The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 28, 1911, Page 1

HERO TALES SMILE A while every day and you'll forget old King Grouch, and you can throw those indigestion tabl out of the window. . page 4 today. Lots o amii VOL. 12, NO, 293. Don’t miss one of these American hero tales. ONLY Every youngster, every lassie, too, admires a hero—boys and girls would rather read thrilling tales about pirates or Indians tha: any other kind of scory. Is it about the daring Decatur, an earlier Hobson, or the brave Indian fighter, Col. Crawford? Just watch the older folks, too, wat with interest. They'll make your love for your country new again. They begin Monday. The Seattle Star INDEPENDENT Heyer Aree IN SEATTLE | WOMAN IS HELD IN ALLEGED BLACKMAIL PLOT | THE BETRAYAL OF BOB HODGE! te The Gill gang ts exultant today 4 . They, “put one over,” they boast, when they got him to sign the Gill statement—the -fatal statement that gives the He to everything Bob Hodge has ever done for clean, decent government tn King county They fooled Seattle's big, honest, trusting sheriff, Bob Hodge, who likes men and believes in them. They are bragging of the way they turned the shrewdest political trick in years is But there is no blacker act in the history of the campaign—per haps even in the shame conditions which made the recall neces sary—than this same duping of Bob Hodge. These u have cut Bob Hodge's political throat, and they knew they were doing it. They have blocked his chances of further ad. Yancement at the hands of the people, and they know that, too. And they told Bob Hodge they were his friends-—-and he believed over the duping of Bob Hodge. led to They They Med to Bob shamelessly, without Hodge—these men consctence or remorse. him desperately told Bob Hodge i they Were his friends. But they didn't care a snap of their fingers what happened to Hodge. They cared only that Hi Gill spould win ' that vice, crooked, corrupting, enriching vice, should continue to de king in Seatt that Seattle should remain theirs to loot and to ‘" plunder. 4 They used Bob Hodge. And when the election is over they will drop him. ; Today down town the Gill gang {s laughing at Hodge—at the way they have fooled him i And today Bob Hodge ts realizing that all men are not honest . the lesson of men's duplicity mn For Robert T. Hodge has always been a sort of big, open-hearted 4 trusting boy. He did not learn deceit on the hills of Scotland. Men talked straight to each other when Hodge sailed before the mast Im the coal mines at Black Diamond men did not lie to their friends. . So Bob Hodge bad never learned to distgust the men who told 4 him they were his friends. He knows better now Bob Hodge today is learning his lesson—the bitter lesson of faise friendship. It may do him good. it may embitter him, but it may make him a better official. DILLING MEETINGS TONIGHT ~ Masonic hall, University district, § p. m. Speakers, Corwin S. Shank, J. Y. C. Kellogx, Ole Hanson, W. W. “Beck, Prof. A. R. Priest, George W. Dillin MONDAY EVENING. Gatewood, 7:45 p.m. Speakers, George H. Walker, Dr. Cora Smith Eaton, U. S. Elkenberry West Side hall, on California av. $:45. Sp all, Peter Bettinger, H. BE. Wilson, Ole Hanae CHRISTIN SCIENCE PRACTITIONER FREE (By United Press.) NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Christian Scientists here today are jubilant over the failure of the police to con- | Vict Willis Vernon Cole, healer, who practiced on Fifth av.. of infraction | — of the medical law: of New York state. They regard it & clean-cut * vietory for the practitioners of their cult Cole was arrested at the instance of a police matron who went to} him for treatment __ Salvation Lass for Police Chief (By United Press.) | Max War ers 4 NEW YORK, Jan. 28—Members of the Artists’ league of the Po litical Equality association who| heard Dr. Anna Shaw's address be-| fore that body, agreed today that 4 she was right when she said that Mand Ballington Booth would make an ideal chief of a feminine police squad. i is at liberty on his personal recog Shit in 1 Distress HUGH TODD, THE BOY ORATOR. | nizance Hugh ©. Todd, the young repre-| F p sentative from Whitman cobnty,| GOULD SELLS OUT hogan ee is‘an d¥ator. Why? He's a demo a ee erat. In these days of progresaive| It t#* persistently rumored in| SAN PEDRO, Cal. Jan. 28—A Fe-| thought, however, they forget party | port has been received that the |iines:somewhat. | Speaker Taylor| financ circles steamer Coos Bay lost ber rudder! tor instance, overlooked Todd's | and was driven ashote at Ventura| democracy, and. put him on some this morning. A request that t0K*}of tne most. important be sent to aid the vessel immediate te ses in the house, namely, on ly have been recetved here It is) rules, banks and banking, judiciary, | not thought that the vessel is badly| ind privileges and elections tionists and 150 federal troops, whieh government soldiers the (By United Press.) AA AKKKHEAKRER EN - (By United Press.) CHICAGO, Jan. 28,—In an effort DISMISS STR STRINGER |e. crsesisiestoned stribe 1 street car men here, Mayor Busse today called a conference of Although Lieut. Col “Lieut, Cot John String-|pregidents of traction nes for Mon er claims to weigh no more today | qay, when he will urge that conces- than when he joined the volunteers) giong be made to the men at the outbreak of the Spanish- American war, he was discharged FUGITIVE CAPTURED, yesterday by Adjt, Gen. Fred RENO, Nev., Jan. 28.—-Harry Liewellyn from the national guard | Brenan, who escaped from the Ore service on the ground that he {s|gon state penitentiary at Salem too heavy for military duty. String-| June 25, 1910, was captured here er weighs 164 pounds stripped. \today by Detective Hillhouse, commit: | WHERE IS OPIE READ? where, oh, where has is the aad wailing of a few who have been trying to} land Opte Read, the champion heavy | weight novelist and playwright from Chicago and Kentueky. Qple rived in town some time Thursday eveing, and on t following morn ing a Star reporter scented h trail toward the Hotel Washington Nix, he's not here yelled the clerk at the top of his voice. Well, wh tn the wher then? He ought to be h egistered here,” replied porter ‘He's gone where Un "Oh, he is he He up the s and will re nd some rm today some ver since phoning the reporter has been ‘ound trying to locate this man. Ople is a big man, weighs 400 pounds are writer very heavy stuff, Hike the pntneky nel The Carpet Bagger,” and a few thousand other books which have | made Ople rather famous and rat ef rich and rather fat SERRE ERE RE STRONGER CIGARET LAW. OLYMPIA, Jan. 28 sentative Byerly the anticigaret ago Repre who fathered law four y ars wants to make it even more strict. He has introduced a bill to prohibit ev ownership or cigarets eee THEN IT HAPPENED | manufacture ot see eeeeeeee Seeeeeeeeeee PARIS, Jan. 28 Maitlet is dead here today because his foot slipped. When he came home in toxleate Malllet invariably seared his wife by pretenc suicide by hanging T he drank a little more than ted to his favori put a ro around =} climbed on @ j chair and ther end to the chandelier. Just slipped. Then it hapy » bis ed NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HICKTOWN BEE ‘Pastor up Wednesday} | Rev. E. B. Sutton, charged with} |false and fraudulent registration. | while acting as registration clerk precinct o h} jin the Fourth | ward January |Justice of the . Wednesday morning. Rev that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. have or ganized a syndi | cate to buy con trol of the Gould railroads, t h ¢ dqmaged. Todd was the baby of the house Wabash and Mis aor two years ago, when he was only ourl Pacific 24. They liked his record so much, rhis means the L' down in Whitman county, that they etirement of sent another democrat of about his George Gould, own age, Chas. R. Larue, to be his} vhe has been ty United Press.) colleague this time. ye of the na SHAFTER, Tex, Jan. 28.—Fol- Hlon's ble Rest lowing reports yesterday of a rebel) | Ni H d R | ig rallro men vietory coat Ojinaga, news reached | NINA Fad a Nea | since his father’s here today of a second engagement E Y | e ae h as iss evo he he’ financiers between a large force of revolu- vening ep rhe financt Harriman are said | be hind Kuhn, Loeb & Co. system be to PORTLAND, Or, Jan. 28. “Nina,” a flea-bitten pocket fition = HAREM E EERE Dot a monkey, has a “tummy ache”) LATEST HEN NEWS | today, the confectionery store own COLUMBIA, Mo., Jan. 28. Prof. . REGISTRATION 71,750. #/ 04 by Stancheff Bros., at 78 North |J Rice, the Cornell tiniversity Ne a \Third st. ie in wild disorder and| poultry expert, told the farmers ® Approximately | 3867. men *| Fred Mesme, proprietor of the|here that if thoy selected chickens % and women registered yester’ ¥ | Modél Moving Picture theatre and|with short toe