The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 29, 1912, Page 1

get. 7 1S THE DAY TO VOTE FOR BOB HODGE AND ALL OTHER PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES ON THE ROOSEVELT TICKET The Seat tle Star Gertrude She turned down ease and com- fort for life on vaudeville stage. See her story on page 4 today. c. C. Dill inent democrat pays re- markable tribute to “Bob” Hodge, people's candidate for governor. See page 3. —— VOL. 14. NO. E ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE 155. WOMAN TRIES HS SPOTTED UT IN SEATTLE 4 ~e BY PRED L. BOALT. | spotted calf was born, 8 are too busy eating and work four years old, there was a big/ which four ago, in w spring morning, t! but the mother incredibly short on his ridiculous he wabbled a keep his bal- ] i | first business of life was & satisfying meal, after mother and child set out In of the herd. It was night Yefore they caught up with It were many rests. The fogs had a way of giv oat jediy at the knees, : would go the spotted @& bis nose At such timer z Would trot round and 4, lowing anxiously and stop now and again to ron her Warm tongue over the spot- | ' oy herd paid no attent ben when they arrived. for th Sealine of beasts in } Re herd, and ® calf or cow more | @ lets didn't matter pretty the same with us. A baby ‘born in Ballard. The event ts tremendous importance to the ether and the baby. The father It's Somes STEER W ARKETS H rr When the spotted st: cor was cut up and sold in email portions over many counters, It brought approxi- mately the following pric pound, now current in Seattle Rump, 15 cents. Oxtall, 12'4 cents. Shank, 8 cents. Heel, 15 cents. Round, 20 cents. Sirloin, 22 cents. Porterhouse, 30 cent: Flank, 20 Chuck, 15 cents, Brisket, 10 cents. Neck, 1242 cents. too, is concerned, ing to bother. The spotted calf never had «@ name, unless its mother gave it one. The man who owned the calf couldn't have told you if it was spotted or striped. For Colonel “Bill” Hanley of Hanley county, Or., owns 260,000 acres of land, and more cattle than he can count, and he raises 20,000 tons of hay on which to feed them in the dry sea son when the sun burns the grass off the ranges. So, unnamed and unnoticed save by an adoring mother and an indif ferent and polygamous father, the spotted calf “growed up” like Top sy, but grew up strong and lean and fleet as a stag. He went where the herd went He milled when the herd milled, and « couple of times he stampeded —seared out of his fool wits by nothing at all—but generally he behaved himself like a sensible steer. All he knew of the world of men was gleaned from the cowboys who rode the range and sang him sleep with sentimental songs as they circled round the herd in the still, startit nights, By and by—very recently, by the WILSON TRAINS GUNS CHIEFLY A T T. R. IN FIRST CAMPAIGN TALK (By United Press Leased W WILLIAMS GROVE, Pa., Aug. 29.! <The opening speech in his cam Wien for the presidency was made tere today by Woodrow Wilson, fominee in opening the Moual meeting of the Pennsylvania Mate Grange. Wilson's address Wi enthusiastically received by the Mhousands of delegates here from all ig state, who acclaimed | Next presi } Wed Staten” The cemocratic| Mmminee attacked Roosevelt and the serting tha hy should benaentvate thew Massachusetts, innsylvania, New Jer- Gov. Wilson sald, in lines laid down by Thor | der Hi laid down © Hami)to Hamilton believed + A men had but for such busine Mit such matters 7 comprehend in com frorises ittle quail be 4 by who! mercial and industrial en. And in our time the lea 7 me the lead SF of the republicar het onsctona or i notion Mint Change Whoie Method.” are our tr: we their | and we took © part in| Iife that they planned and What went on in the Of the trustees we were Wed to learn, As a matter we only found Impertine inquiry ation and ave not yet got | quiry, but have Out enough now to make It} t We shall have to change | could onl I have usly | rty ett rept? have out i 7 F: ard for a mere farmer to| estab! method and spirit of con-| government | his partnershi p is recog: tall. Low tariff duties have the fished on many products | farm, but no one seriously | fears that the farmers of other coun- tries could successfully compete in the food markets of the United States with our farmers at home. Roosevelt has proclaimed him self a convert to a protective policy He said while he admitted that du tles were too high on the whole, the | poliey pursued by republican admin He|* had been right he prize money which had ved under that system by the manufacturers of the country was legitimate boodle. The anal ogy is very, very interesting. Prize moneys are generally acquired by capture ny process of earn ing, bat Roosevelt says bis only ob- jection to the system is that too nuch of the prize money remains in the hands of the officer nd too lit tle is distributed to the crew. The point I wish to raise is, from whom is this prize money taken? I sus pect that a vast portion of it comes from the pockets of the farmers. istrations thought been not by WILL MOBILIZE 2,000 SAILORS AT NICARAGU WASHINGTON, Aug, 29.