The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 19, 1912, Page 1

in view of the present high cost of leather, should not Seattle car- riders, enjoying the privilege of strap-hang- ing, provide their own straps? MAMITE BER Frese Leased Wire.) OURKE CITY, Sept. | whole camp convuleed by tre ve petween 4000 striking | ‘the Utah Copper com | r- Mand that corporation and wi of deput! ND BARBICADE WOMAN WHO DID NOT CARE th | jes hourly expecting) Bingham, 15 mil there, today le practically In Paat and this morning foreign strikers (0 the mining oe y digging trenches up breastworks about ‘mines while lines of armed) are being thrown out ta) for whatever may) ‘There was considerable) ry firing here all through} bis morning, especially from the) tyenc Mapeette the Utah copper} gkere more than 1,000/ age fortified. No one has) as wounded yet time, however, Sheriff ing his deputies ft was estimated he had more than 250 men under arms} camp. With these men the Mereatens to attack the| ‘and attempt to drive them) the mountain. ran VOL, 14. NO. \STRIKE MAY A STWMERS ARMED WITH GUNS AND a: LITTLE “PIERPONT,” The little hanchback newsie is dead Some of them called him “J shine, “Pierpont” always had a Pierpont Morgan.” E, W. Smith, of the Swift drug store, was one of his friends) kine jand bought a Star of him every evening Smith says, smile 1912 The Seattle Star _ THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, ONE CENT )EVELOP INTO BLOODY BATTLE HUNCHBACK NEWSIE, DEA And “Pierpont,” smiling through gritted teeth, would admit! Not one in a hundred of his many friends knew his name. phat it did—a little “T never knew a braver boy, or a finer,” said Smith today His affliction was the result of an accident at birth w he could never be strong rain or/and sister wera de end could “hustle pendent on hi ' He had to if we pension soldiers, do we fot also pension mothers who, of their bléod and bone and im pain and tgavail, give us our soldiers? il HOME EDITION ON THAINS AND NEWS STANDS Be DITELLS HOW WHITH AGT § HOW OOZEN DIED IN DEN MEAS KNEL | WEST HAMMOND, Ili., Sept. 19. —Untfeelingly relating how a |dozen persons le} He had no father. A mother Other boys had strong legs m stand on his corner, at Second bottie had caused no less than @ to drop off into Girl Reformer Who Cleaned Up Town Smith would hand “Pierpont” a nickel, inquiring, “How's) and Pike, and wait for business to come to him eternity while an electric plano recy this afternoon, Mr. Morgan a In a sense his affliction was a benefit. Hundreds of busy soma “Prankie” Ford Ienpitcated In ierpont” never said business was anything but xd,"Pmen were touched by the sight of the wan, thin, shivering series of dive murders, has given for he was an optimist. And, reaching for his bag of pennies,! hunchback with the big, blue eyes. ‘They made it a point to the authorities much material on he would add; “Will you have your change in gold, or would{buy their Stars of him, and ite was not often they waited for een Se ae Se Cah mratie chek?” th jail ke Ket yw tion. The girl's story of whol you prefer a chec t was their daily joke Pehange, though he always offered it murder, so Inhuman It can scarcely Some days “Pierpont's” face would be drawn and haggard, I missed him Monday,” said Smith, “and I wondered if be belleved, has no parallel in the than usual, Then Smith knew th side was worse than common “Hurts today, does it, ‘Piers rT DATE FOR OPENING OF | CANAL Spry today refused to out troops until he attempts to persuade the strikers) their arms and to no threaten the company prop: | most alarming feature of the situation this morning the strikers captured the house of the Utah Construc- Fcompany, taking terefrom a Dalf of dynamite, 60 per rine. The destruc pof the whole camp ‘s feared. i |GERTIE! COPS MUST CARRY GUM B ANGELES, Sept. 19.