The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 3, 1913, Page 1

FAIR TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY; CONTINUED WARM; MODERATE The Seattle Sta THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS *, WASH.,, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1913. ONE CENT Sitwa'wrasna. te WESTERLY WINDS » DIES AT AGE OF 97; HAD NEVER RIDDEN ON TRAIN UNIONTOWN, Pa., June 3.—(Spl,)—Loule Eber GOOD GRACIOUS? COMET HAS DROPPED ITS TAIL CAMBRIDGE, Ma June 3.—(Spl.)—Ordinary star gazers will be disappointed In the Schaumas hart, aged 97, who died in Green county, Penn: , y 7 . ‘ 5 sy! M bpp Cg Vania, spent his life on his farm. He was never on comet, the latest to come from the Inte . epee i , a train, street car or steamboat, although he lived — gions, according to a report received a r from Prof. Barnard of Yerkes observatory, at Lake Geneva, Wis. The comet lacks the usual fiery ap pendage, or “tall.” a mile and a half from the Monongahela river and the same distance from the Monongahela railroad. VOLUME 15 NO. 82 MI — - "THAD TO SHOOT HIM,” SAYS GIRL WIFE | HOME EDITION SEATTIL _ BOALT HUNTS WORK IN ROLE OF EX-CONVICTKILLS HUSBAND'S | _ GETS TWO-BITS FOR SWEEPING SECOND AV.SIDEWALK FRIEND IN B ATTLE ' *) By Fred L. Boalt. Posing as an ex-convict, I tried to get a job yesterday, 1 failed. 1 got Instead Blunt refusals, Cold shoulders, A little sympathy, and— - Two- In the same ragged garments tn which I visited three big Seattle er in appearance, whom I took to be the proprietor, though in this mistaken ‘ he said, “the proprietor 1s out, Is there anything I can do? “1 want a fob,” I eald “Are you a photographer?” : I sald I wax not, though I knew something about developing and printing, and surely there was something there for me to do i “I'm afraid not,” sald the man, and his voice was kind | + > churches on Sunday to test the quality of the Christianit tice This was my chance. 1 ‘ . . in them, and with a three-day.old stubble oumy chit. 1 poate — “To tell you the truth, I just got out of Walla Walla, and I'm broke Mrs. Jennie Perry, 19, with her three babies, the oldess S from door to door, telling my carefully concocted story I'd work fer $5 1 week-—or $4—anything. I've got to eat not quite 3, are at the city jail today because she shot and AN “You might come back at 2 o'clock,” the man said. “I don't ad- killed her husband's friend, Louis Peiia, 26, who attacked het I was, I said, but two weeks out of Walla Walla prison. I had lost vise you to hope, though. Still, if you don’t find anythitig, you might at her home, 727 Marion st., at 6 o'clock last night. SS Ro time in getting rid of the suit of shoddy clothes In which convicts « : c . adv » come back.” Phomsds ; ; Bes thas atelier adele Bot dagy 8 vo hed aura bel I was turning away when bis hand fell lightly on my shouider, as Fighting with the fury of a tigress, the Jittle woman Was broke and hungry, and sadly in need-of a job though he were yielding to a kindly impulse of which he was ashamed, grappled for 10 minutes with the man, who threatened to stab “I'm sorry, old man,” he said her with a pair of shears if she called for help. Gradually, she A aupercilious waitress at “Our Coffee House,” 825 Third, regarded | moved toward the bed, where the babies, frightened by the my rage with disfavor, but called the proprietor, a young man in a duck | unusual scene © crying. . She reactied ‘tindés the Stun calculated to soften the hearts of my auditors. Looking back now over a hard day of job-hunting, | can honestly f I supplied such minor details as suggested themselves on the spur ) of the moment, say that my statement of being an ex-convict was a better sympath) coat. " ‘ getter than any other of the many lies I told yep With him, too; | got as-far as the prison story. | pulled out a revolver, and shot four times as quickly as she But it didn’t get me a job. He kept interrupting my recital with “Nothing doin’, lad, nothing | could, she told the police. Two of the shots went astray. The At first I tried the big stores, but the process of applying for work doin’.” other two hit