Uncle Sam Fraud Probe Tells of $120000 Loss in Frisco
Special to The Star. U S Attorney Marshall Weed unveils a major fraud against the government. Partial probes show 120000 involved plus 256 Chinese lent as performers for the St Louis exposition. Bonds of 600 each were posted for return to China within 90 days, but bonds may be worthless if migrants do not return.
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The
Star
San Francisco
United States I
Merchall
Tion Hart HS North
Aetna Indemnity Company
China
Dietrich
Woodworth
St. Louis
United States
Russians and Japs Brace for Decisive Mukden Battle
Reports from Liao Yang state both sides prepare for a decisive clash over Mukden. Japan has received 72 guns from Port Arthur, while Russian and Japanese forces suffer weather and supply setbacks.
Boston Woman Chief Clerk in Postal Finance
Miss Lillian A is a Boston girl holding a high government post in the postal department. She earns 1806 a year as chief clerk in the division of postal finance, after a long career starting in the dead letter office in 1886 and serving as temporary head in 1901.
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Washington
Lillian A
Post Office Department
Miss Norton
Boston
Austem of
Hih
Ordinary Sgrap Report Describes Small Colombian Invasion
Panama officials say reports of fighting east of the canal indicate a minor Colombian invasion rather than a clash with Panamanian and United States Marines. Canal zone police will reinforce Marines and Panamanian troops stand by to assist in restoring order if needed.
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Panama
Canal Cone
Batteries to Philippines Mobilized From Three Posts
Three field artillery batteries The Twenty-sixth Twenty-eighth and Fifth will be sent to the Philippines. They are stationed at Vancouver Washington Fort Leavenworth Kansas and the Presidio San Francisco. Mobilization occurs at the Presidio and they depart on the first ship from San Francisco after January 1.
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Vancouver
Wash
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Presidio
San Francisco
Denver Father Kidnaps Four-Year-Old Son
H C Clement of Denver abducted his son Harold aged four by a ruse and remains at large. The boy’s mother, a traveling saleswoman for Seattle Cereal, is away and Mrs Tanner of 1602 Washington Street sheltered the child, warned of Clement’s possible attempt to take him.
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Fifth Avenue
Pike Street
Clement
Harald
Taner
H. C. Clement
Denver
Harold
Mrs. Clements
Seattle
Mrs. Tanner
Washington Street
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Ine
Ti Shan
Het
Shakhe
Harbin
Irkatek
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Kieff
Moscow
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Silas C. Swallow
Prohibition Party
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Serious News
Aewn
Philippines
Hoihae Wu
Seattle Star
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Paign Managers
Leslie M. Shaw
Secretary of the Treasury
Eugene V. Debs
Thos. Taggart
National Committee
Thos. E. Watson
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