The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 17, 1910, Page 1

THE SEATTLE ‘TAF SEATTLE, WASH,, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1910 ONE CENT On SRAINS AND ON THE STAND, TELLS WHOLE STORY on nn KERBY STATEMENT WAS BIGGEST ! or ai SCOOP IN WASHINGTON stony ce A ‘National Correspondents Unite in Giving Credit to Scripps Newspapers—Laurels Won) Counsel Holds That Council's Resolution| by 20-Year-Old Newspaper Man i in First Year at Capital oN Confidential Employe of the Government, Not of Effect, and at Street Car Com-| BY W. 8. COUCH mousty srs credit for the expose without reser ° & °. gave the Scripps pargrs cre p Ms 3 Electrify All or Part of Madison Street WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17.—"The biggest and cleanest cut vation, even though In doing eo they had to admit that they were Ballinger, Says the Man Who Made Public the scoop in the history of Washington journalism,” ie the unanimous all soooped on the biggest news item which has developed in Was Ballinger Deception—Earnestness Impresses the verdict of Washington correspondents and Washington offic! | Ington within the memory of any of them. on + cea | the great feat of Scripps’ newspapers in getting for exclusive pub Robert F. Wilson, one of the staff of the Scripps bures who Investigating Committee. — | Meation on Saturday the statement of Frederick M. Kerby, sten pe veeperemnne Ter ENO SEN: 18 BONE CeCe Vechinaten, and iis Sis by the board today upon | @FAapher in Secretary Ballinger’s office, in which it was shown that son is one of the youngest correspondents in Feaagenstin Sagan | ‘ Lied " gunell that » the permits President Taft's letter of September 13, exonerating Ballinger, was | entire experience at the capital covers but a few weeks e was | + llr 2 trie Co. fe ifieation of part adapted from a letter prepared for Taft's signature by Oscar Law | sesigned to the Washington bureau to “help out” during the ab: | (By United Press.) the Seattle Electric, ( tama : Jer, attorney in Ballinger’s department. | sence of Gileon Gardner, who is touring Europe with Roosevelt. suaee ; : ie > pene cable line, | Ths ser ¥ t the For weeks the attorneys for the prosecution h by t te. | That young Wilson, 20 years of age, with no Washington ex By 87 .——" © page of §=ballingers Bald the question aren ee vdbeg i Prosecution have been trying to, | perience, should have succeeded In scooping the several hundred er oath before the investigatir ommit- to be presented bring out this vital fact, but owing to the evasion of all the wit | Washington correspondents, among them the ablest and most ex ; P 5 6 m 1 Mites wen demanded by the board before it would act nesses, they failed. When the Scripps newspapers came along with porienced newspaper men inthe country, ¢n an expose which has d in eight es. In pe ac “ vce 5 , om lag gr hace perpen Lis =! ee oan cree ee shaken official Washington to its center, and has amazed the entire que B cs, as t sllinger’s vie @iake the corporation counsel hold« ington wae fret stunned, 4 en amazed. ashington got the first Linited States, is without question one of the greatest journalistic he « ents carried to Beverly in Lawlers pup 7 Purth fran feats, from a purely news point of view, in the history of American ger had repliec d not definitely define of the city cou ro nagar shila to The Kerby expose was published in some 600 papers Saturday, Journatiem, — - or advisory aahle oF eine clients of the United Press. Some of these gave the Scripps news k power on the papers credit for the great scoop, but many of them simply printed The Scripps newspapers, found ttle. In the Northwest the ¢ Ke n menting on this ity council, ta thie fran Kerby's statement as having been made public, without reference | oq by EB. W. Scripps, include some aue includes The Bea Star era Ba ger |} Il the documents in that works has erves the right to fix} * the Scripps papers 75 Indepandent newspapers across Tacoma Times, the portfolio y to grant « a which schedules are Washington correspondents, being fairer than thelr editors, unani the country betweer veland and | Daily News and the Spokane Press gain Brande } aske nger: “Will you tell us . cing per < review in the courts sat aa . — iat faras you know, Lawler k with ihm in the way of & Tease! h ion of reasonableness . wate a oss ‘ ¥ Teditions to rags Blssow- 9 seminal HOW TO KILL FLIES nemoranda? I had underst at all documer 1 records the granting it the police power to protect the t y k f had been taken to the presider Monday elin f m excessive or —_—— ~ 1 r t works has er r grades fixed tn (Snowe Groece I : permits al “ ng subject to \Dowt BUEN Ba ge eplie lawful as the F » They ha the city the provision A ‘ § Kerby de c that “I nger knew that they had not , een BRANDEIS MAKES DEMAND. WASHINGTON, May At ey Brand hin afternoon ask- ed the I € estigating committee to command the department ger and J. W. Pe wed The Trail of the Beast in he request fc ‘ | Mien “Shows: “Up tes) “star tee wen nomen Charges Filed in Senate 0" ‘0 Aisa and by Alaska Delegate. M. Kerby, the In his fight against the summary | { nent who let the GATURATE JOO LES OF GUM COTTON WITM NITROGLYCER WE. CLOSE THE WinDOWS TIGHT. WHEN Psers sire ; . = 4 a ” ec od deceived the THE FLIES SETTLE ON THE COTTON, TOUCH A LIGHTED MATEM To rr. Garde ak dhaaee, insoarh the an) was today put forts of the nheims, James | ¢ nvestigation of the Wickersham, from Alaska, has filed the following charges in the senate against Herbert ssc ner and John Rustgard, nomina to succeed Boyce and juthorian’: 1. That Sutheriand and Boyce were removed on false information furnished by attorneys and lobby ists for the Alaska Syndicate Ka talla Co., alded by Gov. Clark, in tending to prevent Boyce and Sutherland from convicting John Carson and Capt. Jarvis for bribery and corruption of witnesses and jurors in the case of the U. 8. vs. Ed Hasey ave his statement Kerby said that he respondent of Star. against | | (Ry Delted Pres) | CANTON, Ohio, May 17— | Eighteen persons are reported to and people have been killed and 20 more in jured in an explosion in the works ‘changed heart of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Of the Stone | CO™pany here this afternoon | A boiler in the engine room of fect that Mor-\the works exploded, wrecking the = ts | ptant. Shortly after the explosion this point | 12 bodies were recovered from the ss, and finally rby to proceed quently interrt asked Nelso his story with former he said, was had attend y Garfield ot's home o own seeking M then get back | blazing ruins of the boiler house 2. That Jarvis is treasurer of the : =: Why this} Every ambulance in the city was Alaska Syndicate Katalla Cc THOMBON OFFERED NEWELL'S JOB. rushed to the scene. The number That Bogle is general counsel by said that Garfield particularly had asked him not to act B happened in 2 of injured probably will reach 25. for the Alaska Syndicate of Seat-| as He said he saw Brandeis later on the night of the con #0 stirred up| Those rescued were torn and tle | fer He said that he knew Ballinger intended to discharge Dt bas Bas the building | maimed by the explosion. Arms and 4. That Carson and were rector Newell of the reclamation service d that he had written Those liv- iegs were se the attorneys for t synd R. H. Thomson, cit neer of Seattle ring Newell's place to ered about the yard and on the | of the plant, and many of the bodie cate in the him. Attorney Vertrees urged Keroy to t that there had been ense and resi-|recovered were mutilated so that That § was spent by the} a selfish motive behind his statement Kerby denied that any such of Walling identification may be impossibie syndicate defending Hasey motive existed. He said that H. N. Rickey of the Scripps-McRae the bulld One man was hurled through the THID METHOD WHILE NOT AS CLEANLY AS THE 6. Faulkner and Rustgard are in newspapers and \. B. Colver of the Newspaper Enterprise associa AmoTHE® FQUALY EFFECTIVE METHOD 15 TO DARWEM OTHERS 1S JUST AS RFFEC TIVE. GET A PUMP AND debted for their ne | cussed the matter at his home. tlon came to him May 10 and @ nation to }air and fell through the roof of a ¢ Fremont Ballard house 8 yards away. Tht MOUSE AND OPEN THE GAG JETS FOR & CONNECT TO & TUB OF CARBOLK. ACID, BLUE VITROL t who sp in secur-| They agreed with him, he said at as long as there was a chance ‘ay. lines don't HOURS, THEN LIGHT ONE OF THE JETS AND YOU] Jann CHLOROFORM, SPRAY EACH FLY THOROUGHLY. | [ing the removal of Boyce and| of his being called as a witness it would not be right for him to if it in go- WON'T FIND