The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 1, 1912, Page 1

LEAP YEAR USE Our film makers will have fomnaces in 1912, Here is a sug; BAith. look at those two men across C though something THE OCEAN Aviator Has Narrow From Death in Aero- at Lynn, Mass. to revise their moving picture gestion, had VOL. 13, . NO. ~ The Race for the Taxi, <= The Seattle Star | APER IN SEATTLE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSP. 261. — [\Mondesfil Man 3 Birthdays THE LEAP YEAR STORY OF DR. LEWIS SWIFT, WHO REDIS- COVERED HALLEY’S COMET, WHO FIRST SPIED 15 COM. ETS AND WUNDREDS 0; NEW WORLD SYSTEMS AN! WHO 18 LOADED WITH HON. ors FORE HIS 22ND BIRTHDAY. BY OLIVER P. NEWMAN MARATHON, N. Y., Jan. —Ever hear of Lewis Swift? About bis birthdays; “I'll lose an- other in 2100, Dr, Swift's mind is as active as it was 60 years ago, and his phy> feal condition te excellent, except for sight and bearing. “T attribute my ‘yoo health and SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1912. "PPR Mamma in Pursuit. ONE CENT. tiei"tist.0"2 |A Grave New Year’s Day Problem| for the Pauls and Triplets MR. AND MAS. N. & PAUL ELOPe Prep? , John. It’s across the GIRL HELD DENIES otORY Arrested Here as Witness in Portland White Slave Case, Young Girl Denies K: Anything About Story. Has the strong arm of the law blundered again, with pretty Amelia Bohle, a Portiand high school girl, the victira of the mistake? Federal officiais in Portiand claim, the girl is the prey of an organiaed gang of white slavers operating in that city, and that her evidence wil} place at least a portion of the gang behind prison bars. She is being held at the detention home upon their request. Miss Bohle denies that she Is the victim of white slavers, or that she has fallen into bad hands. She ad- If not, give car, for his is a story—a Nineteen Hundred and Twelve New Year story— Triplets in bis home. ‘a little money every day. He and| mits that she received money And no job to keep the grim | his wife have been used to the “sim-|two men (gentlemen friends),. wi wolf from the door. ple, life,” the very simple life, and| which to come to Seattle. She ad they can manage very comfortably | mits that she left home against her was going nicely engine stopped and At IN BLIND RAGE ‘Press Lenses Wire) , Or, Jan, 1.—Blind ts given as the reason | led Hert ‘Taylor to} m1 Kill Policeman E. M. amd then commit suicide | hag when Brown at-| prevent Taylor beat-| wife. " saw the family aitereation| ‘ op to interfere with | ie the woman. With . Taylor grabbed a rifle) Brown through the maveat ) He then turned th on himself, biowing out his \ 4, — seek the ),000 00 Strikers Init og ESTER. 5 og Jen i © of strikers in the cot- Gannon—Not to the greatest history of Europe eo both spinners and to board at the home of the girl's | had to be knocked down before the that's worth hearing—and sct-! ting up as an example. Lewis Swift lives here in the} little village of Marathon, but/ his fame knows no territorial jor terrestrial) bounds. This HE HAS NOT Y SEEN HIS TWENTY-SE OND BIRTHDAY. comet perindic vialt to ‘nile Hittle ae. ot |e atmosphere in which old earth) jdays to come. Well, as a matter of fact, fa birthday thing that’s respon: He is the acknowledged discov erer (proudly proctaimed by the, astronomical world) of more than 130@ “nebulae,” of world system comets. | He has seen two total eclipses | of the sap, and during one he dis | covered two brand new comets, to the astonishment of the world of | science. Swift is stone deaf, he can't see & thing more than four feet away from him, and he can read only the) biggest type by the ald of a strong magnifying glass. Swift bimself says happy. I am content. My | bearing is dead. My sight is poor, but my conscience is clear and my omach ts prog And ‘ or little groups and of fifteen) A day in the city jail has appar ie ently shown Charles Hufford, the liquor salesman who shot four times | at Gladys Irene Tesche, 18, Satur. day night in the presence of her mother and a throng of