The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 27, 1911, Page 6

THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1911. olf Never Did Like That Fellow MERRY PRANK OF HEIRESS ul sed Wire) GAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27 —Palo Alfo’s millionaire colony is today discussing the latest escapade of Mrs. Wm. H. Mananton, two months "@ bride, an heiress, and the great @randdaughter of Thomas Hooper, Millionaire land owner of Sonoma ‘county. Madiy racing her automobile near Beresford in an attempt to beat Howard Cookson, a Stanford stu ~ dent, in another machine, she was Arrested, giggled at the justice and) “held in $25 dail, which she did not have. Cookson also was arrested. | é “gassed” the Justice. Both} went to cells. Mrs. Manaton had) with her and bail was later re-| to that amount. She got out} and broke more speed laws going after money with which to release Cookson, 'And the Worst of It Is, Ad YOU. LOOK IN GooT HUMOR, OSGAR. VoT 13s upee Words by Schaefer Music by Condé JUST HAD AMAZING EXPERIENCE WITH AMOROUS GARTH*BEING —+ CLASPED ME IN AFFECTIONATE EM-~ BRACE IMPRINTED WET MUZZLE ~CARESS ON MY FACE, THEN rLeD HOPE NO GARTH*GERMS WERE TRANSMITTeD TO Me. ° % Tee-Hee-——T WVST KISSED DIANA DILLPICKLES. SHE CAME DROvGH Dor DOOR UNTER DER MISTLETOE —— YuM=-YuM?! er SHE PASSES UNTER MISTLETOE, ANY PODY CAN Kiss HER, MAYBE SHE COMES BY AGAIN. Yess, I HEAR FOR WHY DITN'D You Tetxw Me MR, SKYGACK FROM MARS WASS IN Der Houset l NEFER Dir Like Dor ‘ Feccow! oT Now, Vor's DER MATTERE ne it sa f Ri xa a Freed, Cookson discovered that ‘Mrs. Manaton had used his machin for the trip to get bim money, and Meclared she had no right to the car “Ingrate!” snapped the young “I don’t like boys, anyway T had never met you.” And she went home Does YourHeast Beat Like TACOMA GIRL WILL NOT TESTIFY AGAINST ‘OOM? WELL-KNOWN ATTORNEY | C. W. MORSE IS DYING mplaining. one would tell the not a felon. 1 hich sent her husband air and hurled him cliff, mangling him two hours afterward, Ward commenced ? j of the governor general beat the deputy governor, nila. Then they overran Spreading destruction on hand. The flag qver the Brit- late is reported to have dor j i i i 3 o' Beattie and goods ‘sell them Av, corner Madison ing. | Trial Dancing day, Sa’ 40c Lb. 2 Lbs. for 75¢ New Laid Eggs, 45c Full Cream Cheese, 20c Ib. TuCorner Butter Store KILLED BY Struck by an auto that only in creased its speed when it bit him, | "1 Otto H. Ballou, an attorney in rae Leary building, was instantly killed on Quee ne av. between Mercer and Ro last night Ballou was hailing a West Queen | Anne car, in charge of Motorman | J. R, Pierce, when the auto, coming from the same direction as the street car, dashed at a high rate of speed right over him and dragged hi for 5@ feet after throwing hese | upon bis face. There were three KIDNAPED GIRL GETS AWAY FROM CAPTORS SAN FRANCISCO, D@, 27.—-Kid- | naped by six men from her honie in Oakland, brought to a Barbary) coast dive in an automobile and held prisoner there until her es cape yesterday by means of a fire! ladder, Iida Lefevre, 14, has today returned to her home with one of the strangest stories ever brought) to the attention. of the San Fran- cisco police While waiting for a car at a $100,000,000 Fire | Boys Stop Flames SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27.— Fire that threatened destruc- tion of Henry F. Bowie's home and $200,000 worth of Orienta! antiques was extinguished last night by HMiltsboro’s hundred million dollar volunteer fire de- partment. Among the firemen were Theodore Roosevelt, jr., Rich- ard Tobin and Geo. Howard. | Japanese servants were fight- ing the blaze with lines of gar- den hose when the real heroes The Japanese took el method of completely flooding the interior of the building in an effort to save the art treasures. Chairs and tables floated around in sever. al feet of water. Damage, eeeee eee eee eee es AUTOMOBILE passengers in the auto, who never looked back once, and only added Patrolman Nutting, who was half a block away when the acct dent happened, made a fruitles: chase after the machine, which turned down W. Aloha st. Police are bunting for the auto today, Ballou, whose residence was at 2108 Seventh ay, W., was on his way home from a meeting at the Bethany Preabyterian chureh. Bal jou lived in tle for seven years, | coming here from Omaha, Neb. His wife is an invalid. busy corner in Oakland, she sald, an automobile stopped near her, | six men enveloped her in a great cloth, threw her into the machine nd then she lost consciousness. ext she remembered was being tn a locked room, devoid of furniture Pinally she picked a window fa» tening, climbed many stories down a fire escape and dropped from) the second story to the ground, into the arms of a policeman. RRR HRRRRRE * Push Wheelbarrow From * Los Angeles to New York. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27 To trundie a wheelbarrow all the way from Los Angeles to New York city in eight mouths is the unique ambition today of Ernest Dixon, 18, of Fort Worth, Tex, who plane to leave here on January 13. Dixon will carry a letter from Mayor Alexander to Mayor Gaynor of New York. seeteeeeeeeed WEAARHEKRARRERAH APPEAL OF MILKMAN DENIED United States ctreult court of appeals has denied the appeal of Z. Erickson, the milkman, con- vieted of conspiring to raise the This Daring Dance in New THE NEW HEART T (By United Press Leased Wire.) STER IN ACTION | York NEW YORK, Dec. 27-—-All New York is today talking about the daring dances done in the presence of a society audience at Edmund Russell's Oriental studio, Gaby Deslys was there also. Lovera, Baroness Irmgarde von Hottenthal and Nance Gwyn did the terpsichorean stunts in filmy draperies. Among those present wer: Countess de Swirsky, Ba Count and Countess Fabri, Ba: mac, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pulit Kathleen Clifford, Mies Maud Michael Mordkin, Annette Kel Vreese. = AIRSHIPS AND DREADNAUGHTS LOO Mr. TO NEW AERIAL TORPEDO. Beatrice de Bazus, Baroness von Gro; Sclippenbach, Captain Rivett Mre. Jackson Gourt Enrico Caruso, in, Edmund Stailo and Edmund Miee and Mrs. K ALIKE -| Otto, ite mad king, is in a critical a —- soe ee hacia price of milk in Seattle. The court's RRR decision is interesting, in view of the fact that Erickson has served his sentence of 10 days in the coun- ty jail and paid his fine of $600 more than two years ago. MORE ARRESTS MONESSEN, La., Dec. 27.~More arrests are expected today to follow that of Geo. Bridges, who was taken COLLECTED TOLL FROM ROBBER CHICAGO, Dee. 27.—A ne «ro bandit, who held up a Chinese restaurant here to- day, lost $4 and a coat in the aft ee After hitting Quong Fook Lo on the head with a bottle, the negro robbed the cash register of $12.50. Then the Chinese regained conscious ness and grappled with the robber. The negro slipped out of the coat and fled. Upon examining the pockets of the coat, Quong found $16.57. The Chinese told the police that he doesn’t care if the negro never comes back. suit case filled with dynamite. The police are convinced that they have forestalled an attempt to blow up the non-union mills here, and ef forts are being directed toward finding out Just where the dynamite came from, It is intimated that charges will be placed Bridges today. formal against SSCS SEER eee ES Student Drowns (By United Press Leased Wire) CORVALLIS, Ore Dect 2. Search is being made today for the body of Ben H. Williams, of Pasa dena, Cal,, a student of the Oregon Agricultural college here, who was | drowned late yesterday, while canoeing In Mary's river, With a companion, he was thrown into the water while attempting to make shore to avoid going over a dam, THE TRICK WORKED (Ry United Press Leased Wire) PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 27.—When Mrs. Margaret MeCool found a burglar in her home when she switched on the light, she turned it out again, picked up a chair and hammered it against the Mbrary ta ble, She smashed the chair and table, but the marauder fled. OPIUM CONFERENCE THE HAGUE, Dec. 27.—Dele- gates to the oplum conference, now sitting here, today are practically unanimous in their desire to stamp out the traffic in and use of mor phine and cocaine as well as opt um, The suggestion to pay partic: ular attention to the evils of mor- phine and cocaine comes from the British government, RESSESEEEEREE EEE ESE HEE EEE Kah hh hhh FARLEY SEES POPE ROME, Dec, 27.