The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 14, 1912, Page 1

ME EDITION St. Valentine's day doesn't Kind and full sway the year ‘round. RISH SHOULD WITHDRAW FROM RACE F \} i | ql i) loving words VOL. 13. he Seattle Star INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1912. ONLY NO. 299, *~ IN SEATTLE HOME EDITION | Hi a il] A kiss, a word, a book, a flower— They're Valentines from bower. true love's! ON TRAINA AN) NEWS sTANnoe ONE CENT. Jali) should withdraw from the mayoralty contest. He is a misfit in Seattle's civic and political Te ek IS ATTRACTING TO HIS STANDARD THE STRAGGLERS, PEOPLE OF THE He represents no positive element in the community. He stands for nt, good or bad. Parish is purely negative. . He leaves one job and seeks another, ‘guch a candidate as Parish would be of little im; w, however, he is a real peril. He is standing is not coming from the vice progressive element. ‘Stage Folks Give Big Benefit | HE att e Seeeeeeeeetseseeeseseeeeseenaesee z Har. » Cun. “Meo heeen wire wi PEGGY Are you going to Peggy Dunbar’s , | benefit the Seattle theatre | the merits of Kiaw & Erianger, the f#|Orpheum circuit, Daniel Frohman ®iand Dave Belasco, those capable ® producers of theatrical entertain: % ments haven't got anything on The * | Star when it comes to giving a ® /bang-up show. ®| You rewember Peggy, don't you? ® The 1%yearold show girl whom wT ar discovered In a First av. ® hotel last week, after her husband [had assaulted and deserted her. leaving her starving and near to i | heath Sure, you remember @ jury here Peexy ty in which by John Won Work. In sixteen | of those p Here's the Person Pegay is now In the home of a of friend, «til! far from well, but on} Tomorrow for Peggy Dunbar DUNBAR the way to health. A trained nurse is in attendance. Bills are piling up, and must be met. For Perey is proud. Hence the show. Remember the hour—2:30 tomorrow afternoon. The regular matinee prices will ob- tain. The topliners of all the vaudeville theatres in town are giving thelr services. Manager Drew tan't charging a cent for hi theatre. The orchestra will per form without remuneration. Ditto tage hands. Fine for Peasy’ There are lots of good folks tn the world. No specific charge will be made for the boxes. If you want a box reserve ope and pay any sum you like-—from 5 cents to a miilion dol- lars, It's up to you, Peggy needs a fresh start. zor: Arizona’s First Governor, In If not a standpatter, he 1s nothing better JUST FOR THE SAKE OF THE JOB. | portance to the city. Seldom could it be a| in the way of Seattle’s progress. gang or the vicious element. Neither is PARISH, PUSSY-FOOTING ALONG THE no vital principles.| L’ ‘ARM TYPE. at least represents in a posi decent progressive elemnt. What! | . Parish can open from} it comi MIDD| Parish is not taking votes from Gill. No decent candidate can take Gill votes away from Gill. For Gill ive way the vicious element, just as Cotterill represents in a positive way the But the Parish supporters, with few exceptions, could not help but go to Cotterill if the way were the way. He should do it and return to his political job at Olympia. PARISH CANNOT WIN. NO WOBBLING MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROADER CAN WIN NOW. OF| THE DAYS OF THE TRIMMER HAVE GONE BY. JOHN EARLY, THE LEPER, BUILDING OWN GOMPERS {° PRISON IN WHICH HOUNDED FROM STA’ BABIES UNDER FUTURE ARE TERING HIS FAMILY. | Two little boys are playing in the mad. One is 5 years old, the other 3 Master Three-yearold in driving sticks into the soft earth with a rag doll, whieh he holds by the uning |) hammer. The} other boy ts digging a Panuma canal with @ rusty kitchen knife. Both | are and with heal Near by 4 man, clad in rough, mud-eapattered clothes, ts turning over the sol! of his garden with a fork spade and clearing out the stones, From the cottage comes a sip of & Woman, tripping and laughing, in ber arms a baby 10 months old, in whose cheruble face In an expres- ston of placid contentment, thoagh are wet with recent tears. Baby hands clutch a bottle of milk, baby lips are glued to the nip- ple with the evident intention of neveF, never letting go so loug as & drop of milk remaina. : “Oh, John,” calle the stip of a woman, “Hig Boy just woke up, And, my, how he roared!” The man straightened his back, bared his head and emiled. Thus was revealed a face strong and stern and bitter; a ruddy face, crise crossed with heavy line, which might have been writ there trouble. He resumed his work without a word. » LIFE FLOWS EVENLY FOR SUCH AS OUT—NEAR HIS The peaceful scene Ix all a_aham. Vou have but to look into the eyes of the tolling man to see the very home of tragedy THE STORY OF THE LEPER ‘The whole world knows by now the story of Johu Early, the leper: Jobn Karly, who served bis fing In the Philippines and there contracted leprosy, who, returning, a rough, ® neldier, wooed and won the Salvation Army lassie tn Plattsburg, N.Y. who has been bis loyal part- ner In few joys and many sorrows, It'# an old story—how learned | doctors said he had it, didn't have it, they were