New Year's! merrymakers at Fourth av. and) t., the serious nature of his When first arrested he ex-| pressed himself as hopii he did a good job, according to Captain | | of Detectives Tennant. “That's the way I feel now. Maybe I'll feel different later,” he is al- leged to have said.” Today Hufford, who ix 47, giver the appearance of preparing a de fense of emotional insanity. He de nies that he made the statements at tributed to him, or that he had pre- meditated the murder. much drunk as 1 Hutford, who was a wa the Branini Liquor company, man for | used | mother, Mrs. Earl Hall, 605 Lenora) A NEW DEAL Kills Girl Who Jilted Him; Pleads Insanity sible for this story Dr, Swift te bout to have a birthday—and he's going to celebrate it royally. it will be bis twenty-second. © re out for his leap year birthday party, whose date in PEBRUARY 29, 1912! i On that day, Dr. Swift will be 92) years old. | Dr. Swift is one of those unfor tanates whose birthday comes but) once every four yeare—and some- times but ouce every eight. He) was born Feb, 29, 1820, at Clark | son, Monroe county, N. Y.. and kept having birthdays regularly —be- tween comet discoveries—up to 896. Then the calendaf-makers played a mean trick on him. They made him walt til) 1904, “And that's not the worst of it,” onid Dr. Swift, in talking to , and considered himself, he says. | as the girl's accepted suitor. Three weeks ago he was ordered out of the house, and at that time, accord ing to the frantic mother, he had threatened to “get” the girl Story of Shooting. When he met her with her mother in front of the Northern Bank butid ing he asked her the one questior: Why are you monkeying with me this way?” The next minute he had whipped out his gun, which he told the detec- tives he had bought at a First ay. store that night, and commenced shooting. He fired four shots with- out stopping, and then turned and ran. The girl fell, gasping the words, “Oh, mamma.” Two hours later, at about 11:35, ahe died at the jeity hospital. Hufford was stopped by Motorey- Patrolman Byers and William} Nielsen, 516 Seventh av. near tl Plaza hotel. He put up a fight, and | handcuffs could be put on him. | Pere eee ee ees ‘and great reaches of space and time and peoples—we will know more if we have lived right. bere.” Those were the Uiings 1 took away with me a an after noon with Dr, Swift: His implicit faith in God and a future life and his happiness in the life he is now living. DICKIE HAS A BIRTHDAY NOW This is a pieture of little Diek, Dick is the youngster Cynthia Grey told about a week or so ago—the boy at the Rainier children’s home who never had « birthday. He's an orphan, and no one knows when he was born, but Dick is about 10 years old And Dickie now has a birthday. Mrs, K. Adams was the first woman to write to Cynthia Grey asking to be allowed to fix a birthday for the boy. Mrs. Adams lost a_ little brother about a year ago, so Dick is to have his first birthday March 15. |And Mrs, Adams and Miss Grey are going to see that he has a real cele- bration. If you want to help, watch The Star. And by the way, Mrs. Adams gave Dickie a real jolly Christmas, and he’s having a lot of fun.on this big day, too. Ce ee ee ee es BOYS UNEARTH TREASURE JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan 1,—Guided by an ancient chart found in the ruins of a Spanish shell house on Fort George island, two boys of this city say they have unearthed treas ure worth about $150,000, They say gold, silver and copper colna were found in a strong box. Those who have seen the coins say they are more than * a century old, * SERRE EES EEE EEE ifiolbalbad orovin LE, Cal, Jan. jury in the case of Arthur Lewis, charged with the murder of his stepniece, Helen Rumball, 14, cele- brated their New Years behind locked doors. They were refused a request to be discharged yesterday. him, made a fly- fate another taxicab and e dy another minute and a half. y Behind Locked Doors Birch was waiting with Magis- ‘Thrush. The couple rushed ‘Med the door and the the ceremony .;eampaign to file. te Thrush and the couple paid no attention. When the knot tied the door was opened slowly by the new son- intaw. “Howdy, “dad, come on ip,” said TRIAL IN-JULY ANGELES, Jan. 1.