The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 15, 1909, Page 1

HE SEATTLE TAR | SEATTLE, WASH., NO, 254 Ww EDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, : Uncle Sam is going to help the little folks in Seattle have a Merry Xmas. Uncle Sam and 4 Postmaster George Russell and his several hundred mail carriers re all going to help the “Bachelors’ Christmas.” ; | © Russell used to be a boy himself, and he can't quite forget it. He used to watch a jior S sy Claus, He doesn’t like the idea of a lot of little folks beitig disappointed on the morn ling of | So the order has gone up to all the carriers—-some of them are bachelors and, of course, AES POND ii | It's up to us bachelors, old chap, to help him out lhittle child. It’s a queer man and a rare man who doesn't love children. But it's just like a We're busy, we fellows that work, and jinterested, and others are married men with kiddies of their own, 80 they're interested, too— for all the carriers to watch for cases of destitution. man to forget about Christmas until the night before. . we've sort of got away from home things ist now it'll do a lot of good to remember, and to take a little time and a little money to be unselfish word is out and the little Christ: th r the poor it to m us jook out for ot kids who are really up against it, who won't get a Christmas pre jent unless the | Mhen they'll report to Mr. Russell, and he'll tell The Star | There are more than 5,000 bachelors in Seattle—5,000 men who will miss the best part of | Christmas because they haven't any children. Thousands of men will not hear little bare feet |pattering down the stairs Christmas morning when kiddies in their nighties are up before day- | light to see what Santa brought. Raye or s whe Bachelors he ARE CIGARS" SLAVES EN OF AS governine these Chr just can't do every one of four littl a them bachelors there are cheerle kind children in Santa two or » will ry but find out tmas morning that Sar jinks, he everything is a mighty lotd fellow, It's just like a man to want to help a nas four are he extent of y you they poor tads who will not have any 1as unte Packages and presents and| ¥¢ &IV¢ ©. COURTS It’s worth it. Back as the cigars earn J) money are coming in daily to T Come across a will take all re Star office. for the Bachelors’ | of the cigars Xmas ‘und t eeps one man rion fat Si son aan | fo hetaette ce. HE PLUNGES FROM |SWISS MINISTER'S WIFE YOUNG AND PRETTY VELOCIPEDE INTO to that effect Sure getting interested in the great} etter =owritten in Paris BF work of helping the children who BAY TO DEATH New Soba see won't otherwise Santa aati be llega Rb John McCulloch came Into the | “absolute e' 7 a ’ - nile speedt: ah tracks 4 tea fe te. office this noon. John MeCulloch | Pigg mn rc “ oom tall. ry rome aa evidently int a rich man. He | the Co ~ ° oo ai doesn't dress that Way. “My Od eerie en iw aint Tins toe the oh fremer e sald, “why, general de | 75108 - . of A Woman, “as beauti hon ele iatk, oa “a ‘ See tt is possible in this Never mind about that, though,” | afer s h fest nieht. A a he said. “I just want to help the! dping tide carried the t tows Bachelors’ Christmas Fund. 1) Weer Seach ie bade h mv ey Rat here's " | : : Fr RL elec. | rs ane tricia. . 4 eh well, the “ - ppoond : ; at | woman is na of the ® ‘ nt. 1 re phan boy miases continued Se » helpins the PALACE HOTEL HAS wrote in from S18 RISEN FROM ASHES whole sum of sing $2, “I t The Star By United Press) poor litt irt| SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16. —| 1 want help | With a banquet early 800 of the of the congr b have Ct Go | state , the | ppointed to with the new ‘ open | je slave evil pi Just a the paper wan going to | its ¢ Q years} One of the cit ress, an old man ea in with a| of ‘ ; | Bnd that the book mes N. Gillette will pre-| Fevoiting instances, 1 don’t want my tior P with the blication In a.” he said 1 Tomorrow the # Will be open comm: report Here's five jars writ! for the public n Francisco Man organzed