The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 26, 1912, Page 1

Fi “As long as we must have grade crossings,” said Chief of Police Claude G. Bannick today, “we ought to have automatic gates which will close i ithi cross- Such a reminder as the tragic death of Dr. Rininger ought to be sufficient to convince the public as well as the railroads si the aaeibhe garg ig edant wap 4 tian 7 ens SEATTLE’S ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER —~S i" The way the ladies do today. ‘SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1912. l care, HOME EDITION (But Cynthia Grey. laug MINERS KILLED MACHINE GUN IS | DYNAMITED IN A CLASH WITH MINERS More Bloodshed Feared “* West Virginia Mines— Workmen Object to Importation of Detectives to Guard Mine Property. Did you read the awful story In The Star of yesterday, Of the lady in the auto When we penned the awful story For The Star of yesterday, We gnashed our teeth in anger At the very brutal way The lady butted into the copper. It’s a sin to Ram men and slam men Ran into a help’ A weak, defensele And slammed him, rammed him, and Most vigorously jammed him? Say (Continued acro: VOL. 14—NO. 126. ONE CENT $34 DETECTIVES AND THREE OF ‘SHOVING THE QUEER’ The Psychology of C ounterf eiting 700 STRONG TO BE RESIST It’s more fascinating than poker, says Frank Green, “shover,” who has tried but it’s a losing game in the end, for the “percentage” is against man with kale.” DEAR ME! How very PECULIAR! UNTIL RECENTLY MY REFLECTION FILLED THiS MIRROR COMPLETELY ! ed Wire.) in a clash with striking miners seven detectives of by the dynamiting (By United Pr CHARLESTON, W. Va., July 26- in the Paint creek section, near Mudiow, to the Baldwin agency and three miners were kille: of a Baldwin machine gun. The « mn at Paint creek is precarious, additional bloodshed being almost certain before the day closes. The miners have been sullen since the mine officials sent Baldwin detectives here to guard mine property, but no actual clashes occurred until Detectives Wm. Springer and Wm. Shaup passed through Mudiow on a handear, Without a word of warning the miners opened fire, and Springer, riddled with bullets, rolled off the car and down an embank- ment. Shaup, badly wounded, reached Paint Creek Junction and spread the alarm. The miners, however, proceeded up the creek, cutting all wires, and today’s report indicates that the detectives and the strikers have met in a serious clash. Shaup died this afternoon, BY FRED L. BOALT. inking in the light of the jail office, which blinded him after a week in the gloom of the cells, Frank Green, “shover of the queer,” propounded a question. “Did you ever sit in a stiff poker game, when all you had in the world was the clothes | on your back and a stack of blues in front of you, and get a sweet four-card flush and a red er? And did you ever sit tight and shove the whole stack in the middle of the table, with fw oult grin on your face and black fear in your heart? Then you know how it feels to ‘shove the queer. A week of introspection in the cells has made a changed man of Green cessful crook who never held anything but “a sweet = sluffed and “got away with it.” = BLUFFED TOO OFTEN. ' But he bluffed once too often. A more than ordinarily cautious bartender took a second i Mook at the “queer” $20 bill which Green had tendered, and made a sprint around the end of PMithe bar and collared Green at the door. Today Green is not dapper. He has a week's growth of beard. The spring is gone from step. A week ago he four-card flush neuter: deibemanen INTERURBAN CROSSING IS DECLARED A DEATH TRAP ek kheh kee ea tek we! crashed broadside into his automo * | bile at 4:20 yesterday afternoou at The coroner's jury rendered # | Riverton » WW |® its verdict this afternoon that * Miss Luella M. Davis, a nurse, | | ® “the chauffeur did not exercise #| Mins Olive M. Rininger, bis sister, the proper precaution in ap- * | and K. Brodnix, his chauffeur, were proaching the crossing and # | the other occupants of the machine. that the crossing was highly *| Miss Davis ts at the Minor hospital dangerous and was not prop */'" an unconscious state. She sum erly protected” by the raliway *| ‘ined a broken leg and injuries company. * about the body. It is feared that kkk hhh tk th tee (She suffered serious internal in — jJuries. Her condition is extremely That the interurban crossing at | critical. Riverton, where Dr. E. M. Rininger) Miss Rininger {s at home, 1214 was killed yesterday afternoon, is Columbia st., with a sprained ankle, practically a death trap, was the Te chauffeur escaped uninjured. substance of the testimony at the| Mrs. Rininger and her 12-year-old coroner's inquest by J. G. Rosen-/“#ushter, Helen, who have been a dapper and s and a red strang he ‘win a “SHOVING THE QUEER.” Mi“I'm going to plead guilty anyway,” he said, “so I might as well talk. I’m not giving body away but myself. Of course I could say I-didn't know the money was ‘queer,’ but Vd come back at me with my record to show that this isn't the first time I've been caught ing the stuff. Oh, I'll go over all right, so there’s no harm in telling you how it feels hove the queer.’ * “First of all, you've got to keep it in mind that m is the thing we all want more | than anything else in the world. Men work for money. take big) chances for money. Fs steal, betray their friends, for money. A good many will go to hell for money. 4 “Did you ever stop to think, then, of the temptation that must come to them who know tricks of making money? At a little cost to be able to make moncy that looks as good # tings-as true as the kind Uncle Sam turns out at his mints? THE MIDDLEMAN. LWMERASNARNN “Understand, I never made the stuii I know the middlemen—the men who hand it out to the ‘shovers’ and who eountericiter. their percentage. I don't know hoy I don’t even know a single berg this morning. Rosenberg con- ducts a general merchandise store near the crossing. He heard the crash when the collision occurred, and a second iater he saw Miss spending the summer at Lake Che lan, did not learn of the accident until late last night. They arrived jhome this morning. How It Happened. “If the counterfeiter finds the game fascinating, how about the shover? All the risk the counterfeiter takes is that the federal people may get wise to where his plant is located. The ‘shover’ runs a risk every time he ‘works.’ : “How'd I get started as a ‘shover'? Any man gets a chance to ‘shove’ if he trains very with the kind I’ve trained with. You see, I've been a rover. I've done everything. been a cowboy, lumberjack, longshor¢man, bartender, waiter and just plain ‘bo. I've money and I’ve been broke. The kind of men I know gamble. Not all are clever, but "re all as clever as they know how to be. “Now, we're betting back to the poker game. Every man who ever sat in a game knows 1M ‘the fascination of it and how hard it is to leave it alone. Why it’s fun to subject yourself fo a series of scares—for that’s all gambling is—is more’than I know. “But I do know that many a time I've sat for 48 hours at a stretch, with my heart in “my shoes and my throat parched and dry from fright, scared stiff but happy aftef a fashion, ing to skin a bunch that were just as scared and happy as I was, and all trying to skin and each other. ‘And when it comes to thrills, poker can’t touch ‘shoving the queer.’ roulette. Rininger and Miss Davis huried| ‘The accident occurred at the into the air. He testified that he | dangerous pass where the Riverton it that there would be road crosses the interurban line. some accident of the kind that ac- Approaching cars at this point are tually occurred. Me would in-|shut off from view at a greater dis) variably look out toward the tracks tance than 50 feet by steep cliff when he would hear the gong sound-/ So dangerous is this point cole ing the approach of a car, Rosen-jered that an automatic bell was berg said. placed to sound the approach of K. Brodnix, Dr. Rininger’s chauf-|the interurban. W. W. Robinson, feur, testified that he did not hear|the motorman, says that the gong” NS audi Recs the gong until the auto eame within | was ringing. His car was going at nm 40 feet of the crossing. Brodnix about 35 miles an hour. The atto was at the Rininger home last|came to a dead stop in the middie night: He was almost crazed with /of the trac T. R. HELPS aie Robinson says he did OUT SENATE grief. | not see the auto until it had stopped | E. W. Robinson, the motorman of | 50 feet in front of the fast approach+ (iy Uelied Press Lenset. Wire) the Interurban car, on the advice |ing interurban, Beyond putting on OYSTER BAY, N.Y. July [Of Attorney Tate for the Puget|the brakes, Robinson remembers 26.