The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1913, Page 1

EUVUNCUUUEUGEOUAEAHEUEUTUEE HEAL =| More Than |= | 41,000 : Circulation Every Day =] IMM MMs VOLUME ee iF IND Wi Wed Again; me By Fred L. Boalt ] Once, when Martha, the “Heliga”) mee |preacher's legal wife, was with There lives in Seattle ajchtid, ne sent for this substitute Woman in terror She is/wife to come to the Colony of wing and good. She has a) Jesus yr Brerett, and it never i comfortable home and the pro- iS bar ory er to disobey. This f tection of a husband who loves Meets Man She Loved Ss as borne him a " , he has b "| ‘Then something very Ike a mir-| ) child. : vcle happened, She met in Seat 7 When her husband comes tle 2 man who was netther a MT home from work at night, she prophet nor a teacher; who did not! i , prs say “Lord,” Lord!"—an everyday ; meets him with a smile, the | {o) ots nan baby in her arms And when she looked tnto th She ay es in terror because man's eyes, her own vision cleared, | Zr Eas lied to him. By her and she saw . at there. was more | ra he world, the flesh and the ‘silence she has lied to him devil in the doctrine of the “Heliga Seme day—soon—he will | preacher than there was of God or earn the truth from other tips any good thing than hers or from a printed She was ashamed. But she told page. herself Tt Is not too late. And niess,” | suggested to her, (no one need know.” “you tell him yourself.” She did not obey the summons! “1 am afraid,” she whispered | when next the “Holiga” preacher | ‘and hung her head. called And she thanked God she! Bight years ago, when this wom. "4d not borne him “an apostie to @n was a girl in her teens, she| the Lord.” met “Rev.” Albert Dehistrom, the The man married ber, and the| “Heliga” preacher. There was) baby came ae suet his orthodory to! Two More “Wives” Here If you are good, Now, the “Heliga” preacher ts In| you will go to} heaven, but if you are bad you will to hell, That was what he ught. She “got Then, young good to look upon, he sought out and preached to her secret the doctrine not meant for large he doctrine of polys- jail at Tacoma, charged with vio- | lating the Mann white slave act.| They say he has 32 “wives.” Martha, the len! wife, is prepar- | ing to fight « suit. for divorce. She) has the names of 16 of the preach. | ers plural wives, the Seattle wom- an's among thera. There are thought to be two more of these “wives” living tn Seattle, There are several {fn Den- ‘Ghe must be his “wife” it ‘was God's will, he said. it was Bed seen 4k have teary ee eee and else He “proved” it by the It Ie Impossible to say how Did Testament. P. @, he they are situated. , she would biess- ‘among. women by bearing a | iid, who would be an apostie | ito the Lord. | Obediently she submitted herself © him because it was God's com- Another “wife” “gave” her Dahistrom, and for years she his slave. } came to him when he called. Went away when he sent her Bhe followed him about the coun-| try, | like the woman with whom | have talke: they have hus ands who have not been told Perhaps they have sweethearts. Some day soon the husband of this woman will, after sup- per, settie down for an hour with the evening paper. He will scan the headlines first. “1 by the paper that that ‘Heliga’ preacher is euing for divorce, and that— A FAMILIAR AND BELOV. ~ \) i a e- ° k » | _ a | 4 A epecial meeting of the port e port jamin tt irrevocably the property of £ commission has been called for | the peopl Priday morning to consider the Bridges Wi!) Report ° resolution introduced by Com- On Friday the port commission , missioner Bridges Wednesday (ers will confer with Attorneys! for the purpose of bringing a (Preston and Thorgrimson, their} test sult to recover for the peo- | counsel, and Bridges will make al ple all of the Seattle tide lands. complete report of the legal pro- This property is conservative. ceedings in Cailfornia, where mil | ly valued at $75,000,000. Vions of dollars worth of tide lands Bridges’ contention that, fol fowing the precedent established by recent decision in California, the “tide lands” are to be regarded in were ordered returned to the people by the supreme court the | hat until is determined the same class as arms of th further mone expended to a i and of the sea {tself—namely that quire tide lands for port projects, “ Bo agency of the state, either the but that the commission continue its lature or the constitution, can | !mprovements only on such lands as} deed them away, var ) already re but that they acquired B gloomy Christmas for the tam- him, aid Deputy MeCorm of G. W. Meyercamp, who | Their condition 1# really pit nil @ county jail wafting