The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 20, 1912, Page 6

Skin Peeling Nature's Aid to New Complexion |) Mereolized was tifler. Ry faking eur skin it me work. The ht « a sion | eee! YOUR MAN ADOLF 13 GREAT! LOOK AT THAT SPEED! Dvr 1 DON'y TRUST HIM, I'M AFRAR HE WILK YUMP HID oe CONTRACT, U/ We Have Yo Ke ON NIM, OSGAR UARLE To STR AND NOT COME “Yess, MR, TRUE, HE 183 SO TEMPE RAMENTAL « SOMETIME HE Sops In Hiss FoLLowed A WAF FasciNATED BY YESTERDAY HE WAT | THE GROUNDS Because ne NOw TWAT WON'T Do! THE STAR—SATUR eY AN EYE Me 1s AY AWAY Back. ONLY vate 47 me er: (: REALIZE 1D ALSO, MR, TRUG, Be ue FLE WAGON, THE WIAFFUBS/ oye AdOLF ASA PITCHER, BUT MAKE You RESPONSIBLE FOR HIM. UNDERSTAND £ , x : DAY, APRIL 20, 1912. 13 TOO VALUABLE FOR TO LOSE HIM. HE'S A WIZARD My MIND KINDERGARTEN To AS LONG? TO THE AGUE. 30 I'M GOING “Vital Disaster Impossible to Such Ship}} HOW THE TITANIC’S SISTER SHIP, OLYMPIC, RECEIVED THE NEWS| ARCHITECT UNGALOWS, #700 AND UP NICHOLS NCKLEY BLK. MISS COLUMBIA Miss Columbia, belle of the Bs timo village and elec the Pay Streak at the bas just returned from an ex | sive trip through Europe. Being] well educated, polite and of a re fined manner, the young lady ‘s| very popular. The management of} the Panama cafe, 1219 3rd ave., bas secured her services as She will be more than pleased to} renew any old acquaintances at al present location. “Everybody” Ss Doing It” WHAT? BUYING OUR ELE TRIC IRONS, TOAS ERS, VIBRATORS, LAMPS, ELECT LIERS. ELECTRIC and GAS SUPPLIES ALSO. BRING IN ELECTRIC AND GAS REPAIRS TO G. R. HARTWIG 1331 Fourth Ave. cashie E we Am ste to my fin Women and Children First mil Have you for them in event of your loss? Open a Savings Account with Wl wh As a boy tee fourth officer on the White pamsbip ¢ about (By United Press Afete as This,” Said Capt. Smith, But He Sank With the Titanic 43 years of age, Cap’ of the ilbfated Titanic the Senator Weber, a clippe * an appren 1880 he had risen t Smith nt ¢ nerican By Then he as captain, pitic the Republican con: Manding in turn several Five years ago said experience Ih an accident worth I never saw a wreck Star went t.{ Last September Capt. & countered his misfortune. mn when bis ship, at Olympic of th t was Hritish or Hawkes of Wight. 1 sister anic 0 by the the I He cause in magine pening to th Modert shipbu youd tha’ animed riser oft the T markable voiding nts 1 disa vessel given of his itanic sauces any al aster he Iding has gone be WIFE KILLS HUSBAND had b aboard the Confirmation of what expected—that thound I information of the extent of Titanic di r while the Olympic passed near the scene of jthe wreck—came today when the sister ship of the lost sea giant |reached Plymouth. How little they knew of the real horror of the catastrophe is told by Roy W. How jard, chairman of the board of di lrectors of the United Prese asso lciations, whose wireless dispatch to |the United Press was the firet word |from any mpaper man on the locean received after the Titanic | went down.) those BY ROY W. HOWARD | (Copyright 1912 by the United Pr Associations) THE & 8 OLYMPK Eox., Apr, 20-—-1t waa | ABOARD PLYMOUTH not zed the ¢ given on 1. As tar Haddock the ad he Olymple's nia officers | mini fearing it mize d bave | Women Faint | When the «anglish papers wer waht aboard and th: of the 4 read, then, and only then, was magnitude of the catastrophe iated. Women fainted and |strong men wept. Money wan free lly offered for the relief of they widows and orphans, Mortimer I Schiff, the Ne York millionaire | ner Olympic had little | ntribution on and } 0 each gave $100 Madame Sim Verified that News Never the f had met Titanic Mon ret rumor with mishap day morning while the wee breakfast, It verified. At noon a bullet posted in the the women's 1h nouncing that fided with an Seeberg, but passengers were safe. 1 this Information smokin 7 room, an had cot that the tried Titante bat would be impos th to get sald It 4s was being capacity and te Titante full wt whieh bottom of offered foreign York offices of the Uni od the first meena pe it with the id not be sent Ke ay night a bulletin that the had destroyed was It board had xeept 675 passengers then aboard the Carpa thia. All efforts to send out an other mewsage failed. It ed that the wireless apparat in constant use with land business. it was rumorbd on the Olympic that Capt. Haddock and the chief steward knew hours before the facts were given be passengers that the Titanic had gone down, but that they withbeld the news, fear ing its effect on the passengers, and feo in the f that the report possibly might be erroneow janat ic nally 1 that got a me Mor Titanic posted periahed who through been sald all on wan stat was belie ‘STATEROOM FOR ISMAY; | PASSAGEWAYS FOR WOMEN, NEW YORK, April 20.