The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 23, 1913, Page 1

GENERABLY FAIR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY; LIGHT SOUTHEAST WINDS. i _ agosvttrrcrittcnermtremmtttcnnt , , en = ° = = = i Uncle Sam asa Miner! = ‘ ‘he S a [ [ l e S | ar = Come! See forYourself 2 ff The Star toid Friday how he le operat == = the Star sells more than 40,000 papers == Ing a mine at Williston, N. D, and , = every day, and is ready to prove it ES doing It well, The second chapter of == = Circulation books are always open. == the story will appear on Monday. S ma S S Samm THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS. HOME TMM TULL TULL LL SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1913. ONE CENT. 23, EDITION —_—— : SIX TI j c i i S- THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION The Star is glad to note from Chairman Godman’s letter that the state public service commis- i : A OF WASHINGTON sion’s intention is not to delay unnecessarily hearing on the complaint against the withdrawal of Hy n Olympia, Aug. 21, 1913. the sale of tickets on cars. It’s the proper spirit. : ie ye The Seattle Star, Seattle, Washington. The letter indicates, however, that the commission will have to wait until after the physical ; Gentlemen: We have yours of the 19th enclosing an open letter addressed to this commission valuations of the properties of the traction company are determined. e by The Seattle Star. | But why? We note what you say as to the situation in Seattle with reference to the curtailment of the The Star submits that the property valuation of the company has nothing whatever to do privilege to purchase tickets on street cars and that the commission is expected to act without delay | with the merits of the present controversy. It is immaterial whether the property of the company i to restore such privilege. We desire to advise you that the entire engineering force of this com- cost a million or a hundred million. It is immaterial whether it makes a net profit of one dollar j mission is now engaged in making valuations of the properties of the Pacific Power & Light Co. | per year or one million dollars. 7 y -, the Puget Sound Electric Railway, and the Tacoma Railway & Power Co., which valuations are to The point at issue is not whether the company shall or shall not sell car tickets, but where { be used in hearings on complaints now on file with this commission. The commission intends to they shall be sold. H make valuations of the properties of the Puget Sound Traction Co. and other companies in the | The company itself admits its obligation to sell 4-cent tickets. i state as rapidly as the same can be done consistent with the work of the commission. It is not | The sole issue, then, is where these tickets shall be sold. H th the + a of this commission to delay hearings on complaints made and we fully realize that the And that question can be answered without ascertaining the valuation of the company’s property. ht people are entitled to have their complaints investigated and a decision made thereon as soon as SHALL THE TICKET SALES BE RELEGATED TO A HALF DOZEN PLACES, OR SHALL ALL % possible and the commission will act along these lines. Respectfully, CONDUCTORS BE COMPELLED TO SELL THEM? ; THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF WASHINGTON, That is the question to be decided by the commission, and with all due respect, The Star suggests . By M. M. GODMAN, Chairman. | __ that this questi not dependent for answer upon what the company’s property is worth. or we? e, ek re = ¢ ie e @ - d e h- |. ba ANOTHER FLOATE IN BAY!BOALT PAYS IT CALL AT MORGUE By Fred L. Boalt. A dime, a memorandum book unused, a suit of cheap clothing, a hotel key with a leather tag attached, a body—all water-soaked. Things of little use. The dine, it is true, can be 7 The book may yet serve a humble purpose. is a little wear left in the cheap suit. Some- where there is a lock which the key will turn. | But the body is of no use te anyone. Yet it is a good body. Given animation and inteligent direction, ® would make a man. It is 5 feet 10 long, and weighs 180 pounds. ‘The parts—the head, the arms, the deep chest, the rounded, muscular arms and legs—are excellently made. | These things you may find at the city morgue. ‘White sheet to hide its nakedness. For the thing was once a man. fs different with dimes, and rusty keys The body was found floating in Elliott bay at the foot of Washing ton st. yesterday. Presumably it once had a name, possibly a