The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 22, 1912, Page 1

No Wonder She held a lunatic spellbound with her music, and then de- cided to enter vaudeville. Story on page 4 today. The Seattle _____ THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1912. | QNE CENT 032° The cub reporter teaches Clar-* issa how to swim. See Star's new entertainer, on page 2 every day. Star | HOME EDITION TS CAREER OF CRIME | BE KNOX REPRESENTS WALL ST. |EX-THIEF AND ROBBER, BUT NOW mars mG ees HE GOES TO-MIKADO’S FUNERAL : AN HONEST MAN, TELLS STORY AT THE EXPENSE OF THE PEE-PUL - he confessed to 30 years of vagabondage, theft, gambling, burglary and other crimes; se f he had reformed, and lived straight for eight years, and become a husband and ather; If he had been elected to the city council on a reform ticket, and had been a faithful public servant; Would YOU let him keep his office and the place he has gained in society, or would you drive him out? These questions are member of the city council, re terest in every city in the Uni with us. _ Burke was elected last fall, along with Mayor Rudolph Blankenburg, on’ a “reform ticket, nd this former enemy of society—sneak thief, purse snatcher, yeggman, gambler, burglar, safe cracker and dope fiend—has stood uniformly for pure politics and good govern- ment 9 A former pal of Burke's, who had known him in the Charlestown, Mass., state prison, blackmailed him until Burke, driven to desperation, made a public confession and gave the president of the council his resignation. ! q MAYOR STAN DS BY BURKE PHILADELPHIA, Aug Mayor Blankenburg has taken a firm stand in defense of Councilman William Burke, who has confessed to la care s & crook, but who, for eight years, has led an honest life. | Blan * declares Burke's resignation should not be accepted and that he should be given a chance Burke has made a full and complete « ement of his remar career of crime and of his subsequent reform, It follows DOESN'T KNOW PARENTS I don't know who my father was, I don't know who my 1 don’t know when and where I was born The first thing I can recall ts selling newspapers New York, eating where I could with the few pennies I sleeping In doorways or any old place. I fell in with a AINS AND STANDS Be VOL. 14—NO. 149. COUNCILMAN ADMI ' HANFORD RULING IN _ THE CRAWFORD SUIT REBELS LEA LONG TRAIL OF RUIN PBakte wee kenees, Wire Noah! ES, Ariz, Aug. 22.—Le: Ing a trall of smoke and ashes, devastated villages and cesciated homes, three bande of Mexican rebele, aggregating 2,500 well arm- had been a profes ‘ overruling exJudge stock was pledged as security, Judge ord, Judge Cushman this| Frater thereupon appointed Scott rendered a sweeping decis- | Calhoun as receiver. W. R. Crawford against} Kerr & McCord, representing the Houghtelling Co, of| Peabody interests, opposed this on ‘pondholders of the Seattle, the ground that the company was ‘& Southern. This decision | not insolvent, A few days later he litigation back to the | they appeared before Hanford and Courts and sustains the ap-|secured the appointment of Presi-/¢d men, are moving northward to- ‘of the receiver in that /dent Mills of the company as its re-| ay along the Sonora railway. They cetver, alleging, It is claimed, that|@re driving before them the little frat brought suit In the |the company was insolvent. Craw-| Garrisons of the railway villages courts, alleging that the Pea-|ford sought to intervene, but Han- which are pitifully inadequate to my interests were in a conspiracy |ford denied him that right, The | Cope with the invaders. € of bis $1,000,0004circuit court of appeals overruled} Reports from points along the se aad planned Jo default on the | Hanford, and now Judge Cushman | railway are that the rebels are con- ‘Of interest on a $300,000 has decided that the entire matter tinuing their work of burning to the company, for which his|is propérly before the state court. bridges and water tanks, and that +: eee a they have threatened to destroy all FEBRUARY; MARRIED agitating the people of Philadelphia since William Burke, a respected igned under most remarkable circumstances. They are of in- d States, for the problem of the reformed criminal is always » vailroad = property from Carbo, where they have established head- quarters, to Nogales, Rushing from Cananea in a spe- cial train, several hundred federala, comprising the Cananea garrison and reinforcements that arrived bruary, married ) Ritter $15 per month on the penalty | last night, are expected to reach fm Mareh, and in April discov of not being permitted to see thelr} here this evening, They will be that she was not the right girl | minor child If he failed, Ritter was! started southward at once against . not present, and the allowance ofthe advancing rebe! ‘would you do in a case like alimony was voluntarily