The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1920, Page 6

_THE SEATTLE STAR = GIRL TRIES TO | JUMP 6 STORIES Police Hurry to Hotel, Pre | vent Hysterical Leap | Girl’s Trick on Prosecutor May Put Boy in Jail Because Ethel Gidford, 19, wrote a letter to her boy pal, J. EB. Cuthbert, | baring their alleged plans to defraud | ise a I ae siatibial justice, Cuthbert today faces a to > in J court battle to ggin his liberty | 7 donperately to Jump out of a w ; Promised leniency in the form of a Gow in the aixetory Reynolds hote! suspended sentence after pleading | at $16 Fourth ave. startled the po guilty of forgery; Cuthbert now, in| ss, tile Qui Gate Bak ak ash spite of the promise, may go to the! : night | As & result Jewell Cavanaugh, 24, mitentiary for a long term of years “n jand Sherman ©. 21, a me on account of the letter ~ Miss Gibford had already pleaded Stes ws tabi an bee |ochargen in the city jail today. guilty and been given her freedom, | Dashing into the room, | with a suspended sentence of one to whose window the woman was said five years hanging over her | nd oO 2 seed am Detectives J. D, Landis and G. A fraudulent check, it was alleged, on | | Bergstrom found Foster and Mins local bank, the amount being $1 | 641.25, A man named MeKenatie, the | Bergstrom found Foster and Mim have been hysterical. | girl declared, had actually engineered | She was rushed to the city hor- the fraud | pital and Foster was locked up. An EIGHT WIVES COULD PUT ANY PAPER OUT ‘WRECKED PART We or ausiness--ves?|/ 1G GIVEN FOOD Tem1Ss LAKE OSSINNING, N. Y,—Sing Sing's Seattleite ||| DELIGHTFUL PLACE ||) cooe AND QuieT— GOOD FISHING AND CONGENIAL COMPANY is a i s in Far North Are 1 Suffering ¥ Seattle teachers in government the Bering Strait and Kotzebue districts have experienced a bard and stormy summer, atten® ed by considerable suffering as the result of depleted food supplies. This was the information sent South by Fred FR. Tait, World War veteran and husband of Marguerite |"Pegey” Tait, daughter of J. D, Cress, Seatt photographer, The Talta are teachers in the government, | wealthy merchant | Exkimo school at Wales, the westerm >] |most point of the continent. ri “While waiting for supplies we were visited by a shipwrecked party J! of 14 persons who were stranded on Bering Strait during « terrific I NEVER. HAD SO MUCH FUN IN My LIFE —EVERY THING BREAKING RIGHT same “ere— THe PeRrecT VACATION newnpaper, the Bulletin, is to re sume publication, under censor ship. Officials shut it down when ity leading article was by @ big amist on “my eight wives.” 1 PInD (tT S0— CONDITIONS ARE IDEAL | ‘THIEVES TAKE KYER’S BUTTER Burglars Busy Calling Last Evening | schools tn Immigration Should Be Restricted; Promises Fairness and Justice Foster, Assuring the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce that the Seattle Chamber “ef Commerce and Commercial club ‘Will use its influence to secure fair Just treatment of all Japanese in eountry, the trustees of the local have adopted a report.) public today, in which they | clear their conviction that) fram Henry Kyer, and victim a few months ago of # $20,000 diamond robbery, sustained another loss to thieves last night, it) | was reported to the police today. HA-HA— THASS Just THE way] IT 1s wire me My WIFE LS AN EXCELLENT COOK AND SETS & FIRST CLASS TABLE EVEN MINE TOOT DOT HAVE Any. THANG TO DO BUT ENJOY THE BEST OF IT IS— BUSINESS HAS BEEN GOOD AND t CAN SPEND When she got out of Jail she wrote | THE REST OF THE ture He in need of strict restraint of report says further: competition and success of Japanese in agriculture have Tine to a feeling of uneasiness apprehension among their neigh that in the future the Japanese might, in @ measure, in same localities, supplant the Amer farmers altogether. feeling would be more clear Understood by our Japancse if they would but imagine their own feelings would be if thrifty and industrious Chi- farmers were to settle