The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 19, 1911, Page 1

the Iw big men, to point out the sane solution of the problem now confronting | 9°e* o the people regarding the Bogue plans, The Star ts emphatically opposed to the adoption of the plans in their present shape The plans should be rejected, because they would tle Seattle to a hardand-fast contract which would retard the city’s not pare in endless litigation, ee accra On the day of judgment many parrass hundreds of property owners financially, HOME EDITION will be surprised to ascertain how men used face powder, everybody nd which would result The VOL. 13, NO. 250. But The Star just t benefit possible from the hed by the unconditional . Cotterill points out, The Bogue plai show the touch of a mast ‘ed wimp hand, t free development during the next twenty-five years, which would em. | te Work o the midst of a big, sprawling city’s Seattle must grow along the general ideas contained in the Bogue| talm @ good Ww scheme. it have, ultimately 8 emphaticall Impl creating the splendor of architectural unity and beauty in Seattl NLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1911. jogue plans. This cannot be ac-| municipalities in the Old World jection of the whole echeme, But, But a race cannot be won by ty! amendment to section 8 of the That w nly AB plans, are splendid, he conceptions of a master mind in| ness of dealing in city land, thi NOT ALLOW grime and confusion, , on these shores of Puget sound, a| which has b would like to see Seattio get the city of a million people, the grandeur of which will rival that of great; pal conditions throughout the world ng the hands and legs of the racers ld, in effect, be the result of the adoptt 7! ce will remove the objectionable feature of the plans and open| Hogue plan agree Ail tho main arteries of| The pe It would tle up nearly all the mai: the way for Seattle to use the City Beautiful idea in an advisory manner. | the city for an ind : / i improvement on I inite time; it would mean stopping improvement on | struct their officials to follow them as closely as powsible, and eraduall, They | miler of valuable property; it would mean partial paraly to the busi: | | The commission | e St IN SEATTLE MAS. BA CONVICTS FASELF ‘Takes All the Blame to Free ~ Husband at Trial of Frank- lin, Accused of Offering Bribe. . (Bulietin.) $, Dec. 19—Why Can't you under. Innocent?” liminary examination klin on a charge of @y , LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19.—Whetn the eave of Bert H. Franklin, for chief investigator for the Mc- defense, charged with brib- Permanent Juror Bain, opened dustice Young's court today, Mrs. polia Carpenter, a neighbor of the was the first witness called. testified that Franklin called at Bain home while the family Qway, and left his card with , with the request that she ask Bain to call him up at his of- . Mre said she de ind message. Mre. then called to the witness INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 19.—An- ‘Bouncement was made here today all dynamiting evidence in the ion of the Los Angeles au- will be transferred to this ction after the United States District Attorney ye. —_- “Girl Held Captive i Po | flee here have no record of the dis ‘ of Eva Brown, who told siz months by a gang of yegemen, member of which, Frank Far. = was arrested yesterday for jing to kill her in their - Bpartments. “TACTFUL TAFT” ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 19.— “Discussing President Taft's action | im abrogating the treaty of 1832 With Russia, the Novoe Vremya, a Bovernment organ, says today: “President Taft tactfully chose the best way from the scandalous Jewish agitation which has been Faging in this county for a long time. Incidentally, Taft's decision demonstrates that the Jewish bank- @ry are the real lords of America. " Hacked to Pieces SHANGHAI, Dee. 19.—Tuan Pang. former director of the Huk wong rallroad, and at one time vice gaily smiling people, and hurrying Tiurdered today In Szechuen b; bis} own troops, following the dise ir ' of treachery and an attempt to es ape. His brother also was killed, | the bodies of both being hacked to} pleces. | | ‘The first meeting of the newly-| Organized “Ladies’ Eagles” will be held at Eagles’ hall tomorrow af- fternoon at 2 o'clock. Christmas | Specials Men's Men's Me Robes $3.60 Monarch” Men's Shirts, “Cluett” .. Men's Silk Hone . ses Mefs, ¢ $1.00 91.50 B60 box, 91.00 in Many other equally as desirable Miles for men. Our pric Werchani se ard make are lowest and our qt) is all of the stand Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex } two daughters will