The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 21, 1911, Page 1

JUST 5 MORE DAYS TO REGISTER TO BEAT GILL A NEW test for ‘ good housek eepers ne page of The Star housekeeper will be Interested. Monday. starts Monday Don't on the Every forget VOL. 12, NO. 1 etion Mr. Harvey © that an register. Ow be advisable if you make the to the TO THE WOMEN OF SEATTLE DILLING CA iN COMMITTER amendme f voters. The raed in the polttical co: sent recal} electior they # this history, written in as # and cond ffrage ell ve Februa an Mo nated fc and elec district lawyer. arises from the ur and unfortunate w ain s men nd ag and a against was new t , and was re as ns opposed on day, was a and mar voted for ¢ chance of ¢ run Gill was a gc met. People who « the man. All downto the hero of the underw And Gill, when speaking in ised well. A good “business ac segreg the restricted district, efficiency in all departments—this was the pledge made by Gill UPTOWN —his bid for respectable Votes. Gill won { THE LOOTING OF SEATTLE, Gill entered on his office with the best wishes of friends and opponents. Within 60 days he had proved a bitter disap pointment to his friends and justified the worst fears of his enemies. r Gill almost at once on t the city over to be looted by the f When Gill was elected The Sea i the vigorous fight against him, announced that it would give the new mayor every chance in the world to make good. The Star hoped, in spite of its better judgment, that Gill would live up to the promises he had made—up town. For the sake of the good name of Seattle The Star was anxious Gill, once elected, would justify the confidence of the majority But Gili had gone through too hard a fight. If Gill had not been afraid of the strength of Bouillon and later of the strength of Moore, he might have made a better mayor. But Gill, once in the race, was determined to win. At times the struggle looked desperate—looked hopeless. So Gill made promises in order to win. And his supporters made more ises. WHEN GILL TOOK OFFICE HE WAS LOADED DOWN WITH THESE ELECTION PLEDGES. AND THE MEN HE HAD PROMISED STARTED AT ONCE i‘ wld, the fes districts. m nm of s induction into office t es of evil tle Star, which had } ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEAT TLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1911. THE CASE OF SEATTLE AGAINST GIL THIS IS GILL i—— Se - | TO LEVY ON THE CITY. Followed then t cigt » of oper aL c of the city by the THAN A MILLION DOLLARS, of vice of MORE ; ons ple There w yt me in and try his | One strange thing there was about this gambling. A place | would be closed—by the police—then told it could reopen— | BY THE POLICE, Not a downtown policeman but knew }that gambling was running wide open—by orders from above. Politica ! forth. There st of 40 per cent protection For the har ks it ran as jhigh as 80 per Some one was “getting his.” And the people were paying. The games paid some one a third of a | million dollars. A few fixers ed back ar ere ries They the s n when of ND THE WAGON WE to the r , K EMP’ rhe pr on . per a ar t tical friends NO ONE IN SEATTLE CAN DENY THAT GAM- | BLING RAN WIDE OPEN. NO REASONABLE PERSON CAN DOUBT THAT SOMEBODY GOT PAID TO LE IT RUN. | The Arcade j Its profits ran . ght | Despite the promise made by Gill UPTOWN that if dance |halls were permitted to operate they should be free from sus |picion and should not sell liquor, the Arcade was a scene of | nightly debauchery. Girls and men reeled about the floor, mad with liquor. It was a carouse. How many men and women jthe Arcade started on the road to eternal damnation only the oe x angel knows. s¢ 1 set THE DEAL WITH THE collected their blood y—until the | be ¥ Gill's friends e them close their ¢ mone | courts joors golden era 1 sill, The closing Drunke people. Founded to help free junderw ation was dangerous. But the cafes ran unmolested by Gil men fou st granting these p! Ino help fi mayor. Instead, his lit as a personal affront that Kellogg | should fight these places And so the sordid tale of misr Gill had promised the people of Beacon Hill, of Ballard, of Green Lake, that these things should not be tolerated. But there is one strange thing about politicians—and Gill has always been a politician—that promises made to politicians in saloon back rooms in secret sessions, to fixers, to men of the down- | town districts, are sacred, while promises made on the platform to the people—well, they're just campaign speeches. Gill's 7 to the le conflicted with the pledges Idownte he town pledges which were honored, | ¢ Ls ness They ing good. In five years it had plus of $200,000 in one year. Every big clectr silent battle against municipal Electric is the Stone-Webster x General Electric Co., recently !States government. The Seatt! with unfri eyes Despit« Gill went tc ¢ of the plant over the he He chose Richard M me of the council rh got ninistration regarded Weaver Ge and Idare runs, ca ch up. work. Arms choice. The from the dow ty plant had line company in Arms pany collected a list of endorsen first demonstra SEATTLE ELECTRIC, the people from the monopoly turned a big deficit into a sur- the nited : watched poration. Back « cited into court S. E. Ce ads of the Frien en ailt it lom of Gill's id to set up and Elevator Boy, 16 Wins Fortune by MURDERER TEARS AND SMILES AT REGISTRATION BOOTHS Inventing Railroad Device “New York, Jan. 16, 1911. “Mr. Floyd Merrill, 1757 W. 59th st., Seattie, Wash: “| have received word that a pat- ent is about to be allowed on your invention. 