The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 24, 1920, Page 1

be ea Weather A Tonight fair; nimum—82. Tadoy DANA SLEETH a —_ HERE is an ancient theory that places deter mine the destinies of peo- ples. Mountains, lifting their hoary heads on high, calm, unshaken, detached, eternal; moun- tains give birth to races of free men; jungies give birth to slaves; plains to lawless, roving free boot- ers; so theory goes, and human History seems to bear M out, for certainly the mountain men of al! time have been lovers of freedom and stalwart bulwarks of liberty, If there be anything in the theory, the Pacific Northweat shoult house a wonderful clan a Rundred years from now, or a thousand years hence. A new country, undefiled, its Teaches swept by brisk sea breezes one day. and then by winds from the fresh scented woods the next A land” of mountains, crystal fivers, emerald lakes, romantic Felvet carpeteds valleys; goblin Rooks under moss covered, fern festooned rocky ledges, deep shad ed temple retreats in virgin for- | ests; everything that is wholesome, fragrant, unspoiled. Certainly men he better in such an en- mt, just a it would seem heaped-up cussedness of three nd years might easily affect g dwellers of old worid cities. eee IIS much is granted by La oar most captious critics, and that is that Seattle hap @ spirit, an energy, @ forward-looking ambi- Possessed by no other western today ntly a large delegation of © Los Angeles merchants and manu- | facturers included thix city in a Big swing around the westérn cir- ele. And to each other these _Wisiting strangers analyzed Seattle, “and in private admitged that it was ‘Going more business, was going faster, and seemed possessed & more metropolitan spirit than other city they had visited. My guess is that Seattle will be the second city on the coast be- fore another census is taken. 1 Believe that Los Angeles will be the New York of the Pacific, and that in ten years Seattle will out- stride San Francisco; what Seattle ‘Will be fifty years from today no Man may foretell; there is every fndication that it will make a more | Temarkable progress than it has in the last thirty years, and that will Indeed be some traveling. one © play with delicate pre- cision; to play with mas- tery, and yet with sin- cere emotion; to play to- gether as tho but one heart and mind were directing sev- tai dozen fingers of the ensemble, that is a rare distinction but it ‘Was attained Saturday night when Mr. Spargur and fellow players fave us Dvorak’s two movements for string quartette. Mr. Spargur Protably maintains his intimate fellowship with his violin thru Sheer love of it; he played as tho that were the reason; most artists Would discover enough work and enough glory in bringing a new orchestra to the perfection he has already brought his to, but Mr. Spargur is evidently unceasing in good works It was the mc ppealing “p Program I have hei The cores were unusually generou: to number, and happy - tion; the ever glorious Humoresque being given a most charming ren- dering. Critics who dismiss Herbert's Irish Rhapsody with the curt word “fantasia,” are ignorant. It has flome few Irish airs, but they are hot a medley; they are bound to. gether, like jewels golden thread of rhythmic and they age given a proper setting, not Jumbied as in 4 music box If you are a bargain hunter and % good buy pleases you, the best buy in Seattle is a “pop” concert ticket. The ticket costs you from 25 to 75 cents; the concert costs $4,900; so you are getting a $3 con cert for two bits, or so; the only Place where dime today can stand on its own legs and not feel like a greasy penny. 'Bhe Hands Sarclar Chair With Effect NEW YORK, Feb. 24—When a burglar called on Miss Anna Shaffer | karly today she gave him a chair. She did it with such force and ac op" n as as to sel on a romance, curacy that she knocked him thru a window. LO8 ANGELES, Feb 24.