The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 20, 1910, Page 1

AND SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1910. ONE CENT. Sitws wranvs se IVES OF 15 CHILDREN ENDANGERED ase BN ee me =] QN PLOT REMEMBER THE GASVERA PROSSER PENNILESS AND BEWILDERED G FOILED FRANCHISE STEAL? "COMES BACK HOME TO START ALL OVER AGAIN Well, Congressman em ged Was Corporation | aE as Visca os — bg gg 3 Was Pulled Off, and He . woe ee Arres ixed It ere Can Never Be Relief. . 1 MUST BE BORN AGAIN—-JUST BECAUSE I'VE and Excelsior - Bubbles of the GONE THROUGH WHAT I HAVE DOESN'T Against Partition Do you burn gas? Have you ever gritted your teeth over your = ” —Children Upstairs. gas bIIIT Have you ever been Sauueed In the office of the gas MAKE ME ANY LESS HUMAN SHE SAYS. company when you got a gas bili for the month you were out of beg Hurries From Depot to Nearby Hotel Where She Reg- You can thank Will E. Humphrey for it all When Will E. Humphrey was corporation counsel for Seattle isters Under Assumed Name — Starvation Only We Zonre ago he handed the Seattle Lighting compar rpetual : Will Force Her to Accept Theatrical Offers Ten- The manner in which Humphrey made the preser ot “ — dered Her. GAs COmpany Was such that even Judge Hanford wa wed to | od ; | Pebuke him. , Vera Prosser, slayer of Reese P n Seattle at ther dwellers in the | Judge Hanford, from the bench, at tha’ time said 9 o'clock this morning from Libby, t a nervous wreck. Her es of the chil-| municipal corporation is an agescy of the state, and it S face, once striking in its ned with the ought to be conducted honestly, and | consider it wrong for those a — marke that fear make on tho © at opt in prison cells men © ‘ r representing it in fitigation (Humphrey) to deny any of ite ordi ‘ = her large dark eyes had a haunted k Peer nervously the fire as aot t ree yeara ago it deca. a ae ee - “a y (7 2 twitehing In the King st. depot, furtively glancing about in fear Boyle. af trie Ligh 4 me necessary for the Seattle Gas & Elec 3 } of recognition, yet hoping that she would see a fr y face. Mra, t on Sanders ric Light company, now the Seattle Lis company, to secure / i: Prosser walked to a hotel, where she registered under an assumed man had left the city a new franchise. There was much an nchise feeling in the 4 ' name bad previcu given keys y at time, and the company was afraid to try to get it “Oh, it is good to be back; it's good to be back and away Dullding ¢ nee through council] In the regular way j < . | from all the horror.” So Thomas Burke, now a senatorial candidate, rigged up the A PHYSICAL WREC scheme to deceive the people and get the franchise question | Hy) fy ~ r | Off the train and in the depot osser did not know transferred from the city council to the federal court A | what her next step would be. She wanted some one to tell her drew up an ordinance repealing the old fram H lA where to go and what to do. She was fearful that she would be the company operated, an Parry, to / [: t C H recognized, and become the attraction of a morbid crowd, and a 4% the community, introduc n the council, @ waiting photo er threw her in tried to pick ] { up @ sult case f straw woven affair, but did not have the physical strength. She droppe and swayed back and forth as she straightened back and mm of the gas ec ny, methods and ci) passed the rep 2 and Samuel Hill and , h j : if whe would fall. Gritting e Kas crowd took the m 2 ates D FRA ‘ ‘ fought off the fainting spe ‘and other inflam nly, : “ ere is known b 7" ‘ e 4 y A reporter took her grip, and she 2000 boxes of mar | ws oe boven order prohibitin elty from tn ‘Ve q v kathered herself wether , . corporation “ appeared to oppose x \ the t bi: ed t t nad bee ton “ad! constitute a masterpiece of legal { : ‘a 2 5 h reelf walt - | absurdity 5 5 a > foe -" , . ! draw | Humphrey's first o o t © was that the Y > : Souns to b] ad not been put 0: chise had never b 2 P . A palsebts abs ‘a WN : : : hs " ida elt chances of excape byt ‘ : belp abeur QU . J sais ged behind @ repor Would havo been cut off ae ie onketans . ranchise had expired by q . <= . tal . 