Save Schooner in Hard Battle Near Port Townsend
The steam schooner Fred Baxter reached Union dock at 4 a m after an all night pump struggle to prevent sinking. Water in the hold rose as the ship listed to 40 degrees and fires were extinguished by ashore pumps. Part of the cargo was lost and a survey will follow pumping out. The vessel, built for coastwise trade, has carried lumber and sugar and is owned by J H Baxter of San Francisco.
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Port Townsend
Fred Baxter
Union Dock
Everett
San Pedro
Alarrowstone Point
Sampson
Baxter
Sound
J. H. Baxter
San Francisco
Parr-Mc-Cormick Steamship Co
Oil Warehouse Fire Destroys A B C Storage Stock
A blaze at the A B C Storage Company warehouse 304 Railroad Ave. caused extensive damage after three hours of fighting with explosives and oil barrels. Firefighters removed oil and gas tanks, three alarms were raised, guests were evacuated from Our Home Hotel, no injuries reported, damage to be estimated after Fire Marshal Bringhurst's investigation.
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A. B. C. Storage Company
Railroad Live. S
Main St
Bringhurst
Fire Consumes Turner Oil Plant in Los Angeles
A massive blaze at the Turner Oil Company plant in Los Angeles caused damage exceeding $200,000. The fire began when a still overflowed spilling lubricants ignited. before firefighters arrived ten gasoline and distillate tanks were burning with flames shooting hundreds of feet into the air.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Turner Oil Company
Burglar Visits While Tom Sleeps
Tom Smith slept at his home when a burglar entered and stole $140 and bank books showing $1,100 in deposits from his pockets, details reported to police on Saturday.
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Tom Smith
Petition Recall of Walla Walla Sheriff
Recall petitions circulate in WALLA WALLA seeking removal of Sheriff Yates amid a booze scandal and accusations he allowed prisoners access to liquor.
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Walla Walla
Yates
Circus chorus girls join Barnes show in Seattle May
A Barnes circus heading to Seattle May 27 features a mounted chorus of 40 girls in bold costumes. The act includes lions, camels, a chimpanzee umpire, and bold theatrics led by Mise Hensie Harvey. The circus plans a Fourth Ave and Lencrest tent setup with a provocative vaudeville edge.
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White Top
Barnes Circus
Seattle
Barnes
Ziegfeld
New Amsterdam
Mise Hensie Harvey
Fourth Ave
Lencrast
Prem
Fall of Carranza Upsets Interventionists Plans
Washington May 22 The overthrow of the Carranza government shifts U S plans away from intervention and toward backing a de facto Huerta regime aim ed at a constitutional government in Mexico The Pan American and American Federations of Labor led by Samuel Gompers rally support in Mexico and Latin America while oil interests and the Association for the Protection of American Rights in Mexico push interventionist propaganda through former officials.
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Harry B. Hunt
Washington
Carranza
Internationaltate
Adolfo de la Huerta
United States
Mexico
Canuto Vargas
Pan-American Federation of Labor
Vargas
de la Huerta
Alvaro Obregon
Fernando Calderon
Mexican Federation of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Senate Committee
Fall
New Mexico
Ats
Governa
Association For the Protection of
Franklin K Lane
Interior
Doheny Oil
Conmil Jenkins
Lane
Lansing
Coast Flight Starts Sunday Over Pacific 1000 Mile Flight
Governor F Olcott of Oregon will launch a 1000 mile flight from Blaine Washington to Stockton California Sunday in a bid to set a world flying time and distance record. Lieut R M Kelly of the ninth aero squadron will pilot with a Mainland plane, flying incognito to Seattle and Kent before heading south.
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Gov. F. Olcott
Oregon
Blaine
Wash
Stockton
Cal
Pacific Coast Advertising Club
Kent
Seattle
Kelly
Eugene
Ore
Plane Sets Record With Four Persons
Dayton story reports L. B. Khien a civilian pilot for Dayton Wright Aircraft setting a new world altitude record for four persons aboard an Orville Wright model plane reaching 18 200 feet in Dayton Ohio on May 22.
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Dayton
Ohio
L. B. Khien
Dayton Wright Airplane Company
Johnson Takes Lead in Oregon
Portland May 22 Hiram Johnson surged ahead of General Wood in the Republican presidential race as early returns from 22 of Oregon’s counties, including Portland, showed Johnson leading with 8 408 to 6 928. Wood’s campaign claimed the state would tilt toward him by 6 000 to 10 000, while upstate counts could alter the margin.
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Hiram Johnson
General Wood
Oregon
Johnson
Wood
Lowden
Hoover
Don V. Walker
Multnomah
Upstate
Walker
California
William G. McAdoo
San Francisco
United States
George Fi.Chamberlain
Harvey W. Starkweather
Wilson
Senator Plans Curtain Raiser For Republican Convention
Senator Hiram Johnson of California announced plans to stage an unofficial curtain raiser near the convention site in Chicago ahead of the June 6 Republican gathering. Johnson will move his national headquarters from Washington to New York, with Borah Kenton and other candidates expected to arrive to contest convention plans.
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Chicago
Hiram Johnson
Johnson
Benator Borah
Idaho
Benator Kenyon
Johnson National
Washington
New York
L. W. Henley
SPEEDING UP FOR BIG RACE
Political maneuvering within the two major parties tightens the field as leaders seek to back a single candidate. Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois leads Republican regulars while Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio heads the Democratic choice, yet rank and file support remains uncertain.
