The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 7, 1910, Page 1

HE SEATTLE ‘LAF: ee ee SEATTLE, WASH., T ELT SPEAKS AT OXFORD COLLEGE Talks to Brit- About Pub- Valied Press.) June 7.—Col ig defense for 1) jam in tn Hist at Oxford R ant fact is nationa exeltemen' of the birthrare * that if it century © people w at A discussion of in which with the hardness mi, His no greater ¢ Sheed” 2 makeup « changing. race gent akin tot slams who, like my I respect ish speaking p< H less things amc of the spirit sa closer bond than common the thingy of the p this study its present promine Sititude which w aa merely « stedy, we agree -facts and appre relative Jn bistorical stud Bind of study A bistory Boldin, at least to @ book which is ween | be readable Thi fact seems to hav aie gome of the mer Bistorians ATURE 4 SLE. Me willing that histor: @s a branch of sc! on condition that Dranch of literature terature of science “be readable with the school « Gitus, Gibbon an Reed merely that which have mad it. shall also wfiliz and methods whic put at their disposal of Itself a measur on Page Seven.) MES, June 7.—Two hundred | committe }aPe reported killed and athe provisions of the bills, loss of more than $2,000, by an earthqu of Campania, Basi Calabri Ten bodi Fecovered at San Sossa. are known to hav at Caste! are camping in having abandone: th m6 through fear of recur. S Emmanuel jet Rome toda Of the disaster. Red Cross alread action and is forwardin: Mf food and clothing an Getachments nt sent $10,000 t Wor urgent relief and t Shelter for the homeless fathedral at Gamage, were shaken was volcanic in it ly lifting and the The vibrations laste Seconds, but the damag ‘S00nd only to that of th at Messina neariy tw: Foggi. and oth PRR he dames Line Down. Tames si. car line was for an hour just at the Bcarty this morning, it of an accident at square terminus » Car No. 72, in Of Gripman George broke electric the back up ERR hhh es grow Common heir hich bas given worth are The though interesting, removes it from} Hut a i Se far fu-} history. without low | | Electric company suc Baronia. Killed are reported from Hundreds of wound of doctors Striking Sentences From Roo: evelt’ Great Address at Oxford Univer: Dryness is not 1 be readable ealous scientific in itself This r historians “T am willing that histor A m book to have been forg of value fact a measure ather written to otten by the which is obvious see mm y shall be treated as a branch of science, but only on condi- tion that it also remains a branch of literature.” “li homely terial prosperity he common will offset,’ place virtues dic out, then the nation ha no ma “A great nation rarely belongs to any one'race, though its citizens generally have one essential national The danger owth of soft patent to all.” “The fall of Rome woul average citizen had lost the f{ “To be cost of d Saster future “Rome fell by attack fror grown incurable. “The only effective way “No doctrinaire theories of vested rights or freedom of contract can stand of our cutting out abuses fro: In the long there ¢ unless the other ther at manageme race MADISON oT. y « Interests Friendly to S. “| Co. Get Kellogg's Bill Referred Back to Com- age Play ie Tne Y + it} | | Knowing that the Madison cable | Yne electrification scheme would be beaten if they allowed three ti proposed ordinances regulating | traffic on that line to come to a final vote, friends of the Seattle peded, at the ei meeting of the city council last wi night, in a filibustering move by hjwhich the bill was referred back j.|to the council committee on cor-| e | porations This committee, lea ©, last Friday recommended ali lthree bills for passage They Fix Schedules. Ofie bill fixes schedules and pro- for a through service from the ist av. power house to West je# On the line from Zist ay ay. Another fixes the sched- to the Jake, and the third provides that} wlectric cars shall not be operated on & grade of 13 per cent or greater jon lines whe re are now Despite the fact that these meas have been before the city council for five weeks, have been | to the office of the ok yee counse! twice for opinions | their legality—despite the fact that | delegations of property owners and |patrons of the Madison st. line |have gone before the council or eight times to explain ral city councilmen last night pleaded ignorance of them. Taking advantage of this, friends of the traction company succeeded in getting the bills sent back to the committee in the week that would elapse before they to the council they 1 in winning over to the ttle Electric company’s side two or three of those who are eak kneed on the proposition. Try to Beat Bill By playing one of the three ordi against the other, winning two away from one ordi came back would suc e ) y nances y 9 J ° o WEATHER FORECAST. * * Showers tonight or Wednes Jay; moderate southerly winds a . a ee ee ee ee TRIPPLE BABY IS ADOPTED s n 4 e 2 | J. M. EB. Atkinson and wife this morning applied for adoption pa pers for 14-month-old Lydia Pride Tripple, who was left an orphan when her father, John Tripple, murdered the baby’s mother, on May 20, and then committed sul cide. Tripple’s wife was