The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 15, 1914, Page 2

A Sic A ht Me NARS oll tRNA ARLEN NSD tab REET a NN Maing . Preece comneoneenChlatenpnn ree ee rome i ANN he tie GIRL IS DYING; ‘LOAD LIFTED ‘OFF HEART OF HER MOTHER Welcome news was taken today to the mother of Frances Helliwell, witting at the bedside of her daugh ter in the elty hospital, praying that she will get well Frances was badly tnjured in the automobile acct t Baturday night in which Bessie Holmes and Wel wood Murray Jost thetr lives. Joseph Taylor, driver of the car, told t police who arrested him how he and Murray had “picked up” the two girls and taken them for @ ride to | Luna park | Reverses Former Story | Parents of the girls protested that {t was not true—that the girls had known Taylor for a long time, and had met him by agreement, And then, yesterday, in the city jatl, Tay llor reversed his former story, say. ‘tng that he and Murray had known the girls several months before they took them to the dance at Luna park In the excitement of the moment he had forgotten, he said, | Sunday he said Mise Holmes Large, strong roomy Hammocks. threw her arms around his neck, They come tn good patterns, In stripes kissed him and asked him if he and Ortental effects, with wide valance ved her. and fringe, Thes re excellent val- This, he 4, cut off his view Bos at $1.69. ahead and caused the accident, Yesterday he sald Mins Helliwell, not Miss Holmes, was altting benide him. He still admits he was going More Star BARGAINS For Thursday We are giving Star readers two bargain days every week, namely, TUESDAY AND THURSDAY. Our advertisements will not appear in any other paper on thes days. We are testing the business-getting power of The Star and will do our part by giving Star readers merchandise of merit and_ bar- gains that have not been exaggerated. Get it at Panton’s, the home of Truth. $2.98 Hammocks Special at $1.69 STAR THURSDAY STAR THURSDAY Star Bargains in Dresses For House and Street Wear. We are offering Star readers four extra specials in Dresses for house and street wear. Bargain No, 1 consists of House Dresees made of pe or fancy designs. $1.25. Special for Star Thursday Bargain No, 2 ts Women's Street and House Dresses of percale, gingham, etc., all nicely ““98¢ and values up to $1.75, Spe- c ee oe vegeta be Hosiery for 26 miles an hour—15 miles over the Bargain No. 3 1s Women's Street . and” House Dresses, in cham- Ladies, Misses Cc eeaads brays and ginghame, attrac and Children He admits he and Murray had tively .trimmed with lace or embroidery. These are worth up Star Thursday . « Bargain No. 4 is Women's Street and House Dresses in beautiful plaids, in striped chambrays, ging- hams, etc, beautifully trimmed with lace or embroidery. Worth jbeen drinking, but says the girls \drank nothing. And Mins Helliwell, the only other survivor, ettll Hes at the city ho» pital, thickly swathed tn bandages, latlent except when she cries out deliriously with pain. And bestd jher site her mother, who says she [will get better, We have gathered together one big jot of Wom Misses and Infante Stockings, in black and colors, Bpectal for Star Thureday, per pair, 106. Bathing Suits We bare an tei @ line of Bathing up to $3.50 each. Special dies, M a Rope Avs [ig| The doctor shook hie head yea- for Star Thursday...... 1.49 ‘eaed paces Gas coe lterday after his daily visit. “Maybe she will,” he sald. “But she doean't seem as well today.” The inquest will be held late this week, ‘START ON BLOCK | Clerks hung out df windows, fash- jonably dressed women leaned on ithe fence, 4 prosperous lookin, business men dodged danger by nar- jrow margins at the site of the new | $500,000 Stuart bullding, Fourth and | University, last night, when a steam shovel started digging the excava- tion. They plan on completing ex eavation July 31, and the building in stx or seven months. Good Values in Porch Pillows Ready-Made Perch Pillows in ® great variety of attractive designe Aleo green and tan nctied Pillow Tops Specta’ .49¢ 80 Linen Crash Searfs stamped for working. @pectal 4Q Se Pillew Tepe in conven- @eo Seuvente Pillow Tops, of Mt Rainier and Seattle ob- Summer Hats. . 