The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 20, 1920, Page 7

29e.¢F ¢ Or FRem TF men at or of Women Fight for Seattle! KIDNAPER Boy Held by Oakland Police Department Heli under arrest on kidnaping ges, Manly Swanson, of Seattle! Rily Sunday is in jail at Oakland, Cal., today, | While two women are struggling for | Possession of a tiny baby boy. Billy Sunday Is Not Big Cougar Loose on Vashon Island? ‘The beach dwellers in Quarter. master harbor again have the cougar fever, On several occa- sions'tn the past—the most recert being three or four years ago- the big cats have been killed on Vashon island. Several chickens have mysteriously disappeared of late from Magnolia beach coops: & farmer tells of some anima’ dragging a 100pound chunk of meat into the brush; and re membrances of wierd night cries are circulating among commuters Eager for Politics HOOD RIVER, Ore, July 20.—) disinclined to get into politics, but if William Jennings | uttering red flags of « Bryan thinks it necessary that the | revolution, generously plastered with |prohiditionists put a candidate Swanson ts accused of stealing his | tng field or that existing circum in Uttle boy, George Swanson, from the | stances point to possible undermin Mother, Rita Swanson, in Seattle ing of the purposes of ‘They were divorced a year ago. When the father brought h en child home to his second wife, Clara Swanson, she learned to love the boy as tho he was her own. | ‘Then the first wife went to Call. | fornia and formally charged her ex husband with kidnaping the boy. A Seattle court, she dectared, had her custody of little George While the father was preparing to fight extradition to Washington to-| @ay, the police held the boy, who is 18 months old. The two Swanson women both at tempted to gain possession of little George, but the police would not give t the 18th) This was the famous evangelist’ he prohibition party. | Altho Mr, Sunday lays great stress on the counsel of the commoner, he | mid he considered platform sufficiently strong for a the republican iry America. Thomas E. Hulse to | Seek County Post Assistant County Superintendent Hulse has him up. They insist on awaiting a/ of Schools Thomas EB. court order. formally announced his candidacy News of the kidnaping arrest and for the republican nomination for the struggle for the baby came to Seattle in press dispatches Tuesday Morning. The Swansons are not list- @d in Seattle's directory. DULUTH.—Issac McGhie, one of ‘three negroes lynched here on June 35, exonerated of attack on white Girl, for which he was hanged. “TI love to eat at Boldt’: | county superintendegt of schools to |suceeed Superintendent A. 8. Bur rows, who is ineligible for re-election. | Hulse proposes to base his cam: | paign for nomination and election upon the record that the office has | made during his connection as chief assistant. Musical directors beat their way thru the world by scores, heels. $10.00 to $12.00 Values. ..-:nnmmein--- BASEMENT Women’s Novelty Small. 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A) REVAL, Exthonia, June 38.--What | amazed as much as anything else In Pskov was the fact that thousands of Russian people still flocked to the | churches. I had understood that the church had been abolished by Lenine and Trotzky as an idolatrous and super stitious Institution devised to keep {he poor ignorant and contented, And yet in a town alive with the socialiat colored posters and lurid cartoons symbolizing the downfall of the czar, the church and the capitalist, I found the great cathedral the busy rallying " ptamendment, “then you may count On| point of a devout townspeople and ‘oF us getting into effective action.” | Peasantry from the surrounding ountry. |reply when asked if he would accept! RoaNWAY LINED the nomination for vicepresident of | witht BEGGARS On a hill that dominates the whole town ts the cathedral, a wonderful snow-white building with five bulb- ous domes of dull lead, bullt in 1158. The archbishop of Pykov, way, is a refugee in Reval, Exthonia. ‘The wild jangling of bella, big and little, drew first Sunday, Soldiers, peasants, young girls |(who always manage to find a bright silk handkerchief for their heads), old and bent women, big bearded moujiks, were passing thru an old | stone archway into the Kremlin and climbing the hill The steep rogdway was lined with beggars in rags and mendicanta nell. ing crudely colored religious pictures Many walked to church in bare féet, putting on their shoes at the door. Outside the cathedral, on the grass in the blazing sun, three “popes” or) in White Canvas, $5.80 $9.65 oleic wie Sizes White Reignskin 95c izes 84 to 11 $6.80 by the| me cathedmiwards tho} priests, were conducting separate | services, To tho uninitiated the ritual of the | Russian church is bewtldering. The | priests In gorgeous robes of gold, #il- ver and scarlet silk, heavily embroid ered, with yards of wonderful lace, were standing before improvined al tars. They were chanting at a rapid rate, but with the characteristic rich, | deep voice of the Russian, the pray: ers. ‘They held sacred images in their hands, The people crowded around them, crossing themselves 20 times a min | ute or falling on their knees to kiss the ground, The picture was one of great con- |trasts. On the one hand were the |magnificently arrayed priests, op |the other, the ragged, hungry peo }ple, The domes of the catfiedral lifted themselves to a ‘clear blue sky; down below from the Krem- lin walls could be seen drab fig ures (I knew of famished people) |crawling across the market place jor up and down the crooked streets, Inside, mans was belng held. The cathedral was jammed to the doors The singing and the prayers were over. The priests were passing £0 Jand fro among the congregation |incensing ajl the sacred images |hung on the walls, . | RELIGIOUS FERVOR EVERYWHERE IN RUSSIA Devout, religious fervor on the part of the people I found every |where in Red Russia. In a small village about ten miles out of Pskov I had a chat with a priest. “The Bolsheviks are leaving us alone now.” he told me, “At first wo suffered great persecution and priests were murdered right and left. “The Bolsheviks came here, lashed our robes and altar cloths | with their bayonets and murdered two of our priests. (I was shown the desecrated garments.) “The Russians are a religtously. inclined people. ' Take away their religion and give nothing in ite | place and they become utterly de moralized. Religion must be the basis of any mode of living, how | ever advanced.” ULL SEEKING RE-ELECTION |Points to Record in Agsess- | or’s Office County Assessor Frank W. Hull, upon his return from Spokane, where he addressed the Interstate Real Es tate amociation upon the subject of taxation, announced his desire for re- election by filing the formal statutory declaration of his candidacy. Ansensor Hull bases his claim for [reelection upon the record of his | present administration, which, he states, haa demonatrated the fulfill ment of his pre-election pledges of | Jequitadle axsemments, efficient ser- vice and strict economy in the man- lagement of hin office. A_ consider: | able of the ansessor’s 1919 budget al |owance was unexpended, and return led to the county treasury at the end lof the last fiscal year | Hull states that the expenditures of | | his office for the year 1920, notwith.| |wtanding the increased business of [the office, will also be kept well| within the budget allowance, | King county was honored tn 1919 | by the election of Mr. Hull as presi. |dent of the County Assessors’ As | sociation of the State of Washington. | He was unanimously reelected at its | seanion of 1920, it being the first time | in the history of the asaociation in| | which tts president was re-elected. THE SEATTLE STAR Russians Still Flock to Churches, Despite Red Abolition Edict BY J. |for him? rapped Kerry. | potnt.”* COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY ROBT. MS BRIDE € CO. (Continued From Our Last Issue) “Who's there?” came the vojce of the constable’ posted on Kazmah's landing. , ‘The inspector made no reply. The disk of light disappeared, and the alert constable could be heard mov. ing along the corridor to inspect the other offices, But the ray had shone upon the frosted glass long enough to enable Kerry to read the words painted there in square blaék letters. ‘They had appeared reversed, of course, and had read thus: 9 iy OC ETERAGIC SINABUC | oo 4 CHAPTER VIII. The Drug Syndicate At atx-thirty that morning Mar- garet Halley was aroused by her maid—the latter but half awake— and sitting up in bed and switching on the lamp, she looked at the card which the servant had brought her, and read the following: CHIEF INSPECTOR KERRY, cL. D. New Scotland Yard, 8. W. I. Five minutes later Margaret en tered her little consulting room Kerry's fierce eyes eparkled appre. clatively as his glance rested on the tall figure arrayed in @ woolen dressing gown. “Good morning, said composedly, you.” “Really, miss? Kerry stared cu- riously. “Then you know what I've come about?” “I think #o, Is tt about—Sir Lucien Pyne?" “Well,” replied Kerry, “It concerns him, certainly. I've been in commu- nication by telephone with Hinkes, Mr. Monte Irvin's butler, and from him I learned that you were profes. sionally attending Mrs. Irvin.” “I was not her regular medical adviser, but—" Margaret hesitated, glancing rap- idly at the inspector, and then down at the writing table before which she was seated. Kerry was watching her intently. “There's something underlying the case that I don't understand, miss { look to you to put me wine.” She turned to him impulsively. “I will tell you all I know, inspec tor,” she sald. “Good!” rapped Kerry. “Now— you have known Mra. Monte Irvin for some time?” “For about two years. I met her at a Red Cross concert at which she sang.” “Do you think she loved her hus- band?” “I know she aid* “Sir Lucien?” “Sir Lucien belonged to a set of which Rita had been a member dur ing her stage career, I think—he admired her. But she did not care for him in the least-—in that way.” “Then in what way did she care inspector,” she “Il was expecting “Well—now we are coming to the Momentartly she hesitated, then: “They were both addicted— to drugs.” an, poor silly girl! You must under Rewor trembled. note. ‘ear Margaret,’” he rend “Why aren’t you at home? Margaret's “Look she family|mad, Come to me directly doctor,” turn, and bring enough to "i'm," mused Kerry. “I gather|alive, I’ Hullo! there's no finish! that Mrs. Monte Irvin had expressed) fe glanced up from a wish to see you Inst night?” Margaret Halley's eyes were dim “Yes. Apparently she was threat he despair ened with a shortage of cocaine—" | went to Kazmah,” she said “Cocaine was her drug?” you doybt that that was what she “One of them. She had tried them! went for?” you re they dared not face their m| wae wild with pain, and feel I am going the page of my coming and “Can FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND. PINE STREET DOWNSTAIRS STORE. snapped Kerry savagely; |stand that for an habitual drug 1't. But do you mean to tell mej) taker suddenly to be deprived of | Mies Ha that Mre. Irvin couldn" drugs would lead to complete col-| get cocalne anywhere else? I kiowe 9) |tapse, perhaps death, And during| it's smuggled. in regularly, aid) 9 | the last few days I had noticed a| there's more than one recelver.” f | peculiar nervous symptom in Rita! Margaret looked at him strangely) Irvin which had interested me. Yes| “I know it, too, inspector,” she) o8 terday afternoon, while I aid quietly. “But de | at an important case, the price of th are you this: Somebody has made in contraband drugs, ; most wicked syndicate that ever wast formed has got control of the If of, it may be, thousands of @rageny (Continued in Our Next Issue) — Charles and A. W. La Ch y burned by lightning, few combining Prices—$24.50 NAVY TRICO! Little Girls’ Play Suits “Eh?” Kerry's eyes grew hard and fierce in @ moment. “What drugs?” “All sorts of drugs. Shortly after I became acquainted with Rita Irvin I learned that she was a victim of the drug habit, and I tried to cure her. I regret to say that I failed. At that time she had acquired a taste for opium.” “Hor husband, I take ignorant of all this? “I believe he was Quentin—Mr. Gray—had no idea of it either.” “Then it was Sir Lucien Pyne who was in her confidence in the mat ter?’ Margaret nodded slowly, still tap- ping the blotting pad. “Ho used to accompany her to places where drugs could be ob tained, and on several occasions—I cannot say how many—I believe he went with her to some den in China it, was MARGARET SCHEVER Introducing Miss Margaret Scheuer, 20 years old, brunet with a pleasant smile, who sells folks ready-to-wear clothes in a store at Dubuque, Ia, The Dubuque Times-J our- nal, conducting the great Na- tional Salesgirls’ Beauty Con- test in Dubuque, selected Miss Scheuer as the “pride of the | town” and entered her in the national. contest to choose America’s prettiest salesgirl. If one-half the world knew how the other half lived ‘more divorce courts would be necessary, town.” “Abm” maid Kerry. “And now, where did she get these drugs?” “I have said that I shall be frank,” Margaret replied. “In my opinion she obtained them from Kazmah.” “Kazmah!" shouted Kerry. »“Ex- cuse me, miss, but I see-I've been wearing blinkers without knowing .ti Kazmah's was a dope-shop?” “That has been my belief for a Jong time, inspector. I may add that I have never been able to obtain a shred of evidence to prove it.” Inspector Kerry was writhing his For Vacation and Outing Wear $1.50 EARLY every little girl will declare that she has twice as much fun when she wears these Coverall Play Suits. They are strong- ly made of dark-blue jean striped with white and trimmed with red bands at square neck and short sleeves. Sizes 6 and 8 years. Very good values at $1.50. Khaki Play Suits $2.50 One-piece garments of light-weight khaki, with long sleeves and knee length bloomers shirred over elastic. Sizes 8 to 16 years. Price $2.50, —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE shoulders excitedly, “Did you ever visit Kazmah?" he asked. “Yes. I asked Rita Irvin to take me, but she refused, and I could see embarrassed her. exactly what took “Describe place.” Margaret Halley described a typ- feal seance at Kazmah’s, In con- clusion: “An I came away,” she said, “T bought a bottle of every kind of per- fume on sale, some of the incense, and also a box of sweetmeat; but they all proved to be perfectly harm. less. I analyzed them." Kerry's eyes glistened with admir- ation. “We could do with you at the Yard, miss,” he said, “Excuse me for saying so. And what leads you to suppose, Miss Halley, that this Kazmah dealt in drugs?” “Well, you see, Rita Irvin: was always going there to buy perfumes, and she frequently sent her maid as well.” “But"— Kerry stared—"you+ say that the perfume was harmless.” “That which was sold to casual visitors was harmless, Inspector. But I strongly suspect that regular clients were supplied with something quite different. You see, I know no fewer than 30 unfortunate women in the West End of London alone who are simply helpless slaves to various drugs, and I think it more than a coincidence that upon their dressing tables I have almost invariably found one or more of Kazmah's peculiar antique flasks." Chief Inspector Kerry's jaw mus- cles portruded conspicuously, “You speak of patients?” he asked, ‘argaret nodded her head. “When,a woman becomes addicted to the drug habjt,” she explained, “she shuns her regular medical ad viser. 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