The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 1, 1910, Page 1

A. 40 OR FIGHT 2 BEGINNING IN THE STAR NEXT MONDAY, IS A TALE OF’ POLITICS, HISTORY, ADVENTURE AND LOVE THAT HAS A PECULIAR INTEREST TO THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTHWEST. IT’S A GREAT STORY. DON’T OVERLOOKIT. =: 1: =: : ‘THE SEATTLE 2.» . THE SEATTLE 1. NO - VOL. 11 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1910 E CENT OUSLY WATCHES Soa = acs LONG GT WIT MS TOES MAE QUT OFF =) QR) | ARR MISERY LAKE UNO oie nes MRS GENTLEMEN - - ne in ampatating five toe a the righ! foot and three toes m the left foot of Parsons, All| ie Wonderful Stovaine Ys Used With Great Suc- * the time the operation was in was found r ke boulevard, between |Alfred Garton Writes to; Charles Peterson Robbed) Son Announcing His In. ‘Y* and Re 6. The mute evt- Pcees on William Parsons progress Or. Crichton, who was 4 : oe. | sence of the ly was substan- at City Hospital pectater of the operation, answer | of $150.00 While the tention to Commit Sui-| tiated u orning when the fore : od Parsons queations a to th Crowd Is Hilariously| cide in Lake. et in yg eb oramieah: ; oer the operation was progressing Par Celebrating. ceemenpaneios end a hay Year a Bene juen sous felt no n Mis dreathing | “My dear ©. © Enclosed | The old man and his wife sep- : nly : forts at were normal | with this mail is an order for | #rated | Fe BGO. ting te fhe cit s y x tab Juring the entire surgical work While sirens were screaming and! my things. Get them and do rmation given to the police to- y diser o| ere 1 “harles ; time to time the the attend Argeons Keeps Track of Hie Toes. foorvs were ringing, Charles W what you will with them. 1 5 tpheand Pn “e " feng 2 oe yore Aged an ' jPeterson was held up and robbed! have fought 17 years with ed letters from his father, ST Eck two were left on both Parsons, curious to know what of $160 in gold and a gold watch at! misery and now | give up. My | Who, ur a rocnny, weg employed Pe Willis: Parvo: . laborer, “ht Saracens were doing, whose proeere D. 8. and Jaukson #t.! body will be found in. Lake |!? @ sawmill at Everett Seattle's first eficiary af | wie f bl cies hi "1 which th y ling. MOmcieer pe ag Biya MR ntl Bev ra ek arene : nase of | pile of blankets behind which they | an’e body was found ¢ lee | DURE medical world’s intort Kitt to | Wore working, kept inquiring ot [Peterson wis celebrating the ad-| 228 bOdy was found two weeks | wy aig not know my father wag i Ds “aed ee reaae sition too debili. UT CTchton as to what toe the sur-| Yent of 1910 in hilarious fashion; Love to Vie and Tot ** |in Seattle until a few days ago,” = =) yaical condition (50 debi geons were work! His com when four men grabbed him and - sald Cyril today A friend said | Seed to rally trom the depression | pogure was as £ of the |draxged him into a convenient| (S!97ed) “YOUR FATHER. he saw him a few days ago and 4 % ether or chloroform. bis bodily surgeons who were doing the work |doorway. Despite hiv protests and | |that he appeared to be in bad tance destroyed by exposure Ain once did the patient move dur jyella, the quartette rified his pock-| This was the New Year greeting | *pirit#. The only thing to do ts ; im . Mm weekr of wuffering, Parsons jing the operation. ote, and after taking hie cash and) which Cyril Garton, son of Alfred | (© drag the lake for his body, It Si tare the pain of the smpe | After it was over and Parsons wateb, ordered him on his way. | Garton, 72 years old, received in| if anything but a bappy New Year - eight gangrenour wig tah Mea te te ed cae Peterson made a bee line for po-|the mali this morning. jfor me 7 some ay sta Mee headquarters and reported his! Somewhere tn the chili waters of} Alfred Garton was a ploneer of experience, but no trace of the|/Lake Union Hes the body of the) Washington. He was well and Highwaymen could be found jold man, cold in death favor known, He leaves &@ The second hold up of the year! It was as though io mockery the | daugt he fondly called ‘ot.”” occurred shortly after 3 o'clock this! oid man dated bis letter