band of pro-jing the check. He also w sta (% preparing to view the moder te working in this city, deal-) check for Rev. W. A. Bass, of Pre reproduction of the hoastelry which phiefiy with Chinese and Jap | mont. the aged Presbyterian minis was known and spoken of the world girls, but Including women | ter, which he asked The Star to for |over a&® one of the landmarks of ] nationalities, is shown ward the Pacific coast ontinued ‘en Page Seven.) CIS HENEY ON URE PLATFORM (By United Pree) N Dec that Francis J THE LOAN SHARK BY T. J. DILLON From the { thing: his vari beginning o It is ex Heney, who ous guises, has b and feared, Mar 2 thing bated, despised h that shad & pariah among mer n him wi kind has a mir’ the eat toe looked upon ’ he specia! prosecutor in t dering aversion accorded to the cold-blooded, slimy” reptilian crea graft cases will tares that infest arts of the earth, and has never through s, vieiting Tu Bisbee and grown accust i to } upon mise a re i among human beings; @ eh blood of t who fattens Phoe who sucks the lecture w actencele 4 who somehow we tor Heney te “i - poe The miser we dislike and pity; the thief, tiar, cad and scoun. for extended ‘lec drel we despise and regret; but for the loan shark we have naught " of} but nauseating disgust and endiess hatred. He, of all low things, He # useless to search for a trace There is nothing in his soul is the lowest; the one in whom it corruaaT ar cunt omest MME. PAUL RITTER. ing with th of that redeeming quality—humanity vestigation but greed—unquenchable, insensate greed, that cries out forever, “ape “More, More,” until Death tires of his cry and gags him for all Mme. Ritter is the wife of the new minister to the United States TO CRIPPLE eternity from Switzerland » will be a charming addition to Washington GET $25,000 Like pider in the dim corners of mistc society. She t ung and petite h © = = JACK RENEHAN, LABORER, IS DEAD; CHILDREN WAITING FOR FATHER s web of soft words and fine promises, gum “ty t United Prose.) with creep: geniality, and, aftily he but never quite, d miles and et patie Dec. 15 mani 5.000 be ima. How c bleeds them drop by drop squeezing their hearts almost c fou That a man is tolling under a back-breaking toad fe noth te nt || Bim; that women moan In despair, that children weep in wes cuplevedin wanoer, to less than gething 86 long 40 thelr grimy nickels and He is dead, and he died alone.”| learned that he had three small dimes flow into his box This tells of the death of Jack children at North Yakima, Word . The loan shark sells his birthright of self-respect for money, Retiehan, laborer ek beat that Recchas wes iil . ? and throws in that of his wife and children for good measure. He Over in North Yakima three little; But before the letter reached the g he Bway he, lives excluded from the company of decent people, or else hides his prose By Br ee a Be ene across th mountains, the A regular cor shameful calling. He and his are as lepers in society, unclean—to giadden thelr hearts The Nttle/#@thie last rc, be shunned by ail whe fear contamination; the thug and the scar tots do not yet know that their) “He is dead, and he died alone bape bie od on jet woman may hold their heads proudly as he passes by, for they [| father ix dead. Perhaps they are ri a. know that they at least have hearts and red blood; that they have now prattiing of the time when a place, low though it be, In the brotherhood of man, and at the 9 faddy will retarn to (ake them In) St Fry INTO ENGINE— Is very worst may always hope for a ray of human sympathy. ‘caches iheltlied iain Maaiine ie 1 KILLED; 6 HURT CURE FOR JAG ark makes money? So he d Let him t eral weeks ago, just as thousands — when he can't look a common thief in the eye. [| of others come and go. No one United Press.) (Br United Prews poate Wh nous ‘Pariane bid Wite lives thin, pai knew him—he knew no one, And! LAFAYETTE, Ind, Dec, 15.