The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 30, 1913, Page 1

This is the palpitating question’ which the STORIES FOR SUMMER. This question, HUSBANDS! Does O. Henry tell the truth a READ “THE PENDULUM” AND SEE! Think! Over 40,000 Daily | ‘The Star Is read In 40,000 Seattie homes dally. well! Don't you believe it? Oh, very Come to the office, Books always open. VOLUME NO. 130. 15J and an allied one— WEATHER FOR SEATTLE AND VICINITY: WIVES! DOES absence really make the heart grow ‘fonder?- to why YOU go out night: FAIR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY; ~are both answered. LIGHT THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS SEATTLE WASH., WEDNESDAY, hehe 30, 1913. July 12 last a morning paper charged Miles Poindexter, progressive senator from Wash- with placing on the government payroll 11 bers of his own family. | The Star wired to Gilson Gardner, its correspond- at Washington, to make a thorough investiga- “ j of the matter. Senator Poindexter wrote a Bb letter to The Star in which he declared the attack " him was consistent with the reactionary attempt ghout the country to retard the work of the ives. And today Gilson Gardner sees a significance in the fact that the attack on Poin- was made “almost simultaneously with the duction of his bill for the immediate develop- of Alaska.” RE IS TRUTH OF AT ATTACK ON br | e, inser- “i SEN. POINDEXTER a , an ex- ee tae ty a | oul By Gilson Gardner. | JASHINGTON, July 30.—Senator PoMdexter appointed one mem-| it room, a job paying y all that is true In a story which has been and will be pub-| and wide to the effect that Poindexter ie carrying on the) pl roll a host of Poindexter relatives. man who concocted the story evidently took the government weiter and. made a list of every man, woman or child bearing the| mame of Poindexter, and printed this list as members of Poindexter's| and credited to his political influence for their appointmen name, for example, ts that of Fielding L. Potndexter, » first retired, of the United States army. Poindexter went to the Philippines curing the rent Amer- I ‘ts @ private, and was recommended for bravery tn action. he took the examination accorded all enlisted men, and “4 gained the grade of second Heutenant. To credit him to Sen ixter is the height of absurdity | At the time Fielding Poindexter secured his promotion, Taft was) and it is a notorious fact that Taft and Potndexter were ly at swords’ points, and that Potndexter's influence could not A appointed a chairman under Taft administration. _ Another name credit to Poindexter is one Ernest Poind that he is on the government pay roll as a apolal kes} Hy false. He never will be in the employ of the United States | Any one who will stop to think knows that a democratic | general who opposes Neterer as federal judge, would hardly | to favor Poindexter by appointing his relatives or friends - white, counsel. | Another misstatement is that Gafl Poindexter, son of the senator, | easily BIE %8 appointed by his father to the United States navat academy at| Annapolis. tf precedent. The Straw, [i of Senators and representatives frequently do this. wademy. | fie La Foliette of Washington, and not by the senator. The other Poindexters mentione’ in the article are unknown to Poindexter. If they are relatives he never heard of them and M w honor and a tre responsibility have been thrust upon me. | can nly hope | have acquitted my- self with credit. At Pantages theatre this week are six diving nymphs, chief of whom is Lottie May shown in the picture abo Mise Mayer yesterday asked me to call upon her and her diving associates and judge which of their number has the best shape. In a task 80 delica’ it te hard to be coldly critical. You understand | was to determine which one of the diving nymphs has the best shape. A nymph might be crose-gyed and have the form divine. Or she might have hair the color of mud and of the texture of straw, and yet possess a shape rivaling that of a@ sculptor’s dream. | do not say that the diving nymphs are cross-eyed, or that they have mud-colored hair, Indeed, | hasten to say that they are not and have not. But you wil! grasp the difficulties. Mina Mayer, for instance, comes from Chicago, and has laughing, friendly blue eyes. Cou | 1 meet that _tnetry glance | | and remain