The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 10, 1912, Page 1

Your Girl Do you remember first time you called on her? Did you feel like the kid on page 4 to- day? . Kiddies Don't miss Unele Jack's col- ymn on page +. It's a treat for tem every Saturday evening. The Seattle SEATTLE’S ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1912. | ONE CENT Star VOL. 14—NO. 139, tL < _ HOME EDITION A COMPROMISE ON THIRD PARTY ISSUE | THE GIANT LEVELED HIS GUN, AND THE MOTHER DIED A True Story, and Not a Pleasant One, About a Beautiful White Heron—Crusade Started in Seattle Against Wear- ing of Airgrettes by Women, ON THAINS AND WWWS STANDS Be AESoIIED HARMONY DNFERENGE progressives are awaiting gen of the Roosevelt dele ‘Chicago before finally ‘the fate of the third-party INJURED IN TACOMA Street Car Crashes Into Rear End of Work Train on Edge of Deep Gulch —a Fatal Spot. (By Ven HEY THERE # QUIT THAT! THem's my CLOrTHEs ! today are that the two one against and the third-party ticket, will a compromis who are actively a full third ticket ap- put the ticket in the him- Press Leased Wire) TACOMA, Aug. 10.—J. Cream. mitchel, a laborer, was horribly mangled and killed and four pas sengers were injured about 8 o'clock this morning, when an inbound Spanaway street car crashed into the rear end of a work train on the edge of a deep guich in the resi. dence sect.on here. The laborer died before reaching the hospital and the passengers were badly shaken up and wrench. ed, but suffered no serious injuries. At the same spot some years ago @ heavily loaded car plunged into the gulch. killing nearly two score ana injuring many more. Later reports show that probably a dozen people were injured. Oren Totly had his back wrenched, Mrs. 4. N. McCoy, an age dwoman, a fracture of two ribs. Mise Nolimeyer, Spanaway, bad- ly bruised und shaken up. A man named Stone and a Dr, Sanders are the only others report ed by the street car company a me company as CHAFIN KNOWS HE’S NOMINEE WRORESIA. Wie Aug 16— Hundreds of persons gathered in Cutler park here today, where the | Rev. Chas, Mead of notified Eugene W. Chafin of Illi nois of his nomination for the es ideney by the prohibition par Tn accepting the nomination, Chafin charged the old parties with sidestepping the liquor question and the high cost of living problem. Chafin declared that he favored a single term of six years for prest- deat, a suppression of the white slave traffic, scientific revision of the tariff, direct election of sen- ators, the initiative, referendum and the recall, and woman suffrage. pasive lead- ee held time of the delegates from ‘At this confe: te and harmonious a will be decided upon. Call Will Be lssued. LW. White, chairman of appointed at the Ta mass meeting, announce that his committee may qall for the state con- next Monday. Judge White ‘ The Star that for the third party here Tuesday. Indefinite. Joseph M. Dixon, chalr- ef the national progressive fn a telegram to The firms whatever action from Washington to Moose convention will “when they return. Neith- on nor the members of the p say specifically whether fm favor of a full third- and county ticket in or not come out for a convention 10. This convention nominate presidential oly, or a full state ticket. telegram follow: pe “Chicago. . Star, Seattle, Wash.: The @ officers of the national committee have been as to the course of fecommended to the pro of Washington by to the nattonal con- Bs io the plans of organi- ‘that state. The national fully approves of the grocedure therein outlin- es ly recommends that e voters fa the state unite and cooperate of the call for a state on September 10, to be fey the campaign committee ff OYSTER BAY, Aug. 10.—Admission that many of the planks in the progressive platform are of democratic origin wal made here today by Col. Theo. Roosevelt, progressive nominee for president. When Roosevelt's attention was called to Way J. Bryan's declaration that the progressives stole all their good planks from democracy, he said: j (Of course we have stolen all ideas from the democrats that were ggod—except those fit for inmates of a lunatic asylum! “Col. Roosevelt proudly exhibited today a telegram from the Bremerton, Wash., navy yard which read: i 'We join in congratulating you on your nomination. Signed, CREW OF THE OREGON.” In discussing the negro problem, Col. Roosevelt said today: “As far as the negro question is concerned, we got it started in the only right way. HAVE FILED though, because so many did not understand and wanted to make it a national instead of a state issue. as @ state issue. Ten years hence the people will sce that we have correctly solved the problem. When the filings closed at 1 “The white men of the South must aid the negro by pushing ahead the deserving colored man and driving the venall 300 ARE KILLED IN paoenoree 235 CANDIDATES We came near breaking on Lincoln regarded i See the aigrettes on this woman's hat. She probably paid the mil- liner $25 for the bunch, Just a handful of white feathers, but much desired by women of fashion. The picture is a snapshot of a Seattle woman taken by The Star staff photographer on Second av. today. BY FRED L. BOALT A young mother, returning from the corner grocery, was confronted HIGH POLICE OFFICIAL — didates had filed this morning,| com» bringing up the total number for county and legistative office to about 235. Of this number approximately 20 are for the office of superior court judge, 18 to be nominated and nine Aug. 10.