The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 29, 1913, Page 1

eee care as ST — - ee mm ae oo a. = JUDGE MDONALD STRICKEN—DIES a WEATHER FOR SEATTLE AND VICINITY FAIR TONIGHT, WEDNESDAY FAIR AND WARMER; LIGHT WESTERLY WINDS Think! » W % Over 40,000 Daily An Oddity Among Judges! ¥ a i The Star is read in 40,000 Seattle homes ‘ At last! U, 8. Judge Jere Neterer, appointed | daily. Don't you believe it? Oh, very | | for this district, actually believes In | well! Come to the office. Books See story the recall of judges. VOLUME 15 THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS HOME NO, 129. SEATTLE, WASH,, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1913 ri ONE CENT os "ANS ae Bn Woe! Woe! Unto the Family of Wo Gee, for the Bloodthirsty Pirates of Denny Park Have Set Upon e wl rf fc VO} on page 3 always open. | | \ | the e ‘. \{Him, an ic Ri i hed im, e Mystic Ning at for Lhousands of Years Stoo etween the Wos and Nuin is Gone h. ae Sui oa Paasiacisimaty f white By Fred L. Boalt. Now, the Chinese, In many matters, are wiser than we, When a One night the Blind Barber, between tunes, heard sounds in The stranger placed in Wo’s hand a ring with a curious set- Wo Gee is at the city hospital with a broken nose. The injury ‘Ie crop fails in China, it must get along the trea which were not made by bees. His sensitive ears read ting. The stone was carved in the image of a bee. is of no consequence. on two-thirds rations, or one-third of th must starve to the sounds aright » pirates were climbing the tree and whis “Keep it always,” said the stranger. “Give it to your son, and Last night four young men set upon Wo Gee in Denny park ‘Wath. Hecause, with three full crops, there Is just enough rice to pering in tte braneh your son's » It shall stand between the House of Wo and dix hite & and robbed him of $242 in hard money. The loss is trifling. go around. For the Old Hee Tree was the only weak spot in the otherwise aster. A pirate gives it you. Some day, If you are not careful, a ed* Wo Gee does not mind in the | having his nose broken So, when a rice crop falls, the Chinese, feeling the pinch of impregnable wall around Nank{poo. pirates shall rob you of it. When that day comes, woe to the House nmr and being robb But when the young men took the money from unger, know It Is perfectly proper for them to leave the towns When Wo was sure that the pirates were climbing the tree, of Wo!” vet; @ Wo Gee's blouse, they took a ring also. and turn pirates. And the more fortunate ones, having enough he wet bow to strings and played an improvised war song so wild, Then the stranger silently went away. 1 Woe! Woe! Wo Gee moans and calle upon his honorable an rice, know it is baolutely legitimate for them fo hang on to their so shrill, so filled with anger and alarm, that the whole town When the Blind Barber of Nankipoo died, the ring fell Into the : cestors. rice and to kill as many plrates as possible heard and knew that the Blind Barber was warning them of hands of his son, who passed it on to his son. And go, in time, It *: Rae Kor life everywhere ts a dogeat-dog proposition, anyhow danger came to Wo Gee, laundryman, of 2028 Westlake av., Seattle, Wash., R: Sf Thousands upon thousands of years ago, when the world was Now, in the year of which we speak t country surrounding And they tumbled out of bed, helterskelter, and gave the U.S.A cde young, there lived the first Wo of whom thete is any record. He = Nankipoo swarmed with pirates pirates an awful walloping ‘And pirates set upon him in Denny park last night, as stated, was known and loved as the Blind Barber of Nankipoo. Wo, the barber, always stationed himself just where the Old o (8 and robbed and beat him. They took his money, the price of many with All day the little barber would labor in his shop, shaving the Bee Tree's branches swept the wal), The Old Bee Tree began Long after, when Wo was an old man and when his son was a washings and ironings. They broke his nose. Wo gives neither drew chins and