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4 The Seattle Star = »+» AMT H ACCUSED FUGITIVE FE tound among his belongings. « T may be a new chapter before you | Wishes. F) Dave finished reading * © Dloodhounds and airplanes, and more | to | SHOT WHILE MOTORING LUCKY IN ESCAPES Decoys, Pursuits, Flights, Planes, Bloodhounds Follow Girl Killing BY MAREL ABBOTT KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec. 10—/| @dventures, Here's a real detective story. It's| Between attempts at suicide, he Still happening, and nobody knows w it's going to end, or whether e villain is really the villain; or ‘anything; but it's got a soklier-horse doctor hero, and a manhunt with | the really puzzling part of Chester’ has lain limp, apparently helpless and absolutely speechie the ceiling or the wht tions by many doc Neurologist and a show any inj j tempts at suicide Examina. X-ray expert, fail ry from his at thrills than a Bill Hart movie or any reason why It's lke this, so far, tho there} he could not speak or walk a - The doctors believe | shamming | CARRIED TO TRAIN TIED TO STRETCHER Florencé Barton, Kansas City s0- He was carried to the train clety girl, and Howard Winter, her | shackled to a siretcher, In Kan fiance, driving near Hillorest Coun sae Clty he is in a steel room in a SOCIETY GIRL, WAS | try club on the night of October 2,| hospital, under heavy guard. / on the way to a hospital. After a long period here of heip- lessness, Cheater made a third at- tempt at suicide. He tried to butt out his brains on the bars of his cell when the guard looked away, Meanwhile many things have been re shot by one of three men in Another automobile, Winter was) slightly wounded. Miss Barton died Private detectives and the city force were put on the job of find-| ing the murderer. After a month's chase thru Arizona and California, without limit will be available tn the Denze? Chester, 27, biackemith, was/dark places of Kansas City’s dens arrested in Great Falls, Mont. where | and dives to help Chester. he was lured to a rooming house by | A police investigation of the ew letters signed with the name of | cape has resulted in the dropping of Woman whose love letters bad been | Beasley from the city force, the rev | ecation of the comminsions of the| On the train, Chester was put tm/ private agency, and political semi Fe & stateroom. FE. E. Beasiey,. police upheaval, > detective, sat in the room with him. Hanson and Hammond have re- é Outside sat two detectives from a|cetved the $2,500 reward offered by! private agency. Beasley afterward | the Law Enforcement league. The! sald Chester's handcuffs had been rest is contingent upon conviction, removed to let bim eat lunch and - —_ shave, and because he was treating | “, staring at] tors, including a} going on. It is whispered that money | | him well to get him to answer ques- tions PRISONER JUMPS THRU TRAIN WINDOW Suddenly, as the train pulled out | ef Broken Bow, Neb, there was a crash of glass, a volley of shots, and Beasiey dashed out of the stateroom, shouting: “My Ged! Dennic’s amped out of the window” | The train waa stopped, bat of ‘Chester, who was supposed to have dived thru two heavy panes of piate glass, there was no trace save a hat with a bullet hole in it. Followed then a man-hunt that the “whole Middle West will always re- member. It wns freezing weather ' and Chester was hatless and coatlesa _ Bloodhounds were put on the trail, _ Officers took trains in all directions, | Miss Barton's two brothers and Win- iter uncured the opuntry in automo _biles. John Hagan, superintendent of the detective agency, hovered over | the region in an airplane | ~iBIG eee ane OFFERED FOR Rewards totaling ae | had been “ offered.’ But the prairie seemed to have opened and swallowed Dennie Chester. Almost exhausted, Barton, Hagan and a deputy sheriff named Ham- mond got a fresh tip, Nov. 19, oon Chester was near Oconto, Neb. Sle Sead ta (0, macratig tat only they went again. And just then | arrived the hero, Dr. Martin Hanson, over six feet tall, 34 years old, a first Neutenant in the veterinary corps uring the war. He had been treat- Pang a sick horee all night, and he ‘volunteered to help in the search. About noon, Hanson and Ham mond, driving together, met a man im khaki unionalia “How far to Oconto? asked Han- _ gon, jumping out. “Oh, five or six miles,” replied the man. Hanson’s revolver was alreaty against his stomach. “Hands up,” he ordered, and they went up. It was Denzei Chester. TRIES TO HANG HIMSELF IN JAIL In the Broken Bow fail, late that afternoon, Chester tore/strips from | his blanket, knotted them about his throat, and had almost strangled himself before he was found. Early next morning, despite the guard watching him, he suddenly stood up on his cot and dived headiong to the cement floor. And here, instead of ending, : begins NG & FR eARE every Te FOFe cy La é | 20% Holiday Reduction on Field Glasses Binoculars Opera Glasses Telescopes (Most everyone knows the quality of optical merchandise we have handled for over 30 yearns See Selections in Our Windows Five Minutes From eae Downtown TICALC® Women May Run for | Des Moines Mayor! DES MOINES, Ia, Dec. 10.