The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 2, 1912, Page 1

RE the living drawing closer to spirit world? See interesting story on page 6. VOL, 14. NO. 185, MALT BETS THAT MRS. JONES WHO — SCRUBS FLOOR WON'T GET THAT HOME OF HER OWN---WILL HE LOSE? BY FRED L. BOALT. inarily | am not a gambling man. But | made a bet yesterday with the of the North American Life, in the Lumber Exchange. ; thi : happened this way x . "When you pay a stiff rent, you expect good service. The tenants on the second of the Lumber Exchange expect good service—and get it. It’s none of their ¥ * en the tenants leave at night the floors of their offices are littered and ry, the desks and chairs dusty. When they return in the morning, the floors gre clean, the furniture dusted, the rooms aired. Fe This is part of the good service the tenant pays for. Somebody—just who ip not important—has been busy in the night with mop and broom, soap and hot and dustcloth Pha cos night, about 10 days ago, a busy man was kept in his office until 10 ck. Leaving, he almost stumbled over a figure on the floor in the dim corri- limp, crumpled figure on a wet floor beside a pail half-full of sudsy water. It was Mrs. Jones, the scrubwoman, and she had fainted at her work. Mrs. Jones was sick in bed a week. She only returned to work the other It was in this way that the tenants on the second floor became conscious of existence of a very humble cog in the well-oiled machine which gives the Lum- « Exc such excellent service. The tenants suddenly took a lively interest Jones. And they stopped to remember how faultlessly clean their offices : And those big roses which they had found on their desks every all summer? Roses are an item not mentioned in the lease. Jones is a humble heroine in a climaxless and somber tragedy. With all set for a large family, which has many prominent and successful members, ‘s in the mere fact that the heroine's name is Jones. There are so ® And this particular Jones is so poorly equipped for the battle of life. Fate ve her but two weapons—a frail body and a great courage. And now the bat- ing the end, and defeat for Mrs. Jones seems sure. _ Mrs. Jones is 67. She weighs less than 100 pounds. She has had 20 chil- —four single births and eight pairs of twins. A recent series of accidents has an almost every rib in her body. The bones did not knit well and cause her pain, especially when she is on hands and knees mopping floors. That's fainted. Jones would make a poor suffragette. She is old-fashioned enough to that it is a woman’s duty to marry, obey her husband, bear children, and home togeth: in lowa she married a good man, just returned from the war. Two chil- born, and then the husband died. A month later twins came. They She laid them beside their father, and wept over the graves. because she was an old-fashioned woman, she married Jones, the needed food, she hid a 50-cent piece in her mouth. fingers on her throat for many a day. years ago, she did the thing that outraged all the old-fash- s ich are as dear to her as hex religion. She got a divorce. _~ Jones took himself off. It was about the only useful thing he ever did. a boy and a girl—got married. It’s a way children have. They in a rented home at Graham station, on the Renton line. She change every evening at 5, cleans the offices as fast as they es a car for home at 1:30 in the morning. in the world, but she doesn’t owe a cent. And she has a milks herself, and she grows wonderful roses because she loves a month. Eight dollars goes for rent. biological facts were wormed out of Mrs. Jones yesterday by the man- American Life and myself. little, old woman I ever saw,” said the manager. Jones denied that she needed help. ‘Everybody is so good to me,” she It appears the North American Life man has been giving her a dollar a , and once a doctor on the floor treated her without charge. : you had a home of your own?” suggested the North American Life man. the suggestion was not one to be-considered calmly. “I have never had of my own,” she said. “If I had one, I could rest up when I needed to, and oped woman | know’d be glad to substitute for me. But what with the ,. “A thousand dollars would do it,” said the North Anierican Life man. From he looked down into Second av. A man was buying a quarter cigar stand opposite. The sidewalks were thronged with well-dressed, prosperous- 1,000. “A thousand dollars would do it,” repeated the North American Life man. that is not much. 1 feel sure that, between us—the tenants on this floor ithe readers of The Star—we could easily manage it. A lot would cost, say, ne ithe house—it needn’t be large—$600. A thousand dollars would do it “A thousand dollars is a lot of money,” I said. “But we could get it,” he insisted. “I'll bet we could get it.” “Til bet you a nickel,” I said. “Done!” said he, and so the bet was made. And I hope | lose. MEN BELIEVE ETTOR _ AND OTHERS INNOCENT 4 MONEY KINGS ~ HELPED T. R. (By United Preas Leased Wire) Br United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Verifica- SALE! Leased Wire) enough men to fill the box. If the ’ ’ Wholecatt’ Mass,, Oct. 2—That the| caso Is suspended