The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 27, 1910, Page 1

ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE. VOL. 12, NO. 264. SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1910. : R. WONT It Belongs to Dad AID TAFT © NEW YORK, Dec All talk of me supporting Taft in 1912 fe most adsurd sald Col, Theodore Roosevelt today That was the colonel’s answer to the story that he and Taft ed reached an understanding regarding the presidential campaign years hence “Nothing like that has been discussed by me,” Roosevelt nm 4. far as the statement is concerned that William Jr. became Taft's lieutenant to apportion patronage that to New York, in order to secure the state delegation for Taft Bie president in 1912, I know nothing of it.” Colonel Vigorous... The colonel was vigorous In making the denial. He om. the fact that the presidential possibilities of 1912 bad ‘pevet Been the subject of any discussion between himself and the t chief executive. ‘The reports of any such talks, or any agreement in any other way, in which he was to throw bis influence to Taft in the coming gampaign, was branded as simply untru He did not say wheth he had discussed the presidential possibilities with anyone A inier Valley People Score New Victory . : Bainier valley people scored an-]one down town about four blocks > h | J victory this morning in their) from the car line, the other at Co | | iaieeer with the Crawford Renton line, | lumbia, where people would have i ; Judge Gilliam refused to|to get off the cars and pay an ex-| im aB injunction restraining the tra fare in order to buy them. from interfering with the "The company has not carried gation of the company’s cars. (out the spirit of my ruling,” sald] court had ruled that the| Je Gliliam, “and 1 shall pot sign | ’ A stion might stand providing the order,till it does, 1 shall dew | ‘ompany resumed the sale of ignate places for the tickets to be! ~ tion ticketa by Saturday. sold within a few days peers fitt 3 fourt this morning the showing) Attorneys Karle and Steinert are The Star char R. M. Arms, the GilhPurth Nght superintes Me made that the company was carrying on the fight for the soe dent, with turnin, the $5,000 annual contract of the American ’ tickets at but two points peop Bank building in the r part of Jaly on the flimsy excuse of & ntacunetinencensresine @ . _ | shortage of water,” when there wha water to spare WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec The following testigiony of Richard M. Arma himself, given be agind hin ‘ Mag! muycll probers, fully substantiates the charges made by Tho | THAt the United Btates is not pre (Ry United Pree) Q—Now, take the American; had ample time to make arrange) of q. Leonard Wood, chief of witnessing « wheaten-| Bank building, they didn't want to) ments for ft fte staff, given before the house com “That has NOT happened yet. . : QI understand that he came in| phate ore teased brofler in a local theatre | pegin using power until September ad ittee on military affairs, and tose her toot around y for the pur wade public today ract and at ses yesterday | Were You afraid that you would not! pose of closing th sfternoon, Otto} have ft to sell to them fn Septem: | that time he was Rickward became | ber? By October the rains would sufficient power and t ably en-| have commenced, I presume, no back again after n about getting it in October, Seattle Electric co would have had plenty of ten power The ammunition at the dixpoxal of the army, he testified, would not last through a single « coment and’ other conditions are equally le enjoyed the walk home Bight when t cars stopped. id have rained harder, they He went bad Gill has issued an order to Gon, Wood expiata forth into th ed bis plans te see that th M a 7 t about : . aoa lg pen and accum-| power. He Well, he was in ab hat \ tor