4 re can I go now ihe children who lived in the| O*® limitations and tract had run out : a . ‘ A) ~ pose that none of the eo hotel ufstairs been burned id Then that fran been repealed by the city coun x : yy, have me. I’m prac . . be rats. i : f eft, and that the r i pance WAS not a caling ord! ’ ‘ . “ aA™ i} 2 3 and friendless > i Teamsters and other laboring tiscovered the fire al nance, but an expression of opinion by the city council 4 | turn ainet me r manimen employed by McDermott & arco a8 it started Fast That the repealing ordinance was passed at the instigation of } ' s . ae in trouble; just a woman in trou i contractors, in the Henry a of enants en- i > i fraw id J ' cacee tha Wetetion: sigan gs td by ailerepresentation amount to fraud, and that it 1 — t jb ing, have made complaint to of arse: This “ | MeL ts * ‘ine ei - ll This Fine? f ary Doyle, of the Labor Tem- Godlee oc cckaie eee This mass of contradictory pleading resulted in Judge Han f a You Ca s e fof origi. Migand were taken to headquar.| {fd granting the perpetual injunction, with the rebuke to Hum . But it's good to be ; rly angige deg ® await Sanders arrival trom phrey previously quoted good to be back My " ren a df But Humphrey's work did not end here. Between him and the I've wuffered,” and she ¢ , — the work dose the reporter's arm in her emphasis. | ontractors was regrade newspapers told what a fine| *° P time I had in Libby. I lived a nk men making complaint living death tm Libby. I faced a Miller, $2.50; H. Butler, $16; was arrested last night] corrupt members of the city council, the city entered imto ap . ) phic advices from Boyle} agreement not to appeal from Hanford’s' decision. When Mum- j . j ane Se Gaceen rae ae te- phrey left the office to go to congress, Judge Mitchell Gilliam, hie ° ho keeps m tn office, k | ‘ : successor in office, tried to take up the appeal, but the Humphrey ° } ij : : i death that drives men crazy; 1 was|J- Benson, $16.50; J. J. Kelly, $8.75. > hotel. puty Sheriff , has been sent to bring} #9Feement barred him. Seattle. As a result of this perpetual gas franchise, which Humphrey bars ile caused, the people of Seattle are today at the mercy gas company b J And Will E. patented ie directly responsible, ROME, Aug. 20.—Lieut. Rivaldi was crushed to death beneath his Farman biplane when the ma- (see me acquitted Chine fell to the ground today in @ flight between Civita Vechia and Rome. Rivaldi is said to have | they were in favor of me, but as|/¥P. Secretary Doyle says he has died instantly @ personality, that was different. | found men asleep in the hall wait- Yet I'm thankful for the one great | ing for McDermott ordered the girl to eat. After some | Lieut. Sovaja, accompanying baat on ial a oarereee biplane, com pleted his flight safely. |hesitation she consented to take ERLY STORIES thing, and I'll never forget it Doyle also claims that when the two whipped exxs When ahe 1 Must Re Born Again. ere working for the city they Sieicr| LES SAYS T.R, RISKS LIFE T0 SECOND ATTEMPT... Aan ay womeed sine hous da. sea? for more nourishment and was » a. Now Sve got to oar be can |to law. Some men, it is claimed, given bread, which she devoured | SAVE HIS | AT SUICID over again; I've got to be born |have not been paid since May If the girl does not nited Prem.) again; drive the past ou y mY |We're paid eventually,” sald Kelly, with avidity OYSTER pay. Aug. 20.