The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 4, 1915, Page 2

SEMI-ANNUAL iWhite Sale! . P REPARATIONS for this d event have been going | on for weeks and we do not hesitate to say that we are prepared to show a bigger and better assortment of the most-wanted goods in white than we have heretofore shown—and all ‘at prices that will please everybody. Corset Covers ... 35c Made of nainsook, trim- med with dainty Swiss em- broidery, Torchon and Val lace edgings, insertions and deadieg, ribbon draw. Corse + t Covers ... * c Neatly trimmed in laces, embroideries and pretty medaliton effects, One number ts made of all over embroidery. A splen- string, ete. Bix good did varfety of styles and styles to choose from. igns to choose from. Price 35¢. Priced at 49¢@, CORSETS 50c Made of extra quality contil, trimmed with em broidery. Price 50¢. Petticoats 59¢ Up Trimmed with pretty Val, Torchon and shadow laces and fine Swiss em- droideries. 50¢, O8¢ and up to $3.48, Night Gowns 98¢ Crepe gowns, siip-over style, MUade of nainsook and Silpever Gowns; yoke trimmed with’ lace otging. trimmed with wide embroid- made of dainty shadow lace with ribbon drawn through ery insertion with ribbon and Val. Insertion and a lace. Caos, ae, tegen ed drawn, and finished with em- Pretty hand-embrotdered ef- white, Slashed sleeve, w edging; slipover fect tn floral and eyelet de is trimmed to match. Price style. Price 69¢. 98e. Undermuslins $1.48 Undermusiins richly trim- Undermuslins 98 At this popular price we have an elaborate display of dainty pieces of lingerie that will make attractive and med with the latest patterns serviceab! ditions to any of laces and embroideries. woman's wardrobe. Combina- ’ You'll find tn this lot, chem- isea, combination sults, slip over gowns and Princess slips. tion entts, Indies’ gowns, cor- set covers, chemises, Princess slips. A splendid variety sitps, ete. styles and designs. " Embroideries in good 18inch flouncing or corset 45-inch votle embrotdery tn cover embroidery, in attractive | White or colors. Suitable for simple party dresses, etc. 75¢ patterns, including the new yerd; $1.28 Valecs. camisole embroidery with 1 46-inch flouncings and all- and 2 rows of beading. Prices | over .ombrofdery, on dainty 256. 4 Swiss and fine nalnsooks. Raoygin aos ag io Bome of these have sold at ounce! 15 riced dainty embroidered effects i ‘ne White tele, Of is. re ee Oe. Tee, Doe. | oo rretty etnes embroidered ta edges. 49¢, 69¢, T5¢, OSE. Finished edged beading and colors red, pink, blue, laven- der, ete. On a fine quality of galloons from % to 4 inches wide. 10¢ and up. nur ef organdy or nainsook. 2 to 6 inches, at Se, 10¢ and 15¢. : | | | Silk Novelty Laces} Imitation Filet in| Cluny Laces — Imita- fn bands and edgings, | white and cream ed¢ tions or Real—In fine in a large variety of | n®% insertions, and heavy qualities; {n- rtions and lace ede: ches, Priaed at pattertis, Priced Very pop| and Je to B5¢ 7arl.| 15¢, 25¢. 35¢, 5O¢| war for vse tn ten | 26% 18. widthe from 1 Admirably suited to 7 inehes. Priced at for} and 75e. and table coverings, | 5¢, 10¢, 12%¢, 15. ' hildren' ete. Priced from 10¢ 2 . : underwear, : el ren's Venise Lace inser! to 91.95 7a j and up to $1.00 yard. tions, Edgings and Band-| / 1 A complete line of ings in white, cream) oA, de variety to | Nets and All-over Laces, and ecru. In widths) wash bionde nets, in ail Torchon Laces — A great variety of styles in cotton and lIinen 27 inches. This tn Torchon laces. Suit-| TOM % to 10 Inches. | cludes corset cover lace Qualities. Pure white, able for underwear,| 15¢ '° $2.50. insertion and lace edges flesh, cream, canary fancy work, etc. 1n| Lace Medalliens —|%4 flouncings. Priced| 49d ecru. Priced at lat 10¢ to 49¢ yard. | 25¢ to $1.00 yd intal Laces in all All-over Laces in Ort- whi and| ental, Venise or Shadow widths from 1 to 3 inches, 5¢ to 1h¢ v4. A nice line of reali Cluny and hand crochet medallions, suitable for ir widt) Irish in Bead! fancy wask, walsts) cream, including corset patterns; white, cream Insertions, ete pried and underwear. At 5¢/ covering. Priced at| or ecru. Priced at 25¢ from 25¢ to $2.48, | to $1.25 each. | 10¢ to $1.98. | to $4.50 yard In Connection With This ' « White Sale Our Annual Clearance Sale of Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Winter Garments, such as Coats, Suits and Dresses, will also go into effect at such radical reduction in prices that a week's selling ought to give us a riddance of every winter garment in this store. Your inspectiog and comparison solicited posse Entire. stock divided into At 1% and Less! Entire stock will go at Every Coat in the Store || *w° prices— 2 lots— Divided Into 3 Lots $ $ LOT 1 7. 