The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 24, 1910, Page 1

arp PER FEFSER vol. 3, NO. 79 believe that Maye betrayed. | Gill has been deceived; that the city! do not believe that Mayor Gill knew I believe that when Mayor Gill returns he will have done, and I will help him, no condition will I be a recall candidate against Tam a friend of Mayor Gill, and will not be placed of seeking his office.” t ‘Thos Acti May Max Wardall this morning, anc “ey I lly bel 1 that May H seri us if he really believed tha ay Hl, with all his years} heen “dece and legal rt discover what Max was not al in eight] ardall learned in le Ei urine the red liht di Hye acting mayor ha uring the red light i s ¢ ce to the ¢ up and dowt a " crime—that the pol the ofl ction in this respect t last night and offered hi backware present ci So firm was Clau pt nnick early cy of pol ‘ : ee wih Wappenstein and Gill « Ste pate Bed i Ca fell over q ming back Bene made the charge of police graft, closed a dance hall ~harl from getting 1 of his prevented Charles 5 fre getting a renewal f See eense, the acting ma se Adenty ceased hs ivities, for this ming he he wa ati ith his achieve: Bs ates of fact, Wardall has done more to clean up| — TO RESIGN 7 because of Act-jin the re alked a Wardall’s graft | into Inape las of Police Lee, | night to« on the and Patroimen | insp sald bitterly Mian, Jones, Nets. rm It's pr Fatlard, McGraw tough to Gomprising the en-| you're ( ‘aged of the restricted spector Po fet Bight resigned from) a long in a body sented wn ret "@aly the earnest plea of laspec Patroiman Jot persuaded the sergeants whom no 7 m to return to their! at police mt After airing thelr views cor the general graft charses he and hi , Bthem, the policemen w Barney Jo served beats, from their beat in the restricted trying situation,” said/distriet to duty on Pike st Powers today. “Sergeants If we're grafters,” said Donlan 7 and Wilkes have in|“why are we assigned to ‘special pe handied their respec-| duty’ on Pike at.? If 1 charged a im the restricted district) man with being a grafter I would y as possible under the| be tempted to fire him. It’s a cinch The acting mayor | that | wouldn't trust him on ‘special tement is quoted | duty tye conditions ta Patroimen G. W. Mullen ty of King st. were brought | J. Sullivan, who vance with the mayor's order we | iia throwsh co the Pike st. beat _ aweeping © 4 | district, w wally aggrava fesented by the patrol-| trusted, why does the mayor send sergeants in charge of the Us down there where it is reason strict and they fully de- able to suppose there is more op om the force portunity for graft?” queried the/ patrolmen Every other member of th stricted district squad resented the nied to return . J. D. Baker, recognized as & realous worker MAT DOES THIS MEAN? SPOKA! ' i Neged land and INE, Sept. 24.—A wholesale inquiry into al in in the states of the northwest and Alaska is believed to been quietiy started before the federal grand jury, in session in at the instance of the interior department, acting in conjunc with the department of justice. plostve terms wm SKS OFFICERS TO CARE FOR BABIES Penniless anu with two baby te care for, Mrs. Pauline * 106 th av., today ap- wette. 3 Tpmied to the Humane officer 7°" \oave DO YOU KNOW? That the first newspaper prir was the W in Seattle Wiind a temporary refuge for omas Burke, recent car tie babies, Myrtic and Violet, eee Rs ae C wn _~ earns a living for 5 peoke year a ad The littie woman said that That some of the just Mt husband, J. A. Frost, de territorial supr y Wes her two months ago and at are still most activ Rte Texas. She struggieds |ing the politics of this Wetil destitute and unable they in le the names of Judge ¢ Work, because of the at H. Hanford, ft federal court; Which her babies re Judg Johm P. Hoyt, referee in tie is 2 years old | bankruptcy; Orange Jacobs, Thos is only 10 months ALIVE, THEY LOVED HER; DEAD, SHE IS SCORNED Burke and W. H On @ marble jes the body of Edith Free bewwe, once loved now storned by all, on! tin Order to join d and forgotten dead in the ' oy of passion unrestrained be ihe tiful women who loved not w Charlie Me ill Freehouse, is dog ar-old son ft ' tified t the i a th mothe Li Allen Custe : € h cor 1 and the » eante? loved and ne with the world for all time and ty Ht Was a sordid ¢ #, but a tragedy of life and Pat toy, sorron uyal and hate. Custer and : eae were bun} r in the United States army . # and chum ied : fal friend rs, Freehouse, a dark = 59h ene bs d to the bust Custer oul mote to he ‘ nd ber husband lived together eeu of the th lived without happines t orhope, Tw re eee as eat the ; hand forgave | ime & : is can did Id not learn, 40 she and Cus J we fa —. ¢ iver Barracks and came to While Custe w a job the woman swallowed Custer rety b und the police waiting for h . Mine ty 414 the woma Remorse and despair. Left : @, the horrit - ~ Nad been tas, , { her position swept over her, Sh . = Wome: 1a mother. Her future wa s At & the poor tems i’ yon ot way; misery and her portion wd» wey attend ve ? ] | beautiful in death, lies Mr, Wher he m b tor her and fought for oon, koing his careless way, with | mayor of the city of Seattle went off on a cruise in the brewery imputations of graft in equally ex-| SEATTLE, WASH.,, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1910. Seattle in the the ministrath few days he has been in office Mayor Gill The department have nee the Gill ad in. You have to give Wardall credit for that, {and telling him for God but when he seriously announces that he believes that Hi Gill| But Gerald still has the inside has been betrayed by his friends, it is too painful to laugh. He/has in the good government of than business” men who and entire police done n beg testifying to a degree of ignorance on the part of himself that is | deceived ; without parallel cence of “Friday” Frye | been col- cattle either means that Hi Gill has softening of the brain, or he ia} Perhaps Max Wardall thinks that Claren 5 wanted tion and voted and worked for Hi G Don’t Hesitate to Phone The Star, Main 9400, or Ind. 441, if your pa | per tails to reach nigh your home regularly every You are entitled to good service. | : s Carrier Army e==| Th ttle Star | Ma ayer soe" “Isc nb month, ‘ j ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS Se ONE CENT. WON'T TURN TAIL NOW, MAX WARDALL, UNLESS YOU'RE AFRAID administra Shomo's dump or the Arcade dance hall, let him say so. If te my they want to blame Clarence Gerald, saloon keeper, for “de- ce decent ceiving” them, let them do it. If the y want to blame “Fri- What t Gerald] day” Frye for “betraying” them, let them do it, but there is is not plain to be seen.| no occasion for a sane and sensible man like Max Wardall e Gerald is also heing| getting into this sort of thing. It is too palpably, ridicu- that people are taking advantage of the cherubic inne lously absurd, As a matter of common knowledge, graft Hi Gill knew every trick that has heen pulled off in Seattle | people arc At Isi te ith the I G lected right and left from gamblers, prostitutes, dance halls | so did Charley W appenstein, so did Clarence Gerald and }then Max Wardall is an « crlope the ¢ t and dive keepers, There is no question about that; to go | Frye. It is on their suffrance that the male asites flourish on | satisfied, Wardall ha ne the a good ser They have into court and prove that any one member of the adminis- | the street; that the dives and dance halls run; that beer is sold | the remedy at hand with a recall petition, It does not make any tration got money is perhaps a different thing, but the kids [in them contrary to law; that gambling houses operate difference whether Wardall will be a recall candidate or not. in the grammar schools know the graft is there. Max ard Eve rteen Wardal never t ¢ sylvan precin could hare ve been as ng that went ignorant ty {the} | Wardall