The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 31, 1920, Page 4

VERSE, TAKES LIFE yank Boys and Girls, ‘ and Flowers, for _ Kindness,:’ Man Asks CHICAGO, ML, July 3¢.—Leaving fear of blindness, HAWKINS HEADS UNITED PRESS Howard Is Business Director of Scripps-McRae League NEW YORK, July 31.—Announce- Ment of the resignation of Roy W. Howard as president of the United Press associations, to become busi- cUve participant ‘jin the formation of the United Press in 190T and became president of the He was born in Springfield, Mo. where he began newspaper work as a cub reporter, He js now 37 years of age. GEN, LIGGETT INSPECTS POSTS Sunday for Yellow- stone Park : «Up to the man in — and laughed in his face. | Maj. Gen. Hunter Liggett left Seat- Moonlight -holds its magic,| tle Saturday for a tour of inspection saldj whether viewed from|ot Puget sdund military posts, after or high above. which he will return to this city and trips will be continued, the|leave Sunday for Yellowstone park. Airplane Co. announces, as] Following the Yellowstone park trip, 4s the moon is bright enough,|Gen. Liggett will inspect Camp Dewitt ana} Leaves piloted by One look at these three salesgirl beauties and it is casy that the national judges, who are picking out the) rl in American, have no soft job of it. one picture—that of the local first a chance to win the national prize, imagi' most beautiful sales, Each city is submitti prize winner—and she THE SEA ol to which is a tryout on the stage in New York and a chance in Miss Doroth the movies, first honore in Newark, N. J., in the Star-Eagle's conte: Davis (left) walked away with Misa, Edith Leuenberger (center) of Monroe, Wis., was pick- ed as the most beautiful salesgirl who sent her picture in to the Evening Times, Miss resents Fort Wayne, Ind. test. Waggoner Lloyd (right) rep- ake won the Journal-Gazette con- Gov. and Mrs. Cox Honored by Throng DAYTON, Ohio, July St-—Gev- ernor James M. Cox appeared as the honor guest at @ celebration by Miami valley yesterday, his first puriic appearance in the role of democratic nominee for president. Dayton, having ceased “its labors at noon, filed a reviewing stand before the governor'in a long march- ing column of workers, business men, farmers and others. ° A score of floata In summer drenx added the only cool touch to an Otherwise scorching occasion for the temperature was high. For an hour and « half the marchers came, Prob ably 15,000 were in line, GOVERNOR AND WIFE WAVE AT CROWDS ‘The governor, accompanied by Mra. Five Aundrea Cox newsboya, shout: ing loudly, “We want Jimmy,” drew the broadest smile from the nomi- neo. ° TOURISTS RUSH TO LAKE REGION |Wisconsin and Michigan Ports Swamped MILWAUKER, Wis, July $1.~ Tourist moyement to the many lakes and resorts in Wisconsin aod) upper Michigan ports this summer) TTLE STAR Keeps 2 Wives and 7 Children in Same House PITTSBURG, @ sober, industri: fines who has two wives and fami under the same oof, maintaining both in peace and harmony, yet in defiance of the law, the town of Woods Run is in a quandary. Wiadisiaw Swiss, “the man with two wives,” as he is known thruout the Woods Run district, came to this country from Croatia about 12 years ago, leaving a wife and three chil dren in bis native jand, After he had boon here several yeara home ties be gn to joonen. He met @ pretty Croa Han girl in Woods Kyun, they fell in love and were married. Foyr children were born and the family prospered. Recently the wife overseas ox pressed a wish to come here. Her husband sent her traveling funds and she came with the three children. She was confronted with her hus band's second wife. “I want to 4o what Is best for both wives,” the husband told Alderman Young of Preble ave. when his Oret wife and family arrived. So he con, sulted both wives and they agreed to live together, They get along exceed ingly well and are now asking only that they be loft alone to live hap pily with their husband. The hus band supports beth families in com fortable fashion from his earnings, | the children seem satisfied and do. mesic tranquility ts the rule. What the Woods Run residents are debating is whether the “man with two wives” should be allowed to keep both for the sake of