The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 2, 1909, Page 1

nn NO, 217. MILLER QUSTED IL AUN FOR MAYOR His Reasons for astis to the Call of to Seek Nomination for Highest City a candidate for the republican nomination for mayor ries next February. the announcement of his candidacy, Mr. Bouillon points) fact that while he has never been active in politics, he} been a republican in principles, and for that reason the republican primaries. He states, however, that j lon's Snnouncerment is as follows: — . of many eg our)“ aT GOD 10 DESTROY HIM I will seek oo the republican pri feason that while I taken an active Thave always been / in principle. I do pot) approve of partisanship in| ion of manicipal | ordinarily I should much | sie pact of s nosvacti=as) Prisoner Pleading for Self coten wit poe, Defies Wrath of the Al- mighty to Prove His ; [party lines, if | am a eit must be at the republi a | Innocence. From Alliances. | Much study to this} Seriously consider. Of the qnestion be to be a candidate. ly free from alliance and commercial Mm therefore in a BY T. J. DILLON. “Gentiemen of the jury, if you send me to the penitentiary, you send me to my death. The arm of the ga the arm which has placed me before you, is long and far reaching; it will reach out through the sinister walls of the peniten- ‘ : itlary; it will reach me there and , the city's affairs worry me to death. Gentlemen, || “Piblie welfare without | leave it with you.” WM tafinences from any} With this peroration, spoken in | low voice of compressed passion, retail | Peter Miller, accused burglar, this ‘ a pking tall | corning concluded the bitterest the city's bust-| arraignment of George F. Vander Feslded in Seattle for| veer, prosecuting attorney, Charles Of Which 1 was con-| Tennant, chief of detectives, and| he city government as|th police department of Seattle eg nen | that has @ been heard in a @gineer and superin tt ot dic utilities court room, For nearly two hours Miller ex Ws becrete. From Public. cortated the police department, ‘ | Vanderveer and Tennant; he lash MS Getermined by election|ed them with sarcasm: biudgeoned Serve the public in the|them with direct accusation and PP Of Mayor, the community | backed them with bitterest frony. ie Pablle busine He was tn an oratorical frenzy; he poured out his charges at the top BPS Bustnessiike and) of his voice, without system or or. Basis and in a fair, open|der, be painted a pleture of police Manner, Th« brutality that would stand out red arkable man who has ever faced @ burglary charge in King county A man of wide reading, an observ student of, human nature, he continual surprise. | Of Vanderveer, he said Conduct of their + Hart concer that the He are entitiod f servants are 4 Protect People’s Rights ee times 1 shall make « ® protect ana te BM the public, with yr 1 the principle that « to @ square 4 10 take this opport "Pabllely my than Of Capt. Tennant “pressions of confider pr Tennant, the people and furt) the Antipodes ree F. af his cranium to the utmost apex! of his maxillary, there is, brutal- ity, stamped deep and irradicable; 4. brutality that maims, crushes and tortures to héur its victim scream agony; and he laughs, the cold, eneerMg, cynical laugh of Mephis- topholes.” the man: from | see hia face be- : Ay. vou face of Dionysius of Syracus LON.” | tyrant wheas cruelty mak a i hasn't won ve. | try shud : olthe 4 ‘a94 the original van Negysar men, le the face of Capt. Tennant. ES oan (Continued on Page Geven.) . Bouillon, formerly superintendent of public utilities, | t Bouillon’s determination to enter the race was reached | ago, after he had been urgently appealed to by hun- | citizens of Seattle, representing every class in the city. | peal Is | flemed th bor; president Workers; eration of } contempt he would much prefer to be upon a non-partisan | court of the District of ¢ GOMPERS FACES | YEAR IN PRISON With John Mitchell Frank Morrison, His Ap-| District of Columbia today af. | Samuel Gompe the American Federation of La- John secretary of the American Fed | - THE SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1909 DUNTY HOSPITAL IS PLACE OF HORROR LIEF, ACCORDING “Abandon hope, a aS aopemescinee ial town. Denied—Take It to Supreme Court Now. | Georgetown. (By United Pree) | WASHINGTON, Nov. 2— | ably so. —that germ-carr, The court of appeals of the | covered pails of reeking sentence of president of e ja ridden patients Mitchell, former of the United Mine and Frank Morrison, is the way he found King intendence of Dr. W. H. Labor— and unfortunate. convicted of i on a charge of vio DIOcASt AND GERMS ARE FOUND EVERYWHERE, oAYS INVESTIGATE |FOOD POOR AND SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS ARE BAD BEYOND BE- This ghastly motto might well hang over the entrance to the King county hospital at George- Arthur W. L. Dunn, Star reporter, who spent fifteen days in the county hospital as an attendant, starts today his first installment of the horrors of That the hospital was unsanitary — inconcei over the food, then lighting on helpless and bed- these are some of the things Dunn saw during his first few days at the hospital. The story of the hospital will be continued to- SEATTLE 6 STtArR ONE CENT TO INVESTIGATOR DUNN, FROM THIS PAPER. ll ye who enter here.” ying flies swarmed over un- ||| and