The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 19, 1910, Page 1

the aha city and the suburbs. yeu live you may have The Star te your door for 2c per month, 12, NO. 232. IGANTIC have been ting in: the of New York. J. J. Foltz of Tacoma, paid $12,000 in good hard stock” of the El Progresso Banana ious and started an investigation that the fraudulent was brought to book. authorities in New York have arrested Frank G. of the company, and a number of his agents ‘where he claims his company owns thousands of ‘banana tree tracts. _ POLTZ STARTS INVESTIGATION. r. by Foltz, the Tacoma man, shows that while thay apy yy owns 13,000 acres of land under a duras government, the property is ely worthless for banana culture. It is virgin swamp More nor less, the government agents declare. fresso swindlers got more than $500,000 in this p Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine they gulled investors. ro ‘WATROUS LIVES REGALLY. lived i in regal style for th: past two years on the stock sales in the fake enterprise, although he tk salesmen the handsome premium of 40 cents for ee of stock sold at 50 cents. The El Progresso com- 10 cents net per share. of the banner stock 1s in the El Progresso out- Ba clergyman. He is Claude M. Severance, of | — who made it a practice to write to ministers all over urging them to sell stock in the banana swindle ts of the church, the Reverand Severance didn’t tell them it was a die at that time. He referred to it as a “splendid WAS A CRIPPLE age about, what little he did have the old man Marshal!, Gommitted suicide ty | sank into the Iilinols lodging house, acid. He was aout on First av. The old man from dally ree | co t make it go. He was a railroad man, a maimed, useless headquarters. Months ago an old rail Was caught between (he Mictiwo boxtars. He didn't frends oat in this coun railroad man, who didn’t Know any thing about leases, |papers. He didnt last long was jobhed out of his place. He saved a few dollars from the he at 1612 Fifth av. The boarders wouldn't come. lars slipped away one by one. But he saved enough to end the hope less fight of a railroad man who tis left leg. Bat was iy Turned out of woke and discour he old man turned ¢ fmployers for assistance 4 knew him not was useless and friendless and felief in the « hopeless hard fought legal jeorge T. Marshall, age about = Gan Was awarded $1 60 years, committed suicide by St all of this. His at-|taking carbolic acid. tet to have bis f« But | ertpple.” BT JON Coriey jand work till 7, and the man hang Suilth has elected bim-| ing t second strap fs cross of the Society for | hecause he goes to work at 6 p. m of Killj and ‘don't get home till 3 in the morning. the sympos! They're all Killjoys. They al yo, the fellow wouldn't give @ With & look on tinickel to see @ ms fab apples, « roeus parade or Gee oly vinega git Statue of part ia this town tha Liberty dancing And Aldriches in the p Second avenue. $84 Behnitze! ‘ n things “Get are going O. K street ca they're as nice as down to w w ped cream instance vl bet the Unued, takir «| Grouch is only lying dormant with Rote that » em, ready to spring out and assassinate any erfulness that may come in its way I'm for the suppression of Kill concluded Schnitzel 1 Vhat about the feller that wants arte f nve yuh arrested if yuh eat no Killjoy—he's a publi f replied © Schnitz sowling at Sething mor fan't ha % joy rider was ibter and again last night, This time tthe’ oR me a jam Bioch, proprietor of the jn orehead t ¢ Cafe, was the victim sauple ot loch was visiting at the hington the thieves took . h fhe machine was found is crank |thip morning buried hub deep in 10 get oy at 5 x |mud at Terrace st. and 12th av 1 WINDLE block of Banana stock, and it was only when he be-, pA Weast none of them did| wreck, however, and said he would | me fr him. He went to ajstart afresh. Two months ago he Bt took his last dollar | leased a dingy little rooming house The old man’s dol-| He was a} your purse to your arm with a rub- of people in this city, Tacoma and other parts | swindled out of varying sums of | i salesmen. Watrous has just returned from a trip to} © Your LiehT’ 1$ BURNING DIO You GIGNAL / Me? Wear your money in your halr instead of ‘ How about an electric light connected with ra your purse or— e " The Seattle Star The Star, Main night. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, DO YOU BLAME HIM FOR BEING AFRAID? BE SEATED PLEASE 1910. “ONE CENT. YALE TIES A mask with a phonograph Don't Hesitate to Phone 100, or Ind, 441, per tails to reach your home regularly every You are entitied to good service. HARVARD HAVE You ANY Grey \ D rena aX 2 a> ‘ attachment? if your pa 4 ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS ba (By United Pres.) | With weight, odd and expert|the best team of the year, and NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 19.— | Judgement ag hem, the cons of places Brown university, which de- | Fighting desperately he ae te cee eee aa ene Stound |Tebted Yale, Rear ths head of the tball heroes of Yale, unable to| smashes of the Harvard backs went li ietnieeih tieflh ‘calb: dae Sane score against Harvard, succeed for nang nder f f 1 ead of ndell, whose holding the Crimson warriors to Yale kicke 1 luded in the line-up ning to nothing score thiK after | eee eee ate hone saan | og hea a Soe. noon in the most spectacular ¢ The vict ; sil Petaon te to bis position be the year on an Eastern gridiron, | n Kaste ties in gi fore the kickoff — J SHE ONLY WANTS TO DIE | THIS NEIGHBOR OF OURS | AFTER LIFE OF TRAGEDY Mrs. Minnie Haraiiton, @ nelgh-| she Her parents dle addition to her own 15 she hae |bor of w ven! wa h an uncle. He raised the 13 children of in a tiny She went on the stage Amelia, and had most of them jahack, 10 m wan ft adopted out, one at a time. jond and Ma ee arth Mrs. Hamilton married again, | That's her ite Then she and again lost her husband ahe ah her| Canadian at Det For several rs Mrs. Hamilton ver The to Seattle bsolutely alone in the more hunger, no more cold, no Mother of 14 Children. 896 Dr, Matthews found partings from The P * had 14 ch in a shack little larger on more h er wa t goods box on Fifth av. traged no more heartact f y ended He had church socie ore nimente—this in| he r | what death means to our neighbor, the che of as helped to get to San Mre. Hamilton h went where she had relatives. She wants to die and be bur ntia he commi tame along, and in her wedding dress, with her wed Mrs amilton, broken in health | ding ring on her finger, that’s a r rt ed. again—one | and destitute, came back to Seattle Stranger Than Fiction. La another French-|as a refugee For the true story of Mrs, Hamil ma They had one child, Mary Mra. Hamilton could not find her j ton's sorrows is stranger than any Ladouceur died of tuberculosis in| children. For two months she lived | fletion concetved by Zola or de Mau- 1898 in a stable on Pike st., living from : it | pasnant The ch 1 got @ bad start in| the charity of neighbors = ge ———=| Sitting In a broken old chair, her life. Amelia, the oldest, was mar-| She went to the county hospital Sad ( satheri This, tor Ge ld’s nD, R test alesoot resting on the stove, ried four times ane had 13 chil-|from there. She refused to stay. er back against the post of her dren, several of them twins Star readers who read Reporter st, overlooking the railroads, Mrs. ended up tn Alaska. printed in The Star a year ago, can Shall We Fire Wa and Arms G ee Hamilton, who looks 65 but ts only Lily died understand why Ppy ’ ang 48, told part of that strange life Richard was sent to the re | “I'll kill myself before I stay — : di 5 : story form school, was released, got | there,” she said — The records of the Associated) mixed up in a burglary scrape, She rented the house on Clay st. The famous “dog room” in Ger-| Northern grmbling club, and others even for the gang to make light of.| Charities since 1897 tell more. The) and was drowned in the Sound | There were three rooms. She hoped ald’s cafe was the scene of a dis |of the bunch And for the first time, perbapa,| city charity records knew her. Sev-| while trying to escape from the to rent the other two. It was @ | Bot there was no revelry last the question was discussed in Ger-jeral church societies, the county police. month befo he was able to. cenyetene gathering, tant Right night. No sounds of joy over the|ald's “dog room"—"What shall be | hospital and @ number of charitable Leander followed Richard to | he city sent her some help. The “dog room"? That's the cups Hut it was the same old dose with Wappenstoin? What| people each add their bit to make! the reform school, and Henry |Some of her children swarmed in place where, not so many moons ing and the same old “dog room.” shall be done with Armat” up even an uncomplete history escaped that fate by being to share it. The city withdrew the ago, the merriest of fellows fore} But, unlike one other memorable And it has leaked out that Arms#| Mrs. Hamilton was born in Paris adopted into another family. | aid as unworthy. Mrs. Hamilton, gathered to plan the election of|occasion, the