the children or) whether they are duty bound to up: hold the laws of the state and of morality and compel him to give up one wife or the other, hag made any move to prosecute the | to @ comparatively quie Neither wife) BY SAX ROHMER. = COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY ROBT. NS BRIDE € Co. (Continued From Our Last Issue) Kerry nodded, and the trio elbow ed their way to the counter, The peeudo dock hand was a detective who knew the night birds of Mast S14 London as few men outside their own gircles knew them, "Three coffers, Pat,” he cried, leaning Aeron the shoulder of a heavy, red-headed fellow who lolied against the counter. Securing thelr cups they retired pot. Kerry sipped his coffee with appreciation Jervis looked about him cautiously, and. “That's Georgethe redheaded hooligan against the counter,” he sald, “He's been liquoring up pretty freely, and I shouldn't be surprined to find that he's got a job on to Me has a skiff beached be 4 1 think he's waiting for we find « boat” “Well,” Jervis smiled. “There are several lying there if you didn't come in an RP, boat.” “We did. But I'll dismias it. We want a small boat.” “Very good, sir, We ghall have to pinch one!" “That doean't matter,” declared Kerry, “We must find @ boat, and lie off somewhere to watch for George, He-should be worth follow ing. “We'll be moving, then,” eid the detective, “It will be high Ude in an hour.” They finished their coffee as quick. ly as possible, the stuff was not far below bolling-point. Then Jervia re. turned the cups to the counter. “Good night, Pati" he cried, and rejoined Seton and Kerry, As they came out into the desola- tion of the scrap heaps, the last traces of for had disappeared. Jervis led them to where a number of boats lay on the shingle, “The end boat is George's,” said Jervia, “I propose.” said Seton briskly, “that we borrow one of the other boats and pull down stream to where that short pier juts out. We can hide behind man.” “Right.” said Kerry. “We'll take the snfall dinghy, It's big enough.” Me turned to Jervis. “Nip across to the wooden stairs,” he directed, “and tell Inspector White to stand by, but to keep out of weight” o Jervia turned as Seton and Kerry grasped the boat and ran it down into the riging tide, “Phew! The current drags like & towboat!” said Kerry. They were being drawn rapid. ly upstream. But as Kerry seised the oare and began to pull this progress was checked, ually the dinghy crept upon course, until, below the little pier, it and watch for our| den. An they won this haven: “Quiqt!” said Beton, “Look! were only Just in Ume!"* | Immediately above them, where the boats were beached, a man was coming down the slope, carrying a |hurricane lantern, As Kerry and | Heton watched, the man raised the | lantern and swung it to and fro. | “Wateh!" whispered Seton, “He's signalling to the Greenwich bank!” | Kerry's teeth snapped savagely to | wether, and he chewed, but made no reply, until: “There it ist he maid rapidly. “On the marshes!" A speck of light in the darkness |it showed, @ distant moving lantern on the curtatin of the night. Altho |few would haye credited Kerry with the virtue, hé was @ man of cultured imagination ang it seemed to him jas it seemed to Beton Pasha, that the dim light symbolized the life of the missing woman, of the woman who hovered between the gay world from which tragically ehe had yan ished and some Chinese bell upon whose brink she hovered, ‘The grating sound made by a boat |hrust out from a shingle beach came to their ears. A ghostly figure in the dim light, George Martin clambered into his craft and took to the oars, “If he’s for the Greenwich bank.” | sald Seton grimly, “he has a stiff | tank.” But for the Greenwich bank the boat was headed, and pulling might ily against the current, the man struck out into midstream. “What do you suggest?” asked Beton. “I suggest,” oald Kerry, “that we arift,” Gripped in the strongly running tide they were borne smoothly up- stream, using the oars merely for the purpose of steering. Each pull ing a soull, they headed in for the left bank. “There's whart ahead,” paid Setoh, looking back over his shoulder, “If we put in beside it we can walt there unobserved.” , They bent to the oars and present. |ly came to a Uny pool above the wharf, where it was possible to lie undisturbed by the eager current, Those limitations which are com- mon to all humanity, and that guile which is peculiar to the Chinese, veil ed the fact from their ken that the Geserted wharf, in whose shelter they lay, was at once the roof and the We | Aa the boat drew in te the bank, a Chinese boy, who was standing on the wharf, retired into the shadows. From a spot visible downstream but invisible to the men in the boat, he signalled constantly with a hurricane lantern, Three men from New Scotland Yard were watching the house of Sin Bin Wa, and Sin Sie Wa had given no sign of animation since, some | nw nolnelesnly upstream, received @ signal to the effect “police,” while Seton Pasha and Chief Inspector Kerry lay below the biggest dope cache in London, Seton sometimes swore under his breath, Kefry chew. ed incessantly, But George never | care. | But @ wild, sudden ery rang out, | wailing, sorrowful ery, that seem led to come from nowhere, from everywhere, from the bank, from the | stream; that rose and fell and died sobbing into the hushed whisper of the tide. Seton's hand fastened Uke @ vise onto Kerry's shoulder, and: | “Merciful Godt” he “what was it? Who was it?” | “If it wasn't « spirit, it wag woman,” replied Kerry ho |"and & woman very near to her end.” “Kerry"—Seton Pasha hea dropped all formality—Kerry—ff it calls for all the men that Scotland | Yard can muster, we must search — every building, down to the smallest rathole in the flopr, on this bank—=»” and do it by dawn!” CHAPTER XV. Detective Sergeant three assistants watched the house three would have been prepared to swear that Sin Sin Wa was sleep ing. That door of Bin Bin Wa’s esta lishment which gave upom @ Hite backyard opened noiselessly, Like & shadow, Sin Sin Wa crept forth. He carried a sort of canvas kitbag. — Resting his bag against the “fl wall, he elimbed up by ‘ holes in the neglected F til he could peer over the ry faint smell of tobacco smoke . | him; a detective was | lane below. standing tm oundiessly, Sin Sim Bi descerifed again, Raising his be Ufted it lovingly until it right upon the top of the wall. of rusty barrel-hoop. mounted the end wall and he lane, so that it fell clattering a@ neighbor's rubbish. at Aberdeen I dent of the Washington Chamber of Commerce the sizth annual convention, session here. MRS. SOPHIA died yesterday at the home daughter, Miss Agnes Eighth ave., after an illness of weeks, Mre. Kleemann had been tive in church work and was’s. they found a« sheltered spot, where| hours earlier, he had extinguished | ber of St. James’ Fremaped it was possible to run in and He hid-| his bedroom light. Yet George, drift-|of the Ladies’ Catholic “We'll do it!” rapped Kerry, ete Coombes and — of Sin Sin Wa, and any one-of the — (Continued in Our Next Issa) @ [DONT CHANGE YOUR HUSBAND'] Cox, constituted the objective ofj|will be unusually heavy, despite! thousands of eyes looking to see for) the increased costs and the extreme: | the first time what their honored) }y cool weather which hag held the| son seemed like as a potential resi | resort district in its grip up te dent of the White House, The ex-land inclyding the fore part of July. | eclitive couple smiled and waved at! Reperts from Ashland, Wis. are all the paraders, From afar camejta the effect that there appears the booming of big guns, signal of!te be an unprecedented rush of welcome from Miami valley. Aero-| tourists and fishermen to the lakes | planes soared overhead. and summer resorts of northern And neither the governor nor Mrs. | wisconsin. The resorts around Cox seemed to mind the heat, It|Namakagon lake are fairly ewamp- dual husband for bigamy and no such | step apparently ix cantemplated. “Daddy, bring home Boldt's French pastry.” AMUSEMENTS some of Ady, was a big day for them. Cox made & short speech after the parade, when the crowd surged about the ed, and Lake Owen, between Ash land and Hayward, near Cable, is alive with boats of summer visitors. ‘ Douglas, Salt Lake City, and return to his headquarters at San Francisco, Gen, Liggett, who arrived in Seat: tle Friday from Alaska, where he in- Frances Smith Everett, 51, who to have started for India Fri 4 to enter the missionary field as Aeacher, died Thursday evening at | _ the Firlands sanatorium. She was With diphtheria after mak- transportation arrangements for Her iliness was very briet. it was a teacher at the ity Heights schoo! and lived 22% Franklin ave. She ix sure by & brother, 8. Everett, of Moll ave., and a brother and} ter fn Minnesota, Funeral Were held Saturday after. JOM, At 3 o'clock, at the Bonney. ia Co. parlors. HESKETH FINALS Hesketh has advanced to Found and will meet the C finalist Monday at 3 the finals in the Capitol tournament being run et the pavk courts. “In the doubles, Tiiford and Grib- Collins’ and Collins have id the semi-finals. The dou. will be played Monday of Friday Matches Hesketh defeated Ralph Mil- h qualifying for the defeated Roy Nelson 1-6, end sees Gofented Ring and }- 2. Gribble defeated Hagen eke Coffins detested Evanson 5 by , tn for i va Christian nut, | Os ona agg: and White va Castaneda Marian sa. wtnnce Dare “a nd Lais- mn! spected military posts, declared the Northern territory was greatly in nee™ of developing capital. Col. W. P. Richardson, to be stationed at Camp Lewis, i# accompanying the general, LEGION CHIEF TO VISIT GRAVES D’Olier Will Inspect Posts on Coast Blaborate preparations are being made by the local posts of the American Legfon for the welcome of Franklin D'Olier; national com mander of the veterans’ organiza tion, who will arrive hers on Au gust 11. D‘Olier comes to the Pacific Coast for the purpose of inspecting the posts here. Seattle will be his only stop in this state, with the excep. tion of @ short visit to Centralia where he will make ilgrimage to the graves of the ex-service men murdered last Armistice day. In Seattle D'Olier will be the guest of the state executive com. Mittee and the commanders of the four local posts. He will make his only speech during his Seattle visit at @ public meeting in the Masonic temple. Governor Student at Wisconsin “U” MADISON, Wis, July %1-~The | University of Wisconsin has a gov- ernor on its rolls of students, Agus: in L, Alvarez ix only 28 years old, yet he has been for two years gov ernor of Zamboanga, the fourth larg. est province in the Philippine islands, a criminal lawyer for four years, and @ prosecuting attorney for six months, This youthful governor ts now spending his 12 months’ vaca- tion governnental duties in Sree je econemie af We reviewing platfarm. "I hate to leave Dayton after this demonstration, but I feel confident I will occupy ‘your house’ in Washing ton." he said, and the crowd cheered After the speech people crowded around Cox to shake his hand and call him “Jimmy.” Six police officers had difficuity in keeping him from being masked, but he was finally escorted to the porch of the courthouse Cries of “Hi Jimmy,” “Hello Rors, How's the soy?” greeted the gover- ‘The inkes near Ironwood, and in Villas and Oneida counties, have many visitors. Officials of the Chb | cago and Northwestern railroad re port the tourist movement to the |northern part of the state extremely heavy. | One thing that is worrying the cottagers and operators of summer | resorta this year is the shortakw| of help. A number of northern | Wisconsin school teachery ah ngieed to help out. onrikes MOORE aucva GHORGIA CAMPRELL GEORGE AUSTIN MOORE HARKY HAYDEN COMPANY Eilteabeth Nelsom and the Barry Boys Marjorie Barrack Hayatake Bros, The Parchieys nor from the crowds, METROPOLITAN rOMORROW FOR THE WEEK MATS. SUN., WED., SAT, TT THE Famous GEORGIA MINSTRELS Bano & OrcHESTRA WATCH FOR THI Bic STR Al ONLY SHOW orf ITS KIND IN THE WORLD SHATS NOW EVENINGS, 25 Cents to $1.00 MATINEES, 25 to 50 Cents Tickets on Sale Both Days Show Grounds, Fifth and Republican N ROBIN/O / ry aa OS FREE STRE ORS CPRIY I-7.P Da baie AT LAM Yoanvoanrten Stone a0 at Bush & Lane Piano Co, No Extra Charge—1519 Third Ave. Cecil De Mille’s wonderful study of domestic strife and happi- ness now is at the Until Friday night. | ZND. & UNIVERSITY | Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter, Theodore Roberts, Lew Cody and James Neill are all in the superb stellar cast. JACK DEMPSEY Will be seen in a Terrific Ring Contest with Terry Kellar in “DAREDEVIL JACK” |