The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 7, 1909, Page 1

E SEATTLE ‘Sa WAN ih | ASK FAD NO. 143. at Spokane Monday Will Ask for Sup- for Gigantic Plan to Carry Out the Policies Former President Roosevelt—Bitter Fight Is to Result. Wash, Aug is it ied practicable to effect an of avery part of the Jato a comprehensive one unit, for the present unproductive ‘expenditure of five Girected to force juctive areas natural riches, be for the people ? # bid fair to fsave to the de the Nationa! Irriga Which opens in thi WILL BE AN OR A REFUSAL INT OF THE ICIES AS PER MATION AND it —_— dollars for drainage VEMOVAL OF ‘BRAIN NERVE tk of Courage in Press.) —"Buch emotions holy are convey we which springs }Brain sear the me fm the top of the who adds that nerve and so na suffering pend timidity. me seem skeptical of Dr. Bonnter's paper para nity to dis of turning @ by a surgical ‘Mreak and cut it Is to this dia WA ’ 1.—The masked eWho hax scorch ared this Afternoon m W, but the nurs PRE mats out. ier And good Iuok jater that the tage in Newport the ferries be Her again the po P Will try to in Wearing of a MOR af A Btate law Ordinance st they ha with S wmasked Dersous tte nc Twice whe an ¢ alone with Tightened as she has lderly the ma Rha ans TOFF NOTICE BPS shut off in th eon and $ of Fort AHA from fh. rd et ay, Mor, in. * nll fo | ER in. to 7 | Rakeee NGLE SAM BILLIONS GATE LANDS of ov owed and thus reelatming an 100,000 square miles tally capable of # 000,000 persons. One billton dollars for the recla mation by irrigation of 40,000,000) acres of arid and semiarid lands, | now Wholly or partly wax One billion dollars to construct and Improve deep waterways, to de velop thousands of miles of terri tory, without adeq » transporte tion facti ent One billion dollars for good roads and national highways One billlon dollars for forest pro tection, reforestation and conserva tlon of the forest resources, assur img perpetuation of the timber supply landa equal ewamp area an ares po porting 3, | | Issue Gold Bonds. That is the proposition, in outline The plan is to persuade congress to issue gold bonds, bearing 2 or} (Continued on Page 7.) CURED. | covery,” declared the sailor, “I know a jot of féllows that have it and have run out time and again. | The reason there are heroes ts be cause some of us were born with out this nerve, It® the only nerve | lacking in the Sharkey family. 1 have all the other nerves. “If that Frenchman will come over here and show me just where! I can get at that nerve I think 1} could Make several champions in a ,few days and bring the champion ship home to the white race again | “And it would be a good thing | for some of those racehorses that | | quit in the stretch if they could get | some horse doctor to pull out that) /nerve. so they would not close up| | tike Jackknives every time some. thing goes past them.” | HUSBAND GUTS UP MARBINGE LICENSE: WIFE GETS DNORG \SEATTLE WIFE OBJECTS To HER HUSBAND MAKING HIS HOME ON ZEBU ISLAND. Taking a neatly framed marriage Neense from the wall of his home, Harry KE. Avis, an engineer, of 2316 | North Gist st. went to the wood. shed and used ax on ft, accord. tng to his wife. He did other things which displeased Mru. Avis, She was given a divorce thie morning. John Skow told bis wife he! “would pester Rer to death” if she applied for & divorce, and if the court granted @ restraining order e would het anyway, At t, Mrs. declares he sald }it, in a divorée wait whe filed this |morning. Skow will have a chance, to demonatrate whether he was | bluffing or not, as a restraining order was granted The Inst M. Bertha Overhoit |heard of her husband, Samuel M | Overholt, was that he was ou the istand of Zebu, in the Philippine group. Zebu len't the right place for a loving husband, when his wife *\ is in Seattle, no she filed suit for divorce this morning. Kate Patri filed suit ior separa tion from Peter Patri. Both live in Ravensdale. Divorces granted were N., from Edna Strong; Renetta Florence, from George W. Oldbar James W,, from Ellen R. FP. Jobn son; Mildred L., from Wiliam P Grover; Georgie, from 8 B Heeter; |Agatha U., from Charles McFall |J. Alexander, from Daisy L. Leeper, NEG HE JUST BUYS AND BUYS REAL | ESTATE AND BECOMES | WEALTHY. Edward I Not by the poker route, nor even | by shooting