The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 1, 1907, Page 1

Sted to the jury, which ts Constantine for the | # of Jesse Hall pear husband's lid: | frokenly, berwren fof the accused man , ee of what she daughter's wrongs sande of Jesse Hall. [t is the “<< daughter, Myra Con e told her mother, and mother told to de Constantine, on Ing the shooting which ts claimed to Constantine point of shooting Bitter Story. oft Jesee Hall and fife, who wae Myra Coo. Gore she eloped and mar aR toucbes the moo! sa of hosband and wife tine told it in broken so low that hun throng of speo- bear it. It is a sto Brutality, of a wom The defense of Wm that it will im gne of the 12 furore a tact that any father would on insane by hearing | bis daughter fe the Backbone of the the excuse for Wires, ft marks Jesse (& creature of the lowest degeneraic. But the iy of the story is not at fesue, Will it bring effect on the jury’ if Wm. Constantine OR, wae it enough to drive y insane? And wilt hearts of those 12 and so soften them take advantage of the to acquit Wm. Cou af. 4 Pond at Trial, fs today thronged ie Curious and the morbid amd this after before time for the there were lines e ing the full length _ the stairy and out hide court house. When ; opened the crowd ee | the courtroom, tak Merious injury in order bear the revolting father mad. No iy of Myra Hall, ‘Without foundation or nality nad ning. Pipreme court of the state Steady pasar on the inw and ® constitution: = cane BP to the court about seve “Twas iWevtitied 32h +) wna ander the iaw t _ Nt prone ior. 1 do not em ea preme mart any differe: “Tes, the MRO CUTE Might devinre vac Tt the steamer Nori womorn Latouehe island, Alaska faally Ye flemiod wh: tle her, is from the Seat and this no com —." mg they were ETON WES w fanchine for the & Bouthern railway wi @ to the council by the committee thin The bit has even en drawn by m, and it is strictest that Hen been Presented to the specif r Over W ast : he Ratsie Valley, tt franch ive ‘WoT his Common. ile Wer Fourth ‘ Sto Wes ns 6 Pitth av, then Fifth arent on "i aad on Th BO Ping to Fou That Dares to Print the News DRY OF DAUGHTER'S WRONGS TOLD TO JURY RS. CONSTANTINE 1 ag betore the shooting about Jeane nt and Mother of Central Figure in) *t)kins you on the nose? Sobs Out the Bitter Tale of a Wo-|. Sufferings and a Mans’ Alleged Brutality “cr Springs Significant Letters. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1907, Did you tell him why yc Hall's office? 1 was ashamed to,” i him that Jease went Hall to complain about you hanging about struck him with That he went over and laid down on the sofa, The state aprung ite coup in the * written by the . indicating that her father was a man of terrible temper witness was de! stand im this re letters were Constantine this af ! when he tried to elbow accidentaily four of them being ad-| dressed to him. Prosecuting Attorney Macktotoah if she had not been at the potice station to see her father shortly I did not tell him those things because they are not true.” the shooting answered in the affirm: Lawyers Quarrel, The crossexamtination of the wit Papa, be calm, | 8e84 Was marked by incre the blood | terness between counsel, who con rushes to your bead, and you are| imuously accuse cach other of uo Mable to break a blood vessel!" “ “No, I did not say anything about | found it necessary frequently to in He was never|torrupt clashes beeause Attorney Prosecuting Attorney t a fact that you have seen) | Mackintosh, and Attorney Shipley Prosecuting Attorney fo angry | Miller are not backward about cen ould not speak to either you) suring the methods and side speech ea of the other side |the most tarbulently han been heard in the local courts for some time, and the high feel 1905, this ane, Jan.