The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 14, 1911, Page 1

2-79 Today TRU T nterest Mea make things ue, of course, He Don't ng Everett starts to te ng today on the Smiles page him that's page 4—today VOL, 12, NO. 307 ST VIATLIEINT TL TINIE) s Live Wire--Look Out or You’ll Get Stung The Seattle Star IN SEATTLE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1911 Happens to the champion Ing The Star? The Pug’s Progress” day Don’t miss series now runr every on the sports page of t tomorrow. ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS be. ONE CENT. | HOW TRAP WAS SPRUNG ON GRAFTERS | JUDGE MAIN CALLS JURY Prosecutor Murphy’s Request Promptly Granted Says He Has Evidence to Convict. S CONFESSIONS. «n c PROSEC UTOR HA EVIDENCE TO CONVICT ACTS QUICKLY ed an order fe The ck nex ty fearless b< Pr by Fr WITNESSE Williar i WATCHING watch « A days. Ar of the wit to “take Hillman’s Employes foundry, no} arch mill, no fur no stove factory That there woolen mi piture facte any plans for these, no s no chicken ranches and no except a wooden building “Cannery,” at or near Bi was the testimony this J. 0. Morrison, one of Hillam Dloyes, in Judge Donwort All of t industries are shown on a letterhead used in Hillman’s of fice and thus identified this morn Ing. Took “Chicken Ranch” Bait. Morrison testified that he Pought property at Pacific City af ter answering a chicken ranch ad yertisement, that he had later found that another man Rad bought the || same property, and that had asked Hillman to “fix it up,” but that it had not been done, though Hillman bad promised he would |fied that “double” sales were fre “fix it.” quent, and that this was known by He said that while he was Hill-|the office force, and that in the man's manager at Birmingham|case of R. H. Hensley, the s Tany men had come there for work |property had been sold 11 times In answer to advertisements and| Attorney Morris, for the de had not received it, that there had|in crossexamining L. C. Hargixs never been any position for book-|made an attempt to show that his keeper or “checker,” though such |testimony for the government was positions had been advertised. Some|given because he was “sore Of the families living there are in| fHillman for having discharged ‘a detestitute condition, he declared. | The ywed that Hillm He testified that the “cannery” | held Hargl fe for $299.80, wh cost about $200, and that its only | H owed him, for back com use had been for a Sunday school.| missions, about $384, WAT GOODWIN TO WRITE BOOK (By United Frese.) NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—Convinced that 35 years’ experience in the mat rimonial game has made him an authority on the subject, Nat Good. win, four times married, and fre quently divorced, is writing a book on matrimon. He will is no Signed the Anderson Letters. oO. ‘ mployed number a O. Rowland, civ es led a Hillma nt je mi the F rf c letters out and and two boxes in A as p. ann ha labele ngham of at the ndwriting, testif had rented pla post the name ¢ A. Ande He explained the lists of names to which he out the “Anderson furnished by Hill was not cross-examin Double Sales Made. James Jey Hiliman’s assist cashier, identified a number of let and admitted out thera Henry man's pad pnt Anderson Beve offic some he formerly one of employes ntified letters, and testt H at evidence alialalilliclelielaelaehe * \* WATER SHUT OFF. \* * Wa \* morrow * 9 and & trict kav. 8. % 19th ay be shut to. will betwe in the Hanford s' to 19th a 8., from ter oft hours « following di from 16th * 8., and on * Hanford * | ® Hinds st * * * ee many of his experiences. The nent elub| has adop recount North Side Improve od resolutions calling upon the » legislature to put an end to the system of surveying and re surveying proposed state-ald roads and enact legislation that avill get the work 4 HERE’S A NEW SCANDAL--POOR RUSSIA DIRTY (iy United Press.) PARIS, Feb. 14.—If soap statis-| thes, g today, are correct Russia. is the dirtiest nation | on earth and England ts the leanliest America stands econd Eng land 8 tatistic show that each individual { n Russia ves only yunds of ¢oap annudily, in éngland, 21 pounds, in America, 17 pounds, France, 16 pounds, Ger- many, 10 pounds, Austria, five pounds. SAN FRANC econd richest gold sent here today from the solidated mines. It consists 1,480 pound 0, xpr out Feb. 14.—The shipment of of Nevada | Goldfield Con of 19 in nd ever $426,0 | worth BY JOHN COPLEY. Burns, the detective! He looks anything but that. The bulldog tenacity that hounded Boss Ruef to the doors of the peniten tlary down in San Francisco, the shrewd calculating mind that ex posed the Oregon land fraud ring, which Francis Heney staked his life to “get”—all of these true detective qualities are hidden beneath an ex \terior as calm as the summer ski« Perhaps that is why Burns ha become a great hounder of evil To meet up with this man on the street you might take him for the floorwalker in a department store or perhaps a life insurance agent He Is a Fashion Plate, Not over-tall, stocki built and en on to | oe b-4 "MAGAZINES? at he had also | | + | fa crew Oshkos' ee eo JUST A COINCIDENCE ' Duri AK id * * * * * * . * * * * * * * * * * * * ee 1911, & Press.) EL G. BLYTHE (Copyright y the U BY SAML Testify Against ee | 3 © MRS. JOHNSON’S TEN CHILDREN The Other Side of the Argument Made by Some Manufacturers and the Cham- | ber of Commerce That We Don’t Need Any Laws to Help the Widows and Children of Those Who Are Killed at Work. | | fi He crashed }foreman’s orders whe at warning, the huge n down on him, It wasn't bis Here's how the Pear ted the fa after fir (By United Frese) ANGELES, Feb ot T. ¢ Los “4 —C | on company trier p the dent Mr a mer the y didn’t « off employes of Johnsoh and week. The m went to Pea her Heft n¢ paid b come, She They told and “bad money to be that Gage w with b fami Mra are oc med eKle the p man he G Gage severe was in ( word fo Children Go to Work. The oldest giri, then 17, went to work’ as a ant, earning little more than her own keep. The boy P got & place in a grocery at $3 a drags which these b ployers |S "ane ocher eight childred lived somehow r always live, between tion, Mrs. Johnson office again. She 2 a week for her She was refused 1 thought of killing myself,” she said yesterda telling the story. “I really seriously consid. ered it. Because | thought then a son eaithy a the poor SEEK BODIES |." By United ASTORIA Fe of the Point Adar patrolled the g for the who were boat turned be the as not starva went F exged even for eight ebildren raon’s me “ owned ttle ; river jetty| if the liability bill had been a law lone year ago the family would not be as it is today and has been through the long, dark year, desper late and all but starving. | For Frida WILEY’S HINTS By United Press DR. next will b 14.