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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1909
Page
5
Multiple classifieds show dealers offering the highest cash prices for used furniture and goods. Listings reference furniture exchanges, loan services, and a variety of businesses including photographers supplies, stamps, tailoring, and storage.
George Beck of 1404 Went 63rd and six other local butchers faced arrest on a charge of doctoring meat with freezum. Beck posted a $1000 bond in Justice Brown's court. Other defendants include Adam Nielgar John Johnson Henry Plotseh A B McLean O Hortok and H Kastner. The notice warns that using freezum on meat is a prosecutable offense under the pure food act.
The narrative recounts arrests of Magon, Villareal, and Rivera, and the speaker’s own detention without charges while publishing a liberal Mexican paper. He describes illegal confinements, a later charge over firewood, and pressure from Diaz’s government to suppress dissent, highlighting American complicity and Mexican political prisons.
Mexican socialist leader Gutierrez De Lara faces deportation despite three years legal residence. Immigration officials say his reentry after a Mexico visit marks him an alien. LA supporters raise funds, await Washington approval for a $2000 bail. meeting planned with speakers including John Kenneth Turner.
State Superintendent Hyatt says no promises to Oakland officials about gaining more space in the revised geography. He notes changes will be data and typography rather than appeasing bay cities, with updates to the 10 largest cities and school census figures to be considered by the state board of education.
The steamer Tallac tied at Pier 3 was boarded by harbor pirates last night and all valuables not bolted down disappeared. Groceries and meat were stolen and a night watchman saw a boat with two men depart, but no clue emerged. Authorities demand a patrol boat after a second incident in days.
The interurban service between Poster and Seattle improved after a two-cent a mile fare took effect last Sunday but no regular schedule is set yet. Two cars operated yesterday and three more will join, aiming for a half hour schedule. Big cars may run to Kent from Pioneer Square. The boycott against Puget Sound Electric remains successful.
Two masked highwaymen confronted W H Lee on Spring Street between Seventh and Eighth last night but left empty handed as Lee had no money. Police suspect the same pair who robbed William Carter of 65 cents nearby the previous Wednesday.
Exhausted tribesmen report wholesale destruction of villages in northeast Baluchistan and western Punjab after a terrific earthquake. Hundreds are dead in Miti Mankambela Tanlo Kanda Kurant and many small villages remain scattered in inaccessible mountain areas with heavy losses suspected.
Horse owners are told of available winter pasture and care. Inquiries to John Wallace at Meadows, contact Main 74 or Main 432.
Washington officials warn extraditions from British Columbia will stall until advance payment is secured for expenses. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Perry says approval from Gov. Hay is blocked by a $470 claim for Leo Spirling case, with Canadian courts insisting daily advance costs. The dispute leaves future extraditions uncertain.
Vancouver police report Frank Worthing, wanted in Seattle for embezzlement, has been arrested in Vancouver B C. Worthing formerly partnered with an associate named French and is accused of diverting about 1200 dollars meant for electrical apparatus to cross the border.
The Danish cabinet resigned this afternoon after only a few months in power, ending a short incumbency. The move comes from Copenhagen with United Press reporting.
Police confirm the skeleton found near Islip is Anna Latter Mueller a bride of a few months. She previously worked as a maid for Isaac Seligman a New York banker. Mueller who came to America from Germany in February 1908 had been missing for some time and her husband an architect is also missing.
Harry Askew enters a dark passage and fears a deadly presence. He discovers, at a door’s end, a lighted room with a pretty woman in overalls and a towering black helper fanning her with a peacock feather. The scene becomes confusing as past stories echo in his mind.
Seated before an open fire a striking young woman ends the tale by asking Harry to take a cab home. She reveals she is president of the Society for the Amelioration of the Commonplace and dismisses him with a courteous bow.
Judge J. T. Ronald refused to grant a divorce to H L Murray and Mary Murray and ordered them to go home and patch up their differences. Murray, a co owner of Murray Hartney Engraving Co., and his wife, daughter of Seattle police officer Dr. Mary Martin, previously sought separation after a quarrel over dining at the same table. The judge rebuked both for wanting to sever the holy bonds of matrimony on their stated grounds and denied the petition to allow reconciliation.
Rain is forecast for tonight and Saturday with light east winds shaping the weekend. No significant accumulations expected. temperatures remain mild as fronts move through the region.
A small city cy clone struck Decatur this afternoon partially wrecking the McKinley interurban shops and injuring about a dozen workmen with two expected to die. Nevada City reports a rich gold strike in Allegheny mine No 21 that may assay $100000 a ton. Bluefields Guatemala? President Hetrade proclaims a late November election. New York reports extremely low prospects for Senator McCarren’s recovery after surgery. Rome fears a Measina disaster and readies to aid Catania. San Francisco selects new Architectural League officers.
Channing Ellery returned from Vancouver to finish plans for reviving his big band in Seattle. Enthusiasm for Ellery concerts at the Vancouver expo and demand for a guarantees fund shape the move to bring the band back to the city. The last coast performance shifts from Seattle to Tacoma on the 26th with a matinee and evening show before the ensemble heads east.
Charles N. Crittenden founder of the Florence Crittenden mission arrives in Seattle to review the home and speak at First Presbyterian Church. He explains the mission’s purpose to rescue girls who have gone wrong and notes profits from his former manufacturing business support the self funding homes. He plans a 3 PM Sunday talk and a 3 to 5 PM Monday reception at Dunlap.
A collection of pithy lines on law, entrepreneurship, gender trust, tobacco habit, capital punishment, and social duty. The quotes critique commerce, governance, and personal conduct with wry humor and social observation.
The national convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union met in Omaha. Today chaired reports by officers and committee appointments dominated the agenda.
A long list of sale prices at stalls 36 to 190 highlights bargains on fish Haimen 250 each and stail 36 seafood like crawfish 5c each crabs 3 for 26c halibut 2 lb 66c. Dried goods dairy butter cheese and delicatessen items appear with reduced rates across multiple stalls.
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