The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 1, 1911, Page 1

ger MEIRS FIGHT OVER THE SCHOENFELD MILLIONS A VOTE AGAINST GILL IS A VOTE AGAINST JAKE FURTH’S CASH books and other valuable re readers of The Star. write to Uncle Jack and join alt SEATTL SPEAKING OF BOOMERANGS + Mie fake Hodge statement dated and printed the day after the sheriff had left Seattle is forcing B gang to do some desperate explaining away with it trick has turned the hoped for boos hoping to get ASH OVER lash between attorneys tn ®ecurred this Morris, a shipper the Hill orning | James Brown, farmer, residing at of Was summoned to sit ct Attorney | that he was not # taxpayer and he as Be had formed an opinion| Morris|moned and passed for he had formed an opin-| both sides. Would require some evi ‘@testioned the juror being tried to remove. Th ‘Todd for cause Attorney Objects. Morris for Hillman challenge and followed betwee Motris. Judge Donworth the test to b to was in p MEN he excused Vonireman | the | Juror when Peach. defense cL. Newefatle, was summoned to sit. The examination disclosed the fact was excused. R. M. McCloud was then sum- cause by On the second peremptory chal lenge for the defense, James Car rol, who passed the first examina-| | tion yesterday was excused. | | J. R. Schaeffer, salest ing in Seattle, was summone stated that he had formed an | The gang took the desperate action of springing the But Hodge's outright denial and repudiation of the whole t into a corking boomerang. Law to Bar Scales The bill regulating weights and | moasures will likely be passed by| the present legislature as a result of the wohlesale swindle being prac tised fn Seattle and other cities the state through the use of crook ed scales and short measures. The exposure of the frauds made by United States government in spectors has started an agitation for drastic action and unless the legislature takes up the mater the t. hen | opinion but that evidenve could re-| ity council will ed read had tate ourt, your all is entitled to to the §f€ no such opinion had ” replied Morri Donworth denied t aNd the juror Court Room Crowded rowde Moors today by peop fo the cas f ren H mE COunse) M. Shipley cked in was Sppeared in a black sult Seat directly b With a ell ack of in his the examination of the was on he was fa taking down 1 bustl tes et and oc Jett his seat to pace up| mitment has been held up by At the length of the table. Morris inter: ed Premptory cha West Woon! be MO Fitth avs, Tie B84 HD. Moore. Speakers: Mr. Keenan, Harry i. E the for tee eee ee eee ee ee ee ee ee TONIGHT’S DILLING MEETINGS Queen Anne Congregational chureh, Galer st. and Queen Anne Dilling, ) Meyers, Frederick Li Seixas and Dr. land Methodist chureh, 62nd av. N., between Fourth speakers 4 Presbyterian church, First av. N. and Roy st D a Mr. Dilling gar ©. Wilson and Dr. W. McDowell. mo it and that he could sit and | defendant a fair and im-| partial trial. On the third per-| emptory challenge of the defense | Schaeffer was excused. | | Attorney Todd, exercising the |second peremptory challenge for| |the government, excused Juror W.| A. Elder. | J. $. Wangsness, aged 22, mill} hand, residing at Port Susan, the | angest venireman yet to appear, ated that he had formed no opln-| ion and was passed for cause P. W. Trueman on the fourth per-) lemptory challenge by the defense was discharged and Will Hampton of Everett, farmer, was summoned | fo sit in bis stead. The case was | resumed today at 2 o'clock. we Sali -!sentianol | WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—-That} prison dogrs will never close be-| hind Fred Warren, editor of the Appeal to Réason, under sentence of six monthe as the result of a/ squabble with a federal judge, was predicted today by officials of the| | department of justice. Warren bas| not yet been jafled and it was }learned that the mandate of the| federal court ordering his com-} torney General Wicke reham, acting under special orders from Presi dent Taft | Her- Smith W. Craven, Cora Hermon John C. Powell, Ole Hanson MEEEEHE EEE EE The Snyder, Mrs, Emily Peters, ad Most states and cities have la and ordinances prohibiting the use of grafting scales. ARL WENT AWAY “I'm going on a IUttle errand wifey dear,” sald Carl Gardner three weeks after Anna and he had left the altar. This was & year or so ago. he come back? Alas, no, But he left her $1.50. And later on he telegraphed that Did | money was worrying him.” ‘The lack of it worried Anna If Carl could have heard what Judge A. W. Frater