The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 3, 1915, Page 1

PAID CIRCULATION GUARANTEED OVER 99,000 COPIES DAILY VOLUME 16, SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY TheSeattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News 3, 1914 mR Se ete ete te Sst ee ON THAENS NEAWS STAND: AND ONE CENT Weather Forecast IGHT EDITION Probably rain 11DES AY SHATILE High man Ws ft OFFICIALS INVESTIGATING _ DEATH IN STATE ASYLUM SCOREIN ENGLISH PERILIN FIRE ON THE BAY OWNMEN Ruffeted about by the high BAGDAD, Feb, 3.—Surprised in a winds that swept the Sound throughout the morning, and tr | night attack by Turks, two English constant danger of being carried onto the West Point sandspit, the| battalions at Sound steamer Suquamish battled | 3 the elements with a crippled en- ten of (Oe. .B gine for almost an hour before an- other steamer came to her rescue Wednesday. Fi passengers and the crew Oe eee nine the | dispatches received here today. gether. The Suquamish was en route to Seattle from Poulsbo, when the en- gine suddenly went down. A 30- mile wind was blowing. The accl- | dent occurred about 9:15. | The Princess. Victoria, en. route | OF A VICTORY to Canadian ports, observed the ‘i plight of the Suquamish and sent a “ . wireless to Seattle for assistance, |_ BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Capture of the The Hyak responded, and accom. | village of Humin, east of Bolomow, and the taking of 4,000 prisoners plished the transfer of passengers. | marked the latest successes of Gen. Korna, at the junc uphratis and Tigris in rivers, fired upon each other, | meting severe losses, according to At off the Turks BERLIN TELLS The passengers, while visibly | ., ranc frightened, remained calm. hn Be ons new advance The Suquamish wap towed to/ ‘i: was officially stated today port by the Hyak. A. Welfare is commander of the Suquamtsh. The resene ship was “a command of Captatm A. Host- mark. that Von Mackenzen's army drove |the Russians from Humin after a ( three-day. Pressing on toward Warsaw, the Germans are engaged with a Rut sian force northeast of Bolomow | and a few miles south of the Baura Russian night attacks along the Brura have been repulsed NEW YORK TO VOTE UPON SUFFRAGE ALBANY, N. Y., olution of the senate and assembly BE THERE! ‘The pubiic is urged to at- tend the 12:15 luncheon at the Seattle Commercial Club Thursday, when Geo. A. Lee, former public serv- ice commissioner, will de fend senate bil No. 46, the measure drawn by attorneys ; | for the Seattle Electric Co, {to submit the woman's suffrage to rob municipalities of question today passed the low their right to own and oper- house. Passage by the upper house ate public utilities. and signing by Gov. Whitman fs Corporation Counsel James pera E. Bradford will take the The market was stagnant at side of the people, as op- noon. posed to the corporations in = a —_ the debate. 5 : VILLA STILL ON JOB POSSESSES ANCIENT LOOK CENTRALIA, Feb. 3—C. E. Leonard, a pioneer business man of WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Capture of San Luis Potosi by Villa assur. ed administration officials today Winlock, 1s possessor of a book that the chieftain is still “og the printed in London 273 years ago. job.” The work contains 53 discourses It also renewed their confidence that ultimately his forces will re ‘take Mexico City upon Cornelius Tact *, famous Ro- man historian. j WHEAT PIT GOES WILD WHEN PRICE BREAKS EIGHT POINTS 3.—The most{soon be expected, thus letting out on the| Russia's wheat crop, was partly re- sponsible for the bottom prices. These reports soon were followed by news that New Zealand's gov. CHICAGO, Feb. riotous scenes witnessed Board of Trade since the Patten and Leiter deals occurred at famous today’s opening, when May wheat|@rnment had authorized importa- | opened at $1.62, suddenly dropped er This sent prices skyward again to as low as $1.53% within 10 min utes, and at the end of 15 minutes had set a new high record by leap-| May wheat closed at $1.59%, aft ing to $1.65%. er having at one time skyrocketed | Traders on the floor acted like|to a new record price of $1.66. wild men | Spectators who crowded the pub| Me and private galleries caught the At 10 a. m. May wheat went to} $1.64% and July to $1.41% | | CHICAGO BAKERS RAISE PRICE OF BREAD excitement and screamed and yelled) CHICAGO, Feb. 