The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 14, 1920, Page 4

IEEDLE IS WEAPON OF BOY THUG ‘Seattle Woman Is Stabbed \ With Poison Shaft on > Porch of Her Home as # Beattie potice are searching Satur: for a youthful mailbox bandit Mt tm believed, stuck Mrs. Clar- Alexander, 3823 34th ave. W. & poisoned needle when sur © the porch of the Alexander at 930 p, m. last night. Alexander declared Saturday that her hand had «wollen Become discolored and painful. @aid she felt the prick of some- sharp on one of her fingers she encountered the boy on front porch, but did not think at time of a poisoned needle. ire. Alexander explained she had | Automobile riding and arrived 1 felt a sharp sting on called the police and oy d the district, but could Id not find the boy.” * Alexander declared she had geen either the boy or the dog but that one of the boys who Red been riding with her said he pew the boy. "A number of residents of Mrs. neighborhood have com- fFecently of mailbox rob- and Mrs. Alexander believes the boy she surprised might have been responsible for ge of the thefts. ‘Was at & loss to explain his im, sticking ber with the DRESSED PANTS Alexander mid that the boy \@ressed in knee trousers and |} @omewhere about 15 years old. ‘must have carried the needie Weapon of defense,” explained ander, “because I can think ther reason he had in wanting me. I have never had any with any neighborhood boy I bave never had any trouble 2 So it couldn't have been lad sought revenge because pany difficulties I had with his > cs declared she could both the dog and the boy he to see them again. h Record Said Athletic Youth Is Girl ) Paul Wallingford Wood, a robust athlete at the University of ton, discovered, much to his » that so far as the birth rec ©, he is a girl | Young Wood, desirous of compet- for the Rhodes scholarship at Ox- University, sought out his birth ite «to satisfy preliminary ‘ questions | An erring physician had made a Mistake tn his sex upon birth, and ‘was listed as having been born girl. Bo he appeared Friday before King Dykeman in company Kari H. Kober, his attorney, asked that he be made a boy. ‘The court declared that Paul was proof that an error had been and issued an order directing county auditor to change the to read: and Mr. W. D. , 1898, a male D. Wood, his father, was of Seattle at one time 0 ARE DEAD ion of Gasoline Lamp } Starts Flames | WEISER, Idaho, Aug. 14—Two ‘men fre dead and one woman seri. injured as the result of a farm- fire started by the explosion of @ gasoline lamp last night. Ames + 5% and Ira Martin, 34, per. <= the flames. The injured is a Mrs. Armstrong. Bes BER Armstrong, 4 ‘School Bonds to i Total $2,100,000 A shorter term for the $4,500,000 fBond issue voted by the school dis. trict a year ago for building pur. | {poses may be secured in the fall Wlection. Reuben W. Jones, secre- ‘tary of the school board, who made ‘his announcement, said that the ob. of the move would be to make ‘the bonds more marketable. With ‘the new flotation, the total bonds eted will be $%100,000, The Mpart to construct the new N. E. high mchool, near Cowen park. S Truant officers who objected to the sears used in rounding up the truants, "being marked with district name and ‘the department, were refused con- Bideration on that point by the wchool board yesterday. The cars ‘are already too well known by the ‘young miscreants, the officers com plained. Phil Norton to Locate in India Phil Norton, former publicity man- ger of the Chamber of Commerce failed yesterday with his wife 6-yearold won, for Europe, en sfonte for India, where he will repre- s@ent a number of Seattle firms. After three months in Kurope he will ar- (rive in Bombay about November 15. will have offices at Bombay, and Calcutta, * “Oh, give me some more of that yecties, Jims Loldt:’—Adve IN FARM FIRE} issue, if sold, will be used in| it ts, how.” “I wouldn't mind having a giass of lager beer,” acknowledged the other, ‘They went to a cafe frequented by men with amooth faces and shifty eyes, and sat at their drinks, | “I'm glad T come across you, mts ter,” maid Haylocks, “How'd you like to play a game or two of seven-up? I've got the keerds,” He fished them out of Noah's va lise—a rare, inimitable deck, greasy with bacon suppers and grimy with the soil of cornfields, * “Bunco Harry” laughed loud and briefly. “Not for me, sport,” he said, firm. ly. “I don’t go against that makeup of yours for a cent. But I still say you've overdone it The Rubes |haven't dressed like that since ‘79 Come and have « drink, any for a key-winding watch with that layout. “Oh you needn't think T ain't got the money,” boasted Haylocks He drew forth a tightly rolled mass of bills as large as @ teacup and laid it on the table. “Got that for my share of grand mother’s farm." he announced “There's $960 in that roll. Thought I'd come to the elty and loak around for a likely business to go into, “Bunco Harry” took up the rofl and looked at it with almost reapect in his smiling eyes, “I've seen worse,” he said, critic aly. “But you'll never do it in them |clothes, You want to get light tan shoes and a black suit and a straw hat with a cflored band, and talk & good deal about Pittsburg and freight differentials, and drink sher ry for breakfast in order to work |off phony stuff like that.” “What's bis line?" asked two or three shiftyeyed men of “Bunco Harry” after Haylocks had gathered up his impugned money and depart ed. “The queer, I guess,” mid Harry “Or else he's one of Jerome's men Or some guy with a new graft. He's too much hayseed. Maybe that his ~-I wonder now--oh, no, it coulin't have been real money.” Haylocks wandered on. Thirst probably assailed him again, for he dived into a dark groggery on a side street and bought beer. Several sin ister fellows hung upon one end of the bar. At first sight of him their eyes brightened; when his insistent | and exaggerated rusticity became ap- parent thelr expreasions changed to wary suspicion. Haylocks swung his valise across the bar. “Keep that a while for me mis ter,” he said, chewing at the end of ja virulent claybank cigar, “I'll be |back after I knock around a spell And keep your eye on tt, for there's $960 inside of it, though maybe you wouldn't think #0 to look at me.” Somewhere outside a phonograph struck up a band piece and Hay. locks was off for it, his coat-tall but- tons flopping in the middie of his back. “Divvry, Mike,” said the men hang: ing upon the bar, winking openly at one another. “Honest, now," said the bartender, kieking the valise to one sida. “You don't think I'd fall to that, do you? Anybody can see he ain't no jay. One of McAdoo’s comeon squad I guess, He's a shine if he made him- self up. There ain't no parts of the country now where they dress like that since they run rural free deliv. ery to Providence, Rhode Island. If he’s got ninefifty In that valise { a ninetyeight-cent Waterbury that’s stopped at ten minutes to ten.” When Haylocks had exhausted the resources of Mr. Edison to amuse he returned for his valles. And then down Broadway he gallivanted, cull ing the sights with his eager blue eyes. But still and evermore Broad. and sardonic smiles. He was the old est of the “gags” that the city must endura He was so flagrantly tn- possible, so ultra rustic, so exagger. ated beyond the most freakish prod. ucts of the barnyards, the hayfield and the vaudeville stage, that he ex cited only weariness and suspicion And the wisp of bay in his hair was the meadows, so clamorously rural that even a shellgame man would have put up his peas and folded his table at the sight of it ’ Haylocks seated himself upon a flight of stone steps and once more exhumed his roll of yellow-backs from the valise. The outer one, a twenty, he shucked off and beckoned to a newsboy. “Son,” said he, “run somewhere and get this changed for me. I'm mighty figh out of chicken feed. 1 guess you'll get a nickel if you'll hurry up.” “Aw, watchert’Ink! G'wan and get yer funny bill changed yerself. Dey ain't no farm clothes yer got on. G'wan wit yer stage money.” Qn a corner lounged a keen-eyed steerer for a gambling-house. He saw Haylocks and his expression suddenly grew cold and virtuous. “Mister,” sald the rural one. “I've heard of places in this here town where a fellow could have a good game of old sledge or peg a card Jat keno. I got $950 in this valise nd I come down from old Ulster to see the sights. Know where a fel low could get_action on about nine or ten dollars. I’m goin’ to have some sport, and then maybe I'll buy out a business of some kind, The steerer looked pained, and tn- vestigated a white speck on his left forefinger nail. “Cheese it, ol4 man,” he mur. mured, reproachfully. “The Central Office must be bughouse to send you out looking like such a gillie. You couldn't get within two blocks of The Season's Biggest Musical I doubt tf you could work Brooklyn | way rejected him with curt glances | so genuine, #0 fresh and redolent of | METROPOLITAN be 5 CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD Bewilder You—Music That Will Enchant SEATS ON SALE MONDAY Page 1 a sidewalk crap game in them Tony Pastor props, ‘The recent Mr, Bootty from Death Valley has got you beat & crosstown block in the way of Elizabethan scenery and mechanical aocensories, Let It be skidoo for ours, Nay, I know of no gilded halls where one may bet a patrol wagon on the ace,” Rebuffed again by the great city that is so swift to detect artificiall tles, Haylocks sat upon the curb and presented his thouphite to hold a conference, “It's my clothes,” anid he; “durned if it ain't. ‘They think I'm a hay seed and won't have nothin’ to do with me, Nobody never made fun of | this hat In Ulster county, I gueas if; you want folks to notice you in New York you must dress up like they do, | So Haylocks went shopping in the bazaars where men spake thru their