The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 16, 1912, Page 1

that Queen Mary has H j om the naked ¢ ruth at St. i ‘OL. 13. NO. 274, 'S HUBBY SAYS he Seattle Star ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH, TU i ARTIST IS GOOD MOTHER ink’s Husband, Sued for Divorce, Said He “Was More Than Madame's Her Manager"—Now She Doesn't Appreciate Fortune He Made for Impossible.” whe ' Schumann. ] Broke His Parole to See Sweetheat, Must Spend Two Years in Reformatory VIOLETT RERKELEY, Cal., Jan, 16.-—Frank Catton must spend the next two years ta the lone reform sehool be- cause he wanted to see hin sweet Young Catton was paroled after he had been convicted of breaking into an apartment. For four montha the boy reported regularly to the probation officer, Meantime he con- tinued to* meet the danghter of Mayor J. Stitt Wilson. “Tm going to make a new start and make it honestly,” he told the girl ‘Then he broke his parole and_ went to Vancouver, B, C., where he | tried to forget his lonesomeness by! . 16.—Five been de- today in ESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1912. All those who want to aid in the Cotterill campaign are asked to call at the héadquarters, which will be opened tomorrow in the Lumber Exchange building, room 426. Telephones will be installed as sopn as possible. Edgar C, Snyder, chairman of the campaign committee, has issued a call for volunteer workers in every precinct in YOUTH MARRIES GIRL TO SHIELD FATHER (Ry United Preas Leased Wire) Wood, jr, and the girl, daughter ORTLAND, Or,, Jan. 16.—With|of an East Portland grocer, were! ae a =< WILSON writing to Mise Wilson. The girl in turm “rote long letters to him and refused to be shaken in her faith in him. The police were busy in the meantime. They knew of the at tachment between the young peo pie and they learned through letters that Catton intended to return home. Catton eventually arrived in Rerkeley, and it waa while waiting to keep an appointment with Miss Wilson that he was arrested. Now Frank must spend two years in a reformatory, but It ts re- ported that the girl haw refused to turn against him. wocipemenainenaiemnatiren: “Barons” Juggled Accounts and Made Money in a Panic Year| CHICAGO, Jan. 16-—When the, trial of J. Ogden Armour and the nine other millionaire Chicago beef barons was resumed in the United States district court today the gov- ernment introduced testimony in- tenddd to show that while the pack- ers were howling about the hard times incident to the panic of 1907 they, in reality, made millions tn) hidden profits. Through questions put to Harry WHOLE FAMILY ASPHYXIATED (By United Prees Leased YORKTOWN, Sask ‘Wire, i Jan, 16. —Mra. Duncan McNichol and her nix children, ranging from 5 to 15 years of age, were as phyxiated by coal gas while asleep in their home here. The Timmons, chief accountant for the Morris company, the government showed that the packers juagied aceounts and inflated costs. An instance of this was shown when private books of the Morris com- pany revealed that hides, which ap peared as costing $34,003, sold for $3,147,457. Wm, Wood, aged 23, in jail and nee to Sap AM ore ‘oung, 4 Methodist minister ‘yearold bride at the home of her! Atay hours later the nales ea Parents, the police today are mak-!rexted Wood, who is a singer in @ ing @ search of the erfic North.|moving picture’ theatre. Me west for “Prof.” D. R. Wood, 65, al while the elder Wood apparently ie teacher, father of the pris-|jearned the police were searching ener, on warrants concerning his|for him apd left town. conduct toward his son's wife, and| Wim. Wood today frankly told two other young girls, who were|the authorities that he married his music pi it is believed | the girl om the prayers of hin fath.