The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 5, 1913, Page 1

as re ‘ smatammaroeres ne [ANOTHER TREAT a man whose o ° If you read The Star regularly, yOu have enjoyed some mighty fine, fame is world-wide. Tom@rrow, there'll be another, and will be illustrated by a special pose by Pauline Frederick, “the os - GENERALLY FAIR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY; LIGHT SOUTHEAS gw HH, . ow = Real Circulation, Too! = = = 1 than 0 coples of The = = = wees are SOLD every day Ad. 9 = De gue aes al aren. a es = books. = - f = Page 6 maint VOLUME 15 THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS. Hout CO) INNNINII NO. 163 SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1913. ONE CENT. 23.wnttiton ne | EDITION °o by Robert W. Chambers. most beautiful woman in the world.” “Ex Curia,” Rx Curia” T-ERLY WINDS Wouldn’t This Jar You? service commiss! ° stories each Saturday during the past few months, every one written by is a typical Chambefs story TTT MLL \\ 7M TS ¢ pub put ownership Lee, ex-chairman of th tries te in municipa HHUUUUUALUULOEUUUSAENL ETHEL ALIENS HARRY THAW ORDERED DEPORTED PRISONERS GOVERN HEMSELVES; FINE DISOBEDIENT ONES By Fred L. Boalt. If you want to live under the purest form of democracy, uw will have to go to jail If you want the simplest, kangaroo court Buy why “kangaroo” quickest justice, appeal to the ? It’s a far cry from the King county jail to Australia Nearly a century and have elapsed ince Captain Cook, the English navigator, touched first on the eastern shore of the “down under” continent and saw the kangaroos hopping ‘And what have Capt His Hosot, Jetre Peter M east t n, K spected km peter, cor a) ispersial bat, for @ eo earth lat Sad that w, ever at war W ree gee ons fhe kanga ge is of the " weet ory in Pete PETER MILLER TELLS THE STORY OF THE KANGAROO Roane a He sits on the edge of his ce ing a knee in two Maite, p powerful ghtfully on his massive chest, . says His r the kangaroos hopping, he fi to the natives, ‘What are they? sige | “And the natives said: “Kangaroo,’ meaning, ‘We don't know poking Bow, those kangaroos were the queerest fed ever seen. So, in time, the word ‘kangaroo’ came Gaything queer or strange. The word came Into com and w 10n Use, @rried by sailormen into every port i “In Revolutionary days the jails in this cow were so full fhe folks outside were so ent to whi r the folks that the prisoners themselves were com Bred or died, Matters into their own hands. They forme gnd discipline, fought uncleantiness, sickness ! #4 to those law-breakers, sent by the courts to jail should have courts. y ‘kangaroo. Aw courts and plag that they y. in thou there are kan th em It was very of jails in every civilized country on the globe oe 68 « Is this story a legend passed down from generation to generation | birds? The Standard dictionary says age a meeting of the Lumean society of New South Wales, August @, 1890, the question was discussed whether, In the dialect of the Blacks of Endeavor river, the word ‘kangaroo’ signified ‘I don’t know,’ or was so used, or whether, as Cook supposed, It really was the name @f an animal in use among the aborigines | of the locality.” ht man, alone. When If he dared ad in the east tank atte a fomes he cells alone. No one ever speaks to him Maother, he would receive no answer. The man, you see, in this east tank com not respectable. It {s terrible terrible to be alone In another cell anity, ts a pariah. He is finitely mor the east tank Ider mun be alone in a w in a crowded com to PRISONER UNDER SENTENCE BY THIS COURT INSIDE THE BARS ishr Wh e herded his pun st deserves Yet the onte: together as they are herded at the jail, they With ne Real, useful work to do, they must keep them e Binds become u There is nothing in the w r than an unclea: Jail Filth and degeneracy do not make good cellmates. There are three kangaroo judges at the jall—Miller of the east fank, Cushing of the north, Belden of the south. heir ses he Bench are insecure—and they know tt. That is one reason they Bre