mayor did not lead| may eventually get it where Anas-| France—an old picture in colors of Three, including Amelia, are | all but bedridden, was left to starve, |that prince of good fellows, Ulram | the chorus: |tasia wears her medallion chain | herself as a pretty girl of 18 is ope| married and living in Seattle. | For two days she was without @ Charles Gill. Shall the people rule? To hell! when Boss Furth gets back, if “he's | of her few remaining treasures. Mrs. Of the other children Mrs. ~~ That's the place where the mayor| with the people.” | willin'”” It would be good policy, Humilton came to this country when! Hamilton has lost track. In! (Continued on on Page ony ‘ould drop in the afternoon quite; Everything was gloomy last * pas is beginning to La aa ig = = = mee seen = réquently to revel “and to chat/ night. The shadows over the Gill) mat Wappenstein? That rents and la | with his friend | Clarence, | matter of vital importance to the| That 8,000 five-cent ples are con city’s interests is a tacit admission | sumed daily in Seattle? that he has something to conceal.| That Alex Pantages used to be a Mr. Blaine in his letter points out | waiter in Dawson during the gold that the committee is not & court | rush? to decide upon Wappenstein’s guilt That Maurice Burns, the booking or innocence, but is merely directed is the author of several |to make a report to the city coun which were very popu: | ell Under these circumstances 6 ago? |there is no justifiable reason for ohn Segalos, the hero of linsisting upon the presence of an a wreck in 1906, is @ jattorney, the committee argues on the teamship | | Pennsylvania | WILSON TAKES HARD That an average of five persor | RAP AT ROOSEVELT) have been arrested ev day fc | CHICAGO, Nov. 19——-Without|/two weeks for violating the ordi directly referring to Col. Theodore| nance covering expectoration? Roosevelt or mentioning him by| That the original Beatrice Fair name, Governor-clect Woodrow|fax is a bald-headed scribe, now Wilson, of New Jersey, addressing ng copy on a Seattle news the Y. M. C. A. here this afternoon, | paper? said that agitate were “useful in That the postal savings depart awakening the pu conscience,|ment will be in operation in the but were dangerous as leade Seattle postoffice in Janyary? WAPPY 1S STILL ot SENTOMBED (By Cetted Prew) SAN BERNARDINO, Cal. ——— Nov. 19.—At least five mine Uniess Chief W: appenstein volun. | were entombed this afternoon tarily offers to appear before the| by an explosion in the Frisco council investigators, the commit-| mine, near Noble, Cal. tee will take no further action in| his case, and the charges made | This atti is explained | against him will stand. tude of the committee DO YOU KNOW HERE'S AN OLD CHAP THAT WINS A COW AND HAS NEW CLIMBING RECORD nuse he made und trip immit PASADENA, Cal., Nov from the of th of Mount Wilson, a retired farmer of Keokuk, Jersey cow and the holder Fleischner started hi boasted of his own record for ‘a mountains to the ght ho Otto Flefshner, 84, oday is t $60 moun rd Augustu had the Fleischner disparaged the performance, whereupon Weiner readily declared that his friend could have the cow if he hung up a better record Fleischner won with an hour to spare, trip the same day for another Jersey foot Sierra in « la., of @ unique climb after essor of a climbing rec Weiner, 60. and offered to repeat in the Weiner pas the ture. the | administration were too apparent }to the chief in a letter addressed | to him today by Chairman E. L. That Charles |. Lynch, superin Blaine. tendent of delivery at the postof The committee takes the stand | fice, and Justice of the Peace Fred that Wappenstein has had actual|C. Brown were once newsboys with notice of a subpoena directed to| headquarters at Second ay. and him, and that be has acknowledged | Cherry st.? it. That he has refused to obey the That Charley Mullen, Jr., wae the summons, and bas been unwilling| youngest major leaguer to go to co-operate with the legisiative|throngh his first season without branch of the olty government in @| being farmed out? wer feo — COURT Rangers to proceed to the Mex jean border to break up armed bands of Mexicans forming ther for the supposed invasion of Mc~co, Gov. Campbell di rected the Rangers to arrest all who attempted to cross the bor der, on the ground of a viola tion of neutrality law. dered the entire force of Texas The Puget Sound Electric | pany is running the interurbar | rond between Tacoma and Seattle —_—— cow rail not the people nor the courts TALK OF CONSPIRACY. This is evident in the attitude of | eidacliidvin 19 the electric company in ignoring} WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-Know the supreme court in the question of rates. The supreme court of the Washington sustained the commission, and ordered th to Interurban points reduce state of raflroad GUN BURSTS; 4 KILLED point they were a year ag But the old rates are still in ef At the Interurban « Yes ier eed Occidental Fel WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.