The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 10, 1911, Page 1

icine trtilatindin inert. Tomorrow Ladies’ Day at Registration Bureau—You Must Register Before Jan. 28 to Beat Gill WEDNESDAY WILL BE L * DAY AT THE There has been about one woman to every three mens Prefontaine building will look like a department store with athe women of Seattle are interest I re of the city, REGISTRATION BOOTHS registering so far, A lot of women are holding back because | sale on. » no one need be embarrasse Get your sister, or| where their children must gre p. precautions on that) they are a little hesitant about going to the registration bureau | Cousin, or neighbor, to go down with you to the registration | The booths are ope n fror 8:30 to you haven't regise ave the city from | alone headquarters and do your duty toward the city you live in tered there Wednesda But there'll be a lot of women there Wednesday, ‘The| Make a demonstration that will convince every one that] SHOW HI GIL “pe WE DNESDAY. Dor m That's what some Fans will always find the Sporting Page of The : Women readers are invited Star up-to-theminute and very readable. Ex- rize dinner menu suggestion and clusive pictures are always first in The Star Sport book NO. 276. ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE ite SEATTLE, WASH,, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1911, ONE CENT. 0%,.78AnYs, Axo NEWS STANDS be LEGISLATURE HAS CONTEMPT LAW UP INJUNC OVE PORTLAND, Jan 10.—Cireuit Judge William bert yesterday | afternoon overruled Federal Judge Hanford’s order restraining City Comptrolier William J. Bothwell, of Seattle, from appropriating money to pay the expense of a re- tall election which is proposed for February 7 Corporation Counsel Scott Cal Roun, of Seattle, and Wilmon Tucker, counsel for the Public We fare League, were direc to pre re a bond of $15,000 to insure he city of Seattle against fina’ cial loss should the circuit judge's decision be reversed by the United .States circult court of ap peals. January 30 was set for al hearing before the appellate court In rendering decision Judge Gt} bert said “1 am inctined to think the two eases cited by counsel sustain the power to grant a writ of super. Sedeas, annulling the order of Judge Hanford. | think, too, that this is a proper case for the court to exercise this power, but | have Grave doubt as to the jurisdiction ef the court. But that is not the question before me. It is a ques- tion of right or wrong between these parti “With the plaintiff, only the pay: ment of his tax is involved. “The defendant stands here for If George W. Dilling is elected mayor in the recall! election to suc ceed Hiram C. Gill there will be a wholesale cleanup of Seattle start ed about 15 minutes after Dilling assumes office That is a statement that he made today. The police department will be thoroughi renovated, cleaned pressed and sprinkled with formal dehyde, Then it will be thrown away, and a new era will dawn in (BY STAFF SPECIAL) 4 10.—History—eighty years of history—« sion of tie Washie SEND HIM To When t ted St ngre sembled in 1831, th@ ~ WE THE JuRY FIND THI ta] Ss MA IAs JAIL . + Wwe n upros ¢ 1 in different Guuty OF ConremprT PROSECUTOR | p ‘ ad beer | and imprisoned because RULED rar wire ; ! ‘hero ’ MAN WITH | 1 th rocedure v dangerous : CONTEMPT the American forr government, congress took up the who afterwards be- the orderly conduct of an election rever took {conta authorized under the laws of the " ; peter Peipenatir tai state. It is a matter that attocte| R ride 2 " on bi, e , riticised their decision, the whole community iH rough with ar nd is the law of the land “The court should be very stow | . | in tying the hands of officers of up as one of the city in a case of thin kind. ; : ; Ah 8° oe The court went on to say that ; HS Tivst: measure Gg OF . of that federal }Judge Hanford's injunction was te of 1831 t car wing sentencing to superfluous that it would tend to “ jail of the editor 1 agi of The Seattle Star for eep voters from the polls; that ‘ naan me " j Soi ‘ of Scobey was required to show pro contempt, bec : m ts he : perty value of more than $2,000 be- y injunctio va 1e¢ people of th :wamish y and in fore he could force