The Seattle star. [volume], February 13, 1922, Image 1

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IRREGULAR exercise in the open air does some good, but to obtain lasting benefit you must do it every day. Don't let the fact that the weather is not
very good, or that you feel lazy, prevent you from getting out. A walk in a heavy rainstorm is not so bad provided you don dry clothing immediately
after. The more regular you are in your daily walk, the more you will realize its immense good. Influenza doesn't get the outdoor enthusiast. It claims its
vii tims t roni the ant i- fresh air contingent, which is all too large.
POISON MEDICINE IS SEIZED!
VOLUME 23.
EIGHT OF THE WOMEN WHO FIGURE IN PROBE
lfr«. Ckirlaffe Shelby. the mother
of Mary illlet Mini", the *1 ar who
to id police the loied Taylor.
j4ome grew
Hwt>, folk*! Are n< "»•
atug far mayor?
o o o
Btov Qat Oct. Hart's «wu tnre«a
■gh( Mnmlaatoo haa ooadfron^l
»—B*a« far Got Hart to da bat dL»
Qm eoauntsalon.
• • •
C <1 Ml U oat for the ae-nnte.
Bbrt*! hoping that he La not a dill
fcfckte.
• • •
KIUT rNCEKT \IVTT!
Any-way. •• h®p«' the nrwa
(hat bt( honrhe- of ahtiet. • in
KaMrrn college* have bren re
tnem-jr dwm'l »rim»c
<bi null nl >m«i( the athlete* of
Ike t nivcrslty of \% **hinttoii.
• • •
If the SWntUo city council hawn't
Mythlr>K elite on liarul next Monday
we hop- tt appolnta a commute* to {
i*ve>tiK*te what the executive mm
ml t tee of the state democratic party i
fid Saturday.
• • •
AT FORT I-AWTON
thnr.'. If yon ran. tkla lie pet.
. Said the drill man lo hit nttuad.
Tkey fired and Hl)ler Drill Han note
* J ACM underneath the tod.
• • •
f W. Mathlns.
secretary of the
Hoquiam Com
mercial flub
«*utch» a four-
J/Hf, un d rainbow
trout In the
Humptulipn river by lnssoeing It
•r< und the snout. a/tcr bis hook l>"
c»rn'- disentangled from the fish'*
*>uth."—New* dispatch.
• • •
Cohlbltlon Director Hoy C. Lyle
blocked the shipment of 32.100
■ of whiakv thm this state Into
Irtish Columbia In the last 10 diiv*.
■a-. , our alert contemporary, The
ft-r
'That's right, Hoy. keep It an on
•> > ride of tho line—we need It
tere.
• • •
THEN
ff' bought him wit a brand arte car.
U/c hid it /Med with O'U.
Bt thounht hit Ml or I w<j« oirr par,
lie loa4ed In M* /'IM.
AND
llr mriarrd hvman fl/e and limb.
llr kilUd Mlnrk by thr »rr>rr,
llr tried to race with an rzpreu,
NOW
IMI/. *pee<f» on thr oaldrn »hore.
s • •
"Tetwlr." «ald the Oldest Citizen
1 kin remember the flay* when they
M d It 'Sunny California' Instead of
Vlmw* California.'"
• • •
Own Ijindnn, .H.
*n,ht I* kn»w, mi,
if. ram
trig tmrk. Hhl.h I.
ill right. JmM
thry don't ran*
flow a,
• • •
KXTVM! EXTRA!
The Coff'-yvllle Journal aubmit*
thl< "old home town" iU in from a
t#' m lola Iteglater:
".Ittni at It .0;# fhi* morning, at th«
of <in*l
» Imi • nllpu*•«! *nd ftlmoat f«U down."
"0 0 0
rMfflfff mmn la
Bamri) nlmplr Mr «•
Wh*n Mfldrrwlni liiin
hi* fflrnil* m f ,
"IUIMJ."
• • •
Dear Homer: \ b«U ll the
Male department of pnblie
*«>rU* will reiluee the rale* of
the local triephone ro. tit the
IK string to be held here ftoon.
