The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1920, Page 7

‘ . With a bag of 189 perch and ‘men said they not! in a growth of weeds and found the FUEL SAFE AND ESCAPE Cop’s Bullets Miss as Pair Flee in Waiting Automobile ‘Two cracksmen, who expertly blew | the safe of the Independent Fuel Co. At 1268 Occidental ave, early Wed Nemday, made their escape when two) shots fired at their Meeing auto by | Patrolman P. H. Whalen failed to) take effect. Detectives, motorcycle patrotmen and prowler cars swarmed to the foene and scoured the south end of the city without getting any trace of the cracksmen, Patrolman Whalen heard the ex Plosion. While he was trying to lo fate it, two men scurried out of the} Tuel office, leaped into a waiting auto and apeeted away. Whalen fired twice. Both shots missed. Nitrogiycerine was te. They blew the lock cleanly from the safe without disturbing Papera and books in the office. Enough explosive was left behind by the cracksmen in their hasty retreat to blow several more safes, police gay. Loot totalled $200 in cash and the same amount in checks, says D. W opin secretary-treasurer of the com | WRITES NOTE NOTE TO _ WIFE; SUICIDES _ Says, “I Hope People Caus- *. ing This Will Be Punished” After penning a farewell note to his wife, Perl W. Bland, 41, of 2724 Fourth ave. N., committed suicide afternoon by slashing his throat with a razor. He is believed yp tg over illness. who caused Be eg some day,” is Bland’s note. The by his wize, Nettie a Spanish-American Before being stricken » he had worked as a government's Stacy The suicide occurred In his bed- He had been in bed all day _ * Bland ts survived by two children, be _ Lila, 12, and Carl, 14, MAY ENFORCE JIT MEASURE - City to Fight { for Original Ordinance ‘That the city wilt will again take cp ‘the fight to enforce its original jit- mey ordinance, now held up by a complex legal tangle, was indicated ‘Wednesday by City Attorney George A. Meagher. ‘The alternative writ of prohibition ‘xan sage Judge Calvin 8. Hall the superior court for dissolution of the temporary injunction. Kolchak Slayer Is Executed on Bolshevik Order VLADIVOSTOR, Sept. 15,— Bar- guk, the man who is said to have as- sassinated Admiral Kolchak after a firtng squad refused to execute the @eposed leader, met a similar fate to that of his own victim, it has been reported here. Barsuk,as commissary, ordered the execution of Kolchak, but the sol- diers refused to fire, Seizing a gun from one of the troopers, the com- miseary fired the fatal shot. At least, this version is accepted here. Following the death of Kolchak, fan investigation was ordered and Barsuk was found to have in his pos- gession articles which belonged to the admiral. He was summarily executed. Bureau of Missing Relatives Je Anderson, 19-yearold son 7 Mrs. R. Hicks, who disappeared from Shellshock Government hospital No. 21, at Aurora, Colo, on August 28, 1919, is being sought by his mother, who has come to Seattle from Min- nesota, on the report that he had Deen seen here. He is a veteran of several battles of the world war. In- formation concerning him should be} directed to Mrs. Tennant Anderson, 1215 Dakota ave. S, Sioux Falls, _ B. D., the boy’ Pickerel eg Pike for Goal WINSTED, Conn., Sept. 15.—How &@ sucker 20 inches long lovt a battle with & pickerel because its mouth used by the! ing us that he ts the host and per. petrator of Woodehuck Inn. I intro. duces Andy, and we talk about a few volatile topes, such as will go around at meetings of boards of di me and okf associates like us three were, Old Smoke-"em-out leads }us into a kind of summer house in the yard near the gate and took up the harp of life and smote on all the chords with his mighty right. “ ‘Gents,’ says he, ‘I'm glad to seo you, Maybe you can help me out of & serape, I'm getting a bit old for street work, so I leased this dogdays emporium so the good things would | Lieut, Peary and one from the Duke of Mariborough, each wanting to en- gage board for part of the summer, “"Well, sir, you gents know what it would be to have for guests two gentiemen whose names are famous from long association with loeberss jand the Coburgs, So I prints a lot jof handbills announcing that Wood: chuck Inn would shelter these dis | Unguished boarders during the sum. jer, except in places where it leaked, as far as Knoxville and Charlotte and Fish Dam and Bowling Green. “*And now, look up there on the poreh, gents,’ says Smoke-em-out, ‘at them disconsolate specimens of thelr fair sex waiting for the arrival jof the Duke and the Heutenant. The house is packed from rafters to cel lar with hero worshipers. “There's four normal school teachers .and two abnormal; there's three high school graduates between | 37 and 42; there's two literary old | a couple of society women and a lady from Haw River. Two elocutionists are bunking in the corn crib, and I've put cots in the hay loft for the| cook and society editress of the Chat- tanooga Opera Glass, You see how names draw, gents.’ “ Well,’ says I, ‘how is it that you | seem to be biting your thumtthy at} mos luck? You didn’t use to be that eg 7 aint through,’ says Smoke- ‘em-out. ‘Yesterday was the day for the advent of the auspicious person- ages. I goes down to the depot to welcome ‘em. Two apparently sub stances gets off the train, both car- rying bags full of croquet mallets and these magic lanterns with push- buttons, “‘T compare these Integers with the original signatures to the letters and, well, gents, I reckon fe vdownd take was due to my poor Instead of being the Utenainent, ioe daisy chain and wild verbena ex. plorer was none other than Levi T. Peevy, a soda water clerk from Ash ville. And the Duke of Marlborough turned out to be Theo, Drake of | Murfresborough, a bookkeeper in a grocery, What did I do? I kicked ‘em both back on the train and Watehed ‘em depart for the lowlands, the low, “‘Now you see the fix I'm tn, genta’ goes on Smoke-‘em-out Smith ers. ‘I told the ladies that the no- tortious visitors had been detained on the road by some unavoidable cir cumstances that made a noise like} an ice jam and &n helreas, but they Eater arrive a day or two later. When they find out that they've been deceived,’ says Smoke-emout, ‘every yard of croma barred muslin and satural waved switch In the house will pack up and leave. It's a hard deal,’ says old Smoke’em out. “ ‘Friend,’ says Andy, touching the old man on the sesophagua, ‘why this Jeremad when the polar regions and the portals of Blenheim are con- spiring to hand your prosperity on a hallharked silver salver. We have arrived.” “A ght breaks out on Smoke-‘em- out’s face. “Can you Go it, gents? he asks. ‘Could ye do it? Could ye play the polar man and the little duke for the [Mice ladies? Will ye do it? “I see that Andy is superimposed and polyglot system of buncoing. That man had a vocabulary of about 29,000 words and synonyms, which arrayed themselves into contraband sophistries and parables when they came out “‘Listen,’ says Andy to old Smoke ‘em-out. ‘Can we do it?? You be hold before you, Mr. Smithers, two of the finest equipped men on earth for Inveigling the proletariat, whether by word of mouth, sleight of-hand or swiftness of foot. Dukes come and g0, explorers go and get lost, but me and Jefz Peters,’ says Andy, ‘go after the comeons for. ever. If you say so, we're the two i lustrious guests you were expecting. And you'll find,’ says Andy, ‘that we'll give you the true local color of the title roles from the aurora bor. ealis to the ducal portcullis.’ “Old Stmoke’em out is delighted. He takes me and Andy up to the inn by an arm apiece, telling us on the way that the finest fruits of the can and luxuries of the fast freights should be ours without price as long as we would stay. “On the porch Smoke-ern-out myn: ‘Ladies, I have the honor to intro- duce His Gracefulness the Duke of Marlborough and the famous in- ventor of the ‘North Police, Lieut. Peary.’ “The skirts all flutter and the rock- ‘ing chairs squeak as me and Andy bows and then goes on in with old Smoke-em-out to register. And then we washed up and turned our cuffs, and the landlord took us to the rooms he'd been saving for us and got out a demijohn of North Caro- lina real mountain dew. “I expected trouble when Andy be. gan to drink. He has the artistic metempsychosis which is half drunk when sober and looks down on air ships when stimulated, “After lingering with the demijohn me and Andy goes out onthe porch, where the ladies are to begin to earn our keep. We sit in two special chairs and then the schoolma'ams and Iiteraterrers hunched their rock ers close around us. “One lady stys to me: “How did that last venture of yours turn out, sir?” iow, I'd clean forgot to have an understanding with Andy which 1 was to be, the duke or the leuten ant. And I couldn't tell from her was so small it could not bite its| question whether she was referring ) antagonist wag told by John Duyne r, Alfred Alexander and three of their friends when they returned here four pound sucker, but no pick The pd @ commotion handicapped sucker #0 exhausted they had little difficulty in lifting it | into the boat. The combat lasted five minutes. The pickerel got faway, to Arctic or matrimonial expeditions. So I gave an answer that would cover both cases, “Well, ma’am,’ says I, ‘it was a freeze out— right smart of a freeze out, ma'am. “And then the flood gates of Andy's perorations was opened and I knew which one gf