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CAN’T BE BEAT AND JEPF, THE SPORT PAGE CUT-UPS. THESE TWO PALS ROMP THRU KIGHT COLUMNS OF MIRTH BACH DAY IN THR STAR. Woman Serves 3 Years With Male Convicts By Fred V. Williams SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Sept. 16.—“Artie aker, a woman, has served—AS A MALE CON. ViCT—three years of a 14-} year sentence for robbery in San Quentin peniten- tiary. “Artie” Baker her real name. Prison authorities must have known her sex. So} must the federal’ officers} who arrested her and ob- tained her conviction. She is there today in the garb a man, and until this story carried her ap- peal to the world, her se- cret had been locked within the prison’s grim, gray walls. For three years “Art” Baker lived among hun- dreds of rough men, who, one by one, learned her se- cret. She was jostled and jibed and insulted until an ap- peal to the prison doctor brought her a separate cell and a little booth at one end of the big room, where from 1,400 to 1,800 men take their baths every week. Even this bit of privacy accorded her by the prison’s executives has not lessened the sting which this woman's life, lived among men, has brought on her “I will kill myself if they don’t send me into the wom- (Continued on Page Four.) AIRING OF ROW |FiRSt HunTina MISTAKE IS MADE pst di | IN GUARD OFF SHELTON, Sept. 16.—J. W.| lewis, of this city, was mistaken fe a deer by Thomas Booth, a mem ber of Lewis’ hunting party, and was shot and killed near Mason lake Friday is ca TACOMA, Sept. 16.—There will pe no airing in United States court the National Guard tangle in- volving the arrest of Capt. David) More than 50 automobile parties Idvingstone by Col. Inglis, com-| passed thru this city en route for, mander of the Washington regt-|the big game country ment at Calexico. — e Capt. Livingstone was released JAPAN INCREASES POWER IN PACIFIC; by order of Maj. Gen. Bell, com-| mander of the Western department of the regular army, Friday. He had been under arrest, but not impris- j SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16.—A : oned, at Calexico, and since return- | monthly freight steamship service | ing to American lake between Wan Francisco and Aus H Livingstone, who is a Centralia tralia is -apan's latest effort in| physician, had applied for a writ of her campaign to dominate the com habeas corpus, and Federal Judge| merce of the Pacific Neterer bad scheduled a hearing for Z. Kamiya, general next week. the Osaka shosen The arrest followed a hot argu-|this announcement today prior to ment between Col, Inglis and the) his departure for Japan after an in captain. spection of the field manager of Kalsha made The Susinidler That's the name of the next novel-a-week to appear ‘HEAR LAST CONCERTS cone TH SEATTLE, WASH Upper picture shows the rescue of passengers from the | Congress, taken from the U ors aboard, Lower pictus cued Engineer Martiand, train at the O-W. depot, Saturday. liner dredge Michie, which took the surviv- €d when taken from the special RANDOLPH’S VICTIM [MOTHER HAS CASH OF PRACTICAL JOKER IF SHE WILL CALL ‘Theodore Randolph, the photog. | 'f the black-eyed mother rapher, is not missing | with the hungry baby who He insisted so Saturday morning sought work thru The Star on Sept. 12 will make her present address known, $11, which has been donated by interested cit izens, will be forwarded to her Arnold Cox of Pearson Wash., donated $1 and offe that it wasn't his and 4 wife, who re hadn't ber 5 but must have been a joker, ” ed to the police that be n home since Septem home with him and his wife. H. J. Titus, superintendent of the car Northern Pacific dining service, who is always pre on the job when any de person is in distre from Montana while en route to the East. GOES A-VISITING Two concerts in Seattle parks inday will mark the close of the concerts. Wagner's band will play at 3 p m. in Volunteer park, while Leu ben's band will play at the same time in Woodland park. In all, 46 rts were played, and the park commission is of the opinion that the season has been the most suc et , SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, istant Steward Tyson, who res- | j STUFF, BUT HE HASN'T ANYTHING ON MUTT E ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE E NEWs : | VOLUME 19. 