noses and rubbed their hands and ran the tape line eestatically over | the bulge in his inside pocket where | feposed a red nubbin of corn with }An even number of rows, And mes jsengers bearing parcels and boxes | streamed to his hotel on Broadway within the lights of Long Acra | At 9 o'clock tn the evening one) descended to the sidewalk Ulster county would hate foresworn Bright tan were his shoes; bis hat the latest block. His light gray trousers were drepty creased; a gay blue silk handkerchief flapped from the breast pocket of his elegant Eng | lish walking coat. His collar might | |have graced a laundry window; hin | blond hair wes trimmed close; the | wisp of hay was gone. | For an instant he stood, resplend ent, with the leisurely air of a boule | vardier concocting in mind the | route for his evening pleasures. And then he turned down the gay, bright [street with the easy and graceful tread of @ millionaire, Rut In the instant that he had pAused the wisest and keenest eyes Jim the city had enveloped him tn }their field of vision. A stout man| | with gray eyes picked two of his | friends with a lift of his eyebrows from the row of loungers in front of the hotel. “The juictest jay I've seen tn ate months,” mid the man with gray eyean, “Come along.” It was balfpast eleven when a man galloped into the West Forty.| seventh st. police station with the jstory of his wrongs | “Nine hundred and fifty doftars,” he gasped, “all my share of grand- mother’s farm.” The desk sergeant wrung from |him the name Jabes Bulltongue of Locust Valley farm, Ulster county, }and then began to take descriptions |of the strongarm gentlemen. | When Conant went to see the edt-| tor about the fate of bin poem, he! was received over the head of the) office boy into the inner office that |'s decorated with the statuetios by | Rodin and J. G. Brown. “When I read the first Ine of |The Doe and the Brook,’” said the editor, “I knew it to be the work of one whose life haa been heart to heart with natura The finished art of the Itne did not bitnd me to that fact. To use a somewhat homely comparieon, tt was as tf a wild, free child of the woods and fields were to @on the garb of fashion and walk down Broadway. Beneath the ap-| | parel the man would show." “Thanks,” said Conant “I sup pose the check will be round on | Thursday, as usual.” H | The morals of this story have somehow gotten mixed. You can take your choice of “Stay on the Farm” or “Don't Write Poetry.” | ‘OUTLAWS FACING MURDER CHARGE |Slayers of Pendleton Sheriff @, Accused Q PENDLETON, Ore, Ang. 14—A! | blanket indictment charging first de gree murder aguinst the five out laws who broke out of jail here July 25 and killed Sheriff Til Taylor, was returned by the Umatilla county grand jury late yesterday. | August 20 was set as the date for) the pleading of the five defendants, Neil Hart, Jim Owens, Jack Rathie, Louis Anderson and Richard Patter- son. Albert Lindrel, who escaped at the time of the jail delivery, was indict ed for raising a ch ik. He has been absolved from complicity in | the murder of Sheriff Taylor | |To Probe Injury in McGraw Fight | y YORK, Aug. 14.—The grand jury will be an inquiry Tuesday to ascertain how John C. Slavin, actor, received his mysterious in- juries early Sunday morning in front jof the home of John McGraw, man: ager of the New York ( | District Attorney Swann announced his intention to let the grand jury handle the matter after McGraw’s | physician sald the Giant's manager | was unable to appear for txamina- | tion because of injuries, | |Band Concert to. Play at Ballard Your band concerts for tomorrow |are announced by park board officials, | Wagner's band will play at Ballard at 2 o'clock and at Voluntecr park at 6 o'clock. Adams’ band will give la concert at Woodland park at 2:30 and Carrabba's band will play at Alki at iTS -—IN— Comedy Hit—Girls That Will ww Q. HENRY STORY san «| CIGARET MAY BE FIRE CAUSE Furniture Factory and Home Are Destroyed Fire, believed to have been started by a smoldering cigarette destroyed the Gibbs @ Phillips Furniture Man ufacturing company, 4271 Ninth ave N. W,, and the home of Paul Breh. mer, 4250 Ninth ave, N. W., at 6 p m, Friday, Damage totaled $25,000, Bucket briga who were bathing in the canal, pre- vented the fire fron) spreading. Mra. Brehmer discovered the fire tn | the factory, The twostory frame buflding and the Brehmer house | burned #0 rapidly, due to thelr dry hens, that flremen found it impownible to save either of the buildings. No one was in the factory at the time James A. Gibba and EB. A. Phillips owfied the factory, which had been in operation two months. eta | MAYOR VETOES CAR EXTENSION Ordinance to Complete Ra- venna Line Disapproved formed by boys An ordinance authorizing the ad ditional expenditure of $3,600 to com. plete the extension Of the Ravenna r tine, was vetoed Friday by Mayor Caldwell and returned to the counctl with a letter declaring