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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1907
Page
3
United Press reports on letters exchanged between Mrs Annie Talbot and her husband during a divorce case. Talbot testifies he urged reconciliation for the sake of their children, offering to endure much for years. Mrs Talbot wept as the testimony touched the child issue.
The residence of William Sain at 922 20th Ave was entered by burglars last night but nothing of value was stolen. Police are investigating the incident and reviewing neighborhood security.
Louie Moldy of Asotin county Washington gained admission to the Walla Walla penitentiary to serve a three year term for horse stealing. The Supreme Court sustained the conviction, and the warden received the remit titutur and order of commitment. Moldy, a rancher, had fought to enter the penitentiary though he claimed a job had been put up on him.
Colonel Robert C. Clowry was today re-elected president of the Western Union Telegraph company. The board of directors endorsed his conduct during the strike. A terse line notes the rest of the item includes advertising lines for dry stove wood and a phone listing.
Advertisement details a solid oak music cabinet in a golden finish with quarter sawn sides and top. It features a shaped door with a lock, four sliding shelves, and decorative front legs. Dimensions are 9 inches high by 18 inches wide by 14 inches deep. Regular price 12.50, sale 8.95.
Professor Frederick Starr of the University of Christio will lecture at the state university gymnasium next Saturday evening under the university lecture course. He spent a year in the Congo studying conditions with an unprejudiced viewpoint and will present observations that differ from both sides of the Congo controversy. He accuses partisan missionaries of denominational prejudice.
Peter Leber, owner of the Drury hotel in Tacoma, was brutalized by Archie Emery, ally of Mary Kimberly, after Leber refused to surrender clothing. Emery overpowered him, seized the revolver after two shots were fired, and Leber was left senseless as arrests were made.
Oscar Johnson a Ballard fisherman living at 4523 First North West is missing and believed drowned after likely falling from the tugboat Blina of Ballard yesterday near Ollara. The boat was towing a scow. Johnson was at the wheel and the body has not been recovered. He leaves a family in Mallard.
Councilman Ferdinand Schmits of West Seattle and the Fourteenth ward seeks placements on the fire and water and light committees. He argues water and lights issues are most pertinent to West Seattle residents and that joining these committees will best represent his ward.
Valdez Alaska reports one of the fiercest snow storms in years with three days of falling snow and a gale. Government wires are down on the summit and signal corps crews cannot repair them due to the extreme weather.
Detroit report fronts a Battle Creek nurse Lucretia Johns who killed herself after the death of A. Lamont Fogg, a society man and singer she cared for through a long illness following his estrangement from his wife. Fogg killed himself minutes after Johns phoned him.
In Detroit Michigan on October 16 police report letters threatening murder halted the marriage of Laouis Greenman and Nancy Meyer of Owasso Michigan. The first letter arrived the day before the ceremony and a second letter followed with a threat to murder and mutilate both. A third similar note appeared later. The couple postponed the wedding until the writer is identified.
New York reports John D. Rockefeller Jr took up joke telling at a 60 cent dinner. He joked about his father’s stories and recounted a tale of a man who falls into a water trough and pleads to save the women and children, to a policeman’s aid.
Cravennet raincoats advertised for men and women at right prices. Goodyear Raincoat Co located at Cor Firat Ave and Madison Street. Call for latest styles and availability.
The detention hospital at Smiths Cove, built by the Grorthern railway for commerce and labor, houses 126 men and is led by John H. Sargent with 46 officers and three staff. The building cost $15,000 with $10,000 for grounds.
University of Washington extension courses begin this week open to the public. Courses cover education taught by Prof Sivson on Fridays at 4 PM, botany with excursions led by Prof Prye, and a political economy course by Prof Custis noting railroads labor and modern economic conditions with sessions Saturday mornings at the university.
L EF Capps president of Seattle Optical Co. phoned from mid lake in a row boat claiming an oar broken and asked for a launch. Fred B. Skow of the National Bank of Commerce hurried to fetch help then kept quiet until Capps returned home.
Tre mont Older, editor of the Bulletin, sues Ben Cohff, Luther Crown, and G. A. Wyman in Los Angeles for 100000 damages and 25000 in counsel fees after his kidnapping on September 27. He says two business days were lost and mental anguish incurred.
A city fire engine and wagon were dispatched to Riverton by rails to protect the Hewitt and Lea mill. The large slab pile fire had burned for days and mill hands struggled but failed until the appliance arrived. The mill, valued at about $200,000, was reported out of danger this afternoon.
Joel W. Thorne sues Alma Loutee for divorce after she refused to move West with him. They wed in Englewood New Jersey in 1900 and lived in New York City for six years before his plan to relocate to the West prompted by business and welfare concerns. She declined to accompany him, leaving the suit filed in the superior court after a year and a half.
In Terre Haute on October 16 a laundry worker named Juanita Harris was taken to the insane hospital after classmates taunted her about her mother being a resort keeper. The taunts came from co workers who knew the family background, though she was raised in a good home and knew nothing of her mother’s past.
In Elwood Indiana a playful Teddy bear proposal sparked a nuptial tale. Clinton Sidwell, a jeweler's son, overheard Misa Maggie remark she wanted to be a Teddy bear and offered to buy her role. The couple wed last evening after Sidwell's lighthearted pledge.
Grand Rapids report: One hundred fifty two local saloonkeepers fined 25 to 20 dollars each in Judge Stuart's court for keeping saloons open last Fourth of July.
Twelve workers with the Economic Light and Power Co. drowned when a scow on the Illinois and Michigan Canal capsized in the Hiunots and Michigan canal crossing 12 miles north of Joliet. Twenty three men were aboard. five bodies have been recovered.
The Chicago stockholders meeting opened with both sides claiming victory. Fish's lawyers assert 390000 of 950000 shares, while Harrimanites claim at least 696000.
Clara Bloodgood, a former New York social leader, argues that true style comes from simplicity and personal fit rather than lavish fabrics or expensive gowns. She urges minimal, well-cut pieces, lasting laces, and restraint in alterations, warning against overvaluing wealth and fashion trends.
David Warfield rejects the idea that commercial control can suppress art He notes plays will find other venues when theaters block certain bills and expresses no ambition to be Mansfields successor He is rehearsing A Grand Army Man for a New Haven opening October 23 before a New York Stuyvesant Theatre debut with his company
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