the | daughter of J, M. K, Atkinson The petitioners ask permission to change the child's name to Lydia Pride Atkinson. Perererere rere ere ent The regular meeting of the trus- tees of the Children’s Orthopedic % | howpital will be held at 10 o'clock | Friday morning at room 11, Cham- &' ver of Commerce, * luxw HELD UP IN COUNCIL by a decided | hopes that in the} -Holiclictteieliaietetelelelear4 | * wid ti days *) peech.” ry after it has d be quite sufficiently explained by the mere fact that the ighting edge.” unarme m without, only because the ills within her own borders had to hely in the way m the body politic.” an no ju nt and ¢ “Some of you think me a very radical democrat—as, for the matter of fact, 1 am: and my theory of imperialism would probably suit the anti-imperialist as little as it would suit a certain type of forcible-feeble imperialist.” TONNE EAT ER one or two away from an other, those favoring the 8. B. Co."s electrification scheme hope to de- feat the measure This method would allow t jweak kneed ones save thetr | lett kik hous faces before the public and yet Kill |* long stay the measures Counctiman Kellogg led the fight last night for the final passage of the bills, Schiw insisted that it was time the councilm about the bill while Hart ¢ that it was an outrage to foree the! property owners to come again and again before the council. He want ed to vote on the proposition right then. If the other councilmes }didn’t know about the bills, they were at fault, he sald Wardall’s Complaint. Premier Jos- cannot live more wager, He has not sines his return from in Southern France, 10 1 have home to he sald as he ped from LONDON, June aph Chamberiair war b king far more aged an when he left Mrs. nd trie alt car to his carriage his physicians admitted it of days until the than Chambertain da tod thier Today [was but @ matter PRESIDENT SEND | Wardall took exception to the bil | fixing the grade on which electric jeare should be operated, and after a motion to refer the matter to the WASHINGTON, June Presl leommittee of the whole was lost |dent Taft today sent a special mew the motion to re-refer was carried | ange to congress urging that iby the following vote | Ayee—Bullock, Conway, Goddard Mullen, Revelle, Wardall, Way (By United Prew) the Interstate commerce commis sion to suspend rates pending in Wolfe, Zbinden and Murphy vestigation become immediately Ne Blaine, Bohike, Denney,| effective, The mensage outlined Hart, Kellogg, Sawyer, Schlumpf/the controv between the rail jand Weaver lroada and administration. The bills will come up betore the! was prepared after | committee at 2 o'clock Friday after had conferred with Repre noon. sentative Mann and Senator Crane The on record as officially approving the jobbery by took the direct p the ourt justices. There are justices to be m this fall y interested King county republican central committee ne whic : the tre from ary law nomination of supreme rinated | for electic and the ns of the large corporatic state are The this ' in them they rporations anc ntere are and vid from cing, saw conting the ency ay te ab remove ination tices the people and they succeeded in doing Now the county republican central committee is giving its approval to this piece of jobbery by falling right in with the plans of the interests. Instead of permitting the people of King county to name the delegates to the state conven- tion which will nominate the judges, the committee is ar- rogating to itself this power. As far as the ition is now A | these justices ne court is concerned, the litical the be supre Pp con old convention rule held who have that their worse than it was under tate te to inate t pecial vention is to non It supreme for is a certainty that those axe oO dele the will to it the court the SCC ates state grind in the attend to vote men interests want on supreme bench This supreme court convention will be packed by the interest! The average citizen has no case in the supreme court that he knows of; he doesn’t expect to have any. The railroads, street railways, the lumber interests and all other forms of “big business” are certain they will have cases up for appeal. The result will be that the average citizen will take liitle or no interest in the nomination of these justices—it will be left to the interests. And in order to make this condition certain the King county republican central committee will take upon itself the duty of selecting the delegates, instead of permitting the republican voters of King county to do so. And at this packed convention the platform of the republi can party in the state will be adopted, and furthermore, the pro ‘The delegates gressive element will be read out of the party. AMBERLAIN SPECIAL MESSAGE : the | railroad bill provision empowering | hal | NE HOME EDITION — ~~" SSS UBSDAY, JUNE 1910. The Accused Negro NATHANIAL BLEDSER Identified as the Assailant of Mra. BULLETI Redding TORONTO, torian, Ont, June 7.—Goldwin Smith, litterateur and his died here this afternoon WASHINGTON, June 7—~By a vote today voted to reject the senate railroad for a conference. of 162 to 155, regulation bill, the house and asked SPOKANE, June 7.—While working at the base of a 40-foot wail ind pit in the city tim N. A. Foster and G. A. Thompson, teamsters, were buried under tone of earth when the wail caved in. SPOKANE, June 7.—In his fear of tardiness at school, little 9 year-old Fay Wiliston attempted to dash across the Great North bs ch tracks here this afternoon and wae almost instantly killed. ERFORD HURT BODY SHOWS RUTHERFORD HURT IN A RUNAWAY | SIGN | Suffering from injuries sustain Saturday | Lynch, a telegraph operator, float \{@ a runaway accident \night, County Commissioner A. L. Rutherford ts confined to his home ai Palle City, Rutherford was driv ing In a buggy near bis ranch when & passing automobile frightened |hiw horse. Rutherford was thrown |from the buggy onto a barb wire if His left arm was badly lacorated by the barbs. ling im the bay at the foot of Con- | | Reotiout et. yesterday morning, re- vealed another murder, the mystery of which will probably never be | solved. The coroner's autopsy today brought to light the fact that Lynch had a clot of blood on the brain with every indication of having been hit over the head with @ biunt in strument. The body had been the water 24 hours when discovered. Lynch came from Lakota, N. D., and had been working for the Northern Pacific at Pasco, Mrs. 0 ©. Mercer, 1236 Highland piace, a relative, had been expecting his ar- rival in Seattle for the past weeks. The body will be sent back to his old home. eee ee BANK CLEARINGS. i* \* * * Seattiec. earings today Dalances $1,804,741 171,408.70 Tacoma today. $1,154 118 Clearings Balances Portland. today. .$1,628,419.00 93,7 in 260.00 Clearings Balances 6.00 Spokane today. .$ 780,856.00 93,858.00 Clearings Balances | * * EVRY YY YY YY ¥ ¥ te eee eee eee eee eee STATE CONVENTION A SCHEME TO JOB THE PEOPLE the interests will dictate the Phe part 1 to obediently thir t think interests of the in this self a republican, 1 d will be “interest’ central committee the ordinary citizen v chosen by inty in y of the republican party hin state. wh is not a to political rin at home an expecte a of this con ventior a es As a representative gathering of the republican party in this state, this convention will be a farce. Yet with bur- lesque formality and phraseology, these self- constituted delegates will declare that Miles W. Poindexter is not a republican and that his followers are all enemies of the republican party and of President Taft. The 1 supremc studious n by rigin th interests” was to remo it the court fro’ ceeded in d quick kill Poindexter in the Having suc ing thi to “interest vere adapt with st The senate }tion and thu two birds ne interests dk | not want United State , and they see to it that the republican state convention denounces him jin the ho fall in tin There are two things that the republicans of this state should remember when that convention is in session: First, that they were deprived by a stupid and con- trolled legislature of the privilege of naming the candidates for the supreme bench; that they have, for the time being, lost their right of naming the men who sooner or later pass on all their hard-gained liberties from corporate rule; that as individuals and communities they have been betrayed and wronged. Second, they should likewise remember that these same interests who have taken these rtghts from them, these interests that would name the supreme court justices, are likewise keenly anxious to name the next United States senator from Washington, and that whatever action the state republican convention takes will be to this end. ye that republicans throughout the and do the tate will blindly convention's biddin “interest” two | will | ON TRAINS NEWS BrAaNDr nero RUSHED 10 CITY JAIL FROM FORT GUARDHOUSE Man Accused of Vile Crime Is Taken to Redding Home Under Guard—After Identification He Is Turned Over to Police. A ONE CEN Residents in the neighborhood of the fort are buying guns and hiring guards to protect their homes, it is reported this afternoon. They disclaim any me: but swear | they will be to take care of themselves in case of an out- break. offensive asures ready Nathaniel Bledser, p | was positively identified this noon by Mrs. J. W the soldier who attacked her in her home Saturday When the police officers arrived at the fort gate Bledser jand a squad of eight other negro soldiers were put in their charge. The detectives took him with the squad to the Red- ding residence. The cight privates of the squad were lined up about 150 | feet away from the front of the Redding house. Bledser was | the third in the line. On the right of him was a negro of about the same size, wearing just the same kind of a mustache and just as black as the accused. The man to the left wore a similar mustache and was nearly the same size and very black, all tend- ling to make identification very difficult. | When the line was formed Mrs. Redding, very weak and | supported by her husband and son, was led to the front door, She had hardly stepped from the threshold when she pointed to Bledser “That's him, the third man,” she said. The two little girls also identified Bledser. Bledser was then taken to the city jail. WENT LIKE LIGHTNING opinion of the presence of | negro troops at Fort Lawton and |to take action on the recent out- Witnesses Tell of Fearful Speed of Machine That Killed Street Cleaner. ¢ in the Twenty giment, edding as R determined last nignt in grimly rage on a white woman by a ruf- fian soldier was a deadly earnestness assembled were ex- as men do in the hall. Gre changed in low D re is serious business at hand here was no banter or levity. Men spoke slowly and gave thought to every word they uttered, It was a represpntative meeting, lawyers, doctors, shingle weavers, fishermen, rallied together for common defense of that which is dearer even than life—their women's honor, A ground tone of revengeful anger ran through all the discussion before the meeting was called to order, deep-rooted race hatred spoke up, softly menac- ag. There were no loud mouthed, blatant threats, they were too much in earnest for that; yet im that quiet, orderly gathering there was that which needed but the spark at the right instant to change it instantly into a retriba- tive mob Husband Tells His Story. When J. W. Redding, husband of the negro soldier's victim, told the story of his despoiled home and mutilated wife, the smouldering rage nearly burst into flame it was a maddening revolting story, told in artless sorrow and | anger, a tale to stir men’s blood to wild vengeance, and it wrung curses and groans from those who listened to it. Men gritted their teeth and breathed deep in their wrath, as the husband, livid with “(Continued on Page ‘Elight.) REBEL FROM RULE OF DIAZ ings d tt in for All week will be consu the trial of Ralph J. Le manslaughter, according to the progress made in the case this morning. The prosecution is find ing difficulty in show{ng the exact speed that the automobile was be ing operated at the time Rafelo Sego was knocked down and killed. The witnesses all admitted that |they did not know anything abou the speed of automobiles, but we certain that Leavitt's automobile was traveling with the speed of an express train at the time E. B. Parish, the best for the prosecution yet could not be shaken in mouy that the automobi a hill four blocks long was hurrying on foot to distance of feet Parish the jury he walking alon av. when he saw Leavitt's bile cross the int ction at Cherry going like lightning. He hurried to the corner, f distant, to see the automobile > the hill. The machine had already knocked down and killed Sego and was on top of the bill, four blocks away, when Parish reached oe] corner W. H. Twe | ness, asserte tra witness duced, testi e climbed while he cover a t old pr anoth: the yy, that veling at high Owen McC r, who was operating for Li itt, has the wi stand j at noon was scene of the killing alliffs in Judge Gi nat they could populated ighborhood in curred, and the eye wit automobile | rate of | the chauf- | the auto not yet was feur a | mobile | taken taken by to the | € the (By United Press) MEXICO CITY, June 7.—Presi- dent Porfirio Diaz personally will direct the military campaign against the rebellious Maya In- dians, of Yucatan, The decision of the president to take active part in suppressing the revolt leads to the belief that the government faces a is in Yucatan. Reports indicate that a well planned revolution by Indians and insurgent Mexicans has broken out to gain freedom for Yucatan. The uprising is considered the most serious that has occurred since 1840, when Yucatan nearly won her liberty. The revolt is being led by Mexicans. th ne condition which t RRR EER Re Swiped Wife's Shoes. - husband Mrs. Eas to the toda. ld berg, have claims swiped the shoes, she has never worn, the intention of return them to Frederick & Nel and getting her money her M13 appealed assistanc Mrs hust and Claiming had ste L. Gold Thomas police for Aceording she and separated that he which with ing that her re 2 sh to her nd she (By United Press) MEXICO CITY, June 7.—General orders to the army to prepare for * | active duty in Yucatan in suppre * | ing the revolt of 10,000 Maya Indians, *lwere issued today. The entire * | standing army of Mexico will be } used to crush out the rebellion if ¥ | necessary. *| Varying reports indicate that hun- * | dreds of persons in Yucatan have * | been massacred and that thousands * | of natives are joining the revolt, *| The government is rushing troops *& to Merida to protect hundreds of % | Mexican refugees who have fled for * | their lives from towns which the re- * | bellious Indi have sacked, *| The gunboat Morelos with 500 sol- * | diers aboard is steaming under foro- * | ed draught for Campeche, where the force will leave for Merida, The gunboat Zaragoza is at Vera Cruz taking on supplies, ammunition and troops for Yucatan. » * * * * 7 * o - * ” * * * * * | | | KSEE EEE EEE Re Se a le ie le ARR ee SNAP UP CHANCES Nearly everybody time or another can look back at some opportunity which, if he had taken advantage of it, would have led to great things for him, Every day many ex cellent offerings may be found on the pages in The Star. If you are a regu lar reader of Star Wants, you will profit greatly. at some Oe ee ee ee ees . * 7 a le i i i il i i el