The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 24, 1913, Page 1

5 if Bog |. “Forme learned the lot was in an in “Or up for you peen framing The Star what strange From ev Than other journals do; To interest you—-and you 40,000 EVERY DAY — ‘Workman on New Smith! Building Falls Down , Shaft to Death. GOOD RECORD Contractors Had Hoped to Finish Big Job Without Fatalities. The first fatality the cobstruction of the L. Smith building, ond and way, occurred at 7:45 this when F. F. Riack, a la down the concrete his death the seventh floor to} E work of 42-etory a rt Z it. | had been no lives sac-| the construction of the/ baliding, and the most part, the placing of the was over, it was yectaper would be without a fatal accident. i course of construc- a high building fre. are not an uncommon HI iis # le employed by the D. , contractors, He was lived at 70 Roanoke st was taken to Butter. SP00KS 0,K,°D IT Mm. Hanna La Forge of Port loaned $700 to May Lpner, a Seattle spirit medium. As Miss Lyner was in good standing ‘With persons prominent in spirit land, Mrs. La Forge didn’t think it Becemary to look her up in Brad-| Mreet’'s. ? ff As security for the loan, Miss| deeded to Mrs La Forge a ) Wt which the medium sald was! forth $10,000. Later Mrs. La| of Kitsap county ‘tad was worth $5, Judge Albertson yesterday grant-| S48 jadgment for $700 in favor of GRAFTING SAVES His LIFE HALF the world does not know how the other this information been brought for the readers of this paper 40,000 Sold Every Day! We try to do thihgs differently We try to tell things truthfully, Do courage, truth and fairness pay? half lives!” FAIR How many times have you yourself said it—One-half the world does not know how the other half lives does not know of the quaint customs of the world’s queer people! Our readers know that when The Star does a thing, it generally can be depended upon to do it up right. Well, this is another big, interesting stunt we have is going to bring all the “other strange folk” right to your own door, that you yourself may know nner of things some of your brothers and sisters on the “Good Ship Earth” mean by “life.” corner of the globe we have gathered facts about the odd custotns of the other folk Fiji islands, from Africa, from New Zealand, from Greenland's icy mountains and from India’s coral strand has AND PICTURES, TOO! Wonderful photographs of almost unbelievable practices of the human family TODAY! From the TONIGHT PLEASE, MR. BRYAN, GO BACK TO WORK| Go back to Washington, Congressman J. W. Bryan! You have had your trip. You have made your speech, and you have called your personal enemy just as many names, and names just as bad, as he has called you. Incidentally, you have filed enough libel suits to keep the courts busy for quite a little while. We are not blaming you too strongly for your trip out here. Your provocation was strong. But you have had your say,and now to stay any longer or talk any more will only add to Seat- tle’s confusion and turmoil. Remember, Congressman Bryan, you were elected as a progressive, and the progressive creed forbids the expenditure of your time in private fights or enterprises. You are drawing a liberal salary for your services in Washington, D. C. AND THAT’S WHERE YOU SHOULD BE RIGHT NOW. There are lots of lower berths left on the eastbound trains, Mr. Bryan. Why not crawl into one and leave us alone? Seattle does not need you here. NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, Sept H.| | Gravel FE. Wacker, grandson of L. Woolsey, recently badiy burned,| | William H. M. Gravel, who fallied after 170 square hes of] | died recently will Skin, contributed by fellow mem-| $48,206 by his grandfather's Bets of the Order of Eagles, had| | wili if he never uses cigarettos a9 Grafted onto his body More | | ean oar! Sunday ———- 2, Acting Mayor Robert Hesketh IT ISN'T FRESH, ORIGINAL WHEEZE 3 HEARING IT FROM CUT-UPS LIke You oo OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TR | hadn't made up his mind this morn ing just what he is going to do in the matter of appointing a com- mission of 15 to revise the city charters as provided in the Goddard resolution, passed by the clty coun cll Monday afternoon As a matter of fact, Hesketh doesn't have to appoint this com mission unless he so desires. A council resolution is merely ad visory To make tt UE mandatory an ordi nance would be necessary Corporation Counsel Bradford probably will #0 inform Mr, Hes |keth. Therefore the whole propo sition is