The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 30, 1919, Page 1

whe "se i sf _ t© wave over slaves.” | mother or his God. Per Year, $5.00 to $9.00 VERY DAY tiny hands haul up the flag, and may they never haul it down. The doughnut man could give a fine is j H “It's the rag of the boss We hope not, for ‘tis a dirty lie, and there is no hope whatever in ‘Qnything that tears down the faitl. @f the child in his country, his NOTHER little sight we caught at the school. It was recess time for the tots of the First and Second grades. And with one whoop they broke ‘they seized Spon sugar-coated doughnuts, and ‘Went away happy. And we won- dered if there were that many pen- Ries among s0 many little tads. But we found that the bakery ™an gave these doughnuts away. Out of a big pan he scooped up handfuls of little doughnuts and Passed them over to the eager fists waving about bin Maybe it was just advertising, tho probably not one mother in 50 whose tad got a doughnut will ever hear about it, and as an ad it was Rot so much But as a kindly human sort of & touch, it was all to the good so easily made Halt a hot doughnut is worth More than pearls of great price, and a frolic with a fiea-infested pup brims the cup of life to overflow- We thiny -~ ‘hone tired million- aires, who seek to do good and @arn a quiet conselence with their Useless money, mins a big bet when they forget and neglect the little children We don't mean hospitals and milk funds and “worthy” objects No, wir; we mean red wagons and white puppies; green bead Recklaces and red-topped boots With brass toes; we mean striped @andy canes, and hot buttered Popeorn, and nigger heels, and all- @ay suckers, and other frivolous, Uselens, dyspepsia-encouraging con- trivances. Why, sir, the man who would es- tablish a fund to buy ripe water- Melons in July for all the negro children under 10 years of age in any Southern city would do more {0 deserve a monument, would do More to load up humanity with a big jag of joy, without a stain or soot apeck on it, than all the earn. est, serious, philanthropists that @ver robbed the world to benefit it. CALEXICO, Cal,, Sept. 20.—Five stift earthquake shocks were felt here during last night. The longest Jasted 15 weconds, No damage was done, but visitors to the city and} Many of the permanent residents Were somewhat jSUICIDE END (LOVE TRIANGLE CENTS Final Edition Mail | ()/The ee, LOCKED IN EACH OTHER’S ARMS VIAN AND WOMAN MURDER AND END THEIR LIVES IN HOTEL HERE Romance tricked Minnie Deaver cruelly. It beckoned to her first when she was 16. She had rosy cheeks and youth, and the world, to her, was @ wonderful big playhouse. It brought her James Rt. Deaver, fresh in a flashing uniform .of United States Marines, with stirring tales of war and coun- tries far away There was another man, even then. He wore no uniform. He had no stirring tales of war, had been to no far-off countries. Minnie’s mother knew him and thought well of him. Holt did not press his sult. Deaver did. And with a pretty dream of life before her, Minnie went with him to be his wife Holt was 27; Deaver was 46. and old enough to be her father, but that seemed not te matter then. Today Minnie Deaver ts 30, still young in years, But her jet black hair is streaked with white. The rose has faded from her cheeks. ‘They are lined by sorrow Her voice is unsteady. In her eyes ig a haunted look. She married the wrong man. Holt is dead—murdered as he walked the streets Saturday And Deaver is in jail The police say he shot Holt “My husband was always peevish, quarreling,” Mrs. Deaver said, as she stood at the foot of the stairs leading to the little attic apartment where she ts living with an elderly aunt in Went Seattle, “1 am just as sure he murdered Mr. Holt as if I had seen him do it with my own eyes,” she said, with emphasi«, “He had threat- ened it many times, I know he did it.” It was Deaver’s own sugges- tion, she said, tliat caused her to take Holt in as @ boarder in ROMANCE TRI |Minnie Deaver Entangled in Age-Old Triangle Love Tragedy WHO: SOUGHT HAPPINESS | Minnie Deaver ) ade maa REE Man, 81, Marries Girl, 17, so She Will Get Estate SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30 Hane Lynd, #1, who does not believe in wills, married Ella Carson, 17, so that she might inherit his Coalinga estate. The girl was entrusted to Lund's care by her father on his death bed, their home before they parted Deaver had told her he needed all his meney to pay taxes and improve his valuable property in Alki. “You'll have to earn your own money for clothes and pro- visions,” she said he told her I told him I thought it was a husband's place to buy his wife clothes and pay for her food particularly if he was wealthy. But my protest did no good. And so we got Mr. Holt to come and board at our house, “We got him because an old friend of the family mother knew him. But Mr ver was a jealous man, He was alway: >—Insanely jealous. long before Mr, Holt came. And it was only a few weeks until he told Mr. Holt one day that he was getting too friendly with his wife and would have to get out “Mr. Holt left. But that didn't end my husband's quarreling. 1 came home one night and found he had locked me out. He told me he had sold all the furniture and was done with me for good,” Mrs. Deaver went to live with her aunt. She sent her 12-year old boy, Earl, to a near-by school, and, with the assistance of Holt, was managing to live while Deaver's divorce suit he was my Dea SRATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, SEPTEMB An American Paper That Fights for Americanism Seattle Sta Bntered as Second Clase Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffics at Meattic, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1) night and We | Tightly clasped in each other’s arms, E. E. Fuller, 30, and Minnie Bellows, 25, were found dead in bed in a room at the New Avon hotel late Tuesday. \Between the two lay an automatic - pistol with six shells still in the maga- peaday, rain; m CKED GIRL awaited | ay in court “Mr. Holt was nothing more than just a friend,” declared the aunt. “My niece ts all wrapped up in her boy and is a perfect mother There is gossip on Alki beach that Holt was more than just a friend, but no or * able to prove it. Mrs. D rode in Holt's automobile That may have started the lonz tale of in nuendo that today is common talk in the neighborhood of Holt’s closed and padlocked store In his store, for years, Holt kept bi w neces. sant, happy song endeared him to all who knew him A few weeks ago Deaver was seen often, it is sald, passing the store on the opposite side of the street, looking across with sinis ter hatred in his eyes t may have seen Deaver. At any rate, Holt became appre: hensive of impending trouble and tacked up a sign In his store, which read: “Twenty-five dollars reward for saving my bird. In case of fire, save my bird first and let everything else burn.” Last Friday he took the bird f and carried it to Mrs. Deaver's attic “Keep it for me,” he said. “I'm afraid Deaver may set fire to my store “ood care of the Tak bird and don’t let him get away He is my good omen,” aturday morning the canary Mrs. out of Deave It has been seen Saturday night Holt was fl window nince shot to death “Probably the little thing died the night its master did,” said Mrs, Deaver, “The bird wasn't used to cold, and Saturday night was very cold.” sR 30, 1919. 7 Sait “hse” AE zine. It is believed Fuller first shot the | California May Avert girl twice thru the heart and then sent | | | | STOCKTON, Cal. Sept. 30.— California's anthJapanes: fight will be carried direct to the voters thra the initiative. The Anti-Japanene association of Cali fornia has decided to circulate initlative petitions in order to place their nueasure on the 1920 ballot. The program decided on here last night includes cancellation of the “gentlemen's” agreement ‘with Japan, exclusion of all “pic- ture brides” and barring Japan- ese forever from citizenship. MARTINEZ, Cal., Sept. 30— (Waited Press—"The real klek in the antidapanese program adopted last night at Stockton is found in the proposal to amend section 1, article 14 of the federal constitution,” State Senator Sharkey declared to the United Press today. to Vote on Big Strike, Jap Peril Is Belief two had been dead several days [nothing for the eoverament to do|COtained a scathing arraignment of the man { “Such an amendment would stop, tice of raising Japanese in the United States for the of grabbing land,” he added pur por “We can't stop this under present laws” Senator Sharkey introduced the motion before the AntiJapariese a» sociation of California to place on the ballot of the next election cer tain drastic antiJapa by means of the init tion carried unanimo “Japanese are now hot p to own property because ¢ not citizens,” Sharkey explaine “but their children + born in the United States become citizens auto matically by virtue of this section of the constitution. Therefore, the Japanese are importing ‘picture brides’ for propagation purposes, and through their children, born im America, are grabbing our land Sharkey said the initiative petitions will be circulated very after Senator Inman appoints an executive committee in Sacramento. ARMED FARMERS soon HUNTING NEGRO| Posse Seeks Man Who At- tacked Girl MERCHANTVILI 1, Sept 30.—A_hundr farmers to a man hunt in the huge swamp ht miles east of here. 4 negro farm hand Mary Metzer, 31 sterday, was be in the swamp. Their quarry who assaulted Mrs on @ country re Neved to be which he wis seen to enter shortly Jafter t me A we did police duty about his hid place thru. the night. Mrs. Met who has five children, is expected to recover SUGAR RELIEF got a statement that De | in the poolroom in the ¢ nm build: | ing at Fourth ave. and Pike st., as | Now on Way lief from the acute sugar age was promised by F. H. , Manager of the Kelley Co, wholesalers, local * agents for the Western Sugar Refinery, Tuesday morning, fol. lowing the receipt of a telegram from the home office in San Francisco that a large shipment of sugar was on its way here Shipments of sugar have been delayed by blockade of trains from California, caused by a caved-in tunnel of the Southern Pacifie railway, and by the long: shoremen’s strike In San Fran- clsco, Baxter said, |Baxter Says Shipments Are a bullet thru his own heart. Deputy ine eo Frank Koepfli, who was called to the scene Tuesday, said the On a table in the room two letters were found, one, evidently