—Rushing to the defense of | Sound Blectric Co., refused to state nothing. He was dazed by the hor the senate in the controversy |bis opinion before the coroner’s| ror of the smash-up with the house over the battie- | Jury this morning as to whether he| Dr. Rininger sat beside the ship construction program, Col. | Considered the crossing a danger-|chauffeur, and was nearest to the Roosevelt here today bitterly |0US one, and whether traveling 35 interurban car as it crashed into attacked the policy of the dem- |'© 40 miles an hour was an ex- the auto, The Mmited slid for 300 ocratic members, declaring that | cessive rate of speed at that point feet with air brakes on without “If they vote down the proposi- | Robinson testified that the car was | Stopping. Dr. Rininger was thrown thon to build two battleships, to | £0!ns at that rate. He said it was|under the wheels and carried for be logical, they should also vote |!mpossible to see any automobile | 60 feet, when his body rolled down to abandon the Panama canal.” |®pproaching the car tracks at a/the embankment. Miss Davis and pi . greater distance than 40 or 50 feet | Miss Rininger were hurled into the on account of the bluff. air. The chauffeur held on grimly |to the steering wheel, He saved Dr, Edmund Marburg Rininger is| himself from injury, but the acck dead. Hundreds of Seattle homes |dent apparently crazed him. He are today mourning the loss of one| walked about in a daze while the of Its most beloved physicians. Dr.| work of aiding the injured was go- Rininger was instantly killed when'ing-on, and he kept mumbling te a south-bound interurban IMmited himesif . FHE HISTORY OF AN EVENING NEWSPAPER The evening newspaper is emphatically the buy- ers’ paper. It is delivered INTO the home and in the evening when all of the family are corigregated to- gether. During the day the housewife has no time to read newspapers for she is engaged, first with her household duties and then with social duties and the like. During the day the men of the home are down town engaged in their.work. But in the evening, all are at home. The day’s work for all is completed and the matter of reading the evening newspaper is their recreation. The entire family have forgotten the busi- ness worries of the day and are more ready and will- oe oe ms VICTIM OF FATAL ‘AUTO ACCIDENT Faro ain't in it. LAYING DOWN A “BRUNZER.” “You've got to put yourself in the ‘shover’s’ place to understand how he feels. He's got & bunch of bills that aren't worth 10 cents. He goes, say, into a saloon and orders a meal and @ drink. He steps over to the bar and lays down a $20 ‘brunzer.’ ‘ 3runzer’? A ‘brunzer’s’ hialf good and half bad, maybe. And maybe it’s all bad. Back in the ‘50's there were a lot Of state banks that are defunct now. They issued paper money. Sometimes you split a de- funct state bank bill and paste the halves to halves of good bills, and ‘shove’ them with the good side up. Sometimes. you ‘shove’ the ‘brunzer’ just as it is. “That's what I was doing. The middleman had passed on to me some old State of Georgia bank bills. Somebody's got-a lot of those ‘brunzer,’ but I never could find out where they fame from. “Well, he goes over to the bar and lays down a $20 bill or gold piece. The bartender is busy. The ‘shover’ looks good. But, just to be on the safe side, the bartender takes a Squint at the money if it’s a bill, or he gives it a flip on the bar to hear it ring if it’s gold. P % Thode Interested in good govern. WHAT WILL HE DO? ment are invited to be present “What will he do? That's when the big scare comes. That's when you've got to keep - 4 mn your face straight, though your heart’s pounding and clammy sweat comes out on your face and the palms of your hands. You're sick to your stomach and you can’t keep your knees fron: shaking and your eyelids from twitching. “It’s a good thing, if you can manage it, to crack a joke about them. But don’t try it if your throat’s dry enough to make your voice husky. “The bartender turns to the cash register. Do you win? Sometimes bartenders keep guns in the cash register. He punches a button and the drawer flies open. That’s the big moment. “When the bartender turns back, will he have in his hand the change out of a $20 ‘brun- or a gun? If it’s a gun, will you stall or make a quick getaway? “He faces about—and silver and gold—real Uncle Sam's money—rattles on the bar. You » Green rubbed the stubble on his chin and grinned ruefully. “You win—once. Or twice. Or aalozen times. The middleman allows you a couple of Pdollars for breaking the ‘brunzer,’ and pays you $5 for the work. He splits $12 with the man he got the bill from. 3 “Will I quit after this stretch? I don’t know. I'd like to quit. Does the poker player ‘quit? Does the dope fiend quit? I’ve tried to cut it out more times than I can count. But Ht draws me back—draws me back—the excitement of it, the risk of it, the rewards and dan- gers of it are like a drug which