3—With flour ‘with the howling brokers. having reached the “war price” The pit fairly seethed with er-| yesterday of $8 per: barrel, and citement. wheat-$1.65 per bushel, Chicago Widely credited reports that | bakers today raised bread prices to opening of the Dardanelles might|6 cents and 12 cents per loaf. \ — SMILING BRAVELY, BRITISH BRIDE SENDS HER SOLDIER BOY HUSBAND BACK TO WAR The photograph above, writes Mary Boyle O'Reilly, our London representative, is a common nt there now. The young English matron courageously hides her ‘s while sending her husband off to tne trenches after a furlough home. The first time they parted was hard enough to bear, but after a brief reunion the parting sold husband and his wife find the second heart wrench even harder to endure. Loose at Midnight in Auto, Facing Pen Term,Keeps Pledge By Fred L. Boalt Joe Driscoll is a thief and an ex-con, and therefore without honor. This must be true if there is anything in police wisdom. Driscoll was a tough boy around San Francisco. He “rolled a drunk. Therefore he is a thief. He served seven years. Therefore he is an ex-con Unfortunately for Driscoll, he was not consulted beforehand in such matters as parentage and environment. In the circle in which he moved “rolling drunks” was popular and fashionable If Driscoll hadn't rolled the drunk, somebody else would nobody at ail had rolled the drunk, the drunk would have got drunker and lost his money that way But that doesn’t excuse Driscoll, the thief. Driscoll to say that he was hungry and up against it Driscoll stole money from a drunken man and paid for it by serving Neither does it excuse seven hellish years in one of the worst prisons in Christendom. Driscoll, released from prison} with a head on his shoulders. came to Seattle. He was 24 peare| After that, the police knew old. A bull saw him. If a bull] all about Driscoll They hasn't a good memory for faces, he| wouldn't leave him alone, be- fsn't a good bull, This man was a| cause they Knew he was a thief AND, AS IS g00d bull. Ambitious, too. and an ex-con, He had seen Driscoll’s mug.) WELL KNOWN IN POLICE amonga lot of other mues, in the) CIRCLLES, THIEVES AND galler And when he met Dris| EX-CONS ARE WITHOUT coll in the street, he bent a search-| HONOR. ing gaze upon him, and halted him, fede and said They fastened a robbery charge Now, then, when did you get|on Driscoll, Maybe he did it, He Jout? * © * And what are you/says he didn't. The police say he doing for a living? * * * Wel, ————————— Tgtses you'd wetter take a’ walk (Continued on Page 2.) with me.” JITNEY MEN WILL FIGHT SPOKANE, Feb. 3.—Jitney buamen held a meeting at which steps were decided on to resist an ordinance which proposes a $75 tax on all autobusses. The bull fattened his average, whieh Is what he wanted to do. And his @uperiors, ao doubt, took cognizance of the undoubted fact that in him they had an alert, industrious bull | ; }so that she could see her husband! | visit And if Not at all./ Sunday. A year or so ago Coo cel Delivery Co., in the W. was in excellent spirite and im aplendid physical condition His stay at home was short, for on Jan. 11 he was committed the Steilacoom hospital on [complaint of a Seattle neighbor Mra. Cooper received a letter | dated Jan. 19 from Dr. A. C. Stew- | art, assistant physician of the in | stitution, saying Cooper's condition jwas bad. In a letter two days later, he added that there was lit igo in the tient, and) rom ad fo Telephone Wer in rime: ive. Found Husband Injured | She visited the hospital on Jan. 23, having been prevented by fll [health from making an earlier al | |that occasion, she pays, she was shocked at his altered appearance. He was haggard, and his right eve was frightfully bruised and swol- len. He scarcely recognized his wite To her questions he gave no co hrent reply as to how he came by his injury Five days later he died. The hospital sent Mrs. Cooper no word until he had passed away The body was brought to Seattle. Funeral services were held at | Manning's undertaking parlors un- | der the auspices of George H. Fort- json camp of the Spanish War Vet | erans. Postpones Burial | In the meantime, the fact that |the Steflacoom authorities had not sent home the man’s clothes and the discovery of marks about his throat, together with the evidence of the blackened eye. led the widow to order burial postponed. She called in Dr. John C. Gosnell Dr. Gosnell advised her that cere bral apoplexy, the cause of death given in the certificate, no doubt “(Continued on Page 7.) 