1 offer you forty-eight thousand for it outright or on a roy- ality basis forty per cent of prof expect immediate reply. Care Mu- tual Life Building, New York. “R. V. CAILLY.” Floyd Merrill, 16-year-old elevator | boy at MacDougall & Southwick's store, who received the above nfght} telegram a couple of nights ago, undoubtedly the happlest boy in attle today. The fulfillment of hie hopes of becoming a “second Edi son” is in sight. j The invention which Cailly, a Pennsylvania railroad representa. tive, considers worth $48,000, con. sists of an electrical device for pre venting accidents in case of broken rails, open switches, washoute and the like. He Was Ambitious. Young Merrill has been working| world with an invention on the invention for over a year, be-|am about to complete ginning while attending school at), second Edison the St. Martin's college at Lacey,| The telegram quoted above indi near Olympia, over a year 4£0.| cates that he was not building From there last spring he sent @|casties in the alr letter to his uncle and aunt in Bal-|° Yesterday morning he appeared lard, saying: “I will make you! ay nanal at the store, but not for wrosk-antie May, end shat betore | NHN long. I am going to startle the (Continued on Page Six.) FLOYD MERRILL. which I I will be Wouldn't you be surprised if you were told that there are more than #ix times as butiding in were ago? But it's @ fact, remain. | The rest with scarcely an ex many doctors in ONC) ..Hrion have passed away one by today than there | one city 20 years| Real But the four Pioneers. that remain are ve much alive, and strange to vertheions, say. ware four of the seven that coe big fire there|away back in 1889-gathered in Dr. were approximately 25 doctors in| James Shannon's little office in the Seattle old Union block and laid the Today, building| foundation of the King County alone, F University | Medical Society. apr 150 They were Dre. roe L. R. Dawson, F. anna | Jdmes Shannon. in the tire before the Cobb and doctor they're 1 J.B. Churehill Eggleson, and ‘em on the And of the original 25 only four} Registration clerks in the Pre-jmore than five months,” fontaine building are having a good | Hered the young woman: many laughs atong with their jot Voting for Hi | ¥ terday a “« weigh-} “gure ister yuh.” ing fully a fifth ambled] nd she registered into a First ward booth Name pleas clerk Babe I mean Ain't got ne I'm but ter if you dor rect name And then for the poor cler turn The € a. whis- we'll re OLYMPIA, Jan. 21.-—The su preme court has affirmed the superior court of Stevens coun ty in the conviction of Freder ick W. Jahns, known as James Logan, who is under sentence to be hanged for the murder of Agnes Jensen Stevens county October 28. left Do have BOOST WOMAN #85890 FOR SENATE “°° NSE by but don't womer like the} Questions | want to regi tell all they know “will th in the Where do I tells the clerk her Do I have to husband for will they tell my asked wheez your paper (Before address) the same sorr not reg in your cor vote 68 Dilling friend to roasted to a Ae Down in six times today,” triumphantly claimed the wife of a well known business m &n A woman for] after This is the was presented which Jan States sena today that ado legislature. ndlock on a succe DENVER Unite situation to the Ce Jin facing of electing | 8 Hughe f | chatrn t the lat ated men's Clubs ¢ lor will be f eguy the prediction of » noon, & woman, Ww pong about $1,500 | last night to the lat I , of ty " 7 i. ab es,” rine z= her! gasped hubby roa And then learned that registering, h i 8 What's your wife signed five ” r kid d recall — petitions. . pd one What makes wifey peeved is she missed a matt Orpheum ting a re young ith ator ly form, en tered the regix ion booth. nson comr inent the nee fact that at the | STOCKTON right Joseph M under sheriff of San Je oe continuously since 1866, died today Long Seattle | While cireu! all peti Fraud in Uncle RECI PROCITY Joe’s County AGREED ON WASHINGTON, D, C Jan, 21 ity between Canada and th tas been agreed upon department here today d that a satisfactory agree the two countries had The terms of the 4 given out Washington on Thursday This little in such a has kept lof Seattle | bership |this number fully in Seattle, the scattered thre ached | In addition ; . will are, of course, ma ly at |clans that do not society. Counting these, C] ng to them the “quacks” and a& |tors, it is safe to way there is a |doctor for every 500 of the city’s | Jesus | population. men by Re society, whic modest way in step with until now probat HERE'S PHOENIX WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21 The announce. population of 11,184 census bureau today the present ix, Ariz, a6 wt ex: | tion afternoon, C. F. If to > treat him dav ded to a plate of and started Mayor Gill for this Gor sentence appear in arned Judge ed Craig to depart ee eo HERE'S THE ANSWER) *& American born woman * a foreign husband, and *® i is not under the overning the reg- & to Corpor Calhoun, The *® question has come up several * | * times. * he after * | ifyingly ee PLAN RALLY TONIGHT |, Dilling supporters will Steiner's hall, Grand be |15th av. W., tonight | Councilmen Way, Kellogg afd W dall, H. MH. Thompson, Dr, ©. C