home— thoughts good and bad, passions pure and otherwise, hopes, fears and ambitions. In police parlance the thing that was a man is called a “floater.” | ‘The man at the mo: de it impersonally, just as he does the Pi che rae ke. the cheap sult. ~~ “9 . is a scar over the frowning right eye, close to the bridge @f the strong, aquiline nose. “An old one,” says the man at the morgue. The forehead is scratched. “We did that pulling him out,” says the man at the morgue. Murder, suicide or accident? “Well,” says the man at the morgue, “there are no recent wounds. | Maybe he was shoved into the water, and couldn't swim. Maybe he was drunk and fell in, but the post-mortem showed no evidence that he had been drinking, though I guess he must have been a drinking man. “More likely he jumped in.” But the chin is square, the lines about the mouth under the black Tustache are firm. Was the man that kind of a coward? | “I kno’ says the man at the morgue, “but—see!—the hair at the) temples is gray. He was not young, and he was a bum.. He'd failed. He'd made a mess of life. He was living in lodging houses, and he was down to his last dime. | There are two kinds of courage. There may be more. The man/ who dwelt in the usel thing at the city morgue was a fighter with Ms fists. He could take and give blo But he cringed and whimpered under the blows of fate and circumstance. | That, at least, is the view of the man at the morgue. “I've seen lots of ‘em——before and afte he say! “Do you know what are the last words of ‘floaters’? They are, ‘What's the use?’” Over the body is a It The Upper Picture Shows Passengers L Date of Its Arrival There. The Lower Picture Is That of ders to the New Shushanna Gold Diggings. The Photographs Were Taken by E. O. Sawyer, City Editor of TI! Nearing the End of His Journey to the Shushanna, the Northwestern. ‘Gold Stampeders Leaving Steamer and Boarding Train for New Shushanna Strike Pp Cars to Be Taken From Cordova to McCarthy, Via the Railroad, and Then Packed in on Hor Mr. Sawyer Was a Passenger North to Cordova on/ at Cordova WHY THIS Le rs See a) It ie gald today that James M Sparkman, candidate for the council vacancy caused by the death of Thomae A, Parish, has ured the votes of Coun- ORGANIZE TO | BACK WOMAN | Peirce, Marble, Hesketh and Goddard and probably Erickson. In justice to these men, it A determined effort to se-|!s just as capable as any man could 4 should be sald that this claim is fs A 'M FE, |o°.” made by the friends of Spark-| CUre the election of Mrs. E.| Mrs. Thomas F. Murphine, an- them- the The councilmen decline to discuss man selves matter. P. Fick to the vacancy in the|other ardent supporter of Mra city council caused by the Fick, is just as emphatic as is Mrs, death of Thos. A. Parish will | Aust The Star wants to say a word b Ss le. It is to the women of Seattle,” 4 about Mr. Sparkman be made by women of Seatt fe: | said Mra. Murphine, “that the fue ff In August, 1910, James M Today a plan of organiza-|ture must look for good men and next| women. The morals of the com- | munity, while not always suscepti- | ble to legislation, can be best serv- led by women. One good woman on the city council would be a splen- Sparkman was one of the de fendants in a civil sult brought by J. B. Murphy to restrain Sparkman and others from per mitting property owned by them tion is under way and Monday there will march t the council chambers not less ‘than 100 women, and probably to be used as houses of {ll fame. {| many more, to lay before the did thin: Anewers by Affidavits members of that body their Sk ater nears Mr, Sparkman sanewered with | claim that the women of Se- 9 ra (a de senes. od Leese attle are entitled to direct rep- IS ADVICE CHEAP? actin os. resentation on the city’s gov- And in that affidavit, Mr. || erning body. | Who was it said advice is Sparkman didn’t deny that his During the past few days there | cheap? Well, no matter. A. S. Hamilton, who is nursing sundry and divers wounds at the City hospital, is now decidedly of the opinion that he will offer no free advice on the pub- lic streets any more. He was passing by a cigar stand, at First and Pike, with Miss Maud Hudson, at 10 o'clock last night, and, noticing four or five “boys’ shaking dice, he paused to remark? “Boys, you shouldn't do that.” The “boys” recovered, indulged has grown up, not only among the women, but also among the men, a sentiment that a woman sitting with Seattle's city council would be of benefit. It is not unlikely that \the plea to be made to the council | by the