The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 23, 1920, Page 1

o 4 4 against being bitten ) LAMPING! hood, his record has been open to all. George B. Lamping, candidate for port commissioner, comes cleaw-cut before the people. He needs no apolo- ; gists to “square” his position. His position has been square and aboveboard. A resident of Seattle since boy- As a young man he enlisted in the Spanish - American war; he has served five years on the park board without salary; he stood head and shoulders above his colleagues in the state senate two years ago when he made his memorable fight for the veterans’ bill; he fought for clean and progressive measures thruout! Lamping has made a success in private life; he wants to give service—SERVICE—in public life. Special Privilege seekers don’t like him. That’s why he is the public’s best k bet. ‘PLAN 3-FOR-25 CAR FARE! Rim 00 Ew bx Weather and night ram; me erly wind. Rain From China. The Death of Babe. Prodigious Appetite. Warm Ic The Star is collecting stories of here of the long nights before the log- fires in the burkhouses? It 0, send them to The Star for the benefit of fature generations. eee Editor The Star: To me the names of Paul Bunyan, Billy Puget, Dad Hood and Old Man fott have al Ways been closely associated. Each has his own coveted niche In the hall of tame; each lived, labored passed away, but the deeds of these men have survived beyond harrow scope of their earthly career, and should they be more known, the names of these ‘would linger long on the every bard. They were all great men, but even #0, the name of Paul Bunyan stands @ little higher than the rest. It glows like a brilliant star among the Jesser ones to encourage men on to deeds of greatness. CAME UP FROM CHINA | I¢ f remember rightly, he came to | country astride his blue ox in ‘year of the blue snow, the same that the rain came up from heroes tongue of ” Billy Puget, of the Paget Construc- Co., had the contract to dig the! 4 that now bears bix name, Of the group mentioned above, Hood and Eljiott were sub-contractors, the former digging our dwn Elliott bay ‘with his 40 badgers and mud-throw ing catapult, the machine that piled the hills that Seattleites now tread; the latter digging the farfamed Hood canal. Probably without the ai4 of Paul Bunyan the combined ef forts of the other three would only | have terminated in failure at such @ vast undertaking. As my memory would have it, the ox was « huge biuish beast, a moun tain of strength and energy, measur fing 42 ax handles and a plug of to bacco between the eyes. FIELD GLASSES TO KEEP REAR FEET IN VIEW His huge length necessitated that Bunyan always carry a pair of field, Glasses to keep the beast’s rear feet within range of vision. The animal's Principal diet consisted of baled hay and hot cakes. It had a passionate taste for the latter; for supper he generally ate 50 bales of hay, wire and alJ, and then drank a mountain fiver dry. When Bunyan first came to these parts, Puget had quite a camp at Mukilteo. At first he was rather skeptical about the prowess of the | ox #0 he set Bunyan and|/ charge to the menial task of haul- egg shells away from the camp he saw that in three days the was comipleted bis astonishment no bounds, for previous to this two steam shovels rumning continu for 24 Hours were required to form this task. Straightway were ui and his biue ox raised to a Higher plane of prestige in the camp. | JRED THE LAST KING GOLDFISH Bunyan was indeed « great man} ‘and a hunter of no mean ability, for | Besides having the distinction of ghooting the-last dodo and capturing the last fur-bearing goldfish, it is wald* he overcame a ring-talled bavalorus single-handed 7 Walking one day thru the wooded gisles and leafy bowers of that pi turesque country where Tacoma now stands, he wan attacked by an ani mal that rushed at him, jaws die ‘in fury. Paul picked up a club and stuck it down the unfor funate’s throat as an insurance Grabbing Yong ears. he tied them in a knot ‘above its head and then yelled with | timber | ‘@ yell that would shame ol. The beast died of fright. TORE ALFALFA BY THE ROOTS When the rainy season came that year, I have previously stated that MH came up from ina. So it did, and tote all the hay and alfalfa ou the roots, so that now the ‘of the blue ox must consist solely of hot cakes. "A stove seven blocks long and seventy new cooks were installed and t twenty boys with hams tied to their) feet would skate over it sur: and this keep it well crefined " @ough was mixed in tanks 60 feet Square, and traveling cranes were fnst: to transport the dough from mixer to the stove ‘The last I heard of Bunyan and the ox they were moving dirt by con | tract from Grays Harbor with a Bag “fey scraper 73 feet wide. Someone told me that la (Lurn to page 4, col. 5) er they and | the! universally Hot cake | Wednesday: south- »derate On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Botered as Second Clase Matter May 9, 1999, ~ SEATTL E, Ww ASH, TU ES the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March §, 1179 TheSeattle Sta Per Your, by Mail, $5 to #9 4 DAY, NOV MBER 28, 1920. R 2% Snatched From Poison Fumes in Nick of Time; “Neighbors Smell Vapor Gansed by fumes that leaked from | & broken pipe in a kitchen under neath her bedroom, Mra. Robert J. | Hughes, living In an apartment house | at 1064 EB. Harrison st, was found unconscious and all but dead in her bed this morning ‘The break in the pipe, it was dis covered, was caused by the settling of the rear end of the apartrnt | house, A gas repair Stop the leak, jane fell out a j burt. WOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD IN FIVE MINUTES | | Had she not been rescued when she was, Mrs. Hughes would have been dead within five minutes, ac-| cording to Patrolman R. C. W. atson, | who was summoned from police head- quarters } Mre. James Thomas, occupant of | an apartment mext to that of Mra. | Hughes, smelied the deadly vapor while she was dreasing. Rushing Into the hall the rapped lon Mrs, Hughes’ door, She got no [response from within. Putting her shoulder to the door she forced it open. Mra, Hughes was lying in bed, groaning. The fumes were #0 strong that Mra. Thomas could not enter. | She called to her daughter, who jfan to the home of the Rev. J. R Evans, pastor, of Welsh church, 607 | llth ave. N. and summoned the \clergyman. Rev. Evans roused Dr. |John Wotherspoon from the latter's home at 523 1ith ave. N. and the| doctor and minister hurried to Mrs Hughes’ apartments ENTER WITH WET-CLOTH GAS MASKS With their faces covered with water@oaked handkerchiefs the two |men went into the bedroom, lifted jthe unconscious woman from her bed and carried her out. She was |revived with the aid of a city hos Pita. attendant arrived with Phe police later Mrs. Hughes is proprietor of a but ter, eggs and cheese stall in the Farmers’ market at First ave. and | Pike st. Mrs. Thomas works in the Istall with her. Hughes, the band, is in Tacoma employed | shipyard, ‘Bu RGLARS § NICE NEW SAFE CLEVELAND, Nov. 23.—Distrust ing banks, Frank Dieky purchased a nice, new, 200-pound safe, and de ponited In it $450. Today he noti fied the police that the safe and money were gone \Economist to Talk to University Fol Sherwood Eddy, noted economist | will give @ series of talks on world | Problema to university students 12 and 13, under uspices of the University ¥. M.C ISSING MOVIE TOO THRILLING YORK, Nov. 23.—Herbert Martin, thrilled by a movie, kissed his nextseat neighbor, The dcianec happened to be Terence Harvey, six foot The judge gave Martin | five days to cool off, | =| who hus in a “STEAL on the A NEW cop. diet | ANY large fortunes } comfortat pert independent incomes are ¢ yle to an answered Bun Opportunity ad in the classified columns of The Star and | Why not put yesterday |] the werap heap and work | tomorrow's sunshine? You wili find many good Business Chances in the |) Classified section of The Star today. in in ANG SHO PERSHING Screendom’'s newest star has an uncle who is a star in his own little way. In other words-——Marcella Pershing’s uncle is General John J. Pershing, commander-in-chief of the army. Miss Pershing comes from Kansas and will play opposite F ord Ste rling. “Jazz” Music | for Churches Women Weepas | They Bring i in Death Charge Is Proposed After a week | ‘usations an ERIE, Pa., Nov. of mystery, rumors, © charges of “frameup” in connection with the death of William E. Schultz and serious injuries to William Don-| aldson, employes of @ local t company, struck by an autom rly last Tuesday morning, while at work repairing street car track®, a i Nema coroner's jury today held | City Solicitor Martin C. Cornell for | ple's societies, the killing of Scbultz. | “We are living in a jazz age, and With tears streaming down their! 1 wonder if a Ju cheeks, the jury of women filed in and announced its finding. Mayor Miles Kitts and Cornell are law partners, Booth testified at the time Schultz was struck down and killed they were at their homes. death car was traced to Cor garage, Mayor Kitts was alleged to have been in the au obile. GPOKANE BANS | SNAKE CHARMER Pontoon Bridge to SPOKANE, Nov... 23.