The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 27, 1909, Page 7

UNDER SCOR TIM IR UF AMERICA’S GREATEST! «ay DETECTIVE QUITS AT LAST. Human Ferret Has Broken More Fake Concerns Than Any Other. DETECTIVE WOOLRIDGE.- CHICAGO, Jan. 27.-—-By UL P. Chicago's Sherlock Holmes, also called America’s smartest detective te about to quit his strenuous Iie as @ thief taker to enter the ranks of criminologists. The man whose Tecord as a sleuth the second city of America is willing to back fn competition with the world’s lead fing detectives is Clifton R. Wool ridge. This human ferret has broken up more = get-rich-quick schemes than any other man in the ‘world. Under Chicago's police I when an officer has served 20 years he may retire on a pe sion of $50 & month His Great Record. He was appointed to the Chica 0 police foree in 1888 Since that time he has perhaps more work as a slecth than any Other one officer in the world His record was compiled In book form by the chief of police and is being distributed among the policemen of Chicage to show them the ca pacity af one officer. This record shows Detective Woolridge wae under fire 40 times. He Was several times wounded, but escaped ous injury He has driven out of business ne COSGROVE NOW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF STATE! | (Concluded.) | the shroud for Governor Coagrove and marked the end of his carthiy ks. In dofiance, he ath bed and kept career with we arose from bis ¢ hie feet until bis last attack. And he ie not a whit leas ¢ ageoun today, with added years and more poignant infirmitios, but lke a spent runner nearing the goal, more de termined than ever His Soul of Man | ot even a kless doctor will how long Governor Cougrove Will live, but if one were to put the } brutal question to him, he would ot hesitate to stake his ity fh his completion of his te of office. Certain it is that, {f(t Iles | within the soul of man to keep his pulses boating, there will be no| pluck banner on the executive manaton door bh ia Governor ¢ ve as | seen for one brief instant, returning to the state whose chief officer he is, Hike a conquering hero—victor, | for @ time at least, over that undies puted champion-—death turn Was a telumph Human Desire to Win. e little efty of Olympia, seat tered and faded, as hung upon Robles with greater sonal tensity than munit nor ¢ election day has be And | { ed | { Olympia, and for woeks deen as one missing from b The Intricate wheels with wheels of state government haye| not run (rue anon of hie being distant, and, abov and beyond all sordid itieal rea #, there has oxtate great heart-yearning, | human desire to see him win } There was no flare of trumpets, no rending f the hea with some St Sea ae “4 In the Nel! Brinkley Sketch, was a deep feeling of thankfulness) padiog hat was a h to a pre A ma N rinkley girl? i you are not, you bad better fall in line, because the Nell Brink ley idea te going to the rage LOCAL BRIEFS )| i ss: In fact, the advance agent of the Brinkley creation ts right in town how wading the Brinkley gospel Gats Judgment for $4,000—-It cost "Ske ig Alten thet Green, who W. W. Philbrick just $4,000 for stat ing that John Winningham's pat outs were no good. Such at least was the verdict awarded Wioning bam by « jury in Sup Hison R. Gay's court | Sues &. E. Co. for Peter Brann this morning com eneed suit for damages against the Seattle Electric company tn the }anm of $6,000. Brunn claims that on January 25 he was struck by @ cat at the corner of Madinon st. and Eighth av. and permanently to jared | Examiner on Assessor's Booke— | Examiner Moffett this morning commenced work in the county as seasor's office, Moffett is working upon an investigation of the Cham youterday 4006 ber of Commerce tax commission, | == aa WIERD SPECTER OF TH checking up the county offic Lumber Company Sued — Suit was commenced in the supertor court this morning by B. H. Lewis, { the Lewis Lamber company, against the Maple Valley Lamber jcompany, alleging breach of ¢ tract. The plaintiff asks $7 damages, by reason of being to buy lumber in the open t a higher price than their cow [tract with the defendant called for parket Wildeat insurance companies, dents! Roeon Pa her yer henture bond ewindles, fake banks, ! mative ¢ Mesera. Dormeult lotteries, bogus home-finding aseo-| Freres of London, England, leaves Clations, fraudulent bucket shops, | Seattle tonight on hie mf-anneal Counterfeit boards of trade and | ‘ur of the principal cites of this other criminal concerns, whose ag- |. 2!" 