—Two thousand American marines and blue jackets will be mobilized on Nicaraguan territory next week Officials of the state declared today that this force would be sufficient to cope with the situ ation ‘brought about by the opera tions of Gen. Mena’s band of rebels. Although the order sending the Tenth infantry to Corinto was re acinded at midnight, it has had a salutary effect, Acting Secretary of State Huntington Wilson graphed President Taft at Columbus today that the Nicaraguan situation was much improved. VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 29. Shipping men here and on Puget sound are watching with great interest a race from Cape Flattery to Australia between a schooner and a_ barkentine, each loaded with lumber from British Columbia mills, which started yesterday. department | tele- | round-up, and the full-grown steers were taken from the herd-—thou sands of them-—and driven many miles to a corral where they ar rived, sweating and dust-covered A buyer looked them over and said they would do, and long trains of cattle cars were backed into a sid ing close to the corral, and the steers were driven {nto the cars, while a man kept tally Spotted Steer Bought A Seattic wholesaler bought the spotted r, along with others. He paid $75 for the spotted st who weighed a thousand pounds. Wren the wholesaler’s slaughter house was reached, a rope wae thrown over the spotted steer’s horns. The other end was passed through an iron ring in the floor. The spotted steer’s head was pulled down. A big man hit the spotted steer be. tween the eyes with a sledge-ham- mer—and the spotted stee in terest in mundane affaires ded) abruptly. But his usefulness bad just be gun. For the wholesaler sold the car cans to @ retailer who put it up into steaks and roasts, and got of} WAR VETERAN TAKES HIS LIFE Believed to have b e despond ent because of finanet. difficulties \A. E. Hooper, of 1908 Terry ave lcommitted suicide taking car bolle acid early ning. He was found dead Hall park at 4th av. and Jefferson by Officer Papke at 5:30 a. Hooper was a § war veteran ab |his pockets ticket for his wate wife and a small child was removed to the undertaking parlors. Hooper has at various times been panish American 50 years old. In found « pawn He leaves a His body Butterworth | w je mi SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1912. need RANG E COSTS TWICE THAT AMOUNT THE PICTURE OF THE SPOTTED STEER, SHOWING HOW MAN MADE HIM USEFUL AFTER MAN HAD KILLED HIM But the rest of} way-—-when the spotted steer was{it 600 pounds of saleable meat, he sold to consumers for $140, A swagger restaurant served a T-bone steak two Inches thick to millionaire Alaskan, who ver batted an eye when the price charged on the cheek for it $1.56. The steak came from spotted steer. There was a heavy function on Capitol Hill. After caviar came anlad, and after salad oxtail soup. The soup was good and rich with the Qavor of the tall whieh the spotted wteer had used to switch the flies from its back Somebody had « tenderloin roast for Sunday dinner. Somebody bad sirloin. Round steaks were good enough for working men’s families. A widow's family made a 15-cent shank last half a week The spotted steer'’s tongue wai served, sliced thin, in sandwiche: at an afternoon tea. The heart and liver went to a cafeteria. The hide made good leather for haif- Hing i! boys’ shoes, The bones ade fertilizer, The hoofs became glue. Every part was used but the hair, The hair went to waste, And that wae the end of the epot- ted steer. the employed as a special policeman and deputy sheriff. He was one of the office men in the A/Y.-P. fatr atation and served as a@ special man during the trouble at. Fort Lawton, two years ago. He was & printer and left home three days ago to look for work in Vancouver, orth, 2257 West 62nd st and his daughter were injured yesterday when an in which they were riding col with an Im-bound Ballard ar at 32nd av. N. W. and h st. Both oceupants of were thrown to the pave ment and bruised and jarred. The auto was almost completely wrecked aut lided Reach West 5 the o EXTRA! PURIST BUTCHERED IN ALLEY BY THE MOON EDITOR A serious young man called on) the Moon Editor today. | “| have,” said he, “gone into this matter somewhat deeply. Your question is: ‘How large does the moon look to you?’ If you are ask ling the question in a spirit of friv lolity, | shall not waste my time In janswering. But if you are serious, \ would remind you that the moon, | does not look, having no organs of | vision.” “Come with me,” said the Moon Editor, sadly, and led the way to the dark alley in the rear of The Star building. | When the Moon Editor returned, he was alone. He was carrying a | bucket of blood. WE WERE PREPARED FOR THIS) Moon Editor | The only moon I want to see To shine on me wherever I be |The only moon that’s moony to me, Is my own honeymoon JUST MARRIED. U HAVE THE RIGHT IDEA,/ JOHN Moon Editor: The moon to me is bonfire of love letters. 