The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 5, 1915, Page 2

Wonderful Bargains] E IN OUR Semi-Annual| HITE OFFICER PAID BY CROOKS, HE NOW CHARGES SALE CHICAGO, Jan. 5, —United States At- , . torney Maclay Hoyne Thousands of Muslin Undergarments—a spe- has communicated. to cial assortment, comprising Corset Covers, Gowns, Seattle officials the name of an official in the police department there who acted.as Se- Petticoatg, Combination Suits, etc., at prices that will please everybody. . attle agent of the burg- Hundre@s of dainty Corset Covers, nainsook, trimmed with duinty Swiss embroidery, Torehon and Val. lace edgings, insertions and beading, ribbon drawstring, embroidery, os Prices, 35c and 4c. name of the agent, de- claring it might pre- vent further investiga- tion and assist the Se- attle crooks to escape. Hoyne has tn his possession the confession of lesdore Werxler, a convict now serving time in Jollet, IL, prison, who confesses he waa one of the heads of the burglars’ trust wHich operated in New York, Chicago, St. Louls, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Seat tle, and which had ective agents in London, Paris and Brussels Most of the precious stones were disposed of by the Brussels agency Seattic One of the Centers Seattle, according to Wexler, was one of the chief centers of activity Night Gowns, 69c, 85c & 98c Gowns, made of lace edgings A large assortment of neatly trimmed nainsook and crepe, trimmed wigh embroidery and rijpon. Prices, 690, 85e and YSe. UNDERMUSLINS, $1.25 Undermusiins trimmed with the latest patterns of laces and embroideries. You'll find in this lot, chemises, combt nation suits, slipover gowns and Princess slips: and one of the hav@ne” for . . - burglars operating under police pro- Corsets 50c| |Petticoats 59c ||) «': ' Wexler say@ he never has been in Seattle and knows only the name of the egent who acted for the gang. Who the police officials of Made of extra quality coutil, trimmed with em- broidery, medium or low Trimmed*with pretty Val., Torchon and shadow laces and fine Swiss embroider. Dust and long skirt; four Seattle were and whaf they recety hose supPorters attached fes. 59¢, OSe and up to ed from the agent he does not Price 50¢ know e bere : | The agent who represented the trust In Seattle is said to be an ex Chicago gambler who went to Se fattle and became powerful fn po lice circles, Hoyne bas communi cated the contents of the confer sion to Seattle authorities and be Heves they are conducting an ifves-| tigation secretly that may uncover | a cons y of crooks and poll that resembles that which now ts} shaking the city government of Chicago. Demands Investigation He has not been notified what progress has been made. State's Attorney Hoyne secured from Wexler names of agents of the burglars’ trust In Seattle, Min neapolis, Milwaukee, St. Louis and other place: He then notified the Authorities of each city as to what Wexler told, and requested them to Investigate and report back to him any discov eries bearing upon the general sit ation. This evidence was to be used tn the trial of Chicago police officers and others now under ftdictment. Lace Bargains German and French Vat. Imitation Filet in white and Lace at 5¢ and 10¢ to 25e cream, edgings, Insertions, yard, | Balloons, 10¢@ to $1.25 yard. Torchon Laces in widths) A wide variety of Shadow from 1 to 3 inches, 5¢ to Laces, from 1 te 27 inches, ASe¢ yard. 10¢ to 49¢ per yard A nice tine of real Irish in| 4 can ao e to gg came} Cluny es—Imitation of om ON a in| i Al fine and heavy jovelty es in| qual aude kad odgings, qualities, at S¢, 10¢, 12)2¢, 15¢.| a5¢ aud up to $1.00 yard. B5e, B5¢, 5O¢ and The. | A complete line of Nets Insertions,| and Allover Laces, wash Edgings and Bandings, 15¢) blonde nets, in gl) qualities, to $2.50. | priced at 25¢ to $1.00 yard. Lace Medallions—Cluny and) Allover Laces in Oriental, hand créchet medallions, Re Venise or Shadow patterns, to $P:25 each. lat Qe to 84,50 yard Embroidery Embroidered Edgings inj 27-inch Baby widths from 1 to 5 inches, 49¢, one, Bi hong DKe. Se, B¢. 10¢ and 15¢. | Finished ‘edge Beading and Embroidery Edges with in. Saloons. 10¢ and up. s to Flouncings, IN GRAFT INQUIRY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 45-inch Voile Embr: ry. in white or colors, 75¢ yard. $1.25 values. 45-inch Flauncings and All- 45-inch Flake Crepe, em: over Embroidery, +1. s. broidered, $1.25. | «Pretty b 18inch Flouncing or Corset| in colors red, pink, blu Caver Embroidery, 25¢, eaak ender, etc, S¢, and 49¢. 