unbiased? There nymph from Brooklyn. is little, plump and sassy. But her big brown eyes are hen Could | look unmoved? the St. Louis nymph! nder, tall and debon- She regarded me with haughty disdain, | could love her for her very aloofness. The Montreal nymph too, me to sentimenta' did not know | p For she was winsome and wholly desirable. So are the Portiand nymph and the Cincinnati nymph. “We want your honest opin- jon” they said, “and whatever none of us will be In the My opinion as to shape?” “Shape,” they replied, “Noth- ing else matters.” And they caressed me with their eyes. pe,” they sald, their smiles. tht” “Just shape,” they said, and shook their curls at me. What Is shape? | tried to re- member the measurements of Annette Kellerman, Venus de Milo, Jack Johnson and others. Reach 80 much; chest #0 much; biceps so much, Bah! Meas SAN FRANCISCO, July 30—! Sacrifice by Moro outlaws of 196 their women and 340 children by using them as shields to ward off If the senator had done so, he would have found plenty puliets American troops at Mount Bagsag, The appointment merely gives the boy a chance to take ® Very Philippines, on June 10 last, is re. ME competitive examination and does not necessarily get him into) ported here today by passengers arriving on the Persia from the Ag a matter of fact, the senator's son was designated by Representa | | Orient. Gen. Pershing’s force killed 1,600 loro outlaws and irreconcilable ho were entrenched in the cra ttached Zo hand in their connection with the government service. There |f eee are or Be many Poindexters trom the South, and most of those mentioned) | Captain T. A. Nichols of the fist par the published articles are credited to Southern states. [Americans were killed. eae: outside As to the sale of land referred to, Senator Poindexter said he baa} ors, of flies Metoanection whatever with, and had never written or spoken to any M@eial a single word in regard to it “My interest in the land was, in fact, disposed of before the sale,” tid. et Maintain Censorship. The war department has main |tained a strict censorship since the extermination of the Moros was de ded upon and the cableq received i t the time of the battle merely vire and The senator explained that he and each of his brothers and various | @ felatives of a large Poindexter family each inherited one forty-|#tated that there had been a de rust. of the estate. The estate ax a whole was bought by the gov-| cisive engagement but gave few de- alls ) @iment in its purchase of an Appalachian forest reserve. The price 1" We vas $169,000, which, divided into forty-seconds, approximates $4,000 | A SPECIAL EFFORT HAS APPARENTLY BEEN MADE TO DIS- | SREDIT POINDEXTER SINCE IT WAS LEARNED THAT HE IN-| > easily f g > ti 0 mesh iD OPPOSING THE COAL TRUST AND GUGGENHEIM PLANS EXPLOITING ALASKA. FRIENDS OF POINDEXTER SEE WONIFICANCE IN THE FACT THAT THIS ATTACK CAME ALMOST emeOUsLY WITH HIS INTRODUCTION OF HIS BILL FOR 9 Section. IMMEDIATE DEVELOPMENT OF ALASKA IN THE INTEREST | OF THe PEOPLE, AND IT 18 NOT HARO TO TRACE ITS INSPIR- TO THE SPECIAL INTERESTS, WHICH WOULD LIKE TO IRVE ALASKA FOR THEIR PRIVATE EXPLOITATION. vida DOZENS DIE OF HEAT BACK “1 EAST; COMFORTABLE HERE Philadelphia had three deaths to add to the list. And each dispatch was wound up with “No relief in sight; IB The telegraph wire which con-| iB Mets The Star with all other parte IB the world, was busy telling in and dashes this morning of Me terribie heat wave which has hospitals pre tre East. The larger pared for a busy day.” ies had dozens of deaths and a Incidentally, here in Seattle, The| trulet M. Wells, Bruce Number of prostrations. Star's telegraph operator never|yyiiard Price, Kate Sadler Was Chicago. Thirteen thotight of shedding his coat or] joo Jarvis, “the most maligned per-| Griffiths’ fuccumbed to the morning vest. At one time he interrupted | sons in Seattle,” as the socialists | dia) overcome. ? Crops the Eastern reports long enough to| ciaim, will be given seats on the| M4 grain were withering. complain of the draft. | platform at the big meeting in the What Has New by York reported four deaths We called the weather Sinstroke, an even 12 prostra- 68 degrees. = WOMEN USED AS SHIELD; KILLED BY AMERICANS A dramatic account of the battles against the Moros was given today, civilian employe | quartermas- | arrived on) the Persia after four years in the by John Mclean, of the United States ter’s department, who Philippines Bodies Are Burned. “When the Moros to make their last stand, their women and children them as shields,” Mclean that every Moro had perished. order of Gen. Pershing, all bodies were burned “The most spectacular engage-| ment was fought when Lieut. G, C, Chariton, at the head of the 52nd| company Moro scouts, captured! Matunkup. The band of 150 men| climbed hand over hand up the sides of a sheer cliff, making prog- reas by clinging to vines and} shrubs Waiter Gets $900 Tip; He Collapses MINNEAPOLIS, July 30.—A negro waiter in a hotel cafe here Is confined to his bed to- day, weak from joy over the generosity of Chas. G. Gi son of the late John W. Gate Ga dinner check amount- ed to $100. He paid it from a $1,000 bill, and, slipping $900 into the negro’s palm, sald: “Here, boy, e this stuff. You can get more pleasure out of it than I can.” The negro collapsed, but kept a firm clutch on the bills. SIT ONPLATFORM, Rogers, \ way a draw, and | will be administered to Councilman nostrum bill. | tlons exactly as they physicians,” said Manager Stew art, of the Sulphurro company, which manufacturers a cure for |rheumatiam, “about 10 per cent of the patients would die instantly,” Well, we know there are fools am the medical profession,” replied rant Calhoun But tf the toll ie. parent medicine vietims were] counted, why vareaw. | Dreamland rink Sunday night, when| There the thermometer regtatered | former Congressman Victor Berger i" Milwaukee will speak After the meeting they will hold! le public reception o'clock. Those who have bought seats for the play, “The Colonel d Hin Friends,” will be entitled fg MRT. Mich, July 0.—The| VICTORIA, H. C., July 30—Capt fie Uadladen "Went, Totten pen clash between copper | Helstrom and four men of the crew | charge, 4nd gilitiamen came thifl of 24 of the fishing schooner Weld: WD widien® At Isle Royale, when the ing of Seattle, wrecked on Fret-| Boy DROWNB-IN ALASKA. and Wl 8 fired 50 shots at miners |ericks island last Wednesday, are] NOME, Alaska, July 30 / hong, "7? Attacking @ pow@er reported missing hera,todgy. The! pody of Owen Price, 12, son of Fred | . It is reported that tw\others were taken to Vancouver.| priae, of this city, was recovered on A ean, Mere Wounded. The soldiers |and are on their way to Seattle. |today from the | Burbon creek white ey iaiury The men left the wreck in seven | dredging pond, in which he was One of un. , dories. The day following, after|qrowned while swimming. Petite cattines open tk telling the others to make for the| 50c. et ot |nearest point on the mainland, the| Beattie had 43,000 people In 1890, we aptain and four men returned to| 80,000 in 1900, and according to the! psi |the wreck. last city directory, 282,152. MEDICINE BILL GOES ON SHELF’ Which kills moi compelled they held before | raid After the fighting it was estimated | Ry | the} | People—doc- tors’ prescriptions or patent med- loin The question held the boards at the counci! chambers this morning. “If druggists wo: And #0 the debate raged Finally the committee decided it | chloroform and the antl-patent e¢' oe oe w w to yin yao Skyscraper turned around The Old Pas! ioe id fill preserip are written by Become al | district, | i ON THAIN NTWS ATANDS AND he ONE CENT «’\ ——— urements make me Statues of stone have good shapes, and they leave me cold 1 could not find an answer to edge, though, as | sald—" | Whereupon Miss Mayer mod- weary. | | | ently assured me that my judg- ment was mistaken, and the their question. | searched their other symphs coldly stated that eyee—tender, merry, disdainful, 1 was quite right. They also coquettiah, aling. artically stated that they were “You are | 80 perfectly sorry to have put me to so much trouble, frigidly adding that they were grateful. 1 do not understand women. 1 never did, While | feel that I enjoy the friendship of Miss Mayer, something s to tell me that the other nymphs do not care #0 much for me as formerly. hey stormed. “You And each nymph f you must have an opinion, 1 believe that Mi self has Bev weelest ble of an Mayer her. Rivals Draw Straws for Right to Hand of Pretty ‘“‘Hello’’ Girl MISS VERA BURSON AN FRANCISCO, reconciled her Hadley, NS) In this way Miss Vera Bursou, a telephone girl, two warring suitors, Edward A, Tolley and Frederick Tolley drew the long straw. On August 16 he will marry Miss Burson at the home of her par- ents, Alameda, and then the newlyweds will sail for Los Angvies on their honeymoon Miss Burson spoke freely of her dual love affatr. be ashamed of,” she said. “I had been keeping company Hadley for a long time and we had a tentative engagement “I met Tolley at a party. We became good friends and he called to see me often. Finally he proposed. “It just seemed that I loved them both. | couldn't decide between them, #0 I concluded to let them draw straws. “Really, though, I am glad Mr. Tolley won WOMEN HIDE ON STEAMER TO REACH GOLD DIGGINGS DAWSON, Y. T., July 30.—Load-) men's clothes and stowed away. ed to the limit with men and out-| In anticipation of winter travel, fita for the new gold strike on the | saloon men are shipping in a sup Chieana river, a Yukon river steam- ply of drinkables and the merchan er, with a barge In tow, left today|dise companies are preparing to for the White river, up which it/establish a base as far Inland as will go ae far as the mouth of the| navigation will permit, for winter Donjek. | service. ) additional reports as to the| “It fs nothing to with Fred Alaska, intence of big pay dirt In the} CORDOVA, July 30. Shushanna district have been re-| Stampeders to the Chisana river ceived, but there ts no decrease in| gold strike, Jn the Shushanna dis. the rush, and {t 1s estimated that|trict, found the tratl over the 6,000 men will winter in the new The crowd which left to day took sleds for winter travel, so accord Me Scolat glacier tongh going, ing to reports recetved from Carthy today they will be able to return if the| Stampeders from the Tanana field proes to be a failure |valley find it impossible to get Several women tried to buy tick-|acroas the rivers and are planning eta for the trip, but were refused.| to come by the way of McCarthy, | July 30.—"He who draws the long straw shall) marry me." | } | | Afterward two went aboard injand over Scolai pats. _ The Seattle Star | EASTERLY WINDS. The man r HOME EDITION. go out to look over the classy N HUSBANDS BE CURED OF STAYING OUT NIGHTS? great O. Henry discusses in “THE PENDULUM,” which The Star will present to its readers this week in its superlative series of SATURDAY SHORT At least they are answered according to O.-Henry’s lights. Does O. Henry tell the truth as to whether absence makes the heart grow fonder? The Second Av. Parade eporter and Vic, the artist, display of gowns. Page 4 “RICH MAN INSISTS ON STAYING IN JAIL BUT HE HIS PRIS Adolph A, Gust can secure his liberty for $5. 000. At ed wealt Gust is reputed to be worth $300, t that was his estimat until Judge Humphries decreed half of it to his divorced wife, Mra, Sarah A, Gust. Gust was arrested late yesterday afternoon on a bench w t is sed by Judge Humphries, because failed to pay $3,000 court costs | 000. good nish Gust the His Bond Reduced His b originally fixed at $10 was reduced to $1,000. Any bonding company would fur bond for five round silver dollars. to pay the court © would shekels to secure h ev But Gust hasn't asked any of | them to do so. the $3,000 ts. Maybe he hasn't the five his liberty. But isn’t saying anything. He won't » come out and talk to anyone, Gust says he hasn't say he except his lawyers. main in his cell as Humphries decides | there. content to re- long as Judge to keep him Apparently he Says He's No Pauper As there is no time limit by Judge Humphries’ ord@r, and as Gust gives no assurance that he ODD ITEMS HE’LL GET HER YET | Leslie Eliott, | Meur | Malone, Ky., WORCESTER, Mass., July 30.— who left Emma La- “waiting at the church,” in explains that it was because of his uncle's objection, but he'll marry her yet o's lelaring that brakemen | LUNNON IMPROVES LONDON, July 30.—The motor. bus companies have inaugurated “owl” motor busses now, and Lon- |don may be said to becoming Americanized eee WHISPER 'EM LA CROSSE, Wis., July 30.—De- passengers with raucous calling of stations, the Milwaukee road has) issued an order that hereafter sta- tions shall be announced in gen- tle tones. HE WAS THRIFTY pital attendants discovered that a) head,” policeman who was CHICAGO, July 30.—County hos. getting free | medical treatment, owned an apart- ment building with a monthly in-| farm, where experiments in agricul- come of $2 ART GETS WALLOP Catholics are aroused BRUSSELS, July 30.—Belgian by a letter fixed | disturb the} LIBERTY ONLY $5, PREFERS SON CELL will soon dig up the requisite five 8 a long waiting st is undoubtedly of the opin- ion that he can convince the court that he hasn't any money,” sald Attorney Edward Judd, who repre sents Mrs. Gust, this morning. “But that is absurd. A man in his po- sition could get a bond of $1,000 in a second he has tried to cloud of his property action was begun, but the records plainly show he is far from being the pauper that he would pretend to be.” ‘ENTER PLEAS IN "BIG SLAVE CASE | SAN FRANC! 18C 0, July 30.— Pleas of not guilty on the charge jot violating the Mann white slave act were entered today by Maury I. Diggs end F. Drew Caminetti, be- fore United States Judge Van Fleet here. The trial ot Diggs, who will be the first to answer to the indict- ment, will begin next Tuesday | morning. Caminettt’s trial wil! fol- jJow immediately. Attorney Theo- dore Roche, for the government, | Says he expects three or four days | will be required to try each case, Marshall Woodworth, represent- ing Diggs and Caminetti, moved first to quash the indictments, and when this was overruled, presented several demurrers, all of which were denied. WANTS TO MAKE ‘HIM INTO A FOP? “Of course the title since the divorce NEW YORK, July 30.—Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, first wife of the late John Jacob Astor, and her daugh- ter, Muriel, arived here today on the liner Olympic. They were met i the pier by Vincent Astor. | “I want to get these queer agri- cultural ideas out of Vincent's Mrs. Astor said, referring to young Astor's plan to make his 6,000-acre estate an experimental ture might be conducted along sci entific lines. | It was expected that Mrs. Astor would go to Newport, R. L, to en- ter into a battle tnere for social from Cardinal Mercier and all the | leadership of the East. Belgian bishops, teachers and students to enter the jart rooms of the ° ent exposition oe NOT ON THE MENU CHICAGO, July 30.—Mrs, Lena 8. Schultz complains in a bill of di- voree that her husband assaulted | her with a dressed chicken. It’s Safer to Rub Sacred Bull’s Hump Than Tickle a Mule’s Ribs! HICAGO, July 20, —Speculators at the stock yards em-|July 30. braced a new hope] Manning, that their furtunes| from would change andj flelds, wh) profits would displace) preparing the losses that have| mite been general recently.) The new hope came sacred bull in a ship-| ment of cattle from) barnyard B. C. Monniger, Good-| hope, 1] comes to him/eaten seve the hump| dynamite. back of al bull.‘ The| chase her luck who rubs on the sacred hump on the back of| as possible, this particular was rubbed vntil bald spots appeared bull] developed case of died, PENNANT, EST BRIDGE, work some found that one of his with the arrival of «| thoroughbred had broken out of the around, had thrust her | head through a hole’ Tradition says good| in the cornerib Manning forbidding priests, | “SIGN ARMISTICE BUCHAREST, Roumania, | 30,.—Bulgaria, Servia, | Montenegro signed five-days ar mistice here today ; Acresantativen jof the countries here agreeing to hold a peace conference during the period July Greece and STOCK. Mass. — Bernard returning in the ere he was to dyna- stumps, ALTIMORE, July 30.—Edw. Doyle, 12, of Hampden, tick- led a mule in the ribs to see what the animal would do. The mule did it. Edward was picked up and rushed to the office of Dr. Charles F. Baughlin, where it was found the mule’s hind hoofs had dis located the lad's right | shoulder and bruised him about the upper part of the body. The cowl The mule, owned severe) by Allen Barton, is and} none the worse for the tickling. cows and, nosing and ral sticks of tried to as far away a colle COUPON NO. 28 Any four coupons clipped from The Star, consecutively numbered, when presented at The Star office with 15 cents, will entitle you to a 65-cent pennant. Oregon State Peapants now out. California Pennants out next Monday. Pen- nants will be sent by mai each Pennant is enclosed. Bring or maii to a Be Seattle thaincidh 1307 Seventh Ave., near Union il if 5 conts additional for Shs irre twee ot Saneearranseacas