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

BLOW UP TRAIN IN ATTEMPT TO KILL CZAR RN iA Little Chat With Kelly! Kelly’s the whole thing at Everett. Three months ago a itil sataaiean’ then elected comm of all the other commissioners, left to run the town all by himself—that's Kelly’ 8 career in public life. ly $2,000 a year. “It’s —— to be a boss, oner of public safety, then, asaeh: the eau He’s mayor, chief of police, city counc'l, the whole works. “But,” complains Kelly, the traveling salesman, to a Star man, “they forgot to roll all the salaries into one for me. he sighs. Read about him on page 2. ' i & : ‘ i & hi MORE THAN 45.00 PAID COPIES DAILY The old-fashioned mothe yeed to tell the time of day ing mill whistle, has a di who wears a watch on her WHERE | SEATTLE’S Sand Prizes Will Be Awarded in| fetter Babies lost Perfect G you registered yet? , a, lat «No, not politics! i | ‘Bow babies are the all! im- subject in Seattle homes. haven't registered your offspring yet in Better Babies con- way behind several other folks in the town. have time to do it in} weeks on July 4, at Lescht to be the biggest, ‘Will Give C: prizes will give a handsome cup for the best all- baby girl in the show of | the three-year limit. wd Furniture com-| the same on the other | vilion during the afternoon and in| shouted the question down to him.| wire the cxar's train wae waiting family, having posted a the) up : will be) mr, who by the ughter wrist. VOLUME 16, PADDELFORD, A'PROF,’SAYS NO. 99. Educator Brought to Bear on Hen Question Expression; However It Isn't Yet Settled. | Does a hen sit or sot on her eggs? The question is on everybody's} tongue, The Star office is being | besieged by would-be grammatical witards, who are presenting trrefu {table proof in favor of one word and against the other. It's the re Contest for the’ irl or Boy loving cup for the best all-around | sult of a bet between two men on | | baby boy. ja Phinney av. car Tuesday mornin These two grand prizes will top|One bet the other $5. They came the list of awards. to The Star. Many Seattle merchants have/to settle it given prizes for various classes of | paid yet the judging. What's the answer? A diamond ring, a French doll | any? and a go-cart, for instance, will be | some of the awards. Doctors Wi! le There Any Answer? le judges The outcome looks gloomy. Ev | The babies will be judged on|@rybody’s so blamed certain with | points, by the standard rules of thelr arguments, and THEY jsuch contests, three Seattle physi: |PROVE IT BY THE DICTION clans acting as judges. ARY! | Entries are being made at Pan-| Does a hen sit or set? ton’s store, on Second av | Dr. F. M. Paddelford, professor | Mrs. M. BE. Howe, one of the/0f English at the University of | women in charge of the contest, Washington, had his sleeves rolled lurges parents to make their en-|hish preparing to leave town, and tries as early possib! |was submerged in the dark, | After the prizes are awarded |tressing mysteries of a trunk at there will be dancing at the pa his home when a Star reporter He came up on the tnstallment | plan and pondered the matter for a long time. “Well, anyw ithe evening until midnight. the sun sets, all . “Sete” Is Countritied S as it bore its own- and stopped. He rushed into! ing, seized a rug embrace the flames, | mach! B Ro use—he could only LASSEN TAKES "NOTHER RL AT ERUPTING GAME : Cal, June 18.-— wen was again in erup- The outbreak could be from Redding at 11:30 he crater’s eighth period “But then, on the other hand, does a hen sit? Why, yes; of ROPER ER bi tt He paused again, and mopped brow. tH UKE THAT He picked up that part of the| cited. “I am inclined to think the | building which happened to be afire | Word ‘sets’ Is just a sort of popu- and threw it into the street. |lar, countrified expreasion. pone: | “Get out, drat ye,” said Ole. ler it has qualified ® legitimate It was part of the stairway. word through general usage is a Ole gave the fire department the| Westion, but ‘sit’ is historically ha-ha when it arrived. Correct, oe chug-a-chug,” said Ole’s It would seem that, whereas bad hen was once content to ‘ matt O Ole. has now changed her tactics, nd te satisfy popular demands, ‘sets.’ Dictionary Says “Wait a minute. I'll consult the ‘ou see, it recognizes only ‘it! athe word ‘set’ conveys the impression of action, as ‘to set up- The boy, robbing the robin’s oat would set upon the eggs, but if he failed, the mother robin would About 1,000 tourists were epcamp- | jater return and sit on them. ed at the mountain's foot when the “There is no doubt mr tn vase gong Rong thought | yue what ‘att’ Ie the A 0 one was on the slope. —_— ger tocol of the rangers wanted to | ascend to make a short range inves pure descent. |tigation, but Supervisor Rushing for-| if they wanted | bade it. might put “Napo: This Will Give Every- body Something to Think About! ? THE HEN SITS Brains of Learned University) They asked The Star} The bet hasn't been} Or ts there | HISTORIAN HAMILTON FYFE gays that Carranza is a Mexican of What a starter for a national museum in roaring specimen of miscellaneous descent, they) SEATTLE, WASH., DUMMY TRAIN WRECKED BY Precaution Taken by Railroad Officials Saves Life of Russia's Ruler. MANY ARE INJURED Special Trainload of Police Rushed to Scene, But As- sassins Escape. BERLIN, June ——The czar barely escaped assassination Wednesday, according to a St. | Petersburg dispatch which, somehow escaping the censor, was received here today. The conspirators plott mite the impertal train between Kiesheneff and the capital, it ap peared Send a Train Ahead The plan would have succeeded had not the ratiroad authorities | | taken the usual precaution of send ing an ordinary passenger train ahead of the special, on which the czar, his wife, their children and the members of their suite were | traveling to St. Petersburg | The track had been mined near |Tachudnow and when the pilot) train reached the explosive the lo-) comotive was overturned, several coaches were derailed and a num ber of passengers wounded by fly jing splinters, to dyna THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1914 DYNAMITERS, Rush Police to Scene A message was sent to Kasatin, and a special carrying police w rushed to the scene of the ex plosion, No arrests had been made | jat the time the message was filed. | When the imperial train finally left Kasatin, trackwalkers preced ed It on foot and every inch of the | rondbed was minutely inspected un- LONG DISTANCE | HOLD-UPPING IS POOR BUSINESS While long-distance telephoning and other forma of communication | ‘at a distance have proven succes ful, long-distance holdupping fosen’t| KO. / A bold Seattle highwayman tried, on Woodland Park av. last night, to hold up G, F, Schutt, 4918 Wood land Park ay Sehutt was hoofing it along the avenue when a man, half a block behind, commanded him to halt. —_| “Schutt!” said Schutt, as he sped | up the street, leaving the robber) well in the rear. col §=And)| THE MILLI OLL ON AR MYSTERY Watch The Star j numbers on the car. | “flies into a fit of rage,” } Sar divorce filed today by his wife I ) He still gets | ? ¢ ONE CENT |AUTHORESS OF “BETH-TO-BABE” LETTERS, AND HER SON, GIVEN TO FATHER hi DIVORCE COURT ~ Bremrton:Hokran. Bretton HUGH CHILBERG SMILES AND SMILES AS HE'S ARRAIGNED FOR IGNORING TRAFFIC LAW The appearance of young & Hugh |$50 ase Chilberg, boon companion of John- ny Considine, jr., in police court today on a charge of violating the traffic ordinance, resulted in a wordy war between City Attorney Van Ruff and Judge Gordon, Officer R. J. Wiley testified young Chilberg, in a cycle car,| passed a Madison cable car at con-| speed when a woman was $50 assessed against Perry for an ae Mg of the speed law that next week would have meant a Jail sentence. Charged with going 45 miles an hour, Perry denied it em- phatically, but it didn't go. Judge Gordon teok occasion to tell him how lucky he was to have it happen now, instead of when the new schedule of $5 per mile becomes effective next week. 40 miles, the guilty parties will go said Chilberg had no|to jail on and after Sunday oe Chilberg’s attorney objected, on! G. E. Collins was scolded by the the ground that this wasn’t part of| judge for baving no Hcense num- the charge. Van Ruff argued that | ber, it all comes under the ordinance, “If these traffic violations don't but the judge sald no. He said | decrease I'll impose fines that will the only way around it was to try each charge separately. “All right,” sald Van Ruoff, and promptly issued another warrant against Chilberg, charging him with | traffic violators are on the docket having no numbers. The case will | today, the last “speeders’ day” un- be resumed on Tuesday |der the old achedule of fines. It tickled Hugh. He smiled and Predictions that the smiled Jers will slow up under |new schedule, were offere Perry Huff's papa paid a fine of | city hall today CITY MARSHAL TURNS GREEN, WIFE SAYS IN DIVORCE SUIT’ City Marshal A, T, Cook of Kent of Kent|/whom are of age Cook is charged with not only threatening and abusing his wife, but with heaping petty annoyances in her a He {s accused of wrapping himself in all the bed clothes and lying cross-wise in the bed, to prevent his wife from sleeping with him, CANNOT TEACH SCANDINAVIAN who about,” he said. . ee The usual grist of speeders and speed. ordon's at the turns a pale green color when he according to the charges made in a complaint | Hortense L, Cook. They were mar | ried in Waterville, Minn., and have four children, WANTS DIVORCE AFTER 26 YEARS Inability to agree on financial questions brought Mrs. Virginia M Elder and W. A ler, her aged | husband, before Judge Smith for | that a divorce today. Married in 1888 in 1885, three of some time chool board to have the city yester. day when the board announced that andinavians go asked the langt taught in schools were disappointed A consignment of gold that amounts to $168,900 arrived from Vancouver yesterday, the first of the spring shipments to the U. S./ assay office here. It's from Daw- son and the Atlin district. the present ‘The board decided on a new sant- tation system to cost $7,000 at the Latona school For everything above and including | give you fellows something to talk | there would be nothing doing for) The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News WEATHER FORECAST — tonight and Friday; winds. FE ASKS $90,000 OF | ) PREACHER “Beth-to-Babe” Love Letters Read in Court as Woman’s Soul Is Laid Bare by Merciless Lawyers HARTFORD, Conn., June 18.—Through the pitiless vivisection of a TRAINS AND NEWS RTANDIN fe love, along with “affinity,’ It is “mystic mating.” damages brought by Mrs. Elizabeth former word or deed. \cate of mystic wedlock.” What was the “mystic marriage” between this woman, and Freder- ick Ernest Holman—the “mystic marriage” which took place while she was still the wife of Rev. Dr. | Cranston Brenton, her first hus- |band, whom she is now suing be jeause he incarcerated ber in a lunatic asylum after he had dis- covered the “mystic” union of hearts and minds which joined her and Holman! see Elizabeth Alden Curtis, an intel- leetual and cultured girl, member jof an old New England family, met the young clergyman; they became engaged. They had not long been betrothed volume of verse. Frederick Ernest Holman, who, with his brother, conducted a pa- per in Taunton, Mass. read the volume, printed a review of it in his paper, and wrote to the author- ess. She replied, and a correspond- ence began which continued several months, It revealed a kinship of spirit be- tween the girl and the young news- paper man. | But Holman had little money and no particular prospects. Dr. Bren- ton came of a wealthy family, and |his rise in the church seemed as- sured. Then, too, Holman and Miss Cur- tis had never seen one another. The marriage took place, and was followed a year or two later by the marriage of Holman to a girl in Taunton. eee For four or five years no word |passed between Holman and Mrs | Brenton But both marriages turned unhappily, and eventually letters began to pass between them again. Souls in distress reached, out for one another, for solace in the old friendship. Still the {mage was only mental. In 1900 Cranston Brenton was a om Reig at Trinity College, in Hart | when Miss Curtis published a small) The correspondence went on, af- ter its renewal, for two or three years, before Holman and Mrs. | Brenton finally set eyes on one an- ‘other! Then, one day, in 1908, he came to Hartford. She met him at the railway sta- tion “*e In 1909 Holman and were divorced.. In the summer of 1912 Dr. Bren- | ton became possessed of letters |that had passed between the two, land had his wife shut up in an asylum in Battleboro, Vt., claiming we she was “morally unbalanced.” After a week's incarceration, Mrs. rent signed a confession of wrongdoing with Holman, on which “confession” Brenton got a divorce, lin May of 1913. his wife The day the decree was signed,| were | Brenton ears of tangled Holman and Mrs. married—after 18 paths and waiti eee The present trial, Mrs, Holman says, is not #0 much for money as AST EDITION Fair light westerly jon on trial he a new its place in the vocabulary of ind “mind mate.” The new expression has been disclosed in the action for $50,000 Curtis Brenton-Holman, against her husband, Rev. 0. Cranston Brenton. of the Rev. Dr. Frederick Ernest Holma and made a sworn statement that she and Holman were mate that on December 16, 1914, they are “TO TAKE A LITTLE RIDE TO- GETHER AND BE THENCEFORTH NO MORE PARTED"; have dreamed and fought for this for 14 years, and serve warning on all gods, men and devils to stand out of the way and let them march tri- umphant to their goal, and that they are never to be parted in thought, Brenton, the woman notary public in Rockla that they Mrs. Brenton-Holman refers to this sworn statement as “the certif- SAMPLES OF MYSTIC MATE LOVE LETTERS Many letters written by Mrs. Brenton to Holman have been offered by Dr. Brenton's lawyers. Sample extracts are as follows: O, my Beloved—you know that you are my life, and my heart's blood, and thy desire is mine honor, time has come when you want me —you know that | am yours. If, when summer comes, the gentle hands are still thus— are hungered—they shall possess their own. “It is mine to cool that blood. of thine, if it mounts to a living fever that will not be denied. Be patient. “In a few weeks | shall be in thy arms, with all | have to give thee. “1 am thine when thou wilt, in body In soul. Thy mate not afraid to pay that masked figure that is Purity his ultimate price. ee “it is my pride and crown that you desire me beyond the power to keep silence. for vindication of her character. She says she was not guilty of the infidelity to which, she alleges, she was forced to confess, at the price of her release from the asylum. She has a son, Jonathan, eight years jold, whom the decree gave to his out} father, Dr. Brenton, and a verdict for her in the suit would mean a renewed fight for his custody. HOW’S THIS AS A CUTE SAYING BY BOY OF SIX Editor The Star: When my fath- ind mother celebrated the fifty- venth anniversary of their wed- ding, | took my grandson of six on my knee and told him the life his- |tory of his great grandparents, of the many hardships they endured while crossing the plains, etc. He listened closely and when | had finished he said: “Fifty-seven rs. Heavens, grandma, | don't re | could live with a lady that MRS. R., Seattle. Have we heard from YOU yet regarding the brilliant remark made by your child or grandchild? The best and cutest “kid” story re- ceived each day will be printed in The Star the following day A STAR WANT AD will sell it quickly. The port of Seattle broke Paysse, just i ed, in which it for May a year ago—$7,885,427, of foreign imports $2,309,402. off in foreign exports PORT OF SEATTLE DOUBLES BUSINESS OVER YEAR AGO all former records during the month of May, according to the report of Port Warden A. A. is set forth that the total value and imports in Seattle during May was $15,077,372. practically double the value of exports and imports The value of domestic imports in May was $5,201,327, and Foreign import figures were boosted by the arrival of about $1,000,000 worth of raw silk and $15,000 worth of Australian meats. Domestic exports amounted to $6,673,977. A slight falling iS SSTERS