The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 30, 1920, Page 19

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Tides in Seattle FRIDAY ’ at) First High Tide ‘Tht a om, be tt ate Low Tide sam oa tt seo High Tide s m, 118 ff bores a Low con FIGHT FIRE. ON U.S. TRANSPORT Seamen Dump Ammunition} Overboard SAN FRANCISCO, July 90.—'The story of @ 12-day fight by the crew of the army transport Marcia against la fire in the ammunition-filled hold B worth of goods per capita) of the whip was contained in advices! from the United States. | which reached here today via Hgno- | Would go to $10 in the first! ig | Ethie Of assured stability in} According to the account, the Twas told by a man in ab-| Marcia was midway between Hono. Contact with trade conditions |juju and Manila when the fire was “And the United States is/ discovered. Thin was on May 31 Ratural buying market a8/The crew fought day and night, car rying out ammunition, likely to ex: | plode at agy moment, and dumping | lit overboard. ‘The boxes were too [hot to handie with the bare hands “On June 10,” Captain McCarthy, commander of the Marvia, is quoted, | he fire got so bad that we had to Hwatton down the hatches and turn on |the smothering pipes. There was/| explosion after explosion in the hold We flooded to the depth of 17 feet, jfinally conquering the blaze on {June 11." Most of her cafro, of bombs, hand grenades and shrapnel was destroy- ed, according to the report. The Marcia is due In San Francisco to- S. S. Spokane Will Retires wie wate coe Call at Skagway &ystem or another breaks| The steamer Spokane will continue ‘Of strikes, Travel is by | to call at Skagway doth going to and safe in the country, be. | returning from Alaska, up to and in- operation of gangs of | luting her mailing booked for Sep- many places the local | tember 25, it was announced by the been overturned and| Pacific Steamship Co. Friday haa been set up| The Spokane was damaged by But tt is safe to|*triking a submerged rock on her B much progress has been | st southbound voyuge. She will re Feasonably, be hoped | tlh to service next week, sailing for) ‘months’ time must be at | Alaska Tuesday, August 3. new administration to pth Siege: : 5 Hoquiam Asking ea st DS Channel Dredging | « ‘win the HOQUIAM, July 90.—Local _ahip-|% ‘ GUPpOEE ot the! orn are urging the dredging Of the leadéra In Mexico are] Cbannel here so that the city may be| a properly. deairous| Made & regular port of call for lum-| the bad impression} OT: A number Of iumber shipments) ‘upon the United States by | fF CRina ave been made recently, ima's acts and the attitude of Dut steamehip men are somewhat du | biows about the permanency of the port because bs the shallow channel. "| Tank Siemon Will Bring Oil to Seattle SAN FRANCISCO, July 30--The tank steamer Richoncal will take on @ cargo of fuel off and will leave Shortly for Seattle, where 40,000 bar 50S IN MEXICO: C Imports $6 Per From the United _ States Annually YORK, Juty 20.—Mitions of! Worth of business are wait Americans acrows the line ‘Byven after ten years of degenerated into bush And banditiam and gov dency, which slump: “wharchy, Mexico is import A today, when conditions are stable, American travel @re ransacking Mexico, A More are putting out trade) the new administration be itself it is regurded as nec F to do what amounts to a cash | With Mexican firms, Rail are so very shaky, G00ds sent into Mexico are for at the border, and from Mexicans are not until they have crossed the sige But the trade ts be- ‘® reopen, Given peace and in Mexico and that country will e Prove one of the best cus 5, the United States. | ~y ope “Of some standing to dis fear of intervention that A relapse into the past few years would Tela will be discharged for vessels in|; the northern Sound district, eee Power Boat Blazer Makes Trial Run HOQUIAM, July 30. boat Blazer, recently launched