| the and pot because he loved her attle. He is charged with statu-/He sald he met her only a few tory offenses. days ago. = = a wwe = Woman Complains Bitterly of Murder Charge Against Her (By United Press Leased Wire) atury,” sald Mrs. Morrow, between CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—Weeping and | subs. | threatening her attorney for not se sont sate or or gue on, , charged w nurder, curing tha necessary $40,000 ball fer | 314 they aro trying to hang me. 1 her release, Mrs. Rene Morrow, |know nothing of the crime—nothing charged, foliowing her preliminary | Beoanse | quarreled with my hus hearing today, with the murder of | band, & bitter old man, disappoint her aged husband, declared she in |ed with his failure in life, who had an innocent victim ef circumstances. | nothing to live for and decided to She is on the verge of hyster: die, I am held, “L could have proved my Inno-| send me to the \ cence, convinced the judge and been| Judge Fake fixed Mrs. Morrow's at home now if my lawyer had let | bail af $40,000, The defense has an mo take the stand and tell my | yet been unable to furnish thix sum. ema eo te ee ee ; MOHR FILES | SAME OLD stor | Mrs. Wesley lives at 2128 Eighth Paul K. Mobr, formerly president|®¥. W. Mra Harris lives at 2116 of the Seattle Labor Counct! and) —-WSieh is next door who in the campaign for the initia.) Mr Harris keeps chickens tive and referendum in the city | part of the time at home, and part charter, secured more than 60 per/ Of the time at her neighor's, Mra cent of the signatures himeeif, flied | Wesley, |for councilman this morning. There| Mmough said, Same old story. A were no other filtugs today. George | pollgeman will call at 2116 and |T. McNamara, 2617 50th avy, 8. W.,| 7128 atreets this evening and lis also @ prominent labor man, filed | tem patiently to what Mrs. Wesley Baturday, The time for filing will|ahd' Mra Harris have to say jde up by & p.m. next Saturday. | or ne nf ! | | QUBAWAY GIRLS CUTTING SCRAPE } pon police relief kept a | shagp. lookout for girls lant night Artura Saab was badly | on @ tip from headquarters. It was slashed in a cutting scrape in a sa-| aij aver three iris missing from Ta loon tn the lower end of the city | coma. Kach was just 18, and of In- thie moroing, and Joe Herman and | dian parentage, They were Rather Joe Morell are in jal! charged with | Johnson, Jessie Charies and Milone. the olfense. The injured man was| They escaped. trom the Indian taken (to the city howpital, where | school, but were later captured by wounds were dressed. the Tacoma police. = ~ es =~ 13,083,087 That is the total number of papers wold by The Star during the year just passed. Over THIRTREN MILLION COPIES of this paper purchased by newspaper readers of Seattle and imme- diate vicinity in one year—a dally average of 41,799 for each publi cation day! This showed he phenomenal increase of 6,360 copies daily over 1910. The year 1911 was at best a quiet one in a business way. Few concerns showed any gain. Jn fact, in many cases a slump was the order of things. But The Star not only kept up the remarkable growth that has always characterized it, but even bettered its record of former years. There's a reason. { EVERY LEAP YEAR GIRL HAS A PROPOSAL ALL HER OWN They're coming in fast, those leap-y posals to “D. Cupid.” Every i leap-year girl, you know, has a proposal all her own. | I--Why did you come back to cause more heartaches? He—-I didn't know I caused any | aches. ONE Ci ° w.t. ended hie wrecked life by hang SH (By United Press Leased Wire) CHICAGO, Jan, 16.—Mra. Her man Buebler, foster mother of the 16-year-old heiress who was locat- jed In New York yesterday and |found to have left ber home “here jbecause of an infatuation for a | walter, started today for New York| to bring Violet back to her home here. The Ulinois Humane society began today an investigation into jthe case, | Mrs. Wm. Holzapfel, Violet's! |mother, deserted by her husband | 13 years ago, turned the child over | | (= 6 —_— Hi HIS best. ei le Veach, who served eight years for a crime never committed. ing at Ballard, Sunday. E’S GOING TO STOP “DAY DREAM” FOR VIOLET out legut adoption. Since then Mrs, Holzapfel has been uninter- ested in her child, and is still apathetic regarding Violet's wel- fare, indféating apparently little in- terest in the case. The foster mother, however, is overjoyed at the girl's recovery. “I want Violet back,” she said before leaving for New York. “I have done everything a moth- er could for