The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 7, 1911, Page 1

Polls Open § to B o'clock today, If where your prec headquarters Main 2214; Ind, 28 Polls Open From 8 t you don't know t voting place is, call 8 t 9 place is, call ur 8 o'clock today. If you don't know just where your precine Dilling Main 3214 and ask t 1 t viting place Is call up Telephones Telephones The Seattle Star ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE headqu rters and ask SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY RRESTS FRIGHTEN THE GILL GANG ; THE ISSUE AGAIN 1911. os THREATS FOR GOULD GIRL Pa cme | ON HER WEDDING MORN Hodge’s Men on Watch | for Illegal Voters in the Vice Districts Oscar Collins, Negro Leader Below the Line, Jailed by Deputy Sheriff—Roberts Threatens Arrest of Election Offi- cials if Any More Irregularities Are Attempted. The first arre this morning by | | t for illegal voting Deputy Sheriff R Yellum, in the third Erecias’ of the First warrant, and him to the county jail Yellum had registered from a below Yesler lodging house GILL’'S COPS CLASH WITH SHERIFFS. | first clash between the sheriff ! the police this, Deputy Luther Mills had just stepped | aldon hotel, at Sixth and Yesler, where the polling | oth for the fifth precinct of the First ward is located, when | {four policemen jumped on him | You get out of here to be in here.” The policer mained insi The Wa mmer “of men who live off the earn en were there to Clancy's Detroit hotel NEGRO SALOON MAN NABBED. ur after this clash, Oscar Coll rr aloon and n t He | ware arrestes John Doc ona sent The office fore * they "ve got no And they put him ou en, Geer, Baker, Collins a the hotel after ejecting the deputy n hotel right Symmonds, re sheri and a crowd driven from was rai A half b keeper handle t jthe Walde ler, who for two weeks | . anging to colored vote below the line for Gill, tried to vote at A Dilling + |'‘Then Deputy Mi rest. Collins prot “You're vote.” Collins swore hi ed and placed the ted vigorously vote in. negro under ar- an ex-convict,” said Mills. “Y e no right to Decies, the bride, and Lord Deciesethe bridegroom, in the uniform of a British army officer. C By United Pres) fedifice into a veritable summer gar-| negrc OYORK, Feb. 7.—Threaten- | den. Collins handled a lot of k Johns¢ Miss Vivien Gould,| ‘The trousseau of the bride cost! sieht He was reputed to t Jack Jounaga money at the sane aing be marrying Lord | $60,000, and more than 4,000 invita- | |'&° as reputed to have cleaned up a fortune for him ape i the hands of the po-|tione were issued for the church | S¢lf over the match file. All were anonymous, ceremony. The gifts to the couple The first effort at intimidation came early, when John F in were kept secret |are worth $500,000 Dore, Gill's attorney and chief campaigr ate: nd “Fryday” hy er " Dore, m and chi paign prater, and ryday Gould. One of them] Following the wedding at Med Frye, the mayor's law partner, started around the polling places, telling the inspectors to disregard the John Doe warrants Rese chorch a reception will be held late dear, sweet girl, beware! Re- : Deputy Slieriff Roberts followed close on the heels of Dore this afternoon in the ballroom at and Frye. “Those John Doe warrants are all right,” fe said lins’ arrest will undoubtedly throw a the sters below the line, whose scare into leader he was Day Before the Last Mayoralty Election. Reprinted From The Seattle Star of March 7, 1910, the a recthess of @ signature on an appli fate of your amt who 'the Gould home. i ira Heme eation to the Bnohomish county a blooded nobleman, | Heavy Police Guard. femnant of a declining are stil) Count De Waiting to snatch up ‘American girls for their they have done this, : aside the pure fags and return to their Feb. 7.