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

Penna ennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn wr best way to know the “last West” is to see it. The next best way is to read about it. Boalt is in Neah Bay, at the extreme northwestern corner of these United States. At Neah Bay is the reservation of the Makah tribe of Indians. its height There is a coast guard station whose stalwart young Vikings go out in any weather to save shipwrecked mariners Boalt should find some rich picking in this out-of-the-way corner, and Star readers should have a better know of the light. It will appear in The Star Wednesday We can't all explore the Olympic peninsula, but we can, at least, accompany, in fancy, Fred L. Boalt, of The Star staff, in his little journeys 5 There is a salmon cannery at Neah Bay, and the salmon-fishing season is at Outside the strait is Tatoosh island, with its lighthouse, its weather bureau and its navy wireless station. / ledge of this part of the “last West” when he is done. Boalt's first story will have to do with Tatoosh island and the keeper The Seattle Star : The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : NES DUFF GETS A SPORT SHIRT ; SEE PAGE 4 UFF is the poor mutt who's al- s ways getting in wrong in the “married man” pictures. He gets one of these new shirts and thinks he’s quite cute, until—well, look at the AST EDITION Unsettied; probably showers TIDES High. 1:04 p. 18 ft OB p. Ita ft AL BEATILE NO. 135, 5M am, AT 4:15 po m., BA ft ON THAIN AND NEWS RTANDS, Be SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1915. ONE CENT ™., Musician, Sightless for Years, Regains Use of | His Eyes Temporarily 'HE IS KEEPING BUSY | Trying to See as Much as He While Patrolmen Beat Up, NR | | Ce a aie | | Feeble Old Men, Glaring | , | Dr, Rudolph H. Gerber, of San Francisco, was the first witn: called Tuesday against Yogi Ralph De Bit and Dorothy Gerber, Dr, Gerber’s wife, in their trial in Justice Brinker's court on a charge of improper corduct. Gerber caused their arrest after finding them living to- gether in the Yogi colony at Beaux Arts village, across Lake Washington from Leschi park. A. G. White, the next witn: superintendent of the Li building, where De Bit formerly had his Yogi headquarters, tes- tified that he had entered De Bit's private room on one oc- casion and found the Yogi, un- clothed, standing in the pres- ence of Mrs. Gerber. | Dr. Gerber briefly sketched his {domestic difficulties since the time he was married at Redwood City, PENOLETON, Ore. Aug. 3. —Suddenly regaining the sight of one eye after being totally blind for 15 years, and warned by a doctor tha may, within 24 hour ain be blind, Cart Gulotte, a well-known musician, was making the most of his op- portunity today. seen his son and | 1 E of “just plain folks,” and this is making a mighty liberal allowance—20,000,000—for such as may con- s sider themselves “high: etter,” etc. | descend to pretend to be—and let that writer write up | Dressin Washington, congress, New York, the army, the navy and all the rest of the world, so far that goes, for such folks } VV like you and me, damn fools in this thing or damn fools in that. The higher-ups only “think” they are higher-ups and therein ; As / in tele aempery: Suggest for “just folks” would be written so “Men only!” Nomen Prdgtelhdlye ay-ved clear and plain and attractively that the so- In large red letters it appears on a sign that hangs called “higher-up” would read it with as great No one deliberately wr t and for “just folks!” me—common folks, without education or money or pre- j -“ Only” Si For Men Only” Sign on is their foolishness—just as my folishness, and Guiotte had never came faint. Recovering from the | the little slit that serves for a door at 161 Wash-| relish, and greater, than the people you call Therefore, Mr. Editor, | suggest that you select a writer who to blue blood. Such articles might be headed “For Street Proclaims Rank yours, crop out in other ways. wife and 10-year-old dizziness, he discovered he could on st. “just folks. , BLIND, — ide? DITOR THE STAR: Thore are inthis country 80,000,000 is himself (or herself) “just folks”—not one who would con- Just Folks.” SANTY. are ALL ‘just folks,” Santy. All just Violation of Law. Soadine Serine altho The chances are large that the stuff you ' This story is to tell what goes on inside. Try sometime, Santy, to study out a man , ott Alarmed and amazed, Gulotte . hahah shar og Se ‘pd hurried to a doctor, who told him HOW Bud Ft od am of vision was probably | ¥ or woman who, at the beginning laoks and B x _ The Star has no desire to knock legitimate, clean er generally makes a “Dear Editor: ce? flerprise, but when the editor gets a letter like this a quiet investigation: Will you kindly inform me why fain show for ‘men only’ on Washington st., be-|OUR tast siiver do : Second ave. S. and Occidental ave., is allowed) fp exist? Is it the high license they pay, or is it the! “| am an old married stiff with a grown up fam- ly here in town, and have witnessed some pretty tough but for vulgarity this one has them all skinned a It is called “The Oriental Beauties,” (Signed.) don't need any newspa- ‘to tell me what to do,” Chief of Police Lang Tuesday. “We can run the ourselves. Phas Jump to conclusions. Phillipe and Collins Iven a hearing—in re fr H lay with the four witnesses the brutal exhibi- and it is, “EVERETT TRUE.” eee “Everett” only half described the “Oriental Beauties.” A reporter visited the place dur- ing the busy hours of Monday afternoon. It was going full blast. You enter thru the narrow door, lady who sells tickets. Insi: you find many things. instance. These are ranged along the wal! on one side. Peek into them and you see various revolting scenes. One is a picture of a priest, on whose lap is seated a woman. For another dime you may pitch three wooden rings at a rack filled with canes, and see several optical illusions in which real fleeh and blood women pose brazenly. jut the best of ti jhow is in the little room here,” says a dark- visaged announcer. The little room is draped in after paying a dime to the portly, There are a dozen “peep boxes,” for! FAVOR CINCINNATI FOR 1916 SESSION 18 putting it up eee TO Bud Fisher's Jeff. eee laut we are willin | to wager -. . AGAINST the W. K. bole ove IN an old-fashioned doughnut eee MUTT eee 1s telling Jett . THAT Bud Fisher .e . HAS contracted to draw them eee FOR The Star. ANYWAY eee | WE are happy to announce— | lien He | IN behalf of . . | BUD FISHER . THAT they will appear together eee EXCLUSIVELY tn this paper eee ON and after Monday, August 16, “ee AND they are going to be oe FUNNIER THAN ever ee CALL The Stars CIRCULATION . department .. ee RIGHT now oe AND order the paper owe every . BEGINNING Monday, WITHOUT fail, day, August 16. The 32nd annual session of the supreme council of the | party near Resolved to seo all that he could | while sight remained with him, Gulotte telephoned R. W. Fletcher, | a close friend, and asked to be taken about the city in the latter's automobile | | Until night fall Gutotte rode thru the streets, hailing with de Mght the new butidings, and laugh- | ing with boyish abandon when he recognized an old land mark, } Today Guiotte was feasting his | eyes on his little famfly, the flower |garden he has nurtured thru his nse of touch, and the little ob- ts about his home. Guiotte is 50 years old | He has had trouble with his eyes since childhood, but his sight fall ed him utterly 15 years ago. | | U.S. SOLDIER | DIES IN FIGHT BROWNSVILLE, Tex. Aug. 3— [One American soldier was kil and four wounded in men with Mexican raiders at San) Benito early today. | Two of the wounded men are sol- diers and two are ran it ie belleved the same who fi A portion of troop ~ Twelfth | cavalry, surrounded the raiders in the Serivener ranch, 22 miles north | east of Brownaville. There were 12 of the bandits and battle ensued Private acts the typical higher-up to you. If possible, dig right down to the depths of that higher-up —habits, likes, dislikes, enjoyments, sympa- thies, hopes, knowledge, religion, traits, daily comings and goings, etc., and it’s more than 10 to 1 that he or she is, under the skin, as much of a mutt as you Sweeney. and | and Mike You have no idea how much good a study of this kind will do you. atmosphere; it will enlarge It will clear your your education; it will increase your love for humanity—your love for 100 per cent of the population. 1 know. I have done it. The burglar was a nice little kid when he was a baby. He’s still soul common with us. that he’s what he is. human and in his It’s not all his fault Nor is it all the higher up’s fault that he’s what HE is. If we have pity for the burglar and the murderer, let’s pity the man who considers himself higher up—above manity. the mass of hu- Something has gone wrong with him, too, since he was a baby! Oh yes—your suggestion. This news- paper is all of it written for “just folks.” Sincerely, THE EDITOR. Cal., in 1909, until the time, a few days ago, when he located his wife here Yog! Ie Unembarrassed Yogi De Bit sat beside his coun- sel, an interested but unembar- rassed listener to Dr. Gerber's tes- timony. Mrs. Gerber, who is known to the Yogi as “Isona” De Bit, was not in court. Altho a defendant, her pres- ence was not required until Tues- |day afternoon. Dr. Gerber said they had lived in San Francisco until 1911, when he |sent his wife to Europe to study jmusic under Berlin masters. He followed her to Germany three months after she left. | They remajned in Berlin 2% . he said, she skipped secretly, with their child, Areal, to | America. |. While he was still in Berlin in |the dark as to what had become of |her, he got word from his attorneys |at San Francisco that she had start- ed divorce proceedings. | Started Divorce Action He hurried to California. Prior to that time, he said, she had start- ed divorce proceedings at Berlin, | which she had later withdrawn. Dr. |Gerber’s arrival at San Francisco | Was Just in time to prevent his wife |from getting her divorce there. Again she vanished, and after more than six months he found her in Seattle. He satd: “I looked tn the city directory, and found that Dorothy Gerber and Dorothy De Bit were both registered at the Hotel Sor- jrento. I inquired of the clerk, and ‘found my wife had been known as Mrs, De Bit at the hotel, and that she and De Bit had left a month | KNIGHTS’ PROGRA TURSDAY m.