The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 15, 1921, Page 1

@aeather Tonight and Wedne rain; easterly winds, tnereasing in force. Tonmperature Last 34 Hours Maximum, 39. Minimum, 30. Today noon, 36, * Entered as Second Class Matter Ma: y 30 This City Will Not Repudiate. Beware the Remedy of Bolsheviks! Be Sane—Let the Maniacs Rave. : Repuadiation Both Dishonorable and Silly. EATTLE WILL NOT repudiate her bonds! The maniacs who have been guilty of the pres-| ' ent topsy-turvy condition in Seattle’s railway af- ' fairs will know this sooner or later. The rest of us know it now! This city is not going to out-bolshevik the bolshe- ‘viki. Repudiation is not part of Seattle’s creed! _ | _ All this talk of not paying for the street railway is lain rot. We will pay for it unless there is good Mal wrounds why the deal should be called off alto-| ther. | Be Whether there are good legal grounds no one knows. | | The mayor has been shooting off his mouth about a 'Buit to cancel the contract and a suit to recover part Sof the purchase money, but has so far done nothing’. about instituting such a suit. There is nothing in the world to stop him. Is he merely peddling the bunk? In the absence of such a suit and in the absence of “any but flannel-mouthed conversation, the city is ing to pay the bonds. ‘It is going to be square. It not going to be crooked, and shifty, and under- handed. | what . The city’s qe Or threatened, not by paying 4 ought, but paying. ; totus maniacs rave if they cheose. They having a good time. But the rest of Seattle | act sanely. We must not let a few spouting-lu city’s reputation the blackest eye it ever CABINET STILL For few things are more dishonorable than repudi- etna HE CITY RAILWAY is now raking in more than : $18,000 a day. This will aggregate $6,500,000) List _ayear or more. This is enough to pay all expenses) dba The railway is seeing daylight now. But there nour is almost here Hughes, New York, for secretary daylight. They want it to be a failure. | Definite selections—CharienE. q ey want it to default. And they’re bringing (rite; Harry M. Deusherty. 7 _ At the present rate of income the city would be |W in'tx. stays ts remardot as tate | foolish to default. The outlook was never MOE | ty certain to be postmaster genera! Repudiation, at this time would not only be dishon- | to the president-elect sald today | holding off. * * cd * * City ‘Cars Solvent, [sey war, commerce sad labor ort Andrew W. Mellen, Pittsburs, within a dity or two. ‘That the city’s street railway fund; With this figure as a basis, it de}, ~ - ERED $s solvent and more than able to meet | duces a balance of $1,220,000 wil be Fitzgerald Opposes on hand March 1, 1922, to meet prin ARK SECRET |“Best Information” Makes a} ; | and interest and leave a surplus after paying an in-| ST. AUGUSTINE. Pia. Feb. 15 _ stallment of $833,000 on the bonds. [te och a mnoeterd, <6 (eb ssovanthel ' appear those who DO NOT WANT the railway to see} ,.hing the cabinet ts as forlowne suit to make it default—Mayor Caldwell’s represent- | onio, tor attorney general; Senator i i B. Fall, New Mexico, for ative, Wilmon Tucker, and a handful of other “tax-| er Po itartor, Honey C Wal. | payers.” |iace, Iowa, for secretary of agri-| ; * Charles G. Dawes positively will | i Bright for the railway. | not be fa the cabinet, persons close L. A, BANDITS SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, Sells Booze in Court.at. $5 Per Taste “Your honor, we plead guilty,” waid George Olson, attorney for Joe Navario, to Justice of the Penes C. C. Datton Tuesday morning. “But we ask for leniency. My client had only a pint and it was grapo, at that.” “Taste it-ang see,” ordered the court ; Olson sipped twior. “It's good liquor,” he sald, smacking his lpa, “Then,” said the Judge, “we'll make the fine $110, and the $10 extra is to pay for the two drinks you have just had at the rate of $5 apiece.” Man, Beat Another Feb, 15.