The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 5, 1912, Page 1

FEATURES AND EVENTS OF “THE WEEK AS ILLUSTRATED BY VIC OURUNGLE BILL AND | CAN Do ANYTHING HAW! |} CAVGHT You SITTING DOWN THAT TIME NOW KICK IN at eee? Ta RICH “UNCLES CERTIANLY HELP A FELLOW 18 CANNING HIS SPEECHES Fi Bie S FOR THE FUTURE ALONG ——~ HE'S GOT TU MAKE THE PLUNGE The Seattle Star’ __THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE 7 7 one cent ezzinxar, HOME EDITION FURTH'S MEAN GRAFT K THE TRACTION BOSS WHEN THEY FIND HIM | === a R THAT EXTRA QUARTER THEY WRITEA PO. [1 1 OOK e AS IF BOALT IS GOING TO LOSE HIS BET chairs in the parlor cars without extra charge. This, it seems to us, is a better way than writing) @ personal letter to every man and woman who may| _ BY FRED L. BOALT. ever have occasion to use the interurban. ins that. bet! ‘Don't care it 1 do ase = tie pleasant to dream. 80 we'll of a cottage that now is not, : HEN Jakey Furth’s inter- urban conductor demands two-bits of you for a chair in the parlor car, when all the seats in the are taken—<don’t pay it. can't compel you to pay that F you ever had a mother, come through for Mrs. Jones, scrub- woman and mother of 20, who needs “a home of her own.” She is old and tired, and she has earned a rest. Help raise that $1,000 needed. VOL. 14. NO. 188, SEATTLE, WASH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1912. ,0SS JAKE (C SERVICE COMMISSION DOESN’T SPAN ~ GOUGING UNFORTUNATE PASSENGERS FO LITE LETTER AND TELL HIM NOT TO DO I Sekey Furth, stand up. Come here this instant! “This — us, Jacob, more than it does you.” mee - ree —_ 9 WRN LON Pa FOUR AMERICANS — KILLED IN BATTLE (iy United Press Leased Wire.) tit is also unknown whether the WASHINGTON, Oct, 5 —Four|American dead and wounded are Americans were killed, six wound-|™arines or sailors, ed and 100 Nicaraguan federals/ Selotoe ant meas ness into the homes of the poor and needy.” | A note comes, mgned “Mildred } | Gravatt” and containing a dollar. It expresses the hope that I will lone soon will be. A four-room bun-|™Y bet and that Mrs. Jones will Would be about the thing, in| #¢t 4 “home of her own.” “ ft its own about a block off} “The boys” at Engine House No car line. There would be roses |4 have come through. Here's their front, and hollyhocks and other containing $3 schocl and’ write “peanat grafter® sever:| THE MAN ON BENCH IN BIGGES — peaherene of the state public service com- LABOR TRIAL IN HISTORY will now come forward. Boys, it is your duty Jakey in order. You knew he was grafting, let him do it. We've got the goods on you, If it happens again we will take you over our punish you severely. stop that sniveling! we called attention to the piddlin’ par- two bits out of patrons who are too tired d in reply contains cheerful news for a public. Here it is: beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor [st inst., in which you state that on that date, from Seattle to Kent, you found all the seats ce occupied a seat in the parlor car. You when the conductor took up your ticket he Md you that you would have to pay for parlor do not state whether you paid the parlor If you did, WE WOULD BE GLAD TO A REFUND FOR YOU, AS WE HAVE IN SIMILAR CASES ON THIS LINE. We the tenor of your letter that what you fe is really an expression of opinion from this are glad to inform you that we have instruct- other compan taken, then SEATS MUST BE PROVIDED LOR AND PULLMAN CARS WITHOUT CHARGE, if such seats are available. are sending a copy of this letter to Mr. Bean, of the Puget Sound Electric Railway com- and assume that there will be no further diffi- Fim connection with this matter. If there is, please if there is any other or further information desire, please advise. Yours very truly, The Service Commission of Washington, by Geor. is a very nice and polite letter. But it get anywhere. The Star reader says he didn’ graft. He and two women stood the whole _~ Wty from Seattle to Kent. |. He pleaded to the conductor that he was too sick “That don’t make no difference,” said the conduc- “Pay or get out.” Lee, in his letter, admits having secured refunds 4 Pestiferous patrons who dared to kick at hav- their pockets politely picked. But he “assumes,” sent a copy of his letter to Bean, that the prac- will end. It hasn’t ended. The Furth crowd laughs at the And the commission is content to write and perfectly punctuated letters to disgruntled el It doesn’t seem to occur to the commis- it isn’t the two bits the public cares about; strong-armed. the commission has at least ruled definitely tion. If all the seats are taken, HELP TO A CHAIR IN THE PARLOR commission says that this is your right. ms the conductor demands the extra quarter, SE TO PAY IT. The law is with you. The ctor may threaten violence, arrest, forcible re- : If you are any kind of a man, you will STAND AL and SIT TIGHT. We Frespectfully suggest that the commission re- interurban company to post a sign in each cars informing the traveling public