his case into I | favor of the Puget § ! tric ) ige Mitchell the federal court and that the tn Gilliar junction, if allowed to remain, pews. OF est fr ne s, clubs would cast a cloud over the whole | " “ea rot » clubs and roceeding e more “mat | F i ¢ t ‘ ¢ the come WHEN THE NEWS | - / W ur T rs wer iced REACHED SEATTLE. re al , Ser r n Landor d Ralph Nichols are “Hanford’s injunction nullified by | 2 7 re r rever preventi a Wi ton Judge Gilbert today. All city offi ; cers can proceed as usual “SCOTT CALHOUN _ ‘ 1 D 1 “Corporation Counsel.” i tor : ndonas Nichols are ‘o sooner had the above message = 1 r N een read to the members of the} eity council last night than an ordi-| nance was passed desi; ; polling places for the recall election — = tior » the f legislatt who have to be held February 7. The ordi a rey tr ned the cc law, are the following exe nance also cted the city comp " tro to make the ne ssary pub lication notices and other details ttees, th houses, is no reasom The only vote against the ordinance | es — vl ¢ ne F t me as any other was cast by Counciiman Conway cers Senator John E, Chappelle, Klickitat county—“I favor the WLLI G ILL | “Senator Ralph Metcalf, a county—“Certainly the man wl els aggrieved shoul act as juc in his own case.” CLEAN Ul Cll ‘Representative T. H Assiigee To institute proceedings, e and fix t ment in contempt cases, i® “sv sss] © OMMITTEESHIPS. TRIES COURTS | 10 satin cas 5. 5 Saif iesci a oh Sa ‘ IN THE COURT ROOM = of officiaidom po! or any} A bomb was thrown into the sen-|ment of adoption of committee ap-|. 9: L. Tenney, recently acquitted | ner gh 3 gga gle so nouncement ¢ committe | eas then reques Metealf to ei itistnat his crecenin Fi boys ane fa at the Chineec rm of a l LEASE fighter. nie | breree sal: Suaetiule aaegl on oatication motion for immediate | ¢2590, alleged to be due him. He *" eesary that th HAS DAY IN COURT: if the men that I appoint—as " nD: In the house comm! chair | @laims that he deeded 160 acres of | blood of a ch — suming that I am elected mayor of nator Hutchison objected. “I| manships were announced as fol-| Oregon land to David to hold for be spilled wh eerie Seat do not do their duty I will | pave b subjected to gratuitous | lows Appropriations. Davis, | Mm and that David sold the land f the oath is VANCOUVER, Wasb., Jan. 10.— fire every one of the delinquents |ingult,” he said. “I am the oldest | Plerce ard, Chehalis; | 61,208 and didn’t come through $ taken, lerne fact that he was 96 years of 1 F | in ten minutes,” said Dilling | member hi and am igno: most congress »portionment, Wed- | With the money | to coi didn’t prevent Michael Damp- | no tolerance = |shamefully. 1 did not expect it ” revision in the WASHINGTON, Jan, 10.—A bill | hof a resident of Vancouver, |}the court room will take on lfrom you, Mr. Chairman. My ree. | L nebal fictary, Wright, _ Ww alias |. uthorizing ng of Alaskan | from ‘attending court last week tm ord is clean, and it's only a King; r ortionment Dig eislative aw 1 eoal lands tr ed in the}® & brought against the city to I object to any senator wu and wa nis King labor, so Chinese wit-| . es for the Mmiting|through his property. Mr. Damp such personal lang 2” it is Tents, Plorce: medicine, Kennedy nesses insist on their native oath ses to 3.200 and that no more | hoffer has owned and lived on the (By United Press.) SPOKANE, Jan 10.—The po lice are searching for “Red” Apple bee, ex-convict and prominent ¢ ing the Coeur d’ Alene mining troubles and the 1 W. W. war a std ago. DOLLARS. SPLIT (By cured Press.) SAN PRANCISCO, Jan. 10.—The Stanley Dollar Steamship company, the Harold Dollar Steamship com pany, the M. 8. ar Steamship company and Stanley letters of corporate disorganization with the superior court today. It is understood that the disorganizatic ig the first step in the way of ing one company to take over the business of the four concerns | LEADING degnified,” broke in Senator Collins. King; mines, Tonkin, King Tl a n will t ‘ an one individual own more than | property since 1860. Applebee was in Spokane last I don’t mind ft,” said F 18. cipal corporations of first class, H. | ? nature of a slaughter house pvt te rovides for a] ” 1 y | « st snowfall « t we n ge F. Vanderver who 5 al Monday and is claimed to have ut Then Senator Stephenson, who D. Buchanan, King llr ital The fir wie ason | s nimum rent A hi S k: T il vred threats against Captain Sulli-| Was appointed on ten committees, | sey, Asotin an y, Has. | Was witnessed y ay afternoor the defense . erp nrg rchie Seeks lol an in a saloon. He has since dis-|asked to be reli of some. tings, King college, McCoy, | #0 last night, thr aarters of an ee interstate ission | appeared and ig alleged to have| Greater efficiency would be as-| Whitman jisch of fakes falling in Seattle.) 4 ae aoa ee ne sulen thar |! siven power to que 5 ald Rushing, a barber-shoe appeared in Grand Forks, B. C.| sured by fewer committ ips to| Both houses took a recess to 2:15 | The temperature dro de-| dent a year ago, when he ruled 2 etective, faced Pollen two days after the shooting attend to,” he said when the governor's message was | &rets, and remained int}the American oath was 00d) yy yee RRR RRR HHH Gordon this morning asa Senator Nichols moved postpon-|to be read throughout the night year, | enoug ait him aay he tian't ao ue ae he early part o! nuary, the “ ed with the murder : in the ¢ part of January, t H wed. with ‘ ie admitted three weeks of gem- ; =ltemperature fell to 25 degrees and|of Chin Gin Oie, woo met his death “ aang BO A ILRO } MAN TO | was accompanied by a high w November following a quarrel anly idleness on his part, but COLD SNAP IS ELKINS LEF I | Thi temperature this morning! during an opium smoking debauch 1 Chinese hotel e tree grown in the state i his non-employmess ae registered 33 degrees. Rain or snow | in a local Prize Gavel for Taylor. OLYMPIA, Jar 10. A gay el made of a limb of the fir yesterday 1 \ Archie was positive that @ cncaneataiive: thom " was awaiting him out on First seonty. ‘The tree was planted #|8Y. Judge Gordon gave him @ ceuthe Hudson Bay fort. at #| chance to make good, Vancouver by one of the first *| ay - captains to be sent out by the *| THAT NIGHT FERRY. tem for years, with headquarters in| cold snap which it is predicted by [name the donors of watch and|fied to the snow king, according to company in 1835 Residents on the east side of Seattle, has tendered his resigna-|the United States weather bureau Senator Elkins, filed here for pro-| diamond, which It # alleged he had|Supt. J. H. O'Neil, superintendent mpe |Lake Washington have presented tion. He will enter business him-| will last for several days in the | bate, the estate, valued at $20,000-| received from women keepers of|of the Cascade division. A great|*¥***¥ ¥ ¥ ¥¥ ¥¥¥¥* FC aim so strongly for a night self, and will soon open a plant for| Northwest, was ushered in today ,000, fs to be held intact for five| resorts, Capt. Robert Dickson re-|concrete shed has been built at WORKS NEW SENATOR. ferry to Kirkland that the new the manufacture of artificial limbs.| with snow storms in Washington, | years, then divided equally among | signed from the Fort Wayne r e| Ty where the a he occured SACRAMENTO, Cs Jan. 1¢ county commissioners, who had de C. T. Hessmer, master mechanic} Idaho, Montana and Eastern Ore-|the seven children. The widow |force today, while the board of|last win The w fall in the) John D. Works w cided to cut out the night service of the Northern Pacific at Staples,|gon and cold raing along the coast | gets the home in Washington as; public safety was investigating the| mountains, so far, winter has' United S§ senato: m Cs until spring, chan, its mind and Minn., takes his place. of Southern Oregon. | well as the home here charges of graft against him been very light forn ‘will make a final decision today. NEWSPAPERS OF THE COUNTRY DENOUNCE THE CONTEMPT ary to Heanor ard D. frightfully glutted in Seattle at pres William B ‘orton, who has POLICE CAPTAIN QUITS ~— served the Northern Pacific com-| Every snow shed througfiout the pany for 32 years, and who has| (By Cotted Press.) INS, W. Va., Jan. 10.—Under|_. PORT WAYN®, Ind., Jan, 10. t tainous country on the at been a master mechanic of the sys-| PORTLAND, Or., Jan, 10.