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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1908
Page
7
A California physician and mining figure, Dr Mason, died attempting to cross Alaska's Tanana River near Fairbanks as spring breakup began. His wife received a telegram announcing his death. the body has not been recovered.
A Pasadena area picnic left four young women dead and a boy and two girls seriously ill from ingesting wild berries misidentified as manzanita berries. Authorities report the harm occurred last Sunday as merrymakers gathered in the Arreoyee Seco region near Pasadena.
The Kestrel seized the schooner after a confrontation involving the Francia Cutting and its captain Captain Johnson. The Cutting reportedly offered no resistance while an officer from the Kestrel took charge. Johnson blamed tides for his mistaken location inside the three mile limit, and an attorney from Seattle went to Vancouver to contest the seizure.
The Moore presents The Hondman with next week offerings Mrs Wigga of the Cabbage Patch and When Knights Were Bold. Grand features Fantana with next week The Bohemian Girl. Seattle shows The Hurglar's Daughter with The Lady from Laramie. Loie offers On the Quiet with Janice Meredith next week. Lyric screens A Trip to Luna Park next week Riley's Reception. Coliseum Pantages and Star offer vaudeville shows.
Roy and Hermina Roy, children of a sister of the late Charles E Reed, contest their uncle Charles Ranzatto’s will in the exterior court claiming he was drunk when made. The estate totals about 40 000 dollars in real estate and 15 000 dollars in personal property, devised in 1907 to Dante Simot Giuseppe Fuse and John Ranzatto, siblings of the deceased, prompting questions why the sister’s children were left out.
Taft holds 686 delegates in sight as reports update the GOP contest. Washington no decision yet on the Northwest lumber rate dispute. Chicago police seek a firebug who tried to burn a mute and blind college. Mrs. Roth Bryantavitz may stump the western states for her father W. J. Bryan. Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition bill clears the Senate.
Dree Tleg, secretary of the State board of health, said ships at the docks will be examined nightly. Any vessel not attaching rat guards will be fumigated the next morning, regardless of schedule. Four front ships, the Dolphin, City of Everett, Santa Clara, and Santa Ana, were fumigated yesterday for noncompliance.
In Pittsburgh on May 16 Judge Buffington of the US circuit court declares Edison’s 1901 patent for an incandcent bulb invalid as an invention, but valuable as a mechanical improvement. The decree directs a suit in equity by Edison against Novelty Incandescent Company.
In Baring Washington on May 14 Daniel J. Smith caught a nineteen inch rainbow trout in the Skykomish river. Four days later Thomas C. Smith pulled in a twenty four inch rainbow trout, described as a beauty of the rainbow tribe.
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