January | She is Mre, Frances Downs. The morning, when ©. J. Schiffman, |, 1910. The missive to his son was! “Vie” mentioned in the foregoing night clerk of the Wilkehire hotel.! majied Inet sight whortiy after 6| letter is Victor Garton, bis favorite j at Beventh av. and Virginia st.,| o'clock son. Already search has been in- was strongarmed in the doorway| Late jast night “a Fedora bat, stituted for the body of that hostelry. He lost $16.80 in| . cash and & Waltham wateh, | aa 10 GET ABSINTHE HE hod ospital, the only after effects of 7 operation felt by him waa the ed “Unsiing pain always following the of a part of the human Wei the two old-time m: Macathesia impowsible, the at the Clty hospital Wine, as used by Prof. Thom. | *vering Jemnesco, of Kouwmania, as a | UY resort Stovaine Proves its Merit. No Stovaine in Seattie. The. attending surgeons aawert WPhere-was no stovaine in Seat. | that stovaine has proved its claim | Dat @ telegram to New York to being a sucewssful anaesthesia tiete «8 and the mall for operations in the lower region the anaesthetic to Seatt of the body. The success that haa) was placed on the operat jattended its use below the heart table at 3 o'clock yesterday has not been duplicated by ite ere! Stevaine and strech | for operations in the upper part of i ® saline solution, were tn-'the body jee fis spinel canal A Parsons was found by a patrol ing sensation marked man in the southern part of the c fafusion aod the progress of city, wandering about, 10 days ago, the stovaine through with bis feet encased In gunny at bis body. Parsons wa: sacks. Lost io the Cascade moan | ed to sit up afier the re tains while searching for a job, @elutien t allow it to make Parsons had for days plodded wore readily through his through the snow until eight of his im toes became frozen. Gangrene set | minutes was consumed in before Parsons reached Seattle, iS Bourne, W. ©. Wood- making the amputation of the rot: | MeKine‘s, and |. K. ted toes necessary ee] Sows “nos pevecist| MURDERED THE INSANE - ROB DRUGGIST Two masked men entered the | Mercer Pharmacy, at the corner of (Hy United Press.) |was the bratal murder of an old Aheto-im this, my very first appearance upon any stage (cries of “Oh, you kid!"), it fe bot fair if | ltt av. N. and E. Mercer at, last] PARIS, Jan. 1.—Preliminary ar-|man who was a hopeless idiot. He you accord me some indulgence. In coming before you (ery of “Louder!”)—1 say that in coming before | DMM at 11:45 o'clock, and forced |rangements are being completed| Was found to have been strangled juad-abwandll, T eenee bale aoe the proprietor, Cari Gallagher, 0) 040. tor ine trial of Leon Thabuts, 12 death, Thabais said it was ap However, enough of that. My purpose is to forecast in a general way the work I have come to | 5894 Over the contents of the cash | Mieke oer Reeident, that the old man hud at. execute while among you for the next tweivemonth. Our relations together will be pleasant, i hope, and {UU There was only @ small /an absinthe fiend, who ax keeper |tacked him, and that he had found I shalt strive to make myself agreenble in many ways, snd to form the aequaintance of each and covery |*0UR of money im the drawer at lof a ward an insane asylum, |it necessary to kill bis to defend " | | i AED ‘ SRE Of ee ; one of you before my term of usefulness ends. i i] the Ume. latraugied dozens of patients to gt | himself. , vite oak wit atvemot ta, of sourets oat sant jp a form oes permits me to divaige tt. Howevor, | |moncy to satiety his thirst, It is| Au investigation followed, It wy ow @ - ge en ¢ pf thar ” IS INHABITED, | THINK, that we Will cnlor'the 1986 Fear of the: Aucnrtaan iadepeadee CNG W beeetes osite mee cee [AT LAST: SEWARD: | ~ |detioved to te coratn chat be witt/ en fama, tnt, there, bet bern = A ; can independence, which it behooves ae to mark with re- jxo to the guillotine death In Thabuls’ ward every other 4 SAYS PROF. PERCIVAL LOWELL |} 1°%2!=*,patristinm. Also, we will Rave the socalled “Return from Ribg,” but whether it be singed STATUE FINDS A [pce in nis most sombre moments |day for 12 days, The bodies of ‘ ® Gramatic fashion or conducted with democratic simplicity, 1 am agbared our only living ex presi RESTING PLACE ld not have dreamed of crimes | #x patients exhumed showed they © BOSTON, Jan. 1—According to an announcement he made on will be given ® rousing and sincere welcome, Also, | venture to prediet the hook for Zelaya, a more hideous than those perpetrat-|had been strangted, Further inves- ietay, Pr, Percival Lowell, of the Lowell observatory, has been different type of pretadent of a different type of republic, We cannot look forward as well to the elec aasernrey es jed by the monster Thab |tigation showed many more such tion of & ne®W congress, one which, whatever its political complexion, will perhaps accomplish the long | At Jast the Seward statue, which | desired rebuke to Joe Cannon. 1 know this hope is @ chestnut (eries of “That's what ft {*!"), bat hope |58* been handed around to ail springs eternal in the human breast. (A volee, “That quotation js a chepinat. too.”) Several new gov. | Parte of the city since it arrived the people of Mare tolld thetr canals. Professor Thabuis was the keeper of an in- | Cases who has stndied the red planet for years, declared that curable ward. For weeks before; Rules of the asylum allowed one 2 tt le at te t the discovery of his crimes it w ranc to the keepe y wi Fit orld ae: eee he phe f) ernors will be elected, the sugar truet may be punished for tte frauds, interstate commerce awe | *¢°¢Tal months ago, has come into|nored by the asylum suthectiine ee Pr seek saehon = bo fuewell discovered two new canals on the face of Mars of. it ei i manand. the centra) bank idea may be disposed of. and there maybe national anticigaret legis. |'t® own, : that his patients trembled Jn fear|deatb of one of his charges, Gepldaber 3, 1909. when coe wection af the planet came into pf} Mtlon. If pot national antitiquor measures, “I may add that this country has given evidence of a growing The Chamber of Commerce every time he approached them.| Thabuis, to bay his absinthe, bad St of sight for ain oF Gght.weeke. It wan the Bf} a fegeneration, and this, | am sure, will not halt, even if {t should slaw down, cated it at Volunteer Park * | Later his visits to the ward created |engaged in @ carnival of strangu- : wel hickory that. tel mee bad beheld Ve will begin the most Important’ census enumeration ever undertaken, and complete the field work | afternoon at 3 o'clock In honor of |, veritable panic among the gib-/lations, and with the money he had aterways, an¢ De. Lowell coat! that they had connected with tt, though It will (eke some years to complete the clerion) work. The fight for con. | tht occasion, Judge Thomas Burke, |horing folk would sit all night about a servation of our national resources will continue—-must continue, tn fact, Tt will alko be @ year for pres |Judee Hanford, of the federal qn idential boom, Several young boome will be given exercise galleps, for these who would qualify for |COUrt. and Doctor M A. Matthews the big derby of 1912 must be fit and tested. We will batid more battleships, and we will of the First Presbyterian church, artians In the time that portion of Mars had The new canais are «ald to have the narrow, crime that resulted in the /t Uppling and grinning at the discovery of his other atrocities | pictures the polson made. span nelcth i wale A” : older ch ele hurry the thai ne sider chane fortifications of Pear! Hartor, the “Key to the Pacific.” We love peace, bu: ob, you preparation for war’ | talked to the crowd mea J (Uaughter) We will also make progress op the Panama canal, and i wodld not surprise me if we | Judge Burke told all he knows — finished the Gatun dam. Labor will wage some important battles and patw through a crisia in the case |®bOUt Seward and the Seward stat A S T A MAX which It bae appealed to the supreme court, As for the cost of living, while J cannot guarantee (t wilt | aed the other speakers did like: | . BLY, ALMOST FORGOTTEN. decrease, | will endeavor to hold it down to where it ts, in apite of the deck predictions of some. It ia | ¥'™ j e , ® grave subject | NOW IN MILLION DOLLAR SUIT | An for outdoor sports, Charcot is looking for the South Polé, and it esey-he disopvered. We may | | also find out whether the North wae ditcovered. (Laughter, and fist fighie between Cook and ‘HAPPY BREW YEAR ~ _ i | Peary partisans in various parte of the ball.) come to order, please! & wre wilt fy 1 P s ) f FY oftener and Who will marry this man? a girl not over 80 y s old,” a Pirprwea Jan. 1.