The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 6, 1921, Page 1

} 90 EM Waather Tonight and Tuesday, fair; moderate erly winds, Temperature Last Maximum, 7; {ilk Today noon, 000,000 DAMAGE IN FLOOD! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise southwest- Hours imum, 57, 70. 5. Mi Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 189! The Seattle Star at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 _ VOLUME 23 Greetings, folks! Dija bay a half a dozen peanuts at Wood land park yesterday, or did you decide to save your quarter? eee Ice cream cones and sandwiches higher at the parks this year they were during the war. r, smaller and thinner. eee ‘The new concessionaire evidently with Sherman that war is I. Peace is much more profitable for him! * ‘The fellow who'll cheat a baby out | an extra nickel for an ice cream wouldn't hesitate to cheat the Doard and the city in the terms the concession.. Home Brew ad- the city officials to look before sign the papers. eee considering the situation and thoughtfully, announces that he will accept position of instructor of TH [RLS' CLASS IN JOURNALISM bt the University. f eee ““Torrent catches children in ‘headline {n University jour ‘ edition of The Star. We assume, then, that the kiddies only partially drenched. ® At moving ure shows. a sa —Houston Post ite troubles Adam had, | He always had a chance, sure he never had to fear ‘That Eve would wear the pants. , —New Orleans Item. n troubles Adam had His lot could not be better; never bawled out because | He didn't mail Eve's letter. d eee ‘| A WORD FROM JOSH WISE You e’n hear a lot uv big talk n little men. | eee Newspapers are bragging 00,000 lobsters were brought that city in boats last year. We Yt know why they failed to count number that arrived by train d auto. HATS THE OBJECT, REWARD OR MATRIMONY? “Will the gentleman who picked up dy’ who fell Tuesday morning on Granite st. by Hennessy's store, call at 17 E. Summit st—Ad- vertisement in Butte (Mont.) Miner. xg eee | They've discovered in Chicago that there’s an undertakers’ trust in the ‘town. They catch us coming, during Sour stop, and when we're going, don't hey? A professor of the University of ‘Kansas says he has found bird's teeth 25,000,000 years old. We'll be More interested when somebody dis- overs hen’s teeth, which have been moted these many years for their scarcity. And by the way, Uncle Tom is answering some of the college presi- dents who have been panning him, and he’s answering by telling some | of the answers given by the college | graduates to his questions. Here are a few: “John Hancock was president of a § life insurance company.” “Most of the textiles come from | India.” “Most of the coffee comes from java.” . Be it as it may, Joseph Grass lives in Prentice, Wis see Green THE TIRED BUSINESS MAN TELEPHONES “Miss Bjinks, get me Mr. Hoozie.” Miss Bjinks looks up Turnem & | Pattem’s number, then: “Gimme No,, not 9391; 9291. *¢¢ “Is this 92917 Is this Turnem | & Patten? Mr. Thasso is on the He wants to speak with Mr. (Mr. Hoozis is in Mr. Worrit's pri- vate office telling him how he won 40 cents in syndicate golf.) Mr. Hoozis’ private secretary says: “Mr. Hoozis is in conference now. will call Mr. Thasso in 30 min tes.” In 30 minutes the intric ‘oad is backtracked from Mr. Hoozie 10 Mr- Thasso, five people being en gaged in the ‘simmple transaction. Mr. "Thasso is out. When he returns Miss Bjinks tells him that Mr. Hoozis call- ed, but by that time he has forgotten wwhat he wanted to talk about. Ain't business wonderful <=> IN GREAT FIRE ‘REENACTED HERE TODAY Old “Sacramento” and Vol- unteers Again Make “Run” on Anniversary Right where Seattle's great fire started 32 years ago today, and at | precisely the same moment—at 2:45 P. m., at First ave. and Madison st.— the ery of: “Fire?” As on that day in '89, crowds of People fill the street. The crowd parts. The same old “Sacramento” hand:pump water squirter, fn those days called an engine, today a relic, is making again its famous run. TWO CARTS OF HOSE, RED SHIRTS 'ND EVERYTHING! From ‘old fire headquarters at ‘Third ave, 8. afd Main ‘st. comes the “Sacramento,” and behind jt two pearts of hose. Those men in fire helmets and red and biue shirts are the 100 “laddies" of the old volun- teer fire guard of °89. That man at the head is W. H. Clark, now an assistant fire chief, but in Company No, 2. the flames were starting that wiped So. eighty-niners themselves. One of the old guard comes from Spokane to attend the