The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 12, 1916, Page 1

POLICE SEEK BANQUET POISONER }Waiter Tries to Kill Archbishop, Governor of Illinois and 100 Other Guests IX DAYS A WEEK we go about our business, fighting a good clean fight, like men. And on Sunday? On atti Sunday we are tired. We would lie abed late, we would read the papers, breakfast near noon and slide nod Fae Bstaak + Pa dlipshod thru the day, which is a mighty poor way to spend Sunday. d, we'd rather go to church. Look ‘Em Over, Voters The five candidates for corpora- tion counsel are lined up for your inspection today on page 5—their pictures and something about them. We suggest that you give them the once-over before casting : your votes. It’s more wholesome. VOLUME 18. THE ONLY , attle Prepares to Welcom Let’s go! ONE CENT » Its Home-Grown Tenor | M00 LAU D ABE IND AP Wisi REO THIS AT ¥ SANGU WHAT wou SINCOLN SAY? state-wide, w igo direct as- oO with a confident of victory in state and elections this fall, men and women attended , day banquet of the Men’s Republican club Hippodrome pavilion. was a record-breaking _ Never before have so many at a political banquet history of the Northwest. one of the speakers—J. " Webster of Spokane—ad- ftrictly to the subject of the memory of the mar- hers were carried away by bitter denunciation of ve Wilson and his policies m@ by an ambition to laud the emancipator. Audience on Its Fect Webster's oration “Abra Lincoin—An Inspiration,” was e from any partisansi-ip, and was ful that at {ts conclusion audience sj ntaneously fad applauded, paying the & most remarkable tribute. Ralph A. Horr, chairinan of | ents committce, goes meredit of handling the vast and presenting a musical fn vocal and instrumental se- as well as attending to the Of the inner man, without a Lincoin Voters There of the state central com- Were the guests of honor. A section was reserved for Voters, about 30 of whom mere and there were sections re- for delegations from other Enthusiasm ran rampant att the evening. 3 iM. Whitney, president of the LE THINGS THE STAR MAN NOTICED AT BANQUET GOETHALS, LANE AND HOUSTON ARE IN LINE FOR GARRISON'S JOB WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. President Wilson will bring the name of Secretary of War Garrison's successor with him when he returns > to Washington tomorrow from a cruise on the Po- tomac, officiais believe. Altho there is a strong Idea that ‘dark horse” will be chosen, it is known that when he left last night, the president had under consideration for the piace Secretary Houston and Sec- retary Lane. German-American opposi- tion has developed against Lane, inasmuch as he is of Canadian birth. There is talk that Maj. Gen. Goethals will get the ap- club, before introducing the toast- (PETER HAS FOUND THE SECRET v7 v Mv v OF ETERNAL YOUTH; DO YOU KNOW BY CYNTHIA GREY LLOW me to present to you | Peter. Oh, no, not a descendant of St. Peter, Peter the Great, Peter Piper, Peter Pan or any of the oth- er famous Peters of history. It's Just plain Peter To many Seattle people no fur ther Introduction {s necessary | But every one should know | Petor—and they don't. | That's why I'm taking it opon | myself to make up to him for all thi ily neglected publicity. T even had the nerve to ask the macaging editor to run Peter's pic- ture, In very polite tones, he started to explain: “But thie—er—Peter— his cheeks eyes. Children, they say, keep one youthful | Can it be that Peter has discov ered the fountain of perpetual! youth? Fame is Nation Wide The fame of Peter is more than city-wide. A fow days ago a letter came all the way from Worcester, Mr. Frank McDermott, m: the Bon Marche. It was from the president of one | of Worcester's largest stores. It sought to know the history of “the distinguished Peter.” | Tonight, when the picture of | Peter, which accompanies this| and the blue in his} master, Judge C. E. Claypool. vis-|ign't even a candidate for mayor)story, finds its way into Seattle orously attacked the policies of ‘ 80 story In mentioning presidential poss! iag 1 am going to tell tt to you. | day-tw tods bilities, Taft's name was without a ripple of applause, Root received more encouragement, and Roosevelt's elicited cheers as well as applause. Judge Claypool interspersed a good deal of wit between the ora tions of the speakers. T. B. Bruener of Aberdeen held jout an olive branch to returning progressives, and declared his will- ingness to support Roosevelt should he be nominated. He criticised the foreign policy of Wilson. landed past achievements of the re- publican party, and attacked the Wilson admioistration. There were no prominent progres. ble. METEOR FALLS IN Now it's up to Prof. Boothroyd of the astronomy department of the University of Washington to explain. When Oscar Cross, employed by the Spokane Grain Co, 4915 Eighth ave. S., stepped out of the office Friday evenmeg, he something shooting at him like a streak of lightning. He dodged, and it landed ker- plunk, right at his feet It was a meteor, shooting from the sky. It looks like a stone, but weighs less. It's about the size of a doubled fist. Ren Shields, president of the grain company, has labeled it “Ex hibit A,” but the heat of the strange world to which the meteor | wandered {is fast crumbling It to | pleces C. F. Hanlon of San Francisco to head cabinet of Pacific Coast De- fense league. | Wallace McCamant of Portland | sives seated at the head of the ta-| SEATTLE | saw or councilman, and we need all our of Peter— After you have read ft, maybe you can guess why there was a fonny little smile on his face a: reach: ed for Peter's picture. To begin with, Peter real, live person isn't a composition, yet he has a person- ality. Oh, well, we won't argue—I'll leave it to those of you who know Peter and who love him. | His exact age ts a mystery, but we know his looks are deceiving | because Mr. F. MeL. Radford, at |the Bon Marche, has known him for the last 18 years. Peter has cozy quarters in the children’s department at the Bon. His duties consist of entertain- ing the little folks while the mam- mas shop. He has performed his work faithfully and well. Views Second Generation Women, who, as prattling tod- diers, mauled and poked poor Peter, now bring their own little | darlings in to play with him | And Peter views this second gen- jeration of childhood with the same jealm, philosophical tolerance that he did the first. | His little visitors come from fine homes, as well as humble. Peter, in his blue and white- checked rompers and black shoes land stockings, has the same fond greeting for all—rich or poor. A certain little 5-year-old whose parents have s of money and who ha ins in bestowing dolis and toys, hai her mother by insisting, every time she is downtown, upon going up and taking Peter's shoes and stockings off and putting them back on again. Another little girl always puts Peter to P. Another fee him sand. But when Peter's face is washed and his rompers changed, he looks not one mite worse for the wear and tear of time. ‘The baby pink still remains upon! Did I hear you say “Impossible?” | homes, he is going to renew ac quaintance with many & young woman (perhaps now herself « Memory will tear away tne! mark of time. She will live over again those childish moments w her chubby arms encircled th: selfsame old | Peter, to whom she once prattled He ts made of a peculiar rubber all of the mysterious joys and sor- rows of childhood. FARMER IN EV TEN DRIVES AUTO) HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 12.— | One of every 10 Pennsylvania farmers has an automobile. The | total, 22,608, is more than 14 % of the total number Heensed in the state last year. RY | Y M7 uv Y \PETE? READ AND GET ACQUAINTED) Peter, the Bon Marche aoti, wno has been mauled about for 18 years by Seattle girls. BRADFORD REPLIES Issues Letter on Appraisal Charge Following the suggestion of | The Star that it is up to him to answer charges against the ad- ministration of his office, | James E. Bradford, corporation counsel, Saturday announced he would meet th char aquarely. | Accordingly he has prepared a letter dealing with the question of real estate appraisers employed by him in condemnation suits. He will write another letter, he says. Presumably {t will deal with the question of employment of his as- sistants in private as well as in public practice. Of the appraisers’ question, Bradford say “IT am accused of using the same! appraisers, and that the tenure of their joba depends on robbing the property owner; that the tenure of | their jobs depends upon unjustly depressing values, This is a mali-| cious and political lie, The con- trary is true, The tenure of their jobs depends upon honest, efficient and intelligent work. “The impression is sought lomen Sit at Lincoln Voters’ Table; Band Plays Funeral March at Inopportune Time “It's fried ham and murphys, pie and turkeys, the cook is the G. 0. P.” thstanding the it “ham” must »” the republican boys sang + words, praying the American flag with id, and with the palm of the Sently itching, they eried out Daran was a special table for Lin %. Old soldiers were herded out- aide, and after everybody had been seated the veterans’ fife and drum corps, from Port Orchard, apened up and led the grand march down undisputed | the aisle. be classed | All the old men had to do then was to try and find a seat among the women who had beaten them to {t. Anybody who says woman suf, frage is new stuff can be proved either a liar or a nobody home, be cause there were women sitting right there in the shadow of the Lincoln Voters” sign. oe County Treasurer Carr, who came over with the Pierce county delega tion, showed a lot of pep. He fv the crowd to get excited over the old soldiers: “1 didn't vote for TAncoln,” he sald, “because he didn't live in my precinct P'gosh, it looked like Postoffice Wil! Humphrey was eitting at the eaker's table, C. J. Erickson has nt brush beard just Ike |Hump's. | Only two men at the speakers’ ta- \ble wore dress suits. You gotta hand it to these republicans for put ting a wet blanket on democratic prosperity. | “ee Sam Perkins could have been seen from the balconies if it hadn't been for the salt cellars ge We The Pierce county gang slipped one over when it planted its “Taco- ma” sign on the papier mache moun waditelil, ned on a chair and asked) ing in the corner to |ney dance customers, The republicans’ wives all got ex cited and waved handkerchiefs when Casper's wiggly electric American flag started going. ‘The men yawn ed. Old stuff, It's turned on every night at the Hippodrome. Mas | may have been Anyhow, when Speak er Conner, Rep. Roteh, Chief Clerk Maybury, M. M. Mattison, Jay Thomas, and George Sample car ried aloft an elephant labeled G P., the orchestra, instead of playing a triumphant march, played a funeral dirge. | The musicians democrats. The speakers urged unity of the| progressives who left in 1912 and those who stayed in But not a progressive was at the speakers’ table A few were near by. Under the table, as it were, Catching crumbs—what? DARA AR, conveyed that we employ the same appraisers all the time. We have used almost constantly some years four or five appraisers who have had the widest experience in real estate valuation and this kind of work, but we also have on our lat about 560 appraisers, nearly all of whom we have used in different cases, yne of my reforms in this office was to follow the practice of ap- pointing a local man in condemna- tion cases, and this has usually been followed where possible. “In handling the bie Htigation of the city we are constantly pitted against the best lawyers in the state and the highest priced real estate experts, and yet the pestilen- tlal doctrine is advanced upon the eve of a political campaign that v should not use the same witnesses more than once or twice, but should pick up raw recrufts and push them up against such heavy artillery.” OH, LA LA! SUCH AWFUL WEAPONS LONDON, Feb. 12.—Among latest treasures added to Prin- cess Mary's of war souvenirs is an Austrian offt- * with mir. ror, rouge, brilliantine and man- icure powder, collection cer’s “beauty case,” CREWS JUMP AS TWO ENGINES COLLIDE Inbound switch engine No. 14 of the Columbia & Puget Sound ral! way, carrying several empty coal cars, crashed into an outbound empty pasrenger train of the same company 8 Railroad ave., between Connecticut and Dearborn sts., at 8:10 a, m,. Saturday The train crews Jumped and es caped injury, The switch engine was totally wrecked FRENCH ATTACKWINS PARIS, Feb, 12.--French troops have captured 300 yards of trenches in the Champagne, A sudden gren ade attack northeast of Mesnil won the victory, a cake, and macaroni and cheese will be put in the even this afternoon, for Theo Karl Johnston. He is coming home tonight. Theo Karl. Johnston, who four months ago was | a strapping high school boy in Seattle, now is the | highest paid tenor, outside | the Metropolitan Opera stars, in the United States | The mother, at 1726 15th ave., Is all excited. She is happy and busy and beaming / Is Denied a Hearing Last October, Edmond 8. Myer, his teacher, took his boy pupil East. Harrison Wilde, authority jon volee in Chica, grew indig nant when asked for a hearing. “I haven't time to hear tenors,” he told the pair. An old friend of Myer's inter- ceded. “One song, then—just One,” re- piled the annoyed Wilde. “My boy said that Wilde covered his face with hie hands at first, then straightened up,” said Mra. Johnston Saturday. en he oo i up and grasped Theo's bat ‘Young man, you are t,’ he told my boy. ‘Six months. train- ing and the world ts yours for the asking.’ And now he'll be home tonight—an artist!” Then Mrs. Johnston laughed out loud in her happiness. Cake All sted “No one will ever know how I shooed the neighborhood kids away and kept the when my son was pragticing dur- ing these years. He has worked his hardest. And I've got the cake frosted, and the macafont and cheese will be ready when he gets here.” Johnston has met with conspicu- ous success in New York. He bas been signed to sing the role of Don Jose in “Carmen,” op- posite Geraldine Farrar, for 22 per- formances during the Maine fes- tival in the spring. Then he has 40 appearances signed with Josef Stransky'’s New York Philharmonic orchestra of 125 pleces And the Victor graphophone peo- ple have given him a year's con tract. Has Secret From Mother “Mrs. Johnston, would you mind telling how much money your son is making?” we asked. “You can guess just as well as I can,” she laughed. “He's a wise kid, He writes and tells me about the contracts and is very cireful to omit figures. His mother hasn't learned any details. He seems to be living up to traditions all right. That's real boy shrewd- ness.” Will Sing at Metropolitan He has come from New York to sing Wednesday night, with Spar- gur's Philharmonic orchestra, at the Metropolitan theatre, Seattle music lovers are breaking their necks to get tickets, Johnston will return to New York immediately after the con- cert. He passed up four engage. ments in New York to make this flying visit home. DOLLAR LINER SOLD SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12.—The American steamer Robert Dollar has been sold to a Japanese corpor- ation. The price was said to ex. ceed $1,000,000 | A mother has frosted | THE NEWS : } blinds down | Usually, we’ve found, at the end of such a day we have a headache and a grouch. Taking it all dt ¢ r And, hang it, we always feel better for it, at that, after putting in the right sort of a Sunday. ! Ministers have asked us all—especially on this Sunday, which they have designated as Go-to-Church Sunday. The Seattle Star PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1916. So, tomorrow, What do you say? [45 EDITION TRAINA AND NEWS RTANDS, Be RSENIC PUT INTO SOUP OF BANQUETERS CHICAGO, Feb. 12.—Manager H. J. Doherty of the University club intimated to- day a missing employe of the club, in a delib- erate attempt to poison them, placed arsenic in the soup of Archbishop George Mundelin, Gov. Dunne and 100 other distinguished guests at a banquet Thursday night. it was at first thought that the guests, taken suddenty ill, CRANE were suffering from ptomaine E polsoning. The police admitted today they Without a guard and with $300 In cash in his pockets, are seeking the missing employe, Felix Crane, one time negro following a conference between |Doherty and Detective Capt. Col- boss of Seattle's underworid, arrived at the penitentiary at Mine, {eal examination, tho none was in ia Walla Friday night. |today in the room of the missing} his destination and begun serv- Today they established a strict troop detachments, with ma- BE A MAJOR AT 22 ferson park will be in shape for Bunches of gloom! Here when Seattle had begun to think that spring— ful spring—was with us once again, along comes this Salisbury per son and throws cold water on the whole works. A damage claim for $500 against the city was filed Friday by Mr, archbishop and his guests,” said \ eaten. | Word was received here Sat- plot against the lives of the din-} ing money from unfortunate he felt certain the missing man, ary here to 2,700 men and 15 army is Maj. Gregson, Mon- and Mrs, Fred Marino, 5809-11 It will be 10 days before golf- | wamiah ave, who allege poilage Collins. “Tho I am not certain jabout it, things look suspicious.” The club today advised all the Enough potron to kill 1,000 men) urday by County Jailor Hally sufficient nitroglycerine to blow] that Crane, after being snow- up a skyscraper, and a quantity of| bound in the Cascades for sev- ers at the club banquet, the police} women for police pro’ i now are firmly convinced that on ca man sub-chef—actually sought PREPARING FOR NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.,, said to have been a crank on chemistry, really took part in what he ‘termed a “plot against | machine guns, following a ru- mor that German-Americans RAIN SUNDAY! ere planning some inimical movi . mouthshire regiment, who wa: Rain Sunday is the verdict. promoted to that rank at 22. | GOLF BUGS MUST | SUES GITY FOR $600 ers will be able to play over after a raid on the the links of the Seattle Golf and |of liquor, docked Pigpodee dr: Country club and five days or j|for three days. The steam and guests to secure immediate med- anarchistic pamphlets were found) eral days, had safely reached to annihilate the 100 guests. Feb. 12—Toronto and Thorid society.” BOY PROMOTED TO WAIT FOR A WHILE more before the course at Jef- |water pipes froze. might have been a plot against the that developed after the soup was| the trip alone. At first skeptical of an alleged le was convicted of accept- Captain Collins announced today the garrison across the bound- youngest major in the British bugs! Tee-hee! freight agent, respectively, declare ists to this locality as a result. Har! Har! As a matter of fact, they dong AND IF $60,000 ACTUALLY 4 EVER DID. BECAUSE YOU AND YOUR HAS BEEN DISCRIMINATING of tourists is coming here. As long as the Union Pacific ern lines, for $17.50 the Northwest, the THIS IS BETTER THAN A VAUDEVILLE SHOW NION PACIFIC railroad officials have announced Saturday their| intention to spend $60,000 this year advertising thruout the East the attractions for the tourist in the Northwest, Messrs. Scott and Hinshaw, general passenger agent and general WILL BE ONE OF THE NUTTIEST THINGS THE UNION PACIFIC If they do it, take Messrs. Scott and Hinshaw to the bug house. Why, Mr. Business Man, have they made this announcement? AWAKENED TO THE FACT THAT THE UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM) NESS FOR YEARS AND ARE FIGHTING BACK. THAT'S WHY. But at the same time, they are perfectly aware that no great rush round-trip ticket from Chicago to San Francisco and return, via South- s than he can buy a ticket to make the trip via ‘anticipated rush” will not come, “I am convinced that the case a serious condition from the {llness Sheriff Hodge let him make employe. ba sentence of 2'2 to 5 years. watch for him. chine guns, today strengthened LONDON, Feb. 12. — The Wails of woe from the golf the golfers’ tread. | | Page Movie Ad on Page 8 Today they anticipate a great rush of tour- the It is American theatre's announce- ment of “Undine,” the remarkable feature which opens tomor- row. You will certainly want to see this won- derful picture, so turn to page 8 and read all about it. expect anything of the kind, $8 SPENT IN THAT MANNER, IT FELLOW-BUSINESS MEN HAVE! AGAINST YOU AND YOUR BuUSI.- system holds out to the tourist a ee ee