The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 5, 1910, Page 1

HE SEATTLE STA Fr “you. it, NO HMO POLICE CARE WHO HUGH MV MARON? ”* Smith and Peter Miller Must Know Some- About It, But No Attempt Is Being Made to Them Together and Solve the Mystery. SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1910 TAFT FORMALLY DECLARES WAR ON INSURGENTS anager of the American Cafe, found dead *, jewelry and cash to the sum of $1,500, McMahon of dia ing day, 1908. Smith, alias Reasor, and Charles Rose, arrested as sus released February, 1909. Miller arrested July 22, 1909, and confessed that he @ portion of the loot taken from MeMahon’s body. De and Rose gave him the diamonds to pawn arrested in Chicago in November, 1909, and brought to the p< public are satiefied that Hugh McMahon ed and robbed; although of the Ame Cafe, wa we pawned @ portion of the loot in d that George Smith, alias Reasor, gave hough Reasor le now tn jail and Miller de to bring the men face to face he McMahon tragedy S BEEN DONE? Smith know some Mahon murder or a jong time Detective Cap tain Tennant scoffed at the idea of murder, and even ad vanced the theory that McMahon | died pf natural causes. In Febraary | of last year a portion of the loot was located in a and with the arrest of Peter on July 22 came the firut tangible clue to the murd A 4a bring M11" torn pawn tleket was found In = oes Miller's room, and Miller readily a a fiaal, cox onfensed that he pawned the Mc ae Mahon diamonds i Why? It's a Puzzle } ‘ipsepeeel nee 1, | Just why Reasor and Miller have | | : and analyzed,| that Miller, Reasor and mac ing of the Me Teach ® Sear '« We MeMal i, and then to do pawn this boast, « F any person ing at ily has mac (Continued on Page Three.) 2h 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 President Taft formally declared war on the ingurgenty yeeterda Wash {ngton correspondents unite in agrowing that last alight saw the opening of feal hostilities between t administration and the insurgents. The funeral of late DO nthropist, will be held from the fam! fae, next Friday afternoon, The remains probably to Tarrytown, N. ¥., where they will be interred iy of hie wife in the cemetery at Sleepy Hollow, fa egtene of Washington Irving's lexend. ie made here place the value of ‘the estate between $100,000,000. Eastera associates of Mills estimated The battle broke auddenty, At first it was a single shot, then @ scatfering fire, and then a roaring battle | The president's ultimatum ts that the Insurgents who continue to allgn themselves on the opposite } side of the adruinistration are to receive po patronage of no consideration. Utierances sueh as made by Senator Cumming at a recent dinner tn Des Moines, by Senator Bristow in ape Senator La Follette in his magazine and Senator Clapp in @ recent interview on the price of foodate atts vilrred Taft to wrath, it is said - TWO KILLED IN er eon OTAR WING FIGHT FOR THE WORKMEN WHO WANT TO wore ocal capitalist, was authority for the $106, on the fortune of the late D. ©. Mills keot in close touch with the affaires of Mills, MEM War bis belief that the estate was ove of the largest (my | United Pree) CASCADE LOCKS, Ore, Jan. Two men wore killed und five se flously injured earey today in the wreck of two extra freight trains ©. Mills left California for the east, in 1880, he was Worth $25.000,000. Hellman sald that the fortune $75,000,000, including the property he gave to his Dis lite in New York. a" anal papnigin angel 7 on & curve three miles east of thi8) = peory procinet in the city of Se} alone to bear the opprobr f be PAID YOUR PHONE BILL YET? ——_ [place on the OR. & N. ronda) tate tne pogiatration [ite ite orininaton en aa, tbe dense fox and 4 oop grade wer porter of the scheme to rob the MADE ONLY 150 MILLIONS IN 1909 (275 ‘expose tor thr sccideat|ooks for two days before the pet | Mt Of the heme” to "rte re whe dead T. H. Carson, cattle | martes, This was decided upon at given to newspapers ng Ca The eur, It was the me nan unidentified fmmlkrant.)_ meeting of the council last night. roll’ schemes, Hi 1 fo an year In the history | turned to death " ‘ The Gil-Carrolt ae of Keeping | {n hip dread of the stor of public Co. i interests. Thin The injured: T. B. Moore the books at the hall exclusive | disapproval the 1 machine's th. cutt tor kee, Ore, en an, lex ¥. 40 ae to de the small tax. firet’ — pol treache had ‘ : and interna injur payer 1 the workingman of aroused. 4 powers in Wall |Lean, Mauchunk, Pa pportunity to register Id not! FL Armstrong, who wa ry ‘ ihe sotlse arm broken and interna } succeed in the face of the storm of/ positive only a few days ago that . D. Hall, Tacoma, cattlomar protest we up from every the fooks would not be sent to the =: head cut and shoulders badly '0/ part of the city when Tho Star ex-| precincts, also be ‘ ; ‘ ternal injuries, may not recove hat was about to be perp ated with pubtic opinior _ MT SLAVE Hines Was Misunderstood. Bert Hallan, The Dgiles, brakeman The weeae ar a made the announcement t frov gma ESCAPE DIED WITH FRIGHT; | 82°, he snnouncemer coun ron (By United Pre) phat ache trem al . ; . VANCOUVER, B. Gr tas. 5-~A| WHAT DID SHE SEE?) r0° be sent nvny trom the city n misreproven m ssduanes . y . yong Jan Mr nearly he ety © workingman of } it { of Masa}! Nake night t metbt and | @ vot way from | books to the precine t « the on th vicint are puzzled wh it | th recir equivalent | eounct! of the ne Pp " - . , n © an * They he hed from tw ° , “ th nd f Ms | ho all atong has m 1 nly @ p low Ow r il ba 1 he i an a h kin wit lence h h ' me 4 ig been M Herbe ; he Cine to each oth t t 1 he sthw wa h at ik arr pe ka wale Has « WEALTHY HORSEMAN | for» funiielen : o| THE GERMAN OF BERLIN THE “TYPICAL ‘AND WIFE KILLED "4," Bee AMERICAN,” SAYS PRESIDENT OF YALE ANES SAFE, Cone and nia aged BUT NIX ON AUTOS k Bot ty bad ; s eam of GY GILSON GARDNER ° ‘ bidbetits ” but tne en ss . y : . - | I drawa ‘ ie of ot wpeed Ju ql & broad ; whol A regatic » he fougt he on and hi a f em h } P him, ? Wreck nd Ballings ae Alter por: nenacing Were chop; Ransevelt. tx) out at his off is that "the Roosevelt irawa © made a See warersaran * THE WeaTne * + * ay * + . x . 7 * The chronolog « pe ES re THE SEATTLE , STAFF ONE CENT BALLINGER PROBE FORMALLY STARTED GRIFFITHS i} « attle Man in pace Resolution in the WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—The administration resolution for a congressional nvestigation of the Ballinger-Pinchot con- jtrov ersy was introduced simultaneously in the senate and the house today. Senator Wesley L. Jones, of Washington, intro- |duced the resolution in the senate, and Representative W. E, uth (fice | Humphrey in the house. It is a joint resolution, which means t at it must receive Hrown's court | the signature of the president to make it effective, and this wil} \t J " 1% give Taft a hand in the investigation. hor remember don't re r, was his continual answer In the senate it was referred to the committee on publi¢ eon* age sayy eutor | #48, and in the house to the committee on rules. It is planned | Vanderveer led the raid ovens |that these committees will report the resolution back to each aay =e cen Aig 3 Sedge |house without delay, so that the investigation can be set under jognize any of the saloon men, in| Way. It is understood that there will be no change in the mease jinet, had no evidence that Was/ ure in either house. “ on ret 5 iw hie detture ol The measure is sweeping in its character, and calls for # hin t, key estioning him for |thorough and complete investigation of every bureau of the ome time, with { Tirke don “J emember |iMterior department and the forest service, The committed that he han played somewhere, but |is to consist of twelve members, six appointed by Vice Presi« [pia abedanmae te " dent Sherman and six by Joseph G. Cannon, speaker of the ! . for a continuance till t jhouse of representatives. Oriffitha waren After the resotut). i cil ull | Some Kind of a Report|"*"!"*: , sad commentary upon th | on Something — One * shee the 0 | ix “A had te: iasue a t nator |for his appea ned fi i the servang pe to act for » ander and within the limits of The efficiency of public depends upon the confie f tho people in the honesty | Judge J. T. Ronald Wants! und integrity of their servants and jh becomes a scoundrel ‘tn the eyes jof many of our people, and his pre | vious life of honesty and reetiinde » excuse |!8 NO Warrant of official Integrity, Ronald | His acts are misconstrued and his of the | Motives questioned grand jury t sociates| Senator Jones outlined the publie tell - his venarnest {that the grand jary must soon give|Services of Secretary Ballinger, Turner and Joseph Her (some sign of accomplishing some | Me declared that Rallinger’s ad- mann, arrested in a raid on a | thing | ministration as mayor of Seattle house at 669 Yesler way Thurs Bix week silence, withe ad since that time been a model day morning, were bound over |report of any kind { successors and that he ac- to the superior court yesterday { commissioner Bai! $2,000 each. office only at . ie of Secretary i am Cha cf tf L e ve ‘ honor . Halo for Ballinger. ub at fend th as aS i re H yted is present post whit " a Sea Re og Pag " 1 Ben Jones, “only : G fiv h. m the nest solicitation of the who w ha pesnad ” rhe | President. He did not seek it, It vA preve seph He a fore.| ens nothing to him but hard and " m going i op) diye: work r pay. He gave up a Hermann and were a 4 . * | tare e law practice I . “ i m t riotie duty, , “ by t i Hones for a Re t Is it poss’ he at once be is } a hopetul . the nd arch enemy Ww } ’ me ¢ . f the peop! he been de- G. H. Patters M8) picted In the 5 ess? I can Wes ier ano \icaised ab Gaba Rowe) not believe tt. 1 used his i J nig special d the o1 Preppince ry pie Bonig “"° DROPS 4 STORIES; intereat i we om NOT HURT ONE BIT /. ala, \ a a ; 1, the pe eon deceivs ‘ ‘ By t 1 Press ed 1 has WORST BLIZZARD WEST EVER KNEW AUTOMOBILISTS | RUN AMUCK IN Pa ies * APILE OF SAND BALLINGER, THE GUGGENHEIMS AND THE PEOPLE—HISTORY OF CONSERVATION FIGHT m0 lo, tn d 0 1 ag t 1 ) \ ‘ De 1 « ® ' : | pt " | Nilliam Spitzet, k in New \ 1 \ Y the “Ke Roote uber to I Balling h has beswit (peel, ) ator t I 1 o ty t th ewash bru lattle f Lena Taft aut legislation for a joint cour La t hous and senate, the members to be named by Cannon and She Laska if h), to white ish Ballinger and 4 u k a | be cepts battle and declaros that it is a ht les EA fl a reat American conflict for the many against the 1