(1 urn to Vaga 1« Column
WEATHER
reminfct and Tw« lay, fair ; moder
ate imtrrly Hindu,
Tfniprrtlurr I A>l ?| Hmir*
Maximum. 41. Minimum, 33.
Today noon. 37.
I'dnn movie artrrna.
who wot Ihe firtl to be notified by
1 oylor*g t -lift of Ike director*! d*'*th.
Local Man
Nearer to
Millions
Court Overrules Bank's
Appeal in Old
Stock Case
Alfred W. Seymour, No. J Union
Court, is on* step onitr a fori une
variously estimated ai fn>m lioo Sy'J
to |6 000 000. a* a. result of a (kcUtOfl
.by Ihe appelate dtvi»ion of Iho su
prrmt court of New York. In the
fight of tho Mrtalt srvi MwhUW
bunk of New York to md» recog
nit lon of the validity of stocli in tho
bank held by Seymour. *
The stork. originally valued at
sll 000, ha* t*en In Seymour's fatn
lly since Ita w*ue In 1*23. and the
compounds! earnings and Internal
run Into mill ion*.
The bunk contend* that the ancleht
dato of iMTUe ha* outlawed the slock
In the first round of H»ym<iur's
legal fight for fortune, the New
York supreme court laat June de
• la red the stock valid, and the bank
appefiled, losing Ita appeal in the
prmnt dfci«ion
iiriimur and hto wife operate the
Woman's Ksehange bakery and the
Alley Kat cafe In Seattle
"Uncle Joe" to
Quit Congress
WASIIINOTON, Feb. II. —"l.'ncle
Joe" Cannon to coin* to quit con
gress.
After 4* years of almost contlnu
ous service In congress, sinre he Is
the oldest man both in years and In
l>olnt of service, he announced today
that lie will not be a candidate next
fall to succeed himself as representa
tive of the l*th Illinois district.
Cannon will be ti on March 7.
"l.'ncle Joe's" eyes are giving out,
and that is one reason he to quitting,
he told the I'nited Pr'-ss.
Cannon said he would go Kick
to his home In Danville, 111., after
this sexton Is ended, to rest and look
after his business interests. He owns
considerable property there.
"l.'ncle Joe" was elected to con
gress for the first time In 1*72. He
served continuously until 1S&0, when
h" was defeated by Col. Btwev, dem
ocrat. but In 1*92 cannon heat ttu*ey
and came liack. Cannon was beaten
again when the republican party
split. In 1312. by a man named
O Hare. who served two years before
"L'ncle Joe" defeated him.
OIL "GASSER"
IS IN FLAMES
WIIITTIHR. Cal., Ivh. 13. Th«-
t'nlon f»il t'o.'n ktp.i' nt
Knntu K« HprlriKH niught flr»* »hl«
inornlnif with n roar that xhook the
country for mll«-« around.
It In hhootlriK a column of white
hot fl.im" 400 feet Into the «lr. No
triirr of the ilrrrl'k or machinery of
the original oil well r<-mnin.
Well# two mil'« from here ore In
Kruv« danger, oil men reported.
MISS ANNA SWIGERT. Woodln
vlllr »''hnot teacher, who w»* fln«<l
f| o Thurwliiy hy jUSTICe of the
Peace C. C. Dalton for beating How
ard Hoffman, # year-old pupil, ha*
taken an appeal.
The Star Goes Into 11,727 More Homes Every Day Than Any Other Seattle Newspaper
The Seattle Star
htHMI u i*«oa4 CI am H.itu Hu ft. ill,, ai ik. I'uaiuCtx at inim ffuk, «Ddv ih. Act «f Coacraaa Ma/ih ». lit*, fii lw, fcr Mall, II la M
Mr*, fioujli, Mart.eon. wife of Ike
n tor. who In ft next lo 'loyloc't i
hnme and who heard Iho thot i
COAST CHINESE
IN DEATH WAR!
