The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 17, 1913, Page 4

THE STAR—TUESDAY, UNE 17, 1913. OF THR SCRIPPS NORTHW her LEAGUE OF NEWSPAPRES, Telegraph News Rervice of the United Press Association Entered at the postoffice Seattlo, Wash, a second clase matter, Published by The Star Publishing Company every evening except Sunday TT ; | WHY WORK? To the credit of some of the judges of King ‘county, let tt be noted that some of them davored the presiding judge system, which they have just rejected in a meeting which they all attended | Some of them wanted to adopt a method which would distribute more equally the work of the judges, AND KEEP) THEM FROM WASTING MUCH VALUABLE TIME, But the majority of them were unwilling to make the A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and 1) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair, | (We called. her the woman who did not care) | But the fool he called her his lady fair (Even as you and I!) AMERICAN BOY MUST FACE TRIAL IN ITALY BECAUSE HE BEAT HIS VAMPIRE WIFE TO DEATH WITH MARBLE STATUE OF “LOVE” change. The majority of them treated the presiding judge —Rudyard Kipling. system as they have been accustomed to treat the law, by| NEW Y ne elip ae 2 Ths ; , the rule of precedent. Custom decreed that King county hat of ging ine | Yes, I killed her, She was a aa jthe best woman in the wor should have no presiding judge. Therefore, even though) . that would facilitate and expedite the work of the court, | ‘or these words, uttered as he was walking down the custom must not be lightly waved aside. Custom decreed | s¢ngplank a Hoboken pier tl x years ago, will } ‘ g Aida | : P harlte t e now to face ar F ju ° « MM fa that there must be court vacation in July and August. There- . siygebiv ig td es tal " ry; Own th hy “ Peer . A ne task of deciding whe ror not he must < ec rest 0 fore, there must be eight weeks’ rest for each of the judges, |))0 jany days a ng the dampish stones of on alien dungeon no matter if there is work to do or not. to live in solitary ment because wit tue called Custom! Precedent! How dear to the judge's heart! ‘LOVE” he crashed out the brains of | s ly Mary Scott ( Charlton, while they were still on that trange honey began in a villa hung er the bl WHY RENTS ARE HIGH blue waters mo Young Charlton's fa Paul} Mra. Castle and Griffith av 7 |Chariton, a rich lawyer of New reled incessantly and violently To Have you ever stopped to figure out what makes rent/yYork, has put up a gre three-| gether they went to New York to s0 high? year-long lexal battle to keep appear in vaudeville, but Griffith} In the c u can buy an acre of ground often for| son in this country, but {t has Just at last broke tt spell, and left » as $100. hes i 4h th ie Peel 7 een decided by the 8. ov her; she chased ijm twice across as little as $1 oe) bpirmcige cs ind Rood as the dirt in a court that he must be sur the continent In va small city lot whic you perhaps $2,000. Put a house to tralian offictals for a Thin was in 1906 orter Charl | On it, costing, say, an $3,100 you have a home to Italy for 1. The word has ton waa a high school boy in Oma which, if moved by to the crowded part of a modern been passed t murderer in his ha then, His fi r, Pau! Charlton, | iba abby : § Best ecole ga gg cell ta the y prison and an Intimate friend of Wm. H. Taft city, would ke you independently rich for life he to put one last fight ~-they m of the same Now, there is very little difference between the prices to stay here, But it is not Hkely class at Yale—was seeking an of-| of stone, bricks, mortar ar mber in the country and in. his wishes will be carried out ficial position in Washington, and is cry. | lifferen the wages of the house bulider ‘ e i 2 > was appx int a > th legal de-| a for the tre in 1897 Mary Scott, In ran- partment of the bureau of insular} = a enough to account for the ‘re-lclsco, became the wife © affairs | mdous difference in the selling price of the finished home| Castle, a lawyer. Castle lost his) Ho went to Washington in 1907, | ¢ country and town fortune in litigation, and his wife taking his son Porter with him t ) ie Thus the only big thing left to account for the higher ras up Coa which woe a have i Porter was to. 9p sete the } % 1 a thrown m into bankruptey but banking business fath @ity value is that in the city more people want lend. And | S70Re oe i 1960 she went on|to OF r vaadusien that, of course, is true. They want it because they have to/tho stage in a play calledy"The the National City bank, who gave have it; because it is as necessary for their existence aS Princess and the Butterfly him a position, That was Dee. 7, | or air Mary Scott cont! her stage | 1908, He became one of tho most eo 8 ; ear 4 grew. promising clerks tn the bank. He} Yet how often do we se¢ a few persons buying