The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 26, 1905, Page 5

ny WM, B. KENNY Special The Sea eee ILAD phie Yack quan of 0 eomom, faved by many to have | brains of the Starey Catto | guericd-quick schome wi in $8,000,009 fo er ye While this is no ce inapectors anc dealt with The woman's right name ts SteHa She was born on a farm in county, Hitnols, in 187%. From | per childhood she bated rural life fhe graduated from the Blooming toa normal school, taught for two learned shorthand, and secured @ position with a Chi Doard of trade firm. Here she Francis, Howard and Marrin was employed by them in*their quick scheme, the “Secur ings Society,” a blind race Marrin posed as Edward When the police got busy @ tis, the men escaped with $300, onee met 8. Marrin and Sophie went rico. Thence they were traced W ONES, _——. THE “TOPPY” | fa none better made than our goft and stiff hats. EB & Co, 1231 2nd ave. —_———— Dest place to get good value i Garden Hose Ist ave. °° fs Radder and Cotte fa the Rubber Store, 7 $100 Lots ‘These are the best cheap lots in tity, Two blocks east of end of car line, and Queen A — Easy terms. Inquire owner. Bothwell. “trate ise}. e 1 [gas - Insurance: Rents Tone IsWhat You Buy a Piano for Be Sure of Your Dealer We sell pianos only of standard reputation—pi- anos that you and we know all about. A big business makes our va- fiety large and prices lower than the average. AN pianos marked tn pisin figures—why not? y the month if STEINWAY DEALERS. M11 Second Ave, Seattle. Buy Your Clothing i a at the N3 OLO RELIABLE SPOT 4 KLINE & ROSENBERG, 625 First Avenue. 2a Warranted - & Seven Doors, any wine Ae . nish ceceeeee DE eat Me Fancy Dog Collars, lined | With flannel, complete with || lock ... : Qe | $1.50 set Rogers 1847 Fan Tes | odie os taereses TG durable brand, guaranteed Mixed Paint, 1 gallon $4.49) | EGER THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDN Strange Story of Sophie Beck; “Woman With Mone porn ON AN ILLINOIS FARM, SHE BECAME A TEACHER, STE- NOGRAPHER, ABVENTURESS AND FINARLY GET-RICH- QUICK F INANCE” y to Burn” out her automobiles, The detectives say she provision: three months and ¢ his wife, Howard and Lati most remarkable of all the conapira tors in tho great was born in Pennsylvania jto Mew Orleans, where they got out some and Marrin deserted Sophie for his hard coal re eomberz'ed § Breoklyn from oma named Mrs Rho fied be» Humepe, thom Genes TH. 0. Jeffries, now adwirat then a revo made him a colonel Rrrice men say Sophie has more than any women they ever was wounded, on escaped by the ald of a young wom an who fell in love He turned up in Chicag The next day he was selling shoe laces and collar buttons. assumed the name of Franklin starvation he got a job in a clip ping bureau at §7 per week This is where Francis and rin met and was the beginning unholy alliance. . LATIMER No. PROJECT | real wife in Brooklyn This was in | of a get-rich-quick c mob, demanding money Sophie's career made & speoch, was Marrin SOPHIE BECK. varied. She visited her parents and | the crowd inte a depositors’ pro- tective association, was deputed to represent the clients, amd thereupon This was a few moaths after the|“held up” the concern for quite &/ trom the private property east of Storey Cotton company. was born, One day Millar was next heard from in Philadel- phia with a musician named Millar suggested an idea to Marrin| Lenora streets, that he must stop Sophie | and Francis, so they organized the od the gang's work and vis- ited Marrin } ao the next day, as Estelle Collins | installed as $500 per week. Exit Millar. Sophie moved to Jenkintown, aj they took him in and founded the Security Savings society Protective association formation on speculative manager at| They found A. 0. Howard was run | ning « get-quick-rich where she was known woman with money She picked up with ard Graham, driver of a feed wagon, A few weeks later | be was made president of the Gra- lham Novelty company at a salary quiet suburb Marrin’s story af and married him. hall from those of