— Miss 18 years old, heiress §reatest fortunes in ‘States, today became ard Decies of England, ‘Worth only a small fo years the senior of his ceremony was cele- ‘St. Bartholomew's church. decorations that cost the dingy old he Story of a ud a Big Street Car Co. “Court Hits Woman ‘of Fern Hill Damage Which Comes Before ‘Webster Corpora- res Another Victory. Mig down the damages {to Mattie LeClaire, the sw at Olympia down a decision that the Tacoma Railway & & Btone- Webster corpora fight with the people of Tacoma UcClaire was & Pierce count cut the dam the supreme bed to $100 put the iol the appeal (about $250) on awarded jury ges to court ‘Bhe Is Out $150. Mattie LeCiaire is out because the company ap- th she won the case. On was written by Chief} kin, whom Taft recent to the federal bench at Bnd concurred in by » Crow, Chadwick oy ene Stone Webster railroad Me fares charged to its sub is morn-| Ph apes case is similar to} People of the Duwamish | Owing to several threatening let ters Lord Dectes has received from cranks. professing resentment | the disparity between his age and that of his bride, an unusually heavy police guard was provided, and no outsiders were allowed to gather at the door of the church. | The wedding ceremony was per- ltormed by Bishop Greer, assisted | by Dr. Parks. No immediate plans for the honeymoon were announced. It is probable that the couple will go to the Gould properties at Jekyll listand, Georgia, returning to New | York and satting on the Carmania lon February 18. They will make ithe Mediterranean trip, and stay some time in Egypt before going to ‘Sefton Park. jurban patrons. Fern Hill, one sub- urb, annexed to Tacoma, but the company refused to let the people ride for five cents. On the night of December 17, 1909, Mattie LeClaire boarded a car lat Midway station, at about 6:30, for her home at Spanaway. She paid the full fare demanded, but many of the passengers refused to pay the extra nickel and the com pany switched the car to Alki, Mrs LeClaire had to stay on the car} tilt 1 in the morning, when she} hired a team and drove to her home, arriving at 3 a. m Court Is Sarcastic. The supreme court in passing on the case admitted that the woman \had sustained damages, but classt- fied them as a slight cold and the inconvenience of being detained \from her home. ‘The court held that lif it put a premium on such incon: veniences by paying high damages, “Spanaway would be a Mecea and Tacoma would be depopulated.” | Although Mrs. LeClaire 1s out | $150, not counting her attorneys | fees, as a result of the litigation, the court ruled that the matter of going to court was within her control. The railway monopoly had taken the appeal from the superior court This is the first of the Fern Hill | blockade cases to reach the supreme | court Flora Gitlette Mardered by hor Grock ad James Viasos, Sunday night, meat? Mody of her daughter Mt the Butterworth her of irl who ee ¥ the knew the Greek, she are that he was so in the girl that he would her life, er and Deputy Coro 88 well as the police, in the theory that two Were implicated in the Miss Viola Gillette, lead- “The Beauty Spot” THER VIEWS BODY OF MURDERED GIRL now playing at the Moore theatre, | denies that the murdered girl was lher half sister, No arrangements |for the funeral of Viasos have yet been made. (By United Pi MARQUETTE, Mich., Feb. 7. | Gelatin powder, largely com- posed of nitroglycerine, Is to- day held reéponsible for the ex- plosion yesterday at the plant of the Ploto Powder company, when 10 men met instant death. The mixture was being stirred In a big crucible, One thow sand pounds exploded. to his deputies. GANG TRIES TO STEAL VOTES BY WHOLESALE. The third arrest for fraudulent voting today came whe “You use them whenever it is necessary.” deputy sheriffs nabbed Pietro Ramacciappi in the first precinct Challenger Otway Pardee challenged Ra- of the Fourth ward macciappi, as not being registered, then called the sheriffs in A wholesale attempt to steal votes in the second precinet ¢ the Third ward was only checked by prompt action on the part of Deputy Sheriff Roberts. rushing men into the booths six at a time ‘The men were not court of equalization by Hillman for reduction of his taxes, pleading that the:Jand at Birmingham should not be assexsed at more than $3 per nj} acre. He was not cross-examined. Bennett, county assessor of on coun