that, are no seats left, they may help themselves to But ies that when all available “JUDGE ANDERSON WEARS A PAINED The “Show Me” eyes that will search the faces of 800 witnesses INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 5—Judge ndergon, who Is in ‘conspiracy” case, is the hai proposition to Interview in this of the wood “You see,” a waiting lawyer ex- plained, judges are independ. ent, but Judge Anderson shows It more than the rest of ‘em. answer.” Just.then the judge flashed by He swings through the outer room and rushes to his desk as if he thought it was on fire and he was the fire department. Judge Anderson isn't fussy, like some other judges, about folks com- ing into his private office. And, being more than tolerably shrewd, |the judge gets between his caller and the window. That throws the light on the other fellow's face, and the judge's scowling countenance he wears a pained and worried face —is In the shade. “So you are a newspaper man?” he observes, with a quick, search- ing look, piling a few letters here, scratching around his desk there, opening other letters and scribbling notes. “What do you want to know? Whether I beat my wife? Do I pay my debts? How ie it I keep out of jall? I don’t think the peo- ple care anything about what I do, or what I am, and, furthermore, I don't Intend to talk about myself, and I am not going to. “IT was born in Zionville, Boone county, this state, 55 years ago last February. I grew up, went to school, studied law, and have been a judge 10 years; you can get more information about me in ‘Who's Who in America,’ Good morning, oir!” The | more you ask him, the less he will) President Roosevelt made Judge Anderson a federal district judge in 1902. Seven years later the judge | refused to send the defendants in the Panama libel case to Washing- ton for trial, thus practically knocking out Roosevelt's case against the publishers of the In- dianapolis News and New York World, A year later Col, Roosevelt met Harry » Indiana republican boss, at a reception in Indianapolis. Judge Anderson was there, too. “Ie that the judge who decided the libel case?” asked T. R. of New. “He is,” replied New, who had opposed Anderson's appointment, but who was then on friendly terms with the judge. “Well,” came back Roosevelt, “he is @ jackass and a crook!” Before then the judge had gotten on the Rooseveltian nerves, for when he was presiding at the sec- ond Standard Ol o which later on resulted in a $29,000,000 fine be- ing plastered (temporarily) on the oll octopus, he refused to admit certain evidence that was after- wards allowed by Judge Landis, At least every other person on Second and Third ays, this noon had tied to some part of their clothes ‘a little yellow tag, which indicated that the wearer had help- ed the Mother Ryther Child Home with 10 cents. The 100 girls who volunteered their services for the work were “on the job" rly with their per- suasive smiles and pleading voices, and judging by the number of tags fluttering in the breeze, their work | bas been successful, joned flowers, and in the there would be a vegetable nh. ing over the roses ts a little old and bent, whose name Tt ta her cottage. It be- to her. No landlord calls on first of the month for the rent. cottage. She puts the flow- piteher with a broken nose. in a rocker by the the sun slants tn bet with the American Life man that the of the rea as z me is Star sho in, “as it shines #o brightly, Mght and warmth and hay € = OMAHA, Oct. 5-—That she not want a divorce, but -fwill await the liberation of larry K, Thaw and then return to him, Ist ssertion here to- ‘aay of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, “who is en route to Southern Califor lor the winter, “The assertion that | am go- fing to Reno for a divorce is pabsolutely without foundation,” deciared Mrs, Thaw. “| propose to stand by Harry to the end.” KILLS MOTHER WEST ANTHONY, Ida., Oct, 5.— Arthur Whitaker, aged 12, is in jail here today, charged with shooting and killing his mother, Mrs, Mary Whitaker, ‘The lad recounted his story of the killing without a tear, but will give no reason for his ter- ribje act, He fled after the killing and was found several hours later in a hay stack by the officers. GAGE RESIGNS . Offered a job by the courthouse gang, Claude F. Gage, who had re- ceived the nomination on the pro-| gressive ticket for county auditor, yesterday resigned, He says he will support Andrew J, Quigley, the) atandpat candidate, with whom he has reached an understanding that he is to be given a good job, Enclosed find three dollars for the fund to buy a home for Mrs. Jones, from the boys at Engine House No. 4. I cailed the attention of some of the others to the under. taking and believe that enough of us can spare a little to carry through such a deserving proposi- tion. (Signed) “A FIREMAN.” A working woman came into The Star office, left $2 on the city edi- tor's desk and hurried away A check for $10 came. “Lat this