2 pn ny sears tn’ Gregate capital represented $105. (oe Pee eee ee booster 000,000, and whose operations | por Seattle and the fate po them more than one-third} Unitarian Men's Club-—-Meets to s wu |rmerrow night « x. in the He raided 72 oplum jolnts,;assembty roe of t Unitarian Seized their furniture, valued at church met, Deyween ey. sae $130,000, and rescued 75 giris | ONY St. for the purpose of deerme: Sender age from white slavery with |iMe the purposes of the club am Chinese aie jepting a constitu: o ane Wants No Short Weighte—An Turne Gown Bribes. rdinance creating the ofthe ot « Woolridge has “turned down” | ly Seale of rene ee Matthens bribes and prosecuted their offer ers as follow: $20,000 to let the turf awindlers operate without ‘jn- Serruption; $8,000 to allow Flossie Moores, a panel worker he arrested for & $37,000 robbery, to escape @ $3,000 offer to abandon prosecn tion in the case of the robbery of $7000 of EB. 8. Johnson, a retired Merchant: $5,000 if he would per mit 28 wire-tappers 24 hours with- in which to consummate the swin- Gling of prospective victims: $25 & day for a year, with an advance payment of $1,500, if he would not raid machines of a gambling slot Machine syndicate; $200 4 month if he would not interfere with 126 “policy shops.” un one occasic gevers! of his many influential mies tried to “Job ing him, 2% $1,000 bills on the debentare. bond Woolridge indignantly éwindles | prepared jot the Firat. Pre wilt be Introduced ytertan church, t the peat sew ston of the city council The duties of the new official will be to see that are no “short weights sold customers by the retailers or wholesalers Check Baggage Through Hoteis— The Chamber of Commerce is seok log to have arrangements perfect ed with the rallroads whereby trav: | jelers may have their \bagaage lehecked through hotels EXPLOSION AT FERNIE FERNIE, B.C. J 27 refused the offer and placed the | three men who made it under ar By U. P—Bulietin—-By an ex Feat. They were not prosecutad,| Plosien in the Morrissey mines, Decause they had previ 1 not! near here, today 20 men were ° ‘ “ entombed. It ts expected they fied the authorities they intended t® lead into the trap of ac eine @ bribe its most trusted detective WANT SPECIAL COINS AND STAMPS FOR EXPO Heatt Commercla Washington delegation petition r wnking that xposttion night 608,000 autho espe tons the Civie Union of gina the mailing 1 gene a» an adve fatr WANT NO STABLE NEAR SCHOOLS ,, will all be rescued by another entrance. “GOOD NEWS” ALSO HAS REAL SEA-DOG ' aptain Brickson of the bark Good News has od & protest with r the British ship © only vessel that n its dog wateh. # that he has , t is just as just as good a nallor as m the Kynance Furthermor which | istorned to the ‘TRIES MURDER THEN SUICIDE NUANCE, Wyo., Jan. 27.—By P—John Paxton, a ranchman living at Kara Creek, today ended a violent family quarrel by shoot his wife and son, Cecll, and a bullet into his own he son will die, but the her and mother may recover Homer Davenport la great artoonists are born, not made, and at th all draw Um, well, can't Judge | is appearing at the Orpheum with Billy Gastow a Neil Brinkley sketch, with Nell Brinkley seenery and costumes | Mixa Green today divulged the lint of necessaries to a real Nell {Brinkley girl | One large rat rey ee | Forty putts of hair 10.00 Same at 10-cent store 400 Seventy-five large sise hate. pios 20 Half yard of ribbon 20 | Direetoire coat (imporyd) 100.00 French model hat 47.00 | Loule XIV staff parasol 13.00 The patience of a martyr 00 a5 PACIFIC |“HAUNTED"™ DERELICT, A MEN. ACE TO NAVIGATION, 18 AT LAST BEACHEDO. | A specter of the deep and a wierd monace to shipping which for yeare past hae defied derelict hunters, hae terrort navigators and has bees the source of many gruesome ghoat stories of a spirit-like figure guid tng a phantom ship, te 20 more Reports from Victoria today say that the derelict hulk af the Ameri jean ship Great Admiral bas at inst drifted ashore on the west shores of one of the islands in Queen Char lotte Sound, and is belong broken up | by the Indians The Wreek Occurs. Two years ago the Great Admiral was a spanking ship, bound for Puget Sound with a cargo of lum ber. Off Cape Plattery she ran tnto on awful le which wrecked her upper works, and left one of her masts suspended by a single rope | directly over the wheel. Her crew was immediately panic stricken ai | fled to the boats, all save her cap tain, who refused to desert his abip. HAVE A PRETTY MIX-UP | BOUILLON INSISTS ON REPRE- SENTING CITY'S INTERESTS —COUNCILMAN OBJECTS. ¢ dictation is about said Counciiman Sawyer Y and.” |¥. Boutllon, superintendent of itillties, during @ Ult betwe the jal, which characterised « the council's corp e today ¢ thermometer method of evincing diff ypinion would have crea no surprise The mbers of the dy - Dust Hnew laid 4 tted today committ nin They hand two terri 1 1 for designating in the original franchise applic one drawn by the applicants and on by Mr. Roullion’s off Mr, Houillon asked that the hodying the ideas of the two parties interested, the city and the appli canta. Councilman Sawyer, who of fered an able argument