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

ji 8 RAIN TONIGHT ; sym... More Than 41,000 — Circulation Every Day MMU AND THURSDAY; HIGH | L STUUHNNUNUNUAUULTUNIE THE ONLY PAPER iN SEATTLE THAT DARES SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER S}IUUOGUHHNNAN NEL AUNTH VOLUME 15. 24, 1913 HOME MADE PLUM PUDDING LIKE MOTHER SSPESS Mrs. Albert Dahlstrom the First Declares Her Husband Had Seven “Heliga” Wives at One Time in Denver; Brought Girls to Their Home, She Tells The Star. EVERETT, Dec Mose and m wives” of “Re Alber Dahlstrom, alleged 1, are being found A Star por Dahistrom's farm colony today, and saw Martha Peterson Dahlstrom, who, he admits, ts his second re d truly wife, and she told me she had positive knowledge of 16 of Lhe evangelist’s plubal wives, and had heard of 16 more! She sald he had seven, al! at once, in Denver alone “When | heard that my husband had been arrest od, | was so glad | didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Then | decided toYaugh. | am through with crying,” sald the pretty little wife of the minister held by federal authorities at Tacoma on a charge of white slavery, as she sat back in her chair and gave a sigh of contentment } When | think of ail the grief an | girls and women, through his pr makes me desperate Say, bow many years The Star man ec guilty of transporting Edn latest fc an has brougt ng polygamy was found 4 to be his t if he girl sa t get t BROUGHT GIRL Now that Lam free fre I can't understand how that | man could make girla and wc 1 for his doings Last summer he brought Edna Englund and her mother Mountain View farm, near Falls, where he started his colon and kept her there an hin wife fc » weeks Thad my ba and had © 1 couldn't do anything, or & would have driver way fn the fr om the couch with while he and Edna t in one bedroom aad | her mother In the other “Refore that he had another girl whom he had converted to his be Nef eight years ago in St. Paul out there for six months, That w from October, 1911, until April, just before my last baby born. Part of the time she slept with me and part of the time with him. | nin. j “Then he took up with Edna Englund and later took her to Califor » a HOME AS “WIFE,” SHE SAYS hin Influe out to the ita tw wae There he ‘took” Edna‘s wieter, Hilda, and traveled with both gir!s \% Minneapolis “Edna told me all about their dot It w ameful he fad got rit of me B | “t-went home to my mother, But when he started to get a divoree from me here, my friends hely me return to fight it Then Bint! Englund had him arrested / - Mra. Dahistrom told of 16 plural wives. of whom she said she had positive knowledge that he had “taken” since 1910 There were others she had heard about, but did not know | | all about, she said. which would bring the total up to 32. } Rey Dahistrom's claim of being the founder of the “Helliga” cult By Fred L. Boalt is borne out by his wife She says that he first began other than this his doctrines seem Its tasseled top brushes the rafters. Its spreading branches droop under the weight of phoney snow. When Joe Schermer, in his office, | PREACHED POLYGAMY TO WOMEN AND GIRLS throws a certain switch, a thousand tiny, multi-colored lamps flash on, and | oia Testament, but he didnt mention this subject very often in they wink and glow in the gr:en. public,” said Mra. Dahlstrom. “Hie method was to preach the ‘ ” P " 7 4 . gospel openly and talk polygamy to the women and girls on the “That,” says Joe, as pleased with his switch as a child with a toy, He didn't urge hie male followers to practice polygamy, id they cow! jo It if they wan to. “is what | call a TREE!” “He got sia othe wha) wif Ss earn of age, and I was an We agree with enthusiasm that it is, indeed, a TREE. Jeaay victim. After he had ‘taken’ me as his wife, my father had him “1 ask you, as man to man,” says Joe, “is it as big as Mique’s?” Mique Fisher had Dreamland Inst year, and Joe is jealous. preaching polygamy in 1900, and that 4 very orthodox | arrested In Chicago. 