—After being to five days in jail for in his paper on a de- the court, Former Mayor , owner of the Denver in Judge Shat- today and agreed to ty his sentence. gp Shattuck, however, purged the con! RE’S A REAL L ADVENTURE OS ANGELES, Aug. 10.-~ erossing half the conti- Wearing maie attire and in a box car with a two alligators, a prize and a dozen dogs, on her way of Los Angeles. Jensen undertook the make certain that the cared for. journey I FIGHT OVER LATOON SYSTEM Mestion of inaugurating a stem in the fire de ed some heated neil chamber Listman of commission threat fo have a new man placed in mn Stetson's boots if the lat continued nm to etson. against labor m Pp. List the by such iman Griffiths’ motion i ot three-platoon pian ™ & tle vote Femaing open. Th With Griffith were Hand Bia Co Hesketh, Peirce and God Wied against Griffiths’ mo neiiman Brickson was ab- to was who Haas, netimen LANDON SPEAKS __ AT FERNDALE IGHAM, 10. m, pre for congress a a Will E, Hump! Bed Of Over 100 peop Might, and was warmly His speech was fréquent- intern pted by the applause of ‘0 Which seemed to be ony with the pro- €#poused by Landon. Wash, Aug the | 0 that the ques-| by a giant 20 feet tall, who was armed with a shotgun the size of a cannon. Love for her child was stronger than her fear of the giant. So, though she might have run away and escaped with her life, she went straight to the cradle where the child lay and shielded it with her body. The giant leveled the shotgun at the mother’s breast and fired, and) Then the giant plucked from her bleeding nt which he coveted. He took the ornament to a great city, where only giants live and where it wae sold to a giantess who wore it in her hat. She was not a wicked giantese—only vain and thoughtless. moved in the most exclusive brobdingnagian circles. The baby? Oh, the baby died of starvation. * Not a true story? No; nor a pleasant one. but it is no pleasanter than the first. *A beautiful white heron winged ite way acro## a swamp, homeward bound. In the nest-home a hungry baby waited—a ridiculous baby all skin and bones and legs and bill, but no feathers to mention When she neared the heronry the mother heron saw a@ hunter kneeling close by the nest. But her love for her young was stronger than her fear of the hunter. So, though she might have turned in her flight and escaped with her life, she flew straight to the nest The hunter fired, and the beautiful bird fell dead, the crimson blood staining her snow-white breast. Quickly the hunter plucked from her body the graceful plumes which are the badge of her motherhood. For the white heron, or egret, never wears these plumes except in the breeding season. ‘The hunter sold the plumes, known as algrettes, together with thousands of others, plucked from thousands of other mother herons, to 4 wholesale milliner in New York. A Seattle retailer bought them and put them on a hat which a Seattle woman admired, So she bought the lbat with the aigrettes upon it and wore it yesterday when she strolled jdown Second av. She is not a wicked woman—only vain and thought | less. . Here ia a true story, She moves in the most exclusive Seattie circles. arved to death. * } A campaign bas been launched in Seattle against the traffic in| aigrettes, or white heron plumage, which may result in the arrest of | having in their possession hats trimmed with these decorations. me Warden Harry Rief, representative in the state of Washing: | ton of the Audubon sogieties, has been busy for the past three weeks | taking snapshots in the streets of aigrette-trimmed hats | | The Audubon societies have waged war on the traffic for many but despite their activities, the white heron is threatened with Now the birds are only to be found tn the Everglade | jorida and in isolated districts of Loulsiana and Alabama . Gilbert Pearson, secretary of the National Association of Audw bon societies, visited Seattle this week, conferred with Rief, and en-| listed the support of a number of Influential men and women The policy in the past has been to prosecute dealers selling aigrettes. A state law provides a fine of not less than $10, nor more than $100 for each plume found in a person’s possession. | Now the societies have determined to get after the wearers, and ar- rests are sure to follow The crusade had had, on society women, the opposite of the effect desired. The demand for aigrettes has more than doubled in the past month. If I were allowed to sell algrettes,” said Edward Cressman of the Wonder Millinery Co., Second av., yesterday, “I could make a barrel of |money, All my customers are demanding algrettes.” You will find no aigrettes on the hats shown In display windows. | You will see none on the counters, Yet half of the fashionably dressed women on the stre them. “The smaller ¢ # are taking a chance,” is Cressman's explana- tion. “There are only two sources of supply, and they are in the Hast.” | ‘The baby heron? Oh, it ° wome' | years, | extinction swamps of Fi to be elected. Next to the superior court Judges in number of filings, the justices of peace, the . and the commissioners from the Third district, with about 15 candidates each, Except in two instances, all the members of legis- lature have filed for re-election. George E. Ryan, secretary of the state democratic committee, came in shortly before 1 o'clock with a} big bunch of democratic filings, #0} that a complete democratic ticket will be in the field. LABORER HEIR TO A MILLION (By United Press Leased wire) LOS ANGELES, Aug, 10.