—-Rooke- apie! mind and my heart. Oh, n't ) > a f nourish- | y»j | orang » p ca " ae mg ry ihe ‘beeakiag of | felt this afternoon denied emphat-| Leaping from a foundering ca-| / sie bow Laan forget, but I fnust| Cut We can't wait like this lher fast too sudéenly will prove report that he had sent|noe, Willie McDonald, 13, was | With his mouth and face> fear-|"")hiust--that’s all there is to it— pedaling 5 Griscom and William | drowned yeaterday in Lake Union, fully burned with carbolic acid,)7 must This _ t mean much i . ee ed 4 fatal Loeb, Jr, to Bevoriy to deity t h layfa | Patrick Killoron, of 941% 22nd av t . e, though jiver aD although his cham and playfellow, | * to you, just words, but think of Fae: — yes "1 fabian Lea um to President Taft | Victor DuCett, 12, made heroic ef - jwas found d last night in @) me It sas See iMty foal, ane yet SHAS VOTED FOR 100 YEARS * 20.—Rey. | precarious condition. They are #0 Tete om te ultimatum,” sald | forts to save him ‘The elimination contest between | room ia the Des mond hotel se (fometimes I : Setiews OSt ie codes 5 O'Nett! 4 religious fanatic who| weak that they cannot stand Of falsehood 7. report is « tissue | The two boys, accompanied by| the Wilson and Burke camps is ponte bce iy tA Hloron made’ Sometimes it seems to me that I RIVERSIDE, Cal., Aug. 20.— to have been pastor of a oe aoe rom beginning to| Johnny Wilson, 4109 M an av.,| st! going doggedly on, although | an attempt on his life, but was pre-) am different woman entirely, Hark Massey, colored, 120 church in Dallas, Texas, to- |” Not ent lwere swimming. McDonald got an fervid denials come from the Burke | vented by his dau Delia, who | that I am just thinking about some |* years old, is bemoaning his Tite 9 colties pear the out i \ wpe had he not seat Gris jold cance and pushed off in it. The following that their candidate is | knocked the bottle of acid from his | other woman's troubles, and 1 get luck because Tuesday he fail- CS chy Shusbe, an tenner ROOSEVELTIAN AX font ie », he said, but he|craft began to sink. going to withdraw. There is an|hands. Just befo the first at) sick with fear. Life frightens me|# ed to vote. Massey says he ims the result of a fast which 99 the Pasion anges pos Pe , messenger od McDonald gave a cry for help, and, undertone of doubt in the street ego ig ood i ap ence that! now. Until the jury came in 1 has voted regularly for nearly Ringether with J. E. Butler, Mrs FOR “SUNNY JIM Gictala politinn eee eecearer | temped into the Young | rumors of Burke's withdrawal to-/his body be burted at Olympia, and thought of nothing else. All my|# 10C years. He knew Andrew Boyle and Alice Griffin, Mrs | ate polities to the president. | DuCett swam out to where the) day, the opinion being that Burke | bis daughter, now that the second thoughts were directed to that in Jackson and claims to have 4 pare oy wank and dived re edly, but |{e raising his terme for getting out | attempt succeeded, wil) fulfill bis stant. Those men In the jury box caught a glimpse of George “6 bc ae os ace OK tnt ce | even need Bree »— LAY OFF 50, 000 | could not locate his chum, the ‘mud | of the senatorial race Inst wish Gunde plotere that never tet me.] dr Washington. 15 Sorel Ss one the nourishment which offi-|That Col. Roosevelt has demanded pee him Whatever is done must be done awake or s I could see their | & ister. MP attempted to give him |that Vice President Sherman be The other boy ran for help, and | quickly, as it will be but a few ADMITS MURDER faces all the time, and I looked at - bors complained about the | dropped from the administration | OTTON WORKERS | it Eng d = in time to save Du-| days rte the tickets are printed them and looked at them, hoping ee ee eo Rb Wthe authorities. The humane’ political councils as the vy of} tt. he body w ne pooe rs raed and distributed | Pi morgane Sacal i Cone see something, something ARR