The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 6, 1912, Page 1

§ know the city yf Seattle was bullding a street car line, of course. You on the bond fasue for that pur of years back, But did you t rails are now being laid, and ft be so very long, now, before ing on them? See Page &. VOL. 14, NO, 241, y THE PAPER . ‘Juere 19 A MOVEMENT QUIT GIVING PHRSENTS MAS TIME, THAT SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1912. QNE CENT oR THAINS AND. The Seattle Star EDITION NEWS STANDS Be THIS IS ABOUT THE WAY IT WORKS OUT OSECUTING JIND—-ANOTHE ISOM FRIEND OF ) SANTA CLAUS me Levy, Who Owns Four pvie Theatres, Is Going to Help tle-Chimney Kids rill understand that, r larices, 1 Was 3 cost an: Vou will’ eco that he did not ask/same show. And tho nickel in the Christ- dime you spend will help to buy which he, ‘The Star |t07* for Seattie’s 5,000 littie-chim- * i Pc ney children. A isher are Siving | We want to load that biggest for the little-|Chrietmas tree that ever was as \fult as it will hold. anyone else “1, : Speaking of the tree reminds us. Claus, I'd hide | ereatter we sball refer to it as sand say nothing. |the Tree of a Thousand Lights. a good-hearted | “t ba og yt much about LF find such a pal of observed P. J. Aaron, manager tI do not hesitate to ‘end ba Cog orgie te oo cham of mine. And when I heard Tm a little sore, Ijthat The Star and Mique Fisher i be one of the first|were helping him to give this x joald turn to, 1 do Chrletman show, and that Wagner | be slighted in this ‘a ia were going to play, ‘May know, | am | and all, I said to myself: ‘Will you e , a lame idle aside while your old Opera House, |sideick, Santa Claus, is working Our lke a beaver to give 5,0v0 little and chimney kide a merry Christraas?” e Cat “The more I got to thinki to Santa about it the surer I became that ween 3 and 4| Wasn't. I'm going to light that , the 19th, these | tree. It's going to We so light that moving-picture | it will dazzle the eyes to look at It to Santa Claus.|I'm going to show you something nickel, taken In [entirely new Christmas-tree that hour will be |lichting. I'm going to put on that for the little-chim-!tree on electric lights!” KING wsonl io Wygoan cteretenpiee Smadar SSS ER STEAMER ON | ROCKS; MANY ABOARD DIE Heavy Loss of Life Reported in Blizzard on Great Lakes BULLETIN MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 6. —Captain Parkinson of the steamer Easton sent a wireless here today to be on the rocks at Iroquots reef in Lake Superior, 30 miles weet of Port Arthur, where a biferard te raging. ft is said that the loss of life has been heavy, but the managers of the line Insist that all the pas sengers and crew are A score of ships are endangered by the storm. The schooners George Marah and Minerva and the lumber barge Art sona, caught in the gale on Lake Michigan, are unreported, and fears are entertained that they may have foundered, HIGHWAYMEN AT WORK DOWN TOWN Wm. Kirby, Grand Central hotel, was robbed of $38 and given a se vere last night by three men in the alloy between Third and Fourth avs. off Pike st. He was able to give the police a good. de scription of his assailants. Later Charles Brown and Charles Relies were arrested. In the same vicinity, later In the evening, C. Pelcher, St. Charles hotel, was robbed of $6 by & man who stopped him by showing a se cret service badge. Portiand.—A Sé-acre farm has been purchased by Chief of Police Slover for $7,500. Slover intends to settle down as a country gentle man. ees OF HAIR, AND BLONDES--- AN ODE TO THE NICEST GOLDEN HAIR IN VODVEEL DL. BOALT discussion is}. Reyn- @ the subject adroit. t ne | We once deeit, long * ined us night- with a song of | always sing of hair. mately sang abovt being! ide tha cradu! uv tha! ‘We did not care for} Much better the song) ‘Warrior boold, who in} Went merriiee his’ Merrilee bia la-ay: Js young ana fair, | Wan golden hair | is has alr like| man of the song. | about in an ornate iw picking fights. exchanged wi enemy, he'd inquire: though death be nigh? @ OF dle! Rot middle-aged and do that, too—for ee in CARRIE AND HER HAIR. Dress agent at the|‘steen dollars a week to any man- re Says Carrie is the| ager, natural blonde in| Again we scoffed, for we felt ore seeing Carrie|sure that there was not in all the We scoffed. world so much money as the sum ONDE! he mentioned, ING” SCOFF WE] “Prove it!” we sald, Then we called on Carrie Reyn- -\olds in her dressing room. ‘ | We will hazard a guess that the 4 , “at tho drug} lady has the usual number of fin- "4 gers and toes. We have a hazy eroes agent \sisted that| recollection that she walked before a teal, and real|us on two legs, and that her head Bat {t and tor other nai-| was set on her shoulders where it “ Were pees an as-| belonged, and that she waved two i. thade her worth arme-—not one or thres—when she geatured. We seem to know that she has a mouth and teeth—white, flashing teeth—-and a nose—a very nice nose—and two ears—close-set and rosily pink—and eyes! Yes, we saw eyes—large, brown which had caught and held in their slum- brous depths a golden reflection. | Bah! What are legs and arms, body, head, teeth, nose? Adjuncts, merely. Good enough, but of sec- ondary importance. Necessary, perhaps, in completing the perfect ensemble. But— REAL STUFF! WE FELT OF IT OURSELVES “See for yourself,” sald Carrie Reynolds, “if it is real gold.” We searched with our fingers. It was almost sacrilege. We pried to the roots of that glorious hair; we explored the scalp. You can't fool us. No wig was this; no drux We could, if we find the tme and space, write & classic about Carrie Reynolds’ hair. We would, if per- | mitted, liken it fn one glowing par- agraph, to spun gold, And in the next glowing paragraph we would make poetic reference to a field of , ripened wheat waved by zephyr. ‘We would speak of Carrie's hair as an “aureole” and a “halo,” whose golden reflection her soporific eyes have caught. Oh, we would write a dandy, if we had time. But Mac, the composing room foreman, is roaring “Copy!” and Freddie, the office boy, has taken up the cry, and the managiug editor is bellowing “Copy!” and tne lno- types are fretting to start their work, and the presses aro champ- ing at their bits to be off-—or should we say they are straining at the leash ?7—and— Done in a minute! Speed! Speed! We cannot possibly, in this strenuous rush, do justice to the jae beautiful blonde in vaude- ville. Darn it! the next king of England has at least come out into the spotlight. where the folke can look him over, He has left the palace, where royal apron strings bound him, and enjered Oxford university, He Iikes his new experience, too. Evory Oxford boy is en- titled to spend one day a week at home, but, during the first two months of his stay at school the young prince asked for no leave of absence. The first thing you discover about young Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Wettin (that’s the real name of the Prince of Wales), is that he will probably be an even smaller man than the king, At 18 he wel pounds and is a scant five feet in height. » When he shoves his out of his dormitory and yells down to 4 group-of classmates, you see that he is a blonde, with blue eyes, red cheeks and big, white teeth. HANGING OF MAN ATTORNEY INVEST _ DEALERS HAVE COMBINED T in greclusion except for the INTERRUPTED BY | By United Prees Leased Wire, SAN QUENTIN, Cal., Dec. 6-—~"t protest against this hanging in the name of Jesus Christ.” state prison here 5 Christensen..of San ‘ancisco, spectator, during the execution of Willie Luis, a Chinese, for the mur- in San Luts Obispo county Of! our 4 father's Chinese-American wife. sen shouted Warden Hoyle, “to take away something that you can- not return. Jesus would not do this thing.” At this point two husky guards seized Christensen and carried him from the death room, The hanging proceeded. fan't supposed to yell out the boy is doing « lot of |» if things these days that he ad the country. cashier, ‘won another lap in “shop-|Of her admirers had artistic tastes. Christmas race. But may-|One book was Snail & rest, preparatory to| but so nauseous in sprinting tomorrow. Let uajeven the policemen who aided In O, ahyway. GGLE PRICES OF FOODSTUFFS | OF HERLOVE FORBROKER Says She Gave All to Man Shot in Her Apartments By United Press Leased Wire BAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 6—‘T refuse to say anything about it, I will not tell you who fired the shot.” ‘This was the answer today of Robt. J. Widney, Los Angeles real estate dealer, when asked by po- lice in the Morton hospital here if it were true that Mrs. Frances Vivien Lyons fired the shot in her CHRISTIAN GEORGE |apartmenta which perforated his PATRICK DAVID WET- | stomach and brought him to death's OF WALES, AS Al goor, DENT. Mrs. Lyons, the pretty ex-chorus girl of the “Babes in Toyland,” from her cell today still insisted mnously that she did not fire the shot which ended her romance to do. with the Los Angeles man. She Toyal plan for him at [declared Widney's wife, who is he was to /here at his side, is nothing to the & year there, practically [real estate broker, and defiantly saserts that he loved—and loves— her only. “I sacrificed everything I held dear in life because of my love for Rob Widney,” she tearfully de clared. “Does it seem possible that 1 would shoot him in view of that? He loved me as dearly. We were wrapped up in each other. This other woman was nothing to him. He wanted a separation but was too honorable to take it without her consent. HOPES TO MARRY HIM. “If Bob dies there will be nothing left for me. We will be married now, I hope, for I cannot imagine that his present wife will continue to stand in our path after all this publicity. “1 gave infinitely more than she. 1 was happily married and. had a ¢:Joving husband, of whom I thought the world, until | saw Bob Widney window in that fashion, le and his pals time with their chief delight is to act HOOSE between C church ered by the church to a pretty young mine at Kalamazoo, self in a strike of girl corset chose her union your union and your That was the ultimatum deliv Mich, who had interested her workers, She On page 4 #he tella why. a On 1 Guess ITS \ THE PROPER. STUNT APTOR ALL Confers With Growers Who Pro- duced in Court Letter Telling of Agreement to Control Market Federal Authorities May Inquire Into Sit- uation; Judge Urges Necessity of Some Remedial Action i Attorney John F. Murphy was Prosecuting closeted all this morning with F. H. Davidson, a Hood River, Ore., farmer, and W. S. Stark, his attorney, investigating charges of conspiracy of trade against Western av. commission yesterday. office all this morning. may follow. The alleged conspiracy was not directly an Issue in the civil suit before Judge Tallman, but enough of the evidence tutroduced tended to show a gigantic combination among some of the leading commis- sion houses to control the Seattle Market, both in the shipping and distributing end. Companies complained of are: Smith & Bioxom Co., 807 West- “ Powles & Co., 821 Western “Elerath & Radford, 1007 West. wart . Klyce & Co., 1011 Western ua W. Godwin, 1021 Western av. C. W. Chamberiain, 1001 Western av. Jackson & Son, 1113 Western av. All these, according to the let- ters, are members of the Produce Distributing Co, In one of the let- ters ft was stated that Chamber- lain may be dropped out of the combination and Jackson & Co. substituted. “If these conditions are true,” said Mayor Cotterill this morning, “there is absolute need for imme- diate action. Seattle must remain free from combinations which tend to make the farmer suspicious of eur city, and drive the market away from us. If the city authorl- ;|tles can exercise any power in re- 1, and how we wished for the day when a little one would toddle about our feet. “This happiness, of course, was withheld from by the attitude of Mrs. Widne; The girl is proud of her conquest. She cheerfully concurred in a s0- lection of photos in which her charms are displayed being taken ‘were shocked today to see | for reproduction. White gossiping on Some of the exhibits found when the} her roo: in the Hotel Sorrento, that blonde quick| where the shooting occurred, were while busy tty | Searched, showed that one at least fellow townsman, with was simply giving hie| sketches, well and cleverly drawn, subject that the search blushed. moving such conspiracies, I shall direct every energy to that end.” The charges against the Western av. houses may also be investigat- ed by the federal authorities, In- quiry at the U. 8. district attor- ney's office established that, with the facts as charged by Davidson, the local commission merchants were violating the interstate com- merece act. “There was no {legal combina- tion in existence,” it was declared, at the office of Smith & Bloxom Co, The Produce Distributing Co. is a brokers’ concern. It takes what business it gets. There is no agreement between the commission found full of | ee Christmas Murphy spent less than some of the biggest commission houses on the “ ts, which were brought out in a civil suit in Judge Tallman’s court 15 minutes in his own " inet ‘street’” merchants. Once in a while sev- yeral of us met at noon. But it was not a daily feature, as I understand Mr. Davidson claims. That serious conditions exist on the “street,” by which the farmer and shipper may be left to the mercy of some of the conmission houses, was revealed yesterday in the suit of the Davidson Fruit Co. of Hood River, Or., against the