said about him when granting the divorce today it would have made Carl's ears burn some. N.Y, STRONG IN NO-BRIBE FIGHT (By United Prone.) ALBANY, N. Y., Feb, 1—What | described as “the most drastic antl bribery law ever framed for the pro- tection of an American legislature” was recommended to the New York assembly here today by a commit tee which has investigating reports of wholes: raft, particu larly with respect to the race track campaign against the Hughes anti otting bill. Headed by Chairma committee recommended Merritt, the tha all legislators who do not inform on | thelr grafting fellow members or any prosecutor who attempts to un duly influence them shall be guilty of a felony, punishable by forfeitur of office, a fine of $5,000 or im prisonment for 10 years. | Furnt . WASH., WEDNE Widow and Son of Late Mer- chant Go Into Court Over Estate, Mrs. Louls Schoenfeld millionaire merchant mtly has filed uit hn F, Miller, her attorney have the court examine the visions of the will of her late band Mra, Schoenfeld and son, Ralph, were nar executors of the will feld contend widow of who died through to pro hus her oldest d as join ire. Sche that all the pro is community property, including the beautiful 000 home. Ralph Sche id lists the estate as com sisting of 56 shares of Standard are Co. stock, and the com munity property as debatable But back of legal phraseology ts the story of a mother's love for her daughter and her sympathy for her daughter's husband, who has made bad mistakes That the real cause of the diffi is the determination of Mre. nfeld to see that Jon ner and his wife, who Schoenfeld’s daughter share of the bik estate friends. Mrs wet thelr asserted mily ident of company got Into a big fight with the ing gum trust, was driven to the wall, and finally fled from the city abead of a trail of bad debts. He returned to stand trial, but Pros¢ cutor Murphy dismissed the cases against him In the difficulties that surround: ed young Gardner, his wife and his wife's mother remained loyal to him, They believed that he would make good. Friends of the Gard tn assert that Louis Schoenfeld, he lived, would have helped the young man to get on his feet But Louis Schoenfeld passed away, apd Mrs. Schoenfeld, it said, was unable as her husband had wished. Ther fore she ts asking the court to gi through the ftems of the estate and to appraise its value anew Attorney Miller, for Mra. Schoen fold, said that he was unable to get an itemized list of the value of the Schoenfeld estate from the Schoen feld sone. TO TRY DORST AS INSANE Desiring to settle the question of John Dorst’s sanity before placing him on trial for the murder of his father at North Bend nuary 24 Prosecutor Murphy yesterday filed an insanity complaint court If Dorst is found insane he will sent to the insane ward of the penitentiary without facing the charge of murder. From the evi dence of his mother, sister and friends, it would appear that Dorst is subject to epilepsy and that bh has been mentally unbalanced for years, Who’s Who at chew in be Walker Moren, representative from North Yakima, is a serious looking man, He 1 sthe author of |the longest and one of the most im portant bills before the legislature 12,000 words on a public utilities commission, after the lines of th Hughes New York law. Moren was | also one of the attorneys in the fa |mous Caleb Powers case back tn [Kentucky years |" But life isn't all serlods with | Walker Moren He hsowed that |iast week when he appeared in the legislature with a big box of the famous Yakima apples, which he dealt out to everybody. A smile went with each apple. CARELESS POETESS, W YORK, Feb. 1 Miss So- phie Pruesch, who § is an author, is under ion at Bellevue hospital today because the lonly move she made toward pay ing her hote) bill wa write poetry dedicated to th Ee —“THE PUG’S PROGRESS” STARTS TODAY ON PA Pte a. a ee ee ee ee el SDAY, » Gard: | IN SEATTLE FEBRUARY 1, 1911. Rich Reward If You Find This Missing Girl to help Gardner, | probate | DOROTHY ARNOLD en this young woman's face anywhere? From a pho- tograph of Dorothy Arnold, whose father offers a fortune for her re- ture, NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—This On December 12 she told the photograph of Dorothy Arnold her that she was going ‘ TER FE look at an evening ' ‘The police of all th -qeaeigeen gown for holiday wear. cities and of most of the larg?) she walked around the corner to cities in Kurope are looking for her.| Fifth av. and swung into the caval Bince December 12 Miss Arnold | cade richly dressed women on has not been seen by anyone who this famous thoroughfare knew ber. In a book shop she purchased a In a mansion on a crons street off | novel Fifth av. in New York, Francis R.| And then she dr | Arnold, millionaire importer of per fumes, who is Miss Arnold's father and Mrs. Arnold, an invalid, have both reached dangerous physical | condition on unt of the ab | serice of their daughter. | The disappearance of the young | indy S# One of the moxt remarkable leases with which the American po- |itee have ever had to deal | Migs Arnold is years of has two brothers and one In 1905 she was graduated }from Bryn Mawr college., She was always studious. FULL DESCRIPTION OF MISS DOROTHY ARNOLD, THE MISSING N. Y. HEIRESS Height 5 feet 4 Inches; age 25; dark brown hair; grayish-blue eyes; studious expression; wore tailor-made blue serge suit, coat almost reaching the hips, and cut In at the waist; skirt cut straight; hat of black velvet, with irregular brim; hat lining of Alice blue; hat trimmed with two velvet roses, no feathers; low black shoes; waist of dark blue silk with V-neck and white ruchj ing about the throat; jabot of white lace; tan walking gloves; hair dressed far down on the forehead, in full pompadour; one finger ring of two gold bands, twisted together; large black fox muff, fur tipped with white points; black cloth handbag, con taining about $20 at time of disappearance. ELEVATOR BOY | _ STUCK TO POST Oriental building ud in the teld. is her 4 from sight parents and arance quiet, spent vast sums in detectives, Wireless s were sent to all ships at hospitals of many cities ched Arnold Pp Dorothy disappeared Finflly, in parests mags the mitter public I will sped all of my money to bring Oorothy back to says the fath It will mea a fortune to the one who finds her.” had completely desperation, the age. us, Tenants of the 6060. Becond from cape vator en Patrolman Rob passengers ants rushed ng to es at the e av., are D, Ree shortly praise of Marion who, o’cloek yesterday afternoon, stuck to his post during a fire which de Will you stich stroyed cigars valued at $10,000 in| Chief Boylé appealed to Redfield. | the storeroom used by the H. G I'll go as far as I can,” replied Russell Cigar Co. and safely con-| Redfield s from the fourth| It required five trips through the making in all|thick, suffocating smoke to lower| five trips through dense smoke and | the excited tenants. flame. It was a brave piece of work,” Great banks of thick smoke|commented Chief Boyle, The fire] poured into the hallways and dark |is thought to have originated from | red tongues of flame darted to the | defective elevator wires | SAY MITCHELL | ONE KILLED | WILL RESIGN Feb, 1 who is from the of America, nting himself ‘ance, Mok after 5 y inson directed the vator boy, to your post? (By Uni VICTORIA, B. ¢ jhas just reached here of an ex plosion at Tod Creek Cement Works, a few miles from this city, if he|in which a Chinaman, Joe Sing, was membership in the] instantly killed and three others {National Civic Federation, expect | sertously injured him to resign from the latter The cause of the explosion is un ganization before the resolution} known, The dead and injured are pasyed in the miners’ convention | being brought to the hospital here becomes effective April 1 in automobile Press.) Feb, 1.—News COLUMBUS John Mitchell, with expulsion Mine Worker mtinues his United or hoping to keep the disap Ideas a flat or a ho readers of Th the symposiu ONE CENT. whether CONTROL OF YOUR CITY LIGHT PLANT ~The Seattle Star ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER GOOD finde use are being © Star See page one life at ite best In written by women You are to 5 today nvited join ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS ba PRESIDENT PARDONS EDITOR FRED WARREN | Editor of Socialist Newspaper Who Was Sentenced to Six WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. in today and blocked the effort Fred Warren, editor of the Appes The president, acting yed the ution of the after an investigatior | | day he | | (By Staff Special.) OLYMPIA, Feb. 1 Josiah lins, who on behalf of the newap the state that ts posing Landon's bill p viding for a new contempt law extremely busy afternc and caused another lay Col nator Kot da cheduled to come eSnator Landon ENGLAND LAUNCHES (By United Press.) LONDON, Feb. 19th Dreadnaugh, Dreadnaught, the the w day at I don nper hit Than and an av t HE SQUARES UP AND GAN RETURN (ny OLYMPIA, F J. K. Edmis. ton, president of the Walla Walla Savings Bank of Walla Walla and head of the old Security § bank of Seattle, when those institu- tions closed their doors in 189: now return to this state after years of exile Edmiston has |cent cent due tho: j bank's failure. JOHN MITCHELL KICKS AT VOTE ald back every » who lost by the | (By United Press.) NEW YORK, Feb, 1 Mitchell, once ‘president of | United Mine Workers of America, jis an angry man through he action of that organization yes day at Columbus, Ohio, which jexcludes him, as a member of the national civic federation, from its | future counsels. Mitchell today declined’ to say whether he would resign his $5,000 ja year position with the civic fed: jeration in order to retain his mem- |bership with the miners. John They Plan Their Honeymoon to Go Back to the Soil (By United Press.) PAUL, Minn., Feb, 1—Th¢ Albert and Mrs sist of six Weeks’ ricultural ed today Minn., they were married a few days s hone Scha hard st m their home at Holy where ago They have lived in a city all thelr bat have decided that the back to the farm” idea is a@ good and so intend to take to farm one | in NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HICKTOWN BEE throu gh f NEW DREADNAUGHT the | Months by Judge He Scored Is Set Free by Taft. 1 —President Taft himself of Federal Judg al to Reason, to p the ‘ imposed upon Warren and to- pardoned him, stepped Pollock to send rmally —= Collins Is Trying to Delay Contempt Bill agreed to postpone it until today at the request of Collins. Not con it with this, Collins went to President Paulhamus last night and aid that Landon was agreeable ta delay had not agreed to « second postponement and knew nothing of the deal until late today, learned of Collins paneue HOUSE PASSES. “WITTE BIL OLYMPIA, Feb. direct legislation s 1—Friends of pn to be in the in the legislature. The had been considered from art as favoring the passage of ative, referendum and recall measures The fight upon saddle senate the these bills was therefore centered in the lower jouse. The first real. struggle oc curred yesterday on the question of submitting to the people an amendment to the constitution the fall of 1912 on the initiative) with reference to constitutional, amendments. By a vote of 77 to 15, making 18 more than the necessary two-thirds vote, the house overwhelmingly, recorded itself in favor of the measure as introduced by Repre sentatives Teats and Todds. ‘DEMANDS DECISIOM ON LORIMER PROBE nited Press.) Feb. (By | WASHINGTON, election of senators, the tariff commission bill and the Sulloway bill, proposing a level- ing of veterans’ pensions, or prepare for an extra session of congress.” |. This was the way Senator | Brown of Nebraska today laid | down the law to his fellows in the senate. Scinncms ok VICTIM WORE | ODD RAIMENT (By United Press.) LOS ANGELES, Feb, 1.—Efforta are being made today to definitely identify a man believed to be E. Tasso, son of a French Canadian editor of Montreal, who, outlandish- ly attired and masked, attempted to board an Alamitos Bay car last night, fell under the wheels and was killed, He wore r woman's by safety an's bathing suit, stockings fastened to it pins, half a pair of trousers pinned about his waist, a short overcoat and an old hat. He is said to have been in Long Beach soliciting funds to take him back home. Figen \Shipping Change | It wasag surprise to men in the shipping business when the an- nouncement was made yesterday morning that W. C. Dawson & Co. had taken over the business of L. H. Gray, who for 12 years has been |the passenger agent for all steam | schooners north of Mr. Dawson will o to act as agent for the Osaka Soshen Kal- sha and the Charles Nelson Co, and retain his former interests in other business lines, ARCHBISHOP SINKING, PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 1.—Arch- bishop Ryan was reported sinking today and little hope was held out for his recovery. TACOMA POLICE MAY STOP BOX (By United Press.) | TACOMA, Feb. A |domanding "that | Tacoma suppre |gambling and which are said to be |here, was unantmou Ithe elty comm resolution police ghting and brothtls in existence y adopted by ING MATCH sibility for the continuance of these practices is put to Commissioner of | Public Safety Roys. It is believed |that orders will be d to the | police to prevent the boxing match |scheduled for tonight between ‘Denver Ea” Martin and Jack GE 2; IT IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST REAL INTEREST SERIES THE STAR HAS EVER OFFERED ————