The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 3, 1914, Page 1

t e Se SW SS ee - === === 40 miles out on the mance begun 36 years ago in pon ting b He is 59; she is 56. He has two grown sons. ach Married to Another Years Ago, Sweethearts, Now Free, at Last Are Wed iS hyde OLD SWEETHEARTS took train in Seattle Wednesday night for Selleck Both have ‘been married before. Milwaukee, where they expect to finish a fairy-like ro- “living happily ever afterwards.” But the two who interrupted the romance many years ago, are dead now, The lives of the old sweethearts have been interwoven since childhood. And the story, like all good stories, has ended well. his own. Thomas Cleaver wag introduced demure Matilda Crock- in London. Was a stalwart, hand some young chap (as you may know by looking at him even now) He lald siege to ber heart. The siege didn’t last long—a year, or maybe a bit more; and then she pais to be his wife. too had tare Cleaver’s chum, | became Matilda Beech—tnstead of the fortress of | Matiids Cleaver, ae: planted orig: —— EATTLE CASTS ITS — BALLOT AGAINST A BIGGER ARMY-NAVY Two to one against inc: 9 either the army or navy—that's the Seattle verdict, according to the first 1,500 votes counted In The Star's referendum on this question. The vote thus far counted is 490 favoring an increase of the army and 1,066 aga! crease; 522 for an incr the navy and 1,042 against it. While all the votes have not yet| been counted, the majority against the Increase of armament in the U. 8. is so decided that it can scarcely be overcome by the re mainder of the votes. Arguing againat an increase, Jane Winterbourne, 1627 Summit ave writes: “While there may be some force in what our good Col. Roose velt says: ‘We will hurt no one, end will take care that no one hurts us,’ yet to me It would not be wise s this time to do anything in that It would fan into flame the jatent wish for war which dwells in some breasts. It would make us ap pear to be afraid. It would court the horrors of warfare. Certainly the events which have transpired in poor Europe since August 1 do not support arguments in favor of large Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cleaver, newiyweos, pnotograpned by Star man in lobby, while waiting for Cleaver’s younger son, who is 25. j cannot see how The Star can pro New Richmond hotet The other son is 32 and has children of Pretty Matilda found herself inj Thomas was not the sort to & most distressing predicament. nurse bis disappointments the rest She couldn't tell for the life of her of his days. Nor did he belleve in which she loved best letting the grasses grow rank be It used to be hard, those days, tween his toes for Thomaa to still think of the 1 t be one girl among other fellow as his chum. But a thoussnd, but that wae no rea somehow he managed !t. Even son he should re an old bach wore his best, most cheery smile, all his life * * * There was when early tn June, tn 1882, she Martha now! fida's very best girl friend * And 60, in =~ Continued” on Page 45 CLAIM THEY REVIVED WOMAN AFTER DEATH | iy OS ANGELES, Dec. 3.— inally. By grasping the heart of Mra “Welter We Akers and artificially restor- ing Its pulsations, Ors. C. 8. Hutchinson and P. M. Wil- liams brought their patient back from the land of the dead, according to their pos itive statement. Mra. Akers died, they said, while she was being oper- ated on for laparotomy. he had been dead 10 min- utes, Or. Williams id, when Dr. Hutchineon, reach- ing through the abdominal Incision that had been made, grasped her heart and gently manipulated it. Simultaneously Dr. Wil- siantzed,” Is the sententious com- ment of James Lind, Redondo. “Increasing the army and navy,” declares Arthur Neff, 2508 Laurel hurst ave., “would mean larger for tunes for the favored few and in creased poverty for the masses. | fess to be on the side of the com liams worked to restore res- mon people and at the ne time piration. |advocate increasing the army and Thelr efforts succeeded, navy (even for purposes of de. both doctors ai fense), Would you, Mr. Editor, vol the operation was suce Mrs. Akers, it was the hospital today, was r Ing easily. unteer for the front ranks on the firing line, or do you considet your self safe and snug in your little of fice?” | YESLER CABLE BREAKS AGAIN; HUNDREDS WALK That genial old cripple, the | It ts Yesier cable line, took It Into its head to suspend operations again Thursday morning, just conservatively lost by those who climbed the Y ler way hill from the park | estimated | nights ‘before | that 465 pounds of avoirdupois wan|Celpts to go toward filling empty DROP BOMB ON KRUPP SHOP VOLUME 16. NO. 242 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, DEC. | JOIN THE STAR’S EMPTY STOCKING CLUB A lot of folks came to The Star office or called us up on the telephone yesterday, joined the npty Stocking club. Herbert Schoenfeld, of the Sta “Put me down for toys,” he sai Dave McKenzie, county commissioner “I'm going back to the courthouse right now,” |ing fund in the commissioners’ office. ndard Furniture Co., d. “I've got three k was on Schoe: he of feld declares was the and first t own.” join my s heels. 