The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1911, Page 1

HOME: EDITION § ons ap ates dotlar bill of the quarter, “Ain't had none. Till yesterday I be.|l longed to’ Hetty Green,” hi ONLY IN DL, 13, NO. 259. DEPENDENT NEWSPAPER mom} The Seattle Star IN SEATT SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1911. * ; or The St. Paul health commissioner doesn’t want children drowned in the Hi lake that supplies the city water. Hu-] H ON TRAING } manitarianism marches on. NEWS Otani ALL FOR BLAINE AND WARDALL CH WANTS | MARRIAGE E ANNULLED 4 (By United Press Leased Wire) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29.—Charg Ing that she was made the victim p of a strange and baneful Jatiugne _ Mra Margaret Armstrong Howe . known the “Helen Gould of Spo+ kane," today has emerged enough froma wath imposed sectu- >, dion of 14 days to instruct her attor ney to file suit for the annulment of Rer marriage to Geo. Howell, ‘wealthy mining man. * Before she married “Mis, Howell was known in Spokane and the ~ Northwest as one of the shrewdest, “wealthiest and most successful bus ness women i that region. “I'm Not His Wifé.” . * “I am stil!.Miss Margaret’ Arm strong, not the wife of that man,” eried today That matriage mony is all there is betwee: us. want my friends in Spokane to Tknow this, because 1 want to " ‘back to them. “The strange tnectzating power Howell wielded over me. was re Markable. in his presence | lost control of all my will power. He Would ask me & question, then twist ‘My answer {o, serve his purpose in euch a way that he would complete me. Our marriage was rect outcome of one of these and bis domination over Story of Marriage. Armetrong, wealthy, clever ‘gharitable business woman, was in San’ Diego, of the wedding Teak out until two weeks Week after the marriage the Teft her husband to visit her Tn Los Angeles, and did not to him. She sent an ex after her trunks and oth-| ets, and that wes the last i saw of her “80m Bee eee eee ny # WOMAN JURY ° CONVICTS WOMAN BREMERTON, Wash. Dec. & 29—With crushing thstimony ® her in “State's Exhibit * A.” & big rock, a jury of six ogg found Mrs. Mary John- guilty of soaking Mra. ‘Alice Rook with it, following a } dispute over some fent matter Detween landiady-and tenant * Bhe was fined $10. , . - eh dadadadadadiadiadadaadh x * * * wantin ‘COTTERILL TO ENTER - THE MAYORALTY RACE asa GEORGE COTTERILL The definite announcement is made today that. Georke Cotterill will accede to the demands of his friends to enter the race for mayor. Mr. Cotterill has not announced the fact himself, but It can be FI ocsante that he wilt file, and his petition is now being prepared. Two Women and Babe Rescued After Drifting in a Launch (By Unites Frees Leased Wire) engine refused to work. The die BLAINE, Wash., Dec. 29.—Mrs.|tance to shore being short, Clark Nora A. Clark, wife of the first as tempted to swim, to return wih © sistant keeper of the Patos light sta- | D0at, but he sank at once and was ted Rot Been again, The current i Crore a nee tay were Secon fied the launch far out into the he mat the channel. After drifting all night prob Bh hours in, 20d all day the boat was carried to inch, according to| the beach,‘where the women and jbaby were foynd by fishermen a disabled news reaching here today. Clark and bis wife and his wite's | sister, Estelle Durgan, left here in | | a smal? launch for Patos. They had } almost reached the island when the} j = = | | | Following a night of carousal, WAKE Him winding up in a general “shooting| .. UPF You |}! | up of the Little Jug resort, half JUST WATCH II mite east of the Green River Ho! ME. JUST {1 Springs, Chester Raymond, 21, was shot and instantly killed at 11 ) o'clock last night by Louis Shriner, || employed as a cook in a restauran’ |/run in conjunction with the saloon a WAKE THAT JANITOR UP A LITTLE resort. || Raymond visited the resort with friend named Frank Mitchell, and | } their celebration, “It is alleged, end-| led with their drawing guns and shooting wild, driving a number of women, out of the house. When Shriner ordered them to leave, Ray- mond, It is said, attempted to draw @ gu on him, too, but Shriner, ' seizing a shotgun, beat hine to it. .Immediately after Raymond was killed, Shriner gave himself up to Deputy Sheriff Matt Starwich, at Lester, Wash. He was brought to the county jai! this morning. JUST ONE TRAGEDY BY United Press Leased Wire) SAN "FRANCISCO, Dec 20.— Overcome by smoke in a fire which destroyed the attic tenement in which she lived, Mrs. J. M. Hub- bard, 77 years of age, is dying to- day at the Central Emergency hos:| pital ‘on the eve of her planned de parture” to, long estranged relatives in the East. Her condition is ex- tremely critical, Shafer Bros.” Clearance Sale . PRICES REDUCED '%, Y%, 3-3 Boys’ $4.00 Suits goats. ....