The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 19, 1923, Page 1

ee JURY CALLED! _ Shooting Policeman Is Sorry But Insists He Was Right! 203. ‘BUTCHER’ IS. HERE? Famous Soviet Figure Believed to ™ SEATTLE, Have Slipped Past Immigration! Authorities in Seattle BY JOHN W. NELSON Immigration authorities Friday were investigating reports that Nicholas Kalashnikoff, known thruout the revolution- | torn districts of Siberia as “the butcher of Irkutsk,” and an unknown bolshevik secret police agent, have slipped thru the| = RAFAEL SABATINI WASH., FRIDAY, ocT OBER 19, 1923. STRICKEN Mysterious Malady Affects Horse on| Day Before Race; Grayson’s Mount | May Be Used as Substitute BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. 19.— The Pennsylvania railroad an- | nounced today that a switch gine was partially derailed while approaching the special train on American ty by the news that am poor s during the nen were stunned was really in rumor has had it ant two days Papyrus, Engtian champion, ap ] | by Matt FIGHTING OME EDITION x ¢ {ih OF VICE OBJECT! Veniremen to Get Evidence Taken In Special County A King county grand jury was called Friday morning by Writer of “Scaramouche” and which My Own, Admiral Gray- | peared fit for the stiffest kind of a Judge King Dykeman, presiding . eo GRarnic SECTION | jas a captain, he joined the yvcrelg xelahate in that effort to | that the entire dection given over to | stand as made on My Own, immigration bars and are at liberty in Seattle. Howdy, folks! rubber overshoes? married, too. oe Now that ft is definitely known that Papyrus, the famous English racehorse, trains on beer, few W. C. T. U. workers will place their coin on him. De you wear | Yep, we're | | . oo | A doctor predicts that electrt- | cal vibrations soon will become | | a substitue for food. | | At the present time our only | | substitute for food tw parsnips. } la eee Down tn Texas, says a news dis- Patch, grasshoppers are now ban- queting off Mappers’ lingerie. This is what we'd call a starvation diet. H. G. BREW, Financial Expert, Kept Busy (The noted economist of Jim Jam} Jems had a strenuous day yester-| dey. The program of his activities follows :) | 10—Conference with Associated Pickle Manufacturers. Subject: How to remove warts from dill pickles. 1l—Conference with Bootleggers’ union. Subject: Should drug stores | sell whisky and soda, or both? 12:30— Luncheon address before League of Left-handed Dairy Lunch Proprietors. Subject: Should diners Use a mashie or a niblick in playing Peas into the mouth? 3—Addre+s before the Duwamish Valley Medical society. Subject: The | Use of Brassieres in Cases of En- larged Tonsils. 6:30—Dinner address before the} Association of Antique Furniture Manufacturers, Subject: Ageing of Antiques by Mcans of a Hatchet and & Shotgun. &—Address to the Deaf and Dumb soclety. Fullbacks aren't the only men who make bad passes. We made a bad pass yesterday, and the other crap- shooters took $3 from us. see “Little woman, your beauty nets me on fire,” exclaimed 6 Gee's Sweetie last night. ‘Nix on that stuff,” she replied. "Don't you know this ia Fire Pre- ‘vention Week?” | . This 1s an exclusive pleture of Horace J. Mudturtle, famous invent: | or, whose device for locating an elec- trie light switch in the dark will| soon be placed upon the market. Mudturtle’s invention consists of a| sprig of garlic attached to the switch. In these days of reckless shootings | Beattie policemen take life easy—and | Often. Mrs, 0. H. P. Belmont, suffrage | Teader, ways husband and wife boss each other, She's halt right. “Motor Headline, Wonder what agency they had? one Bandita Steal $15,000.” YER DIAnY (October 14) Up betimes, and to practicing on my | Inte, wand de find that T ean play “Oh, Susannah!” withont fatting, which do se em ) ae T have only prae- he pieee month, Amit so to) jonch tne Weistleld, and he did take to Huhenstein's Kowher re a order plekted bie’ Not throw me out, oon J. Kan and tty but ‘oting said, in mi a it nothing sa! And 0 to home, . | feet, bet they fhm jing | sioner of immigration, jcharges that he was “ |the immigrant and the Kalashnikoff is reported to have| arrived In the United States on the President Madison, October 6, and to have obtained entrance after he had undergone the scrutiny of tm migration inspectors sitting as a| | board of inquiry, October 15. Records from the immigration office, accord: to Luther Wheedin, commis. | show that a! careful inquiry was made tn the case of one N. Kolashntkoff, after | complaints had reached them from | officers of the President Madison who reported stories other Russian | refuges passengers had. told. them | concerning the alleged “butcher of | Irkutsk.” CAME FROM KOBE N THE STEERAGE | Records, of the Admiral lige show | that IN. Kolashinkotf and §. Kolash- | inkoft came on the President Madl- | son from ‘Kobe as steerage passen- gers, ‘The second man, Seen! to an anonymous article printed in the Aberdeen World, is a member of the Cheka, the notorious and dread- ed secret police of the Russian soviets, Records of the immigration sta- tion that Kalashnikoff was held for a special board of inquiry. This board was presided over by Inspec- tor F. 8, McCullough and met Oc. tober 10, when Kalashnikoff appear | ed and told his story. “CAPTAIN BLOOD” Do not fall to read of the wonderful adventures of this fascinating, humorous, buccaneer, Peter Blood, Starting Monday, October in herole THE STAR “" READY FOR GRID CONTEST Students to Hold Big “Pep” Rally Friday Night BY MELVIN B. VORHE) Friday night a great bonfire will cast Its red glow over the thousands of students who will gather in Denny field on the University campus to expteas confidence in | those boys who will bear the brunt of the Trojan charge Saturday, when the University of Southern Callfor- nia meets the University of Wash- |ington at football, This story confirmed in part the| the butcher of Irkutsk,” as he admitted having been a general in the Kolchak army and| having been active on behalf of “the | local inhabitants at Irkutsk in organ. | izing an army to fight Seminoff and the bolsheviks,” The hearing was continued October 10, by the inspectors, in an effort to obtain testimony that would sbustan- tlate the charges that Kalashnikoff, “Butcher of | Irkutsk” are one and the same man. ine of he other refugees who came over on the President Madison could be obtained to testify against him, however, altho the officials of the Russian-Greek Orthodox church, at Lakeview biyd., had promised to| investigate his case. “It this man who was admitted can be proved to be the ‘Butcher of Irk-| utsk’ I will order his arrest and de-| portation forthwith,” Commissioner | Wheedin said. “We do not want tha type of man in this country.” The story from Siberia concerning Kalashnikoff briefly is that he was/| a former soldier under the czar; that | he joined the social revolutionists at | the time of the Kerensky regime and later switched to the bolshevike. When he war transferred to Siberia forces of overthrow the bolsheviks; was with him during his defeat and retreat across Siberia to Irkutsk. Great quantities of Russian gold from the banks of Omsk, held by (Turn to Page 12, Column 3) A nightshirt parade, with pajamas included, will be held before the rally. Coach Elmer Henderson and Capt. Chet Dolley of the to speak a few words before th assemblage and Coach Enoch Bag- shaw and Capt. Wayne Hall of Washington will make a last talk to | their supporters. Saturday morning will be annual Stadium day on the campus, when the students will turn out and put in four hours of work improving and cleaning the big horseshoo and the surrounding grounds. In a ceremony coming between halves of the game, in the after. noon, the stagium bonds that have meen retired during the past year | will be burned, STUDENT VOICE | SUPPORTS BAGSHAW Tuesday night a thousand at the call of the varsity Liat students, yell leader, issued from their houses | jand paraded to the home of Enoch their -n where they yolced confidence in him and his team jsplenala answer to the question, “Are the students behind Baggy?” Thursday night, at the annual football banquet at Rogers’, in the University district, the alumni | | pledged thelr support and announced the old grads has been sold out Meany hall was packed for student football assemb! Thurs when Capt. Wayne Hall told them that the men of the team were not (Turn to Page 12, oan bal A Letter t Enoch Bagshaw, Football Coach, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, Dear Baggy: o “Baggy” Sentt]e, Wash. October 19, 1923, Saturday afternoon out on the stadium gridiron you are send- ing your Washington football charges into thelr first big Kamo of the neason, a battle with th California team. The Star takew this opportunt Washington are behind you in your big game, year at Washington and the on may be the turning point which way the game goes, If the the fighting heart Into thelr them, Washington will be more of the play that 0 tricky University of Southern ty to toll you that the fans of Ths is your third uunts. Saturday's game whole season, Regardless of Purple and Gold players can put you have tried to teach than satisfied, @ that ¢ Football is a man's game and it takes heart to play football, Every team can’t win, someone fight until the final whistle has must lone, but every team van blown, No matter how tricky the Trojans of Los Angeles may be to: morrow, let them know they have been In a game, Go got ‘om Baggy! Sincerely yours, THE STAT, invaders are | the | son's colt, was being shipped from Laurel to Belmont park for the International race to- morrow. It was at first be leved the locomotive hauling the special had been derailed, but Pennsylvania officials later corrected this, | eee LAUREL RACE TRACK, Md, Oct. 19—My Own, Ad | miral Grayson’s 3-year-old star, | left here in a special car at 905 a, m, for Belmont Park race track, My Own galloped a mile and a furlong this morning with an ap- prentice in the saddie. He covered | the distance in 1:5T 16. Hw frac: | tional time was: 26 26; 61 1-6; AAT 1-6; 206) 16; 1:67 14, eae BY FRANK GETTY (United Breas State Correspondent) | BELMONT PARK RACE TRACK. . Oct. 19 —Zey, Harry Binclalr's crack S-yearold, which was to ha carried the hopes of America against |Papyrus in the International stake | Faco tomorrow, has been found in an | unsatisfactory condition on the eve| jot the match, | The Sinclalr colt broke out with | blotches yesterday. A committee from the Jockey club |inapected Zev after n brisk workout |this morning and decided to await| arrival of Armiral Cary T. Grayson's My Own, when it muy be decided to| | substitute the latter in the big race. | |My Own is being shipped here from | | Laurel, Ma. ‘The sickness, of a nature as yet undisclosed, which attacked Harry | F. Sinclair's Zev on the eve of the! greatest International horse race in | years, struck suddenly Thursday, ‘This accounts for the fact that Zey was not shown to the public yestorday or today. MY RIOUS LUMPS ON ZEV'S BODY Prominent veterinarians are exam- ining the Sinclair colt. On the whole of Zev's body the mysterious lumps appeared. The veterinarians will give their decision a little later, Papyrus is ready to meet My Own {f it is found that the contract under which the English horse was brought here provides for such an 11th hour substituion. Sam Hildreth, Zev's trainer, would not comment on the condition of his horse and there were many who felt he might still go to the post. Papyrus had a brisk canter this morning and pulled up very fit. Ho| will not work ngain before the a r Those who have bet on Zev “ve thrown into confusion by the possl:| | bility of a substitution and there | were many arguments as to wheth- | er the best p Zev would} in ease Grayson's colt replaced the Sincluir | Major August Beimont made the| following statement to the United | Press: | ‘ov did not work well on Wednes: day, running with his head some: | what to one aide. Upon examination | yesterday it wag found that the horse had developed blotches, posstbly | hives. | “Tt was only natural, anyway, that] we should have My Own at hand tn cane anything happens to Zey, The selection committee this morning ex. | amined Mr. Sinclair's horse and felt | that Zev was not in shape to do his} bew “The question of submitting My Own naturally arone, In view of the possibility, however, of an accident {to My Own, which is en route here and expected about & o'clock this} | afternoon, the committee decided to Inspect this horse also before coming | to n definite decision, | “There is always o chance that} |My Own might be thrown down in |iia car while the apecial train was {awitehing or that some similar acel Jdent would disable him. | | ‘Phe final decision nounced at 6 p, m,"" The news of Zov's ailment, which did not interfere with hie reeling off a brisk haf mile thit morning in 47 seconds, came na the most sense tional of the developments leading up to the big muateh will be an | race | dicate he would certa |barrier against My Own if the sub | stitution is made | walked | homeland. | Harried Jarvis said he hoped might json told the | were forecast and his British handlers in. ly go to the Baasll Jarvis, the derby winner's trainer, sald he wanted a look at the contract, but: he belleved it provid. for Papyrus meeting’ whatever | three-yearold the jockey club should | | select As for the in his horse himself, customary dignified | manner to the Cosden stables after |a brisk canter and, | bea after being rub- down, lay down and went to seep, according to Dr. PrideJones, his **pernonal veterinary.’* SAYS PAPYRUS NOT WORKYING “Ho's not worrying about the race j he} or who he meets," PrideJones paid | with a «rin. The veterinary will |handie the “horse from now until time for the race. with the same meticulous care than would be shown & patient in a critical condition in a hospital, Papyrus will’ have just so much to eat at just such an hour, so much fodder, so much water, and will be encouraged to take as many naps as | —Photo by La Pine-Ioxery Studion | Jéhn Rustgard, attorney general of Alaska, who charges that the development of the Northern territory is. being eqtino highness destres. The weather | hindered by excessively high steamship rates and by dis- for the race bids fair to be rainy and} cold, after the fashion of Papyrus’ In a statement in which | be his last’before the race, the train: er said the English horse now was| them by defending the high rates when they were under | no matter | attack in Washington and by urging the Jones law dis- ready 40 give his best, what the weather, IS SATISFIED WITH PAPYRUS “Of course, he won't be anything lke he would in England,” he said. “But — Dr. Pride-Jones’ has done simply wonders with him in the past week and I am completely sat- isfied.” The selection committees of the Jockey club, after looking over Zey,! left the Rancocas stable and re- turned to New York. will come to Belmont park to see My Own. ment, they intended inspecting My Own before deciding upon which horse shall represent America in} Saturday's race, left no doubt of| their dition, If My Own 1s In good shape," Christ J. Fitzgerald, personal rep resentative of August Belmont, said, “it 1s probable that ‘there will be an announcement of a change in the American contender.” . Says My Own Could | Race on Wet Track WASHINGTON, May © 19.— My Own, Admiral T. Grayson’s colt, will bi ther it rains | or not, if he is selected to substitute for Zev in the race with the English horse, Saturds United Press t Grayson sald he had never stipus lated that My Own would not be run in the rain so far ax the inter: national race was concerned. He asked the conditions of a dry track and good weather, In case or a race at Laurel with Zev after the Satur. day event, Grayson pointed out Showers Forecast Cary | | Their attitude and the announce- misgivings as to Zev's con- for Day of Race, NEW YORK, Oct, 19.—Showers for Saturday, day of international horse weather bureau here today, The forecast sald: Showers tonight and Saturday; cooler Saturday; fresh to strong southerly winds, becoming west to northwest Saturday, Admiral Grayson, Own, which may be race the English horse, for stipulated that ho will not per mit his horse to race on a track, the owner called of on My to Tacoma’s School by the | has “hereto. wot | Bond Issue Wins | TACOMA, Oct, 19-=Unofficinl re turns from all but one of the 101 city precincts Thursday showed that the $2,400,000 achoo! bond issue proposal was carried by nearly 6 to 1, jcrimination embodied in the Jones law. He charges that the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, in- stead of helping to remedy these troubles, has aggravated criminatiton. In like manner Rustgard blames this states’s delegation in congress. Rustgard has just left Seattle for Washington, where the next session of congress will be asked, he says, to amend the Jones law. On page 10 of today’s Star is an article by the Alaska official in which he elaborates his charges regarding the Later they| high water rates. Hire Negro Babies at ‘$2 a Hunt’ to Sit as Alligator Bait ROM Chipley, Fla., it was reported that colored babies were being used for alligator bait. ‘The infants are allowed to play in shallow water while expert riflemen’ watch from concealment nearby. When a saurian. approaches his prey, he is shot by the riflernen.” The Louisville Herald: “Florida alligator hunters do not ever miss their target.” The price reported as being paid colored mothers for the services of their babies as bait was $2.00 a hunt.” * Manhattan, a man obstructed traffic by throw- ing two dollars in nickels, one by one, to street gamins for the purpose of “encouraging young Amer- ican manhood.” * 8 N London, a band of rowdies burst into a narrow street thronged with auctioneers and buyers in a pet animal market, shouted “Earthquake! arth- quake!” caused a stampede that injured 20 people and destroyed hundreds of caged canaries, cats, dogs, chickens, and parrots. * * AA New Castle, Pa., Mrs, S. Deep (colored) aged 30, whose 15-year-old daughter has a 7-month-old boy, claimed to be the nation’s youngest grandmother. a Con- soe 8 Ne Savannah, Ga,, Francis Marion Gill, federate veteran aged 81, laid claim to being “the oldest father in the U, 8.” by reason of a boy born a year ago to his wife, aged 86. * * Lt N Manhattan, an undertaker equipped his $19,875 motor hearse with five white-enameled wooden angels, a phonograph, a radio amplifier. He increased his business 144%. * * judge of the superior court, Altho the jury is not a special one, it is understood that the big matter to come up will be the investigation of alleged vice conditions in Seattle and in King county, The county commissioners recent ly gave Prosecuting Attorney Male colm Douglas $1,000 to investigate conditions in the city and the evi- dence that Douglas: has gathered is expected to be presented. The jury will meet November 12, the regular date that the conc grand jury.megts. Prosecuting Attorney Douglas, was absent from his. office Friday on some “sectet investigation mission and could not be reached in: regard to the calling of the jurys A list of 75. veniremen hag bees prepared and on the morning the jury meets 17, will be selected for duty, Judge Everett E. Smith will be presiding judge and will charge j the jury on its duties. In addition to vice evidence that may be placed before the grand jury by Prosécuting Attorney Dougias, — the Seattle Federation \of Churches, according to reports, will also place vice evidence before the inquisitors. The council, according to reports, has been quietly gathering evidence of vice for several months. Secre- tary H. I. Chatterton of the counell refused ‘to discuss the activities | the churchmen, but did not deny the report that the ministers have been gathering evidence. In addition to vice, the jury will — probably be called upon to probe al- leged illegal expenditure of road funds. It will also inspect various county institutions, such as the jail, county hospital, the Stockade, the Old Folks’ home and others. Judge Smith sald recently that he. has no forma! complaints before him to place before the jury, but that it — will be open to anyone who has a matter that they wish to present to thej urors. FIRST TIME HE | | Probe | Policeman Thinks More of Victims Than His Job “It was the first time in my five years on the force that I had ever had occasion to draw my gun or fire it.” Patrolman Samuel H. Short, 602 Eighth ave, who shot down two pedestrians in a crowd on Westlake ave, Wednesday evening, made the statement Friday. “Phe first time I had ever drawn | my pistol—and I shot two innocent: people, instead of the thief I was chasing." Short, a gray-haired man of 44, related the story of the shooting to The Star, 1 don't give a darh about job or anything else, An that T {care for are the lives of those two | people who received my bullets. T jam awfully sorry. 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