The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 19, 1914, Page 2

‘Wholesale Jewelry St Local Concern Forced to Liquidate ock to Be Sold; Whitcomb Jewelry Company Stock Goes on Sale Mon-| day—To The Whitcomh Jewelry Which has been doing business in Seattle for the past six compelled to sell off its stock retail, After making every effort to dispose of {ts stock to the re tailers of this city without suc Tt has decided to dispose of th Stock to the public at less than one half wholesale prices. The fact t the concern has been crowded by its creditors leaves it no alterna tive. The stock has been placed in charge of Mr. EB. G. Betrys, a well known local salesman, for quick dis posal. Asa result of this move th Seattle public will be enabled to buy jewelry this year for about on the wholesale cost. Some idea of the savings that may be made can be gathered from the following company Cuff links that sell for a dollar thm the retail stores will be sold at 25e a pair. Dollar scarf pins, set with semi-precious jewels, will go for 25c. Brooches that sell for $3 will be sold for $1 slid gold lock ets that sell for $15 will be sold for $4.50, Solid gold neck Tetail for $5 will be » 5. $16 bracelets will be sold for $5 Gold filled rings which retail for $2 will be sold for 450. $2 and $2.5 watch fobs will be sold for 90e. watch fobs will be sold for $1.25 Cameo scarf pins which retail for $12 will be sold for $3.75. Solid gold seart pins which retail for $10 will| go for $3. $8 and $10 solid gold inks will be closed out at $3.75. $5 solid gold front links will be soid| $5 Waldemar wate chains will go for $1.75. $4 la val Heres, with rose coral settings, will be sold for $1.75. La vallleres of alt} Be Sold at 30 Cents on the Dollar. Jsolid go $25, will b which usually retail for sold for $8 ng are merely sample rything is marked plain figures at the wholesale selling price, and the reductions | Will be taken from these figu This ts the firet time that a whole jewelry stock has been dis posed of in this way in Seattle, It ie one of the most remarkable in eidents that has ever happened tn this city, If the sample rooms of Whitcomd Jewelry company better located it would not ssary to make such drastic reductions, but the fact that nearly I local Jewelers are overloaded and are unable to buy amy more, and the fact that the offices of the Whit Iry company are in the ock (foot of Yesler way),| somewhat out of the beaten track, kes {t necessary to practically s away in order to dis-| and get what little} i from the wreck, The offices the Whitcomb Jewelry company are on the fourth floor of | the Pacific Block, as stated, and the entire stock will be sold at reduc tions similar to those quoted above One of the leading banks of this elty which is Interested in the con-| cern, has engaged Mr. Bettys to) superintend the advertising and the| disposal of this stock. | Sale will open Monday morning! | at 9 o'clock and will be continued | until ® sufficient amount of money | is raised to meet present pressing | obligations | Further particulars tn the Sunday | Post-Intelligencer and fn the Mon day evening Star. | were \) | 4 of can be save pose hem v JOE SCHLUMPF GETS DIVORCE Joe Schlumpf, former city coun and at present a salesman Seattle Brewing & Malting obtained a divorce from his nie L. Schlumpf, on grounds | patibility. Schlumpf comes from the family, wealthy pioneers. effort was made to give the ag little publicity as possible complaint was filed Friday, and maay minutes had elapsed had been granted. Seblumpt did not contest NOISCO, Dec. 19.