The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 17, 1919, Page 1

Tides in Seattle THURSDAY Wee High Tide PSDAY cond High Tide a AS IT SEEMS TO ME A. SLEETH VOLUME Japan at the Cross Roads HE STAR has for some time been pointing out the danger of Japanese penetration of the Pacific E. “4 coast—a danger to which Seattle and the state gen- E erally was unaroused, but which today is recognized . generally ' B eves open Now The Star desires to give the state a funda- ‘. 2g Sa sg A oe mental review of Japan as she is today; Japan at in one corner of G ake, a filv abroad; Japan as seen from the inside by an ver that askating would and authority i % had wound Made - » Star has secured from Rodney Gilbert, former gs ponent lee associate editor of the Far Eastern Review, and one { who knows the Orient thoroly, a series of nine articles { with Japan. | ; These articles will be interesting, informative, and ’ no hitherto published articles have approached them , in value. 4400 sk Th articles are written by an unbiased observer; and had Japan is given credit for what she has | over th analyzed fairly and finally This is not propaganda, but it is all the more to doubting ones for that reason. Tomorrow the first Gilbert article will be published. Don’t miss it. accomplished and valuable NIPPON SAYS ORIENTAL RELATIONS IN DANGER TOKYO, | council today, | China, was directed to make a strong protest to the Peking wheelbarrow. No crossed a dary lawn Ing himsei¢ atTicked b Dec. 17.—Following a meeting of the cabinet Torikichi Obata, minister plenipotentiary to guard, his v and most of guard, his heavy artiller ND coming downtown the government regarding the anti-Japanese activities of Chi-! tery was where the bul | nese merchandise. it had smashed Cables recently received from To- Six Millionaires, Poor Things, Are Homeless i in N. Y. No sign of it anywhere from the smooth punctur Behind it e tly wae t on high 1 of two vigorous protests Tokyo gove Be “It didn't go thru that wa NEW YORK ice Ahere,” explained a store seeth “adtc:mnii ie setae 4 se newspapers declare that fiman, “because that’s a re . be beenelnen China is wholly to blame, whereas Bnd there don't nothing go diy a usands of otherw here |) Peking 4 hen place all the “ ay was in a hurry one day t i , gh iby . 1 in vain a place to |) piame for Fe w riots on the Japa land tricd drive her auto thru hat there w nd she couldn't going to build a six |)" make it.” > aberieet leeeee Japanese war ln have been at ND, speaking of mysteries where did all the ska’ rom? Pratt for themselves dn i Datian 1 McAlpin, cochow «ince the riot in which sev killed ruts eral Japanese were and on [Al American was where did all axtiee.4 Sy Fae se wounded. The rio’ e folks learn, over aan ae Roomer are the |, tesulted when Chinese students boy jf “be otted Japanese goods. If tis trace lake Sunday had thou | antung awne@ of « with folke on Sasa Pp them, skimmin Ing backwards 3 Pe figures, and not on There and skat eles Halp! Halp! Shop It! =) are ve Got Enough ed ut © Kot) M. Sen sta “y ne nM Johr vag ‘ M Christmas ar ' B. 1 6th © the ' f ; k r r n A ar ; ™ b read an t $ ewte P bs Bagel © Strap Hanger Soon fow ie t could be to Be Extinct Bird ys t s M iid ¥ ' F f {Of + { “ I ' ' 1 M 7 * ne be Lam a = | Some did and » didn't ' ay or t t ning. ne “4 ie " } and mem ,| ft 1 ber that th world Ma 1 ee ee ee at Se was scheduled for today Va t And what did some of our cit BD) izens think on the eve of the Bd ite conge world’s fin it. f n b It was a se oof many m of "a r many minds, Lend an to ry r b h these ‘ T ADVER MAYOR ©. 