in w of the tranch yplicants, protested, and wanted Mr. Bouillon’s map con YAKIMA VALLEY TO HAVE EXHIBIT AT A Yakima valley butiding is to be lone of the big attracth of the Alaska> ¥ ukon-Pacitic poaltion. Tomorrow a committee of Yakima valley men will arrive in Seattle make a selection at site they wish for building : whorein to exhibit th products of that portion of the staté The plan of the committ is t have one of the moat complete din GIRLS! LOOK! BILLY GASTON AND ETHEL GRE AC THE § “ ‘. f Here's how to realize {i your wildest ambition | be a Nell Brinkley Or | | i “Spoonville,” at the Orpheum. your head and your The idea ta to make look as large as possibile, figure as slim as you can take it,” said Miss Green. “A good Neil Brinkley girl would have her hair exactly oue foot from the back of her head. That is where you put the rat and fasten the hair puffs over tt The ribbon you wind tight about your head and the top of your erantum ts Mat Your hat ts something huge wash bowl turned wpelde f down, and the brim in front sete Tf back four inches from your fore head. The directotre coat ts black in color, seta tight te the figare and runs fro the hips to your back | like a swallow tall cost on @ man Your parasol bas a handle at both enda, and you carry it ithe ?i a staff, holding the part thet em; tends above the parasol, It must} be nearly as tal) as yourself.” Can you beat it ; | HH | like a! | “Curse yub, Jack Dalton, yuh give muh the potpers.”—Metodrama « ia United States Senate. ed = |All of the crew were rescued by the British ship Rarcore, but of Captain Jotnson sad hie vessel nothing wae ever again heard. Prom time to time the man at the wheel on some ship would see a great bldck bulk, with skeleton fingers potnting sky | ward, drift allently out of gray bank of mist, pase and almost ool ide with his vessel, and thea drift away into the darkness and fog, to be unheard of perhaps for) months, and ailore say that they! have seen a mistlike figure of a creepy gray standing stolidly at the wheel, steering the vesse! in her erratic course, and gazing always | wtraight ahead | Whether or no it is this Mgure that has been keeping the vessel | away from vessels sent to blow ber ie kept away she has been. Tine after time war vessels and others have been sent to blow ber up, but ae often they bave retarned with out sighting her. Now at lsat she ie stranded and the sea will know her no more, and shipping mea tn general rejotce, for they said that she was haunted, and that sever would mortal be ablo to destroy her. oe BOUILL 1 | | sidered, together with the new map. / Mr. Bouillon insisted that hie point | was correctly taken. Ditto Mr. Saw- | lyer. Then Mr. Boufiton, and ditto for Mr Both became and finally Bawyer Kouilion with the words Your dictation i# about fond Then it was discovered that « amended franchise hall been intro: duced extending the territory em- braced by the proposed subway, and Mr. Bouillon claimed he bad even his franchise until 16} minutes tously | The architect who drew the new map mined for having uninten tionally caused the quarrel, ing that his map really featy of both the previ Mr Bouillon har jared ¢ nittec oT referred to the superintendent of report Friday morning The ridiculous proy tion of awk ing a report on such a big question AR—WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1999. PETIT Under One Reet | Filrotsh the Howe This Week Concludes January Sale of Furniture} Deliveries Must Necessarily Be at Cur Convenience IRON BED, SPECIAL — $3.66 Substantial, well-made Bed, with brass top rods, epindies, vases and knobs. Bach end contatns five filler rods, jolned to crows bars by meags of ornamental castings, Head ts 68 inches high foot 39 inches. Both full and three-quarter sizes, Color, forest green, with gold-bronse eblile. MAHOGANY CHAM BER ROCKER, SPECIAL $%.50-—Of dainty design, with shaped panel in back, and carved top rail, Broad seat of open cane and moulded frame; shaped front legs High-grade construction and finish, Chair to match, spe- cial $5.75. LEATHER ROCKER, SPE PRINC DRESSER, SPECIAL, CIAL = $30.00—-Large Turkish | $2975—Of Colonial design, with three Rocker, covered with genuine | drawers in base mounted with wood knobs; leather of dark olive color GIRL FINDS } | caused even Mr. Bouillon to «mile } Another counctiman can hin res: | cue by sumgesting that be given | ——— rcp, Swans This was done! oiowing the ‘publication in The ” be Star of the picture of an unknown t 1 jgirl, whose mother down tn Oregon Wien il th to make «| % ar to death, and praying for wifsicigpens — Benn me In of the daughter, whose nam |aince her marriage she did not know | CHAMBER NDORSES 1d from whom she had not heard in five years, BB. Crandall of 106 Fifth av, & walked into The Star ation that the girl whose picture * . |wae published is his wife, and