*, Boys’ $6.50 coats Boys’ coats: ; Misses’ | Man-Tailored $12.50 value $20.00 value Others and Over. $2.95 Over. $4.85 and Over: $7.65 Coats, Suits and ‘$10.00 ‘suits ” reduced Sooty. Shafer Brose Arcade and Arcade Annex Councilmen Wardall and Blaine, stand up! You have been in the city council one year. You Sere Saws 6 eae ayer re rear sarees & Oe public. What have your services been? ‘o public, your employer and your boss, wants to Ww. . Your boss is thinking seriously of firing you by means of the recall. What have you to say? What explanation have ,you for your broken pledges? What grounds have you to warrant your boss in giving you another trial? . You were saved from the recall once last summer be- cause the people didn’t care to swap horses in the mid- dle of the stream. Now that stream is crossed. There is no longer any reason to hesitate or to temporize. Your boss has the recall in his hand and is beckoning you towards the family woodshed. Don’t think you can avoid the matter with fulsome excuses and with more promises, Your promises were taken at face value last year, but never again. ‘ Seriously now, Blaine and Wardall, it looks as if the ig is up. RECALL PETITIONS AGAINST BOTH BLAINE AND WARDALL ‘The recall petitions against Councilmen Biaine and Wardall, which were signed last summer, will be completed and filed with the city comptroller. If the necessary names can be obtained, the petitions may be filed tomorrow any time before 6 o'clock. By filing them tomorrow, the last day tn the year, the present. registration will be effective. If, however, enough names cannot be obtained, the petitions can be filed any time after January 1. This latter plan was followed in the Of} recall a year ago, and the citizens who want Bisine and Wardall omnes may decide to psoas und wide EX-WIFE PRAISES LILLIAN RUSSELL’S HUSBAND-TO-BE BALTIMORE, Md, .Dec. 29.—Mrs. Lucile Moore, former wife of Alex P. Moore, now engaged to marry Lil- lian Russell, declared today that she wished the actress the happiness that was hers during 15 years of her married life with Moore. “In being found more fascinating than I, Miss Russell is fortunate,” she said. “There is no man more admired by me than my former husband. My divorce was obtained on grounds of incompatibility But I think he's a splendid man. “Ballou Seemed to Be Depressed” Is Evidence at Today’s Inquest O. H. Ballou, the aged attorney | up ones. who was struck by the auto driven| Patrolman Nutting, who chased | by Ralph H. Knowles Tuesday night |hieg vs sinc atl Fooled jand instantly killed, “seemed to be! fatlon, testified that the car was depressed” about somothing all that ; not running over 12 miles an hour. evening. That was quite noticeable by members of the Bethany Meth odiat church, aecording to Dr. W. A Major, ceased. This testimony, given to the coroner's jury this morning, |bears out Knowles’ contention that the accident was unavoldable because Ballou stepped out of the shadow of a telegraph pole sudden- ly, without ‘heeding the "| the qnecasing machine, or looking BIG LINER IS ASHORE (By United Press Leased Wire) PROVIDENCE, R. L, Dec. 29—-The Joy liner Georgia was today’ driven ashore in a wild gale, striking on the mud flats in Narragansett bay. No great danger is appre- hended for the vessel or the passengers aboard. PASTOR-MAYOR TRALIA, Wash., Deo. 29.— Centralia has also elected # min- ister for mayor, following. the ex- amples set in Spokane, Everett and Hoquiam, Rev. H. W. Thompson got 961 votes ae against 786 for Jobo Galvin in the recent election. DO YOU KNOW? That Judge Richard Winsor, the first soctalist elected to office tn Seattle, was for, 26 consecutive years chairman of Huron county re- pitbiican central committee in Mich- | igan? That net one woman in Seattle conducts a business in her own name avhich is rated at $100,000 or | more? That more than 10,000 arrests were made by Seattle police this year? That the Grand theatre now ranks as the oldest playhouse in’ Seattle? a close friend of the de-| und of | Kuowles bhimeelf then j at | “Mise Clark, took the my fiancee, said ‘Go on, Gon't atop!'éand I didn't. That was the mistake I made,” he said “I dido’t know I hurt him. He was canght by the side of the machine, jand I thought he was only pushed | back to the sidewalk. I didn’t see {him at all, just felt a slight impact I didn't know the machine dragged ‘him any distance at all.” SE 2 eS HAIL LOOKED LIKE MARBLES FRESNO, Cal, Dec. 2%—Hail- stones as big as marbles fel) here during an electrical storm, and peo- ple stopped business to enjoy snow ball fighting, Atout half an inch of enow fell Fin @eattle today, but the younger eration’s prospect of sledding was soon wiped out when the flakes das they alighted upon th ements. A low-pressure dis- |turbance that is now over Van- couver island will move south and will cause either rain or snow tonight and