Benedict, William McDonald and hers, Will Atkinson will preside This will be the first of a series of in the suburban districts rally nlevard listen and to to | meetings HOT NEWS That has NOT happened yet | | "“"Phe-vice gang Ts |davids from every | listera in the First ward | Bobby Boyce was seen fraterniz in Dilling headquarters today The Dilling campaign mar 8 will place no challengers in. the First ward Feb, 7 Frank Clancy insist be an honest count Dugdale promises a winning team this season But remember it hasn't happened yet mane rson who reg: there will pennant The Seattle Star [- When Gill came into office the city had an electric plant | 2! which was a source of pardonable pride to all loyal Seattle prices of the Seattle Electric, with all the handicaps and hin-| drances that face a municipal plant, the city property was mak-| precincts till 9 o'clock tonight. } ajH * | Seattle, Renton & Sout | line * | elect in | fran ‘TOO MUCH RAH-RAH BOY STUFF BROKE UP HIS HAPPY HOME. LATE to 5 the printed o'clock (8 LATEST on PINK Telegraphic and local eastern time) n of The Star PAPER news up cluded ways ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS fe ONE CEN t act back The Seattle Electric Co. had a plant in Ballard ] ' € $5,000 Arms turned them down and the 8. E. Co ot them. there. Georgetown w f Co. had a plant e told 4 tivity ation pect @ Arms’ n't have enough power had. And whi to the Seattle Electric lowest nsurr more 2wn contracts was that he as only using half what he 1 private contracts he sold a rate a fourth as much as the than the Ar can Bank build- nuld use in several years. r He acted, it is , who oval of excuse for Yet b e he u Co. power at ing, which he turned dow e ay listration of } been il result be the The ld only intendent issue down on his head s of the people of ay by day, until it went into ie petitions, >» through on Hi Gill. It has facts as established of Seattle and as verified by story of Stigation r that re le whe election is now on. Every man a citizen of Seattle, who is over, entitled to vote. To m books has been @ Reg and we i a a ent period, is The books will close February 27. They are open in the register Unless you have 1 can not vote for or against The Star urges ne to tered since January 1, Gill To the women of Seattle it makes a special appeal For the issue in this campaign is as much a moral one as an economic one. A vote against Gill is a vote for a clean Se- attle. It is a vote for your neighbor's son and daughter. It is a vote against vice flaunted before the eyes of the young. It is 1911 it in] a vote for women gnd for men. The eyes of the nation are on Seattle. Can Seattle lift itself the « ectric com-| from the dirt and slime where Gill has dragged it, they are ask- and he went to|ing. The women have a chance to say. The Star urges every woman who loves Seattle, who wants to keep this city a place for young men and young women to grow up in, to vote for Dilling and Decency. AND TO REGISTER TONIGHT. Dilling Aids Rainier Fight idents of the Rainier Valley call- for mayor, this mornin; proposed issue of bonds for th ally owned street car misconducted of the ns and re A deleg z recall candidate ed on George learn } the f acquiring building and m unicl caused by the Dilling, ide towards lines, Craw: to rel e situation quate service. I am in favor $8 ) injof that method of dealing with all purpose of purchas-|franchise-holding public service paralelling the | corporations whenever th hern electric| was the case in this tn: Salmon | carry out thelr contracts, on cally in of ;an to vote favor the proposition bonds for the ing, condemning or extending it to all for it Dilling and and § vote ion day,” said Mr For Municipal Ownership. “The municipal owner of} publi proven grat 1 ystems bay “While the paramount issues of the mayoralty campaign are the suppression of vice, the en- forcement of law, and the res- cue of the city lighting depart. ment, | realize that to thou- sands of citizens living along the Renton line no other issue can overshadow in importance the question of adequate trans- portation to and from their homes. | am with them = in their fight and it is my inten- tion to hold public meetings at (Continued on Page Six.) ——s shting 8 except for the unfortunate mis management of our lighting plant ander Mayor Gill, and I know of no reason should not expect good res this The rise the Renton company revoked because the company up to its contract to ine with water we why Its in case of were failed to live provide the patrons of the | wife on the cracker and a cold “spud the board. Helen would be over at the university holding a reception— and hands—with a bunch of students whose ties and socks the colors of the rainbows (By United Press. would be job. ALAMBDA, Cal., Jan rah rah boy” is the ba a divorce plaint the Only a 21.—Too s of com on file in Alameda st perior court here today in which} Alfred M, Chand ler, complaining of a broken home brands his wife, Helen, as _ the original college much shamed ISN'T IT SAD? United Press.) Jan. 21 It is esth mated that a reduction of $1,500,000 widow » |in the annual revenues of the Pull- When Chandler | man company will be brought about came home o'|by the reduced rate tariff for berths nights, he says, no which goes into effect February ly CHICAGO, graced | ni ita aia” Neamt ciMb A biainesirnaistain ins