—The ¢ a 0 0 fe stand hern ra has been fort nam mechani he sy P A ir p. the terms of the will of the late} ther than go on th nd n railway v i rere ee eee eee eS The intense interest taken In The Star's contempt case by ) large proportion of the people of Seattle were directly finan- judge has authority to cause arrests for contempt, real or fancied, | THE LEGISLATURE WILL DO A WHOLE LOT TO CLEAR newspapers all over the ing unusually well written and thoughtful editorial printed January country is well illustrated in the follow cially interested. To say that a newspaper could not discus pass on the evidence himself and sentence the victim of judicial THE ATMOSPHERE IF THE L AW RELATING TO CONTEMPT or criticise a decision on such a case is practically equivalent displeasure. To the ordinary individual such procedure is unfair CASES IS CHANGED SO THAT ALL MEN WILL BE EQUAL to saying that no newspaper has any right to discuss any judi- While the courts are entitled to considerable respect, there is BEFORE THE LAW. THIS HAS REFERENCE PARTICULARLY 3 in the Rochester (N. Y.), Evening Times cial decision. Such a position would absolutely destroy a free no particular reason why a judge of the county, state or federal TO CONTMPT CASES OUTSIDE THE COURT ROOM AND 18 “CONTEMPT OF COURT.” press, one of the fundamental necessities of a free government court, should be put on a pedestal with a halo on his brow and | NOT INTENDED TO TAKE FROM A JUDGE THE POWER TO EN- and guaranteed by the constitution. the inscription, "The judge can do no wrong,” over it FORCE ORDERS OR INSURE THE PROPER DIGNITY AND DE- There is no division of our government for which the American The entire principle of punishment for contempt of court Is Placing a black gown on a man and giving him authority to sit CORUM OF THE COURT ROOM, people as a whole have a higher respect than the courts. The in some ways strange, if not opposed to American ideas of govern. in judgment over the affairs of other men does not change his Provide that contempt cases shall de tried before a jury and American people believe, and with the best of reason, that our ment, A man accused of any other offense has a right to trial eral characteristics permit the defendant to take a change of venue if he so desires, judges are high-minded, honorable men, anxious to interpret the |..by jury, But a man accused of contempt of court is summoned He is still a man, with all the weakness of the race, and if he Just be fair to both s, that’s all law with honesty and fairness This deep-seated respect for before the judge, the injured party. And the judge is prosecutor, gets a chance to use his authority for revenge on those who pub pobececes the courts does not mean that jury and presiding justice. He decides whether a crime has been licly criticise him he is going to do it. And when he is mad, as The Friday Harbor Journal, edited by Representative V. W. they are above criticism, or not open to criticism committed, the degree of the crime and the punishment. No other judges, like other men, frequently are, his judgment is liable to be Frits y condemns the contempt law, as follows To assume that the people or right to make honest criticisms ascribe to one section of our ¢ their representatives have no official in any contingency has such absolute and arbitrary power a little biased. Consequently there is nothing unreasonable in the The Seattle Star, whose editors are under a jail sentence, for of elther courts or judges is to | Among the gr number of American judges, however high demand of the state press for a modification of the court's powers criticising a superior court for issuing an injunction in a street ernment a sacredness, a sort of may be the general standard, it is inevitable that occasionally in contempt cas car fight, is making a vigorous war against the injunction and con- divine right, which it does not possess and which is contrary to the there will be men unfit to have such unrestrained powers, men If there is any tendency to hold the courts of this state in any but tempt laws now on the statutes. That an inferior judge, who, like spirit of our constitution and entire American theory of govern. | who will misuse them, the highest esteem, the judiciary Itself is largely to blame. The every other citizen, is only an ordinary human being, should have ment. Yet there are judges who s Most of the Pacific coast