control © aweance| wae spirited, ambitious and wrote of great tracts of land in or near a city, fencing it in and re-|Grittith, an actor In the company, | verses fusing to let people who need land badly have access to it and loved him with a wild, des The next Angest Mary Scott until C jb perate abandon. Her husband se-'came to New York; her love for aeey, pay, = fancy price ¢ from her. Wm. B. Craig, a lawyer, had turned Imagine the howl that would go up if private individuals should in a similar manner get control of large reserves of the water we drink or the air we breathe and hold us all up fm the mere act of living until we came to their terms for @rinking water or oxygen. The owner of idle d in a city of course ad By such ownership to the city’s growth. On the contrary fetards it. Makes it the more dif It for an industrious man, @ producer, one who is daily g to the community's add wealth, to find a place to lay his head Rents. are high, then, because the big growth in land values due to the growth of our cities has been permitted to pass into private pockets, and chiefly the pockets of a few in each community, while the many have to pay increasing tribute on the very wealth which their own industry has created. Rents cannot be pulled down suddenly unless by the de- struction of all values; but we can begin to reduce them ually and equitably whenever we shall set forth to untax wements on land and increase the tax on unearned in ¢rement. There is no reason in justice, is there, why you, a worker ghould have to spend a fourth of your income for rent when up the next street some chap who never did a day’s work in his life gets from ground rent on inherited real estate an in come which enables him to house himself in luxury on its tenth, hundredth or thousandth? Wednesday is a good day to buy Seattie-made goods. | Can’t blame the Port Pirates for being a bit hoggish. It really means a great deal to them—this election today. All they want, you know, is a sen-sidewalk built on their vacant desert island, and batit by the dear public—the public money spent on thetr own front yard, that’s all the Increase In the port commission, E4 Chilberg, J. D. Lowman and the whole outfit of them, also urged) the election of “Lafe” Hamilton, you will remember. And he's the boy, you know, who, with Commissioner Rutherford, put over the Clapp docksite deal. It was Bridges’ partner, McKenzie, who fought the Clapp docksite purchase. The newspapers now mang je in the last hour before election, abrication, It manufactured out | rs of the grand jury were trrt And now, driven to frenzied st: the Ayers organ resorts to deibera of whole cloth a fake story that memt tated by Bob Bridges. All of which ts absolutely false. The whole thing {s a monumental lie, and that newspaper knows ft. The grand fury members did not make any such statement They would have Violated their oath if they did. Whatever was sald or done tn the} grand jury room is a secret ur {1 a report is made in open court. Ayers organ lied. That Is as plain as the Ite it printed that Irving Bush was behind the Ayers scheme when It was first heralded tn flaming letters in Seattle, a little over a year ogo. Another tle constantly peddied by the newspaper mouthpleces of the Port Pirates is that the people of one district cannot vote on a can Gidate living and nominated in another district. When Bob Bridges fs up for re-election, in December, every voter in the county will have fan opportunity to vote for or against him. TWO NOTES FROM QUEER OLD CHINA.—Acroplanes have been purchased by the Chinese government and natives will be taught to pilot them. During a cyclone which sunk 100 junks, the Chinese fir- ed bombs and crackers to placate the gods, This Baking Powder Keeps Its Strength The large can of K C lasts longer than 25 cents worth of other baking powders but no matter how long it takes to get to the bottom the last 5 is just as good as the first. C raises the nicest, lightest biscuits, cakes and pastry you ever ate, and it is guaranteed pure and wholesome. For goodness sake, use K C, Wait 2 or 3 Days Your Engravings for | | when we can make them in an hour or two? You will like our stk, our prices and our fair-| ness in dealing. Elliott 3006. Opposite 1 lopry house. However, th’ show is cured a div S Nome Reason ! | A noble ship sailed Into port And then she salled away. Ships siwaye bi to act ike this, Or else they wouldn't pay. aay » Editor's Money In Circulation. Editor Sommers, of the Elizabeth- |town News, in considerably swelled up over the fact of the large de & t [posite in the banks in Hardin —— THE BABY county. Well, you nee, neighbor, MINDING ‘ NG jn heluva jot of our money ia o jrolling around on pneumatic tires. “‘Zaza’ is finally comin’ to th’ Hodgenville (Ky) Herald. o4 « And Speaking of Names. | Mr. Jess