The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 29, 1922, Page 1

Some oe we Re amma scammers — ae ) Rit dy _ PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST HAVE ELECTED THE STAR THEIR FAVORITE SEATTLE NEWSPAPER —BY 15,000 PLURALITY ROR RPP PRL PPR PPAR PPP 240 PASSENGERS DROWNED WEATHER Tonight and Wednesday, wnset- tled weather; moderate winds, mostly westerly. Temperature Last 84 Hours MI Entered as Second ¢ On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Sta Matter May &, 1499, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wi ie eye , under ia, eer Act of Congress March 4, 1879, Per Year bw by Mal SE SATTL E, WASH., TU ESDAY, AUC AUGUST 29, 1922. IN | DYING | IN GOLD TUNNEL Doomed Men in Argonaut Mine Are oe Surrounded by Precious Metal | ealut con on any other teat wt!) Which Has No Valueto Them | Howdy, folks! There's a lot of difference in saying a man’s a» strong a6 an ox and saying he's strong as a goat, Chief Severyns ts going to shift 400 patroimen to different beats. Prob ably figures that a lot of them are dead beats. PICKING ‘EM ARGONAUT GOLD MINE, Jackson, Cal., Aug. 29.— Mayor Brown appoints David Barges, who used to work in Dee's dental clinic, as superin- tendent of streets and sewers. } Now if we can only find a good chiropodist for head of the water department! Trapped in a treasure trove, 43 men were slowly starving! |to death here today. A fortune is within their grasp. They are literally sur- rounded by yellow gold—thousands, hundreds of thousands jof dollars worth of the metal, But they would exchange it all for a sup of cold water, a crust of dry bread—and deem) it a good bargain. They are the mine?s who were imprisoned in the Argo- jnaut gold mine at midnight last Sunday, when fire broke} out in the main shaft and cut off their escape. Desperate efforts were be- BRITON LEADS _ [is made today to save them IRISH ATTACK “— for success. —but without any great) rrakine cana}, Jt is feared that all will oll bas mata “The Risaie | have met a Midas-like of the ands” and former noted| before help can possibly reach them. Six hundred feet of stomp and | 4 e¢ | Oh, how I love the radio, When music holds its sway— 1 drop the phones when it intones | The news I've heard all day. —By Dobyns, the Demon Telegra- pher. eee Bod Pauding of Royal, Wash., says that in 1900 he ate $6 big Eastern clams. That's nothing; back In 1903 ene een re oe Today's Happy Thought: Every day 3,800 persons die in America— | and some of ‘em must be insurance) pacifist, led Irish rebels tn a motor agents. as al boat pene —_ upon international | Ae Mit colds stend bet | SPORT cables at Valentis. them and liberty, and even the | Sam Humes, candidate for Childers’ party was beaten off by| most optimistic are afraid that the rescue party will never be able to cut its way thru to them in time. Nevertheless, no stone Is being left unturned in the effort to save them. / Free State troops after they had cut one cable. ‘The former pacifiet ts now with Eamonn de Valera, directing the in ‘urgent revolt against the Free nt road. State, He assisted the Irish dur-| RESCUERS ATTEMPT be ing the war against Britain and TWO WAYS IN that has no | "* aw ritain But it's » tong lane |then turned against Collins and| Rescue workers directed by repre cop. Oe | Griqnen following the split in the! | sentatives of the bureau of mines, to . | day launched two distinct campaigns | dat We don't care how high congress; puts the tariff on these | cat's, Childers ts a former Ameri pencil sharpeners. ‘ | coon. .we: wore 0. [GERMANS TRY | TO END PERIL “Food Will Win the War" — Sign in Third ave. restaurant. BERLIN, Aug. 29.—The four rich est men in Germany—Stinnes, Voege . . ler, Kirdors and Thyssen—gathered | to save the miners. One party fought the fire in the! main shaft | A second party was sent to the} 3,600-foot level of the Kennedy mine, | | adjoining the Argonaut, to attempt to dig a 6006-foot tunnel into the shaft/| where the men are entombed MINERS ENTER KENNEDY SHAFT Picked miners were sent into the Probably Doc Brown doesn’t want to fire all those 575 political incur ablea because there are not enough | democrats in the city to fill their today in an attempt to save their | Kennedy shaft in the belief that thru | places. country from ruin. opening the steel bulkhead on the dbo The millionaires met with Chancel. |3.600-foot level, and digging away . George Russell says we can’t hile a fivecent carfare just yet. All right, George, that settles one} campaign promise. Now if the other appointees will tell the mayor some thing he can't dot eee “I wish to nominate as a candidate lor Wirth to discuas the grave eco-|the loose earth which rates nomie crisis brought about by the |from the Argonaut mine, junprecedented slump of the mark.| hope of rescue lies. They also presented details of th To fight the fire |pian to underwrite the fatherland’s|gonaut shaft nev ability to pay reparations In case «| perforated pipe were lowered into the | moratorium is granted by the al-|shaft this morning and water! pumped thru ft, so as to spray the| wep it the main in the main Ar al hundred feet of | Hes. for the Poison Ivy club,” sez D. S| Treaties between the wealthy in-|walls and the tunnels leading off} “the shop girl who calls YO") 4ustrials and Belgium and France|horizontally on the various levels. It} ‘dearie” are to be erawn up under the plan. ; was believed that in this manner the ns aaa _ — — fire gradually could be fought back — permitting men to go deeper and! FIRE HORSES deeper down the shaft VAMP, SEZ j Thus far the fire fighters have A lot of th’ girls will soon be ARE DOOMED" s No progress, but have consid tting on their beads again to Keep from catehing ont. lered themselves fortu event te in having spread of the| been able to p to higher levels. | To guard against fire fighters who nter the mine being trapped by fire| |apreading to levels above them | ‘The doom of the old time fire horse in Seattle was spelled Tues day when the council budget com mittee voted in favor of the com: 1 | 1 { —* Liatap ded bathing suits We've always felt a Jete motorization of the fire de-| | With the miners, ar spenders and belt pation More than 60 fire horses ratio were oe down to ra eh teat} Within 10 days, operators said, the Than suspen jtimbering for several hundred feet| reopened mines will be producin " win Ro earl a5 saeila acting, 8" “|above the 2.600-foot lev | 10,000 tons of coal a day . + 6 council's nctio We don’t believe it, but once cs. jae acts Master potatos |ONE FAINT |,, The miners resume work under | a time, according to R. 8, Moran, | CHANCE LEFT |the same conditions and wage scale | uit that the complete coxt of mo ‘orization will be $180,000 but that| Minera declared today that enough thie will be more than saved in a| water had poured into the mine thus | few years by the greater economy |far to flood the 4,900-foot level and | and efficiency of the new engines,|possibly reach the 4,800-foc there was a Pathe’s Weekly tha’ didn’t show a picture of King George of England. Wonder why they spelt @ golf) 7, gasoline apparatux will be | (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) “eouree™ with an o In Mt? bought onthe thetaliment plan,.the | Workers Recalled oe city issuing jong time payment} Four district officer dis officers of District | _ Long skirts wilt cause a heavy de-| bonds, |To Extradite Girl No. 10, United Mine Workers of Mandefor rain. enn Se GRE } America, have been recalled and new init | From San Francisco) je nse tae ne OF CORSET ISN'T Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm| was stated Tuesday at union head i Douglas was preparing extradition | quarters. | pg LiRae Coo wnat ne save papers Tuesday for Gladys Quill, |” Martin J. Plyzik succeeds Ben Far-| havi a cutie 4 wise wanted in Seattle to face charges of |rimond as president, H. J. Allaop| re, + ee aes \erand Ww She was arrested in | succeeds Secretary Ernest Newsham, | parking ordt |San Francisco and released on $500| Robert McLean takes Alec Evans’ ae ony ge bail |pluce aa vice president, .and James a ; You will find Dae Se ed to have obtained | Johnson succeeds Sam Caddy as in- orsdtlina” te ee S merchandise from a local department | ternational board member. coming “week. Th Many Bargains | store on eredit by giving a false} = —-- a ‘arr ~ «7 | nan and address, come thie announces ‘ G. Sae a they ap in the Premier Is Guarded still needing rain, - - mera R WANT 'He Got ‘hey With Against As ins | They ought to import some of} STA | $56 Says Charge} LONDON, Aug, 29.—As a precau- | these German gliders so that golfers | ’ | tion against Irish extremists who are | at the Jefferson links can go up in| | Charges of grand larceny were} known to threatened members | | i thesair without offending the ladies, |filed in justice court Tuesday by | of the government, the destination of ea 4 | Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Doug: | Lioyd George waa kept secret as he | las against Owone Swhab, Swhab is Mayor Brown says speeders are in| alleged to have stolen § thé same clase as highway robbers. by Well, highway robbers never honk i gghon Lor gl esd cory cede the] It was merely announced the pre- derisively after they've scared you to theft, according to Deputy Prosecut- | mier would spend his holiday “in the death! ing Attorney Bert Koss, y | Mayor BE. |Washington Assured Nor- led this winter; as existed when level. | Officers “ Mine belonging | trip today DENTIST HERE MURDERED BY POISON BOOZE Life Is Taken by Visitor Merely for Purpose of Robbery Apparently the victim of “knockout drops” administered to him by « mysterious patient who doped him and then robbed him while he slept, Dr. 3 BR. Conley, 8058 Sted ave, N. W., died Tuesday in his dental offices in the Washington building. No clue has yet been found to the identity of his murderer, but detec tives are working on the case, and Coroner W. H. Corson ts preparing to hold an inquest over the body. According to the partial story of | the tragedy which police have been | able to piece, together, Dr. Conley was Just preparing to close his of fice Monday night when a patient arrived Dr, Conley apparently did some work for the man, who then of- fered him @ drink of liquor, Dr. Conley a and lost conscious neas roallthtety, afterward, He awoke at 4:10 a. m. and ex- Ciedly telephoned his wife to come down to the office, telling When she arrived, told her a rather incoherent story about the mysterious pa- tient, saying that the latter had stolen $36 in currency and about $32 worth of serap gold. Mre. Conley saw that her husband wan highly excited and nervous—- but she did not realize that anything serious was the matter until he dropped over. ad Dr, J. L. Beott, who ts In charge of J. Brown's dental offices, had been visiting Dr. Conley's of: flee a short time before the stranger arrived. He said that Dr. Conley appeared to have been drinking a little Dr the Co.'s autopsy Conley’s body was removed to Pheaxant-Wiggins entablishment pending STATE MINERS | BACK AT WORK) mal Supply of Coal Approximately 2,000 union miners in the Roslyn, Cle Elum and Tono coal fields were to return to work} Tuesday, following the signing of an| agreement Monday by union offic Jats | and representatives of the Washing ton Coal Operators tion. Thus Washington is assured of her | normal supply of coal this winter, as the other mines of the state are rating on an open shop basin. No increase of coal prices is expect according to John president of the operators’ which has made peace Ryezek, association they walked out last March. made ready to depart on a vacation Undertaking | an 1 session, Chilean Steamer Choros Island; NTIAGO, Chile, Ave. 29.—Two hundred and forty} | Persons were drowned today when the Chilean passenger steamer Itata sank off Cho- ros island, near Coquimbo. of the ship was due to over- — conditions in the heavy Relief that all the gers and members of the crew were drowned was expressed | | Chacabuco. It was believed the sinking | The Chacabuco was cruis- ing in the neighborhood of’ VESSEL | STRIKES ROCKS! } Itata Is Reported Search Made Down With All on Board Off __ | |Choros when the vessel sank, 4 The Itata was believed to im | | have sunk suddenly. i The theory expressed by |members of the crew of the © | Chacabuco is that the bottom: } lof the Itata bing Be against rocks near the island jand torn completely off. A |. The Htata had a 2 | tonnage of 1,971 and was aha in 1873 by the - a vans company at |pool. .The ship was owned — in a report from the cruiser by the Cia Naconal de Va- — at Val- Mrs. Edith Spreckels Wakefield (shown above), former! | wife of a California millionaire, offered to pay Mrs. Rodney | Kendrick $100 a month if she would part with her husband, ‘according to San Francisco news dispatches. Mrs. Kendrick | pondered the proposition and then started suits against Mrs.| Wakefield and Kendrick. 40 YOUNGSTERS ated Wanda and Kids Will Lay | Claim to Paradise | The Story of a Senator |) ®ws:s.Xss Seattle, 7:30 a. m. Just at - starting time. | (Being a Plain, Unprejudiced, Unvarnished Chronicle of | Miles Poindexter—Installment No. 2) The bus is about to pull out. We write this just before leav- ing. “We” are 20 Seattle or- phans, between the ages of 10 and 1, plus a grownup or two, who are on our way to Paradise inn, Mt. Rainier, We're going to stay two days, Our trip re- | sults from the cooperation of the Mt. Rainier park supervisors and The Star, who together have arranged for buses and our “keep” on the mountain for the two days to come, Among us are representatives of Comes From Family of Aristocrats. | First Holds Office as a Democrat. } Comes Forth as “Insurgent.” Attains National Prominence. BY ROBERT BASTIEN BERMANN As the title indicates, this chronicle is to deal principally with the last 12 years of Miles Poindexter’s career—his life since 1910 when he was first elected to the United States senate, the Washington Children's Home, , *y i: ‘ se Hea|the Thoedora Home, Daddy Drap- But, in order to understand this latter period of his life|() jrome, the Hemstol Home, a in its full significance, it is necessary to go back some years, jto provide a background, a foundation. This is a rather difficult task because, unlike so many jother men in public life, Poindexter hag never been a “pub- \licity hound” as far as his personal life is concerned. When lit has been a matter of furthering his political career he has | been unsparing in his use of printers’ ink—but he has never courted publicity for the mere sake of seeing his name in | print. Thus, altho the biographical section of the congressional directory gave him an unlimited opportunity to extol his virtues for the benefit of the world at large, he contented himself with octupying a scant half dozen lines or so in that volume, and the account of his life in “Who’s Who” is no less chary. However, from bits of information picked up here and there, it is possible to build up a story of sorts—which ac- counts, at least in part, for the man’s remarkable career, Poindexter’s ancestry may have quite a bit to do with! tient right at the inn, |the striking turn which events in his life have taken. He} But enough. Tho driver ts shift is by no means the first of his name to attain national |ing the gears. We've time now just prominence. His father was a confederate soldier of note |{0 throw this final scrawi out of the and his grandfather occupied a seat in the United States} "No more to be heard from us un- senate in the days of Henry Clay and Martin Van Buren. |t1—well, later. | Incidentally, Grandfather Poindexter seems to have been ree AO 4 | something of the same type as the present senator, for SIX ACCUSED (furn to Page 2, OF SPEEDIN camera man, The Star, We have been inf jthat another party, very ours, is starting from morning, also en route to Paradise jinn. With it is a representative of ne of the Tacoma papers, an editor, or something funny like that We are, all of us, scheduled to arrive at Paradise just at noon in time for lun We will en- ter the inn 40 ng, and are now looking forward with much bliss to viewing the high-brow summer guests at the mountain resort when they see us seamper in and lay claim, For verily, we are going to lay claim until Wed- nesday ni regardless of high- brow guests. We've been promised, not only a view of the mountain and a trip to a glacier, but two whole dormitories full of little beds to be slept in to- med similar ‘acoma this , Column » BONUS. DELAY \PRISONER. IS AGAIN SEEN!) WAITING DOOM WAS ‘ON, Aug, 29—-Anoth-| gaLeM, Ore. Aug. 29.—Invita er delay in final vote on the bonus |tiong for the hanging of George | Howard of Malheur county, which is |ncheduled for Sept, 8, will be issued |by Warden Lewis in a few days, speeding in complaint filed Justice of the Peace C. C. Dalton Tuesday, by Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas, Hleanor F, Holland ts alleged to have been driving 40 miles an hour when picked up by Deputy Sheriff Tom Morgan, Others charged are: A. P, De Colle, 38 miles; J. D. Potts, a miles; Mer: lynn Alloway and C. L. Crane, both 45 miles an hour, bill was in sight as the senate re sumed discussion of the measure to- day. A strenuous effort, however, will made to get a definite decision en tho the senate is held in night so anxious are republican | Howard, 25, was convicted of the murder of George of Me- Minnville, He appealed, followin chiefs to. get It out of cthe way to pennnees:> Soreiving Sweeney A POLITIC. AL RALLY and dance} country.” make room for pending strike logis. |'8 conviction, with the result that Jation. But a delay until tomorrow |the supreme court, affirmed the ver. te regarded as ertain, dict of the lower court. will be held at Duwamish hall, near Duwamish station, Saturday, at 8 p.m OFF TO RAINIER and one creature from | to} George Perkins was charged with | before | RIVER SHROUDS CRIME VICTI “Bandits’ Graveyard” Uncovered KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 29.—A_ second body has been discovered in” the “Bandits’ graveyard” of sunkem automobiles in the Missouri river at |Nearman. Undersheriff Kepler, of Wyandotte county, telephoned police here today. The first body was seen — earlier today. Both bodien were lashed to. thai il steering wheels of wrecked and sub- _ merged machines, Kepler said, Neither has been recovered. Divers and workmen rigging tackle to automobiles said to be on the river bottom discovered the sec ond corpse, according to Kepler. One of the dead men was thought to be white and the other a negra, Kepler appeared positive that there were at least two dead men, jand was hunting for more. He dis: jcounted the possibility that two dif. 7 ferent crews of his workmen might have seen the same body, A crowd numbering thousands: lined the river bend above the spot where the ghastly figures are said to [be seated at the wheels of motor |cars, under 18 feet of water, SHIFT BEATS OF 400 POLICEMEN Big Shakeup to Stop Petty Grafting Pursuing a recently announced Policy of shifting police officers from. |one beat to another, “to prevent pet: ty graft in the department,” Chief | of Police W. B. Severyns will, on Sep- tember 1, take the most far-reaching step so far recorded in the promised police shakeup, he said Tuesday, More than 400 patrolmen and ser- geants will be affected, Severyns’ decision followed a con |ference with Mayor E. J. Brown Monday afternoon, Severyns said many complaints of alleged graft and protection money paid to policemen by Seattle merchants and other cith |2uns was responsible for the whole- | Sale shakeup. “Too many officers have been ‘mar: ried to their beats,’ and now we'll see jif the new plan won't help to curb |some of the practices. We'll separ- | ate a few of the men from the beats that have been organized on a graft | viewpoint.” | According to Severyns, the changes | should have been made at regular in- | tervals, As it is, some of the officers | have been attached to one beat for | periods ranging from 10 to 14 years, HERMINIE, Pu.—Saying he would not return to school, 14-year-old How- ard Wilson waited for the morning bell, then fired a bullet into his bred causing instant death, 1s