— city tieket agent, said e got| Two men were killed and two no orders from t to| probably fatally Injured today change rates: I 1 In an explosion of a five-inch will enforce the present ra gun at the proving grounds at after kn appeal to the United State Indian Head, on the Potomac supreme court.” river, according to a message That may take several years received at the navy depart afternoon of a gigantic ution in Mexico is caus edge conspiracy te start ar ing the state department a great From author deal of worry today itative sources it was learned that evidence of the plot had been dis covered in all four of the border states, and so far had the progressed that the revolu invade Mexico and attempt to cap Revolutionary leaders in C: nia, w Mex Arizor |Texas are under surveillar secret service men who have or TEXAS JOINS IN WAR jto prevent a mobilization of forces on United States soll at any cost. Say Talk Is Foolish All talk of trouble between arm Mexicans and Americans in Tex is foolish and is started with a pu pose, according to another official well up on Mexican affairs. The war talk” is believed to be a blind behind which the revolutionists are working and a dodge to stir up American sympathy after the fight is started. It {s said that at least & tenth of the revolutionary army will be American cowboys and ranchmen in the event that a revo lution actually {s launched — (My United Press) ON BOARD THE CRUISER TENNESSEE Via Wireless to Key West, Nov. 19 President Taft to day inspected the naval bas at Guantana He as not decided whether he will land at Charles ton, 8. C., or at Hampton Roads. BURY MRS, BAXTER The funeral of Mr Marion ter, the prominent charity who died Wednesday, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Plymouth Congregational (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, D. ¢ Colonel Theodore Roosevelt recety ed today num Novy. 19. bers of nds and acquaint ance at the Longworth home where he Ly ing her The - noon viewed the “~S——<oF Roosevelt collection at the Smith: bits | MISSING WITH $2,000. With $2,000 in curr n his po: on, Fred Frey disappeared November 15 from his lodging house at 1916 Sixth av and nee that time no trace of him has been ifound by friends Ty y ne} ment th The Duwamish valley is t r is &) Lieut AG. Chaftes rapidly depopulated by the present] exorbitant tes A wait of sever Batte ¥ en c: J ; Bre beh oO ye re would be fatal \ f O'Leary atte +r Bl la oo Attendant Nelson Jackson (color Jtone- Webster Co., owne The explosion was caused b: Counsel James B. Hk blowing out of a breech k busy to talk about the 1 | That the minor off stand, however how wharves cetue GART OFF 21 BARBELS rietta T. Gowell, wite of a Se real estate man Mrs. Gowell started for Du ome thy of nerve h. She had*een out Of the state |and a up to the Chi for some and had read the | cag { & Paul Rai court decision in the papers way wharf yesterday and carted off She supposed, of course, that the |21 barrels, The barrels were emy company would obey the cour but the railway officials would like She tendered 8 cents, the old fare. |to have of the man who I want & cents more aid the | had the to turn the trick conductor he refused to pay] without consulting them | more, The conductor stopped the} car at Georgetown and called a SUES 8. E. CO policeman, He refused Inter: | 5 EF. Co, conductor re fere Then ¢ car man called an-|f » take a torn ticket for h other electr company employe,}fare and ejected him from the and the two of them ejected M ‘ tasmussen, 21, commen Gowell from the car morning for $900 dar Mrs. Gowel! will make a fight to The affair happened Octo |uphold the rights of the interurban at the corner of Ninth and | dwellers. Holgate ate A man sat at @ lunch counter on First av, Tuesday about noor Bring me some black coffee,” ordered the man of the waiter A few seconds later the waiter queried Did you say you want | 1 said I inted some BLACK coffe replied the man in a N this happened” except the man r 1 his coffee wi m | 48 to blame the x h ' k coffee idea quick e man beca ¢ uf une