1916. ONE ne News J a news LAUGHING AND CRYING, THEY JOIN IR ENGLISH SMAS GERMANS’ THIRD LINE OF TRENCHES LONDON, Sept. 16—The | British center has been thrust | north of Foureaux wood in the | violent battie raging north of | the Somme, Gen. Haig report: | ed to the war office today. “BECINS T0 AlD | ‘The whole of the villages of| Courcelette, Martinpuich and Flers| are firmly in British bands. Five! N Y CAR N |hundred more prisoners have been | ole captured, making a total of 2,800 Germans officially reported captur- | Jed in the first 24 hours of the re-| newed Somme offensive NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—A sympathetic strike which un- Four German field guns were) lon leaders declare will result captured south of the A in 75,000 workers leaving their right and two local counter attacks | jobs in support of the striking by the Germans failed. Tho the| employes of the traction com- rmans resisted desperately, the| panies became effective in | | Teutonic commanders made no at-| New York before noon today. tempt to organize a great counter | Twenty thousand longshore- attack men and boatmen were the | The British carried out many | first workers to respond to the successful night raids, entering) strike call, Labor leaders de- many en trenches at several] -clare these men will be follow. | places. ed by 25,000 machinists who Bombs Give Battle Light | will strike before night. | Fighting desperately to save| By the end of next week unless themselves from retreat on a mile-|there is a change in the traction wide front, throwing battalion the Germans have after been | strike situation, union men predict battalion |thousands of others will be out into action against the storming| They will include men employed British columns north of the/in all industries. If this does not Somme, in an effort to check Gen.|have the desired effect, a general Haig’s advance |strike of 700 men and women | The battle begun yesterday morn-| workers in Greater New York is ing, grew more furious toward/|threatened, Police patrols have |night By the glare of illuminating | been established along the roofs of | (Continued on page 8) | buildings on Ninth ave., but, despite |this, trains were bombarded with | bricks, bottles and stones early to LAST EDITION OUT THE GEORGE SALISBURY, GET OLD PICNIC BASKET, FOLKS. THE WEATHER PROPHET SAYS WE WILL HAVE FAIR WEATHER TONIGHT AND SUNDAY, GEORGE AL8O SAYS THE PERATURE WILL BE MODERATE. TEM A TIVES [FIRST PICTURES OF CONGRESS DISASTER| Happy Reunions _ at Station End | Anxious Wait Laughing and crying, passengers from the lost liner Congress arrived here aboard the O-W. rescue special | from tee a at 10:45 a. m. Saturday. | Nearly a hundred anxious friends and relatives |awaited them. An aged mother clasped her daughter jin her arms and cried out: } “Thank God!” | Disembarking, husbands, wives and children | gathered apart in little groups and stood together weep- jing silently for sheer, irrepressible joy. Assistant Steward F. Tyson was taken from the train wrapped in blankets and rushed by auto to a hos- | pital to recover from the effects of the poisonous gases jhe inhaled in his rescue of Chief Engineer Martland. In the machine with Tyson was! Mfted Mrs. Margaret Reig of NeW! guy carelessness in not lying down Orleans, whose feet were burned in the bottom we shoul when the deck became heated bY| Gone” as VO. chat aaa the flames underneath Suffering From Shock Tyson's hair was slightly singed, land be was unable to speak audibly. |Mrs. Reig was almost in a state of ‘CAN CARRANZA collapse, and was suffering from 9 shock. | Mra. Gallie McKnight, of 3518 a | Yesler way, rushed to her daughter, | | Miss Charlotte McKnight, when the BY CARL D. GROAT latter stepped from a coach, and| Unie, P. jalmost crushing ber in ecstacy, ex-|Nye4, bec Cogrenee ndevk a jclaimed: American - Mexica: “Daughter! Daughter!” reschea s a pote today, “What is it, mother?” asked Miss McKnight, patting her gently the back as they wept. Reported Lost “Someone telephoned me a had been lost,” said the mother. “It) nearly killed me. I haven't slept) a wink since.” Her other daughter, visiting friends in San Francisco, remained in that city when her sister board-| ed the Congress for Seattle. A little woman climbed from the} train carrying a baby and a suit Following her was a little Whether Carranza ts willing able to patrol the border is a vital question upon which negotiations are turning. As far as surface indications go, |the first chief probably will take |over the duties which have devoly- ed upon Gen. Pershing’s column. |But the fact that his representa- tives have not committed them- selves to such a scheme make ne- |gotiations extremely delicate. As matters stand, the American commissioners want Carranza to on y Iter. {do most of the patrolling thru # oy. sort of Mexican | Lies She hesitated on the platform, ate oking amongst the crowd. A Joyful Reunion A burly man stepped out and without a word encircled wife, baby, suit case and little boy in his em |brace. Together they walked away, chattering all at once. | The rescue special’s whistle sounded, and the big train of happl- But they did it a week ago Sate ness puffed out of the yards, leav- urday, and regretted it this Satu: ing half a hundred people standing gay on the platform still talking, still) 4 week ago Ralph Fuller, age 18, laughing, still sighing, as they real- reported that he had been robbed jized again what might have been. of his last 30 cents. | Tyson was saved from death by “Tough luck,” commented Lieut, 'Steals From Man Who Gave Him Job When He Was Broke It will probably be some time be- fore the poli€cijeke up a collection again to help out robbery victim. |J. E. Johnson, chief steward of the noiphin. Then the boys chipped i |dredge Michie. Tyson carried |$3/ 9 Ralph could eat and sleep. aboard the Michie unconscious. ‘ nd maybe we can get him a They “He cannot be saved unless we jop,” have a pulmotor,” said a surgeon. qiq “His lungs are choked with polson-| Dave Tobias came to the front ous fumes. : with a job washing great, big “Let me try,” said Johnson. He paked potatoes for the N. P. com- then bent over Tyson, placed his {gsary department. mouth over that of the senseless Saturday Dave called up police man and drew the poison into his neadquarters. own lungs. Johnson kept at this) That fellow we got the job for until he staggered to his feet, diz robbed the conductor of $50,” an- ay and sick, reeling back into the nounced Dave. “Yep, that's what arms of watchers, Doctors said he he’s telegraphed. If you see him, [saved Tyson pick him up.” 3 : Mrs. F. L. Ashton, of 1151 16th TRUCK HITS WOMAN ave. N., one of the heroines of the Congress rescue, who sustained a crushed hand in carrying a baby, priving Into a crowd of pe opl whose mother had fainted from the avoid. striking another track De burning deck to a Ifeboat, said of Rrown, chauffeur for the Westlake some one suggested. AND GETS IN JAM ADMIT DEFEATS in The Star senaal Fan pisoenetad ie’ moative Hd ad woman was seriously ‘her experience - at Transfer Co., ran over Mrs. Oscar s 3 It didn’t amount to anything at! vies, of Richmond Highlands, and | Ray Mulley went with Miss Tina! BERLIN Sept. 16.—In hot fighting all. I was helping another woman pryised S. Eastwood, Boyd hotel, at t i e PIONEER 1s DEAD Tully on 8 14 to the home of FE. north of the Somme yesterday, the TACOMA MAN BAGS who had two little children, when Fourth ave. and Pike st. Saturday | P. Burke, 19 nth ave, where | British fc the mans from| I saw this other mother faint weenie woe: reading for all the family. Ella Middleton the planned to visit her’ grand. the villages of Courcelette, Martin: | FIRST DEER OF YEAR just went back and picked up her) yrs. Viles was taken to Seattle Tyt h hing ‘* REDDING, Cal, Sept. 16.—John | mother. puich and Flers, it was offictally | baby and took it with me to the) General hospital, where it was an- fybout is the author Hutchens, $0, a pioneer of Trinity) Mulloy got in an argument with admitted this afternoon lifeboat, while some men carried] nounced that no bones were broken, county, was found dead in a chair|the grandmother, and £. P, Burke, | TACOMA, Sept. 16.—Dr, T. R.