The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1912, Page 1

remind you, the address of the storeroom where The Star is receivin some youngster, less fortunate than your own, a learned professo: we learn more about ae with a farm, if or ifically. He ly, on page 4, and g his statement | were a lamp post.” ear, or telegraph your umbrella, and divers and sundry were mistaken. of ft see your face beeal hand, we HTING TO SAVE. OF ONE OF 5 YONDEMINED MEN n Governor May Extend mency in Execution Planned} Object Lesson to State” —John M be hanged next Fri- | foday investigating to show that Tay-| @ five men scheduled on “black Friday,” “ im self-defense. Bets id at even money that will halt the the activity of Judge of Albany, who uken to secure a cormmu- death sentence passed been shown that tan apparently not) but was r in an ante- “made by a by- ‘also struck by the ls prepared for to Die. d morderer Rolie, who; agg ot pio His sole | is that the) bé broken to her lat she never know died. Bhe has been fance of her boy’ brothers, who are im the deception. condemned, Taylor Voorn worth saving. & surprise even Judge and the pros- bas maintained a Bince the Which he fought for, punishment, was last election. it has Ith the excep- of Taylor, he would fn order that the bject les ‘murder. Governor There. typical bad man, ‘ONE TIME IN YEAR HE THAWS OUT--THAT’S CHRISTMAS} > t FRED ae BOALT ito The Star of- Without troubling to Up his card. WANE to Bee the editor,” ay es he fs busy right boy told him. ly else do? esas nothing very re it the caller. An “Aad sort of bust & little the worse, Wear, as though he had his share of i the rough-and-tumble a brusque, dtr im which made up news for what it nce, Banta Claur” he laid on the edito i eis. @ editor's red and sixty- ye in the en "he said, ed, cold blood- ieee a! On ev- ihe year, but one, talks about r at Chicago, what can be ne goes about it con ves facts to a VOL. NO. 243. i TOYS and CANDY and DOLLS and MONEY for the little-chimney kids’ very, very happy on Christmas day. __THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1912. ONE CENT How Was This for a Foggy Morning? mean. Things do get copfused | sq easily in foggy weathor. if the stage villain could have picked the kind of weath- er Seattle had yesterday, last night and this morning for his dastardly, croooo-el work, Sherlock Gook, the wisard de- tective, ne never would five times a convict, sentenced to bang for murdering Ray Perkins and throwing bis body in Coos riv er, said | “I want Gov. West to see me hanged. I want him to heer what I have to say before the trap is| |spraung. I would rather die than re main in prison for life.” Garrison asserts his innocenge. ck Roberts, who needicesty and | ntonly killed two youths in an automobile because they did not} stop at his command to be robbed. | is on the verge of Insanity, if he is }not actually insane. He alone of the five is breaking under the ctrain. POSSES SEEK IN TRAIN ROBBER: By United Prese Leased Wire. VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 9.-~Al > | though the local police depa:tmen', assisted by Cj P. R. constables, are combing the distriets adjoining | the C. P. RK. right-of-way for the/ bandit who successfuily held up| the observation car of the imperial Mmited at 7:45 Saturday evening, | up to noon no trace of the hold-up | had been obtained. ‘The boldness of the man leads {police to believe they bave to deal| jwith an experienced highwayman More than ordinary metrods are | | being adopted to effect his capture. | The Canadian Pacific Railway Co., bee its agents here, bas offer ed $500 for his capture. ASK ARBITRATION ON PANAMA CANAL | By United Press Leased Wire BERKELEY, Cal, Dec. 9—De-| claring the United States has not acted fairly in the matter of the; Hay-Pauncefote treaty in its rela tion to the Panama canal bill, a urging that the clause in thar treaty | which elicited a protest from Great Britain be arbitrated, a petition is| today on {ts way to President Taft. | I'm out for the kale. Ite a dog-eat-dog business, and if you don't trim your