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ect | 99 “The E STA R TODAY PRINTS, ON PAGE SIX, SOME MORE FINE ACTION PICTUR expect firemen to be on duty 21 hours a day when judges, also public servants, rarely put in more than five, and, in addition, take two months’ vacation once a year RITY SQUAD BUNK AND LIES ‘The Star hasn't had much to say about this so-called agitation, because most everything that has has been either pure bunk or downright lies. the whole affair is just one of those petty little police| which big, liberal minded Seattle should handle with- and noise being necessary, tom-toms of protest. ® VOL. 14. NO. 195. is an absolute necessity in every city that desires to! . girls from the vultures and the white slavers eificient method of safeguarding the innocent be car- ‘out. This necessity exists in Seattle just as much, per- ‘but no more, than in any other city, But it seems that Seattle tries to do what every decent and well regulated fy should do in this respect, there is always a noisy few Star, as everyone in Seattle knows, has little use for minded cranks who seck to legislate morality into} pl "The Star has no use for “blue laws.” ies te gee’ Teg rt The Riguee “If he doesn't get a job, hi th happy ‘Men, every when investigated, has fallen utterly flat Tonkin case, about which so much was said, was but a tissue of lies. The council unanirgously vindi- ty, a safe cit ‘laws, is making progress along always directed to the petty complaint lice for their action. police abuses. thinks he becomes a ruler complaint, er. For instance, no officer Strip the policeman litions. Mr, Taft. girls there. tho O—TWO hundred irate women held a mass meet- @ the hall of justice here to decide whether a lynching dispose of three tailors, Inaugurated Hed them on a suit club proposition. of Williamsburg, ugh to protect the saloon man, the eman, just as much as they protect the merchant, of the wu, @ and the lawyer. this past two years, learned the bitter lesson that she ferned comparatively decently if decent people are| guards made a dash for the gates There is no desire on the part of any except) A fusillade of shots inside the walle few to swing Seattle -to the other extreme. go right on being a big, prosperous, livable city, | the knockers and noise makers who seek to keep/|onds later nearly a score of men IND PITTSBURG LAWYERS have pledged them- SHE HELD TOO many clothes pins in her mouth Hunt of Camden, N. J., is in the hospital with a 18CO.—CHARLES BLACK, saloon keeper, wa two highwaymen entered his place that he got byster- Sang and danced a jig. The bandits “beat it,” ARY BUTTON FROM a pair of trousers led to the con- ® Russian infantryman who murdered a wealthy couple near AFTER FORTY YEARS, Mark H. Woodruff and Mrs. . Y., old sweethearts, were married believes that so long as people are human they d and regulated, if regulated at all, by) and these laws must be liberal enough cafe man) Saturday, when 20 convicts, led by line. Seattle, Se little household 48 to all this fuss stirred up over the “purity squad” made against the police in this The has always been the first to expose and to aid This paper has little use and no ft for the brutal and arbitrary cop, who, when he dons of his fellow the weakling judge who, when in his robes, himself a little more than mortal, and above human or men have always had, and now have, too much and should be allowed to raid a rooming house, a hotel of business without a warrant. ‘be allowed to even warn the proprictor of a hotel or the officer thinks anything is wrong, he should ft to headquarters. ets and we will have better policemen and better no set of No officer of all his arbi- meantime Seattle should and will go on taking| household duties, as best she can, trying to be a|against flam y, and a prosperous city. RETTY girls keep away” ia the word sent out Ucivil service commission in a call for an examination Reason—six engagements of pretty stenogs at and a continual and annoying depletion in the ranks 13,” MRS. SARAH VAN GEUDER of Washington told ep-father will have to go to whom they TION WHICH WILL BE __ VIEWED WITH ALARM BY SEATTLE MEN * THe that no. per-)ing one woman! 