8. FITZGERALD 5 I 1 fi th ONE THAT D t bothe me I've got to sign ‘ob! ‘ 1 “ RADE 1 f la ature ome, any Ume veccsieneseriietaenncarateinanininmansecnsnaseacel) \ HWE b. same ay 1 -<w~ h won b By he , notably Chinese students, which endanger the friendly! neat little bullet hole in ations t een China and Japan. one of the $500 plate The protest, it was understood, has to do particularly|' Blass chow windows of a bic down | with the difficulties at Foochow and boycotts against Japa- | town store If World Had Come to an End Today, Jim Would Have Missed the Show! Late Edition Per Year, b: $5.00 to Mai! 9.00 SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1919. Tonjeh and Thar Accommodations Congested, Says Lucifer; End of World Postpones Weather Forecast: Porta Is Standing Pat Today , Reiterates His Prediction of Fierce Storms Along the Pacific Coast ‘Mephistopheles Cancels Plans for “Big a ee Owing to Overcrowded Housing Conditions in Hades; Will Call on Former Seattle Real Estaters to Put on a Few Extra Additions PURGATORY, Dee, 17.-x(fSpecial to The Star.)—Plans for the end of the world were called off today following an announcement by King Lucifer that hotel and apartment houses are already crowded and the fuel sup- NAMS THE DANGER AREA ply low. The delegation of lost souls expected from This Is the Date on Which Rumor Was to End World|. WASHINGTON, Dec 7 1 Ly world was to an end planets were rang- ¢ aide of the sun, Grim Fight for Life at Hospité Seattle Infant Given Bick | ide by Older Brother, Mistakes for Candy IT IS FOUR-DAY BA the to come ac- rnment was featured temperatures But this re had no terrible 6 earth T, had cold ters below - normal In nearly all section for here, SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17.—~ . | City hos ital hysici Waited Press}—Profesor AL Seattle was so large, it was announced, that Bo Bey. bert F. Porta, scientific observer are fighting with all the Hades housing committee resigned with- out notice and declared it would be nothing short of foolhardy to proceed further with | FOUND GUILT |the reception program. Pa A “The world is not going to end.”| ; 5 -month Sub toes ae ‘aia|. King Lucifer was greatly disappointed. For months he anholm, ‘ ie oe ME vi partie dye ent has had under construction a fireproof hippodrome intended | Boggess, Dry Squad Officer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cc. | sponsible for the seeming widespread! exclusively for the accommodation of profiteers. The huge! Loses in Court Sanholm, 611 22d a fear that the end of the world bas) building with its special furnaces geared up to 10,000 de- Fs . Robert L. Boggess, former po- Baby Robert gl rees Fahrenheit is practically useless. It would not begin | if f lice sergeant, was declared guity |munched _bichloride Ng the delegation from the Seattle business district oF thestnn Uicor'etitn tenses te mercury tablets ‘ie and forecaster, is standing pat today on his predictions that general meteorological turmoil will affect the earth during the period beginning today. skill today to thwart ideadly mercury po \that threatens the POLICEMAN IS come Hut 1am very well aatiatied to tet | the turn of events prove my conten: ions.” he maserted. d of it, when a jury re- ‘ The inal prediction was as fol “This makes me hot,” reads His Majesty's bulletin calling ‘cone, its verdict in Separiar nis 3-year-old brotl aus ps rding to the professor the whole thing off. “It is a burning disgrace. The housing 4udge 4. T. Ronald's court bi | Buster, could extract er sis on December 1 eine et |committee, which at first seemed fired with ambition, has p ogy oh fag gars |from the bottle he fo u unctions’ and ‘oppositions,’ = left the kingdom in the lurch with not enough room to! night and reached an agree ‘in. the medieine— }vere. storma will, strike ¢ se! admit the state legislatures. Thespecial super-heated apart-| ment at 11:35 p. m. The verdict Tuesd ight coast about December 1%, The storm) ments for mothers-in law are only half completed. The end} was read Wednesday morning. uesday night. will ol east and strike the middie Boggens was accused of offering to) is postponed indefnitely.” MEPHISTO LAUGHS Wireless reports from the Earth, received here early to-| “See,” called Buster, as mother came to invest “brother likes these! Ca He held up the unco | west about December 22. They are due in the east about December 24 Barthquakes, together with rain and other severe die | nell weven gallons of grapo to Charles | Albertson for $280. Albertson, who |! is in the employ of the dry squad,| testified that Police Lieut. B.C. Col-| ances, will accompany the day, said Sheriff Jack Stringer, of King county, Wash., had | tier, head of the dry squad, gave him bottle, half filled res _| kissed his wife good-by, but seemed nervous when he could, $300 in marked money, and that he , levere volcanic eruptions may be | bought the whisky from Roggess the |death potions. ¢ expected during the period Decem.| Mot locate his asbestos B. V. D's i night of November §, and then drove! Grief stricken, the mol ber 18-34, January 24, and January Another report from the same county said County Clerk! with roggess to Fifth s and Bell G ” | 26-31 Percy Thomas and Superior Judge J. T. Ronald had gathered | st. where Collier p ioggess un. Called upon the city The earthquakes and voleank to help save her child. s chambers, apparently | der arrest Later the wireless reported) ,,7e “ho 4 ; meup t and King Luci-| was trying to eet fer ordered an extra 1,800 units of heat turned into the) gang of bootleegers room reserved for Thomas in the Sulphur Lodging house.| On the stand, he This order, of course, had to be countermanded later when | 4 ' him, after 7 & 1] rested “I've been trying to get you) plans were called off. for 10 years, and at last I've got nett tnd seven gallons of*grapo in the judge’ fect the earthjua . and volcanic’ belts Italy, Ja preparing to bring it along. | Java, Alaska, California, Hawaii and) that Thomas had dumped it into the sewer, | Central Amert I've nm hranded as a who said he evidence on a Little Robert was taken by lance to the City hospital. Four Days’ Anxiety Physicians applied stomach pared collier |and then began their careful an effort to determine just chance little Bobby has for his ee predicted that the » come to an end,” he de rid was repeated n spots caused by the jun f the planets will ha Mephistopheles grinned knowingly when the wireless! you” Richloride of mercury is @ = Wonca cokes inoue haga we stated that Thomas Francis Hunt, deputy district attorney, er ron apy A gary > yoga bet ohh . ncific const will be visited with the ads : j : ih ak: pian spared Was drank the night of November It will be four day nest curious wlorane th beters had given out an interview saying he had already prepared , } hile admitting he took one drink. | longer—-before. medical aaa his harp and wings in readiness for the ascension. Boggess said he was sober ol the grief-stricken mother Ww. His Majesty announced late today that a considerable | her child will live—or die. | World or No World, number of former Seattle real estate promoters, already| You Couldn't Call | Mother Lingers in Hope residents of Hades, would be put to work on a red-hot new! * | proposition to extend the city limits, plat a new addition and Rain Still Falls » mother, gripped in the | 1 the rules of predic of waiting, struggled Him Crazy for That ,..” n, the world should worrry abc a - F ‘ rng Sp ie are WANN, SAN FRANCIS- | Wednesday morning to hope for + st ge eneuprn ts point sane construct an unlimited number of hotels and lodging hou es CO, Dec. 19—| the best, as che lmaerel ae poate © N. Salisbury, U. Preparatory to carrying out the plan for the end of the When you go to) side weath werver for Seattle and world a hospital for! Little Robert lay wideeyed & ty, took his records in hand ~ treatment, if You tiny crib, unmindful of the an od that we were In for more insist UPON @ scientific combat waged in his a W Si ’ A c woman our se—| hat oo Sings Attorney Gets and a blonde one |The creeping. «rim symptoms We r at that ae oe at times gloomy, then hopeful. ct if you are regarded as| se In Hot Water With Jud Je | a st ct manatee | onl aa ience of Jame lcliffe, attorney,| Stomach convulsions—an indieay , ‘ States district court| author and lecturer. | tion of deadly effects—did not de ing Woo Sing Chinaman, charged | wii) the Harrison anti-nar A jury of men has dented bim| velop. \. ught to 5 ce day for ; mail bound “#?ages against Dr. William Dorr,| Yet the chemists found other 1 