The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 22, 1916, Page 1

etal organization: MARY DELL, GIRL TRAMP WEDS Many women prominent in club and society circies were Present Friday, when the di- werce case of Mre. Hannah Swezea, wife of Bert L. Swe. Bea, wealthy clubman, was cal!- ed for trial before Superior Judge Mackintosh. Swezea, whom, his wife says, she surprised on Easter Sunday last in his private office with two bizarre young women, re- fused to let the case go to trial In Judge Albertson's court, be cause, he said, the latter was prejudiced against him. Domestic trouble began. Mrs Swezea alleces, soon after Swezea WITH CRUELTY THEY’RE FEW Decame interested fn clubs and so-| ago. His popularity, she says, caus. Bis election to various club of on Sundays. Says He Beat Her Whe be was at home they quar reled. Mrs Swezea says, end on one such oceasion fn sune, 1913, he Struck her with a board. In No about three years after which he remained away | home nearly every night and | | vember of the same year, she says. | he beat and choked her, then ab- sented himself for a period of three | weeks. Eighteen months apartments nearer he was formerly president He is said to have been exceed ingly parsimonious during the past | year and a half, stopping her credit im various stores only $5 or $10 at infrequent vals. Hurt at Ea © Party When Mrs. Swezea called at his the Commercial he! she | she says she! the | while on the table was a demijohn of liquor, In the struggle that private office, at Show & Printing Co., owns a half interest, says, about $50,000, rae two strange women tn 1oom, smoking cigarets, where worth, and glasses. ensued, she says she sustained a sprained wrist. Mra. Swezea is living in thetr| bungalow on Magnolia haif their community property PUG HELD FOR end giving her inter- | Bluff, ant} hax asked the court to award her ago, Swerea| left home altogether and took up the business section in the Elks’ club, of which | | IROMANCIE A-NOVEL-A-WEEHR! Pike st. without its automat like Hi Gill his corn-cob pipe. It simply wotiidn't be Pike at How oft on a summer's night have we lingered around the front entrance of Swift's pharmacy or the Owl Drug Co.'s aweet-scented bazaar, try- ing to fight our way thru the women, kids and groceries for a chance to get a weigh ay —pun) on the free scales. And, how utterly impossible and un- successful the whole attempt fe scales would be without was We tried it agsin last night First there was a little blonde. She smiled at her 102 pounds and disappeared with- out comment Next came a fat guy who had lots of weight but poor eyes. Cecil Coats deciphered the jug gling indicator and approximat- ed 224 pounds. Of the 15 or 20 women who fought thelr way thro the weighing primaries and obtain ed a footing on the scales, the whole gang led a week's sup ply of groceries with them Gracious, these scales off.” one woman out Pal way exclaimed, as she watched the Indicator pass the 180 pound mark with no apparent desire to halt. Upon the sug gestion that she discharge a ROMANCE is often found most stir Randall Parrish in The Star’s ing in History. story of one of La Salle’s trading posts. SIX CENTS in The Star next novel-a-week “BEYOND THE FRONTIER,” which begins Monday and ends Saturday. A regular $1.50 NOVEL for A-NOVEL-A-WEER! AS TORY A-NOVEL-A-WEEH! It’s made so. by A thrilling ‘ts Council Is ‘Split After Star Chamber Session DALE PULLS “BONER”, Councilman Fitzgerald's vote will decide whether or not the jitney regulation ordinance, in tended to go before the voters for refe dum November 7, passes the council Monday, it wae predicted Friday. Counclimen Erickson, Moore, Hesketh and Bolton will vo against the ordinance, which Practically places jitmey con- tro! in the hands of the super | intendent of public utiliti Dale, Thomsen, fH. and Han | @ na wil! vote for the measure. They | i } framed the special star chamber session jay, Gt which the res. | olution to refer the matter to the on natiops! elettion day, | was peewed Pit eo far, reveal hie alignment few tons of cargo, she grace weighing in at 170. tottering, old gentieman, who + xplatued from ‘hes refored ad the platform that he bad re It wan pointed out that Dale had| | cently suffered a stroke, ex made a parliamentary “bone head” | plaining his loss of 10 pounds ip the ster chamber session, and | A red-nosed individwal, not- ing the 180 pounds just rogis tered, playfully suggested that they take each other on for a jthat the other three had played with him, by passing a resolution to submit an ordinance for refer endum, before the ordinance has wrestling match Everybody deen passed but themselves disliked the Dale introduced the jitney regu | banter. |lation ordinance and then the res The Seattle Star Girl Discards Modern Fads to Live in Woods as Prehistoric Woman! NIGHT EDITION THERE MAY RE SOME PERSONS IN THE WORLD “ NOT WISHING ° , ; : HILE NOT WISHING TO PUT A DAMPER ON OF wert. og ao og TR RS ie THINGS, GEORGE SALISBURY, WEATHER FORE > all P AND JEFF, APPEARING EACH DAY ON ASTER, SAYS THE TEMPERATURE WILL BE ate eke ena > THE STAR. THEY ARE FEW Om OOLER. IT WILL ALSO BE FAIR, SO CHEER UP TODAY AND GIGGLE WITH THE GANGS OOK THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS AXD DOPE YOUR CHOICE FOR THE WINNER OF ND GIGGLE 2 GANG ORLD'S SERIES. VOLUME 19. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1916 ONE CENT xnan"diiind’ 2 gh WOMEN HEAR SWEZEA DIVORCE TRIAL | ‘MEETS LOVER BY — DESIGN; COUPLE “GO TO COUNTRY Mary Dell, the girl who came to Seattle |\dressed as a man Wednesday, aboard a \freight train, got married Friday morning. | She left the home of Mrs. Edith D. |Saunders, where she had gone to make a |home for herself, and met August Diamond, |husky steel worker, age 26. They had known each other for! Wednesday afternoon, in o' coat, man’s shoes and everything. This simply receive congratulations shortly be fore noon Planned Wedding Here Diamond is husky, just like his|/mony, it is believed man-wife, and they both decided tc The girl, living and looking lik come to Seattle, it Jeaked out, and a man, had traveled all over Nave departed for » ranch Outside | West; doing men's work, f the city where they are to work years. far What do you want, a hunting I!-| Diamond, steel worker, has/ works cense”” asked Clerk F. C. Gage |¢d ail over the West, and it is be when they appeared |leved he met her in some of hig “No, a marriage license,” Dia- | travels. sr | the woman? el He could only see Mary Dell's MRS. STRANACK head and shoulders, and her boyish six years, they told Superintendent planned to get married in Seattl Mason, of the women's police di- some time ago. vision, when they went there to Mary arrested on King st — postponed the cere- — | A thin and undoubtedly mar. | ried man disgustedly stepped 1 | off. After waiting for 15 min | seales another five minutes. It's a great bit of life, this | weighing on Carl Harris, Rexall. salesrnan, remarked as the swarming moh of shoppers olution at the same meeting All the councilmen will get a chance to vote on the ordinance Monday ber of passengers. BAY; IS RESCUED laughingly battled away for a weigh And as the crowd finally Kate Rhodes, 24, tried to commit thinned out, a newsy sneaked | suicide Friday morning by jumping up and put his foot on the into the b from pier No.7. Police scales, shooting the indicator | Officers A. Smith and J. A. McGrath! far over the mark a woman ex pected to see it stop at were summoned, and rescued her. after going out in a rowboat | At the} utes, he had got on with a The regulation bill provides that | sack full of cabbage. and he /the superintendent of public utill didn't know how much to de |ties issue jitney “certificates,” de | duct from the 122 pounds eg- |ternine routes, fares, changes of | | istered when he realized the | routes, issue safety orders, etc Elaine Hammerstein, actress, granddaughter of Oscar Hammer. mistake it makes it unlawful not to sly Se, ie going back to nature with Joe Knowles, the “back to nature”) One man asked another if he | according to a definite schedule, or | man. thought he would gain any |to carry more than a stated sum. Both will discard modern clothing, cooking and weight by standing on the live in the Adirondack woods like prehistoric man and woman. ting uti After a few days Miss Hammerstein, clad in the skins of animals the two will kill, and learned in the art of lighting a fire by rubbing sticks and building her own shelter, will leave Knowles and strike out face and heavy coat made her 100k | like a man to him | Right here—her name is Mary | Dell,” answered = the laughing | RToom of Uses Ruse to Meet Lover | rs. Katherine Belle Rice Stra- Mary told Mrs. Saunders Thurs-|»ack, mother of Raymond 8. Stra- day night that she wanted to see nack, the Seattle militiaman who oo praca e ae died at the recent encampment at aken < . . men’s headquarters Calexico, Cal, was granted a db She talked with a man there who|VYorce Frid morning in the su- had telephoned her, and who was | perior court from Dr. Stewart J. F. ee , PS Nee |Stranack. She was given riday morning she le! | Saunders home at 10 a. m. to “go | Month alimony. in the woode for herself. She expects to return to modern life in 30 days, clad in a costume made entirely by herself. | —$——— MACKENZEN DEFEATED dgwatown: and nee about the job.’ | Mrs. Stranack appeared in court So They Are Wed in mourning for her son, whom she The next thing Mrs. Saunders asserts has been her only support knew about it was “hen Mary Dell, | * tad tn sewiy gathered wonten'’s | °vet S008 her husband deserted duds, phoned and announced that ber, about six months ago. Her husband, Mrs. Stranack she had gotten married Diamond's home is in Cripple said, is a mental physician, and has an income of $3,500. Creek, Colorado. These two were happy and laugh TROOP SHIP IS SUNK city bospital, with a pulmotor, she Ot as was revived, but refused to give her jaddresa or tel! the reason for the LONDON, Sept. 22—Under jattempt t to end her life the heavy Russo- Rumanian hammer blows the Teutonic Stranack began suit for divorce |ing when they called on the police a year ago in which he falsely matron. Albert King, a friend of charged Mrs. Stranack with ex- Diamond's, stood up with them at/travagance. This divorce was de the ceremony | nied. that the Bulgars are consolidating their positions in the Dobrudja. The defeat of Field Marshal Mackenzen tn WOMAN'S DEATH the Dobrudja inva-} “They look like they're going to forces in Dobrudja have fallen SAN LUIS OBISPO, Cal. Sept. 22—Vic Hanson, middie- weight pugilist, was at liberty today on $10,000 bail, awaiting a preliminary hearing on a charge of murder. | BERLIN (Via Wireless to Sayville), Sept. 22. German submarine sank an enemy transport, complete. | ly filled with troops, sion and the check administered to be happy, too,” said Mrs, Mason.) WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE in the Mediterranean on September 17, it was officially announced today. The transport sank within 43 seconds. __, SHE DOESN'T LIKE NAME OF GREENE Evidently being troubled with oth er people reading her postal cards Miss Anna Elizabeth Greene filed a back more than five miles, and are stil! In retreat, said Buchar- {est dispatches today. | An earlier official statement reported the Buigarians burn- ing villages and ravaging the country as they fell back |the AustroGermans on the north. “They left here laughing. He's a Water will be shut off in the dis- western frontier of Rumania has| good fellow, I believe, and she cer-/trict between Graham et. and caused a renewal of the demand tainly is jolly and resourceful.” | Holden st., from 36th ave. S. to here for a settlement of affairs at Think It All Planned Wilson ave,, but not on the bound- Athens | Saunders and Mrs. Mason/ary street on Saturday, Sept. 23, It 1s no longer any secret that the that Diamond deliberately |from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m new Greek cabinet is not regarded Mrs believe The charge was made after | The Herlin statement made no, | petition Friday, asking that her last) The official statement also re- as favorable to the allles, English the body of Mrs. Sadie F. ntion of th te of the soldiers name be changed to Nichols ported the capture of Szekely correspondents at Athens cabled Sweeney had been exhumed at | aboard the transport. Accepting FIRE ABOARD SHIP Lee in the directory that there|Udvarhely, an industrial town of|today it was improbable that the DAN( ERS | O APPEAR Frésno, and death was shown the statement that the transport are no other Nicholses in the city/about 8,000 inhabitants, 45 miles allies would be able to enter Into to have been caused by a blood | went down in 43 seconds as true c with the same initials as mine,” she| inside the Transylvanian frontier. |cordial relations with the new min. clot. near the heart. lit appears probable that few, it| GALVESTON, Sept. 22.—The|said, “and I would like to do away| Sofia dispatches today said Ger-|istry. | NI DE IN I EN Y EARS : rt J. McConnell, Mrs. any persons, were rescued unless |Morgan liner El Aba arrived here| with the Greene part bf my name.|man-Bulgar attacks against the Reports have reached here that en. seamed Ug ya a ee as pag eh nerugd were in the immed! |trom New York today, and Capt | It is s0 common.” pens appar ge Rang boheme 9 ~ 9g Pa fie be ryote out 4 Fi murder charge ag: jate vicin | | successful, and |in isolated parts of Greece may i Zsciarhe Hanson slapped. “Are. Freeman reported a serious fire] +e STATE canvassing board ts |have gained a little ground at some|mean the beginning of a real revo- BY TER Sine Master of the Dance and Dancing Partner of Ruth St. Denis, His Wife LOS AN ES, Sept —There is just one thing created by God more beautiful than the human body. It is the human body in motion, f |that started in her bunkers and de-\expected to make ite official check |points, An official statement issued | lution, headed by ex-Premier Ven- stroyed a portion of the cargo be-|of the state primary election some|at Sofia made no mention of a Bul-\tzelos, to overthrow King Constan- [ORDER VOTE COUNT Sweeney in the face when she re fused to dance with him at Pismo. 