sure he had it, they | Weren't sure he had it, It's an old story-—how he as hounded from place to place, the ery ringiog always in bis ears: “BEWARE! E. WARE! UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!” Game? To the core, these two, they bave shown. ae five years ago that an almost tmperceptibie rash on Early's | body led the federal authorities to suspeet that the ex«oldier had lep- | roay. A learned physician sald the rash might be leprosy. He was | Isolated in a place provided for him on the Potomac river. i] HOUNDED FROM PLACE TO PLACE ‘Then another and equally ‘aa he medicine declared that ul The firtng-line calls for no such the rash was not leprosy. Early wae ted. But by then the sue | Picton of taint was on him, He was shi |. reviled, driven from town | to town, from state to state. | He was In New York state for @ Then in Virginia. A world-famous Joper, but advised him to go to Callforn Virginia breathed a sigh relief. California was seized with The leper was coming. Early became a national figure—the fation's only leper. He set- ited on @ ranch near Los Angeles, whieh he owned jointly with bis broiber. The same specialist saw him Where after « year. “Jobn, l you're getting worse. You must go farther north.” he said. Early had | no money, 80 the physician gave him $1,000 to take bis family to Wash- | ington, LAND NEAR TACOMA | They came from Los Angeles to Taterma—came like thieves in the night; and the whole world has been told the secret of their coming. Posing at “John Westali,” Early bought a Sacre tract at Summit View, | near Tacoma. He built a cozy cottage. As John Westail he made him-| self a place in that rural community. it was a matter of comment) |among his new neighbors that “Westall™ always wore gloves. Now| Summit View knows why. SECRET LEAKS OUT Immediately on his arrival in Tacoma, Early took the Pieree county | . ‘Then in Pennsylvania list pronounced him not a (TO STATE, HE SETTLES NEAR TACOMA WITH HIS WIFE AND} NAME—SECRET LEAKS OUT JUST BEFORE HIS PLANS FOR; Office Today, for Golden Rule commissioners into his confiden they approved. But the seeret of | before the plan could be carried out To them be submitted a plan which | his Identity leaked out last Sunday, | Pane seized upon the community. | TO LIVE AND DIE CLEARENOF BLAME Department of Justice Issues Statement That He Was Never Suspected of Com- plicity in Alleged Dynamite Plots. (By United Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. hay and complete exoneration for Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, for other of- |ficials of all charges of having | been concerned in the alleged countrywide dynamite plat for which a score of Iran Workers’ officials were arrested today, was made here today by the STOCKADE WILL BE COZY COTTAGE SHEL- LEPER’S HOME AND CHILDREN: » | and its | department of justice. | It was stated that the of |ficials of the American edera- jtion had not only not been i jdicted, but that nothing had j been adduced at the Indianap- jolis investigation to show that |they had any knowledge what- soever of the alleged con- spiracy Union Men Will Hear Cotterill Tonight George F. Cotterill, progressive candidate for mayor, will be the principal speaker at a big meeting in the Labor Temple tonight The rally will begin at § p.m. He will |also speak at Turner's hall tonight jand at Trinity church at 6 p. m. Cotterill has been making a strenuous campaign and ts winding jup the fight in whirlwind fashion, speaking three and four times a night. As a consistent supporter jand advocate of labor unions, and, |while in the state senate, labor's jchief representative in that body, | Senator Cotterill will find himself (greeted by the biggest meeting that has turned out at the Labor Temple to hear any candidate. Tomorrow night the big down- | | | Upper picture is of the ieper’s little home which he built himself at Summit station, near Tacoma. About 200 feet from this house he is now building hie stockade. Lower picture shows his three fine chil- dren. the agitation against Early are the real estate tmterests, high above town rally will be held in the Seat- | Some feared contagion, a greater number, perhaps, feared a deprecia- . tent ri the shrill voice of terror 14.—De-) i nelther thought nor desire In my }tion in real estate values. Mase meetings of protest, threats of vio. {Meir mutterings of discontent riser the eae PHOENIX. tle theatre, and Friday afternoon a the federal Ariz, Feb. Ryan, pres Clering for 2 Golden Rule admints- it, vice presi. to transport | «aid le. They tration and for progressive policies, and urging that tae recall of judges | be reineorporated tn the Arizona State constitution, Geo. W. P. Hunt teday was formally inaugurated as the first governor of the state of Arizona. In bis inaugural address |delivered at the capitol, Gov. Hunt low citizens—In the name of! iit | the sovereign people of Arizona, Btates | who gave it, I accept the respon ‘the federal | tlity conferred upon me. The o arrests men scored mind to be known to posterity a» Arizon best governor, bot rather