The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 21, 1915, Page 1

{ a ener \ Are You Going to Move? i hy YOU move, telephone The Star's Circulatior Department, Main 400, and our carrier boy will see hat you do not miss a single copy of The Sta Remember the number, Main 9400. mexican| Aero The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News SEATTLE, WASH., WEDN Weath plane Fires on Brownsville, Texas PRR RRR nnn ALLL LLL LLL LL LLL LL IGHT EDITION Light fr or—Fair & tonight TIDES AT KAT Le on BMWS REANDS, DAY, APRIL 21, 1915. GNE CENT ‘oe k 1 p. lew 11k a. om, 4 ft 42 pm, 27 ft WHAT HAPPENED TO ONE GIRL AT Y.W.C. A. Mark M. Arant, 3734 59th ave. S. W., dent of Seattie, has crossed swords with Or, Mary E. Martin, super intendent of the ‘protective department of the Young Women'e Christian association, and a policewoman, and both have told their versions of the quarrel to The Star. The bone of contention is the alleged treatment by Dr. Martin of Minnie Martin, a 1%yearold telephone operator, who is an or phan, and who sought refuge at the Y. W. C. A *e ee for many years a resi Arant, who Is agent In the Northwest for the Jewel! carbur etor, with an office In the P.-!, bulldin, Id “tam 58 years old, | have three daughte ve at Alki Point. ‘A number of residents of Alki Point, Including my wife and myself, became Interested in Minnie Martin, whose home life w. not happy. The Alki Point Improvement club took up the matter “Minnie, as nice and bright a girl as ever lived, wae found em ployment at the telephone office at $6 a week. They had to find a place for her to live near by. “The club inquired at the Y. W. C. A. AND WAS TOLD THAT MINNIE COULD GET BOARD AND LODGING THERE FOR $3 A WEEK, Every one of us thought the Y. W. C. A. had solved the girl's problem. “Some time after Minnie had been installed at the Y. W. C. A. 1 met her in the street. She said, when | questioned her, that she could not make her $6 go ‘round at the Y. W. C. A “I took her to Chapman's restaurant and bought her a turkey dinner. She asked me if | had ever been inside the Y. W. C. A. | had not; so she took me throguh the building. Later we talked to gether in the lobby. Minnie was down-hearted. | am a Christian Scientist. 1 told her all good would come to her if she thought only good thoughts, That was the gist of our conversation. “DR. MARTIN, SEEING US TOGETHER, AND KNOWING THAT MINNIE CONTEMPLATED LEAVING THE Y. W. C. A. CALLED UP THE TELEPHONE COMPANY AND TOLD THEM THAT MINNIE WAS LEAVING, AND, AS A MAN WAS WITH HER, SHE FEARED FOR HER. “SHE NEXT CALLED UP MRS. 0. M. GRAVES OF THE ALK! POINT IMPROVEMENT CLUB AND TOLO HER THAT MINNIE WAS WITH A ‘RED-FACED THEATRIOAL MAN’ WHO HAD EVIL DESIGNS UPON HER AND THAT SHE WAS LEAV- ING THE INSTITUTION TO LIVE IN A LODGING HOUSE “1 wae the ‘red-faced theatrical man.’ I'm old enough to be that child’s grandfather. | wovld no more harm her than | would one of my own daughters. “When | learned from the improvement club what Dr. Martin had said, | went straight to her and told her that whatever evil grown and married. BOTHELL WORRIED BY SPOOKY VISITATIONS, cannot visitor is robbery missed altogether By Fred L. Boalt. Ail P. N, Frese, owner of the Bothell! is a sult darts to.xax08. with The Sur be clothes aud. the Amel, Door re} facetious Tuestay| tarn for scores of nightly vini cause it got “ Friday night “it” stayed away hell ghost | yy ogee ar wl about,” | But “It" came again Saturday said Prese Wednesday. Frese and Norris were on guard He tells a remarkable story of Impatient, Frese turned on bis} & nightly visitor—or visitors, be | \' pon ed see his watch. It was | } — hands of oo fsn’t sure which—whom hands of| 1! tOGr sear, eerie whistle flesh can't hold nor bullets of lead believe the motive of the/| we have of was heard. Then another from an- there was in the situation emanated from her own evil mind insisted that ‘My experience with men tells me that | ad hard words. She truthful, and added | did not Intend her any good.'’ Members of the club say the Y Or | give Minnie a $3.a-week Minnie rate ys she had to pay $1 shared with two other girls, and 20 cents for breakfast, 35 cents for dinner for lunch and We and un you Minnie was deceitful W. C. A. told them they would Martin says she got that rate a week for her room, which she 30 cente A WEEKLY TOTAL OF $7.70, AND A WEEKLY DEFICIT OF $1.70 ! Dr. Martin refused to discuss her telephone conversations with the improvement club and the telephone company, though she ad mits she held them “As for the rate Minnie received,” for room and board, For that a girl which Is enough for anybody, The girls who Minnie, not happy. especially though reluctant to Everybody at Alki w I left the Yo W. CLA to stay there and because Dr me. Perhaps ed that she had asked the teleph she sald, “it was $3 a week can get two meals a day, did not get a decent living In their own homes are generally the ones who knock the At the time when Dr. Marti Y. W. C. A.” lobby, he was explaining Christ! Mrs. Graves refused to discuss the case | copy of Mrs. Eddy’s book, which Martin he meant it kindly talk, sald: “My life at home wae kind to me, Mr. and Mrs. Arant simply because | could not afford took too lively an Interest in , but | was resentful when | | one company to keep her informed as to my working hours, which are not regular. n saw Mr, Arant and myseif in the an Sclence to me. He gave mea 1 am reading.” Roosevelt, as Witness, Gives Court a Busy Day GARRISON HOLDS UP DETAILS WASHINGTON, April 21—Secretary of War Garrison announced today he had received a report from Gen. Funston of a Mexican aeroplane firing upon Brownsville, Texas. b. Details of the report | will not be made public for 12 hours, the secretary | said. He refused to ex- | } plain the reason for this delay. Despite optimistic un- | official accounts of the in- | cident, the action of Gar- | rison in withholding de- tails was interpreted as in- dicating the affair might be of a serious nature. \WOMAN ATTACKED UNTIL SHE FAINTS: But Frese does not believe Pie Bwgpe.r d ‘ous hg Pha pened that night ‘ | Mrs, F. B. Taylor, 1522 First ay ago and continued for a year and|_ TWO men from the sheriff's office; W.. Mrs. Marshall = W ard, 00s a half. Then ‘it’ quit coming, and|Tuestay. at Frese's request, made| Greenwood igs Gr Z eo I began to hope it would never) ‘#ylight tour of the dairy | Tuesday night by a burglar, return.” |Premises, and found nothing— — er Laos ‘i glee ssanl gg tga od [ascoratp b ‘7 Pr ike. tea Stren for her But “it” returned last Thursday | “it’s” a Ventriloquist jigs < Og TP & night. Harvey Wright, one of| “I can’t explain it,” said Frese.|” when she recovered conscious Frese's milkers, and Everett Norris,!“I ¢an't begin to understand it, ness, her purse was on the floor. a farmhand, saw “it,” and knew| Robbery isn't the motive. 1 have| A dollar was missing “it” for the light—a Mashlight?— that twinkled in the dark. Wright and Norris chased and “it” fed. matic and Norris a revolver. emptied thelr weapons at “It,” “it” lightly leaped two high gates signal. and disappeared. | They told Frese that “it” had re-/one remotely plausible turned. Norris volunteered to wait There ts wild country up and watch. An hour and a half place. later—about 10 o’clock—Norris saw | mit about, “jt” near the milk house. mit, he fs also a ventriloquist “qt” annoy me. about no half-mad enomy that I know |of who would take this means to I cannot believe there Wright had an auto-|{8 a gang of men at work to perse- They | cute me, yet we see more than one bot light, hear more than one whistled | “I have been able to think of but solution. my There may be a crazy he r If my visitor is a her- EXTENSION COURSE IN SALESMANSHIP | Salesmanship will be taught |a university extension course which | will open Friday night at 8 o'clock |in room 1041 Henry building. E.