women on Monday will be indorsed by the presence of many men. In any event, the women are de- termined to make a fight for recog- nition. They will go to the council chamber, prepared to present logic- building; adjoining the Yakima hotel on Maynard av., was be- ing used for immoral purposes. He didn't dare do that be cause he knew! He swore that ‘Mis property was 1,080 fect die tant from the Jackson street car ine and 1,200 feet from the property of Murphy, the plain- tire. He admitted, because he fall- ed to deny, that his building was a house of ill fame. fut it was too far away from || ally the basis of their claims. in some haga treacle pir the plaintiff's property to injure upon, says amilton, e strucl it Rypene wait ? | Confident of Success one fellow on the arm. These things are of record in They feel that they will be able| When Hamilton regained his senses, he was at the hospital. H. Dolson and William H. Thurs ton were arrested as his assailants, to show to a majority of the mem- bers of the council the justice of 8 that those | their position, and this morning ex- council who | presed themselves confident of suc- oo lean toward Sparkman take a] cess. trip up the hill and took at Mre. J. E. Austin, a prominent them. woman of the University district, 1s | Loading Their Outfit: If they will do this, or take | one of those most interested in to-| ~ A big party of relatives and friends gathered at the King Street passenger station at 1:30 this af- ternoon when the 104 Moun- taineers, who left Seattle Aug. 2 on the word of The Star that the records are there, and then cast }| “The women of Seattle are their votes for Sparkman, we [/tainly entitled to one of the nine will know that they have given [| piaces on the ¢ council,” said up any desire to succeed them- |) M Austin to T tar this morn day's movement cer he Star, Who Is at This Writing “fll Hold Her Nose Agin the Bank Till the Last Galoot’s TACOMA SUFFERS B y United Prone Leased Wire | TACOMA, Aug, 23.—The worst electrical storm ever experienced | Makes Faces Through Window at Police Judge; Lands in Hospital F sank, her stern in 50 feet of water. Ashore,’’ Says He; and He Did VICKSBURG, Miss. Aug. 23.—Dying at bis post, Frank O'Neil, @ngineer on the Peters Lee, a Mississippi river steamboat, saved the Hives of all others who were on the boat when it struck a sunken coal barge near Lake Providence, La. “Frank O'Neil was another Jim Bludso,” is the tribute of the res @ued passengers. O'Neil kept the sinking boat against the river bank ‘Until all of them had been taken to safety. The Peters Lee was the largest of the Lee line's river boats, It ‘Was on the return trip from New Orleans that she struck the sunken barge which tore a large hole in the steamer’s hull. A negro roust about ran to the engine room and told O'Net!, who had been subjected to a good deal of abuse because he was a non-union man, The negro| declared that O'Neil had answered him tn the words of John Hay’s fa-| Mous poem: j “T'll hold her nose agin’ the bank, till the last galoot’ A DANCE WAS ON IN THE CABIN The nightly dance was in progress when the accident happened, 4nd 25 men and women and the boat's orchestra were in the cabin. | The shock of the collision with the barge was felt throughout the 226 foot boat and confusion took the place of the well-timed steps ‘hat ac- Companied “My Heart's in Tennessee.” | But instantly those who knew something about steamboating real-| fed that the steamer was being well handled. The back engines still Were responding to the bells from the pilot house, despite the flood of | Water that was pouring into the hull. | Slowly the steamer swung around toward the shore and finally her! Bose jammed into the mud bank and it was an easy matter to swing| the gangplank to dry ground. O'NEIL DID NOT FOLLOW Quickly the passengers and then the crew passed to safety, and All looked for O'Nell, whose message of assurance bad been repeated to them. But O’Net) did not come. it to investigate, the water r hore.” Before any persons could return to the Peters Lee the bank and offered a prayer for the man to whom they owed their) Safety. SUGGEST PLAN FOR BIG SAVING TO CITY of bulidings, and Charles R. C ov | cnginseriag department, and that Perintendent of streets and sewers, | bids be then asked for the larger Submitted to the board of public | amount Works today a pian by which the| It Js pointed out by Ober and city of Geattie could save from | Case that recently the city pur. 000 to $500,000 per year. chased 20,000 tmrrels of