37 men! | We were port of the public Beattie womer affair happily mar men. One woia 100th woman, Her| But there One. She ie pursued | the reade Apply to the situation Supply and demand. | Males, See 136,773; HURRY UP FELLOWS GUARD OF THE BRave 35 made alarming state of affaires by the re- 1910 census, just made The census was an expen- it wa a une Seattle population, 1910, SS ) ADVANCE One woman in a Find Sing to marry more| position to pick and choose from me man—at a time—we have |?” oi Beattic a spectacle Ne are bound, being by na {6 view with alarm alive to this laborious. And shed it turned out Jot of statistics. ine in it that gives It is females, 100,421; M Men loving and woo. | males to 100 females, 186, At} 237,194. he Seattle Star “THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1912. JARQUARD WINS HASE 11 ESCAPED CONVICTS (By United Press wwe sen sent from wiine, [and Walcott today are concent in the hille south of here for a determined rush on the 11 convicts still at large, following jail breaks at the state penitentiary here it. urday and Sunday. Of the eight convicts who escaped Sunday, five | have been recaptured. J. Gilmore, burglar, was found asieep in a man- ger at daylight. He surrendered without a struggle. The three men | who escaped Sunday are still at jlarge. They are Joe Richardson, | murderer, Hans Buckstrum, — and Jamee Burke, murd . 7 | men are desperate, heavily armed, land it is certain they will not sub- | mit to capture without bicodshed, The First Break. The first break occurred late “Buteh” Dalton, bandit and member otorious Whitney gang, over- powered the keeper of the cell house, took his keys and released their comrades. every prisoner willing to risk a battle with the followed, and a bediam of shouts echoed from the prison. The guards | Were overpowered, and a few sec dashed down the main street of Rawlins, armed with guns and knives. Holding residents of the town at bay, the refugees charged | into « itvery barn and hastily threw bridles and saddles over horses and rushed for the woods. Twelve of | the conviets were captured later. Woman in Charge. Warden Alston was out seeking the Dalton fugitives when Sunday's | delivery occurred. He returned to Rawlins this morning finding Mre.| | Alston in charge of the prison, She} | superintended the placing of! jextra guards about the penitentiary jand bandied the situation in a mont} jcompetent manner. ‘89 MINERS | RAWLING, Wyo, Oct. 14.—Poe| wif ratoga and cold, \t “HONEYMOON SPREAD MONSTROUS THIN OVER WEARY) YEARS,” SAYS SAYS SEATTLE FIRE:FIGHTER’S WIFE BY FRED-L; BOALT “Ae unto the bow the cord is, #6 unto man is woman.”—Hiawatha, This is a woman's story, and, if you are a member of an Ant!-Ex travagant league, it will not appeal to you. It ts the story of a fireman's . and if you place dollars above hi nity, it will leave you unmoved It was told to me by Frances Eb- Oscar H. Ebbinghouse of the Sea “Happy” Ebbin, in known to bis ). EbRinghouse is a magazine who bas “arrived.” From ‘indow in her atudy she looked and down towards the distant where at the moment a car she asked. here when ‘Happy's’ care When 1 see from the step | give the six for the meal to be taken from even and placed on the table. le he i» running up the hill, I running down the stairs. At gate he beging taking off his | ENTOMBED, | DOOMED (By United Press Leased Wire) | HOBART, Tasmania, Oct. 14,— Using every effort possible, hun- dreds of rescuers are battling and smoke to save |89 entombed miners at the North | Mount Lyell mine here. The fire started through a motor! pump on one of the machines blow. | Ling out. | In a few minutes dense black jelouds of smoke began to pour from the mouth of the matin tunnel shaft, and horrorstricken surface | rkers dropped their tools to as | sist in the rescue of the 160 odd| men known to be working at the depths of the mine. Weak, tottering and exhausted, 76 men, who were working at the 700-foot level, succeeded in reach ing the surface, battling their way through the smoke that, time and again, threatened to suffocate them. One died on reaching the ce With 89 miners stil] down in the will be accompanied by her own are being made to pump 700 feet down the shaft. The heat near the main shaft is terrific. Bands of rescuers have been forced to return to the surface overcome by heat and smoke. MAN KILLED BY