—A Ice cream , e eneh abore 5 , ‘i > hit tinary vanitia || haps bis cbéldren respect him; ft may even be that his dog wags | then Renehan, laborer, fell eck. dying dash down a long hill on a his tail when he comes home, But that must end it, The rest of [) cital, to was hopelessly sick. Be. BE bobsled today cost the life of orld views him as so squirming, wiggling thing whose b 4 fore he could give more than hia| Frank Klumpe, 16 years old, the the aveng! ry existence is an abomina bare name, Renehan passed into a! serious injury of six boys, some of state of coma, And the last night When {t was Renehan could whom may die, and t Hight in jury of eight others, when the sled got beyond contro! and crashed into a Wabash locomotive end came and an insu The joan shark knows it And that’s how he earns his wealth een yesterday not live, ft that was “round @ liquid d to | up Poert ic Of regula Re cream t, explair Meme to a pesstitssstestitsisce siete tas gs sqantssannenssauteseesauersgetuaarasacaeessanenessseannagnssentsuanetceantsscsutsesecutsssunatassannegsaenagzentett pis ae 4, Sefrit porte Louie Sefrit came into this world | wealth or glor who was—jJust a reporter, the hur ects and f peeeme ee Bats, F600 Jand has passed on. For him “the! Just a reporter—nothing more, | red worker of a tired day } e 36 roarit m of Time” is all for except an honest man who did his) When Loute Sefrit died he left ES PAY UP - ie teil’ much or Ut lay they will take ) work and died. Yet today the sim- none but friends behind him. In . 3; These ci -hbatiage epee cold, narrow bed to be his ple casket that contained his clay | hia nine years in Seattle as a re SUGAR DU TIES |, they ar ad. That a fe more, He will not be seen | was buried deep beneath the floral| porter he encountered many men (By United py yw dweller on this earth with rin his accustomed places; he offerings of those who had known on maby occasions His path wae SREY YORK D | wie: bi e; that he lived er again greet ds bim; fragrant remembrances from) strewn with tempiattor oppor the bige : corder of event love his loved one ome every walk in Iife-—merchants, po-! tunity for evil lay at every hand Bike Americ; 1 mae Worner 08:5 F900 6 short | #4 Kone and is as if} not. |lHeemen, fellow newspaper 1 But he made his way honestly and , tod rs ®land that his span was 36 sho firemen, lawyers—all sent stheir | mapfully, with a deep and abiding » osomad ti vack | year He Left a Clean Name roves and lilies to Nght the long, love for his fellows, and a wide Toliow sg ; To thove who know how to read| So has Loute Sefrit died, unher- | dark road on which he had started. |embracing charity for their sin if t uch more tn this | aided c ing, leaving behind He Will Be Missed. and weaknesses. na eee, ane te me an ache in many a heart and aclean| Just a reporter—but many a man} And all the time he was just a F ¥ mpreased epitome of a life and) aie ‘There Is no halt in the | of wealth and position has gone to! reporter, “turning in his copy” from uth There is recorded the pa clash of world interests now that he his long rest leaving less sorrow day to day to be read by the ier the allencing of a | 1s gone from among he was only| in his wake; many a man of fame,' thousands, who never knew and ; and the chilling of a mind.|a reporte historian of each day, | whose fe was built by such as| never thanked him. In these nine Many indiy There is contained all the {pscrut humble anonymous teller of the | Loule sunk down into! past years how many have learned Fexponstble for tee le taset of nee of | world one of the many in obliy the world could | something from him? How many Mt trav pees |t rank wt out from fa e glad pare than this man, | bave formed opinions by reason of 1909 ATTLE FOSTERS UNCLE SAM TO HELP BACHELORS’ CHRISTMAS TRAIN THROUGH a | | | between Saturday atte F ore & joight and Sunday morning f the i ts that although half of purpose of removing incriminating his thefts went to Tyrer to buy his documents, is the belief of the silence t THE SEATTLE STA - ONE CENT COURT CLERK ADMITS BIG EMBEZZLEMENT C. E. Head Began Stealing Five Days After Taking Office—Tom Tyrer Is nued series is of county into his posses im an aggregate i in Head's ay ! - Forty More Hurt in South *”))"" 8 special (rain and rushed gi Carolina Wreck—Con- zaler this morn- ductor Was the Hero of capes wi ry. Tyrer, chief accountant in : ne engineer and fireman the audit ce for four years the Disaster. as the dead. It is feared that | during the incumbency of James P. : * mo of viet were Durie w, and now an employe of ger : ut ie the w oe in the b er Matt Gormley, (By United Press pe cree his rea geass y, CHARLOTTE, N. C., Dec. 15.