cement a& R. H. Ober, superintendent Ober and Case point out in a/$180, delivered in Seattle, and fommu tion that each year the| that at about the same time the ity buys in small lots materlal,| United States government pur Buch ement and lumber, paying| chased for use in the Washington Sma! prices therefor | canal 200,000 barrels of cement at The geest tat the amount of| $1.49 per barrel, showing a saving Cement, for instance; to be used in| of 31 cents per barrel, here occurred late yesterday after- | noon, and lasted two hours, during which street car traffic wis crip- pled, transformers burned out, tel ephone 4 yralized two fires caused by Hehtning bolts R rts from all sections of the service and city and surrounding country today | « confirm stories of heavy damage | by the unusual pranks of the elec- tric fluid, which was accompanied by almost continuous crashes of thunder and a drenching rain, A Ireland for the first time, and, staying at a hotel in Dublin, sought to startle some of his acquaintances as to the f) height of the buildings in New York, Sev i very “tall” stories |) had been received in silence. One brawny Irishman stood it as long as he could, and then N AMERICAN was visiting ¢ certainly big places || your wi but ye haven't se our newest hotel, have ye?" The American superciliously grinned, but politely said that he had not. “1 thought not,” sald the Irish. man, “D'you Know, man, it’s 80 tall that we had to put the two J) top stories on hinges?” | This remark was backed by several acquiescont cries from different parts of the room. The American sat up. “What for?” he “Bo we could the moon went by, iked. down till sald Pat, SAYS WOMAN GAVE $42,000 WHILE “OFF” | Alleging that the sum of $42,000 was advanced to J. C. Wilson, do-| Ing business as J. C. Wilson & Co, by Bila F. Bordeaux, while she was insane, George W. Farlin, the wom an's guardian, has commenced sult for t sovery of the money. Far lin charges that while a demand had been made for the money, no part of It has yet been returned. Police Judge Kellogg yesterday) was untangling a knotty point In law. He was doing It In his best judicial man Attorneys on both sl of the case were giving him their respectful attention. it was a solemn moment. Therefore,” sald Judge Kellogg, in the opinion of this court Why did the court pause? Why did the court glance up at one of the windows that line the Terrace st. side of the court room? And why did the court seem at firat tn- eredulons, then amazed, and finally | annoyed? Faces Through Window why. A man’s face window, was framed in the MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 23.—Mrs. George Bren today filed suit for divorce against her husband, bas- ing her appeal in part on the fol- lowing grounds: “Onee my husband put dynamite in my cook stove, “Then he tried to make me drink earbolic acid, “A week later he took a shot at with his revolver. ‘Then he choked me until I thought my eyes would pop from my head “Two days later he set the house on fire while I slept “Last night he pounded my head with a club and tried to cut my throat.” selves as members of the | ing We are just as greatly inter. their annual hike over the Olym- council. |ested in the proper conduct of the pics, returned home from Moclips, j affairs of the city as are the men! It was one of the most successful land the candidate whom we will'hikes ever taken in the history of The tnvestigation begun yester present on Monday, Mrs, E. P. Fick, the organization. THAW CAN CHOOSE The man was grinning and grim-|day by the U. S. steamboat com PLA( E FOR FIGH r ar cade Pa ,_.[mission into the sinking of the umb was to his nose, and—|, Sa ltfore abel Pe Sih When he caught tho attention| mer State of California was re of the court, he wiggled his fingers! |8umed today. Miss Nellie Hamil BY JOHN E. NEVIN | ties would help him get there. This (United Press Staff Correspondent) | means that the New York authori- The court bent upon the offender|ton and Alfred J, Srandette were : a look of tremendous severity. Was| Called before the examiners SHERBROOKE, Que., Aug. 23.—| tes will not oo ate ‘extent ar the offender abashed? No. He| Nine members of the crew were] informed he is undesirable citizen, | ‘thaw tx at od: Thaw is at odds with his Canadi- 8 not want to/an attorneys, who think it best that questioned yesterday placed his thumbs in his ears, wag-| | Three more bodies of victims of but that Canada dc led his hands, d ‘Hee. _ Ni % G64 fis bana , and said, “Hee-haw the wreck were identified yester.