has been ywerless to pro- ace, and that President Taft com-| BOSTON py 20. —Nearly 6 land taken to the emont under } . s ap " he | ', hope for : ed, and the sheriff apparently was| sider the plan preposterous, is the | 000,000 epindies in the corte, ming | teking parlors |5,000 MOURN FOR OLAS, Nees Ae ee prio Then came the glad moment AGEL COUPLE ARE under the law to remove the| report current here today of Massachusetts and the Southern | 12? drowned boy was the son of) MISS NIGHTINGALE sey and the sherttt, Jim Raheria, | ore" | Mee ren” 2 mom ae Manee iBsters against their will to a| Most of the politicians who are] statos will be idle during the first | William B. McDonald of the Wasb-| omak ney and the sheriff Jim Roberts that 1 was almost delirious. 1 district attorney's office in-|these days of party readjustment, | notices posted in the big milla to-|t?@ 209 of Charles M. DuCett of] poxnon, Aug. 20.—Five thou car Seovnate ahiden hove"en- Jule I did. I guess I shook hands with i. the case on the ground|openly hint that Roosevelt fs pur-|day. More than 60,000 operatives |t2® Lowman & Hanford company.) oy a cieng Pani {har | the Newcastle saloon here on July | everybody. ‘The only moment 1 iy house was unsanitary and | posely asking Taft to make conces | in New England alone will be af inaty Walirend’ ta Baues Paul's cathedr ikaw atlen sine | eax ™ knew anything was when the pros WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 20.— be to the public Rusith. sions which he knows the president |tected by the shut-down, and many| BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 20-—-Rolse ts| the memorial services in honor of | McConnell was supposed to have | CCUUNS attorney—the man Who! Robert Casey, 70, and his wife were Girt Ie Dying. will not make. This, they sa7,|more in the South. The purpose of |excited today by the prospect that| Florence Nightingale. Representa-|been murdered by the “‘freckle| “cd 80 bard to send me to the/ sung dead in their home in Clay. The girl Alice Griffin, is thought | will put the administration in the | the cessation of work ta to give the “Deliver, Laramie & NorthWest-tites ef the kihg.atd queen, mem |feced desperado,” whom four itentiary—took my hand. I) mont today. ‘The aged couple had ing. Neighbors who watch-|light of rebuffing the former presi-| operatives a rest, and to clean and |ern ‘x Nanhed. for‘ a. Pasttic weasti habe eaahe eabiuet Gnd lenders of| posses have been pursuing sear| V22e4 tO scream at him _|been clubbed to death and their Mt the tasters er ae ttag a aoe pg ame ood repair the machinery on Puget nd the diplomatic corps were present. here for the past two weeks (Continued on Page Six.) little store robbed during 5 the one otering the house by force, | with Taft Typ Meery Tom FOSTER, ‘SECRET SERVICE MAN. I’D HATE TO HAVE HIM ON MY TRAIL SAYS MARION _ The Painful Process of Elimination BY MARION LOWE. sleeves and looked out of the win-) you want me to talk about?” Tom |catch ‘em any way we can.” found that out himself. Over in ddenly the lithe form of the de- dow. His volce never left the even | Foster jogs along in easy conversa-| Forget That Scrap of Paper. | London, when a series of outrages z ve seemed traversed by a quick |tone, with its Southern draw! and |tion as if he had nothing else in| “Then you don’t pick up a scrap| had been committed against dumb sap oopaire it @ livid bolt of } accent. There wasn’t one quick|the world to do but visit with alof paper, begin to weave a theory | brutes, Doyle tried his theories. He 1d from head to foot. gesture or glance; there were no/|neighbor, It’s like driving behind and follow that ragged bit of pa-| said the police were mistaken In Leaning across the table, his dark, conversational fireworks. the family horse along the coun-| per