— red light abatement effective, the tender- Uvely as ever, oi 29 ie 1 egea FOR EVENING BUYING BEFORE CHRISTMAS ‘Weedhouse & Grunbeum Furniture Co, Believe Their Employes Are Entitied to Reguiar Rest and ‘WIll Not Remein Open Evenings After Tonight. precedents which gov- era the long hours usually re Quire of at this season salespeop! of the year, the Woodhouse-Grun-| baum Furniture company will keep their establishment open only one evening before Christmas, that be fag tonight, as is usual the year around. This will be the only op portunity for Christmas shoppers who depend upon evening buying. The pals of the firm feel that it is only fair to their many employes to keep closed during the evening, and the salesmen, who are naturally extremely busy during the business hours, are more) than ever entitled to their regular, “ hours of rest and recreation. As a consequence tonight presents, * the last and only opportunity for| . making Christmas purchases at this | furniture store before Christmas. of mind is one of the rewards of thrift. The perfect free- dom from worry which you will en- joy will be well worth any slight self- denial you may have to practice in build- ing up your savings account in the DEXTER MORTON TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK “MAYOR GILL TO DEAL HARSHLY WITH RIOTERS. Mayor Gill Saturday empha- sized his position that he will { brook no such further deport ment from the men posing as “an army of unemployed" aracterized their —rieting Thureday night, and thelr unruly behavior In the city Jall Friday, | when the police resorted to the | fire hose to quell their nolse by drenching them with water. Twenty of the men, who refused) ** to keep quiet even after the water! Moy rere carmen” “lfor many seasons, simply because were told they! itt refused to take seriously each would sisep without blankets 1f/ .14 every one of the great singers er eg sesh oe egcho ed out| WR Attempted to wear the mantle as p Ba La 2sprronoantOa —or, rather, the gay silk shawl—of quelling any furth Emma Calve. but he is keeping his pian| “Mts Farrar, the only great “Car himself. GM! also |men™ since Calve, agrees wih her can be Fa Bh pn Mas famous predecessor in the part. extra police. “It te quite true,” she told me chtet 2 had Asked the finance| ‘2? other night in her dressingroom to give him two extra 4@t the Metropolitan, “that ry ‘at the city stockade, for add., YOM" has something of ‘Carmen’ protection against any mob at-/',Ner Own DALE. | : tempt to rescue the rioters, The| “I de not think of my ‘Carmen mayor disapproved the plan. Coun.| ** wicked, but unmoral—just the ‘men eo natural woman,” i en at Meee We oe nc itat, the, cavewoman knocking| The r victim down with a club and i We coeds aan Goeguing him late er lair,” T one od. ome te Qekete tatermeat,| "Just that,” Mise Parrar assented, ers at the stockade suffering with| With & smile more dazzlin | myriad lights of the «r come” who are compelled to €rub| puso in which whe had just taken “ | dozen curtain calls, oe ad tee reine *@ PAY 8n7|" She reclined on a divan in an un- z usually spacious dressing room heavy with the odor of many blos- soms, Mirrors, gowns, flowers formed a little oasis of delight on one side of the great deserted stage, and in the midst of them bloomed | the pertect human flower which is called Farrar. “‘Carmen’ sees a man who at tracts her and she takes him ruth- lessly. “When she tires of him she leaves | | him, just as ruthlessly | DANCES SELL ATA | DOLLAR AT STAR’S “inewand any ‘roman in whom | DREAMLAND ‘HOP’ te as manila that piney pr boo iF — of cake and, of course, wants it/ |] (Continued From Page 1.) | \and takes it “atter awhile the cake stales, per haps when it fs only half eaten. “And ‘Carmen’ sees no reason By Nixola Greeley-Smith Yew YORK, Dec. 19.~ wheraltthe Farrar bas restored “Carmen” to the repertoire of the Metropolitan opera house, and her success in the role of the gypsy coquette ts the sensation of the season in musical bum: The mayor counseled shutting off) the heat at the stockade if the) Prisoners started any trouble. Hi. also suggested arming the guard with rifles, to prevent any attempt at rescuing the rioters. Christmas? No to fill my stock » Going Geraldine Farrar ay! Vi a two-by- oly furnish- one dresser, one| Bible, walting Will he come? A Honest, | wish | was | why sho should keep on eating that plece of cake after she has had) enough of ft. I don’t, either.” | “Perhaps that ts the reason you! believe marriage to be incompatible with the career of a great artist I sald. “You have been quoted as saying that you will never marry Is that because you think you might tire of your piece of cake?” Miss Farrar nodded merrily, t blue eyes sparkling os,” ahe-sald; “that’s it.” “I should not like to have to keep stick around a four bedroom, a Gideon for Santa Claus. fat chance! dead.” Then the other Whirlwinds gath ered round her, and scolded her, and comforted her. And little by little the sun drove the clouds away, and the littlest one smiled s through her tears. | She accused herself of being a| poor sport with a four-ply grouch— which {sn’t true—“but, honest, “poor “itiechimney vies ot me THC Brightest Women Find stage! dull. in and that backache, make fife But thes her . * | We made a clear profit of $160 on the dance, That's a lot ¢ money and a lot of dancing when sometimes that they you stop to consider that the| min pressed in spi lances cost only six for a quarter|they have headache at no admission was charged ste en “big-chimn men paid|/@d sufferings that ach for the honor of having|seem not worth livir the first dance with the Whirlwind |eonditions need be onl Beauties, and after that the Whirl- ‘They areusually caused winds charged but two-bite. It 6. biiousness and a f PILLS Dreamland was just a trifle too) crowded for comfort, and the lit and aro ion doses of tlest Whirlwind’s were not the only feet stepped on | It was after 1 o'clock before the dancers were rea to quit at fire and Main, ha Star for the ids’” Christmas given us cand The Nut House has contributed 200 packages of walted peanuts The Third The headquarters, e sent $18 to little-chin men will right t quickly, safely This f. es the at tes the live: certainly reme t has Is stimu. , regulates the bowels, eecham's Pills cleanse the system of sonmeniiating pilaccs ahd parity St Pauls Episcopal Church hay|the blood. ‘Their beneficial nection given us a boxful of children’s fine hows in brighter looks, clearer books complexions, better feelings. ‘Try| them, and you also will find that they | | May Be Relied Upon pingetene of model welad om every bom, kn bones, 10c., 25, The Star's Christmas store room is at 1315 Fifth av., be- tween Union and University. Gend your toys and things there. If you feel that you'd like to give us money, which we need most of all, send It to the edites, [celebrated at Catholic cathedral. o——_ sonville, Ore | be | City, Mo. | ) Lundin announced. STAR—SATURDAY, DEC. 19, 1914, PAGE 2 "EVERY WOMAN'S A COQUETTE AT HEART’| KAISER’S SONIS GERMANY TRIES SAYS GERALDINE FARRAR, NEW ‘CARMEN’ WOUNDED; GUNS TURNED ON CITY PARIS, Dec, 19—The Ger mane are bombarding Rheims again today. It was contended here that they were doing sv solely in revenge for a recent French attack In which Prince Au quate Wiiheim, one of the kale sons, was wounded. This attack followed a report by an aviator who had been spying on t uiser'’s forces that prepara seemed to be in progress for some important ceremony, that bands were playing, and that the troops were in readiness for a re view Shell Hite Royal It was conjectured that the \prince, who was known to be at the front, intended to inspect the Teutonte forces, #0 In resi the aviator’s suggestion concerning the range, a shell was fired which struck an automobile desertbed here as being occupied by an portant personage. The airman's version was that | this individual was the prince, _ jhe reported that the latter | wounded on the bead and one le | That night the Germans resumed | the bombardment, and have con. tinued {t since, despite the fact, according to the French, that there are no longer any troops in Rhetma. Allles Make Big Gain Moving from northeast of Arras, the French and British forces held fons today which most important gains they made since the battle of the th Auto ha’ Alan It was the first time in two months they have occupied ground east of Arras. Fighting was outskirts of St. Laurent Blangy, indicating an the allies of 2% miles. GERMANS KEEP UP and vance by points along their fronts, both the on eating my cake after | had had|Germans and Russians have had enough! successes in the Eastern war 20 “Don't you think that's rather a/0fficial reports by Field Marsl dangerous philosophy you're preach: Von Hindenburg and Grand Duke ing?” interposed a brilliant man| Nicholas say who was listening to our conve: This in fact appeared to be the tion. situation, Conditions in the south undoudt =s people tn i goowiyy yes. ledly favored the Germans. Their Miss Farrar answered. “but I proach savance on Warsaw from the north Kt only tor myself. $m a pagan. 