The Seattle star. [volume], January 29, 1914, Image 1

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Councilman Krickson Fells on 2 How Frisco Fought for <£0 Years to (iet Decent Street C]ar Service—AND YVOIN!
More l"h«n
42,000
Paid Copied Daily
Worley, an Unknown
Seattle is fairly well acquainted with all of
this medley of mayoralty candidates—all except
one, George B. Worley. Worley is the unknown in
the race. He may or he may not be of mayoralty
timber. Nobody in Seattle seems to know. He
may be a good engineer, or he may not be. No
body seems to know.
It is scarcely probable that Seattle would en
tertain the idea of betting on a mayoralty uncer
tainty. But that's the most charitable thing that
cm be said of George B. Worley.
He is an uncertainty. He is an unknown.
CAPITALIST
BEING HELD
FOR RANSOM
Letter Signed "Blackmailers'
Demands $75,000 for Re
turn of Spokane Man.
THOUGHT drowned
Wife Refuses to Believe The
ory That He Had Thrown
Himself Into Sea.
' IM ANGEI.F.B. Jan. 19 Police
loath" rn California will be asked
Mu to aid Angelas author!-
talo fad the author* of a letter
M Chief of Police Sebastian, slaned
*lllßtackmai>r*." which offers to
*%inin V. Lewis Clark, a Spokane
tifttsi'.it. who disappeared from
bttt Barbara recently, upon i«av-
M( of r 3,000.
TW police suspect the letter I* n
ku. bat are determined lo find
tie writer.
Chun dropped from sight more
tat » week ago. after placing his
ri/t aboard a San Fram-l*< o train
TW following day his hat was
'tni oo the beach
ire# his closest friends here be
)m4 be bad killed himself, but Mrs
Tut remained confident that he
•tad be found alive.
The purported blackmailing let
ter *u written In a cramped hand.
Wrmtlf disguised It said
"W* art holding Millionaire
Clark for ramsom. 175.000.
Mtto If hi* folk* will pay it or
KL H* I* wall taken car* of.
Vwrs. The Blackmailer*. L. A."
fcaclied at tbe top of the paper
*M tbe advice "Make a prompt
tahf I" th« paper*, a* h* I* very
wsmm to get out."
is Slower corner were the word*
Hit* at once."
Detectives believe his hat, found
n the beach, may have been
dropped In a scuffle that occurred
*&»* bis abductors placed him
•hard a power launch to bring him
km-
SUPPING TRUST!
Washington, .ran 29. The
report, of the sab-committee of
to* houi'- msrine committee, fol
»*;«* It* k>< ailed shipping tr»mt
[Htrtry, hold* a shipping trust <•*■
■to la Atlantic and South and Cen
tal American trade through nblp-
H«| '.ools
■ 0
MERE'S A NEW ONE
J "September Morn, a pair,"
[ ™&-song*d the waiter to the
'""k in a Third a*, restaurant.
■ The man at the counter wan
I uteretted.
! A new one on me What's
; »n*wer'" be asked
: "A couple of waffles with
j "ripped,' explained the
cbef
NEW PENNANT COUPON
BILLIE burke poses
WEEK "The Office Girl"
One coupon and 20 rents for each Pennant at Star
office and branch* Twenty-five cents by mail
Bathing (,irl, Co-lid, Flower t.irl, Stage Reauty
»nd Matinee t.irl Pennants .an also b: had this week.
PEDDLING BODIES FROM MORGUE TO THE GRAVEYARD
j,, * d'sput*. hit tcr am) acrimonious. has arisen between Coroner I
■k. .. son and Hutterworth- the urid#*i't:i*'rs over the disposition of
■"* Wuper dpg-l
absolutely refuse ' wrote the coroner to the county coniniln
to !<#• rm 11 till lln K of bodied bnek and forth !.«•» w «<-u the
®°rWtt and fh«- establishments of private utitlortal:fri.
Uxi'p Jl u * rr 'l grew out of til lln for undertaking "f the bodies of \lrs»
Urolerno Vleorle. who were killed I" » brawl January
It, advised the county commissioners not to pay. I lie mat
Ibe heard February i. In. Mason and L»r. C'rlchton, city health
VOLUMK Ul NO 288.
