The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 5, 1911, Page 1

hae TAFT A TOOL, SAYS PINCHOT IN LETTER TO T. R. “The next presidential election people are to drag the car of progr will decide whether the American up hill with the powerful et: ance of a progressive president, or whether they must attempt to drag it up the same hill with the brakes These are the words of ( adviser of Theodore Roosevelt of the Saturday Evening Post public conduct of President Taft ments yet published of the gives to the written by him to Roosevelt in this letter, he says “The reactionaries evidently ITALIAN FLAG fford used in an article In the believe that Mr set, Pinchot, friend current Issue the closest and The article Is a keen analysis of the and on Taft administration public for the first time a detail Africa, of the most cutting arraign In the article Pinchot d indictment against Tart December 31, 1909, Introducing Taft has | a strong The Seattle Star NEWSPAPER CITY EDITION ; tendency to follow the advice of againet al) others, own men,” In the fndietment of Taft Pine It may help you to understand the present situation if | write down briefly ne of the principal Mr. Taft has gone far toward a velt policies. It is true that he ha to carry out these policies, but we for they have a built a fence the last man who talks to him, hot says 1} reasons for thinking, as 1 do, that) omplete abandonment of th Roose 8 reper ean no long 6 in r rely on profes the face of actions which continually contradict them He-permitted himself, ax soon by a clrele of trust attorneys and has never broken away He surrounded himself in his ONLY ~~ SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5 He affiliated himself tn congress with the was elected, reactionarler as he other from whteh cabinet by corporation lawyers aders of the opponl-| INDEPENDENT around him of thetr ily professed his intentions to be surrennded | he!the most conspicuous representative ae | Hon to the Roosevelt policies, 1 1 fer to Cannon, Aldrich, Hale ney and others whom he has chosen as hin advisers, “By the appoint mont dangerous attack yet made He established, [vicious political atmosphere in th | npotin system, “He signed and now defends a jolal interests, following beyond all precedent He indorsed, | [in the senate “He indorsed, |your bitterest ¢ In bis Winona sp my. IN 1911 nt of Secretary upon by his appotntm the passage of which the Ballinger bi maervation polleles he administration, and revived tariff bill made by and for the cost of lving ape jeech, in the person of Mr. Tawney SEATTLE Taw-) brought about the nt and support of Hitchcock, @ the his Boston speech, in the person of Senator Aldrich, of reaction and special interests In the Hiean party Senators N peech at Winona he tried to read out of the repub- elson, Beveridge, Cumming and other republicans whose fight was made for equality of opportunity and a square deal, He has repeatedly set party solidarity above the public welfare, ylelded to political ex ney of the lowest type He is placing or has placed him powitio alliance open to him | He has allowed the president The general examples taken, It Is away from the t policies and the favor of the special interests an¢ fe When every allowance been 5 the benefit of every doubt, still the | bimself supplied the proof that he elf in a such that the pecial interests of the people to lore onl with the great mi confidence in the cannot be min people, and in tendency shown in thene Roose has has been given Mr. Taft bas ade, when he wd is not good cannot be trust a iit oH TURKIGH FLAG AUSTRIA MAY STOP BIG WAR First Pictures of the Awful Austin Disaster RUMOR BIG (By United Pree Leased Wire.) LONDON, Oct. 5.— The Evening Times, in an extra edition, asserts it has reliable information that Austria has determined to prevent a con- tinuance of Italy's operations against Turkey on the Alban ian coast. ITALIAN TROOPS Mp ad LONDON, Get Paris dis patches ¢ tha sae r sages receive om M say that, aft mbarding Prev the Italian for there tried to ef OF A B fect a landing, but were repulsed | with a loss of 15 men. Details of the engagement, the Milan inform ant sald, were meager Diplomats here are quieted by the news, believing that if Italy lands a force in European Turkey nothing can avert a general outbreak in the Balkans. LONDON, Oct. 5—The italian cruiser Cavout struck a submerged mine in Tripoli bay today and sank within a few minutes, according to an unconfirmed report from Con stantinople. The same report says greatly dis that the itallans are bombarding) Mitylene OF WOMAN GERTRUDE Gi CHAPTER I. The Country Girt and The Millionaire. Gertrude Gibson war one of a fam- ily of eight in Sardoval, Til, 10 years ago. The most attractive of the village girls, Gortrude’s ambi- tion soared above the town's life.