until you have unearthed the/|their conviction on circumstantial | handsome features almost touched | Like Old Dobbin. try road on a lazy summer day—/ mystery?” evidence, and he started out on a |the pallid, flat face of the man op-| | Some men, when being In but you get there, just the same. “No,” drawled Foster, “that’s all| Sherlock Holmes hunt to get the jed, square then , » the T haven't any methods,” said the| rot. Sherlock Holmes makes inter- | ———~—~ iene ite him. His long arm, with its) wns peer =. ee ual Interviewer with: “Well, what do'detective, “No detective has, We! esting reading, but it’s bunk. Doyle! (Continued on Page Six.) jacross the table like the hand | This ix a picture of Thomas B, snubbed and scorned by the women | Benson said his wife waited in the And an object of curfosity to the| balls of the Henry building all day men. Oh, yes, they all wanted to/ Yesterday, and that McDermott,’ As a principle| ho pays the men, never showed —_—— = = +e eee EEE Ee AHEAD (Dy United Press CmAcHED Foster, detective, in charge of the , : ea sstomers”” — Satted-Mtates ecorel scrvice at fe Ann Addams Works in a Restaurant at $3.50 Per SA PROS ais + ><a ares attle—as he is not. Week—How Little Emily Fainted and Was Dump- Star's series of articles by She worked that after 1 two days. M mn was Six mont! ngo I saw “Tom s 4 Ann Addams on the truth ng Foster he first and only time ed Into a Potato Bin—Restaurant Was Fine about the fife of the working }/crowded that noon, but on my way until 1 ed nt hia office today Enough in Front, But Foul and Unsanitary As to J] giri. to the steam table ch order Before I could announce myself Its Kitch Tomorrow's article wil! be | { passed Emily, holding her little he said »w's The Star?” Some ts Kitchen. “THE TRUTH ABOUT THE | fort like a wounded soldier what su ised at being remem LIFE OF A HOUSEMAID.” She had s reached her sta- bered i o ne to ne two hours BY ANN ADDAMs. | “Dcan't," che aald: *T asked the It is an astonishing story of rege with 3, lates of aneds ant | later " om Foster was a \ ANR-® : siteate Wit aaail’ aah Gn hate the cruelty of a supposedly three saucers of peas in one hand Itective, Wf 3 ARTICLE NO. 2 janes decent and Kindshearted so- |/@0d arm, with four cups of coffee lebiak te doone’t Nba gent wall T'got a place n'a restaurant. * | “that was the ultimatum, Shei ciety and club woman. The J ti oitel Mane tw cond two w) Maybe you're tooled law the Modern Detective le NOT,|, Bmily, one of the girls, came|could not afford to lose her plac Gar dose not give the name Ff) 124 on top. She served them all Wd cat’ ine) came dies dhind of Gt ce ve le NOT.| work that morning sick. Her|Her wage of $6 a week and three|J of the restaurant in which | Pood on l0p. | ole Bervad | lMMn OF tectiven, and gave me a seat in his| watched him for one hint of the |hond was hot and her hands were |{nferior meals a day was life to oe esas vce eiee de ade |, the last cup of coffee when one of office ular, yellow-back notion of a de-| dripping with icy sweat. We met | her Her time was 12 hours deal with apedifio chest, but e ective Herself. | tective. joften during the morning in the | day, six days in the week, | a Loar Foster 1| ‘om Foster, about 6 feet 4 inches | kitehen as w went about our} Gave Them Spoiled F sh. | iy cnet yt ore ih there Is something lalmost imagined | was a “lady” de-|tall, sort of sound an@ “dumpy,”|work. She swayed as she walked) We had all been sick from|{ omP, y the litle waltrenndan tective. For an t 1 artes | with a Mellin’s food expression, sat|even then, and 1 begged her to go|spolled fish. We were fed the fish|] the home. ide. 4 aida’ 1 (Continued on Page Six.) ‘I didn’t tnke my # off of him Ijin his office chair ta his shirt | home [because it was the only meat left| my stom ttr 1 my atten