made by wine Would you grant him a di-/the court, Mra, Ritter having made really bad good grounds! no application for it. tt Romance Shattered. was the problem presented| ‘The romance of youth was shat. WALKER FILES itep. Lolla wag only 14 when she ff veel Moe esitate to turn loose upon the| married, three years ago, at Pratt, George H. Walker, a leading pro- ccasenmnater the “son! a oan who so reexlese:|W. Va. She te the mother of a 17-/Sress!ve of Peattle, will file for con- into such a serious mat-| month-old sy now, pat, thine yn ee * rimony without making went happily only a short while. Nori e ta vestigation what: She filed her divorce complaint thie rennet Oe peeree Se Sep. ‘woman whom be Intends morning. ion helpmate for iife,” said| Those who received decrees of pare sireidy Dine ave Rovites. Te ree ie Sree ey» tro was permanent chairman of the Helen Simmons. Virginia A. from | Roosevelt convention at Aberdeen. Henry D. Flicker, Alice M. from At headquarters in the Butler bo- “ |tel a telegram was received this Wm. Porter, eg rn ges — morning that Grant county, too, would enter the progressive pri- maries with a complete county === | ticket. The new filings up te noon today include the names of Prof. C. EB. Beach, superintendent of schools of Olympia, as candidate for state #u- ‘met her in Fe’ kable mother | was as a kid in made, and bunch of cracké v ers” pulled words I got than ten and not lees than nzzers,” |8even years in the state prison at go | Charlestown. I was then known as and trink-| Benjamin Tripp | | I picked pockets for quite #| At the end of seven years they |while, I wns nabbed a bunc me out. I cut out the hop soon | times and went to the island for ten, |after I landed in jail |thirty or sixty-day “bits. Goodnight for the game,” I said te {tO myself. “The honest game for off a trick—in ¢ I got my percenta ;more other After I shook the in with a buneh of or the kind of pleky fn for women’s hand gopt ke The case was taken under advise- I went in for poker and r and policy and all the rest of j|}mine after this! |lived the life of the gambler | 1 took the name of Wil From gambling I drifted into |#d started right in to Ii sneak thief work, I went in for| here in Philadelphia. While I wi bank, apartment house and second-|!" prison I learned the trade of story jobs. This brings my story | hardwood or furniture finisher, #0 up to around 1893 |! got work fo ral years with, * various f iture co arrived from|4 get-away, It was sof ppria Phen tell dierent Min Orne We used store. Knox and, to get big money at times Z divorces were granted this ming, the defendan‘s failing to Sear and not contesting. F. H. ard Martston, er was required to pay Mra. Ida| H. Price. am Burke straight, SMALLEST TWINS ON RECORD. SANTA MONICA, Cal, Aug. 21.—The smallest twins on record here are thriving in an incubator. They are the and daughter of Mrs, A. Dominguez and their com- pounds. Both are well and hungry. MRS. CLANCY DEAD Mary Maud Clancy wife of Frank Clancy, old time hotel keeper of Seattle, died this morning at the age of 29 tn Minor hospital Mr. Philander C. Knox, secretary of; without a gulide perintendent of instruction, and of | state, will arrive in Seattle at 8:40) sg gage P. Peuts (Bremerton las: night al ay . © lor county clerk ase Cal one cathe delegates | erent by Canadian Pacific boat, tie party will go aboard at 10, and|sambled away or blew my share in| | 40 to the Bull Moose convention at|* J!" Réar Admiral Alfred Mey-iihe vessel will clear at midnight,/and then 1 would have to start out at the cigar store, | worked on and Chicago, is being urged to file as nolds, commanding the warship and I* scheduled to arrive at Yoko 0% & fresh job to get more money - A. different shops at hardwood candidate for county treasurer on Maryland, which will take the fama on Septeinber 10. 1 hit Boston in 1903, a lone work- | inishing. | even got some hard- the progressive ticket. Dale ts| American representatives to Japan) It is a nice attention for one wn-| er out for myself. | wood finishing subcontracts of my holding the matter under consider. | for the funeral of the mikado. }tlén to pay another which is mourn-| | Within three years I pulled off ree |! was doing well. 1 married ation. If Philandet were secretary of }ing @ ruler dead, but it will cost the/ from 350 to 400 jobs. TI went in for | a” 1 was happy. A girl was born — state of a monarchy, he would go pee-pul, who remain at home, a nice) sneak thief work entire I lived |t© my wife and we were happy. | HIT BY AUTO to Jap@@ as the personal represen-| Wad of money. like a lord, I made a spectaity of |thought I had lived down my past— J. D. Pitamaurice, 1418 Broadway, | Aside from the money | took in WILLIAM BURKE man on the street. This man has been a crook all his life. He started to “borrow” money from me and the more he borrowed the more he wanted. He knew my id knowe | had tried to, Entered Politics I became interested in politics. apartment house and second-stdry | |work. I used false keys or open| I never used even a fin tative of the king. In theory, he} ‘ who have quali- would be the King, and entitled to the Speeders’ club the Clancy recently disposed of hotel Interests in the city and has deen living on a ranch at O'Brien, Wash. ~— BEERS ERE ESHER EE ES * * * WEATHER FORECAST. * * Generally fair tonight and & *® Priday, light variable winds be # * coming northwesterly. Tem- * |® perature at noon 70. * * C2 2 2 2 dadndndnananandndad SIDEWALK NOT A |” MOTORCYCLE TRACK | Jack Sheridan wi nabbed yes terday afternoon as he was using a cement walk for a motorcycle track. He admitted the fact in court this. morning. Judge Sil |paugh, in sentencing him, took jw dicial notice of the fact that he, the Judge, had been often disturbed, not to say extremely vexed, at the use Mame seats caught fire the sidewalks were put to. How- ‘There was a frantic dash for the ever the youth of the offender and jalt, scores of persons being lis good record induced him to let down and trampled. It is him off with a $3 fine. known whether any of the) hops were killed or how many; TWO COUPLES IN A STOLEN AUTO) days are feeling good. Gordon, committee on and decider of in- fees, is on his annual Judge Silbaugh, hie has been more im the matter of initia x ‘$5 and $10 being the “Brarage cost. Hence the joy. ©. Bowles and 0. FR. Main admitted as full fledged of the popular club cost of $10 each. Jackson was the scene of their of speeding GLING CIRCUS 1S BURNING Press Leaned Wire) G, Iil., Aug. 22—Ring- circus is burning Thousands of persons were in the big tent this after- when the canvas and the ;REDUCTION IN R’S SALARY A Winton automobile, owned by th Councilman Petree made|y g Hold, 514 Crockett s' an) attempt to have the sal-/ stolen from the Winton garage, sy Of City Engineer Dimmock re-| pixe and Terry, last night by two ‘and recommended that seven | couples. Officer Wilson, who had tenders be transferred | peen notified of the theft, saw the the engineers’ department to| car at First and University at 11:30 Of the harbormaster, the coun-| fre ordered the driver to stop the was driving an automobile nort on T At Pike wagon. heard something drop was stopped, he went back found Ambrose Goffman, 1516 Harvard, lying om the pavement un- conscious, The boy had jumped out of the wagon just as the auto and hit the rear end of the machine. He received @ bad cut on the head. Matinee—Now on thie afternoon. Concluding performance—Tonight at 8 o'clock. Doors open at 7 - n Location — Potlatch gran grounds, Fourth av. and Lenor he drew near an expres: ust as he passed it bh and - Seber ania Donen Pee eel eee eee N DROPS * IN DEPOT * 22.—While # * % TACOMA WOMA' * DEAD *% OENVER, Aug. % changing trains in the uni # station here today Mrs. T. % Stanton, of Tacoma, Wash. * % dropped to the floor dead. % is believed that the high alti: * & tude affected her heart. * BERR ERR EH QUIT SATURDAY WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.--Speak- er Clark announced today that house leaders expected congress to adjourn either Saturday night or Sunday morning. George Smith was making the th av. yesterday afternoon.) ‘The car| it | ANNA HELD GETS HER DIVORCE There are thore who say Philan- NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—Anna | der represents Hill Taft, and others Held is today a divorcee. She se |say he represents Wall st-—but\eured her divorce yesterday from | that ts neither here nor there. ber husband, Florenz Ziegfeld. The | Philander has the right person-|Order was granted by default, and jality for any sort of a diplomatic the name of the corespondent was mission. He ts small, polished,|20t mentioned. Anna Held was cautious and suave, He can, on oc- married in 1898. casion, thaw; but his best is the} icy pose. It is sald that he can utter the veiled threat in a volee so! soft and manner so yunctiiious) that monarchs tremble on their! |thrones and prin ministers resien pattie, A watch valued at $159, in droves, utomatic revolver, automatic shot } The #tiqnette of nations esteb- "gun anda rifle, a $30 pair of binoc lishes beyond quibble the status of nlars, a pair of pearl and gold opera Rear Admiral Reynolds on the trin,|giaases, three sults of clothes and He {» not. Philander’s valet, nor is|@ suitcase rewarded the thief for he quite his confidential secretary, | his trouble. [he is somewhere between ey "a 'general of the army wilt alsol: TOO MUCH CIRCUIS accompany Philander. He will) The circus proved too much for share with the admiral the duties!