Search Underway for Missing Sailor L.P. Peterson
Friends have reported L.P. Peterson missing after he was last seen at a saloon on Jackson Street.
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The friends of L.P. Peterson, a sailor, reported to the police last night that he had been missing since Monday morning at 2 o'clock, when he was seen drinking at the Morning Star saloon on Jackson street. He is described as 37 years old, five feet eleven inches tall and will weigh 160 pounds. He is light complexioned and wore blue clothes with white shirt and a black slouch hat. So far as known he did not have a large sum of money with him.
“He is described as 37 years old, five feet eleven inches tall and will weigh 160 pounds.”
Jackson Street in the Pioneer Square area remains a central, if transformed, corridor in Seattle. Disappearances of maritime workers in the city’s saloons and lodging houses were a common peril during this era of rapid expansion.
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