9 MEN CREMATED WARREN, Pa, Feb. Nine {men were cremated at Mayburg, three miles south of here, early to. day, when the two-story frame bunk house at the Tionesta Valley Chemical company burned down as | the result of the explosion of a gas stove x others them fatally GUESTS FLEE HOTE two of L were injured, CHICAGO, Feb. 3.—Three hun | dred guests in the Kalserhof ho. tel were hurried into the street shortly before noon when a pe destrian discovered fire in the attic While here, Mra. Cooyer says, he When she saw Cooper on| per was a well known estlake market. He had assumed an erect carriage, typical and he returned to his home in Seattle. services were held Officials of two counties are conducting an investigation to determine whether he came to his death from jnatural causes, as records of the Steilacoom hospital for the insane indicate, or whether man-handling in the asylum hastened his end. His right eye shows deep discoloration and bruising, though the man lived nearly two weeks after sus- jtaining the blow that caused it, and though the embalming process has tended to reduce the effect. | His lip displays a deep cut, and on the chin and throat appear marks such as might have been made by fingernails grasping at his throat. izen of Seattle, operating the Alaska Messenger and Par- Ten months ago he disappeared. His wife, Mary C. Cooper, 1010 Howell st., heard nothing from him until, during the closing days of 1914, she heard he was a patient at the Pierce County hospital, Tacoma. A there disclosed the fact that he was laboring under the strange hallucination that, instead of himself, he was his brother, a missionary in South Africa. This deep-seated belief had greatly changed his demeanor and his very appearance. |he long had held a profound admiration. Cooper was greatly overjoyed when, on New Year's day, he again saw his wife. | was discharged from the hospital, of this brother, for whom His mannerisms and accent, too, were those of the brother. A day or so later he Shall This Woman Die? Editor The Star: Must Ida Sniffen-Walters, the woman who poisoned her two babies in New York id attempted suicide, pay the penalty with her life, while the cause of the tragedy—the man in the case free? | cast aside with her babies to suffer shame and humiliation through the rest of her days. And rather than give birth to another “nameless” babe she tried to end it all. What would any other wom- had a Rogers, the father indirectly the cause of their death, as he was the cause of their birth. If the mother of the babies must die in the electric ch: thi Rogers pay, in part at least, the debt of honor. This woman did not kill her babies because of her lack of love for them, but because she loved them eo much. She realized, when too late, what a terrible mistake 5! ha ; how she lowed herself to become the plaything of a man, only to be COURTS DECLARE BOY IS NO | | CHANGELING; GETS FORTUNE enough to fall before the un- bridied passions of a man? She likely would take the taw inte her own hands and lenge her babies by sending a bullet through his heart. After the ordeal this woman has gone through, she probably is more fitted for a sanitarium than the electric chair. She was not allowed to die when she wanted to, but was revived THAT THE STATE OF NEW YORK MIGHT DO THE JOB “LEGALLY!” ANNIE M. BURGESS. LONDON, Feb, 3.—Teddy Slings-; fant son of a San Francisco school by was today declared to be the|girl was substituted. More than legitimate heir to the Slingsby for-| 200 witneses testified. Depositions tune in decision handed down injtaken in San Francisco alone to- taled more than 1,000,000 words. FINANCIER SCHIFF probate court The court overruled the ms that the infant was a San Francis. co changeling. The court's ruling 4-yearold Teddy's right to the es tate of Rev. Charles Slingsby, his grandfather, which yields an an nual income of more than $50,000. It was a triumph for his mother, | who was Mrs, Dorothy Morgan, an | American widow | Trial Furnishes Gossip established | | ‘The trial, continuing over many weeks, furnished London society, {and particularly the American col- ony, topic for lively gossip. Rey. Slingsby had bequeathed his estate to the first male heir of the family Lieut. Charles Slingsby, claimed it on bebalf of Teddy, but a young er brother disputed his claim with the allegation that Teddy was not the son of Lieut. Slingsby and his American wife, but was a San Fran. cisco foundling. Says abe Is Born eDad The younger brother attempted to prove that a child born to Mrs. Slingsby was dead at birth, and| that the body was disposed of. | The claim was made that the in- Jacob Schiff Jacob Schiff as he appeared while testifying before the industrial re- lations commission in New York, \ PUT AN ADIN THE PAPER For. ONE YESTERDAY | HOW ABOUT THAT MAID SERVANT YOU WERE GOING To GET?