that he had spent two months previous Chamber of Commerce yeater- |t day afternoon recommended the ag- | ort quisition by the park b of the property in the vieinity coun ty court house as the site for a cen to tral park the was also recommended that the for park board submit the. question of fd vd tr acquiring the the iasuance park to the vot of bonds fo cov that time back in Oregon en, her lost mother We are certainly grateful to The ur for publishing the picture, and Pontmaster Russell for giving out information, If it had not been The # vould never have and out she was, for she Wureka, and my wif —Ot sawed ; Upped Has tufted back and arms, with plain seat; base is trimmed with fringe. Mounted on Harrington spring Ole thia morning le A ne RoE FREDERICK & NELSON, Inc, Store Closes Daily at 5:30, | METAL COUCH, SPECIAL, $3.80—I ie finished | gold bronze ; fabric of fine quality steel wire, fastened and | supported by helical springs and spirals. Width of Couch | when open, 50 inches ; length, 74 inches. Can be used as | divan or full-size bed, One hundred twenty-five Couches, frames slightly ru and scratched, bought at a price | | which makes this quotation of $3.80 possible BEDROOM CHAIR, SPECIAL $4.75—Has panel back, with open carving; long post con- struction, shaped front legs, box frame and cane seat. Built prin- cipally of mahogany 2x44 inches. ed standards. or satin walnut. principally scroll design front OAK TABLE, SPECIAL $4.25 oak, quarter- good rubbed finish. Shap ed 24-inch top with grooved rail; large shelf fitted to shaped legs FREDERICK & NELSON posts Beveled plate mirror, 24x40 inches ; is supported by two pleasingly shap- Finishes, imitation mahogany SOLID OAK DESK, SPE- CIAL $15.90—Double pedestal, solid oak, roll-top Desk, finish- ed golden. Length 50 inches, width, 30 inches, and height 46 inches. About 30 desks, slight- ly defective in finish, to be sold at this price Top measures BOX SEAT DINER, SPECIAL $3.00 1, finished Carved claw feet, shaped front < frame, saddle-shaped wood seat, and wide panel back. Long post construc- Ot oak, mostly quarter-saw golden legs, b tion and pleasing design INCORPORATED Arrested on Serious Charge. Oleson, brought in by ked up in the coun SSS SS anor eo (FS MRECER ISLAND | CENTRAL SEATTLE? ty jail, charged with assault on a| HERE'S A SUGGESTION SENT young girl living at Bismark, N. D,| TO THE CITY PARK Oleson was arrested at Kerris | ton yesterday by Deputy Sheriffs | WEARS, Freeman and Matt Starwich. While | in company with the officers Oleson An optimist ts born every see admitted his guilt jond He was traced by Freeman and} At least that's what and Cot Starwich, who started to work on|terill, secretary of the Seattle park the ease, acting on a letter from| board, thinks. the chief of police of Bismark | A central park for Seattle is the llatest popular agitation, and the eK K RRR KR HH Consensus of opinion is that the * *®/tract in close proximity to the * BANK CLEARINGS. * | county court house is the spot ideal. * Seattle. *| Here's where the optimism be * Clearings today $1,360,2 36 *%} comes apparent * Balances 175,422.12 #| in) a. “homantty -enlightenin * Tacoma. %| vein, a correspondent Writes to the * Clearings today $674,971 *] pak board * Balances 10,963 &] “I wish to ad you of a tract * Portland, which can be. secured much choap * Clearings today $800,588 wer than the court house alte for a * Balances 93.920 w} central part This is a 80-a¢ * *)\tract on Mercer island-an tde HMMM MR RH RH MR MMT CONtral Bite, Some date th OAK DRE —Oval plate mirror 20x24 inches, sup- ported by two shaped standards with® small carved design. Top has shaped front and drawers, trimmed with brass hardware, {| Built of oak, finished. golden. Lines Dependable WOOD BED, SPECIAL $11.7 Of birch, finished natural, nicely polished on foot end; f selected fige both head and of head, 62% MAHOGANY DINING CHAIR, SPECIAL $5.50— Of high quality, with box construction and leather seaty polished finish. Shaped front logs, moulded seat frame, square stretchers and attrac- tively designed pane! backs, ER, SPECIAL $11.50) is 40 inches wide. Four a= will be utilized for terminals, wage. houses and such, (The acquisi | would be the crowning glory of | Seattle park system, 1 submit dt | fe an ideal and central location; The park board ts handed lucid and eitrous ovals of the cies lemonitis, but this correspomde * ent is in real, real earnest. 2 Discrimination Charged. retary of the @e. Manufaeturers’ gfe writing to the Chambay, statos that but one meti~ hange has had oppaks work flit. hail, and agke t its dr © products wi Nine-Pound Daughter, \ nine-pound daughter waa bof Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Moore, 920 tav., Monday night. Both obi and mother are doing well, adley, se Commerc ber of the tunity ture to bid on Uh of the new y