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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1913
Page
1
A fragmentary script set in Seattle satirizes free speech and patriotism. Characters include Congressman Humphries the Colonel and the Free Speech party as a trial unfolds on stage. The piece mixes political banter with mock operatic numbers and protests a show of national fervor.
Defense counsel questions relevance of remarks as Judge Humphries dismisses anecdotes from a past youth. A conflated exchange mentions the Colonel Anarchist and Bryan while a state pays expenses.
In a chaotic stage passage a congressman denounces a colonel as a menace to society and calls for arrests. Bailiffs seize participants while “Free Speechers” demand the floor. The chaos ends as a train departs and a solitary star shines above the curtain.
Los Angeles Mrs Rebecca P Gay a 56 year old Christian Science practitioner was found murdered in her downtown office. She had been beaten with a 34 inch gas pipe wrapped in brown paper the weapon lay beside her body. Detectives and the coroner say life ended about ten hours earlier. A charwoman discovered the body and fainted while the night watch and janitors saw no entry or exit since the previous night. Police seek eight clients who reportedly consulted her yesterday.
Seattle residents prepare to attend the state public service board hearing at the Chamber of Commerce Monday at 10 as they protest Seattle Electric Co ticket sales on streetcars. The North End Progressive club backs the effort and The Star is aiding public participation.
The finance committee on Friday recommended several bills for city council passage to spend from general and other funds on street improvements. The largest request is 38000 for paving North 60th and is to be drawn from the water fund. Total appropriations amount to 90200 for the improvements.
The classified page presents bargains in real estate farms stores and cows with jobs rooms houses for rent business chances and more. Read The Star WANT ADS daily for profit and results.
Humorist George M. Cohan, famed baseball fan, will write three stories for The Star on the World Series. He notes Frank Chance’s Chicago managerial start and recounts his own fan adventures, promising entertaining predictions of the Giants versus Athletics. The first piece appears in The Star’s Pink edition next Monday.
An unidentified crippled man in Stockton placed his neck on a rail and was fatally struck by a passing freight train in the Southern Pacific yards. He left a note reading What’s the use Good night you rotten old world signed E M. The incident occurred early today and the body was found near the tracks.
Neighbors found the body of Mrs. Clyde Wilkinson buried in a corn field on her husband’s farm near Kokomo Indiana. She had disappeared August 29. Her husband was arrested in Logansport after being found. The skull showed blunt-force trauma.
Four consecutive coupons from The Star plus 15 cents earns a 65 cent pennant. New York and Colorado pennants now available. Pennants mailed for 5 cents extra per pennant. Bring or mail to The Star office at 1307 Seventh Ave near Union.
In Hanford California on September 26 Mrs Nannie FB David son county superintendent of schools won a recall election the first of its kind against a woman office holder. Supporters celebrated while opponents argued the vote reflected disapproval of recall rather than her performance.
F Drew Caminetti and Maury J. Diggs convicted of white slavery and sentenced to the penitentiary were granted an extra 20 day stay of execution to perfect their appeals in San Francisco on September 27.
A judge orders 99 signatories arrested for contempt after a social critic rally at City Hall park, with 17 jailed, 25 on $250 bonds, and talks of fines for property owners while some pledge to go to jail. Hoover and Brown among those held, as mass meeting deputies escorted a crowd to the jail.
The open forum will meet at City Hall park Sunday afternoon. Regular discussion topics include lands logged off and the Morphine law under which aid can be gained for developing them. A Star suggestion that Congressman Bryan return to Washington is noted as a possible item.
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