The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 27, 1912, Page 6

i soar vie sau ng i, mae 6 2339233 FARM LANDS If you are looking for a FARM, don't get rough land that you have to lose at least TWO YEARS clearing before you can hope for any results Get one that paying basis when you start, You can get them FROM US for less than is ona ¢ improvement costs WE HAVE THEM, large or small ¥ FARMERS’ REALTY Ww ASSOCIATION 212 Liberty Bldg Opposite Postoffice EXTRA TIME ADOLF, T SAW DR. KYVHARZT TALKING Quire SERIOUS TO You TODAY. Vor wass NE Saying { Cucumbers a UND ICE Cream TOSEDDER, Saw ty vour pr ne KK Me. nd Ice Cream--W THE STAR-—-MONDAY, MAY 27, 1912. Are You CATING \ “ON, Ne JUST 1 DINK DEY Yess, [ VARNED M6 AGAINST || VoULDT KILL tT BEWVErE Id, CUCUMBERS § EATING CUCUMBERS A Goat. SAY, AIN'D DESE WHY, I UST ORDERED Sane ice CREAM FoR YOU. DON'D Gar 1D. _ CVCUMBERS Nice #7 CRANTED FOR \oPEN ALASKA FOR BENEFIT OF ALL THE PEOPLE; THAT IS AYERS PEOPLE The port commission some time ago set May 27 as the last day for private concerns to present their propositions with regard to Harbor Island terminal project The Ayers company was especially notified to that effect But the Ayers company today the last designated by the port commission, announces that it will take a few extra days before it submits its proposition. Charles Fenn, the local agent for Ayers, for mer agent for Bush, has given out the usual statement about the cap back E being in Incidentally italists conference. he also gives Seattle's port con a left-handed siap about tt green in the business. The commissioners are anxious to find out if the Ayers people will at any time come through with a business proposition, and will to day grant them a little extra time missioners eir being THIS MATCH COST JUST $10,000 (By Untied Prees Leased Wire) Los ANGELES, May 7 ‘Twelve hours after she had cleaned a costly ball gown with many ap plications of gasoline, Mrs. C. F Curtis went to the closet, wher she had hung it up yesterday. The closet was dark and she lit a match. There was a terrific explosion Mrs. Curtis was hurled against tne} wall, her hair and clothing ablaze. | She screamed for help and her} daughter rushed to her aid. | She was rescued after part of| her colffure had been burned away, | but $10,000 worth of gowns and/ furs were a total loss. GET INJUNCTION M. Roth, 8. Bruker and J. Clarke, proprietors of a tailor shop on Co-| lumbia st. where * employes | | went out on strike eral w. ks ago to protest agai arvation wages,” have at last been able tol secure an injunction against the| right of the strikers to picket. | They have been after that injunc- tion since the strike began. Judge | Dykeman, who refused it at first,| granted it Saturday WESTLAKE MARKET | BEING ENLARGED A crew of workmen are re modeling the old Seattle Electric] Co. boiler room on the corner of) Sixth av. and Pine st. to extend the floor space of the Westlake Public market, which finds that its in-| crease of business during the last year calls for more floor space. It will be essary to tear down the brick wall between the floor now oceupied by the market and the old room and to put up supporting columns. New floors will be put in to make the levels of the two store rooms equal. The underground space which will become vacant as soon as the boilers are taken out will be used as a store-room. The repair work daily | PLATFORM OF J. E. BA Alasl.ans in this state and Span lish-American war veterans are or ganizing John E. Ballaine congres sional clubs in every county. They the [are working for his nomination in| the republican primaries as one of ithe two new congressmen at large |from Washington on the one issue | of making it his special work in con-| | gre mediate opening of Alaska with a laystem of government owned and government operated railroads. After One Big Thing. want at least one represen- » Congress from this state to get legisiation for the im | “We ve who knows Alaska its needs, and who has the energy and the jability to get results,” says a cireu jlar letter signed by more than 1,800 Alaskan residents of Washington in ‘an appeal to the voters of the sta We demand that the wealth and opportunities of that rich land shall jbe for Americans of every degree, the appeal continues, “and this can be accomplished onty vy means of government owned railroads. To obtain legislation for this end, a