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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1911
Page
3
A garbled clipping notes Everett demonstrates that fat men vary in skill as a performer on stage with a dangerous prop. The fragment mentions a broadway star and a pistol during a dramatic act.
Seattle organized labor shows solid support for the McNamaras in Los Angeles. The Central Labor Council pledges 50 dollars to their defense with a plan to raise 500 thousand dollars for a defense fund and Seattle to contribute ten percent. Clarence Darrow is urged to Gompers as the defender for the accused iron workers. The Carpenters Union plans immediate 600 dollar fundraising.
Former Mayor Owen McAleer and several top administrators face graft charges in Los Angeles as fire and police records were allegedly falsified. Witness P W Frankhouser testified he split $2000 supply orders into five parts under $500 to avoid bidding rules, naming McAleer Broadhead Lips Kern Healey and others as involved.
New York May 11. George Henry Hughes eighty year old vice president of the Stan Gard Olicioth Co declines the pledge to wed Miss Kathleen Douglass of Croton Falls New York after a license was sought April 15. The pastor refused to perform the ceremony amid gossip and objections. Hughes returned home while Miss Douglass and her aunt left after three days facing mockery from guests.
Alfred G. Cohn stayed in jail after failing to post the $2,000 bonds set by Judge Main for procuring false registration of floaters. His attorney Frank Hammond filed notice of appeal. Cohn faces penitentiary term if the supreme court sustains the verdict.
Edwin J. Brown of Beattie Washington promotes low cost dental work claiming the Dental Combine charges more. He urges free examinations and price comparisons and warns against imitation offices. Letters from satisfied patients praise his quality and affordability.
Seven Wilmerding boys aged six to eight watched Passion Play pictures and attempted an amateur reenactment. They nailed Taylor Bachman seven to a cross, wound his left hand with a tenpenny nail, and fled after he fainted. He is home recovering.
George W. Boone a 25 year old farm laborer was shot in the intestines yesterday while working at the Milton F Wright ranch in Eastland. He is at Seattle General Hospital in serious condition. This marks the second mysterious shooting on the ranch in two years with owner Wright previously shot in the same manner and the shooter still unknown.
New Haven report notes a baby boy born yesterday to Mrs Samuel D Parks described as the littlest lady in the world. Mrs Parks stands 42 inches tall. the Parks plan to leave in a few weeks to rejoin the circus with their son.
New York May 11 Francisco G Brown renowned Yale football player dies from diabetes He was a nephew of J Pierpont Morgan and remembered as one of Yale’s best athletes of his era.
Pittsburg May 11 after a 20 hour jury deadlock the panel hearing conspiracy evidence against Frank Hoffetot president of the Pressed Steel Car company was discharged. A trial on bribery charges will begin Monday per District Attorney Blakeley. May push Lorimer case yet in Springfield Illinois the senate will decide on appealing Judge Petit’s habeas corpus ruling in the Helm committee subpoena case. Red Cross starts big relief fund sending 1000 dollars to Col Steever for Juarez wounded care.
Judge Main granted a divorce to Mrs. Marie L. Latham from August Latham of Van Asselt, a Northern Pacific foreman. The decree relieved the husband from support and awarded the home to the wife after testimony by their 15 year old daughter about family discord and desertion.
Gov Chase Osborn of Michigan filed an argument with the National Progressive Republican league in support of recalling judges. He vetoed a bill requiring supreme judges to reside at the capital, citing a prior pledge by judges to reside there in exchange for a salary rise.
Deputy Coroner F M Connell reports eight head contusions and a fractured skull on David Carlson, a logger found near Eagle Gorge in Green River after a Tuesday pullout. Carlson had 340 on him when last seen. fellow logger Chris Vang claims drinking arose and Carlson fell from a bridge. Cook F H Baxter is missing. police and sheriff seek him while Vang is held pending case outcome.
George Badiant Renton station agent for five years is missing since last Wednesday along with about 1600 dollars. A warrant for embezzlement accuses him of endorsing checks to the N P and pocketing cash. Also reported a couple wed in Greenwich after a Washington proposal.
William Crosby, a Duchess saloon bartender, faces jail after selling liquor to underage boys. The identified boy is Guetay Werth. In another score, Dexter Hortons defeated the Seattle Nationals 4 to 3 in the Beattie Bankers league opener.
The article recalls the forest ranger as a federal officer once roughing it who now gets a modern house and a salary between 1100 and 1600 dollars annually. Supervisors oversee about ten rangers per district. The job remains perilous, with fire as the greatest danger, and winter duties include building fire breaks and repairing trails while rangers endure loneliness and travel on horseback with pack animals.
The Seattle Rose Society will hold a meeting tomorrow night in the assembly room of the Chamber of Commerce.
The National Progressive Republican league reports adoption of the initiative and referendum in Oregon Oklahoma Missouri Arkansas Maine Montana South Dakota and Nevada. Amendments have been endorsed and sent to voters in California Wyoming Colorado Washington Nebraska and North Dakota. Arizona includes the provision in its constitution awaiting statehood. Hawaii? No. Illinois? Not mentioned.
The gasoline schooner Fishmaid of New Westminster partly overturned with heavy seas washing decks off Treepoint Alaska was sighted yesterday morning by the steamer Humboldt. Six crew were aboard none remained. a dory missing, believed to have carried the crew ashore. The Fishmaid was left to its doom. Rebels win town Nogales. Magdalena in Sonora captured by rebels today. no details available.
The funeral for Margaret Cassidy 37 vice president of the Waitress union will be from the Church of Our Lady of Good Help tomorrow. She lived in Seattle five years after moving from Minnesota and belonged to the Central Labor Council. The notice also advertises a bankrupt sale by the Salinger Style Shop of Men’s Boys and Children’s Clothing Furnishings and Shoes to run ten days at 27th and Ballard Ave Seattle.
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