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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1912
Page
6
In Cleveland a meeting of coal miners and operators from Ohio Pennsylvania Indiana and nearby regions aims to avert or approve a general wage agreement for soft coal in the year after March 31. If no accord is reached 327000 miners could strike starting April 1, threatening supply.
The Victor and Ethan, the world’s smallest fishing power schooner, finished a Boston to Cape Horn voyage after 15000 miles. It weathered a 12 day period of ferocious seas near the Strait of Magellan when anchors failed. Two crew members swam to shore with lines to save the vessel.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound railway must pay $16,000 to the widow of Christ P Koloff and their three children after a brick from an oil tank under construction at Moncton Washington fell and struck Koloff, killing him. The jury ruled against the railway despite defenses of fellow servant rule and assumption of risk.
Abercrombie a village 15 miles from Wahpeton is reported destroyed by fire with a loss of 50000 dollars. A separate item notes an aerial ferry to be inaugurated across the English Channel with stations at Dover and Calais.
Advertisement notes a compact appliance named Bens 18 The Incurbator marketed by The Ghee H Iy Co at Foot of nm St Seattle. It promises eight seasons of service and a sold out run.
Former Seattle police chief Charlies Wappenstein will serve a three to ten year term after the supreme court denied his appeal of July 3, 1911, conviction for taking a $1000 bribe from Paris and Midway proprietors. A rehearing petition is next, though unlikely to change the result.
Goon Dip consul for the Chinese republic to Seattle delivers a friendly greeting to American businessmen and Seattle citizens. He argues China is now a stable republic under Yuan Shi Kai era, urges stronger US commerce ties, notes China’s 400 million people seek modern machinery and Western goods, and predicts American products will flood Chinese markets as wealth rises.
In San Francisco on March 19 Madame Chambellan publicly bets Madame Tetrazzini $1000 that she is the better singer, with the press and critics to judge. The city awaits Tetrazzini's reply, expected to accept, her press agent calls her a woman of spirit.
The council approved a police bill regulating patrolman hours. It allows credit for every eight hours worked and permits taking off an equal length of time with proper application to the chief.
Oklahoma neighbors petition Governor Cruce for state help for Mrs. Rush McClure of Trousdale who gave birth to triplet girls. The governor replied no state provisions exist for such emergencies despite compliments to the family.
Ed Glover, a riding boss for Twohyros contractors, drank carbolic acid in a Medford saloon but is expected to recover. In Seattle, Daniel Kelliher bought Jules Redelsheimer s southwest double corner realty at Pine and Thir for 320000, the city s largest sale this year. The February trade surplus rose to 562,158,067 as imports and exports surpassed last year.
A powerful dynamite blast destroyed a frame dwelling on Gowth Main St in Los Angeles early today. Police suspect the device was planted to kill the occupants, who were staying with relatives in Long Beach. A dozen detectives investigated the case.
Charles Morley the sole surviving member of the trio that killed three Nebraska officials is confined in prison again. John Dowd and "Shorty" Gray were killed during the breakout, their bodies placed in the penitentiary morgue as Morley awaits arraignment on murder charges for killingwarden Delahunty deputy warden Wagner and usher Heilman.
President Taft opened a whirlwind tour of New Hampshire to blunt Governor Robert P. Ross and Roosevelt boosters. He planned a Nassau speech and to lay the cornerstone for a new YMCA building, continuing his campaign across the state.
In Tacoma March 19 Superior Judge Chapman faces call to convene a grand jury to investigate the fate of $500 paid by Mrs. Mike Crashules and family. Mike Crashules was jailed 33 days, relatives 12 days last year before release on $506 believed to be bail. Attorney R L Sherrill admits receiving the money as a fee, rumors prompt possible inquiry.
Contests over Col. W. J. Sutherland’s $1,000,000 estate have begun in England and California with possible suits in Washington and Alaska. He died in England on April 22, 1911, and left the estate to Agnes Pearman Sutherland and a son. in San Francisco a Mrs Mary Theresa Sutherland and two sons challenge the will claiming she was his legal wife.
Joseph McMillan, an honor prisoner from Salem penitentiary, returned to San Francisco police after violating an Oregon governor extended parole. He expressed remorse and asked to resume imprisonment to serve his sentence from 1911 linked to llamath Palle.
United Press reports a historic presidential preference primary under way in North Dakota with heavy voting expected. Roosevelt campaign managers claim a win while La Follette adherents dispute that, as Taft followers hope insurgent split helps Taft. La Follette wrapped up his state tour at Devil Lake expressing confidence.
Tacoma obit reports Mrs. Mebitabie Haskill Elder the state’s oldest pioneer dies at 96. Born in Lynn Massachusetts she joined Asa and Mercer’s 1866 expedition landing in San Francisco and later settled Puget Sound where she married Rev Alf R Elder in 1880 before moving to Tacoma.
A fragmentary obituary states that until her death she had given her daughter Mrs Andrew Uejohn. Further details are unreadable in the clipped text.
Friends of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. residents of Hillsboro report he nearly suffocated in a house fire. Roosevelt Jr. was helping fight the blaze when he climbed to an upper level and was overcome by smoke before rescuers pulled him to safety.
In Wapato Washington a ranch piles baled hay after 25 days. A large hay stack weighs 1 523 tons with two bales included in the load. The report notes the west side location of the pile and references the local ranch activity.
Three women jurors, the first to sit on a Yuba county jury, begin deliberations in the Leal Dualer case after a mixed verdict. Berlin reports an organized drive advocating women’s franchise on property basis with one sixth of Berlin’s property owned by women.
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