—Ef- forts of an American corpora- tion to find the owner of a 43, 000-acre tract near Alta ora, Mexico, disclosed | y laborer, Is the heir | ivator Mason, to whom the grant of the property was orig- inally made. Mason, who works as a teamster for $2.50 a day, dumfounded when hi 8 told him hi a million-dollar estat KNOX COMING TO SEATTLE Secretary of State Philander C.| Knox Is coming to Seattle. He will be here about Aug. 20, and will sail from here for Japan, where he will be President Taft's representative at the funeral of the late emperor of Jal He will be accompanied by an admiral and a general, WHEN § WAS A BOT, | NEVER COMPLAINED, ABOUT BRINGING IN ALITTLE COALS Many of the aigrette sprays seen on hats worn by Seattie women cost as much as $40 and $50, Asked where they got them, they usual! reply that they “bought them In Canada,” or that “a friend in the E: | sent them. The Truth About Father SHIELDS “GYP THE BLOOD” Py United Prose Leased Wire.) Burns detectives and representa NEW YORK,Aug. 10—That a high | tives of the district attorney's of. police official, who fears further ex- oe are bi tae 3 _ act end of the case assert that Police posure in the Rosenthal murder and/1 tout Hecker, charged with murder | Graft scandal is hiding Harry Hor-\in connection with Rosenthal’s| rowitz, alias “Gyp the Blood” and death, cleaned up $50,000 In the| “Lefty Louie’ Rosenberg was the | four months preceding the tragedy. | flat charge made here today by Dis They have already found, they say, | trict Attorney Whitman, who prom-|seven banks, in each of which Beck-| iges sensational opments with-|er has $3,000 on deposit. The de-| in ‘the next 48 hours. Horrowitz|tectives today are making the! and Rosenberg were two of the five | rounds of suburban banks in search | oc ints of the gray automobile |of other deposits. Despite Becker's} ‘on the night that Rosenthal wae|denial that he ts about ready to shot down In front of the Hotel |talk because he knows nothing of | Metropole, and Whitman today took the Rosenthal murder, it is believed | steps to force the surrender of the at the district attorney's office that} fugitives. There fo session ofa confession will be forthcoming} the grand jury today, but the dis-/from him before the d of the| trict attorney plans to bring the| week. Becker ts breaking down un police official whom he suspects of der the terrific strain, his nights hiding the two fugitivees before |are restless, and his appetite is| that body Monday. gone. imate | WHY, YOU OLD WOLF! | CHICAGO, Aug. 10.—A new form of political greeting was popularized here by Col Roosevelt in meeting Burke Burnett in the lobby of a Chicago hotel “Why, you old wolf,” the colonel shouted, slapping Bur nett on the back “Bull Moosers” present immediately adopted this form of greeting other members of the progressive party. Theodore team, driven by Jerome Col ims, 2616 East Madison, ran away yesterday afternoon, dashed madly |% = WeaTHER FORECAST down King st. and collided into a} sheieica tonight epsmandie? wagon driven by Arnold Stiner, : ; tf * moderate southwesterly winds 9120 Hinds st. The tongue of the |) sp, z F : : emperature at noon, 66, wagon driven by Stiner ran into |, the breast of the runaway team badly injuring the horse. [eek kk Ok i tet ROR OR OR RO » * « + * * * * PLEASE CUT | SOME KINOLING poc6ONIT UT Y'SOME JUST, EAT WERE nore - NO! FATHERS FOLKS DIDN'T BURW COA. THEY VSEO WOOD. BIG EUROPEAN QUAKE (By United Press Leased Wire) The shocks were felt here an@ Frade Aug. 10.—More than|did considerable damage. persons were killed in an earth- quake in Turkey, according to a Refugees Arrive. dispatch received tonight by a news| ‘The first news to reach here was agency here. brou when refugees, injured and The message failed to state|exhansted, arrived at Stamboul, whether this is the total number) They declared the shocks were ex- of victims of the shock or only|tremely violent, The tremors be those killed in a single town, gan early in the morning hours and many were trapped and died in their beds. Estimates as to the number of dead vary greatly, Troops have been rushed to the scene. The town of Tchorlu, in the Adrt anople district, with a population of 10,000, was destroyed by a fire following the quake. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 10 Reports received here today state that the Turkish towns of Tchanak, Kaliesni and Gallipoli were de- stroyed in an earthquake and that many perished Villages along mort were badly the sea of Mar haken. Modern Cottage for Rent Cheap Popcorn and Peanut Roaster for Sale Oak Chest of Eight Drawers ata Bargai | careful attention. Main 9400. Pay when you are down town. Star Classified Ads Talk to Over 40,000 Families Each Day The above three opportunities are advertised in The Star Classified columns this evening. Opportuni- ties for profitable transactions in all lines are advertised in The Star Classified columns each day. Do you read the Classified ads regular- ly? You should, for on just the night that you miss reading them there is probably an advertisement of a lost article or an article found, or a bar- gain of some kind for sale that you may be interested in. You should also tell your own wants in The Star Classified columns. Advertise those furnished rooms, or that piece of furniture you may have for sale, etc. Phone your want ads to The Star and they will receive prompt and