written by the girl, ad- dressed to Hazel Doll, of Huntington, Ore., jand the other addressed in masculine hand- ‘wil come| Writing to L. E. Bellows, General Delivery, Unless the scinds today it« Pacific ( from paying hour wage unions at th shipping board re- © prohibiting pyard operat- nts per granted the Frar ast at ference, word probably gear ihe wire from | Washington | Seattle. L.E. Bellows is the woman’s hus- shipyard union men of the Coast out on strike “Industrial is bound to follow such a course, and there is band, but he has not yet been located. Fuller’s letter to the woman’s husband turmotl but back down, for the invtolability t's cintiuct is at giake” oncared |fOF Alleged ill-treatment of his wife. Sine Teavatin of tater in wae: |OF Siving the woman considerable money and Ticm'tsa"ts Semaey et uare| HOt Pledging never to go back to him: we . The woman’s letter is to Hazel Doll, in tional capital to consider the it. untington, Ore., sa.d she was sorry she could not accept an invitation to go to Ore- national capital to cx ider the sit- gon for a visit as “I have just found a live m and if possible prevent a wine strike in Pacific Coast shipyards engaged in government __Thowe _stiending the conterence | OME who has inherited a piece of money, and are James O'Connell representin, 2. 2 . the thetal, trates iivioen owned am going to stick around and see if I can American Federation of Labor; J. L. Ackerson, of the construction di vision of the United States Shipping Board and Franklin D. assistant secretary of the navy The strike, if catled, will be a pro- test against shipping board orders postponing the eight cents per hour not get a penny or two.” The letters which the police believe tell the story of a love triangle that led up to the murder and suicide were both sealed. A telegram which the girl sent from Spokane Roosevelt ‘age increase that was to «o into . « Gifect Wednesday, when the i to Fuller, July 4, asking for $15, also was found. An identification book in Fuller’s clothing showed he had lived in Kalo, Idaho. Two suitcases filled with clothing of excellent PROSECUTOR T0 | quality were in the room. It is believed the shooting took place Sun- ACCUSE DE AVER day morning. T. Futuhata, proprietor of oo a the door Sunday but found it a ,_,|locked. He became suspicious Tuesd: id wae Charge to Be Filed had the door broken down. On diccovertal gainst Suspect the ghastly evidence of tragedy, he called the police and Motorcycle Officer Stanley |was rushed to the hotel. Nothing is known of Fuller, except that |he registered at the hotel July 1. The girl wage inc eed upon by workers ‘and shipyard employers after a long confer eat San Fran cinco, and was into effect to- morrow, The government had ap. proved the plan. A formal charge of murder will be filed against James KR. Deaver probably Wednesday, announced Attorney Prosecuting ly late T the grilling of tng thls alleged connection with |had not appeared there before with him, the _ stort, Saturday night |Jap proprietor said. A lodge sword bearing Prosecutor john. Carmedy, hare the initials “U. R.” and lilies engraved on inity ‘where ‘Holt was’ shot town | the blade, was near the bed. wt S20 p.m. Saturday, searching) Search is being made by the police for the house to house, and even. inter-| Bellows’ girl’s husband as it is believed he io an efftet te Gato cern orl is UL en neee. thastonn, coke tgeh a « wie! The New Avon hotel is at 606 Second ave. and ther nt four bullets into his victim's bod With their new evidence Kent and Carmody confronted Deaver at police headquarters at 11 exday spate ae | SAYS LU DENDORFF tigators r was not he said, at the time of the murder and for some time afterward. At 9:30 p. m, an hour after the “The war must be ended.” That was the verdict of Luden= tragedy, when Deaver declared he|dorff after the disaster in Picardy in August, 1918. “August ted wtin Be Pt gi Fetish 8 was the Black day of the German army in the history of saya she heard a strange noise out.| C2 war,” he writes in The Star today. ' side her house at 4230 Alki ave.| | | ‘“ Bhe looked out the window and ¢ MY THOUGHTS AND. ACTIONS” clares she saw the former sergeant 4 Sean ok tanrinds, etandtin: in ts By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff brush within a few feet of her 7 Published by The Star thru special arrangement w © McClure News; |told Lieutenant of Detectives Kent eat ettain by Hutchinson @ Company and vhe London Timm be n ix and Bartel; in Italy by Fratelli Treves; in Canad know him well At the very moment she saw him black day of the) front and sealed the fate of the quad Mrs, Latham says, a squad of plain German army in the history of this | ruple alliance, Knowing that the next measures war, ; rr must be purely defensive, general that I had to go thru, except for the | peaaquarters had early in August ors events that, from September 15 on-| gered a gradual withdrawal of our |ward, took place on the Bulgarian| (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) clothes were stand ing in front of the house and another party was search jing Deaver's tenthouse next door (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) men and pe i his was the worst experience read in _ i 4