—Cardinal Farley today was given a private audience by the pope. Tomorrow he gives a farewell dinner to practically all the Catholic dignitaries in Rome. Later he will go to Naples, and aft- er a brief automobile tour will sail | for the United States, January 3. 90-Year-Old Regent Dying. MUNICH, Dec. 27.—Prince Luit- pold, regent of Bavaria for many years since the incarceration of |condition today, owing to complica- tions resulting from a fall from his horse. The aged regent 1s 90 years old, and {t is not thought he can re- cover, rere rer ery yr bed |e Death Ends 50-Year Romance M'KEESPORT, ba., Dec. 27. —A romance of more than fifty years developed here with the death of Miss Kate Maharrie, 70. She was be trothed to Daniel Frantz in the spring of 1861 and shortly afterward Frantz enlisted. At the battle of the Wilderness he was fatally wounded and instructed comrades to send a lock of his hair to his sweet- heart. For fifty years Miss Maharrie kept her promise to the man she loved. When she was buried she wore the dress she had made for her own wedding day. The lock of hair and a red rose which Frantz had given her just be- fore he went to the war were also buried with her, KKRKKKHHnKnKhhh TON, De 27,—Con- ing to forgery of a check to buy an engagement ring for his fiancee, Bernard Mabony, 22, said to the po- lice; “I was broke, I loved her, and T'd do it again.” \* lw |e Serrereretrrrres. HE REFUSES JOB OF GRAND VIZIER LONDON, Dec. 27. ~ Tewfik Pasha, the ‘Turkish ambassador to the court of St. James, today was tendered the position of grand vizier to the sultan, Tewfik, desiring to avoid becoming embroiled in the disputes between the Young Turks and the advocates of the old regime, which just now are agitating Tur- key, declined the honor. Haye ycur pins conected. West SHEESH EE EEE EES EEE EEE EES = > ® = Main 6169, into custody here yesterday with a|/ This is a model of an aerial tor lian, who expects it to put airships with equal facility, It will, he hope like toys. ‘pedo, invented by a young Austra- and Dreadnaughts out of business 1s, make all other war engines look PROBABLY FREE PATTERSON; HAD _ ALCOHOLIC EPILEPSY,OR DIPSOMANIA Remember these when you make| your New Year's resolutio It may help you stay on the seltzer carriage: “Alcoholic epilepsy” for it. The other is induced by continuous drink: | That's what young Malcolm C.} Patterson, son of former Gov, M. R. | Patterson of Tennessee, was trou-| bled with when he shot and wound-/ ed , F, Senl, Port Orchard livery-| man, recently. So, following the conclusion of the lunacy commis- sion that gave Patterson a hearing, Judge Frater sitting as judge in POWER OF PICTURE SHOWS | NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Because men of moderate means are patron- izing moving picture’ shows, instead of taking baleony seats at theatres, a New York theatre has reduced the price of its cheaper seats, “DEAD” FATHER PROTESTS (By United Pross Leased wire) NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—While his three daughters were in court try- ing to get papers of administration | on his son's estate, swearing thelr | father was dead, James Tully came into court. He says they knew he) was alive, NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Jas. E. Miller, @ bartender, living at the ern Collection Co,, 483 N. Y. Block,| Y. M. ©. A., has filed a petition im| continue bankruptey. Port Orehard, declared the young man dippy The doctors who ex- amined him recommended his con finement in some asylum, as he is | still too dangerous to be at large. His attorney asked for an order to remove him from the state, on his father’s promise to place him in an asylum in Tennessee, Prosecuting Attorney Patterson objected, and Judge Frater gave him two days to get a writ of prohibition from the supreme court, If the supreme court does not grant the writ by that time, young Patterson will be taken out of Lie state WOODROW WILSON CLUB MEETING Newly-organized Woodrow Wil- son club of King county will hold Its second meeting at the rooms of the Commercial club, corner First ay. and Columbia st. Thursday evening at 8 o'clock campalgn in the fnterest of Wood: row Wilson for pre launched, and democrats from all parts of the county are expected to be present, MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 27.