Two Killed Here, One in San Jose and
One in Butte in Gun Fights
\\ iih fre«|i warfare Impending
Miinilty In I hinatown,
where two local I hinAMi were
Killed ami a third «e»rre
ly wuuiidt-d Sunday nlchl, de
terthre* nice patrolling the dl»-
Irtrt In an effort U> prevent any
new uutbrrxk. '
Seven men. now held In city Jail,
were being Ihoroly grilled and the
»wrch for several suspected long
men was being vigorously pushed.
The warfare here, police belle re.
Is a part of general outbreak of ho»
tlllties between tongmcn up and
down the Pacific const.
The men killed here were Toy Jow.
40. and Hong Sing. SO. The murders
occurred at Seventh a*'c and Kingst-
En Engyn, known as 'The Duke,"
was severely wounded In his shop at
70S King »t. All were member* of
Hip King tong whose feud with tling
Kong tong I* believed to have
brought on the killings.
Patrolmen Edward Peterson and
C. E. Failing were standing at S*v.
enth ave and King f. tal'tlng to
Charlie Louie, a Chinese merchant,
when they saw Fong Eye shoot sev
eral times at t<ou*» from the en
trance to the Milwaukee hotel. The
shots passed within two Inches of
Peterson's head. Kye threw away
his gun, hut was captured afttr a
desperate chase.
Six other men are held In city JnII.
They are Enge Yeun, U: Chin
Quong. 3J: Ye Sing, f.O. Wong Luen.
71; Hon Yuen, 41. and Fong Hoy,
17.
All seven are thought In tie Import
ed Jriiitmrn of the Bing Kong tong,
as they are all strangers In Seattle.
Police now believe that a life and
death Struggle for supremacy In the
United States Is on between the Pill*
Kongs of the West and the Hip Sings
of the Hast.
Tile lielief was strengthened by re-
NEW 'PONZI' IS
BEFORE COURT
Asks Time to Repay Millions
in Losses
CHICAGO, Fob. IT. Iliiyrninrt J.
Bluchoff «*kp»l Juclr* lytnOl*
to Klve him a month'* time to rwU*
Ii:jIn imrt of tin- I®*"'* of 3,600
ivork'-r« of "I.lttln l'olftn'l," who In
$i.:.00.n00 In fiavln** with lilin.
IMachoff, Chicago "Vomi* 9 wan
rolled before the rourt to tell why h«
xhould not b« deelurtd a bankrupt.
Action wan brought agairiHt Blacboff
by creditor*.
"Olve nie one month, Judge, and
I'll be able to pay hark 75 cent* on
the dollar," lilachoff told the couit.
"i would not be in thin plight if I
hadn't been double crOMOd by Chica
go financier*."
lie denied he had ever paid a« high
a* 100 per rent Interest to thnve who
loaned him money on promlwaory
not' *. "Hlxty V»er cent wan the high
est f ever paid.* he Mid.
jllftchoM admitted to the rourt that,
he had d« werted from both the Ame».
ican and Canadian armioa during the
world war.
SEATTLE. WASH., .MONDAY, KEimCAKY 13, 1022.
f'tkrt fhti*v lhnnf-1 annrr, 19. the
daughter •/ the ftiuit director and hi*
heir.
porn that. In addition to tb» Seattle
killings, a lllng Kong man. l.ow
Mow, was slain last night In San
J«< e, Cal. sod a Htp Sing man was
riddled with bullets In llutte. Muni
Headquarters of the lllng Kongs
are In San Francisco. Headquarters
of the Hip Sing tong are in New
York.
Ili«bblnd*r« from Mrh ar* i*
portal hurrytnir Into th* othir'i ter
ritory to laJto the lives of rival WW
tor*.