95c 100 Trimmed Hate, all thie sea- son's atyles, and made to sell for $4.00 to $5.00 each. Your choice Thursday for te Sailor Hats . . pS aA RHR ‘STAR—WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1914. PAGE 2. STARTS Hundred—a band of eh designe. witness the experienc millionaire helrens, w are attempting to obtal ADMISSION ALWAYS FOURTH AVENUE (Just North of Pike) FOUR DAYS ONLY “The 3rd Floor Flat” THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY By Harold MacGrath Thanhouser’s Million Deller Motion Picture Prodectioa! The Million Dollar Mystery will bring to light the mysterious ceremonies of the Black Russian bound by secret oaths to carry out their fiend It will reveal the innermost se- crete of this internationally known society You will see in these amazing films how the dextrous hand of Harold MacGrath has woven love and hatred tnto every scene. Organ Recitals by PROF. W. H. DONLEY And Our Regular Program 5c for Children \ | TODAY Milliona! You wil! tf Florence Gray, the fortune the plotters 10c WH i NAINA HHH) HH} Moonlight Excursion and Dano- Pibe. ea cold at te . > for Btar - ing on Steamer Issaquah on Lake aad nse Special for ure. Washington tonight, leaving Leschi at 8:15 and Madison park at 8:30, tigme“epecial sso... 806 “SOMETHING POPPING SOON” Okanogan County Furnishes Chapter Out of Regular Wild West Tale Staff Spectal. tion with the outside world were un; Republic, Wash. Mike spoke Ladies’ Vests Special 2 for 25¢ Fine ribbed Vests tn all sizes UP to 44. low neck and sleeve. loss. Bpectal, Star Thureday, each, or 2 for 3h¢. ahead Ladies’ Union Suits 50c Per Suit Ladies’ Set-anug Mesh Union ya most comfortable and durable sum: weight m cut large and full KELLER, Wash., July 15.—On the fringe of civ- ilization, 52 miles over a difficult, mountainous wagon path to the nearest white man’s community, is a dot of a town, which forms the only settlement in an area larger than the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. It is the town of Keller, ——— at Boys’ om Uni far up in the northern jean Uni elal, 250 per suit. part Washington. There the murder a highly educated half-breed Indian woman has turned the hands of the clock back a half century. The curtains were drawn back as if by the wave of a magic wand, and into the year of 1914 leaped a faith ful picture of the frontier days known to the pioneers who invaded the Okanogan wilds in the ‘60s, In place of the thin layer of civiliza- Seattie’s Popular-Priced Department Store tion in Keller, with !ts population of | DOVLE 1S BACK [125 writen naitdrceds “and: tall blood Indians, there is ott a flerce, menacing feud, involving BREMERTON, July 15.—Rear Ad-| yractically the entire population, miral Doyle has returned from San Francisco and has again assumed) command of the Pacific reserve fleet. and momentarily expected to break forth into deadly internecine war- fare. For the past two weeks the town MACHINE READY | ON LOOKOUT FOR TO SOAR TODAY) CROOK VISITORS has been getting Its sleep in fitful 5; HE ENDS It ALL snatches, Byery ae carries his ‘ day and night. “af McKey-Bryant, The Star's} The crooks are going to have a weapons eh girl, 1s ready for a trial/ hard time during the Potlatch. CHEHALIS, July 15.—Road| The air is charged with an omt- nous electricity, and it needs but a spark—a shot in the stillness of the night—to set it off with fatal re sults, All of Ferry and Okanogan coun- ties, the south half of which fs oc- cupled by the Indian reservation, expect bloodshed in Ferry—and soon. The sheriff declares the “shoot- ing” is about due. The prosecuting attorney even predicts who the first victim will be. Acquitted of Murder The town ts divided among Itself If we have any visitor crooks In our midst, they'd better go back home, because there will be detec- tives here from Vancouver, Port- land, Victoria, Tacoma and Spokane, ready to nab any dips they may see from their home towns. Seattle police will work tn 12-hour shifts, and will be alded and abetted by 25 special patrolmen. HE MUST DIG UP Supervisor John M. Johnson, 66, ended his life yesterday by blowing himself to fragments with dynamite. MEAT PRICES CUT flight above Seattle. She will test machine some time today, start- from her station on Harbor tsl- ~ All day yesterday she and her - manager, D. L. Francis, were busy with mechanicians assembling her rim little air craft and putting it {nto the pink of condition before her flight today. “I have a warm epot in my heart _ for Seattle, and hope to make a mark _ said Mrs. Bryant AMUSEMENTS for myself here this year,” SPOKANE, July 15.—B. ©. Mos- by, receiver of the Spokane-Colum- bia River Railway & Navigation Co., has been cited to appear in the su- perior court and show cause why he shoult not be punished for contempt in failing to obey the court's order TOMORROW, THURSDAY, AT FRYE & CO.’ as the result of the murder of Sally Nee Webber, a cultured half-titeed and one of the best-known Indian tn- terproters in the country Tom Runnels, a Carlisle graduate, and alleged to have been her affin- MOORE 2:30 & 8:30 ‘Twiee Daily Thie Week ond Next THE SPOILERS Phote-Drama of the Age Lower Floor and Balcony Seats Basorved Prices, Nights, 10¢-20¢-360 Matiness, 10¢ and 20c ity at one time, arrested, tried and acquitted of the murder. It was charged that he killed her in a fit of Jealousy, when, for the second time in an eventful career, the woman married a white man, Most of the adult ller testified at the trial on to distribute funds in his possession to the road's creditors. HARVEST BIG ROLL | Thieves harvested $130 from Mag- nus Bergman and George Carlson at |the Scandinavian picnic Atlantic park Monday. They escaped unde- tected. ‘FRAID OF FIRE MARKETS AS FOLLOWS: .. 106 Cholce Rib and Loin Choice Shoulder of both Lamb and Runnels’ defenders are in dead- ly feud, Founded Town In 1900 They came from the mountains near by and the Okanogan forests, in the northern part of Washington Choice Spare Albs . Choice Shoulder Steak THY PRESS CLUB TRIO 15c a tugged, adventurous lot—~and “Peae 250 Kvenings 50r-16¢ Mutton Chops .........+ |founded Keller in 1900, when the bee” Svat government opened up the Colville 7 | CENTRALIA, July 15,—As a re yh Steer Boiling 106 Ff reservation to mineral claims PANTAGES sult of recent fires, believed of In| Be They came to dig for gold and sit t Ce. 5 ie rule of government, ‘J JESSIE SHIRLEY Bush, charged with arson, pleaded, CM@P® ----- ago But for years the Okanogaw coun. ; PP ver not gullty yesterday. Look’ for U. & Hurple Stamp—i try remained unexplored territory to opulation of Kel: | sides, and now the state's witnesses | hind the movement to construct a known. As recently as 1912 it took with not the least trace of ex- |almont a week to obtain the resulta) citement. j | ] “UNDER TWO FLAGS” ST AT. asill It signities purity and quatie; & large extent, @ULIE RING & CO, A STAR WANT AD will Shops open until 6:20 p. or The telegraph, the railroad and ai e Ie and 260 sell it quickly. other modes of modern communice children.” io the presidential election. No One Sure of Life There is @ railroad tapping the Borthern part of the Okanogan now. It began operation July 1 last, and Provides a combination passenger and freight service. The trains stop at every tanktown and postoffice to load sheep, fruit, or Tom Runnels, old Joe Monahan, re; anything else, little or much, that the settlers haul for miles around to the “depota. As long as there was peace, the white man’s rule of government ob- tained. When trouble arose, the primitive emotions and rules of action assert- ed themselves, and no one is sure of his life in Keller today. eee “"Bout time for that ‘shoot- Ing’ down at Keller,” remark- ed Mike Moran, the sheriff at HUERTA GETS ‘FAMILY AWAY; HE’LL FOLLOW VERA CRUZ, July 15.—The fam- ilies of President Huerta and War Minister Blanquet, from Mexico City, reached Orizaba at noon, At that time U, S. Consul Can- ada had not learned whether the fugitives were bound for Vera Cruz, Puerto Mexico or Salina Cruz, At Cordova, the first station be- yond Ortzaba, the railroad lines di- verge in three different directions, Puerto Mexico was thought the travelers’ likeliest destination. General Funston was arranging to receive and protect the refugees It was expected Huerta and Blanquet would follow their fami- les shortly, At Mexico City the president lounged about the Jockey club dur- ing the morning, had a cognac, and then entered a barber shop for a shave. } His presence in the shop attract- ed a throng at the entranee, He appeared calm. BACK NEW ROAD EVERETT, July 15,—-The Everett Commercial Club yesterday got be- new road, with the necessary bridges, from the north end of the Everett peninsula to Marysville. This will shorten the distance to northern points by from seven 10 nine miles GET BLESSING CENTRALIA, July = 15,—After. | causing the arrest of Homer Farle; who eloped with her 15-year-old daughter, on the charge of abduc- Mrs, Emma Swisher relented you, my yesterda: A cool, composed, hardy son of ithe Wi Mike seldom raises bis voice above ordinary conversation- al tones. | A shooting at Keller—well, why get excited about so obvious a mat- |ter of fact? | Only a month before the trial of Med .on by the ite an one of the principal witnesses against him, “accidentally” drowned while on a |fishing trip. Hiram Runnels, a brother of the |accused man, was cut almost from ear to ear by an Indian. | Many “Accidents” at Keller There have been several “acct dents” of this nature at Keller. | “Ought to hear pretty quick jaboat something ‘popping’ down there,” the sheriff said “Yo weartly said James T. 0-0H! DID YOU HEAR OF THIS BIG MURDER? Chug! Chu! The motorcycle their way, Honk! Honk! The coroner was doing a Tetz- laff. Ting-wling-wling. The telephone bells in The Star office jangled. Everything was excitement! Se- attle was face to face with a most mysterious case! The head of a woman was found in the garbage dump at Lake Un- fon, near the Brace & Hergert mill, at 3 o'clock yesterday after- noon. cops were on Two boys found it, and, their hair standing on end, ran away, screaming, Near the head were bones, stripped of fles! A red = substance—"congealed blood,” was the report to the po- Hee-—was visible at the throat. The head and bones were wrapped in a cloth sack, For hours after the ghastly find the Lake Union district buzzed with the excitement. In the meantime the coroner made an examination and announe- ed that the head and the bones be- longed to different persons, and that both had been dead a year or more, The “congealed blood” was red lead, he said, that had been placed in the head by a medical student to preserve the lines of the face, Apparently, when the student or the physician was through with the skull and bones, he coolly wrapped them up and dropped them into the garbage can According to the garbage col- lector, who brought in the sack, the ‘skull and bones came from the vicinity of the Queen Anne gro- cery, on Boston st. several Johuson, the prosecuting attorney. “It'll be ‘Stuttering Johnnie’ Her- man who'll be the first to go when it does pop.” Herman had turned state's evi- dence against Runnels. Johnson spoke listiessly. He had put up a stiff, hard, cour- ageous fight to convict young Run- nels. Jury Acquits Prisoner “It was an ‘open-and-shut’ case,” jhe declares. “It could not hav j been stronger.” But the jury acquitted the prison- er, And Johnson, in open court, ac- cused them of cowardice. “They were afraid they would not escape with their lives if they con- victed,” he told the court. “And the whole county seems to be in the same state of terror.” Johnson thereupon requested the court to dismiss the charges against two of Runnels’ alleged accomplices. The court grant- ed the motion. “It's no u Johnson sald, “WE CAN'T GET A JURY TO CONVICT, NO MATTER WHAT THE EVIDENCE 18.” cee As soon as night falls in Keller, the town hushes itself into tomb- like silence. It 18 the lull before the impend- ing storm, Even the Indian whisky, which, in the language of the mountain- eers of the Okanogan country, will make “a Jackrabbit spit in a Hon's eye,” has thus far been eschewed by even the boldest, and no one has thus far ventured outdoors alone in the dark, And {t {s dark at Keller at night —pitch dark. Not a light tllumines the place, When the sun descends over the low, rerrated peaks which hem the town on all sides, and turns from dull crimson and tawny gold into utter blackness, it is a signal for all to retire to their huts and cabi Tt is like the sounding of “ to the trooper in camp. The signal is faithfully being heeded just now at Keller, But one of these nights some with as Sheriff Moran says, “the shooting will pop.” TO ASK INCREASE An Increase of wages for the miners of the state will be demand- ed today or tomorrow by the scale committee of the miners’ conven- tion, meeting here this week at the Labor Temple, says Martin J. Flyzik, president of District No, 10, of the United Mine Workers, He antict- pates no trouble. PORTLAND, July 15.—In trial of J. W. Logan of Seattle, | charged with fraudulent use of the mails in disposing of land In the Or- egon & California railroad grant, witnesses yesterday declared Logan continued to accept applications aft- er he had been indicted, telling seek- ers “it was an absolute cinch,” | the Jeweler and ith le Now Located at His New Store 1010 Second Ave. Near STEWART HOUSE ‘Market 25e Large modern outside roome, for 1 or 2, é Modern single rooms To Most People The Prime Feature of Seattle Is Its Public Markets i THE South-End Public Market] In “Market Square” Third—Washii fontaine—Yesier Is the latest and most : perfectly arranged and y equipped of all Seattle’s public markets—the near- est approach to the ideal. This splendid market is located in “Market Square,” one block east of the 42-story Smith Building; a half block south of the new Court House, now under con- struction, “Market Square” is the pivot point in Seattle’s trans portation, traffic and ! business sy stem s—the i City’s Center. West Entrance, Third and Washington. East En- trance, Washington and Prefontaine. A Se Come, see the perfect ; market, and the system ft which has taken the ; “HIGH” out of Seattle’s cost of living. Extra special “specials” during Potlatch week.