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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1910
Page
9
Ballard fire department and volunteers battled a 160 acre brush fire at Eighth Ave N W and W 88th St from Saturday afternoon into Sunday, keeping it from Sloan's addition. After a 20 hour effort with guard work and backfires, the last spark was extinguished and the flames put out.
Two Seattle men received letters from Madrid claiming a dying kinsman with 98 600 pounds and a convent daughter invites them to cable for a share. The letters name Edwardo Blanco Hutchinson as the kin and promise a quarter of the fortune and the girl’s hand. Local authorities note the scheme is a familiar confidence trick. no local men have fallen for it so far.
The socialist board of aldermen plans to hire a sessional economist to study each city department and devise an economical management system. Alderman Berger introduced the resolution after a Madison conference with university professors. He believes major U S firms succeed through efficient systems and pushes Milwaukee to test the plan thoroughly.
In Brussels an open letter by socialist leader M. Vandervelde accuses the late king Leopold of transferring six million dollars in Congo bonds to Baroness Anghan the day before his death. The bonds could not be located when Belgium annexed the territory, with Dave Snoy, royal household commander, acting under the king’s orders.
Chicago May 9. Political campaigners face a suffrage push as suffragettes ride in back seats of automobiles delivering speeches and songs across counties. Two autos have already begun touring to drum up support for votes on the woman's cause.
The text notes that counties will be divided into as many districts as there are automobdties, with volunteers joining the cause as others arrive. The plan suggests a statewide districting effort across 102 counties to support the movement.
Secret service officers guarding President Taft fear anarchist activity as he plans to open the Actors' Pavilion fair in New York and motor to Passaic New Jersey. Extra precautions will shield his automobile trip with northern New Jersey viewed as anarchist headquarters.
Beattle residents are urged to buy Lilly's Lawn Lime from Chas. H. Lilly Co at the foot of Main Street. The guaranteed prep claims to kill dandelion and weeds without harming grass or clover, priced 25 cents for 24 tins.
Wealthy Boston ornithologist John Thay plans a northern expedition to find the spoonbill sandpiper regarded as among the rarest birds. He believes its nesting site is unknown and that fewer than a dozen specimens exist worldwide. The Boston and Harvard museums each hold minimal or no specimens.
A shipment of 12 000 bales of scrap tin from Sound area canneries is loaded at Pier 3 on the Blue Funnel liner Protestlaus. The tin will be melted in Germany into toys and then sent back to the United States, marking the first of several shipments.
Mrs Helen George Pitman wife of W H Pitman a Los Angeles merchant left home with eight thousand dollars in jewels and seventeen hundred in cash and is believed in Seattle. Police search hotels and the Butler to locate her and a Seattle friend warrants issued.
In Gila Arizona on May due to a rattlesnake hunt George Myers, 12, fired a shot that killed his brother Carl Myers, 8, who was struck in the back. The boys are sons of Frank Myers of Horton. A later New York wire report says three seamen drowned saving a missing stoker aboard the Oceania.
Acting sergeant in charge Lee Dagner reports two men, C. F. Bradner of 1305 KE t .t. and P. A. Sander of 1314 List nv 8, arrested for speeding. Nat Paschell was released on own recognizance on the same charge.
Readable ad notes lime and clover products from Chas H Lilly Co located at foot of Main Street Seattle with prices listed as 25 cents per tin.
Charges alleged by A. Connolly of Cheyenne before a joint congressional committee investigating the interior department and forestry service. They claim Warren Livestock Co fenced 64,000 acres of public lands in Colorado intended for state school lands under 1875 act and that investigations were dropped by Roosevelt after Warren sided against Foraker.
King George V was formally proclaimed king of England at 9 o'clock this morning in London. The ceremony saw medieval pomp and officers in full regalia, while the city wore the mourning black for the late king. An official notice sets King Edward's funeral for Windsor Castle on May 20 with the body in state at Westminster Hall for three days beforehand.
Theodore A. Cook, brother of Dr Frederick A. Cook, says the doctor is not in South America and is near a sanitarium. Captain Jose E Bernier and four sledges sail for Arctic exploration to verify Cook's claims while Cook’s condition is described as fragile and the public battle looms.
The new $40,000 Y M C A building in Nelson British Columbia opened Sunday. It claims to be the best between Winnipeg and Vancouver and includes a smoking room the first of its kind in Canada. Smoking will also be allowed in sleeping areas. Of the cost, $31,000 has been subscribed. The facility features a billiard room bowling alley swimming and shower baths reading rooms and gymnasium among other amenities.
In Vancouver Washington Otto Johnson, badly burned by a stove blast, received grafts from 14 railroad workers totaling 42 square inches. Doctors report rapid improvement and plans to continue grafting next Sunday to cover about one twelfth of a 504 square inch burn. Further volunteers of three square inches each await procedures.
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