brother, be'll trim you. And ang smart Aleck who wants to take real money away from me has got te pry ft out of me with a meatax, Get me?” HE'S HUMAN JUST ONE DAY IN THE YEAR “But, honest, Mr. Whatever- yournameis, there's one day in the year when I'm bumar, and that’s on Christmas. If you've got time, I'll tell you why. “Kids are cruel sometimes, without meaning to be, espe clally if their folks happen to be poor. Mine were, And I re- member I used to write to San- ta Claus to bring me a lot of things that cost money, and then raise merry h— if | didn’t get what I asked for—which I never did. “Well, when I read in The Star about the show you folks are giving the littlechimney kids at Dreamiand Ch:istmas, VAIN FOR LONE 0s | invitation to a party; MORE DAYS | TO SHOP have been able to discover him. The vill-yin could have hidden behind a broomstick and given the posse the laugh. One chap did try to get frisky. Started to hold up Dr. H. J. Davidson on First av, 8. The doctor was motoring ex ceedingly cautious-like, coming ANSPORT,. Ind, Dee. 9. Elicabeth Clark Lang, a mere slip of a woman, 24 years old, is a murderess RECAUSE SHE I8 UGLY! Mrs. Junie May Copple, aged 29, the mother of two [ittle| babies, lies in her grave, the vic tim of a murderous ballet, BE CAUSE SHE HAD A SERPENT TONGUE! The “ugly duckling” slaved at drudgery through all her childish years, dreaming her “prince would come along and claim her, just as Cinderelia’s did of old. The prince came at lw they were wedded, and within that happy moment edy shattered mon Mrs. Coppie the story & great his romance of com- Mrs. told Lang shot and killed In the jall cell she between sobs ‘She talked awful sbout me to my husband the very morning after we were mar. ried, and | shot her. She told my husband right after the first breakfast | had cooked for him, right after he had kissed me good-by and gone to work, that his bride was ‘lower'n dirt, and uglier than sin!’ That's why | killed her.” Years ago james Clark came here from a farm. His wife left him and little Elizabeth had to do the housework. She tolled hard; neighbors say she “worked like a dog.” Nobody cared for her, and most people made fun of her. They called her “Ugly Liz.” “Ugly Lis" grew into woman- For her there was never an none of the “Bhe's girls made friends with her. Boys too homely,” they said | laughed In her face as (hey aneered at her timid girlish advances, “Oh, how I wanted to have some body Hike me,” she cried. Even my own father hated me. He made me work, work, work, and when 1} wanted to go out, told me that no one wanted to see my ugly face. Night after night, for years I lay in my bed and cried because God jhad made me so different from oth er girls who had beaux and friends, and I had nobody, not even a | mother. “1 used to hope that some day a man who didn't want a PRETTY wife might come along and love me I knew i would love him if he it kind of hit me where I'm hu- man, Most Christmases I go out and hand change to news- boys and tramps, but 1 guess you can handle this money bet ter than I can “ ‘TAttle-chimney kids!’ Lord, don't I know what it means to be one? There ain't any wtring tied to that money. . . . Yes, there is, too, There's one string. You're not to buy any- thing useful. Just buy candy and darnfool toys. That's ail.” The man laughed a iittle sheepishly. “This is more talking I've done without being for it since Hector was Name? None of business, Good-bye.” “* * That's the way the idea hits lot of them—where they're It hit Joseph Goldie, Distrib- in the than pald 4 pup your a human. of the Goldie-Klenort uting,Co., 604 Second av. same spot. He browsed into the shop almost to a halt at @ ratlroad crossing. The mention ables, stranger made some of money and valu- which he would be pleased to see. But he didn't see same. It was too dark The doctor threw in the high speed and left the would-be | | hours after | tras | ELIZABETH CLARK FROM PHOTOGRAPHS, < THE MORNING AFTER HER ARREST jonly just didn’t look at me with the dinguat other boys and men did, know how to take care of a hom I knew | could please him that way. “When I began to think nobody ever would love me, Joe Lang came along. He never seemed to notice my homeliness, or the! stories people told about me, and | so nice and kind to me. He was the only person in the world! PREPARING FOR CONFERENCE TO ENDBALKAN WAR od Press Leased Wire LONDON, Dec. 9%.