The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 10, 1914, Page 1

BRIGHT floor manager of a Seattle department store has figured it out to show that the average clerk walks cight and seven-tenths miles a day. Oh, very well! Now will some guy kindly step forward and figure out how far a Seattle girl would go if she walked as many steps as she steps in a night's angoing? , eo ws res I us Ie VOLUME 15, > GRAFT ‘GOOD’ | HE ASSERTS; 1 ASKS PROBE Everett Torn * Chasen of Law- : lessness; Mayor and PublicSafety Commissioner Don’t Speak. ‘ By Fred L. Boalt It is common knowledge,” he ] * told me, “that prostitution and EVERETT, Wash. Feb. 10. gambling are don in every , VICE IS PROTECTED AND (0¥2 In the county The county is] } je ” errun with blind pigs. Cock GRAFT JS “GOOD” IN tients and dog fights are pulled off SNOHOMISH COUNTY. under the noses of the authorities This is not news. Every- Prize fights, disguised as “smok body in the county has known [TS _“klock - down - and - drag -out pody 1 s ' affairs for a long time that vice was I expect to be able to convince protected and that graft was the grand jury that the police of “good,” the towns in the county and the ‘The news is that Prosecut-| serirs, office have knowledge of S 6 gh “|these violations. ing Attorney R. J. Faussett,! “Many shady characters have in a loud, clear voice and with | deen driven out of Monroe and Sul distinct enunciation, has said ‘But that is all that has been n 5 : done so. From which it will be in-| «Roecently houses of prostitation ferred that the prosecuting at- have been moved from the out si torney is a frank and fearless, bag oo — _ by tows, S fo ogg a "| where they w under the pro- though possibly tactless, pet-|ecting wings of the town author 4 __ Son, ties, There are tro big houses of vy ‘Hie ‘niust bé a little more tactless! {ij repute in the center of Arling. than the average run of prosecut-| ton, where there is probably more 7 wy ing attorneys, for he does not com | jawleasness than in any other town S.J tent himself with remarking that! (1 the county jaded. painted ladies ply a name- Jeas trade in the county. He does | Saloonmen Pay not stop at hinting that bulbous-| Bribes for Licenses He goes farther, ob, much far cover but on a large scale. ther than that a. i ATIONAL BISCUIT was a feature with a three- point rise, said the market report yesterday, A woman reader called us up and wanted to know how she could give her biscuits a three-point rise. We wish we knew, We'd tell our wife about it. We have to eat her biscuits often when they don't show a one-point rise. RAIN TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY, azo00| The SeattleStar | THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS NO. 2 THE STAR—TUESDAY, i ‘ONCE | FOUND A WORM IN MY BOWL’ Unnnananeavauuuunaait UHTULTNUUONUONHAOOOUUND PUTT AUNLUUNUOAHEOUAAUAY " Prosecutor Charges Snohomish County Officials Take * ‘Blood Money” Scorns Million [Scorns Million | Kisses; Prefers: GOTHAM TS GIVEN -ASCARE Downtown Buildings Shaken and People Rush Panic- Stricken Into Streets. |NO DAMAGE REPORTS | Tremor Felt Throughout State; Seismographs Are Destroyed by Shock. Millionin Cash BINGHAMTON, N. Y., Feb. 10.—Rocco Avesz, 32, a labor er, w killed by an earth quake, which rocked Bingham ton this afternoon. Me was crushed to dtath when the tremor caused a land slide in an excavation for a new bulld- ing. ¢ BUFFALO, Feb. 10.—-A_ se! earthquake rocked Buffalo at the streets. The seismograph at Canisus college was put out of com- mission. BUILDINGS ARE ROCKED SYRACUSE, N. Y., Feb. 10.-A revers this aft panle-strickea into. the streets. |FeLr IN BROOKLYN Monica Borden —- | {150 5h? Buudines were eerket m, Buildings were rocked. nosed gentlemen drink whisky In| “Here in Everett, prostitution | NEW YORK, Feb. 10— unlicensed places. and gambling are carried on under| There wif be no wedding belle | | for beautiful Monica T. Borden . "Vice and corruption do not seck| 2"@ Octavio Guinte, a Brazilian 5 He says that gambiing, illicit the daylight. Nevertheless, 1 be | multimillionaire. | The young people were to have| i liquor-selling, prostitution, cock- lieve I have enough evidence to jh fighting, dogfighting and prize start with. I have just learned fighting flourish in the county; for example, of one ssloonman who | Lady of Loudres on February 3. In 4 ! that everybody, including the offi. paid a bribe of $250 for his license |stead, Miss Borden bas brought | s ’ | been married in the Church of Our! a cers of the law, knows they flour and of another who paid $500 jsuit against her one-time suitor for |) ish; THAT CERTAIN PERSONS = “I want to say that, whoever are| HOLDING OFFICES OF AUTHOR: my enemies—openly or otherwise | $1,000,000. A few months after they met she| “Did you kisa her on the back?" | i ITY ARE RECEIVING “BLOOD — Mayor Christianson ix with me| went abroad and stayed JUST IX) “No. I didn’t kiss her at all, Not MONEY” In return for which they jn this fight against odds. 1 want are conveniently blind, and that to say, too, that we are fortunate | certain other persons, high im to have in Judges Bell and Alston | DAYS. The following epistle, writ-/¢ven on Sunday,” inte, she avers,| John Seiss, gray-haired wood ‘on for the hasty |hauler, dented indignantly that he ten to her by Mr is given as her church and business circles, are two men who are not only wise and | return ever indulged in an osculatory dem enjoying large revenues from the good bat unafraid.” “My Darling and Sweet Mona = onstration with Mre. Mabel Du arnings of social outcasts. Commissioner of Public Safety —i am crazy. | don’t know | Shane, wife of his employer, while id Faussett has asked Superior prodeck and Chief of Police} what to do without you. | have testifying today in a $15,000 glien L Jadges Ralph C. Bell and Guy C. Loomis both assured me that, s0| been erying since you left me ationofaffection sult brougtit by ‘Alston for a grand jury investiga: far as Everctt is concerned, there| all alone, without a soul to con- | Mrs. Caroline Seiss against the Du t tion and the appointment of a spe- js neither open gambling nor open| sole me. You are the only wom. | Shanes for cial investigator. prostitution, and that Faussett an | ever loved. | am willing | The case is being heard before a ‘aq He is a smallish man—this Faus-| didn't know what he was talking| to do anything for you. Dar. Jury In Judge Humphries’ court pl ett; with a big mustache. The apout. | ling, you are my love, my soul, Everything was all right be mustache hides a large, firm mouth) redeck and the mayor went to| my life. Come to me and | (tween my wife and me until sre f and an aggressive chin | the mat the other evening over the, will make you happy. I adore [went back home for a visit,” by “Eze? icht.” question of the public morals; and,| you, darling. said. “When she came back from itl He's Game, All Right, though their offices are side by nf “0. GUINLE.” Minnesota things seemed differ m Policeman Admits | gide, their intercourse since then| The bans were read for the mar-| ent ¥ 1 talked with » Everett police has been limited to the barest riage, when the ther day, wooer He accused her of smashing the ; man about Faussett, and the only civilitie |Guinie came with crestfailen air| hinges off his trunk, which he had good thing he could think of to say — to Miss Borden, announcing he placed in a granary ~ about him was: “He's game, I'll could not marry her, as he had a| Selsq admitted he gave Mrs. Du ~ ‘ that much for him. When he wire from his mother, telling him/| Shane a bouquet of roses, but said | starts a thing he most rs not to do #0. \ wife saw him pick them. ‘ finishes it.” | And tn his final note, she says, tl But he did not approve of Faus [he wrote ; : sett 1 love you. Millions and mil-| J What does he want to start a HOW SOLDIERS lions of kisses. Good-bye.” ‘MOB MEMBERS i fuss for?” he asked But Miss Borden prefers a mil on A bartender agreed with the po- lion in cold cash to a million of Who asked him to shove in? - Y The town was just getting good ~ csv apoyo DENVER, Feb. 10—Sam Val- TUT, TUT, MARY! TOKIO, Feb, 10.—Pursued by an A merchant sighed. enti, a Sicilian strike breaker, infuriated mob, Japan's lawmakers P sos = eateicin ret |: ae Setar Seen A the con | LONDON, Feb. 10There was|were chased pell-mell from the impetuous. investigation at | gressional probe into the coal | saeanin ecriticiam of Queen house of parliament today and this time will only bring disrepute | strike, swore he witnessed a [ye today for dabbling in stocks, driven into hiding, after whitewash upon the county and possibly drag Sunday riot in which cavalry. | Mary today for Hanbllie iY nn ig the government when an at ine the limelight the named of| ‘men rede down women march. | 2>¢ Seneral view ie that membars |e ie ete ee to ceniaure ft for al SOME OF OUR BEST PEOPLE.” try jof the royal family, having inside|tempt was made en it fc Pats type Gf renpectable besiness| =} enw satélera repeatediy | =tgrmation coscerning government the grafting in the navy Gan $e. familiar everywhere, His| gtrixe awomen on the logs,” he |Dolicies which promise to affect the Under the surface a strong rad. ~ own life above reproach, he’s con, gaid, “and | heard Gen. Chase | market, ought not to take advan oo sentiment mee been simmering tent with his civie “whited sepul-| tel) the troopers to go ahead | Mee of It The, cueen fnvestes in red og yee ate pe atti 2 chre,” provided it is frequently MAI beth women ondmen.” [oansols. two weeks ago, and their day's demonstration a revolutionary whitewashed. He would like to for-| *” rise netted her $35,000 Louthren ye inns get that It Is filled with dead men’s " adnan aiiinanians bones, MICHIGAN INQUIRY ON \. Faussett, .undismayed, presses| HANCOCK, Mich., Feb. 10.-The Yor a grand jury probe congressional prob of the Michi there f® a vacuum at the center gan copper strike was resumed to of \every whirlwind Ashe sits in day Wm. Rickard, president ih og ’ is whi d. not a Calumet local of the Western Fed e or re Pale phar) Py Py pct i grip Sob into dete! When Mr. St. Claire arrived fn the, apo 300 hth tae ‘ tated. It is rumored that his iife (concerning wages and working con-|city, @ week or so ago, he called ut, tut!" chided Mr, St. stablish-| Claire. “You are too good a has been thre: atened ditions 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 and at branches. Bathing Girl, Co-Ed, Flower Gis), Stage Beauty »Matinee Girl, Office Girl and Debutante. upon the 160-odd printin |ments of which Seatt!e boasts man to be wasting your time Mr. St. Claire said he was a print-| here. If you will work for me er, too, and in fairness to them he| | will pay you $450 a month. felt he ought to tell them what he| How much Is this place worth?” proposed doing The proprietor said it would | “I have leased three entire floors! Involce at about $4,000. of the Smith building,” he said, “and } Mr. St. Clair wrote a check ehall shortly open an establishment | for $4,000. + \that will dwarf anything on the} “Now it's mine.” he sald. j Coast, if not in the world | “Chuck it in the bay.” How much," he asked the propri-| Mr. St. Claire had a suite of letor of one local establishment, “do rooms at the Right hotel, Firat av you make here? There he entertained the local print |” ‘The proprietor said he cleaned upjers one at a time, On his table he p.m, Many houses were badly shaken, the occupants rushing Into quake jarred Syracuse on bet no serious dam- ee Was feported. Downtown butld- inga were rocked, people running | NEW YORK, Feb. 10-—A severe Rufus WallingfordComes to Town OE SMITH has a chicken ranch. Joe was telling SCHOOLBOY'S terse narrative about Elijah: “a crowd of fellows in the Butler hotel lobby last “There was a man named Elijah, He had some evening about a blind hen he has that lays two or three beags and he lived in a cave. Some boys tormented eggs a day. One bright wit spoke up and @sked him him. He said: ‘If you keep on throwing stones at me, why he didn’t blindfold the whole flock and then quit I'll tarn the bears on you and they'll eat you up.” And working for a living they did and he did and the bears did.’—Everybody’s. MODERATE SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS POTTOMAN WADE UL NIGHT =EDITION = =BRUARY CENT 230iternnsa's 10, 1914, | THE HOUR OF oa GIRL TELLS OF HERSTAY _IN HOSPITAL \Left Three Gave With Bedclothing | Untouched, She Says; Supt. Rich- ardson Blames Grocer for Worm. This is the story of Hannah]C. A. and they thought I could get Evans and the King county hos-| better treatment out there, 80 : 1 nally consented. I was there @ | There was much complaint _re-| wee! cently abont inadequate facilities at “4 don't want to say anything the hospital and poor farm—of per-| that will hurt people's feelings,- sons, old, and crippled, and sick, but it wasn't at ail pleasant at turned out because there was no| the hospital. | couldn't eat what they brought me. The bread The Star advocated establish dry. The milk was turning ment of a farm colony, farthur out sour. In a little ih would be {n the country, where inmates could, two prunes, hard and not good | make the institution self-supporting | to eat. They brought some cold The county commissioners lMked| porridge at times. It was al the idea, A resolution passed.| ways stale. ONCE | FOUND A Now they are looking for a location.| WORM IN THE BOWL. But, about Hannah Evans— “The nurses didn't seem to . | You could ring the bell all day Hannah Evans, 22, a native of Se- hardly get an answer. When attle, is a victim of inflammatory | did come to the bed they acted rheumatism. cross. I don't know why, for I sup- | Six months ago she was working posed nurses were always p every day, happy because she could | to patients. be of help to her mother, who is “I couldn't move a finger to now doing the best she can to keep | myself and THEY LET ME things going on $45 a month. And) [THERE FOR THREE DA’ day and night the girl’ Mes suffer-| out arranging the bed e! ‘ ling from pains which rack her| “My mother used to come out ff |drawn, twisted little body, unable | the evenings to see me. ‘That was |to even lift a glass of water to her|the only happy time I had. Te $y. lips. |so that she finally consented | For one week Hannah, at the! bring me back into town.” lurgent request of her friends, w Superintendent Waldo Richardsom in the county hospital “for medical of the hospital said he could not | treatment.” believe conditions were as bad as | That week, she sald, more than the girl pictured them. a satisfied her. “| hardly know what to say,” | Smiling between the shocks of he sald. “The best men in the — |pain, she talked with a Star reporter city are on thi medical staff. | | yesterday afternoon. Mrs, Thomas, ippose the nurses do get cross \a friend from Black Diamond, stays) at times but they are graduate |with her in a room at 89 Pike st. prong an bork trainee during the day, while the mother their duties. ye your vf Lorena Gr ace Carman |does her work in a hotel found a warie Juche ae red i | The most wonderful mother In 8 no necessity for her to make | “I didn't want to go to the county) | GUESS WE'LL HAVE | the world! a living, she would better forget | hospital in the first place,” she said. | BLAME IT ON THE GRO. That {s Miss Lorena Grace Car-| thoughts of stage fife, unless, |“] have some friends in the Y. W.| CERYMEN.” man's tribute of love for the wom-| of course, she is so gifted that |an who has worked for years that her future is assured. So many her daughter might achieve suc st truck gi look only on 9 4 cess the rosy side. They fail to Misa Carman, a Seattle girl, ts think of the hardships and the | j with the De Koven Opera company heartaches. That is why so | in “Robin Hood” this week at the many get no farther than the Metropolitan chorus and why so many, dis- The mother, Mrs. N, M. Carman, appointed, do things they is a successful business Woman of wouldn't even dream were pos- | ‘ the city. The two are chums. And sible when they left home. | this is their week of triumph. “But don’t think | am dis- Just “Mother's Girl” satisfied. | am not. | am the ick. a * happiest girl in Seattle. | am | This is the last day to register. , The total registration at 1 o'clock $ ’ all of her refinement anc as 70,35 lene natn’ attained in Bastern| proud to do my part in the | Books will be open ‘at the Pre Have the total record of twa ie schools, Mies Carman is just plain| Company with Miss Abott and /fontaine building until midnight. | ago, 74.000, will be reached before mother’s girl the clever people with whom | Those who fail to register by that/the books close tonight. And no happler couple enjoyed| &™ associated. It is a big jump | iime will lose their votes, both in| wees sete ms ™ 4 < for me. | realize fully what it the show last night than these two, f the primary February 17, and the| A house at 1829 25th av., 0} ho were “out front” toget means. babe , . rman alternates in the, Seneral city election of March 3. | by Mrs. E. C. Mitchell, of the! / h a mother,” said Mixs Car Miss kg peng et ? part of “Anabel” and has sung {All citizens having lived in the man, “no other girl ever had. No ng suc in ‘the county 90 Regis apartments, was entered Jone kno ore | she cessfully the feature role of Maid {state one y hee nl to ig “ Peigiie “n Marian in “Robin Hood.” | days, and in their precinct 10 ,|day and robbed of faucets & attle would t a sorry failufe if Studied at Columbia are entitled to register. ‘plumbing material. she were not here to enjoy it with| She was a Broadway high school bey girl and studied with Alfred Rollo| Whatever I have gained In lite Of Seattle. Three years ago she| | and whatever of success I have | Went to The Castle, at Tarrytown, MARVELOUS EXHIBITION SELF STARTING achieved, I owe to her, She has |N. Y., and later studied at Colum- been my support. T could not quit | bla university, winning recognition Indian Jin the face of discouragements be-| im her recital there ELECTRICALLY EQUIPPED go cause mother Was expecting real| She will sing at the matinee and things of me. No saerifice has |evening performance Wednesday been too great for her, and at the Saturday matinee Her | Seattle friends are planniog to | What a Mother Means | give her an ovation. “A girl does not realize what a Mother will be there. mother really means until she goes away from home. But if she can always keep the thought of mother| FIND $1,500 NUGGET Juppermost, her hour of succeas| BAKER, Or., Feb. 10—A gold should be as sweet as mine, nugget worth $1,500 was taken from “And | want to say that if a |the workings of the Sumpter Dredge girl has a good home and there (Company at Sumpter | had a stock of advance orders|they couldn't kee where there was | |three feet high going to be qny business left for 1 have cont ted ‘o do practic. them when the new-comer had got | ally all the Chicago & Milwaukee's his | printing,” he told them, and showed cee ON EXHIBITION BOOTH 34 \them the letter to prove it. “They Day -before yesterday Mr. St. |want time tables and descriptive Cjaire presented to the clerk at the Literature of all sorts, aggregating, | Wr ve 98 60. : perhaps, $150,000 a year.” Right hotel a chee for $38.5 He | He showed them the plans for his) fd {t with an alr, Still, just to plant in the Smith building, ‘They | make sure, the clerk called up rs | | BALLOU & WRIGHT Distributors East Pike at Broadway provided for type cabinets which, | bank with the type, would cost him a’| And the voice at the ottfer end} |cool $250,000. of the wire sald that Mr. St, Claire we rart@ did not have, and never did have, . The local printers Hled St. Claire | any money i that particular bank, See Big Ad om Page 2 personally lle was an amiable| ‘The police are looking for Mr, St | entleman and a genial*host. But | Clatre. ——— ———