1) unquestionably hed been crushed, don't know where I came from, |yut south of Vistula it seemed clear where or when { am going. S80 1!) that their movement on the Polish live my life feeling that I am re-| metropolis was atill 1 progress sible spe Segfhvarlcey ‘ ‘ersons who do that mins many) KAISER TRYING TO HEAD OFF NEW WAR : things perhaps, but they gain many) things. They make mistakes. But) ATHENS, Dee. 19 19.—Germany is endeavoring to prevent a rupture one of the Leroy and least ao-| knowledged human rights is the between Greece and Turkey The kalser's ambassador at Con right to your own mistakes.” stantinople hi received orders to SHORT NEWS |) sssiesn Scorers : f a Greek non-comminsioned of: ficer attached to his country's lega- jon at the sultan’s capital, who Sam Levikow heid for express of- fice theft in Kansas City. jas been under sentence of death as @ spy. Associated Students wiii|formatory who have good records study filmed Bible story, “Creation.” | ¥!!l spend Christmas at home. Thursday New Christ Eplecopal| ~” First church will open with Christmas Presbyterian Church Wemen of St. Margaret's guild Cor. Seventh and Spring selling Red Cross seals. M. A. MATTHEWS, D. D., Minister Seventy-five boye at Chehalis re- Lucile Wright, alleged shopift er, bound over to superior court. F. M. Stern, lawyer, must settle! claim of $1,140 with Abe Green-| baum. Chrie Stokes, electric runabout; leg broken Claude White, 21, arrested for entering grocery store. Mrs. Harrie held as one of gang! of counterfeiters, Peter Maratta, held on whit charge, skips $6,000 bond. 0. H. Richardson, historian, ad dresses Young Business Men's club. Major J, B. Cavanaugh leaves for Washington, D. C Judge Ronald aske $25 from city for damage to auto. Belgium king thanks Samuel Hill r rifts, Or. Matthews will address Minis. ters’ Federation Monday night. | Hebrew Education and Free Loan| association banquets Sunday night.| The Feast of Christmas to be newaboy, hit by Morning sermon, 11 “The Evangelistic Side of the Ledger” Evening sermon, 7:30 p. 1 “The Conspiracy of Infidelity” The church that will inspire you with better thoughts and cheer you with ite welcome HOW TO CLEAR AWAY PIMPLES Pathe your face for several min- utes with Resinol Soap and bat water, then apply a little Resin Ointment very gently. Let thie bas on 10 minutes, and wash off with Resinol Soap and more hot water, finishing with dash of cold water to close the pores. Do this once or twice @ day, and you will be aston- ished to find how quickly the heal- Ing, antiseptio Rosinol me soothes and cleanses the pores, pimples and blackheads ana ‘he complexion clear and ve: Resinol Olntment and Resinol Albany, Ore., court frees George! soap stop itching instantly and Solomon, charged with complicity| speedily heal skin humors, Tashes |wounds and chafin, Sold by in Killing Frank Grier | ts and. Archibald Colquhoun, journalist (ugeists. Doctors Tava ‘prescribed | for Harry Wilson will address Y. M. Sunday club, ELSEWHERE I Wenatchee apple shipment totais 6,386% cars. Loris Martin, Warden Game! Jack- who killed Hubbard, lodged in Jail. mae to} {|the fnarket In order to bold it for represented | reported on the! WARSAW ADVANCE) LONDON, Dec. 19.