Tha Binf Kortf In t.h# old«*t and
rtc h»**t ton# on (h« l*aclfic ooa*t
M.mv of tho Iratlmx merchant* of
I'ariflc rcaat Clilnnlowni are i(n
m*vnl»er«. It IMM many fighting men
(ui<l ha* ruled nuprfm<» for yetrt •
The Hip Hlng tons r«fnlljr ha*
been invading Uif territory of th*
Hlnf Kony. It la now strong In
many port* of th* Han Joaquin val
ley and ha* a biff memberahlp In Han
Jaw.
Thouaand* of dollar* have been
raiH«*«l by both tonga to carry on the
fight, Member* of both Hlng Kong
and Hip Hlng are now in hiding.
MAN, WIFE AND
BOY MURDERED
Little Girl Left Alone by
Tragedy
WACO. Texas. Feb. 13 Authori
ties tfnlny qui«ll(in''d Willie I,ou
Parker, 4. hlkwc story they declared
to be the only hope of solving the
brutal murder of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. If. Jtarker, and the
fatal mounding of Homer Turk, 13,
at Concord, Texan, near here.
The little girl said two men shot
her father down and then killed her
mother with an ax after they «i«v
manded money from the couple, who
ran a grocery ntore. The Turk boy
wan later found under a bed with bin
skull crushed.
SPRING'S BACKSLIDE
IS ONLY A SCARE: TO
PASS AWAY AT ONCE
We're going down.
We've reached 33 degrees.
Hut we aren't going to frp» z<\
Aerordlng to the weather men
Sunday's one-quarter Inch of
snowfall and back wilding in the
spring weather doe* not mean a
recurrence of winter.
"Tuesday,** snjr thoiie wont her
men. "It's going to be 'fair'. He-
Hide*, (he 34 degree* of Sunday
and .'l3 of Monday nre only two
decree* below the average tem
perature of other years for thin
time of thfl /canon.
May bo Monday morning, when
emerging from beneath the eov
r-rs, wo thotißlit wo were freezing
to death. I Jut supposing we'd
been in--
Yakima IS degrees.
Or Hpokane K degr* ".
Or in Calgary 26 below?
Well, supposing.
X'ft'i WffltfT. orJrrii, v/io aofcf «Ar
•f«M our# rt aarjrd to marry Taylor
and th'it hr gate Ktr threit auto«.
Public Wants
on Pontoon
(EDITORIAL)
of the accomplishments of this week at the
county-eity building should be a definite
showdown on the Lake Washington pontoon
bridge project.
Thje Star does not mean necessarily a decision
to build or not to build the bridge.
But a showdown is due the people of this coun
ty on the facts in the case—facts which the com
missioners seem to bo trying to cover up.
TS THE bridge plan feasible engineering?
Would such a bridge necessarily mar the
beauty of the lake? Wnat would bo the cost?
What are the mysterious legal obstacles the com
missioners are mumbling vaguely a!x>ut? If the
bridge were built, what might be the saving in
ferry operation? These are some angles of the
subject the public is curious to have light thrown
upon.
The county paid SI,OOO a day last year to cover
ferry losses. Now it has turned the system over
to a private company, which it is subsidizing.
If a pontoon bridge will eliminate such losses
it is worth considering seriousfy.
Decision on
Isle Bridge
\\ \SHI\<iTON. i> <*., Feb.
13.—T1»« % shipping board in con
sidering nn oiler by a s« at tie
man named Magliai for «>
v ooden IIIIIIH at \bninb, I aJ.,
Portland ami I ake I niort at a
price of |i*h than I'.OOO each.
T!if hull* have no machinery in
them. Ilarry Philhin, of tlio
shipping hoard ship sale* de
partment, *ay* lie docs not
know that llt'Klilim Ur in in
tcreMtrd ill the ileal, hut Mag
liai may hr all afii'iil of Flcisli
hacker,
• • •
King county commissioners and
residents of Mercer Inland Monday
morning poMtpontd until Tuesday a
private meeting scheduled for Mon
day afternoon, at which a <l<H-lftion
wan to Ik* made regarding the pur
dlAse of 15 l>oat bulla from tlie ship
ping board.