/J. G. Gholston of Kirkland, About of following Philander about. "Why \the time the elephants were pulling it is necessary for anybody to fobkjoff their stunts he was overcome by low Philander about—be's traveled [ibe heat. An ambulance took him a lot and knows bis way around to the city hospital. kingly honors. Being secretary of state of a re public, he goes to Japan as the rep- ‘osentative of the peepul, A burglar last night entered the home of G. F. Moore, in West Se eee ae LOVE , HATE, JOY, HEARTBREAK---ALL my—no tools at all and not even a/Soou I became active in them. I gun. I did all of my work in day-| Was known in the labor game and |light. I never robbed a house atg! had made friends. I finally be night in my life. ribicea the leader of the division in | 1 only took Jewelry and coin }which I lived. When 1911 came 1 played the game in Boston for|@round my friends asked me to three years before I began to “hit| Stand for common council. I be- | windows. | record and he made no bones about rubbing It in on me that he knew enough to break me. For six months I suffered. At last I came to the conclusion that if anyone was to tell the story of my. past record I would be the one. the dope.” That was my finish. 1| came a candidate and in November was then stalling under the name of last year I was elected lof Met hy. The crooks knew me When I took my happi- as “New Y Him. ness seemed supreme. 1 felt that Started Using Dope I had buried all of the old life. One of the crooks I fell in with It was not long after 1 became New Yor ‘con man. was a councilman that I met tair |fiend. We got pretty friend! he started me smoking hop. Well | got to smoking the p' and I arelesx while I was under in fluence of the drug. I went to a |smaller dealer one day with some goods I had held in reserve. He took the stuff, a lot of Jewelry. But when I went back with a $1,000 necklace he became so wise to mé that he Uppet off Inspector Knox of the Boston cops. They caught me with the goods. Then the | she me into the Charles jail for a trial Went Up for Seven Years I got off with a sentence of not my seat hop a ce FISTIC DISPUTE G. E. Phipps rolled into the Bat-, tery saloon, First and Battery, yes- terday afternoon, in a boastful, buoyant mood. Mr. Phipps ts a chambermaid in the hore tent of Barnum & Balley’s cirev He makes the beds for the steeds. He ranged alongside the bar and told the men in the saloon that he was with the greatest show on earth— est show that ever showed. Up eget ohn Leonard. It seems {that John used to help put up the | big top with Ringling’s circus, John }liked not the boasting anent Bar- num & Bailey's. He said so several time Then he reiterated his; statements. (CIRCUS “CHAMBERMAIDS”’ I know now that I made a big mistake in trying to hide my ree ord in the first place. All I ask is fair play. I am going to fight In the open from now on and continue to live straight at the same time. = GET INTO OVER TWO SHOWS bad shape, his face was cut afd bruised,-and he sported a large bump on his head. “I guess that fellow Phipps didn’t lke whag I said,” he told the court; “he sort of straightened out on me. I came back as good as I could, the bar- tender came out and called the cop, the cop came and took us and we all, came down here. Yes, I guess we was fighting.” The court was of the same opinion. The men will have ten days to think ft over. ‘ OAKLAND, Cal. Aug. 22.—Set- ting fire to the lodging house in which he had lived here today, Olag Oleson, aged 76, was suffocated by, BY FRED L. BOALT. “This is our world,” said Wirth, the Australian clown, with the olr- cus in Seattle. “We have every: |thing in our world that you have Yesterday practically allowed the | machine, but no attention was Pald) indy, last night, with his friend,|in yours. Stick around a while and estimates for the 1913 tax Wilson then fired tvo shots to stand as prepared by the en- | to hin. over the occupant ee only made them speed up, and they YER IN ; drove up First av. IN CONGRESS | "At Fremont Officer Husselblad WHINGTON, Aug. 22 Sesion of the house was|two young men in it, The two girls by & prayer from Dr. M. A.| with the men ran away &» soon as . Presbyterian minister of|the car was stopped. The young) | Dr. Matthews is in the| men were taken to the police sta attending Presbyterian con-| tion, and gave thelr names as Ray! : Barnum and Clifton McGraw. —. were an earnest written an Trost Hvile— And if you had sought to show them that there wag nothing in It to laugh at, but something that de- manded sober thinking— editor earnest edi Peter Parovich. After an hour's ts of the car. That) rounding, Parovich took his friend | up to a hotel. Smith became sleepy labout this time and crawled up on|noon p the bed and went to sleep. That _Yester-| stopped the car and arrested the! goo, cost him the $125 he had in| his hip pocket. He does not know in what hotel he was robbed. Dugdale’s hall, Stockade