The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 4, 1920, Page 5

that's on the square pen I see him, I've always found fi’: Western people all right. [ ask you as @ favor, Mr, Peters,’ says he, to keep that roll in your pocket for me. I know a gentleman when | | seo him. | more beer,’ “In about ten minutes this fall of manna leans back in his chair and snores. Andy looks at me and says I reckon I'd better stay with him |for five minutes oF #0, in cane the | waiter comes in.’ oF “I went out the side door and Cera half a block up the street | know «a man Bw 0) And then I came back and sat 5 down at the table, . Value Brass Bed, | * ‘Andy,’ says T, ‘Tean't do It, It's too much like swearing off taxes: T can't go off with this man's money without doing something to earn it like taking advantage of the Bank rupt act or leaving a bottle of ec zema lotion in bis pocket to make it }look lke a square deal.’ “Well,” says Andy, ‘It does seem kind of hard on one's professional pride to lope off with pard’s competency, espectally after he has nominated you custodian of his bi » in the sappy insouciance of his urban tndiscrimination, Sup | pose we wake him up and see if we fcan formulate some commercial | sophistry by which he will be en abled to give us both his money and & goc couse,” “We wakes up Whiskers, He [BD atretenes himself and yawns out the hypothesis that he must have drop: ped off for a minute. And then ® mays he wouldn't mind sitting tn at a little gentleman's game of ‘poker. He used to play some when “\he attended high school in Brook lyn; and as he was out for a good me, why—and #0 forth. “Andy brightens up a little at that, for it looks like it might be a solu ftion to our financial troubles, So we all three go to our hotel further down Broadway and have the cards and chips brought up to Andy's room. I tried once more to make this Babe in the Horticultural Gar dens take his five thousand. But no “"Keep that little roll for me, Mr Peters,’ says he, ‘and oblige. I'll ank lyou fer it when I want it, 1 guess |I know when I'm among friends, A man that's done business on Beek man Street for twenty years, right in the heart of the wisest little old village on earth, ought to know what . he's about. I guess I can tell a gen ‘ Campaign Thursday | t= an from a con man or a film |Mammer when I meet him. I've got Speaking before the Young Men’*|,ome odd change in my clothes Republican club, Congressman Lin| enough to start the game with, I H. Hadley will open his campaign guena’ Thursday for reelection from the] « violin. Her mother] gocond district. The meeting will bel rast’ she not secu? = ye her all she could, and one day - rains $20 gold certificates on the held at Meves’ cafeteria. table till it looked like « $10,000 ‘Au came Peter Stark. oe tumn Day in a Lemon Grove’ pio |State Democrats to ence been @ concert in ture by Turner in the salons. Andy Line Up for Drive had led an or 2 almost smiled. one bas peyes “The first round that was dealt, Meeting in the state headquarters inithe Lyon building, Wednesday Mite. He bad |this boulevardier slaps down his agit Wie, jhand, claims low and jack and big ke Stark told the| afternoon, members of the newly.|asino and rakes in the pot. “ae he could teach her no fur-| formed democratic state central com ae terme A norPr tn iB learned all. he had to| mittee will organize for the coming | from campaign. State Chairman George | ‘ble and looked madly out of the F. 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I've forgotten the fine points of the game, I guens, it's been so long since I indulged. Now, how long are you gentlemen going to be in the city?” “I told him about a week longer He says that'l! suit him fine. His cousin is coming over from Brook to cut down that she might juired funds to finish her g : Loot Cafe of $201 Transom thieves looted the cash register of the Chauncey Wright res taurant, Broadway and Pine st. of $201.85 early Sunday morning. have to curtail his I This keeps ' Simple, Sure and Easy this way to a pretty skin Palmolive, mildest yet most thorough of cleansers. In classic days Palm and Olive oils served both ascleanserandalsoasa lotion. Ancient records picture their use and record the benefits. Now, though centuries have passed, these same oriental oils still hold their place as cleansing cosmetics. Their blend in Palm- olive has made them famous the worldover. 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Hix counin, he says, is in the artificial jlimb and lead casket business, and }hasn't crossed the bridge in eight jyears. They expect to have the And now let's have some | time of their lives, and he winds up| by asking me to keep his roll of |money for him til next day, I tried |to make him take it, but it only in | sulted him to méntion it “TM une what I've got in loose lehange,’ says he. ‘You keep the r |for me. IN drop in on you Mr, Tucker tomorrow afternoon Jabout six or seven,’ says he, ‘and we'll dinner together. Be good.’ “After Whiske had gone Andy looked at me curious and doubtful "Well, Jeff,’ says he, ‘it looks ike the ravens are trying to feed us two | Elijahe wo hard that if we turned ‘om down again we ought to have the Audubon Soclety after us, It won't do to put the crown aside too often, 1 know this is something like | paternalism, but don’t you think Op. portunity has skinned tts knuckles about enough knocking at our door? “I put my feet on the table and my hands in my pockets, which in an attitude unfavorable to frivolous thoughts, “‘Andy,’ says T, ‘this man with the | hirsute whiskers has got us in a pre dicament, We can't move hand or | foot with hin money, You and me have |have got a gentleman's agreement Fortune that we can't break the with | We've done business in Went | where it's more of a fair 6. Out | there the people we skin ure trying |to skin us, even the farmers and the remittance men that the maga uines send out to write up Goldfields. But there's little sport in New York City for rod, reel or gun, They bunt here with either one of two things 4 slungshot or a letter of introduc tion, The town has been stocked #0 full of carp that the game fish are all gone, If you spread a net here, |do you catch legitimate suckers in It, the Lord intended to be cqught—fresh guys who know it all, «ports with a little coin and the nerve to play another man's game, xtreet crowds out for the fun of dropping a dollar or two and village xmarties who know just where the little pea is? No, sir,’ saya ‘What |the grafters live on here in widows jand orphans, and foreigners who save a bag of money and hand it lout over the first counter they see with an fron railing to it, and fac tory girls and ‘litte shop- keepers, that never leave the block they do business on. That's what they call suckers here, ‘They're nothing but canned sardines, and all the balt you need to catch ‘em is a pocketknife and a soda cracker. “"Now, this cigar man,’ I went on. ‘ one of the types, He's lived | twenty years on one street without }learning as much as you would in | getting a onceover shave from a lockjawed barber in a Kansas cross- roads town. But he's a New Yorker, and he'll brag about that all the time when he tan't picking up-live wires or getting in front of street jeare or paying out money to wire tappers or standing under a mfe that's being hoisted into a sky. |ncraper. When a New Yorker docs looren up,’ says 1, ‘it's lke the spring decomposition of the ice jam in the Allegheny River. He'll swamp you with cracked {ce and backwater if you don’t get out of the way. | “t's mighty lucky for us, Andy,’ | jsuch as A luxury— but popular priced F made in small quantities, as a luxury facial soap, Palmolive would be very exe pensive. Palm and Olive oils are imported from over-seas. Their price is naturally high. But the demand for Palmolive keeps our factories working day and night. We pur chase these rare oils in enormous quantities, the cost of manufacture low and ives you the finest of facial soaps made at the price of an ordinary cleanser, Copyright 1920 The Peimotive Company (1134) ,| purpose of participating in the at- says I, ‘that this elgar exponent with | the parsley dressing saw fit to be) deck up with his childlike trust and altruism, For,’ says 1, ‘this money of his is an eyegore to my sense of titude and ethics. We can't take it, Andy; you know we can’t,’ says |1, ‘for we haven't a shadow of a title |to It—not a shadow, If there wan| the least bit of a way we