| F. Dahm will be the instructor in charge. He fired and “it” screamed. Surround the Barn At the sound of the shot and the blood-eurdling ery which followed} ft, Frese rushed from the house and | the men tumbled out of their bunks | fn the bunk house. Norris reported that he had seen | “it” enter the barn. He had seen| and heard the big door slide*back. | He had seen “it"—a light and aj nebulous shadow—enter and close the door. “There were: nine of us, all armed,” sald Frese. “We surround- ed the barn. We guarded the doors crets of her love affairs and and windows. Nobody could get \tioned Wednesday as a witness |acid bottle into her face, shouting |ehance to earn their living out without our knowing it. We) against her husband, Maurice Aver-|Thmt's what you get. I don't care| Commissioner Knudsen Is for tt waited until daylight, then entered | hach, a taflor, accused of having |for my life.” | Commissioner Carrigan is for it the barn thrown acid {n her face to despoil| Crossexamined by Attorney Ka-| And so The Star believes King | And found no one! Only the her peanty |lina, she admitted she had tried| county is soon going to have that | cows waiting for the milking hour, He is on trial before a jury in|twice for a divorce, but that her | farm, When the men returned to the Judge Grady’s court husband had both times appeared ~ — bunkhouse, they found that “it"| Mrs. Averbach, who has com-|{!n court and prejudiced the judge| STRUCK BY ENGINE had been there while they had the! pletely recovered from her burns, |by tears William Kizlites was struck by a barn surrounded. Every mattress|told first of meeting Averbach on He cried just Ike he is doing| switch engine in the N. P. yards at was turned One man was the street at 20th and Yesler way jnow, she said, pointing to aver-) Ninth ave. 8. and Spokane ave. minus $3.90. jon the evening of February 7. bach, whose face was tear stalned.}Wednesday morning and slightly “Nevertheless,” Frese said, “I She had the baby in ber arms,!“When he cries, he's good.” injured do-| mestic troubles, when cross ques WIFE IS WITNESS IN ACID-THROWING CASE Mrs, Sarah Averbach bashfully [she said, and tried to avoid her hus protested against divulging the se. |" nd by crossing the street He stopped her, she teatified, jand, after snatching the infant |from her, threw the contents of the in} | BY BURGLAR; FIGHTS: but the | trom Seattle | jor 40 jat the | industrial COUNTY TO GET FARM COLONY Pians for reopening The Star's campaign for a county farm colony, where the coun ty's food supply can be furnish- ed by county dependents, are well under way The Star proposal has the support of two county commis. sioners. The matter will be brought to an issue before the commission at an early date. Purch of such a farm, it will result in saving a year to the county, and the taxpayers. The fight for the farm, begun by The Star a year and a half 490, was halted by political un rest in the commissioners’ of fice just at the time when vic tory seemed assured. are thousands of men and * fependent in one way or another upon the county. They are to be found in the hospital, | the county There ckade more that Jail, the are thousends during Gre” yur core wader are OF attention of the charities they organizations unemployment WHY NOT TURN ‘EM OUT! INTO THE SUNSHINE wHy NOT GIVE ‘EM A CHANCE? All except an acre of the county hospital site in Georgetown might be sold to bay's farm where green things will grow and Iive ok fatten. Good Farm Ie Offered Such a farm was offered the county commission at the time, It consisted of about jed at North Bend With it went all tm provements, stock and machinery, including a complete creamery, 30 head of cattle, and a com: plete lot of tmplements One bundred acres are cleared. The rest can bo put in shape for! tillage by men who are now being sent to the stockade—iazy bus- bands and the like This farm was offered for $150 an acre, on Hberal terms as to pay megts. It is all good land, and was considered as just the proper loca tion and of sufficient size for the King county farm. 360 acres locat THIS FARM IS STILL FOR SALE. It is conceded that sale of land county hospital site that ts not needed and that is fit only for purposes should bring perhaps more. T e 350-acre farm at North Bend could be purchased for a fraction of that sum. And still enough left to maintain the hospital