The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 13, 1912, Page 6

— SUCIAL(G MAKE GAINS - IN GERMANY (Ry United Press Leased Wire) BERLIN, Jan. 13.—Returns at noon today indicated that the so elalists elected members to the) retchstag from 67 districts, and will have at least an even chance fn electing other candidates fn the bal Joting on January 24 in the 120 dis tricts where no candidate received a plurality in yesterday's balloting Socialist leaders claimed today that they were certain to carry at least 80 of these districts, the con wervatives admitting that the social ists probably would have at loast 100 members in the reichstag, mak ing them the second party in strength, There is also a possibility that the re-balloting may result tn the socialists winning first place over the Catholic Centrist The socialists retained five seats from Berlin, and in the re-balioting expect to carry the First district, in which the kaiser lives. TWO STEAMERS IN COLLISION One man was killed and two tn fured when the steamship Vir gintan of the American-Hawailan Steamship Co, and the British steamship Strathalbyn collided near Three Tree point last night. The big steel steamers met head-on. The crash, which could be heard for severa] miles, threw Jack Dey ell, 19, from the forecastle of the Strathalbyn, and he has been miss. | ing since. Two firemen, J. Senrok and William Urdem, were thrown from their bunks, and sustained serious injuries, the latter breaking bis leg. When the bows of the steamers | came together fire flashed and the | sound was spectacularly Hluminat ed. The steamer Flyer, Capt James Burns in charge, hurried alongside the boats, but they both were able to reach Tacoma without 5 KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT TRENTON, N. J., Jan, 13.—Five persons are dead and a sixth prob- ably will die as the result of an automobile accident on the River road three miles from Trenton ear- ly today, when a machine, driven by Frederick Foster, crashed over an embankment and through the feo of the frozen reservoir. The dead: Donald Reed, son of Former State Supreme Justice Reed, Ches- ter Van Cleef, Helen Mulvey, Mag- garet Tindall, unidentified girl. “MILLIONAIRE” WEWSBOY, THIS “Fog- real name is Anda O'Shea, makes a practice of selling papers rain or shine, and does it as Steady as # clock. That's his ve- cret of how he has become probably Seattle's richest newsboy. He's 17 and has been* selling papers for three years, and he now has $1,100 in the bank. Pretty comfortable gum for a 17- r-old! He sells at First av. and e st., and has four hundred customers. Got them by hustling, not by standing in a re- mote part of the corner a la Egyptian mummy, but by using his husky voice to a good advantage hence the “Foghorn.” The Star gave him his corner and practically started him out in the paper bus- ines. “Foghorn” hustled, that's all your boy can do the same—that is, if he’s an energetic sort of a lad KKK KRHA LAW BARS “LADY SHERIFFS” NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—New York county will have no wom- en deputy sheriffs. It is against the law—Sheriff Har- burger’s feelings to the con trary notwithstanding. His recent appointments of Mra. Charles H. Truax and other women will be récalled. They are not voters, and as the law prescribes that every deputy sheriff must not only be a res- ident of the county, but en titled to vote therein, women cannot serve, KERR SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Jan. 13.— When the station agent at Chaffee, Mo,, returned to his office at noon today, he found the body of an un known man hanging from a hook SESE EE EEE E ESE EEE SERSEEEE EEE EEE EEE EEE 1 HAF A PERFEQT PASSION FOR TRAFGLING. BUT Now I AM TOO OT. WHEN LAFOLLET ‘TRAVEL, WHY wouLcD You Uk@ To MR, ADOLF F THE STAR—SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1912 Te WENT Dave | WAS YOUR Lire, isitive Edwin Learns the Tragedy of Adolf’s Life . . . FoR 47 YEAR® YoU Were A The Ben Hur Band Played “The Nation’s Pride’—S ame Piece They Blow to Welcome Uncle Joe; and the Crowd Came Out in Bitter Cold Weather to Hear “Senator Bob.” DANVILLE, Hl, Jan. 13. Leseure—he's Uncle Joe Cannon's as down stairs in the | piece, entitled “The Nation's Pride. “That's funny. said a barber. “they're playing the same piece for La Follette that they always play when Uncle Joe comes home.” In the chair next to Ernie sat a the street railway company of Dan. ville, which Unele Joe is supposed | to heli control “Lot of snow for streetcar traf. fic,” aid Ernie, changing subject For the next five minutes, while Morse to Go | (By United Prose Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.