reorganizing the militia and , ulated a lot of| A--We might have got rains in| tim urged that a more mobile foree be : ' id New Year's eve joy October and we might mot have Q--Now, tn it true or in tt not), iy at all times to take the field F jats, with true Christ t Steering «| that wae a thing we couldn't tell. | true, that you told him at that time) “who. ts ny use talking about p Mas spirit Wi retain old employes 4 course filled with; Q—By the first of November) that you could sccomn : our patriotism and fighting quali Who have proved their efficiency aida. twlate. ond would have been no question A—Now, I don't remember la Gen. Wood tcld the. com Sia remove aayoud . for turns, Otto crash-| A.—The first of November 1 conversation 1 had with him, but I] iitiee "we have thom, but we f political reasons only ed into Sergeant Bryant and landed | think : Fd eed atte we ene sod tu.| must remember that this capital {Bet remember, ft hasn't hap in jail, Judge Gordon allowed him It would have been a dead| the matter, and I afterward IM) Vay jouw to @ force less than that Mr ‘illlams to see him cinch? atruc yet.) ito geo after loud promises to “never | . * 7 n ot Ha defenders, and that it was rie. | again.” | A.—Yea, 1 think— : again and tell him that if he sould SaERRS ta one Gebbes with fous ; |, Q-—-As 08 Saat, nave gine By than a hundred killed and wounded opments shown that a we would go ahead such ax those and close the matter up with him ing, London'’s,| Q.—Did you instruct Mr. Wi RRR lator ob # | number of contrac CURED OF DESIRE FOR * n Bank bul WY. ATHLETIC neacoast go« 1 well fortified. 1 we are **\ do not belleve that fore! oops j cop 1 TROUBLE SUICIDE BY ICY WATER * d have been taken without to raise the ra contract ped 1 attempt » gall into any port ; CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis., | th g reached? that had been drawn? Fe ‘a aobcbder tentias Br ee Sa Jolin Christiansand #| A—Yes, sir, we could have A-—No, sit, | didn't know at that jE tard + ais mc anggaine 4 (By United Press.) yed 40 feet from a wagon mers. time, at least | don't remember that (Fos 1 eee eee ee had left him DASH OF PESSIMISM Here’s the Police FOLLOWING YULETIDE Record for Holiday is hoilday spirit every and womel arrested--283.)Van Wyck, Ira D. Lundy, W. 8. | whe said Eben Tupper, taking ‘ Ludvigsen, F. A. Johnson, G # convulsive hitch at his new em ‘ 5 : broldered susy he General | corpe r « th pr trikte cet , ' ny the i Mile to Beattie and the Northwest. | ban—is py the Gen le cen teauirad ta; and Vestinghouse| The General Electr n wel i kane ’ f ha en buy hat I was laffing ( é at, ' mort said Eben ' t uid $ t h ‘ an the nel 1 i i Hier a I ad € i r moth al ' Wh b gonral I S ted Sel ed Eber rb fe t Ave 1 t\T! , at ! 1 gold hair t for a ‘ A ipon a nation’s | present and § f of rie ha 1 ann til ! " « r t A source of ng to the or a h I gth not brick, x ne, | the Christma n w d a hat « t But Justice, hove and Brother-| ence to come r c 1 hood olitary ring from them this newspaper talk of tion LEONARD LASTER. | instead »p. ! n hurting the elty Seat Seattle, Wash te : t lines. I write these line wa 1 yu t t nd take very rap-| of explanation. for send mith, patient br nd | id ? ping from the annual f na r ‘ A happy New Year and best wish-| Stocks and Bonds, 1 de owt and ed es to The Star and it ders, | the author of these line h he men jfomethin’ 1 vie H, M. PARLEIR True Men. 1 limburger cheese ar hand it Hotel Christie, Seattle | What makes the city great and ahd goin’ to be 1 men trong T'we rved Eben Tuppe t t 26, 1910. Not architectu greatest ‘ : 5000 “ar oo a atranatb worker {or OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec, 27 r ve een en ruce has declined fight and r of The Star for| t factories extended lengt “ oy a oe ge nangural ball be ot { life is|over th Your efforts,| But men who see the civic wrong w York sri gen r through ta favoring a moral) And give their lives t make it t mover lety women bent % Of co you bave| And turn its darkne nto Nght (Continued on Page Three.) — |< *“ * * YET IN THIS GREAT COMMONWEALTH OF WASHINGTON IN THIS PROGRESSIVE AND ENLIGHTENED TWENTIETH TENCE MEN JO JAIL FOR THE “CRIME” OF CRITICISING. AL ANY QUESTION PUZZLES, THEN ir ae a ——_ ; , MONT It TO TDR eC pe att e t ! ed a TODAY'S STAR! YOU HAD X i Thip ne ontract ‘i rding @ con NEW YORK, Dex into Chippewa been a t anything was said rega Gen W aha’ inkrodine ao with suicidal tr He went an Bank! tract that had been drawn up early tion on the Ps graye | 1 under the ice came up your going Into the) in the year. Fa Dag Be etilien ten & of mM feet stream an ment, had there not? Q—-Of course T ass t be veer Brenna dl ns team at the OI hole grabbed the ice -#o Mr. Williams informs me| would say that this class o . and crawled out, He * | that there was a contra wn up| ness (American Bank building) home sal bat th cold @ | early In the year, he s ich b very profitable water made him feel so much *& submitted to him (Sch ‘ Yes, sir, it Is good lighting f better that the desire to die & fe bailding), and he . CENTURY, A JUDGE CAN SEN- MAYBE YOU'LL NEVER WEAR A HAT AGAIN AFTER YOU READ PAGE 4 OF BETTER READ, ANYWAY ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS be, WILL SEATTLE GET DRUNK AGAIN? ONE CEN’ WILL THE NEW YEAR OF 1911 BE INAUGURATED WITH THJZ SAME DISGRACE FUL DRUNKEN ORGIES OF PREVIOUS YEARS?—CAFE MEN THINK SO, AND ARE PREPARING FOR IT. Will Seattle get drunk again New Year's eve On January 1, 1909, The Star printed a half pag | Night.” On January 1, 1910, The Star published another article, “Seattle Drunk Again Last Night. Seattle approaches another New Year's morn Will the same pitiful, tragic, terrible story ha » be written a Will Seattle get drunk AGAIN this New Year's eve? Already the cafe men are laying their plans. Invitations are being scattered broadcast, “Reserve your table for New Year's eve now,” is the cry Sometimes you must put down s guarantee of as high as $50. In others there is no guarantee, but there'll be nothing but wine served after 10:30, And already men and women are laying their plans, in turn, to be there—and to stay there till the last light goes out. 3ut— _ When the last light in the last cafe is switched out and the last wine-splashed table is piled high with wine-drenched chairs, and the last merry taxicab has whirled off with its last tragie load of drunken humanity— How many clean ing men will have set foot on the ladder that leads DOWN to rui How many girls will have taken the first fatal step? j This is not a plea for prohibition. It is not an argument against saloons. It is a plea for common, ordina y, 64-days-out-of-the-year decency. The New Year's day eve is, and rightly, a time for throwing off the cares and worries of the year, 4 | It has been made a period of debauch. It is the time sacredly set forth for the annual drunk 4 The annual drunk—that is the word for it—the only word . Who can tell the full, awful tale of wreck and disaster it has brought? New Year's eve, he time of ending and beginning. It has been made a thing of horror and disaster. Not a fanatical plea ts this against New Year's, against the holiday spirit. It is not even iment agair vine or the sa n It is an argument inst the Ne | morality article headed, “Seattle Was Drunk Last ' ? an st v v Year's drunk, a plea for decency, a plea for ordinary, Seattle get drunk again? GREAT ELECTION FRAUDS —_LADQVITCH _ UNEARTHED IN OHIO PROBE SENTENCED j Vaited Press) wed to have particl- | WEST UNION, ©, Dec. 27 4 deal already are under Charges that votes purchased by | ent, and their cases were I. r 5 duled to be called today one party were stolen by another ) R. Ladovitch, convicted of mur before they could be cast were! They Soars aca der In the second degree for the of Matt R to Judge Blair today durin o years 2 > = ¢ . oday during | five years and a fine of t ad tana & hearing of indictments growing | (hey are said to have accepted for | yu, out of the alleged election frauds in| t votes, according to punish 0 Adama county. Voters from the| mont meted out in similar case ain- county infirmary who had been paid ven hundred and ninety-olgnt | War from ii nied Remmi to yote the republican ticket tments, all told, hav The sentence was } were kidnaped and give #10 'to/ turned since the investigation was|Ledovitch, who is a Montenegrin, vote the democratic ticket, it was | started Wr * " in his own language. When it was y ed ie hundred true bills are expect-| announced, he hung his head dowm Ty! ed late today sadly, saying ———==| “I must take what the law gives, I am sick, though.” |DEAD FIRE CHIEF The court gave orders to the OF CHICAGO sheriff that the prisoner be given | eeneneneeneemene immediate medical treatment. He | is suffering from stomach trouble, | Jud asgow, his attorney, | gave no! of appeal st | Before pronouncing sentence, | Judge Gay informed Ladoviteh that for a similar crime in own mpany, which they con (By United Press.) McNeil & Libby,| SAN DIEGO, Cal,, Dec. 27—Mp de, guard at the % sentenced by ise Gay this morning an ime determinate term in the pentten- alle The voters from the infirma ppmninnitiiaincsiinaesiimateanniamen: armas sateen ot Guggen are considering » canneries in Alas ps, fishing gear and of The irs. A. H. Marker and 9-yeat. paid | (000, it/old Hermann Marker are suffering today result of a horseback Capt. D. H. Jarv secretary- | Tide taken by the boy on Christmas treasurer of the N day erles « i As the | turned into the yard f » Ne after the Hermann fell off, |no know preaking right arn His Cc : altho’ reams 6 ted his father that, et Jheard th after he led the animal to its An ess | stall he fell beneath tts feet in @ Oran |men ar ty the state-/dead faint. The horse kicked out ment that th nder we Marker's front teeth and broke his James Horan, chief of the Chi-)i iy dochicd tem K spot Peay so 4 gti cago fire department, who was ’ . as ye ke fae SELL BABIES sia bi ee ee eee ee eo TO BUY FOOD, The Last Chapter : * * WEATHER FORECAST. * * * PEKIN, China, Dec 7 b Fr. t " fc ; My lig esterly w sa . Roads in the Kang-ste-Kiang |; ¢ uloon - "et * famine districts are dotted | gto: th court 4 ke KKK KEK with the dead and the dying i t b ’ from hunger, and the cold | oy Cor ef wohaen ts tatenettyinig the aie. |ovee sohatenet, Frank Bootlegger It is estimated that more toa no* i than a million children have t A tr Y } € avit of Sun been sold by their parents to i b fi day f ne Kk, W. P. procure food. The government I e oF t ‘ 1 elf at the ie trying to stop thie sort of |, boo cn itpeae’ @ he Western bar on barter, Relief committees are |; ne of 10 day he|the afternoon « ember 25, appealing to other countries iy Sail Chia sneenbin the ge pinched by for aid. | Patrolmar { elt i. Moore eleo- Boy and girl readers—-the young-|trified the court by pleading gullty, wok kk oH) er ones—will find Uncle Jack in| When Judge Gordon ently Tes * * |The Star next Saturday covered b essed $100. * SLAPPED SISTER * - * KILLED BY BROTHER «*|~ ty : : TALES OF THE TOWN * PRESCOTT Ark., Dec * * —On the eve we . P as & beca t He he had *| - % slay h H. * \ ame ) the office ea : g, Just hopping mad. * Hendricks was shot and killed * i € ter, wh 1 1 *' hi brother William Hen * i bor eeper he yeen in business for my- * drick The shootin oc * if at it times—hav cor o the Coa 1 ap- cs red at he re of the * I fc 1 advert A larbor. Here's their re * the elder Hendri w * The re from the company asked I full name, - * Can I sing?” the r ¢ 3, wish you'd pub- \* * wR RO OR Rk