The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 29, 1912, Page 1

SEATTLE S THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE VOL. 14. NO, 235, SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1912, Deen a lot of talk of late about 4 8 Curtis, the Seattle man who bas decome world famotty = an gene : rican Indian % you really ee oan Do you know what he has Of how he lived 20 years among the to get material for bis works? Turn THEN- TAKES A PLUNGE IN THE LAKE EVERY MORMING BEFORE PREAKFAST——— —— BRR-R-aa! MiGHTZ WELL MURDER US AS FREEZE vo To PEATH- - *-"D--+ Q DO you Want YOuk OVE RCOM! ) now roe Anke Cad PLUNG 7 4 we START SHIVERING LIKE SAM HILL AND CUSSING JAKEY FYRIM THE MINUTE HE GETS ON THe CARL Just BECAUSE IT NT HEAILO aman WHOPREFERS TO SL REP DOORS THE CULDES WEATHER REFUSES TO WEAR wid OVERCOAT TO WORK, —+ WOODROW WILSON RESTING UP,FOR HIS JOB; PLENTY OF EATS, SLEEPS AND EXERCISE ON PR AT BERMUDA | HAMILTON, Bermuda, Nov. 29.— | | Remember how it felt to run out | of the school house the first day of vacation? | Then you know how Woodrow | Wilson, president-elect, “feels in| | Bermuda today ' | He is as happy, as cafefree, as ERYONE jif he hadn't a responsibility in the world. } “I feel like a boy out of school,” * the governor himself. And he acts like it. The strain of the cam- paign, the problem of making a cabinet, the difficulties of trans forming the democratic platform into federal laws, the busing: of putting additional progressive leg islation throuch the New Jersey logisiature—all these things have slipped away from Gov. Wilson like dew under a July sun—not to be re- sumed until he returns to the Unit- ed States Dec, 16. He's Some Sleeper The Wilsons begin the day the way they happen ¢o feel. If they are sleepy in the morning, they sleep. The governor himself is one of our best litthé sleepers. It te usually 9 or 9:30 when he sits down to breakfast, VISIT EV Old Man Explains He Finds any Small Chimneys He Can’t nter and Wants Star to Help BY FRED L. BOALT. fat party to sce you,” said Freddie, the office Pcame in a buzz-wagon.” : was on his heels—a thick set, bewhiskered automobile great coat and wearing goggles. Fat pice fave been, but I saw that his clothes hung loose) bony shoulders and that his cheeks were sunken | « ONE CENT + minutes of your time?” he and fald bis card om the RRR ti * CLAUS & CO. (inc.) * Disarivatl Agents. e he y Jobbers Mgr. North Pole. Ateeeeereneeee come at an inconven-| “Is your ae aike of Old Times. 8 1" veplied Santa ble earnestness. weive me,” he beean, “if I in et i note. You er me as | looked 20 M Will recall. It was at « Christmas party. I was toys, taking them from with candles and) them to the shout- excited children. You et ae ; ” 1 naid. i remember, too, that | t@ays I was heavier than | am Saf 1 came down from the reindeer team, the And | drove over descended the capa and filled the stock- @ the children slept.” given up the rein- an Auto. Sand all,” said Santa ear is more practical. | 3 ground, And that bto my Times have changed ‘Were a boy. The cities are targer. There are And 960 many peo Meamheates flats. And more live in tene all that to do with ‘Sbout in an auto?” { ing to do with # &n auto I could not Bio make my rounds. And al & six-cylinder, 80 h-p. 1 fan't reach everybody Maes, big chimneys and old- fireplaces have gone M fashion. Sometimes 1 down a chimney only to tin a boiler full of p What do you want The jt Make all the chimneys Bave a plan to reorganize at I need publicity, It @hential to the plan. 1 | ,{0-Operation.” ler, plained | “The keynote of mod Is centralization. ) Banks have a house through jobbers n houses Every ena has T right?” 4, and Sauta Claus went ae with a tinge of mel-| ja pigmy couldn't You saw me} business with The! ite distributing | yon: “1 can still reach little Montmo rency of Capitol hill, | can still manage to get around to the Spon- | dulix twins of Queen Anne. how about the thousands and fhou | sands and thousands of other kide— the kids that live in tenements and shacks with chimneys so email! that get down ‘em, | much less a man of my girth? How about them?” T dida’t know. “Why,” exploded Santa Claus rem@iiber when this city was village. Yes, sir, In the earty |days I could visit every house jin two jerks of a lambh’s tall now! Nearly 300,000 people. be 40,000 homes!” Put,” 1 asked, “where does The Star come in?” “Publicity!” shouted Santa Claus. Publicity! I ean't reach ‘em all with my reindeer. 