eraps, but just because of an unbounded faith in the fulure of this olty and because that faith was backed up with a few dollars Zacharias L, Woodson has gained the position of the richest negro in the city 1 never have sold a plece of perty since I've heen in Seat he said, and that’s been seven haw Just bought and bought, and improved, but the word “sell” has been a stranger to him, lehamber of commerce, YOUNG MOTHER’S DREADFUL SACRIFICE; TRAGEDY OF AN EVER PRESENT “PAST” <2: WILL MARRY IN DEFIANGE OF HIS PAPA California Girl Does Not Care a Rap About What Father Says, and Will Wed Her Sweetheart. (Ry United Prem) BAN JOSE. Cal, August 7. — Despite the protestations of his mil- Monaire father, Austin Lose, & nate of the University of Cal | * #4 * * * ee eee 4 5% # form the ceremony, and the fie’ aod son of H. Lowe, president of the Santa Clara Coun ty bank and head of the H. EB. Losse Frolt Packing company, {s to marry the gir) of his chotoe, Miss Louise McGraw, a society girl of fan Jone, daughter of D. Me Graw, & San Francisco stock broker. The parents of young Loase. wil give no reason for thelr objection, and the parents of Miss MeGra' have announced the engagement. The wedding bas been set for Au gust 12, aud will be solemnized at the Eplecopal church in this city H. E. Loses, the father of the young man, refused to talk about! the match today Young Loese is the owner of a large garage in this city, and has been engaged fh business for sev eral months, He has nothing to way concerning the forthcoming marriage. Mise MeGraw sald “You, it le true that Mr. Losse and I are to be married this month. I have never known of any objec tion on the part of my fiance's parents. | have been @ frequent visitor at the Losse home.” * * * WEATHER FORECAST. * Fair tonight and Sunday; @ light west winds * * RR RO FINDS WAY five thousand big round clinks. He has two boys whom he ts golog to educate, Not with just a com mon school education, but at Har vara As a means of supplying the fam. larder while the real estate he sing and ily buys, but never sells, ta inc his capital, he runs a hotel an apartment house He lives at 1820 24th av WANT LANE RETAINED (By Calied Brews.) PORTLAND, Ore., Aig. 7,.—Hop. ing to secure the reappointment of Interstate Commerce Commission er Franklin K, Lane, the local aided by al he uh se thet 4 ‘JEROME'S ARGUMENTS -EDITI LE, WASH,, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1909. IT’S A BAD YEAR FOR BRUNETTES SEAT" |Haunted by Sin of Years | Years Ago, Mrs. Emma | Michels Ends It All With | Death. FEEAEEEE ES FERRE ® The following ts not an im aginary story. It Ie & record of actual oceurrences in the elty of Chieago thie week, ax ® taken from the notes of the ® coroner, the neighbors, the ® letter Mrs Emma Michele ‘® Wrote, and the testimony of ® her husband, her friends, and # her husband's relatives. & Mra. Michels, driven dee ® perate by threats from her ® husband's relatives that they ® would expose a scandal in her ® past, killed herself and her &® two children, Meta and Guetay, ® & by gas * * * * see eeeeeseseeeeeae * ‘The thing that is done—it can never be undone Mra. Emma Michels, 690 Ongood lat, Cbtengo, sat, her head tn her hands; these thoughts were surging jback and forth pendulum ike ithrough her brain | “No matter what you do or try to | 40, no matter what tears you shed,” | poned indefinitely jahe mused, “what resolutions you make—and keep—nothing can ever ichange the past-—nothing can alter }the thing that is done.” fe “Got a headache, murver?” a It girl tugged at her dress. No, dear; run away, bother mother.” For all time, for all eternity, the thing {# recorded {n the records, she was thinking. flack through a span of yeara-—15 yeoars—she ranged, every step o wrench of the heart. Back to that time when she had been too trust ful \the world | The Fight Back. | ‘Then the years that followed |the fight back to selfrespect and th Continued “on “Page Seven. (By United Pres) WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Ang |Immediately after the opening of court today, In the Inquest into the state of mind of Harry K. Thaw, District Attorney Jerome began a speech reviewing the two triala in which Thaw was charged with the murder of Stanford White, and said that all the witnesses In both trials, with the exception of Evelyn Neabit Thaw, appeared to have tried to tell the truth. He éndeavored through analyzing the testimony, to show that Thaw ls a paranolac. j Laying Dummy Mines. | SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7.