the wish that Arizona and her gov-| ernors hereafter elected shall con-| tinue to be progressive and thet my administration may encourage a constantly awakening public con- science. “Arizona is progressive and deny | ceratic and my administration inso- far as my conduct can sesure it shall be democratic tn the Jeffor sonian sense that denotes equslity simplicity and unostentation.” be in Counci Joe Smith, finsurgent candidate ‘Officials | for the city council, is given warm tment of | Words of praise and appreciation exonera by John Schram, another council- IS associates Manic candidate in a letter to The that not | Star this morning had been | ¥ith many they had | #mong Of the al-| Schram expresses the hope that in 4 eee eee ly winds. ban, 49, lidodinde ae G to be counselor HM, Bist boule. i» West Atta s » Taking issue of his own supporters big business men Mr. ‘Banker Schram Wou'd Like to 1 With Joe Smith for my part I regard {t as unfair and impracticable and If carried out to Its logical conclusion would lead tu the confiscation of present in vested rights of ownership. In a lineaip between corporate interest and humanity, Mr. Smith would find my sympathy for the man just as keen as his own, There yi * B. Ho-|and I really think st would be for dying ot fortune tn cong was! . down. Be dynasty, having lease he is elected Joe Smith will| might be this difference between ibe elected also. |us: I deplore friction between cap- | Mr. Schram says: lital and labor. Ithink they are just | Editor The Star: |as needful to each other to produce | I notice that Mr. Joe Smith ob-| prosperity as man and woman are lJects to being endorsed by citizens | necessary to each other to perpeta Now |ate the human race. # | Who at same time support me. Very truly, JOHN SCHRAM |1 take just the opposite view on that | question, and would greatly appre-| lelate to have each and every one i of Joe's good friends endorse me, Will Free Boy | : so My larger experfence and con- Who Killed Father vatism would act a# @ balance) John Philip Clark, the young man | to his youthful, fervor and|who ghot and killed his father In radicalism and keep bis machinery order to save his mother and from racing to destruction. Ithink | younger sister, will probably never *e make a combination that could |e compelled to stand trial. From accomplish much good for the city, /eyvery investigation of the case, and if one of us is to be councilman | prosecuting Attorney Murphy is be- *|I hope the other will also. In thé | coming conyinced that the boy was matter of municipal ownership of | justified in his action. public utilities there would be no| at difference of opinion between | ES Ie RPI | 8, only I might want to go more |% REE EE siowly and not try to do everything at one time, 1am thoroughly In| COTTERILL MEETINGS favor of taking over the telephone |* Tonight— ‘Turner's hall; La- ® business just as quickly as it can |* bor Temple; Trinity church, & | be do ‘There should be but one | 6 p. m. & | telephon em to render the best |* Thursday — Seattle theatre, and jargest service to the com-|* Friday~Women's rally, Se- munity and as there can be no com-|* attle theatre, 2:30 p, m.; Olt- %| petition the city should own and|# man's hall; Phalen's hall, | operate it. | Columbia, I don't know just how Mr. Smith | # stands on the single tax question, 4a * * * the common good to have them do} to * * * * * * * * * * * * * , WeUrr err ri erie e, Jence upon the man who asked nothing but that he be left alone were! | made, BUILDING HIS OWN STOCKADE The plan? An acre of his five acres Ret apart for John Early, the | leper On it a tworoom house. Around it a barricade of two wire| fences, each six feet high, which he may never pass; nor may any one enter to him. There to remain until death. That is the plan of John Early's own choosing. The plan would enable him to be near his wife and babies, to even see them through the wire stockade. That was all |he asked. When you interview John Early, you stand at a distance, He does | not seem to resent the aloofness. Near you now, since the secret came | out, is a guard who sees to it that the leper—if he really is a leper—| does not touch you with bis hands. “They threatened to blow ap my house,” he said. “They said that the lumber for my honse and the barri would nover be delivered. Well, the lumber is here and the carpenters have started work, “They blame me for coming here under-a false name. If | had come! as John Barly, what then? Would they Rave let me stay? Must | be the babies?” As he talked he worked with feverish haste. He works always. “It is better to work than think,” he explained. His attitude towards the world Is one of defiance. as words: “lonly ask to be left alone.” He does not whimper. stands on his rights. He is a fighting mab. “| know just what they can do to me and what they can't,” he said. “fm as well posted on the law, as it appifes to my case, as any lawyer. I guess I ought to be by now.” In his dealings with the authorities, whom his presence embarrasses, and his neighbors, he has been scrupulously fair, as