—After liv. beth Seaman Johns, of Oakland, Before my administration i over, | hope to dispose of the pugilistic champlonship of the world labout tt you see ‘just what|right the bedlacee ebieten obscurity of New York vim that their unele was| 1 promise that the heavyweight belt will rightfully adorn the waist of a Dusky gay © fitet Mame | _ —_— cations -anuiiien 1 Weller st a Of millions for « gener influenced by his wife to) begins with a J. It ie up to you to guess the answer. | will not go 8 whit further { ming the base. | United Press.) leien’ tas & whdek ‘ile 6 ik Obi yea Docktevert pure. Nelly iy 1 em out of hie will ball pennant winner. Suffice it to say that one of the clubs now claiming tt so confidently Wil have the | SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 1—-After pul heen aoe mae ar th ’ dof newspa man in the delly Bly achieved fame by heat-| bunting ere footbal, again incarnadines the greenswarc wild, final fling at Nfe at itnlwomen in “Jane Eyre oy Rene feet. 8 about to be broug rth ing the “srownd the world” record. | Abroad we may ¢ War scares resolve themeelves into the real thing, much we would hate ght, in the Kay New Year's car-'s "ot other. women awe ald it ; peeer the spotliatiy he * For a New York newspaper she| to see Germany and England grapple. China will wake op some more, apd Korea will put more |ntval jast night, an unknown ma > i , | ie make a legal fight Bor 1 ‘ ent out to lower the time made soundly to sleep. There will be big political questions settled tn Bouth Africa, and Great Britain's elec repaired to his room in the Bert So fal i ons her husband, Wabert Sea iby Jules Verne’s imaginary trav-| tlons will decide the status of the house of lords. Ireland may bave howe rule. Brazil will probably | hotel, and the itting erect in a var wit aunteuhe 88 » lett her er in “Around the World in| give us a showdown of her mysterious bid to become a naval power, Mexico will again go through chair. with hie clothes eovered with The pee oeetche an Rollo J. Hough, xn Oakland at-|Wighty Days.” The entire country mations of holding a presidential election. Spain will have cause to remember Ferrer, and Portu. | the gay colored confetti, sent a bul. « be sends eae Soe te Yew York im \tollowed her eagerly from day to al may get the tar kicked out of her in her squabble with China r Macao. let through hie brain i ter t f of Mra. Ku Seaman Ben-|day, va uma were bet on the In conclusion, I wili say you are going to have double holidays for New Years, Decoration day Happy Now Year € 0 | — outcome, and for months she wan, Fourth of July and Labor day, because they fall on elther Gaturday o; Monday. and you can count Wilson, clerk at the ke the daredevil hero of| y ‘ most talked-of woman in the Sunday if you want to. Christmas will be on Sunday, and you can begin celebrating Friday evening | ax he pawsec half op ldee aad \the maicdrame. Mas. a gene 40! 4O DD B jland. After a sensational newspa-| and leave off Tuosday morning. And, best of ail, there'll be an extra Saturday in the year, providing & saw the man alvting 1% chair. swoop the fainting lady to the ¥ per career, Nelly Bly married Mil arand total of 63 pay days When he received no reply, he Hd and ride away with her to] y z Seaman and nothing has Thanking you for your kind attention one and all, | wish you a Happy and Prosperous 1910! (Pro jooked again wi then the blood d matrimony | NEWS 1 heard of her for years longed cheering.) bitracted his attention 5 ean iia to teak cae: Ant bieibidiatihine | ‘The man on the wagon seat, the Ban whom yon se @ravaht bors i) 7m it girls and ma * 3 ; ye ea eee out and welconied