—Three a card game in a room in a down. more than $20,000 in currency, jewel On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star 9, at the Ponstoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 9, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $6 to $9 921, Mrs. Frank R. Atkins (left, photo by Lothrop) and Mra, W. E. Maas (phote by Price & cendants of Col. Jacob Baker, revolutionary war hero, who expect to tion of an 800 million dollar estate. LANDIS MAY 6 |Ex ment Case e BY HERBERT W. WALKER Kenesaw Mountain Landis, of Chi. TO BENEFI |800-Million Dollar Estate | to Be Divided Among Many Descendants Heirs to a fortune which is exth mated at from $500,000,000 to $800,- 000,000 in Pennsylvania were crop |ping up thick and fast in Seattle Tuesday. | While Mra. Olfve Virginia Atkins, wife of Frank R. Atkins, real ew jtate man in the Burke bidg., laid janide her kitchen apron and came down town at the request of The Star to have her picture taken, others were laying claim to a share In the vast fortune ;HER SHARE OVER |A MILLION AND A HALF Mrs. Atkins, if reports be correct, will some day soon step into @ for tune running between one and a half and two and a half millions of dollars. ‘i | This will be her share of the vast Col. Jacob Baker estate in Pennsyi jvania. The estate, according to in- formation received here, includes 300 acres in the heart of Philadel- phia, and the entire town of Chilll- cothe, Obio, a city of 15,831 popu- lation, Mrs. Atkins’ husband, who wit! engineer the legal fight for western heirs, says all told there are about 300 bheirn = =This tt the BEFORE HOUSE 7. J to “ “ Prospects’ of coming * tate pert Hearing in Impeach- snug fortune may have perturbed Mrs, Atkina, but he failed to show any undue agitation as she finished up her housework and came down town today ATKINS NOT TOO EXCITED . ‘ e 4 rs TO SMOKE HIS PIPE SHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Jud WASHINGT to Jude"! Nor did Atkins in his office seem | "nounced today | The man under arrest was a mem- cago, may be asked to appear be- unduly excited. He dragged on an fore the house judiciary commit-|°!4 Drier as he talked to a. Star | ber of the crew of the Mayflower. tee to answer Impeachment charzes brought against him in the house | by Representative Welty, Ohio. Friends of Landis already have axked that he be invited to appear, while Welty belleves the commit- tee rbhould ask him to testify dur ing the Inquiry as to whether the) impeachment charges are sufficient | by the eggs }to warrant a trial A meeting of the judiciary com today. move. | a: NERS |Plan to Quarantine ; - | | gentioned for. seeretary' of the | 3 ouncl €so u won treasury, is expected in Flosida| LOS ANGELES, | . armed and masked mon today raided were being made by the public health 4 rab i Harding bas invited ex-Governor 7 0 le but silly. aie of Tilinoia to become secre STEAL $20 000 A canvass of committee members |™ i * & 2 * |tary of the navy, but Lowden is y |today revealed that for the present | STILL a majority of them do not believe | FOU? ~ |that Welty has presented sufficient} Frank L. Raker, 2412 Harvard ave. Raid Card Game, Shoot | evidence to back his impeachment | N., president and manager of the En man. was asked ate, grinned and said: “Haw! Haw? said Atkins. {born in Kansas, + OTHER HEIRS iD IN SEATTLE |terpriso Brass foundry, is another heir. Mra. W. EF. Maas, 1763 W. s6th st., also is a claimant to the fortune, Atlantic Steamers) she says she is a descendant of the NEW YORK, Feb, 15. Following | original town hotel, robbed 12 participants of |two deaths from typhus here, plans | family, which ol. Baker, or Becker, as the me from Germany, { was originally known, Fan tawtut chargon''e the message of |On hand March 1, 1932, to meet prin- Taxing for Carlines | 7) 04 nemstiavie checks and cacapea |80rvice for Immediate establishment] | Matilda Butler, Col, Baker's daugh- 3 @ resolution adopted by the city Coun-| the cost of maintenance and opera } til at its meeting Monday afternoon. | tion and interest on all utility and | The resolution declares that