share Coll Capt. John D, Fredericks standing before iron case in which ton of evidence ageinst McNamaras was kept. He is holding revolver which was found in Jim McNamara’s grip Note the hotel registers and the t wo grips in which dynamite was carried. BY -W. G. SHEPHERD ARTICLE NO. 3. Detective Sam Browne of Los An- geles was chasing the three Times building dynamiters, he did not know that the National Erectors’ or 86 pieces of construction. In fact, he did not know of the train of explosions. It was W. J. Burns who was seek ing the men‘who had committed this train of explosions. But Burna, at no time, secured any important evidence in the Los Angeles case. “As I worked on my case,” says Browne, “I talked with men here and there over the country who told me about other explosions. Then I learned that there was such a thing as a widespread dynamiters’ sys tem. However, I didn't attempt to get any evidence in that direction I had been ordered by my chief to It was in a “night Ife” cafe las’ ¥ | night Soft green rugs on the floor. Snow-white tables, crowded with liquor glasses. Tables filled with gayly smiling people, and hurrying waiters everywhere. In the center of the room a carpeted platform, with five or six “entertainers” frisking about. At one table in one dark corner girl, a very young girl—alone She sat with elbows on the table and chin on hands, gazing straight into the center of the room, whirt ing with gayety. Three diamond rings sparkled on her left hand. A gorgeous plumed hat sat jauntily ‘on her-head, and she wore a sweep ing velvet gown. a THE STORY OF THE How Sam Browne, Detective, “Got the Goods” on Dynamiters association was on the trail of dyna | miters who had dynamited some 70 | get evidence in the Los Angeles case, and that was what I was LOS ANGELES. Dec. 19.—While | doing. “I don't know how strong a case anybody elee ever had against ¢ MeNamaras for any other work, but I knew that I had « dead open and shut cane against Brice, Caplan and Schmidt “As soon as the county officials of Los Angeles got into touch with the officials of the National Erectors’ association and with Burns we dis jeovered that they .had long been suspecting the McNamaran of the explosions throughout the country “The thing for me to do was find out whether my man Br 7B one of the McNamaras. I asked for a description of them. As soon as 1 received a description of Jim Me Namara | knew that I had my man Brice, and that he was the man who had blown up the Times build ing. We sent word to Burns went something like this God's sake don’t wait @ minute that For but One Night, One Old Melody and One Girl the talking went on. The girl sat silent, with unseeing eyes staring straight ahead. Once @ man drew near, smiled and spoke to her She gave the barest shake of her head, and he passed on with a careless nod, A walter came up to her, and she shook her head again ps And then a”queer thing happened The pianist and the violinist side- tracked ragtime and switched onto “Way Down Upon the Suwanee Riv er.” As the sweet strains of the old melody floated out over the smoke-laden atmosphere a light quickened in the eyes of the girl, and she sat listening intently. Her lps, quivering ever 0 slightly, seemed to repeat the words “far, far away from home.” The music and the drinking and! The notes of the old song stop Brooklyn Carpenter. Found to Be Heir to $87,000,000 (By United Press Leased Wire.) NEW YORK, De: Duk: estat Joseph Coil: The estate waterfront, rent. tion of the fortune wa woundl, et and ants has become sole heir. The British governmi ing which time the income hi d, Jaid by Samuel Churchill 75 years left the steadily accumulating fortune to two daughter: Churchill, and through disinheritance and death among other descend. t has been een a source of much wrangling in Eng- 19.—Worry on the part of King George V, the ¢ of Marlborough and the Duke of Devonshire over an $87,000,000 te in England was alleviated today in the discovery of an heir, ‘a carpenter of Brooklyn, aged 65 years. consists of several miles of The founda go. Churchill Colla married nd huge fishing industry. rching diligently for Colla, dur- M’NAMARA TRAIL | plosion PRINTER TAKES HIS OWN LIFE Body of Peter Minch, a printer, was found in his home at 3037 16th avenue west this forenoon, with a builet-through the heart. indica point to suicid | He was a widower, and is sup- }posed to have taken his life Sat- urday night, when Patrolman Hoke jot in the vicinity. re of age, and leaves a mother in Detroit, Mich, 18.