1 took his side, against my father, and went with him to St. Joseph, Mich, and we were really married At that time there was a bis t scandal, and all the about hia first lawful wife Ella, whom he divorced, and eight 0! details “ . . wives, whom he had ‘taken,’ were published in Chicago papers ‘Every bit as big,” we say. wns to start a farm coiony. He picked a spo! st of Everett, brought “Bigger?” asks Joe. | “Well,” we hesitate, “a leetle mite bigger.” For we want to be just | and well, as one after another h his methods along several fa This venture has r followers have becom t suce dismatinfi nis to our absent friend, and Mique’s tree was peerless in its day. | At present he has sion iat, tneludtnn Me. cok Atte “ y “ ? , . on] “a Carlson, who were with him at the time he “took” the present Mre. Aha!” Joe exults. “You hear that? It’s bigger than Mique’s! I sa'd (iif. and helped hin out during the trial In Chicago. ‘The others and H ‘ pe have either taken up farms near by or left for various Coast cities 1 would, 1 did. Now let ‘em come! Mrs, Dabiatrom says that after starting the cult in Chicago, Dahl = i r, * atrom preached his doctrine in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rockford, Li Aye, let ‘em come. Let all th: little-chimney people come | Duluth and Superior, Wis, and at Denver “ f 1 “It wae at Denver he had the largest number of plural wives But, big-chimney friends, there is a difficulty, We encountered it last year scohe ine SAVER IN AGL 4 Many little-chimney people could not come. They live too far from Dreamlar ink Mrs. Dahlstrom and her two bi remain here with he 38 - ' aiees ue ‘ mother, until the divorce case comes u They are being car to walk, and carfare is an item of 1 rtance in little ey budget or by Mr. and Mrs. Swan Johnson, former followers of the preacher, Last year we asked Jacob Furth for some small ssion such as free carfare who left the colony over ® year aR = Neb oes wip one way for little-chimney people. But Jacob is too level headed to be influenced by such sentimental nonsense as that in which ¢ indulge, and his refusal was curt } We shall not ask again | But the difficulty can be overcome with your help, big-chimney friends. Per haps you have little-chimney neighbors. Perhaps they are friends of yours. And perhaps you know them well enough to give them carfare, downtown and back Or you might crowd half a dozen little-chimney kids and a couple of little- chimney mothers into your automobile AND BRING THEM YOURSELF . RICH TIDELANDS eho re “SA or Several hundred million dollars’ worth of property in Seattle and ; ves tg F 5 other Puget sound ports may revert back to the people if a suit, con What fun do you get out of Christmas? templated Hob” Bridges at the port commission meetin tiie Azer Ve'd all like to be spugs when it come» to giving nup noon, proves successful I'm going to give my wife a safety razor, and she’ oing to give me a mesh Bridges has just returned from ifornla, where the suprer Christmas Bridges’ r ution today will authorize the port's attorney to com The real fun for us lies in giving the kids a good time. Why, yesterday, that | mence sult at once to test the title of all the “tide lands” in Seattle. It in claimed that {f the California precedent is followed, the people will obtain possession again of all the millions of dollars of tide lands that have been practically given away for a song. The California decision waa so broad that even the bulldings and other improvements made by kid of mine and I got on a car and went to the end of the line, and got off, and found a gulch were young firs grow And I had an ax. And I chopped down a tree. And I nearly chopped off a And that kid is counting the hours until Christmas morning And last night he told me a big boy had told him there wasn’t any | Santa Claus, and | said the big boy didn’t know what he was talking EXP about, because I knew Santa Claus personally, and he was a good old LOSIONIN MINE REV.DARLSTROM. SOUTHEA STERLY WINDS The Seattle Star TO PRINT THE NEWS ONE CENT TELLS OF PASTOR'S Sssee™e WIFE SAYS SHE IS ONLY Mrs. Ss es<cee I|Kids, Be Sure to Come to The Star’s Party at Dreamland! One o'Clock Tomorrow Afternoon SAY AU INUNNTAAUNENNOQOUIT UN UUEOOUON ENS SUO4 PEP ESA PPADS NIGHT EDITION MIMI LL a wy Hib 5 ON TRAINS NEWS ST he Albert Dahistrom and Her Two Children TO INVESTIGATE y passing a res ion Tuesday! pipes are connected with the coum SHAM HAMILTON'S ACT big toe. And that rascal nearly laughed his head off to see his dad hopping on those who occupied the submerged lands, were also declared the prop: one foot and holding the other in both hands. And when the tree fell, we lugged erty of the people. | it home. age 1 ay ski TACOMA, Dee. Kither the Re Albert Dat m is the big: r ave ha’ ever wore the liver