|ing between the prosecuting attor | ney's office and the firm which has | on many important cases from it is very evident. Following Mra. Constantine, himself will stand to repeat the story jis claimed, Did you not say When you get angry, | derhand tactics his betng angry. with the closest | your father angry and | and Deputy even weeks at a time? our mother?” “No, that ten't tra “TT ask if thie letter to Jesse M. Hall, written Deo. 26, written, Dee. 1996, this one, July 19, 1906, and this one to your mother, 1906 are not In your handwriting?” The case ts tried which “EXTRA ny VTYITIT i YE 8. £. CO. REDUCEERARE. At a inte hour this afternoon i/f Jearned that President Jacob Furth of the 8 BL Oo. has decided to Reduce the car fare on all of Immediately to the amount of 3 Learned today that the & B, Ce. will abandon its old Frugal system of operation, and tay double tracks Hereafter the 8. EB. Co. will Omit no chance or opportunity (at may arise Look after the welfare of the public. 1906, this one The Girl's Letters, did you, In this letter | writfen Dec. 26, use the following expression & great time ht was also to Jesse M. Hall, temporarily insane, and to swear that his mind was blank at the time he fired the On all of tte nes teerteneeeese! Expert testimony will follow and the defense is expect something would happen to change his disposition, #o we teald be hap nid only think of some |oase in one or two days more. one besides himself and let others | = FAMOUS MUCK cette eeteeeeteeee ** SHR N RENEE RE ENE EE EERE SEN ERNE EE HS acknowledged sald she could explain The witness Did you not write the following Pathor was still on Christmas, which made things very unpleasant “Did you write itlateeiadaaia i Steffens, Exposer of Big Grafts and Graf- ters, Is Studying Conditions on Pacific —s But Will Make No Immediate Attack on _, in the West. lincoln Steffens, | "Father ie better now, but for howleaae aehsheaaaee old nagging | @ BANK CLEARINGS. Hall acknowldged each of _ letters ae here, repeating Sal *. PHRHARARARAAHHAD SETTLEMENT fo LIKELY (Serippe Telegraph Service.) c you saw your father tn the what did he say nk he sald anything.” in ty presence, o'clock tn the po Now you keep quiet “Did he not say, shortly before master muck. he Chamber of Commerce wh is «| are a Deets today general conditions the country, Sbase, which is ia! stroke for reform, arrived in Beattle from Portland this morning, There ie no immediate need for Heatthe grafters to I'ma all right? “Not that I remember.” Wrote of Troubles. “While in Butte did write to your father im its cross exam crueity on the part of your hus that the prose) band?” her story to be a) Dring adimitiod by the “L ual An optimist, because I he~ attempted | cover. | Here in the common people the impeach. sheathed. Hin | Invoteed tm cities fe not taken with hope of producing immediate Object of getting ac-} “| wrote him about rapher, and Jesse's drinking.” “Did you tell your father the Sun OSING LAW b TR Se We ute im ms king any | « |i the country things they will right them, “This te indicated by the support | began serving his sentence la the in his fight to| state penitentiary today P. Netll met the railroad managers this morning and the ratiroad Kuage ang Chest 1 with | given the preaident contral the big the |of the eé@utry, which are the source ed States district court isued an | order this morning to carry out the ed upon Walker on} Aug. 7, 1906. He will also be re rake the muck of the w thie afternoo wer Ne cy Reform will come through these ‘ium through which the results of @intaterdited people who are not tn « will be given to the Steffens is editor, mands and it ts agere will pleld on mate settlement ts ¢ JAS ROMANCE fs no well educated pected the man volved 1g gfaft. Often our best peo- ple are involved in graft is to BegeEpeeted from them have prpperty Entertained Here. is stopping at fies thet from any service in rooting graft.” Btefiens the Man Heattic several days. This morning aftecting the | morning’ to give an extended inter Mead i# stopping at the Ar nd spent part ¢ vparatively clear day at luncheon Rainter eltib. e muck which Mr Steffens has raked s0 indostriounly clings to hie perso: house believe he met y western trip states will be represented, an ifficials are expec man having been disap-| | rropped beard modity somewhat | tines af the strong | tures, A sturdy completom the | And in Conversation betrays none commipsiener given a commenaur | work regarding the west quick-moving bo physica! aspect thy arising in this st be aoquainted with « rder to write calla Fegarding the} t IATHWESTERN CAN BE SAVED found on bis person characteriatt Man to man It t# only whe reonal graft ia genial and kindly dealing with impe | bie pen bécomes torturé on which ma national reputation be tter fron letter from as is ponsible lady of hie heart ow Tam in the hands of these y a grafter of JILTS BOSTON HEIRESS TO MARRY ACTRESS this sad finish to or whether hi broken heart bis fond hopes. death at his own hand, KILLED IN h CAVE-IN ted with every consideration by the Northwestern MILLIONAIRE’S SON AND nie’, ago while the BRIDE OF A SECRET MAR RIAGE ARE ON THE COAST ON THEIR HONEYMOON TRIP, Boston, and immediately | forward hold of uitous | is filled with water Back of this | the stary of @ Alice Marjorie Ray and @ member réached the ¥ succeed in floating Northwestern etruck fortunately Hea ted position a Boston hel of a patrician farntly Two years ago was engage - of the m Brees, - Dristow-Draper present wifey but * “the engagement to his ltonaire lieutenant governor of Mas wad | his bride have engagement was announced. Queenie San regrading of the ternoon und rturned to Bos p Secret marriage remult o¢ Mise Peay is wid to be ¢ Sanfor@ again in it re 4d in upon him under common user This provides for a TRANCHISE legs and ribs having , and his head mashed boulevard to ttle boulevard laborer wan years old and itved at the Northern Pacific hotel, at First and King. commissioner Cheasty as member of the park board will go the council this evening for confirmation MOB HANGS NEGRO wentyseventh intention of this summer relatives in this city south westerly to Dearborn «| FEW FIRES IN CITY LAST MONTH HEAVY MARCH BUILDING. proved the greatest . & colored man | | & Kelleher ment ee on riddfed with bullets. chool of the class of appointment | tified the man. THE SEATTLE STAR WEATHER FORECAS?—SHOWE RG TONIGHT AND TUESDAY—LIGHT 6OUTH WINDS, BLAMES ) j Eee HAYWOOD'S TRIAL BET. (Beoripps Telegraph Gervice.) BOISE, Idaho, April 1.—The trial Of Haywood, in connec tion with the Steuenberg case, wae today set for trial on May 9. eee eee ee ee She WO DIE FROM MENINGITIS Two more victims cat spinal men ingttis were today added to the long list of fatalities within the past few months Robert Weins, the 17-yearold son of Mr. and Mre G, Welus of Red mond, was stricken two days and a half ago, and died at Providence hospital last night. He lived with his parents at Redmond, Wash., but was brought to Beatile immediately upon belag taken sick Funeral services will be held from the But terworth & Sons chapel Sunday Gustave R. Erickson, aged 2), pos sibly has suffered the longest of oe, he t Blake removed any stricken with the dis having been taken fll at ley, 26 days ago, He w to Providence hospital, where be died early this morning, Butter anetal arrangements The Way has seven cases of spinal mento gitis. IDAHO TIMBER FRAUDS. | | (Scripps Telegraph Service.) BOISK, Idaho, April 1.—-The fed eral grand jury continues tts Inves tigations into the timber frauds evidence against the timber men LAUNDRY WORKERS workers of San Franciseo was offi 140 per cent increase IN PRISON T. B. Walker, who he has figured in | the diptdterested people who are not | local court proceedings for the past the network of graft.) They Bre Coming to see the actual | rested by the federal authorities for | conditions and the drift of affaire| promoting a get-rich-quick scheme these | through the mail | year and a half, having been ar accumulative credit” proposition, Judge C. H. Hanford of the Unit sentence pas quired to pay a fine of $100. Ito the ctrcuit* cow which recently affirmed the find lingw of the federal court ELECTION "APRIL 2 To pecive | TRACTION QUESTION EVER HELD—MUNICIPAL OWNER. SHIP OR FRANCHISES FOR | MORGAN ET AL. | — (Seattle Star's on the verge of the mort extraordi nary referendum election ever held try. Tomorrow the vot in tt ” ers will decide whe valued at $100,¢ fte the traction cor er franchises 0 shall be given antes, If the is ed down, It means that the atrect rallroad& here will be owned and o 1 by the city J. Phe t Morgan and his Wall! atreet associates own whatever] franchises are now in existence They are in a bad way, however, because they have lost their hold on many lines and other important franchises will soon expire What they now want the voters to give them is a blanket fifty-year | | franchise In return they promine to give 55 Miss! per cent, of the net receipts and #8} “petter service Same Old Promise. They made the same promise |when they got the present fran hises, but th service they gave has been by far the worst in the world, Opponents of the proposed franchise declare that net receipts are largely a matter of bookkeeping and they Insist that if the Morgan people get what they w the 65] per cent “net” to the will prove to be 65 per cent municipal own and ate them. | Part of their plar | duced for jand a t | point t “f European | munteipal ow is 4 convine ing argument for their campaign. The pro-franchise crowd warns the that If municipal ownership ted, a monster political ma Enormous Patronage. Itt $12,000,000 in shinply furnish another big fund for eeeteenese es | worth & Bons have charge of the ide Eimergency hospital There is not a vestige of truth in the report that exGov. Stuenenberg wae aenassinated because of his ore pal AT FRISCO cially declared at 9:20 o'clock this morning. The employes demand a | Only three laundrins are in opera Itiom im this city, Thirteen were) closed by the strike. Nine hundred members ¢ of the union are effected. ~~ BEGINS TEAM Walker was found gullty in the} federal court, but appealed his case of appeals, ‘WHICH?--$100,000,000 FOR MONEY LORDS OR FOR THE PEOPLE? THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY | Exclusive Service.) | CHICAGO, April 1.—Chicago is | sal to give them the franchises | to have the city quire the : APPOINTS G. E. WRIGHT -:::. c - LBRARS BOARD Wright ha ‘| at that the street car stom, with it ning capacity of | annually, will PAY ONLY ONE CENT DEMAND YOUR CHANGE VOL. 9. NO. 40. 25 CENTS PER MONTH. POOR BRAKES FOR SHAPER’S DEATH ee Motorman Dederes Defective Car Was the Cause of the Street Railway Fatality at Second and Cherry Last Saturday--Inquest Tomorrow Morning. # going along at the rate of n hour, 1 firet Motorman John Aitken, under whose car Fredertok Shaper, « #hoe bout eight miles maker ta frightful death at| noticed Shaper about 10 feet away. Second and Cherry Saturday, made | Tried to Stop Car a statement in bis call at the county! «1 tring to bring the car to « stop jail this morning blaming defective! 4 would have mucceeded if the brakes fer the aseidont | brakes had been in good condition Aiken's declaration indicates that] ‘rhe were what Je called slack, and he docs not expect the Beattle Elec-| wren they get that way it is diffi« trie company try to clear Bim) cuit to stop a car with them. When of reaponsibility, and that in the! s aia finally mucceed in bringing the coming Investigation the see & chahamealll (wae ton Hak ang the dlectric carpe 1 have been on the Lake Union each try to shift the blame Upon! ine 13 days, but this was my first the other trip on car No 213. I did not know Inquest Tomorrow, of the condition of the brakes when Deputy Coroner Wiltsle will hold] ) took the car an inquest over Bhaper's body at| “1 the brakes had been in good | condition I am positive that the ace cident would not have occurred,” Crowd Saw Accident. Shaper when killed was carrying a string of shoes to his shop for death was wit- the Butterworth & Bons undertak ing rooms tomorrow morning 3 o'clock. Aiken has been in jall since the accident, but will be admitted to ball, it is said, a8 soon as the cor hae finished his preliminary | mending, The man investigation. neased by a horrified crowd, it be- Alken, in speaking to @ Star re-| ing the hour when Second av. was porter