tomorrow in the Puget sound region. | * * THE FORECAST * * Rain or snow tonight and * * Saturday; * winds. * * * RRR EERE! [ik eo tk ok tok tok te! moderate easterly * | WIFE ON STAND IN TRIAL OF DR. JOSLEN (By United Pree» Leased Nagar BAN FRANCISCO, Dec. Speaking in a strained, rat ar tone, Mrs. Otto C. Jesien, who tee) husband, on trial before Judge Lawior, charged with bet on complaint of Ethel Will year-old candy girl, adhered to the main points of her story when cross-examination was resumed to- the prosecution. First Meeting With Ethel. Her testimony, given on direct examination, of the meeting with Dr. Josien and Ethel Williams one night in August, 1910, as they! emerged from the St. Francis grill, was gone over and not materially shaken. a this the first thing of the sort had happened to mar the happiness of your married life?” asked Murphy. “Until this young woman appear- ed,” replied the witness, “my mar ried life was more sweet than bit- ter.” Promised Not.to See Her. Mrs. Josien spoke of the quarrel that night at the Josien home, | | which, she declared, ended with by Ethel Williams again, The wit }ness declared that she did not know relations had been resumed until the arrest of Dr. girl’s complaint. She was then questioned regarding the telephone call which she has testified to hav ing made the day after the encoun- ter, to Mrs, Williams, mother of th Jeomplaining witness, and which she declared, was met with laugh ter and indifference by the mother “You were very indignant, were you not?” asked Murphy ‘The witness assented “But you did not call on her endeavor to have her daughter stop going with your husband?” | the prosecutor. | “Mrs. Josien hesitated a moment, |and admitted that she had not cause she “believed it to be futtle. | The admissibility of the testi mony as to what transpired at a certain meeting several ago between Mrs. Joslen, Judge Golden and Miss Ray Wolfson, one Jof the active workers of the Girls club, who has been. giving moral Have Fun, But “Don’t Go Near Water” “Mother, may | go out te swim?" “Yes, my darling daughter; Hang your clothes on a hickory timb, whisk brooms, and also, don’t try to foym any serpentines on the street. For, if you do, the police | wil nab you. But don’t go near the water.” | Chief Bannick has decided just) ‘ahi in the new year will be ushered in in Seattle, and his ay goes, He Have just as good a time a8 You! yin got isgue any particular orders can in ushering out the old year} to the department, but the rank and and in the new—but keep within| file will be given to understand | the law. about what is expected. ,| ‘The saloons must closb as usual, | Throw all the confett! you MHke| at midnight, and the sale of liquor and toot the old horn until, your!in the cafes must stop when the lungs are sore, but don't spring any] clock strikes 12. + Of course, it all comes in bunches | and happens very badly, but it can't |be helped. In the past many |man has drained the cheery glass | amid the din of bells and the whis- \ue's shriek, but this year he will have to drain it a lttle before the eventful moment arrives, and imme- diately pass out, because that is the | law. The fact that midnight is both | the time when the new year is born and the time when the saloons lose makes no difference, Any- how, it won't happen that way next year. JEWELER 1S ROBBED, BEATEN | (Ry United Press Leased Wire) | LOS ANGELES, Dec. 285+ |“Strong-arming”’ and robbing Mor- jris Marin, a Main st. jeweler, of $4,000 worth of diamonds, Juan |Jose, an East Indian, eluded 500 members of the Los Angeles police |force for two hours early today, only |to be captured by R. E. Beeson, a | burly motorman. | Jone entered Marin's establish- |ment while the jeweler was placing his diamond display in the show window. I want to for @ loan,” prietor, Marin told bim to call later, and turned his back. Without a word Jose pounced upon his unsuspeeting victim. Beat- ing Marin to the floor, the East In- dian, to make sure there would be no resistance, kicked the jeweler into unconseiousness. Then, grabbing a tray of gems, the bandit made for the crowded street. No one dared impede his progress, and, hatless, he sped down the street with tne glittering tray of diamonds in his hands. Sey- eral policemen finally took up the chase, but Jose ran into the rear entrance of a cafeteria and escaped. An hour later the bandit boarded a Sixth street car. Attracted by the tray of diamonds, Motorman Beeson asked: “Hey there, wot ye got there?” ‘Oh, a few diamonds found,” Jose responded. ‘o, ye didn't,” Beeson replied. “T believe the cops want you.” Subduing Jose after a brief strug- gle, Beeson turned the bandit, jew- elry and tray over to the police. Marin is reported to be in a se Two views of Ethel Williams, 17-| ous condition, but the physicians tle girl, sketched In is the Emergency hospital say he francisco court. She Is suing |). eooq chances for recovery. @ wealthy physician for alleged de-| eae edhe! | ception. A Bi J k Pea gree pea aN ig JOKe support to the prosecution, was ar 7 gued at length, and Judge Lawlor} POMONA, Cal. Dec. 29.