Shall a Judge Gone Wrong Be Given Another Chance
A long reader letter discussion questions whether Judge Milo A. Root should be allowed another chance after resigning in 1909 amid railroad charge controversy. The Star and contributors debate ethics, public trust, and the need for full disclosure of letters and actions, weighing Root’s past with his later conduct and comparing to other local officials.
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Olympia
Judge Root
Hi Gill
Milo A. Root
A. Fay
Cremona St
Workingman
R. O. Dunbar
Supreme Court
Judge Dunbar
Dunbar
Judge Crow
J. C. Ward
Third Ave
Foster
Great Northern
FIREX
Star
Great Northern Railway
Readers defend Judge Root amid rail case dispute
In a Star letter the writer challenges a recent article questioning Judge Root. The reviewer notes Root's decisive decision against the Great Northern Railway Company in Harris vs. Great Northern Railway, 48 Wash 437, and cites subsequent motions to reargue the lease.
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The
Star
Root
Gordon
Great Northern Railway Company
Supreme Court
Harris
Mount
Rudkin
Fullerton
Shall a Judge Gone Wrong Be Given Another Chance
The writer argues Judge Root did not admit fault in 1909 and remains unrepentant. He asserts Root would again favor a railroad attorney and remain unchanged in ethics and judgment.
Billingsley Taken After Bail Request Over Liquor Find
Logan Billingsley went to Sheriff Hodge to post bail on a new warrant tied to liquor found last July in his Westlake Avenue warehouse. Deputies had failed to arrest him while he stayed near Planters' hotel for two days. A Wooster man bought at express sale for 30 cents then found $27, two new suits, and burglar tools in a chest.
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Hodge
Westlake Ave
Planters
Billingsley
Wooster
Baby of Civil War nurses opposes war as bride nurse
Mrs Cochran of Troy New York famed as the baby of Civil War nurses recalls active service from 1861 to 1865 and, at 73, voices support for President Wilson for keeping the nation out of war. She married at 18 and began as a hospital nurse at Keokuk Iowa.
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Troy
N. Y
Corps of Civil War Nurses
Keokuk
Wilson
Convicts Re-Captured After Sing Sing Escape
All six inmates who fled Sing Sing yesterday in a motor truck have been recaptured. Alfred Steinauer, sentenced to 20 years for forgery, was the final prisoner found and taken into custody, ending the jail escape.
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Ossining
N. Y
Sing Sing
Alfred Steinauer
Pocantico Hills
John D. Rockefeller
Auto Kills 2YearOld in Mount Vernon
Oct 20. Jackie Stevens two year old son of Mr and Mrs Alec Stevens died after his head was crushed when run over by an auto driven by Carl Johnson a high school boy.
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Jackie Stevens
Alec Stevens
Carl Johnson
Fresno Woman Closes 20 Year Stall To Find Hidden Gold
A Fresno woman uncovered 180 in gold hidden inside a rag doll she had kept for two decades. The coin stash was reportedly placed by her mother and remained undisturbed until the doll was opened.
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Rag Dolla Fresno
Cal
Benson Warns of High Cost of Living in Arizona
Allan L. Benson socialist candidate warned in Yuma that without immediate federal action and a food export embargo a famine and disaster will follow. He said flour prices are higher than Civil War levels and would rise further unless exports are prohibited.
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Ariz
Allan L. Benson
Arizona
California
Benson
Bandit Hunt Expands Across Northeastern Oklahoma
The man hunt for six bandits who robbed a Santa Fe train, dynamited the express safe and killed mail clerk Percy Norman has spread across Northeastern Oklahoma. Posses pursue separate clues with the Osage hills suspected as their hiding place.
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