The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 24, 1915, Page 1

Zeppelins Are Coming! Mary Boyle O'Reilly, Star writer how in London, was awakened by the dread cry. She tells, on page 7, what a Zeppelin raid is like, and’ how London takes it. TELL STEALING $1 BOALT MAKE VISIT 10 UNDERWORLD Finds ‘Mike,’ Who ‘Gave the Yeggs the Office,’ Has Gone From Depot Bar. By Fred L. Boalt The vagrancy problem is one of the bigges is certainly one of the most difficult, with whic Seattle police are dealing. The task was lightened last winter by the Libert: hotel, which now is closed for the summer. The Liberty hotel, a gratifyingly successful experiment, has made one fact perfectly clear—that there are many jobless, homeless men who will work if they get a chance. But what of tramps? It must be borne in mind that “tramp” is a generic term, meaning a wanderer. There are at least three kinds of tramps—hoboes or “working stiffs,” bums and yeggmen. The hobo—sneeringly referred to by bums and yeggs as a “working stiff’ because he will work when work offers, a thing which his compatriots scorn to do—is generally an amiable, spineless, discouraged victim of wanderlust. The bum is—a bum. He is a drunkard, more or less witless, and no good to any one, The yeggman is a dangerous) patronize cheap hotels criminal, peculiar to America. He} "ee has no prototype in Europe or any Unlike the bum, the y: where else in the world. He {s vi-| neat in appearance. He cious, degenerate, irresponsible} y day. He seldom passes and has no ideals at all. | railroad water tank, a creek, a Johnny Yeas scorns the “work-| public fountain or a horse Ing stiff,” tolerates the bum, but) trough that he does not stop to he hates members of decent s0-| wash his face and hands. ciety. His name for us is “gay This is his only redeeming cats”’—I have never been able to] feature. He is without honor. discover why. He lives by theft. He hates law, too. His name for He never hesitates to double. the police is “The Enemy | Cross his own kind. In almost The yeug is difficult to deal with) every instance he is an ex-con- because he has no name, no home.| ict, He will kill if he dares. The police can keep local crooks un-| 4¢@ nearly always carries a der surveillance thru their women} gmajij pottie of “soup” —nitro- and by employing “stool-pigeons.”| giycerin for blowing safes in But the yeggman knows no women.| country banks and postoffices. and no “stool-pigeon” knows him. ree ay" wo nbees to ig sstaces tow When I was in my latter teens I etrate into the heart of a city ex.|came within an ace of being a Cept to rob, preferring the “jungle” | ‘ramp. I was a small-town boy, mewbere in the suburbs, near|®0d tough. My favorite diversion A railroad. There they build thelr) ¥4* “hopping frelghta.” campfires and cook their food and} | * nl Py enc ly N al HO, and Rss sleep. G turning, ragged, hungry, sore and en e pean they ar penitent, to eat of the fatted calf AN'ATTACK ON WILSON Since then, while | have mean dered the reportorial path, | have enjoyed quitting the society of the | gay cats from time to time for lit- BERLIN, June 24.—The Deutsche Tageszeitung, suppressed recently reappeared today with an attack upon President Wilson. tle journeys into Hoboland, From one of these little journeys It was supposed the Tageszeltung was suppressed because of the un | have Just returned. | have mai at least one interesting discovery. compromising position taken by Count Roventlow, its military critic | MIKE HAS BLOWN THE in the submarine controversy, but BURG! its article today follows the same general lines President Wilson is reported to have suggested a peace conference as it h the in funds, they Startling intelligence, this, to ev ery Johnny Yege. For every yeggman in America knows of the Depot Bar and Mike. The Depot Bar is tramp headquar. ters, a clearing house of gossip of the road, a rendezvous for vaga bonds. If you want to get word of a friend you haven't seen for years, you go to the Depot Bar and ask Mike. There are all saloons similar Institutions— in every city Mike, I repeat, is gone, and the in Switzerland, the paper declared. veZes are keeping Bs tay ce onltee It continued, that, tho the presi-|hejot Bar, Why? Because Mike dent had repeatedly declared the| «gave them the office.” He did it newtrality of the United States, he| his was had closed the Panama canal tol” When a plain-clothes man enter. neutral trade, while accelerating the| oq Mike stretched and yawned shipment of reunitions to the allies | prodigionsly. That was “the of especially to Rusela. | flee. By that sign every Jobnn + be knew the stranger was a detective BY CARL W. ACKERMAN BERLIN, June 24.