The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 26, 1920, Page 7

UP $10,000 Gold Dust, Coin and Cur- tency Are Recovered From Sunken Liner JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 26.—~(Spe @ial to The Star)—Pokes of gold dust, bags of coin and watersoaked sheaves of currency amounting to $20,000 greeted Receiver Harold Post Mast night when he opened the safe @f the sunken steamer Princess Bophia, reteased Sunday by divers of “the Deep Sea Salvage company Twenty pounds of gold dust tn a treasure box was valued at $4,000, ‘The rest was in cash and negotiable Donds, Women's jewelry and trinkets Were also found. All the contents of the safe was the property of passen- | gers, 380 of whom went down on the } M-fated C. P. R. liner, It contained of the ship's money, find which may be of use ts the of Mrs, Murray EB. Bads of Daw- now in probate. Both she and husband were passengers, . her. |) An attempt was made to take the Ls to Seattle last night but it was } F ttac thru petition of Diver T. representing employes of salvage company. and opened by order of Judge Jennings. ERE’S MORE ABOUT “STARTS ON PA@: ONE Allenstein), the Polish official com Munique reported today. “In the direction of Kotno (65 east and south of Allenstein), Pursuit continues. In the cen- BERLIN, Aug. 26.—(United Press.) ‘—The Polish armies, while still driv- the Russians before them, are a serious shortage !n ammunt- according to semtofficial ud. Fuge bere today. situation, ft was believed, Would afford the Reds an oppor ‘tunity to reform their shattered units and make a determined stand along the tentative Russo-Polish frontier. At the same time, it was learned, the Boisheviki are preparing a new Gefensive line along the River Nie man, which flows northeast thru Twenty thousand Russians, cut off morth of Warsaw, have crossed the Boundary into Kast Prussia. | The Poles were reported to have Fecaptured the remnants of the Rus- gan fourth army west of Miava and _ to have completely surrounded the army. THAT’S RIGHT! AND MEBBE THEY DON’T PLAY AFRICAN GOLF |} NEW YORK.—There’s a race on @arth among whom lying, stealing and polygamy are unknown, says Dr. Leonard J. Vanderberg, mission ary. It’s « race of ape men in the Congo, almost missing links. SHE LOSES GEMS WHEN HIT BY CAR Woman Driver Gives Fic- ttious Address Seattle police are searching Thurs- @ay for an unidentified woman who @rove an automobile which backed {nto Mrs. H. M. Middagh, Frye hotel, Wednesday a5 she was crossing the street at Second ave. and Spring st.| ») Mrs. Middagh waa knocked down! and her jandbag at the time flew open, a ‘wan ring and two pear! eal Fings falling out. The jewels wore dort. ‘The driver of the machine told N Mrs, Middagh that her name was FL Mrs, Smith and that she lived at the Tuxedo hotel. Both the name and the address proved fictitious Witnesses of the accident who waw the license number are being | @ought. & Freight Rate Boosts Price of Coal Here ‘Twenty th cents a ton will be added to Washington coal by the) new freight rates that become effec: ) tye today, and Utah coal will cost $1.50 more, according to Harold N. retary of the Seattle Re- Merchants’ association. Fis month's coal sales are estab- qebing a record so far, says Moore. iets know an little about ond they do about the | @ work of art as art of work. state of Miss Leeson's purse. A dark goblin seized her, mounted a Stygian stairway, thrust her into a vault with @ glimmer of light in its top and muttered the menacing and eabalistic words: “Two dollars!” | “ED take it! sighed Miss Leeson, era down upon the squeaky tron Every day Miss Leeson went out to work. At night she brought home papers with handwriting on them and made copies with her type writer, Sometimes she had no work at night, and then she would sit on the steps of the high stoop with the other roomers, Mias Leeson was not lintended for a skylight room when jthe plans were drawn for her crea tion, She was gay-hearted and full of tender, whimsteal fancies, Once whe let Mr, Skidder read to her three acts of his great (unpublished) com ody, “It's,No Kid; or, The Heir of the Subway,” ‘There was rejoicing among “the gentlemen roomers whenever Miss Leeson had Yme to sit on the steps for an hour or two, But Miss Long Necker, the tall blonde who taught im & public school and said, “Well, really! to everything you said, sat On the tep step and sniffed. And Miss Dorn, Who shot at the moving ducks at Coney every Sunday and worked In a department store, sat on the bottom step and sniffed. Mins Leeson sat on the middie step and the men would quickly group around er. Especially Mr. Skidder, who had cast her in his mind for the star part in « private, romantic (un spoken) drama in real life, And os pecially Mr. Hoover, who was 45, fat, flush and foolish. And especially very young Mr. Evans, who set up a hollow cough to induce her to ask jhim to leave off cigarets. The men [voted her “the funniest and Jolliest ever,” but the sniffs on the top step and the lower step were implacable. | As Mrs. Parker's roomers sat thus | sumifer’s evening, Miss Leeson looked up into the firmanent and cried with her Uttle gay laugh: “Why, there's Billy Jackson! | can see him from down here, too.’ All looked up—some at the win dows of skyscrapers, some casting about for an airship, Jackson guided. “It's that star,” explained Miss Leeson, pointing with a tiny finger “Not the big one that twinkles—the steady blue one near it. I can see it every night thru my skylight. 1 named it Billy Jackson.” “Welll, really™ said Miss Long necker. “I didn't know you were an astronomer, Miss Leeson.” “Oh, yes,” gaid the small star gazer, “I know as much as any of them about the style of sleeves they're going to wear next fall in Mara.” “Well, really?” sald Miss Longe necker, “The star you refer to in Gamma, of the consteMation of Cas siopeta. It is nearly of the second magnitude, and its meridian passage io “Oh™ said the very young Mr. Evans, “I think Billy Jackson is a much better name for it.” . “Same here.” said Mr. loudly, breathing defiance to Miss Longnecker. “I think Miss Leeson has just as much right to name stare as any of those old astrojogers “I wonder whether It's a shodting star,” remarked Mins Dorn. “I hit nine ducks and a rabbit out of ten in the gallery at Coney Sunday.” “He doesn't show up very well from down here,” said Miss Leeson. “You ought to see him from my room. You know you can see starn even in the daytime the bot. tom of a well, At night my room is like the shaft of a coal mine, and it makes Billy Jackson look like the big diamond pin that Night fastens her kimono with.” There came a time after that when Miss Leeson brought no for midable papers home to copy. And when she went from office to office and let her heart melt away in the drip of cold- refusals transmitted thry insolent office boys. This went on. There came an evening when she wearily climbed Mra. Parker's stoop at the haur when she always re- turned from her dinner at the res taurant. But she had had no din- ner. As she stepped into the hall Mr Hoover met her and seized his chance. He asked her to marry him, and his fatness hovered above her Uke an avalanche, She dodged, and caught the balustrade. He tried for her hand, and she raised it and smote him weakly in the face. Step by step she went up, dragging her self by the railing. She passed Mr. Skidder’s door as he was red-inking ja stage direction for Myrtle Delorme (Miss Leeson) in his (unaccepted) comedy, to “pirouette across stag: from L to the side of the Coun’ Up the carpeted ladder she crawled at last and opened the door of the skylight room, She was too weak to light the lamp or to undress. She fell upon the fron cot, her fragile body kcarcely hollowing the worn springs And in that Erebus of a room she slowly raised her heavy eyelids, and smiled, For Billy Jackson was shining down on her, calm and bright and constant thru the skylight. There 'was no world about her. She was |sunk in a pit of darkness, with but |that small square of pallid light framing the star that she had #0 whirnsically and oh, so Ineffectually named. Miss Longnecker must be right; it was Gamma, of the con-| |stellation Cassiopela, and not Billy Jackson. And yet she could not let it be Gamma. As she lay on her back, she tried twice to raise her arm. The third tme she got two thin fingers to her lips and blew @ kiss out of the black pit to Billy Jackson. Her arm fell back lmply. | “Godd-bye, Billy,” she murmured, they forced it open. Vinegar, and the slapping of wrists and burnt faintly. “You're millions of miles away and you won't even twinkle once. But you kept where I could see you most of the time up there |when there wasn’t anything else but darkness to look at, didn't you? . . + « Good-bye, Millions of thiles. | Billy Jackson.” Clara, the colored maid, found the door locked at 10 the next day, and lteathers proving of no avail, some lone ran to ‘phone for an ambulance, In due time it backed up to the door with much gong-clinging, and the capable young medico, in his | white linen coat, ready, active, con- | fident, with his smooth face half Hoover, |" sus «||RACING PIGEON Page 1 debonair, halt grim, danced up the Lepa, “Ambulanee call to 49," he sald briefly, “What's the trouble? “Oh, yes, doctor,” sniffed Mrs, Parker, as tho her trouble that there should be troubles in the house was the greater, “I can't think what can be the matter with her, Noth ing we could do would bring her to. It's & young woman, 4 Miss Elsio— yes, & Miss Ilsie Leeson, Never be fore in my house—" “What room?" eried the doctor in & terrible voice, to which Mra, Par ker was @ stranger, “The skylight room, It-—" Bvidently the ambulance doctor was familiar with the location of skylight rooms, He was gone up the stairs, four at a time, Mrs, Parker followed slowly, as her dignity de manded. On the first landing she met him coming back bearing the astronomer in his arma, He stopped and let loone the practiced scalpel of his tongue, not loudly, Gradually Mrs Parker crumpled as a stiff garment that slips down from a nail, Ever afterward there remained crumples in her mind and body, Sometimes her curious roomers would ask her what the doctor said to her. “Let that be," she would answer “It T can get forgiveness for having heard it I will be satisfied.” The ambulance physician strode with his burden thru the pack of hounds that follow the curtosity chase, and even they fell back along the sidewalk abashed, for his tace waa that of one who bears his own dead. They noticed that he did not lay down upon the bed prepared for it in the ambulance the form that he carried, and all that he said was “Drive Uke hI, Wilson,” to the driver. That ts all. Is tt a story? In the next morn: paper I saw a little news item, the last sentence of t may help you (as it helped me) to weld the incidents together It recounted the reception into Bellevue hospital of a young woman who bad been removed from No, 49 Bast ——~ street, suffering from debility induced by staPvation. It concluded with these words: “Dr, William Jackson, t mbu lance physician who attended the cane, says the patient will recover” TONIGHT 7130-Foot of Pike at.