nails they would % day, thus bringing the total * | woer of Nina, J# facing a suit for| sure to get thrifty fowls that would % up to about 71,750, The regie: * | $75 damages, all because the mon llay nearly every day. Chickens % tration clerks are hard at work * |i. escaped from the theatre last| with short toe nails, he sald, ac % in the office in the Prefon- */ night and sampled the Stancheff| quire them by continuously scratch 4 | wd ee bor ge | wares. ing for food, and : chioke n that is h x i] - ome . en antly seratehi ‘or food Ix % their work until late this after- | I cao gy oi A 9 9 ea f oem | Mayor Interferes ANOTHER About the time The Star opened its broadside expose to the people ttle of the way that the light being run for the benefit of the Furth company, the contract for lighting the Union depot was about to be renewed Connected with this is a start ling story of inefficiency which hag come to George R. Cooley, who | of ing plant wa City LIGHT OVER TO THE ELECTRIC TUM TE Tum SEATTLE | | | HILLMAN GUILTY Cc. D. |Judged guilty of contempt of court jby Judge Donworth for sending hrough the matis circulars to the veniremen from whom jurymen will | be selected to try his case next Tuesday Sente was suspended until after Hil n which comes up Tuesday, and his bail fix d | Judge Donworth in passing judg ment sald The important thing lat this time is to have |impartial trial of Hillman next Tuesday. It is my duty to see that the defendant has a fair trial in spite of the act of the defendant himself in this co which serves to prejudice his cause, Neverthe }less, he must have an impartial tri I will, therefore, protpone sentence until the pending case ts disposed Of, after which he will be punished.” Several witnesses were ed by Hillman to testify had received circulars from man, the pur being to |that’ the distribution was general and did not aim at the jurors solely, There was quite a room when EB. H summon that they Hill show stir in the court Anderson. (Continued on Page Six.) WOMEN ON COMMITTEE The work of conducting Sunday chool for the Catholic boys on Mer \cer island has been given to a com jmittee of young ladies, consisting of Misses Adelaide and Cecilia Moore Helen Savage, Rosamond MeNally and Mary Rieth F, G. Black, son of ©. H. Black ardware lice Judge Chauffeur man out president of the was fir rdon, after | testified that stripped the police auto, which was traveling at the rate of 32 an hour, @ few days ago. nd $ Police young the has been investigating the | question One of the clerks in the contract light department of the city lighting plant, Cooley figured out a suitable s es, made out ja written bid for pot con tract. The contract as dated | Noy. 26, 1910, and called for a max fum rate of 2% per kilowatt hour [with a sliding scale. The bid was Hillman was yesterday ad-| a fair and] THAT TRYING MOMENT Lt TURNED THe Git LeYT THE VICE SYMDICATE LOOT THE TOWN TO THE Tune OF A MILLION DOLLARS ANO MORE TING ~A =LING ~ TinG, PLANT JUROR BRIBERS ARE SENTENCED" Agents for Tampering With Prospective Jurymen—One Gets Six Months at McNeil’s Island. £. J. Kirk and M. J. Webb, two, di private detectives accused by Dis--*!ce telet Attorney Todd of tampering [en Wor with the jury which has been sum- told the legitimate prac doubt that the ed to get this in endants have not PANE en—which fs a the government, and therefore their testimony must be rejected in the absence of corroboration. | Milliman next Tuesday, were this morning found guilty by Judge Don- worth of the United States district leourt. Kirk was sentenced to spend The influence of money in the jaix months in the penitentiary at/ administration of justice is one of MeNeii’s island and Webb to four the greatest evils to fear. It is the | duty of this court to see to it that jit {s suppressed. The two defend ants were engaged in a plot to cor rupt the jurors of the court in con nection with the trial of the Hillman case Jury bribing is seldom tected when it is suecesaful. Only when it i# unsuccessful it is that the men are caught.” The court @hen pass ntence. The charge on which Kirk and Webb were sentenced was the at tempted bribery of R. C. Van Horn. Van Horn testified that Kirk and Webb approached him in an effort to influence his judgment with money. He informed U. 8. Dis trict Attorney Todd of the occur rence and the arrest followed. KKK Ke months in the King county jail. The Court's Opinion. In sentencing toe men Judge Don | worth said “The most insolent methods have | been mpolyed by these men, They must p taught that justice can not |be-fampered with. ‘There is no sub | stantial room for a doubt as to what the facts are in this case. The de. fendants were employed by Hillman in connection with the Hiliman| case, The plan was to secure infor mation concerning the list of jurors. There are many things that can be done with regard to jurors; the attorneys for the defense can secure |Mmformation regarding the preju RRR THAT 20,000 GILL CLUB. Here’s one instance of the way the Gill Gang is working to get signers for the alleged “20,000 Gill club,” with which they hopé to deceive the public as to Gili's weakness. A man who was formerly a socialist went through the Labor Temple seeking signatures. ‘I'm not going to vote for Gill,” protested one man. “That doesn't make any difference,” the converted Gill man answered, “You don’t have to vote for Gill, I don’t care any thing about Gill, All I want is names. I get so much a name." I won't sign it,” the union man insisted Well, sign some other name, or sign a bunch of them, just nging your signature. It doesn't make any difference. All want is names.” No comment necessary eh we | eee eee eee eee ee ee bacheher ees st cost iee kta tess | PEACE DECLARED CHARLESTON, W. Democratic threats to impeach Gov, Glasscock, the republican ex ecutive of this state, through his connection with the United States senatorial tangle, fell to the ground today when an agreement was reached between the warring parties, which probably will permit of the format election of Watson and Chilton to the United States senate. [XK eeee eee ee EEE EE Ee WOULD Wereat LAW. WASHINGTON, Jan, 28.-—A pro-| vision repealing the eight-hour law réstriction on naval contracts was ineluded in the naval appropria tion bill reported to the house this afternoon, NO WORD OF WHEELING. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—The government is still unable to verify tha reported explosion on the gun. boat Wheeling, which {s due to ar rive at Guantanamo, Cuba, tonight Va., Jan, 28, JOB ARMS LET S.E, CO. GET signed by Mr. Arms and delivered] The bid lay on Arms’ table for to the proper officials at the union|a week. The Seattle Electric Co. depot, |in the mean time signed up a con- The bid was better than the|tract for lighting the depot. When Seattle Blectric Co.'s, so a few | this was done Arms returned the days later Arms, the Gill-Furth| bid just as his clerks had originally superintendent, went to the office of the manager of the depot and made it. The city lost the job, Thie is the Gill-Arms method of requested the return of the bid,) administering the affairs of the stating that he wished to recon-| city’s three and one half million sider it. dollar lighting plant, Judge Donworth in Federal Court Punishes Alleged Hillman) * moned to sit in the trial of C. BD. ments were dented by witnesses for | de | CSE ee IN THE STAR KIDS Will find their own department, The 6tar Circle Club, on pege 4 of The Star today. A special reward offered for next week ought to be mighty interesting AND ON TRAINS NEWS BTANDS be ONE CENT. Accused With Two Men of Bold Crime John T. Robey, Seattle Business Man, Tells of Strange “Badger Game”—Says He Was Attacked by Men Posing as Yo Woman's Relatives, Then Compelled to Give Up $250. Badly beaten about the face and body, and held a prisoner in hig room at the Martini hotel, Eighth av. and Union st. while two men and a woman attempted to cash a check of $250, which they forced from him, was the experience of John R. Robey, president and manager of the Golden West Baking company, last night, according jto his story to the police today | Suffering terribly from his beating, Robey was unable to at tempt to escape until this morning, when he seribbled a note and dropped ft from his window. A passerby picked it up and read: Notify the’ First National bank to stop payment on $250 check. Tell police I am 4 prisoner in room 421, Martinique hotel he man who found the note hur-|ing my wife?’ demanded Barr, I ried down the stre: ad gave it to|turned in astonishment to find the Sergt. Pence and Patrolman|woman on the bed with her head Humphrey. They hurried to the|buried in the covers, as though Martinique and alter releasing | we Robey went to the apartments of a beautifal yopmprwoman giving the name of Mrk Harold