celebration— O. W. Lewis, the man who saved the old courthouse from the fire. Lewis climbed to the roof, hauled up an old tron bucket and doused several small blazes. Just then the wind changed. He extinguished all the smouldering shingles and climbed down just as the belfry of the church nearby tumbled into the street with a crash: Old-timers all remember the bell in |the belfry. ‘The flames caused such a draft roaring up thru the belfry that the bell continued ringing thru out the fire until the tower fell. BRONZE TABLET TO | MARK SPOT OF FIRE Hereafter a bronze tablet will mark the place where the fire started. Placed at First ave. and Madison st., by the survivors of the fire depart- ment, the tablet reads: The Seattle Fire Started Here on dune 6, 1889. Fotiowing the afternoon cere be held at Plymouth Congregational church, Sixth ave. and University st. at 6:30 p,m, Former Senator 8. H, Piles will be toastmaster. Rev. D. H. Brown, who was at Olympia at the time of the fire, and who came to Seattle to help revive the stricken city, will deliver the invocation. Councilman R. H. Thomson will tell of “Seattle Before the Fire.” Vivian M. Carkeek, historian, will show stereopticon views of the fire and of the reconstruction, Rev. Clark Davis, Mrs. Walter B. Reals and others who saw the fire and helped rebuild the city after. wards will give three-minute talks, William Shelton, an Indian, will tell of the impressions of Charles Jewels, another Indian, who was camped on the outskirts of the town when the fire began, and Woo Bing, aged Chinaman, will relate the story of the disaster in Chinatown, Boy Struck by Ball Is Seriously Hurt Two were injured in baseball games Suhday. Roger Holman, 11 years old, 2327 21st ave. N., was struck on the head by a batted ball while playing baseball with play- mates, He was taken to Swedish hos- pital, where he was found to be suf- fering from concussion of the brain. He has not regained consciousness | since the ac nt and his condition is said to b ritical. Robert J. Boyd, 21, 4018 12th ave. . E., was struck in the eye during a ball game Sunday near his home. He was taken to Providence hospital Boyd's condition is not as serious as Holman’s, "89 the foreman of Engine |ternal revenue insepctor, William H. And as the grim old fire fighters|OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T reach tho scene where 32 years eg0|/ KNOW U. S. DOPE SLEUTH the embryo Seattle all but off the/did not know James, else he would map, a cheer is heard, just as in '89./have given the United States dope today’s anniversary program |sieuth a wide berth. To my surprise, was scheduled by the old-timers, the /ho walked directly into what seemed monies, a reunion for all pioneers will | SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1921. CITY'S HE WIDOW is forced to pay taxes on her sewing machine, under our sys- tem of taxation, while THE BANK- ER can have his safe stuffed with securities and his vaults filled with cash—and ES- CAPE taxation except on the physical value of his safes. The widow pays; the home owner pays. The owner of CASH does NOT pay taxes! Girl White Cross Worker Fails to Land Dope Chief (Third of « series of stories by the girl) Well, “Duke.” Wilke Crone worker whe hee beam Mest | asked toe if I'd lke to go torn dance, active in smashing the dope ring in Se- » go to a dance. I said I would, and he took me to ettle.) 7 7 the Tavern cafe. There he intro BY CLAIRE DULAC duced me to five or six people, who, in some of our most fashionable| He told them, in turn, that 1 was places, 0. K. It was my plan to gain the ame Who cater WoOre. Tabbionbte | “PURE'e” confidence and nocompany trade. We wanted to land him to | him on his buying trip to Vancouver. find out what he knew, where he|/f I could succeed in that I had a was getting his stuff and from | hunch my search for the king of the whom. - He led mé into’ the ining | Ps the master mind, would be well room of one of our bi otels. one, As I entered Fnotloes pany at ig the mony agi you Lone - |the more often your plans go glim- one of the tables, a U. S. deputy In. | oe eee ae Duniness, EARLY ALL OF PARTY DRUNK There was a girl In the party at the Tavern—a young® pretty, silly |thing. ‘Three or four of the men | were trying to get her drunk. They did. They all got drank. I had a | hard time “ditching” my drinks, but |I did it by waiting until one of the James. It was obvious that the peddler a certain trap. He passed James’ table, but sat down at the next. I took an observation post at a table nearby and waited. Here, I surmised, I should soon see a little dope ring drama enacted in real life |—as soon as the peddler began to |peste and the revenue agent spotted im, changing my full one for his empty one. We landed, at last, in the girl's japartment. I swung the conversa- |tion around to “dope.” The members lof the party told all they knew, es- |pecially the “Duke,” who did not I waited an hour. ‘The peddier haa | Wish to be overshadowed as a “bust- ; [ness man” by the others. ordered something to eat. Under the | °° napkin on hig lap he had concealed | , 700 much booties liquor thwarted & package of “bindlew” of dope. Sev-| the “Duke's” Vancouver deal, When jeral men and women customers had|! left the party and went home to |come to his table, handed him money |™¥ hotel he was br py ung and received their “bindle.” And all| A couple of days later I met him this time James had sat there ob.|#t Second ave. and Union st. He livious. He hadn't seen tho drug|#!4 $4 worth of dope to another traffic going on right under his nose. jundercover worker there on He Tt was getting late, If we were to| Street. Policeman Baerman and ch the peddier with any dope left| Anderson stepped up. ‘The “Duke ‘on his person,” I realized we would |*truck Anderson in the face. er have to act at once. T save © ma_|srappled, rolled into the gutter, an artenged' signal t when the “Duke” got up he had Two plain clothes men, R. F. Baer-|handcuffs on.- man and N. ?. Anderson, of the po-|. My next task was a bigger one, lice narcotic squad, stepped over to| but more successful. I'll tell ‘oe the peddier's table and put him un.|how I got Pete Gregory, alias A. der arrest. Pete. To this day I cannot say whether James realized the man at the next! table was “pinched” when Baerman, | Anderson, the peddler and I walked quietly out of the place. I won't divulge the peddler’s name, because his life wouldn't be worth a |penny if the drug ring found out it was he who gave us the tip that | |led to the downfall of Fred (“Duke”) | Bonar. “Duke” and his brother are known |as “big peddlers." From the tip the | |hotel ®eddler gave us, we learned that the “Duke” intended going to | Vancouver the next day to turn a |big deal. I saw one $1,000 bill that the “Duke” had on the outside of his “bankroll,” _ a oi * ‘ot That a charter revisron adopting &)exclusive of depreciation, of the commission form of government be] street car system, was $309,149, He submitted to popular vote was rec: |. . ; ommended by Mayor Hugh M. Cald-|4¢clared that $117,803 was expended during 1920 by having various city well in his annual message trans- mitted to the city council Monday. | departments do work for the railway, The mayor did not state in his re- Under the mayor's plan the only | elective officers would be the mayor, | port whether he believed the lines to four commissioners and the comp-|be paying under the increased fare troller, which became effective in January. “The city has engaged in the utill-) Caldwell advocated that the rail- ty business to the extent of over|way “pay its own way” and return $40,000,000," Caldwell stated. “But | all funds borrowed. | the policies and control of the busl-| ‘That the cost of constructing new ness are determined partly by the|trackagé on First ave., estimated at nine members of the council, partly | $200,000, be redueed by laying only a by the mayor and partly by the|single track and looping cars south board of public works. ‘There should | on other nues, Was suggested by | be some centralized responsibility for | Caldwell, who also declared that it the operation of this enormous busi-| might be possible to use trackless ness.” trolleys on First ave. Caldwell quoted the annual railway| Mayor Caldwell’s report included statement to show that the net logs, ' short surveys of all city departments. led Chinese Trapped by White Cross Agents Trapped into selling smoking opium to agents of the White Cross, | antinarcotic society, three Chinese were ledged in the King county jail Monday, while federal charges are being prepared against them. George Ong, Arthur Lee and Len Yat are the names they gave, They were arrested in Bellingham Satur- day and were brought to Seattle by Edwin R. Tobey, deputy United States marshal, They are alleged to have sold $50 worth of smoking opium to the White Cross operative. I have said that dope ts often #014 | 6 told moe, were all “on the dope.” | TE! |men had emptied his glass, then ex- | PA CITY ALSO LOSES BY CONTRACT Effort Made to Sign Up High Price Concessionaires for Ten Years . Charges that children are being ex- ploited by concessionaires at Wood- land park in the price of ice creain cones, sodas and other refreshments, were today coupled with charges that the city itself and the park board are being exploited. It develops that an attempt is be ing made to sign up the concessions for TEN YEARS. ‘This has never been done before. | Heretofore the ¢oncessions have been let out for one year at a time N-YEAR PROPOSITION BROUGHT UP QUIETLY The Wyear proposition was brought up, quietly, carty this year, and the ‘Lester company was awarded the contract. The con- tract, however, has not yet been signed. The Lewis-Lester company offered $2,500 a year for the concession, agreeing to put up a building in which to sll refreshments, the building to revert! to the park board in 10 years. With the exception pf the building, the offer is not higher than the pre- vious concessionaires paid. It is now jurged that if it was worth $2,500 last year to the old concessionaires, the | privilege of monopolizing refresh- |ment sales in Woodland park in the next few years will run into many {thousands of dollars more than the Leqis Lester company is bidding now, To give away the concession for a 10-year period is therefore branded a8 unfair to the city. It is claimed that the proposition failed to receive general advertising; that while the legal requirements were fulfilled, ;many people who would have been interested in making bids for a 10- |year period, remained unapprised of |the fact that the park board was | willing to make a contract for that long. While the contract has not been signed, the Lewis-Lester company, however, has been handling the re freshments at the park this season. PRICES 0 EVERYTHING INCREASED on everything were in- creased over the prices that had pre- vailed under last year’s concession- aire. Ice cream cones, peanuts, balloons, candies, sandwiches, coffee, all went up. Numerous protests have been filed. The park board has been urged to insert definite provisions in whatever contract it may grant, whether for one year or for 10, that the prices to be charged the public shall be |those generally prevailing thruout the city, and not any higher. The park board has also been urged to sign no 10-year contract un- der any circumstances, It is claim- ed that if the proposition is now thrown open to general bidding, the park board will receive at least twice what it is to get from the Lewis. Lester offer. Ice cream cones are 10 cents, cof: fee 10¢, balloons 25c, ham sandwiches 15e, ete, under the new price schedule. KE?tT HUBBIES ON THE JUMP Henry William Hanson filed a di- vorce complaint against Clara Young Hanson Saturday charging that “before marriage she possessed and dispossessed herself of former hus- bands” and that “she subjected him to intensive mental and physical cruelty.” ‘The case, covering but six type- written lines, wag filed by Attorney Thomas Byron MacMahon. © Ho, Hum! Here They Are Back Once More The street car deal bobbed up again in federal court Monday when argu- ments on the motion of 8. B. Asia and 14 other “taxpayers” for dismis- sal of the amended complaint filed against them by the Puget Sound Light & Power Co, were heard by Judge Jeremiah Neterer, Judge Ne- terer took the matter under advise- ment. CHILDREN ROBBE S! Who’s This ? ‘Whom does this look like to you? Let's go, Your guess is as good as pray ‘This is a picture of a well- i man of Seattle. He has Played an important role for many years in the city’s life, The Star will run a silhouette each day and announce the winner for the thé day preceding. Watch for the picture tomorrow. Make your guess 4nd then see if you're right. MAHONEY TRUNK HUNT TO END? Search of the upper end of Lake Union for the mystery trunk believed by the police to contain the body of Mra, Kate Mahoney, wealthy aged bride of James E. Mahoney, ex-con- vict city jail prisoner, was resumed early Monday by divers working | with their U-sled, with the time limit of their explorations fixed,at 30 days. If the trunk is not found at the end of that period, it is understood Capt. | of Detectives Charles E, Tennant will | order the quest stopped. Meanwhile half a dozen of Ten- nant’s men continued Monday their check of the movements of James Mahoney for several days prior to and after April 16, the date on which Mrs. Mahoney mysteriously van- ished, leaving the handling of her property to her bridegroom by vir- tue of alleged bogus papers. Mrs. Carrie Hewitt, niece of the missing woman, is reported to have made the statement that for several days prior to her aunt's disappear- ance Mahoney spent hours at a time trying to imitate his wife's hand- writing. She is said, too, to have recalled that some days before April 16 Ma- honey called upon her while she was il in bed and showed her two tick- ets he had bought, explaining that he and* Mrs, Mahoney were going to take a trip Bast. April 10, according to Milwaukee railroad employes, two tickets to St. Paul were sold here, but who pur- chased them is unknown. The police have found a letter written by Mahoney to his sister's brother-in-law, Gus Johnston, of Wil- mar, Minn. It reads: “I arrived home safe last Wednes- day (April 27) morning and have been busy ever since ‘putting my house in order,’ as the Chinese say, Mother and Margaret and I are living at 409 Denny way and Sig will be here as soon as she sells the hotel. I just finished collecting my rents today (May 2) and my lawyer has just phoned that he has $3,500 in his safe for a mortgage I sold yesterday.” Mahoney made a misstatement in the letter, according to the police, re- garding the mortgage being sold, as it was not until he had been in jail three days, on May 25, that the assignment of ithe mortgage was made to his attorney, Lee Johnston. E ADMITS HE’S A GOOD JUDGE Judge Daniel H. Carey of Col- ville, Wash., who swapped : courts last week with Judge J. T. Ronald here, remained on the bench here Monday morning. He explained that he had received a letter frem Judge Ronald stating that the latter had been forced to remain in Colville an- other week because of the “universal opinion in that city that it is a fine [thing to have a real judge” oe x & f/ ATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE HUNDREDS REPORTED MISSING; 35 DEAD! Water Peril in Pueblo Prac- tically Over; Organize Against Epidemic BY SAM I. FREED PUEBIA, June 6,—Thirty- five are known to have been drowned Colo., in the Colorado deluge, according to \ cording to reports being received survey of the flooded area made by the United Press at noon today. Thirty-one of these bodies are in morgues in Pueblo, and the other four in surrounding towns. REPORT HUNDREDS ARE MISSING Hundreds are missing in the area, but many of them have fled to higher ground for safety. ‘ Property loss in the flooded Colo- rado district is now placed at $50,- 000,000. It will take days to completely check fhe casualty list, ‘The flood danger here appears to be over this afternoon, giving way to a possibility of epidemic from wholesale reversion to primeval san- itation. Planning to meet disease threat by concentration camps of refugees, Colonel Patrick Hamrock called out the state militia companies of Fow- ler, Lamar and Canon City. With the 180 soldiers already here this will make a military force of “230 men. Pick and shovel squads attacked the mud and debris in the flooded sections this afternoon. The clean- up campaign will be put thru in eafnest’ if Colonel Hamrock makes good’ his threat to put a shovel in the hands of every able-bodied man not otherwise usefully employed. FEAR BODIES WASHED AWAY Councilman Pressy, director of the casualties division of Pueblo relief organization, fears many bodies were washed down stream. “I cannot account for the small number of bodies foynd, except on the assumption that many victims were swept down the river,” eaid Pressy. “I hope the total death list will be no more than 31, but I fear it will be much worse. Only a complete clean-up in the city, and the giving up by the river of its dead, will wind up the death roll.” The water supply situation re mained critical. A few blocks down town were being served from the partly repaired city water plant this afternoon, but the great major- ity of people were dependent on springs and wells. A lithia spring back of the Con- gress hotel furnished water to hun- dreds who came long distances, car. rying the water in wash boilers and every imaginable kind of receptacle. ‘The food situation was slightly re- lieved by arrival of a motor lorry of 17 trucks with rations and equip- ment for the troops here, With a breach of half of a mile in the levee along the Arkansas, the city was at the mercy of every little freshet along the source of the ram- paging river. PUEBLO'S CITIZENS’ NERVES SHATTERED Pueblo's population, its nerve al ready shattered from three days of fighting the flood, Which took a toll of approximately 30 lives and mil- lions of dollars worth of property, was ordered to stand by at every threat of a new rise in the water. Sunday night when Beaver dam gave way the water approached the mark made after Friday night's cloudburst. ‘Troops, racing with death, rushed in all directions to warn the inhabi- tants of the oncoming water. Wom- en and children, obtaining their first rest since the flood broke Friday night, were aroused and ordered to higher ground. Angines raced up and down the valley as far as rails had been pre- pared, their sirens sounding the shrill notice of the new danger, It was the third wave of water to at- tack the city—two striking Friday night, the first when the cloudburst deluged the city; the second when the levee gave way, and the third when the Beaver dam, 35 miles west of the city, gave way Sunday after- noon, The roar of the mad waters could be heard in the First Baptist church, where the United Press head- quarters are established, half a mile from the river. RELIEF WORK IS HAMPERED Altho the floods have not taken any lives since Friday night, as far as could be learned, nor caused any great additional loss of property, they have seriously hampered relief work, Roads prepared to bring food and clothing from Colorado Springs are endangered with every new rise (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) \ CREST OF FLOOD ON WAY THRU KANSAS! Farmers Moving Out of Lowlands; Trains Halted West of Dodge City TOPEKA, Kan., June 6.—The Colo rado flood was sweeping over the western plains of Kansas today, @& i, local railroad officials, Santa Fe general office officials here, with only one telephone line remaining intact in the flood dim trict, were trying desperately to keep in touch with the situation. No trains were being run west Dodge City and California were being routed via Texas. More than 100 miles of the Fe track were said to be under water — between Pueblo and the Kansas A At Syracuse, 35 miles east of the state line, the Arkansas river has risen five feet in the last 12 hou It is coming at a rate of an inch hour, Farmers are m out the bottoms. The sheriff at Syra- cuse said that the river is not expect- ed to rise more than eight feet at that point. It must rise ten feet t cause great danger, i ‘ ag of Flood Danger — DENVER, Colo., June 6.—Police guards were thrown around the dan ger zone in the low-lying Platte bottoms here early’ today as the sult of she stream overflowing of the rdilroad yards. .Families the district were warned to be to leave on few minutes’ notice if the stream continued to rise, Platte river and Cherry which run thru the southwest z of the city, have been bank full weather bureau predicts that backwater flood in the Wil a river will reach a new high stage 2 : 24.7 feet Thursday morning. ; This is six inches below the level of Fourth st., one of Portland’s prite ” cipal downtown streets. , The upper Columbia and Snake rivers are carrying more flood waters today than at any time since the — flood was first reported. P Points along both rivers report rises ranging from 1.2 to 2 feet. This is due to continued warm weather thruout the eastern portion of gon and Washington, The Willamette mark at Portland early today was 22.9 feet, eee Railroad Repair Is Being Rushed COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo,, June Repair work on bridges and tracks of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, weakened by the flood waters in the Fountain river, is prog- ressing rapidly under the supervision of W. L. Brown, train master of that read, from Pueblo, “This morning we expect to be able to handle the relief train which is now waiting at Colorado Springs,”* Brown said. e ) This train will be the first to reach the devastated city and will take a large force of trained nurses, doctors: and Red Cross supplies. ! The first rolling stock of any kind to reach Pueblo was the flanged wheel truck of the Crescent Mining | company, which made the trip: Sun. day morning, carrying Gov. Col. Hamrock and numerous ni per men, A limited passenger train service between Colorado Springs and Pueb+ lo will be in effect within 48 hours, according to advices at local yards, Regular service cannot possibly be resumed for many days, Trains going thru will use both Santa Fe and Denver & Rio Grands tracks in order to avoid the numerous: washouts on both sides, i Park Board Member Goes to Portland Mrs. M. F. Steele, member of the park board, left Monday for ‘Porty land, where she will represent the Seattle commissioners at the annual convention of Northwest Park Com missioners, Ore