—Candy gum as a part of the, of traffic officers form || innovation in the Los An ent. Th p con-| me are to serve as a balm tol} * ——————— | Rtaeteaereeees * | WEATHER FORECAST ‘Pair tonight and Friday to northeast winds. at noon, 59. ; ri Heater eeeeee * e * * * cel By Florence Hazel Moore “The Woman Who Did Not Care” EDITEO BY FRED L. BOALT Chapter II. ‘Bustend dead, my baby with my foster-mother, I joined the (bic company for a tour of the large cittes, We made the Mm ewing, and Seattle was the last city we were to play before beck. Were tired of “the road” and anxious to set foot again In “little York.” which is the beloved Mecca of all show people. bere I fell ii me. It was at Minor hospital that Ortis Hamilton first saw Oddly enough, | did not see him. a if be might send flowers to me, It seems be had come to visit et from Fort Lawton. ‘came, and with them Hamilton's card. If you have and stranded in a strange city, you will know how wel- are. Often and often, as I lay on my cot, | won ‘sort of man was “Ortis Hamilton.” by I was weil enough to leave the hospital; but I was penni- ‘had nowhere to go. Some one—I will not say who, though it Hamiiton—sent Ray McRoberts to me. She paid my bills and her house “below the line.” Bt to say here that the people who have befriended me in have mostly been “bad” people. If, instead of Ray Me , 8 woman from “above the line” had befriended me, I might not ge? “notorious” Hazel Moore. Bow to a period in my life about which it is not easy to tell. time in my life I became an inmate of a bawdy house. It Or starve. It was on the second day that “Ortie” Hamilton Of politicians and others from Olympia visited the house. ¥ » - had never seen him before, though he had me we Several times at the hospital, and, unknown to me, had fallen ve with me. he saw rs me now, his face went white, and he said: “You! sh ih a voice so tense and hard that J was startled. | wore the armor of shamelessness which all fallen women wear to A es, | was there. What of it? he was Ortis Hamilton. And I wi hamed. I to the house because I had nowhere else to go, é McRoberts had befriended me. t stay here,” he said. fan I go?” b oe "he said. “Come.” tone ett ee nowse tonether, and his friends wondered what had be- ay who was the life of that “slumming” party. ~ Ald 10 it started. WUNCTION KILLS LAW FOR RELIEF OF STRAPHANGERS “papa Or, Sept. 19—By of persons, after standing up a temporary restraining short distance, might. obtain long by United States Dis- nly 3 cents, as they could 6 Bean, the city of Port. vacated by others. today Ie prevented from en-| The order is returnable Septem ince? ‘straphangers’ ordi- ber 26, at which time arguments ' some days ago, for and against the issuing of a per- Into effect tomor-| manent injunction will be heard. , Was to go provided ON street care un should pay only that if, after paying pas should be avail y oh other passengers leav ma ah the “3-cent” passengers be allowed to it paying that » to Prize Baby Weighs 36 and Eats Pie DES MOINES, fa., Sept. 19.--Dor- othy Kulemeyer, better known as ‘Peaches,” chosen winner of the baby contest at the lowa state fair, and declared by the judges to be a perfect baby, eats just what she wants to, Pile is one of the main articles of her diet, and it doesn’t injure the little girl at all, The child is 2 years old and weighs 36 pounds. Her parents, who live in Des Moines, say they just attempt to bring her up in a good, healthy, old-fashioned manner, -eent use these additional Bean issued the order on of attorneys for the way, Light and Power Ordinance ix imprac Sonfiscatory and unconsti Of the principal ar os against the ordi eet car company is Means of it large numbers | | | 4 had to go 10 Minor hospital. The show went | ‘sa me, lying sick on a cot, through a window, and asked the! (By United Prees Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—One year from next December the work Panama of the United States in | virtually will be completed. | vessele of the world will be al | unrestricted use of the great water: way which Uncie Sam hes dug bas \today on the status of the great) | work, and every official connected | with the undertaking ie pluming! jhimself on the fact that the big! ditch reaily will be completed fully (13 months before ite formal open-) ling, which is set for January 1, 1915, The first vessel to go through will be a naval vessel, but which warship will have the honor has not yet been decided The commission's estimate an nounces that the formal opening of the canal will be on January 1} 1915, Unrestricted use of the canal for} commercial vessels, the govern ment announcement says, will be-| gin in December, 1914 | Col. Govthals, who is supervising | the