today, said rowded with the usual Seturday ‘The statement that the car wan| night crowd. running at the rate of 20 miles an Very little has been learned of hour t*# tneorrect. This was im-| Shaper, save that he was a hard possible, as I stopped on the corner| working German who lived alone in of Columbla st, and would have] his little shop and tended strictly to had to stop again at James at his own business U.S. TROOPS ARRIVE AT TREADWELL a STRIKING MEN AT eR or de done away with There MINE CAUSE OFFICIALS To |" talk of the miners organizing union to t bi hb he Weat GET UNEASY—ONE COMPANY | panerticn ae Breet the Western ARRIVES THERE FROM FORT)! At noon the miners went into a SEWARD. secret conference; the men guard- ng themselves. P It is possible that the miners em- aveeet —— pe . ployed elsewhere in this district NEA Janka, Ap! ~—Fear-| wit) demand a higher ecale of wages jing violence from the 800 Salvonian | and it is stated that before night no- miners, who are out on a strike, the | tices will be posted to this effect. officials of the Treadwell mines| If not granted the men will quit. asked that United States troops be At noon everything was peaceful. leent to guard thelr property and| The soldiers have pitched tents this morning 65 soldiers from Fort) and guard Mines about the mines Wm. H. Seward, with a gatling gun, | have been established, arrived on the government steamer Peterron i DEMAND HIGHER WAGES, The men struck tem days ago de-| (Star Special Service.) manding the discharge of a mexs| JUNEAU, Alaska, April 1—The house cook and now the demands carpenters of this city have organ have taken on a term for higher ized and demand an advance im wages, and also that the mens! wages of 10 cents per hour. “PLEASE GIVE ME A CITY LOT!” C. D. Gilson, of 2148 North Sixty-, a piece of property for me. I am not is by means of an|firet st. Ins communteation to the! particular as to the location but city council today aska for a slice of Would prefer it as close in as posat- city property. having apparently bie, I have made no kick over my read of the donation of the Terry small share of the taxes, for ime lot om the first hill to the original provements on any of your dona<- owners, The mayor's veto of this tions and do not anticipate angi lcounctt bit comes up for action this kick from other taxpayers for any, evening and there t-consiferable little donation to me." doubt as to what the council will ° do, Glleon says c ONTA, N. Y. April L- “The wndersigned petitions your’ Thrown over an embankment by honorable body that when you have her auto, striking on ber head, and donated sufficient city holdings to her neck being broken, caused the the other poor and needy of the city death of Mra, E. 8, Loveland, niece that you will acquire and set aside of the late Collis P. Huntington FREO BUSSE, MAYOR E. F, DUNNE, ublican Candidate for Mayor— Democratic Candidate for Mayor Stands for Settlements at Once. Stands for Muni Ownersh »oting by corrupt officeholders. orrat and Busse Republican. Geo, The voters have three times ex-| Koop, a unton printer, heade the pressed the Ives in favor of try-| Soctalist ticket, Hie party favore ing the experiment, At pr vious | the bublic ownership of all utilities electt the referendum had only} and naturally would rather see the effect of preventing franchises | Dunne win the Soctalists polled from being granted, alth: h a ma | 20,000 In the last presidential eleo- jority of 6 to 3 favored purchase | tion and are increasing in numbers, the If - This plan has bee Tit ts belleve they will throw the lefeated repeatedly by & counct!| palance of power for own The hat has opposed the will of the) pronipitioniats and Hearst's Inde- Kora’ | pendence League will poll probably The Candidates. many votes as the Socialists, and Mayor Edward F. Dunne so expected to favor owner- ly a jude 1 ¥ ' ty The total regtstret! was et Fred 1 vd fot . ffered by dealer and postmaster, ts th t biers who think Danne will be wnership champion . ed. Busse backers demand lof the franchises. Dune ln a De )