15¢. Plush Turbans 08 A ‘special ‘sale of attractive Plush Turbans for girls and misses. Black, trimmed with colored ribbon bands. $1.50 values. Big special, 98c. Entire Stock of Coats, Suits and Dresses And Less coarse negro was singing a solo in a thin, fine falsetto. In this atmosphere dwells the | "king of the underworld,” so-called, | |whose fall may carry with it the fortunes and reputations of mem bers of the police department. Mr. Murphy,” said Crane, “sald he wanted me to tell him about po- |lice graft 1 told him, as I'm tell jing you now, I don't know anythieg | about police graft. Says He Was Jobbed | “This ts all a case of jobbery, jand I think I know who's at the uottom of it. Somebody had to be the fall guy, things were, getting #0 bad down here, and they picked a colored man This is the first time I've ever been arrested. I'ye run, saloons and clubs in Seattle for colored men for years, I'm a marrie@ man with a family, and I always mind |my own business. I never collect ed money from anybody for police | protection.” | The wittesses are being held to |communidado at the eity jail, jof the girls are 19 years old, jbut recently entered | shame. and real name—came here from a neighboring village a few weeks | ago Her mother thinks she is em ployed honorably in a business ot. | fice 5 y Prosecutor Murphy made this “One Sunday, while the vil. My son about § months old $12.50 Coats |statement to The Star : WITH NEURALGIA ladere gathered ig Pap Sie) |wnen he was taken flok, and the dox 50 Had to “See” Cra abled motor car,crept into the | tors Who attended hifh said he had “For weeks rumors have been} ‘ ir little square. Kidney trouble in the worst form, $18.30 Coats reaching this office concerning the | Musterole Gives Delicious “in it eat two German of. | 8nd would not live only a short time activities of Crane, a character o Weave hum your gemedy for about mae the usterwohd ee Comfort fiers, Young, arrogant “and {two months, and tay he is as well $32.50 Coats “Some of the reports were “But before they could draw | #8 any child of 3 years, and I cheer brought to me by lawyers who had , $12.50 been retained to defend women Suits and who had been told by ther $17.50 Suit clients that no woman could ‘go to $7.50 work,’ as they term It, without first Tage |"seeing’ Crane. $32.50 Suits ‘Cr it was alleged, collected $12.50 $15.00 Dresses $7.50 $27.9 Dresses money from the women, it, bought ‘protection’ lice These rumors were Investigated |by Mr. White, who found the Bates and Roberts women and Quinn and Rice, and secured the affidavits “These affidavits bear out the re. ports. Beyond that, I do not care to speak at this time Puts it Up to Lundin A prosecution of this Wind in one of the moat difficult, as there is always the danger that Interest ed parties will furnish bond for the witnesses whose teatimony is es. sential to the prosecution and get them out of the state "I hope to get the, case in good shape so that, fice expires, my successor, Mr, Lun. din, can carry on the prosecution.” and, with from the po |cursed country,’ | rier After that I was free—and a) pit, stiff, sore, defeated, their cloth.| refugee, alone, penniless, wittout) | Ing torn to shreds, mummified with | food, in the land of bondage. | ged, the kaleer’s men stambled ON ADMRRAL war That explains how I came to) along, deaf and blind to any but} * |travel across broken Belgium on their own misery On Councilman Dale's request for foot. Wherever I went I taw little) “fut the unutterable misery of| another week to investigate the Ad boys tolling at men's work, old peo-|Relgium {teelf is famine. From|miral way improvement, which May | recognizable ruins, and women half! at all mad with grief, mourning beside] invader must live. . black wooden crosses “Therefore, all. the cattle have| Monday as refund for unexpired em- “On the road beyond the Brus|been seized and set into Ger{ ployment agency licenses which sels barrier I met with half a hun-|}many. The growing crops were| Went out of business by the adop dred women refugees. Picture to] long © commandeered, Little| tion of the state tnitiative law yourself how we walked througN/remains, A few starved fow!l,| The council also appropriated |the night to Waterloo, There waa| scratching in the shattered streets | $1,300 to check up the initiative bill, {no moon, The darkness was abso-|rows of empty shops without bread. | No. 18, the brewery and hotel liquor lute, gor the hamlets of Flanders| sugar or oll. | bill show no lights; matches cannot be| Nurse Marie Felice paused a mo | had |ment. Thon she said BOY SHOT AND KILLED | “There is one recollection of that j |Priests Stay by Churches [country of sorrows that stays with} Or, Jan. 6.—Charged| “After walking for hours we wom-|me most vividly. It is of the one| ing from ambush and on refugees slept on straw in a/little village in all that desolate land| killing Elmer Bacon, 17, when the church near Gembloux. The par|@hich rémains peaceful, populated | boy aimbed a fence surrounding his Both | {sh priests may the life of | They Gladys Bates—which is not eg |rafned. parishes | |pain-—-gives quick. rellef crowd had served his time in RANK DUFF | MUSTOROLE Ie @ clean, white] the great.gun factories of Liege. 