until another|tion of John D. Archbold's test! mony that the Standard Oil Co., subscribed $100,000 to Col, Theo. Roosevelt's 1904 campaign was given the senate campaign contri- butions investigation committee here this afternooh by Geo. Sheldon, who was treasurer of the republican national committee in 1908, The contributions Sheldon said was made under Archbold’s name. Other contributions, Sheldon said, were J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Frick and George Gould. Each of the last three named, he said, con tributed $100,000, fefusal of taleemen to|venire is called, we will ask that 48 jurors will eventually) the prisoners be released on bail.” the discharge of Jos Ettor. jomething Radically Wrong.” fannitti and Antonio C District Attorney Atwill belleves 0M trial for the murder of | that the talesmen are being intim- the who death dur-| idated. big industrial struggle at; “Something,” said Atwill today, last winter, was the is radically wrong. Perhaps the today of defense attor-|talesmen are alarmed by the ap- of talesmen already | pearance of black hand letters and ‘act have testified of inability! reports that members of the Indus- bapened of confirmed bellefs| trial Workers of the World will re- e accused men are innocent.|sort to violence if the defendants 40 not think.” said one of| are convicted, * attorneys today, “that Wm. D. Haywood was in court Fe@aining talewmen can supply! when today’s session opened, how good service is obtained. If it wasn’t good they would kick to the! the money from her, and she wore the shameful marks of | yan Wy il ! the fact that the 4 bench, he has accepted @ recess BB pointment when congress meets while congress is z Hit by a@ train, Carlos had a pleasant ride, GROUNDS FOR Divo ber husband made her sleep In Because the pulling of « back. making « back draught through Conn., finds it impossible to New York—Mre. Edith det of ithaca, N. Y., grabbed the pilot i. Mary Hiret of Jersey City says barn. left @ hole opening into a canal, war, Ernest Kern of South Norwalk, any more. ing Car ran over her, breaking an Sa A shock received from a telephone kilied a Philadelphia police man, Oxen which drew the burial of the late mikado have been pen- stoned for life. As a concession progress, the old custom of giving them the junior fifth grade of cotirt rank was disregarded. New York.—Peevieh hubbies ¢ompiained to wives for spending too much time and money at Mme. Ray's hairdressing parlor. The police raided it. The women were playing poker, Ellie Blouin of Winsted, Comm, wrote his name, birthplace and life story on a plece of paper. Within an hour he was cut in two by a re- volving saw. 7 Chemists predict that egge will goon be made artificially of air, New York exes, 40 cents; Chicago emxe, 25 cents; Pittsburg eggs, 10 ¥, OCTaENR 191 ONE CENT 2: “THE MOTH AND THE FLAME” © refused to confirm Clinton W. Howard's appointment to the federal given him by Teft. Uniess the senate changes ite mind ind will have to get off the bench, f or a recess appointment only holds not in session. | The general opinion is that the sen ate will not change its mind. to pick up a horseshoe | people. The pavement was filled with autos, not one of which cost less | cents, ters, according to Superintendent death. Three canaries which had a. tress’ gold-headed hatpin. elevated train. of the Staten Island ferry house, a iar, with the news last night. {= STRAIGHT TIP All true sportsmen are rejoicing that the open season for Dungeness crabs j# now on. For the benefit of those of our readers who have never hunted the Dungeness crab, we give the following timely hin Dungeness crabs at this season haunt cafes, You dre most lable to encounter them after the show. By seeking them between 11 o'clock and midnight, you have the | Advantage of bright and giddy Nghts, which blind the crabs, The first thing to do ts to sitmt a table and assume an air of casy honchalange. Pretend you are mot ‘thinking about anything In partien- liar. You must be armed, however, jwith a knife and fork. If you sit very still, it is mere than likely that you will discover ja Dungeness crab biding behind the celery or the beer. You cer tainly will if the waiter is at all dn. telligent. Conceal now, if possible, the an- tiel ory watering at the mouth, and, with a stealthy movement, ad; New York.—The way to kill ty New York.—A girl baby was born at At the same hour a id germs, which ewarm in oye ‘homas Yawger, of the Rochester lelectric light plant, is to eleetrocute them by shocking the oyster to Mrs. Charies Bodeck of New York to sleep, were found asphyxiated by gas beside her dead body. “Fuzzy,” the lap dog of Mrs. John Engle of Washington, is in the ‘i He has a stiff neck, because he ate bis mis- 10 aclock last night on an boy was born in the waiting room Peru has elected a president without anybody calling anybody else The Duke of Connaught, uncle of the kin spare the time to visit Seattle, Members tle, who went to Victoria to urge his hi eas to come here, returned i of England, cannot oa f the Canadian club of Sent. || OPEN SEASON FOR CRABS IS ON; HERE’S ON HOW TO HUNT ’EM jvance the fork, which up