The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 27, 1913, Page 1

<< 3 i ). oe source, comes an unqualified endorsement of the Murphine logged-off land law It is an editorial published in the current issue of the nation’s biggest weekly, the Saturday Evening Post The Post's views of the proposed Agricultural Development district, on which the people of King county are to vote on Saturday, December 6, are not colored or irifluenced by politics, the Chamber From a wholly unprejudiced and unbiased | | | Circulation Every Day SUUAMAUUUUUUUUAUAANAUOUAAONUOAAUUUUENUUUUNRANOUGuNAAOOUUHD VCUUAANOANOOUUOnU Ett VOLUME 15 NO, ITISN’T EXACTLY A JOYOUS DAY FOR MR. FURTH! THANKSGIVING ‘AS DAY LOOKS TO PESSIMIST By Fred L. Boalt I never did enjoy Thanksgiving day, and I don’t Te Tianlagllnig day is like a picnic. Who ever had a good time at a picnic? Nobody. | You think you're going to have a aece — ac go bed Neatly cg ny dle Np hella see or pan 2 over you. Mosquitoes) bite . Probably it rains and you get wet. It’s a long way to the plenio and twice a far back, You get home dirty, tired and out of All the fun of pienice and Thankagiving days are in anticipation. | see ee What right has the president of the United States to say, arbitrari. | ly, that I snait turn part from my usual pursuits on the last Thursday in November and give thanks? | resent Mr. Wilson's interference. | And why, if | must give thanke for doubtful blessings, must | oy It on a wet, chilly day in t melancholy season? - Why not have two days of thanksgiving—one for farmers and) one for city foiks? | Surely, the springtime is the only season when | can give even, thanks. | on A LITTLE WHILE, AT LEAST, | CAN FORGET THE COAL} MAN THEN. GONE FOR A HALF-YEAR THE WET AND COLD.) VEGETABLES, EGGS, MEAT—ALL COST LESS IN THE SUMMER.| TIME. esvee 1 see little cause for thanksgiving in my wanderings. On Monday Police Judge Gordon tried 230 cases—the highest on record—euch a motley, tatterdemalion crew of vags, drunkards, petty thiev and derelicts as were never scen before. Every day week the judge has had a crowded docket, and the court has worked overtime. The “biott at police headquarters is filling up so rapidly that the desk sergeants are threatened with writ- er’s cramp. A wave of crime? A wave of fiddiesticke! it is merely that the down and-outers WANT to go to jail. They want to get out of the cold ont sare. They want to eat. When | was a boy | was one of a large family. W lot of guests at Thanksgiving dinner—aunts, uncle friends and the minister. always had a cousins, old Never room at the first. We waited and fidgeted, listening sullenly to th ter of the grown-ups, the clatter of knives and fork catch the odors of turkey, of coffee, of pumpkin and mince pie The minutes dragged. We became as hollow as toy balloons. We quarreied and snivele and went into tantrums waiting for those grown-ups to through. AND WE wad ToGo TO CHURCH! see talk and laugh- It was dark when | arose this morning. The rain was falling. walted 20 minutes for a car. And here am |, at this moment, sitting at the same old desk, beat- Ing the same old typewriter. The rain is still failing But the rain MUST stop falling SOME TIME. And out at my house there is a turkey browning in the oven. And there is a small boy, fidgeting for dad to come home and carve it THE SMALL BOY IS GIVING THANKS, BECAUSE, THOUGH | THE CALENDAR SAYS “NOVEMBER,” IT ISN'T NOVEMBER AT) of Commérce, the big timber interests, or real estate | timber has been out, the clearing of which for cultivation costs that paid by the district on its bonds. Not more than 20 acres ‘ from $50 to $150 an acre, or arid land that requires an irrigation of logged-off or 40 acres of arid land can be sold to one pur speculators ¢ ; system chaser, and to discourage speculators the title cannot be ae Therefore, unlike the kept press of Seattle and “Once the Improvements have been made, the land will be signed until three annual payments have been made and the King county, the Saturday Evening Post commends | ween ait it coate; but the ingiyidua) ettier has not the capitat purchaser has actually resided on the land two years , Pes 7 ; to make the improvements. he stats proposes to supply him “Under this arrangement, a man with hardly any capita the measure ae worthy of support, The editorial is with It—or, rather, to