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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1906
Page
5
New York dispatch reports 16 year old J. Flynn arrested after speaking on Broadway in public without scene. Flynn, a rising city speaker, defends socialist ideas amid poverty and injustice claims her father suffered. police discharged a city magistrate after her defense.
The Socialist party nominates a county and state ticket in King County. Key nominees include Judge of the Superior Court Brows, Sheriff J C Robbins, Auditor Thomas Long, Clerk A G Debly, Attorney A B Callahan. A convention is set for next Sunday at 2 pm to complete the slate and place it in the field. A press bureau committee E J Brown Vincent Harper and W B Mallory was named.
Officers aboard the Shawmut report that Australian steamers are hiring white crews due to strong feeting in Australia. Cap- Oriental liners add that Japanese sailors perform well in mild climates but tend to be disobedient in rough seas.
The United Railways Company shipped 360 Farley strike breakers to New York this morning. Seven hundred remain. further shipments are expected if arbitration resolves the strike.
Beattie comedy lovers enjoyed a Grand Theatre night with William Colter delivering rapid humor in the hit On the Quiet. The show, part of a larger engagement by the Colter and Collier troupe, drew audiences for three more nights starting Sunday with Georgia Mia in a Pringte production.
The Taylors revived the Beattie theater yesterday with Stolen by Gypsies featuring Larette Taylor as Mercedes and earning strong applause for its clever wife of the Yosemite bandit portrayal. The show runs the rest of the week as a new vaudeville bill at the Star opens today headlined by the Tiddeaux Zouaves and the Tascana Brothers with J W Byrne Margaret Nelson Newton and James and Sadie Leonard among others.
Dispatches from Nome report the whaling steamer Alexander lost in the Arctic Ocean. The crew escaped unharmed. Capt. James A. Tilton commanded the vessel, wife in New Bedford, Massachusetts learned of the loss. The Alexander sailed from San Francisco with a New England whaling crew and had been icebound near Herachel Island last year.
The Photographers Association of the Pacific Northwest voted to hold its next session in Seattle in September 1907. The decision was made at the convention’s close on Saturday in Spokane.
In Snohomish county Republican convention held Saturday, Ben Morgan of Stohomlah suffered a decisive defeat, while J A Palerson and H L Strobridge were renominated in Everett’s district. Emery failed to secure nomination for prosecutor as Eveland won amid confusion.
Chicago report says Clarence K. Wooster vice president of the Peoples Gas Light and Coke company cut his throat with a razor on Sunday while insane. He died before a physician could be summoned.
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