to this ‘moment you have concealed under the edge of your plate, in the direc ition of the quarry. It will do no harm if you whistle a light and airy tune from one of the operas. The moment for decisive action has now arrived, With a deft twist of the wrist, impate the crab on your fork, Do not relent, Stab him deep. ‘The crab may hand you some kind of bunk about not being a real | ; Dungeness at all, but Just an ordi. nary, no’count crab, Dungeness crabs are adept at that sort of thing. He is trying to “crab” your me. Hence the popular slang a. Be adamant. ite your plate | Transfer the crab Pour over him some lyonnaise dressing. Take a sip of beer. You are now ready to employ your knife. Use it without mercy, Cut into him, Eat him, You will find him good, The first bite will tall you whether or not he is a Dungeness crab, ~The Seattle Star 0 THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1912 j TMAIN® AND WS STANDS Be Ry. = HEARST DENIES IT NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-—Héearst's Magazine today denied charges made by Collier's Weekly, to the effect that five of the sensational i Archbold letters published by the | magazine are forgeries. Sewall Hag 4, one of Hearst editors, said the macazine has tographs of the original le but not the original letters. Some of the photos, he said, were blurred, and therefore useless for engraving, so the letters were cop fed on a typewriter in the maga sine’s office and the were clipped from the photos and |superimposed upon these. coples. This is in explanation of Collier's charge that all five letters printed in Hearst's Magazine were written jon « typewriter which was not man- ufactured until 1906, although the letters bear dates from 1898 to }1904 | ARE SWORDS OF HEROES CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 2.—Re- Servian munitions of war detained mander in chief of the Ottoman hurried preparation for the which now seems inevitable. The first important strike against lah's appointment when 52 Greek vessels in Turkish ports were com mandecred as transports. Indicative of the spirit in which war is received in Turkey the news- paper Sabat says editorially swords of heroes sharpened by six centuries of glorious battles joyfully j accept the Invitation to fight.” ‘|NEGRO LYNCHED BY CONVICTS | CHEYENNE, Wyo. Oct. . 2 jed Mrs, Julia Higgins, aged Rawlins, Monday night, was lyne! Jed by convicts in the state peniten | tary at Rawlins today | Wigfall was captured last night and placed in the county jail here. }A mob surrounded the building threatening to lyneh the negro, but was finally dispersed by the author ~ lins. The rope secured by convicts in the state penitentiary at Rawlins ended Wigfall's career. DEAD IN BED Fred Duala, janitor at the Cedar apartments, 320 Cedar st., was found dead in his bed this morning by the landlord. His death was apparently eaused by heart failure, brought on by heavy drinking. Duala was a well-educated Rus- sian, 48 years old. He had at times held important positions and a year ago was employed as interpreter for the government at San Francisco. Drink gradually got the better of him, it being responsible for the loss of his position with the gov- ernment. CORBETT BETTER PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2.—A sud- den change for the better was an noupced here today in the condition of Jas, J. Corbett, former cham- pion heavyweight pugtlist of the world, who was reported dying last night following an operation for appendicitis, Dr, Edward Klopt is sued the following bulletin: “Co bett resting easily and doing fine,” the} signatures, READY FOR WAR HOME EDITION REBELS MURDER NE of our kind readers takes a fall out of The Star. Read his letter on page 4 today. U. S. CONSUL IN RAID ON RANCH (By United Press Leased Wired | WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Advices | from Mexico City today reported |that American Vice Consul Allen | McCaughan of Durango has been | murdered by Mexican rebels. The | report states that Herbert L. Rus sell and a Mr. Cliff, also Americans, were killed at the San Juan Ta |viche ranch. McCaughan had held | his office but a month | MBPXICO CITY, Oct Ame Ambassador Wilson ne d ~ LABORER’S CASE THROWN COURT FOUR TIMES; HE For the fourth | ceived his injuries yeur | the damage case of Edward Frost | man, laborer, is being heard by a | jury in Judge Tallman’a court to | day | Frostman, who bas a wife | three children, was hit by a plece of timber on August 20, 1908. He was employed by the city in dic | ging a trench in front of the Se | attle theatre, which was being re | modeled at the time under the di | rection of Stirrat & Goetz, contrac tors, Frostman has not been able to work since then, claiming that | his spinal cord has be bent and | his nervous system permanently in- Jured Three times bis case was thrown time since a and ‘MAY COMPL (By United Prese Leased Wire) INDIANAPOLIS, Oct, 2.