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

Say, Folks, Be Thankful You Live in Seattle HE editor is just back from his va- AST EDITION Fair cation. He spent it in the East And he’s tic kled to be home again One of the reporters tells why, on 11. Read his story, and be glad Lon you in the best town on earth. The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : VOLUME ONE CENT WEATHER FORECAST Tipe RHATILE live at UN THALNS AND NEWS BEANDS, Be TER PETERSON ‘FINDS A > A GRANDMOTHER HER AND MRS. NEWBERRY FINDS A HOME SszEEe sdsoeso EECE MOBILIZES {TS ARMY! 18, NO. 180, SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1915. DON, Sept. 24.—The Balkans) rapid strides today tower) Regents Break With U. of W. Alumni Peter Peterson Hadn’t a Cent, Discovered a Way to Make an Old Woman Happy. CHIMES | IW and again I get sick and tired of this newspaper game. At such times I wish | was a clerk in a grocery store, or had a job in the fire department. wouldn’t be a fireman for twice the money. Something happened this morning, and 1 am as satisfied as a ECHO OF But, With Mrs. Peterson, He By Fred L. Boalt Then something happens that makes the game seem worth while, and I bug in a rug. answered the Buigerian | ARLY this week a little, fice. The office boy reporter. The little old woman told the story she had come to tell. It made a hit with the red-headed reporter. Besides, the little old woman reminded the red-headed reporter of his grand mother. So he It began, ever saw.” “The dearest wrinkled little lady” more’n 80, farmer, near Silverdale. Mrs. Newberry went away, and the red-headed reporter forgot her in the interest of other things. He gathered and wrote murder Mrs. Newberry ‘stories, and divorce stories, and suicide stories. One reason why I sometimes sicken of the newspaper game is that too often “good” news. But not always, thank God! * * * * * * old woman wandered into The Star of- steered her to the desk of our red-headed e, Bois tumbling may flash across wires before night. Europe. 2 ja on tiptoe. jaiting the armed clash between these na. An open break between the Unt.) versity of Washington regents and Alumnt association came today,! when the board refused to co-oper ate with the association in further alumni) organization The reason was the alumni’s chotee of J. D. Riordan, '13, as ex ecutive secretary of the alumnl Riordan first drew the opposition because It wae he who, as pr of the stud body at the time the Blethen chimes were presented, re fused point-blank to receive them in name of the students, This aroused the old Kane administra tion's enmity | Condon Leads Fight It was Bursar Herbert T. Condon Jone of the last Kane |ieutenants on the campus, who led the fight against Riordan'’s confirmation Despite the board's action, the al Sad news and bad news, is umnat will retain Riordan. It will pay all his salary, and he will work! Independently of the administration HE ‘red-headed «reporter's story was read-by tens of thousands of folks. Tens ~President Suerallo has determin: | se Seeceaiat ins ater emmamcael of thousands scanned the features of “the dearest wrinkled little lady,” whose the letter which Representative Jas. Picture went with the story. [H. Davis, of Tacoma, wrote him It must have made a good many of them think of their grandmothers. ening that if the students " | Were not stopped in their discussion| Mrs. Peter Peterson read the story. She passed the paper to Peter Peterson, When he had finished reading, his wife said: “You go and see her—quick!” jot military drill “and other soctalts. | tie activities.” the university would) suffer in appropriations at the next Peter Peterson went. |seasion of the léogislature eee | ee | 5] It adfition to these moves, Aus- \ : t j Suzzallo Stands Firm Nw the story the red-headed Mayor Gill was at his desk again and G any are orted to “This student question,” said Suz reporter wrote told bow Mrs JAPANESE URGE | years on the 10 acres which she Friday, after a two-day fishing trip. zallo, “will be settled on {ts merita Newberry had lived for 23 | as an educational and public welfare {problem, and not with any possible herself cleared. With her own deepest a 4 hands, she dug holes for the fence will: Lay’ Exvidenee.-Ageinst He announced he would deliber ; 9 He will write Davis when he gets Posts. With her own hands, she OLD MAN! WHY? Chinese Before | time sawed the boards and built the The police ta Prosecutor. The chicken coop. All the work of the Davis was chairman of the appro-|° . priations committee in the last ses-| ttle farm she did herself. again with ancther bone! Tuesday morning, at lBoYCOTT JAP GOODS'* Seattle Chinese Friday had again! Unable to put the jitneys out of from Athens -that King tine had signed a general mobdilization order was recety with great satisfaction. Wilt Stana by Serbia ce intends to stand by| This was the only interpre. that could be placed on Con 's order. is expected @ample of Greece, but ly silent as to her plans. is completing prepara- war. Large forces of are inspecting her de the Serbian boundary. . ite in Italy were io embark for home, fol- e iing them to the wrote a whale of a story about the little old woman. if you recall: ‘She’sthe dearest wrinkled little lady you to follow was Mrs. A. A. Newberry, is * Prepare J se ma of the diplomats here SU hopeful of the outcome wi said this declaration might | ‘the leaders had learned Bul- aria favored the allies, and hence [withdrawn their previous pro- editor of the North American Times, a Japanese publication yrs im arly 1,000, a drive thru Serbia to gcived ily withdrawing some of them the Russian struggle for ve na, ADER of the | antten: rreiean men er minccenere | by Chines» gambling houses visit! young Japanese in every part of the city, and even on near-by farms, in viting them to the various gaming) dens, After a young man has gone tn-| to these dens two or three times, said Arima, “he forms the habit We are very much opposed to this} soliciting, as it has ruined many of our best young men. A mass of evidence against nu merous places where gambling is being carried on in the Chinese quarter will be submitted to Prose ctor Lundin, who will ikely turn It over to the grand jury, in Novem allied press has fully ona | tothe gravity of the situation. @ papers express no sur-| at the Bulgarian mobilization they regarded the situation . ly serious.” At the same, Paris journals declared condi- ate * ‘eTave.” ate a while on the findings of the city council in the Lang case, be- fore announcing what he intended doing with the chief. “The council should have made definite findings as to whether the chief was drunk or not,” said the mayor. “That was the important point. If the council had found defi- nitely that he was drunk I would have fired him promptly. “The charge that he went to the girl's room is a minor part. His going there hinges altogether on motive.” The mayor signed a few bonds had a nebulous plan of founding a Newberry Old Ladies’ Home if she couldn't find a buyer INJURY TO EYE yoy see ce" } mex lve ade ne Whether or not {tis just for abe service commission to Mile that no man over 40 years on a charge of being, Chambers, who lives with Mr each? and Mrs. Rue Anderson, at 218) Ninth ave. arose early that morn ing, and was on the way to a patch of potatoes planted by the Ander- sons, When arrested, Chambers says he told the officers that he Peterson Old-timers should remem- | ber him, He, was known as “the lunch counter man.” He's had doz ens of lunch counters in Seattle at one time or another. Once he was r She made a profit of $300 a year. sion of the legislature. Now the time has come when she \is too old to work the farm. She . TEDDY must either sell it or rent it. She cers A. H. f is and A. E. Sandel! arrested N ., Chambers, who is 86 yeare old, abroad at night. | placed a boycott on Japa e goods and labor, and in retalia- tion the Japanese are ready to lay before Prosecutor Lundin WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, Former President Roosevelt well as former- tabk: hoodfums: are’ buy 94 can work for the city as a fay laborer will be determined Bs committee of the Wom- 's Commercial Club, appoint- td Thursday Another committee will re- Bert on the effect on student @roliment at the university of the new tuition and matricula- tion fees, WATER SHUT. OFF NOTICE Water will he shut off on West W st, from Third ave. W ae ave. W., and on Fifth ave West MacGraw st. to West ih st. on Saturday, Sept. 25. certain facts concerning the pread ruin of young Japa- nese quarter. In the Chinese gambling The boycott follows a refusal of Chinese to buy Japanese goods and merchandise, or em- ploy Japanese workmen in sev- eral other this country, Chicago among them. principal San Francisco, and Portland, Ore., cities in This action came after diplo- atic relations between the two countries became somewhat ber. 1 am continuing my investiga tions,” said Lundin, “and shall have some Important matter to give the grand jory. My only fear is that the gamblers will dissipate a few days before the grand jury convenes.” RESERVISTS HERE MAY BE SUMMONE! WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—The Greek embassy today prepared to| notify consuls everywhere thruout the country regarding sending re ‘ servists home jeall, lin jail until late afternoon, well-to-do. Now he's broke. It isn't Peter Peterson's fault that jhe is broke. He was trimmed and robbed of most of his fortune. Then sickness swept away the remnant Last summer Peterson came out of the city ‘ospital, He had come thru a dangerous operation. He couldn't get work during his con valescence. There were times this fall when Peter Peterson and his wife didn't get enough to eat The once well-to-do Petersons were reduced to living in two rooms at 1014% Howell st. Today Peter. | tacks e ch son Is well and strong again, but, If the tack ~ —— caught, they form on his le! sult of an injury recel while box. Ing with one of the secret serv- lce men while he waa in the White House. A glancing blow broke blood-veese!, and the never completely healed. It is the advice of physicians that eventually an operation of no serious character will re- move the cataract, but mean- time the sight of the left eye will gradually become dim. In shooting, tennis and other things the colonel finds this a considerable handicap business by legitimate means, they are again resorting to the cowardly method of placing tacks in the road, so as to cause extra repairs for those operating the jitneys. In- cldentally, they are putting private auto drivers also to extra expense. 8. D. Wood, a jitney driver on the Yesler run, picked up 40 tacks on three blocks, between 22nd and 25th aves. on Yesler way Friday morn Other drivers also gathered alm a similar number of could prove that he lived near by, and offered to identify himself by the men at the fire station, a block away, and that he {s not a suapl elous character But the cops refused, rang for the patrol wagon, and when it fail ed to arrive, being out on another they Je the old man walk to the station, The arrest was ma on Terry ave., between Alder and Jefferson ets, Chambers was booked and kept) when he was released. It was the first a injury ing distributors can be are subject to severe ‘ and then shook his head. ‘This public life,” he said, “is a bad business. I would rather make my living fishing.” PULLING WIRES TO BLOCK BIG LOAN Li N, Sept. 24.—German in- dustr associations issued a warn- ing today that participation in the allied American loan by firms do- ing business with Germany would considered justification for breaking off commercial relations. strained, according to 8. Arima, time he had ever been in jail. THING IN EUROPE Trade M Rem. U. ® Pat. Off) (Continued on Page 7.) punishment BY BUD FISHER 94m. to 5 p. m GRR were in Luck!” Pas. af I Gor AUJoB AS j More. CLERK AND THEN USED § PULL AND Got You @ JoR las BELL Boy IN THE SAME JOINT THAT NEW +| FALL SUIT or HAT, MADAM Are you thinking of If WHAT } THE —<$<— SJ MATTER )| AT NINE |. OcLock inl | THE MORNING unm! 7 7 o'ccock! —— DID You LEAVE A CALL FOR \ NINE O'CLOCK Le ty YOU'VE oor | os OH, FING, MUTT! Ive aALwars = [ WANTED TO | WweAe A \ UNIFORM | buying tomorrow? so, you will be interest- ed in the message of the World Millinery & Suit Co., which appears on page 8 in today’s Star They wre offer ing some very spevial inducements for the thrifty Saturday shop- will while per, which you find well worth