The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 5, 1909, Page 1

TD» AS - THE SEATTLE — ny, 11, NO. 220. SEATTLE, WASH,, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1909 ONE CENT open ONIC PLAGUE SPREADING IN SOUTH 0 "MAHON mn ee | | fas Against the smoky pole! (By United Press.) i Ye: 5 | PAWN TICKET ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN SIGNED IN SPOKANE |Pipes of Hi Gill, the friends of WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—The bubonic plague is tight- i BY PETER MILLER. Austin E. Griffiths, if necessary— i if absolutely necessary—will drink Ming its hold on the Pacific coast. mansion | beer, to win the approval of the Its eradication is the gravest public health question now : primary voter, | ; Patrick EB. Sullivan, rietor of the American Cafe, in which | The beer guzzling aie was cast| P¢fore the American people. : = Pe er ee EN ae en ee tet REPORTER DUNN CONTINUES STORY. was employed Hugh McMahon, who was murdered near his home tn |last night at a meeting held in| This is the note of warning sounded today by Dr. C. Hart i ss . this city on the night of November 26, 1908, belleves thoroughly Renton Hill clubhous¢ ss which i patients is told that Peter Miller, now tn the county fail, wai one of the men who | i4 staunch friends of Nr. Griffitns | Merriam, chief of the biological survey of the department of i | killed McMahon and stripped the body of money and valuable | assembled, among them one) agriculture, on the eve of his departure for California to fight ae i jewelry | Joneph D. Jones, It was Mr. Jones! the pri A ni eons of th lic h 4 the fourth in | Sullivan criticises Captain of Detectives Tennant and the pollee |who announced the revolutionary | '° 8™™ disease. Already ee seal ge public health and 4 -_——-- department for its refusal to charge Miller with the murder of Me | beer drinking idea r liberal Marine hospital service are waging unending warfare against of the story of | “I was out Of town yesterday, and| MAhon. He says he stands ready now, if Miller is put on trial for |gentiment had been worked to a 4 the horrible specter of this form of death in the cities, and now the fact that all of the superior| ™UTder, to pay the $1,000 reward he alfered on December 3 last, P Judges had met and decided to call & grand jury was news to me,” | 80d half to RT. Briley, a detective of @pokane, who was first | Mr. Griffiths toward churches. | sections, With these words Judge Mitchel! | locate any of the property taken from the pockets of McMahon J “We must see to it in appear. |Qilliam, presiding over department | _ Tbe Killing of McMahon occurred |n-ast—————————-—__-_ snow ‘ot Iunst,” sald Mr. Sones, No. 1, the criminal department, of |O® Thankagiving night of last your “that the idea that Mr. Griffiths the superior court, denied tn sub.| His body was discovered on the is a church candidate be kept out stance that the seven judges of | following morning In the yard nd) of the campaign. We must mix h * : half of it to the local police department, which captured Miller politieally unfortunate leaning of Dr. Merriam proposes to start the campaign in the rural h pitch by a discussion of | In two counties of the state of | plague Infection as the rats of the California—Contra Costa and Ala- seaboard meda—have recently bi discov Squirrels suffering from the dis- ered seven well defin cases of ease have been captured far In- who spent 15 days ¢ as an attendant. lake I. hon tostdeneac ant . bubs plague. These cases were land from the coast, Inoculation of King county had decided to call a| Joining the McMahon residence, at J with the voters, and, if necessary, | a1, iniand, showing that the disease healthy animals with the bacilli of Braud jury. [123 Day st. The police at first | Orink beer with them. Personally, | 1s no ionger confined to San Fran bubonic plague resulted in their 's story will be con- | wed the bellet that MoMahon | herd gather Chance teatogeset 4 IE f Ban cisco and other cc 'e st cities death from the disease. a glass of beer, ase | It was %, carried in Oh, Horrore—Beer! ithe holds clearing The little band sat around with | the Orient where the loath blanched faces and bated breaths.