The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 11, 1911, Page 1

CASH And book rewards to young readers of The Star This week it ls $1 for the best fourtine verse All youngsters Invited to compete ONLY VOL, 12, NO. 277 SEATTLE, STANDARD OIL GOES ON TRIAL TODAY CONTEMPT LAW WETS WIN UP IN BOTH OLYMPIA, Jan. 11.—The expect- Beach, Bird, Cameron, Campbell ed fight on the © question com-| Carlyon, Chamberlain, W, P, Chr |menced in earnest this morning, on| ensen, Davis, Deming, Dickson; Bn ja ‘eved t enta-| ois, Eshelme Fisher, Fontaine | Foster, Gandy, Garrecht, Ghent, Gil lett, Goss, Groff, Harold Hast Q Horrigan, Johnson, Kennedy | Larue, L Martin, MeArdle, Me Kenna McLean McMillan Me Neel « Miller, Mi (By Staff Special.) nard, Mood Rich, Sime OLYMPIA, Jan. 11.—Early today Representative Victor W ; t one Ke Zednick introduced in the house of representatives a contempt ; Wray, ‘Kednick aaa Dill identical with that introduced by Senator Landon in the r house, wiping out the principle of constructive contempt. Wright moved to re the m The bill was referred to the judiciary committee. i Bee peaonbicn. og pee ree . 7 tw won again on a vote o The bill was House Bill No. 1. 5s to 41 a . 7 A motion by Dow to take receas OLYMPIA, Jan. 11.—With C jost, Then came the final vote on message ) ay, the senate settled down to real we Campbell resolution, showing bills were duced, the first Senator 1 me iae-up, 63 to 41, Yeats God) ‘ Drissle ent. A motion to recon amendmer present ¢ I be known as " $ to Senate B Senator B. an appropria — that the Mquor ques-| ness, is No. 1 = That Ser $ not a he fight for P eee ee eee eee ee principle declaring judges n from justifi eary ays ole * m th ee her val ff indicat t * SUMMON WOMEN JURORS, criticism than any other pub off ind ed by the} ‘ rT; 98 willingness of other bers of the senate to co-operate with] Is Still Lost * were ccnvae him * it's of Senator Collins of King, is the 1: nb: he upper : 7 Thomas house to be heard from ; ¥ " ive “I believe in respect r d a Pie think they should be free me . Roy David whether the criticism is dire a al afi ® a the trial c a y fter its * Anderson, ac dency « an act nm or after it f * poring with pr Almost the we Seattlo EF f homish did after t *® Cc will be held be of the fede pt « t { * fore J Fred ©. Brown t ale nike ateaeeeenee ee wh MRS. DEVOE WOULD START "=. crvisirstet Secure Jury for PARTY WITH WOMEN ONLY w ¢ t. y, THANKS ial ae SEATTLE STAR | democrats or socialists, | (By United Press) publican EATEN BY CROCODILE TAMPA, Fia., Jan. 11 MAN STRANGLES FIERCE WILDCAT And Now He Is TO DEATH WITH HIS BARE HANDS [| has been recelved here of th Sennen — rible death of Edwin Temple Jan. 11—Mount Wilson has a “Jack Aber years old. The child was a S ki Di Bathy” of its own today. His name is Harvey Nies. Nies was in [and eaten by a giant g earch of a wildcat that had been raiding his hen coops when he [I|his father's plantation eeKIn ivorce @iscovered the animal and chased it into a hole. The cat came -- —- beck. It landed with all four fect on Nies’ face and the fight was nad. H. Hand is made éefend om. It was only after the hardest kind of struggle, during which sat in an action for divores brought De was badly clawed, that Nies ch » wildcat to death. DO you KNOW by C. P. Hand When Hand left Virginia in 1903 SSS = That the total revenue from auto-|bound for Seattle, it seems hy had 4 mobile Meenses in the state of to come alone Star wich Gets INCOME TAX || Washington © past year rs. Hand refused to budge amounted to $5,5 Since then the only letters he has That the number of nts | received from her are cold, formal $785 Back Pa a ter tare viatan soem’ |reeuets tare y — of state during 1910 was 6,893? Besides, she writes derogatory OLYMPIA, Jan. 11.—Senator| That the consumers throughout letters to his employers from tin Bryan of Kitsap today introduced a the country suffer to the extent of to time, jeopardizing his job, it esol tio at a he proposed | $100,000,000 annual through the | stated Bee salary gue Deputy Constitutional amendment Ga the in-| practice of #hort weighing or short | ‘The couple were married in 1889 Matt Starwich, amounting to sleome tax | measuring by dealers? and have three children Was voted yesterday by the new| Bryan also submitted a bill pro| That the secretary of state. is | “ Phoard of county commissioners.| iblting courts from issuing re-/and measures? | NIGHTCAP IS CAUSE Mkewich’s sal 3 t {straining orders, temporary injunc-} That he is supposed to have the = ‘a salary was cut to $1 &/)ti5n8 or permanent injunctions to|care and custody of authorized | BOSTON, Jan. 11.