--Post tive Morse, the convicted New York banker, would be removed at once from the United States prison at Atlanta, Ge.,'to the government bor pital at Hot Springs, Virginia, for treatment, was made this afternoon. In explaining this move Attorney General Wickersaam | sald: | “President Taft was urged to pardon Morse so that he could go |to Carlsbad, Austria, for treatment, which, It was represented, wax an sential for his recovery. Army surgeons, however, advised the president that equally offective treatment could be furnished at Hot Springs and the prisoner was there. fore ordered transferred.” /$250,000 Fire at Philadelphia | (By United Press Leased Wire) PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 13.—A fire which for four hours raged in the down town district here was gotten under control shortly before 9 a. m. today, after causing an estimated damage of $250,000 The flames started in a moving picture establishment on Market st., in the heart of the business section, and It was nec ¥ to call out the city’s entire fire fighting apparatus before the fire was controlled heavy wind drove the burning em bers about, but many buildings were saved through a heavy fall of snow, which had settled on their roofs > (By United Press 1 Wire) LOS ANGELES, Jan, 13.—Anton Johannsen, O, A, Tveltmoe, EB. A, Clancy and J, E. Munsey, labor lead. jers, were arrested here under two | blanket indictments returned in the |last report of the federal grand jury, | The indictments indicated practical ly the same charges as those cited in indictments returned a week on the wall, The man had hanged himself with a rawhide cord, vious, The men will uary 29, plead Jan to Hot Springs) announcement that Chas W.! pre-| Battalion Fire Chief Wm BY W. G. SHEPHERD |the Ben Hur band played “The Na- Ernie | tion's Pride,” Ernie and"the plump | theless. man talked about the snow. Danville was tremendously Then there was the committee of five state republican leaders. Thetr|ty to a local politician on the way that he don't even get a now watch. nervousness was a thing you could see with: your eyes. They had agreed to welcome La Follette, pro- viding thelr welcome would not be plump young fellow who manages | construed as an endorsement, In Danville nobody ever endorses anything. Things are endorsed for them. When this committee came down to the plaza to meet La Follette they stood about the lobtiy waiting Pe APGHANS =~ 4 " ISTAN eS or i J CHINESE “eek | J) bad | — EMPIRE i / ae] fe ASSA it i | f ‘\ i \ et AN DS. Central and Eastern Asia, Provinces of the Chinese empire. | three or four days nearer Europe. ‘Still Hunting for Those Millions (By United Prens Leased Wire) NEW YORK, Jan, 13,--Hampered by cold weather, the thermometer registering 2 helow zero at 8 a, m , the work of clearing away debris from the burned Equit- jable Life Assurance society is pro- | gressing slowly. Hundreds of mil- lions of dollars in securities and money are still buried in the vaults of concerns which were located in the ruined butiding, and these can not be reached until the wreckage is cleared away. Although a persistent search ts being made, no trace of the body ot Walsh, | who perished in the fire, has been found. UY howing th | impressionistic eketoh of La Follette’s reception in Uncie Joe Cannon's heme ba iliwick. | for La Follette to finish bin break jfast, They paced and talked, and |paced and talked, for 10 minutes, before La Follette came out. But they were nice to him, never- They smiled and talked he weat! had recovered from his re about Follet barber shop, under his bank, when | curious to see La Follette, and the | cent illness. the Ben Hur band struck up its best | crowd was one thing that happened. | | “Train was late this morning,” ‘anid a member of La Foilette’s par- to the opera house, | “Yes,” said the politician, “By the way, talking of time, did you gene of Uncle Joe's campaign ‘o. “Well, he's got @ great big, old- fashioned watch as large as an alarm clock. When he campaigns around Danville he al ‘8 carries this old watch. He'll drive up to a | “TWO MORE NATIONS ON THE WORLD pERIA ONGOLIA $20,000,000 ON ROME, Jan. 13.