—Unalarmed by reporte that desultory fight- ing continues in the Balkans, dip- lomatic representatives of the powers affected are busy here ar ranging for Friday's peace confer. ences. Cettinje telegrams say the war continues in northern Albania, the Turkish governor of Scutari refus- ing to believe any armistice been signed. Advices from Constantinople are that Turkish reinforcements are still arriving at Gallipoli from Asia Minor, but this is not regarded as particularly significant of any de sire y Turkey to continue the fighting looking for Santa. Not finding the ancient philanthropist, he handed $10 to the tears-and- sobs department, “for the little- chimney kids.” The Washington Chauffeurs’ club raised $15 for the little- chimacy kids at their dance at Dreamland Friday night. Another collection for the same purpose will be taken next Fri- day at the chauffeurs’ smoker, The Butler Bros. Main st, and Second av., have given @ large box of toys of all kinds, Willlam R. Johnson, 80 Pike st., contributes an assortment of carnival novelties. Butier’s drug store, Seventh av. and Union, 200 candy canes. The Asiatic Export and Im- port Co., Maritime buliding, an assortment of toys. H. A, Lusk, farmer, came in- to town Saturday night. “My next trip,” he said, “I'm going to fetch a couple of big boxes of apples. They'll look fine on that tre t has! burglar somewhat abruptly samme happened to num- erous pedestrians who sought the temporary joys of the strap: hanger o would crawl right by them. Between the arclights, store lights, and reetcar lights, it ould | elphia lawyer to 4 told me that | was for him.’ He propose 2, five weeks from the day him, we were married I! ail that day, making the “pretty eupper. morning Joe kissed me and Carrie to use our, phone. She told me of the awful | things: Mra, Copple had said about me'that very morning. “Why, that woman, tongue, had stepped my} ! das he-was _xoing by her with her| mecmnetinenls (CHARGE CHORUS | GIRL SHOT MAN; HE’ SRECOVERING | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9 Mra, Frances Vivien Lyons. whose. apartments here iast weei Robert J. Widney, a wealthy Lon| Angoles real estate man, was shot, was formally charged today with aaeault with intent to commit mur der. Wyeney who has been in the Morton hospital since the shooting, is Better, and probably will re cover. «Mrs. Lyons has been in det inue since the shooting. } apent the Sabbath praying for the recovery of Mr, Widney,” said Mrs, Lyons today. “I am overjoyed that his condition is no worse, and 1 am hopeful he will recover. Lined up with Widn here are his wife and father and mother |whfle on Mrs. Lyons’ side is sald |to be her former husband, “Billy” | Lyons, a Denver politictan. ENY KNOWLEDGE OF DYNAMITE PLOT} Dee, 9.—Vehe-| INDIANAPOLIS, m denial of any knowledge of Jany dynamite conspiracy within the ranks.of their organization wag Voiced from the witness stand |here today by Chas, W. Wachmeis- |ter and Frank J. Murphy of De: trot, offielals of the International Association of Bridge and Structur |al Iron Workers, at the trial of the junfon men charged with illegally | transporting dynamite. Murphy jalso denied that ho had heard of a feported “kitty” to finance De troft dynamitings REPORT SYSTEM FOR CITY FUNDS Hy. scientific handling of the city’s funds a leakage could be stopped that would enable the city to operate on a cash balance of from 0,000 to $750,000, the ft nanctal commission appointed last Janvary has reported. The com mission, which is composed of An |drew J. Quigley, L. 0. Shrader, |James A. Haight, Ellen 8. Fish and George F. Hannah, also recom | bride. | changes The Seattle St HOME x NEWS Christmas is 521 Union St. Anything left there will NOW has attle lookin Dad a ell, to offer r the Daddy for § world ¢ all in 8. See climate to at pend ind it FEDERAL GRAND pursle out which wax which. And it was too fogxy yesterday to find a Philadelphia lawyer. Bo, street car traffic, in spite of all the boorting of the crossing cops, Was not much to | brag about It was the worst fog Seat experienced tn je has home and told couldn't see how blind man could said. I wae ugiler lowern’n dirt Oh, I didn’t know what I was doing, until I found myself in front of Mra. Coppie’s house. | called her out, and she called me the vil eet names-—and 1 shot—twice. 