The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 30, 1920, Page 1

The Sta VOL AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH AYBE you have noticed certainly every one else bas—that as soon sugar went to 18 cents there was plenty of “so Jong as the government Meld the price at 111% cents, we ag ‘Only get @ pound or two at time, and then only by joining Same lodge as our grocer, and Sa purchasing most of his staples luxuries along with the dab of And yet there are a number of Ws who remember that for years “Bnd years sugar was sold at 16. nd 20 pounds for a dollar, and « erybody satisfied. Maybe the sugar business has “Buffered so from the high cost of “Hving that it can barely limp _ @long when it gets @ dollar for five | pounds, and then maybe there's a trust, a refinery, a monopoly, or ‘something, that gouges the public Telentiess!y And cane sugar, our grocer tells ‘Ws, is today 20 cents a pound; if the cane growers are getting a propor- " tionate share of this hideous ran- “som, the South must be paving its | alleys with gold cagies. Maybe ap, that's where all the gold coin went te. eee SEE the democratic publicity committee has an alii. It says that if the republican majority in congress had not pre- _ wented the sugar board from buy- ‘the Cuban crop last summer, ‘would have remained around demand, and the wild of a suddenly dry nation content in candies the present outrageous prices. it is expected that back a few cents, the time raspberries and evergreens and due, can once liar shelves with + i i <i! int if, jars. persists in staying up that has chewed its @ geod bunch for family would be a bees. Honey ts tho sweet, and the most pleas the most healthful we while honey on the mar 40 cents a pint, it conte bly Jess than half that your own hive. Indeed, once and taken care of, a thriv- colony of bees will produce , In a favorable season, at cost than any other sweet can manufacture! for For cooking, syrup making and (general household uses, the sugar grown in the back yard gar en, desiccated in the kraut cut- ter and boiled down to 4 thick syrup, is & g004, cheap substitute that ig not made use of ax much as the high cost of sugar warrants see ; [ if} iB nn f : u KE WAS « square, solid, Ted-cheeked old fellow she was also square, red cheeked, with broad, heavy shoes, and of gray hair at loose ends her old hat. ey were partaking of ham and in & corner booth at one of most ornate tamale palaces and their good, hearty countr corsetiess, ui tty petites made light of the half< veloped portions, snuggled tastily ‘on the big white platters q But pa was shrewd he knew 4 that town folks charged awful high for things, 0 the two orders of was the ex *ham-and, with coffee, tent of fis plunge. T watched pa as he the check and solemnly it over the top of his ginases; slow- fy scanned it, and then with & slow, sad «mile of infinite pit shook bis heat at the thing much as to “You poor, graft =~ raecala, why do folks let you ay with it? ‘and heav their thread their yarn © heads, and «i! without a word. The cashier rang that meal; pa and the time when th for about a week And, at that, it wouldn't au Me in the least to be told th was the chief stockholder home town bank, and v in hard cash a lot o up folks, who flast cars that are unpaid f But if ma glanced do of fare and found th she did get at great, big cus the oven, for or But it was 6 ce Says Husband Pays Other Woman’s Bills picked scanned up and ma put on wrapped wbout the marched iff $1 for remember ed on that ma rpri Lt pa fresh fr cent rd pie of course, ma wou nts it meant Infidelity, is charged it for divorce filed Vriday by Margarett M. Hulgrave against Frances ¢ grave, part « he Ne k restaurant * paying | Ber dentist and doctor bills. * JAPANESE SOUGHT IN MAIN 600 Get the Habit! On the I r’s Phone Entered as Se = PEEL COATS FUMIGATE IN VERDICT MASSACRE GUMENT COURTROOM Split Six to Six in Boy-Beat- Judge Wilson Orders Pre- | cautions Against Influ- enza Attack ing Case; Are Excused by Judge After a stormy debate lasting BY CLEM RANDAU nearly 12 hours that at times IRAYS HARBOR COURT threatened to break into a fist; HOUSE, Montesano, Jan, 20. Judge fight, jurors in Superior Judge john M. Wilson appeared to have Everett Smith's court Friday entirely recovered from a cold which noon announced they were hope — had been troubling him when leasly disagreed in the case of (fight to secure a jury to try the 11 Policeman Urich Carson, accused | alleged 1 WwW. W of beating bis 10yearold son, | murder of Warren Grimm Philip, with a stove cleaning rod, November 11, at Centralia, was re November 8. sumed here today At one time late Thursday night) Eight temporary jurors have been two jurymen shed their coats