The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 6, 1911, Page 1

— si You can bet on it that a man who will inf hus 13, “TAFT SAYS COURT'S RULING “IS LIKE he e Seattle Ste _ONLY NO. lity igh mis, ced BREAD FOUND UNDERWEIGHT A Seattle “pound” loaf of bread doesn't weigh a pound. That much was established by an investigation conducted by Th ven or val, ad Star today. Of ven samp tested at random, not one o an ounce of weighing a pound. Following is the weight of each were ye Dresden Bakery oe Stecrseesebeceecs 16 Mrs. Jesmer’s . “H" Brand » 4% Lang's Bakery MM Babcocks’ Bakery M% St. Germain Bakery uy Brooklyn Bakery 13% Union Bakery if 13% ‘ Golden West Baking Co. ‘i 13% Thompson's Bakery Ca Rainier Bakery * . + 12% RINEHART WILL INVESTIGATE, TOO Each loaf was weighed on the Standard scales tn the office of the} eity weights and measures inspector. “This is just what expected,” said Inspector Rinehart. “I had planned to test this myself with a view to having an amendment to the Weights and measures ordinance introduced, compelling dealers to mark the net weight of bread, as well as on package articles. There Is Ro reason why consumers should not know how much bread they are getting for their monéy.” STARTLING FIGURES Editor Seattle Star: ~ We appreciate your article tober 4, on “Packages Cost Twice as Much.” Nothing you can do will help more to “reduce the cost of living” than to call attention to the waste in present Seattle methods of hand ling food products. in tasue of Oc an average of approximately 3'2c per 'b. Of the total amount, nearly oo per cent ig waste—$32,000 per day, or $960,000 per month—$11,520,000 per y In the ordinary grocery store, the cases, bottles, label: packages, cases, cartage, twine, credit joss and other waste, will equal 40 per cent on the cost price of the food contents. Educate the people to buying in bulk at the public markets and en- courage home productions. Very respectfully, = L. H. GRIFFITH. MANUEL GOING BACK (BY UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE.) PARIS, Oct. 6.—Eight Portuguese, including Dom Alphonso, King Manuel's uncie, today bearded the Oporto express, southbound, outside of Paris. One member of the party, who wore a cap and visor over his face, is believed to have been King Manuel on his way to regain his throne. ——— — ee REYES WON'T REVOLT NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 6.—Gen. Reyes today emphatically denies that he expects to head the new revolutionary movement now in its incip- tency in Mexico, according to d' ite hi ‘eceived AN ARMED TRUCE SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6.—With only one competent boilermaker at work in the Southern Pacific shops, according t@ the strikers, the con- flict between the shopmen and the raiiroads here today remains on the basis of an armed truce. Two more strikeb reported to have deserted early today, CHARGED WITH WIFE DESERTION. SACRAMENTO, Oct. 6—John E. Breeze, under arrest in San Francisco and wanted in Pierce county, Wash., on a charge of wife desertion, will be taken back for trial. dition papers have been granted at the governor's office jell, agent of the state of Washington, who will take Breeze back for trial. i] # % 100 STR/KEBREAKERS BAKERSFIELD. Cal., Oct. 6.—One hundred strikebreakers ar- rived here early today and were immediately put to work in the locat shops of the Southern Pacific railway. Although scores of strik were at the station when the train bearing the astrike- bre arrived, there w ° RENOVA, Minn., Oct. 6.—At 9:40 o'c at a great height. It was bound northwest. able. balloon passed here The name was indistinguish- —The Georgia nd provisions AUGUSTA, Ga., Oct. tied up by the strike toda to the towne along the ‘¢ being transported by wagon (By United Press L OAKLAND, Cal., Oct, 6—The bra daughter of Douglas Tilden, the famous sculptor, saved her father the loss of $1,500 worth of jewelry today, when two masked burglars broke into the family residence here. The yeggs had just picked upa case con- taining the jewelry when the es girl eat up in bed. “Don't cry,” warned “or I'll blow your head off.” Disregarding the tnreat, Gi jadys leaped from her bed and ran straight at the intruders. “You get out of he e cried. “That belongs to my pap: Frightened at the child’s cries, the men dropped the case and fied. Then the child went into the bedroom of her parents, both of whom are deaf and dumb, and awakened them. The city uses, monthly, approximately: Pounds j * . 13,800,000 Flour and grain products « 13,600,000 | Canned fruits and vegetables 6,400,000 | Milk .. civen + 1,126,000} Teas, coffees, spices, etc. « 1,200,000 Sugar, syrups, ete + 2,760,000 Soap + _ 460,000 Vegetabies and fruits . 20,000,000 Dried fruits ....... 160,000 Peas, beans, etc 1,600,000 Butter, eggs, cheese an 2,736,000 Pickles, vinegar, etc 3,240,000 Total per month os + 66,865,000 Per day 2,196,500 The cost is proximately ‘$80,000 per day, | or $2,400,000 per month, lorida railroad is completely | Sart eas tye he Saomd N TAT 10 ‘AESCIE OF COURTS (iy United Prowse Leased Wire) | POCATELLO, Idaho, Oct. 6-— 14% | Declaration that the rulings of the! United States supreme court on earth are almost a paraliel to the ruling of a just God in heaven, was made here today by P: in an impassioned defen: highest American tribunal, is generally regarded as having been inspired by an attack by Wm J. Bryan in his publication, the | Commoner, | tioned, however. | Seldom has the president shown such vigor and earnestness. Re jferring apparently to Bryan's chal | lenge that the reason for the ap pointment of supreme court jus j tices be n ic, he shouted “Challeng 1 have allenged one of these publicists to mention ® case any reasonable man would say ought to be condemned which would not be condemned under the rule und construction of the law which the U. 8. supreme court has ‘laid down.” | “Got No Answer.” “I have delivered that challenge in many parts of the country. I have received no answer. Colynns upon columns have been printed, but there has been no suggestion jas to a specific case. It ts time to lcome down to facts. Let them give & specific Instance, instead of at tacking the greatest court upon earth and charging it with delibera ting emaseutating a statute con. | Srexe enacted to remedy a great evil “My Ideals on Earth.” “1 am not on that court, but 1 was once a judge, and | love judyes and | love courte which ‘stand to their duty. They are my ideals on earth, typifying jat we shall meet afterward in heaven under a just God. When a court Is doing ite duty and trying to teach the law as it should be, to have it condemned, attacked, and its motives question- (ed for mere political purposes, without solid ground for such at- ‘tack goes to my heart and I resent it with deep indignation “What distinguishes this country |from any other fs the United States supreme court at Washing- ton, that has so often stood be tween us and orrors which might have been cemmitted which would have been greatly injurious to the country. To turn upon that court, to question {ts motives, to attack it, Is, to me, to lay the axe to the This is a true story, Ask George Stacy, 117 Blewett st. He's got a hen that's got the famous. goose which laid golden eggs skinned a marathon block. For, you know, that was only a fairy tale. And, a already mentioned, this is a true story. With which preface we hereby submit the record of Stacy's. hen, to wit: Three eggs a day, and oc- casionally an extra one. Golng some, eh? Yep, drop In any- time at the Stacy place and see her do it fnew she oe wonder. S\J0uN D. TO WORK (By United Press Lensed Wire.) TARRYTOWN, N, Y., Oct. 6. —The installing of a priv: wire in the home of John D. Rockefeller, the oll king, at his home on Pocantico hills is causing the belief here today that John is about to give up his rest plan and get back to work, Rockefeller has en- gaged a telegrapher, and it is thought will soon get in touch with business affairs again. Bryan was not men-| NDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, IN SEATTLE 1911 ae CENT. NEW Dental Work in Murdered Girl’s Mouth Leads to ope ge That Her Husband Killed Her' | | | | | De. Henry Eigin Webster, His Second Wife, Bessie Kent, and Ravine Near Polo, ill, Where He Murdered Her ling coils that were closing about a divorce afterwards.” hit. | But the girl wouldn't seek a di- | |voree. She fought divorce, and | successfully, when Webster sought to divorce her, So in the end he killed her. Webster says he would not have confessed If his first wife urged him to do so. “SI Christian woman,” he says. is all that Bessie Kent w: 15 TURKS KILLED (By United Press Leased Wire.) ROME, Oct. 6. POLO, TI, Oct. 6—A bit of den- tal bridge work served to solve the mystery of the murder of the wom- an whose nude body was found bid- den tn a lonely wood 1 here. The murderer took aw every stitch of his victim's clothing— even to the pins in her. hair—but he forgot to take or break the gold work in her mouth So when the brother-in-law of al: wom who had been missing from Chicago for a fortnig look. | ed into the mouth of the unknown dead, the bridge work was there, | just as be had fabricated it months | before, and he knew the corpse for Webster says he married Bessie Kent in Chicago in less than a week after he married Zoe Varney in Cedar Rapids, Bessie knew that Webster was already married. “But she wanted to [wa on the ue Seomniee that she would at SINGER'S WARNING TO SEATTLE GIRLS [that of his missing relative. For —During the the brother-in-law happened to be bombardment of Tripoli, the & dentist occupation of which was offi- Thos it was that Dr. Henry El- cially announced by the Italian lain Webster was arrested on jovernment today, fifteen jcharge of having murdered” his urks were killed and twenty wife, Bessie Kent Webstei ana were fatally wounded, accord. thus was developed the details of ing to the report of Admiral a tragedy involving bigamy and Aubry of the italian naval wife-+murder, forces. Webster, bolstering his - nerve with drugs, at first made a strong bluff at innocence. The Chicago police were on the point of releas- ing him. Finally he broke down and confessed to the state’s-attor ney of Ogle county. Tt is a sordidly tragical story of an attractive young interne’s {ilielt intrigue with a young trained nurse, of his marriage with a well- todo and attractive girl of Cedar Attacked today by a Turkish warship off North Albania, an Italian merchantman flying a white flag was succored by the Italian destroyer Artigiiere. It was slightly damaged by the Turkish shots and the com- mander was wounded. KKKRKKKKHKRAKKKE WEATHER FORECAST Rapids, Ia., of his later marrying Rain tonight and Saturday; * the betrayed nurse because of her brisk southwest winds. Tem- * importunity, and finally of the rath- perature at noon, 61. * less killing of the latter in an ef- fort to cut loose from the entang- eeeeeeee *« eee ee ee oe ee EMMA EAMES. American girls, keep out of Eu- That's the advice of Mme. who sang in Seattle lai Oh dear, no. Mme. Emma Children’s Overcoats } | night, | !de Gogorza is not talking about | matrimony now. She's énly a two , eR » Counts T t month's bride herself. She was! With Convertible Collars Large PACU married to Emile de Gogorza, the| (Button to Neck) |famous baritone, in Paris, last Ju-| Sizes 2% to 10 {ly. But just the same the famous opera singer Warns American girls | of the prevailing greed in Buro- pean countries for American dol- Logged Off | IE | $3.50 SCHOOL OVERCOATS Sizes 9 to 17 $5.00 Shafer: Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex, lars. I and “France, Italy, Germany, even Sweden,” she said, “are overflow-| ing with American girls, paying ex- orbitant prices to musical para- sites who prey upon them, flatter- ling them, knowing the possibility of a future Is hopeless, and taking their money as long as it cah be extracted.” Study at home, girls, says Mme. Eames. A European education in music is to be only in the nature of ® post graduate course, The annual bai t and election of officers of the Tabernacle Baptist ehurch was held last night, with 225 We are again in the market for a jarge tract of cut over lands. Price must be right so that we can sell It right. Call at office, OLE HANSON & CO, Third Floor New York Block ON THAINS AND | promo} jindebtedness filed ‘in the superior} |be appotnted tor the Western Steel | HOME EDITION We have no poets now, largely bed cause men of imagination are busy edit- ® STANDS be ing the seed catalogues SWEPT AWAY. (By United Press Leased Wire.) Oct. 6.—Great damage has resulted in this se ing of the Black following heavy rainst jours, and the greatest flood which continu in many years i ' | The damage is already several millions of dollars, but so far no | valties are reported. The Mississippi is rising rapidly in this vicinityg | and dire consequences to property, and perhaps to life, are anticipated, A special train has been rushed to Hatfield, Wis, which was thé hardest hit by the flood, to remove {ts citizens to Merrillan. Hatfield Was almost entirely submerged by the waters when the levee ghee the shores of the Black river, above that town, burst, sending the ty ainst the dam of the Lacross Water Power comp any, 36 feet high, wi holds back Lake Arbutus. The power company denies that the dam collapsed, while others The Italians have established temporary government in Tri; with Rear Admiral Boreddoline governor. It is reported that pent chiefs of the vicinity have formally, submitted to Italian rule. The proaches to the town are stronght a clar TWO TURKISH SHIPS SUN (By United Press Leased Wire.) LONDON, Oct. 6.—~Dispatches to- day from Chiasso, Switzerland, de clare that a great Italian-Turkish engugement has been fought San Giovanni, In which two 1 ish torpedo boats were sunk with he: fatalities. Western Steel Co._ PAULINE Lost in Trouble | MILWAUKEB, Oct. 6.~—-At the | White House today they “are waits’ Western Steel Corporation {2& till the cows come home” Moore, it Ith a) pve sapien beineniged [PNT Fe 175 Pauline W the cow the r, figure in several suits on dairy show, has ear The and James the internat failed “0. comm Pauline is supposed to traveling. homeward ie -@, pi car attached to the Chicago line of garnishment against Moore and |‘t¢d. but she wanders, and railroad ~ the Washington Hotel & Improve. |'facers are out. It is feared ment Co. to recover a $20,661.98 | Pauline is figuring in vaudeville a8 judgment awarded him. Lewis, 10 cents the look while tarrying om Lohman and Levine, attorneys for |her homeward w A. Rome, are asking that a receiver ‘ court in the last few days. M. W. Peterson, cashier of the Dexter Horton bank got out a writ Corporation on account of alleged | inability to pay a balance of some | $700 for material furnished. (By United Press Leased Wire.) — TACOMA, Oct. ‘has bern ane SS Tne closures that bread has been OLYMPIA, Oct. 6.—Claiming to/ing rapidly in weight until i — be the healthiest city in the coun- | checked up at from 8 to 11 © J try, Olympia proudly points to her) only, the city council will pass September vital statistics, which | ordinance demanding pound loaves show 11 births and but one death. in future. OUGIT Twat \ WOULD KEEP DOWN AS LOW AS Possi A FRIEND Like You? members present,