The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 1, 1909, Page 1

} by King county in the \ vicinity of Georgetown, has been improperly man- aged. Upon several occa- sions The Star has called attention to conditions| there as reported by men| and women who have been inmates. Once or twice this) publicity has led to some| |little improvement, but al-/ W, L. DUNN, | | ways this improvement has| HE SEATTLE ‘TAF SEATTLE, WASH., HOME ~ | EDITION — MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, THE 1909, ANNOUNCEMENT payers of the county an absolutely unbiased and au-| He was successful and was given a position, beginning | thentic report of conditions as they exist at these) work on September 12. county institutions today, The Star recently engaged | Arthur W, L. Dunn of Los Angeles, Cal., to come to a newspaper reporter, Seattle and conduct an investigation. For fifteen days, Mr. Dunn, who is by profession performed the duties of an at- jtendant at the hospital, during which time he made Mr. Dunn arrived in Seattle September 7, and a a careful note of conditions as he found them. In The few days afterward made application at the county Star tomorrow will appear Mr. Dunn’s first article. It hospital for a position as attendant. He did not, of will be the beginning of a story that will tell of dis- course, tell the superintendent of the hospital that he graceful mismanagement and inhuman neglect of pa- esired to investigate the institution. He merely made tients whose poverty-stricken condition compelled |application as would anyone else seeking employment, them to submit to the treatment meted out to them. TWO CITIES IN DESPERA TELLS OF THE HORRORS OF SEATTLE STAR ONE CENT This is the second institution investigated by Mr, Dunn for a newspaper. Some time ago, acting for the Los Angeles Record, he secured a position as an attendant at a California insane asylum, and as a re« sult of his subsequent articles exposing the crueltieg practiced by employes, an investigation was held by, the board governing the California state institutions. The result of the hearing was the dismissal of a large number of the employes and the resignation, a short time afterwards, of the superintendent of the insti tution. ee ne BLACK HOLE IN CITY PRISON GAME WARDEN AlkF | hat the hospital! To the end that it might) FIGHT FOR REFORM 10 (AY iT} 1 | ; — ot farm, conducted | be able bes give to th the | Aceused Burglar and Amateur Lawyer Tells Re. | markable Story of Terrible Cruelties i ost | BY W. G. SHEPHERD, y Cc es in a M } NEW YORK, Nov, 1.—Toda of two whirlwind emarkable Manner. | | campaigns in two great American k and San Francisco : se ee } y “ : campaigns almost unoqualed for campaigns afl of national] 4% Half the Money Collected in Fines Paid to Rief’s Ste« importance. } se 4 gover eee ie te nographer When He Himself Got the Evidence {f } Im this elty: Tammany Hall ts fighting ax never before, Ten} | and Worked Up the Cases. ill | millions im public works will be done during the next four years, Tam-| | c ! many MUST have the spending of that money—and the graft there Is in| | I it. Lined up behind a “respectable” candidate, Tammany ts fighting a} ‘ Flere Rg 62 h _ mr a t i t 1 1 0 do with arre s on the face o | life and death battle—and will probably win | a ’ : : Running Fight With One Suspect, Who oe ae ore hol fy Ci Here | Pred Lawe—We sold no fish to any womat, ° There could : While Releiidine His Revolver: m the Ca ia coai © people of San Franciaco are on trial. | é bat fs t : owered ie joading Do they want the ara who have fattened on the city for years 4 Mave Deee nO . mer mt ave Taken in Pool Room. who have made San Francisco a synonym of graft among American | : Alexander McWhirter—We sold no fish to any woman, ‘ * aoa cities—do they want these people punish Rief, hi li, saw the fish in the wind came in and meas ured ‘ on lectio Prancia B. “ a the he 1 info! es ny other “informer,% : Pendred dollars taken from the vault of the First Presty On the election of Francia B. Hen t How the t uormer, any other er, q in ¢ariy morning, a running fight in which taxteabs jiseue. Both candidates for district att 1 to hac n it ‘and ballets from automatic revolvers blazed back and | rrying to @ successful fesae the many one D | { himself came and got the fis er iecelarn’ gad tha Pek ok rrying to @ su teaue the many an j { himself ca n and got the fish and : Were the chief features of one Fickert opponent, stands, tn dropping of the | the man had any » do with it. It was Seatile in vears prosecutions. He says he will prosecute “where he is convinced a proweeu | fish t that day, and no woman t ht fish, 99, the man arrested, tried to beat out his | tion can be successful | | E Geiger collected half fines as an “lame the wall of his at the city jail That m a much or as little as Flokert wishes, And the “gang forr & mspe Was arrested later at the Oriental | Whieb ne a great deal mor . - yous on Third av. arPike. He is held at the jail pending in- | is behind him. Which — y a al more | r was Rief’s stenographer Tomorrow the people of these cities must decide—a question affect “Infe ees In at least four] On down the street Rief and his ‘Mark A. Matibews, pastor of the church, will visit the jai! | ing 5,000,000 people directly—and indirectly the whole na ton os stayed in the office of former| dey uty went until they reached rhoo ae i the ole ‘iy andes Bey { ‘ ® ne Warden Henry Rief when the Crystal Palace cafe, on Pike two men ureh yesterday afternoon ey acted ber s no “informe wtween Seco nt , t Their excuse was that they were trying to see how HENEY’S FATE IN BAL. TAMMANY BAT TLES ub my was ne ger" yo Peta betw Second and Third avs. the charch had,” raid Dr. Matthe ANCE TOMORROW | FORLIFEINN. Y. CITY 1. A. Riple B ig Dd pene nae, Rief Found Them. the man arrested, was only caught after being clubbed ~— McWhirter and S. 1. Christie, ar Riet espied + trout in the ty by Patrolman Ballard as the robber was loading | (By United Prem) ! (Special to The Star.) rested on September 4, last, and| window and entered the rese for another shot at his pursuers. BAN FRANCISCO, Nev. l—| NEW YORK, Nov When the} fined fer violation of the state game) taurant. He measured the fish, who carried the loot is beiteved to have made good There is “no lull before the storm” | metropolis votes tomorrow ft will! laws, half the i in Jus-)and ont of the entire lot found seve ; ther Williams nor Newmarch had any money on fn the campaign here—the b be surprising if William J. Gaynor,| tice Carroll's court were tarned over| eral were under size. Theres! taken ie an |and in some ways the most viclous the famous Brooklyn jurist who in each case to Mrs. E. T. Gelger,| upon he demar of Alexander, thing of a ao ee the city has seen in many * heads the infamous Tammany | Rief's stenographer McWhirter, manager, the name of the tee i ‘hiret “Pight right up to the mID-/ ticket, is not elec | In each case E. T. ( er was|the man from whom he had secured: Mion of Setgeent lute Editor Hearst looks ithe! certified to by Rief as the “in the fi MeWhirter told him Ss i | order that has gone md. H att ‘ormer P of the New Puget fis! " between | This ts the ord . a Car put belle Sis pteongy rom the manag 4 S80 linto the campaiga, and a substan There Was No Informer. | market Pike place avs nor: | 44 “n ; Rief then told McWhirter to ies [ Seaaieen has ta © of bis fortune bas gone tach of the men convicted de-| Spr ae these | on Rates “aaa r h of the men con ie-| ee sated efter joughly arouse | by a political CoD: /into fireworks and sounding brace [nied today that Mrs. Gelger or any —. an the game warden’s office ey tan, At University | | teat 4s tne | Otte, T. Bannard, the lican PETER MILLER, IN COURT. other woman had anything to do) (paren of violation nee ae ‘separated. | The battle centers around 1 ate, might beat Hearst out, With ide acvent aad Ganvidien harge of violating the game laws, after one | contest between Francis J. Heney| put that seems unlikely BY T. J. DILLON, this required so much acrot On Septe or 4, according to the | H#@ Went and paid a fine in Carroll’a eos M. Fickert for district Min a twisting that Judge G . court fired his poste and Charles , . Tt has been a senaatic Miller, police styled burglar statements secured from each of the man to stop. Be-| attorney, but the mayoralty eundt-| 9) Mt oeun yied physician, mining man] him to sit down ithe men named, Rief, accompanied The records show that E. T. and University sts dates have stirred up an unpre the rivals turer, and self inted at-| Whatever else he may be, Miller! ny a deputy liked down Pike st.| Geiger (Rief's stenographer) and emptied five! dente epee) ts of the vari-|4f4nken sailors for bright this morning in Judge Gil-|'* ® good ac He faced the court! At the Boulevard cafe, 31 Pike st.,| collected half that fin | Thousands of agents o! eo va weil maha o “ court told a « bt tory of (@nd Jury with a respectful but ne espled some tre he n the * cafe e eer ft the (By United Frown) lous managers are at work today pact a Ag pre vl “ype the third " by | Wise timid alr; he was ser an ae They sated sr a a “hel ppt idee g: oe ane Mes were only 20 fect A Lee yibpec any Nov. 1.--Mrs. Speeches are being made ny Baer ance, and all Intended r the Mfeattie police al and gravity of his 5 ™ | trout, and found that out of the whole ket and arrested R pley ~ Of the hail of bu. | 20M¢ Kraemer, a widow, lies in 8 corners and orators are rushing | 11" Willing to trade Caplin of Detectives nant in| bute htened, He aske batch two or three w slightly rmation secured from -ongs — — a a, on about in automo’ ne from gpm for the fun he haw had partigular self } e in an rrowatlve smaller that fs permitted to offer ter at the Royal Pat ? but her two bables are safe, for the piace, speaking wherever a cro | tor e and ans 1 himself | 9, Je under the state game Some fish were selze: rents Pg heard mother gave her life to rescue them | DS°* ,* gathered. The bitter The best reason for the be | For the most part dispassion- ith slightest alr conscious. |" "oo Soe Ue ts ume wwe Does fare Boog Bove se ; He saw wit. | from an early morning fire that de- ness and vilification manifested| lief that Tammany will elect | sly, he recounted kickings, ‘ by ‘atte he asked and No Woman Bought Fish. | pabd ‘nie temo tian tan ae x A ggee an alley off Pike | *troved three frame lodging houses. throughout the contest for district| Gaynor is that Tammany can- | baitings and tortures almost in- i to questions concerning his Rief demanded of 8. B. Christie, ~ ee eee = bon = ~ The body of Frank Gorman has attorneyship has increased ms the| Mot afford to lose this fight. camecivable in brutality, which p until the time he was lock- Manager of the cafe, the name of E. T. Geiger got half the Dekind, Ballard nig /DeeM taken from thé smoking ruins day of election approached | Tammany Hall is a grafting hq ewears he underwent at the ‘all, t uxking” voice and|the man from whom he had ge-| fine, according,to the records. 1 a tee iq and firemen are searching for the Both Fickert and Heney are go organization, pure and simple, | h Tennant and hi : replying” voice be wo different cured the fish. Christie told him} At Lawe Bros. on Pike place, Ouscious with his body of Billy Dawson, his room ing about today, guarded by armed ite expensive machine is run oi until he was cowed | inat it wan hard lieve that but|Lawe Bros, 1602 Pike pl Rief| Fred Lawe, one of the proprietors, |mate. Mrs. Kate Gussim was per tives. That the life of Heney,| from the graft that is raked in infe confessing a crime which man was talking then arrested Christie and told him| was in, and he was immediately Pool Room. ' detec j d. At | one 3 haps fatally injured when she the graft prosecutor, has been con the year around from contrac | hanover committe tim | The Horrors of the Jail. to appear in court and pay his|arrested on the information fur- anes y Urisoner. | jumped from & second story win-|stantiy in danger for three years| tors and others who do bu in dramatic | once he had himself in jail he/fine. This Christie did that after-|nished by S, B. Christie of the ed on room © | dow to the pavement. and je even more sought now than| nese with the city of New | thee Mesum of eased ng } elf questions and | noon | Boulevard Cafe. He also paid a Reattinttes in Ze The origin of the fire {# un-|sver before, is the statement of his} York Whol Tammany is in | oe ag ay oe ri began } r a successor Mrs. Geiger, as “informer,” | fine that afternoon, and again hi rd ne? known but it 16 thought to have (riends. | Power its great army of work- | burned rege seman cdhag f murde assaults, a half a) collected half of the fine of E. T. Geiger got halt of it as m how bis) started in the room occupied by, The Fickert men allege that| pelea Sint she land, | agim legal utterance. foxen inn which left him) $28.70 imposed. “informer.” Ag Gorman and Dawson. The builld-|“hired sleuths,” representing the eoff slice: rom con | Anything But a Burglar. neon in each instance HL ea we siteens nail ist the church had | ings burned are a row of two and|forces behind Heney, are dogging) tracte for subways, schools, | BP ‘! ca but a vulgar| story sounded like that which comea |" ji re WAS not made until 9 is ¢ structures on|the footateps of Fickert. Heney is| paving, bridges, buildings. poss: ta im - ‘ rom esca prisoners from Rus-|@ college game and declaring that| unconscious from the field until Siiiine when Janitor | {2 ory frame structures the footates @ criminal im appearance. Slightly | f ped 5 i ree parm Janitor | rik st., and they were a mass of|making his fight for an opportun | street privileges and for all | ben wadione helctt, bin trean {sian Cungeot H id how Capt.|{t should not be condemned be-/the end came. Although young by Pc nsmy: #l ames 8 few minutes after thelity to rinish the graft prosecutions | manner of city business. There | above medium + ge ¢| Tennant, with a rubber bludgeon, |cause of unfortunate fatalities. | Byrne made a valiant fight for hie on fee Bit beside then biase wae noticed. The fire in which he bas been engaged for] are also ways of taxing private | *houlders arc oe ae on ve Ite hin 1 kicked him in the| President H, M. Bell, of Drake /life, he battled against hopeless nett ton fnside | department with difficulty saved |three years ender dcoe an, the peanut |UCtr lever’ A thinpiee-iike an | mouth while an assistant kicked| University at Des Moines, lowa,|odds. ‘The death of Byrne ta cast been forced eg M ; { Patrick Cal vender does not escape, and |° ayy Bribe mag he stomach and President A. B. 18, of /a gloom about the entire academy adjoining property The loss ix The second trial of Patrick Ca escape, ai ad am thei ats im in t nl a ¥ oetked uP 824 | about $20,000, partly covered by|houn, the millionaire traction mag-| the reeking coin of the ecariet | t¢l «agg A aol eg poi This, he was repeated |Iowa State college, both came out it is possible that the rest of 00 4 en taken ieeeranne. nate, was postponed until after the| girl must be divided with the pommen, Aly ene - pols with slight variations for a |strongly for the gridiron contest|the games scheduled for this sea- eee Pel a4 | “Mrs. Kraemer and her two chil-|eiection and the votera tomorrow| bosses of thie ghastly Wavesty | mestienery Jod beside hin | week, during which time he was | today json will be abandoned. j eS girl in Sp0-| gon oceupled rooms on the third will decide whether Heney will| upory democratic government. nee ‘ sete confined in the black hole. All | | Byrne will be buried with mili- nee, — his of the B. B. lodging house. | conduct it, or whether Fickert will| Durfng the next four years New | ft $ re iin nega te inflictions of the “third degree’ No Change at Notre Dame. jtary honors at the academy cem- t pe first! She was awakened by smoke pour-|be placed in charge of the prose-| York plans to expend some $1,000,-| Called thi , ete and were accompanied by curses and | SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 1.—|etery tomorrow morning. The serv- to “make 1 ng and ling into her apartments and Hleution. The Honey men allege that | 000,000 upon publle Improvements, |* sumpicion that he wa gihe vituperation, which Miller re- | “Spasms of virtue don't help. The ice will be held in the Catholic Mother eae ; foc she tried to rush down the hallway | Fickert is backed by Calhoun and | 1 as be for new subways, | 'ef Fd pong oad ; | peated verbatim. At the end of |death of three tuen in football chapel ack BS%y from “those xharp.| With her babies she found the | charge that his elect! mo will mean bridges, schools, ete. The. mots p.| Since takir haha G | Rvery enelon. with Capt,Ton> | uaties Gatuieey a Ack bribe. & te aeten ware dha id eeaie be & good boy flames had cut off all escape. the end of the war on gra en in the stage of] Dappre inking the stand | urt| Pant, he was left unconscious, | radical che ‘ y he refused to dis- @ marred, and Ii ‘ Taking a clothesline she tld it+now te a deputy prosecutor under | rebulldiag,..and the grafters are a aa suld be necessary for him| Finally human endurance could | were the sentiments expressed by|cuss Cadet Byrne's death and ves At! shout. the chiidyén and jowered|District Attorney Langdon, who|alive to the fact that this Is the | *hagat w se 2 withstand mo longer, and he | Rev. John Cavanaugh, president of} would not say whether football tt em to the ground but when she|will retire January 1. As it will| bumper crop time t 4 m8 nN ~ ee K ; . told Capt. Tennant that he would Notre Dame, today j would be oontinuad 4 at _Harvard lout her hold and fell to the pave |a jury tn the Calhoun case, it will;on your everlasting teket P ary 4 an The court room was packed while : ports rt dats eral a es' ‘ol nt that the acad- |ment. Her back se broken aed the|fot come tp.for trial before next ne & repeating thug would put it.|Attqiiay Vendervect”” | This en- | wsier teatified, lawyers, policemen| ANN ARBOR, Mich, Nov. 1 emy will not have a team in. the | physicians say she cannot live. | year, Tammany can well afford to damp | eo eet ane nila: moet ga |and breathless spectators. ‘There | “Canoeing and rowing are more |field next ‘year, ® Couple of ‘her stolen millions | scheme and Judge Gilliam “| were several women, who refused | dangerous sports in my opinion] ‘The second fatality occurred in linto the ction of nice old Jus. | him fo be n , to be frightened from their seats |than football,” said Prof. George | philadelphia when Michael Burke 4 | tice Gaynor, who heads one of the A Remarkable Exhibition, |by possibilities of profane testi.) W. Patterson, of the Unive sity of | was injured in Saturday's game be- | many lists of names that Tam-|\ seiier at first oxeayed to ank him-|mony. Miller was on the stand at| Michigan, today, in discussing Sat-/tween the Medico-Chi and the Phik : many has ever had the tol LEE eueation while stand and | the noon adjournment and resumed |Urday’s football fatalities. “In 24)adelphia College of Pharma 5 print on @ ballot. Gaynor | to reply to himself while sitting, but|his testimony this afternoon j Years there has never been a death | Burke was one of the tackles on the a ON DIA apigatia record as a good citizen ” 4 at Michigan on the gridiron, while | Medico-Chi team. His skull was Friend, for three a }and honest public servant, and he “2 many have been drowned at the} fractured while he w carrying . elegraph ditor | sao 38 may do some good things as may rf other two sports.” ithe ball in a line plun He was =F O8 Saturday last sev. | or, but Tammany will not mind if thrown heavily to the ground, sus 4 With this pa By United Press.) { times, prisoners have been t Antes the graft on those $1,000,000,000 General to Rescue. I taining a fractured skull. gpa 4 Im & private enter VENICE, Cal., Nov. 1—~"If Te-| until death is welcomo, and sant-| or city contracts in left open for WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 1—]| Although . . ate ente ‘ lof city acts ps 0 ; . No | ough physicians labored with , Petsion of Mr. | re Villar was thrown into pA gs bo ~ ws seed taking Major General Franklin Bell, chief | the Injured player throughout Sat @ from The Star, inane exico! a week | might be imponsible for a wo In this election the recent ox of staff of the army, said today: | urday night and Sunday, the your 7 EMMAtion to | 1708 i= Torrean, Manteo, & ¥ 4 Such as Senorita Villareal to SUr-| Loses of the terrible white slave More injurien are ‘suffered in| man euceumbea to te injuries Sum mbers of the | #%° It would be useless for anyone | yiyeg many weeks * | traffic and the “cadet” system will] |te chin the cadets to swim, in|day evenin LS & wat & gift signity no i familiar with conditions | ‘Turner puts little faith in the re! play a powerful part in the cam ball games, in polo and gener-| The third and last accident to Which he has been |xouth of the Rio Grande to hazard port that Senorita Villareal and her paign —— ar mnasium work than in foot-| terminate fatally occurred at Buck« . t t Mexico volun Workers on The | 4 guess at where she may be now, fath fe urned a ‘ow Diy Bannard announced that he be “| do not wish to make any in all colleges and universities, |ball. The accidents, from what Ijner, Mo, when Ray Spybuc&& a ae was the declaration today of John tarily and Ware, aivented on, she Heved the story and would do his] sestement about Saturday's Cadet Eugene A. Byrne, whose| have heard, were due more to mis-|member of the Haskell Indian - of the best Kenneth Turner, author of “Bar- south side o a 4 t to stamp out the evil. Hearst| football fatalities,” said Thom: |p, was broken in the Army-Har-| fortunes of legitimate sport than] school, sustained injuries which re- Men in the city ba Mexico." Y boundary. He last wo 1e as 4 ndled the ubject gingerly as D. Kane, president of Wash. vard game, lived only a few hours. | roughness.” | sultea in his death Popularity in nev Mexico,” continued Turner, | we n in San Antonio, Texas, five |Turner had latd stre upon the ington University, this morn: Michael Burke was killed in Phila Spybuck was a Wyandotte In- made him secretary and privon authorities | months ago. : ; lpoint that the cadets dw much of} “| leave football to the ‘delphia in. the Medico-Chi. and Three Are Dead: dian and lived in Oklahoma Press club / “At that time,” he sald, “T am] Ing F Stace eet #pring o distinction where sex is A at tim Lily yr ea their procuring among poor students.” Philadelphia College of Pharmacy NEW YORK, Noy. 1.—Cadet Bu The Indian was a brilliant stu- efficient secre 4, Senorita Villareal still certain that she was de gies roe ide Jew girls, Hearst has _ game. Ray Spybuck, of the Has-| gene Byrne, whose neck was brok-|dent and star end of his team. He ree Years on | 1 ¢ confined in th Torreon never again to net foot in Mexico.| practiced the polly of. tr » kell Indian school second team,|en at West. Point in Saturday's | was caught in a mass play and sus- Saver f ttempt Ry United Press.) saes & day | jail of she may have been trans If her friends make any attempt) make the miserable Hast sider} . ¥ 1—Football | WS killed at Buckner, Mo game with Harvard, lived only tained a shattered vertebra, Al- bY faithfulness | forred to another pitson, Where she to search for her it ts certain that |tnink that this condition is reapect-| NEW YORK, Nov ‘ootball | few hours after the accident. Three| though Spybuck was rushed to a ssad won for t remain for years without be- she will be dragged away to some | ate, that he is just as good as the | h as claimed three more victims NEW YORK, Nov, 1,—College/of the academy physicians were {n| St. Joser Mo., hospital, his case “aed = the ble to communicate with any- prison, ee mg Digi may, |Rext fellow on the avenue, the and it Is belleved today that a cru-| presidents all over the country are | constant attendance at his bedside | was hopeless and he died last night Md fellow | one outside the prison walls not even be known to the layme wy? si 1 liately |coming to the rescue of football as|from the moment he was carried at midr ; ated,” Continued on Page Eight.) sade will be started immediately | coming Polson has played its part many in the town where it is situated. (