—Mre. Wil Month, as punishment, when the} enjoin public officers from perform-| standards of weights and meas-|helmina Brackett has secured a deputy refused to side with the|ance of duty. The bill is aimed at| ures? vorce from her husband on erw tommissioners against Hodge. traction companies who dodged pay-| That the Seattle postoffice is as | grounds. Among other things, she Btarwich has kept on working at | ment of taxes running to courts| silent as the tomb on Sunday /alleges, her husband insisted up. eet moo @ month since. | for injunctions. | evenings? on wearing a nightcap to bed. oO = y 2 ars ve been | The Seattle Star, it goes without saying, Is a good newspaper, and In California, where judges for over 20 years have | fearless in its defense of the right and condemnation of the wrong. deprived of the despotic power permitting them to send edi Tt use of its offending was a criticism of an injunction issued ; , are |by Judge Gilliam against the residents of Duwamish (a suburb of » jail for a icising. apers are tors to jail for the “crime of criticising,” the newspay Seattle), who refused to pay an increased fare charged by the local Still commenting upon what they term the arrogant action of | railway, clatming that such fare made it impossible for them to work Judge Gilliam in trying to muzzle The Seattle Star by sending in ithe eity and live in thetr suburb, where the majority of them own its editors to jail The state railroad commission had declared the rates excessive. Twenty ye ago Editor Barry of The n Francisco Star | ¢ ars were atalle d nightly and peopl were ejected by the com itici Ay ieee ‘ Se, 1 fe tempt, ad- | pany’s bouncers. ne company finally procured temporary restraining Ctiticised a judge, who promptly cited him for contemp' orders from Judge Gilliam's court enjoining the rom refusing judged him guilty and sent him to jail for five days. \to leave the cars on non-payment of fares Editor Barry says The Seattle Star's criticism of Judge The Seattle Star’s comment upon the Judge's action was “timely.” Gilliam was mild and tame as compared with his criticism of | We have it before us as we write A goa * : ; Every word it printed is true, and everybody knows {t's true fornia judg. arvels somewhat 0 avy the California judge, and he marvels somewhat over the hea “And pity ‘tis, ‘tis true, Penalties which Gilliam imposed Being true, it was not only the right, but the duty, of an honest Barry, following his clash with the judicial despot, took his| journal like The Seattle Star to say it out loud. fight to the people, and the people spoke up so loudly andy Governme nt by injunction, used against the beople by courts plainly that even a machine controlled legislature thought it] Oe nr aet’ degeus “have aersomal to tteonéivas psa Wise to curb the judges. A bill was passed, not only Wiping | tat even the czar of Russia would hesitate to exercine Out the law of “constructive contempt,” but specifically forbid- When, however, they dare attempt to muzzle the press, as this ding any judge to way an editor or other citizen| Seattle judge has done, they strike at the very foundation of our "hy i ae - ieee ae | institutions; for without a free press liberty is dead ¢ alleged “crime of criticising.’ f 7, has| Suppose ‘The Seattle Star had published a similar erlticiam Editor Barry, in the issue of his ig vad of January N48! concerning some act of the president of the United States. That the following editorial concerning The Seattle Star contempt) highest of all public officials, if he felt aggrieved and wished redress, case: could, like the humblest citizen, do no more than invoke the law Twenty years ago The San Francisco Star made a fight for free-| against Mbel, which would insure the accused a trial before an tm partial tribunal, and by a jury if demanded Why should a judge, like the one in question, angered by what a newspaper says of him or his acts, have the right to be judge, jury and executioner in his own case? Under the ruling of the Seattle Gom of the press in California, and the same kind of a fight is now made jn the state of Washington by The Seattle Star, whose edit- ore, Leroy Sanders and Hugh Allen, were recently convicted of con fempt of court by Superior Judge Gilliam—Sanders being sentenced to four mouths and Allen to one month in the county jail. judge, there Is no freedom of the VICTORY Sete et ee teeeeeeee { | | OLYMPIA, Jan. 11.—Mrs. Emma is the latest surprise sprung by | work 6 stiediion & tere: © Bmith DeVoe failed to get the privi- ae egg gag ed in ree F of Ho Bak Gule, charged e leaders in the suffraget a ng of t Federation ¢ d 5 the first degree, be : Tic ocmane aihewtng er te movement in Washington last fall} the Woman's Christ - rcaas tae day. hen wome ere ¢ r re | are Voraed down —Saten,|" pon “hoes Soclaved that the pro-}Cntoy ~— voe dec h e pro-} lowing r was ~ ii Spl on oon eine carted, posed women’s party would enun-| pas Be it resolved, that we ve 4 e. yaya 30. ‘The house | “ite Its own principles, which she|the Federation of the Woman's Chinese quarter etting _3 intimated would be strongly rad-| Christian Temperance Union, rep a ques wae Ee eemeerned at meen. teal | resenting 1,000 women in Seattle, ule ant awas Heal : mR , Mra. Devoe sald that she is op-| deeply appreciate and do heartily |). ne of the ng in an ato OLYMPIA, Jan. 11.—A political) josed to exempting women from | commend The Seattle Star for its ‘” so g <4 oh Geauee arty composed of women, and not) jury duty. She was scheduled to| valiant stand in the cause of right-| 1045 he claimed (MiMlated in any way with the re-| address the legislature today. eousness and a cleaner, better Se |). had attacked him and that he = a —= = = attie.’ only defended himself. jing. the ‘Hodge Scores - psosaanur OER ete eee 99 BREAK RECORD AT REGISTERING Today poll was Ww 4 skeptical about to one the ar who is a interest sb ern in the egistering is on and all whe Gill ibust ba Ip beat on the regintra Yes registering 2 and muc to b ame predi All consta today b heavier pe polls t ar tage oon REGISTER BEFORE YOU FOR GET. |Woman Sues Store Last Victory for Shaming Her | Bheriff Hodge scored the tc PORTLAND, Or., Jan. 11.— jtery over the old county comm A suit for $25,000 damages was jaloners when the now board yes-| fiteg against the Meier and jterday afternoon dismissed Georke | Frank department store today fe come eh se th orney retained) by Mra. Elizabeth Stephen ore otes Vaaereede ae ae prominent social leader of lfused to handle the case, which he| Pertiand. She alleges that she claimed was simply a spite case was dragged into a small room Commissioner Carrigan made a last} PY one of the store detectives desperate effort just before he left and accused of the theft of a Saite by DE Rummons.. But} f€W. handkerchiefs until she Hodge's attorney got a continuance | Went Into hysterics and the case will soon be official! dropped LOST 48 YEARS ed MILTON, Mass J 11 John * * Arthur Stock, who ran awa * THE WEATHER * home when a boy of 14 *% Rain or w tonight and # here today, He has been * Thursday; moderate westerly * | years, without ever wrl his ® winds. *itwo brother who we him Rea K KR KR RR ek & hom a the corrupt relating insane or consideration of matter ft would be impossible to drive an bench—and both sometimes get ther The courts have the power, as they sometimes have the dispost tion, to Incarcerate people for contempt of their arrogance and tyranny but they cannot alter the opinion of the people regarding them as indi viduals or as an institution. It has been said that when Americans rejected the idea of the divine right of kings, they substituted for It the divine right of judges! But this is not so. It is not the people, but certain judges themselves, who believe in this divine right, and have tried to force it upon the peop! and thrusting into prison editors who honestly dare to criticise their conduct. What is a judge? Is he the king, who can do no wrong? Is he God, whose acts and motives one must not question? Is he our Cre- ator, or are we his? Are we his servants and he our master, or is he our servant and we his master? The framers of the Arizona constitution, which provides for the recall of judges who fail in their duty, have answered these questions in the Judiciary man from press to our satisfaction. The purpose of this article {s not to defend the libeler or wan traducer of character, but to defend the sacred right of free speech and a free press, without which right all other rights would soon be wrested from the people, and the republic be a republic only in name. Government of the people, for the people, and by the people, la impossible without free speech and a free press. In the sentence of imprisonment on the Seattle editors, the guar- anteed right of trial by jury has been stricken down. The constitu. tion has been subverted, Freedom has been assaulted in the temple of justice, in the very citadel erected for her protction Of course, every court has a right to protect itself from disturb- ance or interference with its proceedings; but the expression of opin- jon, not in the presence of the court, nor in a way that hinders of Interrupts Its busin should be a sacred right, the abuse of which only should be an offense in law, and then the accused should have a The Seattle Star INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE WASH., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1911. Greatest of Trusts Judge Hanford wired Judge Gi- t a congratu message on (By United Press.) his sane etend im this coon Tee. ae ited Slat et | But, remember, it hasn't hap 4 ator from Colorado, died here at |'*"*? yet = noor Hughes Was a demo #k& eee crat & lived in Denver since|® THE STAR WANT ADS & 1879. He was elected to the senate |* ARE SHORT CUTS WHICH & succeed Henry M. Teller. His|* SAVE TIME * j term would have expired in 1916. ee asend hasta a! BRE 9 (By United Press.) len, . SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11—! Appa ty which refgned@ 4 |George Stevens appeared in police |!n the room i suddenly to a court today charged with keeping a | £'00™ when a flapping coat lapel ree HOW CALIFORNIA KILLED CONTEMPT LAW DRAMATIC STORY OF AN EDITOR AND A JUDGE, ALSO A LEGISLATURE and | fair trial, | vided for every other citizen, and the editor has the |a fair trial that he would have if he had injured any other officer on » even to the extent of taking away the right of trial by jury) FAKE | lection e The fa flouris page 4 agencies re attention teday. king letterheads, to the ork, with ¥ ores Don't on ording miss it ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS be. ONE CENT. Facing Dissolution ro n, 1 T 1 Ol! Compa of New fight for ot guilty in o the the fore govert and thro’ fe to the fine the charge ¢ ation T ' tin th ard O11 n of @ of the and rich- n the rearon, Van- Taft's highest dge of n a dec (By United Press) Jars t tod by TORIA, B. C., Jan. 11 of th five mer drowne vic y in Dec h Attor vew York delphia in ich just a the % jotted q cy alleg- on in propor. fost ance n r tition, a ade » domina ted T t prove to th ‘ourt, to lower tribue en the ness of evil, dard he off HOT NEWS 1 That has NY n JAP ADMIRAL | HITS AT TAFT (My Untied Press.) TON, D.C. J T happened yet. The Royal Arch has formally ree ommend vernor Hay’s stand om oat . a Gid Tupper signed the recall per army @VY | tition today . = on . ‘P| So did C. Gerald takes a han Every woman wh tered to believed the ad-| ag 1 she'd vote fo Gill Feb atic excha: Wapey 8 he Dilling wins Hodge will go down the i friend Hi SENATOR HUGHES DEAD THE MOURNERS IN UNDERTAKING : PLACE WERE PLAIN GAMBLERS 4 vealed a { ar on the vest of one of the visit estab pool room in an u lishment. Eight companions were| “What are you fellows doing?” 4 arrested and charged with being | demanded th jeuths. i visitors. A coffin, filled with racing Hold wake,” responded E charts and gambling phernalia, | Steve: 3 was seized as evidence. The Where's the corpse?” ners” who entered the place There, in the coffin, poor fek Stev kept his alleged | low,” c: the answer B pool room w observed by the| ‘The lid was pried up from the to be suspiciously light-/only casket in the room and the and numerous, Capt. Mc-| “dope sheets” disclosed ordered investigation.| “You fellows do your mourning to ectives, dressed in black,|/the judge,” suggested the deteo- with handkerchiefs to their eyes, | tives, as the “wallers” were hustled passed the “lookout” without a pa wagon as in other cases. If a court is corrupt, the editor of a paper, knowing that fact, has not only the right, but it is his duty, to say If the editor errs or wilfully slanders, the injured judge, who at most is but a man, and sometimes not very much of a man, has the same redress that is pro- me right to any private citizen. Whe absurdity of giving a judge power to try, convict and punish an editor for contempt of his court, is made more conspicuous by reference to a principle that binds all judges in another class of cases. This principle is that no judge shall try a case in which he has a per sonal interest, If it properly applies to cases of property, even though the judge's interest be remote, it should be still more binding in cases where the liberty of the press and the citizen is at stake, and where a judge naturally becomes blind to justice through the anger or re sentment that he feels toward a man who has dared to criticise him F or his decisions. ra No man can be entitled to greater respect than a just judge; and certainly no human being can be lower than a corrupt judge. We want an independent, intelligent and honest judiciary; but of more import- ance still is an intelligent, honest and Independent ighty years ago congress passed an act taking away the power of federal judges to summarily punish their critics for contempt of court; and in 1891 the California legislature enacted the following lay “No speech, statement or publication, reflecting upon or concerr any court, or any officer thereof, shall be treated or punished contempt of such court, unless made in the immediate preser such court, while In session, and {n such a manner as to acty terfere with its proceedings.” The above law was passed in obedience the people, after the editor of The San Francisco Star for five days and fined $500 for contempt of court. Our “offen Infinitely more flagrant than thaty of The Seattle Star, although the punishment inflicted’ far more severe. press to a general ¢ had,