1, “and start an Empty Stock- Our fund may not be larger than that of the treasurer's, or the auditor's, or the clerks’, or some other departments, but I think it will.” Harry Carroll, city comptroller, passed McKenzie on the stairs “You, too?” said Carroll “Got you!” said McKenzie “Make you a little bet the city hall beats the court house.” The plan this year is, we think, We want children to} Dreamland. In deference to the wish of Santa all poor come to our show at The Metropolitan Bullding ,partment, and he ts known to! Co. joined. [tame as the Great Big Baked Po-| a good one. “We'll be glad to contribute | tato Man. the use of an empty store | “1 want to give 1,000 ples,” he room—perhaps the one at 421° [eaid. “All kinds. Union st—where the public Sy) ce 7 a ets toys and other presents.” of 1,000 pies when J. R Joe Schermer of Dreamland pa , the Pine st apple man, vilion, who, of course, member of the Empty Stocking |club, proposes a dance a few Christmas, the re ig a charter | _ ime 4 We eg-| Stockings at the big show at police | Dreamland on Christmas day Empty “Kile da like apples,” he said. “Put own for apples.” sort of expect the fire and » departments to join the club, They al- y ‘Sto king armies or navies.” about the time several hundred Experts say any person who can pen agin their done. I bei in on our Christmas She's for Big Navy people living at Leschi park | climb this hill could filt up the side| Jimmie | Rene ae aad oaid Send It to Star Offi Minnie Headland, ienmond | and across Lake Washington (of Mount Rainier with ease r rag pot lh ruben en antlly Sel. We Taanen rie eis Mi (nad Beach, takes the opposite v wanted to come downtown to Five hundred people were from a| (O00 ag i! Sulldtan Gola offer CLA atcteroonl. “Just as long as other nations pre | their work. half hour to an hour late at chetr/“",4" George Sample, Roo Car-| but we figure we won't need {t un. pare for war, then the U. 8. surely] A ring on the power honse drum, | work rick, James H. Kane, F. R.\til the week before Christmas. In must. I am for a brave people, which winds the cable, broke, the ‘Taking an average loas of time Wilkins, and A. T. Nellson have the meantime, we would like to bigger army, and a mavy that ca” / traction officials explained. The! per person of three-quarters of an| joined. get an early start, so if you have lick the world.” . cars stopped at 6:33, They start hour, and doing a simple eum in Titus to Give 1,000 Pi toys or money to give, bring them John Sekavec, Algona, Wash.,| eq again at 8:33 arithmetic, tt 1s found tha: this! And, oh, yes, H. J. Titus {s one! to The Star office or send them to makes thia suggestion “Please| Meantime, hundreds tolled up *hé| equals 875 hours of lost time, or 47/of us. Titus {!s manager of the|"The Empty Stocking Club,” in tise your influence with congress to| steep hill, across the Leech! via-|working days of elght hours each,’ Northern Pacttic dining car de. care of this office pess a law making all person#/anct to ist av. S., then several —— voting for war go to the front first! biocks over to the Mount Baker 1 case of war ‘How long would Japan wait b ither that, or walked aloag the fore she would attack us?” ask8!b.,jevard to Madrona park Jackson, “if we were not pre rwar? Her dear little feel always being hurt and re A.B the murder ma writes another reader, “and the greatest enemies we now have are those now advo | cating more warships and a larger arn Ware are instruments for | capitalists who robs of home and| President Gutierrez livelihood in peace and of Ute in| (remy ive entered Mexico | war. City together, dispatches received Are We to Be Savages? |here today sald D. O'Brien, Port Angeles, writes: | "Tie entry to the capital was “So long as we build murder mM@-| ade from Tacuba, a suburb chines, they will be used for that|’"*phey were given an enthu: purpore. Are we always to be 88¥-| demonstration. They were es. ages, making the greatest murderer | corted to the palace by & hero? | troops: F. 8. Thorp, Dungeness, Wash —— 2 declares a large army and navy| Weather SORE t—Rain Friday. will not keep the U. 8. out of war,| TIDES A any more than it did Germany al High “I don’t think the American pe0-| g:41 «. m., 14.1 ft, ple like to be Russianized or Prus FOLLOWED Me HOME AND I'M GOING ro keeP i | LOOK TOM, THIS KITTEN | NEW PRESIDENT IN MEXICO CITY Provisional | of Mexico and| EL PASO, Dec. 1:20 p. m., 13.0 ft. \AW, | DON’T NOW JUST L Like cats!) OL ST LOOK AT “THE Fook THING! Claus, we extend an especially cor dial invitation to orphans. But why leave out mother and dad? So mothers, dads and guardians are invited to come with the chil dren ‘Twill Be Grand Party It is better this way because, let you in on a secret, last C mas and the Christmas