—The }mine planting ship Colonel George |Armistead began laying dummy mines tp San Francisco harbor | today Northwestern Returning, CORDOVA, Alaska, Aug. 7 jsteamer Northwestern, ‘The with 184 ye & Stupefied sllence fell upon wedding Don't| too ignorant, too unlearned .of | ON Youna TURKS | un TO PAY A BIG SUM FOR LOTS |Bidders Run Prize Away Up on Municipality in the State Shore Lands Auction Today. The city of Boattle $4,600 each for two at shore had to pay praleed ot state lots jands at the court house thie mornin A crowd of 600 people front * of the bullding jdid an auction have an enater | | time. The crowd was hungry for a] chance to buy and the bidding was | fast and furious | The auction opened with lote 4] } 4n4 6 of block 27, Lake Union shore the two lots the city wanted county wacked th | lands [for & water matin tunnel tative of t etty * lots were red at jed that there be no competition He jopened with @ bid of $493, the ap ip ed valine | bid $600, and before the city finally jmot the first lot, the bidding had reached $3,600. The second lot went at the same figure ven at | this price a man whose bid had not |been heard, forged through the jerowd with a certified check and demanded the lot, declaring he had bid the $3,600. A repre announced why ne One promptly pay more than any other purchaser The money realized from this sale will pay the million-dollar appro priation of the state of Washington for the Alaska Yukon-Pacific expo sition CLARENCE BLETHEN WILL WED TUESDAY re es ae MINISTER 1S. JILTED WHILE AT THE ALTIR Prospective Bride Being! Whisked Away in an Auto by Brother Who Ohbjected to Wedding. (By Untied Press) | CHARLESTON, I, August 7.- Clarence Blethen and Miss Rae Kingsley will be married Tuesday of next week at the Kingsley home. They will go on an extended wed ding tour, which will probably in clude Kurope. Mr. Blethen secured his marriage Moense today WASN'T ALLOWED. TO FIX HER HAIR AT BARGAIN STORE GETS IN THE MAD RUSH AND THEN TOLD TO LEAVE AND FIX UP. t | | guerts, a minister who was to per roe | pective bridegroom, the Ger | lames Snodgrass, pastor of the | Baptiot church at Hammond, Ind., | who stood expectantly by the aide) of the officiating clergyman, when | Marion Doty, father of the girl, on (By United Press.) | Wred and announced that the wed-| NEW YORK, Aug. 7.--While the | ding of his daughter to the clorgy-| Vatican press has let forth tts thun- }man from Indiana had been post |dere against the present day cos. The wedding had been set for &|for the department stores to take | o'clock last night, and every detail|action on atyles of hair dres: j had been completed for the saying Although the stores may sel) various of the ceremony, The lavitations | puffs, curls and other accessories | | were iesned two weeks ago, and the! which go to make up the Payche } affair was to have been one of the! knot, then and there they wash | ever seen in Coles county | bilities They don't care whether | Instead of being present to meet | it stays up or not, and what's more, her husband under the bridal arch, |!f It doesn't, the women must go Mine Doty was being whirled away | elsewhere than the store rest rooms in an auto by her brother, Lyman|to repalr damages. | Doty, who, it is waid, had been op-| This fact came to notice this posed to the proposed match ever| week. A customer of one of the old since it was first announced by the | established stores shopped so vigor parents of the girl. ; ously and energetically that by the Intimate friends of Miss Doty say|time she had reached the end of| | the teason she rejected the minia-| her list her Grecian knot was under |ter at the artar ts because of the |one ear and her curls were else | love she entertains for another | where. Retiring with all due speed to the women's parlor, ahe was in formed: | it's against the rules to take * | down your hair here.” “What!” ejaculated the astonish ed shopper “Yes'm, it's against the was repeated courteously, but firm. ‘The bargain hunter was obliged oO take & taxicab home, e jrous sales she had patronized. {ABSENT MINDED FOR OVER THREE YEARS (By United Press.) FRANKLINVILLE, N. J,, Aug. 7 A big touring car with a flat tire |master George A, Nute’s store, and | —_— thaving no means of repairing the | YORK, Pa, Aug 7—Charles | damage, the occupants of the car Reilly of Gnattstown haw a brood of | took the train for Philadelphia, say }ehickens, four of which came Into|ing they would return on the mor latence with left wings only jrow for the automobile, No one | Rellly gays he can guarantee that | has ever called for the machine and OTTO ORR ttt 7 |® BEATS ALL RECORDS. PARIS, Aug, 7.