TRAIN James Gillespie, 50, was run over and killed by a Northern Pacific freight train this morning at 11 o'clock, at the foot of Spring st Gillespie was trying to cross the train between two cars, when the sudden starting of the train threw him between the rails. He was badly mangled and cut up. Papers in his pocket showed him to be | James Gillespie of 20th av. 8., but gave no street number, There ie a James Gillespie who runs 4 gro- cery store at 1541 30th av. 8., but it is not known if that is the one who was killed. FIGHT, ROBBERY Was it just a fist fight or a rob- bery? This is what the jury in Judge | Ronald's court must decide in the trial of John Watson, a young man of about 23 who is charged with robbing Ole Peterson of $2 on August 6, after breaking bis jaw. Watson contends it was simply a slugging match and nothing more, FATALLY WOUNDED NORTH YAKIMA, Oct. 14,—The accidental discharge of a shotgun fatally wounded Henry R. Cole, a Sunnyside rancher, Friday after- noon, and he died yesterday. Cole lot, living evil livee—and some of them do. You have heard, too, that | firemen's wives are often no better than they ought to be, and that the divoree rate among them is scandalously high. And possibly it is. “But listen, Not every girl who marries a fireman has my little trick of stringing words together to my plonsure and profit. Not every fireman's wife can fall back on herself as I have done. And women marry for companionship, not for loneliness. “And if they cannot get that companionship at home, can you blame them if, with their husbands’ consent, they go unattended to a dance? The world blames them, and women who are blessed with stay-at-home nights husbands whisper les. “Bo those of us who fear criticiam shut ourselves up in our homes and grow morose and Iiritable, and often hysterical, Or—and here is where we take the bull by the horms—-we defy convention and invite our friends into our homes—nand thereafter we are eternally damned. 1 know, because I am one of the damned. “Is the game worth the scandal? Is it strange that some of us run from it? “As much as I love my husband-—and I worship him—there have been times when only a little thipg- saved me from the awful step. Per. haps I had a story to write. Perhaps a neighbor's child came tn at the psychological moment and dispelled the attack of ‘blues.’ Perhaps my dog providentially had a playful fit. Perhaps the canary filled my study with his melody awa. “A man and a woman are properly mated only when each is the! perfect complement of the other. | like to think of ‘Happy’ Ebbinghous @ mountain, of myself as a vailey. A valley without a mountain would be an unnatural thing. And the mountain is no higher than the valley is deep. “But we firemen’s wives are valleys who are robbed of our moun- tains; we are vines, but only once in eight days are we given onks to cling to “Do you wonder, then, that the wives are standing with their fire- fighting mates for the two-platoon system? We only ask what other wives have always had “For home-life begins only when the evening meal is finished. All that goes before—the man's work ip the city, the wife's toll at home— is preparatory. When, having eaten, the man’s pipe is lit, and he is in hig shirt sleeves and house slippers, and he sinks into his favorite | chair—a big, healthy, tired man!—then a wife begins to live. “| have not lived as a wife, though | have been eight y arried. When my man comes to me, it seems as though he came, not as a hus band, but as a lover, Though | love him, | do mot know his as a wife should know her husband. He is etill the stranger coming to woo. For we—my man and I—have had to spread our honeymoon monstrous thin over eight long, lonely y: of cS 8 UNIQUE DEFENS upon this, they spent time and |money on their gardens, and that 7 | ffect {t was an oral lease for Strikers at Taylor are putting !2 ¢ ome ae up @ unique defense to the ejoct- | least the period of the 1912 gar ment sult started against them by| 1m season. ee the Denny-Renton ¢ompany. The company, which is represented by} UNAFRAID OF “13” Richard A, Ballinger, ex-secretary LOHS ANGELES, Oct. 14.