the commissioners admit. He touches nothing that is handled by any other person. Mrs, os 6 equally careful nga hgh. : THE HOME OF GEOY He has not kissed his wife since shortly after their honeymoon. It is years since he has caressed the two children, The littlest one he has never touched. He has never felt the touch of its soft, moist Ups, its satin cheek; its roseleaf hands have never curled about his | strong, capable fingers. The two older boys have been told they must not go near their father, They obey. PENSION CUT WN Formerly Early got $72 a month péni but it was cnt to $30 when a doctor said he was not suffering from . He te still getting $30. He has learned to write without tough! hand to the paper. Tous there is no danger of contagion whep he receipts for his pension, and his wife receives the money. i In their family life, the Earlys keep up a pretense of jollity. it is s their laughter is very close to tears. Sometimes | ps a cynigal, bitter note, jut his wife that, when he first saw hei vation Army barracks, she was singing “Let a Little Sun And now he fs going voluntarily iato @xile. He may see his loved ones, but he must never touch them. He must not kiss or fondle them. He may call to them from a distance, but hg must never sit at table with them. Though bis soul cry out for thelr gompanionship it must be de- nied, And so it must be until the end. | “It is the only way,” he said, “I hay lem in 4 way that will work injustice to wife refuses to believe it-—then I must be personal contact with the world, But make some provision for them. ‘ “This place belongs tome. Do is mine—t bullt it with my own If the government government. It says as plainiy He buoys him up, and tried to work out the prob. one, If I have leprosy--my it where I cannot come into wife, my children—I must id? Itismine. This With my pension we can @ihetter way | shall not re- 1 have had to do every- hour get along. sist. But _ thing myself.’ bi na moos those at Summit View who driven out of the country there are many demanding that Karly be honestly believe that their tike the Flying Dutchman? And why should my wife be punished—and | | |Cotterill meeting will be arranged — |to accommodate those who cannot jattend noonday and evening meet- | ings, especially for housewives. The MADERO WILL PLAY THE _oisssttz atc" AUTOCRAT, IF NECESSARY’ faites Bowes F-cased Wire) [this does not prevent the adminis. NEW YORK, Feb, 14.—Positive | tration at critical times having re- decalaration that he will suspend! course to the extraordinary meas- the constitutional guarantee in Mex-|ureg authorized by the constitution feo if necessary to restore order, | inasmuch as it provides a means of has suspended | suspending the guarantees which it these guarantees in several states | itself granted.” in Mexico, is made today by Presi-| dent Francis I. Madero in a tele} gram from Mexico City received here. Madero’s telegram was addressed | the United Press and reads as | lows. “1 still believe a democratic re-| public is possible In Mexico. But All Students “BEWARE! BEWARE! UNCLEAN! UNCLEANI” 24 BRAVE MAIDS LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14.—Twen- ty-four maids here are charter members of the “Matrimony-With- the-Cash-Equivalent club.” Aspir- ing swains must bare their bank accounts and guarantee the wifely wage. No others need apply. Success in Advertising Is Applied Common Sense at Half Fare! All school children are entitled to ride for half fare, according to the franchise of the Seattle Elec- trie Co. This belated decision is announced today by the corporation counsel, The question was first raised by Joe Smith, progressive candidate for the council. Under the interpretation of the charter provision submitted by, the | corporation counsel to Superintend- | ent A. L. Valentine of the Public Utilities department, any child un- der 21, going to or from any school —private or public—high schools, business ¢ es and the universi y, may ride for half fare. KARKAREWRE OHH KE “NIGHTIE” * FOR LAWYER * OMAHA, Feb. 14.—-Some- * where between Omaha and *® New York Samuel Untermey- * er, New York lawyer, is trav # eling without a nightshirt and * with no change of linen, His ® personal effects are following *® him on a later train. The loss * of his nightrobe is said to be & the result of a joke played on © him by fellow lawyers with * whom he has been trying a case in Lincoln, Neb. NO * » * SSSSSSSS EEE EERE ES cbfidren are in danger from contagion. §¥hile the leading rpirite tn / | [OE That’s the whole story. Not to accept any solicitor’s word for the circulation of his paper, but to convince yourself that you are getting all the circulation you are paying for. When a news- paper boasts the QUALITY of its circulation, it simply apologises for its quantity. For there is not a newspaper in the state which looks up the financial standing or the social standing of a subscrib- er. Mr. Business Man, do you read The Star? You will find it in the home of the millionaire and in the home of the poor man. Over sore people daily buy The tar. OVER 40,000