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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1907
Page
2
University coaches Place and Luck directed a final practice with ex-varsity players observing. Officers criticized lack of aim and fight, urging scrappiness. Whitman reportedly plans a second-string lineup at Washington due to injuries to key players including Horbeske and Martin. Position assignments listed for Place’s team.
The state university fosters a campus poetry craze as students vie for a $6 prize for the best football song. Expect rhythmic manuscripts, eager lyric efforts, and a campus alive with creative impulse before the football game with Pullman on November 31.
Moscow officials report a dispute over a football game scheduled for Friday as the university faculty prioritizes studies above athletics. Washington State College had completed arrangements, but concerns over scheduling a school day may halt the event.
A large crowd plans to back the Pullman team while faculty threaten to cancel the game. A petition is circulating among Moncow businessmen urging the faculty to permit the contest, hoping to sway professors to reconsider the decision.
Chicago nov 6 george Sutton champion 182 billiard player defeated Jacob Schaefer by 500 to 241 in a single session match.
The Northwest high school football scene jitters as Portland's West Side team travels to Seattle on Saturday hoping for a tie or better. Portland’s manager says the best outcome is a draw, while Seattle’s lineup trains to prove they remain invincible after Spokane’s upset. A stray pest of India halts many water mains in Chicago.
In a Guggenheim prompted meeting set for November 11 in New York, W. R. Rust of the Tacoma Smelting Co. is expected to become president of the Northwestern company, succeeding John Rosene of Seattle. Rosene’s alleged non cooperation with a Guggenheim named investigative committee sparked the move, with officials stating little more about the trouble.
Kelloge Durland, Boston student, returned from Europe after two days in custody in St. Petersburg with William Engliteh Walling Mrs Walling and Rose Stransky. Durland says the czar is a drunkard influenced by spiritual fate and fakers and consulted medians for heir birth. He also claims the czar is stubborn rather than stupid.
Reports to coroner W. G. Burton list two new fatalities from United Railways car incidents. Carmen’s union organizer was struck on Sacramento Street and died within an hour. Laborer William ue perished from injuries after being run down at 18th and Valencia.
United Press reports Captain Harrison Colby of the Navy seems unlikely to reach rear admiral rank by November 6. Rear Admiral Berry retires January 25, a vacancy Colby would fill, but Berry retires then and Colby is also slated for retirement the same day. If Berry were older or Colby younger, the promotion would be possible, or if Admiral Derry retired a day earlier a vacancy would appear. Thus Colby misses promotion by the slimmest margin unless a higher rank casualty occurs.
The unknown man's body was found in the hold of the Chilean bark Adela at Quartermaster Harbor. The head was crushed and authorities say a fall through the hatchway caused death. Coroner Carroll investigates.
In Washington in November it is clear Alaska will not gain home rule this session as the Senate and Uncle Joe Cannon oppose territorial government. Critics say sparse settlement and corporate influence hinder progress while Alaskans vow to continue the fight and attend in large numbers.
In Chemainus area near Nanaimo British Columbia two men died when a logging locomotive ran away down a mountain grade. Engineer L White of Vancouver died instantly after a head impact while attempting to jump. Bookkeeper Walter Asbery of Camp No 6 was crushed by the passing cars after he fell on the rails. Other crew members were injured but escaped.
The steamship City of Tampico reached the harbor after narrowly escaping a gigantic waterspout in the gulf last Friday. Passengers aboard claim the spout was at least 76 feet high and officers maneuvered to steer clear, averting catastrophe.
An agreement between the Alton road and its trainmen raises wages for conductors, trainmen, firemen and baggagemen by 10 percent, with new rates effective November 1.
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