in some districts of Japan and pro- to cultivate the land and raise in competition with Japanese ‘with the prospect of more farmers coming each year the places of Japancee fhe people of this country of late have become sensitive to the -| George declared today its own to Cuthbert: “Don’t tell them there ts | no such person as McKensie.” | The letter waa intercepted on its way to Cuthbert’s cell. Deputy Pros ecutor John D. Carmody at once in formed the court that his recommen: | dation for a suspended sentence was null, George Olson, attorney for! Cuthbert, then had his client's plea changed to not guilty and will make a stand before a Jury. 111,935 Seattle Citizens May Vote All records for registration in Se attle were broken Tuesday, When the books closed, not to be! reopened until after the primary election September 14, it was found that a total of 111,935 citizens bad previous election was at the munict- pal election last March when 99, qualified voters placed their names on the beoks. McSweeney Case Is “(No Exception”) LUCERNE, Switzerland, Aug. 25.) —The British government will not) except Lord Mayor MacSweeney from the rule that Irish hunger) strikers must be permitted to starve} if they refuse to eat, Premier Lioyd | in a tele gram to MacSweency's sister. “I regret to hear of the pain In- Micted on you by your brother's determination to starve, but it is imposible for the government to i] make an exception the message said. in his case,” «0. HENRY STORY: tainted ten certainly does get church had been refused. But the wassall went on: Brady | himself couldn't have hammered the) .| thirst mob into a better imitation of look like a hamburg steak.” in,” says I, “I'm used to but I don’t care for filet mig- with the kind of sauce you _werve.’ “"Xeuse me,” said the twenty. “Old Jack is the proprietor of this gam-| _ Bling house. He's going on a whiz tonight because he offered $50,000) to a church and it refused to accept Mt because they said the money was tainted. e “What is a church?” { asked. “Oh, I forgot,” “that I was talking to a tenner, Of @ourse you don’t know. You're too much to put into the contribution basket, and not enough to buy any thing at @ bazaar. A church is—a large building in which penwipers ‘End tidies are sold at $20 each.” I don't care much about chinning _ With gold certificates. There's a streak of yellow in ‘em. All is not gold that’s quitters. Old Jack certainly was a gild-edged Sport. When it came hi# time to Joosen up he never referred the Waiter to an actuary. By and by it got around that he ‘Was smiting the rock in the wilder-! Ress; and all along Broadway things with cold noses and hot gullets fel! In on our trail. The third Jungle Book was there waiting for some ody to put covers on it. Old Jack's monty may have had a taint on it, but all the same he had orders for | his Camembert ‘every minute. piling up on him First bis friends ral Ned round him; and then the fellows | that his friends knew by sight; and ‘then a few of his enemies buried the hatchet; and finally he was buying gouvenirs for so many Neapolitan fisher maidens and butterfly octettes the head walters were ‘phoning ayer town for Julian Mitchell to come around and get them! ten pra: into some kind of order. At last we floated into an uptown eafe that I knew by heart. When the hodcarriers’ union in jackets and mys the twenty,! the real penchant for the stuff that you screw out of @ bottle with a| napkin. Old Jack paid the twenty above me for a round, leaving me on the out-| side of his roll. He laid the roll on} the table and sent for the proprietor. “Mike,” says he, “here's money that the good people have refused. Wil it buy of your wares in the jmame of the devil? They say it's tainted.” “It will,” says Mike, “and I'M put it in the drawer next to the bills tha was paid to the parson’s daughter) } for kisses at the church fair to build) @ new parsonage for the parson's daughter to live in.” At 1 o'clock when the hodcarriers | were making ready to close up the front and keep the inside open, a| woman slips in the door of the res-| taurant and comes up to Old Jack’ table. You've seen the kind—black | shawl, creepy hair, ragged skirt, white face, eyes a cross between Gabriel's and a sick kitten'’s —the| kind of woman that’s always on the/ Jookout for an automobile or the! mendicancy squad—and she stands) there without a word and looks at the money. Old Jack gets up, peels me off the roll and hands me to her with a bow. “Madam,” says he, just like actors I've heard, “here is a tainted bill, I am & gambler. This bill came to me tonight from @ gentleman's son Where he got it I do not know. If you will do me the favor to accept it, it is yours.” ‘ ‘The woman took me with a trem- bling hand. “Sir,” said she, “I counted thou- | sands of this issue of bills into pack- ages when they were virgin from the presses, I was a clerk in the treas- ury department. There was an offi- cial to whom I owed my position You say they are tainted now. If you only knew—but I won't say any more. Thank you with all my heart, sir—thank you—thank you.” | Where do you suppose that woman carried me almost on a run? To a bakery. Away from Old Jack and a| sizzling good time to a bakery, And| I get changed, and she does a Sheri-| dan-twenty-milesaway with a dozen| rolis and a section of jelly cake as| | big as a turbine water wheel. Of| course I lost sight of her then, for I| was snowed up in the bakery won-| | dering whether I'd get changed at the drug store the next day in an alum deal or paid over to the cement | works A week afterward I butted up against one of the one-dollar bills the | baker had given the woman for| change. | | “Hallo, 235029669,” says 1, “weren't | you in the change for me in a bakery | last Saturday night?" “Yep,” says the solitarie in his free ay style “How did the deal turn out? 1} | asked. | | “She blew 17051431 for milk ana} round steak,” says the one-spot. “She! kept me till the rent man came, It! was a bum room with a sick kid in it. But you ought to have wen him| go for the bread and tincture of) | fortnaldehy Hait-starved, 1 guess. | Then shi “d some. Don't get| We one-spota hear | * where you hear one. She said something about ‘who giveth to | the poor.’ Oh, let's cut out the slum | talk. I'm certainly tired of the com: | pany that keeps me. pra stuck up, tenner. I wish I was @prons saw us coming the chief 20H big enough to move in society with | Kicker called out: “Six—eleven— forty two — nineteen—tweive” to his. fen, and they put on nose guards Ml it was clear whether we meant Port Arthur or Portsmouth, But old dack wasn't working for the turni- and glass factories that night. gat down quiet and sang “Ram- in a half-hearted way. His feel- been” hurt, so the twenty you tainted bills,” “Shut up,” says T; “there's no such | |thing, I knew the rest of it. There's | @ ‘lendeth to the Lord’ somewhere in| it, Now look on my back and read| what you see there,” “This note ix a legal tender at its face value for all debts, public and private,” “This talk about tainted money makes me tired,” says I. UP HORE — NEVER. FINDS FAULT witht MYSELE AND Scuweve mE SUMMER UP HERE NOTHING TO WORRY examination by jeonvinced them, they said, gha honpital attendants | Thin time it was a case of butter wtolen from the rear of Augustine & t Kyer's store on Third ave, between storm,” said Tait, in a letter received Tuesday by W. T. Lopp, Alaska chief of the U. 8. bureau of education, | was being placed in a show case Any THING SOME PEOPLE HAVE ALL THE LUCK} YAKIMA BOY TO ESCAPE NOOSE SHOTS FLY FAST IN CHI, STREET Police and Stickup Men Fight Gun Battle CHICAGO, Aug. 25—Pollce and two holdup men fought a running battle in the business district bere to day when the latter attempted to hold up the Milpola Pawners society. About 20 shots were fired. One ban- dit was captured. No one was in The Charge: Twice shooting and Jured. wounding