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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1914
Page
2
A self service liquidation offer from John Panton's store promises cheap tinware and household goods from wash basins to English china. The sale resumes tomorrow at 9 o'clock with cash terms and no deliveries, as Panton winds down his tinware and house furnishing business.
Dispatch from Tokio notes a campaign to sour U S Japan relations since the war with Germany. It cites reports of American demands and sympathy for Germany, including a claimed sale of warships to Germany. Analysts blame Russia for spurring the anti American sentiment as part of a broader plot.
Paris reports a German center under the crown prince retreating east of Verdun after a failed siege. The center reportedly moved toward Varennes and Montfaucon, with hopes to shift toward the Meuse if pressed, as Allied lines hold with strong German reinforcements in place.
Paul P. Whitham resigns as chief engineer of the Port of Seattle to take effect October 1 and enter private practice. Commissioner Remnaberg is out of the city, and no board action will be taken until his return. Whitham plans a partnership with George Watkins Evans, a noted mining engineer with offices in the New York block.
Spokane will host the next convention of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians two years hence after a three day session at Hibernian hall. Mrs. Agnes N. Montague of Seattle was elected president.
The German war office reported from The Hague that German forces remain in position in France while Franco British attacks exhausted themselves. Allies were said to be on the defensive and the Marine battle not a German defeat, but German speed wore Kaisers troops down prompting a retreat to a preselected line in the Marne region for rest.
Seattle police aid search for Benjamin Sibree aged 75 who has been missing from home for 25 years. He last wrote to his brother Jerry Sibree in St John Oregon and gave the address Beattie in care of general delivery. No word since.
Democratic precinct committees will meet Saturday at 2 p m in the Lyon building to organize for county leadership. County Chairman Trenholme is not seeking reelection. potential chairmen named include Joseph A. Sloane John D. Wenger H D Folsom and C D Fullen Col M Hawthorne is mentioned as a possible state chairman to replace Hugh C Todd.
An advertisement urges mothers and fathers to save their sons from drink by the Neal Treatment at the Seattle Neal Institute. It claims a safe three day cure through vegetable internal administration and warns against delaying until tragedy strikes. The contact details include 1735 Sixteenth Avenue Seattle and 802 Northern Bank building for information.
Judge Frater announces the Renton Line of the Seattle, Renton & Southern will be sold to the highest bidder in a receivers’ sale. Creditors have two weeks to file claims as the two year old receivership nears closure.
A Belgian commission in Washington filed charges with President Wilson detailing alleged German atrocities in Belgium. They accuse murder of noncombatants, looting, burning villages, and the carrying off of a half naked woman. The president declined to rule, saying only a neutral could decide after hostilities end.
The battleship Oregon, idle with a skeleton crew for two years, will be placed in the first reserve class and fully manned as the first step toward leading the U S battleship armada through the Panama Canal to the San Francisco fair in 1915.
Chief of Police Griffiths, a progressive candidate for Congress, is expected to return to Seattle after his father’s death in Benedict Nebraska. He was at his father’s side when the death occurred and will depart for Seattle following the funeral.
The Postal Telegraph Co. seeks a franchise to string wires for long distance telephone service and faces the council committee on franchises Friday morning. The committee will also review the electric company's request to abandon service on Stewart street segments and on Eighth and Seventh Avenues. The existing service is irregular.
Discussion of potential fusion between progressives and Democrats continues across most legislative districts and county offices. Nonpartisanship is endorsed by both sides, making fusion not improbable.
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