trial « und they are in need of the neces statutory charg brighte sities of life. The county has been a little by ssisting them sf Meyercamp the sheriff's arrested fhe hat” last P , ft to the morn 4 three sm oye at their Fie KELLY ASKS ONE. ford. r € zat * S. Foster Kel formerly emple have bee the vhich |ed by a bank, has filed a is destitute Jivorce suit in the Reno, Ni months t a day he Mr lly a short time axo passed but t mother and the|filed suit in this clty against Kell thiree little be come to ¥ tor parate maintenance, ' ONGRESSMAN LAFFERTY got up in congeess the other day and! Ily lot of charges against the United Press Association. d the United Press is as bad as the Associated Press, and accused them both of being capitalistic organizations. Lafferty’s motive for the attack upon the United Press was explained inter, when he attacked the Portland News, a member of the Scripps No thwest league of newspapers. Lafferty said the News and the United Press were in a conspiracy to defe@ him for re-election m The United Press will, of course, ignore Lafferty's charges, And pe Portland News has proven itself amply able to take care of itself all The Star has to say about the incident is a thing or two for the enefit of its readers, These facts relate primarily to the United Press ‘Bsoclation—what it is and why it Io, 15, The Se attle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS EO NAME WILL LEAP UP AT HIM FROM OUT THE PRINTED PAGE! Tl am afraid,” she 1 like to belleve whispered that the man | WERE’ Ss SNAPSHOT OF PREACHER AND TWO OF HiS eS Se : Top, at Left, Rev. Albert Dahistrom Wrestling With Two of His “Wives” on the Gr: Below, the Buildings Which Compri Leader, and in Connection Taken by Mri Home to Fresno, Cal., D'you feel it? Our earthquake, we me: Beattie had a rude Christm awakening. It was a regular, life sized quake. It arrived at 6:40 thie morning and it quaked away for full a minute and a half before it went away again. Scalrt some of us. Only made others curious The police got hundreds of telephone calls, Most people thought It was an explosion. “Who's blasting thie time In the morning?” wae a popular question asked by sleepy-eyed citizens For many of them were awak ened. Dishes rattled and furniture was slightly shifted In some in stances. But no serious damage was reported. The seismograph at the Unl- versity of Washington recorded the disturbance as very close to Seattle, reaching Its maximum violence probably 10 or 15 miles distant. It was a purely local disturbance Reports from points outside Seattle show the shock was more severe there At €4 monds, 10 miles north, beds were rocked. Bonner Bartlett of Edmonds declared he felt two distinct news-gathering association until today it # pers a practical monopoly In the telegraphic Dahistrom the Second. Edna Englund of Tacoma, Alleged to 8 He Is Being Held on a White Slavery Charge. SEATTI WASH “EIN SEATTLE She Lives in Fear who cured her of her madness wil! prove himself big and wise enough to tell her that it's all right, that the past Is past, and that only the resent and the future matter the Latest “Wife” of the Cult shocks, the firet at 2:45 a. m. and another at 6:42. | Prof. Henry Landes, dean of the school of sciences at the university, and recently elected temporary president of the In- stitution, stated the shook was a very light one, It began at 6:40 and continued for a minute | and a half, he sald, The needic registered the shock very die tinctly for a period of 30 sec- onds. | Several persons reported fur- niture resting on iron castore 10 CELEBRATE | MONDAY NIGHT : Seattle will celebrate in a jublieo mass meeting Monday evening the passage of the currency bill ¢ Lister last night notified members of the conference commit | tions that he will be able to attend | on that date, and plans are now lunder way for a suitable tion of the administration victory of the regional banks for | Seattle will also be taken up at that itime. in reserve pplies telegraph news to nearly 600 afternoon newspa- | Before the United Press was launched, the Associated Press had news field, It dictated whether or not a new newspaper could start in any important city. If a paper couldn't get a telegraphic news service it_couldn’t start, and it couldn't get this service unless the local Associated Press franchise holders were willing Accordingly, Seattle, with two have only two papers $0 was of New York The Scripps newspapers had felt, most of all, The United Press was launched as an independent, square-dealing | fair monopolistic policy of the Associated Press, and so, when the Srripp Tacoma was in the same fix pokane, and so was