furnish him the means of eunplving. hin can get possession of ane that is ready for cultivation—which reprinted by The Star in full welt makes this about the most interesting agricultural credit acheme “The state of Washington contains many million acres of “A law passed this year authorizes the formation of devel we have yet come across good land that can be bought very cheaply, but cannot be opment districts, which may issue bonds, and with the proceeds “It is really co-operation, for the people of the district pool brought under cultivation except by an investment of capital buy and Improve logged-off and and arid lands within the dis their credit in a bond issue in order to raise capital to improve that In beyond the means of the ordinary individual settler. trict; then sell them to settlers at gost, plus 5 per cent, on 20 the land; but the individual beneficiay need have little or no Thie ie land in the western part of th te from whioh the ' ytar payments, at an, interest rate one-half of 1 per cent above capital of his own.” y THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ON LOGGED-OFF LANDS NO, 234. GOV. WEST GIVES GIRL FACTS WE HAVEN'T FOR PLAY ON PRISON REFORM ‘and sniffed to| comparison shall ita at nents, 1 1] Washington the for Rachael the young Seattle girl who writes big problem plays, than the demure, silvery Miss Marshall lives with her par Buckingham little mouse. THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS Si a BE) university affairs It is understood that, in contem Rachael Marshal! plation of his removal from the Washington = tnetitution. President And we youngsters had to wait for the “second table’ —there was| By Nancy H. Buskett | 1 can think of no more accurate KE. Mar-| apart: | Boylston, She is a university girl born in Mex feo, but Washington and Seattle have claim She was ed her for On © jour to in gon, and penitentiary for a new play ALL FOR HIM rf IT 18 SPRING! REBELS TO MARCH © -::: AGAINST CAPITAL BL PASO, Tex., Nov. 27.—Ke ers in Juarez predicted to that Gen, Carranza would be in ” 7 Mexico City by January 1 ; JUAREZ, Nov. 27, — Gen They raid be would not wait this Villa forgot war today to attend long +) estabtish a provisional ge the opening of the race meet | | ernment, however. Hither today ov | here. He occupied a box, bow. | tomorrow, it was believed, he would | ing and smiling affably when announce his choice of a regular, | the crowd cheered him apital in Northern Mexico, an/ that * the organization of a formal go ne, ® - * Ment would follow plied with | His supporters pointed out thi Gen. Villa was expected to star Would place him tn position to,southward very soon, stopping on| aek Washington to récognize the his way to take Chihvahua, and} rebels’ belligerency, and no doubt then march straight on t Seemed to be felt among the Juarez His ‘tapture from the fede leaders that {t would be aceorded|cannon, machine guns and moderr off 800u as the formalities required| rifles nas doubled bis fozce's effi Lo mal law could be cour! clency. ‘i *MA VILLA GOES TO RACES | ity to learn why, hall held up Henry bis way to his dressing room, and 4d him how she could wered, with & Just have ikeness now “Suped” with Miss Marshall ywernor West of O: investigate the Oregon | for ne material | » oppor: | Miss | Miller on yush her nh wml plenty of nerve-—as on the Stage slight girl's is an uniimi ri vation and she became The Traffic r KES A RECORD LOS ANGELES, Nov Martin holds the America ng record for ae late yesterday with ger-carry! ie nacended Garbutt by his feet. He then mad flight to hia } Frank A rt of 9,86 1 perfect Santa Ana ! CHICAGO, fle carr ward afte ollided with a street car here ear today, Mies Nort ing Nov. 27,.-An i bridal party prenuptial prospective ™ ipply of known sroduced | Glenn passen roplane ide to a nome at automo home: banque bride, Ablstrand, wis killed and twelve persons were injured, actual stage knowledge and could|tation with an Eastern college get it no other way, she “saped.” | which he may join shortly after the | For a week she took the part of 4/irst of the year | page with Julia Marlowe and Soth a srfence. q I just walked behind the queen, There's something rotten at the, If the bids were equal, the city! county would hi Be and held her train, while stepped PAT HAS BAD DAY ABS sito ied plant. should "have ‘received the| only $3821.00. In other wena il nnnnnnnnnnnutgititd TS ONE ENT (NULLA. ATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1913. )!