here, made its first trial run down the har- | bor Thursday. The vessel, which be. longs to the Queets Trading com- pany, worked satisfactorily. see Believe. Two Escape Wreck of Kolyma Boing ‘on in China, roayed NOME, Ala July 30,—-Capt. B. unity, according to|Sandmark and Capt. John Vatney, "Van . |members of the crew of the exploring ting in Seattle on his way | schooner Kolyma, believed lost when spending the last eight Mills, Tea Houses ging Up Fast Progrese and trade oa storm last week, are thought now to large factories, mills re being built, while) return to Nome. The schooner is re section iron and steel | ported a total wreck. wi Joys equipment, and vated in America, are being| FP ACific Packet Line : Is Organzied Here os ow Nena, | Seattle's newest ship operating line, ‘that this country has no| tbe Pacific Packet line, was incor. rated in Olympia Thursday with J y Liemert, Merle W. Denny and Louts Seagraves named as the incor. fn 1649. He will remain in| Porators, The new line plans to oper. bout three wetks. le some of the hulls lying in Lake BUSINESS | sestie Arivats ona INCREASE Artrs July 20—tr aca tein Gantoreegtere | Attorney Makes His _ Annual Report via Reuthenstern Alaskan port tora 1 report of the United 0 i atr Rotarian from ¥ ‘and trict attorney's office, just under the direction of Dutton, chief clerk, shows in business of more than cent for the fiscal year end 20, 1920, over the preceding pchiet factor in bringing up the fines imposed is attributed | number of criminal cases! pier {Motor achr Boobyalla. of the prohibition laws, | Pier D—Str President. since national prohibi. | Po aes site Westboro, str Kastorn xporter effective, on January 16) past Waterway term: rod, ene a @ following figures are included | ot gr ist Jana, slevator—Rtr Otho | Skinner & Kddy yarde—Str Robin Good- imposed, $181,172, of | . Fepresents judgments | Tod fellow ' In 1919 but 974,771, Fapooes, $19,012 being in civil) limes ntr Kast ‘Bound Bi m the total, $181,172, imposed in| — the fiscal year 1920, was realized, the discrepan- due to the fact that in somo minal canes the defendant is un- Io pay the fine assessed and time out in jail. tion casen netted the larg: it in 1020, $27,625 of the imposed being realized. In) nue cases, which include of the narcotic laws, the ‘waa amaller, but $25,174 of imposed being collected, eases netted $7,850 of the , fi July 30—-ftr Fushim! Maru for Mantia via ports and Hongkong at 10:15 @ m.;/ str Haymon for Tacoma at 3 a m. eee Vessels in Port at Seattle Today onsite Cove anchorage—Pge Henry Vu- Bell st, torminal—Btr Kesters Importer Smith Cove terminal—Str M in Maru. —Htr Rosalie Mahony, Motor acht Ozmno, ou HT. itr Weat Nim- ‘ateon, str Rotarian, | Atr Spokane, Soldier. & Dredging worke— str Icont- Hitr Roonevelt Hulin Broxton, Laotaptindy- Oelwin, Abydos,’ Ar domia, tm, Bastine, Blantord, Agro’ Fort Harrison, Fort Stanwix, Kiton, Loott, Dion: Cineyras, Cardia, Wilson, Salvator, Oregon. Heffernan drydock»—Motor achr Coolcha, atr Beagway. Stream®Bohr Bi Totten Gets Job From Judge Hall W. D. Totten, attorney, was named receiver by Superior Judge Hall Frt- i day for the General Waste Paper ¥ and the concern's president, John A, Berthaum. Bilena, sobre Henry Alice, motor schr tind, yacht Aquilo, Number of cases han the office dyring the fiscal was 901, of which 746 were cases and’ 15 civil; 200 of ‘cases were pending from the _. while 701 were new, Of i §10 were completed "1928, e A broken pipe i# a nuisance, but some men like a wet cellar, pam The power|_ is that Vensel sank off Sledge island in al be alive on the island and waiting to {Ninth ward ‘date for sheriff; )42nd district! THE ete STAR |Leading Issues Make Advance at Openin of N.Y.Stock Trades W YORK, July 90.