could put | in a claim to it I'd be willing to see | him start in for another twenty |years and make another $5,000 for| | bimsetf,® but we haven't sold him| lanything, we haven't been embroiled in & trade or anything commeretal. | |He approached us friendly,’ says 1, | ‘and with blind and beautiful idiocy laid the stuff in our hands, We'll) |have to give it back to him when he | | Wants it’ Your arguments,’ says Andy ‘are past criticlam or comprehension |No, we can't walk off with the |money-—as things now stand. IT ad |mire your conscientious way of doing | | business, Jeff,’ says Andy, ‘and 1} wouldn't propose anything that | jwWaen't square im line with your theories of morality and initiative “But I'll be away tonight and | most of tomorrow, Jeff,’ says Andy, | ‘I've got some business affairs that I want to attend to, When this free greenback» party comes in tomorrow afternoon hold him here till I arrive. We've all got an engagement for dinner, you know.’ | “Well, sir, about 6 the next after: noon in trips the cigar man, with his eyes half open “Teen having a glorious time, Mr, Peters,’ says he. “Took in all the sights I tell you New York is the onliest only. Now, if you don't} mind,’ says he, ‘I'll le down on that couch and doze off fort about nine minutes before Mr, Tucker comes. | I'm not used to being up all night. | And tomorrow, if you don’t mind, Mr. Peters, I'll take that five thou- sand. I met a man last night that's | got a sure winner at the racetrack tomorrow, Excuse me for being #0 impolite as to go to sleep, Mr. Peters.” | “And so this inhabitant of the sec | ond, city In the world reposes him | self and begins to snore, while I sit there musing over things and wish: | ing I was back in the West, where | you could always depend on a cum) tomer fighting to keep bis money | hard enough to let your conscience take it from him. “At balf past & Andy comes in And seex the sleeping form. “I've been over to Trenton,’ says Andy, pulling a document out of his |pocket. ‘I think I've got thin matter |fixed up all right, Jeff. Look at that” “I open the paper and see that it is a corporation charter issued by the State of New Jersey to ‘The} Peters & Tucker Consolidated and) Amalgamated Aerial Franchise De | velopment Company, Limited.’ “It's to buy up rights of way for | airship lines,’ explained Andy. ‘The! Legislature waan't in seasion, but I found & man at @ posteard stand in the lobby that kept a stock of char ters on hand. There are 100,000 shares,’ says Andy, ‘expected to reach a par value of $1. I had one blank certificate of stock printed.’ “Andy takes out the blank and/ beging to fill it in with a fountain | pen. “The whole bunch,’ sys he, ‘goes to our friend in dreamland for $5,000. Did you learn his name? “‘Make it out to bearer,’ says 1 put the certificate of stock in the cigar man's hand and went out to pack our suit*cases, “On the ferry Andy says to me: ‘Is your conscience easy about taking the money now, Jett? “"Why shouldn't it be? says I Are we any better than any other Holding Corporation?’ GANGSTERS KILL POLICE OFFICER Detective Slain and Others Wounded v PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4,—Hel | without bail on a technical charge of homicide, four gangsters are in the city jail here today following @ revolver battle last night in| which Joseph McGinn, a detective, was killed and several persons wounded, The fight occurred In an alleged | gambling joint. The house was being held up by the gangsters when the police entered and frustrated the attempt. ‘The holdups were subdued only after a ively ox change of shots, during which Mc Ginn was killed 4 The four men held are Louis lie, 28, and Salvatore Battagito both of Chicago, and Salvator and Michael Ralcone, *hiladelphia. Gelle and | Battaglio are elieged by the police} to have come from Chicago for the tempted robbery. HE MAY KNOW ABOUT MURDER Booze Runner Tallies With Missing Man PORT TOWNSEND, Oct. 4.