good judges. For ta the jail democracy rules alone. Miller, if power upset his Sense of fairness and justice, can be recalled at any moment and with out warning, by a majority of the members of his community, and an- C) Other elected in his s a Cushing, if he dared show favoritism in bis rulings, can suffer a Mike fate : Belden knows that at any moment he can be retired to private life IF OFFENDER HAS NO MONEY, HE WORKS OUT FINE Court convenes whenever a new priso arrives, and whenever the rules of the cour » violated. here is no meaningless ce mony But there is perfect order and decorum. The newcomer is “fined 50. If he hasn’t the money, he works Out the “fine” at 10 cents a d ‘on the floor.” The money is pro fated. You get your share of it, and not a penny more But if you violate the rules of the court, and the court finds you Gailty, you are bad wad you get no ne Without mor a annot buy tobacco. There are a lot of comforts, pleasures v fleges y *t Tleanliness is the cardinal sin, The floors of the corridors and The bars and walls are speckles O44, isn't it? ndeed, “kangaroo” that these offenders Against zove amongst themselves a governr t of their own, su r tneas and simplicity to our own eeniers LEAVE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF JAIL TO ‘PRISONERS {ffs everywhere have come to recognize that the best results ie ost ed by leav he internal affairs of their jails entirely in the hands of the art Si, ei It is the fr for government that 1s deep-rooted in us all. Good ation of your relations with your netghbor ®vernment is the fair re The absconding bank cashier gets at the kangaroo court the same Meatment that is accorded the yegg the drunkard and the wife-beater Stella in Seattle became aa fied. Life held no pr for them, the each thought la went to public places t the pimilarit ie tw f Mian ! timon y t Both coup) we married one |‘ Year ago—Erne Ma Certain letters received by Judge Bard in Va 1 Ed-|Humpbries, which the judge be Ward and ste ras in Se- Neves are a violation of the federal atte , turned over to gov ROMANCE DEAD, YOU'VE READ! HAVE A SMILE AT CUPID’S WILE One Family of Two Names | Man, 97, Hunts Wife, 500 . i t CALIFORNIA, Pa., Sept her life was Ir i . Haughr we P . more than 500 pe nds, one of biggest in the country her 0 a, i ‘ hargin a ault and batter r r Mr a hman declared her wee Mreme |} nd bas been in the habit of th ock her down and sitting on her rr chastisement, according ot Werner t the woman, has ruined her 24 Persons Shot by Demented Man STUTTGART, Germany, Sept on persons were killed ers injured schoo 5.—-Thir and demented when a teacher nam ran amuck today of Degerioch and near here Wagner first murdered sleeping wife and four children at Degerioch. Then he rushed to Mulhausen, a short distance away, and fired a dozen dwell 8, jeopardizing the lives cf scores of sleeping inmates. When the inmates of the burn ng bulidings rushed to the street, Wagner opened fire with a revolver, Eight women were killed and 11 others injured be fore Wagner was overpowered. Two revolvers and 22 cartridges were found in his pockets. COAL SHORTAGE THREATENED ON EVE OF WINTER ed Wagner in the villages Muth, usen, his While retail merchants are hold ing out some hope, indications are that Seattie will suffer from coal shortage this winter, owing to the eral strikes at local and British Columbia mines The Black Diamond t down atrike at been on since a West several months ago passed the x ip to Crawford, tell him to proceed ag himeelf the Telegr investigation. The suit tn at Crawford Pringhurat {ts to & the cause a Seattle which totally night, the resi E. Whelan, 5404 47th nd spread to the nelg boring house where the family of H. R. Eddingfield were asleey They their escape before the ire department arrived. The Whel. far was away at the time of the f Hose com of West Seat P ay & quarter of a mile of pipe estimated damage {8 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5 Dr tt! probably will Ae Attorney Robert T. Devlin con cluded his address for the