Tomorrow, the Socialist Candida*.*
WOMEN DECAPITATED
BFRI.IN. Jan l'»o women were decapitated in
Katinhor prison this afternoon. (>nc was Franriska Zim
mer, convicted of murdering her .stepmother, 'lhe other
was Josepha Kuhack, who killed her husband They went
to their deaths with no «ijjn of emotion. No newspaper
published more than four lines on the double execution.
TELLS OF FIRING A
"MOVIE" THEATRE
NKVV YORK. Jan 19 How a
motion picture theatre full of pe<>
pie was soaked with krrn«Mr oil
and fired, and a bomb later placed
In the hall of a crowded Houston
at. tenement bouse was told to l>la
trlct Attorney Whitman today by
Alfred I .oh man. Antonio Hedalls
and Rocco Puccrarello. mem tiers of
ai. alleged Riack Hand gang
The outrage* were perpetrated,
they aaid. thai a Rang leader might
obtain vengeance for Interference
|p a love affair.
The thre* men are witnesses In
the case of Angdo Sylveslro, cltarg
en with planting a bomb that
wrecked the Houston afreet tene-
HUBBY GETS UP
3 A.M.,SHE SAYS;
WANTS DIVORCE!
WHAT SHE SAYS HE 010
Cave her no peac* of mind until
•he married him, although she
had refused s«v*ral times on ac
* count of her young son and
adapted daughter.
After marriage mad* hsr 15-year
old boy go to work and forced
him to pay board the laat three
years. depriving him of school
privileges.
Traded »1.200 worth of real estate
for an automobile.
Became a stingy, greedy, niggardly,
miserly, penurious and sordid
person.
Brought home bad meat and com
manded her to clean and cook It.
Cot up at 3:30 In the morning and
made a noise prowling around for
his breakfast.
• • • • •
T'nusual allegation* aro t«elng fea
lured against Paris A Williams by
hi* wife. May K Williams, In di
vorce proceeding* today before
Judge Humphries
The defendant, an old man. *at
on orp side of the table, while hi*
wife. well dre»*ed and younger,
conferred with her attorney on the
other aide of the legal bench
She requests that she be given
a divorce, a *har«" of the property
and her maiden name of May Fur
back.
Hhe *ay* he ha* property In Ne- :
braska and King county valued at
nearly $100,000
The Seattle Star
"Tou never heard the Inalde
story of the burning of fhe Hip
podrome mnvlim picture hou.e did
you"' asked I/ihmui of Whitman.
"Well. It was burned because Its
janitor, 'Joe. the Wop.' butted In
on fSluswpp* Karrarra s love af
fair KVrrarra ha* skipped to
Italy, so yon ran'l net him
"We spread tbe kerosene and
benslne all over the seat*. Farrar
ra threw a lighted paper on the
floor and we beat If
"People poured out of file place
A couple of children were burned
l> little. Some one turned In an
alarm and the fire was put out."
HOUSE SENDS 2
COMMITTEES
TOPROBESTRIKE
WASHINGTON. Jan. !I.—
Two committees from th*
House of representatives will
leave Monday for Michigan and
Colorado to probe strikes In
progress thsro, Th* probes
will start as soon as th* com
mltteemen arrive. It wa* esti
mated that the Colorado coal
atrike inveatlgation will laat be
tween three and four weak* and
that in Michigan from four to
five w**k*.
JUST I FRIEND OF
HAMILTON HERE
The Pomona grange at Its last
meeting, with lf>o members pres
ent, wept on record almost unani
mously for the recall of County
Commissioner Hamilton One vote
out of the I&o wa* cast against fa
voring bis recall.
NOTIS
B'GOLLY, HONESTY IS
THE BEST POLICY
FOR A FELLER IN
THE LONG RUN BUT
THE TROUBLE IS
LOT OF FELLERS
ARE ONLY
SPRINTERS.
IT
Vi
commissioner, will be asked to ft* the statu* of |x>rsons dying In the
city hospital.
We do not think It rlßht." the coroner says, "for"any firm to ob
tain possession of a body which thej know will probably he a county
case, hold II until satisfied Ihft there If no chance to locale relatives to
whom they could look for payment of ■ funeral hill, and then turn the
body back to the county for cremation If they wish to take a Rambler's
chance In their mail rush for business, they certainly should be made
to assume responsibility for the final disposition of the remain*."