Bonecutter and wife, After recapitulating the treasur-|Mr. John Pitener and wife of ors’ reports, the fear is felt among | Letpatc and Mr. Oliver Heffley and the city officials of Auburn that|wife were the Sunday afternoon there are enough dogs tn town to| visitors of Guy Tooman and family still new in B yeport.” . make dog days a howling success|-—South Prairie Cor. Continental this year. Union-News. | eee o2e Grasshoppers in Washington _ have begun to attack fruit trees About the Limit. The Washington grasshopper has Lap, two methods. @omet! the tree down and at other times he merely kicks it to death on he gnaws | | -« | A lot of The Star's juvenile readers will be sorry when “Dead- shot Pill” ts © n up eee | “Love alone will not bring hap- says Idah McGlone Gibson hat’s just where Love falls shy of making good on the job. eee The top of a pineapple Is sald to make an excellent porch plant if | There ts a ma: r town, |} You'll never find a meaner | He borrows once a week, he does, His neighbor's vacuum cleaner He uses it for a shampoo The cost, he says, Is lower. | roperly potted at most girls a properly potted. | at mont, firis| He's trying now some way to cut | foned in this matter and atick to| eee their best young man i oe} | On the Trolley. Hig hair with a lawn mower | | MAYBE SHE DION’T LIKE Him.| “Your fare, Miss,” the conductor sald. Then blushes to her came. "Tee, hee!” she laughed, ‘twas Just last night That Harry LKeTO id the same.” ee Weary—Yea, if that loldy in there don't stop pdéuring scalding water on me, and gettin’ the dorg| “There ought to be only one head at me, I'm going to strike her |to any family!” shouted the orator. name off my visttin’ let | “That's true,” replied a married- i GY legs |looletng man in the audience. No, If you do-| “You agteo with met’ shouted | peaker. ee do,” replied the rharriddtook- “Agitated One” nate reading matter to the patients | the at the contagious disease hospital | you won't have to take it back, }ing man I've just paid for hats he for nine daughters.” ‘ What's the matter with the idea| ore of chopping up the curves on| Fditor Most Anything: We are some of Seattle streets and pre-|all agreed that the fly should be will | ed. We 100,000 to 1 are almost unanimots, that the fly tn entitled to a humane death. Anaesthetics are too expensive, Electrocution ts too formal. Why not kill the fit senting them to the pitchers on the Victoria team’? see @ triumph’ of art over nature,” says an item on the Woman's Page. Yen, they are more | by throwing them off a skyscraper convenient than going naked {n a|A fall off the Smith building ought pour-down. to be fatal.—C, J eee | o* + Most people are willing to Sherlock Holmes glanced ‘round copt as a definition of “free speech” the room. The pictures were torn that they be allowed.to do all the| into shreds, the chairs were brok talking. en, the table lying on the top of “ a the plano. A great splash of blood “l hope I haven't pt you walt-|was on the carpet ing too 6." eushed the girl Some one has been here,” he ‘Only about $3 rth,” estimated | commented, with wonderful in- the young man in the taxicab, wight. SERIOU Main 9400, Private exchange com necting with all @pyartmente, PHON! RATES "sor sis times, 8101 one roar, By carrier, in city © month. to hate, and murder was in hers was gone; he grew ra. One heert. Now fate had brought he telephoned to his father in them into the same city—Mary Wast Scott and Porter Charlton, On the afternoon of August 3, in the won derfully beautiful “peacock alley of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, Mary Scott met Walter Craig You will go back on me?” she shouted, drawing a pitifully small silver-plated revolver from her gown, She fired the weapon at the man; the bullet struck his fountain pen and caused only a slight tn jury. She was arrested, but the case was dropped Bho established herself in @ famous Lake Como, in the small but exclusive hotel. One of the most bea seenery that night {n January of 1910 Porter Kurope has to offer, they found a Charlton was taken by a friend to villa her apartments. Their paths had Hut they quarreled just lookin at last—he a boy t it on life; she a woman who and t heen so much of ft that the eyes of poured from her mind and soul were tired each da < ‘ He loved from the very first, Charlton had 0 night, and she loved him, To her found her ‘ he seeme bring back the youth bespotted than any & that had « with all its passions that he had ever 1 and tts fires they quarreled many times each At the bank they soon discov. y ered a change in him; his smile) They had a fev 1 4 Charltons qu Charlton the ance was reached ng on the ede with a statuette alled struck her on the head hree blows she was senseless, He thrust her body into a trunk and dragged the trunk outdoors and down to the shore