Efforts to Save Brig Tanner Fail

Newspaper illustration of the Tanner, showing her under sail.

PORT ANGELES (Wash.), October 28.—Efforts so far to haul off the brig Tanner, which went ashore last Saturday near Elwha river, six miles west of this city, have proved futile. The vessel so far is not damaged by the seas. Further effort will be made by tugs at high tide tomorrow. The tug captain believes the vessel can be hauled off if more tugs can be procured before the storm comes, otherwise she will prove a total loss.

The news that the old brig Tanner had gone ashore at Port Angeles and probably would prove a total loss was received yesterday in the local shipping world with considerable interest. The Tanner was about the oldest and one of the most picturesque vessels on the Pacific. In 1855, when she was launched at Smithtown, N. Y., she was as tight and saucy a brig as ever flew the stars and stripes. Forty-eight years of sea service, however, transformed the Tanner into a floating sieve in which no sailorman less brave than her skipper and owner, Captain Newhall, would have dared to venture beyond easy reach of a life-saving station.

Fist Fight in State Senate

The Tacoma Times, Tacoma, WA, January 16, 1917

Olympia, Jan. 16 — Great commotion was caused on the floor of the senate this morning when Senators Howard Taylor of King and Tom Brown of Whatcom engaged in a fist fight.

Brown had accused Taylor of trying to make himself “King of the Senate,” and had made other accusations against him.

Taylor had offered Brown “to go Into the ante-room and repeat what he said, but Brown had refused, saying that he would repent his accusations on the floor.

Taylor reached over Brown’s desk and struck him a resounding whack full in the face.

Aero Meet for Seattle

The Seattle Star, Seattle, WA, January 2, 1911 If present plans do not miscarry, Glenn H. Curtiss, one of the greatest of American aviators, and his pupil, Eugene Ely, will…