donation appear as ‘Casb,’" says the doner. And so It goes. Other folks have the hunch that the bet in as good a8 lost. Owners of houses are writing in offering to weil. A reader makes a suggestion which is hereby adopted. “Mra. Jones is nearly 70,” be writes. “In the nature of things she will not |live many years longer. What shall | be done with the house when she is gone? Why not vert it in Mrs. Jones during her lifetime, and pro- vide that, on her death, it shall be- come the perty of the Mother Ryther Child Home, or some other charitable or benevolent institution in which the public has confi- dence?” Good! It will be done, lets make x ond'0t gaineting ia 's an ng IDAH M'GLONE GIBSON. You know who “Muggsy” Mc- “Jake” Stahl, Joe Wood, ty Mathewson and “Jeff” Tes. reau are. But do you know anything about the PERSONALITY of these men who will win or jose the world’s baseball championship? fhe Star commissioned Idah Glone Gibson to meet these ond stars, study their personal s' and write her impressions for Seat j|tle people. Her first article, about | McGraw, will appear in tonight's | Pink Star, The others will follow daily, Watch for them. John Perry went to bee last night at 11 o'clock at the Scandi- navian lodging house, 311 Second av, 8., leaving a call for 3 o'clock. At 3 the clerk went to call him, got |no response and opened the door, to find Perry dead in bed. Death had resulted from natural causes, [being due to heart failure, brought on by drinking, His body is now at Butterworth’s, Little is known about Perry, except that he was once an employe of the Queen City coffee house, were killed yesterday in battle with mand to surrender and entrenched the Nicaraguan rebels near Coyote- pa, Nic., according to telegrams re- ceived today by the state depart- ment from M. Chamorro, the Nic- araguan foreign minister. Fought to a standstill by a com- | bined force of Nicaraguan federals jane American marines and satlors junder Admiral Southerland, the army of Gen. Zeledon, the Nicara- guan rebel chief, was routed and | behind @ hil near Coyotepa. Thea |the Americans and the Nicaraguan federals deployed.on two sides of the eminence and attacked under @ | murderous fire. The Americans fired on rebels for more than half an hour after which Zeledon's forces, fighting desperately, © their position and) fled with. Americans and Niearaguan Zeledon, himself wounded, was cap |tured near Masaya, where he died. The casualties of the rebels in ed his pursuers for several hours the engagement are unknown and) before be wag taken. = SPECIALS IN THE NEWS 8SHOT IN THE WOODEN leg, Walter Gibson was hurried to a Phib adelphia hospital, FIFTY-TWO YEARS AGO, Mrs. Thomas Smith of Schenectady, N. Y., ran away from home because she was spanked. She and her brother, John McKeon of Yonkers, have jast been reunited. John ad mits he did it, anyway. PETER VAN CLEAVE of Smith Centre, Kan., says when he left a wagon load of hay standing before his barn, a cyclone came along, blew, open the barn door and stored the hay in the loft. A MAN WENT TO the department of health seeking a birth tificate for his son, . ~™ — “When was your son born?” they asked him, ae man scratched his head. “It was late one.Saturday night,” h@ ROBERT ALBRIGHT OF BROOKLYN, N. Y., was about to be haled by his wife to the domestic relations court. She looked up to see him over her with a shining weapon. “Promise me, on your knees,” he cried, “that you won't do it.” “I promise!” said Mrs. Albright. Albright laughed. “It was only a toy pistol,” he said. } Mrs. Albright beat him with a broom and had him arrested. AFTER BEING ASPHYXIATED BY gas, they gave Mrs. Florence Stewart of Philadelphia a bottle of beer and saved her life, NOTE.—Few policemen are so thoughtful. © BECAUSE IN AN INDICTMENT the word “murder” was spelled “nurder,” Alexander Kompovic of Perth Amboy, N, J., nearly won his freedom. His counsel contended that “nurder” was an old English game of ball, and his client, therefore, was accused of nothing illegal. The court ordered the indictment corrected. SEPARATED FOR FIFTEEN YEARS, J. Mayer of New York and W. B. Smith of Chicago met at Duluth and discovered that they were to marry sisters at Elkhart, Ind., on the same day, NEW YORK.—WHILE THE high cost of living is going higher, the cost of nigh flying is getting lower. Three years ago an aeroplane jaunt was $500. A Mineola biplaner is now soaring with passengers at. $1 per soar. JOSEPH DOCTORSKY OF SAN FRANCISCO wants to change his } mame to Dukore, He says his funny friends call him “Dr, Sky.” NEW YORK.—JOE CALLA of Scarsdale heard his chickens “hollering” in the night. He blazed away, Later he found all his own pullets, plus five others, in a sack dropped by his visitors, NEW YORK.—FOR 11 years n Kristofosock worked at his easel trying to get enough money to bring his family here from Hun gary, But the public wouldn't buy his pictures. He blew his brains out. 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