-—The ac ceptance of a jury to try the 48 members of the International Asso. elation of Bridge and Structural | Iron Workers, on trial here for {I- | legally tra orting dynamite, is expected to me some time today When court reconvened this morn ing 12 men were in the jury box who had been tentatively passed by the defense. When the day's work closed at 6 o'clovk yesterday [Se ALLEGES BUNCO GAME WITH CHECK George Quigley, allas Baker, is on | trial today before Judge Ronald on the charge of passing himself off as Paul Backie and obtaining $80 om J. J. O'Reilly, a saloonkeeper, on draft on a local bank cording to O'Reilly, Quigley had the game framed by having several men come with him to the saloon, who continually referred to him as with O'Reilly, saying that he had had with O'Reilly, saying that he had too many drinks to keep it on his person. Later he got’ the money on it, it is alleged, after O'Reilly had made certain that the draft was really genuine so far as Paul Backle | Was concerned, but had not discov ered until too late that Quigley was not Backle. the; Ac! rebels Consul t Du ne from anKo, #, head. ded a ranch that Mexican American gh here today murdered Allen Consul ¢ who tel ed by ned that re r Caro owned by an American named Cliff d killed Cliff, MeCanghan and Herbert Russell, another American, included in the le nat fe troops OUT OF — TRIES AGAIN ourt before reaching the He asked for $30,000 dam- on the ground thatg§he con- id (9 Obey the city putting Up @ slage walk 80 a8 to pre from falling off the building in the course of construc- tion. Judge Albertson non-suited him the last time on the ground that this failure to put up the pro tecting stage was not the “proxi- mate” cause of the injury, as Frost- man might have been hurt by some- jone deliberately throwing the scantling at him, and then the con- tractors would not be liable. The supreme court reversed Judge Al- | bertson, and so the case comes up | again. ven bris ccaapaaiaieaaaaaapennremn: mean) ETE JURY TODAY TO TRY 48 LABOR LEADERS !government had examined five of these, and its attorneys expected to conclude its examination of the re- maining seven before noon today. Now that a jury is almost in sight both the prosecution and defense started notifying witnesses to come to Indianapolis. Among the witnesses Gompers and Detect! J. Burns, who directed the investiga- tion which led to the return of in dictments against the unfon men. (PURITY SQUAD | INVESTIGATION The “purity squad” ‘nvestigation was resumed this afternoon by the : cil committee headed by Coun- cilman Peirce, The case of young Tonkin, who was arrested when he was alleged to have made a state- ment to the police that a 15-year-old girl in a dance hall was his wife, will not be considered any further, according to President Hesketh, who believes that Tonkin failed to establish any misconduct on the jpart of the arresting officers. There are one or two other com- plaints, however, that will be In- vestigated SUFFRAGET BRIDE NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—With a suf- fraget bride, the Hon. Oliver Syl- fusing Servia's demand to surrender | in transport, the Turkish cabinet to-| day appointed Abdullah Pasha com-| forces In the Balkans, and began a/ war | the allies followed sharp on Abdul-/ “The | Frank Wigfall, a negro who assault-| ities who removed Wigfall to Raw-| SULZER LEADS soi ce (By United Press Leased Wire.) SYRACUSE Y., Oct. 2.-—-Con gressman Wm. Sulzer is leading z " nd heir of the second Viscount Gov. Dix in the gubernatorial nomi-| 2" © e convention, here today. Tammany | SFr Castle, and set Late oa men deny that Charles F. Murphy ) secretary to Lord Morley when the will interfere at the last moment ee Waa gocretery of: ane OF eeaKRARRARAKERKKK®| Miss Heckscher has long been an * % ardent advocate of woman suffrage, honeymoon, bound for Europe. The bridegroom is the eldest son * WEATHER FORECAST * ABS MSG mA SRY SENSE SEN * Fair tonight, with light * WOMEN HAVE OWN TICKET |® frost; Thursday, fair and * BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 2.—A repub- |® warmer; light easterly winds, #) lican ticket made up entirely of |* Temperature at noon, 54, * women candidates will be placed in * * | the field in Idaho this fall against [ek kk kk koe eee eH) the regular republican and progres- | sive tickets. The women members | of the republican party announced | A holdup man, armed with an au-| that they had become disgusted {tomatic revolver, robbed J. H. Col-| With the wrangling within the party, | ison, employed on the steamer Ad-| and had decided to place a ticket of |miral Sampson, of $18.50 last night.| their own before the people. The |The holdup took place near the; women will hold their convention Standard Ot] tanks, at Holgate st. | here. and Western av ROBBER GETS $18.50 “"" CONGRESSMAN KILLED TURKS FIRE ON VILLAGE FOSTORIA, ©., Oct. 2.-—Con- BELGRADE, Servia, Oct Fifty gre pan Carl C. Anderson of this | Turkish soldiers today fired volleys city dead here today, as a result to Rushka on the Servian frontier.! of his automobile overturning and ne inhabitants of the village fled. pinning him beneath it. in! T } Star Want Ads are one of the strong- est helpers to be had—and they cost so little. Star Want Ads are busy all of the time—they are not subject to the eight- hour law. 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