| ease annually exacts an Till then they did not realize to | toll of human lives, that killing off the specter of grim what extent Mr. Jones would go to| occasional cases in ( death that daily hovers over them, secure & vote. They realized that | port cities The only solution of the problem “ Ps re / 1 am positive,” Judge Gil- RE become {i on his way botne, | Ham continued, “that no euch l had dragged himeelf into the yard been reached at and had there died » natural death of the judges of | -rhig idea was kcoffed at by polter | others who laveeth The other members of the King] gated the matter, and after an ex " _ BY ARTHUR W. L. DUNN. county bench said the same thing. | amination of the body by the coro 4 je A. W. Frater—I have never|nor, the police finally reluctantly ARTHUR W. L. DUNN, Menacing Problem. And so, now, the inland countries of Califorma face the problem of 2 i cke e% ff every squirrel Fs attended a meeting of the juc admitted that McMahon had un Mr. Jones, if backed up against | lies fn killing of were an inmate of the county hospital tee thin come where the subd t | doubtedly been murdered the wall, with all other hope fled reveab ot steaien ,.|8 Alameda “and Contra “Costa like to have a ‘swamper’ from ‘Billy the |« grand jury hax been discus It developed that when McMahon that If driven to despair, Mr. Jones| | Several months ago, when physt-| counties : on as a nurse?’ , jand | know nothing sbout any de jeft the American Cafe at midnight | would quaff the foaming stein | Clans practicing tr Jameda ar lam going to Uakland,” said Dr. 4 . * ciston of the presiding jadge of]on November 26 he had on hie pers) Travers, an inmate, who is night watchman |the criminal department to call ®/son a diamond ring, a diamond) nurse, formerly mopped floors at “Billy the | "884 Jury. 1 undoubtedly would) stick pin and a watch wet with . know something about such a fact/diamond welghing 1% carats. In) torious dive. if it were true | addition, McMahon was supposed from Travers’ duties as watchman he | Judge Wilson R. Gay—There has|to have had an amount of money | gl “er helpl. . been no discussion among nor a/0n his person, | jut medicines, looks after the more helpless im- | vviing of the judgos relative to| A fow days after the MeMabon until he could see the bottom, blow | Contra Costa counties reported yerriam, “to personally supervise the foam from his lps and gaily | *cattered but nevertheless unmis- the campaign of extermination instruct the barkeep to “fill ‘em up | takable cases among their patients, | which has been decided upon. My again.” the plague experts on the coast | pian now—it is only tentative, how- The church was given to under.| Were puzzled. Infection could not | ever—is to isolate Alameds and stand its subsidiary position to|™&¥e been spread by rats, and @ Contra Costa counties, where in- peer carly jn the meeting, when | “retul study of the stricken men | fected squirrels have been found Mr, Jones requested as an evidence | WVeloped the fact that none of and distinct plague outbreaks ¥, i | : h paid a recent visit to sea a the dead for interment. calling @ grand jury. One or two| murder, P. E. Sullivan, McMahon's | of practical politics an_ executive senotosrll gp a recent visit to sea among human beings as welt and . , |men have casually approached me@/employer, acting for himself and| P. E. SULLIVA jcommittee of three. Charlies B s off every squirrel in that ter for these duties he served a two years’ ap- [iq asked what | thought of such| WM Desmond, offered a reward | Py Niblock, an usher in the First| But one significant fact developed ritory. at “Billy the Mug’s.” & move, but that is all. The state-|of $1,000, half for the a Se eee ~~! Presbyterian church, was suggest-|—4nd that was that every one of| «Fortunately the two counties r ¢ | ment as printed last night was se-| conviction of the- murd | ed, but Mr. Jones threw up his|the seven Infected with the char-| are pounded on three sides by employment of Travers for such important (fir0q trom a man who had uo atr| the othee half the the mutunn ne he SCREAM! hands in horror. As anuch as he |cteristic symptoms of the plague water and marshes. On the south- ;. " a “a ‘tbioc oubt.