has done the ¢ on recently. | question of municipal rottenne brief but prof carnival of gamb Is Max War ther person gullible enough that these gambling houses ran mut paying Seattle is rotten, rotten to the core. said it would be before election, 1 or any with tribute And if Acting Mayor Max Wardall doesn’t know this he of the | must have been in a state of coma for the last six months. a good turn squarely up before the pub o think|When Hi Gill gets back from his boozy boating he will have | something ahead of him, When Charley Wappenstein gets back It is just as The Star | from his “vacation” he, too, will have something confronting his | | If Seattle cannot produce a better mayor than Hi Gill, Seattle had better get out of business, turn the city over to Clarence Gerald and Frye and the gang of pimps, prostitutes, gamblers and big mitt men below the line, and let it go at that. But de for hea Gill is tim of p ha n't en et anybody tell that Hi tical sha Stand pat, Mr. Wardall. In eight days you have made a the Mayor Gill has broken all | official importance. record. You have pulled the mask from municipal rottenness. promises, even the promises to stay sober. The night before Having done this much, it is not fair for dall to t You have, either intentionally or otherwise, shown up Hi Gill the primaries he paraded the tenderloin and'none was so drunk | paving the way for mendacious excuses from Gill, If Gill wants jand Chief Wappenstein as he. And he maudlinly commanded the denizens of this fetid | to tell the people of Seattle he didn't know anything about th If you are not a big enough man to finish what you have deep to vote for Griffith, This is one of the reasons why the! rottenn« | thi | let hin it, but line of comic ope If Wappenstein company’s boat Dt ad mal Ni So A} Es | | j | TTA | LARSEN’S LITTLE MOTORBOAT IN THE RAPIOS AT THE VERY EDGE it is no FOOLISH CROOKS “TRY TO Harry Durno and Bernard } Lachlan, bt artis will never Out, McLachlan « but} policeman in plain clothes 782 Into the arms of Patrc ar : ao ea sem Pre Sele eee Tent latest Lareen, Daring Patrotmen Wii Helms, in plata | MeLachinn 0 lett yaw, and Mac wook| Dane, in Exclusive Ar- clothes, wa ’ Tecone |e ae eee ee yr Abe ticle for This Newsp sdhvoners:asetenig mduct today, but Judge Gordon | per, Tells Vividly of His “e detent aerate io pa lap “ig days on) remendous Experience On the: boat Datno aad sapeesinac ey rag While Being Whirled lan k and oily tong : and Tossed in the Very tf eget: Motegi ATTAGK 5 ; (0 | Jaws of Death. ae SP | against a brace of bunco men, a le oe ol eat! oor nad the trie stepped to ‘ ' ee I han Du fted” H dea gold watch and chain, When Durno hur tried to “sneak patrolman’s ing that their property in|! ¥ woul mater yiftt Madl-| tated line is ¢ f 1, the|f « AT CAPITOL. tal ectrification a r t Tueada b } ty Culted Press.) Hanford, at which time 1 <9 AgHING TOM ME Ee titeore. | Rhoatrio ( “a vod is uke (By United Presa |tary Ballinger, good bumoreds and| cause why the inj nshould not] CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 24 | confident, arrived here today ready | be made perm As the result of a mysterious sb lfor the special meeting of the cabi the mill] inein the home of Lawrence Dixte! 2 He denied Merwe Suanatieg $25,000) ere today, Mrs, Martha Distel, 42 fron , ¢ that he was pushing! fe ® prote ne traction ' ; cw t yond wa uaran how, }are dead e podies ©! n€ wo " Sheet: mauled te once ite wa Bw Sth cept ~< Bj lt found in Mrs. Distel’s bed hi nt when asked about the! ant, O} C. Met A. G.| room, both shot through the heart matter | Ame lThe police were summoned t qi DO 99 WOMEN BY MARION LOWE OUT OF astounding. It t and after a while All| didn’t care to go. jo (proportion, There is no mi ing |she went out with other men. She There Ae ony one wen’ {the fact that life is freo and easy |draak with them and finally there aa wy om slg yore in the North and there ich} was a divorce, Now she just ty and calmly by a Seattle soclety |4 thing as the ‘Western drinking|one of many girl POA Ramanathan dh Sipe Not Drinking, But Drunk |}, ace Orinking, habit provi! Men here don’t hold the same! “ plek up women in cafes and | largely Pines tc the conan?” |utandards for themselves that they |everywhere,” says Mra. W. ( pet de, eit iam out ta business {did in the Kast. Women are asso-|Jones, former superintendent of Done tae eee and temper {elated with them” in offices, they | mothers’ meetings in the W. C. T a error baie ante bod tomer | cradually fall into men’s oasy ways | { women who are not merely ance workers, both men and women land the result {# an astonishing |drinking,,but who are drunk The answer was ee ne "| prevalence of drinking among| “very drug etore in town, with bag ol pep lng Joat. | Women. few exceptions, sells liquor to Wi do dag Ra ger a Reg rt An unusual number of married| women. It is no trouble for them to ip drink a0 if thland : Doty. | Women in Seattle work to ‘help|get it without a prescription |Middle Weet aod gd I nti. | along, and that destroys the home|Wholesale liquor houses sell to i we life. Among others I recall the in-| women, and drinking in cafes and jsaloon league |stance of a young married couple | restaurants is so general as hardly The Alaska Habit |who came here from Iowa, The|te cause comment. I think it is because there are so | wife went into an office, It wasn't] “I am not in touch with young ny women here without home|long before she wanted to go out}girle of the city, but my observa ties, The number of women wholin the evening Her husband !tion has been among soclety women up to War wants to say he never heard of Charley ROB COPS MAN-KILLING WHIRLPOOL” Siochuile Cecil started, at least be big enough to stand pat—stand by your j}guns. To turn tail now, Wardall, would be cowardly, and you | aren’t a coward, are you? IPS THREATENLARSON SHOOTING NIAGARA RAPIDSST AY GIRL TO | | | HIDE CRIME (By United Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24.—To prove their bell at the acid- eaten, mutilated body found w a ne cement f n the basement of a little house in Eureka st at of Eva § for- mer teacher in the schools at Paso Robles, was the task to which the police applied themselves today. In order to identify hardly recognizable body nds of the girl who had lived ir an claco were asked » go to the office county coroner and look at the body and the | heap of acid-burned clothes found in a blanket in which the body was wr At the same the coroner t rie acid, Gordon's story con | gan bis investigation into the death | tinues, and the body dina Ben Gordon, 30, disgruntled, he | With <tia hat all tence ne honed says, because Dr. James Grant had| pe lost. Working at night, the doc. refused to pay him $18 said to be nd big assistant, Will.e saachs, due bim, gave the first intimation th who has since disappeared, of the tragedy, disclo: when de’| made cement and laid a new floor, |tectives from the ® office | several inches deep, upon the grave, tore away the ce ment and found the | Wordon told the detectives: body of a gir epee 2 | Gordon's story, as told the police, | Following disappearance, the | says that the giri went to Dr. Grant | Police were asked to investigate, for an operation, that sbe died on | THY found that her room was left the operating table, that the doctor | though Spek cat Ne |became frightened and decided to |* f¢¥ min o of Dem get rid of the Doay. A coal boos, | were @iscovered ugh a police jon Eureka st. was rented, the story |Teport said that she had gone to, |continues, the ndy put into a| Mill Valley, where she was staying |trunk, the joints firat being sawed | “')) © Pe age |through so it might be|_ Ho et ee aaa oe — jerumpled up to fit its cramped wep! peeve aya Pampa ag resting place. Gordon says the house where the girl was |tor took the trunk to the house a as ng bere #, on jthat he sawed a hole in the wood fad Net kek Mt te vanecion » floor of the basement, dug “aw . he called seve nes. He {shallow grave and buried the The grave was satur ted with (Continued on Page Six.) Brains Prisoner BY CAPT. CLAUS P. LARSEN (Written Especially for The Star.) “You go today, Larsen, or not at). rrr all.” aged because he was com-) W. J. Lea, of the city hospital staff, When Johnson—my backer—/ Pt © grub land at the stock ~ hed to the st 20k de on Beacon said that, | didn’t stop to taik, or| R. Ladovich, a Montenegran, brain R gl ee ato. el und wonder if the engine would carry /eq his guard, Mathias Rude, with!a ghastly sok goyeegiey ng from me through. “I'll show them,” | one : err 8 udovich = wag thought to myself. | just jerked off gee 3 ee ee i my coat, said goodby, and pushed rare ee ean, trent off from the dock. For 10 minutes + ier ne n Miles it was easy going down the gorge Poon : person Then.! hit the swift drift where the n of 63 rapids begin. | oa r + mare Suddenly the first big wave la s struck my boat, tossed } ' = a bu and dror ui at i wirling and splashing over me jomm ° I thought I'd drownes h for, gritted my teeth and dashed ~w 9 One wave after another, thicker | (Continued on Page Six.) OLYMPIA, Sept. 24.—According | tion, spent exactly $18,361 in his ios. to statements just filed with the ing fight for the nomination, while secretary of state, Judge Thomas Congressman Miles Poindexter, the insurgent who won such an over Burke, the stand-pat candidate for wheiming victory, paid out $1,080 MYSTERY IN THE DEATH OF wz, TWO IN WOMAN'S BEDROOM. HUNDRED DRINK IN SEATTLE? we at the republican senatorial nomina-| for campaign expenses TRACKS SLAYERS OF HIS WIFE = woman's husband Distel had no idea, he “S55 TQ AMERICA, THEN KILLS THEM On the floor in one cor found was a 32 caliber revolve the chambe we em] (iy United Press.) ) “They killed my wife,” he bodies of the dead man and we LOWELL, Mas ept, 24—After| said. “I killed them. ‘Tis well. were found side | on the!/a sharp pistol battle on the st 1} am glad. 1 knew both men in fl Distel wa i a the postoffice build! ia Armenia. They visited my house different part of the 1 while a crowd was passing the! there. 1 supposed them friends. treet Matsukian, Arme During the rece 8 nian, wh w one of his country-) was compelled t led anoth he| Then my countrymen t was one of ven nee men maltreated my He killed Mohammed Ahmad and/dered her. I § i_women of the so ' fatally wounded Ahmed Noory them if we ever m ¢ 1 have had other ory and Ahmad fled from Ar| here, not. kr g I clubs among the poorer women of| menia to America, Matsukian de-| met, I ki led or a i t city, but the drinking ts not] olared, after they had murdered his| dog’ will die. They got what thee e among them, it in fashior wife there He ew them to avenge | had earned The a rities can do able home : her death with me as the e. Iam satise y fhink the eoolal customs. sre He Took Vengeance. fied. My honor is aven eae ine Jd goa tigsin ese grain Taken to jail, the Armenian calm Nox regained consciousness ete vas aiserats : es py lly lit a cigaret and told his story|after the shooting. He said he had ; oly used At 8O-/ to the police. not killed Mrs. Matsukiar cial functions, and it is only a step from the lighter to the heavier e liquor [OR ORO ROR Rb RR RAR RR The Girl From the Office \® * A shocking thing, as I see it in| # WOMEN TEACHERS AVERAGE $62 A MONTH * cafe is the association of married | * * business men with their office girls. | % (By United P * No married man entertains the girl| * OLYMPIA, Sept, 24.—The bienni A + from his office In a cafe with any|#® tendent Dewey has been submitted to G * good purpose le The report shows 268,97 1 children in tl at * The charge stands, then. against) ® The total number eache nale and f a Wa * society women and girls and women|* The average wages earned by the male teach was $79.5 * and girls in downtown offices |® male $62.92 * Is It true? eee eee eee eee eee eee ee san aise