The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 12, 1913, Page 1

QUEER” THING ABOUT Railway employes are a HAMBURG.— bit puzzled over the latest official notice, reading : “The last car shall not be attached The Seattle tp trains, as it is always subject to un VOLUME 15 nt oscillation.” NO. 89 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1913, M GOING NORTH TO FIND THE LOST CONTINENT AND ITS PEOPLE,” SAYS STEFANSSON TO STAR MAN - a = By Fred L. Boalt. VICTORIA, B. C., June 12.—The clerk at the James Bay hotel told me that Vilhjaimar Stefansson was at breakfast. | would have to wait. | 1 waited. ) | had never seen Stefansson. What hsould an Arctic explorer | with a Scandinavian name and a Norse ancestry look like? | thought I knew. He would be big and blonde, with eyes of steel-biue; he would have the neck of a bull; a bulging chest; lege j ties pillars; big, red fists like hams. Hven as 1 watted, I pletured him heaving food-supply into his mighty frame. Presently he would come marching from the breakfast room with a mighty tread, his hunger satisfied, Would he be in a humor? Kuests were coming from the breakfast Young men and old men, fat and thin men with my mental pictu | 1 was beginning to wonder If my | figure blocked the doorway, filling It | Stefansson—blonde and huge. Mr. Stefansson? The giant gave me an icy stare. The clerk sniggered “You wish to see me?" asked a quiet volce behind me. 1 turned and saw a elim, studious-looking young man, a trifle over medium height, with sloping shoulders, He gave me a limp hand to clasp. lam Mr 1A pleasant The kinds: room, Women—all but not one corre man had escaped This, surely, me, when a was Vilhjalmar Stefansson,” he said. Later the clerk told me that the blonde giant was a real estate man, who had never been farther north than Vancouver, and whose wildest adventure was a round of golf Which goes to show that you never can tell. oe eee “The Star?” said Stefansson. ' correspondent, Mary 6 € and later had pleasant things to |liant writer and a fine woman, too. “By the way, The Star's the newspaper that had that interview with Jason Allen, the ‘king of the Arctic,’ a few weeks ago in which he said | lied when | claimed to have found bionde imos. WILL BRING PROOF | “Allen will take that back when the Karluk returns. He's a whal- er, and he knows what the other whalers know, and no more, To the east of Point Barrow ts an unpopulated area, 300 miles wide from met your New York viewed me when | wa y about me in print. A bril- VICTORIA, B. C,, June 12.—"I cannot say definitely when the Start will be made, though it will not be until next week,” said Ex- plorer Stefansson today The whaler Karluk, which will cary the expedition to the Arctic ocean, ts fitting up at the navy yard at Esquimalt. A great quantity of canned food has been stowed tn the hold, and aft ts stored am- munition, “We expect to live largely on gam Stefansson stated. The party consists of Stefanason, Capt Bartlett, who was Peary’s skipper when he discovered the North pole; L. A. Allen, first mate; 14 eclentific men, and a crew of seven Rartlett will safl the Karluk to Nome, where Stefansson, sailing by steamer from Seattle, will join the party. Stefansson and the Kariuk, the whaler in which he will ‘navigate the Arctic seas. Inset above picture of First Officer Alien TWAAYOR SAYS INCREASE IN DRT BOARD MEANS DELAY ‘ of Mr. Ayers is shares in the Ayers company if he CHICKEN IS FOUND t to east. No white man has ever traversed that waste. No whal- “ws” warned Mayor cov ore see things in the right STEALING RIDE ON ers touch at points east of that waste. And it {= east of t unpop- One eye the me en Dieomse ee ee | lated country that the blonde Eskimos live, When we com me, wi diab; im which iscussed | team ach, , wrine ie a Senne an TORY at renaaane I asked Stefansson what ta the chief purpose of the expedition, Propositions to come up he has been the target of a most je June 17. “If the port vilifying campaign for over a year. | | “To find the lost continent,” he said promptly, “or to establish def- initely that {t isn't there, If I find it, the mapa will have to be revised is enlarged to five! The club passed resolutions rec-| ‘will be construed as ommending an affirmative vote on and definite const lines substituted