her husband, Alger Reyn The attempted holdup was staged | ogg, in an attack at the Swedish shortly after 9 a. m., when thousands tal last June, were arriving at thelr work, Jewelry worth more than $100,000| The Statement of Facta Reynolds was « fireman at the hospital and when the bandite entered. When/ his wife, unknown to him. was erm they orgiered him to put up his hands | ployed in the kitchen. They were Paul Koreak began firing. The shots | separated. Reynolds was wounded| Monday at Lakeview went thru windows and into adjoin-| slightly In the hip and scalp. He|Puneral services were conducted ing buildings. Police joined the! has recovered. flight. ‘The Sentence: $100 fine. HAD NOTHING TO LUG THEIR $900 IN; SO YEGGS TAKE SAFE CHICAGO.—Robbers got $900 at @ branch office of the Western Union here but had nothing to carry it in, So they took the safe along. She Shot Husband, Wife Fined $100 ‘The Defendant: Efe Reynolds, ‘The Piea: Guilty to assault in the necond degree, S New Chance Wash. boy from the | Wolff killed Eimer Greer, Ing before the juvenile court privilege to ail years. youths under JOHN J. MUIR, for 40 years Undertaking Company. Cash Rashes In Where Credit Fears to Tread— And Comes Back With Bargains Like This A Jobber’s Clean-Up _ of Over 1,200 Women’s and Misses’ if All-Wool Sweaters $3.95 $4.95 $5.95 In Slip-On, Coat and Novelty Styles A Dozen Models in Many Novelty Weaves Turquoise—Pink Coral—China-Blue French-Blue—Black Old Rose Sizes From 36 to 46 — THE BON MARCHE RGAIN BASEMENT Roy Wolff May Be Given SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. %—The} California supreme court may step tm and save Roy Wolff, 17, Yakima, , hangman. | near || Bakersfield. A petition for a habeas | corpus writ has been filed with the | supreme court In which it is alleged Wolff was not given a proper hear: | Bakersfield, altho the Inw gives that |[) resident of Washington, was buried | cemetery Rev, KR. A. Vander Las at the Home Mies Cavanaugh had been drinking heavily of a tollet water composed chiefly of alcohol This morning, when her condition became normal, she wae transferred | to the women's ward of the jail | |Powder Can, Match, * ° Zowie! Hospital Harry Riggs, Jr. 10, son of Mr and Mrs. Harry Riggs, 414 Eighth ave, has a painfully burned face Wednesday morning, but is a much wiser boy than he was 2% hours ago. Harry found a can of black pow- der somewhere. He lighted a match and attempted to peer into the depths of the mysterious can. YM The next thing Harry knew he was lying on @ city hospital cot with hin’ face swathed in bandages. His condition i» not serious, Pike and Pine sta. Several other Mra. B. R. Ayres, said her room had been entered and $50 stolen from her dresser. Tom Mackousuka, of the Taft ho tel, 121 Washington theft of eight woolen blankets from hin room, Ww complained, Dry Law Dance Is the Latest Extant petty thefts and burglaries were reported. B, Cleveland's shoes, razor | strop and razor, were removed from bin quarters at 2116 Becond ave. be “The visitors had had no food for two days. Our supplies were nearly exhausted, but we all lived for two weeks on beans and dried pea soup lin addition to @ little food furniny by the Eskimos, We also suff from the cold because we had no od and the weather was too stormy us to gather wood.” Identifies Man in Trio of Hold-Upe ‘William Dwyer, 64, who is being, held on an open charge in the city jail Wednesday, has been iden’ fied by H. Mart, pool room pro etor at Occidental ave. and Main st, as one of three men who’ robbed 4 = 143 1911 Ninth ave. at., reported the! NEW YORK.—The camel walk, a| him of $35 in his place of busines dance founded on the 18th amend. | late Tuesday. ment, is one of those being demon- strated at the dancing masters’ con- vention here. Dwyer was arrested by Detective: W. G. Montgomery 15 minutes after the Jap reported his loss. | TheBonMarché | | | ? 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