representative with special know! edge of Alaska and with all the Jother necessary qualifications, such las Mr. Ballaine possesses in every | mus te all of his time and energies to that one object. No other issue equals this in ite far reaching importance to the people of Washington, ing of Alaska with 500 to 1,000 miles of government owned | would not only afford homes and| opportunities for hundreds of thou-| | sands of Americans, and furnish «| |plentiful supply of Alaska’s high! |srade coal at minimum cost to the navy and to the consumers of the Pacific coast, but also would bring Open Air Best for Longevity, Says Man at Age of 99. Ralph Butler, who has just cele- brated bis 99th birthday in Boston,| says to get out In the open air, have/ steady habits and leave tobacco and | liquor alone, and you'll live to a ripe} old age and be happy | He goes to bed early and gets up at daylight, and takes a long walk daily, no matter what the weather.) ) College Students Ate Reptile, In- stead of Studying its Habits. The zoology students of Antioch college, near Springfield, O., caught | a large black snake to study, but after a conference decided, by ma-| jority vote, to eat it. They served it fried at a class feast | Most of them thought it fine until students not invited told them they would likely die, and since then all the doctors in the neighborhood have been reaping a rich harvest at tending them. Uncle Sam Declines to Feed Two Cats Because of High f The high cost of living has prompted the treasury department at Washington to decline a request to provide feed for two cats kept in ‘FIRST SEMI- will be finished about June 1. PLACES BLAME ON SALOON MAN iastead of the employes coming to MONTH PAYDAY ‘The first semi-monthly payday for city employes began on Saturday Want Government Railroad. = | The appeal declares that the open-| railroads | Is the proprietor of a saloon re-|the city hall and forming in long spousible for the property of his| lines at the cashier's window, Comp- customers if he allows them to be-| troller Carroll secured the services come intoxicated inhis place? jot four city automobiles and had Leona Flood thinks so, and she|the warrants delivered to the fire started suit against Chas, Sally to | *t@tions parks, ete We thus save recover $1,200 “rolled” from the| 20th our time in the comptroller's land treasurer's offices,” sald Car. poc kote of ‘Bef husband, F Flood.) roll, “and also the time of the em- on May last, at the Sher-| roves in other departments.” wood saloon, according to| ”*” : her complaint. Flood, it is al-| leged, had just come to town fron|For Century He Edmunton, Canada, and was in-| i duced to buy 25 bottles of cham Smoked Cigarettes pagne. He was then piled into a| BROWNSVILLE, Texas, May 25 taxicab, t's complained, and his|—Ramon Escobel, who, a few days roll taken from him |ago, celebrated his 110th birthday, | His | WITH 7 CENTS lochs apd actions wade wean s] STARTED OUT man of sixty Go.|_ The record of Escobel's birth, as) Roy Stott and Fred Alberty * ded in the little Catholic attle boys, started out to see the |T°Cor’ { world last Sunday night, to forset| Ventura, Mex, confirms his own the cares of school work. Hach ee Sanne bes | |statement athered his little roll of blanke 2 ® nil of blankets |" ‘Kecobel has been an inveterate and what little coin he had saved,| and started north. They got as far |*™oker of cigarettes for 100 years as Kanasket, where Deputy Sher. He smokes the hand-made kind, iff Julius von Gerste yanked them|™!th corn-shuck wrapper. off a brake-beam and brought them | to juvenile headquarters in this} TRIED TO DRIVE POKER INTO BABY city. The boys argued that they would have been able to continue their journey had not tramps stolen their|, PITTSBURG, May 27.—Attempt blankete—for it was awful coid|!"