The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 23, 1914, Page 1

eae e \ ae stock. belt. Even should a real well of rich, ing oil be unca; at the brass-band function cqvatiged by the ioe Oil Co., for Tuesday afternoon, it does not mean that the Crescent or any other company has any more wells, or any other basis for the sale of oil There was one oil well at Calgary—just one. But there were scores of fly-by-night oil com- panies and there were hundreds and thousands of investors stung. There may be one oil are lots of oil companies The Star earnestly hopes that well at Tenino. But there fishing for easy money. oil has been struck in rich, paying quantities at Tenino. It would be as great a blessing as It would bring greater p this state could hope for. rosperity to the state than even the Klondike discovery. The Star hopes there is not only one oil well at Tenino but that there are several oil belts in this state, this thing. GO SLOW IN INVESTING YOUR MONEY IN OIL! WHETHER there is oil at Tenino or not, be slow to invest your money in oil stock. O: does not make a pralithiine be 0M The Star wants to be fair to everyone in But remember this: Ninety-nine per cent of oil stock never yielded a penny of dividends. Whatever oil stock is just so much paper. There is no real basis of security for it. offered for sale today is You may be able to sell it tomorrow or next day at a higher price than you paid for it, and you may not. If you don’t sell it, you are more than likely to get “stung.” It certainly offers nothing alluring in the way The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares IGHT EDITION VOLUME 16. _NO. 233 = SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1914, ONE CENT = me DOTTIE POTTER, TACOMA, WASH. OF MISS JEAN McLEOD, OF SIOUX CITY, - DAMAGING STORY | ‘TOLD BY WOMAN IN PHONE conrest) HAND AND Foor. TRIAL OF CHINESE Damaging evidence against China Dan, one of the alleged conspirators in the Tape case, was given Monday morning in the federal court by Bertha Bouchier, a woman of the un- derworld, and Thomas M. Fish- : U. 8. immigration inspector. The Bouchier woman is a mulat- to, who 0) ted a resort last sum- mer at 515 Eighth av. She is known to Chinatown as “Lillian.” She said China Dan had furnish- ed part of the money to equip the house, and that he and Jen Gow, the Chinaman who is alleged to have murdered Lum Kung, to pro- vent him from testifying against Frank H. Tape, former interpreter for the immigration service, were frequent visitors at her place. China Dan, Jen Gow and she were {n the same room about two weeks before Lum Kung was mur- dered, she testified, when she saw Lom Kung passing by the window. She called attention to him, and China Dan, she said, remarked: “There goes that stool-pigeon, the dirty He should be kiil- ed.” The two Chinamen, Lillian testt- fied, then lapsed into Chinese, and she couldn't understand what they i ] further said. On the day of the murder, the woman testified, Jen Gow called up wer house twice and asked if China Dan was there. Fisher testified to a conversation with China Dan, in which the latter admitted there were letters ex changed by him with the Hip Sing tong, at Portland, concerning Lum Kung, but that Dan denied he threatened Lum Kung. Fisher also told of a conversation with Tape on the day the latter! Was arrested on a charge of smug- gling Chinese into the country. Tape was angry, ho sald, and ex- claimed he would “show” Lum Kung “before he got through with him.” SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKER HELD IN BIG ROBBERY Nov. 23.— Los ANGELES, Charged with participation in the theft of gold bullion worth pees Clarence Loyst, 22, a hristian Endeavor and Sun- day school here today. The police say he confessed implicated Win- worker, Is In jail and that he field Scott, 23, mining man of Loyst, the police a ed to marry a young.woman of his chureh and to study Yor the min- istry. He participated in the raid to get funds, they say. OPEN SCHOOL ANNEX, | The new addition to the Lincoln |high achool will be opened for the inspection of the public Tuesday night, The addition includes audi torium and gymnasium. 