The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 6, 1916, Page 2

BUY USED FURNITURE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Future Bargains Also note that the comparative prices quoted are the prices which each article cost when new, and the very low sale prices. $30.00 Walnut $7.50 $35.00 Barly English Dining: $15.00 $22.50 Early English Dining: Tabi $8.50 Table . $46.00 White Enameled Hoos- Bow ain $12.50 Oak Buffet .. MEE ume ieamsiet Dreae = $10.00 White Enameled Chif- $17.50) s Mahogany -top Ivory ‘ en {made an $37.50 Combination Library tte 914.75 bax De... $97.50 $4.50 Children 95c mere $4.50 a $11.75 $14.50 Brass Bed, $6 .00 us cater OH $15.00 ta Range. 916.50 eames: o 50 ‘Sulkies, each $25.00 Rattan Chair, brown 2inch poste . Range $15.00 cons nl Fault- Stx- ae $16. 50 TRANSPORTATION): PROBLEM ACUTE «| Motor Trucks Cannot Keep United States Troops Supplied HORSES ARE E WORN ouT | skeTCHES BY STAFF ARTIST 1 A MEXICAN SALOON BROWN PEONS “TALe in Sort ceunts TAKE A STROLL ‘AND SEE EL PASO) |Correspondent 7 Tells of Night | Life in Texas City SOLDIERS IN STREETS BY LEON STARMONT Special Correspondent on Mexican Border for The Star EL PASO, Texas, April 5.—Laet's take a walk tonight There's a fashion show at the Paso del Norte, with living models, fresh from Broadway a “The Birth of a Nation,” ‘exas Qrand, where slow- nth wh ‘Seathscnare are cheering Ku Klux Klas. ators windows fronting the shimmer with silks such as vera: see in Marshall Field's—and before them pace soldiers in fours and sixes, khaki cloaks flapping it a chill night breeze, service rifles | jover their shoulders pointing grim-) ly at the cold North star, Limousines purr to a standstill | before the Paso del Norte, emit ting pairs of eveniog-gowned wom: | en, chatting gayly. They stand silent on the curb- stone till the soldiers pase. ‘Then they enter for he fashion show. Farther south, on the one paved street that stade the equalid Mext- can quarter, garish ‘green posters in Spanish announce “The Serpent—Para Hoy!” Theda Bara registers hate = behind a Mexican ticket-girl who rakes in nickels. They look very mach alike. A phonograph screams in Span- ish from a little 8x18 restaurant, | Jequipped with two tables, a cigar Farewell, Gibson’s ranch. It’e a long way to Beg ong oh But WE SHOULD | Present army transportation facil!- ties are becoming rapidly inade- quate. The demands from the field army far exceed supplies which can be rushed southward with the equip ment of 206 motor trucks. It requires from six to eight days for motor caravans to make the round trip over 300 miles of desert and mountatin to the temporary base. The cry from the intertor for more supplies has become so instst- ent thearmy memhavecailed Maj. Gen. Funston's attention to It. ‘The situation, it is declared, will become more acute as the chase after Villa goes farther south. Several hundred fresh mounts re cently forwarded to the frontsiardly impression on the de "|mands for more horses to replace ‘The well known and relia- ble remedy for FEMALE ‘TROUBLES AND be ee LARITIES. in wrapper. How 14,2 to the: Bundaye. il tol. Main RAYMOND REMEDY Co. Reem 6, Hete!l Antiers, 4th & Union those worn out in the drive. Hay and oats are badly needed. The men's shoes and clothes are wearing well. The progress of wag- ons and pack trains is so slow that their assistance is negligib! SAN JOSE, April 6.—Ai result of numerous threats, guards have been placed around the properties of the New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Co., near here. The ia turning out material used in the jufacture LARGEST CREDIT APPAREL INSTITUTION IN THE U, 8. 