1 didn't even notice her two children hanging to her apro I only saw the woman who killed my happt ne The bride's fath accessory, at the shoot atop it man him that anybody marry me. than sin, whe but a Bhe and is held as an} was present and didn't try to| because ing hard-wor band of refuses a day Lang the stow that his wife murder a ing ye the ugliest to believe is guilty of ng f of ‘REPORT EFFORT © TO EMBARRASS WALL ST. PROBE sw Dec Ww ASHINGTON bas been a consistent and hostile effort in certain directions to em-| barrass this inquiry by misieading | and inspired reports.” This was the warning sounded to the public by Representative Arsene Pujo of Louisiana, chairmaa of the money trust in igation, when the committee resumed today its) probe here. Puja predicted sensational legis lation Will follow the probe, assert- ing it is probable the mails will be denied to stock and produce ex and certain clearing houses, because these bodies are “violating the Sherman law and are conspiracies in restraint of trade.” } Pujo announced he is urging the/| senate to pass a joint resolution! giving the committee access to re- porte of national banks Thirty financiers have been sub- poenaed as witnesses, aT se e 9. ‘There i SANE ANSWERS TO FOOLISH QUESTIONS kles, a mole on my left @ wart on my chin, a boll on @ pUK nose and su on omy upper lip. ell should I wear? my iad What kind « Mina M. L. Either concrete. te sheet iron or reinforced Please tell me apple tart.—Mr Pour vinegar how to make an G. W. T on the apple. How can I ika-dot waist? Soak the water containing one and hang in the sun remove spots from a Mixx Nettie Dolly waist In one gallon of pound of lye to dry. pe How should a br in use?—Mre Don't hold it m_ be held wi EB. F Hang it up. What kihd of ould I wear to P. D. Who is going to be there? h a bathing » bathing party My green ttle boy ANKION 3 MOTHE R Dear Madame: Green snakes| may be qvery bit as dang as the ripe ones as found a ittle Larked you what J shou & droas that tn the ‘alle a do with jong it drags on} wets dir Sat. | ‘Clean it,” 4 PAULINE. No, the sidewalk Please give me good face powder, the recipe for a GERTRUDE. Mix a quart of ground clam shells ite, boil for 20 minutes, aspoonful of essence of corn husks, stir until thoroughly evaporated, and seal alr tight In a gallon jar Capitol Mill three-quarters of a block Union at, on Third a Why do the irs run beyond iM | much | ero’ |papes asking the JURY T0 TAKE UP BIG SIX COMBINE Vill Get Evidence of Produce Dealers’ Price Arrangement in February Session A th V to which is charged r ortior f f food prod- ucts in Seattle rand wh will be in February. latest de street H h convene This is the conditions in the grower e sational itors expose offered in River, Or., association, of evidence fruit These staten sion m able the basis for inves tions of the act. a4 letters, which contained ts that six of the commis rehants on Western ay. were to control the x will be gation of violw interstate » reached me. I Id that not infrequent- mounts of produce vege- fruit, have been bay, rather than wn for the bene er. If I can get oof of such cases, will be short-lived in plaints that » been tc arge tables, and even dumped into the force the price 4 fit of the consun on ne the specific Pa saa this practice Seattle.” HERMON CRAVEN | RE-ELECTED TO SCHOOL BOARD Hermon W. Craven was re-elect- ed school director Saturday, lead- ing James Stephen, bis nearest op ponent by over 800 votes. About 8,000 votes were cast, the biggest number ever polled tn sche tion in attic. Craven led in a majority of the precincts. Craven's vote is approximately Stephen's vote is about omme§rce Will Call Dealers. Independent street” will grand rw have signifie entire of the prop ‘obe, st combine has been crowd the Mmit since organ April Th dert ventigat ing A dealers ne » called § mber al ting the them to zation, last federal inquiry independent! conducted by rney Murp! has appealed to srocers and shippers who been jobbed by any Western. av combine to lay their evid be fore him. Murphy intends to go to the bottom of the alleged conspir acy in restraint of trade. The laws wil! be un- the have state the dependent which may a amply a Hes of the kind complained of Potatoes Stand for Months, “One man came in this me rning Craven ppointed to a place aa M ¥ who told me Pe the school board to fill the va carload of potatoes which had been | C@®¢¥ caused by the resignation of left standing for months in the C. rett Smith, who became judge & St. P. yards in Se for | ‘ or Court. lative purposes. He said the eeeereerrrrroes | were not unloaded, be cause it would have forced the price WEATHER FORECAST 5 ‘A gpae sandra 4 was rep nerally fair tonight and & Gather hiey rear} Tuesday; moderate northeast * “| ® to east winds. Temperature bd * at noon, 36 RRREERARAERR ANKE said Murphy situation fully, and, in of any eral st t p been violate Joseph Allen, socialist with approximate! while Joseph R 375 votes ran third, 1,500 votes, Manning got about of cari * * * * price. would ized The sumer to profit b s were abur er did not either. The the biggest “This is ce was not permit the fact that the The produc extra prof Funeral services for C. J. Riley, well-known Seattle real esta! dealer, were held this morning at ithe Church of the Immaculate Con- ception, ator par’ bat one of the ma: Swedish-Scotch sailor, recent- y arrived, was directed to a cigar store for an order of rope for The clgar man, highly insulted, hit Hans in the nose. pinched.” PORTLAND, OR—A THIEF broke into the home of Otto Diekun jand stole a blunderbuss, Revolutionary war relic. He returned it later with the notation, “Couldn't hold up a sand bank with that thing.” SAN FR,.NCISCO.—SAN FRANCISCO detective set out in femi- nine apparel to bait pickpockets. He landed in the hospital, where ® hasty ripping of corset strings saved his life. LOS ANGELES.—CROSSED TELEPONE Detective Cowan to the home of a woman bath Rushing to the connections brought who had fainted in her rescue, he gasped and fled. “My brother's a doc,” he shouted, “but I don't qualify here.” Lage te Men OR.—TROUBADOUR FASHION, Sam Seitz sang h the Window of His Loved One,” thrumming on a mandolin. It awe shaaiea papa who yanked a picture off tae wall and heaved it at Sam. Und Sam continued. He was later gathered in by an unromantic DRAIN, OR ee AIMING HE is the man who “put thé ham in Bellingham,” an unknown tried to break into the jail here. For this and oth trite sayings he is being held pending an examina- tion as to his sanity . SAN FRANCISCO.—THERE’S A man here reincarnation of Diogenes. who probably fs a He inserted an advertisement in a news- return of $17,000 in currency lost on the street, Nber al rew offering a Roller Skating Is Popular Just Now And on page 2 in today’s Star you will find the announcement of the Broadway rink, calling spe- cial attention to the fact that ladies are to be ad- mitted free this evening. This illustrates the wide variety of interesting things you will find in the advertising columns of The Star each day. You should read the advertising columns just as care- fully as any other part of the paper. A Star want ad will rent that room for you— Why? Be- 40,000 paid copies quickly—and at a cost ofa few cents. cause The Star puts out over daily and this army of readers read the want ads thoroughly. Phone Elliott 44 or Main 9400 or call at the down town office, 229 Union st., with the low wants to get « Intor STICA PHANGIR, mended many changes in the ad ministration of the finances, Because the motorman doesn't turn off the juice. Souvenir and Curio Shop.