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 tered in April, 1906. so ended the Kate Rockwell episode in the life of Pantages.
 The present Mrs. PantageS is of an estimable family of Oakland, Calf. She was a gifted violinist !, and assayed a career on the stage. , She was filling an engagement in PantageS' theatre in Seattle when she met him.
 For a number of years, the Pan
 tages occupied a beautiful home
 in Seattle. She was regarded as very chaming woman She gave generously of time and money to charity She was not recognized b-
 exclusive society, probably because her husbands confessed amours with a dance hall girl were too re- cent to be ignored. Possibly, the removal of the family to Los Ange- les was inspired by Mrs Pantages' desire to try for social distinction there Her arrest and conviction lately in Los Angeles on the charge of driving an automobile while she was drunk, with fatal results to a Japanese, involves a liquor indul- gence that was never evidenced
 during her residence in Seattle. When Pantages became promi-
 nent in the vaudeville business in Seattle, he encountered the opposi- 1 tion of Timothy Sullivan and John
 w. Considine, who operated a na-
 tiOnal vaudeville circuit from head
 quarters in New York The SulH- , van and Considine theatre in Seat
 tie was managed by Considine He
 was a notable character. He had
 been a boss gambler in Seattle, had
 quarreled with the chief of police, , Charles Meredith, had brought
 about the latter'S removal from of- flee and then, in June 21, 1901, had
 killed him in gun battle on one of
 the busiest corners of the city. Con- , sidine was acquitted of the homi- eide having proved at the trial that Meredith had precipitated the fight
 and had fired the first shot.
 For years PantageS, as he ex-
 tended his vaudeville activities to other cities, and Considine waged
 a bitter business warfare After the
 death of Sullivan in New York, the Sullivan and Considine circuit coll !; lapsed. Subsequently, Considine , went thru bankruptcy. He moved to Los Angeles, where he now lives. IPantages progressed until he own ed 30 theaters and controlled 42 , others. Recently, he disrupted his circuit and sold some of his proper
 ties for a reputed price of $15,000,-
 0OO For several months. his Seat
 tie theatre has been dark.
 Whatever vestige of animosity may have remained from the Pan- Itaees- -Considine c9nffct of years } ago must have been completely re- l moved last February when formal announcement was made in Los Angeles of the engagement of John w. Considine IT,, and Miss Carmen
 Pantages. He is a high executive . in the motion picture industry. She
 is the youngest of the Pantages
 children, the two others being boys Rodney, 24, the eldest and Lloyd. After severance of relations be- tween Pantages and Kate Rockwell,
 he strode forward in Seven-League
 Boots to wealth and enimence; she Sher beauty faded, retrograded to poverty and obscurity. While he has been dominant factor in the vaudeville business of leading cities of the United States and Canada, IShe has been conducting cheap restaurant in the little town of Bend, Ore Last August IT, the 33rd anniversary of the finding of gold in the Klondike, he was torn with anguish over the terrible charges that had just been preferred
 against him in Los Angeles; she, happy and contented- -so she de- clared, her middle-aged face. wreathed in smiles was a visitor in Seattle to participate in the Sourdough Stampede, a celebration commemorating the historic dis covery of northland riches. She has served in some measure as an in strument of retributive justice. (Ketchikan Chronicle)