at irgetown An a matter of saving to the county, the farm would be of ines. timable value. The county's egg | bill alone amounts to $200 a month Properly managed, the county |farm should produce all the food for county inatitutions. would give dependents a necessary And it an hour's ride| | SENSATIONAL NEW PLAY EXPLOITS THE UNDRAPED YOUTH INSTEAD OF GIRL; BOSTON BARS IT BUT NEW YORK LIKES IT | BY BOND P. GEDDES SYRACUSE N. Y., April 21. ~—Bringing his fist down upon the arm of the witness chair with resounding smacks, his teeth flashing and his indict- ments shot out In crisp, jerky sentences, Col. Theodore Roosevelt today portrayed Wm. Barnes, jr, as a political boi of the most powerful and dom- inant type The colonel resumed the wit- ness stand today in his own be- half in the $50,000 libet sult brought against him by Barnes After the court had ruled that the former president must confine his testimony to ev dence having an actual bearing on the case, the colonel launch- ed forth into an attack upon his political enemy with true Rooseveltian vigor, He told how Barnes had inherit ed his hold on the republican ma chine of the | R Fre. from the late > rere oor mame mate OWN die dail alee? aye | the organization Reads Letters From Barnes Barnes ha! worked with ‘Chief Murvhy and other Tam. many Hall leaders to defeat legis lation at Albany was also recounted by Roosevelt { Barnes sat unmoved. The colonel read letters he had} | r Renator How received from the republican | oss” in support of his conten | tions, In one letter read by Roosevelt, + declare | ideas of getting 1id of j bosses are absurd long as we! Sketches of Helen Holmes, who plays the heroine in the new have party o fon. The pro | sensational play, “The Natural Law,” showing her delivering the big ple do the | Speech of the Below is a scene when the “undraped youth” |Should be free to frame up their} proposals to the people meets Ruth, sketched by Parker in New York. Colonel Has a Good Time | BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH | told that he must marry the girl| Quoting from a letter he ree | NEW YORK, April 21. —tHorton | At once jed from Barnes expressing oppost- said it was tmproper. The police} The boy i# willing, when {t {| tion to direct primaries, the colonel stopped it there. New York said: | “iseovered that it will not be pos-| read | “Lat the play go on.” sible to obtain a marriage Hoense| “If the direct nomination plan is| | 80 “The Natural Law” has just| before his steamer sails lever adopted {t will lead to untold been produced here at tha Repub.|, He must leave the girl he loves! evils and place in office the cheap: He theatre, jin her predicament or he must/er kind of legislators.” When thé play gets to your town | *bandon his r for the Marathon The colonel rode rough shod YOU will have to make up your He tells the girl to decide for|over the objections interposed by | mind about it him. Here is her answer, the big! attorneys for Barnes as he proceed. The great novelty of the lit- | speech of the play, delivered by ed with his testimony tle play, which undertakes to | Helen Holmes le wyers would jump to thelr show the difference between | ye |feet, calling for a halt, but the Seal Je0k Gnd ahuelest lntiten- ‘You say | obeyed the nat: | oionel went right ahead, ignoring tion, Is that it exploits the | ral law; that | committed no | interruptions unt!l stopped by the| charm of the undraped young | crime against nature, only | court man instead of the scantily at- | against the laws of men—and Judge Rules Out Letters tired young woman. | that the injury to these man- Justi¢e Andrews caught up with he hero makes his first appear-| made laws must be repaired. the colonel long enough to rule out in the heroine's drawing room “And now, to repair an In. |letters which he reesived from only ina very abbrev jury to them, the stronger of | Barnes in 1908 as to the candidacy runner's costume and a brigh the two sinners makes a gen. | of Hughes | smile. erous sacrifice and conde. | He held e letters to the He has injured bia leg in a race} scends to marry me and thus | colonel immaterta and Ruth Stanley, engaged to Dr.