—Charging| that J. Bruce Ismay, managing di rector of the White Star line, was carried aboard the rescuing steam er Carpathia and taken to a state room while women survivors were compelled to sleep in the passage ways, Mrs, Lucien Smith, who es caped, « widowed bride, from the wreck of the liner Titanic, today telle a surprising tale of alleged mistreatment and censorship aboard the lifeboats and on the Carpathia Mre. Smith charges there was o of room aboard many of the Hfeboats to have permitted hus-| Viola Carver Free AND THEN HERSELF! leaned Wire) Wash. f Mr EDMONDS, 8 bod of on ered ongside th r home here { der hich Mrs fing a And provide for then The Bank for Savings PIKE STREET & THIRD AVENUE Only Strictly Savings Bank in the State gr | speak Fourth and Pike We Serve a Table D’Hote Dinner With a Pint of Wine, FIFTY CENTS From 6 p. m to 8 p. m. Dally HIGH CLASS ENTERTAIN MENT @ 701 P.M Th and Ot candidate do om ‘oup! tore Otto Case on the hops, mills an ing: ¥ announcing ba time carries the word Yo So! PRAYED AS THEY DIED (By United Pr YORK, April 20.—tIt engine room of the Tita ship, knelt down men smoked The White Sta thia brought here. of them alleges that t At the last for himself now Titanic crew a capsized Hfeboat of the crew might be in the the deck moment Capt declared one We jumped SAY YOU SAW and prayed going on from behind fr t tems He was shot as he lay on his more shots were Mra d shot r She stil right & paper bodies ver in her Garrett discovered the was found that her pl house by fire we destroy the ied out dward Brad of the last night to Seattle dead mi ACTIVE CAMPAIGN BY BOB HODGE AND CASE Pedal on Principle Hodg n at dur week Sumner tonight Angele he speaks at realizing attitude referendum ad ny n- platform advoeatt aid for o the re logwed-of ft | lands sed Wire.) learned toda after doing ql! possible died Above them off the awaited thelr own deaths. g the lifeboats which the Carpa who attempted to take picture man on the pier fired at him Smith the order Ever of th ng members Thirty of us mana that the engineers nic to save ve man the d to get aboard No passengers were sacrificed that any member IT IN THE STAR. VIOLA CARVER LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 20, The case of Viola Carver of Ta coma, J, Edwin Edge, was dismissed yes terday afternoon by Judge Cham bers and the defendant given her liberty. | Miss Carver on March 21 and killed Edge, a young realty operator, in his offices here. She based her defense on a declaration that she attempted to shoot herself and that Edge was shot when he tried to wrest the revolver from her grasp. Field Mice Killing Ellensburg Crops ELLENSBURG, April 20.—Grain and g fruit trees uf fering from the depredations of field Mice in this vicinity, and Herbert Talbott, rancher, declares the loss will ti if they not quickly exterminated shot enormous are They tell me that fellow an hater No wonder times. a wom: he's 1} married $ five Smokes | Bilkins Jokes things What's the with He s KO bad lately Worrying over — little Got twins at his house | Wanda” to accompany MAather women kin. The sailors in her lifeboat, she declared, re fused to take their turn at the oars,) atiowing the Women to row “t Had to borrow money whieh to pay for wir whieh, 1 understand, Pelivered,” said Mee peeeemcers aboard th Were asked to sign agreeing not to talk to the report ers regarding the Titanle wreck when the Carpathia landed. The Carpathia was: a horror ship,” concluded Mra. Smith ‘LOCAL CANDIDATE) Indorsed by four universities and four other educational instit and tw ngressional d Elton F r, dean of the fs the « colleg at Pallman, is in this city today In the interests of his candidacy as @ successor to the position of head of the department of chemistry, left vacant by Dr Wile Libby Survivor Dead One of freed fro fineme Lewi thelr wives with mersager | were neve mith. Th Carpathia a statement the Libby last soldier be acon Lieut teran prison after 2 rs was war ve of 76 Titus, civil ead at the age Six Chinamen Rescued Themselves YORK, April 20. ies who hid themse Six Chi ves tr the today mder the aboard the survivor crushed of the su hem taken the other ht charged with the murder of | en) Lyceum rd at the Y Monday feature of the present s¢ story-play, “A will deliver at the Y afternoon critic for the bureau. MCA evening the st ason, in Message n free ad M. ©, A. at auditorium on the closing course for his comed From Mars dress to men 30 Sund as OUR PRECISE ARTIST. mr “A revolving doo Yess, ir, Precautions are Taken to Preserve ‘Bugs’ Adolf to the Team c— _ THAT SENT | The closing of pr: behind C. DO, Hillman, millionaire | d dealer, brings to an end the |gigantic operations of perhaps the jcleverest and most resoruceful swindler who ever operated on the | Pacific coast - Hillman had for a number of fyearn posed os “the poor man's | friend” in Washington, Oregon and An early as July the Seattle Star refused to accept bis “blind ads,” which adver 4 “chicken at ridiew lonsly low prices | These, it wan shown later, were plainly fake ads, and were inserted in the newspapers to inveigle prow peetive buyers, who, when they in-| quired, were told that the partien-| lar “chicken ranch” advertised had been sold, but that Hillman had ‘ ood buys le Brings Suit Against Star When Hillman was arrested Star, in telling of bis red to him as the big shark. Th ngered the aire when this paper to print » favorable and to “ease up" on the sfories by his ims, he broug against the paper for an agere ot half a million. Later The won thre the wults in the su ore and Hillman himself dismissal of the The refer: | real oatate mil}ion refused him told arrest and ten to court asked for the ore. Start of His Downfall Hilllman’s downfall really com menced when The Star, on learn ing of bin fake ads, threw them out of the paper and announced on the first page that the ads had been barred from the columns of The Star as being fakes The government began its exam nation at about the same time. Vic tima of Hillman came to The Star office by dozens and made affida vits concerning swindling games by which they had been feeced Gigantic Operations Revealed. These affidavits showed the truly ¢ proportions of Hillman’s ne. He operated as the Hiliman Investment Co The [Boston Harbor Railroad, Steamship Ie Land Co. The Great Western Condensed Cream and Canning Co. The Railway Rightof Ways and Steamship . Terminals,” and The Birmingham Land Co. All these companies with high. sounding names Hillman. The affidavits 0 almost every erick known to the trade. He promised employment to purchasers of land. He promised [to build seaport and manufacturing lcities on his land. He painted won- derful word-pictures of the steam jand electric raitways he intended |buliding to his townsites, linking them with the big towns of Puget sound. Poor People His Victims. No one will ever kno whow many thousands of unwise people “fell for Hillman’s wild promises. Most of his victims were workingmen, who hoped, by a lucky investment of their savings, to secure a home and a competency for the raint day. He impoverished thousands Sent Fake Letters. Hillman had letters sent to dix | satisfied purchasers, purporting to! come from mythical terminal com-| panies, Inquiring as to the possible | purchase of land for a right-of-way This was to make dissatisfied buy ers think there was a demand for their land, so they would pay up thelr instalments to Hillman Indictments Returned. On October 3 the grand jury at | Tacoma, after hearing 27 witnesses ned six indictments « Hillman, ch ing him on counts. A few days the grand jury returned a venth indictment | Hillman and some of his| charging conspiracy to} ails for fraudulent pur poses. The maximum penalty on the last charge is two years in the | penitentiary and $10,000 fine, Hill ater inst employer use the n on doors today | man 22, | trial for tampering with veniren ‘You Pr TCHED Aa Fine GAME, ADoLr, Now COME MIT ME —— 1 HAF A CARRIAGE VAITING. HIM TO PEN TWO YEARS had to furnish $5,000 ball for ment The trial was set for 1911, Before that date torney Todd discovered that pros ive jurors had received litera tolling Hillman as a public benefactor, On January 23 Hill man and two employes were put on an additional the seventh indict Hillman guilty on 12 éounth itenced to the isiand ps: half years and fined $6) © fraudulent use of the n and to 20 days in jail and fined for tampering with ventremen, % Hillman, under $260,000 ball, ap . clreuit court, and lost. He tried te rai writ of review in the supret of the United States, and failed, Todd received, on April 16 =: official mandate committing man to the federal prisen. He: lowed bim, however, an sd five days to get his affairs in Hillman has spent handreds thousands of dollars in tie fight January 21 Distriet At | They were found guilty. One ew ploye was sentenced to six months on MeNeil's island, and the other to fonr months in the coanty jail Hiliman's sentence was ved until after his main trial It took more than a week to get a jury to try Hillman, it 20 kep out of prison. He pie days to take the te mony The jury was out 24 hours and found {4 took He fought to the <s SORROWING RELATIVES BESEIGED — i NEW YORK OFFICES OF WHITE § ‘lent. AOD <u Offices of the White Star line in ew York city, relatives of passengers on the Titanic came and went con: ing news of the missing. REV. JOHN HARPER j Of London, a Titanic passenger be-| lieved to have perished, was com ing-to America to speak !n several large cities, He was a noted Bap. tist divine. 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