The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 30, 1913, Page 1

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e RAIN TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY; MODERATE SOUTHEAST WINDS EAT LULU LLLP LULL LULL LAL LoL LLL ermueegnnyeiniannie eee ees ; | nih Every Day = +———— -| EDITIO N = THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS E MMMM / STM VOLUM YAY, DEC :MBER 30, 1913 ONE CENT Siws'th iho NO. 262 SEATTI WASH., TUE TS WORK THAT THESE MEN WANT---NOT CHARITY! ; Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles—these cities and the coun- It is time, then, for the city and state officials of these three great empires to act. To keep ty roundabout are rich. At this time the coast is in a position to prove to the rest of the world these men and women here, contributing as they will to the general advancement of the coast, that its advantages and resources, so widely exploited, enable it to tide over a crisis independent if given employment, is the part of selfish wisdom. The further development of the coast will of Wall st. need them urgently by and by. bie bet 4 ‘ bs af ‘For : Now, through drastic emergency provisions, living wages can, and ought to be, arranged tor a some years past real estate men and railroad agents and chambers of commerce have the unemployed, by loosening the purse strings and ordering the construction of county and city n urging Easterners and Middle-Westerners to come to Washington, Oregon and California. improvements. we and enthus astic promises have been made. Hunger makes men desperate. There is unrest in the army of the unemployed. Great nce a year each city counts noses, and boasts loudly of its increased population. Credit is due to the leaders of that army for having held in check the rank and f e. : Seattle has boosted with such signal success that there are, at the moment, more men than LET THE POWERS THAT BE, THEREFORE, SHOW THEIR APPRECIATION BY jobs. Thousands are out of employment and without means to get back to the place from which TAKING IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROVIDE WORK. they came. For it is work the men want, not charity. ‘ONLY A WOP!’ WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? The fire burns cheerily on the hearth and fills the room with grateful warmth. One after another, the coals ignite, sending out sputtering jets of flame. Slowly they disinte- grate, fall asunder, and die lhe dead ashes sift through the bars Your shadov. dances g | WHAT LISTER SAW ON VISIT TO FREE HOTEL a i quely against the farther wall. The night fire boss at mine No. 14, at Black Diamond, found _ . gas on the tenth on the night of December 24. = Bet Die Papi The day fire boss, descending ahead of the miners, found © ‘. Ny: ) no gas. if i So the miners entered the tenth level, which is 3,700 feet < id i below the surface of the earth. First went John Jackson, the best miner in all Black Dia- mond, the light from his open, unprotected lamp piercing the Stygian darkness. And after Jackson went Amedio Russi, A wop. They, and those following, had just passed slope No. 7 when the gas, which the day fire boss had said was not there exploded with a roar that shook the earth to its subterranean depths. And a wave of white-hot air swept back. Some fied, and so escaped. Others threw themselves face down and the holocaust passed over them. But Jackson fell dead in his tracks, burned to a crisp, one blackened d still grasping the handle of the pick with which he had expected that day to attack the five-foot The wave caught Russi, THE WOP, but he then. it burned his clothes from his body; it seared his fiesh horribly. Two days later he died In agony. eoeceee the state The jury found Supt. Christiansen, Foreman Wesley Williams and Frank Bussi, acting fire boss, guilty of gross neglect, Christiansen and: Williams for having allowed open lights to be used and Bussi for having failed to ventilate the gangway. No. 8 slope is a new working. It had not beeu > ss “ . b ight Picture Taken by The Star Photographer at 10 o’Clock Last Night in the Old Providence Hospital, Fifth Av. and Madison St. Which Has Been Free Lodging House for the City’s Jobless. The Men Are Shown Packed Together on the Floor, Sleeping in Blankets W hich Have Been Donated to the Institution. (STRIKER IS HURT “JUNGLE COURT” SMITH BUILDING [emiDe wio CAPTURED sanorT WW ROCK BATTLE ..._??? 333 22> — GONSTRUCTION | WILL RECEIVE $12,000 REWARD “ON PIKE STREET SEEPS ORDER.IN WORK FINISHED The last bit of outer con- In a mixup with two men, iH E D E < I N K struction work on the Smith aid to be striking teamsters, | | buliding, the 465-foot skyscrap- igneous gases out of the mine. | oe eee In a little cabin on the scarred hillside, are a vacant-eyed woman and a brood of little wops. For a little while the is too immersed in her sorrow to even think about a new and puzzling economic problem which she must some- how solve r there is no wage-earner in that cabin now. But no matter. He was only a wop. There are always |men ready and anxious to take the places of those who die while digging the world’s coal. Today another man is digging in slope No. 8, 3,700 feet below the earth’s surface. | woma Your shadow on the farther wall is still. The coals on the hearth are dying. So heap on more coal, and let’s be M. Lewis, 21, riding with H.D. | er at the corner of Second av. * Woods, a Seattle Drayage & and Yesier way, was completed warm i Co. driver, was struck The “jungle court” at the “Palace ed imony | today when workmen “set” the a ERIE SER PN So © on the right arm with a rock Bo,” Seattle's municipal home Two hours work on the wood) final piece of terra cotta direct: and painfully hurt Tuesday rious affair. In pfle, conalderin’ all as has been! 1) under the big lamp. | | ‘s morning at Broadway and nore serious. said,” sentenced Judge O'Mara. Die The slab, which measured 18 i.) Pike. rt is Jest a warnin’. We gotta stop al!| inches square, wae inserted = once ge tended by | spittin’, especially on de sidewalk.| without ceremony. Robert Pritt Because 200 Americans in (ate 200 into a lodge. But, you know e vol Woods escaped injury in f t : ; ‘ the (three men who vio {r prom- Ef a man is a gent he won't do it 7 fey of stones buried | durt ae ee pe oe tits Bog co cae | ne ae papal a | Manila wish to become Shrin e, that a new lodge cangot , pesore BD e ts Pp le a t 7 r . se t | quarrel. ing arrested for violations of the That, Mr. Seattle Citizen, lea flimey seatteld 968 feet aber | ers, 220 men and women left ted in our unless there William Sehulbers, 29, and Pete 35, jaw, his honor, “Skinny” sample of the hobo American the otlnet ° | Beattie at noon today on the are 400 members. So, for that rem > Sawyer, 20, teamsters, were 8 | Oxtara judge of the “Jungle court,”| wanderer, who Is within your pay steamship Minnesota for the son, we shall initiate the Manila D gested and booked on a disorderly | 4 °.0'0y’ emphatically last night, midst, without work. He le Twe thousand tone of torre Philippine islands, to Initiate candidates into the § i 1 1 , cotta has been used in the con- the candidates Into Nile temple, The Great Northe he men who ° 4 nds of the depart: o wished them a Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles crowded with of the Mystic Shrine pilgrims It does seem rather odd, com y bon voy to think laughed ( - conduct charge, a at hereafter “every gink arres in de can and held threw the rocks {1 trial is due. “spring to open up,” when the Attending potice court this mo for de court ut fng, where cases again * No Smoking Allowed work will start and give him a Were continued until Jan. 9 Curt) when chief of the “he bull chance to leave a life that ie point: | at the best | “ | to show you he ie “on de | struction of the building. be slamme and is only waiting for gation was en or 8 , ex Thompson tentate of Ni nb last night ia a5 23, a teamaster, wa fe a opened ti agie| irksome, Rex Th yen fa Berndal, Cap" Bald jung temple, who is in charge of the pil temple. About 1,660 grimage. “Rat id, at that, 220 wives enjoyed the 06 miles to imiti r function. people going GOVERNOR WILL HELP SEATTLE was arrested by Sergeants Dagner|ya4, off yer hate and ditch yer|ed men up and down the Western | and Wilkes of out as the man who assaulted) curt hearing last night in ste The horde of {die men in Seattle W. BR. Smith, during trouble ys | torian tones, “Hear ye! Hear ye! are juat one division of the vast terday afternoon at Pier 14 H®| jungle court is now in session, army of 100,000 or more unemploy-| snipes,” the hat of each man came Assistant Corporation Counsel | E John Wise, » Seattle Drayage &! ory ang the cigarettes and pipes dis Me man to man, packed] ,,, A 3 a Storage Co. driver, was struck fa eared x " close on the four floors of the he } Reet for OLD PBardiese the face and his left cheek laid} “Moocher” Falls to Appear “Hotel de Gink” at night. They eat the atouadinie a oo pny eee open by 2 he vy opt . i A "bo, discove mooching” by two dishes of malligan a day and) jiage Mitchell of Thurston co nty | “If two cities In Washington the m talks with unusual ens id ay. and re hel means of his union card, did not some bread and an apple each—| 1. the Puget Sound Traction, Light] are going to contend for a re- (thusissm, Time after time, as Pawas unloading rice » pear. there are any ta be had Power Co. to stay the order of gional reserve bank, it is very kers expl i the cur i sty looking for his a* That man !# not a hob There is nothing magnificent tc service commission for| probable that neither one of ency law me prosper / ciple, { the court t | naturally, about the ‘bo palace. And ation of the sale of tick-| them will get it. It is my be- ity, the hall shook with cheers. . fer a bad purpose for to give this yet It! ot a bad place to f cars in Seattle. lief that If Seattle does mot get J. W. Maxwell, president of the outfit a bad eye. It's up to yu men one Is broke and down anc hoasina’ ta) pahedulad doe the bank it will not be placed National City bank, was chairman, to pyt a stop to It, if we're gonna !