The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 30, 1912, Page 1

Graceful Scoop is just exactly as grace- ful as an elephant. Look on page 2 today and see if he isn’t. VOL. 14. NO. 156._ he Sea ~ THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN” SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1912, | WOOLEN LLIONAIRE.{S AMRGED WIT CONSPIRACY Ls WILLIAM M. Wood @y Voited Press teased W BOSTON, Aug. 30—Wm. M.| president of the American) Woolen Co., the largest textile con.) in the country, surrendered to-| Other members are’ Allan, Donald and “Bob,” junior. te District Attorney Pelletier There is never any dissention an indictment charging com ithe members that dad is the best and bravest man in the United § The indictment is in ential with the reported “planting” during the Lawrence textile officials in an al- to discredit the strikers. Congressman for Attorney. Went to police headquar-| ‘td Recom pa by Couzressman|) Wont do , Powers, who protably will] Bob says he will do are as good ‘has bis counsel. | indictment, as returned by| ) Be grand jury, was read tg the mil woolef wanwacturer by Thspector Lynch. tr severe tent , aaserting that Wood and | textile officials cauved dyna-| to be placed in the horhes of| Mestriking foreigners at "awrence mn Be the alleged purp of injuring} Allan, Donald and “Bob,” junior. Strike of the operatives there Workers were victorious, after if the most bitter industrial in the ry ot New lose.” This is good advice. rraigned bail was immediately was released on Attorney Pelletic & good case against the mill , and is certain of convictior treatment accorded the e y beaten by po and militia, sent to Lawrence b or Eugene N. Foss for the purrpose of mat m Strike leade soldiers were » mill workers Was borne out at hearing Washt Senator Miles Pol ington, who personal conditions at Witter denunciation of the @mployéd by the mill owners.) d Dynamite Was Planted. Bamber of strikere we rrest when dynar ‘ homes. The PSP explosives w i] itatives of ge for governor to give him my support. cong ston, m dexter of invest wrence. ing county office that and on what he is—< ® man of the people.” the James Breer d of plant him by Ernest of the fi Ww. W one of the largest t« BY FRED L. & conference Pelletier Wood Biggest Woolen Man | Wood undeniably ix the bigest ta the woolen industry. tHe is it and also treasurer of the I Providence Wo. Island, and hold fn the Mercha and the Pierce Mar ot Bedford, Mass. Bresident of the American| night Co., commoniy known as the! Sam Lyric are k | Arcade dance hall is now a mission pr 00d’s salary exceeds | Wf the! ed The bawdy houses, the crimps ae ; | hells and brothels—all are gone Me & multi-roiliic 4 Oe ven wap oe In Boston 1 to have| may look——” boomed the ba G the ficct the mill operators pranos again. “You may look—— asainst the Lawrence textile| gether: “You may look for us in h jujabi” citadel | him out. The occupies @ corner. Lyric tack was made with guitars and prayer. dtrecto Nation song RELICS OF BAD toctur Sat attacks and the year. nd, from in the has been meteoric Mf a Portuguese immigrant, and} Work in the miils for 75 a day. A willing worker, fd ambitious, he rose by Stages until today he is the the so-calied woolen trust, Most powerful corpora- the country. ron ete release on ball, ole tateme Unites “si “iad statement M8 greatly surprised at the ac the grand jury. 1 cannot Abate information could Presented to connect me WAY with the so-called plot. G8 connection with it and this ill be fully owtablioh time, Beyond this I have commercial He is the! IT HAS BEEN Two and four-bite! Think of it! ¢ the best vaudeville going. cles of ve never touched the Lyric. had been “discussed.” renewed last month wanted for chorus work. 4 at the to say. BOB AND HIS FOUR BOYS WOM “Bob” Hodge has an advisory committee of four. Often and often, in the evening. before the lights are lit, they—the committed—sit with | le Bat 2 of; big Bob in the flickering light of the hearth in solemn conclave committee—including little Bob—seriously, expounds, with much thumping of fists and/ slapping of brawny legs, the burning issues of the day | The committee nods its several heads approvingly t, when I am governor.” “Talk to "em, dad,” says “Bill,” “the way you talk to us. So, when you hear big Bob in this campaign hurling defia the enemies of true democracy, and rolling his r's in his honest fervor, remember that he | yes is following the instructions of the advisory committee Indeed, every utterance of his lips, every gesture of his great arms, every wish of his heart, finds its inspiration in that same advisory committee—those braw laddies, “Bill,” T WHY LABOR LEADER IS FOR BOB HODGE Fred Hudson of Beilingham, organizer of the Federation abor in this state, will vote for and support “Bob” Here is his reason: ‘Insofar as Hodge is concerned, I have made up my mind Glancing over the their records, I can see no one but Hodge has a bad direct legislation record as a state senator; rence has nothing in his record to recommend him to a working man; Case apparently Guard record to boost him, as I remember he did when seek- You can easily understand that this record makes no particular hit with me “Hodge's record is O. K., and I can safely support him on \ efficient officer and an honest Old Nick, hard pressed last night, went to earth in the Lyric the- Three bands of missionaries—one Salvation one Methodist—were hard on his heels, valiantly from 7 o'clock till midnight, they could not smoke The Salvationists made a frontal at- with a big drum and exhortation. The Methodists, at th ated Mills! by a big man playing a very small organ, poured a raking fire an did not show himself, but his trusty lieutenant, Sam Lubelski, des| grinned cheerfully from the box-office window He has weathered hundreds of them. relics of the bad old days. Billy the Mug’s has been reform But Sani and his playhouse of “refined —" chorused the sopranos at the “You may " ghrilled the tenors. ‘The outside edges of the Methodists’ crowd slunk away to buy tickets of Sam at two-bits and four-bits for the privilege of entering @ cheap and tawdry theatre and seeing a cheap and tawdry show. “DISCUSSED” But then Sam always hag played in luck. The hoard of censors, who were #o horrified by the delicate indecen The Girl From Rector's” at the Seattle theatre a while back Dr. Sidney Strong of the board told me yesterday that the Lyric | He had never visited the theatre, if any of the other members of the board had Sam gets his license renewed regularly and without trouble The police do not trouble Sam over-much, wae arrested by the juvenile department October 5 of last year for contributing to the negligence of a child,” but the case was dismissed. The particulars of the case are too vile to be discussed, GIRL6 WANTED Sam has a standing advertisement for the newspapers: Lyric theatre Many arrests have been made from the Lyric, bit t on, with Sam grinning in the window or directing the show, sometimes from a front seat and sometimes from the wings. FORTHEFT OF 570,000 ay Frail, Little Woman Ar- rested in Connection With Big New Westmin- ster Robbery. few we Press Leased Wire) N WESTMINSTER, B. ¢., Aug. 80.—One of the most astound ing criminal charges ever read in any police court on the American continent was made against Alice | Davis, alleged wife of Walter Davis, one the suspects in the famous Bank of Montreal robbery cases, when the frail, nervous woman was directly charged this morning in the local police court with “breaking into and entering the nk of Montreal on September 15, 191! and stealing therefrom the sum of $271,000.” which ghe is being held in jail was madesmown to her, the woman, | who Bas barely recovered from @ \breakdown due to the tralia that she hag been under since Onty gate no sign that she had hearé.or seemed to realize the ser! or Of ite import The | Astonishing Charge ‘The charge credits Mrs. Davis “Bill,” aged 16, is the chairman. in this advisory committee. It is the unanimous opinion of | ates of America ines e yet to look at the pale, Woman it seemed remark fal woman who cannot cused of being a theft bi , “do this, and], On err, implicated tn of safe blowing cases est of counsel, aring for the crown, of eight days until Bept. 7 without opposition. ‘are now three of the sus connection with the rob the provincial jall here having been charged y and the trial postponed pt. 6. .SWAT ’EM RE IT HURTS A of candidates is going to A —<¢ | get ied right where it hurts us. -On f January 1, 1912, the recently aa| ¥"e@ Mra. Laura Allen marks her thorized pa: post will be ready | ballot dm the coming election, These to go into general operation, ac-| aspiramta for office have invoked cording to announcenrent bere to-\the Wrath of Mrs. Allen because day by Postmaster General Hitch-| they believe in liberal advertising cock. The postal express business | —-oaj ¥ if It costa them noth will extend over more than 1,000,000| ing. miles of rural delivery » } Mere (Aen owns the Amherst series of committees will work out) building, at Second ay. and Pine « the details of the system. | The cormer store te vacant lupon ft was picked by candidates KILLED ON WAY _prvsiognomicsitowever, neltter the Hters nor ac TO AUTO RACES pose itt any particular This morning (My United Leased Wire) (she appimled to the police to keep D . Me, Aug, 30.—Hurrying| “these Mrould-be politicians” from from Chicago to attend the Il{nols decorating ber place automobile trophy races, the,first of “ which was held here today, J. R.| _ St@HOP GRAFTON Ballinger of Chicago was killed and| FOND DU LAC, Wis., Aug, 30.— his brother Leon injured when the | Bishop)Charles C. Grafton, head of machine in which they were riding the Episcopal diocese of this dis skidded and overturned lerict, dip here today = Se = “IL will,” says big E And in the minds of the committee the things big] re for they know their dad was Hit ‘em hard, and you can't as done pects e at ai untl) cee POS PARCELS WASHINGTON, ates and Law relied upon his National EAD We left the missionaries and their sidewalk crowds and drifted to Sam's window. The ingenue was quarreling with her man over the question of how much support his devotion @ntitled him to. The details of thelr partnership were bawled for all the World to hear, The man left in anger and only half satisfied SAM FIRES A CHORUS GIRL . | A member of the chorus—a preternaturally lanky girl and sickly | jooking—was getting, her walking papers from Sam. She flounced out of the office weeping and shouting billingsgate that would have blis a lees calloused soul than Sam's, We bought tickets and climbed the dark, unclean stairs. We saw nine tired girls and three disgruntled men going apathetically through the lines and “business” of a burlesque monstrosity which was popular on the Kastern “wheels” 20 years ago. Sam buys the “books” from an Eastern publisher at 25 cents ap The girls wore cotton tights, which needed the services of a dry cleaner, Comedian No. 1 wore the dirtiest linen I ever saw ° @ The notorious | The police say Sam knows them and signals to the stage to out the raw stuff’ when one of them appears. ‘jest night. If the censors had been there~-but’ one cannot imagine the dignified censors in the, front row of the Lyric RAW AND PUNK Sam pays his girls as much as $10 a week, A few of them are old stage women who have come down to fourthrate burlesque. A few are decent girls, but stagestruck, who mistakenly imagine that the Lyric may be a stepping-stoge to better things. Most of them, though, are just unbappy women of the town, who, laeking the comeliness which is the stock in trade of their kind, must take anything that offers—even a job at the Lyric, They live in the cheap lodging houses roundabout The performance last night was “raw” tp spots, but not as,“raw” as I had expected. It was consistently and uniformly “punk.” : THE HUMORIST’S JOKE When we came gut, the missionaries were still at it. Two young men, both drunk, leaving the theatre, joined the Methodists’ crowd One of them executed a dance in the gutlee for the entertainment of his friend, and patted his hands in time to the muste, Bncouraged by applause, he looked over the shoulder of one of the misstonartes, Gravely the missioner moved over and offered the humorist half his song leaflet. The humorist accepted the offer and gang. This was an excellent joke. By and by the humorist’s pal tired of, the jest and tugged at the Joker's sleeve. “Come on, Bill, Cut it out,” he said; but the joker, en joying the music to which he was contributing, waved him away, Half an hour later the missioners marehed away to their hall for a final meeting of prayer before breaking up for the night. And Bill went with them! It was the only loss Old Nick suffered, Bill's pal watched them go. BOALT one Baptist and and, though they attacked his, The Baptists’ flank mévement corner, led of lusty | OLD DAYS Sam is used to these put boarding honses, the gambling corner, “You sang the so- Then all, to- there! Halle look——— ven, for we'll be For that much money you can He doubted Tt was He “GIRLS Apply after 10 p, m. show goes he said, turning to a total and befuddied stranger for en- nt—“well, what do you know about that?”’ ONE CENT with one of the most suc | ce! bank robbers fn the bus And big Bob, who takes his | weightover 140 pounds could be ac | ie without parallel in the) Dr. D. B.} a} Where: | They didn't cut it out} ON TRAINS AND SEWS STANDS Be AN HELD ] | | As the remarkable charge under) nervous | her seneational arrest in Toronto, | Well, Well, WELL! Congressman Will E. If here | Brined? not think so. | Tut, tat! | The affairs of stafe weigh heavily pocket, absent-mindedly, | might be a fivedollar gold piece. the porter! Then why Ah, we have it! It is the beard. | wore only a mustache Is it not @ nice beard? neatly trimmed. Why? man 18 A TRIMMER He would make an elegant sailor. (Business of slapstick He leaves the train and passes thr kes hands with them. trim the sails! See! meets friends and sia turn up thelr coat collars? Ole Hanson once said in a spe competent icicle.” Wasn't that Why has our ¢ how appear so Why, becaus: What claims him with a ree Why, indee non, those staunch dreary days when the He did has he tion? Did he guardians of t best tariff ev Did he not return to Seattle two years ago, extol ? And did he home folks weren't so strong for Uncle Joe. the “Iron Duke of |learned that we he not then back? He certainly did! America’ And when the loyal Taft offered him that life job on the federal| he could more fully serve the people he loves be election day), did he*not offer gladly to sacrifice his chances of re-elec- __| tion to congress to take said life job, even though it pays only $2,000 a | year more than does congress? bench, where | Agi must answer he did | And -then, did he not trim snap on the bench when the tested that he should not did that, too, and with trimmer Is We mak the know not (By Volted Press Leased Wire) | ST. ALBANS, Vt., Aug. 30.—Dur ing the course of his speech here to. sive presidential nominee, was in terrupted and asked by a man in the audience if the new party were the progressive republican party.” Roosevelt shouted sive party. “When Abraham Lincoln left the White House there were some bigots who would not vote for him. CASE MEETING AT COLISEUM Two big progressive meetings will be held in King county tonight Otto A, Case, candidate for gover nor, Will speak at the Coliseum At Bothell, State Senator Dan Landon, candidate for congress from this district, and Senator J. A Falconer of Everetty candidate for | congressman-at-large, will be the | chief speakers at a big rally. RRO RTT IK RIK * WEATHER FORECAST * Showers tonight and Satur * day; moderate southerly * * winds, Temperature at noon, * ® 55. * * a» “No sir, it's a brand new progres: | tle Star HOME EDITION Because our congressman's sult case is heavy, and— Ien't a nickel enough for carrying a sult case’? . The porter does does not our congressman give him a dime? Can you not see that our congressman is in a’ brown study? and fetches out a coin he ‘would not know. What is there unfamiliar about the appearance of our congressman? | When he ca And so Because he trims it Our congressman is trying to be mean? seman returned his term is up and he seeks re to present? not stand loyally thinking to please the people offer to make said in and say he didn't such accomplished »verybody happy that our hero “IT’S A BRAND NEW PARTY,” SHOUTS TEDDY TO MAN IN CROWD | day before a crowd of 3,000 persons, ti Col. Theodore Roosevelt, progres-| } | ain't our old friend, Humphrey, back from the nation’s capital | How do we know it Is our congressman? jof chagrin on the face of the Pullman porter [RRR AARRRAA ERE RENE Lucia She's pretty and clever, but oh my, how she does dislike some Americans. Read what she says on page 4, “ONLY THE POOR 60 10 THE GALLOWS” | California’s Acting Gover- nor Makes Statement in Reprieving Man Who Was to Hang. | (By United Press Leased Wire) SACRAMENTO, Aug. 30.—Declar- | ing that only the poor go to the gal- | tows in states where capital punish. ment is sanctioned by jaw, Lieut. | Gov. A. J. Wallace today announced the reprieve for two weeks of Geo. Figeruoa, sentenced to be hanged September 6, and said he was mak- jing a careful investigation of the | case of Alexander Szafscar sentenc- jed to die on the same day. Later | he will inquire fully into the crimes lof Wiitie Luis, a Chinese, and Wm. | Burk, who has been reprieved until September 13. Five other condemn- Jed men will in turn be given the | benefit of the inquiry. @ not been here long enough investigate the conditions to each of these cases,” ® governor, “and my not be settled until I urther to examine the to relating sald the act action will jhave time f records. “I have not made up my mind that ition of capital punidhment nixed good. One of gest points In favor of thy removal of the death penalty ts Bs} fact that under existing conditions the law works unevenly. The poor man the extreme penalty, the rich man, by long-drawn-out legal processes, usually escapes the. ex- | treme penalty.” suffers DROPS DEAD While on his way to work, Gilman L. Manning, 70, an employe im the city engineer's office, was stricken with heart failure and fell dead on West McGraw st., between Seventh jand Eighth avs., at 7:55 this morn- ing. He walked but a few blocks from his home, 3402 13th av. W. when the attack came. He ts sur- vived by a widow and five children, one of wiom is a resident of Seat- | tle. Manning was a member of the Odd Fellows and of the A. 0. U. W. No funeral arrangements have been made. His body was removed to Butterworth’s. DIDN'T OFFER HIM $100,000 the honorable} We can tell by the look Why is the porter cha- upon his mind. He fishes into his It might be a cent, it He gives it to ne home last session he Of course, it is Our congress trimmed! himself. neatly Only think how neatly he would “Oweh'") ch the Why do Look! shiver a ate. He le | h that our congressman was an “in-| Yea, indeed | _@By United Press Leased Wire) to Seattle, and why does he| NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—A flat de |nial of the report that he had of- fered Congressman Martin Littleton $100,000 to defend him, and that Littleton hag refused, ‘was made ich, Taft and Can-| here today b¥ Lieut. of Police Chas. ng those dark and | Becker, charged with the murder of ists) was being built?) Herman Rosenthal, the gambler | who was shot down in front of the ing Joe Cannon as} Hotel Metropole. and did in the Jette Jacques, 24, a chambermaid, ras arrested early this morning af- ttempt to suicide at the In- terurt hotel. on Yesler way, by jtaking “dope.” While the drag | stupefted her, she did not suffer any serious danger. and when she ar- rived at headquarters she had ak most recovered lection. Why should the people reward by A people du r (for the t knife the, “Iron Dake 0 well (OF | ter an acrifice! or that soft up and pro sacrifice? He a professional " KAISER IMPROVES (By United Press Leased Wire) CASSEL, Ger A ).—Kaiser Wilhelm, who has been confined to his bed here suffering from a throat affection, will leave for Switzerland next week unless a re- lapse sets in, according to the an- The same bigots now won't stand nouncement here today of the roy- with us. al pbysic Do you get me?” The kaiser’s condition was re The man who asked the quess-/ported to be wery much improved on said: |yesterday, and it is thought he Is “1 get you, Colonel.” | well on the road to recovery. 5 Acres $600; $25 Down, $10 Month $675 Player Piano $380 5 Lots at a Bargain, Sorely Pressed A careful perusal of this evening's Classified page will reveal many excep- tional opportunities to secure choice buys at a bargain. One advertiser is badly in need of cash, and will dispose of several lots at exceptionally low prices. Several chances to pick up good acreage appear. Why not invest some of yeur savings in good land? 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