construction of the canal, re} ™ is that its cost will be below the| | Scinal estimate of $400.000,000,| }and that when the final stroke ix | $375.000,000. | ithe conerete work on the locks at| Pedro Miguel is 98 per cent com-| | pleted, and Mira Flores locks per cent completed and that the/ Gatun spillway will be completed jin a month, The reagon the canal | will not be in use for commercial | purposes until December, 1914, Is lbecause numerous tests of the locks and gates are to be made to! insure perfect working before | large vensels are permitted to pass through. Great Naval Demonstration It is further announced that all » world are to be’ opening of the canal, and that rep- resentatives of al! governments are to be invited to attend and partici- pate in the elaborate ceremonies of the oceasion. The president is ex pected to attend in person and practically the entire American navy will be mobilized at the gates between the two oceans. total amount expended on the canal to date is given in the of- ficial announcemenet as $283.87: 000. The canal bill passed by con- ress authorized the issuance of 5,000,000 in bonds. Owing to the excelient condition of the gov-| ernment funds, only $138,000,000 of these bonde were issued and the reet of the expense was taken from the general treasury fund. It is) predicted that no further issue of bonds will be necessary. | ' FEEL THAT---. SOMETHING ig ABour To HAPPEN Mun tt I, | Vin (Continued Tomorrow) hat the pain in “Pierpont’s” left vont’? Smith would ask HERE IT IS A bright Star reader nas a “dead sure way of stopping the death- sure auto speed mania” He signe) his name an “X.Y. Z" He oa by the buss wagon route. And so! The government announced that | he has been working on his tnven-| points He ls now stop, look and listen as the autos from view, with the above illustration, be says,| work as road engineers. ways “X. Y. Z." registers. ocean during war times, can tion for a long time. ready to present it to the “The drawing, “shows several things, First, we haven't the right kind of roads. public @ and the flesh of his sunken checks would seem more transparent! the old pain was worse A TRAP FOR A yre not wen of m hould = be ike Instea: ppeer ike imbedded unde npnoasbeane SOME SPECIALS IN THE NEWS euvering and just be remedied at once for the _ } collapsible, done the cost may not exceed | he's “dead tired” of dodging death/and movable. draw-bridges N susceptible to easy shifting. That y invention. Roads reversible They should work at convenient d@ of having cops have them Automatic secret mines in the be r the road, and when ! Theodore R. Taft was in court In Washington yesterday for refus- ing to support his wife Having scratched his finger while embalming a body, Clair Byrne, a Pittsburg undertaker, is dead of blood-poisoning The Pasteur treatment is being given Mise Assunta Gazia of New ark to cure her Imaginary hydrophobla, a rare disease, known to science as hydrophobophobta. Following its legisiation to stop the nocturnal crowing of roosters, the board of health of Bast Orange, N. J., ia preparing an ordinance for- bidding dogs to bark at night When A. lig of Winsted, Conn., requested a barre! of flour) 8 a wedding present, his friends brpaght it to him in the shape of a rye loaf eight feet long and weighing 100. pounds. pan Seiein Col. John L. Clem is now the only officer on the active list of the United States army who saw service In the civil war. Redondo Beach, Cal—A new method of stopping beach flirtations | has been inaugurated bere by George Freeth, life guard. women's clothing, he paraded the beach until accosted, when he seized the would-be masher and rushed him, fully clad, into the surf. Los Ang time. can be sold, to be consumed later. Rome.—A 10-year-old girl at Brescia is recovering from a remark- able operation by Prof. Mori, who successfully extracted from her heart & needle two and a half inches long. use of the X-ray. San Francisco.—Automobile ridew and tate hours resulted in a good spanking for Mrs, Corinne F. Gohranmon at the hands of her elderly bhus- y at home and mind the children, band, because he had to # Gohranson asks & divorce. Los Angeles.—The firat shovelfel of earth on Los Angeles’ munici- pal railway from this city to San Pedro, the harbor suburb of Los An geles, was turned today by Mayor George Alexander. —<-_——- GIRLS ACCUSE “FAITH HEALER” CHICAGO, Sept. 19.—On_ the charges of three young girls, Henry C, Oertle, of Chicago Heights, an alleged “faith healer,” is held here today by the grand jury on a se rious charge. Ella Borman, aged 15, one of the complaining witnesses, told a shock- ing story of the alleged practices of the “healer.” ACCUSE MURDERER AS WHITE SLAVER PORTLAND, Or. Sept. 19 Georges Levy, an alleged murderer, ae es today 1s unde arrest here on a charge of white slavery. Several years ago Georges Levy ts said to have entered into competition with an old man, David Levy, for a mo nopoly of the vice business of | Boise, Idaho, The older Levy wan} found dead, and it is believed] Georges Levy was convicted of his murder. He was sentenced to be hanged, bu the governor pardoned him on condition that he leave the country. The police commigsion has today placed the ban on “stocking up” with Hquors in restaurants by patrons just before closing It has been the custom to order liquor In large quantities at five minutes before the hour when the ordinance says no more intoxicants Woman Ji EVANSTON wered because from a poolroom, “Judge” ine Waugh woman justice country, yelled |Jurors, not bun James A /Grant, Walter Dill Scott and John “Get Prof. Scott of Nort gid men of th |them here at o BILOXI, M nando de Soto senator here today, f ing. He was DISOWNS” HARTFOF Because b graduate an himself a I Senator B. 1 wool Taft him, Its presence was discovered by “High Brow” Jury ia des Attired in Mrs. ludge Wants An Mh, a constable admitted for jurors three men he had found loafing in a livery stable and three Sept. 19 Cather McCulloch, the only of the peace tn the “1 want highbrow ms,” James, U. 8. hwe at ome n university, iber, and bring ias., Sept, 19.—Her. Money, former U. 8. ad at his home near om uraemic poison 74 years of age. BULL MOOSER RD, Conn,, Sept. 19. is son, Edgar, Yale id lawyer, declared dull Moose, State Poor kid, he “Pierpont’s” real name was Clair Nelson taken suddenly worse, and died early this morning at his home $20 20th av UTO SPEEDERS history of the Middle West towns and cities. It shows, according to Miss Virginia Brooks, the reformer who caused the arr of the Ford girl, that crimes innumerable have been committed in West Hammond by vice keepers and their men and women slaves, while the police looked on and winked. “Frankie” Ford, who but 21 yeare of age, says she is a victim of the “vice ring” She is a pretty woman, and was once much more beautiful. She is addicted to the use of drugs, but the officers who obtained the long confession from her do not take stock In the theory of other women of the resorts that morphine caused her to exaggerate her tate of horrors. Rebbery the Motive Robbery was the motive for the crimes, the Ford girl said, adding that the police knew about it, but w sharing in graft. She i's formally held { custody, charged with being an accessory to the mur- der of John Messmaker, who, shé past all pain.” Sunday he was |eays, died after drinking from the |"black bottle” while in her com- pany on August 13. | It is feared that possibly 21 vio- |lent deaths occurred in the dives |which Virginia Brooks has been fighting. Not all of these are mat- ters of record, however, and the |facts concerning them are shrouded in mystery as far as the public is concerned. Since developments in the case bi me so startling as to stir state officials, nomerous | thre ats against the life of Miss Brooks have been made by persons ected with the triminal dens e town. Miss Brooks says she 'does not fear the threats will be }earrled out Arrests are quickly following the Wiis! VIRGINIA BROOKS HAZERS KILLED confession of the Ford girl. Henry Foss, owner of the resort where she once lived, and “Con” Moore, he cop notes exceasive speed, he ke r of another dive, were taken works the road draw-bridge. Butt | into custody immediately. More revelations are expected as the in- vestigators progress in their probe of what is considered one of the greatest wholesale murder plots ever exposed. the road coliapses, the auto drops| CHAPEL HILL, N. C., Sept. 19.— down to a safety net or mattress. |Isaac William Rand of Smithfield A second cop collects a fine. A|N. C., a freshman at the University third cop gives each of the passen-|of North Carolina, was killed while gers the book and lifts them back | being put through a hazing prank to the road. The draw-bridge cop | Four sophomore stadents were held then hauls the machine up by |by the coroner on $5,000 bail each means of a derrick, the road is put | for causing his death back into shape, and the penitent At the coroner's inquest the evi ones are allowed to depart, ‘The dence showed that Rand had been invention can’t fall of Its purpose,” | taken out by the second-year class. the inventor says. men and forced to mount @ barrel ARCHBOLD TO BE Sd dante, gua wills carcytats tot CALLED AGAIN the order the barrel either was kicked from under bim or he fell (By United Press Leased Wie) WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—Jobn When he dropped to the ground he struck some broken glass, which D. Archbold, president of the Stand- ard Oil Co. probably will be the |plerced his neck, severing tbe jug- ular vein and carotid artery. He first witness called before the sen ate committee, which fs Investigat PHILADELPHIA, Sept. There is every indication that th operation of building a new face for James Nolan, injured in a base- ball game, will prove @ success. A ball tore away Nolan's right cheek, but a young surgeon has Isid back the skin, replacing missing bones with paraffine, gold wire and silver | plates, and sewed the skin over the jartifictal bones. | FIRES DEPUTY WHO LET PRISONER PHONE | bled to death in ten minutes. /“TRUST BUSTER” KELLOGG COMING ing contributions, when the hear- Frank B. Kellogg, the noted ins - ings are. resumed here Gept. 20.|*trust buster,” and president of the|, LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13. —Dep- Arebbold w y American Bar association, will ar |¥tY Sherift Geo. Keym, the oe Am rehbold will amplify his testi. | Ame! r as ls geles county officer under whose rive here tomorrow night Mrs. Kellogg is with him. He will be the guest of the local judges, fed eral, superior and supreme court, at |a banquet at the Arctic club Sal |day night. He leaves for San |Francisco Sunday, where Judge) Kellogg is to appear for the govern- ment before the circuit court of ap- mony at a former hearing when he asserted that the Standard Oil| company contributed $125,000 to Col. Roosevelt's campaign in 1904 Roosevelt, who asserts that if the contribution were accepted it was without his knowledge or con- sent, probably will follow Archbold on the stand. George B. Cortelyou and Wm, Loeb, jr,, both former pri- | peals | Person Firat. or Ie It De |yate secretaries to Roosevelt, aiso| Judge Kellogg became famous Prison First, or Is It Death? will testify |when he acted as special counsel| FARMINGTON, Mo., Sept. 19.— commnstnacsnenoeasant - |in the prosecution of the Standard | James Schrum has been sentenced WICHITA, Kan., Sept, 19.-Car-/ Of Co, He was also attorney for|to be hanged October 24 for the kill- dinal Gibbons of Baltimore, while |the interstate commerce commis-;ing of Mont Hall, at Iron Mountain. | dedicating St. Mary's cathedral, as-! sion in the Harriman railroad inves-|He {8 also under sentence of 99 jsisted by Archbishop non and tigation. As committeeman from) years’ imprisonment for killing an- Archbishop Ireland here today, Was | Minnesota, he was one of the prom: | other man, at the same time be mur threatened with assault by Mrs. | inent figures in the Chicago conven- | dered Hall. The lawyer who repre- Myra McHenry, a suffragette, who | tion and fought hard against the|sents Schrum contends the 99-year attempted to slap his face. Taft steal. In spite of a speech | sentence, having been first imposed, The poice shielded the cardinal | made in defense of the recall of| has preference. The supreme court from ineult, judges, | will probably settle the question, care Lloyd E. Knapp was being taken to San Quentin when he es- caped, in San Francisco, was die- charged by Sheriff Hammel today. Mrs. Knapp, wife of the fugitive, has disappeared, and {t is reported she has left San Francisco to join |her husband. BRING YOUR WANT ADS TO OUR DOWN TOWN OFFICE——— THE SEATTLE STAR 229 UNION STREET Between Times and P.-I. With Souvenir and Curio Shop ». Pond, dyed-in-the man, has disowned