their mark. The man fell dead. fn large establishments is so complicated that I did not once reach a | could peel potatoes, prepare vegetables, wash dishes, | urged. |) On the woman's hands and arms — Person in authority, and soon e up. 0) Afterward I confined my attentions to sma}! stores and restaurants, whose proprietors are easily accessible. Not often did I get a chance to tell my prison story, though I ranged the length of the retail dis- trict on First, Second and Third aves. For the most part my attempts were a series of monotonous would work for any money he cared to pay. “Nothing doin’, lad. |are marks of the conflict. When | But when | mentioned Walla Walla, his hurried Impatient manner |the police arrived, the scratches changed to one of sympathy. stil! showed blood, where the “Hard luck, lad!” he sald. “Hop* you find something soon.” rs touched her, b) b] 1 had walked the streets from 9 In the morn until mid-afternoon without success, whe s Pella wi P00) . ' ; , At the entrance to x haberdashery at 815 Second | Brae wae. SOK 9H (tbe: eck 1 encountered a youngish man, hatless, regarding the window dis-|S¢ip Spokane. Perry is cook on play with what seemed to be proprietary interest. The sign over the|the steamer Senator, which sailed ‘ } What chance is there of a job?" d One sweeping glance, from dented derby to broken shoes, and: ; “Not a chance.” door said: “Hatton-Oliver Co.” from Seattle Sunday. A wireless On Qne hurried appeal to rivet the attention: “I'm broke. I'm not From much practice in deceit, the application was glibly made: notified Perry of the affair Tnes- b: “What chance of a job da: All the tle Port m “Not a chance,” snapped the youngish man, and turned to sur |48% 4 parties are Portu- Y core 1 applied at 40 places, | was able to tell my prison story vey me. | Buese. ome Just six And each of these times | received, not employment, Again the ofttold tale : | Woman Tells the Story . ol mot m , but a meed of sympamh: The youngish man scratched his head. “Honestly, I haven't a thing “I killed him,” said Mrs. Perry. {t a minute.” “I had to do it, the way he was | BY United Press Leased Wire The rst of these places was ; store of photographic supplies, I a {e entered the store, reappearing @ minute later with a broom. acting. The bables are my wit- WASHINGTON, June 3.— “yr 15 Third av greeted by of middle age, a little “Sweep the sidewalk,” he said. nesses. Agreement on a compromise 3 I swept the sidewalk The terrible strain over, Mrs | Dill for two measures they hid 7 1 should mention, parenthetically, that netther the youngish man|Perry talked of the shooting in a! 4fawn was announced here to- nor the passersby noticed The Star photographer taking snapshots | calm manner. day by Senators Chamberlain from the curb “Pelia came to the .house a| of Oregon and Jones of Wash- The walk swept, I entered the store and said to the youngish man: |iittle after 5 o'clock. When %| ington, a majority of the mem- “What cise?” Jopened the door, he said he wanted| ers of a sub-committee con- He seratched his head again. He knew and I knew that the side-|to see my husband, I said he was| sidering the matter of a walk hadn't needed sweeping. Now he laughed. \not home. He said that was good ment-bullt road for “Honestly, old man,” he sald, “there isn't a thing that I need done| He wanted to see me, he sald, I| Alaska. 4 that you'd know how to do.” |told him he could not come in, but It is reported the bill agreed y He walked with me to the door. “If you don’t find something,” he/he should come when my husband ugfa. appropriates $40,000,000 4 suggested, “come back.” fe here. I never have merivat the| for @ government road, but 4 Wish that. he: held-ont bia hand.es thougl to shake mine. “Goed |house when my hushaad js not at breed sonal the nuntber Fi . luck!” he eatd. Sear” Tho antes “@ummer'e Tone = ee Gs ot cur me Judges of tHe cont ‘When our bands parted, there rested in the palm of mine a two-bit| “Polina was at our house at] !