The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 7, 1922, Page 10

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BARNETT AUCTION CO. Main 4961. 2113 First Avenue. Goods now on Inspection Above: Murder “‘Probe’’ Proves Mrs. Margaret Carleton and Rev. Leonard J. Chriatler, | Travesty WILL CONTINUE | heard since PROBE OF GAS Senatorial Inquiry Will Be Resumed BY KOBERT TALLEY WASHINGTON, Nov, 7-Ten mil ion or more auto owners in the Unit States will the cheering information that the sen- into the high} remedy | welcome afe’s investigation price of ganoline therefore, of which nothing has been} will be} and « last September resumed actively about Novernber 10. The special committee headed by Senator Charles L. McNary, Ore gon, is still determined to find out the why and the wherefore of @iasy gasoline prices and to this end rep. | resentatives of the biggest oll com: | panies in the country will bo sum moned to testify The probers are trfterested prin- cipally in the alleged exintence of nw prices. an agreement between “compe mpanies to fix uniform They want to know why it is that! woline prices charged by “rival’’) rns Ko up or ga down with a} strange unanimity that hints strong telepathy—or some ly of mental thing Recent cuts in the price of gaso-|) line are expected to bear no weight with the committee because reduc | | ot the year are The committee is enor- | tions at thie Ume purely seasonal. expected to inquire into the / mous dividends annually passed around by the gas companies which, BEGIN SCHEMING Move to Enlist Indians in Appeal to Fall SAN WRANCIACO, Nov. 1-~The feattio Btar’s newn story of the agl tivities of the American Legton tq the Yakima valley which resulted in driving the Japanese from the Yak.) rom Indian reservation, has canseq@) consternation among the Japanese off the Pacific const. : The “New World,” = Japanese) newspaper, refers to the dituation ag a “life and death” question and tn ity insue of Nov. 3 tells of @ scheme the Japn are working up to block the! operation of the legion’s plan. Itt involves the enlistment of the Yakte| ma Indians in en appeal for the re- tention of farm lands, The papers) comnent, including itn headlines, fale: lower oi “LAFE AND DEATH (QUESTION) > YOR YAKIMA JAPANESE i Made From Next Year, “According to @ recent order of Mr, ‘all, mecretary of the interior, farm) leases cannot be made next year and) after, Japanese near the Indian land in the vicinity of Yakima, Washing, ton, held @ mass meeting tn the Japanese association hall of t place on the 26th of last month ided by an unanimous vote to bee | a conerete movement. cally every one of the Japanes i to take part {n response to the calf o fthe Japanese association and the 7 movement ts to begin at once.. Thera | was not a single dissenting roa in regard to the movement. The pli is to move the Indian body to pete tio nthe secretary of the Interim) F Fifteen hundred dollars of the exe jit appears to some of them, Proves) ins, will be collected among the! | ployed by who were found slain together in the rectory of St. Mark's Episcopal church at Havre, Mont., which is shown below, By Robert B. Bermann Heeause of the number of lynchings and “unwritten law” murders that have occurred in that section, the Southeastern states have # rather unenviable reputation as far as law enforce ment and the value of human life are concerned. Rut the South is a veritable fountainhead of justle com pared to the sovereign state of Montana. | I have just returned to Seattle We offer two thousand shares of our 6% cumulative preferred stock at $85 per share, to yield 7.06 per cent. All orders taken subject to prior sale. Over 1,200 employes of this Company own stock or notes of this Company. 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Christier, “bishop of all outdoors,” and archdencon of the Milk river val- ley, and Mrs, Margaret Carleton, In the rectory of St, Mark's Epis copal church at Havre, Mont, Hen Nestles Little Neglected Kittens NEILLSVILLE, Wis, Nov, 1— On the farm of M. M. Bitsh, near| here, an indifferent mother eat has) been supplanted by a barred rock | | hen. | The mother cat with four half. frown kittens occupies the same) manger with Biddy. Biddy has been | depositing an egg % day in the; om Get 20 manger and doubtless wondered at/ It was one of the most sensational the neglect of the kittens. The|murdere in the criminal annals of mother cat remains with them only | Montana—bdoth on account of the un long enough to permit them to take, “ual character of the crime and be & little nourishment and then leaves | euse of the prominence of everyone her babies to mew protests. involved. Biddy, having iaid enough ees! Christler, a politician as well as a to satisfy herself, decided to set.| statesman, was known from oni | The very first night she stayed « of the state to the other. His inam- the nest the four neglected kittens jorita, Mra. Carleton, member of one | | were found warm and coay under|of the most distinguished families in | the angel wings of old Biddy. Montana and a beautiful woman in | When the mother oat arrives on/her own right, was equally notable. the scene the kittens go to her for; Yet here they were—wiped out to- nourishment, As soon as she leaves|gether-—and not even the slightest they return to Biddy. As the hen/ attempt made to find out who did does not leave the manger, It !#/\the killing! necessary to remove her and feed) A farcical coroner's inquest was her. As soon as she has her fill she} held. Mra. Christler, widow of the lowes no time in returning to her) siain clergyman and the only other charges. When they get uneasy and) person in the house at the time of crawl over her in search of food she fouble tragedy, was put on the accepts the treatment without com-| stand. But she was interrogated with plaint. #uch amazing gallantry that her tes- FROM PIRLHOOD wim'Feor Instance, she. Was. asked TO WOMANKOCO what the three had been talking about prior to the killing. Woman Relied Upon Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable “But,” her chivalrous inquist- tor hastened to add, “If it wae a personal matter—if it would ent. Darras you—don't answer.” Mrs, Christter didn't answer. In the name of heaven, what could be expected but “personal” conversation between the three Principal actors in a double mur. der, just prior to that murder? | No attempt was made at the in Quest to extablish ownership of the | | murder weapon—which was certain ly not Mrs, Carleton'’s; no attempt ‘wan made to trace the course of the bullets which did the killing; noth- ing, in short, was done which might have tended to cleor up the mystery in any way. And, tn face of the fact that a post-mortem examination was to prove later that it would have been VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE Mra. Carleton to have fired the bullet which caused her death, the coro ner’s jury brought in a verdict of murder and suicide, announcing to the world at large that Mra, Carleton had first killed Christier and thea herself, The public officials of Havre verdict. They were afraid, pow sibly, that the town would be do moralized if the churchman were blamed in any way. But the cor. oner’s Jury was too well coached for anything like that. Their ver. dict was so much easier—what difference if it did blacken the reputation of a dead woman and threaten the future of her or- phaned 13-year-old daughter? So the case wae declared officially closed; Mrs. Christler was permitted to depart without even the formality Of belng questioned by the count attorney, and everybody was satis fled To cap It all, the Rt. Rev. Bin) Faber jawued a statement making martyr out of Christer. The gre hearted clergyman would be alive t« Gay, he said, if he had been willing to be disloyal to his wife—but he died rather than ain. Of course, the bishop probably knew that for the Jast four years Christier and Mra Carleton had been getting ejected regularly from various Montana hotele—but what had that te do with 1? 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This task is nearly com- plete. A number of witnenses, including W. C. Teagie, president of the Standard Oli Co, of Jersey, will be called, Senator MeNary es-| timates that the probe can be com-| pleted in time for a report in De- con. will probably never be established— because Mrs. Christier is the only member of the trio still alive, and her story does not seem to be altogether dependable | At any rate, at about 1 o'clock in| the morning there were two shots in rapid mnocession—and Mrs, Carleton and Chrixtier Iny dead on the floor, each rhe thru the heart, Physicians who answered Mrs. | Christier’s summons — found | ChrisYer tying In the bedroom, | apparently having fallen thru the doorway, while Mrs, Carle ton had fallen in the ball out side. 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