never lets go its hold on the ‘shover of the queer,’” MILITIA IN BIG BATTLE CENTRALIA, July 26,—The first | big battle of the ten days’ mimic LEAGUE MEETING The Women's Taxpayers’ league will meet at the Good Eats cafe. teria tomorrow noon. A number of candidates for office will speak me } HARRY THAW WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. July _— Harry K. Thaw is still insane. — ‘This was the judgment of Justice! MALONE FILES {cite rejeooman oti FOR SHERIFF! anor: cv yphreice ly evoagel bly r mpeten| . | Scott ‘Malone fifed for sheriff thin |em from Matteonen, one reer morning. Malone is at present a! ‘The decision of Justice Keogh | deputy under “Bob” Hodge. Only | comes ax the latest of many judi- one other filing was. made this|oig! decisions unfavorable to Thaw morning. John A, Best gave up the| ay marks the culmination of the; required fee to run for justice of} tight to free him, which is said to} the peace. Those who filed yester-|nave cost the Thaw estate more day afternoon were: R. R. George, | than $1,000,000. superior art judge; H, L. Phil It is declared that {t has cost lips, county engineer; A. J. Quigley,|the state of New York close to auditor; George M, McLaughlin, | $500,000 to keep Thaw in Mattea-| democrat, coroner, wan. For services as special at-| CRIES UNHEARD torney for the state in the trial hearing just ended, Wm. T. Jo CHICAGO, July 26.—The noise of rome of New York, who as district} attorney, first convicted Thaw, is | merrymakers in the Columbia Yacht club house, less than 100 yards “MILLIONAIRE POLICE HEAD RESPONSIBLE FOR GAMBLERS” (By United Pree Leased Wire.) 2 NEW YORK, July 26, — Flat| Immediately after the publication |Warfare opened at 9 o'clock | this @eclaration that upon the shoulders|of Whitman's statement, Comme ye viite Ws te Fag od an east of of New York's millionaire police| sioner Waldo and Costigan held. a | OMhYie ge bpcire ge Jee | Gommissioner, Rhinelander Waldo, | conference today, and later both de-| under ager Jol. Kennon, lil rest the responsibility for the| nied that such statements had been | Toke camp at Cedarville, 8 miles imbling conditions that culminated| made by Costigan. west of Gate City shortly after day- the gang murder of informer Her- sl break and marghed westward. At Man Rosenthal, was made today by “MARRIED OR BUS & o'clock the cavalry outposts of the District Attorney Whitman. SAN JOSE, Cal, July 26.—I'll| Blue defenders was encountered by Whitman declared that Police! set married or bust, appendicitis | an advance guard of Reds just west lent. Costigan, betore the grand |r no appendicitis. Let's go in an|of Oakville. Greatly outnumbered, - ambulance.” Hospital attendants|the Blues retreated In good order, tigan’s experience. ing to receive impressions. This is why the evening paper is so much more preferred as an advertising medium by the merchants. said to have presented a bill for; $10,000, ry, de ” could remain open in Ne Eesork unless heavy tribute was paid #4 the police; that the sole author- in gambiing regulation rested h Commissioner Waldo; that Waldo alone knew what resorts ere to be raided; that the entire ponsibility tor keeping the town closed” rested with the commis ed that no gambling! iow | were willing, |aud 7. A. Sinclair wedded Miss the ambulance got, Leora M. Phillips. LOS ANGELES, July 26,—The “wild west” fever has struck the young idea of China here. George Hop, 8, son of Chinese parents, declare “| want to become | cowboy,” took them outside and \scouts being sent back to the main |body to report the approach of the enemy. KKK KKK hhh * WEATHER FORECAST. * * «Fair onight and Satur * * light to moderate southeaster- * * ly winds. Temperatoure at * away, causing eries for help to go unnoticed, and Miss Louise McNavy ia dead here today, having drowned in the lake before aid reached her. Ilinois naval reserves, preparing for a drill, heard shrieks above the strains of music, and arrived barely AUTO BURNS The entire fire department was called out this morning to extin- guish a small blaze which was buen. ing one of the Winton Motor Co ears. The car was standing In in time to save Miss Millie Mass {front of the Jackson Apartments, at from a similar fate, The two wo-|8th and Pike. dless to say that The Star Goes Into Over 40,000 Homes Every Evening ment were rowing when the boat/the fire fighters were a little bit loner, wnd that the town today was) showed surprising control of the * noon, 62, * pore “we open” than ever in Com | jariat, j | chaheheMelalaletaReReheleRehelalel capsized, peeved.