—Berious {1 ness of Emperor Franz Jowef today iareviving fears that the end of the aged “uncle of Europe” is near, and one ¥ pres of unrest, and, pow 4 war in the Balkans, will ‘The emperor had a bad night, He fe subject to violent coughing Spelin, and there, at his advanced age, are believed to be dangerous, SAN FRANCISCO, Doc, 19.-—Tes- timony designed to show that Dr. O. C. Josion, charged with having betrayed Ethel Williams, a 17-year. old candy tri, attempted famillari- tes with her child alster Hazel was given on the witness stand by little Hagel herself today Harel Williams testified that Jonlen made an appointment with her, telling her he wanted to show her some presents he was going to make Ethel, At the meeting place he asked her to get into his auto ie, she said, and on the y) me attempted to kina her, | saying, when she protested, that {t brathenin law. IT’S LOOKIN } clouds “for Jackie day? WILL THERE? boy their very own, and to shel able homes. But St and also @ clock bomb, arrest those McNamaras as soon an you can for the Times building ex Jim MeNamara is our man Brice.” “And Burns made the arrests and brought the men here. My men bad obtained such thor ough deserijions of the three men that we knew how they would ap- pear when naked, We even trailed them to Turkish bath parlors for this purpose. One day after the ster, He hasn't many days he’s taking every available how that couple means even more t ture happiness is involved. So write some more letter news about Jackie, It will all make his visit. G BRICH ’ FOR LITTLE JACKIE A bright Christmas sun is beginning to peck over the Will there be a real home for little Jack on Christmas Why, at least a score of warm hearted men and women stand ready and eager to make the Nick, otherwise T his mind in what stocking he’s going to put this husky young-| the very finest kind of a Christmas present to some couple, be mother or father to Jackie, and watch The Star for all the in OGUE PLANS SHOULD BE REJECTED IN THEIR PRESENT SHAPE| It has remained for George F, Cotterill, one of Seattle's few really Then they have applied the latec§ City Beautifal design. 1T WOULD F TIVE CRIME TO WASTE ALL THIS HIGH. IGENT AND EXPENSIVE EFFORT. The people should and will use these plans in an advisory way, ine y in the birth of coming years, make a rbality of the greater part of them. Of course, changes and revisions and new ideas will be adopted, , the people of Seattle cannot afford to and WILI.| to meet unexpected conditions ever arising in the progress of any the $75,000 spent on the plans to be wasted. They con-| community eneral scheme for gradual adoption. nh engaged in the work has made a deep study of muniet. | FOR THE BOGUE PLANS AS THEY STAND TODAY. ar AND FOR THIS REASON IT WOULD BE UNWISE TO VOTH Don't kick on your job. If you don’t i like it, beat the life out of it—then i) they'll have to give you a new one. E EDI TIO WOMEN WHO DID UP THE SOCIETY RAKE,| STOKES, was his right ax her prospective From a photegraph showing Lillian Graham and Ethel Con’ jury had acquitted them, TER! ter him in their cozy, comfort- | | he Star, hasn't just made up| more in which to decide, but r, because, while Jackie means © the little boy—his whole fu s about your qualifications to be settled in time for Santa to ae trial started 1 aid to Jim MoNa- mara’s Jawyer, Le Compte Davin *You look on your man's chest and | I'l tell you what you there,’ The next day Davis said to me What did you say about McNa mara’s chest?’ ‘On his chest,’ I said, ‘there is a mole about the size of a dim Davis turned white and walked away “I never before saw such a water proof case as the one we had} Againat the MeNamaras, They left & trail behind them as wide and bright a8 Broadway ACTRESS Myrtle Vane, leading lady at the; Lois ‘theatre, and well known all | over the coast, proved the heroine of the Lois theatre fire fast night by her cool presence of mind. Miss Vane has just # week ago reorgan- Mzed the Lois Stock company, and was the manager as well as the leading tady. The presentation of “Carmen,” which was interrupted thy the fire last night, was a dra matic version of her own. The Myrtie Vane company will finish out the Week at the Moore theatre. kly gathering Pp Miss Vane tells her own story of things, the girl rose and glided |the fire for Star readers today. | past the tables to the cafe door and out into the night. Men and oY were oa fright: | girls stared after her for a “3 ened? Perhaps. nt and smiled at each other - I do not know That's all. Just one pure old There was no song, Just one hour back into real | time for fright. girlhood again, just one night} I heard the shuf- snatched from the grasp of crash x pet, and ing fate for one poor soul fling of feet, an my first impres-| |a~ = as re sion was that it] was a fight The continued Invest Your Fe easier. had an omtious sound, and then I saw the smoke rising in front of the footlights, I knew it was up to me to do something, and do it quick, I folt that T had to talk—fust talk couldn't stop to think what to say, and, for the life of me, I cane | not tell you why 1 seized upon the Savings in Northend Acres Now 18 the time to place your savings in land close to S« The city is growing northwards by leaps and bounds, The next car line extension will probably be north and enst of the university, Better come in at once and ash can as the take a trip out to see Northend means for hu- Acres, Your choice of over 300 moring the audl- ence, | Where the thought sprang from fs more than T can imagine. The only thing | knew, the only thing T| felt, was that I had to tell the audi- | ence something immediately, or} élse there Would be a most awful | panic, [ felt that I could get ther attontion and that somehow I acres at $400 per acre, Terma $10 cash, balance ¢ monthly, 50 OLE HANSON & Co. Third Floor New York Block iand, a large part of It going to Lady Elizabeth Churchill. A wife and geod fortune, jronle Jaugh the danger off, TELLS H SHE PREVENTED PANIC | morning, OW The fire itself did not scare me. But it was the fear of a panic. I never was excited over any fire. When I was a little girl in Califor. nia, just turned 6, our little home in the country was burned down, Mother was so excited that she for- got me, and I coolly made my own | escape and hurried to my grand- mother’s house about a mile away. | It wasn't the danger of the fire| itself, it was the way the audience would take it that stirred me to} ction. And I confess that much | jof what I did and said was perhaps | done because spurred on remorse- | lessly by a feeling of need that I can hardly describe Rehearsals went on as usual this though the Pantages stage looked quite distreseful with | our things scattered here and} there and everywhere. But then no one was hurt, and that’s what counts | $100,000Damage 5 is ir in Lois Fire Alexander Pantages, owner of the Lois theatre, which“was partial- ly destroyed by fire last might, an-| nounced this morning that the playhouse would be reconstructed | at once, His losses amount to $70,000, uncovered by insurance, | and the Germania cafe, In the same | building, sustained a loss of} $30,000. Myrtle Vane, owner and leading woman of the stock company play- ing at the Lois, was the heroine of the fire, As she reached the cli- max in the fourth act of “Carmen,” puffs of smoke were notited as-| conding from the stage. Miss Van stopped in the middle of her lin and stepped to the footlights. “There's nothing wrong except some ash cans burning in the al-| ley,” she announced, “Everybody | please be quiet and leave slow! The orchestra started the Torea- | dor. The panie died at birth, The audience filed out laughing ex- citedly, as the smoke clouds began to curl around them, | | } | | | LOGAL MA 5 GALLED IN PROBE W. Pohlman, businesg agent of local No. 86, Bridge and Structural Iron Workers* union, in Seattle, has been serve ed with summons to appear bes fore the federal grand jury i Los Angeles. Deputy Marshal Devenpeck placed a copy of the summons in his hands at 10 o'clock this morning, and Pohle man is commanded to “appeal forthwith” before the inquisie torial body and to remaip iff Los Angeles until he tise charged by the grand jury. Before leaving, Pohimargt said: “I am glad of this oppore tunity to go before the federal grand jury to show, if nothin more, that our enemies whi are maliciously circulating ree ports of an international cone spiracy, are guided by absoe lutely no foundation of fact. KERR * WEATHER FORECAST * * in tonight and Wednes- * day; moderate southwest * winds. Temperature at noon, & 43 dex KeeKHRaeKKhhkee AND THIS IS CHRISTMAS WEEK! CHICAGO, Dec. 19.—Four hangings in one day is announced here today for Christmas week. On Friday, Dec. 22, Ewald Shiblawski, 24 years old; his brother, Frank, 21; Philip Sommerling, 34, and Thomas Schultz, 19, will be hanged in the county jail for the wanton murder of a truck farmer. They laughingly hacked the man to pieces with clubs and knives while he was on his knees to them, offering all his worldly possessions if they would spare his life. Two boys, each 16 years old, who were in- volved in the murder, were given life sentences because of their youth. erst THEY ALL FA Yes, LET'S wauc GO WAY UP IN UP A Block oR FRonT. ‘Ts PASIOR. SO ano MAN Ba |} TO Keep Your sear UP There. I'MTIRED TONIGHT. THIS 1S THE FIRST NIGHT Y fe HAD A SEat IN THE CAR FOR TWO Weake, AnD /¢ ('M GOING TO KEEP IT