—| accurate estima nun bo I a4 Twelve persons were killed and deal Tt r was his ac- owing tner in the thefts. probably 40 injur whe nanenge : i when: passenger cording killed 1 hi train No. HM, on the Southern rail-|by wire from here to the gene i his —_ ry pod why, speeding southward at the | offices of the Southern railway : i by night. Heoae rate of 25 miles an hour, plunged | W racy us" My < se T checked bis books each 5 rn OWN A. BRADN Greer 0.15 ry d receive over 4 trestie and fell 25 feet into A. HOLCOMB, Mount Airy, N. ¢ ciate edt recat? d half of the Reedy creek, four miles north of| ‘ N. Denton, N.C. exzled money Greenst tod rag ive goonies are ; s Head has since December 1, jreenaboro, today CONE, superinienden he hortage was discove: The dead and injured were buried | Richmond division of the Southerr t ‘he comnts, Gases under thrée feet of wa lwa t tha eta eed rer The news was flashed to Greens-| D. C. NOLAN, Pullman « ete Siting prigetipstien: boro only after Conductor George| C,H. WHITE v , | Shortage Is Found. Cable, the b f the wreck, had| FLAGMAN, name know: | Head's shortage was discovered dragged bin ne two miles) RH. Russell, private secret by William H an accountant to # station, though his legs had | to George G was badly ‘ oy Auditor Case, on been broken in the crash nus bruises and be November 20, and at onee reported Physicians and nurses with wm hurt inte wast Joh Carroll. Hanna feal supp were immediately (onene b a discovere it soing) =«over the cee back accounts in the justice court, Head w ac ed of the shortage. He tt he was short a few hund lars. As the short- age & bh tied the addition- a exzler found to exist kept under sur- bonded in the $1,000 by a surety company. A house i lot worth $3,600 has een turned over by Head to make | Tyrer Got Half of Thefts. to Head, he gave nt of his stealings. rer reported to the monthly in. books that the were correct Jurors Think It Was an Attempt to Secure In- criminating Documents. That some dicted broke grand jury person liable to be in into and ¢ the room tere he entire reimburse- jgrand jury. The calprit, however, . ent is the former got nothing for hig pains, This) A. T. Armst h morning was spent by the jury in ager of E. T nce se has been in hearing evidence in an attempt to ted | ft anus has been the get a clew to the guilty party ector of books Head has em- Balliff Martin reported to the zzled nothing. He was afraid to jury Monday morning that he had i Han ation found the room in a disordered con ead w a i December He was of condit the opinion gin pre 48 SOON @ confessed to the jthat documents had been abstract. d gone through shortage T individual em- jed. A search by Martin disclosed the tted that Chu « 1 were nade up of suma |the evide that the room had { the information angin cents to $100. The {een entered ing the establish t W | oxy went over the books Upon Martin's report the jury di < 1 that Head had stolen from 1 want through all of the docume: The firw f Ba ri € money account in his pos jthat may be “i in future pro b t to « ession ‘cutions but none were found miss a t the Head in the Militia. ling. Bailiff Martin slept in th oF for te hothelenss, friendiess laborer breath STOLEN GOLD BRINGS said. “I have spent all I gained | ¥Y, 8° | Sesestessrtiststisitisciitisitissittistt sete eR est SLLLSSLSSSLiiLississr stressor tiice isi SStLeeSiLes iste iii ei stisisesssSsi iiss isaLilisslosise SSS UUSSSL SISOS