Seward daily gateway., 1929-10-29


 cess. Of course, proprietors were vigilant in guarding against sing ling and doubling out and even the suspicion that a waiter was profit ing from such activities was suffi- cient to cause his discharge. As a consequence, walters were fre- quently changing places of employ ment and were often out of work. Cooperation between walters and girls was essential, and they shared the loot with one another.
 Pantages was a smart waiter. Some of his fellow servants squan- .dered in drinking and gambling their money as fast as they got it. He was temperate. He did not play games of chance. He was frugal al- most to the point of miserliness. However, he did not always have a job. On one occasion when he was out of employment, 50 Kate Rock well recited in the complaint she filed against him. ne told her he needed funds and she supplied him with money, enabling him to by 75-cent cigars, $15 silk shirts and pay $40 a week for board. while she met the rent for the rom they jointly occupied.
 Kate Rockwell, about the age of .Pantages, was pretty and vivacious At her business, she was a triple Itreat-a good performer, a grace ful dancer, a clever box rustler. Like most sisters Of her calling. she
 was improviddntly liberal to her boy friend.
 Both Pantages and Kate Rock well left Dawson in 1901. By wav .of Nome, they came to Seattle and then went to San Francisco, stay- ing at the California hotel, as ad- mitted by him in later litigation. After some further travelling they returned to Seattle in 1902. She had paid all the travelling expenses. she 'averred in her lawsuit. He then es- tablished his first vaudeville thea
 tre. He converted store room in the business district into a small playhouse with not to exceed 200 seats. Admission was 10 cents.
 Many of his performances were en- ItertainerS of northern acquain-
 tanceS. His shows in Seattle. like dances in Dawson, were short. He
 filled and emptied his theatre often during a day and evening. He pros Ipered. In his association with Kate Rockwell. He pretended to her he
 was in financial distress, she set forth in their litigation, and in 1903 she went to Victoria, B. 0. and after wards to Texas to engage in her calling so she could procure funds ito relieve his monetary embarass- .mentS. She remained away a con- siderable time, sending him part .of her earnings, she alleged in her legal proceedings. On her return Ito Seattle, she noticed a lack of af- lection on his part. She did not abandon hope of winning him back until she learned of his marriage in Seattle, March 12, 1oo5 to Miss Lois Mendenhal, his present wife
 Kate Rockwell tiled suit against PantageS in Seattle in May, 1905. She asked for $25,000 and of this sum she sought $170O as money she had given him and the balance as damages for breach of promise.
 His confession of illicit relations with her was made in answer to in terrogatorieS propounded to him bv her attorneys. With respect to his property holdings at the time, he stated that his only theatrical in terests were in Seattle, that they were worth $51 800 and that he had $48OO in the bank. These resources. he insisted, had been accumulated from an original investment of $5O0O, which he said was the trea- sure he had brought from the Klondike four years previously.
 Tn the litigation, Kate Rockwell was represented by three attorneys and the records show that one of them vigorously opposed settle ment out of court. The order dis