The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 3, 1909, Page 1

TRIKE wITHIN “a the Contro- y Between Switch- and the Railroads |< {By United Press) IEAPOLIS, Minn., tt was reported on on reliable fy that the strike of men’s Union of Poeeics would be within three hours. was verified by are in close touch United Prost) 38, Dec. 3.-- fe secure an immediate meant of the switchmen’s appointment of an . ‘arbitration board, to jp the governors of Minne Dakota, Montana, Washington, are be this afternoon | | | E smembere of the local union wired Grand , at St. Paul, this te cali a strike on the & Puget Sound rail- ‘will cut off Seattic’s and shut down the mines at Black Dla Franklin. An an- ‘txpected from St. Paul has already ordered employed on the of the Chicago, @ Puget Sound rail- this afternoon. Jetal officials of the Great the Northern Pacific ars th Morning insisted that i. was much to tn Seattile, reports from the @istricts indicated result of the bas already be- 3 men, mostly rawsa ont of the railroads ible to move losses of many @ollars and = much Offices of the Great Northern Pacifte rat} it was announced that hack of the switchmen's been broken. in New Men. ‘might and today Freight f. Allen, of the Northern perintendent of Ter. MeMullen, Freight Degnan and Trainmas- ‘kburn, of the North. worked side by side breaking in the green Switchmen and cutting bie freight. had completed §thetr trains had been made Out, one over the North- and two over the Great Gers had also been sup. Lb a portion of the Stargo of silk. an Up the Yards. / the officials and | es were again in gre noon had passed switched and de Sheen all the cars 8 perishable live stock trains Bie bronght into the yard«| ot fficials, there | yperioha ight com. | now on they will it with agility. | hon-union switch- | road offi freight men, prac full switeh work in the/ Men will be employed to day, and within a week @laim that all ap Of the strike have Off and the men re will Of the Pac ifte docked shortly afte Were three carloads freight aboard, and Pacific officials h the ~ confident Will be broken with ys and their demands morning were Lab lastic shortage THROWN OUT | WORK RK BY STRIKE Dec taines Cole, in the oc 40 Great Pally, wii) faa ® Feult of the this morning ners out of on A feoult of the . i * Montana + Beet iS estimated MEN are idic * NE Conditior sheng “sad miner ’ other the stat ae curtailr Mlities in fc mmense plant of 1 Mills, of indy unles: Great j the efforts of the | The |hurrying home to their din | pedient, | taxed, WILL END FEW HOURS nhababehelahvielobahabltabehcdelicd. o : UNIVERSITY MAY CLOSE, * * If the switchmen's strike ts * prolonged the University of Washington may close for lack of fuel, Dealers in the district have none, and a plan to trans port it by barge across Lake Union or Washtngton is being considered today. SPEER RRR RR Ree ‘ila, was operations yesterday The striking switchmen Montana centers are an_ unbroken front today | Such freight trains as are be ing operated are made up by train masters and their assistants, Lit. | Ue effort has been made to move} compelled to suspend | fn all! maintaining janything but the coal that is neces of bust: | industrial for in the the sary ness continuance mining and centers. WILL CARRY THEIR FIGHT TO COURTS (By United Press.) ST. PAUL, Dec. 3.—More than 400 strike breakers imported from Chicago, are at work today in the local railroad yards, according to declarations of transportation offt ctals. Leaders of the striking switch. men, however, langh at the state ment that the strike is practically broken They say few of their number have returned to work, and are making every effort to combat railroad officials to import more men to fll their places As a result of the importation of substitute ewitchmen, it is deemed; probable that the dispute may t carried to the courts. Mayor Law ler has been retained ax counsel | for the strikers Many of the strike breakers have been sworn fn as special police strikers claim this procedure | to be In direct violation of a state lave which prohibits non-residents fron? serving as potice. State Labor Commissioner Ewen has been appealed to. strike leaders demand that every non-resident employed in the local yards who is wearing a special offt- | cer's badge be arrested Reports from Duluth sta 46 of 177 strikers had retur work. An early end of the in that city was predicted MADISON LINE CONTINUES 10 Mo The strike Out of Commission Last Night and Again This | Morning While the Rush | Was On. cable line and again The Madison st. down last night morning. Last night from 6 5:40 Mad-| ison cars were at a standstill, The break came just when crowds were was this 0 te rs. This morning the line was down from 8:30 to 9 o'clock, the busy period of the morning, when work ers and business men were getting down to their day's work Patrons of the Madison line come to the conclusion that entirely incapable of handling traffic. It has m patched and) repaired, with makeshift and ex until now it is a diffic ult matt to handle the traffic in the| | siack hours. Whenever the line is! breakdowns are certain. Lose Patience With 8. E. Co. The question was taken night at a meeting of the Park Improvement elub, where ex ‘easions of discontent were h d all sides, The people who are| ed to use the line have k aince lost patience with the S¢ attle Electric company, and now they want to know just when they are going to get decent service | printendent of Public Utilities Valentine was a speaker at club last night. He promised to what he could to improve] the service Hi Gill, candidate for mayor. could throw very little light on the |sitdation, as he had not known of the shutdown until he read of it in the newspapers have| it ts the up last Madison A the V Committee Named. | Valentine's for future did not appeal very to his hearers, and they a committee to wait upon Jacob Furth and informa tion first hand T committee | er C, MeGilvra, C. ind William Calhoun arranged -@ conference of the Seattle Mr the trongl consolation uppointed of Williams they the com: | composed M Today with Electric ol head NERA WEATHER FORECAST. *& ci Falr and continued cold to- #| night; Saturday fair; Nght # north to northeast winds. * xe tee et Ex oveneeeaonunanans BREAK DOWN | stole jwhall at Jout just eonviction war |the prisoner BETTER TO BE | A THIEF THAN BE A BEGGAR Dan McPherson, a Piece of Life’s Jetsam, Tells This Story to Judge in Police Court. “l was cold, hungry and broke, your honor, and | com mitted that th: ft to land in jail. | could find no work. | had no friends. 1 would rather steal than beg.” This was the brief r told b McPherson to B McPherson serve three months at the city ade, He is abi rs old is the | Dan | Jobo Judge Gordon this morning was sentenced t tock On eye missing of down and out oa he has ap pearance a man who is all in reporter Mc Pherson said that not get work simply could “I refused to bee No one I was #0 despe 1 was cold and hungry chance that 1 socks gave me a Yesterday I decided to dehberately package of I walked up and down street looking for a policem to arrest me. Finally J and I deliberately acted picious manner. The officer as me where I got the socks and I told him I stole them. Then he arrested me. But I was glad, for I least have a place to eat and sleep.” . Patrolman J. D, Baker the arrest, says he never saw such a look of despair in a man's eyes as when he first accosted the dere. lict ate steal a woollen somewhere the an saw of in as who made MONEY DIDNT OAIE GRAFTER PROMINENT AND WEALTHY OAKLAND ATTORNEY FOUND GUILTY OF EMBEZZLEMENT. United Press.) Cal, Dec, 3—John of the most prom of Oakland, wa felony embezzle today, after being (iy OAKLAND, 8. Delancey, one inent attorneys found guilty of ment by @ jury 30 minutes charge was made with the recent in the office the public admin jstrator, it being alleged that De lancey, as counsel for Public Ad ministrator Gray, withheld fund from estates being administered When the scandals exposed Gray was forced to resign. It was shown, upon investigation, that he delegated much of the work of the office to Delancey Powerful influences were to the support of Delancey, a great surprise to and his friends. De returned about $19,000 and he and bis at ved that this would him The nection in con scandals of were brought and the lancey has to the county ttorneys bel ei to clear Delancey is @ member j wealthy family and its conn ‘with the leading men of the city of THE SEATTLE STA RATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1909. FOR TIMID CREATURES, BUT— VANDERVEER The George the FP. Vanderveer Star said other grand jury if } More satisfactory re than ever today is to the grand jury who will not It it does That that is but is unfortunate and there one re remedy will be the | filled entire public has Va Vanderveer's actions of the by nderyeer day sults thi such a condition confidence jhim as a fit person to conduct the proceedings in the } jury | —| MUST QUIT GRAND JURY Pro his connection to be statement Atte with that uti orne the are obtained true The Star knows men in possession of information of value go before that body as long as Vanderveer is acting in the role of prosecutor. | should exist—but orney in whom assumes the role now being} past two days utterly condemn} rand | Knowing, as does every other man who has ever had | dealings with him, that Sheriff Hodge is absolutely incor- ‘#nk of the county jail. | ruptible, and that the sheriff's office today is thoroughly clean jand efficient, Vanderveer is bending every effort to blacken | #sked Hodge if he would release | Hodge's character. | QRur — | ularities. “CONGRESSMAN” TAFT---A = ie nee NEW TRAGEDY IN TWO ACTS One man made this (My Unit ‘ of Robert. Bac bis * as American ambassador te a newspaper prints | And this And told With pa } for operating man wa ¢ France the f The of Henry More Shopping| | #Days Before. | | # Christmas Paris ng reason for the retirement 8. White from the pout} Facon ; was ambansader | James the man . presidential Of trying to Washington’ was only a But resentative in congress.” «| . jean revidents of Parts} jto -Mr hear of this bitherto} lof the we Taft b gh rational refers (| and) in the} he found hime} day 17 n” wished to} form of the} } royalty was to raised dingly he sought o honest in their effor to f icket at the Ameri jto get results acertain| The Star offer | Vanderveer. Pca | It doubts leas , | tent sufficient | of the cide to the the or withont | j been ed along wei Soon } BE HERE imutT Ww court of St now ti j will never be tried, but were at the who is chair at rep ‘get the whe \ penite men might mere had als anderveer iary vice va! legisiature f in London one The congressm attend nat ne This is the man to whom ke forced t« gala pe nce rt the grand jury mngressman” thereu aris paper clothes were th knows that the alight has rankled in bosom,” and that complimentary ticket London 200 did not in the lessen the disappointment not well to whether Mr. day IF THE HOUSEWIFE SHOULD STRIKE BY T. J. DILLON. of The and calls masculine ands of there ha On the women's pag Star tod Housewife” writes her that in a tolled ir testament of the the h ttention to the which the fact u ears during woman has been no shortening of hours or in Aw it w ' until the plece scale and a half or eginning so It is today, the And in all this no boyeott of riot ole, a ory Inspection, no time overtir housewife there must work work has been no is “done time strike or walk-out nothing but cheerful acquies cor has never, as a wh anded better fac shop conditions limitation of apprentices. or courted the scrutiny of a labor comm! And yet the of any b asion of President Zelaya. housewife belongs to the Hers ts the oldest and most numer i t Ht of worldly labor lutionists have fared we 1 all other ous anch fundamental labor upon while 4 and maintained the the are rear In t ays of cave dweller, when the fashioned the man pureved the and fed auroch, she tended the youthful din the er any time. cave fire Her Wher in garments mouth: there Union the on was then long est erhood of a when Ratiway Trainmen or he toiled In the fields. in her cottage at Green Lake, she tends the fire, cooks the Carpenters he her lord moved under a thatched roof duties were same, while Today, the meals, mends nd master clothing. In the progress of time, man’s industrial condition has steadily improved—his hours have been re duced, his labor lightened, With women it has been the reverse. Every new era has added to her work; é@very step up in the scale of civilization has increased the number of things to be done in the home. Man They Show J. Grondahl Embezzled the Alleged Graft Money. true, the he recompensi hi keniu better and children better He has never invented any machine that will get his breakfast it £ mill ly that for clothing invented the th flatiron sewing machine the for horter time tton gin but As a meals, 9} 11 Gill, who in a report made to |the grand jury by Detective Walter R. Thayer was accused of accepting ibe from Joseph Grondahl for enactment of an ordinance al lowing the installation of the Pyro One Light electric signs, has pre jsented a statement, This, with lcorrespondence and ,, statements |which tend to show that it was a of embezzlement on the part rather than graft on Gill's part, The Star gladly pub lishes. It follows To the Hadltor On November 80 The Star pub lished an article regarding the tostimony of Mr, Thayer before the grand jury, in which it was inti mated that I had been paid $500 By | Joseph Grondahl to secure the sage of an ordinance through eity council in which the Pyro One Light Blectric Sign Co. was interested, The statement is, abso ‘lutely false and is the the woolen gas stove electric her ft was on might work In a he eared for inventive demands better for him in the morning or wash the dishes at night—he has con ceived of no device which will carry a crying baby around all day and keep the home in some semblance of order that he may rest in comfort when his eight hours of toil undem strict union con ditions are over. Floors are still scrubbed are still made hand of muscular hirt. ‘The man chan vy women on thelr hand ind the that change hi continent | and knees, the case washboard of Grondahl it did in the hirt more by Ul require the first expenditure energy when man department of frequently changed his only latter that the ent half the insignificant now strike when labor is At pre switehmen unks wrought up over the of some an number of persons com pared to the r of housewlfery, and engaged in a comparatively the insignificant What would happen if all the housewives struck ? Nature never lengths so appailingly disastrous. intended that .we should carry speculation to threatened with the » that he would sanction three nes that they needn't arrested \ make been ecady begun to close k for aid in the present perform their duties ZELAYA BURNED THEIR BODIES (By United Pre BLUEFIELD, Nicaragua, Dec. 3.—It is reported here today that | the bodies of Cannon and Groce, the Americans executeo at Managua, were cut into small! pieces and burned. It is alleged that this barbarous work was done at the direction Indications are that progress at Rama now for two days and that the troops of the revo- Reports say that the army of Provisional | President Estrada is in better condition than that of Zelaya. News of the defeat of the Zelayan forces are expected here at GILL SUBMITS STATEMENTS DENYING GRONDARL CHARGE Western outgrowth - He has promised immunity to men arrested within the | past two days in the slot machine cases if they would go before, | the jury and give evidence that would implicate Hodge in irreg- To the credit of these men, it is to be said that they statement: “IF I GO BEFORE THE GRAND JURY, MR. VAN- DERVEER, I WILL TELL THAT BODY THAT IT WAS deputy » YOU, THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, WHO TOLD | ‘##!ons. in doing Vanderveer’s bid- ME THAT I MIGHT OPERATE SLOT MACHINES.” , penitentiary never get before the V saloonkeepers grand jury. of Vanderveer, word has score rested worry—that they sole Statements embar to feel sing made es that the in Vanderveer has labored with men in the county jail in an effort to get them to go before the grand jury and swear that | conditions in the county jail are not what they should be. the people of King county are inquisition 1 of intelligent is compo men, | and determined purpose | ONE CENT VANDERVEER’S “MAN” — CHURCH IN JAIL He Is Arrested for Imper- sonating Officer When He Goes to County Jail —Sheriff Hodge Had Shorn Him of His Com- mission, and He Had No Authority to Act. Wearing a large deputy sher. iff badge on his vest and carry- ing a revolver and a blackjack in his pock L. K. Church, special agent in Vanderveer's office, was arrested early this morning by County Jailer John Roberts for impersonating an officer and for carrying con- cealed weapons. Church wai arrested at the entrance to the county jail after he had at- tempted to subpoena witnesses for the grand jury. He .was iaken into the jail of- fice and searched. The badge and weapons were taken from him with his other possessions. Church was booked and placed in the north Vander- veer's special agent had spent two hours in jail when Vanderveer Church on bis promise tc him in court when needed. ordered Church released Flashed His Star. When Church first entered Van- derveer’s office he had a deputy sheriff's commission. Church's actions in molesting citizens and their property led Hodge to refuse longer to be legally responsible for his actions. Hodge revoked his commission months ago. Despite the fact that he was no longer a beriff, Church on many oc- produce Hodge ding, flashed his star and informed the persons he was trying to in- timidate that he was a member of the sheriff's office. Church, at the time he was ar- rested, was attempting to enter the jail to subpoena witnesses for the erand jury. No person has a legal right to subpoena witnesses except ja deputy sheriff Persists in Refusal. | Despite the fact that no one subpoenaed by Church or any of Vanderveer'’s private agents can legally compel a witness to attend upon the grand jury, the prosecutor persists in refusing to allow the sheriff's office to serve the subpoenas as the law prescribes. To harass Hodge, Vanderveer had the jury yesterday make a writ- ten demand upon Hodge that Geo. C. Griffiths be made a deputy sher- |iff. Hodge refused to appoint him, The sheriff told the grand jury that he was not going to make himself |Mable for the actions of a person jover whom he had no control. The | jury was told politely that it would grand jury is dissatisfied with Vanderveer realizes this to an ex-| to impel him to step aside and permit the work | His Fate in Vanderveer’s Hands. go on in an unbiased and sear manner. ) fighting has been in of an attempt of Grondahl to cover up his embezzlement of $500 from the sign company Warrant Sworn Colwell, Blectric ested with Mr Pyro One Light Electric Sign Co., and some time prior to May 25, 1909, he bought the interest of Mr ondahl, and later In making an examination of the books he found where Mr. Grondahl had credited | himself with $500 during their for- | mer partnership When he asked Grondahl to | make a statement regarding, the use to which this money had Seen put, Grondahl stated that he had| pald it to H. C. Gill to secure the passage of an ordinance in which} the eompany was interested | Later he learned that this s ment was untrue, and when con fronted with the facts Mr. Grondahl admitted that he had made a false statement. Following this admi sion a warrant charging Grondahl) with the embezzlement of $500 was issued on May 25, 1909. Mr. Gron dahl reimbursed the company for Out. treasurer Co., was Grondahl a. 3 of the inter: | in the] Mr ~ (Continued on Page Thirteen.) | orderly | not be permitted to take charge of the sheriffs office and appoint deputy sheriffs. Judge Gilliam ad- | vised the jury that Hodge was act- ing within his legal rights. Joe Carroll, who has served two terms in the state penitentiary and is now awaiting a new trial upon a charge of burglary of which he was convicted in King county more than a year ago, complained to the grand jury of the treatment of the prisoners in the county jail. Carrol? has always been a strong and en- thusiastic admirer of the operation of the county jail until the grand jury was summoned. His change of heart is attributed to the fact that his futu prosecution is in the hands of Vanderveer. By aiding the prosecutor in his fight om Hodge he soon hopes to be free, Carroll this morning became @is- in the jail and Sheriff Hodge had him placed tn solitary confinement. All of the jailers were before the grand jury this morning. The examination wag simply as to jail management. Sheriff Hodge escorted Juror | Broehm through the jail this morn- ing. The sheriff requested that the iling and feeding of prisoners ih be thoroughly Investigated. The members of the are incensed at the unfair manner in wh he slot machine matter has bee lied by the prosecutor, The esses brought before the jury w those renting ma- chines of Jean Romano. The at tempt was made to make the jury believe that he had a monopoly of the business and was protected by Hodge PR majority rand jury Fechtner, who owns the of the machines, was not Jeven arrested in Vanderveer's pri vate raid. An attempt was made to keep him hidden. He was rested by Sheriff Hodge yest and some 40 money and card chines belonging to him seized 2 Fechtner had talked heriff Hodge arrest, All of the witne in the slot machine failed to connect Hodge with the }matter, Not a word of testimony has been introduced showing that Hodge knew that the machines were being operated in the woods, ma- were asserts thae he with or even seen until the time of his 8 called matter have never FOR OI IOI IOI Reto EDITORS SENT TO JAIL, *& * SPOKANE, Dec. 3.—James * and B, J. Foote, editors # * of the Industrial paper in this * city, today were sentenced to *® six months In jail on charges * * of conspiracy, They appealed * from this ence and were ® * released on $2,000 bail * * a * Wilson i i a i i