her, being careful of ber surroundings—perhaps too careful—and giving her the best of everything, I tried to make her happy, and I believe she will be |to Mra. Buehler, who took her with-| glad to return.” aimee ee Corporation Counsel Candidate Tindall | | . | i he, SSCS | | SNYDER NAMED COTTERILL'S MANAGER With Edgar C. Snyder as active manager, backed by a loyal com mittee, the campaign for George F. Cotterill, the progressive candidate for mayor of Seattle will be launch Whenever you do your best you make] | someone ashamed that he ) \ hi isn’t doing i i ILIFE STORY. STRANGER THAN FICTION, ENDS WITH SUICIDE |Man Who Served 8 Years for Murder Never Committed, Ends Life, Which Was Wrecked by Great State of Oregon, Fifteen years ago the great state of Oregon made a mistake. The | wheels of legai “justice” slipped a €0g, a6 they often do, and an inno- cent man wa t to the peniter tiary for 99 years, convicted of a | murder which was never committed, Sunday, at Ballard, in a dark core ner behind two billboards, the view tim of Oregon kicked a soap box from under his slowly s That ended the life of W. L. Veach, human derelict. The body | was discovered yesterday morning, |and was identified today as that of Veach, who was known habio ual drunkard, Came Here in July. Veach came to Seattle last July, He soon landed in the city jafl on drunk charge. There he told strange story, which was confirmed by the police. Since then he has | drifted about the city picking up odd jobs, then trying to bury big sorrow in drink. Served Eight Years. Veach spent within one month of eight years in the Oregon peniten- ary, and when the man he was convicted of having murdered re- turned, Veach was released, only ta find that his wife had married ame other m: Wife Married Another. He was released in October, 1905, with over 90 of his 99-year sentence sti] unserved. Albert Teppin, the man whom he was aceused of kill- ing, had been found alive. Veach hurried from the prison to his for- mer home at Medford, and there he received his worst blow. His wife bad married a man who had been his best friend. They were living happily. Veach went quietly away, and he never returned to the state which had wrecked his life. Story He Told to the Police. The black shadow that ruined Veach's life came during the sum- mer of 1897. He was living happily, with his family in Jackson county, Oregon. He had been playing the fiddle at a country dance. Return- ing home, he became tired. Im stead of going home he stopped in the cabin belonging to Albert Tepe pin and slept a few hours. Convicted of Murder When he arrived home the nex€ day he was told that Teppin's cabin had been burned down, and that some bones that looked like humat bones had been found. could be found of Teppin. ly, it was concluded the bot have been his! Veach was thé man who had been known to have jbeen there last. He was accused lot murdering him, The detectives” worked with him until they almost made him believe that he had com mitted murder. He was convicted and given 99 years. The years dragged on and finak ly In October, 1907, a detective came to the penitentiary with Ab bert Teppin. Veach was. released within a few days—just as soon as the great state of Oregon could ar range to undo its great mistake, Veach was 57 years old. HAZZARD TRIAL ON PORT ORCHARD, Wash. Jan, 16.—Charged with having starved to death Miss Claire Williamson, Mrs. Linda B. Hazzard, fasting spe- cialist, is on trial here today. Partly because of the internation. al publicity the case has received, indications are that it will be sev» eral days before a jury can be ime paneled. Miss Williamson was a wealthy | | ) desperately 1 o'clock il 8, the fire- Tegiment of on of sap- © control the part of the) fire was in the ed within a few days, Mr. Snyder is secretary of the state republican |committee, is a member of the Pro- |gressive Republican league, and was jone of the Dilling managers in the last campaign. All Elements Satisfied. The selection of Mr. Snyder was |wuggested by the friends of Joe | Smith, who had been mentioned for the place, but who may yet be in |duced to file for the