The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 24, 1912, Page 1

“The hardest job in a Queen Read about it Eight | OFFERS HER BABE AWAY Story Revealed When Young Woman Writes The Star to Find a Good Home for BOALT. . In your paper told of your § the good homes you found for them. Well, I the sweetest baby girl im who is th: weeks te to write it, but ant 1 bate i her fo 1 want to solictt ta finding & good hor Gome one who ¥ ‘as her own pretty and | are many child! would be xiad to ree your jetter was received today. It 22. jiven was a down. i sttrens Whouse. And there wed hers sleeping. S! ore ‘on the breast of a young bee woman whose eyes wery home of tragedy and was too deep for te: Lectang eyes were correbor ‘They explained why letter was written, ‘tent, before the baby was Her Way Out. ~ yead about The Star babies 3%. Mt was a way out--a but, perbaps, a cruel one. of soul she wrestled with and nearly a month the letter was written. be Bot send it. She dared the step. Yet she must was boro. Three weeks Joyous, awful weeks, Then tame from far away saying, pene In desperation she Wetter In a box. It was ‘Star has another baby. _ The Mother's Story. want it? It is a fine baby can stly say it has tie. nor one whose Into a wicked, old world by more exquisite mother told the story, and was bard. More than a year. ‘was tiving with her family suburb. Her father is business man. She was to be married to a young pot het own class. ja way the story is convention- bet none the less terrible on that You have read similar The gir! looked another man, and loye was born— Jove, for the man was a the father of children. ae ve oe yon not reason the thing she was doing was Inextenuation it should be M she had lived a life of inno timost amounting to igno ignorance in which Eng. Ot her class are kept by of convention and a re” Puritanic in its rigor. man is older than she. He in the government fad the wn of a famous ow retired. ALKI BATHER OF WHALE AND OIL-FIELD GUSHER D swam to the farthest raft Wake. There was a spr | The shapely queen y's sun, when one the springboard. The Splaan’ | Bhe cleaved th. q less favo) Shallow water Gueenly head reappeared loW account for the looks of shocked and horrified surprise on their handsome faces? fn horrid why did the » qnee’ Answer is that the shapel (mde of}, the rut ips re did the crude How did the But the oil? he oil, Oh, yer, did the of) get out of the hold? MP and down with the tide, Out over the water, and— the of! make a bit with the Alki Point bathers? Has nothing been done about it? bit Master made the barge peo for a girl in . Page ping, you! leisurely from the Alki Point bathing Several athletic young men followed in ng-board on the raft let down her glorious hair and was drying, of the young men dared queen was as fearless as she was fair. Stood poised and posed on the spring-board es a8 an arrow cleaves the air. as to looks and less gifted aquatically looked intimated that the queen was a stuck-up cat, y queen's glorious hair was daubed ~ spat crude ofl, crude oll oozed from the ee eats and gummed the nostrils of the Grecian nose, oll come from? rae get there? Tug and Barge Co., so that the sand on her deck might Ol) had been S¥ners forgo. |i was there. For “ 4 ere. years the barge has been used ary wand so somebody pulled a plug to let the And when the tide fell, the water flowed out, and with it €nd thousands of gallons of old, nasty, crude ofl, and it Anne VOL 14. NO. 151. ING MOTHER TO GIVE Pretty Little Three-Weeks Old Her father and mother think she left home to break an engagement which was becoming irksome. They think she is in business in Seattle. They do not know about the man, They must never know,” said the mother of “the sweetest baby.” Ob, you would understand If you knew them. They are so good, so respectable, so proud. They would die of shame if they knew.” Tt may be the man tired of her. Perhaps tardy conscience pricked 1 doubt if the mother of his child knows his mind. He ie inditfe: baby, It would seem. for he has suggested that it be put in a home where he could see it occasionally. | But he is not now living with the girl from whose eyes he lifted the }vell of innocence and showed her |the world in its nakedness. I would not listen to him,” the }mother said, and shuddered. “It | would kill me not to call my baby all my own. To be allowed to see jher only occasionally, but never to} care for her—I couldn't stand that. he must be all my own, or she must be put out of my life alto: |gether. Don't