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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1908
Page
1
Rear Admiral Evans urges more battleships and fewer statesmen as the nation seeks stronger naval power. He praises preparedness, warns against secrecy, and insists on protecting global freedom with a dominant fleet. The banquet scene includes cheers for Fighting Bob and a lively exchange about armor and naval strategy.
Officers and men bid farewell to Admiral Evans as Admiral Thomas assumes command. Evans, exhausted, will travel to Chicago and Washington for reassignment while celebrations at Oakland honor the departing chief who inspired devotion among his sailors.
San Francisco May 9 Rear Admiral Evans flag was lowered at 10 80 this morning signaling the transfer to Rear Admiral Thomas and the Navy’s loss of a great leader. The ceremony on the Connecticut marked the formal change of command as the word was read and a salute fired. Fighting Bob had left his ships and the navy forever.
Oakland California honored the Atlantic fleet with a May 9 parade. Soldiers sailors and marines led the procession as civic bodies waved flags and cheered through the city streets.
Seattle may host the bishop and the church magazine headquarters after the quadrennial conference now in session in Baltimore Maryland. The decision follows the national Methodist Episcopal church meeting and could shape the church's publishing and administrative center.
Washington high school seniors presented A Scrap of Paper to a packed audience at Egan's hall last night, drawing praise for their performance and crowd turnout.
Henry Remussen withdraws his saloon license application in the MacDougall Southwick building Seconday and Columbia Street and will buy a saloon north of Madison Street. Reports say the move aims to avoid veto by Mayor Miller and comply with charter provisions. The council deadline last Monday night looms with no change in voting bloc. The transfer to a new location is to sidestep street-block legality concerns and reduce opposition among First Avenue businessmen.
Complaints about Steamers racing prompted a collision yesterday when the Reliance struck the Inland Flyer. No damage occurred but marine inspectors will investigate the incident.
Charles Leavitt 16 of Seattle Daily Times circulation staff crushed in a sidewalk elevator at 816 Second Avenue used by J R Justice Co. Both workers were cleaning debris in the basement when Leavitt became trapped between a concrete beam and the elevator floor. The accident is deemed purely accidental.
Governor Albert E. Mead arrived in Brooklyn and stated belief that Roosevelt would renominate Taft as the strongest candidate for the presidency.
District Attorney Manning decides not to hold a preliminary hearing for Edward H. Martin and will file an information in county court charging him with murder. Martin to be moved from city prison to a county cell. His father, abroad in Southern Europe, remains hard to locate. Martin, who had gone four days without food, finally accepted milk and cookies after a request to Chief Gritzmacher.
Los Angeles May 9 Cal W C Greene mining king and owner of Cananea Copper mines is said to be near death today. Three doctors treated a severe cold but la grippe developed and pneumonia threat looms. Family rushed to the Van Nuys estate where Greene is under care.
At Fort Worden in Port Townsend Washington Henry L Johnson a clarionetist with the Siath artillery band was murdered last night his body dismembered and burned in a basement furnace Investigations point to robbery as motive Two suspects James Troll and Private Knight arreste d after being found hiding under the wharf Johnson conducted a cobbler shop at the fort and loaned money at high interest payday yesterday suggests motive from funds at hand
Seattle clearings today total 1,141,911.76 with balances 80,976.78. Tacoma clearings 575,424.00 and balance 59,623.00. Portland figures incomplete but listed in the report.
In Los Angeles on May 9 a U S hospital corps private Samuel Barr shot himself before Mrs. Brietelie L. Erb who he loved. He had tracked her to the city after she moved here to escape him and then ended his life at her feet.
A morning fire at 3 o'clock destroyed most of Goldendale Washington 25 miles away melting wire lines and damaging or gutting Smith Gun ning jewelry store J W McKengle hardware and J E B Gapper merchandise stores with property losses over 50 000 in Klickitat county seat Goldendale population about 1500.
La Porte May 9 Convincing evidence the charred remains are not Mrs Beulah Gunness surfaced after Dr Louk decrenitively concluded the body is alive. He noted manicured fingernails and a lighter weight than Gunness and cited ties to Aberdeen S D indicating possible deception by Gunness. Detectives press on while more ruins are probed and Ray Lamphere remains restrained. Syracuse police identify a train suspect as Mrs Herron not Gunness.
CHICAGO May 9 Dr J Sander son Christisen a noted alienist and writer and student of hypnotism criminology committed death by turning on three gas jets in his rooms. Formerly with New York hospitals for the insane he authored many works on these subjects.
Barriers against reduced passenger rates by western railroads for conventions and state fairs have been broken down. The Mystic Shriners persuaded a line to set a rate of one and a half cents per mile for the annual gathering in St Paul in July.
West Seattle residents near Scenic Heights protest the West Seattle Gun Club for Sunday firing. They have signed petitions asking the mayor to compel an end to shooting on Sundays, alleging about 2000 rounds fired each Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
William Kitsap reports that 10 year old Frank Tom, a Kitsap Indian boy from Port Madison reservation, fled from the steamship Kitsap when it berthed in Seattle.
City officials urge strong action against pool and billiard rooms citing youth loitering and rising crime. Acting Chief Ward and Detective Corbett warn pool halls lure boys during formative years and drain finances, demanding strict enforcement of age limits.
Community figures led by Sam Corbett and Truant Officer Ketchum condemn pool and billiard halls in Seattle for attracting under 18s. They argue youths spend all earnings at pool rooms, turn to theft when funds run out, and say enforcement is hampered by limited powers and lenient penalties.
J. T. Kingsley, editor of It Clarion in Vancouver B C, will address the socialists at the hall tomorrow evening. The object of his talk is subtitled In the Last Ditch.
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