—1eading jeeues showed advances and a gener: ally strong undertone on a good volume of trading at the «# opening today. Practically atl the atects whowed fractional adva olla Were in demand United States Steel opened at 89, up % 112; padian Pacific Mexican Petroleum, 183%, up \ Vanadium, 17%, off %; Reading Southern Ratlway, 20%, up 4 Lackawanna Steel, 70, 121%, off %) Sinclair, 27%, up “i rucibie, 160%, UD Mi Btudebaker, 67%, 89%, Up %: Pan-American, 97%, UP M4) Hethichom HB, 88@; Replogle, 80, up 1% Low priced raila were features of carly trading, Bouthwestern com- mon opened at 20, up %, and then ran up to 20%, @ new high for the Among the dividend-paying rails Southern Pacific up %& at 62. Duying of Industrials during the firet hour wae confined to the short bought Btudebaker waa #oft during early unchanged Raldwin, year wa welt 66% » Central Leather was driven down to 6%, off over ¢ points from the opening St. Louis Southwestern lseucs continued to bold up while the reat of the list was The raiding of industrials nued Into the afterfioon, Corn Prod-| uete sold off 3 at 69% The market closed weak United States Rubber made a new low for the day in the last half hour at 86%, Mexican Petrote jd off to 179%, but reb ed to 181. The low on Steel common was ST%, compared with ite « ng price of #8. Closing: prie Rep! 180%, Interest were wading ff to In the early aftern Ratis um # off %: Crucible, 148%, off off 1%: Mexican Petroleum, 95\4) off 1%: General Motors United States Rubber, 81, off 3% 64, off 8%; Reading, 68%, off United States Steel, 88% off 1%) Baldwin, 110% Ameriéan Petroleum, 65%, off 3 ; Central Leather, off % ~The Pacific, 91% . . evening Sun financial review NEW YORK, July 30. New * York ay “The stock market had to proceed today without the stabilising influs large short interest which had been present until yesterddy when it was largely reduced by a general covering movement. Further buying for short thie morning, according to the best opinion, was responsible for the early bulge in prices, but after demand from this source subsided the market failed to hold ite improvement. “Beveral weak spota were ‘overed in the leather, rubber and food groups ay, but it wae cause for favorable comment that freaks of 2 to 4 points in individual issues did not precipitate general selling, Pelee MOVementé were extremely irregular during most of the ‘sea- _ New York Coffee and Sugar Quotations , NEW YORK, July 20.—Coffee—No. 7 ie 11We per Ib) No. 4 Santos, 1548 exe lence of the account w PRICE OF WHEAT PLUNGES LOWER : Figures at Chicago Drop Below Guarantee CHICAGO, July 20. gn the Chicago be rep: ture the price to prodgcers under war Wheat futuren! { the move at Ms lost another The quaranteed price Of | hex wheat at Chicago was $2.25. Lack of |p) jemand by exporters and favorable weath together with a belief that railroads are about to be given rate sises which will bring most efft a3 up 2 centim up 2 centimen! Hires, demand » Canadian dollars, Money on Call oP NEW YORK, Juty Money on call, Nats were aff@ted to @|8 per cent: atx monthe, #449 per cent; mt by bearish tivities, | mercantile paper THOS per cont na followed the gra nel, Bas London, 6646; oy and provin Hoy Yo, down lost B%e du aon were Ereat deal of excitement | In most cases it w solling offers te { many no takers | Wheat continued the decline which et in almort with the resumption f trading in the-futures. Bach day has olders offering thelr sup oa at lower figur December whea' down 3%c. and March wheat, down 4% $2.32, clowed at % july corn opened Inte at $1.44%, le, but lost before closing at PIKE PLACR me tal 1Me Btalt 29, new potatoes, SANITARY 114, 1-1 Jara strawberry Sam, h mustard, jar, ibe, 2-1b jars! ratade, Map of Italy| tm 6 17 ibe., toes, ack “Spened at $2.21, closed at $2.33; at the open 5 Rralt jie: Pre orange olive oft, Stat 11 mm new potators eantalouper, each, 10; 1% erate, $178) new apples | Public Markets ts | BOOSTING PRICE OF EGGS AGAIN Car of Gravenstein Apples Due Here Soon ere consistantly advancing Friday