—Perform |Aid Stadium Crowds in public schools of a Canadian » charmer do not constitute edu-| phe war department has author cation, In the opinion of the #chool | tea Colonel E. H. Behuls, ‘district board, Which listened to complaints) oicineer, to grant a permit to the on the subject Inst night. § University of Washington to provide members learned that children had operate a temporary pontoon been inveigled into giving up a dime |} ridge across the Lake Washington apiece to attend the exhibitions and) canal at the university, between 1 decided that the charmer would have|anq 5:20 p.m. Saturday, to accom: to do his reptile vamping elsewhere| modate the people who will attend in future the football game and opening of the Stadium, The bridge ia required to be opened DIED SUNDAY at bis home, 364! for any vessel desiring to pass, but | John at., will be buried at p. m, | it is ped navigation interests will | Wednesday in Washelli cemetery,|make an effort to. avoid using this Funeral services at Bonney-Watson's part of the canal during that period. CLEVELAND, Nov, 23.—Jazz mu sic may be introduced in the) churches here, to attract the young- er element. Syncopation and zip, instead of the ancient hymna were suggested by. Ralph Baldwin, former president of the Cleveland Baptist Young Peo- jazz church ought not to be the next development,” he said | "1 would not but ation of the tune might atch the ear of the our churches.” Baldwin #ald he would diseuss the matter with a number of ministers in the hope of convincing them of the soundnens of his Idea have you change the I wonder ff another vari not better story, I's an ena and GEORGE W. WALKER, WHO “Trent. to. “kill young people im 6. 0. P. CHEF WOUNDED BY KINSWOMAN ‘she Eludes Officers in Case on Hunt From Oklahoma to California ARDMORE, Okm, Nov, 23.—A extending from Oklahoma to California, was instituted today for Mra. Clara Hamon, of Mingling. Okla, charged with shooting Jake L. Hamon, millionaire ol! king, and re jpublican national committeeman | Mrs. Hamon, whose maiden name wearch com mitieeman, County Attorney Ruseell Brown, Carter of in. the woman, and inf: the couple with a lenne. These chargen were fled with J Justice of the Peace Hal Cannon, Brown declared she checked her baggnge at Kansas City but did not leave on the train she intended to catch Efforts to apprehend the woman [before she crossed the state line falled, First roporte were “phat Hamon ac | cidentally shot himself Sunday in a local hotel, where he lives, while cleaning a gun preparatory to o hunting trip in Texas, Hla condition was improved, physicians stated to- | day Frank Ketch, his manager, who is | nued a statement declaring the shoot ling was accidental, refused to alter | his position when he learned of the! |charges against the woman. Ketch |quoted Hamon as having said | belteve mo when I aay that.” }has been the millionaire's stenog rapher subenmittontiy since 1914. [ROBBERY MOTIVE IN MURDER OF _ | PHILADELPHIAN | PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 23 Search for the murderer of Henry T. | Pierce, 45, whose body was found in & gas-filled apartment above his of fice here yesterday, the head bat jtered with a monkey wrench, {tered today about a blond woman jand @ male companion who drove to | the place with Pierce in his automo bile Saturday night. Robbery was believed to be the motive. His money, Automobile were taken. /NUPTIAL BLISS LASTED 10 DAYS Nuptial bliss had a short season | with Virginia and Frank Toner, cording to the former's divorce com plaint, eda y ‘rank depart: | {ed ten days after the ceremony was performed in ¥ tt, and has re mained away, she | Sibe: Seen in Colorado BAGLE, Colo, Nov. 28.—A pack lof gigantic Siberian wolves is trav cling on the range near here, ac cording to Warren Larsen, a trapper, who brought in the pelts of two of the pack | feet from tip to tip. Larsen received $150, offered by the cattlemen's associa tion, and stated he was going to try to clean up the pack. Siberian wolves are very rare in this section, according to cattlemen. JAMES A, RALSTON, THE “OLD Man,” arrested in Vancouver Mon |dhy morning for smuggling opium, pleaded guilty and was fined $500 in the cotirt there, |( PIANO IS STOLEN BY BUSY BURGLARS Thieves extended their opera- tions to pianos Monday night J. Hubanks, 4230 Sixth ave, N. E., was the victim, He reported that @ rug and rocking chair also were taken, A truck seen leaving the house Monday night wag used by the burglars. DUBLIN IS wan Clara Soilth, ts a relative of the | lena. eRAreIOE | ine the | however, there were ony two casual- j |tles. Military raids were being con- i tthe world t8day by a cordon of Brit cen-| jewelry and} *|rumbied thru the streets, ‘The hides measured seven | the reward | CURCIRGTE FOR STENOGRAPHER HEMIMED IN BY TROOP Wire Entanglements and Guns Give Warlike Ap- pearance to City 3.