200 JOBLESS WOMEN ASK AID OF Y. W.C. A. Two hundred women in need of ‘work, many of them even without means of obtaining shelter, peti- tioned the Y. W. C. A. for beds aft- er a meeting in Carpenters’ hall Monday. The meeting was arranged through advertisements inserted in the daily newspapers. Only unemployed women were asked to attend. Mrs. Hermon Titus Cecile y ‘presided. At the adjnurnment of the meet- , the womap, led by Mrs. Titus, Galied at tha¥. We C. A, where ‘ and Miss they presented their resolution to Miss BE, A. Southmayd, the general secretary. According to Miss ©. BH. Hough, hotel office secretary at the Y. W. C. A. the building 1s filled to tts capacity. Mrs. Titus related an instance of five women who, she said, were compelled to seek shelter under a | bridge at night. | beautiful telephone operator, MISS VAN DE VELDE, OF CLEVELAND, 0. on NEWS ATANDA, Be tonig TRAINS AND IF YOU COULD SEE ALL THE FAIR “DOROTHYS” WE’VE GATHERED, YOU’D NEVER LOSE YOUR TEMPER AGAIN TRYING TO GET CENTRAL EATHER FORECAST — Rain ht and Tuesday; brisk south- erly winds. MISS HAZEL WOOD, OF OMAHA, NEB. JUDGES TRY TO [THUGS ATTACK PICK WINNER IN| WOMAN: TIE HER CHICAGO, Nov. 23,—Who will play “Dorothy,” the role of sanay company? The country-wide search for the the one best adapted to become a film heroine, closed Saturday, Hun- dreds of entries poured in from ey- ery corner of the country. The judges are now engeged in selecting the winner. The judges didn’t know there were as many pretty telephone girls in the whole world as have been entered in this contest. From Maine to California every telephone exchange seems to hav been harboring an ‘ideal “Dorothy. The winner of the contest will have her fare paid to Chicago, where she will take the principal ood in the filming of “A Woman's vay.” She will receive $100 for her ef- forts, and, in the event she displays the histrionte talent hoped for by the Essanay people, she will be given permanent employment by them as ‘movi ‘tre r NOW CHILE MAY LIMA, Peru, Nov. 23—Chil- 90) rmined to atop German violations of the coun- try’s neutrality, even If It cost war. The Germans were charged with having establish- ed a naval station near Valpa- ralso. and) HOP ON KAISER " Mrs. Willlam H. Rayner, 2288 Dexter av. wae siugged on the head with a miik bottle and stunned by a young thug she had just fed at her home at 8:00 a.m. Mon An accomplice then appeared, | the pair bound her hand and ind left her lying in the kitchen while they ransacked the house and stole @ quantity of clothing and valuables, In- cluding a mink fur. Taking most of the eatables In the kitchen, they fled. mer lay on the floor over an hour, The first young fellow knocked at her kitchen door about 8 #. m. and asked for something to ea She gave him some sandwiches and a pint bottle of milk, and told him to sit on the back porch and eat, if he chose. A few minutes later she opened the screen door to take back the milk bottle. The man struck her a blow from which she did not recover until she found herself securely bound. Mra. T, McIntee, 2522 Dexter av., coming to call on Mra, Rayner, passed the two thugs hurrying from the house with a sultcase, She rush ed into the house, found Mra, Ray- er on the floor, revived per and {notified the police. | Mrs, Rayner is the wife of a teamster. MISS GERTIE MORRELL, OF STERLING, KAN. 0.K.,MR.SULTAN; MUCH OBLIGED WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.--That the firing toward the launch of the 1, 8. crulser Tennessee in Smyrna harbor by Turkish land batteries was designed to warn the launch th was approaching danger: ous waters, heavily mined, is the explanation of Turkey to the United States, conveyed through Ambas- sador Morgenthau at Constantt- nople ‘TURKS CLAS WITH BRITISH BERLIN, via The Hague, Nov. 23.—Fighting between Turks and British in the vicinity of the Suez canal was reported here today In dispatches from Constantinople. A complaint will be filed Monday afternoon by Attorney Edgar C. Snyder, petitioning for a recount of the votes for county commissioner in the recent election. Snyder rep- resents David McKenzie and Walter T. Christensen, progressives, who were nosed out by Mike Carrigan and Krist Knudsen by 400 and 300 votes, respectively, out of a total of approximately 60,000 votes cast. Members of the Y. W. ©. A | market. The purpose of the exchange Jellies and other foodstuffs. success for the Women's Exchange, | donated for the purpose on the lower floor of the Pike Place public WOMEN START MARKET EXCHANGE and the Mothers’ congress predict which opened Monday in the space is to assist the unemployed women of the city by furnishing them with a market for their baked goods, MISS DOROTHY NORTON OF SEATTLE, WASH. KAISER READY FOR RAID UPON BRITISH COAST? LONDON, Nov. 23-—Prepara- tions for a German Invasion of England are believed to be in Progress on the other side of the North Sea. Reports were current that the kaiser’s warships at Emden evident ly were preparing to put to # Mysterious troop movements were proceeding along the coast. The entire Belgian populations of the coast towns of Zeebrugge and Knocke had been transferred to Bruges. Move Population of Town The 40,000 inhabitants of Saint Nicholas had received orders to move to Antwerp. All these things are taken as meaning that the Germans were en- gaged in some undertaking concern- ing which they wanted none but Germans to know as yet. Six German submarines were sald already to e been put together at Zeebrui THUGS BIND AND GAG WATCHMAN Two men tried to rob a safe tn |the Seattle, Renton & Southern |car barn at Columbia station at 3:20 a. m. Monday, but gave the job up as a hopeless one. ‘The men gained entrance to the barn after covering Night Watch. man Ralph Gay with their guns | While one of the robbers. stood lover Gay with a gun the other at- tempted to pry open the safe door with a crowbar, They tied and gagged Gay and left of a permanent investment. If you are going to buy stock, make them show you how much of the money they’re going to spend in drilling operations, and find out who the men are behind the company. The Star will print all the reliable oil news obtainable. It is news like any other news. But it warns you not to take too seriously even the un- capping of the Crescent well. Even if that well proves to be what its owners claim for it, remember it is but one well and noth- ing more. BOALT INVESTIGATES OIL FIND TheSeattleStar Print the News HOPES FOR. WEALTH By Fred L. Boalt TENINO, Nov. 22.—Tenino today 1s poor. be rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Tenino's mind. Tenino farmers view their once despised acres with a new respect. A month ago you could have bought land here for from $10 to $30 am acre. Now the farmers ask $100 to $300, and they are not at all sure they want to sell. Tenino is on tip-toe with hope and expectancy. Tomorrow it will know for sure whether an ocean of oll lies beneath its quiet streets, its stumpy acres. For tomorrow the Crescent well will be uncapped. Will the Crescent well prove a “gusher” or a hole in the ground? Tenino is sure it will prove a “gus! ” Speculators had better go slow, however. If there ts of! here, in paying quantities, it will mean much for the Northwest. If there 1s not, somebody is going, to be left bolding the” | ha, 3 Tomorrow Tenino may There is no doubt ‘about it im “Oil,” said an old-timer today, “is a gift of God.” Tenino is Full of Visitors Tenino ts full of visitors exger to receive it. Some are legitimate operators. Some are honest speculators. Some are Rufus Wallingé fords, hatching schemes. And some are, no doubt, suckers. Still, you've got to take Tenino sertously. Remember, the big fellows never prospect. they step in and buy the little fellows out, no matter what it coste, © The big fellows’ experts are here, or have been here—the Standard, — the Union, the Shell (Dutch), the 1 Associated, the Wier (British), the Spreckels interests, and others. ‘ They know that such ol! as is here