- was out hunting with George Kane of 5010 Orcas st,, Seattle, Kane, in jumping across, discharg- ed the gun in some way, the charge] pany offered a bonus of $50 to the g taking effect in the thigh, tearing| family which cultivated the best both the vein and the artery. He | claims that it has the right to eviet crossed a ditch ahead of Kane, and) them when they started their strike, of the interior, rented the houses to the miners for $10 a month, but} Afraid of the 13 hoodoo, F. G, Mir acle of San Diego, wanted to post pone his wedding after keeping the icense clerk away from the ball e. The bride, arriving from the east on the 13th, overrode Miracle’s objections, The strikers contend that the com garden, They contend that, relying him spriog | | Dinghouse, the gifted wife of Lieut,,over # big can of ashes | THAINS AND SMWS STANDS Be JAIL BREAK Jack Johnson tired to break jail No, it's not Lil’ Arthur. The Se-) attle Johnson is spending a year at| the county jail on an assault] charge, Hin behavior bas been so good that he was made a trusty | Sunday morning, as he w at} tending to his chores, he dumped | This, to fog of the wether with the morn jing, Johnson figured would give him the second—stopped Stah & “peach of a chance” So he started to run. Chief Jat Allen Stark heard the patter o feet on the silent street, missed his trusty, and fired four shots. It was about 8 o'clock in the morning, | when the jaiiers change shifts, Phil) to get away | | Keri Jailer, was leaving the court house, and Bill Stratton, jailer, was) coming to the court house in. op ponite direction. Both got busy! when they heard the shote, and| Johneon was caught between them. | WILSON’S committee, and the complaint leges that Mrs, Sadler's true name is Kate Levis, and that she is a na-| tive of Scotland and has not been naturalized, County Auditor Case} is made a defendant, and the court| {s asked to order him not to print Mrs. Sadler's name on the ballots EDDIE FAINTS Los A ES, Oct. 14,—When City Pr utor Guy Eddie ap peared in court today another war rant, charging him with having contributed to the delinquency of Miss Elma Jones, a minor, was served on him. Eddie fainted “ZIP” WENT ZIP FRANCISCO, Oct Mu » of his trous ers in effort, he determined upon revenge with his revolver. Then the dog, with a snarl, grab- bed the gun and “beat it.” SHOT IN POCKET GLENDALE, Or, Oct, 14—A stray bullet from @ hunter's gun entered a trousers pocket of Martin Lawrence, setting off several 22 calibre cartridges in said pocket The doctors are still picking the small bullets from Martin's legs. the FIRE IN ENGINE HOUSE Fire apparatus at headquarters was called out yesterday afternoon at 4:45 to quench a small fire caused by the burning out of motor in the Palace Cafe, Wash ington and Occidental. Oo sooner had engine No, 10 returned to the station than it rushed forth on ac count of another fire. Its own fur nace had accidentally become ig nited, and was filling headquarters with smoke, RAKE KERR KK * * WEATHER FORECAST * Rain tonight and Tuesday; * moderate southeasterly winds, * Temperature at noon, 60, * RAK REE E KR E KR K +eeeeeeee HOME EDITION HS GAME 5 10 2 ATTEMPTED. ES FROM THE WORLD’S CHAMPIONSHIP BASEBALL SERIES il worry about the ship of state when Phi- lander, who is first mate, as it were, se- renely goes ‘round the course at the Seattle Golf club and putts expertly with his niblick GIANTS STILL HAVE A CHANCE TO WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP (By United Press Leased Wire.) BY GRANT LAND RICE NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Driven to bay, the Giants led a last, rush. ing, desperate assault against the Red Sox machine today and tore It apart within one round. Marquard pitched his pals to a romping, cake- walk victory by the count of 5 to 2. The Rube, as in his first start, broke the Boston attack at every turn, and after one rickety round— slashing sluggers with a thud. Tonight the Giants move back to Boston for another game stand, where Jeff Tesreau and Joe Wood hook up for their third clash, The first round today settied the battle. Stahi stuck in Buck O’Brien and the Giants were ready. Knowing they had their backs against the wall, they rushed the Red Sox spitballist with such savage ae he Prag on the ropes in a twinkling, when he was slammed lor six hits and five runs before Stahi could get Gp and: teas tea ne: get another pitcher