of th i © weather a law eld up a me . superintendent of St. Luke's hos-| dications —less hopeful — beerver said, “but the best I can Gold Miners Say olume y printed in Chinese al Radcliffe alleged malicious! that the poison was slowly mine rair Your Honor,” } 1 wish secution ing its grip. Bankruptcy Now Dort swore to an insanity warrant,| ‘The doctors would make no p place this small volun f Chinese af ” » ese ok ia ‘ be | after Radcliffe had refused the at-, tions : Bump Of Party Staring at Em , nine nee : : o ba pi be fentions of a male nurse, then had| It may be four days before WASHINGTON, Dec, 1 old | labeled “Defendant's Exhibit B objected to a brunette, and had re-| little arteries harden, or pre Held i _ r Jail Here mine owners and ¢ I object, your Honor!" piped up! quested a blonde. No blonde were | may decree that the bundle of - 1 20 gallony Of |) are clamorir Min € eo Kolniie stant dis. | available, and Radcliffe was treated) humanity has conquered. ro in th lebeate the perk, The evidence is clear. |¥ brunette against his will - 1 of the men were ne evidence In clea ny ; _ , pdquarter And nt, Immaterial and irre |, A Jury Ten CHINESE “HOP” RUNN Kes ae not proper material (9) Horr, the suit which he lost 3 -| SENTENCED TO PRI Raymer, 30 , ne Valkenberg overruled,” hummed | 4#Y | Two years in the federal miah Neterer The book tiary and $500 fine was meted out ud here. it must be pre 43 Killed in Big Hong Chee, accused: “dope” 9 “nt consideration of the in the U district court : jay Berlin Blow-Up 3). e aut Attn ivan glanced at Miss} LONDON, Dec. 17, —Dispatches | m nd Alaska Kolmitz triumphantly f n today said 43 -persons|to have a M a will read the be illed and mare than 100 in Wong Neterer, gazing ty in «a munit s explosion at) with no previous r Wiitsetealt lédde, Wilhelmshaven j the “white stuff,” was sentenced : pee k hastily withdrew the| erty damage is great, the dis-lone month in the King county pivol | | patches added and a fine of $100, be ever so more hard-boiled COUNCILMAN T. H. BOLTON saved my mot w a lot of wor KiCh— va would hate to have missed the show. EWING M. STREET, Reading | Clerk, City Couneil—1 worked hard} VATROLMAN robe yet, and I face | nity a ta decotl pte, | Kirkland, 1 have soing into eter- Itho living near er heard of the” KICHAKD MANS: LD WHITE t € 1 fore 1 cor em ry last night, She said she was wor tle band of devoted women — os ‘ cap) tying over a lot of unpaid bill 1| last night get bunch of ordi-| are going to wait for the end of ti ‘ etn a can errs i told her to wait until Wednesday | nances in shape for Satan, That’s the | world Wednesday calmly, and : BRIDGES~ Fe ene ee il and then she should worry about| Worst punishment T can think of for|ing hands. I wish I had heard treat ee ee ee ee creditors, She thinks Tam a bright! his satanic majesty. see |S I would like to join them, COUNTY TREASURER w. A./"" tee th Repel aby young man GILBERT 8.°COsT Nothing like going to hewn! in good GAINES—fnd of the world? Oh,| | URIAN JOHNS kL, MARSH, City Li-| tary to Mayor Pitegeral | company. ; . 1 believe 1 did hear a rumor to/ mate oF Mie oO : Lam 1 to issue | ing a slant at the weat THE ELEVATOR MAN, Federal ‘ that efte But don't let that-etop| SO te blan cpine: mye a at license for any pilot who | ing, I am convinced that the end of | Building—I am making special ef- ‘ pase: 2 paring yer Mee 4 pine vote HARRY! o navigate the River Styx the pa hee byeti postpone ‘1 on ac | forts to get my elevator cage pole y 1| WARREN—I haven't made any ape.| W. CARROL prepared for the} P. AGNEW, Chief Deputy | °°UNt & ¥ ished in time for the end of the I haven't been ng to bap finiwh by bolling a lot of eggs, but) City Comptroiier-—it's a good thing| BEN L. MOORE, Assistant District | world, 1 will wait here in my wife sald 1 was foolish beeause | the world didn’t come to an end this| Atterney—T am in a horrible fix. My|for the ascension, tam 3 j where 1 was golng the eggs ‘ould | morning because 1 oversiept, | wife hasn't finished my ascension! censions, x wer figbealy the att