# much better than Jail Wednesday morning at 9:30. FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec, 30.| in this state at all. | want to legrams from interested men have’ any reputation in this burg.| saloon or the damp, cold at nts Arthur E. Colen, a bride on| assure you that my efforts in Northwest were read, en- aiata Of n P ‘cotta work fer our goc i . for a scrub squad in busy Tl | honeymoon, was responsib) shall be to secure the bank for = dorsing § as the logiaa! Ordered to on during an noe to show that evel nese 3ankers for the capture of Ralph Fariss Seattle.” pince for the bauk, anoag tae fa who confessed he {s the bandit] Thus spoke Governor Ernest Lis- ing one from J, F. A. Strong, gove | who recently held up several trains|ter Monday night at the Hippo: ernor of Alaska Jand killed James Montague, t ling passenger agent for Lister Inspects Hotel While 500 Shriners were for Gov. Lister at 11 o'clock night, he was buay looking 1 & Bitercation wit ster, yesterd whom he w sters’ strike, tts, a team. Know Women! av-| drome, where ominent business is sameindian ies se’ WELL ALD *BOES uthern Pacific, in his last train Byres Transfer Co, is sal ory Uttle nook ‘and corner of the CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—The Cit- 4 petice to have str t . Hotel de Gink," eacorted by Mayor, 'zens’ State Bank of Lakeview, hold-up near El Monte, Cal Wilson ex. The “Hotel de Gink” will be furs _ J. Tobin with a cane. — Bo Cotterill and party | a suburb, will open a bank | Mrs. Colen and her husband were Nations on the be- nished free and light by the Byres ang Potts were taken to the The governor sipped away with a dressing room where | passengers on that train on their of panics 1s no city \ resolution favoring the eet rt ke out the Hip me just after 1 omen, | May Cremeye : SHnESN Ry 1) honeymoon and were robbed by the new era of pros: "boes at Providence hospital with ian Blight ais arb , ‘ naking on th from their stockings. I | bandit ub utilities was passed by council ’ afl Twelve ent a a he tn Ww. , Baaiawn, how coarabere af Recently they were returning} istened to | Monday \ for undue act Jeff Da oo visit th the interior for the Philippines, Is}. Mrs, Arthur E. Colen and Ralph| from a shopping expedition, and — —_— ieceia ed for un vi Doors ain't ope ifter while walking along the street met] WILL TELL "EM ; IAG WAS S680? he joa : called a sle eee aEy cont saa feieaa teehee wrom eis amuren ohip lies an recognized pe as. the n an NEW PENNANT COUPON eer Re 2 PO vine ig MED OPW A SCANDAL [Sete e—..| SILUIE BURKE POSES —_——_—- | Mrs. Colen and her husband are WEEK sald ‘Bo | the neatne allied ¢ in SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30.—Gor Hiram Johnson will announce cleanliness of the Bitely by Satur " ih ns i B 4 He gre nthusiaatic on th PARIS, Dec. 20.—Not only was; That there was any actualdmpro-| entitled to $19,000 reward—$5,000 he a candidate In cAbipeit haba} t » proper tir building there ‘etieally certain verification | priety in the Introduction was not}offered by the railroad and 000 i E r litical office. At se to this ¢ ked the rt idea,’ be said, “b here today of the recent report that belleved, but in view of the fact] offered by the postal authoritt Art Series of Pennants can be had at The Star office Be fect was given by Johnson here t Must Chop Wood had eo me really When King Alfonso wa ust in that Princess Marte had fled from] Under the direction of ya {J and its branches by presenting this coupon and 20 cents day o, sit tthe git 19 al tr auch a good organ. France, he met Princess Marie of Stockholm as a result of guarrels| retained by bis father fieht to|{ for each Pennant. “Twenty-five cents by mail ginnin of the yoar| the et De floor wan f 4 veden, but it developed that the with her husband, Prince William ave F rom the llows is on ' aranéh: 7 » A At the eg ng miry in accual|and de spittoona wus gone. 1 looked i affair Was the souree of no inconsid- who was sald to be about to sue for| today, An attempt will be made to ss Main Branch Nc rthw estern Photo Supply Co, Inc. the ae aS? national banks, ré wn to make sure no one wu The man who gets a repwtacion erable scandal In Madrid and inja divorce, it was looked on as ajhave the death sentence pronoune (Eastman Kodak Co.) 1320 Second Ave. J 6 paid-in capital of $1,-|passin’,” pleaded 'Bo Brown |for being clever generally has to, London, Alfonso’s queen being a|glaring indiscretion on the Spanish)ed upon him set aside on techni Bathing Girl Pennants can also be had this week. er < Plldaa "House bull” No, 696 corroborat-| sit up nights to keep It | British ‘princess lruler’s part culities, é +— . Deputy-.Corener MacDonald conducted an. inquest yesn “ terday, Deputy Prosecutifig Attorney Silvain representing > connected up with the chute which carries poisonous and —

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