h to serve the devil in.” or his former parishioners and Englund , are by and large hypocrites and betrayed an religious followers, the n maflers that ever t victim sides he esday fi Commi Istrom to the fed nder the Mann a under $8,000 bail Dahlstrom went back to the Pierce county jail There is eno evidence here to warrant a grand jury nsider ation,” said the comm er, after heartng the nauseating story of how Dahlstrom, through magnetic power and an appeal to the religious tn: {nets of young girls, accomplished their seduction resenting It as “the will of God MAYBE IT WILL SNOW XMAS Seattle may have a “white ch mas. now may fall tomorrow ording to Weathe Man G. bury The astern part of the state jwl hay snow, and there will be elther ra or snow here on Christ ma tn said Salisbur The forecast fc tle reads rain, with a chance for snow scout. One man was killed and two others were badly hurt when an ex SPRINGFIELD, IL, Dee. 24 The ad ‘ ° . . . | plosion occurred in mine No. 14 of the Pacific Goast Coal Co., at Black nograph agent who demonstra soe . . . | Diamond, this morning. s machine before the congre I don’t know whether you get what I’m driving at. It is this: If it The dana anete le dapk.vadkecn Oe Pawns deans wer Ge is fun for you, as it is for me, to see one kid enjoying Christmas, what = |___ The two Injured men, Amedia Rossi and Eugene Tellini, were taken toda In My Harew > ’ *havi h * f the | to a Black Diamond hospital the record stituted 1 fun it must be to see 3,000, 4,000, even 5,000, “having the time of their = {the condition of both is reported serious. us. bays lives! is . er te eee taacleta. daar Werth ke Just multiply one-kid fun by a few thousand—and come to Dream- | : Maryland fori srarad to roe lid GIR Ouas aod makes seeohael, be. ke @ and short am Bus prove land rink at 1 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. In wale [My . STERLING, IIL, Dec. 24.—On Christmas morning, Jos. W. Sterling, wealthy Sterling business man, night to investigate charges made|t spital; awarding of the com ” 4 t to A. Warren uld, without against County Com orer Ham t re o_ : tittve for the new court n, the Seattle Commercial Ciub ise, at a fee of $35,000; the pur jmay give what is tantamot chase of $100,000 of machinery ut competitive bids; the Clapp purchase for $87,000; pere recal al jendorsement of the nst that offict the Anderson Steamboat nd at county docks, an@ , with the county t he atory contr 1 a8 cticabl Iummy comp so that it « ine cha st ually was assigned to M. C. Noles, H a OF, Gitinaee Gorin 2 ne of Hamilton's friends; the urt b t ‘ of the « ase lighting R f t when Those the Duwamish valley hase of wat rting @ proper revoca+ town Water Ce ETS, 0, $, GALL FROM THE ARCTIC LONDON, Dec. 24.—The first wireless call for help ever recorded from the Arctic circle came early today, announcing that the Norwegian steamship Sagnvaldjar! was ashore 600 miles north of Bergen. | “Bergen is working S. 0. S. Wait and listen.” This message, faintly tapped out, went the rounds of the European wireless stations about 1 a, m. All stations as far south as Bordeaux were asked by Bergen to close down. Then Bergen caught the distressed steamer’s message, sent it on bere and elsewhere The steamer’s wireless was picked up at double her supposed radiug, LOAN SHARK ANXIOUS TO GET OUT ALBANY, N. Y., Dec, 24.—Former; Tolman was sentenced last Ow a 0. Te \ttorney for D. {tober to six months imprisonment, uW not « an rh " le over the country, called on ( nn today to urge that Tol-] h ' pardoned. He was aceon - ‘irs. Tolman, her son, FE.) Reflecting the biggest Christmas n, and four women man-|year among local merchants, the ngerswof New York state offic | Seattle postoffice is shattering one Towne id to] re r anoth Tuesday the ranrement s500.¢ ade by | re le of stamps for one day pchinans: tirtds: te th ‘ . when ove ited aay to t assed over the stamp cow , papers in t » of th At noon today the total sal acaniitve at | Dece we over Gly mm refuse ay-| During the er month of De ir e appli ow th 1912, th a record bf SEA SaNs Asti hae er at the time, was only $117,000 PUEBLO, Dec. 24.—Because he was unable to buy Christmas presents for his bride of seven will distribute "$100,000 among the members of his family, including six children and 24 grandchildren. | weeks, Giovanni Guazanni, 23, an Italian, is dead here today. He shot himself through the head.