and| passed. Vour of these were selected | were on the point of settling the ar-| over the challenge of the defense and |eument with bare knuckles when|two over challenges of the prosecu jothers with cooler heads interfered| tion. Thirty taleamen have been ex oO on jand prevented an actual clash. | amined | Carson is charged with second de| The courtroom had been thoroly leree assault, for which the penalty | fumigated for today’s seawien of the | | is $1,000 fine or 10 years in the peni-| trial. Judge Wilson last night inaued | tentiary, or both. The jurors ex-|instructions that particular efforts plained to Judge Smith, after he had lexeused them from further duty, that they had been agreed that Car son had beaten the boy, but thought the penalty too heavy to fit the case haw appeared in the city the courtroom will be fumigated « night ©, C. Strayer and P- oh relected yesterday as tentative FINAL VOTE jurors. Strayer i a paint and grain SPLIT SIX TO SIX dealer of Aberdeen. Ames, 65, | ‘The final vote, taken just before! farmer of Oakville, admitted he was noon, is said to have been split stx| opposed to viaience and “what is cal} | to six, after which the jury gave up| ed direct action by the labor papers,” its task, unable to reach a verdict. but was regarded by attorneys, for Philip, the boy alled as a witness | both a very fair oineane for the state Thursday tartied the Juror. | prosecution when he declared “Do you believe in the American! | “I didn’t get half enough beating. | Legion? he was asked by Attorney I had stolen money, stayed out ali} Vanderveer, defense counsel sides as MURDER Gh ond Clase Ma the | charged with the be taken to combat influenaa, which | Hereafter | 4 ue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise or May 2, 1899, at the P the Ofte at Beattie under Act of Congress March 9, 19 WA Hy FRIDAY, _SANUARY 30, 1920. JURYMEN NEAR FIST FIGHT! | | I The Seattle Star |2 University Professors Analyzing | depression with the bones jand was about six feet in length and| MYSTERY BY POLICE CENTS Late Edition Per Year, b $6.00 to Mail 9.00 ght and Saturda rderate southeast FIND BONES IN _ Weather Forecast: 7¢' in Effort to Find Clue That M ps Clear Up ) Puzzling Case Chemical analysis of bones taken by police from a posed “murder grave,” following the burning of a house Beacon ave. and Juniper st., Tuesday night, was under in the University of Washington laboratories Friday, to Hit by Autos termine if they are parts of a human skeleton. This Year is A Police, meanwhile, searching for a Japanese ten-| A woman who sustained cussion of the brain and ant, D. Ikada, in connection with the discovery of the bones and a whisky still in a} hidden basement of the house| and the alleged activities of a) night, when she was down by an automobile truck Rainier ave. and Plum at, identified Friday at the city pital as Miss Mattle G county charge, 59 years headquarters. Shreds of a woman's clothing, bits of silk and linen, were found in the ing in a tent house at ave. 8. Roy J. Gorman, 20, 4542 The earth at., the driver, is being held Pedestrians had sunken down into the “e and the condition of the bones leads} the police to believe quigk-lime was | used in an effort to destroy the last! trace of the deed Basing their opinion on the appear. | ance of the bones, cloth and grave it self, the police say they believe the se gpg Seg in woman grave to be possibly two years old. | poh pres! curt Pe It was covered partially with a jor|| fying una ran into his three feet deep. WHISKY STIL SUBBASEME After the fire Tuesday night mem bers of the police dry squad made Pedestrians Hit by Autos This Year IN night, smoked cigarets “An an organization of former sol mele eat eqareing: Cavsovery. EB'¢ H. P, Neilson, R. F. D. & 7 . rs cunningly constructed sub-basement my studies. diers, I favor it Ames replied But jthey uncovered a whisky still, This arrested Thursday afternoon . ‘ | jo the things it da for ow ere . thatees wi “k ar SAY CLOTHING Soe et | was confiscated charged with reckless STAINE A gp | y late ‘ nocking dow’ TAINED BY BLOOD snk onse ‘head Mhiieiline at Dey ate cmtumbled onto the | identified woman on Eighth When humane society officials) nine children and that two of his |“grave.” Thinking they might have T found the boy after the all d beat jing, his clothing was stained with blood, his scalp cut open and his body covered with black and blue blotches. | The jury retired at 3:30 p. m. | Thursday and adjourned at midnight, jresuming again Friday morning, continuing the argument for than three hours before announcing | ne had seen service in the army uring the war. | Much of yesterday afternoon's ses | ston was taken up with arguments nderveer and the