in the new but! ging toward the pathetic, and then it was but a short way to the pathet | 4 om the bubbling lende efore the ere dia Sie j a Mein 8,22 Policemen care for pay? First and Second a vere was revelry and debaucher sestrained, Young and old,| 12m, the bubbling aM . ih, titans, ween I : A wanting & vata ‘ ecent and indecent mixed in moral democracy where the worst w as g th ge i | 6 ; 1¢m the tumult of racy, risque anecdote rose in the smoke | MH the opening ! pa an on a pat with the mother—all reduced to one a Ik rhey were happy, tt aes Ad wcrahiners af 0 te ' } ae Se Will serve with ee [sh ae fi , " ; ; ? " . Ri@ext meeting at | wh ass or t hamp: chus, happy for a time, Before the night was done many of the . ed, weak-kneed anc PEPTRey hope, now : 1" ' vf ar armagnole saw ne §| stagwering, the flush of wine routed by the paleness of nausea, to carriages and au Home t ig All » them on and | at 1 irred aloons of Seattle last leep it off, essentially the same as the sot of the ten-cent barrel hot Drunk t drunk | Ft tol " band ever I the Newport when last night's ¢ was reached at Out in the streets there wi anarch 1 madness f r c i ‘J 1 1 ) } esriman hao arrived in Seattle. < t Ther of a thousand whistles was drowned by the shrill inken shrieks of alsands of persons suddenly crazed, cow bells, hort hisiles, tin pa every d e fashioned | MAX HALLER , BO, not the Is t th ' } Pi iraine of the Har fhe | thousa en and women, as they rose, a swaying, seething ma with glasses high to drink]in Pandemonium added to the unceasing din that ebbed and flowed up ar ene * oad ed Seatile « “ ’ i 1 } ; i W, these ma : a B I ck the doors to the cafes were locked, Inside, revelers who had made their care> | purse | train from Port oe od. , ” 8 84 n 1 é ) ' ng ayed rollicking a } glasses tinkled and laughter rang forth in joyous unison jand brawling into the streets to j the demonic ch ha ent up tnceasingly. They NS we ittiene in ve ‘ At first all was « il merriment, within the bounds of decent celebration, but as the] pushed, shoved, jostled, collided, cut laughed, sang, one long, uproa ymphony of 1 alas. (anh omnes va came to vt on and the new year grew apace, the popping of champagne corks grew sharper and| gone wild, Hats were crushed, dresses torn, insults passed and | uck, but the t le b Wife during tin. x b i popy t } an} assassins ha en hired t MY Matte: ots er. Faces { Land eyes grew bright ; voice ned and gestures grew awkwardly| maelstrom whirled on unhqeding Ail the revolutiona ida Sles Thats 96,0 of what juer One t the convention ére quietly laid aside in the din, as the hot blood fi wed | Ruffianism and re aati ba up to the higher stratum ar , gher nt down to the} Bstrada, was the statement made Eopere, in 19 th ' vel hter rose shriller, voices mounted higher as gaiety drew} lower. At the doors of the larger saloons and tl notor f ! ht t holae omer byt eorgrene aT ti a“! nent h a quickening pulse; wel aughter ro vo P as ga | 1 i ger sak and the moze notorious cafes police fough the | tiv kleking nearer to hysteria | prurient crowds that beat up against them | The agent refused to reveal th hey were getting drunk, just plain drunk, but it was an occasion and everybody was| Whenever a young woman was dragged, leering and drooling, forth to the fre thal atae tinue eeteein aaa Robert W. rn f - a z t o be entice tra Oe yror, yi ate g ior the same end; the example was contagio Soon the weaker men and women, un et up a shout of joy, crashed their bells in envious sympathy, and blew apy \ n their rau-| Was warned t t ts r ny OL t | used to dissipation, lost their grasp on sobriety and cast rules of conduct to the old year's winds.| cows horns. A drunken girl gave the keenest delight and they reward \ with |the plot wa fh) Slinewn of’ a fter an}, ' P , . fe 1 hey spra their chairs limp and carele hair disheveled, clothing awry, eyelids droop-| coawse and profane plaudits ere ehted was 65 50 zs . : ; P 66 a : “avg | were ¢ 5 Vived by a wy; nS ng 1 har va ngue, erratic figure 148823 It was thus that Seattle welcomed the advent of another year | Nica =