22 Cal, two weeks ago. She becam Superior Judge French Issued a fore it was extinguished _itime next week. garian retirement _but reported tir 4 nd bring Gre Greece into the into the war. seriously {ll afterward, McConn writ of mandamus Friday, compel wi ety " There is at present a ridiculous convention that declared, and died several days |ling the county canvassing board to @§ 99 insists on clothes, when the idea calls for no clothes. later. include the correct recount of the IN I refer to the aesthetic dance, flees ee rs Fe ES eee dive cotcn of dudes Deke It is impossible to present complex movement Serres.” eevee Lats OMMEET [man, Mackint do cg and aesthetic ideas while the body is encumbered by | paver atte thes wane ; eoRoae. wiasee ies COME-BACK OVER A | fee istic circles. He has fought in|the necessary majority of votes en A decade ago barefoot dancing and filmy co® as City Chicago, as well|titiing them to appear on the No tumes were looked on by press and pulpit with hor- «gpg ig i Wh e Sanphaes Gatiot uncontested | After 10 months behind the {find the dictionary, he said I can make my appeal to. Heaven |tenced, The Star told a brief part ror. Today only the prude {s shocked at such a dance 4 inant rare | silent walla of Walla Walla | Bear asks for several other/only knows T have plenty of ene-|of the story of his early life—of when properly rendered » | books. |mies, Since my character has been how he was left parentless when a s aan prison, Fred Starr, “bad man” |) wpernays,” sald Helly, “some one|so blackened, no one cares to have|amall boy, kicked across the At- A decade hence and the filmy costume, meager as it is, will vanish as far as the canons of art will and bandit, has spoken. permit. In a letter, tinctured with the the slightest confidence in me, In a way I don't blame them, but some |better fixed than I will get the books he wants and send them to lantic by a brutal uncle, the master of a schooner trading with Aus- Potato Vine8 Feet 10 Inches os High] bitterness of disappointment, to jhim. Starr held up a street car day I will make them like me by/tralia, and of his fileht in terror Why Goes the average American now look upon | Ls Brought to Star by John Thiel | Deputy Sheriff Mike Hally, his |here, but if one understands him proving to them that I, Fred Starr,|from the vessel at Sidney. & nude canvas or statue in repose and express his friend, he has sent out an ap- [he is not ‘bad’ He is a victim of am not so black as [ have been! cian then went to Li 1 admiration? Because America is becoming educated PALAAL AAA wenn | peal for books, The man who, circumstances.” painted. gheik eh ikintiine ‘anin sk a" ir pg id Ted Shawn along artistic lines. The average American is not the rea now Jobn Thiel of | plain and fancy potato growers as a boy, never had a chance, Mr. Hally, since my inf@furcera “Since my confinement I have two other pl an a ahs ied possessor of a filthy mind, therefore Megcan view Kirkland, with a potato vine in the world to beat him ia hoping to educate himself in tion,” Sturr’s letter goes on, “I have | proved my worth to some of the of him to a Fagan. where he weg) Such sights and admire, z ‘ wee é irk ‘ In the hill beneath this prison, composed several songs and some ficials here In the institution, ané taught the “art” of burglars. ‘te But that same figure in motion would shock him by is that? Serre eer, omen, Sy cham ne, Thiel dug a potato Bir,” his lotter reads, “you did!poetry. ‘This kindof work tnter-|115. nave encouraged me and/inever bad a chance mie Be The American is becoming educate! in regard to art, but his educas 7 ord that measured 7x4 inches one time promise me that you ests me very much, but to continue ' é thing aia ance to learn any: tion is not yet complete. He has yet to learn that the undraped human 77 John has been read bout which he thinks is quite a large \id send to me my own small 1 must have assistance. This as- helped me. I have a slate to write figure in motion is equaled in beauty by nothing. 4 the tall vines for a long time one pocket dictionary that I so highly sistance must come from books on, and a small three-inch pencil Humanity did him an injustice 1 am about to say something which may startle the reader, but It 3 and has been saying nothing I don't make it a business (treasured, Your promise tome was “The books that | would like to|too, ‘This is the outfit 1 am work. when he was a little boy, which he| should not. ; Yet, nightly he has been nure raising large potatoes,” Thie! made 10 months ago, and I haven't have are: One on ‘Synonyms and/ing with, Paper I have none. must pay for with 20 years of his | A decade hence and | will stage my own dance and the dances of | " ing his spud crop along, and explained, “as chicken raising j|received \t yet, How well you re- Antonyms,’ another entitled ‘Slips| ‘I am willing to abandon an in-| life. That was his sentence for|my entire company as nearly in the nude as the canons of art permit, | Thursday he cut the longest | is my Jong suit. I have quite a membered it.” ‘of Speech, and a dictionary | dispensable article—tobacco—in or- |doing the thing he was taught to|! would not attempt it now, because the people are not ready. vine. It measured & feet 10 ranch across Lake Washing Hally turned the letter over to| “Now, my dear friend, it is you|der to get these books.” |do, Why should not humanity send] have yet to inguish between physical and apir jaches. He defies all of the ton.” |The Star, He had been unable to|! ask to help me, There is no other| Months ago, when Starr was sen-|him the books he craves? itual beauty and vulgarity and indecency. ‘ , r a CALE NMG,