The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 31, 1911, Page 1

LPuC's | The Seattle Star (UV... = ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE cg To it tb Tao it FYOL. 12, NO. 295 SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1911. ONE CENT. 2x 241s, ano NEWS STANDS Ge. AA SEATTLE PEOPLE VICTIMS ) “of - ar OF SHORT WEIGHT SWINDLL Ph eo ange re Buncoed by Crooked Scales and Short Measures—Sixty-Nine Per Cent of All Scales Used in Groceries and arkets Defraud the Customers—Wholesale Fraud Reveeled by Government Inspector - : os Millionaire Hillman Faces Federal Judge Donworth on Charge <ciienncayitiiinn When you, Mrs, Seattle Housewife, think ‘ e " " , think you buy # certain stated of U 5 ‘ a ‘ 4 amount of f ¢ . of Using United States Mails to Defraud—Defen : Noga Maer Senschiin . on that there is a shortage. Pp ig ce With BH Golden Gate City ncisco Delirious With Joy si Sixty nine per cent of the scales in Seattle are incorrect, and 86 DA AND FACTS IN i : r cent of these favor the merchants. TWENTY.TWO PER CENT . TES AND FACTS THE HILLMAN CASE Fleer (By United Pres fair caused a wild demonstration In] OF THE INCORRECT SCALES BUNCO Y 2 t y Pile, ee revere oy oy een Bee Sarae ON Greer at ari Sy Diteter BS INGTON. aan 31—San San Francia W his es screamed TO $2 PER CENT OF YOUR PuURS NACE OU OUT OF FROM 12 0 ourse , ays $ oman torney Todd, for fraudulent use of the United States mails. Released ‘won the preliminary v ne tidings to the residents and When you think euTies on $20,000, bail world’s fair fight today, The there was a.demonstration at the| pounds.” you buy a ton of coal you often get about 1,700 Oct. 4.—Federal grand jury returns six indictments against Hill- decided to take up the Kahn headquarters of the exposition. The When you think 7 man for using mails to defraud, involving 28 counts. for immediate considera: wireless station at Yerba Buena| get about ted bn er Teipeunde MM caroterion, you generatty Oct. 13.—Hillman arrested again and released on $8,000 ball lashed the tidings to every vessel When ; 31—Trial federal court : , you think you buy @ quart of liquid of most any kind yee ene aoe i 1 on t acific ove: could be quid of most any » you r vate wae: an Francisco 188, a ay acifi wn that could be| get about fourtifths of a quart ~,, With Federal Judge Donworth’s > When you think you buy a pound of butter you get 15.42 ounces. | big court room crowded to the doors tae members favoring the Kahn Crowd Goes Wild. When you think h isco” . you buy @ pint bottle of milk, you get about 4 with spectators, the trial of C. D. shouted “San Francisco In Market st, there was a remark-| per cent less. a you @ Hillman, millionaire real estate S thelr names were called. able demonstration. People shout ‘ erator, ch favoring the Estopinal bil! and danced and men hugged|,. at jester ts dette, tore then wd “New Orieans each other. The crowd left the side ing. 0 ee — walk and marched up the middle of enfranchised women in the *| Hitt | AnCchise men ad “4 man was in rt 1 Pirit test vote showed that/the broad street, shouting and history of Seattle will be held ®/an array of attorneys, headend by resolution was favored | laughing. The whole city seemed in the Grand opera hous % | Will H. Morris and Frederick Burehe Mss. The first vote was|to have gone wild with joy when The speakers inch |U. 8. District Atto: Ei z. with cheers that spread to the result was announced. Flags Homer M. Hii s. Jac | Todd took up the ee fir the sev where the peop were raised over the downtown paugh, Mra. J. A. Reed and ® | ernment. waiting for tidings, were botiaings and the shipping in the Dr. Maude Parker, Mrs, Rose | EXAMINE VENIREMEN Shortly after the first harbor, Simmons will chdirman The morning sessi: ‘oa the question of which, At the headquarters of the Pana. It ie planned to have 100 lin examining bore, Sie were ie Mhould be. considered | ma-Pacifie International Exposition | {1 Tetalled in Seattle, according to| merchant and giv » consumer representative women on the rod during. tha emia, Thad Co. in the Merchants’ Exchange, j Mr Holbrook, are sold in ilipgal|/the worst of it. In some oa the i a prog uring the morning. Todd a staid business men forget their dig.