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New York
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
James M. Cox
Ohio
60 000 Orphans in Serbia Described by Welfare Delegates
Belgrade representative Helen Losanitch and New York organizer Matilda Spence tour major cities to aid 60 000 Serbian orphans. Losanitch notes children are emaciated and homeless, recalling families and refugee journeys to reach refuges.
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Misa Helen Losanitch
Belgrade
Serbia
Serbian Child Welfare Association
Matilda Spence
New York
Miss Losaniteh
Sima Losaniteh
Funeral services set for Mrs Henrietta Bandmeyer
Funeral services for 78 year old Mrs Henrietta Bandmeyer who died Thursday at the Kenney home West Heattle will be conducted at 4 PM Saturday at the Putterworth chapel with cremation to follow.
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Henrietta Bandmeyer
Kenney
West Heattle
Putterworth Chapel
Slayer Asks To Be Hanged In Tacoma Riot Case
Anna Carleon, after a shooting spree in the Joe's Bays area, killed Baker and wounded Pengval. She threatened to dynamite city hall and shoot Judge Fletcher, then pleaded not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. Her request to be hanged was denied.
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Tacoma
Anna Carleon
Taco Ma
John D. Fletcher
Three Week In Train Wreck Near Summerville
Three people were slightly injured when a Pennsylvania train derailed one mile south of Summerville Ohio at 5 a m. nine miles north of Hamilton. Three cars left the rails and the injured were taken to Cincinnati for treatment.
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Hamilton
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Grand Rapids
Cincinnati
Summerville
Here
Skeleton Thought to be Missionary From 1679 Found Near Meyer
Unearthed by Mississippi floods, a skeleton likely of a missionary tied to La Salle or Joliet expeditions in 1679 was found at Meyer about 20 miles north. Two silver bracelets and three solid silver crosses accompanied the remains.
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Quincy
Mississippi River
la Salle
Joliet
Meyer
Here
Wenatchee Woman Is Killed by Auto
Wenatchee May 22 Blinded by the glare of headlights a speeding car ran down and killed Mrs Nether Anderson last night court reports say driver W H Crutchfield was involved but no charges announced yet authorities investigate the fatal accident near Wenatchee
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Wenatchee
Auto
Farmer and Family Mangled by Train at Chehalah
Walter Snodgrass, a Washington farmer, is hospitalized with a fractured skull with poor prospects for recovery after a collision at the city limits between a Word truck carrying the Snodgrass family and a passenger train. His two year old child was killed, his wife and seven year old son are in critical condition in hospital. The accident occurred yesterday near Chehalah.
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Chevalah
Wash
Walter Snodgrass
Valley Today
Snodgrass
Four Good Sites for Air Landing Near Seattle
Post office inspectors review four proposed landing fields for a future southern and eastern air mail service around Seattle. Sites include a 2720 acre Lake Washington tract, Englewood at the lake head, Dietrich Hamm dairy farm on the Duwamish river, and Clise farm at Lake Sammamish. Postmaster Battle and Edward McGrath oversee the process. a Sunday tour may add more locales.
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British Columbia
Seattle
Victoria
Lake Washington
Englewood
Dietrich Hamm
Duwamish
Lmit
Clise Farm
Lake Sammam
Mish
Amooth Meadows
Anid
Battle
Edward McGrath
Board of County Commissioners
Sana Point
Postmaster Battle
Harvard Beats Washington in Historic East West Debate
Harvard defeated the University of Washington in the first East versus West intercollegiate debate held in Boston at Sym phony auditorium. The question on suppressing propaganda to overthrow the government drew 6,000 attendees and a unanimous Harvard decision after an initial split.
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Harvard
University of Washington
Boston
Congress
United States
Gove Ou
Washington
Wendel Black
Earl Nelson
Floyd Toomey
Pastern College
Symphony Auditorium
Early silos traced to Syrians with ground storage pits
The earliest silos of history are traced to the Syrians who used pits in the ground to store animal feed. The practice marks an early form of stored provisions, illustrating ancient ingenuity in agriculture and resource management.
Here’s What He Thinks of Women
In Parliament Colonel Archer-Shee argued for women's suffrage and described women as captivatingly capricious fascinatingly futile irresistibly irrational ingeniously inexperienced politically pusillanimous and wholly and charmingly incomprehensible.
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London
Archer-Shee
House of Commons
Credit as Tool in Foreign Policy Urged by Trade Leaders
Allen Walker former trade manager at Granty Trust Co. New York told the Chamber of Commerce luncheon that suppressing a rival country’s credit is the strongest government weapon. He urged a spineful foreign policy and, with Walter Parker of the New Orleans Association of Commerce, pressed for boosting foreign trade development. New York Citys new municipal building lighting needs over 150000 electric lamps.
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Allen Walker
Granty Trust Co
New York
Chamber of Commerce
Walter Parker
New Orleans Association of Commerce
Chamber
Municipal
New York City
Unclear Evening Events Include University Reunion
Readable items list events at 4:20 PM in Lake Washington with a California crew race and a 6:30 PM alumni gathering at Commons. An annual reunion of WU alumni is noted at Mt Zion Baptist Church on 19th Ave and E Madison.
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Lake Washington
California
Commons
University
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
19Th Ave
E. Madison
Arena
Washington
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