital bed. The illness starts with neck swellings and tightens to threaten breathing as doctors treat him, with some initial improvement noted after two days of care.
In Butte Montana a sympathetic strike of all crafts in the American Federation of Labor is threatened as the Western Federation of Miners refuses to allow six seceding engineers to return. National President Matt Comerford offered to order back the engineers under prior terms, but miners officials refused. A committee representing all AFL crafts will be sent to seek a settlement, with a general sympathy strike possible if rejected.
Annie Moore, an eighteen year old Seattle factory worker, died after a long illness. She refused help and asked for no pity or aid, leaving no relatives. She saved enough for a simple coffin and burial plot, and lay dying in a lakefront tent with no one to comfort her.
Attorney Walter McClure endorses amendment 12 for nine councilmen and amendment 13 for nonpartisan primaries in Greater Beattle. The proposal argues fewer councilmen would foster citywide good as population grows and wards expand, ending cross ward trading. Amendment 14 favors nonpartisan primaries to depoliticize city business.
H. B. Gilham and J. W. Lysons, noted state politicians, debut a new firm at 400 Central under the name GUhamdiiysons Realty Company. The venture will handle general real estate, loans, investments, and insurance services.
In New York on March 1 Christian healers voted to raise treatment prices from 1 dollar to 8 percent of the New York rate. Boston sees 2.56 dollars and Philadelphia 2.59. Previously the standard charge was 1 dollar per treatment. The move followed an edict issued December 24 by Mrs Moldy urging Christian defense practitioners to align charges with reputable physicians in their localities.
Tom Tyrer once an accountant in the county auditor’s office pleaded not guilty in superior court to an information charging embezzlement. He is accused of aiding Charles Head in embezzlements of county funds while serving as Clerk in the court of Justice of the Peace John K. Carroll. Head confessed to a $3,466 shortage, which was repaid.
In Minneapolis on March 1 about 400 merchants manufacturers and shippers cheered Theodore Roosevelt as Frank B. Kellogg praised his role in enacting law to curb railroad rebates. Kellogg urged government rate and title control if railroads consolidate to curb competition and warned against tying steamship lines to railroads. He argued Panama Canal must foster genuine competition.
William Hickman Moore, candidate for mayor, will speak at United Presbyterian church and Queen Anne Congregational church. He will attend rallies and meetings across Seattle including Dunlap, Lakeside, Interbay, Columbia City, Ballard, and Montlake areas through Friday and Saturday. At downtown Seattle, a businessman W. E. Lorten was killed in a street incident nearby.
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