—Two Sinn Fein: and polic seriously wounded in clashes at Mill ounty Cork, last night. There were numerous skirmishes between | “black and tan” patrols and the Sinn Feiners. CORK, N era were shot one eman street, oe DUBLIN, Noy. 23.1140 a. m)— | Frequent encounters between troops wmall bands of Sinn p Oc: ™ the streets of Dublin! dur- night. The sound of shoot ing was Incemmant. S@ far as known, | ducted thruout the city this morn- Many arrests were made. Dublin w virtually cut off from | inh troops, Somewhere within the jelty 200 Sinn Fein gunmen, who as- ‘saminated 14 British officers were in hiding. The troops were surround. ing the city while police systemati- cally searched it for the gunmen. - NEWED FIGHTING SS EXPECTED " Meanwhile, the city lived in dread. | Renewed large-scale fighting be | tween Sinn Feiners and police was expected. Shops had their shutters up, ‘Thousands of people remained | indoors. } A check up of the casualties In fought Sinn Feiners, the police bul- lets Nying into thé crowd. | pital records showed nearly 100 per: | sons had received surgical attention. | Three Sinn Feiners were killed af ter an attack on sentries, the mill- | tary said today, The three were arrested Saturday | night and imprisoned in a guard| house, Ye@tertay two of them threw | hand grenades at the sentries, Thi grenades failed to explode, being without detonators, The third grabbed a gun which ~ sentry had dropped in the excite. ment and as raising it to his shoul der when other sentries fired, TROOPS OCCUPY 0 AN CITY HALL The Dublin city hall and several of |the city’s hotels were occupied by | troops today and the town was rapid. | ly assuming the appearance of a city in the war zone during-the Tiehtine | in France. Tanks and military automobiles Sentries |with fixed bayonets paced up and} down. Hotel corridors‘and the lobby jof the city hall were crowded with men in uniform while couhers hast- ened here and there with messages, ‘There were groups of troops, rifles held ready, in front of many houses | which were being searched for Sinn |Fein gunmen and some streets were entirely blocked off while every | house was gone thru in search for the fugitives. Reports from other parts of Ire. }land indicated the Guerilla warfare between the Sinn ‘Feiners and gov- jernment forces was beim main. tained. Near Cork the body of Cap- jtain Thompson was found in a field He had been shot. At Belfast Head Constable Kearney died from bullet wounds, Near Skibberan, a party of police was ambushed. One constable was killed and one seriously wound- ed. WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS SURROUND TOWN Dublin was surrounded today by an | entanglement of barbed wire. Back of that line lay troops and police, their machine guns and other arms ready for instant use. Sentries set to fire on the tnstant guarded every entrance to the elty, Every one was stopped, Passes to newspaper men, priests, doctors and nurses were worthless, — Sentries turned them all back, Incoming trains were stopped until passengers could bo searched. No (Turn to page 7, col. 2) | tives to PROFESSOR SERVED WITH FRIED WORMS, SAYS HE ENJOYS ’EM COLORADO SPRINGS, 23—Prof. Lioyd principal of the school here. dissertation on declared: “The angle lolobephoara Colo., Shaw, ina the angleworm, Nov worm, known as longa, consists of two flesh coursed by a small alimentary canal,” “Are they good to eat? asked. nere's no reason why they shouldn't be,” answered the pro- fessor. During the lunch hour bis class dug up a mess of angle worms and fried them in butter. The dish was offered to Shaw. He called the bluff, ate every worm and said it was a most ap petizing repast. VANCOUVER’S MAYOR SUICIDE Ives, he was |Washington Official Found | Hanging to to Tree VANCOU VER, Wa Wash., Nov, 23.