—Germany will |!aw kept their backs turned and make important concessions in the | Slipped away as soon as possible interest of President Wilson'’s| In a way, Mike was useful to the principles of* humanity” in the| police. They knew why he yawn next note from the foreign office|ed. They even heard the murmur dealing with the submarine war-|run thru the throng—The Ene fare |my!” But now that Mike ts gone I was given assurances of this|the police don't know where to find | today the Johnny Yeges The imperial government may| Perhaps they have another meet even promise to safeguard all neu-| ng place trals, in replying to the president’s| | shall tell in detafl the story of note |my journey in The Star tomorrow Those who had reason to fear the! VOLUME 18. NO. 102 SEATTLE, WASH., TO ARREST MOTHER TO | Maude Adams Spends ELBERT CO. KEEPTHAW PRESIDENT IN ASYLUM Warrant Issued in Frisco for| Man Who Sold $50,000 Worth of Stock Here. State May Call Mother to Stand to Prove Defendant Is Still Insane CAN'T FIND A “PLANT” REPORTERS AID HIM The Seattle Star r in Seattle That Dares to Print the News » THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1915, ONE CENT ON thane 9,000 TO COVER POKER LOSSES appy Half-Hour With “Uncle Doc” Slocum NE day Maude Kiskadden went fishing with “Uncle” Mortimer L. Slocum ina little creek in Oregon. She was a tot of 8 or 9—and had never fished before. “Uncle” Sio- cum fixed the fishing pole for her, showed her how to cast it, and waited patiently. Pret ty soon Maude H | | | O Stockholder Says $150,000 Fac-) Thaw’'s Attorney Promises felt a tug at | tory Is Nothing But a Small | Sensational Disclosure of | telah ag jose Blacksmith Shop. | | Jerome Kidnaping Plot | Several hundred Seattle NEW YORK, June 24.—Harry stockholders in the so-called K. Thaw’s aged mother may un- “Elbert Motor Car Co.” are willingly become a factor in pre- venting her son from obtaining his liberty in the sanity trial of Nervous today ai the a result of impending arrest of the | president of the company, N. F. Stanford Whit: ayer. in ad Wilson, | dition to » g that Mrs. | Advices from San Francisco, Thaw was suffering from ner of the vous prostration when Thaw company is said to be located, was born, Deputy Attorney Say @ warrant wa for Wilson saved there He is thought to General Cook today announced he would read her t | | | | in which she said mem | bers of the family had suffered | from mental disorders. | If the court does not allow the j introduction of this testimony in the effort to show that 1 and incurable, Cook cern were moved from to San Francisco In March. Since that time the sale of stock locally has been handied by the Empire Securities Co. In the Empire buliding. Office stock was ordered off the mar. ket May 10, the company having raised sufficient operating cap- Witnesses today expressed the opinion that Thaw is san Gustave Roeder, a rep for the } ital. World, sald he interviewed Thaw John W. Burgess, whose home tsitwo days after the latter killed jin the East, swore to the complaint | White. against Wilson at San Francisco. At that time Thaw appeared to Geattlo Folk Destitute he irrational, he said. Roeder re He deciares four Seattle families | garded him as a changed man now who went to California on Wilson's) J Promises are destitute Sunny: | brooke, Que, said he believed Thaw vale, where the concern is sup ito be sane. posed to have a plant. “iid Thaw discuss women with He charges further that nine fam |youT” Cook asked. Menttlor to tivet thelr sat inee ttle “Did he discuss Virgine. Canadian the company's stock on the repre or otherwise” sentation that they could get work 0; he talked of the right kind at 50 cents an hour in the plant. /of women—mothers.” Reaching Sunnyvale, he says, they | Tell of Kidnaping Plot found only « «mall blacksmith} Sensational testimony regarding shop where the plant was supposed|an alleged plot of New York of. 0 