&@ to drive a red-hot poker without them. When picked wp,|through the body of her four- their roll extended to 7 cents, |months-old baby during a sudden : attack of insanity, Mrs, Paul Cos “And have you no children?” mack, of Universal, is under arrest “Dear me, no. There haven't here today. Neighbors, who chased been any in our family for thre e|the mother half a mile, saved the JOHN E. ODDITIES IN THE NEWS clerks, and the government has de cided they must continue to be objects of charity or lve on their prey Half Blind Man Best Markaman . Among Tarrytown Firemen Harold Free, who is blind in one eye and wears a smoked glass over the other, won the rifle champion ship in the Hope Hose company contest in Tarrytown, N. Y., by 22 points, There are many crack shots in the organization. Free was entire ly blinded, temporarily, at a recent fire. Twin Sisters at 91 Are Still Enjoy- | ing Good Health Mrs. Martha Erickson and Mrs Bertha Foglestad, Chicago's oldest twins, celebrated thelr ninety-first birthday, both still in fine health As guests they bad several of their children, more grandchildren and a few great grandchildren Mariat Lioyd of Pittsfield, Mass., and Mrs. Mary T. Webb of South wick, Mase, celebrated their eighty-seventh birthday yesterday by writing a letter to each other They are the oldest twins in Mass jthe sub-treasury in York to/achusetts. They are in excellent exterminate rats and mic |health and read the newspapers The cats have been fed by! without glasses. ba 9 = re = — fg Lie oes “Wenn, Swerroon. “Are the hills high out on roa?” “Wal, I guess. They're so high we had to put tunnels through ‘em to let the airships by.” INVENTS AN ANTI- ICEBERG MACHINE COPENHAGEN, May 27.—Herr Ellehammer, well known Danish in. ventor, claims to have invented an instrument which will detect ice bergs and rocks within a distance of 1,200 yards even through a fog He will not sell to a trust, which would establish a monopoly Noted Horsewoman Dead in New York NEW YORK, May 27.—Mrs. Caro. line Knapp, considered one of New York's best horsewomen, dead |here, having been killed in Central Park when her mount stumbled and this generations Detroit Fi Press. | infant 4 life, jfel and then rolled over upon her, LLAINE CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS fquick and lasting prosperity to every part of the state of Washing in particular While Alaskans in this state or iginated Ballaine’s candidacy, bis Spanish-American war comrades all over th ate immediately joined in hin ort with official endorse ments, He was an officer in the Firat Washington regiment in the Spanish-American and Philippine wars, and bas credit on his muster out for participation in 33 battles. His father was a Civil War veteran who died 30 years ago from a wound received at Vicksburg | Born in Washington | Mr. Ballaine grew up on « farm tn | Whitman county, Kastern Washing ton; was for seven years a news paper man, part of the time at the national capital; was secretary to Governor John RK. Rogers and adju tant general under him, before serving in the SpanishAmertean and Philippine wars, and for the last 10 years has been extensively engaged in Alaskan developments He was the founder of Seward has taken « leading part in favor of ja polley of leesing Ainska’s high | grade con! lands, instead of giving them away to be tied up by a few big corporations, and was among the first to advocate the govern ment mining of its own coal in | Alaska for the use of the navy | He bas « wide personal acquaint ance in every county In thin state, jand also is well known among of j fictals in Washington. where he has | spent several winters as a volunteer | worker for Alaska | Mr, Ballaine’s home for the last iB years has been in the University | district of Seattle. The members of the faculty of the University of Washington are among bis neigh ‘bors, every one of whom Is strongly supporting bis candidacy BALLAINE cle ELIHU, KEYNOTER; HE OWNS 99 1-2 PER CENT OF ALL THE DIGNITY | | The republican national conven |ton will be opened with extreme \dignity and extraordinary de jcorum., Here's the reason: | ELIHU ROOT If Elihu Root should rise in’ the grandstand after the home team favorite baa lamped out a four” wacker with the score tied in the ninth and the bases full, and should lift hie hand and gaze upon {the Joy-mad multitude every fren ied yell would be stified to a whis | r. | Elihu Root is the most dignified |the most seriously solemn stat man that we have in our midst, and | he's to be temporary chairman and keynoter. | | There is no humor or persifiage in the busigess of politics and gov ernment hwed from the Root standard. As keynoter of the rand old party” he will indulge | in no waving of arms, no Fourth of July oratory He will be serious as an operation for appendicitis His apeech will be a “masterly pre sentation of the issues,” but it will not make one heart beat faster That would be undignified—and Root is still using 99 per cent of the political dignity