1332-34 Second Ave. THE STORE WITH AN 211 Union St. INTEREST DEPARTMENT As soon as purchase Is paid for in full (cash or credit) our INTEREST DEPARTMENT will issue you a check 5 per cent of the total amount. “Buy Merchandise and Collect Interest.” TFODAY’S STYLES Stylish Wearing Apparel FOR Men, Women and Children ON CREDIT—~ “CREDIT AT CASH PRICES.” counter, and a yellow-haired, non- Mexican waitress, In a cantina, a Mexican saloon, brown peons talk in soft grunts, | land look at the pictures tn ribald weeklies published !n Madrid and Barcelona. There are fewer people on the side streets. Jet's walk this way. “Quong Sing, laundry, down the alley,” reads an English sign. A Chinaman regards us curt ously. Soldiers in twos are walking thru these side streets. Four Mexican giris, who might be 18 or 28, razor their customers in a “lady barber shop.” Up in the El Paso & Southwest- ern yards a trainload of trucks has just pulled in—motor trucks from Detroit, for use in the Mexican desert behind the army. Fifty — Grivers pile out of a tourist “Bre Pri: it's cold down here,” says one. Few of them brought overcoats along. SAN DIEGO, Cal, April 6— Found responsible by a general courtmartial board for the ex- plosion aboard the torpedo boat de- stroyer Preble, in which one was killed, and sentenced to nix months’ imprisonment and dishon- ovable discharge, Chief Boatawain's 6 Nick Burmeister, |years of honorable service, has dis- appeared. Friends say he has gone to Washington to lay his case before Secretary Daniels. Unless he returns within ten days, he will be classed as a de serter. ‘ROBB FUNERAL HELD With impressive ceremony, the last rites were held Wednesday over the remat Robb, prominent Seattle attorney, who fell seven stories to his death from the Lowman bullding Monday night. Services were held at Bon- ney-Watson chapel. GET CLOSE TO HOME Charged with selling Iquor tn the Hillside soft drink resort, opposite police headquarters, R. A. Sopher. an, proprietor, and Fred Wright, bartender, are under arrest Thurs- day, QUIGLEY RESIGNS Some high school principal will be chosen, it was announced Thura- day, to fill the position of assistant city school superintendent, resigned jy B. G. Quigley Wednenday. FIRE bEsTnove HOUSE Fire of unknown origin totally destroyed a vacant house at lith ave. W. and Howe at., Wednesday |night. The loss is reported $250. Star Northwest. nt Ads cover the entire around EF!) | Paso, to see what we can see. STAR—THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1916. 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OF OUR BORDER CAPITAL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 AGED SISTERS ARE | SLAIN BY ROBBER | thro the house. W When she reached 'the rear she evidently was struck | down. She was found in a pool of blood) in the wood room, with the ax and her own revolver by her side. | Nephew Was Downtown } Mrs. Wheeler's body, with the} head beaten in, was lying in the) next room. An ax lay beside her. It was covered with blood and hair. H. 8. King, the nephew, who found the bodies, said he left the women at noon to search for work, spent the afternoon downtown, ate his evening meal at a restaurant,| and went to Pantages theatre in the evening. When he reached the house, at 11:30, there was no one fn tho My! ing room. je sald he belleved the women) were out walking. They often did this, said, when they could not Pockets in Their Dresese home of Mrs. W. iY, Bext door, and told her jing awful” had happened. 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Children's Handkerchiefs of lawn with colored borders, 2 for Women's Handkerchiefs of | with narrow heme and embroidered in wi it sees. tn white, black and 2 pairs, 260; Chefidrea’s lace tonne baited Paste, § and 6-year t with lace trimmings, at... ic Women's Knitted Veet, 16 sizes 36 to apectal.... ic fine and white, tan and Stamped Pillow Tops in dive bird |] and rose patterns; 10 stamped on tan crash: at. ic feta, yt eae in “4 “trate Pike Strest——— Second Avenve———Union Strest——-Elliett 4160 ite clues. Se Wheeler's waist was torn open at the throat, and empty pockets jn her underwaist ex- Hidden pockets were found tn the petticoats of both women. They wore empty. It was general knowledge tn the neighborhood that the women kept their life savings fo their home. When they went to the stores, neighbors say, they always took the money from hidden pockets to —— It4e unfecessary for you te suffer ™ ‘gworm, rashes and pay for “The banks,” nd | ed according eye Agar ‘ing. “We are going to sit on ours.” The police point out that the mur- | derer might have pear to kill them while they slept. q Mra. W. L. arpexe 411 Westlake | next door neighbor, saw . ft in the yard about 1 p. m. Mrs. Charlies Jorgensen, 914 Har- rison just in the rear of Bs sisters’ shack, says she aa Harrison, thru the window, withing | in a rocking chair in her Iiving| room about 3 p. m. When the bodies were examined at 1 a. m. Thursday by Deputy Coroner MacDonald, he said the women bad been dead at least four hours. No neighbor remembers hearing cries or seeing any one enter the shack, altho Mrs. Jorgensen wae at home, and not more than 30 feet .| from the room where the murder Poe tor extra omptly ap Frm it relle! from itching torture. Tt cleanses and soothes the skin and heals seemed and effectively al Alsen a wonderful Aisappearing Uequid joes not smart the most delice In, It fe not greasy, oantly jed and costs littie. it today and eave al! further a0. Cleveland. ~ ay usually give Zemo, AMUSEMENTS eet OF UDBVILLD oa DAILY: 30 ‘The Cheertect Come@icane STELLA See TAYLOR jette 2 Ce—Perey ana i Winste Baldwte—“The Chlléree of Contuctua” — Hirechel Hendler—Mies Fley le Page—Mise Rebbie Gerdene — Orpheum Travel Weekly. MetropolitanTheatre TONIGHT and All Week Wiikee Stech Company ta “Within the Law” rt Next Week THREE HEADLINERS 1—LANDERS STEVENS AND GRORGIA COOPER @ CO. 2—JAMES J. MORTON S—MKS, RONT, FITESIMMONS NEW PANTAGES Mats, 2:30. Nighte, T and ® EMPRESS ‘The Big Beauty Show THE GOLF GIRLS With Sam T. Curtis & Co, ‘Thin is the Rest Show of Don't Misa @—OTHER ACTS—6 ‘PAN-AMERICAN THEATRE 4 Seneca ‘|Papen, German military attache, DE KOVEN OPERA COMPANY tn ROBIN HOOD +. Spectal Orchestra Pr M Chicago. took place, Finds Wills in House In a search of the house, Deputy Coroner MacDonald found a will made by Mrs. Wheeler in January, bequeathing her holdings to her sts- ter, and a will made by Mrs. Swift in Anguet, 1915, giving all she had to Mra, Wheeler. The wills did not state how much money or property either of then. had, The Dexter Horton bank was named as executor. The two murdered sisters had lived in Seattle about a year. They came from Carthage, Mo. They were widows and had no children. Mrs. Wheeler's husband died two years ago in Missourt, and after the settlement of his estate she and her aister joined their nephew in Se- attle, They lived on the income de- rived from notes and mortgages. CAPT. HANS TAUSCHER Capt. Tauscher, husband of Jo- hanna Gadski, famous singer, is under arrest on a charge of plotting to dynamite the Welland canal. In- vestigation, according to officials, lMnks the name of Capt. Franz Von who was sent back to Germany, with the plot. Dr, Thomas F. Kane, former pres-| ident of the University of Washing. ton, will take office as president of Olivet college, at Olivet, Micb., on July 1, according to word sh UIA (1) YL { | COR THIFE FIT I | DRESSES MEW wow yi Wert | YOUR REDITISO K | Talialerro IN HER GREAT PRICE No Advance in Price STRAND Second Ave., Bet. Spring and Seneca