—One of two men giving their names as Bennett and Landrew, held here to day on liquor charges, is sald to answer the description of a man who vanished from Neah Bay the day Solin Sather, of Tacoma, a fish buyer, was found dead in the bay September 12 in a power boat rid died with bullets Bennett and Landrew were cap tured in a whisky-laden sloop by the U. 8. coast guard cutter Guard, it is said, while attempting to throw their cargo overboard. Hey, Kids, You'd All Best Wash Your Feet Leaving the imprints of his dirty feot on the bedclothes when he stood on them to turn on a light, a boy looted the home of J. E. Donohue, 194 28rd ave. S., Saturday night of a $175 check, some small change and minor jewelry. PICKPOCKETS ARE ACCUSED of taking $275 from Harry Jensen, 2806 W, 66th st., while he was in a Idowntown cafe carly Sunday, | | DENTON } Exceptional SILK AND WOOL DRESSES AT $94.50 Second Floor HESE stylish and attractively designed Dresses accomplish splendidly the purpose for which they were especially intended. For the business woman, the woman on shopping tour or the woman out for an afternoon visit with her friends they will be found ideal, and the one outstanding fea- ture of them all is the pleasing price for such engaging apparel. 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A “house of horrors” where odd | win, 32, They are accused of trying to the auto of John Boss, 6003 Gi wood ave. As many as 17,000 pounds of nanas have been known to be duced on one acre of land. things happened even before the crime was discovered. A black motor car, containing two men and a woman, driven back and forth in front of the house at night. | A woman who acted as house-| keeper, telling of a Spanish beauty who had a key to the mansion and/ hinting at other irregularities in the | ife of the rich broker | Romance, business secrets, wealth and fear of death, N OF. MYSTERY ‘These are faced by the police in the murder of Jacob Charles Denton, about 40, since discovery of his body buried in @ ton of fertilizer behind a door leading to a subterranean passage in his cellar. The body had been buried several months. Search | has been going on since relatives failed to locate Denton June 2. The case is one of the most baffling in Far Western police an nals Denton lived alone for a time after e came to Los Angeivs and bought a home. His neighbors did not know him. Relatives knew little of his affairs except that he was gener ous in giving them money. His busi. ness was his own secret, except it was understood he had mining inter ests, He was divorced from his first wife and his second wife died Mrs. Maude Peete, a pretty young | woman, came with her 4-year-old/ daughter from Arizona where her | husband was an jnvalid, Mrs. Peete, | house-hunting, was referred to Den: | She arranged, it is said, to live} Our Great Annual Sale of * _ Graniteware 1,000 Pieces of Gray | and Mottled Granite Cooking Utensil Special at 49cm98c Assortment consists of Tea Kettles Coffee Pots Stew Pans Water Pails Preserving Kettles Convex Kettles Muffin Pans Wash Basins Dish Pans Special at 49c and 98c. $6.00 | ton, in the mansion, rent free, and ca for the place. also. Denton was to stay S OF iH BEAUTY Peete Oil Heaters, Special at $4.98 The Nesco Perfect Oil Heater provides’ inst&nt direct warmth. They are smoke- less and odorless and have the safety wick device. These Heaters are attrac- tively finished in black with nickel trim- mings. Special at $4.98. 24x24 Stove Mats—Special at 59c Just the thing to use under oil heaters — or other small heaters. Denton made Mrs. frequent trips out of town without | notifying any one; that several per: sons, including @ beautiful Spanish woman, had a key to the mansion, says She states that several times she re turned home after being away in the | evening, and found all the lights in the house burning; sometimes the lights were out and things were dis- turbed. She tells of a quarrel Denton had with the Spanish woman and says he complained once that the woman stabbed him in the arm, Mrs, Peete drove about in Denton’s big auto, She says no love was in: volved and denies she and Denton were’ intimate friends, She rented the mansion to another party about a week after the disappearance of Denton and went to Denver. Denton had made a will and sent it to a friend with a note saying he feared violence. Police and private sleuths are trying to piece together myriad clues in the case of a man who worked hard from boyhood, amassed a for- THE STORE FOR USEFU: