The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 20, 1920, Page 7

E iia 2 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1920. , “7 NEAR FORT | LAWTON! I Abandoned Rowboat Discov- ered on Beach Half a Mile Away _ The coroner was trying Monday ; to determine the identity of a body | found with a bullet in the head on _ Magnolia Bluff Sunday afternoon + A revolver was beside the body and the coroner think the > Man committed suicide. eg CBT! Wiehle, 324 John et, found the body three-quarters of a mile @ast of Magnolia boulevard, just _ South of Fort Lawton and north ; Of Carleton park. The body had been there several months. An abandoned rowboat found on the beach a half mile from the * body may help to solve the mystery {) The man was 5 feet 8 inches tall Bad reddish brown hair, and was @ressed in blue suit, tan shirt and ae A canvas shogs. A hat, with name of a Tacoma store, was ~ PLUNGES THRU | WINDOW; FLEES ‘Alleged Smuggler of China- men Eludes Pursuers _ Henry Blummer, alleged notorious smusgster of Chinése, is being sought with bloodhounds Monday, following | & sensational escape from immigra- tion ‘ors near Auburn, when “he jigmped out the rear window of as the officers approached ‘Saturday. Blummer is said to have slipped his sand gotten away from ‘ Peteidetion veticers in Los Angeles five months ago, when he was ap- in the act of bringing in eed ame from Mexico. Following a clue that led to a house in Auburn, cal inspectors approached, but the fugitive vanished thru a window | -ewwhen the door was opened. *SHIPBUILDERS ARE ACQUITTED Five Freed of Fraud Charge; One Faces New Trial _ The five Northwest shipbutlders "and two formen officers of the United States emergency fleet cor poration, whose trial on a charge f conspiracy to defraud the gov- ernment has been in progress in the district court during the last . Week, were-ncquitted by the federal s jury late Saturday. ‘The members of the Grays Har- | Dor Motorship corporation, in whore favor a verdict of not guilty was eturned, are: Albert Schubach, Bruce C. Shorts, Monty Ward, A |B. Shay and A. 8. Hoonan. The two shipping board officials are | Capt. W. A. Magee and A. R. Hunt. | Capt. Magee goes on trial again Tuesday as one of the defendants dn the second shipyard case—that against the Seaborn Shipyards com- Ppany. Phillips Morrison, president of the company, is co-defendant q via eo en Magee. It ix estimated that fn the trial Just concluded and preparation for P the four to come the government thas expended in the neighborhood - of $10,000. - Banker Injured in _ Automobile Plunge WALLA WALLA, Sept. 20.—M. 0. Clifton, Kennewick banker, is in the hospital here wth a fractured skull, an the result of an automobile ac- cident near here last night, when his & machine left the road and turned he over three times. . LE XX7ANTS $5,000 , FOR HIMSELF NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—For sale, for $5,000, a man. Jack Hardy, formerty in the naval fervice, has offered himself for sate for $5,000, one-third of which must be cash. He explains that he wishes ' to repay a benefactress and will | comply in every way with the | wishes of his new master, when he fs purchased. Woman Brings Bad Luck to This Thief Unlucky thief had two suitcases _ of loot packed in Mrs. C. J. Geh- g's home at 2045 W. ist when she ] returned home Saturday might. He F leaped thru a window and fled with- * out his loot. ' % . .@ | Highwaymen Beat Denver Car Crew Us DENVER, Sept. 20,—Highwaymen " robbed and beat into unconsciousness " the crew of a Fairmont st. street car “jast night, and then started the trol- Jey down a steep hill. A serious ac- cident was averted when the car was Gerailed at the foot of the hill and ‘an outbound car passed a moment ) Psmear—Pretty good, don't you! think? I made it for a cover design. HOSPITAL SPEAR LOSES TO FERGUSON Has Margin of 110 Votes for County Auditor In the final and official count D. F. Ferguson has been finally nominated republican candidate for county aud. itor over O. M. Spear by a margin of 110 votes, Dr. E, J. Brown recetved the demo- cratic nomination for prosecuting at- torney over Robt, G. Cauthorn, the FIT AS A FIDDLE a THE SEATTLE STAR SPOKANE MAN IS HELD FOR CRIME Prisoner Was to Have Been Married Today SPOKANE, Sept, 30.—Joe Masato, 20, a Great Northern laborer, was arrested Sunday, charged with fatal- ly shooting Z. Chelda, 60, an Italian laborer em) ed by the Northern Pacific railroad, at 8 o'clock Sunday morning, at Parkwater, According to H. C, Brown, who states he was a short distance away when the shooting occurred, Masato walked up to Chelda, and after a short argument knocked him down | with a club, jumped on him and |shot him thru the head and stomach. Masato, who was to have been married Monday, claims that Chelda told his intended father-in-law that he was a crook. Druggists Discuss Dry Enforcement ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 20.—Mlans for increasing eration between druggists and l enforcement of prohibition and narcotic laws will be laid before the annual convention of retail drug- gints which opens here today. AXEW_WEEKS AGO AND To DAY The convention, auspices of the National Association of Retail Druggists, will last four days and will include in ita pro: gram of discussion the income tax ond general management of the retail drug store. The association has a membership of 25,000 retail druggists. ral officials for | held under the) that morning. The confounded pests of sparrows were making the square too,” said he, down—booxe?” burnt hideous with thelr idiotic “cheep,| “Birds,” I sald fiercely. “The | Planks, splinters, and chips foe owes heen.” brown.throated’ songsters carclling | My frowsy friend peasaaay cheep.” I never saw birds no per | PM'DE \evom some interior of his frayed 7 aistently noisy, impudent and dis |*ongs of hope and cheer to weary | clothing half a loaf of bread, pepper, man toiling amid the city’s dust and | and salt The little feathered couriers agreeable in all my life. By this time, according to traditions, I should have been stand ing in the office of the editor of the Sun, That personage—a tall, grave, | white-haired man—would strike a| silver bell as he grasped my hand | and wiped a suspicious molsture | | from his glassen, tan ate “Mr. McChesney,” he would bel our his mying when @ subordinate appeared, | jook at the “this in Mr, Henry, the young man| Aw 1 gpoke I picked up a dead tree who went in that exquisite gem about |branch that lay by the bench, and |‘ the sparrows in Madison Square. | hurled it with all ny force into a} #n You may give him a desk at once. | ciove congregation of the sparrows Your salary, sir, will be $80 a week, | on the grass, The flock flew to the to begin with.” trees with a babel of shrill cries, but | This was what I had been léd to/two of them remained prostrate | expect by all writers who have|upon the turf. alt | din from the meadows and woods chirp. Jing sweetly to us of blue #kles and |” flowering fields. The confounted lit tle wquinteyed nuisances like a flock of steam atuff | notain ears ago. , | paper. he firet mo "| it to the evolved romances of literary New| In a moment my unsavory friend! York. had leaped over the row of benches | Wi. way Something was decidedly wrong |and secured the fluttering victims | the tein with tradition, I could not aswume the blame, so I fixed it upon the sporrows. I begun to hate them with intensity and heat. At that moment an Individual wearing an ex of whiskers, two hats, and @ pestilential air slid into the “it beside me. “Say, Willie,” he muttered cajol- ingly, “could you cough up @ dime out of your coffee for a cup of cof which he thrust hurriedly into his pockets. Then he beckoned me with a dirty forefinger. y." he said hoarse teed,” | é 5” jt had—s1 Weakly I followed quaintance. He led me away from the park down a side street and thru a crack in the fence vacant lot where had been going on. dingy ac nome exca Behind a pile of | for fee this morning?” old stones and lumber he paused, and | ©. ns, U, m lung-weary, my friend,” said) took out his birds. | her L “The best I can do is three} “I got matches,” said he. “You got | of food. cents,” “And you look like a gentleman, I drew forth my manuscript story'to land “What brung sags (*° the sparrows, and offered it for sacrifice, There In ton minutes each of us & % sparrow spitted mpon a | flames, hen a fellow’ — minds me of when © w ¥ firet—about 16) I come in from the West : to see if I could get a job on a newae™ I hit Madison ’ around on the t and the grass: so niee and green that T_ ut I was back in the countey® in. Then I got some papers out. f my pocket, and—" “I know,” I interrupted, “you sent) Sun and got $15.” y.” said my friend, suspleiouse fou seem to know a good deal. uu? I went to sleep in the sun, bench there, | somebody touched me for every ¢ Cadet Aviator Is ; « Back From Desert — ELECTRO, Cal, Sept. 20—After held up in the desert for two. where he was forced to land ck of gasoline, Cadet Plyer W. S. air service, reached oday nearly exhausted for Reams was making his any paper to start a fire with?” | stadent flight when he was & COME EARLY AND AVOID THE RUSH ‘Last-Minute Crowds, Not’ Voting Machines, at Fault | | Comes once again the old com- | plaint that voters insist on waiting | until meal hours, or the tat mo- |ment, before they cast their votes | at the polls, | County Auditor Norman Wardatt | declared Monday that the public| tmust break itself of this habit as it! is a physical impossibility to handle | vote being 2,251 to 1,353, while J: . rs : whe “Fl the last. minute crowds with any: eph Williams reorived the democratic | thing like speed, nomination for sheriff! with 2.340; «Don’t blame the voting ma | votes to 1,634 received by William | chines," says Wardall. | Severyns. | ie : | N ission |Dies in Taxi en lear-Commissioners * to Add Route to Hospital ress League While on hia way to city hospital Candidates who will speak at the! ina taxi Saturday afternoon Fred W. { Tuesday luncheon of the Municipal | Jodrell, machintst,.64, died. He had | League at Meves’ cafeteria are:| just visited Dr. O. A. Scaggs, in the Claude C. Ramsay, Joseph Sloan and | Washington building. He lived at 418 C. & Tripp, candidates for county | 25th ave, 8, and is survived by a son commissioner in the first district. nd dau | . eT ae FREDERICK | €& NELSON | FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET DOWNSTAIRS STORE -The.Ohio Makes Light Work of Cooking and Baking LMOST as quickly as the cook can stir up the batter, the oven of the Ohio is ready for baking— eight minutes, in fact, from kindling to baking-heat. The Ohio's record as a water-heater, also, points to time-saving, for there is enough hot water for household uses or the bath in fifteen minutes from the time the fire is started. 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Sizes 8} to 114, widths C, D and E, $3.65 pair. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE New Bath Robes at $6.50 For These Chilly Mornings and Evenings AS pictured, of fleecy Beacon cloth, with set-in sleeves, and shawl collar, patch pocket and cuffs edged with cord braid in tailored effect. A tasseled cord girdles the waistline. Choice of these color effects: Delft-blue or Copenhagen patterned with tan. Gray with pink or white. Lavender with light-green. Sizes 38 to 44. Price $6.50. Other Bathrobes of Beacon cloth, $6.50, $7.50 and $7.95. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Kerr Self-Sealing Fruit Jars Special $1.00| Dozen S pictured, quart- size, white glass Jars, sealing with cap and ring. With some fruits and vegetables still to be canned, this. is a timely opportunity for saving. Special, Tuesday, $1.00 dozen, Jelly Glasses, Special 45c Dozen IX- and eight-ounce sizes, ridged inside so that the jelly turns out in a pleasing pattern. 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