Barr, and a | young man who claimed to be her ing. Then Carroll took a hand. I'm her brother, you - ” he said “Then both of them removed their coats, rolled up thelr sleeves husband land started to giv@-ane a All Are Arrested. jlicking. Finally they tire of te The second man, who gives the|/and Carroll said, ‘Now, you're @ ame of H. H. Carroll, In the mean-| business man and you can't afford | appeared at the bank, but|to have this become public. If you | # check was refused. Carroll | will come through with $1,000 we'lt 1 to the Martinique only to! call matters square. I protested ed under arrest. The three |that I only had $14 in the bank to | at the city jail without a| my personal account. Carroll sald: Well, you sign a check as pres- ident of the Golden West Baking I refused to do so until they the eatened fo throw me out of the fourth story window. Then I com- promised and signed a check for which they accepted relue y, who Is about to sever his |connections with the baking com | pany the alleged “badger game was probably {usptred by this fact “This young woman, whom I knew as Miss May Richards, resided at j the Martinique hotel for about a montb,” said Mr. Robey this aft noon Her m right acrors the hall from mine. At times she left her key with me. Last night about 9:30 1 was suf fering from a severe cold and went down the street for a flask of whisky and quinine. When I return. ed the young woman was standing in her doorway. She asked me what 1 had and I told her. "Come in and give me a drink,’ she said. I entered her room and she shut the door. No sooner had the drink been drained than the door en and in rushed these and Carroll, whom | had n before. The Beating Foliows. “What do you mean by assault- says “ tant! After taking my check they dragged me across the hall and locked me in my room. I was so weak and dazed that 1 hardly got my senses until this morning, when wrote the note and dropped it from the window.” At the police station this after- noon Robey confronted his alleged assailants, but they refused to talk. The check for $250 signed by Ro- bey was taken from Carroll and is held by Prosecutor Murphy as evi- dence. Robey is 45 and single. The wom- is & brunette, slight, and not than 22 years old. A mar- riage certificate was taken from her, indicating that she and Barr were married yesterday. nts were an more Mrs. Schenk, the woman who wi dof trying to kill her millionaire husband by poisoning, was released today. The charge will never be pressed. peer altet Sethe a — | {justice of fhe United States su { po vou KNOW | ="! | |DEBT WILL DELAY That 1.041,670 foreigners emmi- | i ppb ot oie OF NIMS grated to the United States last] A debt of something like $400 7 which King county owes the Can- *eThat the room now occupied by | *#lan police department, is Hable to the United States court | delay the extradition of Edward supreme i e senate was until 1859 used as the senat lwancbaver for eran: Mareen tale That the capito! building at Wash-| ™itted in Seattle last December, ington, D. ©,, contains 8,909,200) M. §. King, an eye witness to the pounds of iron? murder of William Marks, was ar- That there are 217,000,000 silver/rested at the Victoria hotel by dollars in circulation in the United| Deputy Sheriff Zimmerman last States? night and is held at the county jail That President Taft receives! in default of $1,000 bail. King, who $205.48 a day for his services? ‘ts considered an important witness, Nims, alias William Palmer, held in That John wy: was the first chief aRinged out after the shooting. (NEWS ITEM: A dispatch today from price on all grades of liquor will be Increased today by the ‘There is mourning in the byways, there is gloom in heavy chunks; And along our elty highways, will miss the old-time drunks. For the word has come by wire that the men who make red booze Have put up the prices higher, and they gently break the news Washington stat There is sorrow down on Yesler, where the dime drink hath {ts laty, And ‘twill be a hardy wrestler who can wrestle it down there. All the high-balls and the fizzes will be fifteen cents a drink, And the cusses and ge-whizzes put the old town on the blink, All this cost of higher living and the price of standard oll, Never, never has been giving worry to the sons of toil; Not as much as this here outrage, boosting up the price of booze, ” no wonder they'll take umbrage when they hear the orful news?