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

MORE THAN 45,000 PAID COPIES DAILY The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News The Seattle Star IGHT EDITION ELECTIONS MAY costly lux WEATHER FORECAST—Fair to. night and Sunday; light, variable uries, but sometimes they save you Inds, most! terly. . mo Today's the d winds, monly Wetaty VOLUME 16. NO. 65 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1914. ONE CENT ohyit8shxs ane the Hamiiton ‘recall’ petitions, 24 NEWS BEANDN, be Discovered! The Cause for Divorces! | aprenncinmenia i ais bcirinnesfccndenseelod . * ere s Champion Mother of the Nation: Sne | @ ‘ } Has Iwenty-Une Children est Age | —_— —-—_-- Everybody who loves his mother, living, or cherishes her memory if d: will wear a red or white car. nation tomorrow, “Mot day public In the belief . % | that any white flower is itable emblem for y. b rnation famine prob- But the public . The day Is observed universally. | Seattle churches will echo the sentiments of love that cling to the word “mot The Y. M. C. A. - a | minding folks of the day's approach by placing placards and pamphiets, The Star, as the day approache 4 e e | cast about for the champion mother of the nation. We think we have found her. Mrs. Nixola Greeley- q ) Smith's interview with the mother of 21 living children appears below. q . A SUICIDE | Millionaire Cereal Manufac-| | turer Shoots Himself at JAPAN SENDS | Santa Barbara. ;° Mr. and Mre. Al- bert Stretch and 10 of their 21 ehil- dren now living at home. Mr. Stretch is below at the ex- treme left. HAT is home without a baby? What does it mean to have the tiny hands poked in father’s hair and eyes when he comes home from his day’s toil? What does it mean to have a little one to throw” its arms around mother's neck and lisp its words of love? What does it mean to the |parents to hear the childish gurgle, to see baby grow up, to follow it through school, to” laugh with it and to weep with it, and help mold its character? Mitel see 8 ee | if Recent Operation for Appen- dicitis Thought to Have Improved Condition. SANTA BARBARA, Cal, ; May 9%—Charies W. Post, multi-millionaire cereal manu- Government officials are inves facturer, of Battle Creek, tigating a report that a consign. Mich. committed suicide here | ment of arms and ammunition by shooting himself. purchased from Japan was land- The miltionatre killed himself ed Thursday at Salinas Cruz with a 30-30 hunting rifle. He) and rushéd to Mexico City. placed the muzzle of the gun tn 4 his mouth and pulled the trigger This consignment is said to bd with his toe, blowing off the en be the final shipment of a quan- tire top of his head. tity of arms and ammunition Wanted to Be Alone | Huerta bought last December. Mie ip = ie." Vi Edith and William A. Sheridan were married December 6, 1905. They battled for WASHINGTON, May 9%— nearly eight years in a stormy matrimonial sea, The final breach came last November, In itself, it was rather a trivial dispute. But it sent her to the divorce court, and he wi perfectly willing that she should go. He agreed to pay her $20 a month “ANY CHILDREN?” asked Deputy Prosecutor Gs yesterday afternoon “NO,” replied’ Mrs. Sheridan. The case was not contested. Divorce was granted. @ Ca 6 hee F lagher, when the case came Up “When the second baby came, he left, and he has never supported me since.” « | Mrs. Grace Adams, married to J. E. Adams in 1909, told Judge Humphries that her The suicide occurred early today| The shipment, it is said, in- | husband was in favor, of race suicide. The idea of being a father of two childtem just after Mrs. Post and Post's sec-| cludes a number of siege and caused him to abandon her, she said. She was granted a divorce ee Sere Pe retary had come into Santa Bar| rapid-fire guns. bara on business. ee | & Post told the nurse who was left} WASHINGTON, May 9.—French | yger blamed his parents-in-law for his difficulties with his wife, Marys | A. Edwin with him that he wae tired and | Ambassador Jusserand notified Sec- They were married in 1902. In 1910 she leit him i 3 wished to be alone. retary Bryan today that he was as- “ANY CHILDREN?” asked Deputy Prosecutor Gallagher, who is required under the A few moments after she had|sured by the French embassy in/ law to be present at all uncontested divorce cases y * left the room the woman heard a| Mexico City of the safety of John| shot and rushed tn to find Post tn | Sillima his death agony. | Saltillo, concerning whom there has Post yesterday ordered a special | been much anxiety for some time. car on which to go East May 15. ey Underwent Operation Post had spent the winter at his “file hasith "had been falling for some time, but his friends had un- United States consul at tS, Spied (amet * es + * Alonzo C. Armstrong called his wife “damn fool.” Ile also bragged about being the candy kid with other women. So. Mts. Margaret A. Armstrong, married to Alonzo since” November, 1905, Friday obtained a divorce. The couple have one child, five years old. 3 GIRLS DEAD jorge. he cou in HOTEL.FIRE By Nixola Greeley-Smith | moa! wes served to three relays of no matter where she looks, she ie The divorce mill worked aids esterday. Eighteen knots were untied in less tl Mra. Albert Stretch of ‘Bomars earone Herre Ue Phe Ope or inom, an. hour, Emily..Rowe married Bert. O. Rowe last September. Non-support. NO Point, N. J., is the pirate ot 21} The oldest of 7 ye ban baby. nd olden bined. blue! DREN. Burnetta and Alfred Hubbard, married June 4, 1913, ‘lived together It " Stretches fs a dai Pearl, 25.) His Wife the M: separated forever. Josephine C. Bateman and Frank L. Bateman lived her @{children—probably.. the champion | MIEnStS married aad has four chil. Then there axe Walter, Raymond, june, 1912, till Nay? 1913, 11 months. He left then. NO CHILDREN. Edm = | NEWARK, N. J. May 9— for ap-| Three girls cremated were ani recently at} a man fatally burned in a fire | mother of the whdle world! ital f the Alpine . | dren Lucey, Helen, Tom, Frank, William, | 4, ~ Ser a hospital at| which a ae. pine Frnem Dan oog wr ap Bao Re May, the second danghter, is 22 May, Albert--that’s all | remember. divorce from, Charles Berg. They were, married in. 1909. NO CHILDREN. the largest one-mothered,. one- and engaged to be Ynarried. But it took me five minutes to 4 fathered family. in. the United |, S%# '* one of the prettiest girls T shake hands all round when I came And so the cases ran with a somewhat monotonous sameness. | States, is a carpenter, have Gver seen. a Whan’ Teak OF THE 18 HOMES IN WHICH THE DIVORCE COURT WAS CA He began his married life at the Sons Help Father prvhen tasked the cleareyed.| UPON, ONLY TWO HAD CHILDREN. lage of 17 and for 28 years has! Four stalwart sons—Albert, Wil. bronzed father of all the Stretches lgolved the problem of buying food Ham, Frank and Tom—are grown bow he had solved the problem of| gama RERRAAR ARERR AARRAADARRA PRE ARARER RESET! and clothes for what is really a/¥p and help thelr father at the car the high coat of living for 28 years CORT BAUR © RE Th ulation of § s not increased ¢ pop f Seattle ha whole city, or at any rate, a whole pentering trade, or when business h¢ replied, with a tremor of ten materially during the past year, yet The Star fo dae . chem b _,derness in his voice: has made the remarkable gain of more than Corte ty tina Tie Ose ee ennnort Chemecives by fal) DONT ASK ME. ASK MY 5,000 circulation on a daily average basis. | From his modest wages he has| — Mrs, Stretch, who has added [Gann ‘worse wie All 7-7 * © © to provide eight loaves of bread a a child a year to her jewel cole | acy gi roe Pig his x | ACLE: wealthier wom- day! lection just | On Saturday, when it is neces. . en add a pearl for every Christ- sary to lay in two days’ provisions, mas to their $100,000 string, is ae ce he cree |the Stretch family takes 16 loaves a comely woman, with a fresh | jot bread, two whole hams or four! complexion and deep blue eyes | —————————— sides of bacon, or on gala occasions that glow and deepen with ir legs of lamb! mother love every time her Only 10 of the Stretches are liv. glance falis on one of her hu- | } ing at home now, but when [| man pearls. | | a 1 apie ghd RE j AIN HIS CHIL | ‘The question 1s up again. It will | ih i Business conditions generally have been satisfactory, but not exceptionally brisk, yet The Star has made the greatest gain in vol- ume of advertising of any year since the A.-Y.-P. * * * *- * While the other papers have stood still or slumped, The Star alone has shown substan- tial, solid growth. In April, The Star made a gain of practical- ly 12 per cent in advertising as compared with the same month a year ago. This, despite the fact that the total advertising car- ried by all Seattle papers showed a dropping off of more than 5,000 inches, as compared with April last year. While the total Seattle advertising decreased 5,000 inches, The Star alone gained more than 2,000 inches eee * lunched with the mammoth family} And there are ao many| Jat Somers Point last week the|Stretches in her little home that| IN ALL THE PARKS HAVE MUNICIPAL be decided by the park board next ? | B. W, Gillette, 35, a chemist, was The father was captured yesters | Friday. 4 | Last year there was band music 08 ANGELES, May 9—Mu- /roaged in a cell in the county jail| ay on Whidby island, after ae at Alki bathing beach, Volunteer | nicipal ownership of an electrle | shortly after midnight, by Depaty/| Sullivan chased him half @ ? rep pert parks. poet pay-| generating and distributing sheriff Jim Sullivan, on @ aul ghn i tl Ship Be: : @ | ing for the upkeep and building of plant stands approved today by | jette when he ¢ } boulevards, there wasn't enough of third degree assault. |sight of Sullivan, taking the ¢ money to provide musio in the| the voters of Los Angeles by a | Gitiette is accused of knocking | with him. Today's the day to tie that can t o Lafe Hamilton. i i | ks. substantial majority. vife | 8 h | He fought vicious? he The Star’s increase of 2,000 inches, plus the A few hours’ work will do it. Go down to the Lippy building, Third | Ober park: ‘ | bis wife down at her Seattle home,| He fought viciously when decrease of 5,000 inches in total advertising | av. and Columbia st., get one of th ose recall petitions, circulate It, and Pe gb afc Bo ahr y we A proposition to bond the city jand escaping with their little baby|tured and Deputy Sullivan ied by all Seattle rs, represents the get it signed up. Do it this afternoon, Mem! of the labor unions | dary ‘odie ‘a bi nd In @8] to the extent of $6,500,000 for girl, Viroqua, 15 months old, | forced to handeufft him before . carried by pape Bre going to do it. Members of the Commercial Club are already on the | ™&DY parks as possible. ° Hedy Pde? or lb |yielded. At the Everett station loss of some of the other papers. g 1 want the bands to play,” he| that purpose was indorsed by a The child’ was awarded the | Ginette tried. to escape ga he iat job. |aaid during the campaign, And he| Vote of 56,199 to 23,179 yester- custody of the mother in a recent|¢) the deputy, and a hag Drag Hamiiton’s paws off that $4,000,000 which King county Is going to spend in the next two year And bewai ty, taking up recall petitions on the pretense of being sent from | the recall headquarters. | |" When you get ready to return the petition, return It direct to head- RAISE $500; BUY | quarters. Don’t give it up to any stranger. i | tJ | | Several petitions have been lost that way, and one or two efforte | have been made to secure petitions by offering money and jobs to the LAUNDRY STOCK | circulators. Hamilton is leaving no stone unturned to kill the recall if | he can. Don't forget that! The Laundry Workers’ union real- | Ali those having petitions issued previous to this week are asked to | {zed $500 on the dance given at the | return them to headquarter ediately. | Hippodrome ,Friday night. The | About 14,000 n: now in the possession of the recall a money will go for stock {n the new day. divorce case | with his captor. 7 “This is just an attempt to get THINGS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW ABOUT SEATTLE} “nor sever aot) Tit mene plan was Incorporated in 1865 and reineorporated four. || ‘He 1sst. aitem |means it now. He proposes that 5 |the size of the bands be reduced They're golng around the coum | 7-01, 49 pieces, If necessary. As compared with The Star’s decisive in- crease of 12 per cent, only one other Seattle paper showed any increase at all, its gain being merely nominal. The other two papers showed losses, one dropping off 9 per cent of its volume of advertising and the other slump- ing to the extent of 25 per cent. No wonder there are some sore-head symptoms shown There's a reason. years later. The town was first platted in 1853, The first Gillette was found with the child railroad reached the city in 1884 Today it Is the Pacific on the aoe near the Maxwell coast terminal of four great transcontinental systems. From the wharf, wheFe he was staying , Seattle has developed 886 miles relatives. - graded streets, 203 He had shaved off his mustache nd 26 miles of trunk and cut his hair short. pee sewers. of 1,804 acres, and When taken from the mother's 7 they are parks for the people, without “Keep Off the Gri home at 1918 Eighth ay. W., | quarters—2,000 more names are needed. Mutual Laundry Co. The laundry signe. little girl was dressed in a Can they be secured today? A little effort on your part will turn|is being established by labor organ- coat ary cap. Her clothing yi * eo tic day had been dyed re = 1 ‘ MUST HAVE WAR HUERTA HOLDS AMERICANS PRISONERS ! ZEEE.