prosecutors. Cunningham and W. H. Abel ‘TTEMPT TO | IMPEACH JURYMAN more) Efforts of Attorney Vanderveer to thee were “humm jintroduce evidence impeaching the ' | statements of a temporary juror met Jud adage r with succes today Boy Killed by Car, ane i sed saad cnr Mother Asks $5,231) made by Juror Orton Glenn may be h Mrs. Elizabeth Norton seeks | Sameer yore Will seek to chow that r $5,231 for the death of her | Glen aatd “they are all gyfitz and | ear-old son, Robert, were b gun | *hou A he hung men oy Begg in Superior Judge Cla , outi Mee this nee Frida Robert wan killed 5: gpm able car 40th ave an s = way, May 12 last. The ¢ ” her for permitting hin a4 3 Hall te ow at Picks Her Pocket, at Hoquiam havin Replaces ( Change) yndicalism Wednen¢ After nippin W. Girt-| Frank Ro Vangilder, chairman of zon’s handt her arm in a|the Amer n LAgion § intellige © mot a pick. | com: ©, today insued a positive ncket of the | der he story that an American ents in her pocket Thur that the American Mrs. Gritzon lives at I have a jury at M Madison st. Her purse ned olutely untr nd witt $58 and a baby’s r atic Va wired a ‘Realty Man Gets Paroled by Hart Syndicalism Trial rnor Hart } sent} Is On at Montesano| Ander wa r nN Na red ot soot t on tr m nd house” near Eugene, Ore, to ting as attorney for the accused Bert immer for $1,000, ‘The |e" Ra Pierce, of Seattle Mount Vernon Now Back in Harbor tANCISCO, J he Gra Support Wilson be Pens port for Nobel Prize Two Men Shot in Cleveland Trouble Yeggs Escape With Bank Liberty Bonds ULLY, I t ' ‘ ! ‘ 0.—Two an $ Libe The 1 “ early today. Letters wndits gained entrance to th r ind lies led the police t by breaking down the front on | beti © the killings were due to They escaped in an automobile, y vendetta. | diclosing the surprising evidence of e woman is said to sustained an injured hip, son was released on $100 bail discovered a liquor cache, they ex plored the depression with a spade & supposed murder. With the bones PUBLIC ROBBED |AUTOPLUNGES 32 NEWCASES | BY SUGAR RATE OFF OF BRIDGE OF FLUIN DAY. BY RALPH F, COUCH Dr. George W. MeOrary, chief Thirty4two new cases of Span- | A 90.—Kvi- | Of the United States pablic ish influenza in a mild form had Fg geretgy tvll “wholesalers health service here, A. been reported to City Health a retail dealers are dividing a Muir, a tenant bf the Stanley Commissioner H. M. Read up to 6 rene ee apartments, were injured and noon Friday since Thursday at profit of more than 100 per cent MeCrary’s automobile demolished midday. ‘Fifty-six cases repre > ae eS ee vm when it rashed thru the rail of sented the total for 24 hours up | found today in reports to a bridg th ave, W. near to Thursday noon. | the United States department of Meacham > Babcock shipyards ad consmeree. Frid: The flu in attle today is very! The reports showed that in The teal ala Ge THA « taseinis or | December 8% cents « pound was | a5 foot Muir may die, it was an till,” Dr, Reed cautioned Friday - at which Americs nounced at the city hospital inter,| “those who contract Spanish influ- J for export |ite wustained a badly cut head and|@nza should not be careless. Pneu- the United States face, body bruises and possible in.|monia always follows influenza un- During the same month the price|ternal injuries. lows the disease is arrested in time retal 1 50 cit Dr McCrary wis not seriously In-| “Tf you feel you have flu go home a per 5 1, | jured, it Is believed, tho he sustained |at once and call the family physician, the sugar Jeft/outs and bruises and was badly! wpyery ease reported to me will| was added |shaken, He was ariving the of oe be isolated fmmediataly.” turned to avoid hitting another car, | bulletin | & cents wasthe said, and slewed into the rail.| “Don’t get scared. k the price|McCrary resides at 6911 11th ave.| “Don't breathe Into the faces of Memphis .219. N. W | others. sd however, the retail “Don't give way to thoughts of th ae ae cog ge vous) $400 Table Silver 1918 epidemic, ‘That time medical P seialiaka aubeaed, (i, ir men were caught unawares, This inc Ramon. ester en dat oie and $33 Stolen} ime they are all prepared” : 119. In th me Tews and table silver valued| Every person who wishes the pai eo wholesale pr it $400 and § cash were stolen | serum such as used during the 1918 po gs “! 