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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1912
Page
6
Three major car builders placed a 100 million feet Northwest lumber order, viewed as proof that the commercial revival will endure beyond Woodrow Wilson’s election. The purchase, aimed at ensuring production aligns with crop timing, points to sustained activity in nationwide business conditions. Gray's Harbor lumbermen handle the bulk of the work.
Tacoma reports two jurors John Bort and Samuel Milleston will use affidavits to seek a new trial for Charles Houston and John H. Bullock convicted of defrauding the government in Alaska coal contracts. They claim misdating of hides in 1908 instead of 1807 and say they were not allowed to vote separately on each defendant.
Four former Kern county jail inmates escaped after drugging a trusty named T. H. White, then sawed through eight iron bars and three window bars to break from their cells. Two pursuers tracked them through the hills near Bakersfield with the incident dated November 12.
The Seattle area sees multiple companies file incorporation papers including Pacific Coast Light Power & Railway Co with 500 000 dollars, Alfred Linz Co 10000, Toledo Fish Co 50000, and Hamadel Land Co 50000, along with other named individuals and groups such as Oriental Social and Athletic Club and See Jack.
A boy named Martin Beas, aged nine or ten, received bad cuts bruises and a broken wrist yesterday after an auto driven by H. A. Munter struck him at Pike Street and Belmont Avenue as he ran across the street. He lived at 1604 Seventh Avenue.
The city council adopted a resolution creating a public welfare board over all penal and detention institutions and the measure will be decided by voters in March. Wardall's bill excluding the city jail from the board was killed.
Four youths from Columbia flee Sunday afternoon to see the world. Joseph Orgereh Lyon Kyle El Roy Carson and a boy known as Butch are sought as Seattle and coast police search for them. Dreamland dance tonight. Linoleums 46¢ 415 Pike St Modern Furniture Co.
Max Hayes reports from Rochester on a likely shakeup at the AFL convention with John H. White poised to challenge for second vice president and possibly for Gompers’ seat. Retirement seems likely for several top officers as union growth edges past 370,000 members.
William Jennings Bryan, en route to Miami, says progressive democrats will control the next congress. He notes every Democratic senator and representative elected last Tuesday stood on the Baltimore platform and expects the party to uphold it. He adds that the Baltimore stamp on progressivism remains strong.
Citizens raise funds to catch the Hindu assailant who stabbed Rev. W. E. Simpson as he left his church. Police believe the attacker is the same man who whipped the pastor days earlier over advances to two parish girls.
Tacoma was shocked when two feed wires from the Nisqually power plant spilled 2,200 volts onto wet Tacoma Avenue. Patrolman B. R. Sowers was leaning against a steel pole as pedestrians walked home in the rain and several toppled to the sidewalk in the incident.
Fred L. Boalt urges Star readers to help Mother Ryther Child Home at 1262 Denny Way. He contrasts a festive Thanksgiving meal with destitute families and twelve to fourteen similar cases in the home, calling for food coal clothes shoes and school support to brighten the season.
John J. Nolan secretary of the San Francisco Labor Council and executive board member of the International Molders Union has been a lifelong labor fighter. Elected to represent California’s Fifth district, he is the first labor ally in years to join Congress and will push labor causes in Washington beyond party labels.
A county recheck raises Hay by 24 votes and 153 in the Lister column. Final tallies show Lister leading by 763 with 17 mountain precincts still missing. Allen and Carrigan represented Hay, Ryan for Lister.
Seattle welcomes A. R. Rice appointed as inspector of wireless telegraphy under the new federal measure. The act requires wireless operators to pass an examination and amateurs to hold wavelengths under 200 meters.
Nov 12 report from Tacoma details the rupture of a Standard 611 tank causing a spill of 9,000 gallons of gasoline valued at $2,000. Fire crews contained the leak and investigated the cause.
U. S. Marshal Coby served subpoenas on J. A. Sundwall W. W. Antwerp Byron T. Carr and Paul Styler of Seattle as witnesses in the government suit to dissolve the National Cash Register Co The trial is set for December 3 in Cincinnati Sundwall manages the Seattle office of the company.
Southeast storm warnings ordered at Washington seaports at the mouth of the Columbia River. A new disturbance nears Vancouver Island bringing continued strong winds shifting from southeast to southwest today and tonight.
Port Warden Davies reports October gains across foreign imports totaling 4,041,440 and foreign exports at 1,912,733 with year over year rise of 286,896. Domestic imports reach 4,078,649 up 120,389 while another domestic imports figure 3,220,221 falls 240,703. Passenger movements total 274,839 and tonnage 673,942, each up by 103,951 and 108,844 respectively.
Joe Fare, an eccentric old man living in a shack on Fourthay 3B, has been missing since last Monday afternoon after a confrontation over a warrant for Jeff Davis. Police found Fare’s rowboat last Friday containing a shotgun, suggesting he may have been murdered or taken his own life.
Advertisement urges quick relief from constipation biliousness headache and sour stomach with Cascarets to regulate the stomach remove undigested food and gas and carry off waste by morning a box from any drug store keeps head clear and bowels regular promising cheerful health for all ages.
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