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& STAR TODAY: oy | More Than 41,000 Circulation Every Day LUM Siaaieaalll SUjUNNIeNMnAMUEATTTEL b) VOLUME 15 LIVES FOR 12. YEARS WITH TWO WIVES Isabel and Mabus, Aged 5 and 7, Respectively, Daughters of “Mrs. Dane,” the “other woman” of Tacoma's sensational double-ife exposure. eee ° TACOMA, Wash., Dec, 2.—A man}do most anything for one who wil! —two women. show her kindness. Charife is For twelve years the combination | kind and sympathetic. I was starv existed, in Tacoma. ing for kindness and sympathy Charies J. Parsons, 66, painting} “I don't consider it a peculiar contractor, maintained his wife, code of morals We just drifted married 26 years ago, and # family | into this life. I know ft is not the at 1513 North Oakes. standard and when baby died the Charlea J. Dane, the same man,/ Other day we decided then that it maintained a common law wife and, mee es couttane, this way, for ath the sake of the children, dha children at 1525% So: peoncain uh Ta ae: ‘The inevitable ams SERVICE BOARO 13 years of the Goubte Tite Wront? at ee ete > gaia m home, wife drives him dirty brute.” | What people mal nto the back-| Rot understan ee". ae piste and ee” “oth-| This is the problem the soctal 4 oh service board has to solve Parsons after the exposure which “WHAT'S BEST FOR came following the death of the lit THE CHILDREN? tle child last Wednesday, when he “1 am waiting to hear what the! did not go to the funeral, went gocial service board says fs best t© home to his wife on North Oakes do for the children,” said Mrs. st Sunday night and she refused “Dane” this morning. to recetve him. Mrs. Dane, which is a fictitious She says she will not get a dt name, is a beautiful woman of 37.\ vorce but will have no more of/ There is nothing of the brazen af-) him. finity about her. She has lived the! false life; she has drunk from the} night He sid he would help the cup of bliss and sorrow; she Saw jchildren. Mrs. Dane wants to keep | her youngest child, a little one of them, but realizes she must work 3, carried to the cemetery Inst So the problem {a up to the so- week; she sees the — lpg cial service board eceding; the big cold word is pcognl a mother with two help-,U. 8 REO LIGHT CAFE less little ones— am waiting to know what Is best) the red light district, will be oper for my children.” lated by the United States court, The problem is to be solved by Judge Mack having appointed a re the social service board ning |r “1 am willing to. tell anything about myself,” said Mrs. Dane, “but }/HARD ON LANDLORDS nothing that will bring any more sorrow to anyone ¢ My folks dicted the refusal of suffrageta to Hve here. I will not tell who th pay rent as the next move in mill are. You no doubt could find out | tancy by prying around but to publish | — thelr names would do no one any good and bring new sorrow to LIVE TOGETHER UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME I did 12 years ago, but to do #0 —_—o would cause pain to others. 1 will] Having decided to cast his hat not do it. I have lived the Hfe-Ilin the ring, Ole Hanson is busy have. .1 will not say it has not been}. 34.) with hie campaign tor the - Soo United 8 Ps senate. But I am bringing up my chil ey Dat teri disar "Se dren as well as I can and we had) it 7..04 my effort will be to a¢ ynded'in the near future to go| aa at ay eas to my exact give the children a better chance. I don’t know that Charlie would have gone along, but we were plan ning a chance and the children and I were going.” The name Dane is assumed Parsons came to take it for his sec ond household Mrs. Dane would not | issue, All T ask Is a fair fight and no favors I want no drafted or paid soldiers supporting me, I am looking for volunteers who will How | fight side by side with me for the jgreat principles of humanit enunciated in the progressive plat say, only it was incidentally thrust | ar formal announcement of can ge gg didacy has yet been made by Con WANTED SYMPATHY; gxreseman J. A. Falconer of Everett FINDS IT IN HIM With the retirement of George She had left home work as a H. Walker of Seattle from the race house where she wor He was 0 erations make Im po € a magn cent w she a for him to go after t toga at th beautifal ¢ « c nomipation Don't m know apparent é » Ole H Dar there are times ai #0 Congress Falcon and girl can be just starvin. ryan, and Govnor Teata of Ta and sympathy, and she n coma After Santa Claus had departed , aske for the North in his racing ear, ye 1 a terday, Joe Schermer, of Dreamland — hail ame of three-cushio ca nkinittia Brown & Huler ’ r “ agita Claus, Hoalt of The Sta nterruy nd 1 and t nd The e's Oppo hearé yo give a sh for the nts 4 said about the jit-| litthechimney kid Dre vnd tle-ch and) = Christmas, | Christr 1 wouldn't bh our and also Sche boast that he|suspicious diapo fae an would find a bigg tree tha the | thing ope Mique Fisher eet up in Dream-§ “Don't get huffy, Joe,” said the| jand last Christmas |other man hastl I just happen Who was the old party with the] ed to remember something that you white whiskers?” Joe's oppouent| might like to know. A if TONIGHT he SeattleStar THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES ‘TO PRINT THE NEWS WASH., TUE ing and anxious that the people should Ayers Harbor Island terminal scheme, a private enterprise. Five million dollars’ worth of bonds for a brainstorm proposi The Chamber, and Josiah, and the subsidized press, were willing to loan the public credit for that purpose. But a comparatively paltry sum of $200,000, which will put the logged-off land district in operation, and will help industrious farmers and worthy settlers to improve their property; w' i lower the taxes on our homes in the city by the relative increase in the taxe value of stump lands; which will enable us to reduce the cost of living by putting these lands to agricultural purposes and depending less upon foreign markets; WHEN IT IS A PROPOSITION OF A PUBLIC NATURE, and h, and the kept press suddenly discover it’s a bad not a private enterprise, the Chamber, and Jo: i ue any more bonds. It all depends whose ox BOYS WITH AIR GUNS PLAY WAR; FIRE UPON MAN “The Mexican War” Seattle yesterday afternoon a gang of six juveniles, armed with | repeating air rifles, broke out to DENVER. Dec of America today stand indicted by a gra *. International President White, Vice Prem rhe dient Hayes qud Thomas Green were chanced. xith speiniginin so Jabor, while... Unable to subdue antagonists, Wilkins retreated and notified the police. “Git him, _ fetiers’™ leader of the from bebind a bill bo tion with the coal strih who sprang, it nay, but they do! the juvenile they charged the astonished men. Here, you little roughneeks, put! * ordered Wilkins. | up those gun rebel leader. » six boys fired Wilkina full abreast Wilkins charged the enemy, according to y, of 933 Twelfth av a window pane when they fired « volley from their! | He beatae the fact, He saw Mrs. Dane last Saturday A pete eethpaetiesy: D. O. Powers, Rev spenkers at the regular weekly dinner meeting of the Progr » Good Kats cafeteria, First and Cherry, tonight, at 6.50 o'clock George W. Dilling, president, will preside. eer ee police notified the juvenile} authorities of the operations of the Officials are nd whe says: "I| CHICAGO.The Swan, a cafe tn} of Fort Lawton, have left for Monte upon the receipt of a tele gram announcing the death of Mrv Macomb's father an today at the LONDON.—Sylvia Pankhurst pre lawyer, replied to Prosecutor Inman's husband dreamed Emma Boyson filed lain fi suit for divorce. “I could tell incidents that hd me to be in that frame of mind| that made it possible for me to take up with a married man when the city Monday He declared he would make hi nouncement during the week decided to make TIRED OF DELAY Tired of the endless negotiations the city with the Se Southern Co., Erickson Monday intréMuced a res olution to acquire the road by con and three othera wounded noon tod, two white men, strikebreakers, who were rid empty wagon, They asserted the first shot came from the n ing on the corner at Indiana and Capital squad of police waa rushed So the scene, One of the men injured tn the Hoting is not expected to live. Counctiman son, Arthur B of not guilty be pets | set for trial ew tails Creek Rises and Floods Texas Town Tex, Dec. 2.—Nolan creek, which runa through the cen » rapidly without warning today and flooded that se it is feared they per , and Erick-| aute action and no more de ter of Belton, r utilities committee An overdose of veronal, empt from taxation of property used for religious purposes INVENTIVE. MIND = BOB BRIDGES TELLS WHERE HE STANDS port commission: ; and operate 1 his roam at the Third and Cherry, Monday. nt | way up 4 veater, t How old do y ; this fella told friend of! that there was one tree seen, Joe was arding an east-bound train, ° President Wilson dectares ror opening Alaska along lines suggested in Poindexter bill, page 2; What the logged-off land law means to ‘Confessions of a Wife, page 3; why O. J. C. Dutton ought not to be elect@d port commissioner, editorial page; Cynthia Grey’s letters and answers, page 5; President Mellen says government soon will own railroads, page 7; Berton Braley’s daily poem, page 10. AND WEDNESDAY; INCREASING SO UTHERLY WINDS. DAY, DECEMBER 2, 1913. is gored. And that is why it’s to OUR interest, Mr. Workingman, Mr. Merchant, Mrs. Housewife, to go to the polls Saturday and vote against this gang by voting for the agricultural development district. This $200,000, mind you, is not a tax on any one. when the logged-off lands are cleared. The bonds are guaranteed with the greatest security in the world—Mother Earth itself. NO ONE WILL SUFFER ONE CENT INCREASE IN TAXATION BY REASON OF THESE NADSHOTS AT DAYS BIG .. NEWS.....- Indict 25 Leaders of United. Mine Workers 2—Twenty-five leaders of the United Mine Workers! never nd jury at Pueblo tn conn The names of fifteen indicted will be withheld until the arrests The grand jury's report denounced both the miners and the oper It charged that the operators were tinanctally interested in the | put, in lowering herself from a win- Kangeters. 8°) saloons, control county peace officers and bad expelled from the camps} dow, all miners who had complained of real wronas. Evacuation of Chihuahua Excites Mexico City MEXICO CITY, Dec. 2-—Mexico City officialdom showed distinct la volley of air rifle shots, striking signs of panic today, at reports that the federal garrison at Chibuabua| City bad evacuated the town without await Adwiral Sir Chri . had an engagement to e the rebels’ arrival apher Craddock, E ters Will Speak’ at Progressive Meeting Jack Dunstan and Rabbi Koch will be the | ive club, ‘| Will Attempt to Prove Suicide SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Dee 2 Veatimony for the prosecution trial of Dr. Craig, charged with murdering Dr. Helen . at Indianapolis, two years ago. calling of the prosecution's first bm his rema ks that the defense will mair a suicid) Man Shot and Killed in rr cil Strike INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 2.—An unidentified man was shot and killed a strike riot, at Indiana and Capital aves The fatal shooting wae done by vos. After the Making Ralph Lopez Breath Sulphur Fumes Dec. 2.—Though dense smoke and sulphur, wet eun “pepper and formaldehyde fumes had t é ol for more th was alive at an air pipe which enters the mine, in response by his besiegers on the outside n 14 hours, Ralph I m. today, His t Refuses to Plead to Extortion Charge SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2.—-Mrs. Mary Vaughn, a club woman, fused to plead here today to a grand Jury Indic attempting to extort $500 from Judge Robert M. Widney of Los Angeles jon the promise et she would have a white slave charge against dropped. Judge Griffin directed that a plea and the case continued until December 9, to Ten persons are missing, and wate roll appeared in court charged with RAIL OF THAT CHRISTMAS TREE |. 2:0. =<: having picked Simon O'Dea's » reat, He sald it ets, he complained that O'Dea, | somehow, than the throwing his arms around his ne@k ering to a had aceldentally emptied his pock there a a tassel. ets into hi The excus didn't go. as the prettiest ever wet hold of that friend | 1 find out where hi | how can Ket » old trapper, and | Any four coupons clipped from Joe's cue was in the rack. he yelled, cand you to a 65-cent Pannant. elevator in three Pennants will be sent by mall If 5 cents additional for each Pen- nant Is inclosed. Bring or mail to The Seattle Star, 1307 Seventh Av., near Union 8t. Bill Smith, page 3; EO TTA LALAAILILMMALLER LULL LLL Le LELLLLLLo C= THIRD EDITION > MMMM HERE'S WHAT THE LAW DID TO ONE GIRL ONE CENT MILLIONS FOR GRAFT: NOTHING FOR TOILER! It's mighty curious to hear these Chamber of Commerce fellows, and Senator Josiah Collins, and the kept press of Seattle, yelling against the creation of the logged-off land district because it would be necessary to issue bonds amounting to about $200,000. It’s mighty curious because it seems to us that it was this very same gang which was quite will- ue $5,000,000 worth of bonds in behalf of the crooked ion and a private enterprise! It is merely a loan, which is to be repaid FIND WOMAN IS SANE AFTER SIX YEARS IN ASYLUM TACOMA, Dec. 2.—After spend: ing #ix years in the Stetlacoom tn- Alice Vinsot is verdict ofa Jury which found that the woman | hardship and od inthe asylum. . 1 Once when she had been placed violent ward, she attempted together the strait jackets, her balance and fell to taining injuries that kept her in the hospital for months. Mrs. Vinsot was committed from King county | the ground, # Merri! Scott) Husband and wife went to a ho and there the boy urged the — | girl-wife to keep the marriage se cret Jor the time being. She was to.” go oack to her parents and he to What is the purpose of law? A mmple question, you say, leasy to answer is intended to protect s0- among other things, ra a the sanctity of the home, and his ;arents riue and of innocence.” on hollow and empty this must; sound to one little girl | a pitiful sophis- nd's naval commander tn et President Huerta today. | however, that he would make merely a courtesy A few weeks later Merri! dis covered something that made her aware their secret must She told her par- ents. Then came the break the heart of the HIS OWN UNDERTAKER ping Into a Oak Cliff cemetery bank cashier, y «hese words | Merril Scott! How was Merril to know that the law could be permitted to wrench the soul Samuel Leesey, shot and killed himself. ee The father and mother of young 'Cushman would marriage. Thomas was only 19. He He had no right to without their consent, and ff he did not at once sue for an annulment of the marriage they would send him to the reform The wedding of Miss) of a woman | Yvonne Brock and Ensign Frederick | ’ 8.8 Delaware was hear of the tear at her very heart-strings, to bring her into the valley ‘of the shadow of death and then Bryant of the L was under age. to boot her, MOCK THE WEDLOCK THE ITSELF HAD TEMPO. RARILY SANCTIONED? PREACHER BIT HER wife of the Rev H complained that her tended he was Jordan Smith » r ian dig sue for an annulment, annuiment means law says there . legal marriage. was served on hearted girl. wealth of chestnut soft-glowing, neat figure and a cheerful | WON HIS OWN WATCH the broken It had but one alle gation on which to base the appli- |cation for annulment—that Thomas tended the Acquina convent, fire in their apartment house. Thatcher is under of having started the fire. The officers used their clubs Then, last April, she met Thomas Guar ions and ‘university ‘student, | was onder legal age when he mar ACID RUINS EVES ‘ The girl grieved. Her health ran In September, after the suit ghing 180 pounds, a sophomore the doctor came. , but it did not live. a member of with destroying her sight advisement for OKLAHOMA “ WEEWATKA memory of Gov » honor of his either party toa marriage shall be thereto for want of legal age or understanding, rriage is voidable.” hics or no ethics, moral or im al, there was the law, . ee was a fraternity man at the| ent, CRATING br WiCA ed here for killing a deputy . Cruce is an opponent . who live at 11 W , cashier of the Gunst Ch NO TRACE OF BANDIT And Judge Dykeman ruled, on Friday last, that was a legal marriage, that Mer- legally claim the name of Mrs, Cushman, that tf THE CHILD HAD LIVED, Thomas Cushman ctives and dep the peace of. ficérs of a dozen towns near here Ithough police — all the fervor that he was today of the LEGITIMATE, . Parish Tuesday received the opinion of Prose assistant Prosecutor Morrison, to the effect that property, with the exception of the auditorium, {s not ex The auditorium, it is claimed, 1s the only waelti 8, demands that a different In- placed on this stat > BURGLARS STRIP =) lel AVE, HOME i curing bounce lued at $1,000. » block were em terprotation be als in this elty COUPON NO. 133 consecutively num bered, when presented at The Star office with 15 cents, will entitle charges in transfer thieves worked deliberately phatically in favor of a public mo-|in the Niemeyer pants slept’ above. opponent, | nishings, t other goods were nopoly of dock Expensive fur- , cut glass and —————| also spoka,