108 from W. 1. Cramer's home at 6561 | epidemic will ommodated free Be tao wrotlt. of. c Isth ave. N. E. by burglars who/at the city hospital clinic. | “a eants pound ¢ ugar|entered thru a window ree Pad a as ‘ anal 4 | beige ay Seventy cases ~ importe ; e ° ported this morning 7 or export at 8% cents. || Mail Order Dick | Thursday. Ninety canes stam auger wea unporiad 260 64 Can’t Find Coat! ‘! Wsinesday. an luty from the Phil \ cost) gam Jones, Washiniton at, colored POR | of $49.40 rf appr MIN® | detective, and graduate of one of the| cases i | pound. best detective correspondence 170, All | Ar an refiners made @ MATKIN | sonools, sought aid of the police Fri eee approximately $2,231,000 curing) ay TACOMA—Total three cases December on sugar #old for export,! gome one stole Sam's cont, Despite | . definitely diagnosed, Twelve ae estimated his detecting, the guflty one has not cases.” Kighteen | r divided betweer > \been tracked to his Jair, Sam re-} cases, | exalers and exporters On| norted | etl | aisaee $7,094,233 in ~ | SAN FRANCISCO — Four | Desemt Footbridge to | and 150 new cases re- | eae ported Friday before noon ‘onargaa- with ranulated Span Snoqualmie ~ | un igor at 19 per pound Bids on a 240-foot bridge, to be the william Hi. Merrill, @ grocer uel pan ine the county, Anna Embraced Cop sare ae on x complaint. sworn oUt |gerned hy che county commissioners} Before Public Gaze| by department of justice awent®./a¢ 10 9, m,, February 24, at the MILWAUKEE How do you get} The ul price of retail sugar $4! county-city building that way?" inquired Policeman Her- | 18% cents Der poutid — man Bufelat he dixentangled him Merrill was scheduled to be ax! THEFT OF $171.88 from his store| self from the loving embraces of » Commissioner It, W.|was reported Friday by E. P. Sankey,|Anna Meyers right in public, Her 15233 Ballard ave, response was; “Cough drop, * edema uarters, where Lieut."E. ¢ Hit by Autos | Collier ordered the evidence turned 4 over to City Chemist Aibert Jacob. | Thig Year | forts of the polic Mrs. trude Remshaw, 10824 63d This Year | st. S., owner of the house. ! She said, however, that a number Stepping from a street car at] jof other tenants had occupied the ll 45th et. and Righth ave. N. By an and bits of cloth they hurried to po: son Jacobson made an examination but Mrs. Jennie Carlson, 24, | said he was unable to state with cer-|| 34th ave. 8. W., was kno tainty whether the bones were hu down by an automobile driven man, much less man or woman.|| Harry Reese, 5449 35th They were then taken to the Univer-|] 8. W., Thursday at 35th sity for thoro analysis. SW. and Brandon st | OCCUPANTS SCAMPER was arrested and later rele on his personal recognizance, declared Mrs. Carlson was ing in the stree DURING FIRE During the fire which destroyed the house of mysteries, the occupant |were seen scampering hurriedly away, according to neighbors. Ef pe to find them failed. The tenant's name was obtained from Pedestrians Hit by Autos place during the last two years, The} unidentified man was struck and police began and are continuing 4/] knocked down by an automobile search for these former tenants. || driven by T. 'T. Dratt, of 6668 Another mystery developed Wea-|| Aurora ave. He was taken home nesday night when the police were suddenly summoned to the house| again by a neighbor, John Carlson. | He pointed out a small pond back of | the house and said a party of Japs |had been pulling orod out of the water a before the po-| lice arriv ard bottles clink | as the sacks were taken out, he said. | The men were gone. QUENTIN QUIDNUNC } 22 vn su serve 15 days in the ctty jail and payee a $100 fine for driving an aute while drunk, has app court decision and been released tie der bonds | Husband Killed; : She Asks $25,000" Suit for $25,000 for the death of | her husband was filed in superior court Friday by Mrs. Esther Swale widow of Ludvic Swanson, Who | was killed by a Seattle-Tacoma ine |terurban train in their home at — Orillia, January 14 The Puget Sound Electric company is defends ant. Swanson's auto was hit and |demolished by the train at a cross. ing by Dratt, who reported the case | to the police but failed to give P the man's name, The victim of §( the accident was not seriously im jured, Dratt declared, PICKED AT RANDOM THE QUESTIO Do you think the fair price mittee is accomplishing any ge ANSWERS H. MORSE, 1501 Grand biva they're doing more injury than anything else, Every time they meet they raise the price of some thing. They said there would be sugar, and nobody could get any MRS. G, R. OSBORN, Dear. born st—They don’t seer to be. I haven't noticed any they've done yet MISS VIOLA 8. dst haven't good about them. haven't. heard of any good they've done. B.C, RHOTE Fifth ave I'm sorry; I'd like to know of, some are doing. But} I don't | MRS. FRANK L, WINTERS, 3 Wighth Wot would do something towards making prices fair. But 1 don't know of an in stance, " com pa? af se i son good PA noticed 1029 B.| anything 6 I Bergdoll’s Trial Is Now Postpone NEW YORK, Jan, 20.—Courtm ial proceedings against Gro Bergdoll, alleged draft @ a been postponed until was announced at G good they ave. wish they