|had either eaten ground squirrels | * it te Whely tnt th the atrocious examples crim- |thority to speak |wateh. The watch was the prop admired Mr. Niblock, he was doubt- | z rn boundary it is likely that we er of Re teesil — Judge R. B. Albertson—I know|erty of Desmond, and had been SPL ASF! ful of him, if ever the crucial test /0r killed them for sport. From! shall have our greatest problem, ‘on the part of Superin a nothing about any meeting relative | handed to McMahon for safe keep- Jot beer drink.ng arrived. Mr. Nib-| this clew. surgeons have absolutely a h ital kproven that the Beechy grows My idea is to clear a path, say a if i i ry. There has| tng. lock made no rash promises, so | Proven the e Beechy eee | | ogee rE ay a op tev rae aa | bee ro a iitte informal alacussion in| Loot Found In Spok Y. TERY the committee was made up of J. | 8auirrel is as dreaded an agent of! (Continued on Page Thirteen. was given the job of night wai a general way, but nothing of an| a wich mello cor yoy + aia tice | A. Thomas, 8. Tretheway and R. A.| = Se j sing under the direction of Mrs. Constance | absolute nature has been decided Ha Naar egptellnage sige ne | Pittocx phe, malt “test was not | : police dep: . applied hom. i ter, the head nurse, he assumed charge of | "7° ment in the United States postais| A Man's body hurtling : A + Judge John F. Main—There has! toiing of the murder of Mesahon cugh the air, a scream and | Would Go Out With “The Boys.” ed to their wants, gave them medi- [cali a grand jury, nor has there| making known the offered reward,| ® *plash, and that’s all any- [minimum of speech making was OUR BROTHERS AT THE . P . been even a formal discussion of! 6 h ® Sul ives ff m Horace Peters’ idea of practical d them, and did all the other little duties (°° rt" ie “ai I know about tt recy bed tome a a Britey| Peet knows of & man who fell | politics. Mr. Peters had seen | in his own coarse way. Judge J. T. Ronald—I won't say of Spokane telling him that he haa| ff the lighthouse tender Ar- brands snatched from be buming| i ict i i i that I don’t know anything about | located the watch in the pawnshop| cats at pler 6 about noon. > i a Svensn 3 | ving out medicine to patients is an important [ire eee snd jury becuse Ot Perri Beckman i keene! i Ge hae ae ce BY T. J. DILLON. fon, and, naturally, he made mistakes. T have heard {t discussed in’a gen-|@ullivan then consulted with ‘the No one has been reported as | n't beer shy, and he for Who are these men who die in the county hospital un- mourned and uncared for? ers, you will be going to jail sometime for |¢ral way, but nothing definite has |jocal police department, and upon| missing. Nobody was near wed to stay up as late] © J pf them. been decided upon their advice, later went to Spokane dient ine th eet ee Tae | e Megligence,” | heard Mrs. Wanamaker say to | Judge Boyd J. Taliman—The first | recovered the watch upon the pay.| Us t© recognize the man | ‘The membership roll and the ¥ D Ho had just given ain tablets to |! knew about the cailing of a grand | ment of $75, and made a search for} When he went overboard. The | Griffiths platform were on a table hone nigh cert ets Who are these heart-weary, body-sick fallures In the struggle 4 things in this wonderful world in which we are; men, members of the brotherhoc are your broth he worst,” said Mrs. Wanamaker after Travers | The Franklin Improvement club property had been pawned a short| Of A man, @ cry of terror, and | signatures, and put themselves on | ‘ : rt * jat @ meeting held last night at time after McMahon's murder in|’ thecwaters closed over the liv. |record for Mr. Griffiths. Most of off with his second supply. “Lots of times |{),.“ornor of 20th av. and Lene Gn ak Ul dames, Socal ES Seas ere yet | the meeting, uowever, appeared to ves codein (a powerful drug) to the wrong man, | st. adopted resolutions petitioning protographs of the signature left be stricken wita writers’ cramp A cf * jury was what I read in a paper the diamond ring, which was final body has not been recovered. in company with pene and ink, Mr of ie oe a ein 1" Georgetown hospital for their last battle— 4 patient. He had given them to Gibson, |jasi night. ly Syond $a. the U.S. Leen Ottion| <NAMay knows whe went to Ble | dence or'toad and abiatie Bare A ce ae faltare? tt a i eommaaii i 2 ‘ , ‘ In Spok J dd which tak 1 a ;Gence oO joc nd avidin, h hey are human beings, men; they are the most wonderful if they were prescribed for Brown. ‘An’ that is Wants a Grand Jury. | out amon the pagment of $105. thu} death, Just a sudden glimpse those prevent dash off their i 1 of man; God created, God endowed. They s and mine, with the same flesh, blood and $) brain; with the same capacity for Joy and sorrow; they lived : ‘" a the superior court of King county i ‘ a are ere while othere Red ‘to Hurry SWAP 1 on the samme cearth with i wea parane of the pol time; in An’ what is more,” she concluded, “he laughs | for "fran jury | “(Continued on Page Nine.) no glow to the mystery. |to attend a pariy | ‘ ‘ as, at ; : doesn’t ” = suena mae cern a = roe : : all things (hey were as we are, body and soul. — care. 3 P . ‘ And now the awesc inscrutable decree of fate has sent be a should a “swamper i ‘ them from the ends of the planet to this hospital, to meet the i is ignorant of the rules of sterilizing in most terrifying fact in life—which is death; to meet the death which we keep always hidden in the dark recesses of our con- the death of which we never think save with ashen pallor and shrinking of soul IS MEXICO TRYING TO GET PRETTY MISS VILLAREAL? While United Press Correspondent Finds Senorita Andrea, the Mexican Joan d’Arc, Rejoicing Over the Re- lease of Her Sister From Mexican Jail, the News Comes of Her Own Dismissal From Position After Visit of Diaz’s Consul to Employer. atall hospitals. The possibility of germs cov- | ng his fingers after he handles a surgical or a tuber- mitis case does not appeal to him. Heneither dons gown nor coat while administer- ‘tothe patients. He wears his every-day clothes. ecting his hands after handling a patient operation to his mind. Once a night is EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 5.—Senorita Andrea Villereal, sister)ing #bons in the El Paso store,} when | asked the Jefe Politico | : aay : : was half crazed by anxiety. She| why our father had been ar for him. He didn’t have to wash them at all | of Senorita Teresa Villereal, who recently was released from KneWE@hat {ate defell women| rested with me he sald: ‘Be. “ oy . : “ay Was “swamping” at “Billy the Mug’ Od prison in Torreon, Mex., was discharged today from the store | prisoners south of the Rio Grande.| ‘cause you are a young lady of sciou Here in this hospital they are summoned to meet the pale sentinel who stands at the portals of Eter y; here they must 4 sing Present and betake ; renounce their allegiance to the chi themselves into the inviolable Past It Is a fearsome thing to contemplate, the final day after which there will be no tomorrow, when the last tick of the voice G of time is still forever, Then is there need for the kind word " and the soft hand to ease the iast deep agonies; at this dread u t laid out a stiff proper,” said he one morn- where she had taken employment to enable her to remain in BRUM oteuacued, ir aeonteren| pal Gt ees wocald bon | hour ‘the living heart beats chill for the one whose labor is : MeM fast, after an unfortunate by the name of | this country to assist the exiled Mexican liberals. a the state of Neuvo Leon jail alone.” a ts and ® prayes ascends for him who is to take the Mg n ; ri " in TP. ome mde tol . t the le Andrea knows nothing more of Ong, Care souraey :T Eh, same as Baiches does: fat eat ba visitec prog . the agents of Diaz, and that it was] she was tn jail than n thi | contemp and files, Hardened attaches stand impatiently by, 4 : cher does; I jes’ pulled him a | missed, Intended to get me across the line | Ore ote Te ttocican authorities { Tebelious at the slowness of death, whose leisure thwarts thelr x stuffed his mouth full of cotton, and pounded Friends of the young woman believe the action of the |‘ jan 7 Sete erat: BBO | asceutat Wavagn’” Gab dete petty plans. The dying man, the most pitiable sight for the the air out of him.” Mexican consul was the first step of a plan on the part of the| was written by Teresa, and 1, “they thought they were arresting Knob that ehe was free, It'was not|me. They have wanted me for , ; ? move afterward?” I asked. Mexican government to make her a prisoner. Local socialists | (11 ind of letter she would Lave |ianhy months because I speak and ” H . yains' a budge, said he. “He was sure dead | today are raising a fund to defend her should she be arrested | written under duress, it sounded | Write Tbe t Diaz. If it had been} ™ I got through wid him Arierican sell \like my alster in every line, and 1|1, I-shudder to think of the conse : on Ame . : ‘ am confident that she is safe with | @uenc Favers is doing the best he knows. The BY ETHEL DOLSON, free Mexico. She told me the| friends in Monterey.” | Is Mexican Joan d'Are | eyes of men, is flouted and made a jest, a ghastly butt for jibes and jeers; a nuisance and encumbrance to be quickly thrown into some hasty hole; to be eternally rid of. And this for a fellow man confronted with the unmitigable horror of the oncoming darkness of death; a fellow player in : |f| Sur act of the incomprehensible drama of life 4 are responsible for him. d tart ey sarah al pa “i “ “i 48 3 5 r sister's Imprisonment | In the letter to her sister Teresa |, “ 2 Paaivens r i 5 pa a ; ae are hard to believ these facts that Reporter Dunn 2 | KL PASO, Tex., Nov. 5. was |and release otk oe arrest an on ree Of MORICA wee as told us e imag ion halts a © death-bed pictures he p Convatescont Mliente wh, one good ‘ath ey bend are tala™ yd 6 plain fee Th od ag D557 | rote humorously of her arrest and | tiioty Although she te under r us; the Imagination halts at the death-bed pictures he the the happl The day that President Taft met! incarceration, She said conjures from sights he has witnessed; every instinct cries te vor, he “hospite ivé nurses are supposed to|the world that told me today of &| president Diaz at the border line, | the constant surveillance of spies, . : : : : * Of 16, and nat have to call on the patients for|aister’s escape from an imprison-|‘peresa Villereal, Andrea's sister, “| was treated better here [she is accomplishing much good aloud that they cannot be true; that they must be false; but our ‘Nia ment that might have ended in 4/and her aged father, Prospero Ville than Porfirio Diaz was treated § |for the cause || protests are vain, Only our shame remains; shame this basin hat one eath against a mud wall|yeal, started from El Paso for| i El Paso. He had one fine | “It is not good to call me the of us, » of famll whi have} to Dow s hea , a . ptragic deat : | 5 c 21 Paso for we? BE are of us, one of our family, it might have been you or I, should . heard Mins Macc... head, Curran, while 1 wash hiéPaway in the interior of Mexico, |tLampazos, Coahuila, Mexico, to| dinner. | had four at the best |Moxican Joan d'Arc,” she said | Ashe Gait io the Mal ase olka than & aut becca 'y one morning to @ patient whos®| Andrea Villereal Is known among] dispose of some property. Then| hetel In Torreon. Diaz had |deprecatingly. “I cannot go into| His left was in good condition, so he must|the adiinistration party as the|came the news that the girl and| soldiers en every side in El | Mexico on a horse at the head of | "Yon ' “revolutionary firebrand.” I found!her old father had been thrown| Paso for he feared that he [my troops; I cannot fire a gun, for| hold that dressing | ~~ te Fae tn sling foul, evil thing that infested the earth May death be truer to our brothers who die out there; may her measuring laces and ribbons in |into a Mexican prigon, might be killed. | marched |my hands are too small, But,’ unt I can get a bandage,” I| 4, a Paso store. She is support: | through the streets of Torreon |she continued fiercely, “they are —~~—~-- |{ng herself in practical exile so surrounded by soldiers, but 1 not too small to write and to stir that she can go on fighting to help did not fear for my life. And ‘others to ¢ in the grave be more gentle; may oblivion be more kind than they who falsely minister to then iu their last hour, News Is Terrible Biow. Andrea, measuring lace and sell! (Continued on Page Thirteen.)