— ‘The local Merchants’ and Manufac tirers’ association today took up the war against the tipping evil ‘Tho association has addresed letters to every member urging that the firms request thelr employes to dis. he tipping habit after Jan uty 1. Ever test your own heart beats? It’s worth while to take your own Pulse occasionally, note if the beats are regular and at proper speed | Normal average pulsation with adults is between 70 and 80 times & minute | But @ machine bas been invent that does far more than can even the clever fingers of your family physieian on your wrist. It notes jeven Minute irregularity of the heart, telegraphs it automatically to @ magnifying and recording strument—-and the result is a long tape on which your doctor may study your heart by itn work almout as well as if be had it on the table in front of him. Human heart bests generate an electric current that ean be trans mitted by wire. The new instru ment, based on this principle, is in use at Johns Hopkins hospital, Bal |timore. Electrodes are attached to |the left arm and leg and to the | right arm of the patient and. con- nected with a galvanometer of ex | treme delicacy A «alvanometer consists of a magnet through which the current flows, The strength of the current is measured by itn power in deflect ing the needie of a compass. In the new instrument the current passes through a thread of plat inum or of silvercovered quartz, 1-1260 of an inch in diameter. The oscillations caused by every sepa rate action of the heart reveal the condition of the organ Only the more decided onciliations are visible to the eye, however, and to make a perfect and permanent record of even the minutest, resort is had to the camera. The magni fied image of the oscillating string is thrown, by means of a powerful Nght, upon a narrow slit in a dark box which contains a moving pic ture film. By means of a shutter arrangement over the slit, expos ures In regular moving pleture fash fon are made upon the film. Man Grows Beard Inside of Mouth (BY United Prees Leased Wire) MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec, 27.—~After having his chin hacked off and be ing saved by surgeons when thoy ‘grafied” a new one, made from flesh of his arm, James Hart, the young farmer at the Memphis City hospital, now faces a new problem, jor, rather, his chin faces one, In. stead of ingrowing toenails, it's an ingrowing beard that is causing | trouble with Hart. When the oper jation was performed the flap of flesh which covers the chin proper, extending a little way underneath, was cut so that it could be turned back and upward, the other surface on the tnaide of the new chin and lip. To this new raw surface was grafted a square of flesh out of the arm, In order to do so the pa Uent's right arm was bound over his face for two weeks, that graft ing might take place Then the piece from his arm was cut away Griffiths Can’t Trust the People Councilman Griffiths sprung a surprise yesterday when he pro posed a charter amendment which ould permit the council to name the corporation counsel and also abolish the job of mayor, making the president of the counell the chief official. Griffiths’ scheme to take the power of selecting the elty attorney from the people met with Httle approval, and his other plan is not considered seriously ” Sse ~a3% (By Onited Press Leased Wire) TACOMA, Dec. 27,—at the home of her parents here today, Gertrude Leo, missing witness in the case against Pierce Bernard, head of a inskrit school of Hindu philoso- phy in New York city, where he i known “Oom the Omnipotent, declared she would not return to | New York to testify against him. About a year ago Bernard was accused of improper. practices tn connection with his school, but the charges failed “If they depend on my testimony to convict him, the case will fail again,” said Miss Leo, when told that “Oom” was facing charges Saw Moving Picture of Long-Lost Brother She Heard Was Ocad After receiving word recently that a long-lost brother was dead, Mrs. John Doyle saw bim stalk out on the canvas screen of a moving pleture theatre last night The figure stepped out from a crowd in @ naval scene, looked to ward the audience, waved a hand and disappeared. An effort will be made to trace the source of the film. Put Clothes on Backward and Con- victed Themselves two Americans convicted of smug