® expected to pass this see Gourt et their monthly dimmer Monday. a “Summer's here,” replied a coi ; their brows. mare cape ne "Nef said. New the judges are getting ready fer the summer vaca-|BOALT, AS AN EX-CONVICT SEEKING WORK, SWEEPING A youngish man. His 1: tien. Each will have just eight weske rest between July 1 and Sep- DI LK SECOND AV. the company. | returned to him the two-bit pl tember 1. Each will werk enly ome week during that period. 1 is ern t “a m o at aS as RAE ee pec eman will werk the first week, between July 1 end Jul yarn ae apnoea COMMISSION Cabaret Singer, Actress, and Society Woman oa Sue eps een pegs f Bi Entered in Contest for Queen of the Carnival vj ete a oe a to work RULE ASKED Planned by Moose Lodge in Potlatch Season { |, STEFRNSESR T0 RESCIND verabie action upen an erdi Piece, Santa Clara, California, two or] sion of congress. ‘ Today | called again. at the Hatton-Oliver store, and sought out the |three times. We moved to Seattle ae a nae is Eugene M. Hatton, @ week ago today. Petia didn’t mind what I said, He pushed on the door and came-in. Then he fastened the door with the latch. He Threatened Hor “He took a pair of shears and said be would stab me if I made a noise. Then he came to me. I moved back. He took hold of me] RREMERTON, June 3.—The and he kept holding me for about | greatest celebration in the history | 10 minutes like that. 1 was fight-/of this city began today with the ing him all the time. opening of the Rhododend: “Then he took his coat off, a11|/Festo. Hundreds of visitors ha the babies were crying. I wanted | gathered here and the towg is gor- |to mo to them, but he seid I|geousiy decorated. ; jeoulde’t. He said he wanted me to! . The festival bagan this mornings* _ with a baseball game between the leading teams of the regerve fleet, In the afternoon another game will others, wipiag the ewest from An He grabbed me ageir | wien bi, namce introduced Monday after. And we fought till we got to the| he " 3 y. attr WINNIPEG, Man, June 3.—Vil-| The county “commissioners cam-| neea by Councliman Griffiths, jbed, and I snatehed the revolver. aioe an Reap rat Meaitte 3 ruffl hjalmar Stefansson, the explore. not reconsider their vote by which Geattic electors will be given lt shot ae fest as I could, four Mise Carrie Hilstead, of Browns: bi who will soon leave Victoria for|they awarded a paving cowtract for) an oppertunity to say whether I thine the last shot killed /vijle, was chosen goddess of the ez Scot © ew |the district north of the city ltm-| or wet the city shall adopt the ba gee lr oe Mgr its, paft of which road was to be | commission form of govern- ay, visiting his mother and broth-|P@v@d with Warrenite and the re-| ment. 8 He will be the guest of honof|™ainder with brick Griffiths’ . measure proposes to at a public reception and banquet Judge Albertson Tuesday grant- | submit to the people the election of there today, and will leave en route |@4 @ restraining order to the Bar-|15 freeholders to draft a new city for Vancouver tomorrow morning. |er Asphalt Co., the benefictaries |charter, providing for the commis. Stefanssan announced Monday | the contract agreed upon by|ston form of municipal vert. i . Festo Monday. Special boat se ‘Neighbors Find Him Dead ice i# being run from Seattle Neighbors, hearing the’ ehote, day. ed to the scene an@ notified -——— police. Motorcycle Sergeant | - ner and Motorcycle Patrolmen | Hrich and Fuqua found the dead HULET WELLS IS 7 jman near the door. The shears the anton |by Commissioners Hamilton and|ment, along similar lines a& in Spo-| ane Moar ia slate Mad ‘ ee Peles ol Riyal se an|Knudson last week. Since then,|kane, Tacoma, Des Motnes, Galves-| While the” shootbig weighed 5 uxiliary to the steamer: Karluk. the protests akainst Warrenite|ton, and a large number of other heavily upon ker when she was 4 acreed : * |have been so general that these cities eek ia ual tthe | aie. tone } } Nscetais Didplecesd commissioners planned to recon:| The election te to be held etther Pahoa Any A yc ie bea ; - “4 sider the vote today and order|at the general election in March, o| re 4 ec VICTORIA, B. Cos June 3-~l prick paving throughout 1914, or at any special election’ be eee Je wil minke | dart ae, Wells. eoctaliat “cama ‘ Capt. Robert Bartlett, who is to . fom than: am sure people will not think }date for: mayor in 1912, appeared mens she Semmens. sxpets Following this election, the char | . tion, is here to complete the fitting evisionist »t t busy ed. much displeased with thé vessel themeelves, and at the next gener and says “that it is only fit for a al election the people are to vote museum. The expedition will upon the new charter as framed. a! start June 10 If adopted, Seattle will have the . ~~ fans form of government. wit TOLT CITIZEN SUES ir e! Alleging that the town offictals|, PORTLAND, Or. June 3— Atlee ee aeeeeebehanne T did bad,” she said. “A man hos|before the grand jury this morne no right to do what Peila tried. 4|ing, and gave his testimony for al- have been always a good woman,|most two hours. = and my husband loved me. The nature of his testimony is 4 Her youngest baby, Henri, is/not known. Wells is employed in only nine months old. Mre. Perry|the contracting department of the a is soon to become mother of aftoth-|city light plant, and he may pos- er baby. jsibly have been called in connec. . The coroner's inquest will bej}tion with the county's refusal to held this afternoon ntract for city light last fall, ot Tolt are planning to excoed the|12:30 p. m., 80 precincts complete,|# Charles H. Rodda “pinched” * Ymit of indebtedeas, which ha|with the first, second and third|#® his wife, Iterally and other- # MI88 VERA PAULINE ‘ 75, H. 8. Sherry has be-|cholces counted, gave H. R. Albee) ® wise, For four years, #0 ® i t a to restrain them from|a l@ad of 118 votes over A. G. Rush-|® Mrs. Mary 1. Rodda alleges, #|* The Loyal Order of Moose are)the confetti, and all the rest. | taire earrings. 9 ‘I styleg making the contract for paving of|light, incumbent for mayor !n the|® her arms and legs have been # | going to give a carnival July 9 to| Also, there's a beauty contest. To date there are three entries. 7 I | + Tolt av. and Commercial st... first’ commission form of govern-|# aching from the excessive #|20. Preparations have been made It costs 1 cent to cast a vote. And| They are Ss oman $ | lon ome sik a ment election. Albee sates pinching” to which her hus- #| to set up tent shows in the lot op- the young woman elected queen, Vera Pauline, @inger In hey WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE 8,401 votes, * bend treated her, Besides, # | posite the Moore theatre, Second besides gaining the privilege of se. cabaret. ° FS Water will be shut off in the ale-|~ Will Daly, Ralph Clyde, Geo. L.|# she urges, as grounds for di: &\av., and there {# to be a full daily jlecting her royal farments and Mrs. A. R. Proeiss, a society » | cold trict south of Roxbury st. and east|Baker, C. A. Bigelow and Robert * vore® in her suit filed Mon- ®| program of fun, with the usual free choosing her court of honor, wil!) woman. rown. (@) 3 Of bist av. 5. Wednesday, June 4,|Dieck were leading for commis-|* day, he failed to support her. # {attractions to tempt the dimes Into have her choice of a grand plano, Miss Nana Bryant, leading wom: ! ° ale: from 9a a.m. to 3 3 p.m. sioner. Raeakhhkkkhe eke eee the box offices, and thé music, and a diamond ring or a pair of soll-\ an at the Seattle theatre. ad, BY HAMLIN GARLAND Awd and in this diabolical declaration of rights you have condensed the; shall demang of them) will be made clear to the libertine when he is * ourse | whole theorwof remorseless me assured that every child of his begetting shall have “legal claim upon FAMOUS NOVELIST AND PLAYWRIGHT Let us be honest and quite frank about this, Woman to these men| his name and fortune ‘ ° Gur, 19 NEWSE AGU ENTERPRZSE ASSOCIATION. | {x merely a thing, a female brute, without a soul, a toy whose fate is| ,. The mere suggestion that the birth of a child shall constitute a : ithe second and tnt tially Foto ge many iD this qBestion of of no more account than that of a cut or monkey, and the fact that| true marriage lines up the men of one's acquiflntange in two oppos. h finn’ 9 he oon eens beautiful, is ' ct wediock {# the woman, the unwed all the disgrace and all the pain af most of