The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 13, 1913, Page 1

More Than exeenit 2 = al has altered him. wrestier nl sity. He is 8. P. Dodge, 14, as he will appear in the role ra Aynes, in the one-act play “Fritachen,” which the Yale Dramatic association will pre- sent on its annual holiday tour this winter. it is a traditional custom of this organization for the feminine parts to be taken ‘WRECKERS TRY TO KILL HEAD OF N.Y, CENT. RR, CLEVELAND, ¢ Dec. 13.—An attempt to kill President An- drew Smith of the New York Central railroad, detectives to day termed the ditching of the failed so far as Smith was con- corned, hie private cay at the train's rear not even leaving the raila, four mail cars, a combina- tion coach and three Pulimans locomotive roiled com- pletely over, killing the fireman and seriously injuring the engi- neer. RACINE, Wis., Dec. 13.—“Nice poodle,” said Mrs. Frank Cook as she caressed a pet dog. “Gere,” responded the “nice pootie,” as it bit off her nose. She will be maimed for life. It costs @ Yifle mare and taken a itttte Jonger to complete Hyatt-Fowella too keeping and shorthand, but results prove the superiority and real worth of the Hyatt-Fowells School, 4th and Advertisement PENNANT 41,000 Circulation Every Day ee Pine—| SUVUNUAAUAUAAGASAOOEENEDNEN re VOLUME 1S» CLOUDY TONIGHT AND SUNDAY WITH PROBABLY RAIN, MODERATE SOUTHERLY WINDS. The SeattleSt THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS NO, 248. The Star urges Governor Lister to pardon Wap- penstein in time so that he can eat his Christmas dinner with his family. Some months ago a movement was started to pardon she lay sleeping in her bed, Hogevall, residing in apartments at 1627 Ninth av., was last night shot and killed by 3D. Blakeslee, 40, who, for eight months, had been an unsuccessful suitor for | her hand. The mother of the murdered wom an, Mrs. J. Laughlin, dozing by the | side of her daughter, was awakened by tho sound of the shwt inst in.time | peg. to see Hogevall place the revolver | his temple and shoot nm be Moved to Avoid Him Four times the dead woman and her nother had moved to avold Blakeslee. But each time Blakeslee found them. Three weeks ego he called at the apart te on Ninth av. and beg get the woman to marry him Fattirg in his efforts to induce her to be his wife, he suggested thai {they both commit ide. The woman and her mother then ordered him from their rooms. He left Seattle and went to Los An geles. Two or three days ago he re WOMAN IS KILLED IN SLEEP |turnes, and yesterday morning | again called upon Mrs. Hogevall, Sit side Bed The couple quarreled during yes- terday’s visit and Blakeslee left the apartments. Last night he called again and Mrs. Hogevall and her| mother had retired. He was permitted to enter the room and set for a time beside the Tey Mee diomeraD ocked high to sleep. He told her she ee wo to sleep If she wished. but asked permission to sit beside the | bed. | Says He'll Gu F | Them | “I'm lonely,” he sald, Aad rN Sant ait here and guard you.” Mra. Hogeval! dropped off to sleep | in a few minutes, closed her eyes and dozed. Blakeslee drew his revolver and, holding it close to the hehad of the woman, palled the trigger. | The woman was removed to the letty hospital, still alive, but died jat 3:30 o'clock this morning. FROM YOU YET?|) The following contributions for The Star's Christmas tree for the litele-chimney kids, at Dreamland hall, on Christmas day, have been received up to noon today: Previously acknowledged $386.35 Class A Theatre 41.00 Kenneth Mackintosh Scott Calhoun W. H. Smyth . R. R. Men's Excursion Co. Frank Borgorn W. M. Shaw ; Francis Rotch, jr Frank A. Jacobs Joseph Goldie “Bob” Bower, White Bidg. Barber Shop and em- SEE DESPI i BINGHAM, Ttab,. Dec, 13.