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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1911
Page
6
Chicago shippers report thefts totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars as merchandise vanishes through forged bills and altered addresses. Four men jailed, including Louis Hirachberg, with two confederates having confessed. Railroads and a steamship line implicated in the wide scheme affecting seven railroads and one shipping company.
The Union presents The Joys of Persecution a two father plot with a meddling priest. Other shows include The Maids Revenge and A California Love Story at Acme and City Theatres. Musical acts fill the programs with violinist Maurice S. Karp and ensembles at several houses.
Charles Alden will present a lecture on City Planning and Civic Centers before the Mount Baker Improvement Club tonight. Fr anes F Eshelman widow of James F Eshelman of Seattle died April 30 in Portland. Delegates to the American Medical Association in Los Angeles will not pass through Seattle without entertainment. The King County Medical Society will be on the job. Temporary repairs on the steamship Yucatan wrecked in the Jen Strait show overhaul planned to resume sea worthiness. She was towed in yesterday and may require 9000 dollars in Seattle. Monday, are to high spirits today. About 50 000 buttons have been disposed of and the carnival is assured of success.
Members of St. Marks parish collect and pack clothing for Bishop Rowe’s Alaska work. About 500 women under Mrs. J. O Cooper sewed and sorted during Lent, producing three large boxes for shipment to Seattle dolls for Alaskan children.
Mayor Dilling signed an ordinance approving 13438 20 for city costs as the Watson steamer from San Francisco arrives with 1700 tons of merchandise and passengers. The Lucerne sets sail for the Orient carrying about 50000 in grains. Memorial exercises for Seattle Peace club members are set for May 10 and public utilities talk is planned at the YMCA. A child’s skull fracture prompts a sidewalk safety alert after a collision. A civil suit seeks 2000 over knee injury from a Studebaker. John Vanderpool, famed drawing teacher, dies in St Louis. The Seattle Carnival committees report progress on button sales.
Olympia figures state official H B Dewey, superintendent of public instruction, as the unexpected champion in a street car sprint after an auto crash. State Treasurer Lewin finishes second, with Gov Hay and Secretary L M Howell vying for third.
News brief with incidents across cities: Jersey City fire death of Mrs. Dalavak and daughter, Fireman Baldwin injured. Kroeber completes Indian dialect phonographs in San Francisco. O G Ellis named associate justice in Olympia. Edmonds mayor breaks ground on micro transit rail project. streetcar smoker exclusivity ordinance proposed. Wardaill push for smoker compartments. W J Bryan’s hometown Lincoln returns to saloon licenses. Gates family hotel staff tips noted as Mrs Gates granted interlocutory decree.
N. D. Oriska H. R. O. saved Marie Smith from a 22 foot deep well eighteen inches wide by lowering himself head first into the shaft. The girl weighed 160 pounds and he suffered chest and left arm injuries as blood burst through during the rescue.
Washington DC Authority grants Commercial State Bank Seattle permission to convert into National City Bank with capital of 200000. Newark New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson pursues local option to keep saloons out of politics. Tekamah Nebraska Lieutenant Governor M R Hopewell dies from pneumonia and heart trouble. Harrison Street regrade project to have a public hearing next week before Streets and Sewers Committee at 2 pm. City Street Car League plans meeting tomorrow at 6 pm to discuss clearing legal obstacles to the street car line. venue Wolf's.
Seattle Commercial club secured assurances that forester Harry 8 Graves and Interstate Commerce Commissioner Franklyn Lane will speak at the Northwest Development congress. The club elected fifty nine new members during April amid a cafeteria gathering with several councilmen present. In Corunna Spain the provinces of Corunna and Pontevedra report many mad dog bites. People, cattle, sheep and horses have died from the bites.
The 20 year old Maurice Rostand, son of Edmund Rostand author of Chantecler, and Rosemonde Gerard, a famed poetess, is the butt of Parisian caricatures as he prepares his first poetry volume.
The clipping lists prices and availability for vegetables fruits and meats in a historic market, including potatoes onions cabbage lettuce carrots cucumbers and various meats such as pork beef and lamb cuts. Prices show per ton or per pound with market terms and quality notes.
The Star describes Panama's San Blas Indians as an isolated, enigmatic people with no known white contact with women. Traders may land on San Blas shores, but internal trade is rare. The piece notes Panama City’s improved cleanliness under canal zone sanitation.
A sloop towed by the steamer St Denis carried ten Chinese castaways to Coronado Island for a 15 day shelter with scarce food and no water. Charley Sam a Chinese merchant of Ensenada organized the rescue. Smugglers had earlier brought them from Ensenada toward San Diego and later abandoned them.
In Vibalia California a man named Thomas Hardin was seriously injured by a swarm of bees as he attempted to separate them from hives. Two horses died as a result of the stinging incident.
A playful verse fragment hints at romance and marriage in a lighthearted kitchen scene. The speaker jokes about love and courting through food imagery, noting that affection does not depend on appetite alone.
Carolinal Gibbons sends a letter to be read at the 10th anniversary celebration of St Patrick's cathedral. She declares the press a colonial engine of truth or error and urges the public to support papers elevating in tone and acting as agents of truth.
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