The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 28, 1914, Page 1

\ MORE THAN NO, READERS, the get Mr. ILSO | €REFUSES | DVISITORS’ 45,000 PAID COPIES DAILY | | REQUEST Curtly Informs Business Men He Won't Call Off Anti- Trust Laws. EXPLAINS ATTITUDE Present Depression Over Country Is Only “Psy- chological,” He Says. WASHINGTON, May 28.—A delegation of business men urged President Wilson today to postpone all trust legislation except the bill creating a trade commission until the commis sion could recommend a new set of laws strengthening the Sherman act. The president refused. He also intimated that if business Men continued to oppose the mod- erate amendments proposed, a new and more drastic law would result from such action. President Wilson denied the dele fation's statement that business Is @ standstill because investors feared to risk money in enterprises that drastic legislation might stop. He declared it was much better to do things moderately and sober- ly now than to walt until more radical forces had accumulated, making it necessary to go much farther. The president {nsisted the present bo ppc was merely psychologt “i impressed on his visitors the necessity for “patriotic co-operation on the pert or business men." MAYOR HANDS COPS POSY ON RESCUE WORK The following order was issued today by Police Chief Griffiths to his fore “The mayor wishes me to express his appreciation of the efforts of this department last Friday afternoon to prevent further accidents on Lake Washington, and especially to those officers who succeeded after laborious work in recov- ering the bodies of the two young men who were so unfor- tunately drown: . . That's all very nice and lovely, but just the same, Star men who were there at the time saw the mother of one of the crowned boys cry her eyes out for two hours, fol- Jowing the accident, before the po- lice took any action. The police were race. GROCERS CLOSE Members of the Seattle Grocers’ association voted night to close their stores on Me- mortal Day The retail clothing stores will re- main open all day Saturday, Me morial Day. watching the All underground miners in On- tarlo now have the eight-hour day. 1 Retail| will get a couple of seats n last | biggest * telephone company has not gone to law yet to Vellat's five beanerinoes. We're still watchfully waiting. FOUR YOUNG SENORITAS FROM MEXICO WHO ARE VOLUME 16. 'LIVES 50 YEARS WITH TWO WIVES! The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News NO. 81 SEATTL. WASH., HELPING THEIR PA MEDIATE AT NIAGARA FALLS This charming and quartette came from with their father, Emilio one of Huerta’s mediators at Niagara Falls conference attractive Mexico City Rabasa, the From left to right they are the Misses Ruth, leab cepcion, , Mercedes and Con. 50 SEE CIRCUS A PRIZE WINNERS “What hi America?” We know now The momentous question has been | o answered completely—and satisfac i tortly, let us hope. A bushel and a half, more or less, ie of letters of all degrees and shapes Dermott, and sizes, were piled up on the con-| Erank Jones, test editor's de when the judges of the Buffalo essay contest tackled the big job of | falo awarding prizes. Anacortes Man Wins It was not an easy task were many excellent letters. F these the judges finally mad There rom ie a choice of what are considered the| four best, and to the writers were given the four prizes in money, cording to the terms of the contest Edward L. Carson of Anacoi won first prize of $25. Miss Ethel McDonalt, +7 Republican st., $12.50. Brace Rogers, 1423 Lakeside took third place and a prize of $ rtes wan second prize, | av 50 with an excellent essay on the con-| test subject. Dan Lanagon Nosed Out R. T. Rinder, 1208 Madison nosed out Senator Dan Landc the fourth prize of $5. Dan finished a strong fif' ‘effelunt” and Buffalo Bill (himself) aggr tion of thrillers. Winners of two reserved tickets are: Dan Landon, Blakeley Elmer A. # in the Sells-F' for He the loto eee seat) Buffalo Bill Gone for)4. B. i k in The Star office |} Daniels, J. i. Mulally, Mart Seyder Richard J. Met Winners of on served seat are: | RB. T. White, Harold Kramer, Hornee 1. | " n T. Wiliams, Johe Kenneth Georae Frederick Nermes, cee, rice jarriet Horrigan, ‘avtenes Ball, woe Tedeoe, Black Diemend, Wash.; Edwin Mill Badger, Altred Carleen and ora Bille. Because the Sells-Floto and Buf- i (himself) circus was late in arriving this morning, The be was unable to make the nece arrangements as to place and ates with Col. Cody (Buffalo Bill) for the colonel to personally award the prizes in the contest Winners of cash and ticket prizes, therefore, will call at The Star office for them this afternoon until 5:30, or at any time to morrow. The tickets will be for any performance. The circus parade was held this morning. The show will be in Se! attie three days, at Fourth av, and| Lenora st. giving two perform-| ances daily. Reserved seat tickets are on sale at the Ow! Drug store WILL ENFORCE CURFEW RULE :: All police officers, according to a general order issued today by lice Chief Griffiths, “are requi to enforce the curfew ordinance,| | which now takes effect at 10 p. m. oo a FIRM BUT! tive sergeants are members of the nd to do so in SOURTEOUS MANNER.” ‘SETTLEMENT NOW NEAR IN - MEXICO FUSS =: WASHINGTON, May 28.—A set tlement of the Mexican trouble both with the United States an bet we factio wae ooked for in administration circles efor Presid Huerta ave time to use the war mu he succeeded in gett? d € y at Pr Mexico, Th. wre tonto: protoce! fed airesty heen a ed at Niagara Falls. Secretary Bryan states the tion involving the rebels w cleared within 24 hours Judge Douglas, Gen. Carr lawyer, endorsed this view visited Bryan this forenoon, wen, that a tetitat rrang situa i be nza's He A high state department official FURTH PASSES je of a AT predicted that a protocol would be signed at Niagara Falls inaid | week GOOD NIGHT; MAY YET LIVE A WEEK THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1914 AST! EDITION WEATHER FORECAST — Fair tonight and Friday; gentle north easterly winds. TWO MOTHERS, ONE FATHER, TWENTY CHILDREN---A QUEER HALF CENTURY LOVE TANGLE By Norman Rose if found hard at work, serenely hoeing his onion bed. | | BROWNSVILLE Miss Nancy Hagar, Pa., May 68 years 28.—Mrs. Lydia Gaskill old, of the same little mountain-buried town, years old, of Brownsville, Pa., is the mother of 10 children. is also the mother of 10 children. 72y And now, after 50 years of married life, Mrs. Gaskill has just charged that her 70-year-old husband, Morgan, is also ther to Miss Hagar's brood! To find out if it was actually possible for a village |WITHIN A FEW BLOCKS OF EACH OTHER Don Juan to maintain TWO HOUSEHOLDS FOR 40 YEARS in America, I came to this little mining town of 400 inhabitants, of whom one-twentieth are alleged to owe their being to Morgan Gaskill, a tall, straight old veteran of the civil war, whom Meanwhile his mild, blue eyed old wife was hanging out the week's wash on the family clothes line, she also serene. The a lot of Hea told obee ed the old man ning upon his hoe, when I came upon bim ¢ took care of my wife and r children for almogt 50 years Bome neighbors got hold of the Od wor back and told her a lot_of stuff she ought never ji have bothered about He's a Good Provider “Plt, since she dragged me into pert, she bas had time to thir things over and to conclude that I've never neglec her and HER | tan Aa her if J ain't always 4 husband to her. Avk " if iy ver given her a cross word: she replie Morg has, | stwa ys been a kind husband to me a good provider for his fam Itty “Did you know about his re lations with Miss Hagar from the first?” | asked of this 72- roid wife who has tech- ically charged her 70-year-old husbane with immorality. The old woman's mild face ‘rex in the look of WIFE reserves woman” <4 No,” she answered slowly and bitterly. “It was a tong time before | found out. But me about it. I've promised Morgan to try to for- get it.” eee Ten minutes’ walk from the kill hom Miss” Nancy Hagar) lives with her daughter and son-| jindaw, 8. B. Yoders and wife Jacob Furth, head of the Trac tion company, passed a good night | last night, and felt more cheerful this morning. His physicians today, while hoid ing out no hope for his recovery, said he might live another week, or possibly a month, Members of the family are at Mr. Furth’s bedside. NEW ARMY SOCIETY FOR ENLISTED MEN| May has n efforts of army ch, Gen WASHING militar here through the mas E. Sherman, be son of the late umeeh Sherman ganization ts called the TON f through the non-commission ficers of the regular army. society, A new ‘orme Father aplain William The new Chevron,” djand aims to ald the enlisted men or. ed of. All ac The What Star’s contest : cans. dispatches. venture. road and cials. following letter by He Has Done for Edward L,. ¢ An son, of America,” ing can carry distinct value to civilization. His honesty created a confidence between him and knew him, that made him invaluable to army officers and government offi His work along these lines went far toward the pacification country and the establishment of permanent peace His autobiography will be a human document of historical importance, em- bellished’ with the romance of his wonderful life. dred and may he still be young and arrow straight in his saddle. was awarded first prize of suffalo Bille 5.00 in The acortes, on‘ OL. WILLIAM F. CODY has done two things for America and Ameri- As an amusement director he moved time back a quarter of a century and brought the pioneer West to the children of the men who made it and to the East which knew of it only from fiction, hearsay and newspaper But his greatest service has been to young men born with a love of ad- To these his life has proved that thrilling deeds and brave pioneer- His skill with a rifle fed the men who built the first trans-continental rail- cidentally gave him the name of “Buffalo Bill.” scouting and fearlessness in battle checked Indian marauders and aided ma- terially in making the Western plains safe. His courageous Indian tribes which of the May he live to be a hun- | jest is now Mist Hagar i smiling and twin-| Altogeth she is kling-eyed pleasant and liv could wish to m “tam going again to court soon,” she smiles at me, “and 1 ain't saying YET who the father of MY ten is! Let Lydia \Il's daughter, who charges ot prove it!” Gaskill and bis wife were ried years ago, Two weeks a mar ft er the wedding the young husband in 22nd Pennsylvan enlisted th cavalry He served with distinction until! jthe close of the war, fighting fa in as | n old lad 1 i indy asl) NOPE, NO ONE SENT 10 JAIL; The MAN and WOMEN in the o Morgan Gaskill as he appeared on return from | the civil war; his wife and his Satfinity” pictured as they | half a century ago, A » od of Mrs. Gaskill charges that Nancy Hagar'’s brood are children of her father . ° HE FINES ’EM - JUDGE FLAYS LAWYER WHO ‘GRABS BIGFEE |Half-Blind Servian Goes to | Law and Gets Trimmed for All He Has. MAKE HIM DISGORGE | Court Compels Attorney to Return $250 of $350 He Retained as His Fee. Mitar Mendedovitch, a Serv- lan, partially blind, after run- ning a gauntlet of legal trou- bles for three months, has at last been awarded justice, but at the expense of the greater rt of his small fortune of $1,060. Judge Everett Smith gave the confused plaintiff judgment yester- Morgan Osskill the battle of Gettysburg |day against Attorney R, P. Allen Girls Were Schooimates ’ for $418.25 in a suit bronght by At- javkill and his bride had been| The case of Caesar Liesch, the We'll All Get on |torney. A, H. Landin, chargiag ie echoctnaers }man accused of driving an auto er had fixed an excessive fee of nother pupil in the same schoo! | while intoxicated, was up again to| VY G N 50 in dealings with Mendedo- was Nancy Hagar, whose “home | day. : ater art ow's viteh * scarcely more than a stone's| Officer Tobin declared Liesch PHOENIX, Ariz., May 28 Allen, it is said, handled some throw from the cottage to which | drove a rickety little machine down| Chemical lysis is being |collections for Mendedovitch and Gaskill took his wife. Yesler, veered into First at consid-| made of samples of water flow- | jater turned over the accounts te When the soldier returned he|erable speed, stopp then sud-| ing from a well sunk by City | George Perovitch, retaining $350 as went to work as a coal miner. |denly started backwards at an equal) Health Off! Bidwell on his his fee. Perovitch then obtained a Shortly after, so the story rung tn | speed. ranch n he city power of attorney from the Servian Brownsville the townsfolk be-| “It's a serious matter,” said Judge Accordin to Bidwell, the and was later convicted of embez- gan to notice the young man | Gordon Just because no harm, Water is effervescent and spar- | zlement. Mendedoviteh then sued showed a fondness for the society |came from his being drunk, doesn't! Kling, but. several laborers who | Allen to recover his money. of Miss Hagar alter matters. He was a menace| drank of It exhibited unmistak The court rebuked the lawyer Mre. Gaskill bore a son, and | to life and limb. I can't break the| able signs of intoxication for demanding such a large fee. some time afterward gossip r rule I have made for all such case The unusual effect of the “It ia difficult to speak quietly garding Gaskill and Mi: even though he is a working man| drink soon wore off, but was in a case of this kind,” said Judge Hagar reached Its climax when | with a previous good record. Ishall| readily renewed by another |gmith. “Such practices as this Miss Hagar also became a {have to fine him $75.” draught one are what make ignorant men mother. 0. F. Drew drew a $16 fine for “e = take up the bludgeon and go out That wae the beginning of a | speeding. to seek elemental justice.” state of affalre which Browne- ville at first gasped over, then grew to accept. Year by year children were born to Mrs. Gaskill; year by year children came to Nancy Magar. . Of ten children born to Gaskill, seven survive. The 28 All married. Lydia young: Of Nancy Hagar’s ten children, she lost seven. The other three gre married. e- For some years been developing between the ch dren of the two women. This has culminated tn one immoral father, aring condu resulted in Mf Hagar being held for court in $3: bail. And there the matter res until court convene ain a A Feu AO MS WEE Soe AARTS ‘n feeling hae of wughters preferring | 00 ts The framing a demand on the Canadian |er effort to defraud the people.” government |e from British Columbia, 25 William Ogden was assessed $: on the same charge. JOHANNA HILTS ON BLACK LIST; CAN'T GET A JOB Because Johanna Hilts told true conditions at the wage hearing in Olympla, she has been blacklisted in all the Se- attle laundries, according to the findings of a committee from the Central Labor Council, dele- gated to investigate the matter. reported The committee night. When last marily dismissed from her posi- tion at the Troy laundry, and has been idle since. She hopes to get work soon when the Mutual laundry opens, but meantime she is living by means of help from the Laun. dry Workers’ local TO BAR HINDUS VANCOU VER, * ©, May 28. Vancouver Board of Trade is to exclude all Orien Attorney Allen was allowed as a just fee in the case DELAY PORT JOB |Phone Company Hasn’t Yet Sued! Attorney George Olson is ly- ing awake nights worrying ape. Suet eu we tee The port commission has post company threatens to bring | honed the awarding of a contract against his client L. L. Vellat, 3232 Walnut st. who refuses to ay a $5 cancellation charge for Rot Keeping the telephone a | foot of Bell et, year. poe a Olson thinks the phone com- pany Is acting mean in the matter by not filing the suit |WELCOME, BOG! and thus curing his insomnia. | | Present indications are the | N. Bogoraylensky, Russian consul phone company will not have |for the Northwest states and Alaska, Vellat’s $5 by the time the cows | has opened his offices in the Wil reach home, [hard hotel for the construction of the warm | and cold storage warehouse at the LABOR UNIONS TO OPPOSE CHARTER “We have every reason to believe | bor councl nesting an mae President ‘olton dubbe that the new charter will play Into | 144 proposed city manager a fittle and) monarch, and exclaime “Why not furnish a throne, a crown and a robe, and be done with it?” The council instituted a camp: to defeat the “Hinky Dink” meas- ure, and selected a committee of 80 to attend community meetings and speak {n opposition to it. Such was the statement of ©. W.| The striking miners were voted Doyle last night at the Central La-! $50 by the council, | the hands of the corporations, strongly urge its overwhelming dete at. The selection of the 30 councilmen from districts will re: ult in corruption, just as it did jwhen this city had the old ward | system. The new charter is anoth-