the renowned ow tensible guests I was supposed to be. Il wasn't either. Andy was both. And still furthermore it seemed that come to me, Two weeks before the! | season opened I gets a letter signed | a big thing for an obscure hustlery | and I sends ‘em out to towns around) maids and one that éan write; there's | with his old hankering for the oral) he was trying to be the mouthpiece of the entire British nobility and of Arctic exploration from Sir John Franklin down, It was the unton of corn whisky and the wientious | Metional form that Mr, W. D. How letta admires so much, “"Ladios,’ says Andy, smiling semi clreular! “Tam truly glad to visit America. I do not consider the mag ha charta,’ says be, ‘or gas balloons Or snowshoes in any way a detri |ment to the beauty and charm of your American women, skyscrapers or the architecture of your icebergs. |The next time,’ says Andy, ‘that I | co after the North Pole, all the Van derbilts in Greenland won't be able to turn me cumin the cold—I mean make it hot for me.” “"Tell ux about one of your trips, tenant,” mya One of the normals. “ ‘Sure,’ sayy Andy, getting the de cision over a’hiccup, ‘It was In the jepring of last year that I sail the Castle of Blenheim up to latitude §7 degrees Fahrenheit and beat the reo ord. Ladies,’ says Andy, ‘it was a wad sight to see a Duke allied by a elvil and liturgical chattel mortgage to one of your first families lost in a region of senthannual days.’ And then he gees on: ‘At four bella we sighted . Westminister Abbey, there was NOt a drop to eat. At noon ship rose fifteen knots hig At midnight,’ continues Andy, ‘the restaurants olosed. Sitting on a cake of fee we ate seven hot dogh All around us Was snow and ice, Six |Umes a night the boatswain rose up jand tore a leaf off the calendar so | we could keep time with the barom. eter, At twelve,’ says Andy, with a lot of anguish in his face, ‘three polar Bears sprang down the hatch way, Into the cabin, And then— “What then, Lieutenant?” says a schoolma‘am, excitedly. “Andy gives a loud sob, out, and slides out of the chair and | Weeps on the porch, “Well, of course, ‘that fixed the the next morning. The wouldn't speak to us for two days, but when he found we had money to | pay our way he loosened up. “So me and Andy had a quiet, restful summer after all, coming away from Crow Knob with $1,000, that we enticed out of old Smoke em out playing seven up.” ROOM IS LOOTED AND THEN FIRED After looting the res room of K. Penabe in the Japanese-American hotel, 218) Fifth ave. 8, an unidentified man, for whom police were searching Wed. neaday, set fre to the room to cover all traces of the burglary. Smoke was discovered seeping out of the room at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday. After they had put out the fire be. fore it could spread firemen found a tin box broken open in the room. | Penabe said another box, containing | Yaluable papers and two porses with | $20 had been stolen, Damage to the room was $100. Smart Mo aille Autufr $7.50 HE DuvetynB for school and spo of velvet ribbon. Three $7.50, $10.00 and $ The Hat sketched brim which may be shape—$12.95. but} we threw out five sandbags, and the | “The Duchess shook me,’ he crica| scheme, The women boarders all left! landlord | soft# Velvet draped “into flatterifig off-the-face shapes and soft-crown feffects aré favorites for dress weat—good form for tailleur wear are th@ trigly smart sailors of hatter’s plush ad beaver— hats of shirred velvets or Yow-on-row interesting pric§-groups— with row after row of shirring, and soft 4 THE SEATTLE STAR a PRESIDENT OF FRANCE THRU Deschanel Will jill Resign This. Week PARIS, Sept. 15.—President Dew chanel ts to resign this week, the French foreign office admitted to- | day ‘The president is suffering from nourasthenia, it was said, and his | mental condition is worse than bis physteal A meeting of the cabinet was ex pected to be called immediately upon return of Premier Millerand from Switzerland to consider Deschanel's successor, The cabinet, be d Friday, That body | would th all an extraordinary | semsion of the senate and chamber | of uties to receive Deschanel's resignation, instead of waiting for) the regular October session, Vartous! | constitutional amendments would have to be considered in connection with this course. The Echo de Paris declared that | Millerand has ‘assured his friends lhe is not a candidate for the pres dency. Among those mentiofied for the post are General Castelnau, Sena is, Senator Charles dent Peret of the | ter Leon Bourn Jonnart and Pre | chamber, Kentucky Also Raises a Fine Crop of Yarns LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 15,-—Ken- | tucky ts a wonderful state, Just read what's going