braiding the pigtails of the male population of Nankipoo, to grow when the world was new. It {# still the It will stand young man, a stranger, came to the little barber shop. It Is sup- loss nor injury a second thought. bet at sundown he would climb the wall surrounding the town and till the Crack o° Dor The Harber liked to be near tt, be posed the Qtr was the leader of the pirate band. Times were Woe! Woe! The ring is gone! Naught now can save the pile play the fiddle far into the night cause he could hear the murmura of the millions of b that ind rice plentiful, and there was no need for men to House of Wo from becoming the plaything of the gods of ven- with a There came a year when one of the three rice crops failed swar geance, mischief, spite and malice! ade sil os SaaS 9" cae es ag Aa RT SAY OF 5 oy i a Pg page be a suet ~ OLD STAGER MEETS BANDIT ON THIRD AVE. WHO HELD HIM UPHALF CENTURY AGO ~ ns GAS COMPANY IS A aERTFLS 2 TTAGAIN; BUNKING "yrs pow s! am foremost citizens, dropped dead at and @ ae ‘ | his home, 5722 Green Lake boule- , 5 B * | vard, at 9 o'clock t nin A . old, bent and ragged, yesterday climbed the hill on Madison st., be navi The gas company loudly boasts of its new gas whe Judge, who was 3 years ote tween eccne and Third. The Sikes finer was missing from his left hand. h iavk rates. It’s all bunk—pure, unadulterated bunk. phe asso gh + Big mk han At the same time another old man was approaching the Madison st. corner, going south on Third. He walked uprightly, albeit stiffly. The two old men met at the corner face-to-face. The man with a digit missing seemed first to recognize the other. A look of terror came into his eyes, and he turned and shuffled stiffly but with amaz- — ing swiftness down the hill, The other old man pursued him. : The pursued reached the Second av. corner, turned it, |and was lost in the crowd. The pursuer, gasping for breath, inquired anxiously for a policeman. An officer came up and asked what was the matter. | “I just run into Three-finger Charley,” said the irate old | gentleman, “but he got away, the petit larceny thief!” | THE ORDINARY CONSUMER IS NOT CON- foe gious o'clock. and went! CERNED ONE PARTICLE IN THE NEW RATES. |0u" cherry picking on the acre e owns, adjoining his home. 5 1 * which r- His bills are not, and will not be, lower as a result) jj. stopped at a nelghbor's house, i the alleged new sched | gave the children some of the cher- FN be ule. In fact, one of the Flea, and returned home. He com ‘ changes is the increase from 25 cents to 50 cents jiaines of Hilght Indigestion, and month minimum charge. . | went into the bathroom. THE ONLY CHANGE THE GAS COMPANY HAS) 4.44.92 or ae nena MADE IN THE WAY OF REDUCING RATES IS FOR against the dresser, and was dead. | THE BENEFIT OF THE BIG CONSUMERS, AND FOR a phage jan . burrieaty sam. | THEM ONLY—FOR THE CONSUMERS WHO _ USE) mone Pr soe} | due to rt disease, and not 1 : 5,000 OR MORE CUBIC FEET OF GAS PER MONTH. (7) vocnd caused by striking the “What do you want him for?” the policeman asked. f For such large consumers, the rate is now fixed at 80 head on the dresser “For holding up the stage coach. § cents flat. As a matter of fact, that used to be the rate, Judge McDonald came to the Pa “When?” demanded the policeman, all excitement. é. before, after the discounts were made for prompt payments. cific coast ja t 76, netting in Call “Bifty years ago,” the old man ‘said. P fornia at first, and later removing The change, therefore, only removed the penalty in case of (0G )ogon, where he held the po | delay in payment. {tions of county judge and regis | } | | Truly the arm of coincidence is long. Jim Mooney was the first man to cross the Smoky Hill stage route after |Fremont. Kit Carson was his guide. Mooney became one 4 of the best known stage drivers of his day. He was an 7 intimate friend of Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, and other pice ~ turesque Westerners of that generation & That was the time when Slade, desperado and road agent, |terrorized the West. Slade and his band held up Mooney’s jcoach, shot the off leader, and robbed the passengers and Jexpress box . | Mooney never got over the humiliation The Slade band was broken up. Many were wiped out in fights. Some were hanged, Slade among them. Only lone escaped—"“Three-fingered” Charley All that was half a century ago. Today Mooney is 86 years old. He long ago quit stage-driving and has amassed a competency at hoss-trading. He is a bachelor and lives jat the Régina hotel, Second: ay. S. ere ’ s less than 5,000 cubic ter of the land office. ‘But the small consumer, who use: acy Rog oo: PS 3 feet month, must still pay the penalty—25 per cent oe A Donaity: i he fails to make his monthly payments promptly. | ,.'8 /*# he Wnoame a resi Bad “2 If he pays on time, his rate will amount to $1 per 1,000 honored with an election to the leg: fz + cubic feet. If he is a little eae the company penalizes islature, the coune a. an appoint | fe him 25 cent, and his rate is $1.25 per 1,000. ment aa collector of custo ; 7 py Bee and twenty-five cents per 1,000 cubic feet— {he ort, = pigeon ory “3 ~ : that is the Seattle gas company’s rate, and not $1. It is was preside h $1.25 for the small consumer—with a discount off for prompt and the progressive payment—and 80 cents for the big consumer, whether he the postmastership of Seat te. He Ey oe time or not. HERE IS A DIFFERENCE OF 45 ®as Snow’ v0 he state as ant and witty TS, AND YET IT DOESN'T COST THE COMPANY |cimpaigners for the democratic A FRACTION OF A CENT MORE TO SERVE THE party | SMALL CONSUMER THAN THE BIG ONE. ae i plied McDonald is survived by | The Star has credited the company with giving 4 Nihonsia, atrornes, Seattle; : Seattle a rate of $1. But The Star has not taken Hobert and Ralph Metionald and | ad into account the 25 per cent pry ¢ Considering \%%,_ Tylen Sander, of Coeur) 5 the real rate of the gas octopus as $1.25 per 1,000 The funeral witt provably be held Old Jim Mooney, in his 86th ye ar, Sketched by Vic, as Jim told stories of the long ago, when he Though he has often thought about “Three-fingered” 195 , A m Thursday from the family real-| drove the Smoky Hill stage and fo ught frequent batties | Charley, he had never seen or heard of him since the holdup 4 cubic feet—the rate that the company itself prints ji) 7 =a , yesterday. He had thought him dead. } 1 ‘ ‘ lati | ; a 4 ® 4 on its bills—Seattle, with nearly 300,000 population, | | ) question of him bein’ ‘Thtee-finger,’” said Mooney © | pays the highest rate in the country for a city of its URGE GOVERNOR TO | todav. “I knew him soon’s I set eyes on him. ‘He ee ‘ ai. * | SEE FOR HIMSELF} me, too. If I'd got my hands on him the world’d be rid of y size. | CALUMET, Mich., July 29.—Bust-| a , , ( erthasely bape — pbnwew ARE HO | shot the off leader, as good a hoss as ever P drove!” R Nea aa 2 reonally, tavestignte re at | | Mooney says that, in all his experience, he never met a Ng the strike of copper miners. No| Enthusiastic about Alaska ana| \“bad” man who was really brave. Mark Twain, in “Rough- disorders ‘were reported today, the ing It,” describes the notorious Slade as a man of high cour- ith road ag ent " } until cowardly cur—the petit larceny thief! Why, it was him ita wonderful resources, 170 excur. —— strike leaders tnsisting that the! stonists, who have just completed| WASHINGTON, July 29—One of Mulhall’s testimony, too," saidjage and chivalry who, despite his acts of cruelty, lived up , spe - FALLEN sg ae of mitiamen erates I. prin = Hee po the most significant explosions pore Pret frspeste'oes hy thee J&\to the standard of his time; ‘and the humorist excuses Slade’s mi J rritory as quests o elp . y 3 rr Nee bape pis 4 f of Commerce returned this morn-|caused by the revelations of Martin rh torwood then ina sworn state-| tears and cries of “Oh, my God! my God! Must T die? |What Has Become of— M. Muthall came today when Oscar mont t ing on the Alaska Stemmship com denounced Mulhall. Refer-| Brutal cowards, he explains, often “die game Sy biackmailing his former employers. closed two checka for $75 each to , with eh to make good, instead of sending web ; : Bf ” ing the revolution and that the re- e county commissioners them to the city jail again and! L)} That man was never In my com: be given te Harry Neal and Harry Volt Is expected to collapwe soon is| Monday to discuss the imp ep Salen, eure © reaker’s the advice received here today from Ment Work on the Stuck river. | vany’s liner Victoria, An im- Underwood, democratic notte ieee ring ‘ battag which mmeatioase Mooney said: “Slade brave? He was the rankest coward 7 , them buay,“the city proposes to mense crowd greeted them at the er, openty attacked Mutha fore him, Underwood sai “This let-| ey, 7 nleas ét abeine hi "7 Ti ncteite cae | cada oP aegngrs Pay 3 the |help them cure themselves of their dock the eonare lebby probing commit-|ter in itself manifestly shows Mul | City a Ry oe preakere. fe ceing him die at Virginia — drink habit, and delinquent women bad habits | Seth Mann, President Wilson's tee, where Mulhall’s cross examina- hall's lying. I know neither Emery J: sd be Pur 2 nerally, scientific treatment at a The committee recommends for) personal representative on the trip, tion began today. nor Kirby, and positively have not} a .25 A me to be established on a five-| this purpose the use of $7,000 avatl-| was the guest of honor at a love) Underwood got little satisfaction talked with elther about labor mat-| 9 ee re tract on Beacon hill, if the re- able from the workhouse fund for | feast on board last night, and he|when he denied Muthall’s claims to| ters. | port to the city counell of Council. male prisoners { assured all that he would do his|a close acquaintance, ' Checks in Letters. | a in W. men Hesketh and Wardall is pentane oat | best to induce Prekident Wilson to| “Is that Mulhall? Well, I never! Senator Walsh then read a let- csinahions Wo adopeed } vielt the territory in person next saw him before. I tell you ft Is not ter from Emery, chief counsel for! wagnHINGTON, July 29.—That ., King county should pay no more | hard-sg Judge Gordon will co-operate so AXI RATES year right to let a man like this attack the National Association of Manu! ine Chinere repiiblic. is. making tan Pierce, dollar for doliar, was ance ' as to give these women @ chance | — public men, particularly when he 1s /facturers, to Mulhall which had en-| steady advances toward suppress. ‘2e opinion of taxpayers who met Uniform automobile, taxi and again va i ; nitors Jara eport, “that under | cilman r , tTON ‘ p . 2 each county t y ece fe ee eee errs tae corama | MOOAaY, WASHINGTON, — July 29.—De-|tor feed. “That means that.money| In reply to Underwood, Mutha! |ohted that Americans and all other | Ott Tae ok ane the present conditions, the sprea : k ith nial of reports that he intends to " 7 foreigners are safe. | purpose. is would mean King D” hag of these affilctions is ® menace| It fixes 40 cents as the maximum i W orn Company IF Gioia: the DingeOaminett andl canter ferent {said he had paid Underwood's Jant- “Chinese rebels continued to county would pay $260,000, against a " liction "oy or wmise the Diggs-Camine < Ww " sly make a tor for two years, He said: “I 5 nty.. « e are z jount to be taxed to one, two rth. Well,, | won't merely make a tor for two y ald 96,00 s ys sp to society, And we are cay itne | three passengers for a ride of « half Martha AF spy be ore other white slave cases because he|statement,” sald Underwood, “I know, and when I produce other|hombard the forelgn suttlement to- | 96.000: for Peres ‘sounty, Pie porate y the mile or less, and 10 cents for each the question has a new interpretation of the |want to be put under oath.” wfieleaden Ualarwaah aan cae (ae no loss of life was re-| courts 6 forth into soclety at the end re et dbsisivatign Alaa famile, Thus, r end of thelr terms only to make | additional quarter o » — husband's property was awarded matters worse.” the first mile would cost 60 cents) auto, driven by H. J. Peppie,| Mrs. Hugh Rood, widow of a Seatt! , e 40 cents.| Seattle's ave: inter temper-| “The reports are untrue,” he A‘ | An So with two nice bungalows to|and each additional mile 40 Cenln) | Teale iegrees, summer tem. (said. “The Digge-Caminett! case of 725 18th av. ran down J. J-|man who was loat with the sinking | house these ‘women, and pléaxant,|Kach additional pa Vecatane. (1: dvprees HORT us: to telah Recah | |Sones, nn employe et. the city. pack it the iinet Oren work to keep cost 20 cents per va - - ~ —— | department, on Bighth av,, between | Judge Tallman Monday. wut-door, garden | Union and Pike Monday, Jones! estate in King county ts valued JURED ALLO VW ED TO There appeared to be no change| BERLIN, July 29.—Dispatches re-| sustained injuries about his right |$121,000. Rood had holdings in oth OLD 4 : bd In the toamsters’ strike situation Colved here today from Belgrade say |leg and thigh icounties and states. Softa, capital of Bulgaria, is isolated. - 66 99 \today, following the advantage | jnvesting Servians, It was sald, have DIE IN CELL; DOCTOR BLAMES “OLD AGB ee oi scitia sttn | tenia ett?) PENNANTS COUPON NO. 27 Any four coupons clipped from The Star, consecutively numbered, when presented at The Clancy was booked at the city jall as a “sober drunk” early | storage Co. walked out, Monday, | mune. ch | Star office with 15 cents, will entitle you to a 65-cent pennant. Oregon State Pennants now |Mann law, w voleed here today| “Other aubordinates have dented! that part of his statement {s a lie.” — | by Attorney Gen, McReynolds. . . ake an | Coroner Mason announced today that he would not im Sunday morning. He was arrested by Patrolman Holm on Wash- |r, ‘ » purpose of the atrike ts t Investigation of the death of James Clancy, 71, of Fall City, who | QoTt “iiter he had fallen down some atepa and hurt himself, | fore the "mombern, of the Team {PUTS TO SEA was kept in a cell for over 12 hours, and then, on the second com- ‘hat he also was Intoxicated, ther ms to be no question. Owners’ association to recognize vinint of the jailer that “something was wrong,” removed to the not tilt 6:30, however, that Jailer McKnight notified the |¢he inion i hospital, where he died as the result of having sustained a fracture The majority of the independent | AGAIN | PORT TOWNSEND, July 29.- The Hawailan liner Hilorian, of the Matson Navigation Co,, put to jsea for the second time in’ 24 hours ind seven broken ribs | companies belong to the union q of the skull 1:30 McKnight again ed the hospital to take care of today, leaving two men in the ma- the firet At ie 9 a - 4 ae Dr. dones, the police surgeon, whe sxamined Olgtey: Ot ts | Clancy. This time he was removed to the hospital, | OLYMPIA THE tariffs filed by rine hospital here. When 75 miles | out. California Pennants out next week. Pen- 1 \ as brow D line Gr Jorthe: 0 ® effect | 0! ‘ape Flattery yester 2 . ae nas im, sme it neriously hurt.” He was sent back to a cell. He died in less than 24 houre the Great Northern, to take effect off Cape Flattery yesterday, she i nants will be sent by mail if 5 cents additional for wasn’t seriously ee en Clancy's head and the broken “The man was drunk,” says Dr. - {Awe 1 relative ‘to switching /@urned back, following a blow-back ns i ‘ Dr. Jones now claims te at the mangied man died of “old age.” | plain about hie Injuries. The cut over hie head did not cau charges from the central to suburb. |from an oll furnace, which burned || each Pennant is enclosed. Bring or mail to The ed| ribs didn’t cause a Untess Coroner Gates alleged neglect in the case, died a natural death. Seattle Stax, 1307 Seventh Ave., near Union St. ision and Investi- death. He died of old At the hospital | cid not strap him for jan stations about Seattle, have|Third Assistant Engineer 8S. ne. ee gat sf wut show that Clancy the broken ribs, because | waited for him to sober up before do | been suspended for 90 days by the|Mehl and Fireman Geo, Coheneg. ing #0.” a publig service commission. Tho latter may die, |