The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 4, 1924, Page 1

Ss PRISONER NEGL eft 2 Last 4 Hours Minimum, noon, 48. Temperature Maximum, 48. Today See These Pretty s of Death “Driv Howdy, Folks! This is Canned | Foed week. Every week bs Canned Food week to the bride i | G ned food pt those us BUNGSTARTER'S PROMISES Mf cleeted mayor, to fire 535 political ineurables. To reduce carfare to five cents, A Bick town {is one where y down to the station at afterncon to see the train pass thru. see } ———— i LIL GEE GEE, TH OFFICE VAMP, SEZ: | Seme men aro born great, | e. sae The News vaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washi he Seattle Star Watered as Second Class Matier May 4 at the Posioffice at seattle, h., under SEATTLE, WASI 1., TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1924, 1879, ngton Per Year, by Mall, O Hours on Jail Floor, Unconscious! Home ti TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Here, Folks, Is a Marked Man ORDERS The Power Trust Has Told Ralph Nichols He Can Never Hold Office Again in Washington DEATH PROBE! Coroner Will Hold Post Mortem Ex- amination; Chief to Investigate A post mortem examination to determine the exact cause of the death of John L. Lind gren, 61, who died in the city hospital Monday night, after being held in jail as a “drunk” prisoner, was ordered by Cor- oner W. H. Corson Tuesday. Lindgren was arrested Sunday night and died Mon evening. Chief of Police W. B, Severyns has ordered a complete report to be made from the jailors and the ar- resting officers to establish all the jfacts in the case and to find out | whether the police were in any way to blame. Facts in the case, as determined to date, are that Lindgren was ar- rested at Eighth ave. and Jackson ist. in a semi-consctous condition by ty | Patrolman Mike Buckley, whorsent |him to jail. Lindgren may or may Yall ‘ | fe : “ r Here is Ralph D. Nichols, candidate for the city council, whom the power trust has de-\ not.» Geen dvank:<hut 2 y hig next car we buy will| a ee F Fy : © | creegs must never again hold office in this.atate. Nichols ‘gummed up the works for | basen ie aren : sedis: 4 Mut—Do you think they are any |privaté power interests when he was a member of the legislature. He is: a’ determined |*#s of being seriously {11, and Jail- © Detter than a Buick? jer Tom Nash ordered him taken to eae There was an old fellow named! Crocke | Whe parked his the shelf For fear that if left in hls pocket) Heé sit down and chew up him-} self. false tecth on} Our idea of a really absent-minded Pent fs one who tries to whittle a! point on his Eversharp Sign on the back of @ Ford: LOOK OUT For Quick Stop No Bra! | gt deel eae Seattle's fire departme: completely motorized. So is S frewater department There ns a young Border, » Exteedingly fond of clam chowder,| That she'd ne'er had a Kise May be due to just this— Om her face she uacd quinine for} Powder. { lady named CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB The pereolator who asks you if you've read Hector Knozit’s lat- ft article on “What's Wrong With the Noodle Industry” in the Satevepost. It seems just a that Seat! aiming ¢ Charles . Forbes as a native s Row we know we we He is a native of Lox Ange few months s was SHAKE TOWNS A di = ; Sens ce = hegre |Port Limon and San Jose, Bhe signs her ictters | Costa Rica, Are Victims “Ae B 4” Scientist anno NEW YORK, March 4.—Sovere tethals forming tt] earthquake shocks occurred nt Port Limon, Costa Rica, early today, ac- a pone to private advices reaching * Mebbe, but we know a Jot Buys who are a good deal cheaper von hea per quakes were severe at San Jone, also, many houses being dam aged The first shock was felt at 5 a. m. 7/and the trembling was continuing at 4. m. BOO! rin ayestioning the abitity and 2 TAY Of members of the council. ¥ bars of [he council, most o yh A DANDY TODAY Here js another opportunity to buy a real comfy home: DUPLE: entrances and 4 neigh- Je, the 6; b-room x and 4 in splen~ for the ag inan Tindall in ‘the Datiy Wire. Beattie now hax a s A po 924.900, according to A Meal estate expert, The hast Fepresent, no doubt Of the city councit. io ‘understand the soldicr #4 corcfil, Srudent. man; PM chy do saliors want 10's, 44 wrecklers 44 they can? ASS cor separate separate plumbing; borhood; close to university and car artme With h grad thie; its t Ad columns will give you Her’s name. ‘SEVERE QUAKES| | lake from Seattle. jthe planking—and 17 sign of warning! WALSH RECEIVED ‘ars < | fighter, but like most men of this type, his sincerity and love of fair play make him * each q | favorite among kiddies and-dogs. * * & ph D. Nichols to the city And_for good and sufficient r That every time we tried to | Senator Bares Correspond- ence With Oil Magnate [TO FORESTALL ENEMIES | ture, from 1906 to 1919, Nic the lions with him!” The “power” in the power trical and political. today that quite a lot of ind Turned Down Alluring Prof- jto. ignore the power trust’s fer Because of Office WASHINGTON, March 4.—Fore stalling efforts on the part. of |powerful influences to “get him” for his uncovering of the oll scan |duts, Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Montana, today sprung a new sen- sation by presenting to the senate oll committee correspondence. be jtween himself and | California of! magnate, suggestion that they bec jciated in Montana oil operations. The correspondence disclosed that last ,December Walsh and Doheny were exchanging letters and tele tive to a possible associa drilling of offset wells grams re tion in the Montana. WESTION FROM ENATOR came from n of Montana, State Walsh ; tiga by gree ar st Pan! Piplageanones Nk., Klege—pier ae S SE the pretty fork in the road in Picture No. 1. It’s on Lake Washington blvd..at Newport, across the letter made rio proposal of his par-| heny replied by wire, suggesting that Wa him in the diately declined. Fine roads, both of them. The one in the foreground, onto which you turn from the left of the picture, is the continuation of the boulevard. The one on which you see the car is a side road of hard gravel onto which you drive if you do not see the curve. 4 Svenstiait exeet Easy thing to do for a driver who does not know the|ti* veare O08 Mere that somo road on a dark night. Many of them do it every week, says} cars ago ho declined to participate Fred Havercamp, who lives just off the boulevard on the in a sheep ranch because it was Newport road fork. based on a government lease. ié P tnt WOULDN'T USE HIS Off on the gravel road, so smooth CE FOR PROFIT that work Walsh imm In a letter reply he held it unwise business dependent in an apprecia come to Picture No. 2. lof having utilized for my own profit A sh Z the position to which my Six mon were under arrest Tuesday | nave elevated me," Walsh said. ‘The dates of the correspondence showed that it was passing between . an end of | feet of Lake No fence, not even @ wooden 4 morning as the result of two raids conducted by police squads Monday | A trio in a closed car plunged | night on alleged Chinese gambling | | over the end of this dock two weeks | places. 1. ago. One girl was drowned, A sec:| Ay Ong and two white | pad girl anda, man escaped. were taken at 668 We ; Walsh } They told Toy L4e and two other men were | correspondence W ge the end of the placed under arrest at 65 King st. glare of the lights, just like pave-} The two Chinese were booked on! appear that he ment,” snid Mrs, Havercamp, ot | charges of running gambling games, | yegotiating with whone the rescued were re-lwhile the other four men were! fore he brought out th every time a cat | charged with being in a place where | disclosures which — involved house until T hear inclair and McLean. Page 7, Column 4) AWitet © then © suid talegral ui Washington, ry time the oil investigation was approaching the first us the water beyond dock looked, in the used was clandestinely Dohe: hom vived. "I drives past ty (Turn to damaging Fall, gambling wns being conducted. | Doheny, All posted bail, | “Waris among the BABY HAS TWELVE FINGERS )\‘wss to. “ou ‘oseta PeANBAS CITY; Mo., March 4.—An infant with six ]) {rom Doheny to se ee | at that time decided | fingers on each hand was born today to Mrs, Mary relevant to the Anders, Kansas City. that | | ‘The commit I tho me inquiry and agreed that nothing was (Turn to Page 7, Columme 2) lhe took |attending and went home. ticipation in the project, but TRo-jhis pack on his back and people | the senator and the oll man at the; sensational |" disclosures. | d been warned that the jagainst him in an effort to make it | quences. In 1889 young Nichols and his dad} lived on a homestead, 45 miles from town, in the Big Bottoms. country} in Lewis county. The youngster / made up his mind to get an adu-| cation. He had no money. Neither had his father. Not any to spare that is, 80 Nichols heaved a pack | on hi broad, young shoulders and started out to earn an education. He went to Tacoma and drove a| team on a railroad grade. Then his savings and went. to to get a jobeon the old News, under the late nklin K. Lane. His father, up| farm, wasn't prospering much,, 0, young Nichols quit the News and the night school ho w His dad went to teaching school and Nich ran the ranch, STARTS OUT AGAIN town said, in a letter to Doheny. Walsh's| AND WORKS WAY THRU In 1891 the youth again strapped | started out in search of an education. He sh or his brother John join | landed at the Olympia Collegiate in. hopefuls thru.” | one of 25 proposed to young “work j stitute, who ing to Doheny’s telegram, he said| Twenty-four of the young hopefuls to engage in any | didn't. Nichols did. He carried |papers, split wood, tended furnaces and swept out lawyers’ offices—but he did it. duating from the institute he | sought Seattle and the: university. | He landed here with $5. Tuition fees were $6. He had no friends, But somehow or other, universit als were convinced of his h and he started his classes, In- 6 | you scarcely realize the fact | “[ prefer to bes thought over-sen- ae you're off the concrete paving, you| isitive than to be under py = 4 he sot odd jobs and paid $6 within a week, SUCCESS AT FOOTBAL THEN IN FOR POLITICS With all his studies he didn't} |neglect athletics. He played on the | }football team in ‘92, '93, '94 and} " and coached it in ‘96, '97 and} In 1902 he ran for the state sen- jate and was beaten, He ran again in 1906 and was elected, He is the father of the present state} just be- | highway system and of the fish con: | servation cdde. In 1917 a water code was before | the senate. Passage of it would companies vir | control of the give electric power tual monopolistic state's water power. Nichols fought it—and beat it. Before thet, in ’15,| ho had ‘helped beat the perpetual| franchise bill, But the death of the| water code was the last straw. | Nichols’ name went on the black- ist * 8 * * BY JIM MARSHALL jbeen diagnosed, soiled down, the power trust says: , ; Just what its political power is, Seattle, will be apparent before midnight next Tuesday,!pr Hiram M. when Ralph Nichols’ votes are counted. But that’s another story. “the hospital. —Star Staff Photo |i9 jours, ‘The cause of his Lindgren died within death has not but a post mortem wy s probably will be held to definitely You must not elect ectatiish it. ‘The police declare that council, or any public office.) Lindgren was not given medical asons, to-wit: | treatment when he was brought in, grab anything in the legisla-|** he showed no signs of being ill, |seeming to be only drunk, and in hols gummed our game. To} caaition the elty hospital doctors [have been forbidden to treat prison- —elec-|¢rs brought in by the police unless in| they are fully unconscious, The or- jder was issued some time ago by Read, city health crowd goes both wa: It is rumored | commissioner. é ing | Zindgren is a well-known charac. lepeni sons W pendent persons were going) .-helow the.line,"” police declare, cil lives ott In Rainier Valley, with | orders and take the conse- | a ee his wife and three children, Helen, | 3 ee Madge end Eimer. Also an Aire-|Use Airplanes to Dislodge dale. He runs a battered old car| “Gorges; Men Marooned ; and shuts off the gas going down OMAHA, Neb, March 4,—Air- hill, because he's that sort of an economist. Also he is secretary of the Washington Superpower league.| planes will be used today to bomb One of the things he wants to/ {ce jams in the Platte river to avert do is secure‘cheaper power for Se-| threatened floods between Colum- attM\ Ottawa's steam municipal pus and Fremont, Neb. plant sells {t to Canadians for 13) Gorges 10 feet high and a mile cents a kilowatt-hour; Seattle} wide have formed in several places, charges 6.5 cents. Of course, {f the] forcing the river out of its banks rate here were reduced the private! and inundating farm land. Dower companies would have to re-| Two Martin bombers are at the duce their rates, too. danger point. The aviators are That’ her reason why under} mapping the jams. no circumstances, must you vote for! Five men were marooned today Ralph D. Nichols next. Tuesday. on Browner'’s island, five miles west oR og jot Columbus. The men are not in King of England | Serious danger. Supplies are being Is Recovering |sent them by means of wire cable stretching from the mainland to the LONDON, March 4.—King George was somewhat recovered today island. from an indisposition, due to a se- vere cold and was seen. walking about in the gardens at Bucking ham palace. The man the power trust ‘says mustn't be elected to the city coun- Exonerates Driver A coroner's jury at Renton Mon- day ni < held that Charles Leitch, | Renton-Kennydale auto stage driver, ENirope now contains 15 monarchs|was not to: blame for the death and 10 presidents, That is, up tojof Walter Covington, colored, 10 the time of going to press.—Passing | years of age. The boy was killed how (London). in a stage accident February 25. Aged Couple Realize Expressed Desire to Pass Away Together BY S. B. GROFF For over a quarter of a cen- tury Mr. and Mrs. William Reid had watehed Seattle grow town to a city. declining — years they had. moved to Bellevue, ac Lake Washington, in- tending to spend their last days there. Childless and alone, Reld and his wife had often expressed their hope that both might die together and that one might not be left ,after the other had passed Last Friday Mrs. Reid, 66, was pushing a chair across the kitchen floor. She stumbled and fell, splintering her hip bone. Her husband, 76 years old, dropped dead from heart failure, due to his grief and ex- citement, © few minutes later. Sunday morning Mra Reid died quietly in the Seattle Gen: eral hospital, after saying she did not want to live. The don- ble funeral will be “held from the Bonney-Watson- patlors at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon. ‘The only relatives of the aged couple are n brother and sister of Mrs, Reid, both tiving ta the East. from a small And in. their aged