the measure iMegal and an extravagance, The propomed extension has been the subject of a bitter controversy | for more than a year, Several route for the extension have been ur consideration and one was decide upon some time back. The present bill, the mayor points out, seeks to use the money tn the widening of a street, which, he feels, is illegal, in that it has nothing to do with the actual laying of trackage, Mayor Caldwell declared that the extension, mo far as he could see, would not increase the street car revenues and that @ strict economy | should be maintained at thi» time in the operation of the municipal Lines. Pioneers | Enjoy Centralia Outing CENTRALIA, Aug. 14—More than 2,000 pioncers of southwortern Wash. ington and their families attended the 10th annual Southwest Pioneers’ plenic here yesterday, renewing ac quaintances, some of which were o» tablished 50 years ago. Robert Lorenzo The Singing Comedian LORENZO, the Hearty Laughs and Roars 1,00 THE SEATTLE STAR juel H | for military service, |“and make certain they were sold |picnte Sunday at “THE BRIGHT LIGHTS” —The one big musical comedy hit of the sea son, with OSCAR GERARD and ROBERT dians, supported by an all-star company of thirty-five dancers and singers—with the famous singing and dancing chorus of twenty delightful, dainty, dimpled MAIDENS “THE SHOW THAT HAS EVERYTHING” Sunday and Evenings, 40c OF THE CHANDELIER, Youre GONG TO wr vr! What? Sam Piles for Food Seizure High prices are the remult of laxity publican club yesterday noon. “Why didn’t the administration he inquired, | to the people at reasonable prices?” | a American Post Picnic Sunday Momters and friends of Seattle post No. 18, American Legion, will | Lemonia Beach. | Besides @ political candidates’ race, there will be all kinds cf sporting | eventa with prises. There will be dancing In the evening. The picnic boat will leave Pier Tat 9 a m. SUCH IS West’s funniest come- Big, Gorgeous Novelties Kiddies, 20c Boy Bre on the part of the democratic admin. | child, Kenneth O'N liatration, former U. S Senator Sarn-| UNION mensenger, waa thrown to the| room of Fred Higgins, chauffeur, _ af y ete: . | pavement and reecived a broken! Planters hotel, Friday night, until a) ‘ab jaar uad officer sat down on the | Lake Republican club, which was of Arm to Avoid Hitting Child Swerving his bicycle to mim a right arm at Second ave, and Vir | dry « 6 |commandeer food stocks when they | | commandeered 4,000,000 of our boys! nia at. Friday night He lives at | bed 23rd N. W. Everybody hold fast! Were Gone \ To GRAD WA's AuD ON THE “TRAN AND A EVERY TAG |Moral: Do Not Hide “Moonshine” in Bed Severteen pints of “moon” slept 12, Western | under the covers in the bed in the searching the room. Hig- wine was arrested. oN <> SE. — —a ag { Here is a First National comedy in which our old friend, Connie Talmadge, has a run-in with a character expert, who finds that she has too much sex appeal and too little efficiency! So Connie meets the situation with a new style of yamping. Come watch her fine work— CONSTANCE TALMAD Connie gets a job under false pretenses, holds it ditto, foils three bold, bad crooks, discovers a bomb plot and earns her salary generally. It’s replete with the happiest kind of chuckles. * *» & A THOUSAND POUNDS OF HARMONY IN “THE Perfect Woman * # * PARAMOUNT MAGAZINE PRIZMA SCENIC MALOTTE on the WURLITZER PRINCE CAROL IS COMING TO CITY, Thirteen Retainers in Train of Ruman Royalty Crown Prince Carol of Rumania ta due to arrive in Seattle from San Francisco at 4:45 p.m. Sunday with his retinue of 13 followers, The prince is traveling incognito and ts heavily guarded by secret service men. It ix not known where he will stop while here or the length of his wtay Prince Carol arrived tn Ban Fran cteco Thursday from the Orient. Ru mor had it that be was banished to a |trip around the world in order that he might forget his love for his wifa, who is a commoner, paid to be looked down upon by the Rumanian royal fami} } The prince denied the report Fr day in California. abel M. Cross, Bank Cashier, Dies After a brief illness, Miss Isabel Margaret Cross, 23, @aughter of Mayor and Mrs. Daniel T. Cross, oft Ephrata, Wash. died Friday at the Minor hospital. Miss Crows was @ graduate of Queen Anne High school and up until her fliness was cash’ of the Renton State bank. The body is at Bonney-Watson’s pending fu- neral arrangements. Ex-Aviator Jailed on Bad Check Charge William Morrison, said to have served 19 months as @ pilot tn the United States air forces overseas, was sentenced to serve from one to 15 years in Monroe, Friday, by Sw perior Judge King Dykeman. Mor rison obtained $30 on Mayl by means of @ fraudulent check. CASTLE ROCK.—Ralph Harrison, 13, injured by accidental shot from | father’s gun while out hunting, POLITICAL SPEECHES by local candidates christened the East Green fictally launched Friday night at the Green Lake branch library. * *