warmed ‘ Collins followed O’Brien in the second round, rolling back the Giants’ rushes by wonderful pitching—sure and effective—but his brile lant work went to seed. For, working on that five-run lead, the Rube, after one short lapse—through over-confidence—settied to his task and breezed in under wraps. After the second round he was never in trow bie, and sharp, sure support by his mates did the rest. THE GAME BY INNINGS First Inning Fifth Inning Boston—-Hooper singled behind! Boston—Hoo) P per filed to Murray, EX ENSES ...2 base. Hooper caught off| Yerkes filed to Murray Speaker jfirst, Marquard to Merkle to/flied to Herzog. No runs (My Vatted Press Leased Wire) | Fletcher to Merkle. Yerkes filed! New York—Devore singled to WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—That|to Snodgrass. (Stahl refused to/left. Doyle popped to Wagner. he personally paid the expenses of announce his pitcher until New | Snodgrass fied to Hooper, and De- Woodrow Wilson's presidential) York goes to bat.) Speaker |vore was doubled at first. Hooper campaign for the first two montha| Walked. Speaker stole second. |to Stahl. No runs of the New Jersey governor's can techn filed to Devore, No runs. | si a . xth Inning didacy was the testimony today be- New York—Devore out, Gardner Boston— y % tions investigating committee by|&Tounder to Yerkes. Doyle stole | oer ° L 3 Wm. McCoombs, chairman of the|**cond. Snodgrass fanned. Mur-|'"Niw — york— democratic national committee ray safe, on an infield single to Hoopes: Markie poms ogy coat. I meet and kise him at tl 3 MeCoomba testified that his per-| Wagner Doyle taking third. Doyle | Herzog flied to Yerkes, No runs, “There is no time for more. Mest eat—five minutes in which| #0na! pocket suffered to the ex.|Seored when O'Brien made a balk, Seventh Inni to stuff and cranch like « beast. tent of $10,000. He gave the total| Murray taking second Merkle “on nning @At the lact mouthful he le up 1 have the coat ready. | run| contributions to Wilson's fund as|doubled to right, scoring Murray.| Boston—Wagner out, Marquard with him to the gate. He kisses melmgain and starts down the hill to #! 5, including $11,000 from|Herzog doubled to left, scoring |to Merkle. Cady filed’ to Snod- tas gat, By te Wend bs talon a moain In thie window, waving | himself, F, C. Penfield, Philadelphia, Merkle, Meyers singled to left,|grass. Collins flied to Murray. No cil h gave $12,000, Chas R. Crane, Chi,| Herzog reaching third. Herzog | runs. That le my tie—hie and mingl it hee not varied in the eight| caso, $10,000, Cleveland Dodge and| "cored on a double steal. Yerkes’| | New ‘York [Mexers out, Collins a. ae $ : es oo | throw to the plate being wide, Mey- | to Stahi letcher fied to Speaker, eave Wee" haive bean Manran. : Jother Princeton friends $85,000, |" he 1 toh ‘Oh, he was honest with me whe he wooed mo, He told me again| Samuel Untermyer, $7,000, A. 1. ¢re (aking third. | Pletcher bunted | Marquard filed to Speaker. No and again what jt would mean to bea fireman's wife, ‘It's little you| Elkins $12,500, and Harry Morgen:| tir, Mevers scoring. Fletcher out, | runs Eighth tnni Will see of me,’ be sald, ‘for the de nt 1s @ jealous mistress thau $20,000 Geer pe ostoe—-Htaneek tae Maciel: ‘ane girbiike, | heard and did hear. | would not look into the Boston—Gardner reached first on grass. Yerkes singled over second But, with the lengthening of tie weary years 1 began to under ANOTHER CHANCE "228s Rh sbgipeconr EM a sated bie Ptr pp Soe gs stand the doubt and fear that had in his heart when he wooed | lteoned. Oote dene nt ol hee tee ee ee ma At Oe he tock 6 BU Ciel e tie, me penen’ teal “Young man, | will give you fanned Cady fouled out to Me New York—-Devore out, Collins scensthiar or AGI: Gal ear ie aahaient ua ta work bard | another chance. Now go out ye eo batting for ORs to - abl. Dosis a bo . - “A y t . 5 . | and make good.” | doubled, scoring Gardner and Stah!. Snodgrass beat out an infield hit. aw A could not stand the lonelin and idieness—the terrible, silent With these words, Judge | Hooper fouled out to Meyers. Two xdgrass out stealing, Cady to “We prayed for children, swe both love them, and because| Ronald this morning suspended [rus “ Wasser: Nocaae they would be company for me. We for a girl. But no girl came,| % sentence of one to 15 years PF _ were —_ sy > Ninth Inning or boy, either. And there were times when | thought | would go mad.