The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 29, 1912, Page 1

FROM THE NEWSMAN’S BAT, Or, March 29— placed over @ bill pictures of political rushed to the scene pictures of their of the crowd. AZZARD IN CRITICAL — |T.A.COMMITTEE-GREAT COML. g weighed a loss of the first proposed 30- ast severe pe- ‘said Dr. Haz- # the first She, how-| be in excel- i 2 Lf etree if bag 3E cee # ‘oun- will Dr. ber Hee ELS ti BIG * Wire) March 29.—fe- Francisco to for Senator of California, | Y 4n-chief ign forces, Rooverelt | #t that, than pull stumps. | work. charg colonels cam- nomina- polit. in Stee! trust real progres- ty see Senator by the 1 ey é le Boni Lenned Wire) 2—That Count here in an effort wag of J, Pier- American finan- weet Bis would-be son- r it is said. 29-—-A spirit sheet, which had of the Beth , shouted, When disturbed by i “spirit was Goldberg. to buy afari ‘Steel corpo- | SAN FRANCISCO) March 20.— After A. M. Johnaon traveled 6,000 miles from New Zealand to meet his fiancee, Miss Helen Wells, she met him here in a apecial train, in which she car ried him to Los Angeles for the wedding. NEW YORK, March 29,— High school girls here are giving & display of more than 100 Easter hate, all of the latest style made by their own hands, at lees than 30 per cent of the ret so The millinere are fidget ing. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal., March 29,—Floriste and liv. erymen are “kicking” here against the ruling of the “Queen. ere” at the junior prom dance, to exclude carriag flowers. t cute off $16 . “Too much is suffl CHICAGO, Hil, March 29, “Good afternoon,” Marry Harris eoted Miss Leora Buchanan. |! dareyou to marry me.” “Can't replied the ma he court house. gotcha,” grinned Marry. It's Mr. and Mtoe. Harrie today, LOS ANGELES, March 20 Elmer Burge, Joseph Sanders and Clarence Wheeler, aggregate age 22, tled a cat and dog together and threw them into a» prayer meeting. The adjourne will be held tonight and the boys must attend as punishment ALBERT LEA, Minn. March 29,—Speaking here in the home district of exCongreseman Jas, A. Tawney, today, Theodore Roosevelt discussed the tariff question, repeating a speech he red at Sioux Fal Septem. 1910, almost in its en- The Seattle Star ~~ VOL. 14. NO. 24> SEATTLE, of Her Guards, From a Snapshot Taken Just After Their Long Waik This Morning—Mre. Hazzard I's the Figure on the Right No. 18, at City Stockade, ‘Decided Not to Work, B There was an incipient mutiny at the stockade, on Beacon hill, the other day. Chief Guard Robertson did not think it of sufficient import- ance to be reported. The Mictpient mutineer was No. 18. One might call bim a passtve resister, By the same token one might call Chief Gaard Robertson & passive insister. No, 18 bas the artistic tempera ment and a disinclination ta work. The gangs of three and four, each with a guard, were clearing the city land about the stockade—130 acres in all. There are stumps. No. 1% would rather pul! teeth, and his own It's hard A guard reported to Robertson: “No, 18 won't work.” “What does he do?” asked Rob- ertson, : “Nothing. That's the trouble.” “Have you spoken to him?” “Yes, but he won't answer.” Robertson found No. 18 on one ot the stumps he was supposed to pall. The sun was shining, and No. 18 was warm and comfor ‘Back on the job,” ordered the chief guard. No. 18 pald no heed. He was gazing at the distant sky line and whistling softly an airy tme. The gang tittered. Dificipline totters when the gang titters. “Come with me,” said Robertson, and No, 18 came. They entered through the big gate of the stockade and stopped at the cook house. Outside an open window Robertson placed an easy at the age of 86 years. co-operative merea and chair. “Sit here,” he sald, “I'm sure you will be quite comfortable.” | They have a good cook at stockade. He can fry kina way that would make a dyspeptic) hungry just (o smell it, The win- dow was open. The gangs came in to dinner. They ate hungrily and noisily. The work ot clearing land ts bard, and | the air of Beacon hill ie bracing. But No. 18 was not invited to table. He whistled his airy tune. He went supperiens to bed. They had fried exgs for breakfast —and coffee. | jo, 18 twiddied his thumbs and | continued to whistle. On the morning of the third day) [he did not whistle. and hungry look. frying ham, aud bis window j said No. lot me 18, | pull asid the chief guard “Always glad to oblige. But go io and have your breakfast first.” Big Mormon Dies SALT LAKE, March 29.—Leav- |ing a widow, 27 children, 145 grand children and dren, Bishop 14 great grandchil Hyrum B, Clawson pioneer of 1848, and secretary to Brigham Young, is dead here today Bishop ile institution e theatre, of the Salt Lak _ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE | phones, leasily pay for the extra 25 cents a|the republican WASH., FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1912. ONE CENT CLAIMS BIG: | STRIKE 15 ON, | LEAD 2,000 QUIT (Ry United Prose Lensed Wire) wave out the following statement: sds cd Meena eraik Oil Tonight and Saturday. ene wire) Authoritative reports received} Whit ING, W Va, here today from New York, In: diana and Mississippi show that) TAFT claima delegates» from thoae states are completely mislead- ing and without foundation, The) March 2¥.-«Anticipating a gen- fal setarns from INDIANA ee oral stfike order throughout oman - a gitiap mie y pon the bituminous coal region al districts and had unquestionably; When the present wage scale & majority in the state convention, | contract between the miners They were defrauded of their com-| and Operators ends at midnight trol of the convention by the ma), It of the fail- chine holding the control of the) UNOSY, a8 # result of the fai temporary organization of the con.) "Fe OF the conference in Cleve- vention, land to reach a compromise, es superts eine of ihe 16)2,000 “miners in Belmont velt delegates from the con- i c y &ressional districts and the four The ch mies fit pie delegates at large will emsily be! ie rest of the miners in the demonstrated before the credential “istrict are expected to walk committee of the national conves /out tonight, tion. The TAFT claime to 83 det oma egates in New York ure not sup| CLEVELAND, 0., March 29.— ported by facts. U the New | President White of the United Mine York iaw no delegates can be in-, Workers this afternoon ordered sus- structed and their preference for pension Of anthracite coal mining, president can be only guesscn from Pending a referendum vote, the attitude of their district lead- ~ ee, According to this Roosevelt) CLEVELAND, 0., March 29.—Iin- has 30 of the delegates, Taft 20 and | tervention by the United States gov- the remaining 30 are unpledged, | ¢TAaENt Ro prevent a general strike Parther details of the primaries in throughout the bituminous and prob- New York county discione a car- | *bly the-anthracite coal regions of nival of corruption engineered by te Ip reported here today the TAFT machine in the interests % be # probability. of their candidate and surpassing TM, delief became current the methods of TAMMANY HALL | (hroush the presence here of United in the palinies: day» of Boas Tweed, | States Labor Commissioner Chas. P. Telegraphic reports from Mis | Neil who, though he declares he is slasippl state that the Roosevelt '@ Cleveland principally to attempt to further an agreement! between 50 oe the state convention Kastern xailroads and thelr engi- (miners and operators of the bitaml- hous elds went into conference pendent telephone subscribers wit have to pay $2 per mouth, instead the Pacific Telephone Co. an-, blow at the operators when he or- nounces that there will aleo be §6 dered an immediate suspension ttveinlniressitasnesesiionlgenties neers, is: believed also to be watch- New Phone Rat : oy . es today, but no one was prepar- of $1.76, for residence teleptiones. FIRST BLOW and $6 rates. Tho latter service, anthragite coal mining. N. ing for & moment when President April 1 ed to say there was prospect of an For business phones, the Independ-- CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 29. however, will be limited to a cer. Tate mag intervene in the coal war | Withee