—Owing to congested condition of the criminal calendar in the United Johannsen, E. A. Clancy, J. B. wey and other labor leaders will be et for trial before next July. The accused men will be arraign- ad tomorrow before Judge Welborn in the federal district court. TRAINED ALARM CLOCK LEAVENWORTH, Kas, Jan. 1. Brownhili has o trained alarm that awakens him, lights the lamp and starts the fire, besides starting the kettle boiling, starting & whistle blowing-—and making him get up. Jan. Marvin, his wife on bis walked into police court toda the man said: “I want to take the pl for life not to drink ab- sinthe.” He winked at the judge. iho, Pada a Year's here, That is the situation that faces — Paul today—New Year's y. Perhaps you read the little story in The Star Saturday, of how trip- lets came to the home of Mr. and) 1 24rd av. 8. The! couple were | Ing three | But just now to do, now every day in bis life. ast: to carn on @ very little money, BUT PAUL MUST HAVE SOM1. WORK RIGHT AWAY, OR HIS WIFE AND THE TRIPLETS MAY DIE FOR LACK OF PROPER NOURISHMENT. Dr. John C. Gosnell, who was present at the birth of the triplets, is going to help the Paul family as much as he can, But Paul hasn't found a job yet,eand it is a very sober New Year's day for him. Is there work for him somewhere in this big city—work which will bring food and comfort to Mrs. Paul and the triplet Pau F First Mayoralty a8 Candidate to File’ Thomag A. Parish ie the first can-| didate in the present mayoralty His petition in| signed by 64 citizens, whose resi- ences embrace every part of the! city. The corporation counsel's fight) has already developed into a four- handed one. The candidates who have already filed are Thomas M. ied the well-known progress ive; Hugh Caldwell, now deputy aor acd attorney; James E. Bradford, present corporation coun- sel, and Philip Tindall, who claims jthe support of the Bolo political club of the Spanish-American war veterans. Josiah Collins, state senator, who was spoken of asa probable candl- date of the so-called harmony inter- ests for mayor, this morning stated ithat he ional: hot enter the Content, SUICIDE OR MURDER? WIFE HELD IN QUEER CASE (By United Prese Leased Wire) CHICAGO, Jan. 1,—Convineed that Chas. B, Morrow, an inventor, whose frozen body was found on} the back porch of his home here | with a bullet in the head and an- other in the heart, was murdered and was not 2 suicide, as claimed by his wife, the police are holding Mrs. Morrow on a formal charge of | murder, They are also searching | for a young automobile salesman who {# reported to have been the “star boarder” at the Morrow home. Attorney Cuthbert D. Potts, a friend of the dead man, has tn. for the police that Morrow’ First New Year Arrest Tom Yashido—first name white, last name Jap—was the first man to be arrested by the police in the year 1912, and it was for celebrat-/| ing the joyous new year Tom was) Tp>morrow We Sell Bays’ $4.00 Suits at 2.05 Mén’s $15.00 Sulte at..810.50. Bays’ $4.00 Overcoats at $2.95 THE ENTIRE STOCK OF MEN'S, BOYS’ AND CHIL- DREN'S CLOTHING IS NOW OFFERED AT REDUCTIONS Ranging From 1-4 to 1-2 Tt will pay everyone to Inves- tigate these unusual values, Shafer Bros Areade and Arcade Annex arrested—a disorderly charge was! Py | or Dontt his name on the station blotter. Over in the land of the little brown man they have no new year, | or, rather, it doesn't fall on the! same day as ours. But that made | no difference to Tom. When al husky patrolman grasped his arm | a few seconds after midnight he was celebrating with a patriotism that would be a credit to most any | nai janzai, banal, a ha Year,” said the noisy, Tom, bumping bolsterously pedestrians. “Cut that stuff, you Jap," ished the officer. A moment later Tom was lustily tooting a 10-cent horn and firing blank cartridges from an old