defense at te He was fo! lo pecial Prosecutor Mact Se for th £ n nt J Van Flee Inatruetions to the ry were next in order, with the ement of the jurors to con i verdict expected early in he a noon. Announcement of h om Wa look for —. V. Kirch, wanted in Kansas City, Mo., on embezzlement charges, ought to Seattle from Aber Thursday and lodged In the wait extradition papers Into River to Escape Wife PRINCETON, Ind, Sept rd gar Wooda son a traetion car with two ®omen when his wife en tered. With yell he leaped out thre window into the middle vot the Patoka river The car und rescuers tarted te to Woodall who wa n the water, Take that car ahead, condtctor e he I'm safer right her ron [im this river than I am on that car! The Star’s Staff Photo of First NOW WH DID THIS TO JOHN? Judge Humphries today, in pri- vate conversation, told of having heard a rumor that he was to have been blown up in connection with an alleged jal! delivery plot. The plan was to entice the judge the county jail upon the plea that a woman wanted to see him. The Jail waa to be blown up by means of nitroglyc to rin Judge wan there, he sald I don't know much abou j said, “only the rumor brought to me by some t t mention. I dont know rit is true or not. Bat lam ) beware of any ” parties to the 0 play safe Proud of His Words hy speech from the Humphries today em clared he was proud has said from the » the Investigation, Attorney Stegfried, by ‘oclation Tom ts the proud and happy fath WILL DISTRIBUTE Correspondent in Alaska Takes Baby Born on Trail to Shushanna al mobia 1" uinimum on ac ike rde ‘ oa! has ab marks about marriage and divorce, ‘ tls believed, the pairing of affinities, and the, M’CARTHY, Alaska, Aug. 30—1 * higher per ton before laws of heredity, and his observa ve for Cordova today. My knee onk er last year tions as a phystognomiat and phre slightly better, and, with a brief While there ia much talk a nologist, “ought to be in every home |restup and the eervices of a doc a coal shortage,” sa: in the United States,” i} lock, one of the big | tor, | should be as good as new. | 1 don't believe Seatt [7% en for the coal fields. | if ata The Brit Even in Alaska 1 hear confilet atrik not hurt! |ing tales about the coal areas, It |{# Kood coal; {t 18 not good coal; tt! : —- j's eaxily accessible; it t# not ‘| } | SAN JOSE, Sept. 5.—Diaphanous|ceasible at all; there is inex skirts have jarred the home life of| haustible supr there is scarcely Bertha ( Hat sc 30, and| any—and wo ¢ | ' | er husband,| The tn gation I have planned | Hanscom, a As @ re-| will as far the Be SALEM, Or., Sept. 5 Suit was tn Mrs. Hanacom today has file flelds. on the groun | stituted in the in ¢ for a divorce. | should be able to judge of the feas | cult court to My husband is an old fossil,” | abiiity of their development as out Crawford 2 sald Mra. Hanscom. “I'm built for/tined in Senator Poindexter’s bill tary of State the X-ray skirts, and I'm going tolin congress r Kayt r $16 wear ‘em. He doesn’t lke them, | The photographs I took on the] but I don’t ca Walt until I ¢ | way In have probably reached you| Here Is a Picture of the First Baby Born Along the Trail to the divo’ and I'll make his eyes thin I have Just seen Tom |New Alaska Gold Fields at Shushanna. As “Baby McKenney” and Its | McKenney, who rune the laundry | Mother Lay in Bed, Beneath Their Polar Bear “Blanket,” E. O. Sawyer, | i at Blackburn, a mile from Me-!In Alaska for The Star, “Snapped” Them at the Little Camp of Black-| Carthy burn, Where Tom McKenney Runs a Laundry. COURT T0 EXAMINE FUGITIVE COATICOOK, Que., Sept. y K. Thaw was found on two counts by board here this afternoon and was ordered deported immediately. Thaw’s counsel at once en- tered an appeal. igration It is stated that a habeas corpus writ, obtained in Mon- treal, will bar Thaw’s depor- tation on the ground that he is an escaped lunatic, not an immigrant. The grounds for his expul- sion from Canada are, first, that he entered Canada by |stealth, and second, that he |has been an inmate of an in- eo asylum within five years, naw Was evidently in a cheerful of 1 when he resumed his own nalf, at the | fo n “session He wore a flow- er in his buttonhole and was calm and collected First he was q leer tioned concern- his flight and then asked point f he killed Stafford White, question he showed signs of nervousness, but replied without hesitation | “I refuse to answer.” eee ARREST JEROME ~PUT HIM IN CELL COATICOOK, Quebec, Sept. 5.— é m. T. Jerome, former district attorney of New York, and the man who sent Harry K. Thaw to Matte awan, and kept him there, was are rested here today by city police on a charge of gambling. Representatives of New York state here, who are seeking Thaw's deportation, asserted Jerome's an rest was part of a plot hatched by the fugitive's attorneys. Jerome was admitted to bail by Magistrate McKee after spending an hour in the cell. The case against the attorney probably will be continued to per mit him to conclude his work in of the first white baby born $10,000,000 ESTATE Jalong the trail to the new gold 30 CONVICTS DUE IN the Thaw case. 5 ce The John Collins estate, || fields. The baby was born shortly lwaiting yesterday in the expect valued at $6,000,000 to $10,000, || before my trip in, Mother and thon that Thaw would be Geena 000, which has been in the pro- jehild are doing well | Regier tte 1 1d be eported bate court for 10 years, will be|| Tho other picture is just of 3 started © poker game, in wuloh Je distributed among the six heirs | Grubstake and some time in October. This an- nouncement was made today by the administrators. John Collins died In 1903, leav- ing a lot of valuable down town property, including the Collins bullding, the Seattle Hote! site || and water front bulidings at Yeo. RALEIGH, N. C., Sept. 5.—Meager ler way and Railroad av. The] reports received here today say the heirs are Mrs. John Collins and |) storm which swept the North Caro- sree oniere | lina coast last night caused damage |estimated at $5,000,000, but, so far |as Is known, there was no loss of VETERANS ELECT ‘Twenty-four persons were ree Wells me NO LOSS OF LIFE | ny United Press Leased Wire leued from the steamer Geo. RUFFALO, Sept off Hatteras Inlet Smith of Washington John Lewis was elected All wireless stations along the sais nderinchief of the! coast are out of commission, and it Spanish War Veterans, in conven-|\it! he several days before the ex-| tion here ____| tent of the damage is known IT WAS HER || FASTS FOR 56 DAYS; crigrtppaaavaniie RING || OH, YES—HE IS DEAD (GOTO‘HONORCA MP There will arrive in Seattle from | mon hk | Walla Walla tonight, en route for the Olympic peninsula, 30 convicts. No armed guards accompany them. | but log shirts, heavy trousers They stepped forth from the prison | and , Stout boots, and army this morning unfettered, save by a campaign hats i solemn promise given to Governor! — Can Escape if They Desire they will be given a rec. ommendation for final discharge The en will not wear stripes, Lister, | Today a squad of men from the They have promised the gov. Mesktll quarry are making ready ernor that they will go/|the “honor camp.” | straight to the peninsula and that| The men chosen for the expert- there they will labor faithfully and|ment have been convicted of all iiligently, and that they will not|sorts of crimes, but, in the opinion ltry to pscape—"on their word of/of Warden Drum, they will prove | honor.’ | themselves worthy of the trust. If any one of the 30 at any time should wish to decamp, there will | be no bar to escape, save the bit of | Get Pardon If They Work The 30 convicts will establish on | |the peninsula the first “honor ; lcamp." They will recetve 50 cents |Paper to which he has signed his }a day, in addition to room, clothing |®4™me and in which he has promis ed to hold true to the terms of the | noard. And they ‘have the and boa od they have the) ontract—‘on his word of honor.” promise of the board of control and | the highway commissioner that, if i ted || HARRISBURG, Pa, Sept. 5. they serve the state faithfully for a it |] neath ended today the S6-day fast| Period ranging from three to 12| 103 lost |/here of Wm. Beldleman, aged 96, | dre |\ who refused to take any nourish useles and prolonged ment, following the death of a lone WHITTIER, § § Sept. 5.