| Once she made a trip to St. Louis, and met a millionaire, the first man of great wealth she ever saw. Emil W. Strouss, a Chicago busi- ness man, was the prince. He no- tieed the beautiful young girl, just budding into the flower of woman: hood. He was a man of the world With his gold he threaw a glamor over the unsophisticated country maiden She was eo med with the interest he displayed in her.| And when he suggested that she go to Chicago to prepare for a Paris education, fur which he} would pay, she gladly consented. A Christian mother begged that she stay at home, but the lure of wealth was too er CHAPTER If. Gertrude Falls Victim to the Wiles of Her “Protector.” The first hand to greet Gertrude Gibson on her arrival in Chicago was that of her rich admirer. Prt wate tutore tanght the young girl; her every wish was gratified, How ardently Strouss wooed his ward, and how successful wae his sult may be guessed, for within a short time he accompanied Gertrude to Paris, and when they returned the young woman was known as Mra. Strouse. The knowledge that she was not a wife rankled in her breast. “I must have a real hone, with a man I love, who loves me in the way all honest women are loved,” Gertrude confided to her French teacher CHAPTER Ill. Gertrude Becomes the Wife of a Football Player. In the summer of 1908 Gertrude met a tall, well-built, handsome chap, Charles A. Patterson, a for mer football player, familiarly known ag “Chick Gertrude Gib soo, hungry for the affections of an honest man, who would give her a respectable position in life met bim half way in the wooing, She told Strouss she wanted to marry Patterson; that henceforth she must deny herself to him. So Gertrude and Thies” Patterson went to the Pacific coast fornia they were. married they returned to Chicago. Here ain Gertrude met Strouse, and (rouble in the Patterson flat began at the same time. The young stricken with tuberculosis, “He couldn't work,” sald the young wife. “I had to sell my automo bile, my diamonds and my fing The husband = was In Call-| 6 AILLED IN - STRIKERS BATTLE teeth ene eae * # RAILWAY EMPLOYES AFFECTED BY STRIKE. \* | ® Boilermakers ® Machinists * Car men * Blacksmiths and helpers. 3,000 * Clerks 1,200 & Steamfitters & Sheet metal workers & Painters Labore 500 1,200 2,000 (federated) . 2,000 Total 38,900 oeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee® RRRAREAHAHEEE (By United Pres Leased Wire) Ged Vin |today is assuming the most | phase that it has taken since i | beginning of the strike. Shots are | being fired, the strikers and strike. breakers clashing and mixing in a general fight. John Tardy, icin lies in a hospitat, seriously | wounded. (iy United Press Leased Wire) NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 6.—With six men already killed here and over a hundred men while the property loss amounts ja million dollars daily, all as a r sult of the shopmen’s strike, co tions here have become so serious that the Southern Exchange com mittee today offered its services for arbitrating the differences between the railroad companies and the striking shopmen (By United Prete Leased Wire.) LOS ANGE Oct. 5-—The strike will be brought to a success ful issue long be November. dames J. Jones, president of the district No. 1 of the National Sys tem Federation The strike undOwbtedly will Pe settled before the end of November. —J. L, Compton, meiber of the lo- cal System Federation board. It is only a question of a few weeks now until the men return to work with the railroads making full recognition’ of the System Federa tion—A. ©. Yancey, chairman of the local board of the System Fed eration These were the optimistic state. ments forthcoming today from three prominent local leaders following the receipt of a telegram from Chi cago, the contents of which they vefased | to divuige Clothes + #0 that we could live.” Then followed a tip to Paris, which Gertrude made with Strouse. At Paris she got a let ter from “Chick,” telling her to come back at once or he would kill her. “He sold me to Strouse; Strous# gave him $1,500 to keep me as tong as he wished,” rays Gertrude, “More than that, at other times my husband insisted upon my go- ing to Strouss for money, and he knew what that meart to me. He beat me, and he insisted upon my being bad.” “I didn't know that Gertrude was going to