for the vi f ague dotted lines which of confidence in the, Propositions 1, 3 and 5, and a are the guesswork of the geographers THE LOST CONTINENT commission, and this negative vote ag Proposition “Personally, I believe the continent ts there, and that we will se Ayers and his'4. Proposition 4 is to increase the tr by continved lit- port commission. find it. The idea is not new. Peary says he saw mountains on his harbor improvement: dash to the pole, though the exact ‘farthest north’ ts open se: with the Ayers ter. “They may have been small islands that Peary saw?” “Possibly,” Stefansson agreed But the continent fs there. The | not pi rae wadenie GRAND JURY bh Po Syne tides prove it. All the tides of all the oceans are made in the Atlantic urged, June 12—~|and Pacific The Pacific tides cannot flow into the Arctic ocean; 7 should be three or| | Mose Whitesides, station porter for| pert trait {8 too narrow and shallow. The Arctic tid fe members on a board. | the Northern Pacific here, detected|the Atlantic, through the. bro jo tides come from ‘Time to Get Busy | js chicken stealing a ride on the the Atlantic, through the broad and deep channel between Norway } Bothell local last night. H ap “te 18 months the Panama canal “yg Bong ~ a and Greenland DO TIDES PROVE IT? jtared her and confiscated an ecg “Then why do not the tides strike the northern coast of America thy ad vcohoggend ye ae J. M. Clapp, who negotiated an |she had laid on the buffer bar. at exact right angles? Look at the map. The tides do not flow advantage, and Seattle $87,500 docksite deal at a profit o! Mose sald he heard the ben) graight across the Arctic ocean, but follow closely the shore of Asia, it it is some $72,000, has been permanent-/cackle when the train a 4 * i a Bt be unprepared. pulled in| crogs at the western end and flow back to the east along the American that i ene have five ly reseens by the — sary and/from Sgattle. He found it roosting | shore. j a two new com-/ will not have to remain any longer|comforfably under the rear plat- “Why? Bec: i flected. B: - d Moners could not be elected un- within the jurisdiction of King |form of the front car, and the egg EA te hy wg centile iota gle es hh i Sete : E . In the meantime, it, was jammed up against the buffer bar. The hen offered no defense when Mose accused her of stealing a ride without paying the usual livestock rates, and, with the as- sistance of Constable Hank Sneed, she was arrested. county. Wid be urged that all new proj-| Clapp was arrested several wee! Me mest be halted until then. |ago, and detained as a witne: a fre certain interests Wednesday he gave his testimony. Ido not say there| B. F. Shields, deposed as vice deliberately desire to put! president of the Commercial Club, im such shape that !t could appeared before the grand jury and fomp with sister ports on! made charges of shortages !n the) The station master kept the egg \ Bo better course could accounts of C. M. Lewis, former|to prove the truth of the story. adopted to delay prog-|secretary. William Sutherland,| = ‘untill two new commissioners proprietor of the saloon in the) office, nd the most pop-} ‘or local politicians | in December.” yas called before the Wednesday, at » meet- ‘ells of Offer Duwamish Valley ¢ This is the gladsome vann VOTE 10 WOMEN shot was hurled at the | When he flat-footedly | when neighbors compare backaches “And when you have found this continent, what then?” Stefansson laughed “Ice and snow, barren waste and bitter cold,” he said, “nothing more, But the Dominion government will be able to perfect its maps. And I—I have an interest—a racial interest, you might call 1t—in which my comrades of the expedition cannot share, SAW BLONDE ESKIMOS “It has to do with the blonde Eskimos. I saw them, Others have in the past found on Prince Albert Land Eskimos having some of the characteristics of those I saw on the mainland “And | know—or, at it, the legendary history of my country tells me—that, long before Lief the Lucky landed on the American continent, In the 13th century a band of Norsemen were wrecked be- tween Norway and Iceland. “Word came that they escaped from the sea—the men and the women together—and came safely to land. What land no one knows. expeditions went in ch of them, but they were never found, is crowd by