the| general bonds has been paid. city is being discredited by gpisrepre-| Councilman John E. Carroll cast sentation as to the financfal condi-| the only negative vote on the adop-| ¢reenwood, last night, declared that tion of it« street railway, and quotes, | tion of the ordinance, preliminary to as an offset to these alleged mis-| its being referred to the utilities and [| representations, the daily revenue/|finance committees for passage at | | from the lines as $18,368.39. | the next council meeting. * %* JIt Looked Bad for | taxation for the stteet railway sys tem, former Mayor C. B. Fitzgerald, speaking at Greenwood hall, 83rd and the Seattle tax rate if we expect an | addition of new industries to Seattle. | people stop tall * Flor- ng about me 4 Resolution on Cars cir rire Attacking the resolution adopted|source for the same purpose an ad-| She was granted a divorce. by the city council Monday to the! ditional $182,777, or for two years _ effect that the city’s street railway and a fraction, from the general tax * time to defray all expenses connect-| for 1920 and 1921, $406,305 e4 with the street railways, Mayor|perchance the $182,000 expenditure | Hugh M. Caldwell issued the follow-| for 1921 is restrained by ing statement Tuesday morning | “1 have not been able to find in “The action of the council inj the resolution, even an optimistic passing the resolution is directly op.| forecast of when the $83,000 hereto posite to the recommendations of the | fore borrowed from the ¢ ; grand jury. Instead of taking or | May find its way back to that fund.” authorizing some action to obtain re - taf’ fromm the: premetit contract, vtis| Anybody Want ‘Val’? | Milk Dealers to Thieves worked while § Tanaka, York, Ry slept. Both bill a are minus watches, A 0 1 fund | Was taken from York and $12 from Tanaka, | ie is designed to more securely fasten it ; 4 4 On j upon us. The resolution will doubt \He s Valentine Baby| Mee he Wednesday 7 less make its appearance In the litt | «val. a walf left on the doeratep| , Much milk I expected to bv { Re ee ee cocth tare a |% 3088 Hanson's home, at 4048 $14) G2 convention af the Smcktie propaganda being put forth thru 8) ave, w., Monday night, was in clty | y ren n of the University west Milk Dealers’ axsocia- Professor Ha: of Washingte [hospital Tuesday, awaiting a new f-| tion which opens at the Washin | ther and mother. “Val,” who derives! ion Annex at 10 a. m. Wodn “The people may find some solace | hig name from the day of his dell bn "9 4 in the fact that the resolution of the | to the Hanson home in a wicker bas-|7¥0 And three hundred milk deal- council at least agrees with the! ket, will be a county ward until offi | ers will atten grand jury report in so far as it finds | cially and legally adopted thru the| t Oppose More Money to Foreign Powers that the str f properly manage “The resolution ignores the report t the city comptrolier showing tnat | GOt His Money, but lways are ‘being | courts WASHINGTON, Feb. 15,—The sen. the city expended from the general ’ ate judiciary committees today unani tax revenues in 1919 on account of Wouldn t Behave |*\* went on record against pay the acquisition of the municipal tho he earned $160 a month and| ment of any further money to foreign street railway properties $105,725.01,| gave his wife all but $10, still she| countries, even on commitments al and for 1920, $117,803.78, and that) wouldn't behwive, according to Mi-| ready made, until all the facts con | estimated on the budget for 1921 the| chael Wells, in his petition for di-| cerning the loans are known to con . ity intends to expend from the same | vorce from Irena oress, | " | After declaring himself opposed to| after shooting one of the players and) oii, 5 every effort must be made to lower| streets, the police were informed, | | weverely beating another. A dozen or more men were playing draw poker, seated at a table in a room of a hotel at Ninth and Main |whefl the robber trio burst in on} them, Each was masked and carried of a 12-day quarantine on all trans wengers. The steamer Minnesota will be an: receiving ship. Dog Barks; Thief two revolvers. suis F, Garrett was shot thru the | 1 when commanded to} raise his hands. Robert Porter was jend of a revolver when hé failed to |hand over his money fast enough. Three stitches were required to close | & wound in his upper lip | Porter was one of the heaviest | loners, He was robbed of $5,500 in| cash, checks totaling $4,800, and a diamond stick pin $1,000. | ring valued together uriess| Slept; Watches Gone} Aatier the money wan swept trom | jthe table, the pla lined against a wall, ord eh for the moon” and their clothing and| fingers were robbed of money and| jewelry | | Some of the other victims and thele | to the police, follow: losses, aa give | | RR. B, Hulbert, $280 in curre! | |Matt Sparkman, $150 and bank drafts for $3,500 and $800; Nicholas | Dandeles, $500 and a diamond ring | valued at $900. Several others were robbed, but tt | |ia said they departed before the po-| lice arrived and their identity and losses were not lear Maybe She Forgot to Look for Him “I'm going away, and you'll never find out where,” Charles Linzi told| | his wife, Birdie, She didn’t, and now | | she wants a divorce | | DR. R. CRONAN, OF NEW YORK, will talk tonight at LO, O. F, hall, Tenth ave. and Pine st, and Wed day night at Plymouth chureh, on ‘Conditions in Germany and Aus Jeria” one a woman, we! The barking of Mra. I. Nelson's n@k and his Jaw was broken when /dog is believed to have frustrated | ' Mayor Riled Over _ | -Pary, Either Wayne |struck in the mouth with the butt|the dog barked loddly he hastened an attempted holdup early Tuesday. A man rapped at the door. When away, leaped into a waiting auto and drove aw merican Legion’s Concert Postponed The American Legion's benefit con- a diamond | cert, scheduled for Thuragay night, | MP at the Masonic temple, hag been post poned to March 15, ‘This, it is said, will ble the hospital committee to organt: ta ticket sale on a ln r ne ho blind pianist, Francis Richter, who #¢ London and cert’s headliner, Will Hold Inquiry Into Nelson Death Coroner W. H. Corson will hold a post-mortem to determine the rea son why C. W. Nelson, about 54, died, Nelson was found in a bathtub in the Waldon hotel, Sixth ave, and Yesk way, Tuesday, apparently from nat- ural causes, He was a logger. Rela tives have not located. Eight Are Killed in Sinn Fein Raid CORK, Feb, 15.—Fight passengers, killed early today annon when Sinn Feiners da railway train there. 1 e killed by soldiers who end ored to protect the pas. sengers. Four soldiers and a number of passengers were wounded, red triumphs in is, will be the cons ehored off quarantine as a hospital! |ter, was in turn the mother of Nel- son Butler, who is now living in Seat tle at 5815 20th ave, N. W., with his son. J. &. Butler.. Nelson Butler is | the father of Mrs. Mans. He has an- other daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Harper, living in San Francisco, Another Frank L. Baker, an archi- Frightened; Flees) tet. in the Pacitic block, said Tues |day that he, too, is a descendant of the Baker family in question. But he jsuid he was not excited over the prospect pf inheriting any money. “This fortune has been a tradition in our family for 50 years,” he told ‘The Star today, LITIGATION MAY DRAG ON FOR YEARS | Atkins said Tuesday that litigation over the estate probably will drag out in thé courts for months and per. ears before the estate will be | parceled out and any of the western heirs receive money | Atkins’ interest was aroused to the point of action thru a story ap- pearing in the Kansas City Star last | month. | Col, Baker recetved a land grant from the government in recognition of his services in the revolutionary war and in the war of 1812. In land the estate | would re . | Chillicothe is a 831 popula. |tion and the Philadelphia acreage | contains the site of the city hall, But, in addit the rents which have been accumulating under a 99. year lease are said to be on hand in cash, ready for distribution, All the beneficiaries are united in one organization, which has named itself the Baker association. They are children of James Lionel Baker, ‘ereat grandson of Col. Baker, who }lived in Centralia from 1906 to 1909, when he died Heirs in this vicinity, besides Mra. Atkins and Mr. Baker, are: Mrs. J.| |. Raught, Mrs. J. A. Richolsor |Mrs, Harmon F, Jones of Cent Mrs. F. I. Bressler of Bremerton, D, O, Baker of Hoquiam and Roy W. | Baker of Anace=+- EDITION fi TH ~*~ GF “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE and wonderin attle the final editic | turned from a are beginning | Fifth edition. starve.” | | | | | Last week he | ‘The man now Imprisoned also was| ‘4 could come back,” she |Seattlo all his life. Mrs, Atkins was | discovered to have made an appoint {Pere “I always loved ‘hhim.” ment in a park with another man, r 7 apparently to secure the “package.” Talking Spell of j Naval authorities went to the park stead, but found that man had not appeared, They found) WAUKEGAN, Ill, Feb. 15: |a note, however, directing that the|am Rubin, § years old, whe | sailor meet him the following night. The department of justice is now searching for the other man. Daniels intimated that the officers} Miriam slept nine hours |of the Mayflower had reason to sus-| which is more than at any time pect the enlisted man of a sinister { purpose. for exactly Ten gallons a Tho financial adviser dent-elect Hardin, debt. 3] pert, will delive on the subject for the Sth edition. ST. AUGUSTINE, President Wilson made ments, eithr direct or remote, re- garding cancellation of the debts at the Paris peace conference, |The men are Jasper McNeeley, Fred as W. Lamont, who acted as a} Lucas and Ralph Palmer, there, told Presi- HEIRS TO VAST FORTUNE TWO SEATTLE WOMEN WHO INHERIT MILLIONS Tomls Hungry; Hopes No-Food AMONG 300 | Drive Witt Win DM ELLIS When .this edition of The Star hits the downtown streets, I shall be walking around looking discon. solately into restaurant windows, “no- luneh” drive for the benefit of Se- unemployed is coming out Te city editor has asked tne to describe my pangs of hunger for *k how my m, I don't be I will need to walt that long. walk, The wheels to grind for the And it's preuy near time to go. ‘ ‘The city editor just yelled: “Gimme that page one box be- fore you go out to l—I mean If you-all join me in ae noon of hunger, the Social Wel- fare league, 301 Central bullding, will get several thousand dollars for the jobless men of Seattle and || The dead were: their families, who need it badly. |FOur SHOT DOWN see BY THE CITY EDITOR LATER—Tom wrote that stuff | Black home Then he beat Elien Black, aged stx, dai it. He hasn't returned as the 7th | Myron and Reoda Black. oe edition goes In. T suppose he has || Myron Black, thi usband, starved to death. | ae, ese he's gormandizing. : PLOT 10 BOMB WILSON YAC Enlisted Man Is Held as ~~ Suspect “ WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—An en-| tried to stop him but I t listed man of the navy is under ar-| pointed the revolver at little RBed rets in connection with a possible | four months old, and he fired it, bomb plot to blow up the presidential yacht Mayflower, Secretary Daniels ] POVERTY I'm hungry now—a little bit hungrier than I generally am at this time of day, ‘The printers already have re- Either that or ‘TS CAUSE OF HOM Demented Man Slays Ba er, Child, Wounds Ano er Baby, Ends Life SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. | Rhoda Black, aged 26, lay side her 4monthold babe emergency hospital today and how the specter of poverty | tered the Black home with us ing of winter, : Ti-health had followed tn tte wale, - And this morning murder th brought up the sinister train of fortune, is Mrs, Black was widéwed early day when something snapped in |husband’s brain, He slipped fi | bed, grasped a revolver and a | minutes later three were dead another dying. 4 IN SUDDEN OUTBURST Raymond Buss, boarder killed himself, The one dying was little aged four months, An ugly bullet lodged in her Physicians said, will never Jet } “About 3 o'clock this Z husband left his bed,” Mra, Blse said in a low, broken came to my room, took # and he killed our boarder, ‘Buss, epee tay . shot Ellen. She was aged FE “My husband ts dead,” she “Our boarder is dead, too. dead, My baby and I are ‘That's all.” hy did he do it? asked the tendant. ® was maid to have|-WE'VE BEEN 80 POOR,” 20,000-Foot Leap | to Be Made Today Woman, 102, Er The 20,000-foot parachute leap over Elliott bay, which Ivan De- BLOOMFIELD, N. J., Feb, Villiers has been trying to make was scheduled to come off this after. noon without fail. An almost per |, Mrs. Cockefair, who outlived fect day brought the announce ment from DeVilliers at noon that he would make the flight and jump. He was to fly from Kent at 3 p. m. and make the leap over the bay at 4 p. m. one week, 'Had Twice as Many : Gallons as Shots| Open Next Monda: five shots were| SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15. the evidence against U. Ubaldino, 37,} 20 definite date has been set, it wa |‘Tuesday, The gallons were made up | believed today that next Mon the | of grapo, the shots being bullets for ; nd | Ubaldino’s .38-caliber revolver, is being held for federal authorities, | along with F. Lupis, 37, contractor, arrested with him. No Strings Bind ‘| Allied Debt Problem || tusitives trom Monroe reformatory 15.— } are again in custody today, following no commit-| their capture yesterday in the 5! Ma., Keb. @ today. Harding, he said, “is free as air, in the matter of settling the allied Dublin City Hall | building is occupied by government Talk on Wednesday | (iii. tne cxpiosive ens havea © Harland Bartholomew, zoning ex- | trom an automobile which passed the © * a public lecture! puilding at high speed, at Broadway high] It inflicted no damage, but school Wednesday night, Febru-|in a renewed search by the Jary 23. the other allied “If you and Mrs, Atkins get this! asked the boatswain of the Mayfiow-| SAYS YOUNG WIDOW jmoney will you leave Seattle? he/|er that he be given the watch at a/ “Why? Why?" responded | certain hour of night, as he expected | Mother blankly. “I don’t know Atkins turned to an office associ-|a package to be brought on board. | He pleaded with the boatswain that !ck- When he went to get a “What do you know about that? | it would be worth a large amount of @ "treet car the docto “Would you—er—consider buying | money to him if the officer allowed | ‘Uberctllosis. Poor little thi up the municipal railway system?" | this, Daniels said. | “Ha The boatsWwain suspected the man | Mother as she stroked little tking and his wife live in the up-| wanted to bring a bomb on board mites probably will be held within | Per floor of @ modest dwelling at/and reported the affair to Capt.|*"ined in bandages, the neat few Gays to determine {92% Hirst ave. N.. at the foot of | Holmes, procedure, Chairinan Volatead said Queen Anne bill. Atkins hae lived in | We have been #0 poor. He has bee \burts her so," sobbed the Site who lay beside ner, unmoving: “Even I would forgive him $f | Girl to Be Broke | talked incessantly since r will soon be cured of her . malady, physicians believed to she became affected. Twisted brae in the spine caused her tion, doctors said. Birthday at V Mrs. Irene Cockefair celebrated 102d birthday here today by the newspapers and knitting a cloth, husband and three children, ed her long life to regular hard work and temperance, “I enjoy life,” she said, “and t to live as long as I can, T have a ways been strong willed, and that termination enabled me to fight pneumonia two years ago.” Mooney Probe county grand jury would, 0 promised investigation of the Tho Mooney case. . He Three Reformatory Fugitives Captured ERETT, Feb. 15.—Three of six north of Monroe. . Their tracks in the snow betrayed them to pursuers, — .|Bomb Is Thrown at — DUBLIN, Feb, 15.—An unsuccess- ‘ |tut attempt was made to bomb the — | Dublin city hall last night, The : today for hidden munitiong