The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1913, Page 1

1 | | | | | 1 i GENERALBY FAIR TONIGHT AND TUESDAY; LIGHT, VARIABLE WINDS RYU LLU LLL LLL LLL Qo gg suturing s b, Women In Gold Rush 3 he e at { l e S | ar = Come! See forYourself = Star's city editor, on trail to Shu = = _ The Star selis more than 40,000 papers = nna, finds two women going in = = every day, and Is ready to prove it ES sie Be basacae seapabers: 4 = Circulation books are always open, = MTS VOLUME 15, THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS. CITY TMT LLL CELLU NO, 153. a ON THAINS AND EDITION. —_—_— SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1913 ONE CENT. NEWS STANDS, Be ‘WAIT’.WARNS | STAR MAN, IN GOLD REGION jthe diggings, I can say that in all of By E. O. Sawyer lthe reports I have Ived, the bal-| City Editor The Seattie Star, ai. ms to be in favor of those CHITTYSTONE RIVER, Alaska, who tell of a wealth of gold Aug. 19, via messenger to cabie of. But if 1 a gold seeker fice at McCarthy, Aug. 25.—Every stead of a seeker after news, and| day more strongly comes the con were on the outside, possessed of| viction that it is nec ry to be just what information I have today tight on the ground and talk direct- | would watt on the outside for to the men who have failed, as something more definite. well as to the men who have suc-| Those whom'we met today re ceeded, if one is to know the truth turning from the diggings say the of the Shushanna gold fields. stampeders who came {tn fron: Daw Here at Chittystone river I have! son via the White river had a ter. talked with H. T. Staffholt, who rible journey tells me that the strike is a big one Many of them missed the tral! In | were tn-| With him are Ira Parker and Ben crossing the swamp, and were 14 Kennio. They offer confirmation.| days making the trip after ing} They say prospectors have found the s Twenty-five who came tolor on grass roots on gravel hills, that pay has been found on creeks in the new diggings. He's a Hote! Keeper. | Then I learn that Staffholt is a hotel keeper at Chitina—that every|at the camp from Dawse Man traveling the trail to the dig-/ locating the trail, started back for gings pays tribute to him, and I am their supplies forced to the conclusion that, per-| Staffholt, the hotel keeper, Daps, Staffholt is exaggerating. and | reached the Chittystone roadhouse Parker and Kennio, his compan-!short of food. He had sold all h the on steamer became sep-| jarated, and some of these have not yet reached the diggings. N No Food for Sale, Fifty men have already arrived and after F fons, not unmindful of the interests ed-—and a little more—to the | Of their friend hungry stampeders from Dawson. | It has come to me, too, that a very There is no food for sale in the ‘Varge number of those who have Most enthusiastic have had camp, and men there are hoping] for the early arrival of a pack train | something to do with road houses,| The situation is made worse be transportation lines and other en-|cause of the fact that 23 horses terprises that must grow and pros-|brought from Seattle by Oscar q iy a large amount of gold is|/Breedman to pack food to miners, out of the ground—or, and| have been in quarantine a week be- here's the point, if a number of|cause one of the number died of a People come in from the outside! mysterious [llness. _ with large rolls of either American| This goes out to McCarthy by one @ Canadian money. of those returning from the new Wait for Definite News. & camp. We leave today, Tuesday, | Truthfully, at this distance from/ Ang. 19, to continue our journey. (SR ovbabe-n. wats A Eneeiantetinatatn GE SHINGLE MILL OWNER IS A DYNAMITER A warrant will be Issued today ehargins Napoleon Campbell, wealthy owner of the Campbell Mills in Ballard, with conspiracy in firing off dynamite in the yard of fis own piant last spring for the purpose of discrediting the striking putable. was done, for discharging the dy- namite. This man is sald to have turned it down. The other men also turned down the offer, it is al- leged, when Semple undertook the Job. Semple, however, positigely | denied any complicity, One day in the late fall of last year I made a with the manager of the North American Life Insurance Co.,| Lumber Exchange building, that Star readers would NOT, if asked, raise $1,000 in money, land and materials, for a home for Mrs. Mary Jones, aged scrubwoman. The sin sits lightly on my conscience. MOTHER JONES FEEDING HER OWN CHICKENS IN HER OWN BACK YARD, BESIDE HER OWN LITTLE HOME WHICH STAR READERS GAVE In That Home of Her Own, Mother Jones Faces Future With a Smile By Fred L. Boalt. yo Gambling is sinful There is no room for two opinions about that. But good may come of evil. That, also, is indi jitney bet} working hard and bringing babies into the world, should be denied a dinky little home of her own in which to rest her bones. He was looking out of the window at the time filled with well-dressed, comfortable. people. here goes,” said the manager of the North American Life, “an automobile that cost $6,000, It would buy six homes for Mrs. Jones, and she only wants one.” The mightiest passion,” I observed in my cynicism, “is | selfishness.” Second av. v shingle weavers. A new affidavit obtained by Ken- | “No.” sate a “ > i a oe caeak Morning prepared the information| who accepted © bell’ shts, the offices on the seconc oor of the Lumber Ex- , 45 oo come at by getting under their hides i prepa pted Campbell's offer of aj nights, t c Let them actually SEE suffering or poverty, and they will | against Campbell and will apply for | the warrant from Justice Brown this afternoon. Arrest Strike Breaker The case against Campbell has been under investigation for sever- | al months, and Saturday night was brought to a head when J. M. Sem- ple, a well-known professional | Strike-breaker, was arrested by dep- uty sheriffs as he was about to ve for Vancouver, B. C. | Semple is charged with having | fired the dynamite for a consider- — of $100 paid to him by Camp- reward for the discovery of the dynamiter. Campbell, it is charg ed, offered $25. Offers Boy $100 “TN take you up,” sald this boy, according to the story told to Ken- nedy. The boy laughed as he said this and winked. want to talk to you,” said Campbell, and took the boy to his|dren « | private office. There ft {s alleged | were | jhe offered him $100 to say nothing.| -hijdren will Deputy Sheriff Falkenberg wotk ed up most of the evidence against Campbell. change building. t; that tl and, finally, that four walls and a roof of her ve Pry I learned that Mrs. Jones had brought 20 children into the world; that she had had two husbands; that one of them shuffled off after the arrival of. the second pair of twins; that the second was a, wandering, drunken tailor, who tired of the responsibilities of fatherhood just prior to the advent of the 20th and deca thoughtful thing he ever did in his ill-spent life; that the chil “died one after another, until only a son and a daughter y were now grown and gone their ways, as| amped—the Mrs. Jones, as kindly a € tian gentlewoman as ever scrubbed a floor, was old, sick and} tired, and longed, as only the old, sick and tired can long, for own if I remember— WANT to relieve it. Why,” he exclaimed, “if The Star would print the right kind of a story about Mrs. Jones, the public would see to it that she got her home.” I scoffed . “Bet you a nickel,” said the manager of the North Amer- ican Life “Done,” said 1 And so the bet only made.@ * * was * If you were to take a Renton car to Hudson st., Colum jbia City, and follow the street railway spur you would, Ja walk of five short blocks, come upon a group of bur and cottages, one of which, set in a spacious lot with a stout, *hris | Kennedy is in possession of six “She wants,” said the manager of the Notth American Life, : affidavits from people employed “just a little place, a sort of refuge for her last days. It should trim wire fence around it, belongs to Mrs. Jones during the strike’ by Campbell, thave a bit of ground around it, for she loves flowers and has Let us say it is 3 in the afternoon, Mrs. Jones, who gets Rich’ he says complete the chain|' The opening of the Seattle con-| 1001 for making them grow.” jhome from work at 2 in the morning, has had breakfast. She of evidence against the big shingle|cert season, Sept. 26, will present 4 KN or ma daft ta ‘Ginna ‘Gathtoes inthe patch’ which. St Rena aha man. |the brilliant American soprano, Ger- We figured that the sort of place that Mrs. Jones dreamed |' i cong | et aa ttiae ir “eel hbl ie : 1 nee f ai 1 Evidence Against Campbell /Aldine Farrar, of the Metropolitan| about would cost, perhaps, $1,000. The manager spoke jane ple e . a a ummer, and for which the house of New York, mark- were soundly scolded by other Star readers, in that they la lopera jing the first of the series of artist the effect that he approached a cer-| recitals, given under the auspices | tain man with an offer to give him/of the Ladies’ Music club ot S8e- $100, $50. cash and $50 after the job lattle. Campbell is confronted with evt ce, according to Kennedy, to | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 25. Before leaving last night on a} trip to South Americe, Rev. G. 1L.| Morrill of the People’s church | fook a parting shot at present dress styles “I believe that the Amazonian | Women of the jungles will be} More modest than their Christian Sisters here who profess more but Wear leas,” said Mr. Morrill “Mother Eve in her fig leaf} apron was modestly dressed com-| Pared with #0 ot her slit Skirted diaphanous daughters “The slit skirt shows a cracked | brain and mpty hea | “Clothes an index of char Scter, What a woman wears shows What she is | “Slit skirts are open doors to! and hell hereafter.” | hospitals here eee Dress Crusade Wins | Those high slit skirts are all the The chief of police says, “Cut It 8T. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 25 rage, | out: Letters from ce suit manufag| They glow on every fashion page, His orders all the Jennies flout. turing firms announcing the in-|“The fashion triumph of the age”) He takes the ten-count in the bout. fentions of modifying style are Ain't it shocking, Mabel? Ain't it shocking, Mabel? tifying members f the fourth district of the Federation of|in Paree, @rance, and Muscatine,|| know my wife would never wear Such an atrocious, bold affair. the|What’s that? A slit skirt on the chair! this 1S shocking, Mabell Yomen's Clubs The organization recently started ® crusade against slit skirts and Other novelties, i The ankle-exit dress is seen. The women think it takes bean. Ain't it shocking, Mabei?® NATION TREMBLES WITH SLIT SKIRT SHOCKS Slit Skirt Saves Girl | sneeringly of so small a sum. He said it seemed a rotten| shame, in a world where so many idle, selfish people had | more money than they could spend, that so worthy a woman as Mrs. Jones, who had always done her duty cheerfully, pumps and a large and who said she etta Mandeville The Bronx, white Ine of Franklin saved herself near Davenport Neck this FAIRMONT, W. Va, f. When Myrtle Hamilton and rosling Fairmont in yarent gowns went tripping Main st, today Haze attorr called ga polic had the young women Mayor Cole, however, them, saying their “becoming and artistl diset was Miss | Skirts Thin; “Pinched” | Morgan, an arrest@d costumes were bored on the Sabbath day Mrs. Jones carries the potatoes into the cellar, which also was dug by Star readers Then she feeds the chickens, Which come clucking and scratching about her if Go with her to the front porch, and she will tell you, as she rests in the old rocker that she has brought to the new home, just where the rambler roses will climb and just what another year comes ‘round There are white curtains in the windows. Through the jopen door you catch glimpses of a tidy, dainty, “comfy” in NEW ROCHELLE, Aug. 25,—A | terior. pretty young woman about 20] A young woman swings, smiling and buoyant, through yes + old who “wor a Path ey "\the gate. She is one of Mrs. Jones’ neighbors. der silk hobble dress with te Pen “Pp skirt slit some distance toward the| Howdy, Mother Jones?” she says. I've brought you an & white silk petticoat, laven- | €B& for the one I borrowed yesterday. ‘| der silk stockings, white kid/ “Land sakes, dearie,” says Mrs. Jones, “there isn’t really pe hat |any call for you to pay that back. I'd clean forgotten it. lor) Won't you set a spell?” ave. | “They chat of the neighborhood from | of husbands at work, of drowning In Long Island Sound| housekeeping vexations, of babies and their ailments, of chil- after-}dren and their mischiefs | jnoon when ‘the cayop in which she | “Pye got good neighbors,” says Mrs. Jones, when the \ "The girl, finding she could not/Young woman has gone. “Never had detter, Mostly they jswim in her hobble skirt, reached|own their own homes, same as me I wish” said Mrs down and tore tt from the slit up| Jones, wistfully, “I could give a party—but, of course, [ can't to the waist, Then she struck out)” and invite every living soul to it that had a hand in giving ako aan. refusing to be) ne this place. I'd like them to see how nice it is, and how cued the young man with her. comfortable and how happy T am “Somehow, the work downtown doesn’t seem so hard as it did. Somehow I don’t get near so tired. I used to say I |didn’t care how soon I died. Now I never say that. I want jto live—at least,” she concludes with a quavering laugh, “I want to live until next spring. If you come out here next n/ spring, you won't know the place, it will be so full ef flowers.” He trans _ down | JUST CAN'T STOP HER. an! LEN' Mass, Aug. Al] STEAMBOAT SPRIN( and/ though — her ar bone was|Aug. 2 Cattle Queen fractured when she was tripped in] Bernard, acquitted of the charge Sher-|of cattle steaying, leased all the went | picture shows In town and tnvited her friends to celebrate. CELEBRATES ACQUITTAL. Anna narged|a hobble skirt, Miss Dorothy man attended a dance and boating, other flowers will go into the beds on the front lawn when IN SHOOTING MAN STRUCK BY BULLET IN OTEL ROOM Was it an accidental shot which, early Sunday morning, at the Hy. dah hotel, 1511 Fifth av., pierced the left lung of John 8. Nevin, an insurance man of Atlantic City, N J. broke w rib and lodged In the base of his neck? |young woman, who for 24 hours |kept her identity from the police, but who, today gave her name to |Detective Lee Barbee when st learned that Nevin was not in any |serious danger. The shooting {is shrouded with mystery No one in the hotel a ars to have heard the shot. T night jelerk told Motorcycle Patrolman Rix he was awakened by the tele- phone buzz Woman in His Room A woman in Nevin's room asked \for “central.” She called up the Providence hospital and asked for an ambulance. When it arrived Nevin, supported on the arm of the | woman, whom the cl jseen before, he ¢ nstairs) the man ¢ ms, pectorating blood The clerk he did not know Nevin wa d therefore failed to notify th e, The hospital author # reported the case, and the was arrested and held vin and n it was, both y maint the wor occurred 3:30 in » morne ing. The couple have been ace quainted for about four months. Miss Howarth, who is out 3O years old, gives her occupation as dressmaker and her residence as Seattle Find Absinthe Patrolman Rix found in the room a .32-calibre gun, from which one shell was gone, a bottle of absinthe, several bottles of beer, powder puffe and powder, and a lady's handkerchief containing $11.2 A hole was torn in the’ bed sheets by the builet. According to Detective Barbee, the woman admits she discharged the gun in Room She explains a bruise over her eye as having been made by her wh dressing. lown shoe ODD ITEMS NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—When Thomas McCann, fire engine driver, was thrown under the wagon grabbed a wheel and flung himself to safety. GRAB THEIR ANKLES. CHICAGO, Aug. 25.