50 7.50 Formerly priced $12.50, and now ° is: $4.50|, $12.50 $12.50 LOT 2 a Dresses of serge, silk and Sults of serge, broadcloth Formerly priced 8.50, |] velvet; all the wanted col and = mixtures Formerly now ors, Formerly priced to $15. priced to $17.50. Now $7.50. td tg agar $7.50 Now $7.50. / Suits of serge, beoadeoth LOT 3 Frocks of sérge, silk, satin || mixtures, a few velvets, etc Formerly priced $32.50 || taffeta and poplin, velvets,|| In long og short-coat effects. ete.. Formerly priced to Formerly priced to $32.50. Ess 5 sp $27.50. Now $12.50. Now $12.50. All Ladies’ All Children's 4 Furs sets and Misses’ or ..ngle Coats and pieces at Wool Dresses ¥, Price at % Price 1107-1111 SECOND AVENUE United Press Staff Correspondent MEADQUARTERS OF THE IMPERIAL PRUSSIAN GUARD DIVISION, 37 miles from War. saw, Deo. 31.—(By ocourter vie Sk lewles, Lodz, Pesen, Ber nd The Hagu hal Von Hindenburg, the man commander in thie fleld of war, Is waiting for real winter to begin, The usual below.zero temper ature’s failure to appear on schedule time has proved an enormous handicap to th xe- cution of his plans. &@ result of it, the kaleer’ Ive against Wareaw h rtly cheoked until the | Rawka river and the swamps dan. 4.)— In front of them freeze. Winter was Napoleon's de- struction In Russia, but it will spell victory for the Germans. I spent elght days at the front kealser's battle line in Bast where a gigantic strug Kreme, gle in in p Make Stand In Swamps The struggle ts not only to de- STAR—MONDAY, JANUARY 4. PAGE 2. GERMANS PRAY FOR WINTER By Karl H. Von Wiegand cide Warsaw's fate, but to end the present winter campaign and will Kove a bearing on the entire war Marshal Von Hindenburg’s #trat , backed by the wonderful work in chief aides, Gen, Mackenzen, Hans, Vondelow, ouvy | until the Warsaw have been reached, Here the Slavs have entrenched }in great strength three separate po | altions, one behind the other, flank od by the swamps. The question which Marshal Von Hindenburg ts wheth er he should wndertake the enemy's line, or, through a gen eral flank movement |southward, seek to fc | abandonment of Warsaw, Men Sink to Their Thighs If the awamps freeze, ao that | transport mevements are possibile, the Germans are certain of carry- ing out this latter plan Otherwine, a ceareloas bombard- ment of the Slavs’ front will be con- tinued The trenches are frightfully bog gy, the men sometines atnking up ito their thighs in the mud. Russian LONDON EXCHANGE OPENS | LONDON, Jan. months’ change here reopened tod 4-—After five uspension, the stock ox There was an enormous crowd, The open ing was cheerful and fairly steady |The traders sang “God Save the King” before the session began. FLOODS PUT END TO FIGHTING | PARIS, Jan. 4-—Military oper | ations tn France and Belgium | Were at en almost complete | standstill today, owing to floods. Even the artillery was out of commission for lack of ammunt- tion, The trenches were brim- fal of wi } Streams wore all far out of | thelr banka, and the troops had | been forced to quit numerous positions, Among the soldiers sickness was increasing. There were hundreds of cases of pneumonia. Only along the French right wing was fighting {n progress on @ scale of any Importance, DIRIGIBLE SHED DESTROYED | AMSTERDAM, Jan, | French aviators bombarded the German aviation station et NEW YORK, Jan. 4.