Produce Distributors’ Co., which re- sulted in a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $711.96. The jury wi ut but 30 minutes. Six Firms Combined. ‘he Produce Distributors’ Co., ft was alleged, is a combination of six houses on the “street.” H. F. Davidson shipped 500 crates of strawberries to this concern. He declared it was an outright sale for $3 a crate. Six different con- cerns, however, rendered accounts to him, and the total amount he re- ceived was $711.96 short of the original sale price, Davidson introduced a letter pur- porting to show that the Produce Distributors’ Co. frankly admitted it was a combination of six firms, with an agreement to divide equally the produce coming into the market. “Inasmuch as we are able to contro! practically all the re ceipts, we thereby maintain a price that is fair to ail,” the letter continues. Another letcer from a member of the produce company to the David- son Fruit company sets forth that representatives of the six business houses meet every day from 1:30 to 2:30 p. m., im the office of the com- pany, preserving close touch with the situation. Judge Tallman is in favor of remedial action at once. “If such conditions exist, dy which the farmer is impoverished, and the earning power of land de preciated by the fact that commie sion houses consume the profits, there ought fo be at once definite takem to correct such he said. Toys rhage ‘Tw fon, «'cat|| SANE ANSWERS TO PERE BEBE ERE E 8 Of S wuneinh cudeese’ VTE ee oe ee | FOOLISH QUESTIONS * Generally fair tonight and &|Club) yesterday. Last year Mrs, * Saturday, not much poy in ® paid $760 for him. * temperature; light east to ® ® southeast winds, Temperature & *® at noon, 40, * KKK KKK Kah hk te! pall Mhs become of the old- ~ cuspidor that had roses om it? McMANNIS wanted a sult of clothes pretty “Check PORTLAND, OR.—G. badly, so he drew out $45 on a checking account of 50 cents, suits don’t become you," the judge later remarked. AN FRANCISCO.—“OH, YOU beautiful doll, I can’t live without When Gaetno Mirabito found a cagd bearing this legend on his bureau, he sued for divorce. At hearing wife's little sister swore she wrote it to remember os 08 SAN FRANCISCO.—LUSTY ae m the interior of an ambu- lance in which Mrs. Marle Anderson was being hurried to a hospital here revealed to the astonished driver that his trip, which started with one passenger, ended up with two. LOS ANGELE FOREST BAILEY and C. H. Blesse, teachers at Manual Arts high school, pummeled each other two rounds for the de- lectation of their pupils, It was a “faculty vaudeville” show, Each con- sented to a return match, LOS ANGELES.—-A BROKEN crate permitted ten chickens to es- cape from a produce wagon in a section of the city populated by ne- groes, All were returned by their captors, the owner declares. Please tell me how to take the wrinkles out of a washboard.—C, 8. Place the washboard in a tub of hot suds. Massage the board vigorously with a piece of well- soaped cloth and eventually the none, will wear out, or you will, should a gen- wide of a lady D. B. When on the atree tleman walk on the or on her outside?—J. It is much more comfortable to walk on her outside. But even then there should be no sharp nails in your shoes. A young man the other day told me that my voice, was euphonious, Ploase give me the derivation of this word so 1 will know what he meant, —Fisttered Fanny, From the old Latin “phoni,” word To decide a bet, please answer the following question: What became of the anciont Romans?—L. J. P. So far as we know, all of them died. too long. drags on int and gets dirty, What shall I do?—Pussied Pauline. Clean it. For the Children-- Bargain Prices Toys for the children! What an exasperating problem this has been. And what discouraging hours we have all spent in trying to decide on just what to buy. However, this year, the problem of toys and presents for the children is more easily solved, owing to the enormous Christmas stock of children’s goods just received by the McDougall & Southwick Co, It will pay you to visit this store and inspect this extensive display and we know you will save many weary hours in this man- ner, as this extensive display offers so many valu- able suggestions that you cannot fail to find just what you want and at the prices you want. Read their advertisement on page 4, today’s issue, Also send your want ads to The Seattle Star’s down- town office, 229 Union street (with Souvenir & Curio Shop) or phone them to Elliott 44, SPSS Foe ae OS