of the world-famous lake. He threw !t from the plier into the water Within three days he had taken a steamer back to the United States, full of terror, but thinking that the murder was a secret. On the very same steamer on which he the very same sfeamer were pho- | the «scene of the |tographs of CHARLTON, THE. MURDERED |murder being rushed to American l Wire 4 newspapers, for fishermen had ines recent |found the trunk. When Porter [Charlton alighted in Hoboken, across the river from New York, detectives were waiting for him, eee to his PORTER BELF-CONFESSED ER, AND THE SPOT WITH A CROSS) WHERE TRUNK CONTAINING HER WAS FOUND. I- | IN THE EDITOR’S MAIL Finds Her Son can citizens. Mr. Smith would feel Editor The Star: Thanks to your| better toward Bothell if he were kindness in helping me to find my/to visit {t this time of year. boy. Just received a letter from Yours truly, him. He tg well and working at G. WYLIE O’GANNON, Clallam Bay. He saw the article Hotel Westlake. in The Star and wrote. — CHARLTON, THE MURDER- He was blindly faithful (MARKED | vampire. THE And all he could say was: BODY “Yes, | killed her. She was the best woman in the world to me.” That Awful Moment! STEO pt ; Pro ’ } Ge gro ad Bu: Zz Respectfully yours, Indoreee U S Children MRS. LUCINDA LAURY. Editor Star: 1 read The Seattle . '. Index, Wash. Star each day ft ts published and like {ts editorials, Réitor’s Mai! and He Goes to See Bothell other discuasions. But such state Editor The Star: For some days ments as “Constant Reader” made, jpast I bave read your interesting as a criticism, on The Star's plea paper, and especially the accounts for Mother Jones’ house outlding, from Bothell. What amused mejin my estimation and by Bible greatly was the article by a Mr.|proof, is lacking In understanding. Smith, of this city. From the tone First, the commandment i of his writing one would imagine quotes, Exodus xx.:8-11, says the he had visited Bothell on s dark, seventh day is the Sabbath, not the dreary day in February to attend |first day, commonly called Sunday. a funeral. I have just been to|/ Would like to have “C. R.” show I. I took the stage, which|the writer where he gets, “Thus five round trips a day. The saith the Lord, for Sunday keep- hills and fields are of a beautiful ing.” Second, I believe that James green, with not a few wild flowers {.:27 defines our duty to our fellow dotted in thetr midst. I could see man, to-wit: “Pure religion and distant homes on every hill. Small undefiled before God and the Father garden patches and chicken ranches {s this: To visit the fatherless and on either side the road told of a/ widows in their affliction, and to prosperous community. I saw the keep himself unspotted from the high school, the churches, the bank/ world.” Tne writer indorses The Snobs, Says He NEW YORK, June 17.—"The chil- dren of this country of the well-to- do class are imbued, almost fhm the cradle, with the spirit of snob- bishness, The education of the child is not as yet on a proper basis in this country. That fs why my two girls are being brought up in Paris and will remain there till they are sixteen.” Mra, Adelaide has lived tn Pa %, made this statement at dort-Astoria, She continued My girls began to talk about ‘society.’ There were dances and parties every day, so I took th to Europe. They aro taught th the things they really nee “Beelsysport has had a bench show. Tobe Smallacre’s great Curbetone, ‘Sheepkilier, Champion,’ won over all competitors. eee JOSH WISE SAYS: ‘tarr Laan, who s for the Inst five the “atthe port deppo there's always somebody leyo and the business houses, and every- | Star, and says God speed you. Yours truly, body I met seemed enjoyable com-| can be depended | innors and (ie languages pany. The people are congenial, | upon ter say, pleasant and good hearted Amert- ‘Here she comes’) The Madrona Hetghts Improve- when th’ train|ment club has a novel plan for the| Protect whisties a mile u rovement of the district near ” a 2 P Madrona park. A concert is to be Yourself H | k th’ track. given at the Madrona Presbyterian on Oriic Sd thurch Tuesday ev c. to which an admission of 26 cents will be| Ask for he Madge—-WLo helped you make|charged. The proceeds of the con ss *4 & % . such a fool out of that poor young |cert will be used to purchase seats Original ! a earl ote ables iatpian/E | peas ? | te i long the - Drink F page men for street intersections along he | Genuine The Food for all eal I lear line, ITPAYS TO BUY LOCAL PRODUCTS First, because of the money saving; second, because you get another chance at your money; third, because it helps develop local industries, thus insuring good times, freer money, a bigger. Seattle—a better place to live in. Think about it—insist on the brands advertised below. 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