—John Rogers, aged 2 years, son of Mre. ida Sniffen ogers, who took bichloride of mercury sev- eral days ago then fed the poi- fon to her two children, died early today at Lebanon hoe pital The other child died Christ mae day. Doctore declare Mre. Rogere bee @ chance to recover, As sistant District Attorney Mar tin unced that he will take action against her. Mrs. Rogers has admitted Lorty Elton Rogers was the father of) her chtidren, but not her husband. CONTINUED _ FROM PAGE ONE | that the state should continue to commit legal murder. “Very wel the governor sald “I will give*you a carntral of leqal murder And he ardered the four | men banged. A few minutes before the traps we sprung, | saw the governor at his desk. The ex- ecutive office was filled with men and women. A woman was on her knees, Praying. A man was shaking hie fist at the governor, whose face ‘d. yet time!” the kneel. ing woman pleaded. “God will bless you for it.” The governor shook his head. The man shouted: “You are a damned murderer!” THE GOVERNOR ANSWER. EQ: “YOU ASKED FOR ITI” When {t was again determined to submit a measure for the aboll. Money This week thou- sands of dollars in interest is being paid out by the Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank to de- positors in its savings department. Many of them say it’s just like finding money. A still larger sum of interest money is being credited to the accounts of those many depositors who prefer to get the benefit of compound interest by leaving their interest to be added to their prin- cipal and thus itself earn interest. Savings deposits made on or before January 9 will draw inte@st from Janu- ery 1. DEXTER FORTON TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK anoony anu tHmnny terbeek, near Brussels, today. They destroyed a dirigibie shed in course of erection there and killed several Germans. SECOND POISONED BABE DIES She said she took the polson and er children because legal wife, formerly Mise Caroline Giddings, sister of Prof. | Giddings of “Columbia university, |refused to divorce Kogers so she and Rogers could legitimatize thetr| ehildron The history of Mra. Rogers, as she was generally known, was learned today. Her maiden name was Ian Snif. fen and she was rained in New York. She married Arthur Wal- ters, and they lived tn an apart ment here until the couple met Rogers. A short time later the | woman disappeared. DO INNOCENT MEN EVER HANG? tion of capital puntsh: West reprieved Pender election. Pender bas et maintained his tnnocence. Po care against him waa work. od up largely by private detectives. He lived near Mra, Webrman.| Geprae A. Thatcher, a eriminoln-| gist of Portland, found Sierks and | Wrong from him the confession. He had one material clew to | work on —@ lock of hatr. | It had been found clutched! |tght in the dead hand of Mra Wehrman, And it was not Pen | der’s hatr. } The crime appeared to Thatcher jerate, He searched the ylumas }and jafix. He found Sterks and dis covered that he, too, had lived sear Mrs. Wehrman, or of Sterka’ With Rev. W. G. McLaren, chap. lain of the penitentiary, the ertm. inologist interviewed Sterka, With! insane cunning, Sterks denied all/ knowledge of the crime. “You have no right to keep at- lent when another's man's liberty is at stake,” Thatcher said “T didn’t do it.” “Would you have confessed to | save Pender's life? You know they | were going to hang him?” I tell you I didn’t do it.” “You may not have to answer for your crime on earth, Sierka. But make no mistake, your Maker | knows. Some day you will have to answer to Him.” | Then the man protesting between sobs, that he protesting, between soba, ti he “They would hang me. I don't want to go to prison.” Thatcher opened his clenched | hand before Sterks, and on the | palm was revealed the lock of hair “That {s your hatr. It was found in the dead woman's hand!” Then he confessed ee The confession, first given to the chanjaln, was later repeated to Thatcher, Supt. Steiner and Dr. L. Ff. Griffith, and Slerks made oath | that It was true. | He was drunk on the night of the crime. He went to Mrs. Wehr. | man’s home and made to her an improper pPoposal, This was at 10 o'clock at night. | Mrs, Wehrman ci and shot at him. three bullets into her slew the boy "I was afraid he would squeal,” He hacked the bodies with began to weep, ght up a gun body, and hatehet and fled. . ainst Pender was "carefully by cock- sure detectives, They spun about this innocent man a con- | | The ca | | | | yincing network of circum: | | i} “worked ui stantial evidence. The @urt, with pompous solemnity, weighed the evidence. A Jury found Pender guilty on the evidence. The court sentenced Pender to be hanged by the neck until he was dead, There was nothing Irregular In all this, except for the In nificant fact that Pender didn't do It. Ite usual ee “IT was convinced,” says Crim- {nologist Thatcher, “that the crime was the work of a degenerate, I | | the Russian | | swamps before | | confronts | to break | from the) to have been the work of a degen-| And the lock of halr was the col-| Then he fired) F. W. BAKER President Beattle ALBERT DAUB trehant and shipper, | ¥ F. T. FISCHER | y employment for a ROBERT R. FOX Manager Bimond B. LAMONT pie of the Seattle od oapitalint br van Lamber Mille and employ upwards of ware Company,, which employs over two hundred people and io hiwraee working tor the ¢ arge number Manufacturing Company, an optimist of the best kind, and a friend of the man who works. H JACKSON ‘Thess companies employ ove? two hundred peo- Start the New Year Right By Opening a Bank Account Join hands with men who do things—Always room for one more —Link your future with successful men like the directors of The National City Bank Corner Second and Columbia St. Capital and Surplus. . Hardware ys m: workers for will tunnel digs ident $600,000 RRIS Morris Construction Company, men, and is one of our hardest wavd roads, OLOF OLSON Ratlroad Contractor Recognized as foremost Employs from 800 to 600 men er. ail the year. W. C. PR Beoretary an pany. This about three ploys many men, of of Alaska eridont 1 tess upward « D. E. SKI President Port Biakeley Mil Co. pany has one of the largest pay rolls in the state, A. J. RHODES ATER 4 Treasurer Carstens Packing Com- company furnishes employment for hundred peopld Rhodes Company. Has one of tive stores In the West; employs | hundred people ‘This com- DAVID WHITCOMB President Arcade Butlding Co bis property; buliaing ‘at which furnt cost and « ploys more Always improv- will add another story on once for Commercial Club, all of shes employment for mafy men. CLIFFORD WILEY Secretary Lewis & Wiley, Inc. Han successfully stant to the F led large contracts in Seattle, Aberdeen and & Dry Dock rt Angeles, employing hundreds of men all loys trom 1,600 tw the time. President ef the National City Bank and the 5 & Wilson, Attorneys; also Pres- Co.; Direct Northern Life Ins. Co. on Tithe Inevran: Compeny, Bound Savings & Loan Association the title to real te at less ater safety than abstracts, Em- than one hundred people E. W. Campbell, Cashier, or N. H. Seil, Assistant Cashier, will be pleased |{| to open your account and all employes will help take care of your business i in an efficient and courteous way. From the above you will see that the Directors of the National City Bank emplo: 1 had the tock of | ate near the scene of the crime. found dozens, hundreds, but they at the time of the crime I found Sterks. He fitted the mental description. | And the lock of hair matched his llfe,” sald Gov, West. lanve office glad in the knowledge hat my fight against capital pun shment has been vindicated and jjustified, But for it, an innocent the state.” CANCEL CLAIMS OF SEATTLE MEN Holding the, claimants failed to improve the property @ the terms of the law, missioner Clay Allen, }ton, D. Cx |of 27 coal claims tn the Bering field Land Com Most of the claims were held by Se attle m among them Thomas 8 Lappy, cm pitalist. PAIN, NEURALGIA HMeve a dull, splitting or violent throbbing headache in a moment with a Dr. James’ Headache Pow Jer. This old-time headache re | let acts almost magically, Send |aome one to the drug store now for a dime package and a few mo ments after you take a powder you will wonder what became of the headache, neuralgia and pain. Step suffering—it's needless. Be sure you get what you ask for, MORE MEAT FOR LESS MONEY Frye & Co. Markets Tuesday Specials: a lac Choice Sptre 1 ? c Ribs .... Choice Loin Pork Chops.... 1 §c Choice Mutton Chops ... Abe 10 Pork Back Bones: Ibs. for ee Fancy Plymouth Eggs, ade 4 2c doz. .. 2 doz. for 55c 4 cans Wild 2 ie} Rose Milk ...... Look for U. & Purple Stamp. It signifies purity and quality Shons open until 6:29 p i | {kind of a man. |hair. I bad to find a degenerate | |who might have committed the| crime. I had to-find my degener: were not near the Webrm: ms meee He lived saat god | at Washing-|eat any ordered the cancellation perience I found that was the easries covering approximately 4,000 acres. | You can clear your head and re-| | wain, J. J, Sullivan, Will H Funeral services for Charles | Byrne, who died December 7 at the family residence, 405 Olive st., will) be held from St. Leo's chureh, Ta coma, Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 Ryrne was born in California and came to Tacoma 25 years ago. He was well known here. He ts survived by five sisters—Mrs. J. E.| Young, Mrs. James M. Harris and| Miss Byrne of Seattle, and Misses} Alice and Mae Byrne of Tacoma |END REVOLUTION BUENOS AYRES, Jan. 4.—Ad- | mean war. | about six people. Haned on census figuring of five to @ person, this means the Tvelthood ot Mock te 40,000 men, women and children, oF about cnectenth pf the popuintion of Seattle | What we want I# our share of the business | —— + i Res Pes SET Eh felt eure that Pender wasn't that/ UNDERPAID GIRLS MUST SKIP : MEAL TO GET ENOUGH TO WEAR NEW YORK, Jan. 4.—"When I in the evening. have to pay for a pair of shoes or | “This fs the happiest day of my | something like that, I don’t buy | “Lcan now | meat for weeks at a time.” This little sentence, from the tes timony of a,girl clerk in a New is full of man would have been murdered by! meaning as the reflection of “how | the other half liv. | York department store, It was told to the New York state factory investigating eye-opening statements. “You see yourself that the only riding to| thing left me to economize on Is “I never * sald another clérk. breakfast all. food,” By ex meal to do without.” There was one girl who found an ingenious way to buy new suits of |by the for herself, which she dic by the process of elimination. She eliminated one, and some as two meals a day. When it was not necessary to buy breakfast, 15 cents for her lunch and then 26 cents for a real banquet | |AGED EDITOR OF PATRIARCH DIES, j After an illness of several weeks Clayson, Sr., editor of Edward 8. The Patriarch, and one of the most widely known men fn the state, dfed | at Providence hospital Saturday, Clayson came to the Oregon terri tory 49 years ago, shortly afterward taking up his residence in Washing ton. He was a veteran of the Cri- Mr. Clayson {s survived by a widow, a daughter and a son He was auttor of a volume en- titled “Historical Narratives of | Puget Sound,” and was an authority on the Chinook language, 9 CANDIDATES IN COUNCIL RACE! Two more weeks remain for the | filing of candidacies for the council | January 16 will be the last day Councilman A. J, Goddard has not yot filed, but probably will, W. H Middleton 1s alee expected to file. Nim candidates have already filed as follows: Councilmen Heas and Cooley, Bolton, W. P. McEl Hanna, Joseph R. cameos A o. Parish, George W. Hill. ‘Hold Funeral of nown Maal Well K vices from Paraguay sald the revo- lution had bee, suppressed and that President Schrerer was again at the helm, committee commission, and was one of many The testimony of two Buffalo women was interesting. One of them said that she lived two or three days on a little cold ~— and 4 can of beans. nother, a young widow Itving in & questionable district, works for a’ wage of $6 a week clerking, and has 4 little room in a lodging house not far from Buffalo's red light district. The lights are not yet red where she lives, but she said “the lights are getting pinker every year.” ° In a few cases the Salamander type of girl, the type made famous by a novelist of the day, exists among the shop girls. But it is the ;Salamander who has gentleman friends, not for the good time and expensive luxuries, but for the real necessities. “Gee! but I Said one of them: feel sorry for the girls wha kaven’t 1 fot a ‘steady.’ Why, if I had to buy jall my meals I'd never get along. | Sunday dinner I always count on him for.” |AMUSEMENTS METROPOLITAN TONIGHT. ALL WEEK Bese Warfield THE AUCTIONEERs ¥ wan. ano nee LOEW’S EMPRESS Beginning Monday Matinee Beautiful and Spectacular Musteal » Comedy Production Pretty Girle—O Liiting Reserved Senta, 260. ONK WEEK IN ADVANCE “ihe TAGES MARSHALL ing Queen and WER WATER LILTES j “Aquatio Act Pewutiful” 10¢ and ge a Customers bring shoes here from every part of the city, be- cause our work Is different, It's a bit better, REGAL SHOE REPAIR SHOP First | NAVY YARD ROUTE Steamers H. B. Kennedy a Leave Colman Dock, Seattle, Bunday), 8:00, 10:30 a m. cept Sunday (Sunday 2 Saturday, 1146 pm. Time table subject to change without notice. i be Phone Main 3101, rice 500 Roun@ Trip <