| ™¢@#ures, containing only about | merchant. with the crooked scales a Conducted the examina Gier ent taidcene ¢ schoo |Urfifths of the quart which it is |defrauds the purchasing housewife Daeg 0 . s day Ie San Francisco. shy and Rogeed.aronné like s0b00l| jo asaea to contain lout of 82 per cent,-or-almost one once’ ie Cenbr ee FRANCISCO, Jan. 31—The shaken with the thunder of cheers Nearly ali the “quart” bot third of the amount purchased | _ nee Pad stated that he had Wat San Francisco had won| that went up. The demonstration | “ . » every day use hold but | The Grafting Scale Phere: are und ae fight for the world’s | continued for nearly half an he lourfifths of a quart, and the | “In one store,” Mr, Holbrook articles in The Seattle Star és ‘ini 7 ata purchaser when using these bot- | states, “the two scales most com: a ee ed to th Hillman charges but ‘ med no opinion. He passe RRR WOMEN MEET TODAY. city of Seattle presents ures were obtained on the weight the worst condition of any city in/and measure of coal and wood, a the country In regard to shortage | city official who has been making of weights and measures, is the | investigations along these Itnes told opinion of F. 8. Holbrook, United | the inspector that his teste to States inspector of weights and|welghing coal sold to poor people |measures in the bureau of #tand-|in the clty showed a shortage of ards, in a report just made to.S, W, | from 200 to 200 pounds on each ton, | Stratton, dir of the bareau. Only 81. per cent of the scales te Cheated on Cranberrie |thin city are correct and of the in Ninety per cent of the cranber. | correct scales #6 nt favor the At 2:20 o'clock this after noon the first mass meeting of teeeeeee stage as vice presidents. A hearty invitation is extended to the women of Sea who have decency and the protec tion of the home at heart SPSS EEE ERE ESSE REE ER EE eee e EEE EE EE tles In buying liquids in bulk | monly used were 9 per cent and 28 ia thus defrauded to the fant; in another place of hallenged, amount of one-fifth of the pure | business « calo was 6 per cent Seattle Man Accepted. chase. fast; in at nother the sea! were H. F. McClintiff, a machinist and . 91 Per Cent of Butter Short, (6 per cent and er cent “fast; in | resident of Seattle, stated that he | still anoth ¢ errors on the only | had read the Seattle papers bu Nearly all the butter sold in this la al elty is in the form of “prints,” and | two seales fi ¢ 9 per cent! the articles had not influ ! it was found that 91 per cent of all | and 33 per cent fast; another show-| judgment in the pending case butter inspected was short of its | ed all three scales fast. | Was allowed to pass / supposed weight. Instead of 16 Mr. Holbrook clo - f W. A. Falls of Redmond, testified . } i ounces In the one-pound prints, they port in Seatt: follows: , iuilads t night that he had been at one time the fey men and women, and expec | (By Staff Special.) contained on an average only 1542 in conclusion, it may be F ad Ay . 1 Th ™ pense Cuban negro, | Postmaster at Redmond and read all fide newly enfranchised wom-| OLYMPIA, Jan. 11-—-Senator Lan-| ounces, while the two-pound prints | that chaotic conditions, result- ‘ank Hall, a burly " postmaster at Redmond and read all © was the gunwielder in two holdups 7 | be shown how to mark/don’s bill, making the state con-|averaged .27 of an ounce short of| ing most certainly in enormous . ; . third | the fact that he had been employed MISS MARGART MULROONEY, and was farin for ‘his tiitee |P¥ the government would not pre- 4 and| ent him from giving the defendant y,|# fair and impartial trial. He pass- jed unchallenged. d De at > . i 8. and F Truman, farmer, living in ots, and will be advised tempt law conform to the federal | its supposed weight losses to the consuming public ie tions in Seattic at a mass | statute and to those holding in other Over half of ali the milk sold and the honest merchant, exist ‘When a man needs to be held at Arcade hall| states will likely come before the| |!” pint botties is short meas here; and that thie city stands +9 j } senate this afternoon for final pass-| ured, some of the shortages out prominently as one of the |Your@mif. Don't ask some other) to program of instruc. | age amounting to over four per poorest in this regard thus | Manto do it | “ Ape Meant an entertaining muosi-| The strong endorsement of the| cent. far found in the present in- Mam Belinda Charbonneau, whe Hall stopped Clyde Ww the Seattle | Skagit county, stated that he had has been measure by labor organizations, ‘When a Ton Is Not a Ton vestigation throughout the coun- pray ae F. Ruser, former cashier | eer Me ees Jon Foster, at|Teeé none of appearing the speakers w newspapers and citizens through-| While no absolutely reliable fig-| try to gt the Arektoaia: hotel | Seve th av. 8. and Dearborn’ st.|!" the Seatt arding the Dunstan, D. D, Dr. C. C./ out the state will, from present in GML Mieeet taped bain, has a5 hoot? Whan ther showed fight Hall slash-| Hillman case, and that he could ‘ | ed Witherspoon ys the face|Sive the defendant a fair trial, oh D. Lane. Prof. W./ dications, make the yote for the! } | tanegein ade ng that fact the University of /bill almost unanimous in the senate. ‘GIRL SPURNED HIM | : ae om ne r Def of | | Roger admits that he got the with a knife and fired a revolver; efense Sustained. will give a blackboard | It will then go to the house, where | ' | | licking. When } spied to Depu point blank at Foster as he sped| " F. J. Bailey, vice president of the " / ty | vietim when Serg of Nash and Patrolmen B Tischler cc 4 him at Eighth a whipping, hunt him up and give it to him did not find its| Port Townsend National bank, tes Practical majority of the members | rome cut t let ecutor & yesterday away The bulle are also pledged to support it. AUT WINS HIS CASH Seeemor Miva yextersa) ok tified that he had formed an opin. —— } Chasfiomeau, however, he was A few minutes later Hall stuck up|fon as to the merits of the trial, (My United Pree tarved down. Thomas McG of $14 Charles st.,| but felt that he could be moved to POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. Jan. 31, SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 31.— 1 Wasn't afraid of Ruser,” said in the same vicinity ved|change it by evidence. Attorney —Mrs. Rachael M. Osborne, former-)| Three men are known to be |Mra. Charbonneau yesterday, at . him of a dollar in change. Hall was| Morris challenged the juror, and a ' ly a Poughkeepsie waitress, today! dead and an unconfirmed report | her comfortable apartments at the picked up at Eighth av. 8. and Dear-|after Attorney Todd had cited a } hind: ; took steps to collect two-thirds of| gays 12 others were killed when | Washington hotel, where she born just as he was emerging from|case bearing on the issue, Judge 4 Soak. ori, Lage ray = an avalanche of snow and rock spenge six months of the year. | as Jan areaway. A 45 caliber revolver) Donworth sustained the challenge. by Jose: orris, a ¢ | vee ft would do ne mi to KO ae | ken from him One Di lified, Jen. 3 : F “ it of the Utah Coal). ny 2 no Kood to * ‘ was tal ¢ Disqualified. =. 2 eee es neer, When Morris left for wes | tion Mine at Park City today. atte pin in court. The only thing y — George B. Dams, a salesman re- ieee “tnpsing gs boro, Penn., two years ako, the] Rescuers began work at once, to dé“was to give him the whipping D ON IN SALEM siding in Seattle, was disqualified > | waitress’ name was Miss Doughty Bo P Aid” : on account of having acted as a oe ‘eetrament which NEW YORK, Jan. 31—Col. | but she has married since } Mis. Charbonneau is a little wo bondsman in a recent Hillman case. Kim like a burzsaw, Oscar) Roosevelt will speak in Seattie | He told her she had mam, of Irish descent, with a de 1 ed Press.) Charles N. Seaborn of Winslow, iM, a-musician, is out here) April 30, according to the revie- | his heart, but the waltre | tenGa chin and an eye that zi Met eee cused ot|Kitenp connty, wa Seemed: Me with a $10 reward for the ap-| eg schedule just issued today. | gaged to Albert Osborne loolgistraight at you. “I know how . SALEM, Jan. Fi Oe el teatified that be BAe formed octyl the miscreants. His return trip will be govern- Recently Mre. Osborne wa Fight Off Rebels to 2k uh, on” thd lanahos es Police Hamiiton has put the ld ra fear re gr BB oral rahe appealed to the gover! eq by political conditions in the | fied that Morris had left her his es, I have driven dog teams over the} W4- Vien ie drug stores, and also the of-|dice his mind. against the gang. which be ms , ; i aes <8 te) — (hy United Press.) snow up north MRS. BELINDA CHARBONNEAU |ficers of the lilihee club, drawicg| W. A. Corder, 9 hotel man of TRO, Cal, Jan. 31—|, mcemtally Mrs. Charbonneau | — a ————| fhatr attention to the special ordi-| Hadlock, testified that he had read bc has Won «fortune in the north. is able to laugh the various Seattle { 5 © | M usto nictpal offi | s able to laugh at the whole | e regarding the sale of liquor. a e papers in re- was at one time a member hEW TACOMA P. M. DIDN T KNOW LAW ustom and municipal Offi | Hee ‘sister. Miss Margaret Mul ings now, though she said: | “2°? SATU hE |gard to the Hillman case, but that oe © | : i sa jcers are prepi today » ony ornare al | BL. ithe eesene prea pedo from the |foOMeY, Whose being sued by do not uke the notoriety, but | he had formed no opinion in the ; fed as one having hal-| . WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 31.—| Y. Lydell, one of the five store-| insurgent band which withdrew | Rusers. bank started the horse jI am sure my sister would do ti:| REBELS AC TI matter, He had heard discussions . Frank L. Stocking, assistant post-|Reepers recently arrested for sell-| rom Mexicall yesterday after hay.|*™BPINE Proceedings, 18 with her|same thing over again if it were regarding the charges, but they b= siste? at the hotel necessary.” _— would not serve to fnfluence his maater of Tacoma, has been recom-| ing renovated butter without stamp: | ing jevied $25,000 tribute upon mer- | lmended by Representative Me-| ing it as such, pl ignorance as| chants and other citizens. It be (iy United Frees.) mind in the trial, He passed un- Credie to President Taft for the ap-| a defense. He says he did not know) oie known lat night that the rev. SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua, | challenged pointment to the position of post-|the state law demands » prover |Ciutionists are planning another at Why the Recall Should Jan. 31 ean Duron and 900} Up to 12 o'clock today six jury- | master at Tacoma, and will be ap-|stamp on top of the package, tary sevolutionists prepared today to|men had qualified to sit at the (By United Press.) the capital | trial. The examination of the of the veniremen was con- | pointed, Lydell conducts | delicatessen ; A l J d verre on Tegucigalpe. trial ANGELES we peeiecermint store 31 Westlake av “ e rebels already | Te " Sigua aenervet ns Diaz Is Careless és : , Choluteca. Mary B. Dilfer of Buffalo,| TOKIO, Jan. 31—A big meeting} aoa | gizpedy a bint j bonminle the. recall ot Judges who. have Weeated him here and today|was held in Yokohama today at| (By United Press.) 7 ar FE SN CP Wee ee eee co AY ISSING which leading American business! . seexicq CITY, Jan. 31—Prest WwW M men organized a peace society.| c i 4 After a speech by the American am dent Diaz today approved the appre |bassador, Thomas J. O'Brien, reso (By United Frees) | M'KEESPORT, Pa., Jan. 91.