of the country. | Elthu Root is the only man tn the | United States who ean prove that] ELIHU RINGING KEYNOTE. }iced-biue blood flows through his | — veins. During a public career of 26| President > years he has never been caught in | sociation, 1904-0 the act of even looking as if he| Trustee Hamilton college, Car- was going to smile. And the blue negie Institute, Metropolitan Mu | blood! Look at thie record: seum, President Union League club, President American Society In New York, 1898-99. ‘COUNCIL CONSIDERING MAYOR'S jternational Law, 1906. ‘The mayor’s veto of the Dilling park garage bill comes up for final action by the council this after noon. It should have come up two weeks ago, or, at the latest, last week, But Councilman} Goddard and one or two others have beén |holding off until Councilmen|man Goddard threatens to immedi- Blaine and Hesketh could return to|ately introduce a new bill, with the the city, in the hope of getting |same provisions, merely to keep up enough votes to override the may-|the agitation, or's veto. Even then, the mayor's more than likely to be sustained, as Councilmen Griffiths, Wardall and Haas were opposed to it from the start, and they need but one other vote to kill the bill, Council veto is Ee NNR sees mero fe PEOPLE WHO FONDLE DOGS WOULDN’T GET A WELCOME IN AUSTRALIA, HE SAYS LONDON, May 27.—The dog cemeteries, with their expensive head stones and beautifully kept surroundings, were the one particular feat ure that most Impressed Richard William Price, a young Welshman, a prominent labor member of the Queensland parliament on his return to London, after an absence of several years, “This was a revelation to me," he said, “and it was emphasized by the sight of hundreds of children running about the streets, bare-footed, poorly clothed and many of them plainly half starved. ‘The who fondles her pet dog and Waves the purse to look after her children would not have much of a welcome in Australia.” eMAN NAVY/|CONSIDINE OF NEW a eee ae YORK IS BANKRUPT _ re . ‘ NH®W YORK, May 27.—Allegin COPENHAGEN, May 27.—Fright-|that he has assets of only $200,000 ened into the: belief that war had|tq meet liabilities of $300,000, a been declared, by the sound of Gum) petition in voluntary bankruptcy firing by German warships off the} was filed here today against Geo. |Danish coast, an old woman of|Considine, a New York sporting Assens upset a kettle of boiling/man. The petition was signed by water and » os badly scalded. She|three alleged creditors who efsim is suiig the German navy depart: | Considine owes them sums totaling | msn ment for damages. $1,433, hat Ifa Man Likes He! VETO OF GARAGE ORDINANCE. woman | Both? _ LAvOLE, Wor ‘ ISS DoT You AR€ \ WRiTIN@? VAITeR> BRING me DOCK RAT “AD PERCENT CHEAPER SOON | Rates fixed by ision for the docks to be operated iby it, will reduce present rates by Jabout 60 per cent, say wharf own- jers today. The rates, however |will have no effect until the port's |docks are completed next year. No attempt has been made by the} commission to exerciae ite author ity to establish rates on private jdocks, The commission's schedule |provides for the free storage for }a certain number of days for many | jcommodities awaiting shipment. | |The rates are classified acording to the articles Treasurer Hanna bas offered to} borrow some of the county's idle | jmoney to pay the interest of the! port’s bonds, which may be issued | port would not pay | mul February, other-| in July Th the interest ine it would become due in Jan The condemnation sult for the port commis | Words by Music Sch by Comm RLD’S FIRST SET OF EUGENIC TWINS BORN TO SCIENTIST, wo DR. DAVID ALLYN GORTON, HIS WIFE AND THE SCIENTING T wary Ww INS. a four of the harbor improvement | ua projects, including Harbor island, @& & * & kok ta te tt ee & tor ly satinfied He will be heard September 3 by|* ® is proved. Judge Gilliam, |* OTHERS IN CLASS * fost thrown in for he ~ i* WITH OR, GORTON # “It was a grave WELCO MED: Dr. Harvey Wiley, 66, a son *& my age,” says Dr, CASE * Andrew Carnegie, 62, a % come the father of a “i |® daughter ® no hasty or it AT PASCO |® Benjamin Harrison, 64, @ ® but a deliberate one, |@ daughter ® and meaning; and! (My Ustted Press Leased Wire) * John W. Province, $1, twin ®@ believe that | was PASCO, Wash. May 27.