Port Commission- i SPRINGFIELD, IL, June 12- iE he was offered 250,000! over the back fence. Women in the state of Illinois will “Were the blonde Eskimos | found on the American malniand a é q [Pe allowed to vote for all statutory | straggling band? Were the blonde Eskimos found by others on Prince | officers in this state by the action) Albert Land other bands? Where, then, did they wander from? DVISOR y BALLOT FOR jof the legislature yesterday In pass- “If I find the lost continent, will I find, too, that ft is peopled o ‘8 8 Re D: , m1 dants of those fellow-countrymen of mine who sailed with ing the woman's suffrage bill by al with the descen¢ from Norway so many hundreds of years ago? “Why not? And, if so, will I find that they have forgotten com- pletely the Norselandic tongue? WII they have no legends of their own to help me to the truth? | vote of 83 to 58. Despite the fact |that the women will not be allowed | PORT ELECTION, JUNE 1 ee oes be: Recommended by the Commercial Club, the Municipal! United States senators, or members Norsemen* could withstand the bitter ace i i of the general assembly, the lead- “IT like to think that only 9, 9 the Public Ownership League, and The ep ers of the movement consider {t aj cold, the awful storms, the grim fight for life which the Arctic imposes ¢ Yes © ‘great triumph Jon all who dare to venture north of the circle.” The bill will remain in the house | — — pending notice of a motion for re-} E ROBE (Ponsideration. “i is not ixely| GOV. WEST WILL P gegen PAPER MILL INVASION PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., June DSITION I. . OSITION II. .. WPOSITION Ill. .... UPOSITION IV. 12 Ma, Gen Arthur” Murray,|. OREGON CITY, June 12—Gov. jrendy to respond in case of a riot (Ro ag Mil a ne 2 hy ‘| West left here early today, after | call, = ae ae stances surrounding the invasion|owners that the activities leading were received here today, setting laside the week beginning July 20 for the joint State and Army Coast Military defense maneuvers at |Fort Worden. up to the visit of 60 or more men to the mills early yesterday, and through alleged threats of violence causing them to cease operations for several hours, was without. lo- cal support, it was learned that the of the paper mills here by soctal- ists and members of the I, W. W. The governor stated that the situ-| ation was tense, but at the present se time he had no intention of send- PIANO MANUFACTURER In/ing militia to quell any alsorder Chicago ts accused of bribing the| which might arise. It was under-| employes are dissatisfied with con jurors in a sult by giving each two| stood that 15 members of the local | ditions, and that the visit in a num five-cent cigars. National Guard are under _arms,'her of cases was not unwelcome. _ ore Than One Hundred Perfect Shaves Free a Be your own barber and have the assurance q you are being shaved with the best ma- PHILADELPHIA, June 11.—Turkey trottets are suffering. an i s it is Railroads condyetor, but he kept “Hav transfers. He was arrested, |’ flammation of the | which phys ul admitted Tabor, quite the fashion, sufferers boast of having the ¢ ‘i ) etc. Fifty per cent of the world’s great Men and otherwise shave themselves because , BO! > they & better satisfaction. The Star offers | Fant nes O@ETE yyy Pm lsd es Lh dl A ng , € opportunity with its offer of a com- <a ha it dA yd ?> pele alae wel e.g rar 4 shaving outfit with a year’s subscription <> |erow” Hterature during the school sessione “ } at the regular price of $3.25. The outfit con- Porcini dics¥ Guile ineediet ; of fine knurled handle safety razor, seven Top, a Blackfoot warrior. ‘There 1s no n Suaranteed blades, nickeled shaving brush and to inquire as to my knowledge of English,” replied the big chief, Hxit > pest, | j soap and all in handsome leatherette case. aa . Pont delay, but send in your $3.25 for The oftered three coppers tor aed. ‘tie 'mald they were the last of 6000 4 o var for one year and this handsome pennies he had stolen, His trousers poc Outfit, wi { i pee shal lan 1 roof ich would retail at $2.50 in almost any | some FOLKS HAVE ALL THE LUCK! San Francisco.