Several weeks ago the bulla were
Offered to the King county commis
sioners at 1100 apiece, with the idea
that they be uaed in the coiiatruc
tion of a pontoon* hrldice between
Be?»ttle and Mercer Island.
King county had no money to
apart* for the purchase. Mercer
lalaud ivaldente and enthusiasts
ritlßnl the $ I ,f»00 by Individ, lal sub
scription, and linked that the com
misnioners purchase the hulls and
turn them over to them for the con
at ruction of the bridge.
Commissioner Claude C. Ramsay
paid Monday, "I'm no engineer, ao I
don't Know anything ids>ut the «id
viaahillty of the proportion from an
cconomlc standpoint,
"Before the commissioners enter
Into tjhe purchase we must be von
vlneed by Independent engineers that
the proposition Is perfectly feasible
and entirely Mitisfactory to tho poo
idc."
\tm |„\ J-. C. Jtobir i, trlio Ay*
ftr'i flrtf »«/<• <t*rf divorced him ojltr
hr di**pprar*d from Xeut York*
Besides the feasibility of the plan.
It lit said that the commissioners fear
Diat by purchusmg the hulla for the
Mercer island people they \vo«ild
make themselves liable to the gov
ernment regarding tho building of
the bridge.
"We certainly do not want to pur
chime the boutn under false pre
tense*," Itamsey Hat«d, "but we do
believe we can, if public sentiment
nhowa a denlre for the bridge, ex
plain our stand to the government
with a letter accompanying the 9500
cheek."
Real dents of Mercer Island and
leaders in the movement, however,
feel that the county commissioners
are blocking the proposition.
Yap Treaty Is Now
Before President
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 —The Yap
treaty, now signed by the Vnited
States and Japan, bringing to an end
a dangerous controversy, was placed
before President Harding today.
The document will be sent to the
nenale with a routine letter from
the president.
WIND BLEW I NX,
vv SO DID RAIDERS
CHICAGO. - Prohibition agents
blew In the Wind Blew Inn, Chicago's
1 lohcmtan tavern. Thirty-nine, In
cluding 14 girls, were a nested.
Pipe Fires Dress;
Woman Loses Life
DEN V Kit, Colo.. Koh. m. Mrs.
Kv»i Johnson's desire for .i Mtiokn
cost her life here today. Mrs. Joh|i*
son, an inmate of the county farm,
lighted her |»land set fire to hvr
clotliyu,. She dlod from hor burns.
HOME
EDITION
Wary Milet if later, /Um «Mr. rchn
wrote ardent loir Icth ri to the mur- '
drrrd director. I
FATAL EPIDEMIC
IS NIPPED M BUD
State Action Follows Death of Five
Children From "Salts"
SlalrHHlr action lo prevent a
urltahlr epidemic ol fatal
poisoning cases WIH Morula) "*
aftermath lo the teac«l) mail
r<l at Klaber Saturdiy, when
five children of Mrs. Ed Rhodes
ilinl after she bad llvm them
duw< of what she had bought
mi* I psnm salts.
Will H. Adams. supervisor of
foods, fffd«, drug* and herbs in
the stale department of agricul
ture, liai> seized the entire supply
of Epsom salts at U» Tacoma
wholesale house which dis
tributed the fatal potion, and hi*
»{i'iibi arc keeping the wires
busy, telegraphing to every
town in the »ltlr where the salt*
hare I tern Mild, ordering the im
mediate withdrawal of the medi
cine from the market.
Samples of the wilted sslts have
been taken and are l>clnß turned
over to the chemistry department at
the University of Wsshlngton for
analysis, alone with remaining con
tenia of the l>ox which contained the
poison. *
"Th- re Is n possll lllty, of course."*
Supervisor Adams said, "that only
one box in the entire shipment was
|>oiftor.ius. Mut 1 won't take any
chances. Rather than run the
chance of anyone else being poison
ed, I will have the entire shipment
destroyed."