—A rous-|#@ girls (1911) ® highest and most ling mass meeting greet;d Otto A & Ambrouse Calhound, 82, ® in which my wife iCane, progressive candidate for ® triplets (1908) * The boy, whose governor, here on Saturday night. * Thomas Ludway, 89, a son & good the theory, is 'He was introduced by Mayor Syl # (1908) * after his venerable dad. vester, who gave Case a big send | * * six and a half pounds andi off, saying he was a #el(-made man land one of the best progressives in the state. Case was applauded |heartily when he predicted the election of a progressive president and said that Washington should have a progressive governor, He gave the grange and labor organ-) faations credit for progressive leg islation in this state. Case speal at Ritzville tonight CONTEST BRIEFS Brlefs prepared for the contest ing delegations from Washington to the republic convention at Chi- cago are on thelr way to the na tional committee today Loren Grinstead and orge H. Walker set forth the case of the Roosevelt followers, while W. T. Dovell and Howard Cosgrove prepared the ar- gkuments for the special-invitation function held by the Taft crowd at Aberdeen. WINGS AN AVIATOR BUDAPEST, May 27.—Slad with jealousy on learning of the engage ment of Guido Frodan, leading Hungarian aviator, Julie Hill, one of his pupils, fired three shots at the aviator just as he was com mencing a flight. Frodan was un hurt ted, The girl was ar WRIGHT WORSE ty United Press Leased Wire) DAYTON, ©., May 27.—Wilbur Wright, the aviator and inventor, who has been ill here for some di |was wor today, following a se rious relapse last night. His condi- tion is critical, and physicians are constantly in attendance. |KILLED HIMSELF - SO WIFE COULD GET INSURANCE (By United Press Leased Wires SAN FRANCISCO, May 27 Firing a bullet through his brain |so that his divorced wife could col- $20,000 life insurance, Joseph | West Robinson is dead here today. | A note beside the body made clear the motive for his t. Mrs. Rob- inson, from whom the suicide was divorced six years ago, lives in Pasadena, HI GILL’S SUIT Judge Albertson has under advise- | ment the demurrer to the complaint of Hi Gill for a recount in the recent mayoralty election Former Su- preme Court Judge W. H,. White raised the question tn behalf of Mayor Cotterill that such a contest should have been brought within 10 | days, and that | delayed. Farther. jmore, Judge White contended that even if all the facts alleged by Gill vere true, the results of the election | would not be changed, but that the majority would be merely reduced by 107 votes. PERSISTENCE WON NEW YORK, May Following 4 persistent courtship, Geo. Guyer, a wealthy San Francisco clubpan, is wedded today to Miss Regina Miss Vicarino when she was singing in San Frangiseo, followed her to Mexico and then Yo New York, FOR DELEGATION ith « view | Open for Business Saturday, June 1 | Viearino, opera singer. The couple | have gone to London, where the} {bride has contracts. uyer met | Seattle Sporting Goods Ce RRR RAR HK Khh ah NEW YORK, May 27.—It takes courage to get married at 80 years of age just to prove a theory in eugenics. Dr, David Allyn Gorton of Brook- lyn had the nerve. | Dr. Gorton had a theory as to the determining of the sex of children. | Also he wanted a son to carry on his work So he married his | stenographer, Miss Bertha Rhebein,| view to making them to proving his theory. | what the race will be Result: TWINS! |when the ecience of | One of them is a boy, so the doc-| come to its own, ~ {The Finish Hap didly formed and in peri | The girl is called also weighs six and @ and sbe holds ber o¥m brother in appearance as well as weight. 5 he Dr, Gorton has ideas rearing of children as gards the de! - the “experiment” in little strangers figure to have only begun fond father will rear Friday May 34st WE CLOSE THE MOST REMARKABLE OF SPORTING GOODS EVER HELD IN THE NORTHWEST Pi REMEMBER, THE PRICES ON THE FOLLO ING MERCHANDISE HOLDS GOOD UNTl FRIDAY NIGHT, MAY 31ST, ONLY $6.00 Cotton Hose, 50 ft. ... aS $7.50 Red Rubber -Hose, 50 ft 20c Electric Hose, foot 18¢ Velvet Hose, foot ..... 75c Lawn Sprinklers ...... og eS I oer 2.50 Tennis Racquets $2.00 Tennis Nets .. $1.00 Ingersoll Watches $1.00 Baseball Bats 25e and 35¢ Trout Spoons . 40¢ Cotton Fish Lines $1.65 Fish Baskets ... $1.00 Dog Collars ..... tds $4.50 Striking Bags ...... 45c. Gan O8 6.66% SR WE WILL CARRY A FULL LINE OF WARE IN OUR NEW STORE Cy New Home 713-15 First Ave STAR WANT ADS BRING RESULTS