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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1914
Page
5
In Talla Walla on March 6, William Jensen tested a kerosene oil rabbit repellent. He lit a device hoping rabbits would flee in line, but it caused a blaze that burned hay stacks and threatened 1,500 tons of hay.
In Bellingham on March 6 Charles L. Gallagher admitted involvement in an embezzlement case. He was sought in Astoria Oregon where he allegedly misappropriated funds from the Bartenders' union of which he led. In Reno Nevada United States Senator W A Massey died suddenly of heart disease.
Gustav Yeskenski, 11, testified before a congressional committee investigating Colorado's coal strike era militiamen. He recounted how two soldiers, one drunk captain, raided his home near Suffield on February 10, beating children, ransacking trunks, and stealing his mother's $200 along with whisky, leaving the family traumatized by unprintable abuse.
Washington March 6 Senator Jim Reed of Missouri said women do not count and that women’s suffrage is an unimportant issue. His remarks drew sharp protest from suffragists as Senate debated setting a vote date on the constitutional amendment granting women the vote. Reed objected and sneered during the discussion.
Charles Hyde former district attorney of Baker county faces assault with a deadly weapon charge after a saloon fight He shot rancher Thomas Williams in the hand with a firearm during the incident
London reports English editors praise President Wilson in a March 6 dispatch. Birmingham Post notes the frank honest admission of British protest against exemption of American shipping from canal tolls. The message is timely amid tensions over the Benton case and calls for continued Anglo American unity.
In a mass meeting speech T F Congdon opposed annexation of the Yekon territory to British Columbia and rejected ceding Canadian land for a Pacific port. He spoke at OH March 5.
Portland March 6 The Great Western Mining and Minning Co United Placer Mines Co International Cocoanut Plant ation Co and W E Davidson Co file suit attacking the constitutionality of Oregon blue sky law regulating stock selling corporations in the state court.
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