before, eral greedy Dbigchimney kid whose homes Santa Clans had vis ited, sneaked into Dreamland and grabbed off presents which should have gone to Iittle-chimney kids There will be the tree kids, and Santa and presents to fill the stockings. And, besides, there will be a vaudeville bill for old and young. Woe also are figuring on a moving picture Christmas story to st | ly the person who appr Victor Place Is Freed by Court The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News on NEW 3, 1914. ONE CENT GERMANY rd Kitchener Grants First War Interview })) TRAINS AND 4 ATANDS, Be WON'T BE ~ BEATEN FOR 3 YEARS. The first interview with Earl Kitchener of Khartum, | English minister of war, | since the breaking out of hos- | tilities in Europe, has been granted to Irving S. Cobb, American war correspondent, and appears in the current is- sue of the Saturday Evening Po! ‘As Cobb explains, hi Kitch- be interviewed, Lord | ener questioning him closely about what the correspondent has observed In his wander- ings through Europe. In connection with the reported discovery by the Germans of se cret papers in the archives of the Belgian government after the fall of Brussels, through which the Germans claimed to have learned that Belgium was actually an ally of France and England long be- fore the war started, Lord Kitch- ener said “In other prepared their | was committed—which ithe alibi without excusing the act. |It is @ poor defense that must be changed in the middle of the tria! The interview goes on words, the Germans alibi after the act wilt b “Lord Kitchener,” , “in |your opinion, how long will this weakens | war last?” “Not less than three years,” he |said. “It will end only when Ger- ;many is thoroughly defeated, not | before—defeated on land and on |sea. That the allies will win is jcertain. That for us to win will require a minimum period of three |years, I think probable. It might last longer—this war might It might end sooner. It can end ig only one way.” He said three years! And at the time of speaking the war was a few days less three months old, Three months—the seas already empty of commerce and the lands of half the world shaking to the tread of marching millions who | thing! What it Will Mean Three months—Germany ready bleeding to death inter from two |rhages in her sides, and all France {in the field, and England ra’ another million of the pri manhood in the empire, to be provender for cannon! | Three months now—a year | means half of Europe underground jand the other half on crutches! Two years means a continent turned into a charnel house and ® hemisphere ruined for a genera- tion to come! EX-FOOTBALL COA Victor M. Place, attorney, one of the defendants named by the gov- ernment in the Tape conspiracy case, was dismissed Thursday noon by Judge Cushman of the federal court, at the conclusion of the government's case. Practically the entire morning was devoted to argument on the motions presented by the counsel for the respective defendants for |a dismissal of the case. | Judge Cushman denied the mo. CH DISMISSED tions of all the defendants except Place, declaring the evidence showed no acts of illegal conspir- acy on his part. Place is well known throughout the country, having been an All American football star at Dart mouth college. He was football coach of the, University of Washington for twa, years. The defense began its testimony Thursday afternoon. THE HAGUE, Dec. 3.—That a hos aviator bombarded the Krupp arms factory at Es. sen, Wednesday, was rumored ated that some of the | _alrman’s bombs hit a cannon BERLIN EXCITED BY AIR ATTACK shed and did considerable dam- age. The aviator escaped. | His nationality was un- | known, Berlin was very much excit- ed by the incident. WILL BOOST FOR Why a woman and a mother should be on the school board will jbe explained by Mrs. Nellie Burn |side, candidate for the position, |Friday noon, during a mass meet ing in the Woman's Exchange— Palace of eets—on Union st., between Second and Third aves Other speakers will be Rev. J D. 0, Powers, Mrs. Austin E. Grif MRS, BURNSIDE fiths, Mrs. C. BE. Bogardus, presi- dent of the Mothers’ congress; C. J. France, and Mrs. Cornelia Tem- pleton Hatcher. Mrs Cc. Haus- man will preside. There will be musical selections by Mrs. Freida Clarke Davidson. Mrs, Burnside will also address the Leschi Heights Improvement club, at an open meeting at 302 29th ave., at 4 p. m. Friday KING GEORGE IS ON FIRING LINE for the| Claus tn person, Dec. 3.—King George} the firing line in dispatch LONDON, has gone upon France, according to a received by the E |day from {ts Calais correspondent Considerable uneasiness was felt | for his safety here. His majesty, it was stated, was | displaying the utmost interest in the troops and had already visited the rear line of trenches. PLAYFUL LITTLE HoUs DIDN'T cats TOM? aT SHT You IM JDST DoING THIS TO PLEASE You LiKe Ye @ AN eae Sx LAST EDITION BRITON DECLARES — produce nothing and devour every- —