seed chance of soccess. The According to the schedule to go S#reement te wight. into effect on April 1, former Inde i ent rate of $6.00 per month will be | President White of the United Mine generally raised to $7.60, although Workers today struck the first charges for calls exceeding the apec- not the men are prepared to go ified number. While those whofen strike. onan — eithare'o cata tele- nex only will have to pay higher rates, the company points out that ‘aft moat business houses used both the Four for T Independent and the Sunset tele) JACKSON, Miss. March phones, no that there will be « de-| Four delegates at large from cided saving to them. The residence |sissipi instructed for President | the company claims, will; Taft were selected here today at | state convention. | month in the fact that subseribers|The Roosevelt element, | will have the benefit of 43,000 tele-| montly of negroes, bolted the con- | phone connections, instead of 13, | vention and selected four delegates | 000. instmoted for the former pres dent, means that the Min sissippi delegation will be contest- ed on the floor of the national con vention at Chicago. | The Hague, When the police of New Albany, | queen mother of Holland has given i, responded to a call that a/ 200 guiden to the fund being raised brewery had been dyhamited, they | by Gen. Booth for prosecuting the found that a keg of bock beer had|work of the Salvgtion Army in explod: Amsterdam, | = ce rere seme = Constantinople, March 29.—A ively school of porpoises became ntangled in the mines laid in the Bardanelles, exploding 13 of them. | FATAL FALL OF SEVEN INCHES. MEDFORD, Ore., March 20-Although she only fell a distance of 7 inches, Mrs. A. Kelliher of this city this | morning fractured her left hip ang left arm. She weighs 256 pounds and is 70 years of age, The accidgnt occurred as she started to ascend the steps leading to the kitchen of her residence. Mrs. Kelliher is not expected to re- cover | EVER HEARD OF LOUIE, A “CHILD OF THE SEA”? Everybody along the West Seattie water front knows Louie the floor and pictures on the wall, and in the Windows are lace curtains. Frenchman, first of the houseboat dwel Everybody laughs at him. And Lo body, laughs with—and at—everybody. “A good fellow,” everybody # but no ambition. He just lets thing: That's Louie all over. He Jus' Foolish Loule! But wait a minute. THE STORY Louie left his native Cherbourg seas, dropped anchor in many ports, saw many strange Sixteen years ago, tired of the sea, his appetite for adventure glutted, he left a tramp steamer when she touched at sal ny cities and peop! Seattle. He found an abandoned houseboat and took possession but Louie patched ft, There was a it with a bit of sheetiron found on making two rooms, each four by eight, of driftwood. A bunk was added—an wall ax neatly as @ Pullman berth. A high tide came and lett Loule's home high and dry on the beach. ‘The floor slants, but what ofthat? The houseboat has been there from that day to this. bn Loman ol her hi hoat dwellers came—children of the sea-~fioteam oe eriiting on the tides and left high and dry on the beach with came from the far corners of the world, je, The: tongues. They had had their bouts ised them, and cast them like driftwood on the shore. bar yer ere there are on to 5,000 houseboat and shanty dwellers Do you know these Lp aaa : been inside their homes—those crazy little patchwork homes of Grittwood and scrapiron, stranded on the beach or set on crazier piles? Jong Seattle's water front? Bless you, there is real comfort « Everybody likés him. uie knows everybody, lik wery- AND ENVIES NOBODY. | “Got @ good heart—Loule has, | slide.” it Jets things slide. No ambition. OF LOUIE when a boy, to follow the sea. He It leaked, hole in the roof, but Loule covered | the beach. He put tn a partition, He built two chairs and a table} ingenious bunk, that folds into the He bought @ stove for 50 cents. F THE SEA “4 and jeaking many with the sea, and the sea had buf- Have you } And neat! j Loule, the Frenchman, from his houseboat saw the city grow. a railroad track runs within two feet of his home. commnters rush down the hill and xeram to the city. up the hill, Now Every morning the le aboard the ferry to cross Every evening they scramble off the ferry and rush back NO OFFICE HOURS FOR LOUIE Ti is no ferry for Louie to catch, Louie has no office hours. Real estate men excitedly talk of the future greatness of West Seattle. Railroad men and manufacturing men and vessel men talk of the future greatness of Harbor Island. But they do not talk of these things to Louie. Louie has no ambition. Loule has no rent to pay. His house cost him nothing. costs him nothing. In season he fishes, the small for his own table, Jars His fuel He selia the large fish, saving | Other times he takes odd jobs. Two dol- day is two dollars a day—and clear velvet, Also he mends nets | y, lazy work ~ NO SNOBS IN LOUIE'S CLASS | Louie has no ial standing. The Caste system has never touched | the houseboat dwellers. Therefore, he is free from social jealousies and strivings, There are no snobs in the houseboats, You may flash by along Raflroad av. in your limougine, with your wife loaded with furs and diamonds by your side, and Louie will not bat an eye. Loule is fr rom envy, d and all uncharitebien no debts to worry about. Other men may be troubled bition, but Lovie fishes, mends nets, works at odd jobs, dre: Other men plot and echenie and intrigue, working in the dark, abbing in the back, profiting by the failures of their fellows, but Louie lights hie pipe when the day is done and listens with understanding to the ancient rune of the tides. There are no hypocrites among the houseboat dwellers, no posers, There are no sychophants among these children of the sea, ‘They may be poor, poverty is reckoned, They may lack “cul- there. There are carpets on the ture.” Certainly they not “conventional,” But are they fools? | x HWS STANDS be yews se HOME EDITION GATHERED FROM HERE AND THERE OVER BUSY WIRES FOR THE STAR READERS LOS ANGELES, March Everyone who o 4 fails to chew it ie a human churn, according to J. Z. Gilbert. On a theory that butter balle are bad for one’s tummy, 85 students In his high school physiology class promised to become milk chewers MADERO TO QUIT; RUSH ARMS TO DEFEND AMERICANS Sata 3 ey ae bay peers ryoval Or. Francisco Vasquez Gomez, | tion, who probably will be made president if power. A TERRIBLE STORY OF DESERT my 4 Prean Leased Wire) SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., March and Cia | verge of mental collapse today, ac-/in to preserve order. ~ | cording to the statement of hospital | office at Aberdeen declines to take attendants to whom Anderson told @ hand in the trouble, saying it is t rt battle the province of the Hoquiam au- a Gee eaten anes oe ny |thorities to prevent disorder. Some | jattempt has been made to have an| to send and his suffering upon his arrivai to live at Fort Gibsop, Oklahoma. San Bernardino three months ago on a Prospecting tour. According to Anderacn, desert bandits killed Smith and buried his body in the sand. They left Anderson for dead. Late y March Fo.—The trainmen found Anderson lying on) his stomach, an ax in hie hands. Pays for Fruit Stolen a Year Ago WHITTIER, Cal., March 20.— “A year ago | pilfered two large oranges from your orchard. While the theft is trifling, it has weighed on my conscience. In- closed find payment for the written in a firm, nd, on good quality of note paper, was received to- day by A. H. Dunlap, millionaire orange grower of Whittier, The envelope bore a Pasadena post- mark. Three 2-cent stamps were at- tached to the note, which was unsigned, Dunlap announced that he would devote the money to charity. RR RKAREKAREARKEEE * * *% Should a HEALTHY PER. & % SON DIET? Read Dr. Wiley’s * & article in tomorrow's Star. * * * RRR REE REH > = Ra gee “Are You and your husband liv- ing happily now?” “Oh, very! We've been separat- ed for three months.” eader of the new Mexican revolu- Madero is driven out of VERY CRITIC TIME AT HOQUIAM (By United Press Leased Wh HOQUIAM, Mareh = 29) | ’ jappeal sent to Gov. Hay state troops here, but this will not jbe done unless absolutely neces. jsary | ‘The 20.