filthy bandages, then This county, under the super- Corson, caring for its poor lating an injunction by publish | : ing the name of the Buck | | morrow. | Stove and Range company as | | “unfair.” | | | ame ae - The sentence was imposed by a The King county hospital and shouse looked dark and Justice Wright to the supreme ‘BEAT AN OLD MAN. Ipres ed it, a half mile out Rainier av. from Jumble | . loners ‘of appeals of the district | ients were alre out in yards and watched me |which handed do t ch ‘ . today i ee ee - curiously I walked up the long p: to the office. A sign at BY United Prone) 4 | The sentence for Gompers ix jana ‘ 3 —) the main b ng, “Superintendent's Office,” showed me where lone year in LEWISTON, Mor Nov. 2 ' hex Morrisos mtenced to jail. Jobn Mitehell ts r arrest here causing th 1 7 Jarthes J. Gass in und |today, charged with 4 nine months m six months. in jail ed in. | to go. I wa “I want to apply for a 1 derly,” m as or I said toa young Th inton of the cc of ap th of Thomax King, aged | } coe pg genet by gy Phat oh by beating him over the/ man, whom I afterward learned was David Day, stenographer a ang / . » the butt of a rifle | % ‘ . Justice Van Oradel and was con } ae canis te neid to bave oc-| 20d confidential agent Dr. W. H. Corson, superintendent of Jeurred in by Associate Justice JOHN MITCHELL AMUEL GOMPERS curred when King shot Gass’ dog| the hospital Robb. Chief Justice Sherrard dis- | Second Vice President of the Amer-| President of the American Federa- season non ak Ce muse Cae pita “A i sented ican Federation of Labor, | tion of Labor. joe reemns 2 § Psy “All right,” he said, “sit down; I'll tell Dr. Corson.” “Individual interest dwindles into claims that he only used bis fis : r : ntere: ndles in me i Resa i The office wea Il-furnished 3 Sony - 2 insignificance when compared with | ~~ us. Qi ermammmmeas ” on King 2 ' The office fa i furnished and ill-kept. Dust lay in a the higher principles involved in| however large, may disobey the | all affiliated unions er Xr ANOTHER SUSPECT | heavy layer over books and papers. The desks were old and this cause,” declared Justice Van | mandates of the courts, the samo agents, friends, sympat 8, coun | dirty. One » corr mig’ > date | Uradet reasoning would render them #ub- sel, ‘conaplrators or co-consp ° ARRESTED TODAY) lirty. One, in the corner, might have dated back to the ark, | “The whether the of the gover or defiond ant in America permitted to p= PARI6, u nig fund “The mere fact that the defend are officers of organized labor the situation, but ft should not be “If an —— of OD THE “RED Mme. Steinheil’s Trial tol thinned until the cords of the neck stand out plainly. passing most of the night pac | ing the confines of her roorm. Many times she would halt In ject to individual defiance.” either as offictalx or as individuals from tnaking any reference what soever to the fact that the Buck Stove & Range company has ever noon by City Detective Tom been in any dispute with labor, or to gen on suspicion of bein of the fart that the company has ever the trio which robbed t Fire “The injunction granted by the as unfair, or has presbyterian church of $500 early court in this case prohibits the of on any unfair list or yesterday morning | ficers of the American Federation of ——~—~<-—~~—--—~—-~ ~~ Mayer was arres Labor, the officers and members of (Continued on Page Seven.) ington st, saloon WIDOW OF REPUBLIC" KILL PRESIDENT FAURE? issue ole constitutional agencies nent shall be obeyed Joseph Mayer, aged 22 and occu In his last report to the American pation unknown, was arrested this | Federation of Labor, Gompers set forth hin side of the case as fol lows Hay adds to the kravity of influence the result citizens, Prisoner Is Nervous and Begin Tomorrow in City, Sleepless As Hour o of Paris. Hearing Comes. (My United Press.) |ning ber social way as a favorite Nov. 2—With the® of the president of France | was then a military pri Isle du Diable. There was an af fectionate meeting, and an appoint ment | She was bidden by Faure, of the ht she hardly slept, | in apite | her endl march and ex | the presidential ball which was to : . | know the aw | |be held that week. Mme. Faure . Leaw him kill my hue | heard of the invitation and de band. But I'm afraid—i'm manded that her husband recall it | agai + afraid to tell.” Did he obey? Did his recall Sto will aid me in my| over wrote of Siberia; ke drew on| The stage is set and the actors rouse the fury of hell in this “Du BP chosen because of|scionce, history, art, the ends of |ip thelr places, for a rehearsal of Barey of the ge The fol {0 perform their a the earth, for his {llustrations,and|the greatest drama of crime mod lowing night he died In Mme. ‘than because of thei rammed his facts home to the|ern France has ever known. To Steinheil’s house ‘- jury with all the force and intens-|morrow morning Mme. Marguerite The gendarmes were called to “lity of a man fighting on the brink |Steinhell, “the red widow of the the Impasse Ronsin, and they or his very fe |third republic,” will be placed on found Faure dying, with the wom & the stockho t| No one who heard him could|trial in the palace of justice, for | an at his feet had served are entit! |doubt but that he Js the most re-|the murder of her husband,| him wine, and when an examina Adolphe, and her mother tion of the body was made later its Japy. They were found d condition was the same as a corpse |the Steinhell home May 31, 1908, | of a person poisoned, There was | After blaming successively a no autopsy valet, another servant, and finally When the gendarmes came Faure |the son of t ‘From the outermost periphery |the crime, tho woman herself was |arrented Rarely | doodn of the a mystery and tragedy to listen to Although the stands wri heil der of | France, in Rres the opened up @ magnifi jin the Impas Paris asked, has Paris, against against her, stands though not formally, 1899. came leaders of army and the republic “Where does she get the money?” ho Steinhell cook for was still alive, but in convulsions. His fingers held in a death grip the beautiful blond tresses of |Mme. Steinhell. As she wept and screamed, attendants pried loose the stiffening fingers to prevent a city of dark had such underworld, calendar of crime cutting her hair, tten black enough | On the day of Faure’s funeral Mme. stein the woman France calls his slayer mofelly charged, wept beside the grave, kissing hi with the mur | portrait in sight of the mourning ident Felix Faure of} family and the France highest offictals of Wish that when + fore me, cruel, as cruel as the| Faure was infatuated with her tue Mi ak a aul k to for I shall be Q || !and from whence he comes, the| Her husband's pitiful daubs as an get: until the double murder follow a ““\\tod of the man eaters, the oan-|artist brought them in only a few ed, the killing of the woman's hu a emonstrate my|nibals. | have seen that face @e.|francs, but Mme. Sicinhell, after band and her ow n mother people's confi.| fore, gentiemen. ‘ she beeame a favorite of Faure, eA paves ECA Laie «A? oS Ren ORV RE ees toy oe ee hen the hole stoi was re ce gn | caine ot the Ps ath . the | Siways Gee money, Tho. Btetubelis vealed. Magistrate Loydette, who ent chateau| was to be answered, One day the | guest of President Faure and his|heard the preliminaries, was called we Ronsin, and thither | black king of Cambodia came here, | suite joff the bench, under charges that the church, the|attended by a dusky train. In the presidential box, far to the | his friendship for Faure was pro- As Cambodia ts a French terri-| rear, sat a beautiful, unveiled wom-/|teoting the woman, He was suc. tory, he was shown royal honors.,an, It was Mme, Steinhell, and | ceeded by Judge Boucard, who will The question soon|At the races next day he was the then Paris knew that she was win-! probably sit in court tomorrow, 4d in a Wash-| usages of French society, to| \cross the hall, however, Fit- ted out with expensive and handsome furniture, it was in direct | contrast to This, the private office of the superintendent. was another type of office. the room where I waited I found out, was He is a He walked in leisurely, and out from here later. about 32. took a careless look at me CORSON ASKS THREE QUESTIONS. i “Have you done any hospital work before?” Dr. Corson came a minute | tall, slender man of he asked. Angel “Yes, in the Receiving hospital in Los answered, “How much?” “Oh, ty experience I said. mostly several months,” “I’m not a graduate nursey giving medicine, putting re- straints on insane and delirium tremens patients—what you might call ‘rough work.’ “How much did you get at Los Angeles has been | approach of her trial for the There was an underground pas I had to stop and think. I hadn't expected this questions murder of her artist husband sage between her home in Paris) 2+ toast not so Sines and mother-in-law, Mme. jand Faure's official mansion. | ® pase Beate is : hell has aged visibly and her | | Through this she crept one night | Forty dollars a month and board,” I said, after the pause, throat, once so full, has | to intercede for Capt, Dreyfus, who Dr. Corson greeted my remarks with a series of nods, When I finished, he walked away into his private office, return- ing a minute later with a note which he handed to Day, The | clerk hunted up the Miss M. Atherton, who came matron, to the office a few minutes later, HE GETS THE JOB, “Dr. Corson wrote me to pyt you to work,” she said, “Have you had any experience?” “I’m not a graduate nurse,” I said in, “but I've had ag some experience.” “Do you expect to become a doctor?” { “Possibly,” I returned “The ing man before you is going to study medicine, He was as good as a trained nurse,” she said, smiling. With | this she left the office | his completed the formalities. I had got the job. I went back to Seattle to get some clothes ready for an indefinite stay, at the institution as an orderly, * * we * > HEARS OF “DIRTY WORK.” | IT returned to the hospital at night, and was taken to a | room on the second floor by Clerk Day. He introduced me to | Orderly Albert Belcher, who was to be my roommate “You'll run against a lot of dirty work,” was Belcher's | first warning, after Day had gone. “A lot of these old stiffs | have to be taken eare of like babies. But one good thing about | hit, you can make 'em ‘elp you. Make ‘em do the dirty work, Just bull ’em into hit.” And he gave me a knowing smile. “How is the food?” I “Bum,” asked. said Belcher, promptly. Continuing accent, he said, “I think hit ‘as haffe ‘Are the officials very awe ee (Continued o:. in his cockney, blood.” cted my strict Page Seven.)