— The body of G. RK Percival, the | missing mayor of Vancouver, was) | found in the woods near here date yeat iy, hanging to a small tree. Pe had hanged himself with the aid of a handkerchief. The mayor disappeared October 17. He had been in it health for some time, and that is supposed to bave caused | despondency, which prompted him to end his life, WEST STATES AGAINST JAPS, SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. the California movement to the Japanese, according to Senator The hos | James Phelan of California, a leader | in the movement, Phelan announced today that he had received telegrams from Gover- nor Stewart of Montana, Governor berlain of Oregon, Senator Fall of New Mexico and Senator Pittman sr Nevaga promising co-operation in the} conference of western representa- be held here in December, when the Japanese question will be considered. THREE DEAD IN AUTO WRECKAGE VAN METER, Ia., Nov Linneman, 50, his son Elmer, 30, and his daughter Esther, 5, were i stantly killed and his wife seriously injured when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Rock Island passenger train, east- bound, at a grade crossing here to- day, Mrs. Linneman was taken to Des Moines for medical attention. Side curtains on the automobile are belie to have prevented Lin- meman, who was driving, from see ing the approaching strain, The Linnemans resided on a farm They are refuted to be weal- HULET M. WELLS DUE HERE TODAY Hulet M. Wells, pardoned from the Leavenworth penitentiary, where he was sentenced for obstructing the draft, will arrive in Seattle at 4:40 Pp. m, Tuesday, on the Great North- ern railroad, it was learned today, FIND MAN DEAD ON WESTLAKE Henry Tilden, 65, ship carpenter, was found dead at Westlake ave. and Highland drive Tuesday morn- ing by James Winn, by whom he was employed, The body was taken in charge by Deputy Coroner H, MacDonald. Death was caused by @ stroke, according to the coroner, and Henderson Assembling Data Showing Needed Revenue Seattle is facing another raise ins 7 é street car fares! f Tentative plans, announced Tues- day by Councilman R. H. chairman of the city utilities com- mittee, call for @ three-fora-quarter: fare tariff, Thomson will confer with Mayer Caldwell next week on the proposed increase, he declared. ae Street car officials asserted day that an ordinance brovieees the new tariff would be di shortly by Corporatiqn Walter F. Meier, DATA READY NEXT WEEK That he had been fn with Railway Chief D. W. son for the past three months |stated by Thomson. “We have endeavored to porn mathematically, ~< exactly what fare ab to meet expenses,’ ‘iletinns declared. “While Henderson has not yet comp his computations, I believe we bave all the data by next week. is then that I expect to take @ the matter of the fare _the mayor and council.’ | As chairman of the utilities committee, charged with the duty ‘ |vising railway — legislation. a movement to raise street car | Will be initiated in the utilities ¢ | mites. MAYOR CALDWELL z ES TO Mayor Caldwell refused to on the proposed fares. He declared that | the outcome of his im joe the $15,000,000 traction pure jhe was unwilling to indicate Ci “T | sunday’s shootiigs today showed a| Western states rapidly are joining | Course he would pursue, |shot myself, but I know nobody will total of 27 ideitified dead, 14 officers | With and police and 13 slain at the Croke Unite in an all-western organization | ‘reasing the railway fares can According to reports, Mra. Hamon foothall field, where black and tans | to Work for restrictive laws against | “ficient votes to pass in the | Whether an ordinance further & | cil is problematical. Computations made public |day by James F. Leghorn, of state bureau of inspection supervision of public offices, |the monthly deficit of the Sentries shot them.| Carey of Wyoming, Senator Cham-| Car system at $31,372 under — 64-cent fare. These figures not accepted by the city city officials NCE INTHE _ STEELY Stealing steely steel, $200, GH valued from the Western Tool 2530 Commodore way, last night, Steely thieves made their getaway before anyone knew that the steely steel had been stolen by steely stealers. University Co-ed’s Rifle Wins Turkey — Patricia Maloney, president of the |Girls’ Rifle club at the university, is a happy girl today. She won 4 turkey in the annual turkey shoot’ of the Seatle Rifle and Revolver as” sociation, held on the Fort Lawton 8 fh INTERESTING — “The Theory of Linear—Sinoidal Oscillations” is the title of a thesis written by Henry Godfrey Cordes, graduate student in the electrical engineering department at the uni-_ versity. It has just been published” in pamphlet form by the university printing department. Mexico Mines Are Returned to Owners RAGLE PASS, Texas, Noy. 28-—_ Mines in the Coahuila (Mexico) coal regions have been returned to. their! ss owners by the strikers who them last week, it was reported here today. Strikers have not returned to ‘work, however, it was said. The situ. ation was an geporees ie quiet. INANCIERS TO SMACK LIPS Twenty-five friends of Thomas W.» Lamont, partner of J, P. M and proprietor of the New Evening Post, will eat Seattlemade — fruiteake on Christmas day. An B.| order for delivery was received yea-— terday by Hazen J. Titus, of ae Chauncey Wright Restaurants: