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

i ii ae yg letter (eTrained Nurs of Port Orchard, "a “but MORE THAN sures. She could see he had 45,000 PAID COPIES DAILY Seattle man came in late and told his wife he'd been talking war mea. There were powder marks on his shoulder, VOLUME MUTTERINGS OF A MUTT 1 Never kill ‘eal his bunk, WAY TO BE I E The love of a mother is as fathomless as the mysterious sea flies on baby’s head with love and the winds of fortune will favor thee. ::: IAPPY IN THIS WORL a tack hammer. :: ( : Eve, womanlike, If congress reduces the tariff on lumber, will board be any cheaper? he Seattle Sta The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News 6. No. 116, SEATTLE, WASH., mur mured, “Oh, this is so Sail your ar zing in the mirror before the fire, many a man gazes on a liar. when Adam gosies on the ocean of sudden,” Beat it, kid,” she coyly said, “before I bend your beazer.” THE ONLY 4 D IS TO BE USEFUL TO YOUR FELLOW MEN. q EDITION ; WEATHER FORECAST—Cheer up! The sun is gonna shine this i FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1914. ONE CENT ON TRAINS A NEWS STANDS, Be Wester afternoon and tomorrow, anyway. ly winds. rBOALT ARRESTED ON U.S. ORDERS! CONFINED TO QUARTERS ON. WORD OF WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON, July 10.—Frederick L. Boalt, correspondent for the | Seattle Star at Vera Cruz, | was being held under tech- | nical arrest “in quarters” at the Mexican port to | day, it was announced by | the war department, pend- | ing investigation of a story sent by him to the | United States, to which the military officials took | exception. Technical ar- rest, it was stated, meant simply that he was con- fined to his hotel. An article declaring Ley de Fuge” was applied by a naval/ @quad from the American warships | during the battle at the occupation of Vera Cruz was the cause for the arrest at the Mexican port of Fred L. Boalt. Ley de Fuga is the Mexican law by which prisoners who attempt to escape may be shot, and in the past has often been a convenient meth-— od of getting rid of undesirable rs. Boalt has cabled that the Infor. for this article was given of naval officers. charged that the article was but under the reguiations ning correspondents, the war tment may arrest and deport } ‘anyone publishing matter that does not meet the approval of ba Amer lean authorities at at Vera Cru ra Cruz. WRITER TAKES MURDER BLAME MINEOLA, N. Y., July 10.—As- gerting she fired the shot that! killed Mrs. Bailey, an anonymous} writer, signing herself a/ ” besought the an- orities at Mineola today ase Mrs. Florence Carman, there, charged with responsibility for the murder. “For God's sake,” said the letter, “tree Mrs. Carman. She is a good, honest woman. I fired the shot. I meant to get Dr. Carman. He knows why. I'll get him yet.” DIES AT PHONE PREMERTON, July 10—While telepnoning for a physician to come | to her, Mrs. Olive yarrison, plo- heer and wife of a former mayor CARS The outcome the Gp ZLING. ar Que Mavs QoINTQV Speciation —_ Yesterday afternoon went ly a street car ride Visited Volunteer park, tl with my papers, sat in gwhade of a tree to read. nervous mamma. al, come here this minute; FIGHT TO PUT CITY ON 4TH AV. I the And it was there I saw Percival and his well-meaning sit down and be still.” of the/on : Fouts av. by giving fell dead at the city’s fight to run its cars common J — over the Seattle, Renton user privileges & Southern tracks by a modification of the Hand- fordized injunction issued in favor of the road three years ago by Judge Don- worth, is being decided today by three federal judges sitting on the case. The triple court consists of Judges William B, Gilbert, Edward KE. Cushman and Jeremiah Neterer Attorney Harold Preston repre sented the receivers of the com pany and Corporation Counsel Bradford with Assistant R. 8 Plerce for the etty. Injunction Too Broad Counsel Pierce, in his argument, contended that the sole question father! was whether or not the injunction 1, stop chasing that cat!” “Percival, if you don’t make less noise I'll tell and he'll attend to you.” And for a whole afternoon it was “Percival, don’t” and “Percival, d until tonight we expect “Percival” will ring in our ears and pre They hz yresumably that Percival might have a good time. But if we're any judge of b er cival wasn’t havin for he no sooner started to enjoy him self, boy fashion, than the sharp voice of his querulous guar dian coiled itself around him like a lariat and yanked him! into captivity. Of course, Percival’s mamma loved Percival and thought she was shooting her machine-gun commands at him for Per nev er agreed cival’s best interest The trouble with that an was that she had been a boy he Had been, she would have with the Minnesota man who told the convention of school teachers in Chicago that a boy is compounded work ar It was even enjoyable for he still on par 2 just be passive to the care nature, for she built that way But for a live boy—ugh! The unconscious cruelties of doting parents to growing} hildren must make the angels mourn, Sunday | went beyond the purpose for which it was given He contended that the injunction covered entirely too broad a scope and precluded the efty from e cising its rights under the fran chine The main purpose of this tn junctic was to stop the city from taking action under the fran chise re al ordinance,” he said But the injunction goes much fur ther. It is so broad in its restric tions that If the city tried to en- » or exert its common user rights would be in contempt of court “The only purpose of a tempor ory injunction is to have con tions remain the same as they we yrevious to the controversy. It should give no more rights to eith r party in the dispute Previous to the injunction, the ity claims common user rights isted, and that the injunction went too far in abrogating these. Attorney Preston charged that the city has deliberately delayed | litigation in the 8. R. & 8, affairs with the intention of finally taking the road over for 4 song. | yet. And 5 of Her Victim F.G. PETTIT, business sec’y Y. M. C. A. COL. J. M@. HAWTHORNE, attorney EVERETT C. ELLIS, deputy prosecutor SENATOR DANIEL LANDON, attorney CHARLES M’KENZIE, real estate dealer WE HAVE A NEW NEIGHBOR A Pretty Girl Over Where the Colonel Used to Live The Star has a new nelghbor. Myot knowing a mighty pretty girl has come to live next | Character. | Col, J, Scott Ecker, he door to us, And everybody on thé! command of the Second West Vir- aff is interested |eioia infantry through We don't know who she ie—not|/ war. A mechanical Neither do we know where © came from, nor how long she intends to stay But we DO know that wedike her life, until his later years, very much, every one of us—from were peaceful, though we fear Albert, the office boy, to the boss, lonely. And the boss a married man, too! We'd like to have her to know it, but we are just a bit timid about gaying it to her face. For we can) eee that she is the sort of girl who mightn't ike it—coming from strangers like us. i And we are very gind she has come. Somehow, things seem brighter around, here now. The robin, swaying and teetering ontaide the window on the wires leading from the telegraph room, chirps more sweetly since that first |time we saw her, several mornings | Ko. } We were very jealous that morn: ing. Because she was talking to a young man, as she perched on the railing of the Veranda. She was enveloped gingham apron, We are going to try and become | acquainted with he, young Indy. ina dig Woe shall ni tt we can help It, again commit the mistake of which | we were guilty with that other neighbor—the old man who used to sit on that same veranda last sum: mer, and who must have been very lonely at times, the very times we were longing to have a pleasant word or two with him. The reason we never did was) that we were afraid—afraid to) break the ice by a nod or maybe a smile, We know now that the old man would have welcomed our friend- ship, because our telegraph oper | ator, disdaining formalities, actual- ly did nod one day. And the old man, serambling to his feet, returned the salutation with a courtly bow—and when the loperator told us about it we knew} |our neighbor was from the South . We missed ‘ne old man from the | profession. other the Which doer And all because of us. * © reminds us of our | colonel new neighbor, the girl, Big Cat Holds again City in Terror; Attacks Dogs HIGHLAND, Cal, July 10. After being virtually held prisoners in their homes for three je by huge Mai- tese cat, which has terror. ized the town, residents of Highland are again on the streets and the town has settied down to ite normal condition, with knowledg that the vampire cat hae been slain. The huge feline appeared In Highland three days ago and for three days and nights wae on a ram running about the town, bi ing chunke from the calves of the legs of men and wom- en alike. The cat did not to attack dogs and would hid in the branch of tr ind pounce on the un- suspecting victime ae they passed beneath. ‘Those who were bitten by the cat are anxiously watch- Ing for symptoms of hydro- phobia. hesitate FLIP A COIN TO DECIDE BALLOT interesting | In |lives of The the civiljand office boy and all the rest engineer by | place left vacant by the passing of At one time and an-|the old man. of a number of things, and withal leading an active | parts to see that we shall not live which in self-r Although she doesn't realize it, jshe has come to fill a place in the Star's editors and re- the artist and operator a porters, And we are going to do our ‘oach when she goes. Because we think she WILL go some time. Not the way the venerable did. But there ts that |young man, you know ‘CANDIDATES | BUSY TODAY IN FILING BEE Filing Clerk H. W. Odom arrived }at the courthouse early this morn ing, because he knew there was a full day ahead. He was there at } 7:10. But he found a half dozen leager-looking men standing in line at the door ahead of him. | They were the first candidates to file for county and state offices heed the coming election. Some of them had men in line all night ; Candidates filed at the rate of one leas than every two minutes for a time. By 8:40 there were 2 names on file, Thirty-five had filed this afternoon. Candidates have 29 days to file after today Here they are, in the order they Appeared at the wicket m. prosecuting repu republican |Bublican: John a Thate | publican; John RB. Wright publican; J, H. Carroll fasitce of | John A.’ Bennett, berintendent of Arthur P. porch a little while afterwards A iM a. »w mornings later there was i" agg ton Lee eortadoar, and we knew we| “Heads,” sald James. Grittiths |. Brern., usice of the, panes had withheld our greetings too| when a coin was flipped at yester *, republican; Otis W. Brinker, jus: long. day's meeting of the Seattle Mer Aa LF ong ta Fred Boalt told you about ft at) nants’ Exchange to decide a tle H. Clementson, Justice of the the time, you'll remember. | We! with Geo. F., Thorndyke, for trus-|>r, , repuuiiebat’ Wivent took the trouble to investigate then, when it was too late, and we found we had deprived ourselves OLD MAN TRIES |bara county hospital, is one of the strangest him now? teeship. And heads ft was. TO SHOOT HIMSELF: BULLET GOES WILD BUT IMAGINATION KILLS SANTA BARBARA, Cal., July 10.) man’s head and burted ttself tn the -Paychological suicide 1s the cause| ceiling. . advanced today for the death of} Immediately Bartlett exhibited Wm. Bartlett, $0, at the Santa Bar| avery indication that he had been shot ve 48th district, repub- Mean; Dr. Waiter T. Christensen, county commissioner Third distri John Ht . Progressive Fletcher, ansestor. progressive repress Line ct, republican senator S7th district k Hdwards, senator dint district, pre Oriaon J. C. Dutton, re N, A. Shellberg, presontative, republican. NAB WOMAN IN GAMBLING RAID among those ar of the peace, republican stato A woman was The case ns , " ean recorded here He grasped his throat with both| Tested In a gambling raid at the} Bartlett late yesterday seized a/ hands and toppled to the floor with Lexington hotel last night, revolver, and, according to wit-\s moan. She is Barris Peterson, She is nesses, attempted to kill himself. Almost at once he stiffened in| charged with disorderly conduct Friends seized the gun ‘as he/death, }along with R, Thomas and Walter pulled the trigger, and the bullet) Every effort to restore him was| Johnson, ‘There were eight arrest passed several feet over the old/made, but without avall ed in all What say, commissioners! HIS OUGHT TO FINISH HIM! G TATE AUDITOR CLAUSEN has refused to alter in the slightest degree) the report of his examiners on the condition of affairs at the King county hospital, in which they charge Dr. Waldo Richardson, superintendent, | 1, with incompetency., brutality and waste of county funds. action removes the last prop of Commissioner Knudsen, in his effort to stick with Hamilton and save the doc. Auditor Clausen’s Shall we fire an the magazine - | be very SEATTLE ARE GAY OL (Mies Nina Gotibert ut the gay old bachelor ttle bit ity perienoes with th Do Seattle bachelors flirt? Guilty! That's my verdict. But they're awfully nice, When naturally rather timid gorgeous time. hey're a folly lot such a fine collection of bold, hand tangled I started out on my flirtation e: Evening Post a8 a plausible means of the bachelors. 1 was supposed polite and interested to let on. I was a little nervous when I Y. M. C. A. would be a quiet place t when I entered the lobby but {t was too late to back out I wanted to find Mr. F. G man where he was, and all the They seemed mightily interested, ed, Mr. Pettit is a nice looking man He smiled cheerfully and his eyes twinkled through his glasses member of the Metropolitan players, really didn't know whether to do it or not But now I'm so glad I did it, The place was full of fine-looking young chaps, Pettit, was induced by yee sof Seattle ‘The Star wanted to know 4 M ullbert og as & magazine Bhe says the ba Her ex- F BY NINA GUILBERT Star editor first asked me to make this expedition, I 1 was rather afraid. I'm I had a perfectly I wonder why so many girls stay single with some fellows running around unen- xperience armed with the Saturday of gaining entrance into the offices 3 to take subscriptions, It was the 3 first time in my Ife that I ever tried to sell anything. Maybe some of my magazine talk sounded funny to my victims, but they were all too started out. I thought maybe the o begin. My heart was all a-flutter I felt terribly fuss- business agent. I asked @ young ¥ boys stopped reading and talking. 928 He wore a brown suit. i view he asked me what I wanted. I_exp! Post to help out get around aac of the “crippled boy,” and Mr. “Ah, yes,” he said. cumstances and you want to gi little fellow! in having you on his side. | subscribers. to hel; pol «i me see; there's a Mr. “Oh, well, him, t “Well, no; 1 suppose not.” BLUSHED. And what do you think? scription that I forgot the date. a pencil. He let me have one. learning. I finally got outside. I was more business-like b: Hawthorne's office in the Ne |fellow, with gray hair and twinkly, good-natured eyes. |him my story about the magazi “Have a chair,” he said, “a Do you know, t lup here every week with ticket sell, I just can't take them all, all good causes and think you a you Ah—by the way, we jname I told him a name. After that we had a very i Col. Hawthorne is a “ 1 had never seen a prosecutor. looking men, IVING AWAY By Jack Spratt Watch for me this afternoon. Don't get effended when I try to give you a dollar, I'm harmless, Try to be as polite as I am, It sounded easy yesterday when | the editor told me to give a dollar to the first woman I saw downtown | with a copy of The Star, But giv- lafter all, I saw one buy a Star, Fine,” I thought, }1 get rid of the dollar.” well-dressed woman “here’ s where “1 beg your pardon,” I said, in politest. manner, tipping my | hat “Tm Jack Spratt. Here ts—" “I don't care who you are! Don't try to get fresh with me, young fellow or I'll call an officer,” and she whirled on down the street just as indignant as could be, ed.that. lL was out poor, little eripp! I smiled rather sorrowfully at the though “I see. Er—at least, I should say he’s rather fortunate I consider you are doing an admir- able work. Yes, indeed. I'll be glad to take a subscription. | You shouldn't have any trouble at all in getting a number of ,I know several men who will no doubt be glad think of it, he’s in the swimming pool just now.” 1 said, rather hastily. AND MR, PETTIT LAUGHED QUITE CORDIALLY AND I was so excited over getting the sub- I asked him and he told me. 1 wrote his name in my book, A fine jot of blunders for me to make with my first bachelor. Then I remembered I had forgotten to ask ~ him how long he wanted the magazine. ee eee satisfying to know that one is doing a kind deed, like regular” bachelor. eee ee I felt quite cheerful when I left him and made up my mind to try the prosecuting attorney's office next. who wanted to arrest ever was 8o polite, I guess I'll have to break the rule and mention his name, Jail. But they aren't I was looking for Chief Deputy hallway I met Deputy Thomas Kennedy. (Continue JACK SPRATT HAS TROUBLE WOMAN THREATENS ARREST ing away money isn’t such a snap} etting. subscriptions to’ ed boy I knew, who cou Pettit was all sympathy. The boy is in straitened cir- ive him a helping hand. Jones here who—but, come to “1 couldn't very well see 1 hadn't But | was y the time I reached Col. J. M. w York block. He is a fine I told ne. nd I'll explain why I can't take here are any number of women s and one thing and another to you see. But I do believe in re doing a noble work. It must ould you mind telling me your nteresting chat. I always supposed they were fierce- ybody and send them off to Prosedutor Everett C. Ellis. -In tha He's a married man, but he d on Page 7.) MONEY; ONE_ That rather took the wind out of my sails. If I lose my job for it, confess I saw an unusually stout lady witha Star. I looked the oth- er way. I didn’t dare try her. I | was afraid she'd hit me, cs I felt rather glum and was wan-s dering past the Bon Marche when 1 saw a good Jooking young woman ltalking to another Indy and a gen- ) tleman, I ventured. see you have The Si Jack Spratt.” ih, I see,” she said just as n as could be, “Thank you so muc! as I gave her the @@Mar. She is Miss Blanche Colwell, of 1117 Pike st. I'm to try again this afternoon and every afternoon after that for a while, I've got to ” 1 said,