pistol | simultaneously. Then the law grabbed him and he became the first of 1912's lawbreakers. VANCOUVER, Wash. Jan. 1 Migs Mildred Henthorne, a law of fice stenographer, who recently py New rollicking ) into admon- day before the tragedy. | followed. | Portland jpointed by Gov. domestic life was very unhappy, that Mrs. Morrow made her husband sleep in a disused kitchen and that shortly before the tragedy she se- jeured the deed of Morrow's prop- erty and when he .emanded it chased him from the house with a buteher knife. According to information from the police, Morrow found his wife and the young automobile sales- man in a compromising position the A quarrel Mrs. Morrow ordered her husband from the house. The next morning Morrow's body was found. Mrs. Morrow was arrested yester- PHONE DID IT PORTLAND, Or. Jan. 1.—Sam Bigelow “is in jail today for steal- ing a horse and buggy, thanks to the telephone. Telephonic com- munication pursued Bigelow from to Corvallis, 90 miles, where an officer took him into cus- tody. WOMAN GETS FINE JoB LANSING, Mich, Jan. 1.—Mary Hedrich of Marquette has been ap- Osborn to be his private secretary. It is the first time in the history of the state that a woman has held this posi- tion, SWEARING OFF tried a’police court case during the absence of the justice of the peace, | has been mentioned as a possible | appointee as police judge py Chas. Irwin, who will assume the office of mayor tomorrow, 203159 parents’ wishes, and. that they did not know her whereabouts: Ina Local officials are in a. They want to belleve a Ge forward tale the girl tells, are compelled to surrender the eirk to Portland officers, who will am rive today. She was ‘arrested in the postoffice Saturday afternoon “Patrotman” Miss Brown if the’ of receiving a dummy letter. was released, and again arrested yesterday at the home of J. A, Smith, Capitol hill, where she was employed. Portland Case. Carl Anderson, under indictment in Portland, and under $4,000 is accused in connection with the Bohle case, and the Portland of aid of the girl they can disrupt what they term one of the worst gangs that ever operated there. Bohle admits receiving her fare from Anderson and Fred Budburg, but insists they wished to aid her, She denies relations of any nature with elther. She admits, however, that Anderson corresponded with her under the name of Emma Evans, a Bohle came to Seattle « monti sought employment at the Y. We, A. She was fur- nished employment at the home of J. A. Smith on Capitol hil. Mr, Smith says her conduct has been exemplary during that time. She attended a local business college evenings after working hours. Miss Bohle says she is 17 years ied ase, but her parents say she ig ut 5 RESOLUTIONS Fy Sherlock Holmes—To put poisom in Doc Watson's cup. Portland Subdued ited Press Leased Wire) PORTLAND, Or, Janet of noise at midnight, when all the whistles of factories, steamboats and locomotives let go, preceded and followed by the jangle of noise producing machinery on the street: was about the sum and substan of Portland's celebration in honor ot the coming of the new year. “The lid was on in this city* from Saturday midnight until the birth of New Years, with the result that the cafe celebration was a tame af. fair. NEW YEAR COST NEW YORK $750,000 NEW YORK, Jan, 1—America’s metropolis awakened today witha | headache, a bad taste in the mouth, /and her bank roll depleted juste about $750,000, ‘That's what the |New Year celebration cost old | Father Knickerbocker. It was on@ | without parallel in the history of New York, but bromides and every, known nerve quieter on the market | is being wor! ked overtime sacey 100,000 "FIRECRACKERS NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—Mott st New York's Chinatown, celebrate today the birth of the new China, A hundred thousand imported Chis nese firecrackers were exploded barrels of rice wine were consume ed, and rare Oriental viands from the Far East were eaten at numeroug banquets. ficlals are confident that with the . mere