and Western newspapers seem to weandal of the supreme court of this state is still fresh in the minds the right to imprison anyone for just criticism outside of the m to take the position that no be of the opinion that an extreme use, to put it mildly, ha of the people and they are susptcious of certain acts of that body, al court room is un-American and too much power for any one man to one has a right to make an honest criticism of their public acts, been made of this contempt of court power in the Seattle case. though having the greatest confidence in some of its individuals have. that such criticism is contempt of court, a crime, and to be punished The case is to be fought up to the United States supreme court The people have a right to their suspicions because some of the scan This law undoubtedly will be materially amended or entirely as such The result will be watched with interest. Should the Seattle judge dal has never been explained abolished, as it should be, at the coming legislative session. The ich a case recently occurred in Seattle. In that city an effort be upheld a precedent will be established that no newspaper can A superior court judge in a nearby county used to keep attorneys newspapers of the state, except in a few corpofation controlled was being made to force a railroad company to restore its former criticise a judicial ruling, no matter how great the public interest in and litigants waiting half a day while he played poker in the back cases whose opinions are sent o ut ready made from Seattle, are low fares. The state railway commissioners ordered the railroad the question at issue, How restricting such a decision would be room of a down town cigar store or swapped stories with some of his with the Star in its fight for the people. company to reduce the fare. An appeal was taken to the courts, on all discussions of public matters can easily be seen political cronies i The court by injonetions upheld the ratlroad. apie - Another case-in point is that of a superior Judge who secured his There's no hint of compromise in the following editorial fn This decision was a very unpopular one in Seattle. One of Nor is there any comfort for those who believe the judiciary be appointment to a vacancy through the influence of the head of a cor the Bellingham Independent of January 5, which reads the newspapers, the Seattle Star, severely criticised the ruling of yond criticism in Editor Short Htorjal In the Auburn Argus, The poration who now has considerable business before him. When the Leroy Sander: litor of the Seattle Star, is another martyr the court. For this the judge ordered the publisher and managing editorial, headed “Just Be Fair,” reads people know that these things are so they can’t be expected to kow to the cause of FREE PRESS and HUMAN liberty. This brave editor of The Star before him, adjudged them guilty of contempt | Leaving out of the discussion entirely the question of the tow every time a judge speaks, If they are expected to do so there editor has the nerve to tell the truth as he sees it, and like Fred D, of court, fined both, and also sentenced both to long terms in jail right or wrong of the Seattle Star's attitude on the Interurban fare is a whole lot of disappointment coming, Warren, goes to fail While the details of the o, have not been published in case, comment throughout the state on the recent jailing of the edl If the Washington judiciary doesn’t like the attitude people as he world needs more men of the Sanders type. The array of the East, on its face thie decision would seem an unfair and tors of that paper for contempt of court indicates that sentiment in sume, let*there be a showing of records and an explanation of cer. men who seek to break the shackles that bind the people’s rights is unjust one. The decision regarding the railroad company’s rate | favor of certain reforms of court procedure are very strong tain things that have transpired in the courts of this state. The gaining. Judges after the style of Weyler see the handwriting on of fare was emphatically a matter of direct public interest. A Tt goes against the grain a little to know that a supertor court Root-Gordon-Hill affair, for instance, the wall. SYA rans a I