—Publie reception to his at Kev. John Ron- delegate, at Moore | Knights of Columbus conve: a pitched y all are ready to when the hearing up, “in due time”"— that is. oriental rugs that are frayed at the) Tue: edges. It costs 25 cents to get in here. And In this inner show A YOUNG GIRL, NOT OVER 17, POSES AS “SEPTEMBER MORN.” A FAT, IMMODEST WOMAN, 40 YEARS OLD, PERHAPS, DOES AN ORIENTAL DANCE CLAD ONLY IN A THIN, ALMOST TRANS- McGuire was killed and Private| ; TAXICAB IS WRECKED "court room crowscs . for Thursday, it was learned today. Curtis wounded. One of his ears! : r 4 | The administration realizes an | During the hearing Tuesday was shot off. Deputy Sheriff Mona). hargo on arms cannot be made|_,! an effort to get out of the way |morning the court room was pack- han was wounded in the leg ttective if supplies are sent from |0f a0 inbound Seattle, Renton & | Ou the creed peite eet eee n the underbru oon . {6 . Pe a i “ and &: eoepent Wik 6 publics, and from there trans a taxicab driver, miraculously es. pi dro ge eo ete i testi Jcaped death, and the automobile dot tag oe ene any “4 nae shipped to Mexico. ‘un was rushed to the scene. 18) t ountries are & All of the southern © are which he was driving was wrecked, creed. Sate wends Lewel, thelr lips |when he lost control of the ma: a te . Ing celebration of so! tifical high mass, at St, Jam cathedral, celebrant, Archbish- op Bonzano. An afternoon scheduled for Tue: the o will get busin: nt Entire house open. WEDNESDAY Mexicans are believed to be Car-| said to be in hearty accord with the m.—Supreme council ¢ com- \/ ranzistas who were stealing horses |plan for restoring order in Mexico, “TOENGLAND _ tingent Ment Wilson in an: a i; 2 Ma 6 bares the British IS DEMANDED BY. STEWART WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—An im is wanted by a con- of exporters from Pres- er to Eng. refusal to modify order in council, 894 the rejection of American ions as to the rights of commerce. combined effort is to be ion interests are the element in this e in England, are in of the combine of ex- fs to demand that the allies interference with all ship- consigned to neutral coun- up pil: utthe event of refusal of thin de- they want a session of con called to place an embargo on its to the allies. wy r will seek to have President hich S note fix a time limit in the demands may be accept i Would amount to an mitt Becrease in accidents in indus- Roted for July, this year. Were 1,100 accidents report- State industrial commission 4 with 1,217 last July. PARENT COVERING. It ie the most vulgar exhibition that Seattle, in all probability, has ever seen. AND THE MOST FREQUENT VISITORS TO THE PLACE ARE BOYS IN THEIR TEENS. The young girl, leaning over from the sta questionable banter je dances. The Star does not con- sider itself a censor of Se- attle’s morals. The Star, nevertheless, is curious to know why a place like this is permitted to run wide open while policemen in the neighborhood put in their time beating up _ feeble, gray-haired men whom | they feel called upon to ar- rest. The Star suggests that |Chief Lang land on_ this |place, and land quick and |hard. SPANKED BY HUBBY | VISALIA, Cal, Aug. 3.— | Blanco told the judge it was a custom in her neighborhood for | husbands to spank thelr wives. | But | won't stand for it,” ahe | deciared, swearing to a com- plaint charging her h and | tional Motor Co, Is next. | Announces bonus to employes. Besides the annual officers, and the choosing of the |next convention city, the council will consider, among other matters, the report of the dice” committee, ing to dispel prejudice against |Catholicism, in the minds of the |Amertcan people. Four After 1916 Convention jand Cleveland are all bidding for the honors of being the next con-| vention elty, but Cineinnatt is mak ing supreme efforts to land it, and indications are she will be success ful Delegates are here from all parts of the United States and Canada, and from Mexico, Panama, Cuba, | Porto Rico, and Newfoundland A public reception for Archbish op Bonzano, apostolic delegate, ts scheduled for Tuesday evening at the Moore theatre, Former Fed eral Judge George Donworth, who | will preside, will speak on “An Ap |preciation of the Laity of the Dto-| cese of Seattle for the Will of His Excellency A response by Bishop O'Dea, Diocese of Seattle and Its Clergy,” wil be followed by an adress of welcome by Supreme Court Judge | Stephen J. Chadwick, and response by Archbishop Bonzano. At 9:30 there will be a formal | ball and reception at the clubhouse lin honor of the supreme counctl Jand delegates and their Indies ‘TO BUY PACIFIC MAIL NEW YORK, Ang. 3.—The Inter. national Mercantile Marine Co. ts seriously considering buying the ships of the Pacific Mails Co., ac cording to reports in Wall st. | ‘religious preju-| which has been! laboring the past year in attempt-| election of | hoon to delegates. merton Navy of Interest, wr- 00 p.m. ms and other poln riving wt Seattle and University #t tereopticon views | lecture show! of Alaska scenery | for the army WASHINGTON operation of @entral Aug. and 3 SOUTH AMERICA "TO HELP U. S. IN MEXICAN FUSS Co. {are in full control. South and no trouble is expected in exe- cuting the program. Uniess Carranza meets with an unexpected and serious reverse, his recognition by President Wilson is considered sure. Food is now being rushed to Mex ico City, where tho Carranzistas chine and it plunged down a filght jof steps in front of the Wingfield hotel, Fourth and Pine st. JUDGE GETS ACTION POMONA, Cal., Aug. 3.—Police Judge Mason caught a man vio. lating an ordinance by spitting on the sidewalk, He held court on the spot and Denies Move to Dismiss C. A. David, a resident of Beanx Art, said he had often seen the children of De Bit and the daughter of Mrs. Gerber in bathing in the nude, He added, however, that he believed the majority of the people interested in the Christian Yogi col- lege were respectable. Deputy Prosecutor Friend called the attention of the court to the Panama City, Cincinnati, Chicago | concert program will be Ki 1 cellent opportunity city at night to view Rnnnnnnnnn American countries is to be sought in keeping arms from a Mexico, ex cept for the benefit of a recognized faction This was Secretary Lansing’s ob- in calling a conference with ambassadors from Brazil, Argentine and Chile and the ministers from 'Bolivia, Uruguay and Guatemala WILL SURVEY AN King county will buy no Industrial farm until an appraisal has been made of the tracts offered and jthoro soil tents have been made by {an expert agriculturist This was declared Tuesday by Commissioner Carrigan when sever al eager land agents besieged the board with farm “snaps.” ‘We’ not going Into thts affair blindly,” said Carrigan. “We intend using as great caution In making the purchase for the taxpayers as jwe would if we were buying a farm as individuals, paying our own |money for it.” A dozen tracts are being consld ered “But we want the best we can buy for the money,” said Carrigan. DAPPRAISE FARMS OFFERED TO COUNTY. |An expert In farming will be en gaged to go over each prospective purchase, making soil tests and classifying the advantdxes as well as the disadvantages, | “We will have appraisers, men | who know something of realty |values, accompany the agriculturist to estimate the actual land and im-| provement value. It is probable the Seattle Real Estate dasoctation’s | appraisal board will be asked to look at the farms.” | Carrigan declared the commis-| sioners had no cholee as yet as to} the location of the farm. | As soon as all tracts have been inspected by the commissioners, the | appraisers and agriculturist will be |put to work. This will lkely be Jsome time this month, purchase of the street railway sys-| tem soon People to vote in Detroit on the ed the pavement then and there. offender to cl fact that Dorothy A. De Bit ap peared in the city directory as the Again in July The Star was the only Seattle paper that showed a growth in both advertising and circulation as compared with July, 1914, THE ADVERTISING GAIN WAS 7,252 LINES. THE CIRCULATION GAIN 9,941 SUBSCRIBERS. | wife of Ralph De Bit De Bit'seattorney asked for a dis- | missal on the ground that there had |been no evidence introduced to | bear out the charge. This was de- | nied, however, and Justice Brinker jadjourned court at noon until 3 | o'clock | Went Bathing With Woman | “Did you ever see anything at | Beaux Arts that would lead you to | believe that De Bit and Mrs. Gerber |were husband and wife?” asked | Deputy Prosecutor George Friend, of C. C. Phillips, another witness. “She was known as Mrs, De Bit,” said Phillips. “I have seen them j with their arms around each éther on several occasions. I ha often seen Kim kiss her good-bye and 1 | have seen De Bit in bathing with jsome woman. I cannot say if it was Mrs, De Bit. De Bit was naked,” SHY ON MUNITIONS PETROGRAD, Aug. 3.—Drastie action as a result of Russia's lack of munitions was taken by the duma today when a resolution was adopted demanding the prosecution of those responsible for the short- age of ammunition, regardless of | their position.”