testified to the garding the Boston Harbor taxes on fecéipt of a similar application re »{ | theypien that land could be bought there at $5 and $10 per a and he had bought most of the rty at tax sales at the rate Over the protests of Challenger Moore, the Gill gang was] §t-per acre. He was not cross-ex L- a D. Cavanaugh, postmaster at even registered. Attorney Roger Revelle, brother of Council man Revelle, who was outside the booth, went to Moore’s aid, but was ejected by the police. Revelle succeeded in blockin part of the fraudulent voters but they returned later to try again. Despairing of getting any aid from the police, Revelle ap- Roberts hurried out in an auto- pealed to the sheriff's office. mobile. The gang had cleared out by then, but Roberts serve: notice that if any more irregularities were attempted he woul arrest all the election officials. a Witness Lost Money on Hillman Land The first of C. D. Hillman’s al-|that the Union leged victims apppeared in Judge Donworth's court this morning as a witness—Anton Gardner a butcher, who had sold out his lowa home stead three years ago for $4,100 and gunk all the money in Boston Har bor. Gardner, a widower with seven children, paid Hillman $1,000 eash for two lots which he was told were worth $1,400, but which he found later others were paying $500 for on easy payments. He also put up & $1,000 house. Gardner was told, he testifies, | that three transcontinental rail roads were building to Boston Har- bor and that many industries were ‘ going to be established Wanted Taxes Cut. Hillman himself, according to| Ernest Bateman, Gardner, on one of the Yosemite ex-|man and one of his managers unt rsions, made a speech saying August, 1009, Pacific owned th this told Gardner that he was a secret he testified, coul hotel that was to be erected. Gardner lived at seven months. could get was hauling a for Hillman he sald. Boston Harbor, last week, Gardne testified, and all the machinery tha was ptled on the dock three ago was still untouched, when he was there, he said, had employed only men upland at Boston Harbor, but that via || NEWS ITEMS FROM start a butcher shop and supply the Boston Harbar The only work he w ties He went to years The shin. gle mill had worked only two weeks and four or five cousin of Hill testified to the cor ceived in boxes 506 and 514 for F. | A, Anderson and collected by Hill man's agents Wm. A. Blackwood, a real estate deajer the first witness this morn. ing, corroborated John Miller's tostimony of yesterday. Cavanaugh d a ag Miller on his visits to \j | Boston Harbor and Birmingham to appraise the property MRS. KVALHAUG QUITS TACOMA TACOMA, Feb. 7 Kvalshaug, tried three times for being an accessory to the murder of her Busband by Charles F. New- combe, under death sentence for the ¢rime, left Tacoma yesterday for White Eart D., where she wil Iremain with her aged father ne THE HICKTOWN BEE or at Ald #0 Tupper lety Is boonting Mrs, Luella for mayor of Higktown H you ‘know any news, don't «i Get your 3 WoeBo | it ‘in: Seattle il more. Meeting of dom inl. 0. € SFE } Olympia, testified as to the mail re-| | Mrs. Martina/ The old age-long battle | | | HEAVIEST VOTE IN HISTORY OF CITY | ee GILL AUTOS FOR FURTH’S WOMEN. Bearing out the charge that the Seattle Electric Co, has lined up for Gill, automobiles carrying Gill banners lined up at the traction company office, at Seventh ay, and Olive st., this noon and bore away the women employed by the Furth roads, The women did not dare refuse the “accomo dation.” How they voted is another matter KSEE EEE EE EEE EE Be KSSESE EEE EEE EEE EE RRR THE LINE-UP, Is on in Seattle, The battle of darkness and light; Line up and be ready, Be strong and be steady, Line up on the side of the right. Which side do you train in? The side with the brain in? Or the side that rants wildly fane, The side that's defending The rot and the grafting Or those who say justice reign? pro must Just look down the lines Fall in where you wish to, But scan well the signs that don't le, bums and the gamblers, soaks and vice-mongers, all in one line for