24 Nov 1914
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1914
Page
1
The steam schooner Hanalei, with 58 aboard, broke up on Duxbury reef near San Francisco. Rescue attempts failed as waves slammed the vessel and only about 20 survivors reached shore by dawn.
Seven council members support a $10 000 extension of city light service to the Duwamish valley while two oppose. Mayor Gill vows to fire any employee aiding the council and warns against municipal ownership, denouncing the mayor as a tin god and urging restraint to avoid returning to old opposition. The piece critiques his overreach and defends the council’s plan.
Hundreds from Thurston county travel by auto and horse-drawn vehicles to Tenino for the Crescent Oil Company well. A special train brings officers and stockholders as the cap is to be uncapped this afternoon, with locals awaiting whether the area sits above a vast oil reserve.
A reader asks if a woman posing as a man to care for her child could be punished. A columnist reassures that such acts stem from duty and suggests the court would not harshly judge given intent. The piece also recounts two sisters managing a home and baby while the elder worked as a man.
Reported shifts and battles across France Belgium and Poland as German forces retreat split in two directions while British ships strike Zeebrugge and Lombaertsyde. Russians claim progress in Cracow. Turks report gains in northern Asia Minor and Bassorah held.
Portland reports that the Canadian gun boat Rainbow, damaged in an encounter with German cruisers Leipsic and Nurenberg off the Ore n coast, was towed to Esquimalt by the French cruiser Montcalm. Many crew members are wounded and receiving hospital care while the ship undergoes repairs in dry dock. News had been censored in Canada.
Reports from Rotterdam recounts starving Belgians lining in snow for aid as 1 000 semi clad women wait for rations in Antwerp old men and women clawed at hands feeding them and officials feared infection during distribution. Women organize to support candidacy of Nellie M Burnside for school board and County charity office relocates to 301 Central Building.
Mrs. Alice M. Horton widow of William Horton testified in Judge Mackintosh's court about the killing on October 7 by James Evans deputy game warden. She described moving to the Bartrum station ranch and the fatal quarrel that led to Evans shooting her husband as he ordered him off the premises.
A German airship dropped a bomb that exploded before the American consulate in War Saw breaking office windows and causing several deaths and injuries among people in the street.
William Dobson a Harbor Island fisherman died Monday night after bruising and a prolonged drunken episode led police to believe an accident rather than murder. He likely was struck by a wagon or auto and dragged to his shack where he lay injured for days. His pets a bird and a dog starved nearby. The case was treated as accidental after investigators found no motive. Rita Stanwood the Red Cross actress has urged actors to fund Red Cross aid for European theatre workers and soldiers.
Al Palzer is sidelined by sudden malaria illness and Bill Fagen will meet Joe Bonds in a four round bout here Thursday night. The switch leaves Fagen and Bonds as the featured heavyweight match for the Tacoma show.
The body of 39 year old Dave Evans, a Kenneth hotel resident and Palouse harvest worker, was found on Fort Lawton reserve with a abdomen wound from a gunshot. A draft for 150 dollars and a dropped $10 gold piece were found on the victim. Evans recently lived with his wife, a University of Colorado graduate, and had ties to Colorado land. Police and soldiers scoured the fort and its surroundings after five shots were heard near midnight.
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