has the paraffine base. And oll with the paraffine base is scarce. California has many wells, but they produce asphalt off, of whieh ~ there overproduction. There are five refineries on the Coast, and It is they. ‘ “a is a purer, a mn thik asphalt off, and Every woman who trons clothes uses paraffine. hundred uses for by-products in medicine alone, hs But the inexperienced investor is well advised not to count his chickens until tomorrow. ‘ The alluring advertisements and artistically worded prospectuses might lead you to believe that Tenino bristles with derricks and that the air reeks with noxious fumes from many “gushers.” There are many companies, but just one well. And that well has yet to prove itself. : This is the well of the Crescent Oil Co., the pioneer here, which should not be confounded with the Crescent Drillers Co. Twenty Companies Already in Field ‘The Crescent Oil Co.'s well is 1,886 feet deep. Of! was struck Oe tober 3, when the well was capped, and the discovery kept secret in order to give the company time to acquire more acreage and a right- of-way for a pipe line to tide water. The news of the discovery leaked out, and other oi] men rushed to Olympia to incorporate. There are more than 20 companies which have filed at the capital now. Some of them have acquired acreage. Some have done nothing but iseue and sell stock. t Some of these are almost certainly fly-by-night affairs. They talk and advertise that they are “in the Crescent field,” because the | Crescent is the only company which really struck ofl—whether or not in paying quantities will not be known unl the well is uncapped, to morrow. 7 Many of the men who have rushed to Tenino are greenhorns; sD 7 far as oil is concerned, But they are learning rapidly the language the ofl field. 3 A boy who had bought $10 worth of shares in a concern which hasn't a well, or even a rig to drill a well, explained: “I don't see how I can lose. Our land is right on the anticline, The of] has the paraffine base. Now, if our land was on the sym cline—" He didn’t know what he was talking about, but that was what the man said who sold him the stock, and it sounds good. 7 Ané there are TENINO, POOR TODAY, TOMORROW, HE SAYS They leave that to the little fellows. Them SEATTLE IS EXCITED — Still in the grip of the oll fever, Seattle folks crowded oll-stock stores Monday, excitedly discussed the prospects, scanned maps, and hungrily grasped at any news con- cerning the Tenino district. ‘The buying of stock, however, prevailed Saturday night, when, {t {is conservatively estimated, about $60,000 exchanged hands. Like mushrooms over night. oil- stock-selling offices have bobbed up everywhere. On Third av. alone eight places. There is also talk of a stock ex- change to be opened up on Third lav. during the coming week, plans for which are now under way, ac- {cording to Francis W. Taylor, of |the Star Ofl company, 702 Second av there are Taylor says there will be about 100 brokers admitted to seats in the exchange, and stock will be bought and sold along the sanw lines as at the New York stock exchange. Those desiring to buy or sell stock will have to deal through the was not as feverish as that which +brokers, There was no perceptible in- crease in the value of oil stocks to- day and any quantity could be bought from all companies except the Crescent Co. The following quotations were given: Seattle Oil Co, 26 cents a share; Oil Development Co., 25 |cents; Pacific States Oil, 15 cents; |Home Oi] Co., 25 cents; Ballard Oil Well, 50 cents; Old Glory, 25 \cents; ‘“Tenino-Little Rock, 10 cents; United Oil Co,, 25 cents; Ajax, 10 cents; Star, 10 cents, | Done BROVHT YouR WASH MRS, DUFF_ Plans for forming a Woman's Unemployed league were taken up and will be acted upon at a meet- ing to be held in Red Men's hall Sunday night os HOW LONG HAVE. You HAD THAT LADNDRESS, HELEN? ABOUT THREE WEEKS, SHE DOES YOUR NEW SILK SHIRTS DP JUST FINE, DEST WE EVER HAD is WELL, HERE COMES MANDY OUR WASH LADY AND THERE GvEs ove oF MY RY NEW SHIRTS THAT SHE SS DOES UP SO WELL a 4 &