The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 31, 1908, Page 1

EDIT! VOL. 9 NO. " I] r: City Hall. The Seattle lectric members of | she aity council were shaken leone from their plot to eve Je attending gpecial meeting of the council last Seraing when the) found a Mare ie epecial ee ing of that pody, even if it were ec brine the recaleitrant cx men to the hall for that ; 4 counciimen changed the matters to come bef pot ready for the counc! ’ The matters to be consis © “were the direct legislation amend “esate fo the city charter and the 3 resubmission of the Coda | fiver water bond issue. | HARRY THAW’S | HANDS OF THE JURY Twelve Men Reed at 1130 o'lock This Aer Big Insircted by Justice Down Hem can rest upon this point at (By United Press.) YORK, Jan. 3i-—The fore ‘Rendall Thaw, whose ww fer the murder of Stan noted architect. tn we Garden on the BM, 1996, closed you is tn the hands court opened this morn Dowling began the read lenathy charge to the 31:38 o'clock he had Immediately ordered be fury to retire to decide upon a tice Dowling’s charke to the one of the most volamin presented by any magie fp & murder trial in contained 7.500 words by detailing the respon farotved under the state ewe and warning the jury that G should not be considered lis & verdict you be concerned ta of the punishment that & verdict of guilty.” said “Your sole function is if any crime has been and Its grade, but leave penalty to those be responsible for tix Sourt told the jury that it fot be swayed by the evi Stanford White's o by any speculative Mtinging, the justice sald [lee presumes every individ ‘Wo be sane, and the prosecu by hie foo! friends” is ts fon in which William P. Trim ¥ has been placed by the ae fh regard to his position on Some Matter of municipal taxation. 4 Times, in its efforts to boost his mouth which were spoke ere spoken 7 BE. Humph and which Row contrad vy John F and credited to Trimble. All arose over the anxiety of pe Times to knock » r Moore eae City Engineer Thomson. Mr.| ible had made investiga Tegarding taxation which that the amount of taxes — Wevied tor mar ensuing yea fact he meu wa t 14.2 in bis ope ; Times Makes Trouble It was the Time aw in thi PMMbination of statqme ts a chane 0 knoe Mayor M lon circulated =by Jud LAST | Mayor Moo the purpose of serving the notice ficlally, if found necessary, Me While the recalcitrant members o! the councti had asso city hall, and the notice by police im the cus’ Officers proved to be ‘The councilmen were willing to| submit the bond issue, bat were so amendments that they were willing water system for hat|the purpose of killings the amend to sacrifice the Meeting Called Off. Last night's co nell meeting was f, but another call | be held at 2 the same pur M for last night's meeting was prepared in the usual manner it had been pared Was sent to members of the phoning, as hat been the custom, Several members of the counell informed Mr. Shrader that they did not consider the Morning reasonable doubt exits im the to the defenda: inaanity, he te entitled to acquit: | or’ minds ae Justioe Dowling riddled the “irre- sistable tmpalse” clared the entire case, #0 far ee: REMOVAL Litteoy, secretary of the Green Lake committee protest.| kett prepared a map of the ter. of any road as to whieh the tory today for the committee, to be postal station at Green Lake sta | dispatehed to Washington, tion to Fremont, today reevived a wire from John H. MeGraw who is in Washington, stating that the | made the first of March. The lo department has held ap the matter cal postal officials are expecting pending the arrival of maps (nd instructions before that {fme to | take fo action until further orders ing against the removal data promised by the committee FRIENDS PUT TRIMBLE IN FALSE LIGHT Credit Tax Statements Made by John E. Humphries to Trimble, and Latter Is Busy Explaining. PP BM the expression to describe the pattie Miller of either having misstatements re garding it or having but carelessly investigated the matter. Trimble denies this morning that made deliberate 's candidacy, has put words utterances to the |ulneness and corre jformation upon whieh {ts state Miller|ments are deviled by Miller and occasion to charge mejothers is taken from the World's made statements re-| almanac. Calle Milter to Task. with having | garding the tax as compared with rposes for} EB 1 that of} Be preceding year 46 per cent.| eminating from Mr. joned in his cam-| Pree speec hes Meanwhile Jude of which have been even be They have been i tod Humphries had) led anothe e of investiga ened procured a letter from the} neath my notice. Y treasurer of Multnomah} : Maaty, Oregon, in which that offi OP Wrote that the total tax neath my notice; but when Mr ler himself quo’ that I have not at the stump or elsewhere. Seattle and Portland. | wants to maintain! his selt-confessed desire to and honorable in this campaign will take occasion tonight must stand as a willfol mikyepresentation of the facts.” i and City Me two statements ¢ ther, ¢ them both t. ble Presenting them in the form| campaien carte: Unfortunate part of the pro- fs that the Portland tn \John Arthur, EB eamptries is now called into » and the od um for the Trimble sald THE SEATTLE STAR SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1908. AYOR UPSETS PLOT OF S.. Hols Police in Readiness to Send for Recalcitrant Councilmen, But Latter Give up Fight and Go to vei! and shat they would not at poting. Ving this information ordered a number of police officers held in reserve for of ny bled at ¢ Mecdsnary Five Obstructioniste, Five members of the eouncil ob: jected to the form of the service They are Councitmen GIN, Rey nolda, Sawyer, Keene and Mullen, the five strongest procorporation members lof the eity t legislative body City Comptrotier Marry Carrot this morning completed the work of checking over the signatures to | the direct tegisiation petitic tng that both petitions were suffi | clent in every respect, signed by the required number of qualified elect ors, and to every particular in ¢ piiance with the law under whic a amendments are being mit Mr. Carroll's certificate to thene facts Was prepared under the dicta tion of George F. Cotterill, repre senting the Direct Legislation league, and is in every respect satis factory to that organization FATE IS IN the jury is now concerned, rested upon the question whether Thaw knew he was shooting White, and whether he designed to shoot him. He declared that the testimony con cerning the acts of the defendant durtng hie early life and the insan ity in the Thaw family could be considered only insofar as it threw without proof But | "sht upon Thaw's iife. where the defense ia insanity and evidence presented touches the question as to whether | crime was committed by. a! person responsible for his acta, the | burden of ewtablishing the defend. | TRIMBLE TONIGHT |be afforded an opportunity thir jevening to hear William P. Trim ble address a meeting at Odd Fel. | jows’ hall, Fremont. Other speak for the evening will be Joho conan a inno ll pov Gh Powell, L. H. Gray, T. 8 . ertminal | Coombn hi te it would tot be posable, we Se tee ee under your oaths as jurors, to a! managers with @ meeting at Dreamland rink, which will be addressed by Mr He de! Trimble, Ole Hanson and John W as Roberts OF GREEN LAKE STATION HELD UP Tomorrow night the Trimble 1} close the campaign Assistant Postmaster W. J. Col- Mr. Colkett sald that the pro posed change was ordered to be have endeavored to show the peo ple of this city that our taxes and assessments were too high and an economical administration of the affairs of the city would result in ja reduction of taxes and assess | ments, thus giving the taxpayers jmore for their money than they | misstatement is attempted by Joba | F. Miller and bis supporters to be| | eh to Trimble, and Trimble ix | Ms statement that the Portland tax eee iter ob al Aeing [rate Is but 14.2 mille, and in sub have been recefving.” Judge Humphries still stands by stantiation of his statements he of lfers for publication a letter re leeived by him from John M. Lewis county treasurer of Multnomah county, Oregon. This letter is of ficial In character and appearance, and has every indicath of gen tness, The in The letter from Treasurer Lewis Is as follows “Mr. John &. Hutnphries, Seattie, | ble in an interview thie morning.| Wash. Dear Sir; The combined “Now, a& « matter of fact, I have|tax levy of the city of Portland to | just con Mil-| tion of stump, | State, 1 ted, on assessed valua 100,000, is as follows “JOUN M, LEWIS County Treasurer BROWNRALLY Supporters of Frederick W Brown, eandidate for the Seventh ward counciimanic nomination will hold @ rally in the interest of their candidate this evening at Minor av. and Denn, the corner way. The Mr. Brown bir B. Palmer, F. P. Lewis, C. BE. Baxter and others. 8, find. | [handling of interstate traffic. T' (commission now has authority establish through routes and joint and he knows mills; state school, 1.4] mills; county, 14 mills; county | lroad, .9 mill; Mbrary, .1 mill; port and|of Portland, 1.2 wills; elty, 4.6 small, that 1 considered them be-| mills; schoo! district, 3 mills; total | Fs 2 mills. Yours very traly peakers, in addition to | pif, will be Judge | to Former Customs Official. (By United: Pr ) NEW YORK, Jan, 31.—Charles G Browne, former examiner of -wilke ns service, and who has been in litigation for seven years owing to the charge that he helped in cheating the government out of $2,600,000, has been banished from ET NS BANISHED FROM, ‘STANDER DIVORCE IS UNITED STATES | tthe United States forever. He will Drastic Sentence Is Great be given 24 hours in whieh to leave ythi« country Browne announces that he prob ably will go to Canada After he was indicted on a | charge of conspiracy, Browne en eaped to Canada and was extradit ea on o fr But when the Canadia: ities learned that he was going t charge of conspiracy inates fraud, they protested. T States government yielded Hrowne on the fraud charge A fortnight ago the jury dis 1 of United 4 tried greed and now the federal authori | my ties think it pot worth while to try him age, so he will be ban ished instead a = WEEDON CASE LEADS T DR. HAZZARD'S ARREST — Mrs. Linda B. Hazzard, the fast-, ‘ure specialist, was arrested thie morning by Officers Vaupell and Kent of the Humane society on the state charge of practicing medicine without a license, Mre. Hawsard je the physician in the family ef Dr. D. D. Weedon, @ dentiat, whose infant, it t# ab jeged, was nearly starved through the fasteure treatment, She j laughed about her arrest t is claimed the child could not have lived three day# longer. Mra, Weedon was taken from a sick bed in her home at 1420 | Bighth av. by @ strange map at neon erday, placed in a back and tal away Her husband was io jail await ing bonds of $260 on the charge of resisting an officer at the time his | wife was removed from the house, ; Sh ee ENT FLAYS E. P ESID FINANCI Humane Officer Kent has learn od that the number of the bi je which the w Wan 420, and clues a8 to her whi abowts are today being sought Some of Dr. Weedon's neighbors @epert that they have seen Mr Mageard, husband of the doctor fuveral times, and declare em ally that it was he who bore si@k woman away Mr. Haseard denied this morn tag that he bad taken Mrs. Weedon away “She was nervous and excite id Hansard, “and was taken to Wer sister's home for rest. 1 don't Bnow her «i name, 1 am at tending to my affairs as instructor fA our preparatory school, and now nothing of my wife's prac I have anderstood the Hw thane society ix going (© arrest my vin” ‘TEAMSTER 1S CHARGED | WITH LARCENY | be tried on a} | HH. P. Davis, charged by Miss) | Clara Short with lar mny by batlee, was brought from Anacortes this ning by Officer Barck rhé complainant charges Davis with stealing @ diamond worth $260. Davie says the wom the diamond on his against his remonstran that he keep it Davis’ wife and child came with him. It is sald he bears a food reputation at Anacortes, where he was at work as a teamster, and will have no trouble getting ap pearance bonds. MUST ELECT NEWEDITOR n placed cktle, and insisted a div! denial entered to the ONE CENT & WEATHER—FAIR TONIGHT AND BA RDAY; CONTINUED COLD. | Wife Secures Decree and Half of Million-Dollar Estate ~-Relates Tale of Abuse and Cruelty. Divoree from a business stand point might have been used to filly express the proceedings be fore Judge Morris in the superior court yesterday afternoon by which Violet Stander secured a legal separation from ber million alre-miner husband, Antone Stan de The hearing was very quiet al j| most prosaic, excepting for the at mospheric disturbance created by the wife's famous earrings, four karat size, which scintiliated fiercely as she towed her head re citing her tale of marital unhap pines Stander was not present. A pre vious agreement signed respecting ion of the million-dollar es tate was introduced through the medium of a lawyer and incorpo rated in the decree. There was no ghly exeit ing story of Stander's misdoings and alleged crueity His lawyer Harold Birkett, elected editor Of only smiled at some of the most the Pacific Wave, the University ‘ot Washington's offictal publica tion, has been disqualified by the faculty because of an unsatisfac tory condition of his studies, Geo Stirk has been appointed to tem porarily another election can be held Birkett was elected after one of the hottest campaigns in the. his tory of the inetitution, the oppor ing faction claiming that he was not qualified, but this being stout ly denied by Birkett’s supporters who voluntarily purchases stock in Attacks Made on His Policy--Makes Recommenda- tions. “it is all wrong to use the injune tlon to prevent the entirely proper the actual administration of law, expecially through the de and legitimate action of labor or partment of justice, but slvo ganizations in their struggle for in} dustrial betterment, or under the guise of wo sage g J property unwarrantably invade the funda: o.0 8 6 “The interstate commerce com | mission should be previded with the sims of money spent in these vart physical valuation Gus ways, gives a fairly accurate it deeme ineanure of the anger and terror means to make through the interstate commerce minsion and the bureau of cor tions. The extraordinary vio- of the assaults upon our y contained in these speeches, ie, articles, advertivements pamphiets, and the enormous the valuation necessary. In some Which our public actions have form the federal exercise supervil ernment should over the finan: the corrupt men of vast {Peat to feel in the very marrow cial operations of our interstate rait of thelr being roads. In no other way can be done between the private own: "One of the favorite methods is ‘o attack the administration for not ere of those properties and the pub- procuring the imprisonment instead lie which pay their charges. ‘see of the fine of offenders under these janti-teust laws. The man making “1 think that the federal govern-/ thie assault fs usually either « iment must also assume a certain measure of control over the phys ‘ical operation of railroads in the and bie arguments from their at- torneys. If the former, he has ad prominent lawyer or an editor who ‘Yikes bis policy from the financiers ised «many Wealthy malefactors eli that, thanks to rates. In order to make this provi the ad¥ice of lawyers like himself, sion effective and in order to pro a certain kind of corporations have mote in times of the prop turned the law into an admirabie |. necessity er movement of traffic, | think it fastrument to render it impossible must also have authority te deters to tet at the head of the corpora mine the conditions upen which Hos, the man who is really most) lcars shall be interchanged between gullly. | different interstate railways, that the commission | should have authority in particular | instances, to determine the schedule upon which perishable commodities also probab! shall be moved. eee be measur taken to pre least the grosser forms of gambling | In securities and commodities, such as making large sales of what men do not possess and cornering the market. ew 0's ‘ “The time has come for the striet supervision of these great corpora |tions, and the limitation of their under some proper official will make for con- |servatiam and strengthen the com stock and bond is to reply to the criticiems which ceed persor tt ie} i do not Know whether it is pos sible, but if possible, it is certainly |desirabie, that in connection with | measures to restrain stock-watering Wor of high land overcapitatization there should W° bave de Prison When Pi “When we are able to put the teal wrongdoer in prison, this Is what We strive to do; this is what lwe have actually done with some jyery wealthy criminals, who, more- lover, represented that most baneful lof all alliances, the corruption of ‘organized polities and the corrup- finance. This Is what me in the Gaynor and Greene case, in the case of the mis ‘application of funds in connection Pwith certain great banks in Chi 70, in the land fraud cases, where. ws in other cases likewise, neither the highest political position nor the possession of great wealth has save the offenders from availed fprison, The federal government does scourge sin; it does so beyond the sinner's fear; for it has put be- hind the bars with impartial sever ity the powerful financier, the pow \ ‘an 0 tentlina Pa. erful politician, the railroad land poor encen, BBs yor Pl sg ame thief, the rich conteactor—all, no lwhich are merely epeculative in matter how high their station, character and organized simply to /against whom criminal misdeeds catch the unsuspecting or credulous /°#" be proved | investor.” Wealth No Barrier. ae “All their wealth and power can _ (By United Press.) not protect them, But ft often WASHINGTON, D. C,, Jan. 31. }happens that the effort to tmprisom In a special message to congress, }_ given defendant is certain to be urging the re enactment of the Ent hrutile, while it is possible to fine ployers’ Liability law tn form toipim or to fine the corporation of jcomply with the = a of it which he is head; so that, in other supreme court, which recently! words, the only why of punishing nd the law unconstitutional, tne wrong ia by fining th yrpora ident Roosevelt takes occasion” tion, unless we con to pro Ny against have been buried at bim since the agents, The lawye beginning of the present busines# «4 whom I 1 r employ depression ers are the men ma ¢ ible The tone of the message is defor thin state of | and thetr fiant and Rockefeller and his clasd responsibility {# shared with all who are given warning thatiit is the in-\ingeniously oppose the passlng of tention of the administration to put just and effective laws, or who wealthy criminals behind. the bar8ito execute them when they have whenever they ean be convicted been put on the statute book The message in part is 08 fol) such is said in those attacks u lows ‘the poliey of the present administra Answers Attacks. tion about the rights of innocent For the last year the attack bas | stockholders. been made with most bitterness’ “That stockholder is not innocer rupt; the stockholders are bound to ltry to secure honest management, or else they are stopped from com- plaining about the proceedings the | government finds necessary in or. lider to make the corporation obey jthe law. There has been in the past | j grave wrongs done innocent st holders by over-capitalization Watering, stock-jovbbing and stock manipulation.” | GET PRESENTATION j cocenbaanaphiipen | _A letter was received today at the Chamber of Commerce from | Gov. Sheldon of Nebraska, stating that arrangements have gone so far that he will be unable to have the presentation of the silver serv fee to the battleship Nebraska | made at Seattle instead of at San Francisco. Secretary Yandell had written | the governor that it would be more | appropriate to have the presenta | tion made at Seattle. fii the editorship until days of the Klondike boom the honeymoon the couple returned a taste for alcoholic stimulants, On one occasion he returned to their cabin during a “Jambore compelled his wife and her «! to flee for their lives. They spent, MILLER M thrilling details, Attorney Shipley who appeared for the plaintiff, con fined his qu The Standers w San Francisco ly met in Dawson, during th to Dawson and it was there that the trouble started, according to the wife, who claimed that her hus band had acquired too much of and ter ed cane and sometimes his fist de ab the entire night wandering about on the snow-covered hills, clad in scanty garu, she expiain and did not return until next day, when they sought the protection of @ neighboring mine Ordinary tiffs, during which Stander would take his wife and throw her over a trunk, or amuse himself by beating her with @ le were of too frequent occurrence to be of detailed consequence, the wife explained. During all of which time the aforesaid four-karat dia- mond earrings blinked vigorously. Despite their matrimonial diffi- culties, however, the Standers prospered, Anto striking a rich pay-streak on his claim, and 1 investing money with his wife in Seattle property, which ts exceed- ingly valuable. The wife com- nced a sult for divorce some time ago, but this was dropped, she says, on Antone’s promise to reform. For some time past, however, the couple have lived apart Under the terms of the agree ment incorporated into the divoree pe the couple will each get ut one-half of the property. The most valuable part of the estate in- cludes the Holyoke block, @ six story bullding on the southeast cor ner of First av. and Spring st.; the Stander hotel property, now under lease as the Butler Annex, oceupy- ing the northwest double corner of Fourth av. and Marion st.; a busi- ness lot on Westlake boulevard, a whole addition of suburban rest- dence buildings, and various par- cela of property here and in the north, Stander {ts to pay Mra. Stander’s attorneys a fee of $2,000, EETING TONIGHT A JOLLIFICATION Judging by the amount of en, thusiasm that is displayed in the of the Miller supporters, to- night's meeting in the Seattle the | atre in the interests of John F. Mil-| ler, candidate for the nomination | for mayor on the republican ticket, will be a jollification gathering rather than an appeal for votes. This afternoon Wagner's band) paraded the down-town businers | streets ahead of a wagon which) carried a large sign snnouncing the fact that Mr. Miller would address electors In the Seattle theatre this evening. In every other possible er eg: way the Miller peuple have adver Used the gathering and indications are that the attendance will be large E. C. Hughes and H. T. Granger, two good speakers, will addresg the meeting The candidate him- self will speak at greater leogt! than he has yet during the pi mary campaign. He will go fully into the principles upon which he is asking the people for thelr votes, Wagner's band and the theatre orchestra will provide music at the meeting. OPPOSE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Considerable opposition towards inflicting the death penalty for capital crimes was evidenced this morning in the selection of jurors to try Steve Phillips, charged with | having on December 31 shot and NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—The/| killed Madge Henderson Oriental bank, which withstood | A large number of men on the antil yesterday, failed to open its|venire responding in the criminal | doors this me depositors ning. A long line of | department of the superior court has been formed ont: | were excused because they — an- in a lodging house at Sixth av, south and Main st. on 31, at the same time wounding Willis McClinton, whe is said to have been in the woman's com- pany. Later Phillips threatened to take his own life in the Nebraska Bar and was turned over to the custody of the police. Miss Marion Greene reported to aide. Officials of the institution | nounced a prejudice towards the/the police this morning that her have promised to issue a statement concerning the condition of the bank THE FORMAL INTROD( inflicting of the death penalty. Phillips is charged with having) | shot and killed Madge Henderson/ and a pair of kid gloves atoien. 6) TT locker in the high school was broken open last night and a muff = CTION OF A NEW BUD INTO PRESIDENTIAL SOCIETY.