up to Hesketh. He may n yint the commission or he may to do #0 Will Cause Confusion. If does and the commlasion does any work, {t can do no more than turn over to the counell sug for amendments to the line It gestions charter. Each one of these amendments, if the council sees fit to submit them to the people, voted upon ately. Only a very proportion of the people—as is always the case—will know what they are all about. It wouldn't be an Intelligent Class support would to some of the amend and Class opposition to oth iid merely be confusion all over the char disfigured a Ve BEEN small SINCE 1%72$ come ter would as more And in addition,, there would jarise the begal quettion as to the validity of the amendments so ef fected. re eee proper plan—the plan_ pro the constitution of the election of 15 freehold @nd the com r vided ate by the ers by popular pulsory submission to the people, \for their approval or disapproval lof the charter proposed by such |commisston—would avold this con: | fusion and leave no legal doubta. vote Treaes wager ue enone” CHANGE IN CHARTER ALL UP TO HESKETH! HE IS CONSIDERING AND THURSDAY; MODERATE 1913 Pictures showing savages at work and at play—pictures showing the wonderful fire dances of the EAST and the still more wonderful snake dances of the WEST the wonders of the Holy Land All these WORLD'S QUE The first article and picture in this great series will be printed tomorrow in The Star run through the winter It will not only be more entertaining than any fiction, WILL ALL BE TRUE! ONE CEN and more—are coming in our new superlative tR PEOPLE.” You will not want to miss any of the “QUEER CUSTOMS!” EAS TERLY WINDS, he Seattle Star | THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS. SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, OME! WHAT'S THE MATTER WIT e've Got the Hall; Now Let’s All Join in and Thres stories of the but it will be highly Just HOME EDITION. ON TRAINS AND NEWS KPANDS. fe ti pictures of the beautiful Nautch girls and pictures of “QUAINT It’s the Paper for You! Let others play the part of snobs, And court the bon ton few; We'd rather have as trusting pals Do courage, truth and fairness pay? 40,000 EVERY DAY SEATTLE? This Thing Out! CUSTOMS OF THE The will series BECAUSE IT educating you—and you—and you FALLS 97 |SAWYER CALLS ON BILL| PEACE IS | | | FEET: I$ UNHURT Boy of Seven Has Marvelous Escape in Tumble Into Well HAUL HIM OUT DAZED! Companion Sees Him Disap- pear Through Top and Runs for Help. Tomm Ketchell, 7, yester ottom of an aban et deep, and Wasn't hurt! Tommy left his home, at 8010 16th, ay. N. W., to run an errand for his ther. He made a short cut ch a weed-grown vacant lot watched him running The | Another boy Suddenly Tommy disappeared earth swallowed him Patrolmen Simondsen and Gray. of the Fallard station, fetched ropes, and William Howard, 8015 16th ay., N. W., voluteered to effect the rescue. The policemen lowered Howard to the bottom ‘of the well rescuer and rescued were holsted | to the surface, end the boy, appar ently badly hurt and possibly dy ing, was hurried home, and Dr. F. W. Gretner called An examination showed not even a neratch or a bruise on the boy's body. He was merely dazed. The well, abandoned years ago. was planked over. The boy's weight broke through the rotting boards. YACHT LAUNCHED The built finest pleasure yacht upon the Pacific Coast, 6, 231 feet in length 4 this afternoon f the ever the was the ruction Mildred C. Bone, the new sea launch yards and Dry Dock Bone, daughter of standing sponsor for Scott craft The vessel is owned by Col. D. C. Jackling of Salt Lake City, It will cost In the neighborhood of $500,000, and will be as complete as wealth can make It. It will be used by Col. Jackling for his own pleasure and the pleasure of his friends S-SH! MYSTERY! There ould be vena i CONCORD, N. H., Sept. 24.—Ex ners wm goliath Agee Attor Jerome had dis a mark upon the ballot "| appeared te in a mysterious net Ry tt axel pig ealgsion tn conn ction with the eral way It would be on rHilags aleodl don fF Pte atin Governor Felkner was still con#! selves with the charter so {*idering New York state's requisi aad |tion for Thaw's surrender | hav coed voke iataliieen tty It was sald he would probably Twice before, in 1900 and tn 1906. Erp bis decision next Tues. Seattle tried to do something along or Wednesday |the Hines proposed by the council resolution, and on both occasion: |time and money were wasted and | | little | 4) nothing done. Why try {t again? TEDDY MAY RUN! WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—The consensus of opinion today regard ing a statement recently attributed to United States Senator Sutherland of Utah to the effect that Roosevelt would be the republican nominee in 1916, was hat “It all depends,” “The question was put to wh ination,” Pennsylvania today “The gave his interrogator every assur ance that such an event was most improbable, but did not answer cat feally. her he would accept the nom A wine student profite by his own ex f others # at Hyatt-Fow and Pine.-A te| will have to be | colonel point blank by a progressive congressman, who was visiting him, | | said Congressman Kelly ot colone! | DID BRYAN LEAVE TABLE ON WHICH BOOZE WAS SERVED WASHINGTON, Sept, 24.— Maj. J. J. Dickinson issued today his second denial in 24 hours of the story that Secretary of State Bryan started to drink to the French exposition commis- sioners at the Majoris house Monday night, noticed that his glass contained cham- pagne, set it down and left the premises. Maj. Dickinson added that no champagne was served at the dinner, He admitted, however, that there were old-f, loned cocktails. ee SAN GABRIEL DRY GABRIEL, Sept. 24—Own ers of cafes under the shadow of the historic San Gabriel mission were defeated by church forces led by Bishop Conaty in an attempt to vote, the village “wet.” SAN ~ PENNANT Any four coupons clipped from The Star, consecutively num- COUPON NO. 76 bered, when presented at The Star office with 15 cents, will entitle you to, a 65c Pennant. New York and Colorado Permants now out. Pennants will be sent by mall if 5 cents additional for each Pen- nant is enclosed. Bring or mail to The Seattle Ave, near Union St. Star, 1307 Seventh | | | Sees $15,000 in Gold Dust Packed in Milk Cans JAMES AT HIS DIGGINGS “Billy” James, the Discoverer of the Shushanna Gold Fields, in His Picturesque Alaskan “Sourdough” Garb, Here's another letter from City Editor Sawyer of The Star, who has been nto the Shushanna country for this pa wrote and ma’ this with the picture, from Cordova, before he left to investigate the ¢ fields along the southeastern shores of Alga. By E. O. Sawyer. (City Editor of The Star.) CORDOVA, Alaska, Sept. 11.—“Oh, Billy, we're rich!” The little woman, clad in “mucklucks” and trousers, looked up from the frying pan she held in her hand and in which rested half an ounce of coarse gold, to the silent, gray-haired man beside her and repeated again and again the magic words: “Oh, Billy, we're rich!” Snow-capped peaks and icy walls surrounded them. Three years in the wilderness of the upper White river country, the man ard the woman had “mushed” over the snows by winter and the swamps by summer in search of this gold. Twice in that time they had been to Dawson for supplies. For seven years before the woman came the silent man had “mushed” by himself. But away with those years of “mushing’—HERE WAS GOLD AT LAST! The silent man, standing there looking at the gleaming gold, was William E. James, DISCOVERER OF THE SHUSHANNA GOLD FIELDS—the new fabled treasure-house of Alaska, whither | have journeyed over a perilous and almost impassable trail. Since he sent his signal out to a waiting world-of-men, early in July, over 2,000 men and four women have stampeded into these fields from McCarthy! And now on the surrounding hills and on creeks in all directions from the James claim over an area of some 50 miles, thousands of claims have been staked, but on all, with the exception of a few in the narrow gulches where the gravel is shallow, it will take MONTHS of work before the owners can tell whether they, too, will find as “rich little pockets” as dames has located. Last year Nels P. Nelson joined them for a year's prospecting. Wm. E. Johnson of Dawson “grubstaked” the expedition. The winter's search for gold was nearly over and they had only been able to find a few colors along tributaries to Beaver creek in Yukon territory, when they met Indian Joe, a chief among the White River Indians, and a friend of James. Joe told them of a quartez ledge on Chathenda creek, a tribu- Coming up this creek they met Carl Whitham, a young trapper tary to the Chisana river, 28 miles north of the White. and prospector, who had also been in this country for ten years. They camped together and began to prospect. ‘On May 3 James and Nelson found pay dirt at the mouth of a creek above the quartz ledge, which they called Bonanza creek. Prospecting up this creek, they found a