you see?” Her father was getting tired of sending money to bolster up a mythical and uniformly unsuccess- ful “business.” Finally he wrote the letter which precipitated the erisie—the gr t crisis, perhaps, that can come to a woman. It said, “Come home,” and con jtained money for the passage. Must Never Know “But you shall not have my baby,” the mother said, and there was a hint of ferocity In her ton: “—you shall not hi my baby to give away careless! Vd a thou. sand times rather take my darling home. She must haw good home —you understand, a good home, where she will be loved and taught to be good and clean and respect- fond of the able. “And she must never, never be told who her mother was, and she must never know of the great mis take her mother made. And | wil! go back to England, back to my people, and tive a@ tie for the rest of my life. | shall never see my baby again, but it won't matter— oh, it won't matter at all—if only she is happy.” JOHNSON GOES ON THE STUMP SACRAMENTO, Aug. 24.—Ac- companied by his private secretary, Alexander McCabe, Gov. Hiram Johnson started today on the 60-day | campaign tour planned for him by the progressive national committee. He was given a luncheon by the} party leaders in San Francisco to day and will speak tonight in Oak land. Monday noon he will be the! guest of Los Angeles leaders at an-| other luncheon, and Monday night | he will address a mouster gathering | there on the issues of the national campaign. On Tuesday morning, Gov. John- son will leave Los Angeles for Sait | Lake City, where he will address | the first big political meeting of the | year in t Mormon capital. | IN DUAL ROLE her to dive | It was a pretty Why did not the young men ap Why did the less favored ladies gasp and say “Phew!"? the towed barge beached there by the From It was carried in the hold years ago. Oh, the barge kept bump- ta Oh, yes, ple put back the plug. not @ The __ THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1912, Bramwell Booth Becomes Head of Salvation Army | | | (| tor Sez GENERAL BRAMWELL BOOTH, The new commander of the Sal-| vation Army, Geheral Bramwell Booth, is a big man physically | and mentally. He stands over six) feet high and is of military car riage. A British cabinet minister once said of him that he would be worth $60,000 a year to any of the stish administrative de) and that he could have} made millions In the business world, | He now follows his illustrious | father in supreme command of} the international Salvation Army, with more than 75,000 officers preaching, and teaching, and res- cutng the fallen in 55 countries, just as he has followed his father all his life. At first he labored in the slums : “and then as a | } pt he was made chief of staff by his mother, who had long held that position. Two years later he married. His wife ie a native of Plymouth, Eng. and te commissioner and leader of ma en's social work of the British Sal vation Army. They have two chil dren, Adjt. Catherine Booth and Sergeant Bernard Booth. During late years Bramwood Booth was the working head of the army, owing to his father’s declin Ing health. He has his father's shrewd business perception and ap- titade for organization and the deep sympathy and tnsight into charac. ter possessed by his mother. Many years ago General Willi Booth said: “The announcement of my death and the name of my suc cessor will go around the world at| the same tim He was speaking metaphorically At that time he! chose his successor—his eldest son, | Bramwell—and placed the letter of election in the hands of his lawyers} with instructions to publish {t im mediately after his death. No one! knew until this letter was opened| who the new commander was to be. but all the leaders in the Army thought Bramwell would be bis| father’s choice. DESPONDENT, HE ENDS LIFE Discouraged at his failures to get ahead, Nick Toman, 26, went into his room at 924% Main ast. this morning, locked the door and sent a bullet through his forehead. Toman and four friends came to America two years ago. They worked in New York 18 months, then, hearing so much of the West, came to Seattle. Toman, though | the youngest of the five, has been discouraged for some time. The recent failure to make good on a small grading job he and his com panions undertook is said to be the immediate cause of his suicide FACE SECOND BRIBERY CHARGE LOS ANGELE Aug. 24.