—-The aero. plane record for sustained flight wae won today by Roger if the flight credited to him at Mour melon Legrand proves authen tie. It is reported that he |® mained In the alr two hours minutes and 16 seconds, This is elght minutes longer th the best official fight of Wil bur Wright, made at Lemans, France, on January 1 of this year we kt * * * * * * * * * | j hie one-winged chickens will not fly| Mr. Nute will now sell It for stor-| lover fences as some others do even | age. with wings clipped The only| The man who was driving the | drawbacks he foresees are that per-jauto said he lived in Baltimo }nons who prefer the wing at the! but letters addressed to him the table may have to match for the have been returned unopened, Some other commercial organizations, be) members of the National Bditorial| one flipper, and that the one-winged | think the machine had been stolen plans today to appeal to Presi And today he is worth seventy-|dent Taft for Lano's retention, association party, left for Seattle Just night, | and when the chickens will not be able to shelter |for a “Joy ride » abandoned. jas many chicks ae others, \breakdown cam tumes of women, It has remained} most elaborate country weddings | their hands of all further responst-| rules,” | which rath. | r wiped out the profits of the va-| )| had performed the work, SEATTLE TAF ONE CENT IMPROVEMENT CLUBS WILL TAKE UP THE ATTEMPT 10 GRAB CITY HALL PROPERTY | Proposed Struve Lease Will Be Considered at Confer- ence Committee Meeting Next Monday, and Will Later Be Taken Up by All the Clubs of the City—Taxpayers Are Aroused. THEY WILL MAKE STRONG PROTEST become a renter and The city should not “it would be criminal folly for the elty te The municipality should own and occupy its own city ha under any circumstances, be the landlord rent or lease thie property for any such purpose as is outlined in the Struve proposition, On general principles | could not too strongly protest against the municipality occupying rented quar ters.” —Homer M Clubs. Hill, Gecretary-Treasurer Association of Improvement outlined, The should junder any clreumstances, be and in this I believe I am | voicing the opinion of the vast ma. The city should own its own municipal headquar. We want a city hall which hall makeshift combination with some pri ot fice building Practically speaking the cheme {x imporstble, if th wis of the cit Ten years from now we would find the four floors that would be allowed in this building too small, and then we would be without any for expansion—and tled up the dictates of a coterie of business men, In whose lexicon of business there is but one consideration—the ration of dollars and cents.” Storm of Protest. The General Conference com city mittee of the Seattle improve ment clubs has been called to attend a meeting on Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the Seattle Commercial club rooms, to discuss the “get rich quick” acheme of Frederick Karl Btruve and associates. The plan of these business men who want te confiscate the old city hall site and erect a 16 story office building thereon, in return for which they pro pose to “give” the city the use | of the four top floors for city hail purposes, will probably be | strongly condemned by the | members of the conference | committee, The action of the }oommittoe will be followed by testa from the separate imp ment clubs throughout the The Star's figures showing that with a combined membership of Struve and bis associates would 12,600, and if the attempted “steal” make a profit of approximately $70,- |has not been dropped as a result of 000 a year under the lease they pro- The Star's exposure in the mean- pose to execute with the city, have time, it in pretty