—In. SY SRAM. W.. SOM Bot oil Latter “ease. Non alah te, wipelaaie | Insurgent Governor of California. Anxiety is felt for the welfare of priation of $10,000,000 for the im-| restored and that full vision will] " . ta the people can be trusted with the election | W Conway, Jr, member of a ome t doorinclag the|Provement of Mexican harbors! return to her, Miss Margaret Ship of those who shall govern them, they are to be re- | well known Brooklyn, N. Y., family lutions were adop’ nouncing the | siong the gulf and Pacific coast. |s<. nied’ diane Meth’ Cader garded as having the necessary knowledge to select | who dropped from sight shortly war talk | proper officials. Jafter reporting to United States (By United Press.) onenieearingamioan recovering from an eightday fant, | fw : STOCKTON, Cal, Jan. 21.—With| $ five days of which she lay in @| ‘ dod yond to reason that if the people are entrust: | Shipping Commissioner Ja es Mich of yesterday's freshet water| JUDGE AUDKIN f K Jtrance in pursuance of a message | od ib hes “nga Jade : thay are entitled to Knox on January Bian eaeienes \ Ishe says she recetved from heave: uy whether judges shall continue office after|the young man to josition as on the hundreds of | » sali - jabe says she received from I be they have rendered decisions against popular will. | deputy In the Seattle office | anty and a vas —— 7 fe this county and a vast chip waht tien) | The only logical conclusion {s that the people, pos: i of Water rolling toward the| WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 31.— i | essing enough discrimination to decide who shal Jan BEWARE OF FISH | sh tg le Moca YEARNS FOR PRISON od § from the mountains, the | The tee rted| SAN FRANCISCO. if nountain < » judiciary committee reported| SA} 2 ye their judges i] » possess the privilege of Wimiets are for a serious flo0d.| favorably to the senate this morning| Emil Holoway, his wife and two Sying whether any judge 20% pertorniing hi Ntuty | 22 miles east of Stockton,| the nomination of Frank D. Rudkin| children were severely burned in shall continue in office racks i ai®er water of Spokane for the office of federal |a fire that destroyed their home in (Ry United Press.) | " Can you show nfe any reason why the judiciary a [judge for the Eastern district of|the Richmond district toda NEW ORLEANS, Jan. It you| should be excepted from the genera! rules whien| outside world lea cold place { Washington. Mr. Rudkin has no| don't wish to run the danger of] 1 ly to any other elected officer? I agree with| for # man like me. 1 want NG opposition CARTER LEADS. |connecting with the leprosy germ, | d nator Bourne in his letter on the Arizona consti-| %@ 9° back to Joliet peniten- SNA, Mont Ja a1 Sen- | beware of fish. This was the warn tution advisi judiciary recall, when he said tiary, where they treat a man rter maintains his} jounded today by Cc. W. Du ‘ real white. 10: P. L ce sro. por sgg Ko Sue judges are but human, and the recall Is a precaution 6e that led to the altar “F k ” D |test. ‘The vote today follows: Car-|inaj habitat of the bactilus, a bad of. fantioe son's Fr or 3%, Walsh 27, Conrad 19, scat-| leprosy germs have been kept alive : dow. His case ‘Way Hongkong in 1908 ond on ake octors |‘ a Mie elias the clialon: ak [ie Hak Bea bans a Wve y dies, Johneon The argument that the law, an exact science,| Plate glass window. Hi ¥ when Samuel D. Cod iicabalbicielciibiias | tering pie mae hes needs exact scientists to apply it, does not change wa yr pena Ps gt er “| have ron et compan for divorce | (By United Press) years behind Joliet walls,” » Bertha. He alleges} gaLEM, Or. Jan, 31.