The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 13, 1910, Page 1

‘LAF SEATTLE, WASH.,, FRI H OME EDITION — DAY, MAY 13, 1910. TAF ON TRAINS AND DEWS RTANDS be ONE CENT SEEKING WIFE, MAD WAITER KILLS MAN WITH A KNIFE FALSE Washington Man Known His Atti- Tariff. to the statement that voted for free lumber, has been circu- ly throughout Mies soaiegrarsaia te Star the follow - or / ment that I voted for) pin simply falve. I voted contained tn and against ¢ it. This sch feritt on fumber) Qn the final Feedmmit the bill, | had resulted in the | far from bring [would have left) ; nt force, which is} er the present ‘of tecord. making the hy Bnd any state- $& fraud upon the | | ‘uses the govern- peda customs of monopoly | pon the al to guarantee | in any private goes | The differ- Production be- find abroad ix Protection. rty's Pledges. | oe . in which | bs of Towa was one) Fepublican party | 2 Tevision of the | tt the abuses which hed Pit by reason of its Ht was never claime: ‘existed because of But the ly repudiate mand the pledges | he republican party i was made to as- Ip the cost of country and Aldrich, who the tariff at Me consideration the floor of the| had never} Sownward. The! fixed as re- | d manufac IY Of the most im- | HO Witnexses were | tatives of #8 cotton goods, al-| War generally jn instances ae much af the former taritt admitted by | and generally con Ws, Was not de Mone solitary in were only ent of the for Varieties of higher Which were oniy | tent of the former | - ae reduced | ne® at the exorti- | n Valorem rate of Him the second in tarift as reduced eet equivalent ad Schedule. reenter which | * grown ex ae we rful, by col ky) People a much Poe MUBAr than iy ob. | 4 redid while thus | mt the people tor pri- | Pretense of having 4 to ha eNeroment of at ow duttes, At erations, howe Aes ANdrien oh ramin, thi Bem Schedules, and tie, the ob nf? Page Thirteen.) Wthhhhhae WEATHER, ‘tone ht and Satur West windy jagree with you. It nm the third instance |= | MILES POINDEXTER. The Peopie’s Ouy erreurs from the State of Washington. | (City Engineer Thomson has announced his intention of asking wneil to discontinue civic improvement work of any magnitude for at least one year.) Mr There have been times in the past when The Star cou that Thanks, very much, Thomson! ldn't has seemed to us occasionally ere was too much politics in your office and not enough interest the your letter to the council asking that no city’s welfare. But we are going to forget that in view of | work of any magnitude be ordered for a yea Your action will strike a responsive chord in the heart of every taxpayer in the city. We have been going too fast. We have been piling up a debt against the taxpayer which has become an almost unbearable burden. We have inaugurated street improve- ments before they were needed. We have hurried about , work that could well have waited two, three or five years. We have done all this at the behest of the real estate speculator and the street contractor and the private selfish interest. We have laid a burden of debt upon nearly every home owner in this city. The time was ripe to call a halt The Star and its thousands of taxpaying that in the work—that the work that has been done to be readers reali main this was necessary nearly all of would have done sometime But as we look back over the stupendous aggregate of this city’s th the we, the taxpayers, while proud of our achievements in past cry a loud AMEN when you ask for a halt. We believe the t all hom a chance to catch up. build a axpayer and the sr owner sl Let factories and a few more business places in which to empl people for further the payer. We thank you, thank | have the citizens few scream burdens on tax before they Mr. Thomson, for the stand you have taken you behalf of the owners to whom daylight is many years away And you, Mr. T: that you want him to uphold the hands of Mr. Thomson in this on thousands of struggling. home axpayer, see your councilman and tell him retrenchment program. TELL HIM YOU WANT A CHANCE TO CATCH UP. BALLINGER ADVERTISED FOR PINCHOT COMPLAINTS {the Tek (iie: Basen r-Pinchot committee. The advertisement was produced by | Pinchot's attorney when Chairman son stated that he had re 40 complaints against Pinchot's ad ministration of the forest service Attorney Brandeis announced to day that he will make a written de mand for the memoranda in the Glavia case prepared by Oscar La (By United Press.) investigating TON, May 13.