well determined aroused a storm of protest among that a petition calling for a refer-|taxpayers and business people gen- endum vote on the proposition will erally be cireulated In the 60 years that they will practically own the land, Strave Hil! Denounces Scheme, be his coinvestors would clean up “T have not had time to get in the tidy sum of $3,500,000, touch with the members of the At the end of 66 years, answers conference committee today,” said Mr, Struve and those who want to | Homer M, Hill, secretary-treasurer go in with him on the deal, the lof the committee, “but | am person: city would own the bullding. ally very much opposed to the plan “In 50 years the building would lof leasing this land to Struve, or| be practically valucless,” replies an lany other parties, for the purpose experienced building contractor. LONE WOMAN NEVER HAD CHANCE IN THIS FIGHT when she was offered the settle- ment of $10,000, Col. Blethen sent Marie Carrau She Could Jack Barberis and W. M. Russell to a j her advising her to accept the offer, Not Possibly Win From maxing the statement that Root " | was “bought up,” and that he wou! the Piles Crowd. ltnfluence the other three judges, |namely, Mount, Hadley and Crow. Col. Blethen was next called to “Col. Blethen told me that four! the stand, and denied in substance of the judges of the sup art the statements accredited to him by were favorable to the Piles inter Migs Carrau. eats, and that I had no more chance “I do not believe there fs a cor of winning my sult In that court put hair in Judge Root's head, and jthan J did of flying,” said Marie jt wonld be foolleh to thigh that I Carrau, one of the claimants to the would ever make any su@h state- famous Sullivan estate, this morn-) ment regarding our supreme tri- ing before the legislative committee | hunal,” he said. meeting In the office of E. B, Palm er and Investigating the charges: against the state supreme court “He also sald,” continued Miss Carrau, “that Senator Piles controlled the supreme court, and that, because of his political infiuence, it was use lees to try to fight the case further. Miss Carrau also te never, ome & renter ority of taxpayers ters ie and no} ar we conference = Col. Blethen Says He Told “| did say, and emphatically, too,’ that | understood a body of rich men had banded to- gether for the expr purpose of getting this money, and that 1 considered her chance mighty (By United Press.) CHICAGO, Aug. 7, Bru. nettes, taken asa cia outlive | blondes, according to the state ment of J. Cummins, secretary of the Equitable Life Insurance company of lowa, made at the yearly meeting of general agents of the company, held in the Sherman house, It was while commenting up on the fact that women who live to be 60 years old outlive men who have reacned* the same age three to one, that Mr, Cummins referred to the lon gevity of brunettes and blondes. On direct questioning he ad. mitted that artificial blondes did not count, the figures apply ing only in cases where nature Mr. Cummins said that offigial fig- ures showed blondes more sub ject to lung trouble than bru- nettes. of slim of ever getting a favorable decision, “The fact,” the colonel con- tinued, “that ten or a dozen rich, Influential men are ar- <z| frayed against a mere woman | “cannot help but have an influ | ence detrimental to the woman, if for no more than political reasons.” | Colonel Blethen admitted advis ing the woman to take the settle- | ment offered in order to repay the Wh AZ See men who were advancing the money HERE 18 A PRETTY SHOCK FOR for her expenses; but he denies making remarks detrimental to the CERTAIN BUNCH OF THE supreme court of the state at any FAIR WOMEN, ‘time | The committee went Into execu- tive session after refusing to hear testimony offered by 8. C. Lind say, 3017 45th av, 8, W., and George R, Cooley of 2181 42d av W regarding a decision of the st me court rendered In the case West Seattle saloon keeper The committee contended the men had no evidence to show that the court was corrupt, and that they only were dissatisfied with the decision committee will m morning at 10 o'clock ent this morniy again All committee were pre ee ee ee | * ® AYP, EXPOSITION ATTENDANCE, admis: Yesterday's sions ye 26,8 Total for the season * \* \* * 1,691,583 * * * * * * * * * * a ee ee