The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 30, 1909, Page 1

11, NO. 215. Y’S HEAD ) CUT OFF iS was beheaded! -! after noon today in the fre ofthe Bass fl: Paint company's shop at 91 Spring g wi pes. Warned to kee way from the plant, the boy with the at I aulic elevator. He pulled rope. As | nense platform slowly move Hecame interested in the machinery beneath, and ithe side. \ 1 the next floor was reached the was severed reatly as though done with a ly was found nutes later by Chas, Grabon levator at the top of the building, dav. on tl had rolled i was taken t OF THE CORPULENT | a dark corner of the basement. tterworth & Sons to prac the fraud until next Made to the May 1 without fear of punishment The deception has been called to the .attention of L. Davies, dairy ington. Mr. Davies says no prose cutions can be begun until next May 1, the dealers being allowed to correct the fraud mnt oyster; the ye, He is bogus inspection dedision 110, which bent, seek the lean which reada in part as follows cf mollusk. the “It is unlawful to ship or sell in Mus Ostracdiac. He interstate comimerce oysters to » but he has the directly or tm the form of melted ‘BB oyster pure and ice. Such food is adulterated, un der section 7 of the foods and ers in ice cold drugs law of June 30, 1906, be. way bloating cause ‘a substance has been mixed being practiced quality or strength, and also be im shell fish in cause ‘a substance hax been sub- they can continue mein JACOB ASTOR, FROM PRINCE TROUBETZKOY'S pC UNTING, AND Cow. J! J. ASTOR. —__ Ork’s Most Ex. ‘ © Society. United Frew. , Oct, : Frequently tien orce—what at wi Wh she ¢ ze that a normal and packed with it so as to reduce/ to 60 cents, fe an or lower or injuriously affect its| stituted wholly or in part for the Predi, he great byzz of comment follow mament for the athouncement that utiful Leader of / ucob Astor would sue for THE SEATTLE SlAFR until that time by the government |* Mrs.| Who cannot answer a letter when Hanson wrote crowded condi he was always talking| awful thing | nm snubbed | ¢ -EDITION— SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1909, Gates without escorts, orphaned fene ton ftom m and food commissioner of Wash-| &re in for For tonight * and homeless woodah at's just what they that peculiar custom handed down by our if you cling to the family hearth this eve and | taps merrily at Davies egcloses federal food | colebrating Halloween e festive tick-tack the police hav: will bate a dout to keep & keen eye It's jail for them if caught taken ample ing Chief your window pane Among the best families the use of a shotgun primed with pepper and sait is not considered good form. Remember, you were a boy ring insistently succulent as his which water has been added, either! you answer the call only to hear the dying patter of childish feet, grin and bear it If & hall storm of beans amites the bay window must be at home 9 o'clock or the régular putrolmen a large squad of plain clothes men will roam o’dr tearing your atten- Harmiens pranks will be QUIETLY QUITS HER AND BABY IN VANDERBILT CUP RACE: VANDERBILT Left Alone She Finally Finds a Place to Rest and |\. |. Die in the County Hospital. Chevrolet, who had been | promised Sampsc pace until this time, was | short time he wo: |famows Vanderbilt retire wh afterndon, when minutes and 42 Parker in a Fiat car finished sec Shulenberg the world has little use and for a woman two-year-old who ts dying of consump. h lap, the tuberculosia now 20 minutes and 58 : f : She tried for a week before she et's aceldent was quickly Ws was convinced herself around from place to place bright and cheerful any more Tt whs believed that 30 now, and work and trouble and the coming of the it makes fearful ravages on a woman's looks and spirits. Shulenberg. of his Fiat car broke ar was forced to retire ro other accidents occurred in| RIEF REFUSES TO BE FIRED BY THE SHERIFF complained abtracted one a An investiga jtion showed that this wa Grant wae imme ck the hectic cough | {hat the scorer the ninth lap. s § ; ng th was no use was fust beginnls Gives Up Fight. Exchange saloon Just got up early and went away Although no she was ready to give up. the contest was marred the hospital for he said about a week If I could go t to go down Got His Breakfast. Well and strong) The first of the But I'm #o tired and weak Shulenberg to being taken care of temporar by the time her husband was up. He ate breakfast and went away E HANSON FINALLY GETS ONE ANSWER Mr. Valentine Talks in Sor- row About the Crowded Street Cars, Which He, too, Has Noticed. Shulenbergs lived in a Yeo ler Way lodging house, near Fourth Only in out-of-the-way corners like a game warden’s office is it possible to find that mediaeval iniquity, the “informer,” who is paid! This office for disclosing infringements of the law. Common sense and common | tively ur decency have long since relegated the “Informer” to an unholy oblivion In ali days the informer has been despised, a pariah among men, con ting of enough street cars to comfortably to ite greatness. temned even by the law which pays him. + men the informer occupies a position of ignominy far below that of the | sheriff Hode contemptible sion concerning judicial and political system | courteously, | | if not hopefully uch system, Theoretically, to| fringement of the law. is bis duty peace shall be kept and property made safe Referring to y : If one man knows overcrowding of the matter under am gathering information nsideration and animated by the by greed, he is morally a greater informer is stirred only } Edgar, a shipping clerk, if the latter menace than the burglar. He is a pee not get out of his way. Edgar ‘ obeyed and the thief escaped burg! physical coura burglar at heart, lacking only the burglar’s physical courage. The shipping clerk went into the used by the Commission in quote you the Interstate Comme a report to congr no compart basement in time to » the thief 0 One is lawbreaker, | walking out with a coil of lead Avada abaGite: Ghia aint pipe. Edgar grabbed the intrduer a disgrace to the state, If it Jand forced him to drop the ‘oot. | He was thie: no fish without informers, let | At last Ole Hanson has received his Investigation From Superintendent 4 a question as to whether we informers gather be graft. That has been| the history of the nefarious principle since it was first put into operation HE GIVES HIS CAPTOR A he wants to. |him concerning the tion of the Upon receipt of any further light slink around will communieate LAW 18 AN HONORABLE BUSINES 18 WORSE THAN NO LAW. The informer is a social leper. information DISHONEST ENFORCEMENT | equght in the ts numerous Mrs. Astor herself seeks | too, has noticed that the street cars| ¢ n from her husband. 80 New| are crowded In every country of t Let’ have done with him and the/ers’ store on Pike st what would you | » the | Superintendent of Public Utilities, | eystem responsible for him, THE SEATTLE ONE CENT WEF ALSO LET HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW ICT AS BOTH DEPUTY AND INFORMER THE SPIRIT OF HALLOWEEN At the Same Time He Was Allowed to Collect Five Hundred of a Thousand Dollars in Fines Im- posed in Cases He Worked Up. 6 Geige nograpt for Her Rief, who was yem te rem J off t Sheriff Robert was not the J. W. Sampson, brother-in-law of the dismissed game warden, while in the employ of the county as deputy game warden, drew a salary and at the same time played the “informer” to the game warden As a deputy Sampson. received $2.50 per day from the county. As a tale-bearer to the game warden Sampson collected $500, a half of the fines imposed on fishermen who violated the law, and he was on both jobs at the same time An investigation of the county ree today developed. the fact onths, ending the latter part of last m was employed as a deputy was paid $2.50, and wag s in which he wag that during a period of nine February, w ne warde given in ade informe { a lump sum fines aggregat $1,000 fine imposed agains@ r “ f catching fish within less river, were based on evidence gathered by Samy The jaw specifically states that no informer, if he be em- | ployed by the game warden and paid for his services, shall be entitied to any part of the fines. In spite of this provision, however, Warden Rief allowed his brother-in-law both his salary and half of all the fines in his cases. Marathon after the per - A ov aa oes nity eed Ba, a regular ‘pea vidently cre- ling between Sampsoy are not supposed 1 terms now salary of “| have nothing to hid who tonight Sullivan im the districta be shows a said Sampson to The Star, “as | Gampeon Explains. the records in the county trea ‘ | urer's office show everything. enforced tonight. Children| The records in the county treas-| 1¢ is true that | did work as a be shed. Aside from | Urer's office show ing June,| deputy game warden off and on 1909, Sampe salary! for nine months. It is true that $56, and in th nth of | |} received half of the fines im- July he drew § t posed in cases that were prose- vandals w get the ok.) cover the time by him cuted on evidence gathered by the cases me. And it is aiso true that is salary when | worked I was paid $2.50 gathering evidence at netted him, bes BON exy den had somett g for him to do. on knew that Irregu.| Person. On July 6 I received the sum of $500. I have spent it cticed in Rief's of or a Fematk “Besides this sum 1 drew Sheriff Hodge at many smaller ones, such as $5 jthe time Sampson asked to be re and $10. 1 kept ail this money. Neved from further duty as a dep In the case against the ning the end of the fourth/uty, This was after the sh ft had| men who were fined a total of hin a | $1,000, 1 was out In a boat all night. im on the iy one morning I found them a few yards of the mouth mn he cracked | regular payroll to his Buick car 1 can’t work for that man,” de Duwamish river. They .were clared Sampson to Hodge, in refer- catching fish there contrary to the wa maintaining a te , 7 r Tao BT had covered {Tie to his broth aw. “I want law, which provides that no fish- to turn in my ssion right ing should be done within 300 feet now It was ac of the mouth of the stream. I wag : entitled to half of the fine, and took | They Fell Out. Hit. I don't feel that I am guilty of jen Rief had requested Sher-| committing any offense that my, not to take any steps to-| superior was not aware of.” by setting up a on the Vanderbilt one to Hearne, when | yee jo Aitken in a National} 2 wheel broke and he had “I shall hold office as special deputy fish commissioner and game om the race, Hi warden until removed by either the state fish commissioner or the hardly been remove county commissioners. Rete ort ger “| am informed that the sheriff has delegated one of his deputies :, broke. Driver| to take charge of my office. It is true | hold a special deputy sheriff n| commission under Sheriff Hodge, and which | have held under previous administrations; it is, in fact, merely a complimentary commission, and any time Sheriff Hodge calls for his badge, the same will be cheers fully turned over to him."—H. Rief. «© when the steering Game Warden R out a.—— Sa A statement te r ng to resign aw is very. clear that oné nd defend ! course as 1.) half ull fines collected for fish Sheriff Hodge with the gar 1s shall belong to the in- g to do formant. The informant in these office. cases, being a county employe, and post-| whose office hours are from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., which ec stitutes a law- bor, is under no obliga- vinion of the county commissioners so far as the financial end is con ) the fisheries department; cerned 0 ipon advice from com- In the minds of all honorable As to the authority, one-half of sald were allowed informant “T have had the supervision of this office going on nine years and my integrity has never been questioned, thi contemptible person atroversy has arisen, all civic organizations, such Chamber of Commerce, § Commercial Club and the protective associations, to t; and that is why as inefficient and Sterns 4 law to report any in Mrs. Geiger, sec investigate my office and the another man is a burglar outside of her ré methods employed in carrying on authorities, to the end that the | off hours. the work But if, instead of being 3 n and the man taking the to the | street when the latter drew a knife jand tried to stab his captor. Edgar CAUGHT STEALING LEAD PIPE, | released his hold and the thief fle dy men who can do their duty and look their fellow man in the eye and like ghouls. If there are laws to be enforced, pay officials to enforce them; engage | SCARE, ONE HORSE KILLED, 4 ‘ el One horse, the property of the HONEST ENFORCEMENT OF THE Wielding a knife, a thief who was | Ballard Livery & Transfer com- y, was killed y livery rig was struck Fremont: Ballard street car on 20th av. N yesterday | near geary av afternoon, threatened .to kill 8 V.| The driver was unhurt act of looting the basement of a hardware @hd plumb IL THE FOOTBALL, LOCAL AND EASTERN, IN TONIGHT’S PINK STAR~DON'T WAIT UNTIL SUNDAY MORNING p = ae } ' 4 i