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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1908
Page
1
A Beattle editor reports Chief Ward awakens to police inefficiency amid widespread illegal gambling. He warns officers to follow rules or face shake up while detailing 46 gambling venues, saloons, and protected hotels undermining public safety in the city.
The Star invites readers to nominate Seattle’s prominent men for ante mortem obituaries. Readers vote by coupon, selecting twelve names, and The Star will publish articles praising the chosen men before death.
The report details extensive fire losses across Minnesota Wisconsin and nearby areas. It lists millions in damages including Bevoex Warren counties and Northwestern Pennsylvania with totals around 2 000 000 dollars and notes dead or missing at several sites.
United Press reports indicate fires across northern Michigan over the past three days have left at least two dead and thousands homeless. Towns including Alpena Petoskey and Rogers City face destruction as residents flee while trains and roads are cut off and emergency crews struggle to reach affected areas.
The speaker describes leaving Etah in northern Greenland with four Bakirno tents and coal from the supply ship Birtek. They will trek through the Arctic pack to Cape Sheridan and store food at Point Alaska using 25 dog teams, aiming to reach the Pole by February.
In Vallejo California October 17 friends learned that Surgeon John L Netinen of the cruiser Buffalo married Mine reline McDougal daughter of the late Charles J McDougal Mare Island navy yard last night at the bride's mother home The wedding was moved up after orders to sail to Bremerton next Monday The bride will accompany her husband to Puget Sound
Reports from Chang Chow indicate more than 300 people died in the typhoon that struck Thursday. Southern China seaports suffered wrecked vessels and loss of life as the storm extended toward Manila and the Philippines. an American battleship en route to Yokohama faced danger.
Rome reports Duke Abruzzi vanished after buying jewels worth 60000 from a Turkish firm and presenting a gold sleeve ring to each officer of his yacht Regina Elena. Rumors say he may soon reappear in America.
New York district attorney announces indictments against Peter C. Hains and Thornton Hains of Maine for the murder of William E. Alints, ad manager of McIntosh's Monthly, at the Baywide Yacht Club Bayside Long Island on August 16. The case accuses both defendants of joint responsibility in the fatal shooting with Jenkins and Captain Haine named in the sequence of events.
W. F. Shafer entered a plea of not guilty to an embezzlement charge when arraigned in superior court this morning. His attorney Walter Fulton filed a demurrer to the information, which Judge Frater overruled. Shafer was arrested last week on embezzling funds from the Puget Sound Interurban railway where he worked as a ticket agent.
The condition of J. Harvey Dennis, city claim agent, badly burned by electricity at the city lighting plant Thursday, showed improvement today. Dr. J. H. Lyons reports the effects of the electric shock are passing away and that Dennis is likely to recover though his temperature remains slightly above normal.
The arrangement committee of the Seattle Commercial Club meets Tuesday to perfect plans for the business men's excursion to sound cities on November 9 and 10. A chairman will be elected.
George B Boos is appointed secretary of the Washington Logged-Off Land association subject to ratification at the election on November 14. The item notes a formal confirmation vote by members.
In a night head on collision off Jefferson Head the steamer Cottage City of the Pacific Coast Steamship line was badly wrecked. Passengers and crew endured panic while rescuers from the George F. E. Starr aided many in night attire. The other vessel fled, no damage details known.
In divorce court Judge Frater hears Willis E. Kincaid allege his wife Grace, much taller than him, battered him at a Hille Granite office. He says a Philippines-born son appeared and demanded her husband leave. she refused to cook, and her size prevented him from insisting otherwise. The case hinges on domestic strain after three years of marriage.
On October 22 at noon, Hotel Lincoln lawyers will seek a superior court injunction to stop dirt trains and steam shovels from C. J. Erickson Work on the Fourth Avenue regrade. A 25 day extension for north of Madison and 60 days for south were requested, else the injunction could suspend the contract indefinitely. The matter goes to the city engineer for action and for decisions on trestle planking by Seattle Electric.
Mayor Miller urged department heads to enforce removal of gravel and sand left on paved streets after contracts. If contractors do not remove obstructions promptly, the city will remove them and charge the cost against the contractor’s bond.
Finance committee divided with two reports due at a special council meeting next Wednesday. The majority backs 13 mills old limits and 11 mills new limits, cutting 305 376 from engineering estimates for local improvements and proposing a 250000 bond issue for bridges comfort stations stables and fire houses.
A large blaze in Shirt Indiana destroyed 26 buildings including homes. KH and M Prior proprietors of a restaurant were burned to death while asleep as firefighters lacking apparatus battled the flames. A Saturday whist tournament at Beattie Commercial club is planned tonight.
In Los Angeles on October 17 arrangements were made for the funeral of Frank Reichardt who killed himself at the hour his former sweetheart in Germany wed another man. Reichardt had moved to the city, bought a cottage on installment, and planned to send for his love when news reached him of her marriage on October 16. He hanged himself to a bedpost using a chalk line.
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