hote ‘WOULDN'T IT MAKE YOU MAD— If they printed your editorial next to a cartoon like this, wouldn't it make you mad? 1 will prove it.” Wirth had me in tow in the per- |formers’ dressing tent. The afters yerformance was in progress: lunder the “big top.” The perform- ers in every degree of undress were shaving, making up and getting into costumes, each using his trunk for a dressing table, “In your world,” sald Wirth, “you say ‘a man’s house is his casth We say ‘a man’s trunk is his home. An acquaintance of yours would nor dream of entering your house with out first knocking at the door. Am acquaintance of mine would not dream of sitting on my trunk with« out first being invited. It is an un- written law.” A troupe of Japanese wrestlers, bare to the waist, left their trunks and rushed to the entrance of the “big top,” clumping awkwardly in wooden shoes. In some mystertous way they heard their “cue.” A dozen clowns pursued them. A tall, jhandsome man in pink fleshiings land carrying a short riding whip, rose and strolled leisurely after the clowns. “in Circus for 300 ¥: “Davenport,” said Wirt beard of the Davenports? The clown was talking through a puff of lather, for he was shaving. “No? That seems funny to me. You see | come of a circus family, circus riders more than 300 years, Their tine is as old and unbroken the Plantagenets. If ever a Davenport dishonored the name by} turning banker or merchant or law- yer or doctor, the family would re-| pare It as a shameful secret to be circus world, | the parallel,” con: the clown, smearing his k with white paint, “I am, I suppose, upper-middle class. I wouldn't have you think, though, that we are snobbish in the cireus. We are pecu free from that, It is only that men like Davenport are} quietly proud of their long and hon orable association with the sawdust | ring. Like a Big City. “In a sense, we are a big city, nd all classes are represented. The boring classes are the stake-driv-| érs, the canvas men, the stable! men. In all there are about 3,000 of us, men and women, and one ¢annot know them all, I do not even| know all the performers, We have our sets and cliques.” Over the smears of white Wirth) drew ludicrous lines of black and red The dressing tent was divided from end to end by a canvas par tition, Wirth jerked his thumb to ward the partition from beyond which came thé the chatter of fem inine voices, and said, “Women Then he added: “But Mostly Good.” “All _kinds—good and bad among) jem, but mostly good. In one) spect our world is better than yours. We have fewer immoral ‘wome! And our women are more domestically inclined than yours.| You won't believe that but it's Wirth slipped into a ragged coat and a pair of trousers many sizes too large. “Come tside,” he said, “1 go on presently.” THE PASSIONS IN THIS CANVAS “WORLD” Out in the sunlight we met many family circles. With obvious pride, Wirth introduced me to his accom plished sister, May, the rider, and to his mother, a gray, motherly woman Acrobats, ride contor. tlonists, trapeze performers, clowns animal men—from all countries, drawn together in this world of can-| vas to thrill and amuse the people of the larger world. Their de. meanor was friendly, but not dem. onstrative, and they were strange ly dumb when asked to talk of themselves-—a good fault not to be | found in their brothers and sisters of the stage. A Little Tragedy, with Wirth to the A woman was waiting for a tall, queenly woman in 4 booted and spurred asked Wirth, touch I went en trance. her cue riding habit Any word ing her the woman replied, and two welled up in her and splashed down upon her painted eyes ald Wirth, and to gether we stepped through the en. trance. “Her husband is with an other circus,” he whispered in ex planation. “She got a wire this morning that he had fallen and was seriously hurt. Circus marriages are not like yours. Divorce is with us unknown, We marry for love in the circus. She feels bad, but she's game. You'll see.” Presently the woman tripped past us, bound for the center ring, Her painted face was drawn and hag gard, But her lips set themselves in a smile as she stepped out be yond the bandstand, and a minute later she was on the back of a prancing steed and flashing her teeth and kissing her fingertips to applauding thousands, smoke, Oleson had been threaten¢ ed with eviction. It ts believed he set fire to the building In revenge He appeared in police court this morning with Phipps, to answer to the charge of fighting. He was ina Nice Lots at Gold Bar, $35 and Up, ‘ws Three-Room Modern Bungalow, j*, For Rent 5-Room Cottage, $7.50 Month Here are three nice offers picked from tonight’s Classified columns. They are samples of a great number of tempting offers made in The Star Classified this evening. 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