3 cog: ad DUN . ointment, made with oll of mustard Silver Springs, N.Y than a mustard plaster and Sos apa to®@ old for the Personally appeared before me Doctors and nuriis frenkiy + eigian army, were not too old finis 16th of September, 1909, Frank when my term of of- | STAR—TUESDAY, JANUARY 5. PAGE 2. Some Lessons From Irene Hough’s Beauty SIMPLE HOME EXERCISES BY WHICH YOU CAN DEVELOP YOUR BUST AND THROAT PARIS, Jan, 5.—"On to the Rhine!" arose the ery in Paris today, with the issuance of a war office statement, telling of French victories, both in the extreme north, and to the southward, on the kaiser’s own soll in Alsace, | | attack on the Germans on the sand dunes in the Nieuport and 8t Georges district, resulting in the ai leneing of their batteries and gains trenches with their artillery, but it was announced that the French subsequently retook the position at the point of the met A fierce artillery duel was sald jto reging tn the Khelme-Craonne | | district ‘ARMORED STEAMERS FIGHTING ON RIVER] PETROGRAD, between Russian Jan Fighting ; ew of the fact that he is now crates diy tothe Pore 12 | co-defendant with otber city of SS Se See the vicinity of Vysheerad joes We: sult brought by Attorney Mere breathing exercis if pe ed in, will give nearly any It in believed the jermens hope coaading tartar wens a woman a fine bust and throat. pe ongh de yer ll : ag “™\Lake Burien railway line outsld BY IDAH M'GLONE GIBSON | Hold them there while you empty! Russian succesnes, ware reported | the city limite Many women write and ask:|your filled lungs. Bring your! south of Plock and on the Gorlice| A® the matter stands now, the “How shall | develop my throat and) hands down to first position, fill| road, w » it was gaff a body of | Mayor holds the winning hand, bot) buat? lunge in, push hands right out!) Germans had been trapped in a| by the fact that the lighting depart There is one very nimple exer-| im front of you ae though you were! wood and cut to pieces with ma-| Mens comes directly under his con cise that, taken together with deep| beating something back, empty! ching guns i |trol, and also because. Comptroller breathing, will, if persisted in, any woman who is not in delt tve | your filled lungs. oT Now raise your hands over your/ In Transcaucasia fighting contin ned between Rugstans and Turks. health a fine throat and bust |head, lightly touching the tps of | Miss Irene Hough kindly con-|your fingers, then put them back first position Stand on the balls of your feet throw your head and chin up. This w comes the part of this ex clee that will probably make your friends think you have suddenty "DESTROY SUPPLIES will pull up your abdomen and gone insane. Start and sing at the) BERLIN, by wireless to London, chest. Take a long, deep breath lop of your voice the high notes of | Jan. 5.—German aviators have bom and, while your tun: are full,| the scale,-holding in your abdomen | barded the British ammunition bring your hande tightly closed up|and keeping your chest high bases at Coudekerque and Rosen to your chest. Then push them Remember, no women have finer | dael, suburbs of the French, port of | straight up into the air with # jerk! throats and busts than singers, | Dunkirk, the war office announced | jtoday. It was asserted that large | said to me you will go BELGIANS SPARE THE i'sns 4 vay awn mano HIGH CARPARES | ing of Flanders started an epidemic of pneumonia and typhoid. “German officials acknowledge the startling Increase of suicide.| the state public service commission) reall @ that mistake. Seattle to 5 cents, and to deny the) the chief doctor | {atied boundari: nh, nor Who owns | tra for carrying packages. | Berlina. where the women and little chil-| ave. and Yesler way to Georgetown, | nt’ T thanked him circumspectly Invaders Eat; Others Starve| cent rate, says Corporation Counsel LIFE OF KAISER’S SON; (COUNCIL BEGINS: sciatica or are killed by 72 hours of standing up to their knees The fumes from lyddite shells poison exhausted men. Poor Action will When this war was planned, the German war office rembmbered every-|to reduce rates on the Tacoma in- These patients will all die un-y For,’ they say, ‘if we leave, no/right of the Seattle, Renton & Nurse Marie Felicia, the ruined fields, Neither will any| The Tacoma {nterurban charges) Ordered to Berlin dren of the broken-up famifes have| and 11 cents to Chicago ave. The) nd that night I vanished. My Red) “Just valleved from the firing) Bradford | quantities ef ammunition were de KAISER SPARES. CITY FICHT AGAINST | in water when their aiay trenches are like brooks. The flood- food and prolonged depression do the rest. | resolutions to fie applications ‘witb | thing except the human beings who must do the fighting. Now they|terurban line within the limits of lease we get them away from this a¢ one will re mber where the van-| Southern to charge passengers ex with the wounded t© one recall who married whom, nor) 8 cents for a ride from Occidental) ‘To Berlin! Me, a Freachwom.| taken refuge | public utility act allows only a 5-| Cross papers passed me at the bar-| trenches, black as miners from "| POSTPOME ‘ACTION dazed amongst un-| Antwerp to Digant there ia no flour| OF Gill Yetoed,. the council post- None. Whoever dies, the| poned action on the matter. el rhe council appropriated $1,029 ple wandering farm, Biastus Grasser, a recluse, | under arrest today BabyHadKidney Trouble and happy. Kaiser Spares One Village “Prefondeville, with 1,700 People, lives on, untroubled and secure, knowing nothing of war -no longer show themselves in ecclesiastical dress. must wear muftl, But they calmly insist on remaining In their bu ni . your Swamp-Root has done great Toes) toe vine, Valley '8 [things for me and my son. hardly 300 feet wide. fully recommend Dr, Kilmer's Swamp-Root to all who are afflicted with kidney, liver or bladder trou bles Wishing you success, I remain, their weapons they were sur. rounded. and threatened with death. “Almost every old man in that to be revenged. ommend MU®TEROLKN for Sore “Th, Duffy, who subscribed the above Throat sy ftitt ide retin their | tatement and made oath that the tion Hheugintiam, Lanta “Suddenly the parish priest |*tme '8 hehe ge ae a 0, Pe » Hack orl intervened,* pleading for the |!°t ” Notary Public so enemy. ‘These men are not | -————— ry ‘ spies!’ he id. ‘They came th Pneumonia) quietly; let them pase quiet! be eerie, ee, | aise’ for $2.60, ‘ men in the field.’ Prove What @wamp-Root Will Do} “He sure you et the genuine MUS “Standing on the village for You Lt. ‘ 1k Rotuse taitetione t green, men and women Send 10 cents to Dr, Kilmer & Company, Cleveland, Ohio |. that the pri 8 be rr . |Co., Dept. R, singhamton, N, Y,, for f three days came a docu. |a sample size bottle, It will con ment from Berlin, signed and sealed. So long as this war vince any one. You will also re. ceive a booklet of valuable informa- lasts no harm will come to Pro- | tion, telling about the kidneys and fondeviile. For German | bladder. officer they spared is one of the Regular 60-cent and $1.00 size bot kale sons!" tles for sale at all drug stores. | ON TO RHINE,’ MAYOR HOLDS PARIS CRY AS WINNING HAND FRENCH GAIN ON EXTENSION i@ report described a surprise by the alles of from 300 to 600 yards In this region the reorganized Belgian artillery was said to be eet ing tively West of Lens, it was stated, a stop had been put to German min: | ing operations, the Surrows on which the invaders were at work | having plowed up by a ter rifle fire from the allies’ mortars Near Lille, the Germans were re ported to have. destroyed a line of [roll rent word to Light nd Ge r and German ar-| iy = ~ Relterating his s threat to fire the first man who so much as carries a plier into the Duwam- Ish valley to make any city light and power extensions, Mayor Hiram C, Gill dominated Qe mH4a2n nore 2O—-zS the sitiation Tuesd notwith Y standing the passage Monday O of the extension ordinance by U the council over the mayors RR veto i fi eto was overriden by a vote C 4 of 6 to 2% Councilmen Hesketh & Marble, Erickson, Coo Lundy & £ and Fitzgerald voting against thr D mayor, and Councilmen Haas, Dale § and Goddard voting to sustain him, T The bill appropriates ++,000 fron the Heht fund, and directs the lien’ & department to make extensions tc & jTukwila, Foster and surrounding ©, territory K In vetoing it, the mayer penned & mensage, we pages long, tr which he ¢ & general attack or the municipal ownershi ogran followed in the Inet th ars. Ip particular he objected to the elt going outside the city limits to fur 4 nish light and power as illeal " Corporation Counsel “Bradford * « however, declares it entirely legal } As soon as the mayor announced | — — his position Comptroller Harry Car 3 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 rintend. | Ross that he would not insur warrants for the $10,000 authorized the council si Carroll says "he dosen't want te get into further legal entanglement ent Carroll takes his view of things Federal inspection of locomotive boilers extended to all equipment of engine. MORE MEAT FOR LESS MONEY e& Co. arkets Wednesday Specials: Fork Rowe 12:¢ Round Steak... 17 hope ve. W2e 10¢ mene ..18C 4 ¢ans Wild iv nition purty and quailty, hops opeh until 6:29 p. m DEEP CURVE LENSES field of vision, o even examination. Ke more Belentitt id Reasonable CURRY OPTICAL CO. EYESIGHT SPECIALISTS. 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