—Mre W. . Wyatt was quarantined at home ith the flu. She listened to a grand @pern concert over the telephone | ‘The theatre manager says she'll have (| pay 20 cents war tax, ee ty and gentle easterly winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours Wednesday, Maximum noon—-29, -32. nN JURY; NEW DELAY} Mabel Abbott RUM WARRANTS ARE DENIED IN MICHIGAN (Maj. Dalrymp le, Marching on Iron River “Stronghold” Strikes Snag | Massacre Prisoners Write Sheriff Letter Demand- ing Change in Fare BY CLEM RANDAU GRAYS HARBOR COURT HOUSE, MONTESANO, Feb. 24. —Hliness again caused = post- Ponement of the Centralia mur der trial today. Four of the 14 Jurors are suffering from severe colds and threatened infinenza this morning. The six prisoners who began a hunger strike yesterday in protest against the food they are being served, were joined to- day by three more of the ac cused men. Loren Roberts, who has been kept olated in anoth er part ef the jail, has not Joined the ranke of the strikers. Britt Smith, Mike Sheehan and) | Ray Becker refused to eat their breakfast when it was served to them [this morning. ‘This action was be Heved to have been ciused in aym- pathy with the six men who threw their food in the jail corridor yester- day. In a letter sent to Sheriff Jeff Rar- tell, which was made public today and which wan signed by J. Molner: ney, Bert Bland, Eugene Barnett, 0. C. Bland, Elmer Smith and J. H.) Lamb, @ different bill of fare is de manded | THEY WANT NO MORE MUSH AND MACARO> ‘The letter is headed, “Till of Fare Demanded.” and ends with the dec laration “No fiere mush and maca- font.” Fruit, more meat and a vari ety of vegetables are demanded, | The Centralia prisoners have been | rece the same food as that given to all prisoners in the county jail, Sheriff Parteti said today. Bar- | tell denied reports that the prisoners | | had been put in solitary confinement; | he said they had been left in the |wume tier of celle which they occu: | | pled formerly, the six signers of the | letter being on one side of the jail, | } with the three “sympathetic as | ers” on another floor. | "Loren Roberts, alleged to be in-| | sane, has been confined iste thruout the trial, | Defense Attorney Vanderveer nea | not conferred with his clients today, | and sald he knew nothing of th hunger strike other than the ac counts in the newspapers. “It seems to be a protest against a monotony of mush and macaroni, was hie only comment. Planning to Force | Action on Treaty} WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Repub-| lican leaders have decided to force} the iasue on the peace treaty and bring @ final “showdown” without more delay Senator Lodge today gave notice} in the senate that on Thursday he will call up the treaty and insist that it remain before that body with out interruption until disposed of. Two Are Arrested as Auto Speeders Motorcycle Patrolman J. H. Stod-; d's speedorn caught EB. P.| ‘Tremper, Jr., doing 32 miles Tues-| day morning on 12th a Likewine it checked 39 miles on John Carnop on kson at Both dri were releas on their perm |School Boys May Learn Something CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 24 Following the assertion of one schoo! boy that milk grew in ed it was! |decided to take classes of children |to the country for a study of farm| | animals \Hannah | Klein, 104, Forgot Her Address YORK, Feb, 24 an away from her home , forgot her address and walk slush until a po Hannah is 104 4 no ill effects ; Hannah | Ki yes | it ea ail night in the Heeman Yound her. years old.\ She nuff Spokare Teacher Is Reprimanded SPOKANE, Feb. he lwent to school while “brok » out lwith smallpox, Mise Rosa FB. ¢ focal teacher, will draw only haif pay |for her time off, Teachers who had the flu and stayed home, will get |tutt pay, the schoy! bourd decided, LUNE * On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Ratered as Second Class Matte Herbert Hoover She Saves Men’ s Is looming larger and ever larger as a presidential candidate. He’s a Pacific coast ma three of The Star today is the first of articles about him by the well-known Seattle newspaper woman— BY J. L. O'SULLIVAN MARQUETTE, Mich, Feb. 24. —Warrante for the arrest of Martin McDonough, prosecuting attorney of tron county, and other officials alleged to have interfered with enforcement of ip Michigan, were refused today by United States Commissioner H. B. Hatch. When called upon by Major A. V. Dalrymple for warrants, Commis» soner Hateh said he could not issue them without indructions from) either United States District Attar ney Myron Walker at Grand Rapids or United States Judge Clarence Sessions or Attorney General Palm or. Dalrymple said he expected Attor ney General Palmer to notify Tye triet Attorney Walker, Grand Ra ide, to arrange for the issuance of the warrants ‘The Dalrymple party grew during the night as it rushed Into the snow depths and zero weather oft this peak of the country Revenue and prohibition officers clambored aboard the car at all principal stops. ‘Thirty men are to be in the party which will descend upon Iron River Pedestrians Hit by Autos This Year On their way to school Tuenday morning John Murray, 12 his . were knocked down and cut and bruised by an auto driven by A. J. Stocks, 4105 pened at 334 ave. &. Both boys were Cc. BK. at il p.m. little brother, Tom, 8, of 1 a2d 50th ave. 8. The accident hap. and given ¢ lan st the hor Guthrie. and to salve taken headquarters where he was relea after ex plaining that the brothers coming down @ hill together and probably would have run into a street car had his auto not run them down, He said he did not seo the boys until too late. In the Stocks was A Miller, police were ag with 6 201 Collins building Pedestrians Hit by Autos This Year Frank Miller, 614 was knocked down is he was crossing 1 B Mond: by ito driven by p2nd at city hospital ifth ave. S., 4 bruised 2th ave, and afternoon Carl New- He wos Union st., comb, 162 taken to th Pedestrians Hit by Autos This Year A boy, name, was hurst’s auto at N. 85th st., boy ran behind a into the path of was only slightly hurst lives at Foy who retuned to tell his hit Fair. and street car and the auto, He injured, Fair tation Pedestrians Hit by Autos This Year Kenneth K, 2 ave was playing in front of his home Monday aft ernoon when hit by an auto driven by J Butts, 606 19th ave. N. The boy was not seri- ously hurt son, 400 int in the street + May 3, 1899, at the Pontoffice at Beattie, and on page a new series of Reports all the way were that the mining cleaned up for the visit there will be no opposition party Is prepared for any emergency It in equipped with every need, from medicine chesta to high powered | | Tiften and snowshoes Maj. Dalrymple today outlined for | the United Press the purpose of his | expedition. “We are going to neo that the fed | eral law in enforeed,” he eald. “We! are going to seize again the home- made wine which nelzed by one) Sef our men but ken from him [Wy County Attorney McDonough 00 | the flimsy pretext that tiny man couldn't «how credentials, We are! going to arrest the men who helped | MeDonous! hey included five| deputy sheriffs, Chiet of Police 8. H. | Sensita and Polite Captain Claude | Brown, of tron River awe: ail aus pon up-Oeieal Hans made the wine--ille y made it, according to my men. They are Steve, John and Joseph | Scaleucet | t's & question as to whether the federal law can be enforced, 1 think | it can state now dares raixe the question state's rights, A’ ape cial assistant attorney general prob. ably be appointed to try our prisoners in the Grand Rapids dis trict court Dalrymple expressed confidence in Leo J his asistant, who started the rebellion.” up the state region hi Tt wae said But the, who Grove | whi | ” ' “Home Brewers” Are| Ready to Give Up} IRON RIVER, Mich, Feb. 4— Iron county, Michigan, today had| more than three sheets to the wind. | Panicstricken residents of this mining country, awaiting the ap- proach of “huge bands of federal of: | ficers armed with all modern imple | ments of war,” tacked their sheets to thelr shacks In token of surrender. | Pillow cases and other articles ap-| proaching whiteness were made to serve the same purpore. | All night long lanterns bobbed over the country here as residents cached their supplies of home-made liquor. Some, uncertain as to their rights, | destroyed their kegs and barrels, | staining the snow with wines of high | percentage. | QUENTIN QUIDNUNC DAILY HE “ASKS A QUES TION OF FIVE PERSONS PICKED AT RANDOM lrather good idea of Why TODAY’S QUESTION int tax be placed on | Should a spe bachelors? ANSWER: L, HARRISON, You mean to stimulate No; I don't think so pretty sensible RED MacFARLANE, 22 Warren ave—Well, it might be a good thing. But I'd have to think it} over carefully MRS. O'NEIL, 322 Roy st.— 000h! I should say not! Let them all have their fling! LILLAAN THOMAS NUTTER, 44 Roanoke st.—Certainly! No man has a right to be running around! without a wife! 1KS. C. CAWTHORNE, 331 Long 00d place—-No; they're of more ben ht to the country than a good many married men! DR. Pike marriage? w st 1514 U. S. Is Probing | Meat Profiteers! | WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—The United States bureau of investiga | tions if hunting evide against re- |tail meat profiteers in every section lof the country, it was learned at the department of Justice today, Ar- reste are expected, Wash. Why Hubby’s Shoes Wear Out So Quickly * Requires Steady Knocks eo March | The seattle Star 1979, Per Year, by Mail, #5 to $9 Soles ! | ea ATE DITION Two CENTS IN} SEAT FORMER MEMBER OF SINN FEIN Veteran of World 1S SHOT DO War Is Traced Watchers to Cork; Is Tried by Courtmartial and Sentenced CORK, Feb. 24.—Positive evi- dence of the first instance of de- liberate execution of a British secret agent by order of a “court of the Irish republic,” came to light here today, it was learned reliably. Investigation into the death of | Harry Quinnlisk, alias Quinn, has re. valed that he was sentenced to death | by a Sinn Fein court'martial, arrest: ed, led into a lonely field at midnight | and shot down, None of the men of the “court-martial” party was mask ed, according to reliable information. | The proceedings thruout were dra matic, according to investigation. | Quinnlisk stood in the center of the Sinn Feiners while the findings of the “court” were read by the rays of a flashlight. The document re ‘eited the charge against Quinnlisk, 8 th, ‘ne am May | BY*A Y CLAIRE casting your eyes on the ac you will a Husbands’ Shoes Wear Out So Rapidly. The industrious young lady ple tured he with is, in fact, one of the reasons so many men in Seattle are losing the idea that Woman's Place is in the Hon May Price is the name of the girl hammering the recalcitrant sole into submission. She works in the Landis Shoe Repair shop, 412 Union st. as a shoe repairer—one of Seattle's moat expert women shoe repairers. Ry companying lady get “It's much nicer work than clerk- | ing in a department store,” she says. ‘There's more freedom and it's not 80 monotonous. And I like to cut leather and drive these tiny nails.” Mias Price's shoemaker job aa a EALY TO TELL OF CITY JAIL Mrs. Nemitz ‘Is f Also on Pro- gram of Speakers interest was Tuesday by the announcement that | Willlam Fay Ealy, acquitted of the | murder of Mre. Elizabeth Bryan, and his mother, Mrs. Anna Nemitz, had} Unusual | consented to tell of conditions in the elty jail at a joint meeting of the) Washington State Prison association | and the penal cabinet of the Women's Legislative incil of Washington jat Meves cafeteria at 6:45 p.m. Baly \and Mrs. Nemitsz both spent several days in the elty jail after their ar: rest in connection with the murder, Haly hinted at conditions he found there during his trial last week, aroused | Prive illustrates how steadily mere wits ling has infiltrated into the rank artd file | of organized maledom. ‘There's no | job that’s safe from them these days If you are one of those old-fash:| foned men who believe that women are the inferior sex and fit only for washing dishes and cooking beans, beware of the window of the shoe re-| pairing shop on Union st. For the entrancing picture of a/ very pretty girl, becomingly garbed in working clothes of grey denim, | hammering at a nail—and hitting it! will speedily convince you that Women have a Place in the Indus- trial World, In fact, if you could have your |way, you would have a pretty girl in every shoe repairing window in| town! | Every man in Seattle, no matter how unromantic, can now have some woman to save his sole. I ‘OFFICERS HUNT SAFE CRACKERS of Money and Stamps EVERETT, Feb, 24.—Bandits who blew open the postoffice safe at Sil vana, near here, yesterday, are |sought by officers today. They es caped with $200 in cash, $65 in stamps and a $50 Liberty bond Nitroglycerine was used to blow open the sate, ROBERT i. LINDSAY 80, attor: jtorney, started suit against the otiy | 750 in superior court Tuesday, Lindsay alleges he was struck by a city street car at Third ave. and Pike at., November 26, because the motorman failed to ‘the bell. ____| bana. Silvana Postoffice Robbed |< —Cress-| pale Photo, FATHER I$ HELD FOR ABDUCTION Husband Pleads With Wife for His Release Joseph D, Adams, defendant in a divorce suit here, and his two little daughters whom he kidnaped Sunday and abducted to California, are being held in Sacramento, according to a tele- gram received by Mrs, Adams, 1122 33d ave., Tuesday morning. The telegram was from the hus- It read: “You had me picked up in Sacra mento. Release me for chfldren’s sake, I will send you ticket to Oakland. Meet me there.” Mrs. Adams, however, has decided to let the law take its course. "Certainly I won't let him be re leased, I've had enough. Anyway, we are dealing with the state of Yalifornia now, I want him brought back here with my children, I'll tell you it's @ relief to know the children are safe,” The two little gir Elsie, 7, and Frances, 6, were kidnaped Sunday by their father as they were enter- ing Sunday school at Madrona Pres- byterian church, When Mrs, Adams divorce several weeks ago she ob- tained a court order restraining Adams from visiting her or molest ing the children. He was then in} California, filed suit for "FRISCO OFFICES have been opened by Thorndyke-Trenholme | company, shippers, the evidence to substantiate the | cusation that he was a British and the final sentence of the that he be executed. The man ajlowed three minutes in | pray, then his body was riddled | bullets. 2 A rosary was found beside y lone E BELONGED TO CASEMENT BRIGADE The dead agent has had a \history. He served during the wa with the Royal Irish regiment, Wa jcaptured at La Basse and taken |a German prison camp. There | met Sir Roger Casement, and jthe famous Irish brigade, to carry out the invasion of Quinnlisk was well educated |spoke several languages. He made a sergeant-major, a After the armistice, Quinnlisk wa released and returned to Irelai where he worked in the Sinn secret service. For some reason broke with the Sinn Feiners tracted by Viscount French's $50,000 reward information ing to the a hension of the mm derers of various policemen, in the ‘Caeue finn ‘agents learned shadowed Quinnllek from Cork. Confident of their r they called a “court-martial” of |loca! Sinn Fein and sentenced, lisk to death as a “traitor to the Ef republic.” A committee was named to the arrest and carry out the tion. The shooting. followed, . Feiners cited it as an example of British poli¢y of offering for the apprehension of patriots. RAILROAD = UP TO WILS |Labor Men Are Expeo Presidential Veto BY RALPH F. COUCH | WASHINGTON, Feb. road union men today are confident | the president will veto the Esch-Cum- _ mins railroad bill. The measure, passed by the senate yesterday and | by the house Saturday, will be sent to the White House today, The railroad men's confidence in & they interpret as promises of @ “square deal” made by the president _ last summer, when he asked them to Postpone their wage demands pend-. ing result of the government's effort to bring down prices. ‘The labor section of the Esch-Cum- mins bill does not give them @ fue that in passing the measure con- gress has deliberately ignored the president's promises to them, What action Wilson takes on the railroad bi will probably be influ- enced by the advice of Rail Director Hines, whose attitude toward it more or less of a mystery, Both ponnents and friends of the measure claim his support. In Louisville, recently, Hines spoke in defense of government Com: trol, The Plumb Plan league had this speech printed and mailed to thousands of persons, as they regard: — ed it an argument for continuation — of federal control, Then, at a recent meeting attended — by congressmen and union men, Hines was accused of being the aus thor of the labor section of the meas: ure, Hines denied this in a which was put in the Cot Record. ¥ On the other hand, notification Was sent to all railroads thru Hines | yesterday that the roads would go back to private control March 1, and — i that the president would sign the bill,” Hines sent this notice two hours bee! fore the senate voted on the conf ence report, Daddy Is Free to Welcome Number 6 Bacause Carlo A. Silvestri, a Black |Diamond miner, was expecting the arrival of a baby in his home, pro+ nouncement of sentence on a charge” of violating the Lear laws was. ferred Tuesday ae s Neterer in the U. rea ‘Siyeetes has nee 24.—Raik | | presidential veto is based on what — “square deal,” and they further ar a 4 friends of the bill took this to Mean — wee