Adams took tip the case Saturday,
as soon as It was reported to him by
Dr. Paul A. Turner, state medical
director, and his agents reached the
source of supply of the fatal stilts
within 14 hours. The wholesale
house co-operated with the state au
thorities by opening Its of.'lco on
ttunday to permit a checking o' Its
l>o<>ks, so that eVvry sale of lie ship
ment could l« traced.
"These VM ailed salts," Super
i isor Adams commented Mon
dsy, "come lit imckagc form—
I hey were packed nt the plant
which manufactures them for
the Tacoma house. This fact
places the entire shipment under
suspicion—anil it is possible that,
unless this tragedy had occurred,
making It possible for us to act.
hundreds of persons might have
IM-CU poisoned. As It is, I hope
that we have nipped II in the hud
and Hint there will he no more
victims."
Adams avoided consider a hit* rod
t:ipn In the seizure by getting the
Tucomft mmpany to nlgn waivera on
the shipment, thus making it un
nrccMnry to get u court order.
Pending the report on the composi
tion of the deadly crystal!*, "Lewis
county authorities ore conducting a
rigid investigation, Coroner Living
TVTOTHING TO
iN WORRY OVER
W ASHINOTONT, Kel». 13. Top
heavy ice in the Arctic will settle
and topple the world to such an ex
tent that the oceans will rush over
the land and tuusc a flood which wilt
make the inundation of Noah's tune
look like .1 bookK 1 1, according to J. A.
I«auudervill<', Cleveland, O. scientist.
That threat is 300 years dis*
taut, tho, so It's nothing to worry
about al this moment.
TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE
ifabel Xormand. movie comedienne,
ir)to called on Taylor on k««4neM /ut
before he teal *hof.
| • tone Hates that he ha* no reason
to doubt the story of the mother, who
is prostrated at h«-r home.
)n a Chelmlis mortuary lie the
bodies of Verda
J.ce, 9; Alarie Annabel, S; James
Oliver. 6, ami Vernle, J. all of whom
died in a(p>nr within an hour after
taking the fatal potion.
NEGRO VALET
BREAKS DOWN
Report He Predicted Direc
tor's Death
Nt FRANK H. nxnnioixiMf.w
UIS ANGEUES, Cal.. Feb.
IS.—Breakdown tinder question
ing of Henry Peavey, negro
valet of W illlam Desmond Tay
lor, and a report that he pre
dicted the murder of the film
director, marked the hunt for
the sla>er today.
William A. PinUerton. bead
of the Pinkerton detective
agency, after investigating tlte
tragedy, said lie was satisfied
the assassin nan a man.
"It was not a woman's meth
od of shooting," ho said.
Detectivea who suspect Edward
F. Sands, former valet of Taylor
and who have ascertained he was
In loa Angeles the day of the kill
ing. also have discovered that he
boasted of "having the goods on
Taylor."
Hands openly said, according 1m
these detectives, "he must treat
me right; 1 liavo the (roods on
him,"
A clew, described as the most
promising yet uncovered in th~
Taylor murder, today was expectel
lo lead to an arrest soon.
The new clew Is connected wrillj
the past' life of Taylor, who was
known In New York as William
Deane-Tunner, and the man sought
for arrest has not previously been
mentioned in the case, according to
Detective Captain Adams.
The new tip was given by a
woman whoso name is being with
held.
Police absolutely riftiaid to divulge
the nature of the new dew on which
they are working, alt ho it is believed
to be connected with the theory that
blackm:Ulera murdered the film di
rector.
The theory that Taylor wan a vic
tim of a blackmail gang, which killed
him to prevent, exposure of its own
members, was strengthened when
police definitely established the
falsity of a report that Taylor in
tended to buy diamonds with $2,500
he drew fronj the bank the day be
fore the murder. Captain Adams said
the money was withdrawn, and re
deposited the day before the murder,
indicating that Taylor mty have in
tended to pay it out, and later de. *
termined to defy persons who wcrt
trying to extort it.
The hunt for lMwnrd F, Sands,
former valet of Taylor, who is \\.uu»
' (Turn to l # age I« Column ty