—If a story told the sheriff by Shift Boss Sam Rogers is true, Ralph Lopez,| the slayer of six men, {# still trap ped in the Utab Apex mine. Ac cording to Rogers, he talked to the deaperado Friday He will die fighting, Rogers says Lopez told him. COUPON This Coupon and 15c, when brought to The Star office, at 1307 Seventh Av., will entitle you nants will be inclosed. Montan: to a 65c by mall if 5c additional for each Pennant le Wyoming and Kentucky Pennants out this week Pennant, size 16x35. Pen- HES TALK TO TEACHERS’ CLUB. Cynthia Grey of The Star ad dressed the parent-teacher club at the West Woodland school yeater- day. A full attendance welcomed her, and showed thetr keen appre-| claticn by repeated applauso Lefore| she cculd be introduced by the pres | ident The pupils of the eighth grade hed been held back until Misa Grey would give hay consent that they be allowed to be present, which wae #ladly granted Miss (Grey, in her talk, treated the child from in cy as a reasonable, reasoning being, with an individual ity all its own. She dwelt on the fact that the child does not belong body and soul to the parents but is in their keoping during its growing! jyears; that they can but direct; that | the directing should be administer- d wisely and truthfully. She im- pressed the fact that in order to | Have the children truthful the pa rents must be strictly so. Miss Grey pointed out to the boys and girls present the law by which they bring punishment on them. selves by doing fash things thought- lesaly. At. the close of the meeting tea was served in the basement lunch room. GETS PENSION WASHINGTON, Deo, house yesterday voted $ | Mrs. David Gaillard, widow of the | Culebra Cut_enginear, It’s a fine idea. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1913. Wappenstein. is life in prison released by C ONE CENT At that time The hristmas or not. ae ENIGHT =EDITION EU ON THAINS AND NEWS HTANDS, Bo Star did not favo OMT URE LET WAPPY OUT They are talking of pardoning The Star had more or less to do with landing the ex-chief of police in the penitentiary. He deserved to be punished. He has been punished. The Star believes he has been punished enough and that it now would be safe to let him out. rit. it looked like a political job. Governor Lister stated last night that he had under advisement the granting of executive clemency to Wappen- stein; that the question had come up as an independent matter, but that he could not say whether or not the ex-chief would be MAKE IT A CHRISTMAS GIFT, GOVERNOR LISTER. A GOOD WOMAN, A DAUGHTER AND A FINE, STRAPPING BOY WILL THANK YOU FOR IT. then the mother | This Is Prof. K. Scholtz and Mise Billie Bonner, Who Are Going to Give san Exhibition of Tango Dancing at The Star's “Little-Chimney Kids’ Benefit Dance at Dreamland Tuesday Night. They Teach the Tango at the Dreamland Pavilion. Tickets were placed on sale to-| day for The Star's dance at Dream. land rink Tuesday, | Already parties are being arrang- ed among clubwomen and others in various parts of the city, Any one wishing to buy tickets In blocks can x«t them by telephoning to The Sta Wien you come to think of ft, ‘what could be more fun than going to ths pre-Christmas dance with your cwn clique? Ani the tickets centa, And the money will buy presents for the little-chimney kids, | eee | Bully for the patrons of the Class| A theatre! Manager Smythe turn- ed over to The Star today all the) receipts of yesterday afternoon and evening, over and above expenses, amounting to $41. And Smythe added his personal | check for $5. cost only 50 paper can since the world’s fair year. FIGHT FOUR The fight is on, and it's the city’s next move. While Jacob Furth is carrying }to the courts hie fight against re- | establishing the sale of tickets on | cars, the city of tle will take steps before the public service! | comission which may lead to the establishment of a universal 4cent rate on the lines of the Puget | Sound Traction, Light & Power Co, with transfer ibe cree A. resolution, . racing was introduced by Councliman Gririthe recently, and |paseed by the council, and Corpo- | ration Counse! Bradford, with Ae- | sistant Corporation Counsel Pierce, | now drawing up the formal com- plaint to be lodged with the si | commission, | The resolution calls for a vie lical valuation of the properti of |the traction monopoly and for the | adjustment of fares in accordance with the real valuation and not the “watered” figures. According to the company’s own figures, filed with the state commission, the Puget Sound T. tion, FARE NEXT Light & Power Co., earned interurban systems. FOR CENT {$1,421,845 during the past fiscal | year. THE OPERATING EXPENSES WERE $552,238, AND THE OPER- ATING REVENUES 974,084. The company’s report further) states that a dividend of 6% has) been deciared on preferred stock and 4% on common stock, leaving a eurplue of $669,996. That the 4-cent rate, with trane- RIE od privileges, is due the people of ttle, declare, the city offlclate Je “by | platnly evi 58) The company has continually |been asserting that it Is losing | Money on the interurban lines, IF THAT 1S TRUE, THE PROF- ITS MADE IN SEATTLE, FROM THE STREET CAR BUSINESS, WILL SHOW EVEN A LARGER PERCENTAGE THAN THAT FILED WITH THE STATE PUB. LIC SERVICE COMMISSION. The company’s report embraces all of the properties of the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co., which Includes not only the Seattle traction system, but those of Ta coma and Bellingham, and the two | OLE WILL SPEAK’ A mass mee sting | to discuss the | proposed lighting franchise asked | by the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co, will be held at Foster Saturday night. Ole Hanson, pro- gressive candidate for the United States Senate, has been asked to speak Assistant Corporation Counsel Pierce will be prepared Tuesday morning, when the company’s fran- chise comes up before the county commissioners, to file the city ap- plication for a franchise demanding the common user privilege. | A cork sunk 200 feet deep in the ocean will not rise to the surface, owing to great pressure of the ' day. MRS. MAY HARRIS MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 1; “i'm wearing men’s clothes be- cause a woman can’t make a live TO TALK OF EGGS A ress meeting has been catted| for aext Tuesday morning, at 11! o'clock, at the Grand opera house, | to look further into the question of the high price of ezgs. j The women who have called the meeting are anxious that all produe- | ers be present, so that their views | on the situation may be properly presented. At the meeting some sort of a permanent organization | will be formed, with officers and committees on membership, legisla- tion and investigation. All women of the city are urged | to be present. | RETURNING TO LONDON PARIS, Dec, 13.—Mrs, Emme! line Pankhurst started for London to- ing and keep straight on the wages she gets nowadays. I’ve been down the. river with government ficet, breaking rock and piling it at $1.25 a day and keep. hard work, but it honest, ‘afd it didn’t hurt the way Mrs. Ma ris,-19, mother of a child o' plained .her appearance a Memphis police arrested her for masquerading in masculine KILLED IN FIOHT SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. aed | Armberg, a sailor, wi death here early today in a street fight with Henry Barkshalte, a ma- chinist. Barkshulte, the police say, jadmitted that he did the ; it claimed that he acted ta fense after Armberg had_ e down twice. | BIGGEST ADVERTISING VOLUME SINCE WORLD’S FAIR YEAR The Star yesterday carried the largest volume of advertising This is a record that no other Seattle equal. The Star is the only Seattle paper that has shown a growth in both advertising and circulation over the boom year record. The Star is Seattle’s growing paper. V. KORESHKOV COMES TO SEE US ABOUT THAT POOR-FARM By Fred L. Boalt V. Koreshkov, farmhand, rose from his bed hours before daylight yesterday mornigg, filled with a) great purpose. Koreshkov had t th walk five muady miles wo rest interurban line. wW he reached Seattle he had just $1 and his return ticket. He can The Star office and lald the dollar on my desk. Koreshkoy is a Mazur, a Pole o1 the north. There 16, I fan- cy, & drop of Slav in the blood of the Mazurs, which gave them pa- tence. And a drop of the Teuton, which gives them philosophy and to works on a farm 20) miles the other side @f Tacoma. He| And a drop stability of character. gives them of the Tartar, which physical courage. || The Mazurs are fair, and short, blue-eyed and tow-headed, and not at all like the ‘ south of Poland, | Fair and short Is Koreshkov, ‘tarmhand, and broad of shoulder, | and very strong. Combleally bow- legged, too, in his rage e! and mud wmeared overalls, For Koreshkov was not on pleasure bent His brogans were caked with black mud, and they clumped noisl- ly, aeel and toe, across the floor. When he laid the silver dollar on|the Mazurs never have my desk, he rubbed his thick palms | | together and amiles | “To buy a farm,” he said, simply, It take all kinds of folks to make |a world, and it is seldom that & vis- ltor surprises me any more, So | told bim I had no farms to sell, and, “black” people of the If I aad, I would want more than a| grandfather's knee and heard the| mind dollar aplece for them. Whereat he smiled again, and ex- | plained. It was not easy, for his tongue ited {itself in bard knots over our {outlandish English words. But by and by I got an inkling of what he was ériving at. His grandfather, he said, had fought under Kossuth against Rus. | | sian oppression, For that matter, nt their backs to the Russtans. For the \Partar in thum bas #iven them the | as courage to fight hard, the Teuton|he does not like cities, He has! in them the philosophy to fight | walked the asphalt, penniless. Cab- long, and the Slav in them the pa-|bages do not sprout from cobble- tlence to endure, stones. Asa boy, he had sat on his, Now, this you must bear in That Koreshkov is sprung | story of Poland's wars for freedom. | from a peasant-line, which for cen- His people in Poland had been) turies has fought hard, long and very poor, An acre was all they | with patience against oppression had, and {t kept many—from the|on a diet of cabbages. aged grandfather and grandmother| He knows the to hie eldest brother's bables |seed and soil, For he and his have But they tilled every inch of It,| had to live on one poor acre, thelr forefathers had done.} [@annot be absolutely sure I get Mostly, they lived on cabbages—as|his viewpoint, but I beligve I do, their forefathers had done, {and that it {a this: He cannot un- Koreshkov came to America.|derstand why the poor flock to the What adventures he had, what cities when in Westera hardships he know. I know thia though: that| waste. ° miracle of the| endured, I do not there is so much good soil going to What would the Mazurs do it} |eney had this chance! That seemed to be his thought. With It was a deep distrust of|° the constituted authorities, You can} junderstand this. For in Poland) there 1s ground for distrust. Have) they not been taxed and oppressed for centuries? I {magine Koreshkov's {deas of government are primitive. Perliaps he regards President Wilson as sort of a Little Father with a Cossack arms ai his beck and call, The |eo nty commissioners are, m in his mind provincial governors, America | cruel, grasping and proud. So there is in his mind distrust lot authority and. in addition, the, . spirit of resistance and tnde- eenWanon which he inherits from a long line of fighting peasant an- cestors. | So now I was getting the straight of it. The county commissioners should not be asked to buy this farm which The Star had suggested to take the place of the over-crowded poorfarm | at Georgetown. ‘No! We should buy this farm for the poor, We-—-the people—should buy it, so that it would be ours alone. We trust the officers ef gov- ernment? For his part, he would give one dotlar—all he had, He was terribly in earnest. It meant @ sacrifice. because he thought I would take his money. “By and by,” he said, “I will earn anothor dollar, and | will give you |that, too. And I will give you @ week's work on that farm with my | hands.” Idad a hard time making him be- | Heve that the county commissioners were honest men and more or less in sympathy with the farm-colony {idea Finally he took back the dol lar and went away, shaking his head a A fool? No. ernment and finance may be pi tive, but his knowledge of MEN and CABBAGES is greater than the com. bined knowledge of the faculty of tha University of Washinstes,