—Clar ence 8. Darrow may, be tried befor a Northern or Central California judge on the charge of bribing Robt Bain, a juror in the MeNamara case. The calendars of the court in which it had been suggested to throw the trial, are unusu: crowded, and the presiding judge also has intimated that all con cerned might be better satigfied were an outsider on the bench This probably will be decided Monday when Judge Willis hears arguments on the motion of Dar row's counsel to quash the pending indictment. JIM HILL’S SON WEDS SECRETLY | James Nor LONDON, Aug. 24 man Hill, eldest son of Jas Hill the railroad magnate of St. Paul, Minn., is today on his honeymoon, touring the south coast with his bride, formerly Mrs, Marguerite Sawyer Fahnestocn, daughter of Arthur W. Sawyer of Boston, Th civil ceremony was performed at the registry office and later the | it goes for Susie's new gingham dre | ONE CENT GIRL 1S VIGTIMWUSE TROOPS T0 OF MYSTERIO MURDER PLOT (iy United Breas Leased Wire.) NEW YORK, Aug. 24 Attorney Chi 8. Whitman EAN UP PORTLAND PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 24..-Gov District |ernor West today is prepared to ie | #tart on his crusade against vice busy today investigating the death ceadie booed abootet Soe ak of Mise Julia Curran in @ down-| cial prosecutors to represent bis of town hotel here, The police, after | fice In the district attornoy's office, having supprested the news for # jeune Leng active work would be ro a as | gin Monday en hours and allowing the girl's | Hee nor declared bis inten male companion time to escape, re-| tion to rid the city of the hundreds orted that Mise Curran dled from | of immoral women he says infest {t vatural causes, Dr. Otto Schultee, | aed - pees who a the ee) . ct |earnings of these women it took physician to Coroner Fwinbers, denim tilt January 9, 1915, when his Jared today that the young woman |term expires, and if it resulted in vas murdered his “being carried home on a shut Roth Dr. Schultze and Dixtrict At: | ter,” torney Whitman charge that the po-| Governor W: lee falsified reports of the case,|triet Attorney Cameron 4s having ther to allow the murderer to es-| “double crossed” him, and asserted or to protect the hotel.” The | that that official had not been do. bore finger marks on the | ing Bls duty. The governor said ff wae covered with | the district attorney and sheriff and other officials refused to do their The body was found two days | duty, he would have them arrested D report was turned in by | Me stated he would place special police unti! 16 hours later, /deputles in Sheriff Stevens’ offic Whitman bas also asked Mayor! and {f the sheriff did not cooperate Gaynor to investigate the case with bit be would take possession Miss Curran had been employed | Of Ble office by force, using the abroad as governess in an aristo-| state troops, if necessary. Sheriff ratlc family. She spoke five lan | Stoves characterized Governor guages. Investigation today shewed | West's movement as “xpectacolar that she landed in the United |®n@ asserted the governor is play States July 7 and became a salaried | 'pg politics. companion of Mra. James D, Smith —_ Mies Carran started last week eee eeee ere e ee with the Smiths on an automobile howers tonight or Sun © trip to Canada. It is not known|® guj moderate westerly winds. & where she left Mra, Smith's om-|®& Temperature at noon, 60. * ploy KERR Rh Now See What Landlord Trust Is Trying to Do “Office of Downtown Landlords, Seattle, Wash., Aug, 24, 1912 “Mra. James E. Brighton, 4709 Greenlake Ave. N. E., City. “Dear Madam Your proportion of the rents charged by this of. the Downtown Landlords of Seattle, will this year be $7% “This amount must be pald promptly, ‘We have established collec tion agencies fn all downtown stores, Tie amount due will be collect est denounced Di body throat and brulsea and abrash ;¥* * fice, a purchase “While we realize that the times With you have not been as pros- perous as you might have wished, we, the landlords of downtown Bent Ue, have decided, nevertheless, to chargé you an increased rental this year, We are not discriminating against you in the least, as everybody is being charged in like proportion. OWF reason for raising rents is that, while many of ue have more money than we need, we still want Thanking you, dear madam, for past favors, and hoping for a con- tinuance of our pleasant, if lopsided, relgtions, we beg to remain, “Your Obedient Sei DOWN TOW To be perfectly frank, Mra. Bright mever received the above let- ter. She would be hopping mad if she She would sue somebody for blackmail, extortion, highway robbery, BUT SHE PAYS