ALIVE FLYIN THE HOUSE. Sutherland, and will t dominated | give out the information to the press to and irom | F LLS i8 FRONT by the Alaska Syndicate Colver, he said, remarked to him z 7. That Rustgard as district at-| I came here to find a story. I found a man. I'm satisfied.” torney at Juneau will have control | READ BALLINGER’S LIE. locks longer. ofa OF MOVING TRAIN public works is ask for the United States of the litiga jal of all ‘On the next day,” said Kerby, “I read Ballinger's ¢ tion arising out of the coal claims she Sanaa af the dae oe cage areas Fo ‘ propo- | - Sai ie tee Ounetanly specific knowledge of the Lawler dra and sa hat he state s ress Ingham groups! other untruths. This, in my opinion, made it impossible for Bran- st. across} HOOD RIVER, Ore, May 17.—Ce-| ayiilioate ie interested r al, as, @ r fae the foot of | «4; parr, 12, was run over and in nothing to rebut he building Of a} stantly killed by 0 train mite The event that is being ce! xecured their constitution, |Norway and Sweden. For a tin ; it aches RE ere g sea re That day, Kerby said, he had a five-minutes conversation with ‘ one block magn an, omens Maodl na today i# the promul there was & constant |seemed as if war would be resorted | States marshal a ineau will hs Brandeis. lng jnarth of Dee, om the Moun conatitution of Morw until 1884 ix tiut Qh October 16 of the eame|charge of the ction of ju BRANDEIS WAS DISCOURAGED. a 4 j railway, ¢ part Norwegian history ranks yeare ago the struggle! year the tieh Rikesdag adopted |in any case brought on indictment “Ee proposi Farr was “flagging” on a car | Whic Me 7 rat Lakevieae fe oristn when Norway made|the treaty of Kariatad recognizing |for the trial of Alaska Syndicate | ‘Attorney Brandeis,” he said, “told me he felt practically cut Saclusion | which was being shovel by a loco- | with the : “ 1 on King Oscar of Sweden | Norway's inc sence. On Novem-|criminals for bribery in the Hasey| off from any hope of getting my statement ‘ore the committee. HIRE to £0) motive, when he lost his balance and nde trate consular service. Thin lber 20 Prince Charles, of Denmark, |case or in trial of litigation over] “I knew that Attorney General Wickersham had not responded to |r the other Of | fell on the rails. Mis head and one| For centuries previous to 1814 | \0" mebaenle Dolulel Mit Om aased faccepted the throne, taking the title |the Cunningham or other coal| Mr. Brandeis’ repeated calls for the Lawler memorandum,” Kerby Feaidence Cat rm were severed from the body Norway was united to Denmark and | 1 solution dissolving the union of ‘of Haakon VIT claims, That he is under obliga-| continned Se : aces ts and | had sunk a dependency na oes ot _./tions to the syndicate and is con: Therefore thought it was my duty to make the facts public. ever raised in | state Denmark's internal tr Ballinger had previ ly stated t he wanted all the facts brought | wta nma’ trolled by it allinger had previou ater he wa all the facts brough - IMMIGRATION bore down oe tn Poo he os ROBERT TAFT FOR oe pce a > ge president | 9. That to confirm either Faulk } out. 1 — with a wite : ane we ¢ aed to give out ee ee one method o' }westans and n , > E loliowing the Yale commence ner’or Rustgard is to place a trust ment gave it to son, bu ll say that he followed his in- ee peonle ot | STATION HERE were practically in a state of rerf MORSE’S RELEAS' ment. Ervine Morse, the |ed and bitter partisan of the syndi.| structions not to urge me to give it to him, and that I did most of ental) dom. * banker's son, and Robert Taft | the talking myself i av. ‘ cate in a position to, and either * : jes and - In 1813 Denmark had be re or ee (By United Press.) are classmates and warm jor both will, betray the govern-| KERBY IS «« EARNEST. ‘ en se | Cera pay a) to. throw its lot In with Na NEW HAVEN, Conn. May friends. ment in said cases or in any other Kerby’s earnestness evidently made a favorable impression on Fe orit’| , WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17—lagainst England and | the 17-—Every member of the | |\itigation in which the syndicate| the members of the committee. Senator Root cross-questioned him, sizeet'| An immigration station at Seattle| With the defeat of Nap senior class at Yale, including New Names in Georgetown: is interested but refused to allow Kerby to explain his answers, demanding dt ny brides | |to cost $100,000 is proposed ot baer F. ; ac amind Robert A. Taft, son of the By an ordin passed by the Thirteen” marriage licenses were rect replies . ig | bill introduced by Senator Piles way, whi a president, has signed a petition [city counct! last night the names of kd, tire drescem saraplelats em | Kerby protested, and Brandeis and Representative Mason joined rose a et wholly sat-| for the pardon of Banker Chai but out! W. Morse. The petition will |< ne iimen. | Washington, the passage of which | of V Mis Tot required| was recommended today by the| ‘Th - action in| senate committee on immigration. | twtac tory to the Norwegians contemplated © STAR OFFICE BOY TAKES THE FIRST GENUINE PICTURE OF HALLEY'S COMET. North or Murphy and| ort} | “Wheré is that blooming comet, cloudy that it has been difficult t& oon Ta| “New it aint.” ti of electric-lghted tads gcd He * res The st ais tiara to that GET B orgetown streets are changed to | filed, and one divorce decree grant in the protest, Senator Sutherland asked whether Kerby had con- nform . de the city map. led in King county yesterday. sidered talking the matter over with Secretary Ballinger. 1 knew better than that,” Kerby replied. “I had the Glavis cave in mind. Besides, | had heard some talk of ‘snake killing favored it| Wh time is it megs te shark around these parts, sends! at 140,000,000 miles—or something et don't come up in that |that he had been up at 4 ¢ word that the skies have been so | lke that—a second. | Puzzles the| and} tion. It ought to be right over | ing - these seen ~ ae. va é | just above the Queen Anne |the dinged thing ‘ a fbr abaenede t mesats tata cet at “wan a bunk : | ' A Poindexter 50-cent dinner is to be at the |} “I think this comet business Is all| ple. He n't ju 4 ; Allen Dale Cafeter cond av f st., next a fake. I'm going back to bed. behind it, he said, but expressed ‘ LS | the attendance of Seattle men who are se) Goddard Mction should| These are fae favor of the| at by 8Y. bridge,”| rr tog @6 not be! w from hilitopa and ©} ¢ the comments | wish that The Star expose the whole ng heard every | game wattle One th et does, It to sit up quite late une ‘om east | allo Mar S r hen Harry comen to call | President Dugdale. of the Seattle|cach other, lots will be stirring|f} present insurgent congressman in his car iid be done | n Seattle's broken up land Ma ie, is shat: youns; Men) me when the two clash | United States senate the trane-| aca nen and non, in pajamas | there yet tling up club and Quinn of Tacoma have All men employing office boys | “ S AA it : ae ‘ of the| nk ruffled nighties, yawning| “Oh, yeu, mamma, we're sitting up are hereby asked to lend a lenient ) invitations are to be, tendered, exce the Premiont Ballard | and muased as to hair and temper, | to see the comet opened their hearts to make tomor! oar to requests for an afterncod | press, Any man in King county who is yosed to Should be| are straining thelr esea every morn-| “O-h-h! row’s game a special treat for young|oft so that the hopefuls may at-|— Aldrichism and Cannonism and the rule of the trusts at - ee : pHa gh! > th : tt Aids, Romanas America, tneluding office boys, by | Mh arama» Lanern eed Washington is urged to be present. A program of eee Ot | and Harry takes a fresh grip on| jateian obildgen. in. tree; As. Webiaane Nees |] speeches will be arranged, and it is likely s t-of * Pan Ny Be {Mamio’s band, and tells her that ne ; | The game is scheduled to begin|f} town orators will be present DIRECTS | fost of them aren't seeing it. A| eyes are prettier than all the comet neaday 1# also ladies’ day, there} 59 3:15 4 quarter of an hour later | All those desiring to attend th ner are requested * people report they ‘These | in the world. Bo Nts mi will be some shrill and enthusiastic | than use This is to give the| ¢ : i: 49 Wack block, tald Every *| nderful stories about @ great | mance p ho are| First genuine picture of Halley's lids time. to invest a few pennies |f to notify Austin E. Griffiths, 7: ‘ tell many * |; than the biggest] But for most of the folks who Ar? | comet as photographed by The Star |Toting on tap and as both teamsi/,"" peanuts before the cuntest phone M. 1340, or the « P * " motive extending behind. | wo yo '