the company on was Fatelle Collins. | ham offices she was Mrs She lived a rapid life and her ability to drink large ¢ of Mquer was the talk of Before the crash came she moved asked about ft, he sald it was Mr Hngiteh owstom; that his full name was Arthur Stanley-Fonter-irancty and that be could use any one of tho names legally, He delayed bis eacape too long, and was the only one of the gang to be caught. He jhad been arrested before in Orie but the death of witnesses lod his escapa, William MH. Latimer, known as Handsome H in different cities of Ponnsylvania He waa driven from several cities aped convict He waa illiterate and incliged to be qua rolaome. remain ° daughter of a longsh | married Marrin when luxurtes, when he struct it rich When he had to flee from Chicago she had nothing and went to work in a candy store at $6 per week to} sepport herself and two child in Philadelphia she directed the business while Marrin was away Marrin, living them as Judge Frank: | lin FB. Stone, was wont to refer to her as “the worst she-devil God over put breath Into.” She is missing jt ho one who has the real sy pathy of the public is Francta’s wife. She in ed to be absolutely tn nocent of knowle her husband's affaira, and she a at thelr beautiful home, prostrated by the crash ENDORSED SOUTH PARK IMPROVEMENT CLUB HOLDS ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING ON DUWAMISH, | DREDGING PLAN The ish riv ect to dredge the Duwant: | waa endorsed at a largé| mecting of South Park citizens held | Tuesday night under the auspices of the South Park Improvement club ee, Seoretary ry,” was a gambler | and was tried for Geaamy om but} a | Mra, Anna ¥, Marrin, Marrin’s| wife, Waa Annie F. Browner, he | t | » wee an| 08! operator, He bought her all the Meikle of the chamber of commercé, Congressman Humphrey, Robert ridge W. G. Rudder and others) delty addresses. Mr. Piles said he would do all ff] his power to promote the project} and Mr. Humphrey spoke in a sim. Har veln. He stated tha the suf} y that was to be made by the government would be a general one, preliminary to picking out the best route for the dredging obtainable Mr. Meikle went Into details, He anid that the channel was a neces- | sity in affording access to the manu- | facturing establishments that will) naturally be built along the Dw wamish valley. He thought the river could be dredged deep enough | for the secommodation of large} vousels ae far up ae Kent at « cost of about $158,400 a mule. MUSTNOT HIRE BOYS The Weatern Central Labor union has notified H. W. Hawley he contractor who is removing dirt First avenue between Virginia and employing minors to drive his teamn or he will be arrested. Hawley has promised to desist, but it Is claimed that he has not yet done so. The Weetern Central has taken up the matter for several reasons Several of the boys are anid to be lens than 14 years of age It ts 1! legal to put them to work as they should be going to school. It. ts also claimed that the lives of peopl passing along First and Western avenues are being endangered by the employment of such inefficient help. It is feared that the wagor will collide with a street car, or loose and plunge down the steey incline between First and Western avenues, —_— OUR OWN “ON-EST” WAY ‘The Moore-Gliman franchise is to be taken up again by the corpora jonas committee Wednesday after- | tric company's noon, The lesser detatis have been | that the owners agreed upon, and the committee will! given some Of getting your shirt business “Monarchs” only, $1.00 cach, N. Br @ Co's, 139 range her@-- three Easter week staad s two Easter week dining table specials $1.05. A very pretty little stand, sult- The excer able for parlor use, top and top and shelf of thin fine itt shelf are odd shaped; in ft quartered oak, finished mahog tive, of solid any or fine birdseye mapte top ine 16 inches, regular price ts $3.00; for this “Waster Week” ..91.06 =... An excellent $1.80, foot Extension Table Here's an = elegant ttle tity shaped lege round-top and shelf table, of tern; top is 44 inches in diame- solid oak, nicely finished, ter; well finished and « made extra strong, regular value. A special Standard price value is $2.50; for this for this “Kaster “Raster Week” . $1.80 $12.45. ‘The claw feet and attractive lees of this table make it a very de- sirable one; the top is of the finest quartered oak, highly polished extends 6 fect; top te 62 Inches square; a very ger tin! table. Regular price is $14.50; “Easter Week L. SCHOENFELD & SONS rst Ave. 1006 to 1016 ‘BELLING Fi SEATILE HAM ILL ALK IT term of the OVER AGAIN Sos Gilman inetats that If the olty t* given the right to tem in 1934, when the Seattle Elec Receiver’s Notice Public notice is hereby given that pursuant to official orders, the following of the Big Monarch Shoe & Clothing Co. stock at 1317-1319 First Avenue, Seattle, half block north of the postoffice. (Signed) B. ALEXANDER, Receiver. dowg and any amount you want to pay each week or month buys a Buck steel jals anil tle table makes it very attrac- s acroms, for deep groove pat- teel and substan wnemescpmeten as | guge iteelf in im the tunnel to be University street roadway ucted under jand other important matters. of the franchise be} ment land will be opened to settle- urn for the value of prices will prevail at the sale The Alteration A BREHIVv@Or cnn BARGAIN GHTTI 30ME STOCKS MUST BE CLOSED OUT t WANT OF ROOM AT COST AND LY OUR L088, YOUR GAIN, BU@ YOU MUST HURRY 1 Oft Men’sand Boys pan Hats and Caps $3.00 Hats now ... $2.00 | $2.00 Hats now $2.60 Hate now ......-. 81,75 | $1.50 Hats now ‘ Off All Rugs me $3.00 Rugs now ‘ $2.00 ae $2.50 Rugs now ° $1.75 Prices Cut Merecilesuly to Rush Out a Lot of Stock in Short Time. Bedding Takes Too Much Room 42x36 Bleached Pillow Canes n Comforts, hand tnft- nicely laundered and hemmed Ch WB asccaves $1.95 ready for use at \ $1.75 White Crochet ‘oan a 1.00 Feather Pitiows, sass 25 seilles patterns, now $4.99 | 7°;, Dent satin ticking, welgns $1.36 11-4 mize Silver Gray Cot- | full 3 Ibs. ....- + coe COE ton Blanket, now DBE | 32-09 Sitkoline Comforts, filled 85c 10-4 size Cotton Blankets,| with fluffy cotton, now....... 7-foot Opaque Shades, with roller complete, 45¢ value, now bead C Twenty-Seven and One Half ad C Cents, | Douglas | Shoe PRICES CUT Dougiar #4 Viel Kid and Box Calf and Patent Leather Shoes, now .. ....--.000+ -- $3.45 Douglas $3.50 Viel Kid Velour Calf and Patent Leather Shoes 8 DOW .. «0.06 ---0+ +++ $ZOS Ladies’ Patent Leather Blucher Shoes, new swell styles, $3.50 value, room making price $2.50 206, 208, 210—-PIKE STREET—206, 208, 210. < FOR TWO DAYS ONLY WILL OFFER AS SPECIAL ‘The Aetna Lawn Sprinkler, regula r $1.50, spectal The Preston Lawn Sprinkler, regular $1.00, special .......- 60 feet 3-Ply %-inch Rubber Hose, regular $3.00, special... These are genuine bargains. ERNST BROS Both Phones 1158. 606 PIKE STREET the franchise itself. It is generally | is six miles north of the Quatnault needed that his demand is unrea-| Indian reservation on the west line sonable. Bowen and Mullen have | of Jefferson county. already announced that they will — absolutely not agree to it, and Gil- BE iy soe? weer ae man will undoubtedly be forced to) MH, “Nn tienen ae aeaeel rchase the Ry®- ¢ or pull out © ‘ : | compromise or pull out of the game. | 61, tne chief clerk of the navy pay | om Jaly 13 38,000 acres of govern-| office. The bill footed up $112,008; | there are eight more payments to ment by the government. This land be made. HOUSE-CLEANING SALE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY READ O4 AND LEARN THE BARGAIN NEWS 1650 56 feet, 5 ply Rubber Hose, | MRS. STANLEY He fled with 1899, was cap- got away and then turned up He is under in- the Beck woman fn in Philadelphia dictment in Chicago now. Buffalo Granite Milk Pan GARLAN D Francis is nearly known to the police. The son of a iderman, be ran away from knocked all around the 1nd landed in San Francisco. Here ho worked the director's di raud until the police drove Thon he started the clip ping bureau In Chicago 1g when Marrin met him “gentleman” He lived tm a beautiful home, had a charming wife | tained elaborately. G0e box White Envelopes packages in box . 10e Inrgo tancy decorated China RANGES The finest that is produced, fine bakers, all the re-| f6e thin blown etched water quickly quirements of 35 Cut Glass Balt and Bterline top . ; lSec Glaes Jar with screw top, for lunch box ... stove We S-bar Lowa!l Folding Clothes taken as part payment $e i-quart retinned Dish Pan On haf waleys ces from x sacl H & HURLBU He was reputed $6.65, strong elegant mixed tweeds, in diye Ae pers wee cid at $208 IIE sizes 24 to 44; regular $14.00 Suits for $6.75, | overshirts, that we've always som 2.50, : | popular diagonal sorgos in sizes 3T to 46. (All | for 88e WOMEN’S SHOES. |, Suite fitted perfectly, free of charge) BIG SAMPLE LINE SHIRTS Women’s $2.25 dongola shoes for $1.25; | YOUTHS’ SUITS Regular $1.00 fancy soft bosom cheviot | Women 9 French heel, regular, $5.00 patent B ‘ eqular $4.80 Suite, for | 224 pereale shirts for S7c; regular 31.25 | worth $3.00, for $1.50; women's dress patent rows esixtares, Fr cular $4.50 Suita, for | Fig wtitt shirts for é8c; $1.25 soft shirts leather with glove kid ton. worth $2.16, for , dDlack stripe suits, ry . with two collars for 53. $1.45; women patent t ip turn sole $3 reguiar price 94.50, for $4.75; popular gra - : Shon Sar O10: epee eetenainn Gite: Boer mixtures, new patterns, regular $9.50 suits SOCKS AND SUSPEND ERS. gola walking Shoes, worth $4.00, for $2.00; for $4.95; strong double texture mixed suits, Heavy all wool Alaska socks, worth 600, | women French heel, regular $5.00 patent new styles, regular price $12.60, for $6.86 for 18e: warranted fast black socks, while | leather shoes for $2.95 oN”: they last for faney socks warranted fast CHILDREN’S SUITS —| Cairn, remular price 2c and 360, for Ie; ALASKA OUTFITS. | Children’s 3-plece Suits, | ae ayes fancy 20c suspenders for ; heavy 850 32-4e. all wool Wteakete, worth 91008 came A ST ee for | juapenders for i8c; imitation President sus- | for $5.85; § and 10 1b. all wool blankets, ati oon Reena ggg ge to 10 | penders, regular price be, for Ife grays and vicunas, worth up to $7.00 and | Le pe eons ra $ to 6 yours, regular $2.26 MEN’S HATS. | pares on ve a : at oes i | mixtw _ a ues ‘om io on value, for 96c; boys’ Te corduroy pants for $1.00 fedoras 600; $2.00 fedoras and tae t 3c. | Be ders ther $LIE, Sotcren ane Gacteye G1.19; | 9°55 to 8196) cnn tat comforters a MEN’S FINE NECKWEAR, ETC $2.50 fedoras and derbys $1.36. rer a:® | Fancy Teck ties, all colora, worth for CHILDREN'S SHOES. RUBBER BOOTS AND SHOES, RUBBER | 14c; SOc four-tn-hand tlea for 18e; fancy 10c $1.00 fancy kid shoes for 450; $2.00 strong Ia: awKeTs, ETC, ARE INCLUDED IN handkerchiefs for $c; 2c linen handker- | school shoes $1.00; $2.60 “Never-wear-out chiefs for 8;. \ shoes $1.26 THIS SALE GEO. H. WOODHOUSE CO. | 1406 Second Avo. 2d Ave. and Union St. | business as Foster & Co. | known In business as Arthur Foster and in private life as Francis, When MEN'S SUIT PRICES UNDERWEAR PRICES. MEN’S SHOES. Men's derby ribbed underwear, in blue, $2.50 fancy buff shoes for $1.25; regular pink and brown, regular 85¢ value, while ft | $3.00 fancy calf shoes for $1.65; men's $3.50 lasts for 88c; men’s double breasted and | genuine glove kid shoes for $1.95; men's back pure camels hair shirts and drawers, | box calfleather Ined shoes, worth just the thing for Alaska, regular $1.75 kind | $3.75, for $2.15; men's fancy viel calf, good- for 88c; men’s medicated underwear, sold the | year welt, regular $4.00 shoes, for §2.25; world over for $1.00, while the limited quan- | men’s full dress patent leather regular $5.00 tity lasts for 42c; men’s heavy California | shoes for §2.45. Regular $6.60 Bults for $2.85, splendid black worsteds, in sixes 34 to 42; regular $7.00 Bults for $3.10, brown cassimeres, in sizes 36 to 42; regular $9.00 Suits for $4.25, standard navy blue in sizes 86 to 42; regular $11.00 Suits for $5.35, neat black cheviots, im sizes 86 to 44; regular $1260 Suits for |