1 it somewhat in this fash vo | \a' great supplicate |ion Oh, moonbeams light and airy Oh, moonbeams soft and blue, Pray be a good, kind fairy, For I've work tonight for you I send all sorts of messages to my girl in the moon by the silvered wireless. In this way I get out of my system and ¢ them at the HTT TTI ITOK Ie tt SOME REAL DOPE The moon astronomical moan distance being 238,840 miles. our nearest neighbor, its from the earth Its diam miles; surface, 1-13 and its volume 1-49 that of the earth. It rotates on Its axis once a month, in precisely the same timesrequired for one rotation around the earth. Moonshine’ 1s only 115 as strong as earthshine, The at mosphere is extremely rare is breach-of-promise lawyers. JOUN. * * + * * * * * * * * * * * - * * * Kitt KWH a was} Mra, G, Sherman, | | ONE CENT AUSHES AT HIM WITH A LONG KNIFE Plainly Insane, She Claims to Be President’s Wife —Dramatic Scene at Columbus. United Press teased Wire) | | UMBUS, O., Aug. 29.--A sup. woman attempted President Taft here he entered the the president entered the room the woman rushed at him, but was stopped by secret service men. | When searched at the city prison! a fong knife, with the blade ground | to @ razor edge, was found in her posssesion. The woman refused to give her name or express a motive | for her attack. President Taft arrived in Colum-| bug at 7:30 o'clock thie morning to make an address at the Obio cen tennlal celebration. He. remained | in his private car for a short time | before leaving for the hotel! to take breakfast. Fight With Detectives Later the woman gave ber ame as Carolyn Beers of Greenville, 0. | She fotght victoysly with the se crét service men a few minutes | eariler, when they prevented ber from entering an elevator. which | carried President Taft to the dining | rodm of the hotel. Then she rushed | doWn to the dining room and at teripted to roach the president “1 Am the President’s Wife” “1 am the president's wife,” she screamed. “I am following him to see that he remains true to me ANT have here ix a sacred knife which I intend to give him. Please fot me at him.” When searched at the police sta | tlo., several knives were found hid- | ldeh im the folds of the woman's | dry The one she called the “sa- | ere” knife had a blade three inches | | tomy and was ground to a*keen edge. | Thy woman had $200 in a purse and | wae much valuable Jewelry Talks incoherently jhe woman talked incoherently, aeeerting that she had married} President Taft “years ago In Day-| tom" Secret service men say the) | president was approached by the/ sane woman tn Cincinnati last fall. At that time it is sald President Tai, told Mra. Beers to go back home and stay with her daughter. TAY NEW DEAL TO BEAT HODGE FOR GOVERNOR Apparently determined to keep to the iast their fight against certain near-progres- vas, realizing that neither Law! renee, Paulhamus nor Case stands! any show of winning, are now try-| ng to frame up a deal by which) | either Case or Lawrence is to with-| | draw, “Hack-room” conferences were} held all day yesterday between the/ Lawrence and Case “managers” in| an effort to get Case to withdraw He was offered a sure nomination} as state auditor, Case, while admit | ting his probable defeat, wanted to |know why Lawrence should not | withdraw and take a chance for |some other position, and the | hoped-for deal fell through. ‘aulhamus Hopele | The broadside fired by the La |bor Federation on the Paulhamus’ |eandidacy has made the Pie {county fruit grower a hopeless con tender, so the political manipula tors who know they can't handle | Hodge are working their brains overtime today in an effort to iframe up some new, combine among the three candidates oppos- ling Hodge. Hodge Ignores Manipulators. yn the meantime Hodge, realiz- ing that the people, Instead of the manipulators, are going to name the next governor, is going right on |with his campaign, ignoring the }combines and rumors of combines Hodge was notified this morning |that plans have been comp 1 by |his Pieree county managers for the |big rally for him in Tacoma next Tuesday night. BEATS HORSE TO DEATH A toamster in the employ of the Gallagher Contracting company de- liberately climbed off his wagon yesterday afternoon at 4th av. and Massachusetts st., picked up a club and beat one of his horses over the head until it dropped dead, Then, secing several persons drawing near, he ran away and has not been found today. The manager of the Gallagher company says that the man had only started to work and that his name was not known to | | that offi | progressives who OF THAINS AND MWe STANDS Se LAST DAY FO CANDIDATES TO FILE Dr. Eben 