\ em / Uff Why Does Convict Banker Get Thanksgiving Pardon? Why Nat Some Poor Cuss? It is nice for Harry J. Welty, convict bank wrecker, who has been in Walla Walla penitentiary for two years, to sit down at his home with his family at Colfax today in a big Thanksgiving dinner with Governor Lister’s pardon ix his pocket. But how about the hundreds of poor fellows in. Walla Walla: who had no money, no influential friends, no aristocratic family to get him out? If Harry Welty has really been “born again,” as the ministers would say; if he has become a new man who will now be a credit to society, there is no reason for keeping him in prison as it should be the policy of the state to put men back into society just as soon as it can be done with safety to the man and society. The Star is glad Welty is out. But why is it that it is always the rich fellow who finds executive clemency so free? Is there no poor fellow who made mistake and repents sincerely and who wants to join his family, and who might be extended an executive pardon? In every prison there are plenty of John Does whose wives long for them, whose children need them, whose family life has been disrupted by the state locking up the bread winner. Harry J. Welty was rich. There was no excuse for him steal- ing the money from the depositors who trusted his bank. But Walla Walla is full of poor fellows who stole because of actual poverty. Some of them stole to buy bread for starving children, to pay doctor bills for sick wives, because they could not get work enough at pay enough to support their families. HOW LONG IS IT GOING TO BE BEFORE OFFICIALS CEASE TO WORSHIP THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR AND GIVE THE POOR CUSS WITHOUT MONEY AND SOCIAL PRESTIGE THE SAME DEAL THE RICH AND INFLUENTIAL CROOK RE- CEIVES IN THE ADMINISTERING OF “JUSTICE”? SEEN THOSE TICKETS YET But They'll Probably Be Sold | Six-for-a-quarter on Street | Cars Tomorrow. THAT IS, PROVIDING—| Furth Doesn't Try Appeal to Courts After Getting State Order. | é oat No, dear people, Jakey Furth has not placed tickets on sale | six for a quarter on his care today. You MAY be able to buy them tomorrow. He hasn't received official notice lyet of the public service commis | ston's order, and won't until tomor | row, probably And Jakey needs the money for | his Thankegiving day dinner ond} her things, you know. So every little delay is thankfully welcomed by the traction company Tickets won't be sold on cars any | sooner than the company ts COM PELLED to permit It Neither Attorney James B. Howe of the company, nor Supt. Kemp. ster, has indicated today whether | the company will attempt to delay the commission's order by Injunc tion proceedings, They are wait jing for the formal order, they saf before they will determine the next step HE MAY GO EAST That President Kane of the state university has already, or will be fore the first of the year, tender his resignation to the board of regents of the university, is the statement made by a man familiar with all ere last seago en she needed i here last seagon, when she needed) Kane has been and is now in nego: a ern, She says of that ex ag ee ctl me - nes boet yy | Whether Gus Jones, the purchas: | courthouse contract | THE COUNTY PAID THE my entire salary for flowers for Jeffries didn't, but Pat Branni nt, is to blame, or whether BUT THEY ARE NOT EQUAL— PRIVATE COMPANY $259.75 back ‘ommissioners Hamilton and Knud- | pig ¢ MORE THAN IT WOULD TY HAS MADE THE LO’ gan “ca ‘ Marlowe. He returned five times to the Cal.| sen are to share the blame for UP} ER BIDS. AND THE RECORDS OF HAVE HAD TO PAY THE | First Play a Suce ifornia Bar, 201 Occidental ay. | holding Jones, is immaterial THE COURTHOUSE PROVE IT. CITY. gq When one burstn into prom-| Wednesday evening, and each time| The facts are that between these! 1, j919 the city offered to lisht],, Tat Was last year. This yam inence as has Mise Marshall in| vowed he would clean up the plac hree men, the city Nghting plant | ing courthouse at a flat rate of 2 4 peg ed renewed the offer and The Traffic,” the public gasps,| Each time, too wa being handed a dirt Jcents per kilowatt hour. Gus Jones |” jaced the minimum at $173.60 a How did she do it?” Mr, Oliver] The last time, one of t | There is no use of mincing Words. |i,44 told Superintendent Ross and | ™Onth—the lowest offer the county im D. Bailey, her collaborator, was no|is alleged to have kicked him in the Last year, the city plant put | Assistant Williams of the city had ever received ¥ exception. He wouldn't believe she} face. Hrannigan is spending | in the lowest bid for lighting | nian that he did not want them to!) The Seattle Electric Co, this year 7 had written the play until he actu-| Thanksgiving day at the Clty hos | the courthouse, but the Seattle Pi" On a sliding scale, ‘The Seattle 8180 made a flat rate of 2% conte, | aly saw her at work in his own] pital with a broken jaw, Electric company got the con: | piectmte Co. put in a sliding scale hee Lacan sy the minimum at $200 office - tract e contre : , It has proved a REAL play. At [> Michie year, the olty egal [so mea eye cae -amtreR And Gus Jones, and County Com ter a tour of Pacific coast cities, It | made the low bid, and It was so | And here is the result: The missioners Hamilton and Knudsen is successfully running in Chicago. A | obviously lower than the pri courthouse used 152,866 killo- threw out both bids on the alleged From there it will make ts way to vate company’s, that this time watts, and the Seattle Electric | ground that they are “too high.” 4 New York oe. anti niet “an | Jones and these two county | Co, received from the county “WHAT'S UP YOUR SLEEVE: % Miss Marshall ta writing a prison!) “Horris, a neg : Ra 27.—Burt | Commissioners THREW OUT the eum of $4,081.35. Under MESSRS. JONES, HAMILTON, play which will have its premier| 04 & Dea jo murderec | BOTH BIDS AS “BEING TOO the city bid of 2!, cents, the |AND KNUDSEN? Mrs. Rebec Seattle come time before C will forfe . in Seattle come time before Christ-|ii¢ iife to the state at Folsom Feb | “!64 ~ mas. Eris : King county never did have as i SAAS Seat ___| 1%. Sentence was passed by Judge gid he , Willis late yesterday, Harria wil |!0W & contract for lighting | the A A {2 week There's a villas a ate he nl Mant | At the city jail the guests will get turkey today, At the county © pile, and it looks like th V ‘e4 jail the menu calls for chicken, Jailer McKnight of the city bastite 7 xolng to get it in the neck Will feet 140 prisoners, and Jailer O'Brien of the county institution wilt PANAMA, Nov Passengers This paronnnay pena a wi [Serve 00. ‘The city bill of fare at noon was: Roast turkey, jelly, mashed Gerivinattare today tiem aoayanuil | Poet ene eae nevens | Potatoes, plum pudding and tea, ‘The evening meal will consist of roast m the | mutton, Jelly, mince pie and tea, At the county jail there will be reported that bubonic, plague and | sear since the plant was establish ; . ‘ yellow fever were raging there.| LOS ANGELES, Nov Mra.|24" And not cade taka the city re- | Toene Sulcken, Clilcken coup aie "ainGe wey Three hundred and sixty persons,|Rose Nelson stands acquitted on| ceived the contract they d, had died from the plague) charges of murdering her husband It is a most amazing condition, |{~ eA a and 70 from yellow fever |who was shot by James Cook |The city pays 85 per cent of the || COUPON |Cook, who declared he killed Nel-|sounty taxes. It constitutes 85 || NO | - 129 AUTO PUTS LIGHTS. OUT json because of love for Mrs. Nel-| jer cant of the county population. || ; So severe was the impact when| son, is under convietion of mirder.| And 85 per cent of the county || Any four coupons clipped from The Star, consecutively num | | the auto bumped into the cluster | : ourthouse business is business de- || "tered, when presented at The Star office with 15 cents, wil! entitle y Hght pole at Second av. and Union | et einen at sane tirate une | ‘ived from city folks, || you a 6&cent Pennant. Mexico Pennants are now out. Pennants will be sent by mall if 5 cents additional for each Pen es | In common decency, If any favor te The Seattio Star, tisme were to be shown, the city || nant ls enclosed. Bring or mal ‘ant shold have been favored by Ave, near Union 8 the covety —_— at. this morning that the lights were | purpose to train our students for th put out, ‘The auto speeded merrily (office positions; and i efore the re Cl ment and teaching on its way before the police could | rie’ Hyatt-Fowells, obtain the number. Adverts 0 1307 Seventh