they took another twocent rise, bringing the fresh ranch varlety to 56 cents a dozen wholenmie, Pallets lag about ten cents behind Potatoes are a little easier, at 4 and 4% cents a pound for locals. Holke Fruit Co, announces that they erpect a car of Gravenstein apples in Monday or Tuesday, whicir will open the season, It ie aaid they will be qu a box, f, 0. b, Beattie, A few crates of Kverbearing strawberries ati! wander in, ‘They are large berries, of good quality, and are held at $6 a crate A new shipment of fine honey from Kittitas county eame in Fri day morning, and was moving at $4.50 w cane, Fees in price, Per erate Fematere—ti perial Valley, erie: Local 0 shes | Plume — California | Rastern Washington apherrics—led, per crate Binck, per erate : trae! Tarkish melone—Per 10. | Watnete—Manchutan” . Fesnete— Virginia Kepeiqna m. (19%; September corn opened 2 eRe up Lise, and ¢ down at $1.38 December © ee lemons, donen, 28¢ meat, Ib, 266 halibut. Ib, Riall 106, Hille red orn iapd, can coftes, tb they 4 Ibe. 2 No. 2 epring, $2.6 Chicago Li pre hy 1616 12.286 Live Stock 18 Moge—Receipte, | te, cooking apples packini Receipts, 2,000 head; market fe | full’ « y and bfcher Beef, 99.5001 chet ateors, $6@14 cannews and cutters, $4.56@ 5.25; atockers and feeders, can Avra #80 $6.25@16 5GA50; calves, vib g * corn fakes, fo ibe hip. o4 Pike « | im, market DENIES HOTEL _: IS DOPE DEPOT pancake fi sole of n $2.45; 300, Abe. Maron fruit jars, pin Me Jar Hip-OrLite, baking powder, 196; two cane toma 2h¢. Stall 23, corned beef, Ib, 12%e Pride is the most expensive thing A man can have—with the poasible except Jon of a wife. ce NADIAN sumar-cured bacon, bacon backs, Ib, 28%e; . RCONOMY Weal! 26, sugar F ibe; 4Te, toe, $1.88, 16 Ihe, 9876 i, 4 Ibe Mail Me, . be cane " Packages Hitie red can up. he; 6 Olympte Aee, bbe doc, 91.40, 00, quarts, G. Japanese Manager Says Woman Witness Mistaken Louls aato, manager of the Daw son hotel, Fourth ay. and Stewart at, today ed that high school girls or dope peddlers congregate sd his eatabliahment Mrs. Edgar Blair, tetsifying betore| the congressional committee investl Rating, Japanese colonization, yester: day declared she had traced high hard shell walnuts | Birictly fresh Per owt . Dany PRODUCTS Priece Whtecale beaiere Or “ Wisconsin cream brick’; Wash, triplets... POULTRY * Prices Paid by Wholesale Dealers to Shippers 17.80@18.28 16.80417.50 14.00@15.60 13.60@ 15.00 Medium to choice Rough heavy Pigs Cattion— Tost steers Medium te choice » Rough heavy Rest cows and helfers 11,00411.60 9.60@10.60 school girls to the Dawson and seen them in company with individuals she believed to be narcotic users. “These things have not happened fn the last year and a half, I am sure,” said Ksato today. “Of course I don't know what happened before I took charge. But I have 125 ten nanta at the Dawson who are willing | to testify that Mra. Blair is mistaken Police headquarters know nothing of any such activities at my hotel.” a PECIY VANCO Foug/Pranscontitental + ie Dail Harvester Stock Yields Dividend} NEW YO July 30.—The board of directors of the International Har+ vester company today approved dividend of 12% per cent on common | stock, payable in common stock on or before September 15, on stock of | record August 20, Announce ont of the dividend followed adoption of} comprehensive profit-sharing plans. | Candidates Will Speak Next Monday, Prominent candidates for state nd county positions will speak be: republicans next wo at 8 o'clock An the FRO day evening, mont ave, The speakers will include | Willlam Gaines, candidate for county treasurer; Frank T, Gordon, candi Rolantl Williams, | running for the legislature from the | and John Gellat candidate for governor. ) Friday Har- day, Weat 1 rRureday, Every man has his price, but tn nine cases out of ten he isn't worth it PUGET SOUND! NAVIC ATION @ man 0} " |polite to people ee | DAK. yY DAYUGHT EXCURSIONS TO Fra ‘ternal Brotherhood hall, 414% Fre-| ISLAN to -; a4 500@ HAY, GRAIN AND FEED eeale Price Per w Ten, Outg Price Whole 72.00 Why Is the average man he never expecat to see again than to those whong*Kood opinion is worth cultivating’, T. KE THE BO?.T TO iT ACOMA ROUND TRIP PUGET O SIMGLE — FARE 1 SOUN 60° ted at $3,604 — neers Rubber Dividends in Malay Are Dividends ranging from 50 to per cent have been declared by fie | ber companies in the Malay penine sula, according to George M, Logan, United States consul at speaking at the Chind club lancheon Thursday. Most of the dividends, however, were absorbed by the Brite ish nurplus income tax, he Dr. Thomas Van Nets, of will addresa the club Friday ing, August 6, in the Masonite rooms, Arcade building. n-ne SUIT THEIVES made a \Thuraday night’ C. Wilson, 716 Dear born st., Felix Lisoff, 713 First ave. and W. H. Kinkade, Alki hotel, asked — Miice to locate sults stolen — thelr rooms. FRUIT EXCHANGE IS 10 YEARS OLD Employes ‘Celebrate Anni- versary With Trip né Northwestern Fruit exchange its offices at noon yesterday and the entire staff joined in celebrat- ing the 10th anniversary of the or ganization and birth of the company. The party, whieh numbered about people, lett the @tuart building at 145 and traveled by automobile to Pleasant Hill farm at Tolt, Wash. This property is owned by Reginald Parsons, who i» president of the exchan| } After inspecting the farm the trip was continued to Bnoqualmie lodge, | where a Bouthern chicken dinner wa served. After dinner a brief word of welcome was extended to all present by Mr, Parsons and & short address telling of the start and eatly days! of the Northweatern Fruit exchange | was made by W, F. Gwin, vice presi. dent and general manager, A woman's pride has reached the | limit when she is ashamed to have| people know that her husband can't | afford to buy her the things she) wants, Clearings Balances . $4,469,932.76 | ‘ ’ 27,261.81 Bpokane | | Clearings ..,. «.... 1,661,799.00 | Balances 698,974.00 ‘ortand + 9,940,987.00 | 766,069.00 | X Clearings , undaey Would Aid Poles in Struggle PARIS, July 30,—Hungary has nent a note to Poland offering to send a considerable foree of troops to aneint in fighting the Bolshevik, according to a dispatch from War- saw today cloned WE BUY AND #ELL LIBERTY AND VICTORY BON) We pay W prie@] and Interef, deductin RcENT on 600 de@minations Oxugetle OF ONE yur bonds by ft ng the interest, WE OFFER FOR SUBSCRIPTION 350 SHARES COMMON STOCK alvorsen Newspaper Sting Machine Co, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON _/ Organised under the laws of ton; authorized capital or $260, KE. L. GRONDAHL, president C. D. WASON, capitalist. THE COMRANY DIRECTORS KE. A. BRIDGEMAN, SAM HALVORSEN ANDREW SIMI’SON, R. BE. BORGEN, tormerty THE MACHINE 7 assemBling newspapers, magazi in labor, Leading local papers been working to perfection. and is now ready to sti stuffing machines iphia Inquirer ditjonal machines for the Los Angeles Times, two eighteen - the Philadelphia Inquirer. machinery, particu! The books of the representative of a great indust purchased ‘and it has been recognized and wing has been proven. A careful analysis of every OW aM exceptional opportunity for investment im this offering. 350. shares of common stock are offered from the treasury for the raising additional working capital. It is to provide funds for the The machine may be inspected at the Seattle Times or at the factory, the Diamond Machine Works. Financial Statement at Request Adéresa afi inquiries to: Scandinavian American Securities Corporation 702 Third Ave. Main 3337. Dod: 9d STEAMER bah caihpacrs ax, 82; Children, 5 t trip tare, ar The wat" a Brooke's Whangd il be furnishe DAN AN ALL-DAY TRIP Mueb WITH BEAUY Stateroot ! Leaves Colman Dock 9: Arrive Kingston

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