—Five years ago Cha | | THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS a freshman at @he Unive Library records show that he perused 89 volumes of “high- Inquired the Village pest of Chief Big He conside Star they lack cou son HOME ONE CENT oh yhtixs a8? | EDITION SISTER CASTS SCARLET SHADOW ON DEFENDANT IN DIVORCE SUIT | | | | | | | courtroom. THAT HARBOR ISLAND TERMINAL PLAN EXPOSED—PAGE 6 WEATHER FORECAST FOR SEA TTLE AND VICINITY: SHOWER 8 TONIGHT AND FRIDAY; MODERATE SOUTHERLY WINDS red himgelf poor and helpless because he lacked dollars; whereas people are really poor and helpless only when irage and faith—David Gray- SISTER AGAINST SISTER “Blood is water.” Mrs. Agnes Moon, 22, did not use these words In Judge Albertson's But she gave them life not thicker than and reality. She breathed venom and hatred, thot her most polsonous looks, and all but pinned a letter of scarlet upon the breast of her own sister, beautiful Mrs. Clara Gross, and practically repudiated her own mother, Mrs. George Sands, 7329 w testified against her sister, Mrs. Gross, who was sued for divorce by Charles Gross, an iron worker, on grounds of incompatibility. Mrs. Gross is mother of two children, 5 and 2. Why, that very suit she's wear- ing now,” sneered Mrs. Moon, point- } Lady Constance Wears No Socks NEW YORK, June 12,.—The talk of New York today is Lady Constan' Steward Richardson, who wears no stockings, even in public. The startiing gown she wore when she stepped from the liner Olympic caused eyes to bulge. Lady Constance is in New York to fill a vaudeville en- gagement and also to show the American women how to dress as well as dance. “If you would look me over carefully,” she said, as she spun around on a toe, “you will see there is nothing in my manner of dress to hamper my move- ments.” j srue..too. The English- woman's gown a combina- tion brown Japanese kimono with regular slashes at the sides and white trimmings at the neck and wrists. The slits revealed , the slashes deep and Picture above, Mrs. Clara Gross, who. |s fighting to obtain the’ cus- tody of her two babies In the di- vorce suit brought by her husband. | Picture below shows Mrs. Agnes; Moon, who testified against her own sister. | BEANS AND MINCE PIE AS DIET FOR DYING WOMAN Dr. Philip R. Waughop took the| wept profusely. stand this morning in the suit for confidence, the doctor told her, she annulment of marriage which he | said, t he “red headed nurs: brought against Mrs. N Waughop, with whom he lived for only six days. He told Judge Smith that he did! not know what he was doing when he married Miss Kloss, with whom he became acquainted when she at C water down his back. tended him as a nurse, Miss Klo is proprietress of the Queen City ‘sanitarium. Waughop charged that he received more’ drugs than was ist good for him. from Miss Kloss, and) * > that while under the influence of | BY United Press Leased Wirs ie Kloss-| got him into a tub and poured hot other women to pl ing at Mrs. Gross, “was sent her by a strange man through the par- cel post.” | Mrs. Sands, the mother, was thunderstruck. She whispered to Jay C. Allen, attorney for Mrs, Gi “Why, Mrs. Moon,” said Allen, \“you know your mother and father ; bought that suit for ner.” | Mrs. Moon failed to make any | reply. | You know your mother here, do jyou not?” continued Allen. | Mrs. Moon, without looking up, sharply replied | “No, I don’t know.” During the two days of the trial, Mrs. Moon sat with Mrs. E. Casst- dy, sister of Charles Gross, the hus- band. She has fronted the witness stand, casting sneers and defiant jlooks of hatred at her sister | Once, Judge Albertson had to caution Mrs. Moon and Mrs. Cas- sidy to check their overeager dis- play of feeling against Mrs. Gros Testifying in behalf of Mrs, |Gross, her daughter, Mrs. Sands, the mother, told the court that Mrs, | Moon, her other daughter, had run a from home when she was 15, and had been gone a long time, Since then, the girl has been twice married, and twice separated. She has refused to live with her par- ents, Mrs. Sands testified, and is |now living at the St. Lawrence hotel. Taking the stand in her own be- half, Mrs. Gross described the in- tense jealousy which her husband displayed. She detailed how many foolish quarrels arose over trifling ter: “l was young when | married him. 1 was 16,” she said. “I wae always happy and cheerful. He ac- quired a morose disposition. While he would permit me to go to dances, promising to take me to them, he invariably changed his mind at the last minute, The same In a moment of happened with theatres, or when planned to go to Luna park, or ny other place. When | went with of amuse- ment, he would upbraid me and say that | cared for them more than for him. “This finally culminated in a shameful accusation it March and we forever separated.” Husband Accu Wife. Gross accused his wife of having tayed at the Hotel Frye over night with a man named “G. W. Norton.” The hotel register was produced in these opiates, he contracted the| CONSTANTINOPLE, June 13.