|its mother to safety but that she may have sustained in- M be on the front porch of his home at| Miss Tully's uncle, interfered, with SLAVS OUST BULGARS | MeNerthney has the record of bag-| “It is a miracle we were saved,” | ¢ornal injurik ar on ay Ruth today, A rifle lay on the|the result that Mulloy struck him,| PARIS, Sept. 16 Russian | ging the first deer of the hunting |said Mrs. Ashton, “The decks were) - porch at his side. Authorities are it is said, with a club. troops have joined the Serbs and| se While pursuing grouse | burning when the first boat was LONDON, Sept. 16.-—-M, Caloger- and read one installment every day The story runs. in doubt whether he committed sul Mulloy was charged with third. French on the allies’ left wing in| near Tacoma yesterday, the doctor |lowered. Our boat shipped a little /opoulos has been intrusted with the cor ete in six consecutive installment cide or was the victim of an acel-| degree assault Saturday by Prose-\the @alkans and have driven the| an upon ry 160-pound deer, killing| water as we neared the dredge| formation of a new Greek cabinet, dent leutor Lundin |Bulgars from four Greek vil it with off charge of No. 7 shot. Michie, but that was because of |said a dispatch today from Athens. BY TED COOK | crooked little spine to straighten. But it never did hs “Cook you're to go out to the show grounds this afternoon and clown up and came forward v Id kid, I So the lered his face, gave him stiff, starched then write a story about ft,” he said “You the reporter who's to clown?” Once, when I was a nine-year-old kid, I read a story o they powdered his tace, ga Sky |’ To myself I muttered, “Go to hell,” It was Rhoda Royal, equestrian director, He's the fellow who has about To Tyler, who one night scrambled up into the clothes, painted funny spots on his cheeks and made him Then I thought of Toby Tyler and answered, “All right.” full say over every act—everything In ring or on platform—and his seat of a circus wagon, made friends with the old driver, a clown! oe ese! es bas Eg in the aged Hgts tava . Sas ‘ ny es » was the gre a I the world | 9h . : antati’ , reaps felt out of place, but he smiled and took me over to the solemn and rode away Thereafter, he was the greatest man in a At 1:30 Kd Jackson, the press representative, took me around back 144114 t ? ‘ a ; ¥ wh Das yee on meinen le fat fellow, seated, legs crossed, on a trunk, ‘Toby carried water for elephants a while bar none! Aa te he ‘sone eee a Dai teliastiak sage! aed eo Bide show tanta and we ducked under a half-raised canvas into “This debe: Aibleu, clown wo he explained, “He's been dil The > one ‘afternoo e barebac ‘der " Iam a 24-year-old kid now, but I have neve | Dy, me paking te iauinenn ah Vana he Then, tate one eft ny the bareback irider buckled) | | it Pe igor ML GISe? of tie siete merle There were dozens of racks, supporting grotesque clothes—clown ‘he business 30 years, and will take you in tow esl a big leather belt around his little stomach, attached it to | *! {0 BiAiiOr ee int clothes—and spangled tights, and tinsel-covered crusaders’ helmets, Evidently | was as strange, intruding, to these folks, as they were esterd re 4 to me. the revolvin rane in the center ring and gave Toby his Not the real Toby, perhaps, but another clown, whom I shall choose, much battered by wear A hac as . IThed dll 1o0ked ahd Sway, “with Pelepaly: outiows sammie first bareback lessor for the rest of my days, to belle is the same little rye ‘ graoory a And x oa ee Mane Mant dodinn of pen, unaite sa Het Wich ae General animation followed, clothes were ‘snatched trot! the aaa a But. next day, with the belt removed, Toby fell from His name is John pote and his hair 1s white, and he {s the bow land 1 aa " ' and | found myself slipping off my shoes and talking to John, who . S zi 4 lown of the Sells-Floto circus. a assured me that all I had to do was “keep lively and watch the rest.” 4 “spa * ‘ 1e big tite horse, and lay very still in the ‘ eee aple! vodies slear eye: ke he at © one : the back of the big white horse, and lay very still in os Th sple ndid bodi and clear eyes bespoke health that comes From the bottom of bis trunk he pelea & pair of gremt salma sawdust A doctor was summoned Ae 1 sat in The Star office yesterday noon, writing police reports,|from exercise and fresh alr A big fellow, with a diamond in his tie, and hat tipped back, got (Continued om page 5) 6 The cireus folk, who had adopted him, waited for the the editor was talking with a press agent

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