IT For why should Mrs. Brighton, who never rented any downtown property in her life, pay the downtown lords $72.35 a year? it's a holdup. She wouldn't submit to it) Not her. What do you take her for, anyway? Believe her, she'd Wké to see the landiords, Lody else, gouge any of her hard-earned money out of her that way! But she pays it just the same Yes; she, who is not their tenant, pays the downtown landlords a rental of $72.35 a year, She does not know It, but whe doer. And so do you. And you, erybody’s doing It EVERYBODY PAYS THE LANOLORDS You pay when you buy a loaf of bread, a can of baking powder, a ult of clothes, a yard of calico, a pair of shoes for Jimmy. You think you are exchanging the Saturday pay envelope for groc- . and meat, and stockings, and gloves, and millinery. You think But Heten. Rent is the biggest commodity in Seattle, uu have to buy it whether you want ft or not. And the Seattle landlords are a clubby bunch, They “stick togedder.” First, Second av. landlords boost the rents, First ay. landlords follow suit landlords, and so on Frrinstance. Take that little cigarboxaize drug store of the Lang Drng Co. in the Majestic building. The rent ts $65v a month, or $6,600 a year, It works out at $15 a square foot, Not a front foot—a square foot. Doesn't it give you a headache to think of the number of bottles of bromo-seltzer that must be sold to pay the rent? How much of the dollar you pay for a bottle of patent medicine does the druggist get, do you suppose? Half? SOME SAMPLE HIGH RENTS It's the same all over, The Rhodes 10-cent store pays $20,000 a year. Figure it out in dimes. Hart, Shafmer & Marx pay $2,500 a month, Figure it out in sults of clothes. Phillips’ shoe store pays $925 a month, Figure it out in shoes. T places are taken at random Now exercise all the self-control you have Second ayv., between Yesler way and Pi , will yleld, this year, in ground floor space alone, a profit of $1,520,000 to the landlords, And all this property is owned by just 45 persone. And 37 of them are non-residents of Seattle And by and by, as the leases expire, the noble 45 will increase the rents still further. LANDLORDS.” cert HOW IT WORKS OUT Now let's get down to brass tacks. There are 50,000 families in Zeattle. Each family is taxed approximately $31 to pay the net profits on Second av. rent, They must, of course, also pay for First av. and Third av. and Pike st, and Fourth av. and Pine st. And they are lucky if they get off with $72.85, which is the conser. ative estimate made by an expert statistician engaged by The Star. Now you know how it is that Mrs. Brighton, and you, and all your neighbors, pay your proportion of downtown rents. You don’t get any thing in retarn for your money. Not a single, solitary thing The landlords soak the merchants. The merchants have to soak Cucumbers or grand pianos, the landlords get their rake-off. very time the cash register rings, bingo! somebody slips a land da plece of chan, Of course, if a landlord had 2 you'd roar with homeric You? I'd be crazy to hand wouldn't 1?” Oh, you're crazy, all right. We're all crazy, The landlord admin isters an anesthetic, extracts our change by his justly famous painless method, and we kick about the high cost of living. Everybody's crazy—but the landlords. the laughter. you that “lh Give you $7 money for nothing nerve to say, Ha, ha! much HERE I$ 50 CEN IT'S ALL THE SM, CHANGE MOTHER GoT. YOU CAN'T HAVE A PENNY WHY, WHEN | WAS A BC HARDLY EVER | GAVE ME MONEY EVERY WEEK! FATHER |) BEEN A GOOD BoY WEEK . POPPA | ol pair were married at Chapel Royal Savoy. The wedding had been kept secret and only sx persons were present. NO! FATHER'S MOTHER “CaRgieD THE Why,| or any-| And you.) And all your neighbors, Ev-) ‘Then Pike and Third and Unioaly THE TRUTH ABOUT FATHER ALL The Seattle Star = CITY EDITION on Tr SEWs oT Now the Cruel T.R. HasHurt Feelings of Oil Truster } JOHN D, ARCHBOLD (hy United Prem Leased Wire.) NEW YORK, Aug Broadly hinting that he intendé Theo, Roc it for libel on his re turn, John D. Archbold, president of the Standard Oi) Co., sailed from New York today on a vacation trip to Europe. The oil magnate resent ed that portion of Roosevelt's jatatement issued last night, in which the former president contra dicted much of the testimony given | | jute committee. | “am not a iar,” sald Archbold, |“and I am not accustomed to being #0 accused. I shall not endure it iightly.” Asked if he meant to sue Roosevelt for libel, Archbold said | “I mean something to that effect |charge of the case.” Archbold added, however, that nothing would be done until he re turned ftom Europe TREE WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.— Reviewing the work of the house of representatives dur- Ing the present session, Speak- er Champ Clark, shortly be- fore the adjournment of con- Gress today, predicted that the work already accomplished would make certain democratic victory at the polls in the No- vember presidential election. “The present democratic house has passed more con- structive legistation than any house in 20 years. It has passed tariff bills alone that would have saved the people $500,000,000 a year. It passed * more bills of benefit to labor- jw ers and wage earners than #® any congress ever did. It ad | mitted New Mexico and Arizo- na to statehood, as should | have been done 20 years ago. * “President Taft's vetoes pre- * vented the enactmeRt of our * tariff bilis and prevented the | establishment of many other | reforms through new legisia- | ® tion. .We had the right to pass & the bills; he had the right to *% veto them. The issue now goes | * | * * * * * * * * * * * * * * \* le * % before the peopie. | am not * afraid of the result.” Ieee eee ee ee eS ee | |BOREN ESTATE IS _ | VALUED AT $300,000 | Mré. Mary L. Denny was appoint ed executrix by Jud; Dykeman yesterday of the estate of Carson D, Boren, the Seattle pioneer who died last’ Monday. The estate is valued at $300,000, Boren's will dated in 1901, bequeaths his estate to Mrs. Livonia Boren and Mra, Denny, daughters, and to Rol land Bo grandson GETS JUSTICE TO | CASH BAD DRAFT MOOSEJAW, Sask. Aug. L, Praubell 18-year-old F man imprisonment last night for obtain- ing $880 from Magistrate Dun last Oct Praubell hours one day, got ing local justice to an unsuspect a. worth less duplicate draft on the Bank of} rnie, | |France. He was captured in 1B. C., by the mounted police a few IF | MIGHT OFFER A TS, tease STION, A QUARTER N POCKETBOOK | to sue Col.| HERES EEE EEE EEE EE EEE EEE EERE EE Ee was sentenced to 18 months'| banking | Scoop, been shore t goes fi form. the Cub Reporter, has celebrating at the sea- his week, Next week the ishing. His daily per- ance is on page two HIGHWAYMAN ROBS TWO ON BOTHELL ROAD AIGH RANCHER CONFESSES 10 TRAIN ROBBERY y Unit se Leased Wire) TOPEKA, Kas., Aug. 24.—M tery no longer surrounds the dar of a mail car which oc curred at Red Bluff last January foll s the confession to the po lee today Wells Louns attemy 6 ‘ robbery here by berry, who yesterday ted te hold up the Colorado Mmited train Jon the Pacific rence, and was wounded by his own revolver dur ing a struggle with the conductor Union Law Kas by near seriously in his signed confes- Red Bluff Lounsberry sion, explained that the robbery was conduc’ manner as the one at Law ce, and that he escaped detection by jentering a Pullman and mingling with the passengers, It is said Lounsberry will recover from his wounds. Lounsberry’s wife and children live near Medford, Or. It is now thought that Lounsberry may have been connected with the |robbery of the branch bank of Mon treal at New Westminster, B. C. when over $250,000 was secured by blowing open the safe of that in stitution. Lounsberry was absent from his home at that time and was | supposed to have been in Western Canada looking at a timber claim. Ap effort is being made to ascer- tain the whereabouts of Lounsberry ed by ringing up extra pennies, nickels and dimes every time you make|by Archbold yesterday to the #€0-| whey « train on the Southern Pa cific was held up last winter, near | Yoncalla, Or LIVE IN LUXURY |. MEDFORD, Or, Aug. 24.—Mre. Wells Lounsberry, wife of the train robber who was shot and seriously more with which to buy more property from which to collect higher|M. F. Elliott. chief of the Standard) wounded while resisting capture rents, with which to buy still more property, and so on, ad infinitum.