practically every city In the country outside Associated Press franchises, could 80 was Portland, the effects of this un THURSDAY, STAKE! BEDS DO TANGO AND CEILING WHEN EARTHQUAKE COMES | tee of civic and banking organiza-| recogni: | uninjured | the The matter of securing one | ing | innit ONE CE DECEMB Legal Wife of Preacher Tells How He ‘Took’ Girls as His Plural Wives, Martha Dahlstrom, legal wife of the cult leader, says when ho found a girl who belleved his doctrine, he would tell her It wae the will of the Lord that she should be his wife “If the girl consented,” she said, “he would bring her home to me or take her to some other girl he had already ‘taken’ as his wife and have us go through a ceremony of ‘giving’ her to him, Then he would baptize her and they would live together. “His first wife, Ella, whom he divorced, and |, are the only two he legally married, Ella is now living in Seattle with their two children, “Only one of his plural wives gave birth to a child that lived Thi given to um in Min: 1 ‘WIVES’ AT PLAY) in Front of His Home. This Is a Kodak Snapshot Dahistrom’s Farm Colony Near Everett. At the Right, Mise With Whose Transportation Away From Her | S CRACK | TO TOWN In Lande windows in the town grocery store were smashed. | Iric Coleson, 709 N. 74th st., | was busy at work repairing the water pipes in his house this morning, as a result of the | quake, At the first tremble { the pipes were broken. Tho ceiling in the house was also cracked id been shifted about. W. T. Beeks, living at 109 W. 66th st. In the Woodland park district, who recently returned from the North, declared the shock was more severe than any of the numerous quakes he had felt In Alaska. The ceiling in the home of T. H. Nelson, 631 W. 55th st., was cracked by the shock. . Kitsap county, | \to start Jont in the cries of the panie-strick TRAIN KILLS A BOY Ray of Mr 457 Plerce, 18 years old, Mrs. a helper on a 8 Brewing & Malting Co. truck, fatally injured when struck by Milwaukee train Iast night at Fourth ay, $. and Spokane st., re turning from Georgetown. Ho dled at the City hospital this morning at 2:20 o'clock Harry Hay | the truck, 28) the « On} ing Pier 1 attle after arriving from Van last night, was hit by a Se. baggage truck. His which were slight, were treated at the Clty hospital Motorcycle Officer G. G. Stanley escaped death when he jumped from his machine, going at 45 | miles an hour, last night at Fourth and Rell. An approaching street car failed to stop and demolished the motorcycle, Stanley was bad ly brulsed Hans Larson and George © Newell were slightly hurt when knocked down by different automo Diles. Seteral ot minor acct-| dente of the kind were reported to} leav-| the police. and George couve Vine st uxi Co was a . another driver on| Ninth av. 8, was ‘he train backed into truck, demolishing it and burl the Plerce boy to the tracks, with internal injuries and a crush. | ed hip w H. Bverell of Tacoma, would not be a mongpoly, that It would be FREE, INDE.) ARE, AND THAT IT WOULD SERVE ALL PAPERS The United Press has lived up to this prifciple, and no one knows this fact better than the publishers of newspapers everywhere The! United Press has made it possible for any legitimate newspaper anywhere to get the best possible telegraphic news service at a fair price. In cities where there are Scripps papers, other papers can get the United Press service AT THE SAME IDENTICAL PRICE THE SCRIPPS PAPER IN THAT CITY PAYS, This fact can best be illustrated by examples close to home. The United Press, following its square-deal policy, has made It pos ible for competing papers to start In each of the Northwest cities. jaye. \=EDITION- 2 MN ffs AND ON THAIN NEWS N CRUSHED TO DEATH IN PANIC —/ Posses Seeking Intoxicated Man Whose Shout of “Fire” Choked Stairway to Hall With Piles of Corpses. CALUMET, Mich., Dec. 25. )for the strikers’ children, attempted C, : to quiet the crowd from the plat- ere no Christ 4 There were ni hristn form, but no one listened to her. festivities in the copper dis-| The stairway became jammed trict today with a mass of bodies. Instead, hundreds of sorrow-| Little children of 5 and 6 years " were swept front of the panicky ing father ag vipers crowd and sent tumbling down the whose little children had been | stairway, their lives crushed out at trampled = or smothered to/tts bottom when hundreds of others death in the wild panic that) were bore aera on tone them. Pel ed ot fae a ig Man Goes to Death followed a false cry of fire at) 4 yig'man, mad with fear, his a Christmas eve entertainment fists doubled, fought his way over in Italian hall, at Red Jacket,|the bodies of women and children assembled at the doors of the md sou head of the stair wer: se there he, too, was unable to with- Red Jacket town hall and de-| stand the rush, and was sent tum manded that their dead be re-|piing to his death stored to them Mothers seized their children and Inside the hall, guarded by (rushed for the door. Women and policemen, and deputies, lay (sirls fought for places in the front the bodies of 73 persons, 56 of jrank, rending and tearing down, al them children, victims of the | Who stood In their-way “joke” of an intoxicated man, There were fire escapes at thé whose identity has not been (rear of the building, but less than ned. {a hundred persons escaped in this Nearly every man in the copper| Way. Persons who tried to enter country today searched for this|the building after the worst of the man. panic had subsided were blocked by The police had a good deserip-|the solid mass of bodies at the foot tion and are confident he will be|of the stafrway captured before night Bodies Block Stairway Pian a Lynching So tightly were the bodies wedged That he will be lynched, if cap-| into the stairway that it was neces tured, seemed certain today, as the|sary for firemen to climb into see foreign population of the copper|ond-story windows and attack the country is aflame with a fury as/pile from the top. unreatoning and unquenchable as| Before the dead were out of the was the fear which Iast night im-|hall General Manager James Me pelled those in Italien hall to| Naughton of the Calumet and Hecla, trample and crush women and chil-| leader of the operators in the strike, dren to death and considered the most implacable At a mass meeting called for| enemy of the Western Federation of this afternoon, plans will be made/ Miners, had called every physician public funeral of all of t in the copper country to the aid of |the injured and dying, and with a generous donation of his own had A truce in the long and bitter war between capital and labor was de-| started a fund for the relief of the clared to and both faction united in th ‘ s whole fam- search of the man who preci ilies were wiped out by the disas- the disaster by his ery of ter. 700 Persons in Hall Fifty-fo lies, the coroner Seven hundred persons were in| learned d the loss of one the hall when the panic started. | or more The Christmas exercises for the | children were nearly concluded A bearded Santa Claus, burdened | with a huge pack of toys, had made | his appearance on the stage the distribution of gifts was a ‘BIG DOINGS AT HOTEL DE CINK — jout i Then the unidentified stran- ger thrust his head In at the front door and shouted the word The hoboes are eating today at that started the mad rush for |the Hotel de Gink. No handouts, the stairway. mind you. A sure-enough sit-down, A woman standing near the door-} Six hundred t down at noon way, seemingly with a premonition/to a square meal served in the old of what was to happen, shouted a| Providence hospital building, which jdenial, but her words were drowned |the Migratory Workers’ union has nted and converted into a “hobo en foreigners. | jungle.” Frank Cotterfll, the The man who shouted the alarm,| mayor's brother, had charge of the apparently intoxicated, escaped in| dinner. the confuston. Tries to Quiet Crowd Anna Clemens. The Seattle companies of the Na- president of tional Guard will entertain with a 's strike auxillary, having | military ball at the Armory on New the Christmas exer y Mrs. the womar in charge ar’s eve. NEW PENNANT COUPON BILLIE BURKE POSES week THE BATHING GIRL WEEK This is the first of the Art Series of Pennants to be put out by The Star. 20 cents entitle you to a Pennant any of The Star his coupon and The Star five at office, or Branches. Twenty cents by mail. Just to Show a Certain Congressman He’s in Wrong! On that policy It has grown and developed | organization launched the United Press, It was done with the idea that) In Seattle a new paper was started a year ago. That paper was given the United Press service for the same price per week The Star Other newspaper publishers, outside the Scripps concern, know best how silly and faise arethe charges of this disgruntled congressman. They know that but for the square dealing of the United Press, they would have been forced out of the newspaper business and perhaps ruined financially. These publishers also know jus nished by the United Press is just as United Press in its business dealings. And the United Press is just as independent as any Scripps n@wapa- per, Over a million loyal readers in these United States know what that meane as well that the news service fur fair and just as square as Is the °