—| marriage. | With great . ceremony Mahmud} Waughop admitted that he has/snefket Pasha, grand vizier who been taking drugs since his college) nants of the Young Turk party, days in Harvard, in 1888, but that it was in moderation and did not| ponents of the young Turk party, The greatest ex- ffect his mental balance until| was buried today. after he met Miss Kloss. nite “ > sete When Mrs. Eliza Waughop, moth. |citement prevails and a new revo er of Dr. Philip R. Waughop, was| lution is expected at any hour. The at the point of death, the doctor | uthorities are overlooking no pre- recommended a diet of mince pie| Caution to suppress uprisings and | and baked beane for her. have ordered all citizens to be in- This testimony was given Wed-|“00rs before 10 p.m. mesday by Mrs. Fannie Clark, a half sister of Mrs. Wavghop. It was intended to show that for some |time prior to his marriage, the coc: tor was mentally incapacitated. “The first time Miss Kloss eame to the house,” said Mrs. Clack, * had a rubber sheet with ner, S said she was sent by the church, jand we supposed it was all right |She at once became familiar with| the state, Gov. Lister has ap- |the doctor, and she recommended a| pointed Mrs. W. A. Holzheimer hot bath for him, I think’she her-| of Seattle and Mrs. H. W. Al- self gave it to him. 1 heard her| len of Spokane, members of voice in the bathroom, at any rate.| the Panama-Pacific exposition Later the doctor told me he thought] board, The other members of the red headed nurse had given him| the board appointed were J. D. knockout drops. He meant Miss! Trenholme, of Seattle; Rube R. Kloss. | Rasher, of Spokane, and Frank On the day of the mar ¢ Or. H. Hale, of Tacom: Waughop shed copious tears, ac- The board will cording to Mrs. Mabel V. McGill Flood, a member of the same church | as the physician. He was consider- bly wrought up, she said, and he _ Name Women on 1915 Fair Board he By United Press Leased Wire OLYMPIA, June 12.—Paying a high tribute to the women of have super- vision over the expenditure of $175,000 for a building and ex- exposition hibit at the and court, showing “G. W. Norton and wife.” According to Gross, this Norton is a dining room conductor who traveled with Mrs. Gross, when the latter was returning from a visit in North Dakota. Gross said Mrs. Gross told him about Norton d had often referred to him as “George.” Mrs. Gross flatly denied the ac- |cusation of her husband, declaring |emphatically that she had not seen him at any time from the day she had left the train at the King st. station. “T always told my husband every- thing,” she said, on the verge of tears. “And I told him about this Mr, Norton, who was kind to the children and to me all the way to Seattle, as he was kind to others, too,” According to Gross, Mrs. Gros: telephoned him one day that she was at the Frye hotel and asked him to come down later in the aft- ernoon. He came down earlier than the hour appointed, he said, and he saw Mrs. Gross leave the hotel with a strange man. They went to a cafe, he said. Judge Albertson took the case under advisement and will make a decision Monday. Hundreds of young peopte are earning a good living with the skill given them in bookkeeping and shorthand at Hyatt Fowell rth and Pine, Let us do as his gray matter not unlike ssity of employing jargon} were the last of 6,000 8 were worn out his “punch” and several thousand ent paid a cent fare in five years,"|a population of 19,000, Yale county the docket for the June term of court, much_for_you.—Adv COURTS CLOSED _ 4 no CASES Tabor resigned as a United|'TIS SOFT TO BE A JUDGE UP THERE . PEN YAN, N. Y., June 11.—With an area of 320 square miles and hasn't a civil or criminal case on