—At different | TO CONSERVE FOOD SUPPLY ROME York.) Dec. 25 to Jan. 2 MATINEES SATURDAYS, WE (By Mall to Ne The federal counetl of Ger many has adopted rigorous mea ures for conserving many cereal supply during the advices present . according t here tatistios just eompleted by evtablish that on the basis provided for, Germany will no difficulty in getting along next years crops are har-| perts now have until vested One of the new measures enacted by the federal council provides that all millers shall grind wheat to the extent that 76 per cent of it becomes flour. This does away with the | waste that ensues in the grinding of fine qualit of flour | All bakers are or to mix with wheat flour at least 10 per |cent of rye flour Five per cent of potatoes must also be mixed in bread made ex clusively of rye flour, and this may jeven be tncreased up to 20 per | cent | The feeding to animals of grain which can be made into bread has Jalxo been prohibited Owing to the fact that the potato supply 1s somewhat short this year | restrictive ures have been |taken to conserve them. The use lof potatoes In the making of spirits is limited to 60 per cent of the usual amount To prevent speculators and oth-| Jers from withdrawing grain from Char | higher prices, a number of measures have been enacted permitting the government to appropriate all such grain | Of barley there is plenty for the army, and no restrictions have been | placed on {ts consumption. ANTAGE Unequaled Vaudevitie—Our Policy Never METROPOLITAN (Except Sunday) DNESDAY AND NEW YEAR'S vA Mr. George S RLIS As Presented for 1 YEAR IN NE 4 MONTIB IN 6 MONTHS IN OPENS MONDAY, Matiness, Hoe to 81.00. BEGINNING MONDAY MATINEE MiKADO’S OWN JIU JITSU TROUPE Late Ringling Circus Feature OTHER BIG ACTS 10c and 20c FIGHT PLAN TO SEND JAP ARMY TO AID ALLIES TOKIO, Dec. 19.—-Suspicious that the Okuma cabinet plans to send Japanese troops to Burope, the anti administration party in parliament | wan developing a powerful oppos! tion today to the government's plan for the creation of two new army corpr To the cabinet’s naval program no objection was raised, but its re | quest for a $380,000 allowance, as an [initial installment of a $7,000,000 lappropriation in the interests of | military expansion, was subjected to |the flercest attacks. Not only, it was argued, was there no excuse for sacrificing Japanese hy in the European confitet, but $7,000,000 asked for would be | but a drop in the bucket, and Japan lis in no condition to bear any fur- | ther drains. MAN FOUND IN GUTTER WITH | | THROAT SLIT His throat cut with a razor, Geo. Dupree, 495% Pike st. who for- merly conducted the dining room of the Corlew and Kirkfield hotels, on Summit ave, was found dead | Saturday morning at 1:30 in the | gutter at Belmont ave. and Howell st. A report had been telephoned to police headquarters that a man war lying ther Patrolman W. Morris was sent out to Investigate, Instead of a drunken man, he found a dead man, Blood spots trailing for 20 feet from where the body was led to a razor. In the dead man's tow: Sophie Tucke! "Fhe METROPOLITAN ¢| With George Arliss in the tite role and with a capable company supporting him, Louls N. Parker's famous play, “Disraeli,” woven about incidents in the life of the ™ }immortal English diplomat, will be | pocket was a razor case. |presented at the Metropolitan the- | ‘There were 4 cents in the man’s|atre for eight nights, beginning pockets. |Christmas night, December 25. A letter was found addressed by| Woven into the action of the Milton E. Dam, of Dam Bros. 708} piece is the diplomatic battle for Eilers building, Seattle, to George|the control of the Suez canal, Dupree of Everett. which Disraeli conducted and won| he body was removed for England singlehanded. | | public morgue. This serves merely as a back-| The dead man was about 98. He/|ground for a love affair encourag- | was fairly well dressed Jed by Disraeli with the same cun- Mra, Dupree identified the body|ning with which he bent politeal | Saturday noon as that of her hus-| tools to serve his purposes band. She says he had been de-) Th spondent for some time and be- one | | eves he committed sutclide cially the brilliant last act which | sc a jrepresents the reception hall in| Downing street, just before the | ‘ARMORED TRAIN presentation to the queen. Mr, Arliss’ company includes | | Dudley Digges and others. c to the production is an elaborate from a scenic standpoint, espe- Ernita Lascelles, Florence Arliss, ret Dale, Arthur Eldred, | Carvill, Vincent Steraroud, | There and New Year’ There will be no Sunday per- formance. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 19.—A Rus-| sian armored train, which was tak ing food and ammunition to the czar’s troops in the Carpathians, |% has been blown up and completely | destroyed, according to advices re-| celved here today THE EMPRESS — aftbomenasivhnsse78h e ‘Sophie Tucker, the highest pald star on the Marcus Loew circuit, M. O. Higgine, Ii! with typhoid, fifth of Lewis, Idaho, zamily strick- en in past few weeks Four-masted ship John Ena will first square-rigger to pass through canal | Five die from cold in Kansas and explorer, dies in London. WOMAN WILL HEAR | CRIMINAL CASES Miss Rhea M. Whitehead, the first! woman justice of the peace in Seat tle, who will take office on January 11 next, will share with Judge Gor dow the disposition of criminal cases assigned to the Justices of the peace. The other three Justices will handle the civil cases, Prosecutor. elect You can make your he: from draughts for less th 22 ‘They measure 18x22 heavy pasteboard We have sold some to sell at 25c Per inc They hundreds HOLDUPS SHOOT MAN PORTLAND, Dec. —_19,—-Shot | through the right lung by one of a! pair of holdup men during the rob.! very of the Nob Hill saloon, Dick Dengess, the proprietor, Is in a| serious condition today, 1309 Seventh Ave LAY NO EGGS eggs by using STEREOTYPE MATRICES THE SEATTLE STAR HENS | will top the bill at the Empress the | coming week, Miss Tucker has a natural way of singing “raggy” airs, Most of her songs were writ- ten especially for her, She will be accompanied by Frank Westphal | at the piano. “When It Strikes Home” is the name of a short drama of real lite to be presented by Poland West jand company. A detective, a re- porter, and a girl are the central /characters, Other numbers will be: Six Olivers, acrobats; Frank Joyce and Dorothy West, modern dances; Bush and Shapiro, comedians; Val entin Vox, ventriloquist dora,” fourth installment, n house warm and free han the price of a dozen ° hes and are as thick as are tough and durable. of them, but still have Hundred THE PANTAGES -* Christmas week | opening with the will be an exhibi- |tion of Japanese wrestling by the mikado's. own troupe of jlujiten wonder workers, late feature of the | Ringling circus, As the added fea- |ture, Manager Pantages has ar- ranged for the return of the pop. ular Irish singer, Charley Reilly, | und his comp: , in a new offering, | |The Good Shepherd of May Other numbers on the program \ will be Armane Wright and Hen Headlining the ) bill at Pantages, matinee Monday, ., Near Union St. Armand Wright and Henrietta Lane, at the Pa at the Empress, and George Arliss, in “ at the Metropolitan, Starting Christmas Day. AMUSEMENTS * jeraell, rietta Lane, in “A Terpischorean Cocktail"; Danny Simmons, “the military hobo”; Ted and Uno Brad- ley, im song and patter; and ‘harles Chaplin in the feature mo- tion picture, “Dough and Dyna mite.” Everett business men petition for reduction of saloon licenses. The Gift Ideal If it is in a box from Graham & Victor's it is sure to be known as the “Gift Ideal.” FOR HER DIAMOND JEWELRY RINGS LAVALLIERE BRACELET WATCH SILVERWARE VANITY CASE FOR HIM WATCH CHAIN RING SCARF PIN CUFF BUTTONS LEATHER GooDs And hundreds of other articles too numerous to mention here, Come in and spend a pleasant hour viewing the many new things in our stock. Open even- ings until Christmas, The House of GRAHAM @ VICTOR Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry 821SECOND AVE. I confine my work to treating special diseases of men and wom- en, such as Skin, Nerves, Blood Disorders, Varicocele and Geni- to-urinary Diseases, Free consul- tation and advice, DR. DONAWAY 302 Liberty Building, Opposite