Paris with that man; the told’ me she was going to visit jher family,’ wrote Patterson to his brother. Patterson, near Ceath, sought the high altitude of Colorado. “My wife’ is a vampire,” he wrote to his Chicago attorney, “She gets money from St even yet, I am afraid she will kill me.” “Tf love my husband so madly |that I left Chieago to be near his bedside,” Mre. Patterson said as she hurried to the siek man. | It was then, Patterson after: | wards wrote his attorney, that his | wife firet learned of the $25,000 jalienation suit he had filed against Strou charging him with hav ing ot n the bride's sffeetion, CHAPTER IV. Kills Her Consumptive Husband. Then the young wife went to the |sanitarium, While taking a short jwalk with her husband, during which passers-by noticed they were quarreling, she came to a stand sti, “‘Chiek’ threatened to kill me,” says Mrs. Patterson. “So I took the revolver from him and shot him, It was in self-defense.” She must face a Denver jury to ewer to a charge of murder, Gertrude wounded Blo TIDAL WAVE MEX (oe ualied: Trew Lonaea NOGALE Oct. 5.— er details te’ “he, ofa dovaatatio storm, accompanied by on the coast of the state of Sonora, Mexico, reached here today. Many buildings have been Wrecks, ed in the towns of Guay iis and Empalme, aceording to the répert, aud the damage to shipping, inter: ests will rug into the thousgods. All wires are down’soath of Her mosilio, and full details are not availa Many miles. of (rack ate rej washed out, aad ail tfains are late OPPOSES. ‘AEOUCTION IN. WAGES Paul K. Mohr, official of the Cen: tral Labor Council, today stirred Up! whe a hornets’ nest In the city council) amid the debris of her wrecked home. when he spoke in opposition to re- duction of wages of city employes in order to reduce the tax levy. John Agen, Judge W. 0. Woody! property holders had discussed rea sone for retrenchments when Mohr, | speaking in the interest of living said: The large land holders have spoken. I speak for the wage earn: jer—the man who, after all, pays th bills, It is not to the interest of the little home owning wage earned, to get lower wages. If yon want t cut, take the cut off some place: where it will not reduce the | come of the man who already gel little enough. Take the police de partment, We get no protectio from the police. I don't see a Heeman where I live once in six months. The police are down town property. town property owners pay for Wy The public utilities department using nine-tenths of its energies keeping tab on the Seattle Bleetri company. Why should not the 8. B) Co. pay for ite Judging by the feeling of the counciimen it 1s hardly probable that any cute will be made in sal aries. Some positions may be abolt ished if found to be superfluous. Woman Defendant Wins Mrs. Minnie M, Williams, who @ few days ago was on trial for alleg~ ed forgery of her ex-husband's will, purporting to leave her his estate, was given judgment in Judge Al- bertson’s court yesterday in the alienation sult brought against her by Mrs. Luelia M. Roat for $26,000. Mre. Roat alleged that Mra. Wilk jams exercised an undue influence over her husband in 1908, causing him to leave her. Cottage For $3,250 Nine-minute car ride from Pioneer Square we have for sal a beautiful fiveroom cottage, modern, Larg flowers is wor $500 Cash Balance to Suit and Lot lot, 650x120; trees aplendid condition, h $2,500 alone, | Laurence J. Colman and other large! » OLE HANSON & CO. 314-316-316-317 New York Bik, The brick business block containing the Bell telephone exchange was one of the three or four in Austin te preserve any semblance of the shape they bore an hour before they lay in ruins. The dwelling house wedged against the brick block was ene of the many homes and lighter structures used by the flood as battering rams to make Austin a memory. LOOK ON PAGE 6 TODAY FOR MORE HOT NEWS PICTURES OF THE FLOODED CITY AUSTIN, Pa., Oct. wreckage. A dog was found by rescuers to A stock of diamonds valued at $10,000 was discovered today, intact, amid the ruins. A sixday clock w WOMEN’S FEET THINGS! LISTEN TO THIS THE Rin day, alive under 15 feet of debris. ARE FUNNY es: 15 ON GUARD Wake THE LEFT 1S ll LyiNG On ITS LEFT ; BOTH Lying ON ‘YHEG SIDES Loon = BOTH OF Hem FEET 5 Gone “TWE Toe To HEAR ‘ent Ours WA Toe - INS THE LADY NEAR THE 000R MUST BE LAME | OMuY set HER RIGHTY FOOT ir 5 WRAPPED AROUND THE LEGS OF THE CHAIR go WOULD OUUSH THE SECRET, OF THE HECK Ever stop to get a rear women's feet, when they're ina restaurant or some other pub- He place? Well, it's more fun than | a council pting. A Star re