council, Mr Snyder {s also satisfactory to Rufus 'R. Wilson and his friends. Mr Snyder and Mr. Wilson worked to gether to good effect during the Poindexter campaign The Cotterill campaign commit tee is made up as follows | B.C. Snyder, chairman |D. Wood, vice chairman; W. D. Lane, treasurer; Miss Mary G O'Meara, Miss Lucy R. Case, Mrs. C. E. Bogardus, William Hickman Moore, Capt. A. 0, Powell and George Davies Joe Smith to Aid. Joe Smith will be an active Cot-| jterill supporter, even though he} |does file for the council, and in the| or, {vent that he does not become a} tive game of life as # Ife saver. | candidate himself, he may look aft He had the job in Washington, D.| er the publicity part of the Cotter C., and his record shows 62 lives |jy ‘ ‘ ¢ ontest and also help in the saved at the Washington city bath- |. wcchaaki r ing beach. He studied law in win. |*Pecch-making Mne for Cotterilt ter at the George Washington uni-| versity and wore bathing sults in| summer, you see. ‘Tindall was born in the capital | * WEATHER FORECAST * city 34 years ago, He was clerk|*® _ Fatr tonight and Wednesday. * English spinster, who, with ber sis- ter Dorothea, was a patient at the Tacoma, last spring. It is alleged Tacom, last spring. It is alleged that she died as a result of the fast- ing imposed upon her by Dr. Has zard. |. You do, for 1 think more of you than any man living and would |be the happiest woman in this! \sreat, big world if I had you for al husband, | Her-Why, you can. That is the reason I returned to see if I could | win your love. | I—You mean to marry me? He--Yes, my dear, ay soon as 1} can arrange my affairs so we can) take @ #ix months’ trip, | (Phe wedding will take place in| M. B.C. father, Duncan McNichol, a gen- eral merchant of Wadena, was in Winnipeg at the time, and is prostrated with grief. Neigh- the first to discover ly. Seeing no evidence of life about the house, they forced ari entrance, only to find seven dead bodies in the beds. The stove pipe had been closed up with snow and ice, forcing the coal gas back into the house, BIG INDUCEMEN | TO KILL HUSBAND | (By United Prose Leased Wire) ST. LOUIS, Jau. 16-—Her prom- Seige | ise to wed him, $1,150 in cash and 8 @/ al) her personal property were the fall here to- | inducements Mrs. Anna Hunying NE 0 / offered Joseph Seidl to assassinate her husband, Martin Hunning, ac ding to Seidi's confession today at Hillsboro, Mo., where the crime occurred Hunning was slain while stand- ing at the telephone on the night of Dec. 9. The woman declares that , di planned the erime, and that had no part in the plot or the | murder, They're all kinds of ’em—tong pro- | posals, short ones, written in prose, | and many of ‘em in poetry. But they're all sweet, you bet. The contest for those six seats at the Metropolitan for Thursday night is open to all girls and wom- | | | TALK ON CHICKENS “Vermin and Disease in Chick- ens” is the title of the free lecture which will be delivered this even- ing at the Y. M. C. A. by H. L. Blanchard, of the state experiment station at Puyallup. This lecture is one of the regular series on poul- try raising being delivered by Mr. Blanchard in connection with the agricultural course of the Y. CA MEN HERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE MONEY $ Men’s $3.00 and $3.50 Hats, all new blocks. Special, $2.65. Men’s $3.00 Young’s Hats. Special, $2.45. Men’s $3.00 No Name Hats. Special, $2.10. Men’s $25.00 . Kuppen- Wednesday night. There'll seats for the best letter and two |for the next for the great perform. | lance of Robert Hilliard in “A Fool | |There Was.” | The contest, however, will then | be continued tl Saturday morn-| ing. and there'll be six seats for the opening performance at the Moore theatre of “The Deep Pur-| plo,” Armstrong's famous under- | world play, four for the begt letter | land two for the next best | } | i WANTED, A MAN! Don't want no imitation, don't ask a lofty station; need to have credentials, but toust have the real essentials a head that keeps aworkin’ two hands that not shirkin want no slssy—snob, Out looking for a job? ‘ Famil Jan. 16—John Claims to be ige