Seattle Rail Franchise Fight Spurs City Takeover Debate
In Seattle a heated public clash over the Crawford railroad and streetcar system pits supporters of municipal operation against backers of the Crawford line. The Star argues for public ownership to curb Puget Sound Electric Co. and questions Mayor Gill and council members.
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Oe & Southern
Gill
Crawford Road
Puget Sound Electric Co
Stone‘fraction
Crawford
Hunde Furth
Ares
Seattle
P.S. E. Co
Duwamish
Hi Gill
Seattle Electric
Arms
Flushing
Richard M. Arms
S. E. Co
Associated Charities
Johnny
Anastasia
Jake
Bigamy Case Involving Bonner Remains Unfolding
Ronald warns Bonner about marrying again as wife No 2 seeks a divorce for cruelty non support and a pending penitentiary sentence shadows the case. Bonner’s convoluted marriages through four confinements reveal a tangle of alleged deception and legal action.
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Wife No
Bonner
Puzzling Fragments From a Historic City Page
A jumble of names places and numbers. Mentions of Hodge pugilist detective Ed Griffith and the Butler hotel surface amid unclear references to contracts tests and naval Pacific duties. The text reads as a mosaic of stray notes.
Deceived Daddy Lawsuit Tangles a Baby Mystery
Edward C. Fox, a Seattle milk dealer, sues Dr. Sarah J. Dean for $5,700 after a hospital baby mix up. Fox believed a child at home was his. the deception and mistaken paternity led to a divorce and Fox seeks annulment. Fox proposes new felony law to prevent doctors from misinforming fathers about paternity.
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Pollock
Edward C. Fox
Seattle
12Th Av
Fox
Sarah J. Dean
Gladys
Dean
Mann May Succeed Joe Cannon Now
Nov 20 report discusses potential speaker for the upcoming Congress as rumors swirl after a two hour conference among Speaker Taft and Mann. Analysts believe Mann could unite insurgents and regulars.
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Mann
Joe Cannon
Gomer
Wheth& Cannon
Mexican rebels gain ground near Chihuahua city
United Press reports Chihuahua fortifications as rebels under Francisco Madero gain footholds against federal forces. Gen Lauro Villar moves north to reinforce the garrison while claims of Diaz regime threats surge in northern Mexico. Estimates place Madero's force around 2000 as reports of Puebla’s fall circulate.
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EL Paso
Tex
Chihuahua
Chihua
Francisco Madero
Acto Advicen
Federal
Navarro
Zas
San Andreas
Guerrero
Lauro Villar
Madero
Parral
Boy Scouts Meet At Central School Tonight
A meeting to discuss advancing the Boy Scout movement will be held at Central school this evening. All are welcome to share ideas on organization and improvement led by B. Shorrock and J. Howard Stine urging city support for the movement.
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Central School
Little Fellowes
B. Shorrock
J. Howard Stine
Arrest Yields 20 Day Sentence After Daring Admission
Collins was arrested last night by Pa Brown carrying a skeleton key and a phoney gold nun. His admission in court this morning led Judge Gordon to sentence him to 20 days in jail.
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Collins
Pa Brown
Gordon
Taft May Put Turner On Bench
Spokane rumor says President Taft considers former U S Senator George Turner for one of two Supreme Court vacancies. Turner, a Hague arbitration commission member, is favored by jurists urging his candidacy. In Tacoma, two market men were fined for using "freedom" on meats, $50 each plus costs.
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Spokane
Supreme of the
United States
George Turner
Hague Arbitration Commission
Washington
Taft
Hague Commission
Juriata
Turner
Tacoma
Mies Esther Alletrum
Nick Lewis
Evan Pungia
Costa
Arnston
Chicago Women Strikers Aid Grows Amid Hardship
Chicago drives aiding striking ready made clothing workers as winter nears. Citizens from elite to poor donate money for bread and shoes for 2100 families and milk for 7500 babies while professionals, unions, teachers, and businesses offer funds meals and shelter.
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Chicago
Cook doubts polar reach in forthcoming story
Dr Frederick A Cook, nearing publication of his account, admits he does not know if he reached the North Pole. Editor Benjamin Hampton says Cook confesses uncertainty and aims to present his full case for readers and geographical societies to decide. He recalls two and a half years in the Arctic and says proving pole existence is impossible, and he drifted from public view with his wife at times.
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United Press
New York
Frederick A. Cook
North Pole
Benjamin Hampton
Hampton
Dr. Cook
Geographical Societies
Pole
Arctic
English aviator Grahame-White to face New York court
Claude Grahame-White must appear in court on December 14 to explain why he should not be restrained from giving more exhibition flights in America. The summons arise from Wright Brothers Co. patent infringement claims. If upheld, the Wrights group would control aviation in the United States.
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United Prep
New York
Claude Grahame-White
America
Wright Brothers Co
Wrights
Tennessee and Minnesota gain in census apportionment
Washington report states Tennessee's population reaches 2,847,789 and Minnesota grows 18.5 percent to 2,075,908. Tennessee gains 0.1 percent but loses a new congressman, while Minnesota earns an additional representative in Congress.
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Washington
Tennessee
Durand
Fnpen
Minnesota
Congress
Millionaires In Swell Cells At Hastings Jail
Bartley R Richards W G Comstock Agquilla Tripley and Chas Jamison four millionaire cattle kings convicted of fencing government land arrive at Hastings Adams county jail for one year. They bring a Japanese chef to cook yet furnish rooms with expensive furniture lace curtains and a large library as they prepare to serve their sentence.
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United Press
Omaha
Neb
Bartley R. Richards
W. G. Comstock
Agquilla Tripley
Chas. Jamison
Hastings
Adams County
Nebraska
Hastings Jal
Jones Eats Crow in Washington Poindexter War
Wesley Jones a Washington senator faced reelection risk after slamming Poindexter at the Tacoma convention. He later met Poindexter’s partner O C Moore in Tacoma and said he would act in harmony with Poindexter. Poindexter travels to Washington from New Orleans.
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Brokane
Wesley Jones
Washington
Tacoma
Jones
Poindexter
Senate
Wesley
O. C. Moore
New Orleans
Thieves Called Out by Bishop Williams in Michigan
Bishop Williams of the Episcopal diocese of Michigan denounces Rockefeller Morgan and similar men as models in church life but thieves and tyrants in business. He criticizes their dual conscience and says they skin people of millions while playing pious on Sundays.
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Chicago
Navy
Rockefeller
Morgan
Williams
Episcopal Diocese of
Michigan
Police Save Lodgers From Early Morning Fire
Sergeant Bunnell and Patrolman Baker woke sleeping tenants at the Nome lodging house 2133 First Ave after a fire began shortly after 3 am in the I. X. L. restaurant. Damage is listed at $500.
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Bunnell
Baker
Nome
First
Tragic Double Suicide Linked by Common Rope
Anacortes reports Thomas Hambrugh a Canadian carpenter hanged himself yesterday using the same rope that his wife used to take her life seventeen months ago.
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Anacortes
Thomas Hambrugh
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