—Attacked by robbers in the |strike situation in Hoquiam today Mojave desert, Lee Smith is dead Is critical and many expect that Anderson is on the |outside help will have to be called The sheriff's . a Crisis in Affairs of Poor, Har- assed Mexico—Madero May Be Forced'to Give Up Power Befote End of Week—Arms Rushed to Americans at Mexico City. (By Uvited Presse Leased Wire) | WASHINGTON, March 29.—Com- |munications received here today |from Mexico City confirm the ru- | more current for several days that | the regime of President Francisco |. | Madero is tottering. It is deciared that the revolution is almost sure to [triumph in the near future, inciud- | ing the taking of Mextee City. @ rebels hb: already issued a proclamation that Madero will-be shot if captured, and it is reported that he is preparing to fee from his stricken country. Should the presi- ident leave the cxpital with bis | troops, carnage, rapine and plunder, jin which the foreign residents wil sustain heavy property losses, and | possibly lives, are expected to fol low Americans Buy Arms. The state department announced | officieily today that 1,000 rifles and wupply revolvers, and a quantity of jammunition, were shipped yéster- | day aboard a Ward liner going from New York to Vera Cruz, The mu- nitions are consigned to U. 8. Am- bassador Henry L. Wilson, at Mex- ico City. Wilson. plans to distrib- ute the arms and ammunition among the Americans in the Mexi- ean capital, Although a presidential order has been issued forbidding the shipment of arms from the United States into any, American country involved in clVil turmofl, President Taft has is- sued a special dispensation in this case, to make the sbipment legal gee meet the gravity of the situa- on. Stabbed to Death ‘Ry United Press Leased Wire) LINCOLN: Neb. March 28.An- braska state penitentiary today, when Chas. Davis, a half-breed In- dian, stabbed John Strong, a negro murderer, to death in the dining hall. Only recently three of the prison officials were killed by three convicts, who escaped in an out- break, two of the convicts later meeting death in a pitched hattle with a sheriff's posse. Davis attacked Strong while the | convicts were at breakfast, : Protest Against Car Service A large delegation representing residents of Bailard, Fremopt and |Fort Lawton appeared before the franchise committee of the city counell this morning to protest against the recent change in rout- jing of their car lines from First ay, to Western ay. “And I join with them in making this protest,” said Councilman | Strikers declare that they will| Marble, who is not a member of }conduct the strike | manner, ly by men unions. not * |* WEATHER FORECAST * Fair tonight with light frost ® Saturday, fair and warmer; |* fresh westerly winds, % perature at noon, 48. RAE ; ONLY HALF SHAVED PORTLAND, Or., Mareh girl sereamed when she saw | Drake's fa | found he 29. J. F. in an orderly | that ‘They declare the disor- terday Santa Fe railroad | ders so far have been caused large-| pathy with these people who object belonging to the REAR AREHEREREK EE * * * * Tem- * al », Others stared. Drake | before the explosion. had shaved off half of a committee. “I live In the North End and I am wholly in sym- to being dumped on Western ayv- enue.” MILL BLOWN UP ST. HELENS, Or., March 29.— | The mill of the Columbia County | Lumber company was set on fire ‘early today and then blown up by |xiant powder. The plant was to- tally wrecked, the damage amount- | ing to about $50,000. No lives were lost. No arrests were made today and no one was seen around the mill The com- pany was paying good wages and had no labor troubles, NEGLECTING TO ADVERTIS E IN THE STAR ON THE SCORE OF ECONOMY IS LIKE STOPPING otherwise. BE AL ADVERTISE THE CLOCK To Save Time THE HOME PAPER OF SEATTLE IS THE STAR, WITH ITS DAILY PAID CIRCULATION OF Over 40,000 That means over 200,000 readers who would be reading your ad daily if it was appearing in The Star’s columns, and whom you cannot reach IVE ONE! IN THE STAR AND GET RESULTS.