W. Aa HOW JANE WOULD DO IT Here's how Jane Grey, the little | |Seattle actress would make her Hleap-year proposal. You know | she's the girl who told The Star | interviewer the day before the New Year began that she would pop |the question without tremor or hes: | {tation if—that little word “if,” you | know—if the “right man came along.” Well, she revealed to “D. Cupid,” the feller in charge of the proposal contest, how she would go about it, Her letter follows “Dear Danny pid: I'd spot invite him to the PHILLIP TINDALL (A series of articles telling “Who's Who” among the candidates | for city jobs.) Phillip Tindall, candidate for poration counsel, started in the ai Never'll ask your price of dinner. Never'll call you ‘Old sinner’ | Never'll doubt your workin’ nights | When yon're takin’ in the sights Never'll ask the wage you're gittin’ | Never'll read the letters written. Now, you know my inclination, Vl Just file my application Put*my name down on this date— For your weddin’ candidate! MRS. H., 8. JANE GREY chew up my best slippers. promise not to attend any suf- fragette meetings and will vote any way you think best. I shall not be extravagant because I have MAIL es 9A. 16—All the |MINE WORKERS’ CONVENTION fs tied| INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 16,—The| Ining of annual convention of the United sorters Mine Workers of America opened from |here today with addresses of wel REE ARR ER ERE * * Referring to this great question Pi gn gener of leap year proposing, I would sug- be fumigat clerks STERVENTION » Jan. 16 the estat!i Micted at ane tansmissic that A he “veterans’ movement” come by Gov. Thos, R. Marshall of Indiana and by President Hadley lof the Commeretal club, 7 Ege ee IN CUBA AGAIN? Armed American intervention 1 Cuban government and to the state department here today m of a note to American Minis- merica would feel compelled to there were house to dinner, You know it's the way to a man’s heart, they say, And before he is through with his after-dinner smoke, and perhaps while he is telling how much he enjoyed the dinner, I'd say: “Won't you let me cook your beef steak all your life? I'll darn your socks, too. You can have the boys come up to the house to play a little game of—-well, old maid, and I'll never say a word if they drop ashes on my best rug. I swear not to polson your dog—if you have one—even if he should had to squeeze a dollar until the feathers flew from the eagle, A Tl promise not to nag or to qua: rel, and that ought to be some in- ducement for any man.’ ’ “JANE GREY? LEAP YEAR PROPOSAL” A man, whom I have known for long time, just returned from an absence of several months, and when I saw him this is how it hap- pened: “A REAL gest to each girl looking for a good husband: After renovating the |house, put on the neat little honse dress (made with your own hands), invite the party In question to dine, prepare an appetizing meal, serve it in an informal manner, and in dwe time ask for a compliment on the above mentioned dress. He will do the rest, For the nearest way to a man's heart is through his stomach. HOPEFUL, ORR MO BRE & MORE LETTERS ON PAGE7 *& Oe ee in the secretary of the navy's of fice under Cleveland before he hung out his shingle. He came to Seattle in 1904, where he has practiced law since, id has contributed some- thing about last wills and testa- ments to @ law encyclopedia. Tin dall graduated from college in 1900, FLORENCE, Italy, Jan, 16,--Hen- ry Labouchere, former editor of London Truth, and a famous diplo- mat, died here today. He served 16 years in the British house of com. com | Light north winds. Tempera- * |® ture at noon, 44, * * RRR KAHEREE TRIAL CONTINUED The trial of George H. Whittaker, W. Wilkins and George Lewis, ar- rested in the raid made by Scott Malone, deputy sheriff, on New Year's night on the known as “The Castle,” was con tinued thie morning in Judge Gor don’s court to Friday morning, Each of the men is under $500 bail. roadhouse heimer Suits. Special, $18.50. Men’s $25.00 Overcoats. Special, $18.50, All other lines reduced ac- cordingly. Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex |