The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 27, 1914, Page 1

DO YOU KNOW A BEAUTIFUL “Since eclence strated that color has sound, It's no longer considered sur. prising that Soy Bean's vest et resembling has demon If you will go to the public library, the librarian will be giad to fetch you that stand- ard work, “Burgtary and Kin- dred Arts,” by Mr. William Sykes Turn to the chapter under the heading, “Successful High- way Robbery; How to Achieve It,” and you will find this ex- cellent advice “1 strongly urge ambitious wng men to avoid this ranch of QOutlawry unless they be peculiarly adapted to it. The succeusful Highway- tman should be calm, strong, Masterful. The weak, vacillat- ing Highwayman ts _ fore-| doomed to failure.” And this: “Look your sub- ject squarely in the eyes. Hold his gaze with yours. Domi- nate him in the city jail “young men. They ha on-“euspieion or the other of them is a Weak, vacillating highway- man. One or the other of them has neglected to read and heed the trustworthy authority to which your attention has been called. Both are nursing sore jaws. Tt fs no less than a scandal that 80 many incompetent amateurs have been permitted to enter Into competition with the skilled and able exponents of a once flourish ing trade | The times are lean enough,| goodness knows’ Naturally, both “suspects” deny that they tried to hold up Ernest T. Leighton. But one ying. are two been of them is probably Ernest T. Leighton is a smallish man of modest mien and quiet de nor. But you never can tell about these quiet men He was returning to bis home, 609 Zist av.. late, and was gn East Pine, between 18th and 19th, when a highwayman stepped out of &n alley, and thrust a revolver into his point no fault can be found with highwayman’s form. “Red” Mulllgar an wh more efficient highwayman lived, could not have done better. And “Red proud of his technique. But the highwayman look Leighton squarely in the eyes? Did he hold his gaze? Did he dominate him? No! It was slovenly work. he om no ever| ie let his gaze shift down- d to Leighton’s scarfpin. id Leighton hit him on the peint of the chin “OUT! killed trians came along, and too, pronounced the highwayman dead. Leighton telephoned the police to bring the dead wagon hile Leighton was telephoning the high awoke, dazedly sensed what had happend, and ran| Bpobblingly down the alley, with| e pedestrians {n half-hearted pursuit Motorcycle Cops Hams got there picked up two sore jaws Leighto him. Othe bad Rix and Wil-| too iste. They| “suspects” with | It was a shameful thing to hap pen, and none of our best-known Highwaymen likes to talk about it The “suspects” are vehement tn thetr fons of tnnocence and both plausible explana tions of their sore jaw It is the obvious guilty one to make a clean breast. Until he does, the innocent man, | who deserves your deepest sympa thy, must bear upon his ‘scutcheon an undeserved biot. JAIL FOR A SPEEDER W. 8. McCarty was the topline attraction among the speeders in police court Tuesday. He drew a one-day jail term and $25 fine for snesding ——e ‘ duty of the} mf HAVE UGRGP UU WNW U AKE A MOVI NG PIGTURE AGTRES §$ 0 The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News VOLUME 16. _ NO. 2 ° This Photograph Shows What Remains of a Dining-Room of a House In Antwerp. A Big Mt Crashed Through the Wall, Filling the Room With Debris, Through the Hole Can Be Seen the Wreck of Another Antwerp Home. These babies of Antwerp were lost by their mothers in the wild flight from Antwerp into Holland '° Arriving at the Dutch border, the Holland soldiers took the little ones in charge and cared for them until homes were found for them. 90 DIE IN MINE when the Germans bombarded that city. OFFER REWARD FOR CAPTURE OF “FLOATERS”, Counctiman Ira cha of the cow y ol ward for of an registe illegal at the F HERRIN, 11, Oct. 27.— Ninety coal minera were be lieved to have met death today In an explosion of gas at the North mine, owned by the Franklin County Coal Co., at Roylaton, near here At 2p. been rec Mi ficlals admitted were trapped t th Of this number, 282 allve. If the figures given out by the mine officials are correct, 60 men are still entombed Rescuers have abandoned all hope of bringing them out alive The explosion m., shortly after the reported for dut for ent out D atate Lundy, progr red $100 re vice m. 25 vered. est and conviction bodies had person who has fraudulently The money was deposited #t National bank “We have Information there have been many ‘floaters’ registered in wntown precinets;” sald Lundy hey are people who have lived here a year and are not en titled to vote. We want any such fraudulent voters sent to the pent tentiary, and we'll be Jobnny-on-the | a Spot on election day to get them who attempts to vote men were rescued not occured at 7:26 day sbift rescue first annual Home Consumers’ dance, Hippodrome ‘TF YOU have human blood in your veins, vote for Ole Hanson,’ James Harris, father of Russell Harris of the entombed men, led the first rescue party Harris and bis assistants saved ka ft will be of the mine impos men still entire west entry flame rescuers were The compelled to abandon efforts to penetrate still| farther Into the workings, Many of the men rescued alive were suffering from burns and other hurts. The 16 corpses recovered wero found at the bottom of the shaft The entrs to the shaft has been roped off to prevent women and children from trying to de acend d Rader ulturiat new King county reports for dut eee By United Preee PARIS, Oct. 27.—The inferno today. lights on each others’ ranks. below. The British monitors which had been withdrawn after three of them had been hit shells, are again in action in Belgian canals, hurling death | among the Germans | the JEOREN. WITH BIG GUNS ON GERMANS The latter, after having receded from the coast to escape the fire from the big guns of the warships sea, forgot this dan of today’s fighting within three in the North ger Jn the fury and again ventured miles of the shore. The warships reopened on them enfilading their lines and pounded them mercilessly | The German center, It Jed at Gen. Gallient’s head at a point midway between Nieuport and Dixmude and was di rected almost due west directly |toward Dunkirk | The hospitals Calais were to be already filled to overflowing and private homes were being commandeered |for the benefit of the wounded British »s were taking man glied men across the channel to England as rapidly as possible BRITISH SUFFERING ENORMOUS LOSSES To the southwest of Ypres, be-| tween Armentiers and Lille an other furious struggle was pro gressing Here the British were bearing the brunt of the fighting, striving with all their strength to cut the German line of communication to the eastward Their enormous, th to be gaining er At the extr kaiser's line, clos Germans had appro to Nieuport that shells from thet fell in the elty SAYS GERMANS ARE DRIVEN ACROSS FRONTIER “The the einity mans @ re at Dunkirk and admittedly eported 1 slowly of the losses were but were French offen’ in f Naney ross th has dri ts usual daily That the the allies’ kaiser was crumpling right between Toul and Verdun was denied | On the contrary, {it was declared | if the French maintain thefr ad vantage in the Nancy region, the Germans must soon surrender the fortifications {n the vicinity of St Mihtel and abandon the west bank of the Meuse, or risk being trap ped and captured The Germans were stated of ficlally here today to be bom barding Arras. It was said the entire city was practically de stroyed OFFER MRS. CARMAN $80,000 TO PLAY IN HEART THROB FILM MINEOLA, Oct. 27,—An offer of $80,000 has been to Mrs. Carman by a big motion picture company to star in a three-reel “heart-throb” film play she Is acquitted, It le re ported. It was also said that a New York enterprise offered her $1,000 a week for a limited engagement. ’ says the Independent Record of Prosser, Wash. the night of hideous carnage. compatibility from court Monday night AND . oe ~ eee a a WEATHER FORECAST Fair to- and Wednesday; light, east- erly winds ake kw HEAVENS LIGHTED MILES AROUND BY TERRIBLE BATTLE west bank of the river Yser, between Nieuport and Dixmude, was literally an Bursting bombs and shrapnel lit up the heavens. Miles away the thunder of the engagement was plainly audible. Aviators were taking a prominent part. During the night the flashing searchlights frequently revealed them, hovering over the field, on the alert for the least item of information concerning the fighting forces It was at this point that the Germans, already across the stream, were hurling every ounce of their strength against the allies’ front, in an iron determination to break through toward Dunkirk and Calais. The fighting increased constantly in strength. Both sides were rushing up reinforcements. It was the critical point on the whole battle line and admittedly the situation marked a climax in the west- ern theatre of the present war. There was no cessation in the struggle Monday night. Throughout all the hours of what should have been darkness, the combatants played enormous search- Resembling a log jam, the Yser is clogged with the bodies of at least 2,500 German soldiers, following Many of them were drowned outright, while others fell or were dragged into the water after being bayoneted or shot. The canal for miles is colored with the blood of the soldiers. wince! WHAT IS ART? PRETTY MODEL DEFENDS UNCLOTHED © FORM; ILLINOIS TOWN BRANDS IT AS INDECENT AND ASKS AUTHORITIES TO PUT B AN UNCLOTHED WOMAN JUST AS MODEST AS UNCLOTHED TREE, SAYS PRETTY MODEL BY HATTIE MILLER (Famous Kansas City Model!) “There is too much talk of immorality in art l ‘Most of the time | pose in the nude, and | consider myself per. fectly respectable,” says Hattie Miller, Kansas City artist's model, “These artist folks don’t bother me. “They know that a person can pose in the altogether and still be perfectly respectable. “That there's nothing more immoral about an unclothed woman than there Is about an unclothed tree.” MRS. PORT WARDEN GETS DIVORCE femperamental differences were cited in a general complaint of in as the grounds for divorce Mrs H. Paysse Alexander A. Pay attle’s port warden, in Humphries Divorer ranted by Jeanette Judg, If you have red blood; if your heart AN ON PICTUR fee | Hilda Byers and Ted Shawn | appeared || dances at Evanston, Il. pictures which caused furore. The the | find out just now. | And everybody In the town le Joining In the movement to de- termine, once and for all, wi division must be made between art and indecency. It all came about when a local apher displayed pictures in his show window of Ted Shawn and Hilda Byers, posed in the shy and flimsy habilaments of the classie eek period. It was in these costumes that the jdancers thrilled fashionable aud+ fences at Ravinia park all summer, And, while Evanstonians were per | mitted to witness the dances at the park, the Y. M. C. A, for one, de Jolares that “high art” is brought down to m » Vulgarity when trans. erred from a stage to a show win- photog So four cl may be ¢ limits of dec pwomen and a reporter 4 upon to decide the nev in Pveneton art beats for your fellow men, if you want to hear human issues discussed, hear Ole Hanson at the Dreamland rink Friday night. The progressive candidate for United States senator will prac- tically wind up his campaign here Friday night. He has a message to deliver that you ought to hear. The meeting begins at 8 o’clock. In classio