the moral decay which To some it suggests “appalling confuslon, gross injus- andicapp: y poor hair. Mrs. Caufman, legitimizing the children born out of wedlo result from man’s bestial selfishness are written at the last analysis To others, it Is “the most fundamental and just solu. | of the Factory Hair Store iw her 1 displa girlmother of the child—I aay girl, because the records show that bY ioon the faces of women and generally on the faces of chiid-mothers, age.” The libertine is alarmed at the po ry ’ arge display far the’ larger number of these “natural” children are born of mothers goes not seeussto trouble the majority of thone who make the, laws mall, but the seriousminded man, whose life is far | ad which appears on page 5 in today’s Star, We who ask for Justice do not deny a share of physical desire to| from “the reg light diatric a: “Let the confusion come.” led! under 17 years of age. duction of the Woman. Every normal female inclines toward the Tab iby torpelct|| , The injugoe of man, thespitlepeness of eocietyand the lack of has a message which will appeal to all women. ean veer ne pier na Pia meaty oe ie voman, her at inexorable law, and union is to the maiden a much more wonder-| paternal support and guidance—often sends these unwed mothers to| It tell of special offers on hair goods and oe analy Page ble snag gre rs ‘oir ful and far-reaching event than any man can readily imagine, for she| the brothel or the street. There 1s no other place for them to go. Oly Judgment 1s least clear, her powers of resistance to passion si their fil and farresching event than any map oan readily. imagi [5A ew TASGN AO LUY qhcabe coer Geurace ant junidhoene ee articles which pertain to the care of the hair, st and herddealizing vision most intense, Hefore whe realizes the character of the overpowering hunger of Prostitution is at bottom a question of economics, a question of| as well as detailing a unique offer of credit Just at the moment when she needs chivalrous protection, often be- io, biood, before she has time to acquire knowledge of what love really |the ingpility of the unwed mother to earn her own living easily, and| terms on hair goods 4 fore she is 14 years of age, she is the quarry and the possible victim vi o.ny her time of temptation is upon her, and she all too frequently | securely, and decently, a denial of her natural rights to a Joyous and g' > a @f viclous men. They dog her steps tagpchoo!, sey Entice her 40 the | becomes the victim, not merely of her own inherited tendencles, but of | seit-dependent life, and, when, for any cause, she yields to the tompter, Mrs. Caufman conducts one of the largest 4 theatre, and, where opportunity offers, they yet Oni the lawle@ lust of an irresponsible ‘ma nd enters upon months of| she is thenceforth anathema, all doors are shut against her, % . We need not wasye any sympathy on the seducer, Ax a man of weariness and pal, burdened, outlawed and despairing, Tesh chs Omiven WAH bop MibAL! Nalpiten: otsarched ‘fe’ unl J ge of its kind in Seattle, and lady active life, | know my"sex, I have a wide knowledge of men from top This, 1 claim, js monstrously angus i ky jy| Worthy the eltizens af a republic | readers of The Stargwho are in need of any- [| — bottom of our social group. 1 have no tilusions concer! & the In fact, ouP present system of sexual morality seems to be only) -. ure, tude of fa Gis od LP understand, even if 1 do not share, the free that which the herole resisting power of young girls (or defective) (MR. GARLAND HAS WRITTEN FOR THE STAR AN EDITORI- ore in this line will do well to consult her It, $1.29 masonry of the libertine. I have heard man-beaste boast of conquering children) forces upon the conquering sex, @ AL DEALING FRANKLY WITH “THE MAN IN THE CASE,” AS A a today.® , girl's reserve and laughing at her agony of remorse All the pain, and sorrow, and shame, which follow seduction | SEQUEL TO THESE TWO NOTABLE ARTICLES, LOOK, FOR IT se Bene use them and turn them loose,” 1 once heard a well-dressed man! should not fall uvon the woman, and this accountability (which we: TOMORROW.) 4 ° y fo} ‘ 4