—Local | politicians think it entirely possible that women may be candidates for the office of mayor and for city council jobs at the next election, 16 months hence. Two women mem bera of the board of education, Mra. Bert McKee and Mra Giliger Mac Kinnon, are being discumed as mayoralty possibilities, and Mra M/ es McMichael, former “city mother,” has been mentioned for the council. Strong for His Mother-in-Law DES MOINE, Ta, Dee 10—Roy Lientz claims he has the best mother-niaw ever. She brought him two quarts of—well, anyway, it helped him to get rid of the “flu.” Deadwood Dick! OENZEL CHESTER ~"LATONA BOYS ti | TO SELL TOYS |Eighth Graders to Offer | Their Own Products A sale of toys and furniture will }be held by the Latona Boy Indus» trial corporation at the Latona pub Uc school on December 15, 16 and 17 This organization, which ts com | poand of the elahth grade boys of the school, was incorporated under the Washington state law in October, 1919. ‘The articles offered for male have jal been made by the boys In the manual training department. The funds go to the corporation, and wil! ‘be used to purchase a fitting me morial when the ned graduates, \Murdered Mother; | Prisoners Scorn Him AKRON, ©, Dec. 10.—Joe Mack, charged with firing the contents of }two revolvers into the body of his another while he wads in a drunken rage, can't break into the “social swim” at the county jail Wife de |serters and bootieggers won't associ ate with a man who Is said to admit he killed bis own mother and isn't sorry. |\Dogs Attend Their Master’s Funeral LONDON, Dec. 10.—During the fu eral of Willttam Seiby-Lowndes, master of the Whaddon Chase Hunt, 31 couples of the original pack of hounds stoo@’at the churchyard gate and when the coffin had been low ered into the grave the dogs filed past their master’s resting place. You Can Get ‘| Those Clothes Now! Reduced Prices famous | Get Your | Clothes Tomorrow on Credit We don't ask you to pay cash. Thou sands are already using Uberal credit policy in making their purchases and you, too, ate welcome to open an account, You simply make a smafi payment down and the balance puid on terms to muit YOU purely a business-like way to get your clothes. i} and “Credit Gladly” on i the Famous Bradburys There is no need of waiting until after Christ- mas, you can get your Suit and Overcoat NOW and not be embarrassed for lack of Christmas money. You don’t have to pay cash for the Bradbury Suits and Overcoats This noted brand, perfectly tailored for comfort and service, latest best materials. not only in the styles but, of the The un- questionable workmanship itself is a guarantee of per- fect garment is satisfaction. Every Reduced in Price for Christmas Selling SEATTL’ E, WASH., TLE, WASH., FRIDAY, DECE! DECEMBER 10, 1920. ENLIVENED BY MAZE OF THRILLS” ————_—— 30 Days for 40,000,000 WILL FACE DEATH IN FAMINE “2°22: .,., BY CHARLES KE. HOGUE SHANGHAL—(y Mail)—Famine relief work must continue for at least 10 months in China, according to es timates made by officials who have undertaken the distribution of the millions that are being subscribed to save the starving people, Forty mil- }lion lives are imperiled by the famine, The American Red Cross is taking jan active part in the relief work.| ple have been eating leaves and) Major Emmett C, White, chief of Gal grass, heads of families have poison insular and foreign divinion of the| © thelp wives and children to save American Red Cross, has gone from | them from starvation, children have Manila to work with American Min-| been sold into slavery that thelr | tater Charles R. Crane in the admin. Parents might live and that they istration of the project. | themscives would be cared for Appalling tales of misery are ré| these and other similar stories of cetved daily from the eight Northern | horror have become so commonplace Provinces affected by the famine, that they no longer cause a flurry which is the result of a drouth. Peo-! of excitement here. (4k OWt DRUG CO Time to Hurry Now! eee. wt in the Week and Early in the Day ‘The rains have come to the parch ed provinces should be in a very much better po- and the wufferers sition at the end of 10 months Owing to the increa modities Justice Clar tration court has granted bonuses. to 20,000 commpnwealth public servants