The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 9, 1914, Page 1

l'm going over to the grocéry, dear, for a bottle of milk for baby.| Avann dro Don't be worrled if I'm a little late. | may drop in at the political meet-| hia linen stor ing. \ the | shan't worry, You needn't hurry.” Jed at the same instant : ble inae th wai at the dresser, with his back (@ his wife. She did The heavy bullet crashed against the grocer’a chin and ranged n —~ © @ revolver from the dresser and drop it in a side coat ‘own into the neck. The force of the Impact hur him back, But he pook continued to fire, ‘Then he ducked down behind the counter again et. i kod down behind the a C e eres Silence followed. Avann had fired five times, Two cartridges remain e er en ed in the magazine abe wee bending over the sleeping baby. Was the er planning some adroit maneuver? Avann dared not Good-nig ain, with pistol re te pull © pulled his hat over hie eyes and was gone But the robber lay on the floor, supporting himself on one elbow, his free hand clutching at his breast od behind the counter and fetehed from a pocket of pat a 2hcallber automatic. He thrust tt over the top of counter and fired, ‘The larger calibered weapon of the robber roar rob! walt. He rose a dy tal an hour later, Saturda é alifornia ay. West » and the door open counting the day's elpts, when AGAIN!" he gasped, “I'M—I'M A MARRIED MAN, AND——" pee = His head sank dup. A masked man stood before him, leveling a revolver Avann ran out of the store, returning with Dr, Gustay Lewis, of 6601 dy han¢ a steady hand. California av, The robber was dead tands 1 sald the robber, curtly Avann was t to P ‘ov hing, Robert Avann, grocer, at “DON'T SHOOT AGAIN! FOR GOD'S SAKE, DON'T SHOOT) y| with ruth earch is being made for the bullet, Hix condition is not eritical The dead man te Edward Swapp, 24, an expert pho! pher, Be loved by hin family, respected by bis neighbors, he lived in ny rented home at West Dawson at All the evidence points to his having been a good man, There was inbred in him a respect, inherited from generations of English ancestors for law and order Tho right of property are sacred, If these rights are not respected lety must fall, if they are not upheld, civilizations a fat There should in meekness and humility accept that ed a Divine Wind 1 re It is meet th plnee in life to which All these thing adom to « hin But under the eneer of civilization war the caveman who dwell! within the skins of all of us—the caveman who cares not 4 snap of the nger for law and orde or civilleation, or society, or countr or flag These are acquired devotions, The caveman loves only the roo and those that dwell bene the mate and the offspring. In defense of these the caveman wil of these he will reach out es hand and tak RAIN TONIGHT AND TUESDAY, MODERATE SOUT HEASTERLY WINDS. SSO FNNCOUUUOHNNNORTOCUUUUAAARUUOUUAAAN NEU ANANN e fe More Than ch 2 UTE TUT VOLUME 15, NO. 297 Ss TTLE, WASH SUNN UU eect A § “A Story by “Fred L Boalt of The Star Staff, “oe With 4 Photographs Posed by Seattle Theatre Players. Suc. 2 ding Chapters Wiil Be Published Daily During — SIRIIP 5 Week. The Story Ends Saturday. hic nnoo nial tilonpean taba paniiiliniindcshwnd MM CHAPTER ONE | gee +. 2 — OUI TUAEOOULASEEAOAAEEELA ATT ‘s speck appe Parmenter re P ad in The Star |that Christofferson would loop-the loop over Elliott bay that after noor Th Parmenter were on the 22nd floor] of the Smith buliding. One could The offices of the Hon Homage ati ‘Smit buling One con ee Be pirewdy had start 1” man UP, Up, Up—and over al The Persian rugs were thick and ‘y ise for ;, pace tt daring aviato velvety. On the walls hang excel BE ING” | ‘ lent landsca, in off, The tables,} “4 Then, Christofferson at desks and chairs were mahogany Py | tempted to complete the circle, @ plane broke, and the whole machine seemed to wilt, and it fluttered down, down, edown, lke a bird with a broken wing. The fool!” said the Hon, Horace his soft flesh pri ing and creeping In the outer office there was a & er of polished onyx, a barrier thrown up to impede intruders upon | the privacy of th Hon. Horace. The Hon. Horac Parmenter be Ueved that the setting should be worthy, but should not outshine the stone. He had a nice taste tn values, He himself was the per-| sonification of expensive elegance. | Large. plump, genial, unctuous, he moved in an atmosphere of his own creating, of prosperity and joyous | well-being. His clothes, of the best| material, fitted him to a T. His waistcoats, a trifle flamboyant. | covered snugly a well-rounded pro- tuberance. His boots were natty, his linen immaculate and bis ties cost $5 apiece. When you had passed the onyx barrier, had submitted yourself to the chilling scrutiny of Miss Plyat, the Hon. Horace’s stenographer, In the outer office, and had been ad- mitted, finally, to the presence of the gentleman himself, you felt you were enjoying a rare and delightful privilege. For at such times the Hon Horace, rising to greet you, would flick the ash from a four-bit clgar with @ careless finger on which | shone a three-carat, blue-white dia | mond of the purest water. And he, Parmenter, wi the “Mm,” murmured the Hon Then he would graap Your hand | spider : Horace, leaning out of the window in his own large, plump, white one. “This thought came to him, and) The crowds below were either! and hold It, and assure you in @/ pieawed him. And again, as he running or craning thelr necks voice and manner genlally fervent| watched, he was a fat bird of prey | Those who ran made in the direc that he was delighted to meet ¥ou,| waiting and watching high up in its|tlon of the water front and if he could serve you in ANY | eerie, stuffed to bursting with gold-| There came to the care of the way you had only to command him. |, food, but always hungry for|man in the window the sound of a Being @ truthful chronicler, and) more, faint humming. Out over the bay| (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) unversed in the tricks of the fiction- ts, I must tell you that the of tape | ROS TARE ARTE of the Hon. Parmenter were not as a N TRIK er ed to the eye : The onyx was + iat. the oat} peNOCK {EM OVER paintings were copt —Arrest- ed four times in less than si any was veneer and the Persian | rugs were made in Fall River, Mass. | ne dephe striking a person Of all the deceptions in those two | A p> soa pes re bm gver beautiful rooms, the cheapest ed, 0 rewster, 25, we | educated, is proving a puzzle to meanest imitation of all was the Hon. Horace Parmenter himself to the police. would be good money fr A& he stood looking out and down newsboys raced through the streets crying, “EXTRA! STAR EXTRA! ALL ABOUT THE HORRIBLE—” “Ugh!” ejaculated the promoter with a shudder At that moment a young man de-| tached himself from a group below entered the Smith buliding, and. taking an elevator, was shot upward to the 22nd floor. And Mies Fiynt, stepping softly through the ground glass partition, | laid a card of Parmenter'y dest Tt read: “Josiah Bunne, Inventor.” “Send bim fn,” sald the Hon. Horace The promoter grasped the invent or's hand fn his own large, white, plump one, and sald in a genial chest tone “My dear Mr. Bunne, I'm delight Posed by Guy Mitnar of the Seatt! » Theatre jed to meet you. If I can serve you in any way, you have only to com mand me Young Mr. Bunne flushed with SS ey | met a pleasanter man } Miss Flynt, listening on the other aide of the door, sighed. But, after all, it was no business of hers fied the fol Hie latest arrest was fast He was a snide, a cheat, a swindler.| HANCOCK, Mich, Feb, % The| The resolution sp If you had known this when you! congressional inquiry Into the cop-|/owing subjects to be looked Into bs bg 4 i Hg dh met him, you would have observed a aaiad ty beell Whether the postal service ey Ao Bi a that the tops of bis small, slose-set | Per strike is schedu has been interfered with. boy, and knocked him down, ears were a full inch below the level | here this afternoon Whether immigration lawe When arraigned in police court of his eyebrows—a sure sign, as| Hundreds of miners are pouring) have been violated. on previous occasions, Brewster any criminologiat will tell you, of| {nto the city from all parts of the Whether citizens have been has offered defense beyond moral depravity—and that, though) district to attend the hearings arrested and tried in violation of saying he believed it was a the lips smiled, his eyes—pig eyes,; About 40 of them are witnesses the constitution. mania. and set too close together—had in| Chairman Taylor of the investigat Whether agreements and com h of furtive cunning, and| {ng committee announced that Luke; binations have caused condi . hi hey traveled over you in cold| Grant, a well known Chicago news-| tions contrary to law for con SH KA BIBBLE’ | appraisal as he talked paper man, would represent the trolling the production, trans | He called himself a promoter. federal industrial commission portation and sale of copper. | Miss Flynt could have told you a! The inquiry was provided for by Whether arms and ammuni- | is NOT HEBREW) thing or two. You must not, how-|the Keating resolution, adopted by tion have been shipped into the | ever, misjudge her. Her air of|the house of representatives, Janu-| field to exclude the mines’ prod- | POKANE, Bed. 9,88 chilling hauteur was her armor. She|gry 27. The investigating body is| ucts from Interstate trade. | SPOKANE, Feb eres a was a wise little girl, but good, She|. subcommittee of the house com| Whether peonage has existed | new one. knew how many beans make five. | mittee on mines. — | or does exist. | “Ish ka bibble” is not Hebrew for Parmenter paid her $12 a week. | — avail “Worrs And a job's a job. So she kept her! eyes open nd t er mouth shot At le ast M. Janton, a Spokane | want you to think well of Miss te. a her of Hebre . ies ae ihe ie Fiynt, because | tell you franki am a specialist in the lan i thie -ahaey \guage.” sald Mr. Janton am she is the heroine of this story AND A DARNED NICE JANE. unable to find any trace of suc ch an BAN DIEGO, Feb, 9.—Lieut Hen-Jeome distance from the machine expression, nor any words which| He sank and did not come to the|could be so construed T Hon He ° Parmente surface. stood at one of his windows, look-|Army aviation corps, was killed In|" p00 wag 28 years old. He en ing into Second av. and Yesler way, a fall here today t ry B. Post, of the United States far be crowd. started, apparently, to gilde from From that great height the city a height of 400 feet to the water ’ After declaring that a young seomed a web, the streets threading| Then something went wrong and | woman eaten th wie nan into the distance in delicate|the machine turned over. hes eo partly from business mo : The tiny, creeping things| Post elther Jumped or fell at that | a tives and has the right to take ad ¢ flew caught in the web./moment and landed in the water! ‘That true preaching $8 UDpOpO aT eee ee ee enn aa ade - — = i and that all the people never ‘went Are You Interested in of the Rev. Hugh Elmer Brown yes Farm Lands? tional | church on “Why Go to) thy Saturday The Seattle Star will have something to show its interested readers next Saturday, on this sub- ject. It will pay you to read every line of the “Thar sane trranc TO OPEN MARKET “Farm, Stock and Implesnent” feature. This edi- tion will be worth sending to your Eastern friends. disaster was ca according to a decision of the court! end of the city, Ia to be installed ls here today, affirming a|in Prefontaine plac@, between Y verdict obtained by rela-|ler way and Washington st. The four steerage victims, market will be cdnducted by the Jecision {8 expected t@ pre-jnewly organized Central Market cipitate enormous litigation 1Co., of which W. G. Norria is head — —— —— MONDAY, F r The! sure, He thought he had never c ve y tered the army in New York | r below. He liked to watch| He was maneuvering over the) 1), 91, crowds. There \a a sucker in every | harbor in a Wright hydroplane and | 000| The SeattleStar | THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS SBRUARY 9, 1914 TIS “friends” connection with the pub including expensive press agents. THE MONEY TO PAY FOR ALL THESE IS COMING FROM SOMEWHERE. WHY SHOULD ~ |NOT THE CANDIDATE KEEP HIMSELF AND THE PUBLIC INFORMED ABOUT IT? ‘MY,BUT EVERETT COUPLE PLOT 10 MUST INDEED BE STEAL HUBBY’S A WICKED TOWN LOVE, SHE SAYS, EVERETT, Feb. ¢ Disorderly | Mabel Du Shane, alded and en-| houses, gambling Joints, blind ptgs,| couraged by her husband, A. J. Du} \prize fighting, cock fighting, 40 Shane, a Ballard wood dealer, | jother unlawful “business” is being | cansed John Seins, a teamster, to carried on in Snohomish .county forsake his wife and shower ex- |with the “knowledge of officials pensive presents, including several | ¥hone duty it is to prevent and sup diamonds, upon. Mra. Du Shane, !s | press the same,” according to Pro® the charge in hearing of a $15,000 lecuting Attorney R. J. Fausett, who ajienation of affections suit by! | has asked Superior Judges Bell and Caroline Seiss, started today be- | Allston to call a grand jury. | fore a jury in Judge Humphries last Sep- | Aron Bee ation to the! rr: Setes got a divo jedurt. “that grafting ing car tember ried on on a large seale“and that) She sa’ tho tation atid gambling to be carried threatened to kill her and commit on in defisn Mayor C, Christenson of Everett charms of Mrs. Du Shane. has flatly Charged A. A. Brodeck,| Seiss was employed as a team- commissioner of public safety, with ster by Du Shane, and was fre- deliberate failure to arrest bilnd pig quently entertained and flattered by Mrs. Du Shane, who eneour- The judges have taken the prose-| aged him to love her and forget request for a grand jury un-|his own wife, according to the end kambiing operator cutor der advisement jcharges in the complaint. A “HUGGER” hi land, Or., women and girls for the second time in a year, Police say he’s insane. Any man getting that habit twice, In Portland, OPPOSES FREE BANK PRESIDENT TOLLS ON CANAL $788,804 SHORT; canal tolls provision of the Haltimore platform has been nul liffed by international complica-'| \fEMPHIS, Tenn. tions, and, as @ result, it is up to 4¢ the democratic party to disregard | cantile National Bank here, was ar its declaration rested today, charged with a § This was the opinion voiced to-| 04 shortage 9.—Pres nt C. Hunter Ratne ot the Mer day by President Wilson. He also The bank, its capital and surplus made it plain that he expects con-| completely wiped out, failed to| Kress to repeal the exemption see-|open today. The directors admit tion of the tolls bill ted its insolvency, It was announce d following a meeting Sunday ‘TO INITIATE ; 200: Raine turned over to the bank his entire personal estate, estimat- ed to be worth $400,000, but this Two hundred candidates will be|fell far short. of making up the! 1 Order of | amount necessary to save the bank. | tin no into the Li Moose at Mo mple, Second! The arrest was made at his pala t and Seneca st., Wednesday night.|tial Memphis home. He was one brain, he has gone about his work of the city’s most prominent men.|as usual His losses were attributed to un-| With the addition to the local or- der, the membership of the order we be increased to over 3,000. successful, cotton speculation. CHARGE FRAUD IN POWER SITE DEAL Allegtiig the water site along the sought for water power site pur ‘north fork of the Nooksack river erie 1 ‘i pnd Wells creek, in Whatcom coun: | ,, he electric company: obtained ; q title, through several conveyances, ty, owned by the Whatcom County jp 1905, with full knowledge, ft is Railway & Light Co. a subsidiary alleged, of the fraud against the gov corporation of the Puget Sound ernment ” ,. > ‘ ver 2 Traction, Light & Power Co, was 000 horse-power is now be ing obtained from the site and is obtained by fraud, a sult to cancel | sola by the company to consumers j he patent was started by the fed-|in Whatcom county. It has a poten ‘al government, through United |tial capacity of 10,000 horse-power. Etates District Attorney Allen and | Winter B. Martin, his assistant, this morning. The government alleges that in 5 N02 P. weed B, Connolly, D, O, Mills, Al LONDON, Feb. 9—The Titanic] A public market, for the conven ees Hayward and P. B. Cornwall Registration books will be kept sed by negligence, tence of workers !n the southern} dun fon located as mining claims the group open till 10 o'clock tonight a known as “Iron Minnehat til midnight Tuesday, at the F Nooksack” and “Falling Water.” | taine building. The complaint states that as a, And then the lists will be closed matter of fact this representation! Over 65,000 hay was false, and that the lands were ed, lacking 9,000 to equal the record 1.'not mineral, bearing, but were of two years age rimmMerse. illy for J. D. Trenholme, Jack Slater, and other mayoralty can y of their campaign expenses. It is silly because the dodge is |transparent to the blindest voter. It is silly AND IT IS NOT ON THE SQUARE. One of the candidates says he personally spent only $200. He doesn’t know, he says, what his cam- paigh committee spent. Does he think anyone outside of Steilacoom will believe him? What is there to prevent him from knowing? WHY SHOULD HE NOT KNOW? His campaign headquarters occupy an expensive suite of seven or eight rooms in a downtown office building. There are large printing and posting bills which must be paid. There is a force of employes, Pp Seiss moved his cloth- im high places are receiving ing to a granary back of their blood money for permitting prosti- home at 6549 14th avy. N. W., of the law.” | suicide after he fell a victim to the tarted a reign of terror ‘among Port- | jeyes these are, is going to work daily—apparently in oak of etviliza An he stepfied fror ' A ay 0 tion fell from him like Loff garment The baby wasn aslee In the mor ‘ would waken, hungry, There must be milk. Civilization provide m of excha and barter, If you we have a t pa A caveman bad no mone It waa not hia fault mone Every ¢ for weeks and mo} We had searc 4 True! he had selatives and friends would hely if asked. But there ride like the cave man's pride He had put his trust in society. He had obeyed Its laws. And now society had failed him, In the morning the child Would be hungry. WELL, HE WOULD FIND FOOD FOR IT fut it {e not wise to defy society. Avann, In defense of his, life and his property, slew the caveman He wa fled Yesterday Rodne Swap the € ver of the dead mag, 2) UU) EMM ates to dodge behind their HASN’T SHUT EYES ONCE IN14 MONTHS Which Haven't Closed in 400 Days and Nights. DUQUESNE, Pa., Feb. 9.—These weary eyes have closed in sleep in over 400 successive days and nights! yet Michael Youhouse, skilled electric craneman, and who ealth! He says he has never in the last 14 months enjo a moment of slumber. Youhouse has lived in Duq all his life. Doctors, hopelessly puzzled, are trying to learn what could have heen the contents of the mysterious | potion of sleeplessness which | brought Youhouse into this strange | condition | Drank a Mixture He himself says it was composed | of a mixture of wine, whisky, beer | nd other ingredients that he couldn't distinguish He drank it at a great Christmas | celebration a year ago last Decem- | ber. | It was offered him, he says, by a rival to the Hand of his sweetheart. | He drank it all down on a dare. |since then have I closed my eyes to It felt like boiling lead in my stomach,” he says. “When I went home that night I couldn't sleep a} wink And not for one moment siumber.” | He Works Every Day | For nearly 14 months, with a tor- | turing turmotl of wakefulness in his | “You wouldn't belleve = it would be such horrible torture i just to stay awake night and |The Man Who Hasn't Slept In ce day, all the tim he say Months ‘ ‘ “Thoughts and worries keep | become a baby I'd do it gladly just jumping through my head with- (to earn the peaceful, dreamless: out a moment's rest, and aes that a baby enjoy to set it whirling. I'm wonder- sive 20 ing now whether I'll ever sleep again!” { Doctors are wondering also, What | is this strange germ of sleepless-| ness? 7 They have made X-ray examina | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9.—AvE |tions of fits. victim tor Silas Christofferson started They have given him every vari. | Sou here at 10:26 a. m. today Mi ety of treatment, with baths and/&® attempt to fly to San Diego, Chiate druga, In three different aan-| CALs 498 miles, before 7:30 o'clock {tariums, They have tried hypno- | ‘ls evening tism. But all In vain! Meanwhile Youhouse continues to work—and suffer For an hour's nap,’ he says, “I'd! Hyatt give all I possess. If I could only py poked eping ar supe 1 real worth of the School, 4th and Pina= NEW PENNANT COUPON BILLIE BURKE POSES One coupon and 15 cents for each Pennant at Star office and 1320 Second Ave. Twenty cents by mail ands at branches. Bathing Girl, Co-Ed, Flower Girl, Stage Beauty Matinee Girl, Office Girl and Debutante. .