8. White of Pasco furnished a new angle in the ¢ test for congressman from the kane: district, when he fil ticket M. Goodwin. elson W of Spokane, the had withdra from the standpat ticket and filed for -the progresstv on September 7, a neck-and-neck race until ni Dr. White is also capable of putt up a stiff scrap, contest Last Day for Filing the progressive party coming In rapidly. Henry J retary of state this morning. will have as his opponents for progressive nomination Mayor »|H. Ford of Arlington and Edwar¢ Clayson of Seattle Another contestant for attor general also filed this morning fs W. A. Martin of Bellingham will fight it out with B. G Seattle and John F. Dore. For county treasurer, J Bruggeman, who has had charge the auditing of the treasurer's fice for the past two years, fi this morning O. Woten f for assessor. Four in Race Dan Earle filed for representa from the 41st district this morn making the fourth entry for race. M. L. wongfellow, who w drew from the standpat primar filed for representative from 45th district, W. B. Batten cast hat in the ring for the legisla job from the 36th district The filings will be open until @ night 8. Hayden Endorsed Hayden, who is contes for county auditor on the prog sive ticket with “Cupid endorsed last night by Labor council of the Switchmen’s Union. He been in the auditor s office for years and is conversant with duties of taat offi A the III TIT Ok + x WEATHER FORECAST & Showers tonight or Frid % moderate northerly —_ wind % Temperature at noon, 57. the company. The humane depart: ment of the police force is working on the tase, * eaahalehelihelaieiatetatala TO ASSASSINATE TAFT ORTH ONLY $75 ON OREGON Spo- primaries have been making | and there certain ly will be no interest lagging Im this | owe their Mills of mattle Hayden is treasurer = WE'D LIKE TO KNOW-- Why Does the Last Week of School Seem So Very, Very Long, and the Last Week of Vacation So Remarkably Short? Seattle Schools Open Next Tuesday. LOUIS POTTER, NOTED SCULPTOR, IS DEAD HERE Louls Potter, one of the foremost [sculptors of the United States, died |this morning at 601 6th av. Mr. j Potter had been in Seattle but a short time. He had stopped off here on an extended tour of the day |West and was suddenly taken ill COR | two days ago. 4 He made a specialty of Alaskan and American Indian groups. He | for on the progressive party lexhibited in the Paris Salon in 1899 Durham and F.|and at the Paris exposition In 1900. two He was decorated by the Tunis in 1900. Mr. re-|native of New York years old. bey of Potter was a and was 39 awn LOGANSPORT, Ind., Aug. 29.—To the heroism of his wife, Wm. Bow- yer and their two children today | lives, following a fire |which consumed the family resi- denge and burned to death the ow ing This is the last day foe: Alaa » | youngest child, 16 months old. Mrs. Bowyer, from the barn, saw Kort: | the k ‘hauer, of Bellingham, filed for sec emoke and rushed through the flaming structure, dragging out the |unconscious form of her husband jand then the children. The roof fell before she could rescue the | baby. He the WwW 1S. GOST PEABODY $06,000 The attempt to Temove the receiv- ership litigation of the Seattle, Ren ton & Southern Co. from fhe state court to ex-Judge C. H. Hanford’s federal court will cost the Peabody, Houghtelling Co. of Chicago the nifty jittle sum of approximately $96,000 This is the effect of the order signed by Judge Cushman this morning when he dismissed the re ceivers appointed by Hanford, charged up the costs of the litiga tion, the fees of the receivers, and the fees of the receivers’ attornys, to the Peabody Co. The case was originally started in the state court by William R. Crawford, former president of the ne, for the appointment of a re er on the ground that the Pea- body interest proposed to “freeze” him out, Kerr & McCord, representing the Peabody interest, had the case re- warded in Hanford’s court The receivers are allowed by Judge Cushman $750 a month each, “while Kerr & McCord get $1,000 a month, ney He He Country Home 3 Rooms and Hall oO. > of | of. jled tiled wi work in a few ing this ith ies, the his tive the country is, mid home sites. ting res w has four the ae | 8. * * * * * * * * 1 Forty Minutes to Pioneer Square Your Own Terms $3,700—Terms $825.00 A chance to get home from the day’s minutes and enjoy the beauties of nature and the comforts of indeed, a most alluring offer. It is certainly worth while investi- gating. Then, there are many opportu- nities in the Classified Columns this evening to obtain choice acreage and There are some offers of water frontage on a beautiful bay near Seattle that smack of bargains.. are so many really good offers in to- night’s Star it will be well worth your whhile to carefully read it over. Perhaps you'll find just the one thing you’ve been on the watch for. (ver 40,000 Paid Copies Each Evening Reaching Over 200,000 Readers There