| 4t Monroe, Ay og “rg Hina’ rt is Gesenic. fio tena byle Mied | Roston—Gardner flied to Snod- “1 took up writing; | had to forget my loneliness. We moved into| arnt Pheer Ay vB case nia Collins now pitching for Boston. |* Stahl flied to Murray. Wag- thie house and | took in boarders, sa that | might have work to do. || “Who pleaded guilty to burglary: Third Inning Herzog to Merkle: No have made friends with all the children, so that now | am| , 1Me Prosecuting | attorney DistiiMeraeeaented over ade like a second mother to them. | @ dog, ® foolish, clever, near-| ee oe ied i ttle for 5 jond. Gpeaker filed to Suodg AB. R. 1. PO. AB human dog. | have a canary that to me. | have a rose garden,| 7a? had lived in oe Sle ooik Gaded ka prions es oe and, in the windows of my house, growing things. number of years, had borne a rt a 5 a ee oa 2 2 Ss “These things | have and do a8 f-means of self-protection against| 9° reputation, but got drunk “gli per herein eee eee ’ on the night of the crime. New York—Snodgrass flied to the cnawing loneliness. pat antics et Yerkes. Murray singled to right 4.2 2a And in the meantime I live byrtheealendar, It tells me that next and was out, stealing, Ho ti : 8 ene Friday my husband will come to ma@ He wil! get out of his uniform MUST SHOW SHE Yerkes. Merkle beat out an infield |Cady, ¢. $.8: 1 ee and Into the old clothes and the Smgans he wears when he putters hit. Merkle out stealing, Cady to O-8tle™ p 2.2 See about the house. | Wagner. No runs a 1S. © eree ee ‘When he has mowed the lawhcarried in coal for me, and done IS A CITIZEN Fourth trining aspareia a on ome ate the hundred and one things that onlf a man can do about a house, he | Boston—Stah! beat infield | Totals eo. 3 +n 2 9 comes here Into my study, He dissfranges my notes, and I like {t.|| Mrs. Kate Sadler, a socialist ora-/ 1) 01) 7 Hee “ Sanace wae of: *Rngle batied for O'Brien In second. He scatters tobacco on my rug, and Ido not care. He puts bis feet on tO and at present running for the) oo ca. Cady singled to right.| Xow Yerk— ABR HPO. AR my desk and litters the floor with newspapers, and I am glad legislature from the 41st district, ere eee hrd. Collins hit Peg Dewares te. . 23) Fae “And, somehow, it doesn't matter Mf he hasn't a word to say to me,| W## cited this morning by an order | 2°00. Nt g-Fee \plstchas de Dosis lincionee & $3 aces and if all | can see, when | glance up from my work, ie a newspaper |*kned by Judge Everett Smith to) 6 ioe NG pune ¢ | Murray, 3 $278.9 9 and a pair of sprawling lege, | am , because | know that, on the | @PPear tomorrow morning in Judge | Now Yew Herzog flied to +8 12°41 other side of that newspaper, is my prt Dykeman's court, to show that she | speaker Mayers tripled ‘bo center Ce eae aes) 3% “When his one day in eight is past, I turn to my calendar again— eee Twain acon pro yebt | Fletcher flied to Speaker, Meyers 8 © 28% and wait. oy Se, Ore ey oi | being held at third. Marat f pag A ; ‘ * 4. Marquard out Sonia eae "You may have heard, perhaps, that firemen are a wild, dissolute |‘2¢ King county socialist central) yoni. i, Stahl. No rune | »e sn G | | | A LETTER ABOUT “BOB” HODGE Editor The Star: Dear Sir—I have the honor of knowing “Bob” Hodge, intimately, more than 12 years. I baptized his four boys, was well acquainted with his wife and family af- fairs at Black Diamondé and since his residence in Seattle. I want “Bob's” friends to know that whatever trouble there has been in his home affairs he was not to blame. Anyone de- sirous of more information on this or any other subject con- nected with his private life can apply to me. I believe in him, He’s a manly, sober, kindly and honest citizen, and well worth the confidence and vote of all decent men and women. He has not the polish of the college graduate. Neither had the apostles, whom the Pharisees of old ridiculed. But what- ever office he may to fill, he will do his duty to thie utmost of his ability RICHARD BUSHELI Pastor Congregational Church, Black Diamond, Was be elected 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

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