gling at Chicago because the Chi nese didn’t know how to put on American clothes. They were brought from Canada. To prove the Chinese had never been in the country before, th were told to put on American clothes provided by the govern- ment. The Chinese put them all on backward. They Wili Know th Safe P Samuel Scott, a Chicago diamond broker, didn't believe in safe de- posit vaults and carried $25,000 worth of diamonds in his pocket While one leg was suspended in the air so he could make a difficult shot in a pool game somebody got the diamonds. of East Boston | Four Chinese were deported and} once more, Miss Leo said “Oom's” teachings were good, but that she disapprove ed of his actions as person. She denied she was paid to leave New York when Oom was on trial the first tim Miss Leo le a sin of Mrs. E. H. Miller of Tacoma, whose information concerning Rer+ nard caused the district attorney of | Mew York to act. | SPELLS IT “IE” | VANCOUVER, Wash., [ | Miss Minnle | lowa to have the letter name changed to “ie.” ried Albert Wieman. <= NOW 2— She mare QUEER THINGS IN THE NEWS had no faith in banks and hid big 00 savings in a bed tick. Fire destroyed his home, and with it the | money. | Lining of Egg Shelis Used to Maké New Human Skin After three months’ experiment |ing, Dr. Max Staller of the Moun | Sinai hospital in Philadelphia ane nounces that the white albuminous |Mning of egg shells can be substl jtuted for human skin in grafting operations. He believes it will become unnea jessary for persons to give skig | bereafter to replenish the supply of vietims of burns and accidents, Weren't Afraid of a Fox, But Let @ Deer Tree Them John G. Baker and W were hunting foxes near Plainfield, |Conn., when they came across ® |large buck the dogs were holding at bay. Price climbed a tree and Baker |Was stabbed by the buck’s horns in following. The deer then held them prisoners several hours. m Priew | Burbank to Make Automobile Tiree | From Cactus Fiber | Luther Burbank announces im California that he has found a way to make auto tires from the fiber of the spineless cactus. | The process, he declares, will jalso enable him to revolutionize the whitewash, paint and paper Adam Boniski of Wilkes Barre’ manufactory business. GIRLS’ BLINDS WERE T00 HIGH, * * (By United Press Leaset Wire) i* WELLESLEY, Mass, Dec. 27--|y “Oh, wad some power the giftie gie/ us To see oursel’s as ithers see us.” =— == —— ee ef * NIGHTMARE DISASTROUS . .& TO ESCAPED PRISONER & FINDLAY, Dec. 27.—Arrested & at Little Rock, Ark., last Sat- # urday night for intoxication, Andy McCorell talked in his & \* sleep, and a vigilant turnkey & ® heard him tell b - Thus runs an editorial in the |» caped from tke Wesiertionn Free Press of Aigrtah eee lk last September, after beating @ news, in which the fo draw |» Sherif: bil- the shades in the collegeYormitor-| 4 {rc Johns Into insensibit: 3 Jes is commented on. The article| ‘The local authorities were # continues |* communicated with. MceCor- % “A recent guest of the college | © reli was identified, and is now # criticised our carelessness about | % completing his senate windows. Firet, we are careless not | y steht prestiece 3 jonly in the use of the window sills yeettkhekkheke * z as pantries, but in leaving the! ea Eat Whale Beef shades up at night. From the lake, college hall windows, all brilliantly lighted, attract attention from many peop From the village streets (By United Press Leased Wire) more can be seen going on in our| LONG BEACH, Cal. Dec. 27.—To ts gels * | lessen the high cost of living, Capt, ecting on our college. " c Secackeb ah etaaee John Loop, whaling expert, today suggested that the American people rooms than we realize. matter I STREET SIGNS COMING jeat whale beef hereafter instead of } |cow beef. By eating whales, Capt. | Mayor Dilling has instructed Su-|foop believes, Americana "would perintendent Youngs of the water soon become a race of giants. He | department to push along as fast as! contends that the meat of a 40,000- Soe ee Ree Te aettt be cutting UP | pound whale is just as palatable as a section of prime rib ayo before the signs will be ready, ac-| soy co Of Prime rib from a young |soprov to Youngs, and the $4,000) * * * Seattle Ai Broadway. appropriated will cover only 40 per! cent of the streets.