LOSES IC LiSScei See eisescsssecessetessiresessessssecsstsessssetsesetisessseees | Mmmm ONLY A REPORTER, WAS LOUIE SEFRIT, BUT HE WAS A WHOLE MAN ememauam pos UU tss TiS SSSi ise ti sis ssiecssisissistessssccssttiitisisisconeteetssisesssssssirssctisistsistscststttess | grand jury room on Monday night was a flye ayes for years in the hope that the intruder might personally —th return and again enter the jury ake Ae ‘ rank 8 neg sw m, but no attempt to gain 1 ct om the militia In u » Was ma ‘ 1 the 4 varried and lives Nothing was learned by the jury t the option. | : however, that would enable it to a f employe |, TY ni ee was get any clew to the guilty one Kk. T. Barnett & Co,,|* » regarded as one Judge Gilliam w . the tees ‘ tied }of the best accountants in the city. room for a half hour this morning name to be placed udve pees ad re ag Ph se The jury believes that information * matt ‘4 » Oar is “leaking out of the room” too Ch h, however, wa t. Judge Gilliam’s opinion was the co 4 . asked as to the publicity the papers | furnist »I n are giving the jury’s actions had ne A Editor Star. Dear Sir: Did Outside of an attempt to dis- | ter—thougt \ would |} you hear Dr. Matthews’ sermon cover who burglarized the jury, no have received a comm ind thalll Ganduy ove? Boutin was aut a other evidence was heard today taken place coward; he did what was although he lost his job doing. He will get my a my influence, P. BE. W - \f right igh NO HAPPINESS from the bank m tired of hid-| If we can get such men 1p Roy Sienna lly pte dies A.V. Bouillon and Bob Hodge (By United Press.) ant to come back afd try to re-|8 in office at our next election, NEW YORK, Dec, 15.—A wander. | PAY those who lost by me. I wi we will have a good, clean city er over the four quarters of the Plead gulity at my trial, and if Tam |f Soy ornment globe in search of happiness he fail. Byer & chance T hope that I will be ed to find, Hyman Bpstein today }OI6 (0 bay my tormer | walked into ot and surrendered aba |LEONARD WOOD WILL himself to the authorities, saying | My conscience would not lt Me #k* ERAS SAAR) BE NEW ARMY HEAD be happy am ready to take my ‘ medicine * * (iy United Press.) Two years ago Epstein, who con-| * THE WEATHER * WASHINGTON, Dee. 15. _ ducted a private bank in Williams: | *|tary of War Dickinson today an- burg, Brooklyn, disappeared after | y tonight and: Thur rer the selection of Maj. Gen. the bank had closed and was said ws edh wath wind * ard Wood, now commander of to have made away with more thar Depart t of the Bast, to suc. | $60,000 * * d Ma J, Franklin Bell as I haven't a penny left,” Epstein| R&R RARER RK of he army. Gen, next April sess itsttetssseiests sagegaasgegeteee gy More Shopping “Days Befores what he wrote? How many have mark his going when he left us “& Christmas been stirred to thought, reflection! the presses had to whirl, the and determination by his words,| linotypes purr, and the type each unknown to the other writers click; the paper had to Last “Assignment” Covered get out on time. We had to Loule Sefrit did his work, and! write our “stuff,” sad, gay or did it well—just as a reporter, His| tedious, just as if no tears work is now done, his last copy i welled up into our eye tt in he stands at the Great] could only see Louie lying City port his assignment| the cold, calm dignity of deatt covert r him the Journal) just as if there was no clutch of Time has gone to pre with} ing at our throats as our last it oops and fall downs"; the| meetings with him came back plates of Life are ust beyond| to us} as our hands felt his change, His first edition i f,| warm, quick grasp. We could and he has joined tk aft « pin no crepe on the door and Eterntt perhaps just a reporter retire to our sorrow. We had to keep on; we had to get th For those of us who knew paper out; just time enough to and worked with him, the hope buy a few flowers and say goes up that all is well with “Goodby, dear friend, good it aL MUU RU Louie. We could not stop to | by | EXPRESS? TAN.