instead creases. of permanent wage Thirty days in jail was the sem tence J. Sparland, logger, started t@ serve to tching suiteases in the nding Hquor in them. dge n sentenced hina | Thursday Iman C. 0. Beott nabbed him at the O. & W. station Tuerday. JAIL SENTENCES WILL Bi GIVEN “hard” drink shop propria in-| tors, Judge John B. Gordon hag warned in police court Below is a list which is full of interest to those who have fixed $1.00 as the amount to spend on remembrances. Every’ article in the list belongs in the practical class: Coigate’s Medium size—Violet, Caprice, Cashmere Bouquet, France Rose and Lavender, Large size— and Monad Violet Dactylis, La Eclat, Lilac, Imperial Cs unin Ivory Py-ra-lin Toilet Articles Secneas Tes Raven dO Big page copie vec which was pu - Saute Perfumes and Toilet Waters can offer ies of Perfumes and Toilet Waters— prominent inthe it. es kph a Toilet Article Sets Here again the restrictions of the war period have been removed. ies of sets from such perfumers as Vivaudon, Palmer, Hudnut, Kerkoff, te and Remiller. Prices start at $2.00. Early selection is advisable,for the demand is great. ity Stationery in Boxes Those who know something of the present market will a preciate The Owl Drug Store prices on for Gifs, The Fe Ne et The assort- i boxes of Note Paper, Correspondence Cards, and combinations of both. The boxes beautify as well as protect the contents. Prices start at 50c a box, Colgate’s Florida Water (large) . M. & L. Florida Water (large). . Hoyt’s Eau de Cologne (large). . Hudnut’s Toilet Waters 402 bottles of Gardenia, Violet Sec, Yankee Violet. Melba Toilet Waters. . Lov'me, Lilac and Violet. Mirimbi Lily Toilet Water. ....—.....-----.0= ----$1.00 Leone Toilet Water... .....--.---—- me Varna Violet Toilet Water. .... Red Feather Lilac Vegetal. ..... .... --4--.- . Mirimbi Lily Lilac Vegetal. ...........—...--- -—-$1.00 Violet Dulce Perfume Harmony Perfumes (various odors). . Red Feather Perfume (ounce bottles) Houbigant’s Ideal Talcum Powder. .. Mavis Talcum Powder (large size)... Houbigant’s Quelques Fleurs Talcum. Armand’s Aida Face Powder. ........ Hudnut’s Gardenia Face Powder. .... Mary Garden Face Powder. . ooeeee $1.00 R. & G, Anthea Face Powder. .... .. .. ~.-- - .--—~- .$1.00 Mavis Face Powder (large) . ...----- -- -- -- --- --— - $1.00 Bonquet Ramee Face Powder... ......0-----+------$1.00 Lilas Arly Face Powder . ——----.--—---0---e<wwe- - $1.00 Leone Face Powder... .. .-----------+2-- ------2---$1.00 Mirimbi Lily Face Powder. ..............-. $1.00 Swansdown Powder Puffs. . ......------...------- $1.00 Garden-Glo Soap (Palmer's). . . ..------------2.---.$1.00 Mary Garden Sachet (1% ounce) . —~.mp~ --- ---—-—-. $1.00 Mary Garden Vanity Cases. $1.00 Cases for Toilet Articles. ............-<-$1.00 ocewcn coats cnntlince cose anes = GL 00 manne eee conne $1.00 oname cence -$1.00 Cuticle or Nail Scissors. ...... Nail Nippers—the best Nail Buffers (ebony or rosewood). . occ coe - $1.00 Seamless Hot Water Bottles. ......................$1.00 Ivory Pyralin Soap Boxes. .....+.. --.------..~~- .$1.00 Metal Soap Boxes. .. .. ...2---- sees ooo oe oe oon - $1.00 Silk Toilet Sponges. .. .. —— ---0-~-=-wewee nena $1.00 Sorbo Rubber Sponges. ...../.....- ss -encesecces $1.00 Sheep’s Wool Sponges (various ) «een ee ewewee- $1.00 Sponge Cases (silk or cretonne) . .—- ---~---- nw ee~- -$1.00 oc emece nc ec ee meee es ~- $1.00 Hard Rubber Dressing Combs... ...........--..$1.00 Ivory Pyralin Dressing Combs... . .. .. .. sw. .---.-$1.00 Ivory Pyralin Sarber Style Combs. ....... .. .-..$1.00 Wood Back Hair Brushes......... asec ecccceceeee $1.00 Prophylactic Penetrator Hair Brushes. ....... —-~..$1.00 Tooth Brushes (French and English). owe cnmne « -$1.00 Ivory Pyralin Tooth Brush Cylinders. ..............$1.00 Bath Brushes (detachable handle)... ............-$1.00 Standard Safety Razors. ........2..-e0sec-seeeee--$1.00 Ezonall Shaving Cream (jars). +n Blade Razors,........ eeweecce Swaty Razor Hones... . Strops for Blade Razors Strops for Autostrop Razors. . Shaving Brushes Barber Style Hair Brushes... Horn Combs (barber style). . Wood Back Cloth Brushes. . Whisk Brooms Kodak Albums (two styles) Boxed Stationery Sheer White Pound Paper Eversharp Pencils. .... A Vest Pocket Scissors. Eveready Flashlights Vest Pocket Style and Pentlite, Weather Thermometers Oil Tanned Polishing Chamois Leather Money Belts. ..: Combination Hip Books. Double Fold Card Cases. ... Tite-Wad Currency Holders. Bill and Coin Purses Sensible Coin Purses. Tray Style Purses. . ig English Coin Purses. . ee A rs Pes (peo The Owl Drug Co Third and Pike Westlake and Pine Phone Main 7700 2 ce we cee c cwewee $1.00 «-$1.00 oe ow cece eee $1.00 + ee ceee e+ $1.00 First and Pike