—After having cross-examine Secretary Rallinger, Attorney Pepper, repre ting Pinchot, produced a copy of display advertisement in the Montgom (Ala.) Times, request ing complaints against the forestry service. The defense refused either to admit or to disown this method 1 gathering evidence against) ior assistant attorney chot |the interior departinent The advertisement shown by Pep-|” Brandeis said he had nothing per was in the form of a letter #1g0-| more to ask Ballinger “until the ed by Don M. Carr, secretary tO) | awior memoranda was produced Ballinger. It was addressed to the editor of the paper and suggested that complaints be sent to Senator | # Knute Nelson, whom, the letter said, | # Cee ee ee Of Interest to Everyone. * ‘The Want news in The Star. ® ‘ * BRK Hk eH! probably would be the chairman Of|kAkARHARARR AK KK KS building accomplishments during the past eight years, | eived | general for} BILL GETS REALLY MMGRY Promises to Fire Six Mem- bers of Board of Public Works if They Aren't More Careful With City’s| Cash. “The city council is bose here. if you members of the board of pubtic persist in going ahead and spending ney or Putting the city the position where it will have to epend | money without authorization | from the city council, there will | be six vacancies on the board. | Let me tet! you tha The above stat was m jby Mayor GIR at a meeting of the] jcouncil committee on finance this} morning. following the outbreak of | & quarrel between members of the {finance committee and Supe « Grant, of the building de part nt, and Youngs, of the water de partment The fight has beer some time, members of the city} | Council claiming thet the Hoard wax he ting at different times without ag zation frota the eoanell, dis- regarding the cougeil’s desires, and times putt the counci! ih a he by startiog things that the counc!! had to finish whether or not | 1 mt at worke brewing for | issue this morning was the of shops and sta bles for the lighting department on & block the city owns on Lander st. jon the tide flats, The council two years aco ap fated $10,000 for this work and Superintendents Grant Youngs came into. the committee r this morning to an additional appropriation 948 for the work Half tor Foundation. | The board had spent about halt of the $10,000 for a foundation, and members of the committee took the position that they were being fore ed into a much greater expenditure than they ha lxinally intended. In an *y claimed that the board was not dealing fairly with them. They insisted that hereafter they know how much an improve ment was going to cost when com: | p and then they said they jcould decide whether or not they | wanted to a riate the amount of money deman therefor The matter was finally referred | }to @ special comml consiating | of Bullock, Sawyer and Schlumpf, | | for investigation | Mayor Gill was meeting with th committee at the time he took the} | stand he did regarding the council | | being boss. of $22 y¥ event ee | YESLER CARS RESUME OPERATION The Yerter way cable cars two weeks " bridge was being cx ee ed ‘FIVE PERISH IN MINNESOTA FIRE (By Colted MINNEAPOLIS his fire whick Faribault today port recet +eeeeee eens Stee eee tee May 13.—Hert mother and three chil- borned death In a destroyed their home at ording to a re Mra erry and two children were saved BRIBERY TRIAL STARTS MONDAY any, United Press.) CHICAGO, y 18.—District torney Wayman cre |tion here this afterr Jannounced that he wo: case of Lee O'Neill Bre for bribery in connec election of United imer, for | Sperry trial ratte lower house of the ature He wan indie an investigation of a ce Charles A. White, who Jhad paid him $900 to | mer. |TO STOP GOTCH- ZBYSZKO MATCH) (Dy United Press) CHICAGO, May 13.—Mayor Busse announced this afternoon that he would not permit the Gotch-Zbyszko wrestling matoh to be held on Decoration Day, and instructed the police to ar- rest the promoters if they at- tempt to stage the match. “Decoration Day is sacred to our dead heroes, and | won't permit its desecration by the promoters of a wrestling match," id the mayor jon the fesolution |tlon on the resolution until it cor The Cause of It All LITTLE BESSIE FAULKNER, THE CAUSE OF IT ALL. von ‘tito Sl we COUNCIL’S ORDER IS IGNORED BY BOARD He declared that Madison Street Permit to wicciric company bad the S. E. Co. Is Not Re-)*%! *!*" ro taken snap judeq voked Despite Wish of il and the people wh Patrons of Line. atreet rvice on Madison st Knowing, b aid, a he council tt a had the matter t it, the 3 The board of public works re-!attle Electric had slip fused this morning to take action te the bo works nd introduced by | #ec « he insisted and unanimously | the wurtesy to city council Inet | the the board to re-| patr lanued to the » | revoke attle Electric ympany authorizing the elertrification of t Madison st. cable line, trom Broadway to Lake Washington City Engineer Thomson, and Can chairman of the board, insisted No harm that the board should take no ac he were who car d of permits, He A grows disc council and the company's and asked the board to the permite and let the Se attle Eleetric company yp rights to the permits by mandamus © other art ngs, if it had the righ Joe Schlumpf passed by the night Instructing voke the permit proc Do No Harm from is now, such the done no would not can come sald. “As it ear company ha under the nd street secure & legal opinion from the cor-| werk poration counsel. He thought that, pe out a cent if y wore revoked under the franchise and law, the) white if there should be a delay in board was compelled to issue the okies they migh permit tf it was r , and that te the board had no legal right “a ain voke It ever, in matter going to couns 7 the corporat James K wenting the | couldn't property owners and other patron council of the Madison line protesting f there againet ita partial electrificati 4 5 » it ality without getting som When the jon will be that they would get an improved again deper m how service, proteste inst de on | ¢ yration Counsel Calhoun the part of the board ‘his opinion in the case was a ques taken soon files BALLINGER CHAPTER OF PHI DELTA PHI AT UNIVERSITY WILL CHANGE ITS NAME UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, Wash. May 13. —When the Ballinger chaper of Phi Delta Phi, the national leg fraternity, meets next week, a resolution will be introduced provid ing for a new name The chapter is named in honor of Richard A. Ballinger, secre tary of the interior, and some members at least feel that under the circumstances a new name would have a better ring Members of the chapter refuse to discuss the matter until it has come up before the society. ers to waste perfectly good vic tuals, Thereupon the council amended the ordinance to the extent of eliminating the gar bage can feature. LOS ANGELES BARS SECOND-HAND FOOD (By United LOS ANGELES, Cai., May 13. —Under the terms of an amend ed ordinance passed today by the city counell, “Come backs” shall not be served in future in hotel and restaurant dining rooms in this Gity. Food once placed before a guest is incli gible to future exploitation, whether the guest orders it re turned to the kitchen or over looks it merely because he ts already sated. Recently the superior court declared a similar ordinance in valid, because it decreed that food once served, if not eaten, must be consigned to a garbage can. It was held by the court that this compelled hotel keep Sete SHER E EE EH ERE ee ee BANK CLEARINGS Seattle Portions. tod Spokane learings today ...$ Balance 117 RRR Ok trial on the | Faulkner w | ped Then | | more |who in FAMILY ROW OVER BABE ENDS WITH MURDER Slayer Grapples With Man in Night Clothes and In- flicts Fatal Wounds in Scuffle—Arrested, He De- nies All Knowledge of the Affair and Offers Alibi in Face of Conclusive Evidence. R. M, Faulkner, who killed Bert Harbin at the latter's home, 1523 17th av. &., last night anything at this morning denied absolutely that he knew out the case at all to Captain of Detectives Tennant. Despite the strong evidence against him, Faulkner sticks to his story, and nothing can shake him He saya that when he was released yesterday afternoon he first went to the waiters’ headquarters and then to various cafes, looking He found none, and then started out to see a While getting off a Fauntleroy Park car he was struck by another car, and this, he says, explains the blood and for employment man named Graham. bruises on hie face. his fe rmer wife. With said: want to ever see her # nothing more to me. ver meet her again, I speak to her and noth- I will not molest her, up ugh she has wronged me, I ng that he t nothing more to do with her,’ merely nore. All Believed Him. ere all satisfied that do as he said matter to at- perior court, I ll with Paulkner, {il we were parting ed him to avold even eabouts of his wife. He would and assured me 2 not to worry. I shook hands | bh him and said: ‘Come to my j office Friday morning at 9 o'clock.’ unintelligible | While holding his hand I felt it name and asked if the man lived| trembling violently and saw a pe- Mrs. Harbin told him he did|cnliar stare in his eyes and just then recognized h As to the tragedy, I have not in- Oh, My God!” and tried | vestiga the facts and cannot » door, He resisted and | make any statement. According to nd appeared. reports, he denies the deed. I fear grappled on the/his recent troubles have affected Harbin says she did|his mind. He uses elegant diction any kn Harbin was there is a tone of extra refine- the back, however, and about him. He comes from into the yard, still|a wealthy family gute Harbin was) his time just a lit { the heart. He iota corner of the fence and died yut five min later Harbin home 1 he hi Faulkner lives in a lit-| He was k of Harbia’s, He or and Mrs. Har bed, got up and Harbin Appears. He mumbled some r husba The two mer but Mrs stabbed { nen LAY MURDER DEED ON everal years "About Jury Hears Detail Details of Kill- » he was arrested fc threatening to kill his mother-in ing of Bonner by Wal- law, wife and several others, in an lace Bus: ell While Youth Is on Operating Table. Lewis to Rescue. While the fighting, Vv brother of } in his night clounes with Faulkner acror: the street Lewis was cut over t eye and a gash in his wrist. Neither wound is seriou embankment street, and here for sox ting up and His hat two men Lewis appeared ees and he fought were ont neighbors say he minutes before get | making good his es-| and knife were found | Faulkner's tend back for two years ag effort to get possession of the child, Bessie, who is now about two years Id. Several months ago he took the child to Spokane, where he held | her. He was arrested and return-| ed here, ar has been in jail since that time The child was found in a home in Spokane Faukner's de sire to keep t ehild is supposed to be cause which led to the Harbin Wallace A. Bussel’, the Joseph Bonner, was on the ope rating table at the city hos- pit this morning undergoing an operation for the extraction of a bullet fired by Patrolman Volk in jarresting him, Coroner Snyder was | holding an inquest on his victim's body at Bonney-Watson morgue. The coroner's jury returned a ver- dict simply stating the fact that Jo- seph Bonner came to his death from a gunshot wound inflicted by Wallace A. Bussell The only new development brought out at the inquest was in the testimony of Patrolman Albert Volk, who arrested Bussell and who shot him in doing so. Volk said he first saw Bussell a block north of the Monte Carlo saloon, At that time Bussell passed the patrolman on the run, The patrolman saw something glittering in his hand and gave chase, At Jackson st. the youth cleared a high fence at a leap. He then ran down the alley | behind the Monte Carlo saloon, The patrolman, after he had got ross the fence, stopped to ask two pedestrians what the mat- ter with the man that was running They told him that the man had a rifle in his hand. At that instant Volk heard the shooting behind the Monte Carlo saloon, He ran down the alley and found Bussell stand. jing at the rear of the saloon. Bus sell pointed the rifle at Volk, whe him Before the smoke cleared sell said, “I surrender.” olk testified that he asked Bus | sell why he shot, and he refused to explain, except by saying, “This is a gambling den.” Bussell, according to the testl Judge jon, Mr. Finch, deputy | mony, fired two shots through the prosecuting attorney, and myself|panels of the b door, then took up the matter of Faulkner's | knocked the panels out. Bonner, release from the county jail yester-| who was in the saloon, opened fire day afternoon at 8 o'clock. I had|upon him, issell continued prepared an order for his releg oting Jonner Bonner Judge Gordon sent for Faulkne t his revolver and was mak our presence faithfi way to safety behind hereafter be a law 4 n he rec 1 two shots that he had no fort k, one of which was mo! While aie aie slayer of killing of Placed Under Bonds. Judge Gordon's court he ed under $1,000 bonds to keep ace, and these he was never rnish. He was tried on a desertion and non support, the in the first trial disagreeing and the second one bringing in a verdict of guilty Judge Ronald, before whom heard, granted a ground that t was committed mostly In county Deputy Prosecuting Attorney J L. Finch, upon being convinced that willing to do the right if the prosecution was drop-| moved to dismiss the ca Faulkner went before Judge and yesterday made a trong plea and was released from the bond. Judge Gordon states that he is not fooled, but Faulk was evidently so sincere in hi e to do right and leave his wife alone that the judge allowed him to go. Faulkner said he had no interest in his wife and would not me her Eight hours after his release he was again in jail, this time on a murder charge was cases wer new fens¢ another thing Gordon easily Attorneys Interviewed. away When seen by a Faulkner's attorney Casey, said I was reporter today Thomas J tonished at the news re garding Faulkner this morning. 1 could sc ly belie’ my eyes. | Go the ing promised to ing eitizen ae