The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 18, 1914, Page 1

HER! the area in which The Star is distebuted. Hf you dor't beli€ve it. just scan® the following letter from Varde, Denmark; “EDITOR THE STAR: It was with the greatest of pleasure I have reag your paper on our trip through Europe, I have had it for three months and haven't missed an issue, which is certainly a credit to your mailing department It was a pleasure to read news from our home town in a reliable paper We leaves this month and will renew our subscription for carrier delivery immediately upon return MRS. OSCAR HANSEN, VARDE, DENMARK.” FAIR TQNIGHT AND THURSDAY; LIGHT NORTHERLY WINDS ‘tee fo] The SeattleStar [isa Paid Copies Daily NIGHT EDITION= MMM THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS MMMM MT TTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1914 AUAUAUTAAAAUUUNAAAAAHET 2UjUNULRENLAAL HEHEHE LS us = 3 a = fe VOLUME 16 NO. 19. ON THAIN WANS PANS tet’s Have a Showdown On —<—$—$<<—$<$_____———— nn er | DIY PAT MURPHY! BABY VALLIE IS LONESOMEST if © NAVE YOU VOTED YET ON GIVING HIM HIS PAPA? \] rock. 4 LITTLE BOY IN ALL AMERICA “a : LOSES HIS JOB AND poe sisi UNANIMOUS atk aaa are 1| ciel Fi Votes cast by Star readers today : . we | 3] IRL ON MARCH ] 1 For the atatey cosscc: mons eee s Enough of this investigating of the county commissioners. This newest plan of Hamilton’s and Knud- EAA St Rg ee | sen’s is all bunk. | One more volunteer investigator, as asked by the commissioners, even if appointed by a judge, will get no further than other investigating committees have already gone. IT’S A SHOWDOWN THAT’S NEEDED, EITHER TO CLEAR LAFE HAMILTON AND HIS COL- LEAGUE, COMMISSIONER KNUDSEN, OR TO CONVICT THEM. A year ago The Star said there was something decidedly rotten in the commissioners’ office, and the past year has emphasized the truth of it. The Star presented enough evidence to warrant the calling of | a grand jury. That body, dominated by some subtle influence, proved itself of spineless character. It | was the joke of the community. The grand jury discovered waste, extravagance, political favoritism, and evidence of frenzied finance in the management of the county’s business, and so reported. But it didn’t get down to brass tacks. It lacked the brains or the inclination to get anywhere in the matter, and capped | AND e ‘Mr. Murphy,’ said the boss. op, Murphy | have been watching you and = | 5 have been pleased to note that you seem to take a lively In: terest in your work. We | would not have you believe us charged, | Unappreciative. Hereafter you | wee being, Gran’ & will get $25 a week, instead of How do you plead $20." } | | ; or not guilty Searcely crediting my ears, I Guilty ; t°! thanked him, and got out as quick soiticer Ballard ? ; ow! YY Then I called up a r . Bias the witne and Yo Georgetown on the the climax of its absurdity by returning a silly document against The Star for making the charges. 1 . 3 in rumbling toy : “ - wha hae | Lafe Hamilton is a mighty shrewd man. He has been responsible for much that is good and much ff ames: — en." lg ‘my aalary was $25, Ud, anh that is bad in this county. Whether he is a crook or not, the grand jury, which cost the county $5,000, J} ’ told failed to settle. And The Star hesitates to suggest another grand jury. Kessons in elocut Said jodge.” said v A be ilgy sep But The Star does assert there has been plenty of investigation already. tavern the money with me, but | io net) é It’s a showdown that’s needed! Shaped get it. I'll be back ia 20) ony ey | if you say the word was something in the way she sald SL believe I can trust you to re |i" that But no matter Desa" gall the court. “You may|' go, ‘twas then. the foolish a a thougt came to me: “P, MURPHY, He went—limping THIS 1S YOUR DAY OF DAYS!” lid The rest is quickly told, I en-| , 1 was happy ough he had dn't join me. | Core Calvert the first. By and her boy Valle Wearin’ | | | | | MAYOR PUTS CHARGES CARKEEK THOUG PED PPEas(_= Sor) DOUBLED-CROSSED liked him from a by I struck up o the Greer | The driver looked back at me |acowling, and began to whistle Boyne Waters.” Then | knew and hated him for what he was—an| 2S, Voce ln the matter will be Ulsterman! _ $6,500, appropriated by the old cuse for an Indianian, | Let me out!” I sald. By K. W. Payne and ostracinm all his life city council to ald former eee | “With pleasure,” be sald, and . aoe sear . | have been talking the family| Health Commissioner Crichtcn MAYOR GILL FIRED 25 RAT! eee tions, and did not propose to be | stopped the car. MURPHYSBORO, II1,'pere—baby Vailie and his girl-| in his ratcatching plan, to CATCHERS TODAY. I PROB-| Thomas A. Meade, attorney,|railroaded off his feet. N “What's the damage?” March 18.—Vallie is the lone-| nother—as good and loving a moth thwart the bubonic plague. ABLY MEANT IT WH HE | stirred up a sensation at the Seat-| This brought Meade up again. He | “Seven dollare—for you,” said somest baby boy in Ameri er as there is in all America. The force of 20 men which has gap HE'D CUT DOWN THE SUP-/tle Commercial club meeting last}charged Carkeek with hampering jae 208 called me oat of my name. hed ts ben the saddest |\yah® save that even now baby| been engai ed in the rat-catching | PLY OF NOODLE JOIN |night, when he charged that not|the committee's work. You're a robber and a traitor,” | Anc e ha a Vailie cannot play with other chil-| work, was chopped to five, who,! Lediied jonly was Vivian Carkeek, cbair-| “Is it not a fact,” he hurled at reased at any tine. 000. And then they say the auto Gills decision to reduce thie ex |has put Old Dobbin out of business. nee followed a confere with McBride, who can be fn said I, and punched him on the/ mother! ldren. They would jeer at him and |the mayor beli@ves, Will D0 1010 0 | an of the committee investigating | Carkeek, “that you ee Mth of March. Yow roe" -* se: ital Today “papa” is the one; make him wonder pitifully about/handle the work Raciangetitty, ae Sanat anesaee: Senaeedptboy eis #ffatrs of the county commis-|sloner Hamilton he needn ear ; si 5 jcem! jard came @rup 7 nde things he couldn't understand, louse an emerkency arises, the force | United States, valued al 18.222. | sioners, delaying and betraying the the committee of wh y r or whistle “St. Pat-| io and I ducked into an apart-| word baby Vallie has never “They'd. bri < wz the ee ich you are k his heart committee's work, but that there chairman—that there would be a |were other members of the club/lot of talk but no action?” err who were implicated with certain] Carkeek disdained to reply. IT 18 PERMISSIBLE TO PITY Public officials in shady transac-| Norman Wardall, secretary of the the ignorance of the army of the | tons. board of commissioners, was an in- unemployed. How different things|.)“! have the goods on them,”|terested visitor at the meeting. : ve got the Earlier in the evening the club ‘Day in the Mornin tate s att i whistling, but not’ gavly, | ot ae en a On tka there ARE. fathers ach his mother must stay at|ilealth Commisato gfe Hangin’ Men an’ Wowen| fin foor a door gave to. my| The law won't even let him! ouse and care for her boy p| sanctioned the mc yee Wearin’ o' the Green.” | hands, and I went In. bear his own father’s name. |tives with her great aunt Mra wore no bit of green on) up, ” ‘ might have been, if they only had Meade emphasized. ‘ GP ete cost. | Bde yg vert ingen llr hes But he must bear, all his life, ward Reader, in a rough, Sa s Husband Knew learned to dance the tango before 9000s on certain people sufficient discussed the Panama canal toll: lapel pe cotta, ne needet a/#,mae ia & purple smoking Jacket /the burden of his father's eee cottage, on a bleak hilisi Say: lundertaking to tour through Calj- to INSURE THEIR CONVICTION (question, and decided t® postpone mconatet aoe |" Pi crime — the crime ~ which Sand Ridge township, Mlinots # promt OF NOT ONLY MISDEMEANORS, definite action for a week. need n r| A poodle dog bit me in the When the elderly relatives who She Pos: at way nes BUT PENITENTIARY CRIMES, | RUNGE sgt ee [) the Brotherhood of Cigarette rol-| snkie, but I didn't mind. The po-|brought that life to him. support her pass away, what will |p? M . stake my reputation lawyer fers formal introductions are not /jiceman was pounding up the|THAT is Vallie’s sole herit- this simple, untrained country girl NEW: YORI, roe ee ee ON Aele epi slahat. Iuchew what |.pen talking m4 . yes stairs. * . shed—- do. to give her boy a comfortable ‘ harlotte Davis Porter ~ 7 started early,” 1 said. i went to a windew, threw |28¢: He must be punished— fo aive her boy comfortabl hind oes ai drank “nine whiskeys in a row,” about, and | am willing to take the Gietined atmoet as's00n 2e| open and junmped. not for being bad, not for in- home.and, Hy -Beom. Vitae fans before breakfast, every morning. Consequences of the charges | am er . Ts Ouch | 1 Mt on my back on a plank bulk-|tending evil—but just for, Today she is giving him mo vey Briggs, has any ground 9) eae (ditlerent bacon dt or Wet rt Next Week TT | x BORN! save, #o that he m go to fighting her suit for veto Dg " — elation eport Next Wee | ec | “Twas when [ fell out of the| being Boe Deetiie tuk on dalanee Haig pe. Mays tien bacon an during or after breakfast, if that When the meeting adjourned, the | MMA story window,” he explained consent, and that is why there Is a) He proudly showed me the little] posed as “Innocence.” Be ee 6 a one motion upon the subject ‘was | Tm thinking my liver and iy Convict A916" In the Southern |heap, kept in an old tin box. Seven ing an artist's model, Mrs. Tig q the peremptory instruction to the} j have changed places. You Illinois penitentiary, and why Vallie Seven pennies, saved in|| Briggs today declared her [TA bunch of women wearing | |jn°Cstigating committee to report} ; lit on my back—and is doomed to suffer slurs, ignominy | husband knew she had those green, red, blue and pur- | |%,,pe*t Tuesday p ; Gs sant the Inet of the aa =? Min the altogether” The dtscussion as the out : He wanted posed “in the a ple wigs, turned loose some After a consultation today with first, but mine is an orderly ' before she appeared ae un- dark night, mIgNt CAURe foe | ie ee eee eiee ides by the | Mayor Gill, regarding disposition of and I steered him gently but| ic S Ss Ss 0 “Innocence.” of the opposite sex to sig * | |mously earlier in the day by the] +) 0° a 5 Mn cctinatur cf the rar ITY WILL PAY AY SHE ST LE draped | of the opposite sex to sign the | ‘county commissioners, requesting |‘ 45, emergency policemen on $< || | |strike duty, resulting from the trou- n investi-| inst them. | ble between tean ers and drayage men, Chief of Police Griffiths an- Would Only Delay |nounced that no definite announce- is is the story as he told THE “FISH WIGGLE” IS LA’ Tam Sinitaet. 1 Ballard property owners will not! Eitzebeth Van Patten, a cook jEST DANCE IN NEW YORK. G Chalrnian McKensie later moved) ment is ready. countant a em. — y rr 1E\ ash are ! 0 econside th a Ti 7 y EAS o poblishing firm in the i . be required to pay for the laying many aliases, is under arrest, | REVERLY Wash, roh 18.— | THE HOOK to reconsider | ae iaweaiution, ‘And qine emergency officers are list. Pe ¢ 3 in tu the a. of robbery. Ac.) The ald of Constable Leo Zwiedle | __——s—— declared that a prosecutor, § ed to serve until April 1. Pacific block. My work is hard FORGIVE ME, | SAID, BUT- of the trunt er mains tou ing to Attorney E. H. Cha-|was required by J. Slater, engine 7. Ue an investigator, was needed. Com-| Chief Griff se ~ " “2 e ere Ss in < ief Griffiths made a tour of 9 speed and exacting. Frankly, Third ay, W rict velle, the woman worked at his!of the water service department of . Dp mission Hamilton and Knudsen | inspection through the city jail this “Ttake no interest in it head, and for a time lay dazed.| acknowledging the sentiment ex-| house a short time, and, on her de-| the Milwaukee railroad here, to dis . voted McKenzie down jmorning. His visit was hot an- § One wight, not long ago, I went| Then I heard the taxicabby yell. UP| iressed hy the voters on March %,|parture, stole a set of aigrettes. charge his colored cook. When he in Police Court With the knowledge that any ac-|nounced, as he wished to see th fo the Clemmer and saw a play/I got and ran across an areaway y utilities committee yester-|Chavelle says she has worked the tried it himself the night before tion taken by Judge Frater in ac-/department in operation pen talled “His Day of Daya Twas|to where light shone through alin “Clg in the presence of ame game 15 other homes she drove him out of the house SAN FRANCISCO, March cordance with the commissioners’ | ordinary conditions. ‘ Agen story of a young man| window. I entered, head first, tak-|) 0) "or joo residents of Ballar —. — ~ — ei “ag 18.—Charged with defraud. request would be as a private citl| “We need better accommodations . though his life on the aver-|ing the sash with me N00 levied ; Cae aie 1 a a P Oe to have the required $140.6 levie ing a taxicab driver, a en, and not a dicial officer,|for the men and larger quar ee M4 many thrilling experi-| granddaughter, I guess—were tak - was Vincent Astor, was be different f the work already |no fault of the police,” said the og om his “day of days,” wind leo gpellaaa n ! fore Judge Crist here today. done by the al Club probe | chief. ae emt so ge ad hey Peraten ae.’ T eatd: “but TO HONOR FELS WASHINGTON, D. C. March 18.—Wiiliam J. Bryan, secretary of Renerts that his tather, tittes, A. F > one Hetil Borde BE sist of bis heart, who, as it} “Clumey!” sald the old lad sae eee ee inc eateatections | Ta MGM The wiree were i] Gent down with the Titanic, fito the effect that if Judge Frater| | | Art Schafer, N. Y. Nationals i eat. was ah heiress You've killed my cana ‘ Former Mayor Cotterill will pre He ertelie!” he added were erroneous. acted at all, he st point al ede playing ball has turned i ere Was a prologue explaining, And so Thad. Its cage had been gide at a mass meeting Wednesday eHaliel | Th neakstdiy aavaar Sta cawam ashore,” the cial prosecutor | | his hair gray and he quits. But py Mat, according to Oriental legend, | hanging in the window night at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium wthe hell ginny 5h prisoner said, “and is doing He pointed out that a new in-|/ the same will go on even if it | 4 Rae er 4 preseatined to have}. ao Oe tno ng oT Tin yer ie a Fels, ea “What! Who is this?” |] business in New York. Send vestigator would merely serve to]. "DS ‘em bald-headed. Thad discarded the story from|as | was going out—and the rest|qresses will be made by Robert This is Woodrow Wilson meso. Mey ; gy RMS ——_——__—— ae engimaried the story from}as I wes ites: Toe @mith, Will Atkinear The story came out when Bryan was finally connected with the The judge thinks he’s un Carkeek Objects Learn beokkeagtng ius When Yesterday ee eee ee thinking | lost both my girl| Mins Mary O'Meara, Rabbi Koch | Newspaper office, and demanded satisfaction. It was agreed that Bryan balanced. Carkeek declared “he was not| 0 fake care of tt tiyate Mmegerasy, the boss sent for! im ise on my Day of Days ie Wisvantina ict ‘had got the wrong number and not the White House number, either, | ready recommend any proscet-[yo aining.—Advertinement.. 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