porter tried it today, Now, don't think for tary moment that you can't see the aforesaid feet. Why, some of | them are wrapped around the front} lege of the chair! Just take a squint there. the pair of perfect “to-tns little further up there is a pair of | “toeouts.” Some women don't! seem to have any feet at all, judg ing from the rear view. And yon. der, in a corner, there's a poor woman who seems to have but one foot. She hasn't any’ crutches, elther. It surely can't be possible | that she’s sitting on the other foot. ‘And did you ever snoop at ladies’ heels? To be sure it's a low thing to d Anyhow, however downward that path may b ou'll be apt to get interested if you are any ob server at all, Just watch some of the French heels in front of you, It seems like | they're pretty navigate, A keen-eyed observer, whe is responsible for the present peep at seated one soll See A | will be im the city next wee! uncertain ships to 4 boldly an in discourse on feet and heels, proclaims that not one wor found a half mile below Austin, still running. The other clocks all stopped at | & thousand can navigate the French | heel successfully Let's see, There French heels going now The right heel jumps 1 considerably higher than the left at each step. It remains he ingly in the air for a second, which is followed by a sort of lar sweep. Wateh it descend, T foot seems to be made of rubber The heel reaches the pavemént in a sort of jerk, and from all ap. pearances it gets there ahead of the ankle. foot seems to miraculously escape being stepped upon each time. Take a look the next time, . It's great, You'll never look a woman jin the face if you get the habit— perhaps you won't dare is a Henry George, Jr., Coming. Henry George, jr, congressman from New York, and son of the late Henry George, famous single taxer, He will deliver an address on “Leo Tol- stoi” in the Y, M. C. A, auditorium, from Sunday, A week from tomorrow he will met labor men at the Labor Temple In the afternoon, just | And the left | LIGHTS FOR TAFT pair of | up the street | tat- | * 5.—-Still clasping her husband's photograph, which she pressed to her breast in her last death struggle: s when over- imed by the flood which devastated this city on Saturtiay, the body of Mre. Edward Starkweather is plainly visible Viore' toahy, A large party of rescuers is making every effort to chop out the body, which is wedged with tons of They were the property of N. N. Johnson, an Austin 2:32 p. m,, registering the time of the SHOTS FIRED AT MINISTERS (By United Press Leased Wire.) VIENNA, Oct. 5.—Wild panic reigned in the reichsrath here ‘today when an unidentified man fired several shots from a gallery into the ministerial benches, where the minister of education and the minister of justice were sitting at the time. The chamber was crowded with members awaiting the cosa of the day's session when the shots rang out, and they and the spectators at once joined in a wild rush to escape. The assailant of the ministers wae arrested. Neither of the men was hurt. ‘Manuel Hot WINS ARE BORN After Be TWO DAYS APART PORTERVILLE, Cal, Oct. 5.— |Mrs. W. H.- Martin, a resident of |the Poplar district, has given birth to twins In circumstances which are almost without parallel, ae- | cording to local physicians. Mrs. Martin, who weighs only jabout 100 pounds, gave birth to a |ten-pound son on Tuesday. The second child was born on Thurs- day, a ten-pound daughter. (By United Press Leased Wire.) MADRID, Oct. 5.—The: Portu- guese monarchist uprising is ex- tending rapidly today, accord ing to advices received here. Prince Joseph of Braganza and other leaders are heading an army of 40,000, armed with quick firing guns, which is ad- vancing toward Oporto with a view to proclaiming it the Por- tuguese capital. King Manuel is expected in Portugal shortly from England. 300 DOZEN REAR K KKK THE WEATHER For Seattle and vicinity Rain tonight and Friday, in creasing southeasterly winds Temperature at noon today 53, REGULAR — $1.25 VALUES SPECIAL &5c EARLY! + tet ee eee * ee eee ee ee (By United Press Leased Wire.) LOS ANGELES, Oct. 4.—To place electric lights in and about the home of Dr. Edwards, brother-in-law of President Taft, during the two nights that the chief executive will be a guest there, the city council, on rec- | | | COME if ommendation of Chief of Police | Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex Sebastian, has authorized the appropriation of $150, Sebas- tian said the lighting is neces- sary for the proper patrolling of the grounds at night by se- cret service men and police.