on: Lebanon-—Horace Gribbona, Brad- fordeville farmer, has apples in his | orchard large as grapefruits. Campbellsville—D. A. Melton of |Spurtington ia exhibjuing apples weighing 28 ounces, Middiesboro—Rev. J. J, Evans has an Irish potato vine which is 7 fee! 6 Inches long. Marion—Lee Snawder, tax commis | sioner, is distributing choice apples jamgng his friends, Each bag con- | tains 12 apples of different varieties, with average weight of one pound each. Lancaster—J. F. Holtzclaw is the champion tomato raiser, He has one weighing two and a half pounds. Irvington—Nick Gardner gathered from a young tree in his yard a | peach weighing 10 and a half ounces, It wan perfect. “Hartford—At Dr. Sam Bird's home a hard-boiled ege revealed a second perfect em on the inside, | Winchester—Jehn Martin caught a 52-pound catfish on an ordinary hook and landed it after a three hours’ struge!e. Flemingsburg—On an acre and a half of ground Henry A. Power rained potatoes which he sold for | $781, and still has enough for his | tamity. | TACOMA —Schoo! budget increaned $250,000 and teachers’ pay $225,000 over last year. t, Dress and rt Hats $12.95 and downy and shirred iy W, 40 among the rts wea, soft-brim 12.95. is of old-bl velvet, bent in any Gesired —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Fresh Air K LONDON, verdict was returned by a coroner's , of which four women were members, at an inquest on a baby LONDON, Sept. 15. their record, case of drunkenness since 1915, —_—— — Baby in Machine Sept, 15-—An unusual traveling in an found that the 1 from waffocation by fresh une ite breathing was inter fored with, These Things Cost $10 in Dry Seattle Mining @ man being drunk, the mayor of | Ferrers said he had spotled | there having been no The only way to argue success fully with a woman is to kee: it was believed, wilt ” P 3 YOUNG MEN ARE MURDERED Found on Railway Traoks in Kansas ARCOLA, Kan., Kept. 15.—Officials | construction today sought the murderers of three | schools having increased young ten whore bodies were found on the Union Pacific tracks near here. Authorities believed the men had been slain and their bodies misdeeds on the rails to hide the mur. WASHINGTON, Sept. every 24 hours, 17,000. | tates Bure au of education. “the only clew leading to the iden uty of any of the men was a card| found on one of the victims, reading: | jury claims “In case of accident notify Mrs. 1. | filed with Angeles.” battle staged here last week. New High School a Day Is U. S. Record 16—New high schools are being established in the United States at the rate of 3 And for the past 28 years the United States has maintained this| record-breaking clip in educational | The number of high since 1890 to a present total of nearly! These figures on the state of our| nation'# high schools were made pub-| we, lie today in a report by the United the Work men's Industrial Insurance commis G, Carwile, 302 8. Rampart blvd., Los| sion by 160 participants in a movie) firet saw it fying at @ height be h we OF U.S, AIR Two Flyers Burned in C of Mail Plane CLEVELAND, airplane crash late yesterday perville, Ohio, in whieh nm, 37, Oakland, Cal, and homas, Cleveland, burned to death, ‘The machine the new allametal type recently 4 LOS ANGELES.—Accident and tn-| cured by the postoffice dep Witnesses said the ‘machine apparently in difficulty when 11,500 feet. FREDERICK & NELSON DOWNSTAIRS STORE \So Many FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET of the New Season’s Ideas in New Tricotine and Silk Frocks Wool-and-Cotton Stockings 85c Pair COMFORTABLE mixture of wool- and-cotton is knit into these Stockings — Black and Gray, with elastic ribbed top. Sizes 9 to 101%. Priced at 85¢ pair. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Children’s Knit Sleeping Garments - $1.35 to $2.00 ESTLESS little sleep- ers are kept snug and warm in these lit- tle‘garments which have feet attached. High neck, long-sleeve style, in tan and gray mix- tures. 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At left, Square-neck Apron \in side- front fastening style, belted at istline and featured in plain Delft-blue on Pink, with novelty piping. Special $1.65. —THE DOWNSTAIRS §TORE ell as women e these Oxfords for smartness and suit- ity to autumn wear, ood-looking brogue odel, in mahogany calf- skin, with Goodyear welt sole and medium low heel, ~ Sizes os to 8; widths A B and C. Priced. attractively at $8.50 pair. —THE DOWKSTAIRS STORE” /7 Little Tots’ Wool Sweater Sets, $10.50 COMPLETE outdoor — outfit is featured in — this little Set, which con- sists of Sweater, Cap and Leggings. Featured in White, Car- dinal, Cleo-blue, Rose, Heather and Copenhagen. 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