| to do his duty, but you've ali | The court also excluded test! | Ralph Webster, is engaged in put forgotten one thing. [mony as to conversations between ting peroxide on the youth's wound | “1 won't bind my: | Roosevelt and Barnes regarding when the physician returns unex-| man who doesn't lo’ |Hughes, except as they migh pectediy from a trip to the West| don’t want his name. prove Barnes to he a “be ° and discovers that “the natural} have it; he shan’t grow to love Roosevelt demanded that he be |law” of youth's attraction to youth] the child, and it's not his—it's | permitted to define “boss” and | | has asserted itself and that Ruth| mine, mine! I'll work my fin- |"domination,” but the court also Stanley's love ts lost to him for ger ends off sooner than have ruled against him on thir point ever. | him provide for me! 1 don't He evidently thoroly enjoyed ap: In the second scene Ruth re} need him—! don’t want him—I | pearing as a witness celves the young hero alone. His! hate his sense of duty—I hate | While on the stand, Roosevelt love-making {s violent | you all Jappeared quite at easnally In the next act the young hero| But, of course, in the third act | discussing delicate questions of law }is about to sail to take part in the|the boy comes back. This time he| with Justice Andrews, whom he ad |Marathon in the Olympic games,| really loves the girl and they dressed familiarly as. “judge,” and when he is @ummoned by telephone | wed jentering into arguments with cou to the office of the physician| Now—Dt THAT SHOCK] sel for himself and for*Barnes whose fiancee Re has stolen and Is YOU | Roosevelt swore that Barnes, for Yes Tom, MUST WRITE SAY BUSINESS Is BUSINESS Es | JUST AS You FRED, This is an old, reliable firr in Seattle state of New York} Platt and! pen used} ca dd and user | THOMPSON FURNITURE CO. IS = = “4 = A Ei | |] niture for 15 years |], money and are selling furnitu the town, Readers of The St 2 in this issue, Those thinking of going housekeeping, to-be and others interested ir vod furniture uld read their announcement very carefully, | ason of the year an opportunity of this sort be overlooked. Turn to page 2 COLONEL GETS ’EM EXCITED THE COLONEL ENJOYED IT mer chairman of the republigg state committee, bad advised hit jnot to antagonize big business which most, be alleged Barnes said, be protected: Barnes, Roosevelt testified, said the people were not fit to govern themselves. | According to Roosevelt, Barnes [also said that party government |was not possible without bosses | and leaders. The defense promises to produce ten trunks full of contracts and vouchers which, it is claimed, will figure as “state printing graft” evi- dence, Crowds stormed the courthouse |today. Police had difficulty in |keeping the throng in order, Among those present were many handsomely gowned women. It wa evident that a large num- |ber of them favored Barnes, for |they sat on his side of the house }and closely observed Col. Roosevelt |thra lorgnettes, He ignored them. Couple Arrested; Fined for F: ishing Tt cost William } M. Haneline and Miss Loulse Patten $5 each Wed- nesday in Judge Gordon's court when it was found they had violat- ed the fishing law. The couple | ® arrested by Deputy Game V jen A. C. Marco, while fishing fr a dock at the north end of | Lak Washington, | Se al trout were found in their posses on. The season for trout does not open until May 1, They explained they were under jthe impression the trout season April 1. 'BESTED IN SALE, HE | RESORTS TO HIS GUN opened LOS ANGELE 8, April 21.—Wil- |liam Hunter, 49, early today shot ‘and seriously wounded Beachey PF, Crampton, 40, and the latter's wife, Winfred, then committed sub cide. Crampton and his wife have an even chance to recover. Hunter recently purchased a hotel from the Cramptons. He later became dis- \ tisfied with his purchase and de c ared he had been bested, nm who have been selling fur They re at prices that should rouse are out to raise the ar can find the facts on page