—Two police- men donned bathing suits and arres «ix youths girls at the divers’ beach by diving and grabbing them by the ankles, MAY DARKEN BROADWAY. NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—New York faces the predicament of a darkened “Great White Way.” Mayor Gaynor’s Billboard Commis- sion recommended that all lights in Broadway signs be extinguished. MUSIC HATH CHARMS. COLUMBUS, Aug. 25.—‘Music has charms to soothe,” ete. Since the penitentiary orchestra began furnishing musie to convicts at meal times two weeks ago there has not been a single infraction of the rules, says Warden Thomas. MRS, LANE FREED SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Mrs. C. D. Lane, accused of trying to influence W. 8. Biss, a juror in the Diggs tr was dismissed to- day by Jud an F who held that she had not integided to try to 1 influence Bliss The Prohibition clb of King county will meet at 8 o'clock to night at Green Lake Evangelical |church, Meridian ay, and 44th st | Prohibitionists plan an active cam- j}paign for 1914, and will probably have apetition in circulation to put jthe initiative who annoyed; 25.—| this state in the dry column through FEAR THAW PLOT BY JOHN E. NEVIN SHERBROOKE, Que., Aug. 25.— Harry K. Thaw probably will be deported either Thursday or Fri- day. If this plan is carried out the fugitive will be given his liberty at Norton Mills, Vt Authorities there wil be ready to arrest Thaw in compliance with a request from Acting Governer |Glynn of New York, and the fight |to extradite the prisoner will then start in earnest Prosecutor Gonger of Dutchess of Thaw will attempt to rescue him jand rush him to Virginia. M’LOUGHLIN WINS | NEWPORT, R. L, Aug. | Maurice McLoughlin, of San Fran- cisco, today defeated W. F. John- son in the semi-final tennis 6-0, 7-5 and 6-1, R. Norris W lof Philadelphia defeated Nat | of Boston, 6-4, and 6-1 | McLoughlin meet Williams |tomorrow in the finals. McLough+ Poo is the favorite in the betting. 25.— Niles w MR. EMPLOYER help, to remember that When want people who need work look in The Star WANT ADS to see who needs them Don't friends with the short-comings of help. Our WANT columns are to remedy that trouble. them. Phone Main 9400 before you | forget. you need you worry your your here Try today, WHY SPARKMAN? James M. Sparkman, candidg didn’t know that his property on purposes. He says the lease spe be so used And Mr. Sp rkman wants to A man who is so careless of his own business that know that the rent he collected ate for the city council, s he Maynard av, was used for immoral cifically stated that it should not council! he didn't each month for a building owned go back into the city by him was coming, but once removed, from women of the under- world! Perhaps Mr. Sparkman didn't Perhaps, too, Mr. Sparkman half block of property owned by of Highth av,, Mr, Sparkman may not recall by him when it seemed likely tha be in a new restricted district, to Mr. Sparkman may fail also property was given to a city off between Plummer and Judkin sts know about it! doesn't know anything about the him and others on the east side that this property was purchased t the half block in question would be designated by Mayor Ballin, i to recall that an interest in this icial—now dead—who would have something to do with the fixing of the limits of this new restricted district It is possible also that Mr, Sparkman may fail to recollect that a man of influence with certain acquired, an interest in this property, and that this ctively in an effort to 8 vented the opening of this new If Mr. Sparkman’s memory nee glad to give him the names of sow he might talk The Star will also be glad to house and there permit him to vie his name and the names of the he to are given as the owners of t Kighth av., between Plummer worked and ttle was given, or man-—now dead— interests in tem the agitation that finally pre- district! eds refreshing, The Star will be ne estimable gentlemen with whom an to the court in which referred ide of conduct Mr. Sparkr »w the assessor's records, irs of the two men abov he half block on the east Judkin sts PENNANT, Any four coupons clipped consecutively numbered, COUPON NO. 50° fram The Star, when resented at The Star office with 15 cents, will entitle you to a 65-cent Pennant. 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