Her! Uutterworth, of Hutterworth & Hons, on ills side of the ghoul
ish controversy, said today;
KAIN TONIGHT AND FRIDAY. MODERATE SOUTHEAST WINDS,
* i
THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS
SEATTLE, WASH . THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1914
SEATTLE WONT GET BANK
Cabinet Officers Indicate They Will Favor San Francisco
Scan* In tha Regional Bank Haarlng at tha Federal Building. Gov. Llater la Shown Sealed at the Left, Facing the Camera. At Hla
Left Are Secretary MtAdoo and Secretary Houeton. Both Seated.
3 CANDIDATES SWEAT AS WOMEN
HECKLE; IT GETS THEIR "NANNIES"
Everybody but the candidate* |
had a good time at the second
luavoraliy qui* of the Women'*
(• 4mm! Oovernment league at the Y
M C A Innt night
Slater, Oltl and Wood aqnlrtnad
through n mcrcl|e»» heckling
Trenholme. who w»* to have been
quliat the flrat araalon. Hat
urdiy. but who. pleading a prior en
gagement, promised to auhmlt him
a«lf for the ordeal lam night, failed
to put In an appearance
Inatead. earlier In the day, he got
the lint of qtieatlona. annwrrrd them,
and aaked that the answer* be read
at the quit-
It the unanimous opinion of
the audience. however, that Tren
holme had crawflnhed. and hla an
awera were Ignored
COL. GOETHALS
WILL REMAIN ON
JOB AT PANAMA
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—Col.
Goethale today accepted the go war
norshtp of the Panama canal zona.
Tha colonal aan| hla acceptance
to tha war department by telegraph,
but Secretary Garrlaon said ha
would not make tha teat of the
message public until the nomination
had been acted on by the aenata.
Ha aald the acceptance waa un
conditional.
Preaident Wllaon'a nomination of
Goethali went to the aenata today.
Ita apeedy confirmation waa ex
pected The appointment waa
made effective April 1.
TTTDEfV BUT ITS
r lllLi SFCRET!
Hello! la thla the fire depart
menf" excitedly Inquired a voice
over the telephone to the o|>erator
at fire headquarters at .1 a. m to
day There's been a big fire out
here "
"Out where?" answered the nper
ator Give me the address quick
and can the conversation stuff Ik>
you want th- place to burn up?"
Oh, well, von needn't tnlnd."
aald the voice. "The lionae haa al
ready burned down The address
la 6037 .Sheldon av ~ South park."
And the caller rang off
Whereupon the operator filled
out u report tn this effect: Klre
at 5037 Sheldon av Owner un
known, occupant unknown. locs un
known, Inaurance unknown "
6 GO SWIMMING
M»H ANOKI.KS. Jan 2H Taking
advantiige of the unusual presence
of water In the l,os Angeles river,
six small boys went swimming In
their birthday clothes They were
pinched, but Ia t • r released
ADVERTISE SEATTLE
The annual report of the exploita
tion and industrial bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce, made today,
show* the distribution of I,boo,nno
piece* of literature advertising Se
attle and vicinity. Included among
the work of the department In the
pant year.
TACOMA. Wash. .inn 2!>. State
Health Commissioner Kelle.v looks
forward to the women of the state
to solve ihe health problems Men
have never solved It, lie told the
meeting of the federated clubs.
| Hlater, fat and perspiring freely|
about the collar, furnlahed much of
the comedy, lie persisted In eulo
gising Mike Carrlgtut «o glowingly
that he «m aaked If he had prom
t»ed to make him hla private aeo
relarv If i leeted
\o." aald Hlater, "hut. yon Hfc
I waa told a long time ago that If
I ever ran for office I'd find that
Mr t'arrlgan not only know* every|
angle of the game but that he la a '
staunch and loyal friend "
Kvery time Hlater waa aaked a
poaer, he seemed to have a written
anawer for It concealed In aome
pocket. Me flahed theee a'ate
tnenta out with a flourlah. They
were auch good anew era. ao much
better than hla verbal one*, that It
waa auggeated that Mike Carrlgan
: * mi" tbem. i
ALL MEN IN LOVE ARE
ALIKE — MME. DAZIE
Madame Dazle snd Her Fortune
msklng Foot.
I,OS AN'OKI.RS, Pal., Jan. 29 —
Madame liable, dancer, one of the
moat sought- women of the stage,
haa proclaimed her views on love
and men.
"I've been naked the difference In
the way men of different nationali
ties make love, There Isn't any.
"He'll rave and swear you're the
oniy woman he'll ever love, and If
he can't have yotl lie despairs and
his heart breaks —until the next
woman conies along Hies* you. n'li
man breaks his heart tor a woman. '
"l)r Mason iiealects to explain that when, at the request of friendsi
of the dead Italians, we took the hod I'M from the public morgue to ours,
we paid $ I"» for eueh body.
As the husband of (lie dead woman was In jail, charged with first
degree murder, and as tile brawl hud split the Italian colony Into two
factions, between whom a feud existed, no one came forward to suggest
a disposition of the bodies
We held the» from January 7 until .ianuarv L':t Then I proposed
returning them to the public morgue. |)r. Mason refused to receive
them On the advice of my attorney, 1 prepared the bodleg and sent
them to the crematory.
ONF. CENT
| Hlater aald he didn't object In the |
; lenat to signing the atatementa. To
prove It he did.
"I make these atalemenia." he an
notinced Impressively, "over my
own signature
I ...
Both Hlater and HI 0111 aaid they
would not ntiollhli private employ
ment agencle* If elected
011 l aald he wax for the Initiative
and referendum, but not for the re
call He wasn't Joking; either.
"Are you In favor of publishing
campaign funda before the prl
mur!en7" he waa aaked
"I certainly am thla election." he
aald amid laughter.
Olll'a war cheat lan't nearly »o
full thla time aa on former occa
alons. while Trenholme, Wood and
i Slater are aald to have financial
TRADE OUTLOOK IN
SEATTLE tS GOOD
The biialneaa outlook for Seattle
for tha preaent year la decidedly
roaeate according to the optlmlatlc
comment which api>eara In the Is
aue of the R O. IKin * Co. Pacific
Northwest Trade Hovtew, off the
preaa today.
That the yeJkr of 1913 waa a very
proaperoua one In moat llnea of
trade, aave for the lumber business,
la shown
The bank clearing* and poatof
flee receipt* reached the high water
mark. No failure of crops la re
ported In Ihe territory which ships
through Seattle. drain crops, oth
er than wheat, ahow a very notice
able Increase over the preceding
year.
The ilalr.v and livestock Indus
tries alio* n steady growth
throughout (ho entire territory.
Dun & Co has only the lumber
trad'- to lament. While the lumber
cut I* fi»un«! to have Increased for
the year, a bin decrease In the de
mand la recorded, especially dur-
Starr-MacPherson Bankrupt Stock
Goes on Sale Tomorrow
The bankrupt slock of the Starr-Mac-
Pherson Co. has been bought by a former
well-known local merchant. The new man*
agement has also added to the Starr-Mac-
Pherson Co. stock the high-grade shoe stock
of the Smith-Henrickson Co. of Tacoma, and
also a part of the clothing stock of the Arrow
Clothing Co. of Tacoma, both of which
stocks consisted of the highest grade mer
chandise in their lines. The combined stocks
will be included together in a gigantic sale,
which will start tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock. Merchandise will be sold at prices
that will be a revelation to the people of
Seattle. For full particulars of this big sale
see the large display ad on page 3 in today's
paper.
I harking.
• • •
Wood Balil he would close cafes j
Helling liquor to minor* and women
"If liquor I* bad for women, why
Inn t It hud for men?'' he van asked
The candidate hemmed and haw
ed. and finally eta id he'd vote for
prohibition If he ever got a
chance.
• • •
Adam Rauach, the "red'' socialist
candidate, didn't accept the Invita
tion to attend the qui*. Instead he
dent a letter of thanks and explana
tion. He wasn't a candidate, tfe
wrote, for all the people. Me was
not a candidate for people making
profits from property. Also, he had
an engagement to spettk In "an ln
idustrial part of the city."
Ing the clo«lnc month*
The aalmon Industry both In
Puget Bound watera and on the
coast of Alaska broke all recorda.
both for extent of pack and rapid
ity with which the entire output
moved from flrat hands Pepoalta
In the hanka totaled $81,533,700.54
HERE'S BIFF FOR
SUFFRAGETTES
WASHINGTON. .Lan 29 —A dras
tic amendment to the Huraett-Dll
llngham immigration bill waa adopt
ed today by the house immigration
committee.
It provides for the deportation of
anyone. aliens or citizens. agisting
in the Immigration of per.nins. mil
itant suffragettes included, teaching
the destruction of proi>erty.
"Then I sent a Mil for $10 for each body, and asked for the return
of the $30 I hud paid the public morgue
"If. as Dr. Mason assumes, persons dying ai the city hospital are
paupers,' then why does he charge $ I .'i apiece for carting them across
the street to the public morgue?
"The fact of the matter is that Dr. Mason made a great play on hit
public morgue scheme to get elected, and he wants the public to believe
lhat It has made good
I am as much in favor of a public morgue «« any one. If property
j conducted. 1 do not believe he Is runuing the county's properly,"
NIGHT
-EDITION
CAPITAL OF
BANKS NOT
SUFFICIENT
Visitors Told State Institu
tions Would Co-operate
With National
ALASKA IS DEFENSE
Bankers Tell Committee of
Vast Bulk of Business
With the North.
While Secretary of the Treaatirr
McAdoo took the pains to Inform
the audience which crowded the
federal court room when the Seai
tle regional bank hf-aring was be
gun tbla morning, that no signifi
cance should be attached to any
qiientlons propounded b) him or by
his colleague. Secretary Houston of
the agricultural department. It was
consistently evident that the whole
of the Pacific coast Ih to be Includ
ed Into onr district, with the cen
tral regional bank located at Sap
Francisco.
The proposed plan to em
brace Washington, Oregon,
Idaho and Montana in one dis
trict received a jolt when M.
F. Backus, president of tha Na
tional Bank of Commerce of
Seattle, and representing tha
Seattle Clearing House associa
tion, was compelled to admit
that there is but little trade re
lation In this state with Idaha
and Oregon, and less with Mon
tana.
A further serious set-hack to the
plan of the local bankers, commer
cial bodies, and state officials, was
experienced when It developed,
from the questions propounded by
the organization committee, that
even if all the four states named
were included In one district, the
of the national banks
would only total $43,000,000. and
would therefore be able to supply
only $2,500,000 of the necessary
$4,000,000 under the 6 r i terms of
the law.
State Banks Would Go in
Backus impressed upon the com
mittee. however, that the state
banks had already manifested a
willingness to co-operate and to
Join as members of the regional
hank, and that they would easily
furnish the remainder of the
money.
Gov, I.ister of Wathlngton «n
the first witness heard. He wai
followed l>y P. M Behrens, an
Alaskan pioneer: M. F. Backus. Se
attle banker, and Eugene T. Wil
son. a Taconia banker.
The hearing will be continued
this afternoon, and the committee
will leave for Portland tonight.
Emphasize Alaska Business
Chief stress was laid by all th«
speakers In behalf of Seattle's
claims for a central regional bank,
upon the enormous business trans
acted with Alaska and the Orient,
and the future possibilities as they
will be developed by the opening of
the Panama canal and the bulldiug
of the Alaskan railroad.
Gov. Strong Writes
Gov. I.ister carefully reviewed the
tremendous growth of the state of
Washington and the Alaskan trade,
and read a letter from Gov. Strong
of Alaska, in which the latter ad
vanced Seattle's claims to the bank
by the fact that more than 75 per
cent of the business of the territory
was done through Seattle.
He also referred to letters from
Gov. Haines of Idaho and Gov. West
of Oregon In which they urged the
location of a bank in the Northwest.
"Hill they did not nam® the city,
did they?" asked McAdoo, laugh
ingly.
Backus Is Questioned
Backus, the first banker to ad
dre«s the committee, was the most
closely questioned.
"To what extent are the reserves
of Montana. Oregon and Idaho held
in Seattle?" McAdoo asked.
Hnckus was unable to reply.
"If It developed that Seattle could
not have a regional hank, what
would he your second choice?"
Backus said he had no second
choice, but the committee Insisted
upon an answer, and Backus re
plied :
"San Francisco would be second
best."
A man In love is In a class by him
self and he acts pretty much llk»
every other man In the same pre
| dicatnent.