be fictals, headed by Wm. T. Jerome According to several people here |to kidnap Thaw when he was a fugi who have subscribed for stock, an|tive in Canada, was promised by alluring picture was painted them|John B. Stanchfield, attorney for regarding the company’s possibill-|the defendant thes. | Robert Ewing, an alderman of They were told a $150,000 plant |Bherbrooke, gave the first testimony was under way In Sunnyva a short time would be turning out|of a kidnaping plot 100 automobiles a day “When I went to the court house Stock Was 50 Cents An order for 10,000 fitney buses. | was arraigned, [ saw many atran for use in San Francisco, had been | gers,” said Ewing. “I heard one obtained, it was said Stock sold say to a companion, “The beat way) at 50 cents a share. for us to get him is to snap him up The Elbert company formerly and rush across the border.” BRYAN TO RUN FOR U. S. SENATE? WASHINGTON, June 24 Wm, J. Bryan today announced he had retained his residence in Nebraska, and henceforth would live there a part of each year, and vote the Politicians re: d the an nouncement as signific: in view of rumors of a possivie fight to be made by Bryan for Senator Hitchcock's seat in the senate. Bryan's announcement added that he would continue publica- tion of the Commoner, Bryan will spend July 4 at San - Francisco, where he will participate NEW YORK, June 24.—A in the Panama-Pacific exposition . : celebration. Mra. Bryan will ac bomb, said to have contained vor iy him. ‘They will leave for three sticks of dynamite, found | California late this week, remaining on the doorstep of the home “ fortnight of Andrew Carnegie last night, | was declared by the police to- . CLUB TO DANCE used offices at 224 Empire building. | cs This room tmmediately adjoins the! Empire Securities When Wilson and other officers left, it was explained that enough stock had been sold to put the plant in operation | Anxious stockholders, upon in-| quiring {nto the delay since, were told more money was needed, and| Wilson had gone East to finance the company Over $50,000 was subscribed Seattle. DYNAMITE LEFT. AT ANDY'S DOOR; s in The bomb was crude in con-| struction and the method em-| ployed in placing it on the doorstep, where It was found The Commercial Club, which or by a watchman, bore every | ajnarily doesn't care a rap for frills mark of an amateur, it was or airs, is going to try a “soup and fish” dance Friday night, just for said é |fun, It's to be the first formal af. | Carnegie has been at Bar| fair the club has ever held |Harbor for several days. | Members will be asked to attend | |garbed in claw-hammer toga, with the slick fronts. Madame and AUTO SMASH; 2 DIE | masemotsetic are also requested to | 5 |“gown up. | A committee of $2 has been hunt CHICAGO, June 24.-—Mre. Eval ing down new ideas and will spring Luisdual of Chicago and O. W.|a bunch of novel stunts on the side Franklin of Burlington, lowa, were| The ball is also the first held at [instantly killed today when the au-|the new quarters since the recent tomobile in which they were riding | opening. “Dad” Wagner's ban@ will struck @ Wagon, turned over and| dispense music. The floor will be |then crashed into a telegraph pole|ready for the dancers sharp at 9 Jon 92nd st o'clock, Members and friends of | the club are invited MBtion for change of judge in trials of several miners in Colorado| Congressional party, after visiting denied. Attorney accused Judge| Umatilla irrigation district, Oregon, Hillyer, who presided over Lawson! left to inspect Boise project, in Ida trial, of being prejudiced ho. call the mother herself to the stand. | Smith, a reporter of Sher) and tn |appearing to sustain the allegations | on the first morning when Thaw | cum got excit ed as a hou afire. “Pulll” he shouted. Maude pull- ed, and there was a “cute lit- tle darling of a fish.” The girl smiled happily. Slocum started to pull It off the hook. Ine stantly the smile vanished and a look of pain spread over the girl's face. “Don't!” she pleaded Maude cried it must H But it was too late. The fish was off the hook, “Why did you do it?” she sobbed. “it was so cruel. have hurt its mouth so much. Slocum tried to argue. The fish couldn't be allowed to remain on the hook, he explained. “if you don't take the fish off, you can't fish any more,” he said. “Then | won't ever fish again,” she said. She was quite angry. “Uncle” Slocum was in bad for many, many days. oe eee Maude Kiskadden? “Uncle” Slocum? Why, they are none other than the famous Maude Adame, be- loved American actress, who opens an Street” at the Metropolitan Thursday night, and our own veteran “Doc” well in to Beattie's theatrical fraternity. very peeved@with Slocum: in 'B1 or "G2. the bre: He continued dandiing her on his knees for many years after they traveled in those early days thru the pioneer North. that west. Maude, who played juvenile leads in the stock days In which Slocum and Maude's mother, Anna Kiskadden, had Important roles, still calle him ~ ,, You should have seen the warm greetings exchanged between the two “pals” today. “Doo” Slocum is nearing 60 now. Maude Adams is 43. He hi lived In Seattle many y id In various theatrical underta ings. H one of the here. Maude’s mother and “Doc” Slocum began their careers almost at the same time in the now famous Salt Lake theatre, built by the Mormone. Only a few days ago “Doc” got a letter from Mrs. Kiskadden, which she said she hoped to be in Seattle with her mother, Maud grandmother. A few years ago.Doc” Slocum met with an accident, and has not been able to continue his theatrical work. “Doc's” star didn't rise high, but old friends are old friends, and there is no one in the North. it who was received so affectionately by the noted actre Un. cle” Slocum. How the dramatic critic envies him. Maude Adams never permits an interview, and “Doc” Slocum doesn't know we're printing this story. in | | | | LUNDIN GETS INJUNCTIONS IN FIGHT ON RED-LIGHT OWNERS IGHT EDITION Unnettled; probably showers TIDES AT SPATTER 18.2 AND NEWS STANDS, Be ER IN DEXTER HORTON BANK HELD FOR TRUSTED MAN CONFESSES TO AUTHORITIES. Cleans Out One Depositor’s ~ ' $38,000 Account When He ~ Cashes Last Check. THE PEOPLE VICTIMIZED BY GOVE @ Mrs. Carrie B. Cobb, 1409 E. Aloha st., wife of Charles H, Cobb, millionaire lumberman and realty dealer. @ Mrs. Elizabeth Foss, 728 N. Broadway, widow of the late” | Levi W. Foss. Thomas E. Jones, 1017 Queen Anne ave., wealthy con- | tractor. : |@ Herman Linset, of Foster station, saloon proprietor at Oc- | cidental ave. and Yesler way. * Because he played a bad hand at poker, and had not tunds of his own to back his heavy losses, DeForest W.7 Gove, paying teller of the Dexter Horton National bank, vccupies a cell in the county jail,*Thursday, awaiting trial on a charge of embezzlement. : For years, Gove has confessed, he has been play- ing a desperate game with other people’s money, forge ing thé names of some of the most prominent persons” in Seattle and paying to himself large sums from their. jaccounts. 4 One of the Interesting phases of; the bank's employes by Pink n his final downfall, which came! operatives. Gove’s habits were e ed and gave a suspicion that might be the offender. He fin admitted {t when confronted witht the evidence. | Wednesday, is that but one of bis | victims realized that anything was wrong at the bank indin Fee eee” on, G0¥e Was considered one of the Bove. Wan -Arremad EiVr cot |best handwriting experts in Seat — jfeesion to Detective Philip | K-/ tie, and his forgeries are sald | Ahern, head of the Pinkerton agen-| 2.0" been exceedingly clever, |cy here, and officials of the bank.) Much so as to deceive the Later he made a more complete] whose name he had used, statement at the office of Prosecut-) Gove lived in handsomely ing Attorney Lundin teed” apartinehte “at Ga He was charged with grand lar-|t" where he was looked upoM ceny of $3,000. on a warrant | !® | being an exceptionally hale chap. | sued from Justice Gordon's conrt,! YTB #2 exceptionally hale a at the instance of a representative 7, . ; said Wednesday evening she j y of Lioyd’s Royal Indemnity Co. of irregularities in j ste | not noticed any London, his sureties. Gove’s bond nk, which wa account at the | insurance amounts to $100,000. | The young man, who is 32 years|/” {self remarkable, she added, old, had, during ‘a long period,| ts the beakiog. ripe Aas embezzled about $15,000, he said in ferred to say nothing about the [his confession. He had worked at | (°F 7 s ithe Dexter Horton bank since he| a OUD; bein ted cide see 38 “ [cout not be interviewed, iil Forged Names to Checks had, at least, made no mention It was Gove's system, when he/ her shortages at the bank if | needed money to indulge his insa-| nad noted them. | tiable desire to play poker, to Issue Took Most in Last Year a check on the account of either] In his confession to Lundin, G Mrs. Carrie B, Cobb, Mrs, Elizabeth! admitted that he had taken all Foss, Thomas E. Jones or Herman|ghout $2,000 of the $15,000 du Linset, forging their signatures and) the last year. ‘ Prosecti < undin ob- | calle¢ or on W 1 Where he squand ay Thisedee pic Boen i . ees Arve by Bes a By Ron paying the check himself, to him-|eq this money he did not say, junctions against. the owners of |ald one week self, thus taking advantage of his) declared it had all gone over tl three alleged immoral houses here| Deputy Prosecutor Summers is Position as paying teller | gaming table. in his campaign, begun a few weeks handling these abatement proceed- His last check was on the ac-| Gove's parents are Dr. and Mi ago, to stomp out the red-light evil, | Ings for Lundin count of Herman Linset, and drain-) Dp. W. Gove of Orting. The Lundin struck directly at the! Judge Gilliam, who heard the tes- @4 that depositor’s account clean.|man was educated in Ti owners of the property, most of|timony against Jesse J. Humphrey, When Linset came to the bank,/ schools, his father having fo whom are mev prominent in bust-|his wife, Kristina, and others con-| 4 few days ago, to get some money! conducted a drug business there, ness aid church circles. nected with the house at 711 to pay his saloon rent, he was in-| At the Seattle Athletic club, Judge Ronajd granted the injunc-| Weller st, Wednesday, announced formed that he must not be writing) which Gove was a member, he tions, which are directed against |he would reserve his decision until checks to himself when he had| considered an exceptionally go houses and their owners at 707,/Saturday. The state asks for a nothing in the bank. | fellow 707% and 703 Dearborn st Permanent injunction under the Cleaned Linset's Account | He was a liberal spender, it Guiseppe Colanzelo, a wealthy | red-light abatement law Why, I have about $3,000 in the) sald, and had the reputation of Italian, is the principal defendant bank,” in each case permittin tees in t He is restrained from further immoral prac © houses, one of which SHELLS KILL NURSES sald the astounded Linset He was shown his statement. He had not the wherewithal | ing scrupulously honest. He is jan Elk, to] is the notorious “Moonlight House, PUrcaRs sti neckee . ‘OFFICIAL ACQU Until abatameod Prosesdlnen ate | PARIS, Juné $4.—Geveral ateters There's something wrong,” he. tried on their merits, and has given |@d nurses were killed by Gerr = | e Be, a bond of $3,000 to insure against | Shells, which fell on the Saint Sac. His latest check for $3,000, sign-/ BOISE, Idaho, June 24.—Follows violation of the court order. Beyer hospital during a bombard. ed, apparently, by himself, was next] ing a trial lasting several d BE. The cases against Joseph A,| ment of Arras yesterday, It was an-| shown | Van Valkenverg, ex-state insurance Hyde and others alleged to be the | nounced today I didn't write it,” he declared.| commissioner, was acquitted of the owners of the Potlateh hotel, 67 Lai UR It's a forgery charge of embezzling $555 of state | Weller st., and against the Boulder| Ellensburg will vote, July 20, on Then started the shadowing of all funds “ Realty Co., alleged owners of so- $100,000 light bond issue, | TO HEY, KIDS, HOW'D YOU LIKE TO how'd you like to nfarch in the week, and to drill, in nice, white Roys, Shriners Tilikum umes? parade during Well, h ‘8 your chance Capt. R. W. Thompson is getting up a company of “Boy Ma rines.” There will be 50 “marines” and 10 officers—all between the ages of 9 and 17. It won't cost you anything to join, and all you have to do is to pply at 10 o'clock Friday morning at Lincoln park Ask for a Capt. Thompson, and he'll do the rest } s i JOIN TILIKUM “BOY MARINES”? The Seattle Star offers advertisers a great deal more paid solid circula- tion for the money than any other Se- attle newspaper. And this circula- tion is practically every bit confined to Seattle and Seattle’s trade zone. These facts are worthy of your most careful consideration, Mr. Merchant.