1 can’t reach ‘em all with my auto, even if | splinter the speed limit. If I can’t get to them, they must come to me. Teil “em #0,” Would Give 'Em Toys “I begin to get you,” I said. big hall somewhere, ond——" “RIGHT-O! AND A THUND! }ING BIG TREE. AND A THO! \SAND LITTLECHIMNEY KIDS. |TWO THOUSAND LITTLE-CHIM- NEY KIDS. FIVE THOUSAND, |MAYBE, IF THERE ARE THAT | MANY.” “Aren't you encroaching on the province of the organized chari ties?” | asked. “They usually look after the poor at this time of the year.” May “A ear. My! The old man was mad! “That's right!" he spluttered, And give ‘em useful things—un- derwear and mittens and secons- hand shoes. You make me tired! Kids don't want useful things for i¢ things—bats and balls, and dolls, | jand mechanical choo-choo engines, | and tops, and woolly dogs. and baw lambs. I tell you I won't have any thing to do with second-hand clothes. Now, then,” Santa Claus concluded, “I've put the proposition before you. How about it?” I told him 1 could only refer the | matter to the editor, He wanted to argue with me, but I cut him short. You have to do that with these old fashioned fellows, or they'd waste your time. his goggles and clumped down the stairs. The last I saw of him he was driving north lke the wind, with an indignant notorcycle cop in hot pursnit. RUGBY PLAYER’S JAW IS BROKEN By United Prenn Loaned Wire. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal., Nov, 29.—-Frank H, Hilton of Port- land, Or,, vember of Stanford's Rugby fifteen, is suffering from a | broken jaw here today, received in | yesterday's game between Stanford and Berkeley. He played five min utes after the accident and protest- ed when forced from the struggle by Referee Maloney. EVELT ON MOTHERS’ PENSIONS. Statement Commenting on Carnegi Presidents.) small-sal a wind even more (than a peieve that the «ndent childy needed © that she m oad nd deserted h et to work, and hise arnings used for his wife Plan to Pension ex- ried federal employes or widow left at the death of her en, should receive from the state y live and bring up those chil- , he should promptly be traced Bet) “1 But | ‘hristmas, They want fine, useleas |! He got up with a sigh, readjusted | Mrs. Wilson and hie daughters, Jessie and Kleanor, are with bim and, like him, they are resting and {doing what fancy dictates. In the forenoon they usually take ja drive, in a bired surrey, or go for a bicycle ride. Mra, Wilson does not ride a wheel, bot the governor and the two daughters are experts and have ridden pretty much over the whole island. If they are driv- ing or riding for long distances they lunch wherever they happen to be. In the afternoon the president elect reads or naps (for an hour, Sometimes he will then spend a couple of hours chatting and telling stories with the 10 newspaper cor respondents with him, Sometimes be and his family go sailing on the | beautiful, green waters of the Ber- mudas, in a saliboat or an excursion | steamer. | Dinner at 7 o’Clock | Frequently the governor takes a liong walk, a recreation of which be lis particularly fond. Whatever the fam! has been doing during the day, all members gather without fail for dinner at 7 o'clock, CONFESSES HE STRANGLED TWO YOUNG NEWSIES By United Prese Leased Wire. RUPPALO, N. Y., Nov. 29.-—Dis- triet Attorney Dudley announced here today that J. Frank Hickey, a chemist, had confessed to murder. ing Joseph Josephs, 7 years old, and Michael Kruke, a newsboy, found letrangled in Central Park, New York city, ten years ago. Josephs! was choked to death, his body be found in a vault at Lackawanna, a suburb of Buffalo. “Drink caused my downfall,” he laaid. “I could not stand it any longer, and had to confess. My life has simply been hell since I killed the Josephs boy. I wrote the post- cards, but was under the influence lof liquor In every case. I drank try- ling to escape remorse. | “L experienced poignant re morse,” continued Hickey, tn his lconfession, “when I killed Krucke, ‘but when I strangled the Josephs boy to satisfy the demands of my terrible lust I went nearly insane with remorse. 