old Hi, you— The The Are Hurrah, then, for Dilling For clean and square dealing, And down With all grafting and les, The vulture and the beastly Must yield to the manly, And virtue and character rise. Vigilx A year ago in the mayoralty election, Clancy’s precinct below the line returned a 319 to 10 majority for Hiram C. Gill. The underworld wanted Gill then—it wants him more badly now. Gill is the candidate of the forces of vice. If Clancy’s followers want Gill that badly, how hard will Green Lake and Ballard and the Univer: trict and the other residence sections turn him down? GILL AND VICE. DILLING AND DECENCY. THERE’S NO EVADING THAT ISSUE. yd jt biggest outpouring of voters | Dilling 1 campaign 1 residence districts makes his election practically certain. heavy Dilling vote. Dilling district north of the canal it is 3 to 1. On Queen Anne hill Dill- ing is leading by a 2 to 1 vote Good weather today is helping Dilling’s cause. With the in the history of Seattle, the nagers are confident of victory. “Dilling will win by **.0 yvtes,” said John CG. Higgins, his anager, at noon today. “The heavy voting in the “Our checkers in the various wards report a surprisingly In the Third ward it is running 3 to 2 for In the Seventh ward it is 2 to 1 for Dilling. In the “The First ward voting is light. The arrest of Collins and he other two men for illegal voting has evidently thrown a scare into them.” EXPECT 60,000 VOTES. Ow the good weather and the fact that the citizens ng t lof the residence sections are thoroughly aroused to the menace of Gillism, a total vote of voters all day. MRS. SEATTLE AT of 60,000 is predicted today. At every ng place in the anti-Gill wards, there was a continual stream POLLS TODAY t weather conditions, the biggest early vote in the this was the indication from the opening of the With perfe history of Seattl polls this morning In one precinct, the fifth in the Fifth ward, 101 votes were cast before 10 o'clock. In the 16th of the Seventh ward, 30 votes came in one right after another in the first 30 minutes—a vote a minute. From all over the city come similar reports of heavy early vot- ing. From Ballard, pen Lake, the University district, Capitol Hill, and all the residence districts comes the report of unprecedentedly heavy voting A considerable portion of the vote is women doing their part even in the early residence voting. Many picturesque scenes were enacted in the morning’s voting. Occasionally a woman, richly di d, with gold and silver mounted chatelaine bag and a Mexi irless terrier yipping at her side, drove to the polls and was helped out No one had to look to the ing banners at the back of the car to find the words, “Vote for ¢ But for one who drove up ina Gill auto, a dozen women walked to the booths, Busy women stopped on their way to their grocery or the meat market, Without hats or coats, with perhaps a shawl thrown over their heads, they walked to. the ballot box for the first time, with perhaps a dozen eggs in one hand and a ballot in the other, “I don't care who knows it,” they often challenged the men around booth, “I voted for Dilling.” The first woman to vote in the 16th precinet of the Seventh ward was Mrs. Rebecea Hall, 80 years old. . Mrs. Hall was waiting at the door of the fire station precinct voting place was located, when the polls opened Two men who were also waiting gave precedence to “( Hall “Tm But the men are the where the ndma” Dilling Hill, pastor of the a Gill worker when he cinet, the second of the Tenth. Dr, Hill swore hi who immediately preceded him, was not mol “T have been in the state for three y “Though I have only lived in Seattle since Dr. Hill is one of,the courageous ministers who attacked the Gill vice regime. He made a special plea to the women last Sunday, “if I Were a Woman on Tuesday,” being the theme of his morning sermon This was probably the reason for his being annoyed by the GU} worker. his friends say. * she announced proudly University Methodist chureh, tried to vote in his pre- vote in, His wife, voting for Rey. Everett M was challenged by Dr. Hill.