|Oll's legal department, will have) after robbing a mail car near Law-! rence, Kan., and who confessed to jrobbing the Southern Pacific mail train last January, near Red Buff, Cal, left Medford | husband. Lounsberry’s ranch house, on the [fruit tract near Medford, was high jly respected throughout this valley, Jand officials of several banking in stitutions of Medford say he bad jno need to resort to train robbery to obtain funds. Lounsberrys ranch house, on the Joutside, has the appearance of an residence, but within th evidence of luxury, jroom being fitted up after the fash. fon of a French salon, the floor be |tapestries adorn the walls, and nu merous marble statuettes on ma hogany pedestals serve to complete |the rich effect. Although the Lounsberry family lived In appar ent luxury, they employed no serv jants, and neighbors say the Louns berry children had orders not to dmit visitors while their parents | were absent FOR A FIRE, S'! yawned the cay yawned his men. Tiresome- |eatch fire,” said the / But the swer, Silence Modern fire-fighting methods, old fire on the run.” The only reply was a snore fre Action!” muttered the capt The cat mewed. “What's the |dered. “She acts queer, uneasy Then he sat suddenly erect The station's o captain about them The Interbay fire station, 14th destroyed last night, while eight jing. The blaze is thought to have been used to clean the floors. The discovered that it could not be building, d in the same | Topeka, to take care of her injured | ing covered with rich Oriental rugs, | firemen a a two-story frame structure, was damaged to the extent of Both the sheriff's office and the police department are scouring the district north of the city limits for 4 youthful highwayman who has b operating in broad daylight this morning and who has already held up two men The first complaint came about 16 o'clock this morning from Dr. H. G. Russell, 5803 Eighth av, N. B., who | was relieved at the point of a gun lof his watch and some small change. | In less than two hours, F. H. Hib- | bard, whose address is R. F. D. No, |6, reported that he was held up |by apparently the same man, and that robber got several dollars from him The sheriff's jeral deputies lieves he has office sent out sev Sheriff Hodge be- to the suspect. man {s described as being about | ears old, 5 feet 8 inches tall, | weighing 145 pounds, wears a cap, black suit, and carried a blue Smith | _MURDER WITNESS KILLS HIMSELF ON OPERATING TABLE (By United Prean Leased Wire) SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, Aug. 24—-Under an operation at the San Bernardino county hospital following an attempt at Joseph Ulrich, star witness In a@ murder case, seized a pair of scis- sore from an attendant and after a terrific struggle plunged the points into his own throat, dying almost | instant Through Ulrich’s testi- mony, Nels Hanson recently was convicted of the murder of Heary Anderson. Since the trial Ulrich has been depressed, and it is be Meved that brooding over the affair drove him insane. 5 adededadnde dete ee a * * * WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE. & * Water will be shut off to ® * morrow between 8 a. m. and *& * 5 p. m. on Railroad ay. 8, be ® * tween Washington and Charles & ® sts. * \* * RRR CONNOR SPEAKS TO | LOCAL DEMOCRATS st evening for | E. O. Connor of Spokane, demo- ocratic candidate for congressman- at-large, was the principal speaker at the King County Demoeratic club luncheon this noon. Connor stands high with the laboring men in the state and has been the guest of | President “Bob” Hesketh of the Se attle city council during his visit here. Other speakers were Thomas R. Horner, candidate for congress from this district, and Geo. A. Cus- ter and W. A. Holzheimer, candi- dates for prosecuting attorney. A Wilson-Marshall club was or ganized at Maccabee hall in Ballard last night. The collapse of a gangplank at the Heffernan drydock this morm ing resulted in injuries to D, Edenstcher and Chas. Nelson two sailors. They were taken to the Seattle General hospital, badly bruised up. IGHS CAP; STATION OBLIGINGLY BURNS UP this sitting around and waiting for some building to men were too bored with themselves and each other to an- " ruminated the captain, “have got m the truck driver. 1 must ha atter with the ca on!” the captain won- sort of.” a pleased expyession on his face, m fire.” replied his men, taking notice, as smoke and flame curled av. W. and Smith st., was partially were on duty in the build. started from an oil mop which had fire was under such headway when heecked. The roof fell in and the Forced Sale 4-Room Cottage, Those quoted al site now while | OVER 40,000 PAID Star Classified tonight i with bargains in homes and acreage. 10 Acres Bottom Land '*, $750 5-Room Cottage, $7.50 Per Month Completely Furnished well primed bove well represent the run of good buys offered. The dull sea- son in Real Estate has passed and values may now be expected to go up. Never again will you be able to make such profitable purchases. Put your money in YOUR OWN HOME. Buy the home land is cheap. TELL THE STAR’S READERS COPIES DAILY