—Enjoying fs abe orate - 4 aoe in || relative excellent health and possessing an he throat did no goo Se ho ene a reaicnea hae i, pareagham ea ae aaah unusual eyesight, Mrs, Lydia C ec » || AUTO VICTIM BURIED Sts aptain and Mrs, Storey,| charnieas, know M phoned Main 9400, The Star of: | who for two years have labored in|Sbatpless, known as the “Quaker fice, n small ad (offering a re- || dinoral services for George W,|Seattle, left this week to take up|Centenartan,” 1s celebrating her ward for tts return) Walsh, Jr, who was Killed in the|their new duties connected with |103rd birthday at the home of her rte o ee PI. reliability tour when the Hay. the Mé Training Home in Chi! goy Sharpless, 116 8 saa 7 Fe aay Pe eng ora ers Six, in which he was riding, | Cage ae Washington that di ge a ms plunged off the bridge at Oxbow taff Captain and Mrs, Clifford | Sharpless has three child won't come OF, Erpht by || ‘Tuesday, were held fron: the Church | of Los Angeles, California ived| ren, fourteen grandchildren and expcriple, bn eeu of the Immaculate Conception |in Seattle today and will be pub-|twenty-one great-grandchildren, article, No matter how Thursday &. Conspicuous |lcly introduced at the Salvation how small, @ Httle ad in our |/aiong the many floral tributes|Army hall, Fifth and Wast on, | Myatt-Fowelis, 4h and Pine, haw a rep Lost column will recover it for | which covered the casket were the |on Sunday afternoon next at 3 p.m, |utntion of belng thoroughly, high-class, } you, floral offerin of the police depart T. W. Scott will int “hase clty, but it is unquestionably the best - | ment and the Tilikums of Elttaes aptain and Mrs. Clifford Advertisoment | Brooms Drive Suitor Off Needle Hug of 15 Years CARMI, IL, Sept. 5.—Dan Kelton) ALTOONA, Pa pt. 5.—-Fifteen finds himself owner of a marriage years ago C. J. Noel, engineer, call license that may not draw a prize on the girl who afterward be from Cupid's lottery. Taking with came his wife, slipped his arm him H, Hy ¢ lark justice of the around her watst to embrace her eaee, Kelton sought to marry Miss and ran @ needle that was sticking Maude Grubbs, ‘The magistrate waslin her dfebe into tis left arm, it getting out his eyeglasses to read never gave him any trouble: but the service when two older sisters lately, while washing, he Jagged a of the bride-elect appeared on the finger of bis right hand, and discov porch. The two girls made for thelr ertd the ne six, inches from prospective brotherinlaw — with) wh it en , and drew it out | broomsticks, [bright as ever. jrome, it is alleged, joined. The }game was played openly, while @ hostile crowd looked on. Residents of Coaticook mostly | sympathize with Thaw, and Milford Aldridge, a prominent citizen, no- tified the police that Jerome and jothers were gambling. Jerome was arrested, | Jerome's bail was set at $500, His case {s set for 9 o'clock tomor row, when he may be dealt out the maximum punishment of one year in jail under the technical charge against him of “common gambling on railroad property.” Newspaper men who played with Jerome say the game was “penny ante,” with a 10-cent Hmit, They declare that Jerome lost 64 | cents. DION'T EVEN TIP THE DRIVER! CHICAGO, Sept. 6—Charles Gates, son of the late Wall street millionaire, John W. Gates, spent five minutes here today en route to herp and did not spend a cent. Gates escorted his mother |to a taxicab, in which she rode to a Chicago hotel, but the millionatre did not tip the driver, STILL IN DOUBT With Referee F. M. Fretwell still unable to make any announcements concerning the official winners of the recent PI. reliability tour, a | better system of checking is promis- led for next year. The referee ex- pects to announce the winners some ‘Em Rev, ! 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