—If Gover Robertson said. “I'm kinder Mpise treated him in an inhu-| 4 semaior Locke's bil ison eal have, oh and th tndignicies | nat Wy Sev cies Sammon the tins More Grafters AT THE PLAYGROUNDS WHO's WHO | homesick for p ed one another #0 rap |p” as a business sign save by for him In the Flying Game. Fee ies (0 It BOL those who mere. Bowe Degnees 97 According to the annual report of | — . |the state, Christian Botentist prac " | Playground Director J, M. Stine to po you KNOW WE. CLUB DANCE | titioners In Oregon will not be al jthe park board yesterday, 241,567 ms ; Jowed to use thé Title. ‘ children patronized the playgrounds MW Rngiand club gave the| 72°, Dill, however, will not or in Seattle last year. That the Rainier national park series of dar » prive them of thelr right to prac has an area of 207,360 acres? ‘ me Pirties in the Renton tice. F “er WILL ELECT OFFICERS. That the first national conserva. The artist today has sketcnea one evening | The measure slipped through the The Seattle Playgrounds Asso- | tion congress was held at Seattle jof the busiest men in the .egislature. ate senate yesterday afternoon. z ciation will elect officers at a meet in August, 1909? |He'’s got a good job, this man. All The measure is aimed particular ing at the Chamber of Commerce That the leading city in the num-|he has to do is p 100 and fake" doctors who had 3 tomorrow afternoon at 4 p. m. The | ‘ ber and cost of concrete buildings | more representattves satisfied with ITEMS FROM nipineph adaoeadigy Fy dewadhinr small parks and playgrounds bill, . : for 1910 is Chicago? | their committee assignments, and to phisticated persons into employing 7 y % now pending ‘ore the legislature, 4 That 100 steam shovels are being | tell them when to stop talking and ‘4 will be up for discussion, Austin! 4 used in building the Panama canal? | when they're out of order and things (By United Press.) CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—“The ae = the necessity for watchfulness against failure of substantial justice, ly against them, E iffiths is now president of the} , That the city ranking second in /|like that, He’s got a nice little |T. R. PROGRESSIVE, d / p association. | - the «ost of concrete buildings ts|gavel to pound with when anyone ame to b otek HE TELLS FRIENDS ORK Kk Beattl s bye Sears SEE Hi thn Me eh PORRCART. “od That there are over 45,000 em-| Who is it? That's right—it’s Tay- JERSEY CITY, } Jan, 31.- ‘ yloyes on the isthmus working on |lor of Bagle G speaker of the eo progressive. 1 couldn't be Occasional rain or snow to- * CAPT. J. D. B. FULTON. tee Gail? ugivgat | wer , Lape lage etecoe hg night or Wednesday; moder- *| ,., Le eer 4 * : sabi : Ee Fhe adent don't one who really ‘velleves in eps ate westerly winds. Ml ike HeLa ove Sik| RA REA RAR RAK RO ae ee MUKA the necliont ple,” {8 the message which Theo- 4 HMM RH HHH HHH) Oe Hiramen of the French and Ger Bratiy gover 1 Hon ig. Sates” BAS 80°" dore Roosevelt sent to the New TO PROBE SCHOOL. |man armies and all Britain is happy TONIGHT'S DILLING MEETINGS. Haskin “ ! fae emi Idea republicans at Jersey City last OLYMPIA, Jan. 31.—The | again, Over in Burope they belleve - night. legislature will investigate the | that much of the sv n future Phalen‘s hall, Columbia,—The speakers: George W. Dilling, state training school at Cen- | warfare will depend upon the army | George F. ‘Cotterill, C, M, Baxter, Mrs. Anna B. Goodwi FIRST Ae TRE tralia, Ifa bill introduced today |air corps, and now that Capt, Ful-| #& Rainier hall, Rainier av. and Norman | st. The speake . : in-the state senate Is passed. |ton has shown his ability to fly tt] George W. Dilling, Dan Earl, Kitt Gould and others. ene doeerieal be yreinege <b ger = A The call for a probe follows |is expected that Great Britain will Arcade hall—-The speakers: W. D. Lane, C. C. Benedict, Prof, Jepbers broke wrend leet Bait ¢ : = : npational charges against the encourage aerial attempts upon the J. Allen Smith, Rev, EB, ‘Trem ayne Dunstan tele fiewt enamel Rangast, De "| management of the institution, part of her soldiers OOOO OTRO IO IO IO the Commercial club, | OF i «i FHS FRE HEE