tributary in which the gravel yielded as high as $25 to the placer pan. They named it “Little Eldorado” and staked a claim. Carl Whitham staked the next one above. Dawson for supplies and Whitham to Golcona. living In a little 12x12 tent, Nelson started to James remained, When | arrived at Shushanna a mining engineer, who had just bonded a claim for six figures from which, he told me in confidence, he expected to take a half million, guided me three miles and a half over the mountain from Johnston creek to the James’ home. The woman had discarded trousers for a skirt of her own making, but still wore the mucklucks. Her hair Is Just turning gray end her hands and face are tanned nut-brown, “| am sorry to be found in such a shape,” said she, “but one can't keep up with the styles here, and houses are real scarce. Won't you come Into the tent?” Stepping between a Yukon stove and a little stand made of split willow poles, on which a lot of condensed milk cans were piled, | seated myself on a moose hide which served as carpet, mattress and table at different hours of the day. There was over $15,000 in gold In those cans, | learned iater. Hearing that | had been on the tral! eight days, Mrs. James said: “You are probably Hungry. No man gets enough to eat on the trail. We will have tea just as though | was entertaining at my future home.” fi She set before me a bow! of tea, two great slices of “sourdough” bread and a huge hunk of butter. It was my first sample of this kind of bread and a though eight days of hot cakes might have made me a little prejudiced, | say without reservation, that it Is the best kind of bread and although eight days of hot cakes might have made me either! Tastes better than some of the fresh article YOU get at the corner grocery back heme! NEED OF SEATTLE Commercial Club Offers Its Assembly Room for The Star’s Congress. TO MEET OCTOBER 3 | Twill Be Free, Dignified Dis- | cussion, and You're All Invited. By Fred L. Boalt. | The Star’s suggestion | yesterday of a “What's the Matter With Seattle?” con- | gress and quiz was taken up py the directors of the Commercial club _last/ |night, and The Star is of-: fered the use of the club’s spacious assembly room for the purpose. “While we are unwilling to ade mit that there is anything funda- |mentally wrong with Seattle,” said | Otto Case, secretary of the club, |today, “we believe the idea is big jand good, and, if you would like |to hold the congress in our as- sembly room, you're welcome to it. “Petty Men” Not Big Actors “The ‘petty strifes of petty men,’ |who, according to your editorial, |‘hold the center of the stage,’ are |unpleasant and distracting, it is true, But the ‘petty men’ are but a super mob, noi but not important actors in the piece.” There are in Seattle many, thoughtful men and women who earnestly love Seattle and wish it well There are among them, of course, opposing minds. What of it? The congress should be a les son In tolerance. Life would be a stupid, pallid thing if everybody agreed with everybody else. The Star accepts the Commer cial Club's offer with thanks. Lining Up the Speakers “The assembly room,” said Case, “is not in use on Friday nights. It was suggested at the directors’ meeting that the first meeting of the congress be held on Friday evening of next week. If it is as successful as we hope and believe it will be, further sessions could be held on subsequent Friday rights,”* So that’s settled The Star is lining up a lst of akers who are worth hearing. he first session of the “What's the Matter With Seattle?” congress and quizz will be held Friday even- ing, October 3. It will be a free, informal, dignified discussion of the problems which touch your lives right here at home. I DECLARE! Though she is ee hi dressed in bathing clothes We » hold aloof And she is wise, for well she knows She is not waterproof. —Judga, se AERIAL BARS KENNEBUNK, Me.—Maine Hquoe dealers are planning to use airships to smuggle liquor into the state, according to William F. Berry, superintendent of the Maine Civie league. eee From Life. “They're six fine sone | you have, Casey,” said Den- | nis Flaherty. | “They are,” said Casey. “Do you have any trouble with them?” “Trouble?” sald Cas | “I've never had to rai my hand to one of them except In self-defense.” MARY'S MAO NOW PARIS.—When Mary «Garden at the eleventh hour refused to sing the leading role of “The Jewels of | the Madonna,” Mlle, Vally, never be \fore on the stage, voluggeered for the part and made a hit, ° ~