1 contemplated sul- leide many times, but always clung to life, hoping some time, gome- where, to be able to forget. “Now I am ready to pay the pen- alty.” CHINESE EXCITED OVER NEWS OF WAR The Mongolia controversy and the Prospect of a war between China and Russia has caused excitement among the Chinese of Seattle. Goon Dip, the Chinese consul here, declared today Seattle Chinese probably would contribute a gigan- tie fund to be raised among the Chinese along the Pacific coast, } VACCINATION KEEPS TYPHOID FROM ARMY By United Prose Leased Wire, WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Med- ileal officers are much ratified |with the continued success of anti |typhoid vaccination in the army. |Records show that among the 67, 900 troo! in the United States there have been in the last ten mgnth» but 12 cases of typhoid and 101 i EN ROUTE FOR BERMUDA—PR: CAPT, J, W. MKENZIE LOOKI INT-ELECT WILSON AND @ AT THE SHIP'S CHART COMPANY AGREES TO HEAT § Seattle street cars will be heated on all long runs. Persons living in the outlying dis- triets, who were most interested in| the car-heating campaign, have won the day. The Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co. has decided to furnish heat on all cars except on lines making only short runs. The Green Lake, University, Ballard and other longtrip tines, wil be equipped with electric heating facilities both for the feet and under every seat. This morning Superintendent Kempster of the traction company made the announcement to the franchise committee of the council, that the company will voluntarily install such heating arrangements. Kempster’s statement followed a report adopted by the committee to the effect that an investigation showed the necessity cf heating the cars, The council lobby was filled with residents of the suburban sec. tions. They pleaded for immediate action by the city. The report of the committee will go to the council Monday. Because of the supreme court decisions vesting absolute power in MRS. ERICKSON DIES; HAD BEEN SICK 4 WEEKS The funeral of Mrs, Carrie Neal Erickson, wife of Councilman Erick- son, who died yesterday at her home, 768 Belmont place, will take place Sunday at 2 p. m. at the Boylston ay. Unitarian church, Mrs. Erickson was a prominent member of the church, as well as EET CARS th RE public service commis ® ie oT making regulations for pub- Ne Utilities, it in not expected any ordinance will be introduced, es- pecially in view of the traction company’s announcement this morging. committee, which consists of Counciiman Wardall, chairman, and Councilmen Blatne and Grif- fitha, held two public meetings in pursuance of a resolution passed by the council calling for an inves- tigation of the feasibility of street car heating. JUDGE ELECTED WITH STICKERS George W. Sampson title as “judge.” will not sit on the superior bemeb in spite of the fact that he received 13 votes for the short te beginning November 15 and “i January 15. oh ge Albertson this morning de- inst him in the mandamus Pp @ to compel the auditor to him an election certifi- «i The court took the position of Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attor- ne Evans, that there was no valid el because the people gener- ally recetved no notice of the spec- jal election. “The fact that 32,000 votes were cast for judges of the superior court for the full terms, and the relator received only 13 sticker votes,” sald Judge Albertson, “sig- nifies clearly that the people were ignorant ofthe election held for the short term,” Sampson's contention was that he should not be charged with the failure of the governor to issue a a member of the Women's Alliance and the French club of the unt- versity. Four daughters survive her, Kl. dl Mrs. Erickson was married 23 yeurs ago, and came to Seatile in 1900, She had gbeen ill since August, proclamation for the special elec- tion, Nicldeke! hobolohobtohkoo dated 4 ' * Weather Forecast. *” * Rain tonight and Saturday, * * moderate southerly winds. * * Temperature at noon, 42. * a * RKTT IRR “LOSES NEW JOB): ‘Sta ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS Be HEATED CARS ‘Kt FOR GERMS ~~~ THE GERMS LIE ~ DOKMANT+ WARM THE CARS, AND WHAT HAPPENS 2 THEY COME TO LIFE, ANDLEAP EVERy LApy GERM PROMPTLY BECOMES MOTHER OF A MILLION Bany GEkMS+ AND ae AS DR CRICHTON 50 TRULY SAy5. write actress about r EDITION LAUGH? LE 7) daw ae I yor “hd AWFUL DEAD? HEALTHY OH NOOO-O. UPON you. AND ALL THE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF GERMS LEAP UPON YOU, AND BITE you. AND 11S CURTAINS FOR YOu --~— THOUSANDS | ARE KILLED | BY TYPHOON, Wireless messages picked up at stations along the Pacific coast dur ing the morning brought the real story of the disastrous typhoon that swept the Philippine islands and the Sea of Japan Tuesday and Wed-| | nesday Later in the day, cablegrams to the state department at Washing ton verified the reports of tremen: | ag property Gamage and loss of ite | One cablegram, signed by the gov ernor general of the islands, declar- and Capiz had perished. Tacloban | and Capiz bad perished. Tacloman) is the capital of Leyte, and is a city of 14,000. Capiz Is a city of 20,000 At San Francisco, anxiety was) felt for the liner Manchuria, en| route from that city to Yokohama. She was believed to have been in) the storm zone. | Beveral outward bound vessels! from Seattle may have suffered in) the typhoon. The Tamwba Maru, of the Nippon: Yusen Kaisha line, left Seattle No | ~ THE END ——« ISSUE Officials Superintendent A. L. Kempster of the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co., is expecting to be ar rested some time today. Up to noon he had not been booked by the police. Kempster’s arrest will be a tech- nical one, for the purpose of test- ing the validity of the city ordi- nance, passed a few months ago, HE high o write about on gene, Wheet Any Tew Pir ¢ er AATF LderHhy Mhorn ~ Kop furry Ouk GH hier ¢ WAR FOR ARREST OF TRACTION HEAD Supt. Kempster Charged by City With Violating Car Transfer Ordinance. TREET CARS WILL BE HEATED That's Queer thin queer Billie thing to charming things to interestingly owt of tople eh likes And Well, to select she writes You'll find her articles on the page for women readers, page - Note — hey Turk f fs at (lhiidl G psomer ~--- Jude ht Foret mad. Vj Z rs 2 , wrth Ce Tht Meee mart ALS fuel berek. Yhs fofpae a, 4 ae RANT It brings up the fight of Mayor Cotterill to compel the traction company to build street car exten- sions wherever needed. The com- y has refused to do this for two years One of the mayor's suggestions |was that the city should grant \franchises to other companies for short lines, and vest in these new compelling the Furth company to |lines the power to demand transfer exchange transfers with the Loyal |exchanges from the traction com- @istance north of Ballard. vember 5, and is due at Moji, Japan,) tomorrow. She discharged all her passengers, however, at Yokohama, | ‘The Awa Maru, of the same line,) loft Seattic November 19, and is due, at Yokohama December 6. She has many passengers aboard, some of them Seattle people, but it is be Heved she was miles removed from the area affected by the storm. At| the offices of the line, nothing had| been heard from either vessel thie afternoon | Officers of Dodwell & Co., Seattle steamship agents, said two of their boats, the Protesilaus and the Bel-|saw him watching some burning leraphon, are in the storm zone.| The Protesilaus sailed from Seattle October 30 for Liverpool. The Bel-| leraphon is bound for this port.) Both vessels carry many passen- wera, TABOO RAGGING IN CALIFORNIA CAPITAL SACRAMENTO, Nov. 29. — In compliance with a city ordinance, | signs were posted today in public dance halls here prohibiting “rag- ging.” The knell of the Turkey Trot and kindred steps and whirls was sounded at midnight DEDICATES SIGHTS AT EXPOSITION SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29.—Be- fore a crowd of more than 20,000 people, New York state commission ers and commissioners from West Virginia dedicated their sites for participation in the Panama-Pacific international exposition here today, SANE ANSWERS TO FOOLISH QUESTIONS My wife is entreating me to raixe side-whitkers Morning and. night (I am not at home noona) she is the subject. She says on be all the rage and o set mine out now so that one of the first In the elty jay a crop. Is there any way I can cure her of th side-whiskers?-—L. W Sure. Raise a set. is longing for & Where do the dining car walters come from?—C. T. We cannot say. But we think we) know where most of them are going. | | _ | When is the best time to buy a/ farm?-—F. € At night, just after going to sleep, | Tam 20 pounds too Nght, Please tell me how to increas my weight Mildred. Don't try to increase your weight, Mildred. Bones mgy be all the rage next year. o | We have a beautiful.elm tree in our back yard, and I am afraid it will not live through a severe win-| ter, How can I save it from freex-| ing?—Ellen N ‘Take it Into the house at once.) (Why do women ask such foolish) questions?) ood form to use hair ofl on people tell me it is In it 4 body objects to the perfume (as) some people call it), you can say,} “T've just had my hair cut, and the} barber put it on before I noticed.” Should a man dictate love letters to his stenographer ?—G. MeD. No, indeed. A man should not dic- tate or even write love letters to his stenographer, The warrant Superintendent Valentine, of City Utilities Heights line, which rans for a sbort | pany. wit sworn to by The profits to the small in- |VYestors would, In such cakes, be enormous, as the Furth company would have to make the long hauls on its existing lines. HIS BEST EFFORTS NOT APPRECIATED By United Press Leased Wire. OAKLAND, Cal, Nov. 29.— Scenting smoke, H. C. Todd went looking for the cause with a re volver. He broke in a guest's door, Papers, so he hit him over the head and put out the fire. Todd is in Jail for assault. The man was fumigating. ATTENDS FUNERAL UNDER GUARD By United Press Leased Wire. SAN FRANCISCO, Noy. 29.— Closely guarded by detectives, Jos. | Jonas, son of Mrs. Lena Jonas, who was found murdered in her home Tuesday, attended the funeral of the aged woman here today. While no charges have yet been preferred against Jonas, the police will hold bim until a complete in- vestigation is made. He continues to suffer from extreme nervous- ness, SEVEN INJURED IN AN AUTO COLLISION "LONG BEACH, Cal. Nov. 29.— M. D. Huff, 70, a retired business man, and nis daughter, Mrs. Rena Glenn, 35, are believed to be dy- |ing today, and five other members of their party are seriously injur- ed as the result of an auto collis- ion at Compton, on the Long Beach boulevard. 10,000 MEN GIVE | UP TO BULGARS AT MORHAMLI Valted Press Leased Wire. SOFIA, Nov. 29.—It was official- ly announced here today that two entire divisions of Turkish re serves, numbering 10,000 men, had surrendered to a. Bulgarian force near the village of Morhamli. Eight mountain batteri Iso were taken. LABORERS PICK UP $140,000 ON DUMP KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 29.— Three laborers working on the city dump here today uncovered bonds having a face value of $140,000. The bonds were part of loot ob- tained by thieves who stole two registered mail sacks while em route to the postoffice from a Kan- sas City railway station. AFTER BILL TAFT’S JOB—HE’S CRAZY WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Oscar Geiger, who gave his home as Oak- land, Cal, and who came here re- cently, declared himself the original bull moose “who had come to take President Taft's job,” was today ad- Judged insane. Geiger wrote threat- ening letters to a physician. PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 29.—The steamer Beaver, flagship of the | Portland-San Francisco company's | fleet, is stuck in the mud off Post- office bar, in the Columbia river, jabout 15 miles from Portland: Pas- sengers and boat are in no danger. | | | | Quality Clothing From. Quality House On page 4 in today’s Star will be found the an- nouncement of the Eastern Outfitting Company. This successful firm is a shining example of what can be accomplished by combining good merchan- dise, good service, and persistent, conservative ad- vertising in the daily newspapers. The Eastern Outfitting Company has never been a sensational advertiser, but rather has concentrated its publicity on talking quality of merchandise, and the fact that it sells on credit. Star readers will find it of advan- tage to read its announcements from day to day. Get the habit of using Star Want Ads. They are very convenient and the cost is small. The Star guarantees more than 40,000 paid copies daily. Phone Elliott 44 or Main 9400, or call at the down- town office at 229 Union St., with the Souvenir and Curio Shop.