—Argo leaves for Fistehers | bay, t will hold All GO. P. candy been invited to attend. FRIDAY fe club rooms, Arcade —E. F. Wiaine will talk tion congress. George » | atolen McClelian, representing Hono- lula Chamber of Commeres, will a IS IDENTIFIED Bird Lost in Forest Fire Smoke J. F. Fordon, of the Seattle Rac- ing Pigeon club, today identified the exhausted carrier pigeon found several days ago on the south fork of the Nooksack river by Cyrus T. Gates, of Deming, Wash, as a bird belonging to Joe Bush, of Van Anselt station. The pigeon, Fordon sald, had been entered in a race three weeks ago from Salem, Ore, 186 airline miles from Seattle, Sixty-two birds flew in the moe, starting at Ta m, Forty-five or fitty arrived here five hours later, Bush's bird overfiew tts destina tion, and was probably Jost in for: est fire smoke, Fordon said. “When any one finds a pigeon, the sportamantike thing to do,” said Fordon, “in to give the bird food, water and rest, then turn it loose, If it Mies, it will return to it» home, If not, it belongs to the finder, That's the rule we follow.” WOMAN HIT BY GAR MAY DIE Skull Fractured When She Crosses Tracks Mra. Katie Kalk, 37, 118 16th ave. lies on @ cot in the City hospital Thursday in @ critical condition as the result of being struck by a Mt Baker street car at Jackson at, be tween 1ith and 16th ayen 6, at & p. m, Wednesday Mra. Kalk guffered @ fractured skull, a fractured leg, a fractured hand and painful bruises about the neck and shoulders, Witnennen to the accident declared Mra. Kalk stepped from a street car and started for the sidewalk, She was struck by @ second car going in the opposite direction. At a late hour Thursday the street railway department had not reported the accident to the police, It Wasn’t Much of a Downfall, but— Government weather bureau meas urements, tabulated today, showed yenterday’s ruin amounted to pre cisely 1100 of 1 per cent of 1 inch At that there was sufficient to put a droop in the brim of last year’s straw hats, bring out a few umbrellas and send the Henrys teetering around corners on ope wheel. Biizabeth, aged 4, heard her mamma ay that the new cook spoke broken English, and running to her father, she exclaimed: “Oh, THE SEATTLE STAR HERE’S MORE ABOUT MACSWEENEY STARTS ON PAGE ONE was attending a meeting of officers of the “republican army,” in which he held the rank of brigadier gen eral, when he was taken in a raid, M’SWEENEY’S BROTHER INN. Y. “BROKEN UP” BY HARG D. JACOBS NEW YORK, Aug, 26,—A gray haired man gat in a litte room on the East Bide today and tried to} ak bravely of hin “kif brother's” Ww auicide by starvation in an Eng Mah prison He wan torn between patriotiam and brother love, His lips trembled | And tears filmed his eyes. His hands | shook from the nervous strain he had been under for days until every | move betrayed the fact that the! nearness of his brother's death had brought him clone to mental and) physical collapse, His friends have) all but employed force to prevent him from unwittingly emulating his) brother's “hunger strike,” thru sheer | absence of a desire for food, But patriotism finally wiumphed) over fillal love— “Terry's right,” he said. “No true! Irishman could have done anything elne, “It's hard to know your brother— your kid brother—ia dying; but ite great to know that his sacrifice haw centered the eyes of the world on| thy greatest cause of the Umes—the cause of Irish freedom.” | The gray haired man was Peter! MacSweeney, brother of Terence MacSweeney, lord mayor of Cork, who is near death from the effect of a hunger strike in Brixton prison. Peter has been In this country 10 years followjng his trade as a shoe cutter, “If my brother dies tn prison—and I won't believe that he will—the Brit ish government will be guilty of de- berate murder,” he sald. “t can't say what his friends in Ireland would do. But whatever they do will be right. The news papers say the Sinn Fein will try | the government officials responsible | for Terry's imprisonment. eee PARIS, Aug. 2 Davan Duffy, diplomatic reprenentative of the “Irtsh republic” in Paria, today for- pealed to Premier Millerand vention by France in behalf nce MacSweeney, lord mayor 18-Year-Old Negro Boy Is Lynched| BURLINGTON, N. C,, Aug. 26.— John Jeffries, 18-year-old negro, was | lynebed near Graham late yesterday | afternoon for an asaault upon Mary Lee Rudd, Gygarold white girl, ac cording to woW@ received here today. A Fire Does Damage in Rooming House} E. Larsen’s rooming house at 14th | ave. N. 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