|- THERE'S SOMEBODY AT THE BACK poor - VLL ANSWER IT IF \T 15 Some one \| || TOANSWER MY AD, || | CALL ME fia | CAME TO} | ANSWER YOUR \AD FOR aa i | YOU HAVE. THE Ave. |WHO WAS. l WRONG HOUSE P| Vy, Tom? \T WAS A MAN SELUNG STOVE FIGHT CULLOP BILL POUSH wee po WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Deteat a. Jof the Cullop amendment, requir ing the president to make public | all endersements of candidates for | Judgeships, was being attempted |today In the house. ATTACK CORONER'S OFFICE | EVERETT, Feb, 3.—Suit to de ter ne the constitutionality of the law abolishing the office of coroner in Washington, except in first-class |counties, will be started this w RECORDED IN VICTORIA VICTORIA, Feb. The recent jearthquake in Italy was recorded here 12 minutes after it took place lon the newly installes seismograph at Gonzales Heights observatory | ON WITNESS STAND) REQUEST U.S. "TO DELIVER DYNAMITER WASHINGTON,” Feb. 35 department officials: expect to Te |cetve from British Ambassador — |Spring-Rice a request for ex! | tion of the alleged German d; | miter who wrecked the Vanceboro, | Maine, bridge into Canada. | Involved in such a request delicate international problem. The alleged dynamiter, Werner Von Horne, himself claims im- munity. He maintains that as a German, he committed merely a po. |ltteal crime, for which he cannot be extradited. He maintains that he has the right to seek refuge in a neutral |country and that he cannot be de- livered to a belligerent by this na- | tion. | Ambassador Spring-Rice expect- ed to formally present his request |during the day. } CEE WILL ISSUE WARRANT IN STATE OF MAINE VANCEBORO, Me., Feb. 3.—A warrant, charging destruction of @ railroad bridge, was to be issued here today for Werner Van Horne, alleged dynamiter of the interna- tional bridge between Canada and the U. S. and a self-proclaimed Ger- man officer. The warrant will serve to hold {Van Horn in custody, pending the j outcome of extradition proceedings. Van Horne complacently asserts, his act was an act of war and that he cannot be returned to Canada |by a neutral country. State officials, it was said, will charge Van Horne with damaging a railroad bridge which, under an jagreement between the United States and Canada, is an extradit- able offense. Another procedure under consid- eration was charging the German | with destruction of property in this | state, as several windows here were |shattered by the force of the ex- | plosion WIFE ASKS FOR DIVORCE FROM | FRANK HARMON | “Well, I expected it,” was the Frank E. Har- mon, president of the Harmon Mo. |tor Car Co., when he was served in the city jail Tuesday afternoon with }a copy of a complaint for divorcee filed by his wife, Mrs, Gertrude Har | mon 4 He was released Tuesday night on | $1,500 bond. | Harmon and two others were ar rested Sunday on complaint of two young women, who alleged they were forcibly taken to a jonely place comment made by Joutside the city limits and mis: | treated According to police reports, H mon has been arrested twice before |in the past six months on complaints Jof young women, who, however, failed to prosecute him for fear of | the attendant publicity | Mrs, Harmon declares her hus: | band has become addicted to intoxi- ants and has consorted with other women He has neglected his business, she says, and {t fell, upon her shoul- ders to keep it going The couple jhave no children, ‘Mey were mar. ‘ried July 11, 1910, ‘Doctors Disagree on Whether or Not Marks on Throat ~ | of Cooper, Dual Personality Man, Are Finger Prints; | Burial Is Ordered Postponed. The body of Edward C. Cooper, whose dual personality case recently attracted wide attention, lies unburied in a Seattle morgue, though his death occurred six days ago and funeral