The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 6, 1912, Page 6

THE STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912 Rid ofa Riva! Than Yest, A Sweu. MENCO — NOODLES, HASSENPFEFFER, ONION CAKE, PIGsrTeeT-— run dA - Way of Getting ENGINE | nother Way of Gettin we Words b y | by Force Music. by Conde VOT BEAUTIFUL @yes You HARE MISS DicPicKres! VERE TWO 133 COMPANY ADOLF ISS A CROWT. DIseusTiIng How He oxcuse ME, ADOLF, BuT I Suppose You Har NOD HEARD DoT SEIDLMEYER HASS ID 133 EXPLODES; KILLED Cold Water Poured Into Hot Boiler of Locomotive in Los Angeles—Three Injured. x ‘United Preay Leased Wire) Lo ANGELES, Jan, 6.—Two men are dead and three are suffer. Ing from serious injuries here to- day, the result of a locomotive jon in a round house in the ihern Pacific company's La- mar street yards. The H. R. Dixon, night round house foreman, W. A, Weaver, engine tendo The injured: Joseph Chiroll: laborer, badly burned about face and head. Henry ©. Morris, fireman, badly burned head, face and arms. John Laurance, brick mason, burned face and hands. All the injured, it was stated to- day at the hospital, have fair chances to recover, The explosion, railroad experts way, Was caused by pouring cold water into the hot boiler of the en- gine, Its detonation was heard for miles, and created a panic In the Bricks and pieces of steel were scattered for blocks, while the boiler ot the locomotive was hurled 50 yards from the round house. HER LOVE LOST, EX-GROOM SUES FOR $100,000 latest portrait of Mrs. Croker Breen, youngest births many in 1911, according to govern- ment statistics, a decrease of 421 as compared with 1910. During 1911 there were 261 births of “trip- Jets,” exactly the same number as 1910. And there were three births of quadruplets. Dance at Dreamland tonight. *** SPECIAL $1. Bo arses $2.50 U. S. OPTICAL co. Trunk & Bag Co., Inc TRUNKS AND SUIT CASES, fe masutacture our own we goods bers jo Beattie and seit them 931 First Av, 182, Ind. 1988, PUBLIC AUCTION unclaimed household goods, piano, and restaurant ranges, counters, gore! outfit, sewing machines, en F eines, v machines, trunks, ete. American Cafe Continuous Performance of High-Class Vaudeville Cor. Pike and Westlake MONOPOLICES Der Farr SEX, A OBENING TONIGHT UND (8% SerTring A Big LUNCH, ‘TOM ALDERSON WAS BORN IN AN INSURGENT INCUBATOR, AND A BONA FIDE INSURGENT WAS DEVELOPED He was born in the insurgent in- cubator, the state of Wisconsin, about 38 years ago. Add to this the hardihoed acquired by buch pas times as digging in Seattle streets with pick and shovel, doing tong shoreman's work, painting houses, doing janitor work, Ray com papers, prospecting in t! 8c: mountains in Snohomish county, farming in Klickitat county, book- keeping, and coming out of Alaska after a three-year wrestling match with Mother Earth, with practically nothing in the way of the world’s goods, can you wonder that Tom Alderson is a double-fisted, straight from-the-shoulder, out-and-out pro- gressive on all questions and on alt occasione? Alderson's career reads as though he started out to beat by several marathon blocks the best atory the novelists could conjure up about that poor and honest boy who was determined to succeed. He cer- tainly set those story writers a fast pace, Alderson, by the way, holds the title of champion walker in Se attle, He used to carry newspapers im Alaska over a route of 35 miles or 80, between Skagway and Lake Bennett—and that is some training for champion walkers, you kvow. After “Higher Education.” Alderson came to the state of Washington when a youngster, set- Uing with his mother on a farm fn Klickitat county. He farmed, clerked and kept books, and then set out for higher education at the University of Washington. He car- through tory from Lake Union to George town—and even the 8S. E. accom- modations were not In existence then. He persisted in his applica- tion for a job with the circulation manager of an afternooh paper at that time, every day, for alx weeks, until the manager gave him the job to get rid of him. During the last year at the university he acted as earning $15 a month. With al! this Alderson played fullback on the varsity team, and earned the title of “red-headed cyclom Not that he's red-headed, really, but it's enough to give color to the fiery description, And he captained the track team and copped a couple of prizes as an orator, besides doing longshore and street work. Fully equipped with a sheepskin, but with little, if any, of the real Singles in his pockets, Alderson tried to find some mines in the Cas- eades near Index, Wash. Then came the gold rush to Alask a Alderson went North in the fall of ‘97. A Lawyer He Would Be. Three years of fruitless prospect- PRINCES TERRIFIED PEKIN, Jan. 6—Terrified by re- ports that the rebel army from Nan- king and Pukow had begun its march on Pekin, the Manchu princes today summoned Premier Yuan Shi Kai, demanding to know what preparations had been made to check the movement. Yuan reassured the princes, de- claring @ force of imperial troops were making ready to advance upon Nanking, and declared that with this counter attack menacing them, ithe revolutionary chiefs would not dare to detach their forces from the vicinity of the eapital of the pro- claimed republic. Little direct information has been received here as to whether the re- ported rebel advance is to be a real attack or is only a feint de- signed to force Yuan's surrender to the rebel demands. The last au- thentic news was that the rebels, About 30,000 strong and well armed and provisioned, had been ferried across the river from Nanking to Pukow. CHICAGO, Jan. 6—Desiring to start the new year with a clear con- science, George Lacey surendered to the police, saying he had violated his parole and was ready to serve out his time. ‘TOM AL DERSON janitor for the Armory building, | ing and selling newspapers in Alaw-; himself. ka worked up an ambition in Alder son to become a lawyer. a fob painting houses and white- washing fences and similar work. He settled down to real study, and before be finished the course he was recommended by Prof. Abbot to Prof. Pomeroy. who wrote a five-volume (rei Use on “Equity Jurisprudence, as an assistant to gather the ma terlal. Alderson turned the job down to finish his studies. And when he got his law degree Stanford wot | versity offered him a job as as j sistant professor of law. Again he turned it down, because Alderson | Was anxious to get out and dig for BOYS BEATIIG GIRLS IN BIRTHS United Freee Leased Wire) LOS ANGELES, Jan, 6.— Votes for women, so far as the coming generation is con cerned, is destined to have less effect upon local ction re- sults than its sponsors had ex- pected, if Los Angeles birth records during the coming years maintain the ratio estab- lished in 1911, Two hundred and twenty-eight more boys than girls were born in this city last year, according to the figures of Mortuary Statisti- cian Henry Sief, and his fig- ures are backed by. the rec- ords In the city archives. } During the twelve months Just closed 3,116 boy babies ap- peared in Los Angeles. The gentier sex was represented by 2,888 new comers. BPR RRR He The problem in Mexico seems to be for the successful révolutionists to keep others from becoming so.—Washing ton Herald, eeeeeeaa RRR Washing the progressive movement io ton offered no law courses then, so | attle ever since the time when ail Tom Alderson went to Stanford. got | the progressives who dared to come. } | Shot by Girl |sourt Pacific Railroad, | chosen president of the Denver and Alderson has been identified with out to the front could be counted ou one hand. He gave his services 48 & notary free when the petitions for the initiative and referendum in the city charter were being gotten up. He gave his ice room for the Potndexter headquartets, and he was one of the prime mov- ors in organizing the Q rose, He's an intense person, who woatd rather Jose and remain right ¢ to cormpromise. And he's the pi gressive candidate now for tion counsel in the coming election. a is married and has three chil- dren, He Deserted (BY United Press Leased Wire) BERLIN, Jan. 6—Ghot and fatal. ly wounded by a Russian girl, who jclaims he deserted ner, Robt. Rod- kingon, a New York society man, who is a representative of power- ful financial interests and was re- contly a director of the American Chamber of Commerce here, is dy- ing today in a Berlin hospital. The girl tried suicide, but failed. The tragedy uncovered when the janitor in Rodkinson’s office heard two shots and, running in, found the man and the girl both on the floor, Rodkinson ~ gasped that the girl had shot him, and her- * if, and then he sank into coma. The girl was not dangerously wounded. BUSH HEADS RIO GRANDE NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Following & meeting of the directors of the Denver and Rio Grande rallway this afternoon it was announced that B. F. Bush, president of the Mis- had been Rio Grande to succeed EB. T. Jet- fery. George Geuld resigned the chairmanship of the board of di- rectors, being succeeded by Jef- fery. me The fire at Pekin, which destro: lace of the capital, who believed ti THE a ents ee inetaeandeumenmmnnme y' he fi FIRE AT PEKIN 1¢ Board of Ceremonies building and greatly agitated the popu- meant the start of a general conflagration. PIGSFEET, aporr — 00 TING OF OPIUM (By United Press Leased Wire) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6.—Fifty: five tins of opium, valued at $10 each, were found in « rattan suit case taken from a negro giving the name of L. Davis shortly after hin arrival here today on the Southern Pacific New Orleans express, The arrest of Davin, the police believ may throw much light on the ope ations of an opium ring ngainst which their energies have been dl- reoted for many weeks. Davis’ attempt to slip quietly away from the Arcade station aroused the suspicions of Policeman Jack Lennon, who baited him and opened the sult case. Another ne gro, who approached during thir operation, was seized by Lennon handcuffed after a bard strug: Ble. ’ BARGAIN HUNTING MANIA--DIVORCE (By United Prose Leased Wire) NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—The bar- in-hunting mania may exist, but it is not sufficient. grounds for a Bulling marriages. This “joy-cracking” decision, handud down by Supreme. Court Justice Goff in the case brought by Lazarus Goodinan against hia wife, Henrietta, because of her bargain- bynting § proclivities, is causing gloom here today among men th + wives with the “spend-it- ick” habit, Goodman wanted a fie. |divoree because his wife bought 21 gowns in one day at a bargain sale, having them charged to his ac- count. “Have you money to pay for Uiem?” Justice Goff asked. ‘| should say I have,” replied Qoodwan. “Well, go ahead and foot the bill then,” was the court's comeback. “The case is dismissed.” KILL TONG LEADER 4 (By United Press Leased Wire) -NEW YORK, Jan. 6—One Chi- nese tong leader, Leong Yow, is dead, and anot Chong con Sing. is wounded here as the result of tong war that began in a fusillad of bullets in| Mock Duck's Pell street store last night. The police are holding seven Chinese as ma- terial witnesses, One of them, Leong Suh, is declared to be a nephew of Dr. San Yat Sen, presi- dent of the proclaimed Chinese re- public. STORM DUE Northeast storm warnings are displayed for all Sound, Strait and Columbia river points, The storm is coming in from the northeastern Coast points, High east and north- east winds are expected. The tem perature will remain at about the freezing point, with snow or rain accompaniment. EERE REKRREKEH * * §=«According to President Taft, * our foreign relations are more * amiable than our domestic.— *® Boston Transcript. * * * * * * * Ci El i el cll ll sl dealin aa SQUEEZES THROUGH PRISON BARS (Ry United Press Leasea Wire: PORTLAND, Or, Jan. 6. cause he had a habit of squeezing through the bars of the city jail and taking exercise in the corr dors, C. D, Williams, four feet five inches high, weighing 90 pounds, is confined in a special cell of heavy wire netting today, Williams was jailed on the com- plaint of a 180-pound logger whom the diminutive eilist whipped, and for punching Patrolman Thatcher, one of the biggest men on the force. “BARON”. TESTIFIES CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—The trial of J. Ogden Armour and nine other Chicago millionaire packers, charged with violation of the Sher- man antitrust law was resumed here today before Judge Carpenter iy the United States cireuit court. Arthur Colby, assistant secretary and treasurer of the National Pack- ing Co,, and a director since its formation in 1903, was summoned by the government. CHICAGO, Jan. 6—Members of the Ton family, 610 strong, are cele- Drating a family reunion here. The family cholr of 16 voices will fur- nish the music, All are descend- ee: 4 John Ton, who settled here in 184) NED BILLPOSTER TO HELP HUBBY--AND SH “If More Women Would Help Husbands Make Money In- stead of Spending It as Fast as He Makes It, There Would Be Fewer Divorces, Says Plucky Los Angeles Woman. LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 6.—A woman bill poster! Yes, sir; there is one right here In Los Angeles. Mra. Grace Polkingham enjoys the unique dintinetion of being the only woman bill poster in the West 4 probably the only one in America For eight hours every day she can be seen slapping on the big gaudy theatre signs, and she does not use that dainty, modest slush to her big brush that je characteristic of her sex. She slaps the paste on Just like a man, and quicker and better than some men. She makes $2.60 per day--and she carne the money Her husband, W. F. Polkingham, ta a bill poster. He had a hard time finding reliable help, so “the mis sus” Jamped right In, and he has never wanted for reliable beip since. She etarted at the work like an old timer, and it never even bilstered ber hands. Sounds fuony, tut it's right. She is a big, robust. healthy woman, and somewhat of a» athlete besides, She can pick vp (wo 50 pound sacks of Nour and ).' one on each shoulder with ease Mrs. Polkingham likes being @ bi} poster, Here's what she bas to say about it: “When a man is in trouble, his wife should always be the first one to the rescue. Mr. Polkingham was about to lose several contracts, which meant bread and butter to us, #0 I concluded to be a bill poster. “I like the work fine. It is out of doors and healthful, and beats housework all hollow. it is hard, of course, but bard work that is honest never hurt any woman. “If more women would interest themselves in the business of their husbands with the idea of helping them, instead of figuring on how to spend the profits of their-business, there would be less call for divorce ny ? Mrs, Polkingham, from snap shot ta ken while she was actually at STORY ABOUT A WEDDIN Papers full of domestic scandals. Statisticians pouring forth awful figures about the increase of di- vorce, Theorists gloomily announcing the downfall of the American home. Children with from two to four sets of parents. Plenty of such things, But let's tell a story that's dif- ferent. Fifty years ago a young fellow named Eph Hastings married a comely girl in the little town of Keokuk, Of $500,000 pearl necklaces, tapestries, silverware, automobiles, banknotes and things like that they hadn't much, but they had courage and each other's hearts, and you may be sure that there's not much “water” in that sort of stock when love's merger ts successfully promoted. Well, Eph and his young wife turned their backs on Keokuk s0- clety and, with their little all of worldly goods, joined a mule train to cross the great ine to the land where the setting sun paints glory on land and sea and, in its rising from behind majestic moun- tains, makes praise of God spring from the heart of man. Then, for weeks and weeks the train crept across prairie and desert, through the cold shadows of valleys that cleft the mountains, across streams too deep to wade. Water was scarce very often, too, some- times ran low. And at night the wolves howled while camp fires on distant hills made the women and children crowd close to the men, who sat with loaded guns on their knees. Indians butchered men, women and children of a train that following them. Two days r came news that Indians sealped, horribly tortured it human being a big train that was ahead of them. One evening Buffalo Jim, notori- ous as the most bloodthirsty chief of all Indians, visited their camp. All the people of the train prayed that night, and Eph sat with one arm,around his bride and the other around his rifle, for Buffalo Jim meant horrible death. But some- thing pleased Jim and there was no massacre, and 8o, through more hardships and terrors, the train went creeping into the Woat, and it was altogether such a ‘honey- moon trip for Eph and wife as few couples ever pass through. What a freak this thing named love is! Often it seems to refuse to live with people who have ev- erything. Then, again, it forever abides with, grows strong and ey- erlasting with couples who have Uttle, who go , through hardship, misery, terrors andloven shame to- gether and is, in joy and sorrow, in Pleasure and pain, in success and defeat, up to—nay, beyond—the very doors of death, the glory of glories of human lif But we mustn't leave Eph honey- mooning out back there in that mule train. We're going to lift him out of that mule train fifty {years forward, fifty years of loyal ity, struggle, triumph over the tri- jale of life, At San Diego, L, last (Christmas day, Mr. Eph Hastings | and the wife who crossed the plains jwith him celebrated their golden | wedding anniversary. He was very jgray and bewhiskered, but stili sturdy. She couldn't hide all her wrinkles, but her face was still {round and sweet, and in her was the light of Christmas, Yes, sir, they stood up before C. J. Harris and were’ married over again. Before a whole E MADE GOOD ATI of children and grandchildren, i took the dear old lady in his kissed her and swore to cl and protect her until death. It a |just beautiful. And the their faces proved that there # jfuch things as loyalty and [that do not die, * PET OF SWELL N. Y. SOCIETY GOES ON STAGE MISS DOROTHEA GILDER. NEW YORK, Jan. 6,—Miss Doro- thea Gilder, society girl in the most exclusive set, and daughter of the late Richard Watson Gilder, Ameri- can poet and editor of the Century magazine, has gone on the stag Fashionable New York hasn't yet recovered from the shock it reeeiv- ed when it was learned that “Doro- thea Coleman,” who made her first appearance Christmas night in a small speaking part street fruit vendor in “Kismet,” was one of the few real blue blooded girls in Gotham. Miss Gilder was chagrined over her discovery. She wanted no one to know she had gone behind the footlights “until I had made a big But one of her girl at the opening perform: ances trained her opera glasses on “Dorothea Coleman,” gasped, took another look, and then so far forgot herself in her amazement as to al- most shout: “It's Dorothea Gilder!” “Every girl should have an art or profession in which she is inter ested. That's why I went on the stage—it's interested me ever since I was a little girl. And now that I'm on it I'm going to stay and make a& success of It,” she says, TOO MUCH | TRAVELIN R may be cheaper to move f to pay rent. But even & good ground for divoree, least Judge Frater thought Mrs. Dorothy Sampson had & complaint. She told the court yesterday she had been compelled to pack @ the furniture every month for years of married life, because husband, Maurice Sampson, ref to hang his hat on the same And she had to dig up the too, she said, to pay the dray Sampson was a waiter, she sald) couldn't wait long enough at place to settle down. She got divorce, WO EXTRA PAY Representing 43 policemen, @ Sampson yesterday appeared fore the council finance com to ask for extra pay for pal working more than the re eight hours per day. He sald they have been called upon regularly of late to work for 1 12 hours a day. The committee, however, either an ordin the chief from working the # more than eight hours, Counell Blaine and Griffiths voting while Goddard and Peirce for it. CRACKSMEN GOT $200 — PORTLAND, Or., Jan. “ ing the Front street who liquor house of H, Varwig by ting a hole through the reat of the building and then rea a heavy iron door leading t front part of the store, crac blew the safe early today $200. Heartfelt The Kid (after his first cla Gee! 1 wish Wickersham killed dat terbacker trust! ae FOR POLICEMEN ee e