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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1916
Page
3
A mattress fire in the sailors quarters of the steamship Kulshan caused minor burns to Second Mate D. J. Ravett. The ship was tied at the Grand Trunk Pacific pier when the blaze began Wednesday night.
Fifty people injured in Chicago as fog causes streetcar crashes. In Cicero the toll reaches 38 injured with 12 hurt in Lyons, both suburbs.
City utilities chair R H Thomson told petitioners on Thursday the city should not extend water service to Highlands north of Seattle, arguing real estate ads promise improvements with no city taxes and a Chamber push for annexation to boost population. Thorson vowed opposition regardless of surplus water, while Dale sided with him.
Benefit nights are planned next week at the Metropolitan theatre to aid the Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society. The Wilkes company performs Within the Law from Monday through Friday with special benefit tickets sold at regular box office prices by a society committee led by Mrs A L Cohen and others.
March 30 A federal court decision affirms the master's report in the Seattle Renton and Southern case. Judge Cushman awards the Renton line $41 700 for damages from track removal during the Hamler avenue improvement. Receivers Calhoun and Parkin appealed but the award stands.
Manager Dan Base of the Frye hotel urged the city utilities committee to grant a 4 cent manufacturers' rate for water instead of the 6 cent per 100 cubic feet charge, citing 25 percent higher usage by guests.
A federal grand jury returned a secret indictment along with multiple charges against several alleged members of the Yellow Owls gang. The named men include Melvin B. Miller William Kirkland Harry Toy Fred Hayne Louie Lortie Lou Ding and Robert L Nichola.
An advertisement promotes a New Pore Treatment for neuralgia and rheumatic pains, claiming nerve centers in the spine cause many aches. It advises rubbing along the spine and bottoms of the feet, noting foot trouble and rheumatism accompany poor foot pores. Available as Kacow-Dee Pore Treatment in small and large sizes.
Forty eight lazy husbands and other prisoners were taken Thursday to The Willows the county s new industrial farm near Kirkland The county will make farmers out of em
Gaston B. Perelli, editor of an Italian newspaper here, spoke to journalism students at the university on Wednesday. He said the foreign language press is the strongest agency for shaping the immigrant into a good American citizen.
Johnstown Pa March 30 ten or twelve men believed entombed in the Robindale coal mine ten miles west of Johnstown after an explosion knocked out the main ventilating fan and likely started a fire in the inner reaches of the mine.
Dr Joseph A McKee a prominent physician will lead the medical corps of an American battalion recruited at Vancouver British Columbia for British overseas service Col William M Sage formerly of the US Army will command the battalion The doctor will join his command late this spring.
Robbers boarded a Texas and Pacific train as it pulled out near Shreveport Louisiana early today and overpowered the mail clerk to take two pouches of registered mail.
The Seattle Y M C A still leads the Portland Y M C A in the membership race with totals Tuesday night of 205 460 for Seattle and 162 545 for Portland. Portland led for the day yesterday with 80 770 to Seattle's 49 975.
Contracts have been let for the delivery of 6,000 tons of Matanuska coal to the Alaska Railroad. The coal is hauled over snow from the Moose Creek mines in Seward Alaska during March.
A notice highlights land bargains available in Star Want Ada area. It signals opportunities for buyers to acquire property, noting favorable terms and local listings.
Columbus New Mexico reports the railroad will not aid American forces. Despite Mexican privileges, military men say Mexican rail lines need major repairs and Carranza would likely oppose American repairs. Heavy supplies are unloaded at Columbus as 16,000 men search for Villa.
Bids for 100000 dollars of Seattle port bonds the highest ever offered were referred Thursday to Robert Bridges port president and Counsel C J France with power to accept or reject Seattle financial institutions submitted the bids Funds from the sale will fund completion of fruit and fish warehouses the compressor and ice plants and the Spokane transit shed at the port.
The Washington Supreme Court upholds the jitney bonding requirement of $2,500 for Seattle Taxicab and Transfer Co. finding the bonding law valid amid challenges over regulatory compliance and preemption.
An advertisement touts 25 cent Danderine as a hair treatment that stops dandruff and shedding within ten minutes. It claims roots are strengthened, hair grows finer and fuller, with a glossy, wavy look and lasting beauty after weeks of use.
Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root is praised by the Jackson Drug Co of Atlanta Georgia for thirty years of steady sales and favorable customer reports. The remedy is described as a reliable family treatment for kidney liver and bladder issues with a splendid reputation and broad demand.
A new Seattle shipyard will build lumber carrying schooners with internal combustion engines. Naval Architect H. P. Spear of Philadelphia will head the concern, who previously supervised the battleship Nebraska project in Seattle. Judges Turner, Flewelling of Spokane and William Pigott of Seattle join as interested parties.
Three delegations will travel from Seattle to Centralia on Wednesday morning for the Washington branch conference of the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations, scheduled for April 5 6 and 7.
City day at the Real Estate show will be celebrated Thursday with a visit from Mayor Gill and the councilmen at 707 Second Ave.
The Chamberlain army bill, a substitute for the Hay bill and the first major effort to enlarge the army, passed the House and was taken up by the Senate for reading. If action stalls, Senator Chamberlain may seek night sessions.
Olympia March 30. Gov. Luther reappointed regents John A. Rea of Tacoma and O A Fetcher of North Yakima to succeed themselves as alumni petitioned for change in the personnel of the board of regents.
An authority links regular meat intake to kidney trouble and backache by overworking kidneys. Recommends Jad Salts, four ounces in water before breakfast for several days, claimed to flush kidneys, neutralize urine acids, and prevent bladder irritation.ฐ
An old time home brew using sage and sulphur is touted to darken gray fading hair. A ready made Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound is sold for 60 cents at drug stores and said to evenly darken hair after several applications without revealing the method as a cure.
A fragment describes a supposed remedy Adler-ika for digestive issues and mentions Swift's Pharmacies at See Ave and Pike and 235 N Broad. It claims ingredients like uckthorn bark and glycerine and promises relief from constipation and sour stomach.
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