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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1913
Page
11
After three years of study in Paris, John Hutier, a Seattle native and artist, returns home to resume work in his hometown. He intends to showcase new techniques developed abroad and plans a public exhibition later this year.
The Seattle Clef club outlines a 600 voice mixed chorus to build Seattle as a major musical hub. Rehearsals start in September with a May music festival featuring the Philharmonic Orchestra of New York and four renowned artists. Wm. B. Clayton and Arthur R. Priest lead the project. no fees for singers. concerts priced for the public.
Intimation from leading lawyers in the Northwestern Long Distance case says the government will file suit soon to dissolve the planned merger with Sunset Telephone Co., a Bell subsidiary. Constantine J. Smyth, special assistant to the U.S. attorney general, has been in Portland since Tuesday conducting investigations.
Pacific Codfish Company officials received a message from Capt. A. K. Mathewson and 325 Gloucester fishermen aboard the schooner Chas. R. Wilson reporting a record breaking take on the northern fishing banks in the Bering Sea.
A message about the 31,000 fish aboard was relayed from a revenue cutter to a government station on the Seward peninsula then to the North Head station and finally to Seattle.
Kansas City dispatch reports James Arthur Baker now jailed for theft in Summerland California. he confessed to years of deception as a woman schoolteacher under the alias Alice Baker, then involvement in counterfeiting and forgery. He described teaching a full season in an Idaho village before continuing disguise.
A Hamilton Higday lecture at the Labor temple informs the public on June 17 voting propositions. Admission is free. Also included is a Denver court anecdote about a left handed witness mis-sworn.
Memorial day observances close all offices in the city county and state as the Alki bathing beach opens its bath house drawing a large crowd. 5 000 bathers can be accommodated adults pay 19 cents for a towel and locker children under 14 free. A band concert starts next Sunday and events include Meadows motorcycle races at 2 15 and a Portland Seattle game at Dugdale's park at 2 30.
Ten Seattle shipbuilding firms form the Master Ship and Boat Builders association to attract business to Seattle and benefit members. John Wilson of Wilson Shipbuilding Yards elected president. members include Cooke & Lake Ballard Tregoning Boat Co Invard Heggem Strand Shipbuilding Yards Ballard Marine Railway King & Winge West Seattle Johnson Bros Blanchard West Side Boat & Engine Works Ward & Sons Fast Waterway and Wilson Shipbuilding Yards East Waterway.
Owing to the efforts of every available man woman and child in the town Copperfield is today saved from destruction by a fire which destroyed six buildings at a loss of 30000 dollars. The flames were fought for hours. The buildings destroyed were the Allstead hotel Samuel Akin's general store M K Nezevichs saloon and three residences.
A Boston visitor attends a banknotes incident involving a gambler and a banker. The gambler borrows often, the banker grows angry, and a confrontation ensues as the banker hoards a coin and a note before the car arrives. The scene ends with the banker offering a nibble of a soda cracker.
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