—After gave a rule restricting the introduc-| stabbing himself with a pocketknife, tion of the testimony to certain lim-| Michael Marrions, a barber, told the its, |surgeon it was a big joke, and laughed heartily over it. The knife blade missed his heart by an inch. make said arrangements he to the pro- that T At this meeting Miss Wolfson re marked, according to Murphy, that men of Joslen's type ought to be driven out of town.” Judge Golden,| ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 29— it was further shown, indorsed the | Council of ministers has barred the remark. | Salvation Army from Russia. a tified yesterday In behalf of her | day by Attorney F. J. Murphy for time any-/ husband promising never to meet | Joslen on the | asked be- | months | = Two Timid Married Men, “Two | Cops, and What They Found mid- attic The Time—Tne lone! night hour, when the burglars prowl. The Place—Two lonely resi- dences in the suburb. The Cast—Two timid married men, out rather na ‘Two timid married men were in| pa dilemma last night, and it re- | quired the services of the police to |Testore them to their natural state jof calm. The noise of the burglar [is about town, and when thes¢ gen- tlemen neared their own domiciles last night, each was positive he could hear this same noise—hence two hurried calls to police headquar- ters. Also, two hurried visits by motorcycle policemen to the scenes | of action. At the Phipps home, 2708 29th av. S., those unseemly noises were ade by Mrs. Phiy When hubby jand motoreycle cop crept stealthily |in, expecting to find the | has so deftly plied his trade in Seat tle of late, they found, instead, the |lady of the house. Naturally, Phipps felt foolish and offered to buy, but the cop admonished him to stay at home, lest he hear more |strange noise Then Phipps ex ned that his wife was also out the evening, but that sh culprit who | j beaten him home, which was unex- pected. | At the Primer home, 1324 Sturges | road, it was a little different. The | Primer family is away, and, natur- ally enough, Mr. Primer was as- jtounded when he heard strange {noises within. So Primer and the cop crept stealthily in, expecting, also, to find the eulprit who has so deftly plied his trade, ete., but again no culprit was to be found. Neither was the lady of the house about. Mr. Primer was nonplused, and the cop was sore. “Must have been the family cat,” remarked the minion of the law. Stores Close for La Follette (By United Press Leasea Wire) NORTH BALTIMORE, O., Deo 29.—With every shop and store in the town closed to hear him speak, Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin was given a most en- thusiastic welcome here today, and 2,500 persons heartily cheered him as he explained why he was a can- didate for the presidential nomina- had tion. Are You a Relpless Bab on how to keep house, course dinners. in Your Own Home? BY DANA SLEETH. Everybody feels fitted to indulge in extended advice to women wash babies and make scraps Into six- But did anybody ever see any information tell- ing the man of the house how to do the few simple things that every woman knows? woman when occasion demands. baby or the wife is sick for a day, \f} scrub woman and she doesn't. I'm a married man, and I've solved some few home problems by turning myself into a housekeeper, nurse, maid, cook and char- Tam not helpless if left with the or the tine comes around for the I've acquired a lot of valuable information, some of which I'm going to pass on for the benefit of helpless husbands who are really lost in their own homes. I'm not wild about housework, man’s work. I'm not henpecked nor a male suffraget. I don’t think it is primarily the 1 merely am remarking that it’s good sense, good economy and really the man's duty to know enough to cook a plain meal, clean a room, wash the necessary clothes, take care of his own children, if he has to, and know a few things about nursing and sick room ethics. If you can wash a dish and clean a window, and sweep a room and wash a towel and know what hot water is for, you can save that wife of yours a lot of worry, and fret, and grief, by lending a hand when she really needs it, No woman will want “ber man” to do much housework, but most women would breathe a bit easier when baby comes or there hits the house, if she jf is a sudden influx of relatives, or sickness Anyhow, she won't have knew that her partner was an the job, to worry about you, as well as yourself. Well, anyhow, the show starts tomorrow n The Star with a few choice ideas on getting your own jast. epee a Sage Te AIPA ET DIED HI REE