{8Uttender him without protection, |he fight the New York authorities “Heaven le’My Home” day, at the Butterworth morgue Harry K. Thaw today was told by/in Vermont. Thaw wants to stay “Officer, arrest that man!” com-|They were those of Miss Minette|the Canadian authorities that he |in Canada. manded the court. B Harlan, a teacher at the Mon.|™ust decide for himself whether to| Thaw also was told that if he in- Polling Operator (Mocs cid. mouth, Ore. normal school; Miss ay in Coane or be deported to| sists on staying here and fighting | deportation, he will be surrendered to the New York authorities if he loses. The fugitive’s attorneys say that he cannot be extradited from Ver- authori- | mont May Dixon, a Seattle school teach er, and Miss Lillian B. Norman private secretary to L. P. Feather stone, general manager of the Iron Ore Railroad Co., with headquar ters at Long View, Tex MURDER OROZCO ORLE | The prisoner gave his name as |James Walsh, his age as 27. | Home? | “Heaven {s my home,” said the |prisoner. “Hee-haw!” | Dr. Jones examined Walsh at the elty hospital. “The poor fellow did not really mean to deride the court,” said the doctor, | Walsh ts non compos mentis and le pluribus unum—the latter classic phrase meaning in this instance, ‘not “all in one,” but “one who is Despite his appeal to the British sense of fair play, the fugitive was bluntly told he is an unwelcome guest, and that If he wanted to go to Vermont, the Canadian HOME-MADE GOODS ON DISPLAY TODAY NS, Aug. ed here today from NEW despatch recel 23.—A all tn.” A Mexico City by the newspaper Pica ; ae ee “THE yune, declared that Gen, Pascual] Home-grown fruits, home-grown | ber of Commerce delivers a stereop- bs PORCH DE|Grorco and other peace commis-| Vegetables, home-made products ticon lecture on Washington-made sioners Provisional President Hu-|and manufactures are everywhere goods. All attendance records at erta sent to confer with rebel lead-|on sale today. the fair are expected to be broken An Interesting booklet entitled “ . ‘ors, had been murdered by Gen.| This 1s “Made-in-Washington” today, Cavanaugh’s band will play aipares Bs AT) 1uxe””|Bmilno Zapata at Huatla, Guerrero,|day, and everybody is boosting | both in the afternoon and evening. attle, is a new arrival at the bool |home enterprises, Big stores and At 6:30 tonight the sales’ man- sores; 1t:te an interesting and By reason that he had been un-/jittle stores, factories, plants, and |agers’ banquet will be held, and the extremely sensible tale of the won able to sleep for the past {Wo /the stalls in the markets are dis-| big convention will come to a close, derfnl benefits to be derived. fron | yeck® Thomas R. Johnson, 47, 7026 | playing Washington-made goods A record crowd attended the fair Outdoor seeping. nad. tn adit |1sth av. N. W., belleved that he| At the Armory this afternoon, | Friday, and lectures were heard tale of Imsothoda A capi dht Mena, on, | was going insane, Friday Johnson| where the Manufacturers’ and Mer- by Prof. Butier of the Seattle Busi- be arranged 0 that they may, he | Committed suicide in the bathroom | ghants’ Industrial fair is being ness college and James A. Wood, of his home by slashing his throat with a razor, held, Col, H. B, Hardt of the Cham- publisher, kept dry during the day and rolled into the open air at night POINDEXTER ACTION ON HIS BILL WASHINGTON, Aug, 23.-—| commission to Inform the nate wi able for Alaskan railroad And dock Poindexter wants the government to cepduct Alaskan railroads and | mines under a profit-sharing plan, Howling the introduction In the senate of his resolution for the opening of Alaska, Senator Poindexter today | secured the senate’s adoption of a resolution requiring the Panama canal | GETS COUPON NO. 49 Any four coupons clipped from The Star, consecutively numbered, when presented at The Star office with 15 cents, will entitle you to a A $45 Baby Carriage for $10 This is only one of the many big bargains advertised today in the want columns of The Star. Read page 7 carefully and take advantage of some of these good buys, If you have anything to sell, a little want ad in the Miscellaneous column will find you a buyer for it Phone your want ads to Main 9400, and bill will be matled PENNANT 65-cent Pennant. Michigan Pennants now out. Minnesota out Monday. Pennants will be sent by mail if 5 cents additional for each Pennant is enclosed. Bring or mail to The Seattle Star, 1307 Seventh Avenue, near Union St. hat canal machinery would be avail construction and mining. ° FOR VACANCY |