The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 10, 1909, Page 1

E SEATTLE 2.» #£=‘THE SEATTLE I. NO, 250. SEATTLE, WASH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1909 ONE CENT 4 - ' . ; W { ¢ | j NED. | COMPANY'S COMING! | SPOK ANE JURY SENDS WOMAN THEFT COMMITTED sya LW. W. ORGANIZER 10 JA perenne NM TEES. | ENPLOTERS UNWITTINGLY AD. se mie Ee DPPRESSIN BY LOMN SHARKS. "===" Will Appeal to U. S. Sue Which He Is Charged With Embez- | . SPOKANE, Dec 6.—Bellevin —— | ondition becomes extremely pit at i iF an yea . ¢ was down and | | Victims Can Escape If avi : Ler gp eh ay Fe hk and had no | > . ses The fact that most corporat ential be y Bhere th orrnys ‘ BBesters told him he | YS 2 They Are in Position) joi wiih distavor upon an empl 1 conviction of Kissa eet Siemete or nl 7 . Ga y and Have the Nerve to "0" "Ke" garnished gly t al Workers of thel oan sharks another mean } ; f Goetz, contractor and | » GREE ty Fight. co. ling obedience to thelr 4 a asad tes tee 500 h , coasive demands, Rallways have Spoke srence Darrow, thé ‘ef embezzs, / % 4 re rule that dismissal follows the se Hd gr retain ’ : ep Strange to employers ond garnishment or assignment ret made demand on the say, ywood, Moyer and Pet- money. The city e working men and women who palary. Railway employes a8 & | ¢j1, sine, was asked by tele a cent, and Goetz Great Grict! There'll be weep. —s pe Anxious to break up the operations Cle are the most servile of graph today to rush to this city in gatistied with the ing and wailing in Fairbanks, 7 4 i of joan sharke, are unwittingly and e of the imprisoned In- ak nothing from Alaska. Fourteen Fairbanks werent! . . / q inadvertently being used by the They Threaten Him. fustrial Workers will prob- | will not get their new eilk gowns salary extortioniste as weapons In need, the employe borr r f i gener.i here that ac for the Christmas ball, The boat with which to persecute the wage | money of the salary logn operators. | will leave immediately for 3 sailed away and the dresses = earner who gets in their power The manumental interest makes |5 he, jury hearing the were not shipped. And it's all the 4 ech : In some way or other the payment of the notes nearly impo yon was out » former city COMP | rut of Harry brvin, He has to) § . ‘ loan offices become aware of the sible out of the borrower's salary |!* than 20 minutes, when it re- patting in his de! snewer & charge of grand larceny.| § P jnentinents of all employers in the if the wage earner is to support ned a verdict of guilty as in ®uperior court this | A Weal merchandise firm delly * matter of employes borrowing himself and family. Month byjdicted and the woman was im- Se charge of embez-| .04 the box of dresses to the Se 2 ew, 3 money, If the employer threatens month he becomes more involved, | mediately sentenced to serve three bf city funds lattle Transfer company for ship. 4 his workers with dismissal if it be-|Before hia mind the sharks always |months in the county fail. statement this morn-| ping several weeks ago. Harry 4 jcomen known they are dealing with | hold the threat that unless he does| As the import of the sentence . counsel show#| Ervin, driver, took the box and| jfoan sharks, the money vampires their bidding trouble will be made |dawned upon her Miss Flynn was ing for 80 ltried to sell the contents, Then| Jt simply use this order as a means for } that will involve the rafl-|for the moment stunned. When spon the lack of proof) tarry was “pinched. of further entangling the worker,| way accounting department with |#he had sufficiently recovered her wae city or any pri) rhe merchants who sold the! When a note comes due with its additional labor. The employe, to|composure she requested that lost a dollar by Rip- | grosses asked that. Ervin be allowed | interest of more than 180 per cent, escape possible dismissal, complies |AUtorney Darrow be immediately It of the $4,500) +, plead guilty to petit larceny. | the borrower Is simply forced to|with the demand to further sign |asked to come to this city in her the clty by Stirrat & |the dresses could thea be relensed * sign wnother note with any amount |away his aalary [defen re. | of interest demanded, to procure Threats of court proceedings | This is cruel, inhuman and un- ecatlon is, based wel ee ee the silence’ of the loan office. distracted victlins of the |Just,” she sald as she was being in this check by Rip : } mi hylocks. To most of their|led from the court room. @ bis departure for How ye tae cores tak ae Pays for Silence, fact 1s unknown thet] “We will take this case to the he money. The con-| duced from grand larceny to petit The victim buys the loan office's || c rks never go into court| United States supreme court if the check to the efty larceny and the dresevs are held for J ' silence with a further gift of his a ‘ their claims in | necessary, and if it is possible for it for the uncompleted |p vigence. Se | Wages to the loan sharks. The al- | cour The »wed plus |one to get justice in this country, Pireet grading contract ternative is given him of either 12 per cent year in|I will get it there.” The firm had been en- | seme s/nigning the notes demanded by the jall the court will award the loan| Fred H. Moore, who defended Miss Flynn, was bitter in his de ay, annie ‘ ae st the supreme court from} joan sharks, or having his employ- | sharks. } ’ a state witness DEATH REVENGING CRIME OF " them. If the employer ia notified loan sharks m fight for the It was not in accord with the pester ota! pad real FOR THREE YEARS SO SHE SHOT HIM the wage carner's position is for-|legal rights, the n free them- | evidence, he pelt, The comet the defense and} jfeited. If he agrees to the usurious seivel from all further annoyance |t of the United States permits 4 he reason for the assar- | CONGO--KING LEOPOLD DYING idemands of the money lender, his from them speed and Miss Flynn's con- y Riplinger and his | ee "ARE = 2 - 7" 1 certainly was a miscarriage er would not (iy United Press) 1 Van Nees av. and Ente « pions Goetz testified thi BY T. J. DILLON. BAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10—Al-| she tiatme he atters BACHELORS’ CHRISTMAS FUND his address to the jury, Moore $4,500 check to) Once again, and probably for the laat time, King Leopold though seriously injured, Henry Lil, thee to board a car with red that the battle of Bunker io secure the city of Beigium comes before the public gaze; this time on hin last 4 teameter, who was ‘shot Inet Right! “hen she refused he in ai acacia i | Hill had been fought under a re@ bed, when smooth cynicism and unctuous rectitude will be of no by Misa Agnes Fairweather, is still) (a Rave beaten her on the fa Mag and that the flag of the United to Riplinger and | il. Phartsale protestations of good intent will fail on the deaf altve, and, secording to physicians, ating, and was forced to stop Albert Lord, 341 Northern Bank building ‘ a 3 * was a red flag having stars ears of Death. King Leopold, often haled before the bar of pub has an exeefiont chance for reedv- ipetions passing on the street. #) n “s merely to designate ie opinion, ia at last before a Judge whom no man may deceive, ery ireferned to the drug store, where J. M. Lane, 450 New York bloek........5 sececsees 10.00 the states. eajoie or dety. From the story tok tw the police |i. borrowed a revolver from ‘ » £51 Cot betta! ane eaders of the socialistic ; | A strange career {s drawing to a close; an incomprehensible [py the young woman, the shooting |Gakirge Nedmond, who told her Wet p. Gnel, 55) Cotas Senting sree . 5 wement in Spokane were called q the check was to be|§ life has about run its devious courses. Leopold ta dying; he is Pwas the result of three years: of fire in the air if she was troubled | Charles A. Hultin, Eighth av, and Vireinia st et +s 5,0 to the stand during the trial of Miss After Riplinger was de- |} being taken away from the bright, glad, mad world, where he y forced attentions from Lik he | amein. 5: r iynn and asked to explain the reveled #0 many years, and ahead of him there tm the dark, ated thet during the last year she) Prom the store she went to a! We om . meaning of their songs, rituals and ¢ o eli, that Bachelors’ Christmas| session of a doll or toy obta damp grave, which shuts out the faintest ray of the star of hope. Bi had been subjected almost to perse~ ire, at 24th and Mission etn. | fund is crowing. Letters from Mr.| through me, I would feel that n e red flag. Magy of those sum- if His millions are slipping through his old, weak fingers; million cution from the tan. He hae ine | m she came out she again found! steel and Mr. Lane were on the | life during 1909 had been lived moned to the court room refased check had not Riptinger — after million ts going from him, tons of gold, caskets of jeweln, stated on visiting her home, and hae LA waiting for her. The man fol- | desk this. morning. Mr.| vain.” ehets es to testify that he was in need off and all that gold and gems can buy. Every moment his with | frequently intercested her om her jewed her to Mission and 2 Who ta treasurer of the Na Mr. Hult 8 pon the nm the verdict of the jury was wanted to use the check |} ered grasp grows weaker; no tore can the voluptuous volees of Bi way from work [where whe turned and xh tional Editorial ansociation, wrote: | phone early in the mor was greeted with 4 o use. Goetz testi) — courtesans soothe care away and bring forgetfulness; the fiash- Bf) tast night he walted for her out-} Mise Fairweather = w wed | Hache lors generally should take | want you to put me dow » judge was compelled Instead of taking. the |} ing eyes of harlotry have lost their power to charm; the amiles [Plgide ot the drug store in which aha addy today om 8109 ca which|{¢ as s personal privilege to con-|he said. “I am sendin the clearing of the court he told Riplinger to|f of Merode gtitter before eyes which see only stern lipped Death . employed. Whee she appeared tiie furnished by George Redmond s " seg ore order finally was re- n office’s multitude of slave tribur the happiness of children | by mail. Go mass Shae Geet inane death to him must be horrible, horrible beyond all he followed her to the corner of} has employer. | who: would not otherwise know the | work chock he was acting | What hideous visions rise up out of the unchangeable past || 4 —_——— . ra Joys of Christmas” | oe a Remember that 's consent. if to torment that #in stained soul? Does the wife be drove to Mr. Lane, @ real es' cag ag # a iis neoded but th Stirrat & Goetz have madness and the grave come back to him, moaning her litany | neweomer te attle vs 2 far | acces pr of woe—the woman he loved, hated and killed? Do those eyes away from his own old frien 8 ant r the § en ds keen with fever see the dark jungies out of which comes an poe. tee. tes. OC Beleing. mys X ay ry beagles interminable file of maimed and mutilated human beings bearing a little Seattle : chi x ngs to go to. 2 o time be eft r a m for keeping the story |§} rubber, ivory and metal for his now useless coffers? Can he see ; Nt. hag -cperoe rel paid ngreys t spared to “* ate. C8 Oa “HELLO” HABIT IS fecret until yesterday. | the sharp toothed cannibals in hig uniform feasting on baman a‘ } . yd nace ote " i partisan : “5 ¢ way by which the |f flesh? Can ne hear the swish of the hippopotamus whip? Can ‘ ristmas roll around | in ig hearted bachelors of} CAUSE FOR DIVORCE jatrol of the check was he see the blood trickling from some weak woman's back; By pale Bgar be | te Yon) oe oS the prosecutor. ; babies torn in two; hands and feet chopped off? What vista of , in ite opening state | bleached bones streten out before his vision to the head waters ST. LOUIS, Dec. 10—The most that Riplinger did of the Congo, the white man's grave and the black man’s bell? s ” , ‘ ted victim of the telephone & cent of anyone's | Can he stroke his beard now and «mije, now that the earth yawns : i akkhhhe hat \ evealed as Mrs. Jane at the time Riplinger | the same earth that hay swallowed thousands of his ‘ } sain adn da tintin ina dndaainedaael wana ath dealin: P. Holton in the divorcee’ case theck back to Goetz {ft} c Leopold today is worse in body and soul than any brought by George L. Holton Eto be the city’s prop-|— poor slave who is today dying beneuth his burden in far off At My employers in Boston told me the money represent: |f rica. The monarch, with his three hundred millions in old they v C arge me if my wife x was a loan to Rip- jf} and the dimmed brained heathen with hig yard of cotton cloth will didn’t quit calling me up on the 2. if soon stand side by side before thelr Maker td plead for merey Lackivae Teed his gate to the bet telepho ry few minutes,” Hol- cashier of the Union | Today, as he stands on the brinkeof eternity, can Leopold 9} dee omieh to tna ee pane oo ee tor fied sked her to cure t company, testi |§ hope? \ ‘ i he two-ateppet 1 eaten eve Sones rape the ovens, h { of the habit, the only yer had a balance of | ; Se ene © oven I. got a liutlecrespite was by personal account = erasers \ . pareured, "Let's two-step some nore.” | applyihs for a court injunction 7, Seattic. The casitier ore Shopping Days Before« the $4,500 check also | Secretary Dickinson, stx feet some 2 Christmas Foote, editor of the Indus- rker, recently was sen- x months on the chain harges of conspiracy in ith the free speech miles y dren y who would otherw (fy United Press.) mas a sad day I HE BET $1,000 AGAINST 10 CENTS. SOONER EE ER EER EE Ee trace is ahead 10 cents today « t on of Mayor Alexander on December 7. Had Smith, the republican nominee, won, how ever, he would have been out $1,000 The day before election Grace and J. D. Van Loenen, wholesaler, got inte an preument over the chances of the various candidates, Grace was so°sife thar Alexander would Van Loenen did rapid figuring, then bet 10 cents. Cer RK eh * Be pests Lochinvar glanced at a window meerbn, SWITCHMEN MAY USE * oy yay oe ee Add the fale ight Tie Ute ee } het toe tI dear Laehy, tombe, ae \ | th window \ SPOKANE, Dec. 10—The Liwdshickawumme ee danger of a clash between member of the Switehmen's ars wes valine tn sntlag aaa ais : THREE VOTES FOR JEFFRIES FOR MAYOR OF _ | trc‘wome ns nee cron seone, Union and Great Morthern of- Meng a EP WP > ficials became. imminent today And the bsdoprosm tes seaght Is Gb pens, : LOS ANGELES, BUT NONE FOR JOHNSON | Pi fi de cast Miner? ers the tank ~ DEY MUST LIKE TO SEE US when it wags announced that at to tiie there's te alga of the pelet” ' the striking switchmen will row that day ne ve ae f.™ wa —— not bevAallowed to return to i hiihaiidhatbasideemctitianties 2 na ‘ work. The railroad officiais de- th that they have filled the laces of the old men with imported strike-breakers who, they claim, are giving entire satisfaction, and refuse to al low the old men to return to their former places. The congestion in the freight yards here is very much relieved today. rT jand carrying 298 pounds of Tennes- + alpen }see avoirdupois, walked briskly SMOOTH FLOORS.|from the cabinet room with the HBTON, Dec. 16,—The | others of Mr. Taft's advisory board PO President Taft in the| He was talking earnestly. Sud. Of the White House | denly he slipped and fell. The here or of floor| White House police helped him up. and t of raugs.| Rugs will be along next week ee ee es IO IO TOR ROR RK tok / mg BERR Z MURDERS HIS SWEETHEART IN JEALOUSY Dee. 10. Jim ndefeated 2 See oe ees i d 1 Lo Fr mn 1 that sour at least t , r ity hav 30 SUFFRAGETTES leiarge by the police and escorted |)", Carn (oun sles ene tisfactory. Wh from the hall. Close guard will be | \,, : date Re HID IN HALL TO Kept on the building tonight to pre- |<. : he ee votes Wer etn cant t WAIT FOR ASQUITH ¥™ the disturvers from returning, , ‘ HOUSE ADJOURNS AGAIN | hre ft thf admirers of « the conquero (By United Press.) ain Corbett, et al ad remembered and lost in adi Dec. 16.-Thirty suf (By United Press.) | for rowe in the ring, had { could do a Vay oF discovered today! WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—After|the chief exectt of this. city ; ot hiding jn Albert Hall, where Prem-|& very brief session the house of Jim, wh pa wad Of-wealt audeville. somewher 2 ft fer Asquith j¢ scheduled to speak/fepresentatives adjourned at 12:04) !n the Kast een notified of his r ct e of having —_— tonight. The women were taken in| g'elock today until Tuesday [tional honor , pon him. » IGTON, Pa., Dec. 10.Jealousy, resulting from a love affair developed into a double tragedy here Walter old, 18, shot and killed Laura Braden, aulcide home from schoo! at noon When y & After the boy had shot the he started to run away. Several men pursued him Saw that he was sbout to be overtaken he turned upon himself . ie ee ee eS HPCE SERS EEE Re eee ee eee eee ee eee Re eh tt tte te te eH te te te kt ttt STS ee eee es ee et a Ee ER Mest solermniy swear jot lies. During the past four years} nocent babe. {let him tell it—and I know that, Wife beater (and sober, too) raise, police n oath Jones) letory t@itimony day In tbe iu: t ‘Api thinitine Ge WM tell the truth, the I've attended several thousand po if Ananias ever invades the po-! he told the truth | hq hand and swear to tell the | yeller nal © up in it becor a habit . : r onthe the nest caeh And nothing but Nee court triale—it was my bual-| lice court of Geattle he would look “The bull comes up to a dance—-/ truth. time to grab hir He had the watch for lies, If T catch a witn rey few iflig ib help you Goa?” pone like an innocent man. he has it in for me, see? Without! He had been seen by no less than | watch in his pocket when I gat him. lying, be either prosecutor ¢ ih today and: wholky tone . | f've heard Judge Gordon pass on It has long been axiom among) a word he grabs me, and its a! three persons, beating a frail wife | He been b 1 He 1a py) ner Ww exactly what roy . Bey joke in Seattic’s | 192 casos, ranging from a drunk| Seattle's underworld that you can't| quick rush to the door, I'm sore,juntil she sank unconscious at his | arrested | y for stealing c ' c © times Tse pects you are right 4 out of Billy the Mug’s to wife beat-| &¢t @ square deal in the police | of course, and I picks up the first) feet. And then he kicked her until) pair of bo gs In the! bi t are lying, and I know | ir / tee onth iota tae gang ing, in a single short day, and dur-| court of this city thing I could get bold of and lets|a strongfisted chap laid him out | gatiery other motty til the violator happens to B eke in the yx ing that time i’m safe in saying [| That statement should be taken| him have it. He had no business) stiff The Conflict of Facts, h cases I enc sik amare oy Of Beattie card 100 men and women every| With a grain of salt monkeying with me—I ain't never! And that same wife beater calm The officer ain't tellin’ the| to fav under dog A crime puniehs)i- day raise thelr right bgnds to God| One day I met a young fellow | done him.no harm, Well, after they) ly got up in police court and Med truth, judge,” testifies the man in Police Court Works Fast wehuman nature MY tentence |). #/ and Ne their heads off. who used to give the Seattle police | arrest me—say, what I got was the) and lied and lied | tgs doi I realize that police co’ tak GAR eee eee men & day I've heard policemen He when the| considerable trouble, He was a/limjt, I'm taken {nto police court} qr. just a plot to put me in| “I asked this fellow what thme It is Recenter eka oe ; rth shen ch Shang <we Women and chil- fellow behind the rail was telling| “bad one.’ land, so help me, bulls I never see! jay, judge,” be sald. was, and he got sore, that’s all, .1| ti iz mistaken, *i¢ 1 \ ‘ ie teas ee oan Might hand, the truth, Incidentally now he's straight herent up on Betty padiowte “1 never laid a finger on her. | g« ¢, too, and hit him, and he ike and learn of it Jat t} he’s calted ma ered by Po one >, h e, tify till they're black in the face.’ Why, 1 love her, judge. 1 wouldn't 0 never took his watch the right the wron, t et : MD. Gordon, f Ive heard them 16 and put if ee aa aides home, \#/Tgomle back strong, but Ipaln't GOtl tare he tor the world!” , nebody ies, that's sure f been tricked by a S thet caged abe And lie, good word for some ‘acd —_ “Member the time I hit that po: @ chance, What do I get?—63 days) “Nothing but lies, you understand. What is the judge Jo? ‘There r once, he Need expect no shows up in pollen SE Sty —tion | W508 Her. eam ee iceman on the head with a club?” | on the chain gang. 1 was railroad: However, 1 might add that the| Hoh het patroinnin {fro the fiext time he trea to] court hore, itll be witha rele [Band court offi. he asked. * I remembergd. The cop 4 for fair.” fudge (put the wife beater on the mer is { perjury blind J. B, BOYDEN nd the I've seen whole neighborhoods) he sated hospital tee oie oon |< 1 Gcu'tiaiee Gila: abtaned ba A iimiindbane tor two. mouths Settle, much canes?” | Tam. wolt-aware:thab.pert Ale Into co! yer a chicken case, ae Whole mes. , “le Into court over a town was combed for | fling at the police, but merely to! Here's another incident—the kind ed Judge Gordon, ¢ a daily occurrence, and T've oft ta Jurist says 8 a8 much the +— that pretty near show how lies make truth look | that happens every day I have to rely on my judgment) thought that an example should be | to } ary to care id I'se eon witness after witness | while the sin je with a “ of Lies. sink gto @ Gee MOO a cake | eroakee the bull.” |foolish some times | L waw this fellow put bis hand|to get at the truth,” he replied.| made of the person who les atts Finally they got him-—and well,| On the other hand, I've seen ajin this fellow's pocket,” says the}"When on the bench, listening to! he has raised his hand in so! Human Nature. a fool— . alm surance that ay Stay, this iabyrinth Baren Wunchausen look Hike an in-