—Italy has al |ready spent $20,000,000 to carry on ther war against Turkey, an aver- age of $6,000,000 a month. Of this sum about two thirds is’ provided out of the budget surpluses of the last two fiscal years. The re mainder and the future cost are to be met by means of treasury bonds. It 1s thought that about $150,000,600 jean be realized by this means, with out resorting to extra taxation. DELAY HOOK’S NOMINATION WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—That the nomination of Judge Wm. Hook of Kansas to the United States su preme court will be delayed at least a week was indicated here today by Attorney General Wickersham, r and hoped La| ew semi-independent states of Turkestan and Mongolia, former Both pass very largely under Russian influence. sible for Russia to drive her Mongolian railroad through to the “Great Wall” of China, and will bring Pekin | This close proximity of Russia to Manchuria is expected to put the Jap- anese on the “anxious seat” until an alliance of some sort is effected, farm house in his big automobile unt up the farmer. ‘Say,’ he'll call to the farmer, pulling out his old watch, ‘what time is it? My old watch fs going back on me, I guess. It don’t keep tme like {t used to.’ “Thet the farmer will gt incle Joe the time, and after that fo around telling the folks about how old Unele Joe is wo old fashioned But the folks here are all for Uncle Joe, you know.” “Why?” asked the La Follette man. “Well, he’s got us a fine soldiers’ home and two new postoffices,” sald the Danville man. “But, of cou he hasn't got the influence now that he used to have” That last sentente exp! why La Follette came to Danville. MAP This will make it pos- cManigal’s Wife Confesses, Too! QBy United Prens Leased Wire) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 13.—Ortle | McManigal's wife today is declared | to have corroborated her husband's confession in regard to the Mc-| Namara dynamiting plot, under ex- amination by the federal grand jury | here. She is asserted to have par-| ticularly confirmed his references | to those who assisted him, It was jearned from a reliable source here this afternoon that ef- forts are being made to reconcile McManigal and his wife. The con- fessed dynainiter, it was said, has AILS FE NEAR WALLAGE en Brees Wire) 'ALLACE, Ida,, Jan, 18.--Three bodies have been recovered and the search for two more known to be buried in sn avalanche, which de molished two miners’ cabins at Big |Creek last night, is being carried on today. The following dead have been re- covered: Wm. Pearson, Oscar Lundquist, John Thone. The miners were seated around the dinner tatie when the rumbling of the advancing snow and uprooted trees warned them that a slide was coming. They made a yild break for safety and four of Them were caught, Thone was killed a short time later in another slide, Snow slidex have occurred fre quently of late on account of the mild temperature in the Coeur @Alenes. Rider and Horse Found Frozen (By United Presse Leased Wire) KANSAS CITY, Mo,, Jan. 13.-—- Practically buried under a snow drift near Scott City, the body of L. C. Bidwell, a rancher, was found frozen stiff today, seated in the saddie on a horse, which also had been frozen to death while in a standing position. of Seattle are preparing to pass to second class Scouts. Lectures on first aids to the injured are being arranged by the leaders of the movement. New Troop Organized. The latest troop to be organized in the city in No, 20, of the Stevens school. On Thursday M In- grabam met 26 boys of that school and put them through the mysteries of tying sailor knots, Troop 20 will be tn charge of Mr. H. C. Belt of 6 Mountaineers. mall, but One of the larry L. Bird, 12, ts one of the smallest Boy Scouts in the United States, He ts a member of Hyde Park Troop, No. 1, aud though rath- er smal! in stature, he is a hustling, Hvely Scout. He has passed his examination for tenderfoot aegree, and knows the Scout oath and Scout law. A NOISE LIKE A REAL INVENTOR Entere W. K. Sickles, cashier in the county clerk's office, and makes a noise like a real in- ventor, Sickles has devised a new Jury box. By which is meant the box from which the little cards are drawn by the court clerk, when jurors are be- ing called to sit on a case. Sick- lee has devised a box which contains an automatic shuffler and mixer, which begins to work the minute the clerk puts his hand in to draw card, any possibility of “fixing” the drawing of jur- ors. Sickles had County Car- penter George Chamberlain construct one of these boxes in experiment. Third concert of the Geries for charitable hospitals was given at the Wayside Emergency hospital yesterday. The next concert will be given at the Old Ladies’ Home. expressed & desire to meet his wife. Dance at Dreamland tonight. *** Words by Sch Music by Conde No, ON DER RAILROAD ENGINGER t A a GONTRARY, FOR | | AND NEVER HAD A CHANCE, cS ce an 47 Years t wass| | to see THE WoRLDE 7 ti : ‘ M A LOCOMOTIFa ON WHAT CINE, ON A eran wan ayt MR, ADOUP E Bect unel SPEAK OF Dor. yr, Me NEW YORK’S POOR HIT BY COLD WAVE (By United Press Leased Wire) = {from cold and starvation are hoy NEW YORK, Jan. 13, — Zero melts reported to the poll ¢ the morgues are crowded wil weather struck New York today for leving pia donb fos bh: the first time in many years. Atlity trying to get warm, and 6:30 o'clock this morning it was 5/hallway and area grating below zero, and at 8 a. m. the mer- | there is a breath of heated cury had risen only three degrees. | day Is crowded thick with the + Accounts of suffering on the low. |sam of the slums. or East Side when the mercury falls Every effort of the m have been written time and again, |thorities ts being given but the extreme privation of the| block the grip of cold and poor in this blast of winter no one | tion upon the sufferers, Po could fittingly describe. Deaths ulations are practically su BOY WHISPERED “FIRE!” “FIRE!” AND BECAME A-HERO, SAVING MANY NEW YORK, Jan. 4.—Willie Me-| . ‘allan whispered—and became @ hero, for be probably saved scores of lives , He's just a little red-headed, freckle-faced, blue-eyed, 10-year-old | poor boy. Christznas festivities were at their height, among the 300 pupils in school 107. Wille noticed smoke and a red glare as he passed through the corridor. He scooted back to bis classroom. “Teacher,” he WHISPERED to Mies Elizabeth Crisson, “? seon a fire in room 207. Honest, It's a real fire, Better ring the alarm quick and I'll hustle and help get the erip- pled kids out.” ae ¢ it Scouts. |. | the prize winners. Willie was dispatched to the prin- cipal's office, and in a whisper he repeated the message. The fire drii! sounded, The pupils demurred at first because their “party” was broken into, but they marched out of the building in perfect order, and knew nothing of ‘the fire until they were in the street. The little hero helped the crip- pled pupils out THIS IS IMPORTANT A waiver signed by a passen- ger not to hold a tnansporta- . tion company responsible, even if it violates its contract, is against public policy and can- not be taken advantage of by the company, according to a decision of Judge Donworth in the federal court yesterday. Louis Cutter and Frank Shroeder, who had to sleep on the dining room floor instead of berths on the steamer Cen- tralia, e accordingly award- ed $10 h, the price of their - tickets, and the costs of the WILLIE M'CALLAN = case. | 127 MEN TOLD TO LEAVE TOWN PORTLAND, Or., Jan, 13—Lin- WESTLAKE MARKET. ing them up six in a row, 127 men| Lard, 2 pounds 25 cent at arrested during the night and given | hams, 16% cents pound; Raster’ suspended sentences as vagrants, | $2 and: freee aa were marched to the ctly limits a told to “leave town and not come back.” | Many of the prisoners were half- starved men who had come to the | steak city in search of winter work. \founs” The idle men were taken in on! barge: orders of Chief of Police Slover, | }¢-Pound sack who is determined to rid the clty of 6 pounds & band of holdup men who have been particularly active lately. TO PROVE SEATTLE To prove that Seattle is a city of ro the Seattle | §. s’ club is preparing to | lemons, 16 hold a rose festival in the lat- | ples, $1 box « ter part of June. Amateur | beef. 10 growers are invited to compete. The expenses of the show are flour, qu er horrien, pounde age hams PQtAto sa new 1 hinporte:! pound consists of nearly all the whole. | en! sale and retail florists in Seat. tle. Cups and ribbons have al- ready been secured for the oo