—D: 1 of the food “TO VISIT SEATTLE Wile he and pure Local p officials are making arrange excursionists going to » Sunda The will assenge # to-rout Fran nvention via isual summer excur fon rates they think, enable them to divert a large portion of the tourlat travel from other Pacific coast cities, where big meetings scheduled to be held. ch the aid Dr would reduce Wile the did|driven clear througl bod Have Many Arguments. of the law If the the 26 per cent te about 4 are now bel BAN ON POOL ROOM pulse r the ia which ql horn | specious arg Except in cases where the acol dent was obviously the fault of the man killed or injured, they say, the employer always takes care of the families of the men Well, John m empl Killed tr k have m AGAINST COMMISSION. nt f thelr any! The Eastlake last night went the proposed legi utilities comm: Improvem: cord & ainst ation for a public jon n the the cause of q terday in an earne which he from t urged the evil in It women would only clean one room at a time It would keep HIM ‘in a sweeter temper bo fluences in a public place o' r | on was obeying his BURNS—The Man Who they plundered and so shrewdly and cleverly that they laughed at investi gation. They owned the police department—that their boast So one sent for hero’s,| And worn | good the | and left; head of a private agency that | protec He still on that § and helping out graft |ridden cities and countries on the | side . | When Bu and Heney finished wlth the Schmitz gang down in | Frisco, Abe Ruef, the t who the | boas that nobody w foxy Jenough to get him, was facing a |term of 14 years in the penitentiary. n| The Boss Confessed. hounded him into because Burns be. guilty. That's neat in ‘onal a ly scrupulo' pearance the relen pur ler, the ter and croak His w over ap-| hing but bood. offictal | right j came bank 1er of the the was brown hair {s brushed | his forehead in hion; his blonde mustache ts garefully kept as a matinec His gold-bowed spec when he is reading, cleric But Burns is a mevciles of graft avy man, just a plain citizen, Burns, Burns got up them. with suggest U. 8. Secret Service many years Burns wa in the United State secret service He started in a |mere stripling of a youth, He stayed till he knew the game of un-| why he stuck till he got him covering crooks from top tobottom.| Burns and Hen in Oregon Chief Wilkie declared that Burns|worked for the government. The ' In For | operative Burn a confes Heved his man was fighter even sion For a decade or more Abe Ruef dominated the great vice colony in Frisco, In Eugene E. Schmitz, the little bor was the best ¢ ctive in the ga big land fraud men the higher-ups found a willing tool. Together 80 went higher, didn’t fear anybody, They laughed Burns he be people would find out about my poor | elub| [children and help them One of her neighbors learned the t and secured a little from the county poor fund pittance, b th the boy girl's meager earnings, aged to live The same neighbors got an ney interested. He found that every last one of the witnesses to the accident had left town. Per haps it only happened that way. Got Small Damages. 1 months after the accident company in which ‘* men are insured ¢ ed Mrs. Johnson and her haple hildren a small monthly allowan: So they are still alive, The John son boy, by hard work, bas got raise of a dollar a week But it’s no fault of the employer ts money just nd th they that they have survived this terri- | ble year since the father was killed The Johnson family stand out as a final convincing argument that something should be done about employers’ liability The Chamber of Commerce isn’t interested in these things. But the eople who elect legislators are. eee eee eee ee! FOUR MINERS KILLED. HARRISBURG Fx Iis., Feb killed shaft were 4 here ur miners today when the carriage in which they being lowered into a overturned ee ee Shot by Prowler Seeeeeee een (By United Press.) WALLA WALLA, Feb. 14.—Shot through the breast and lungs by an unknown person, who was trying to break Into the dining car of which he was conductor, D. J, Reeder lies in a local hospital, hovering be- ‘tween Iifeand death. at investigating committees | Burns got higher-ups—not escaped. | ,And then Burns came | Whether Seattle has Rudolph Spreckels to pay for the jolean-up of the city is not known. | Burns isn’t strong on giving inter- views one to Seattle. But he has never fallen down. 80 when he said this to me yesterday noon | remembered it “We have got the goods on Wappy—and we'll get him,” Burns looked out on Second avenue, and then turned around again. “And we've got the goods on | OFFICE another | BURNS TELLS HIS STORY n the oft® fters , r Ung ON THEIR TRAIL FOUR MONTHS. hable to n, when cornered and Murph of wealthy 1 knew « known crooks was all went to » which one ¥ a nico HOW HE SPRUNG TRAP. My plan was nothing more than to work on one man. For instance, | went at one man who will testify before the grand jury in this manner: ‘Are you going to be the goat in this mess?’ ‘What do you mean?’ the victim would demand. ‘Why,’ said |, ‘this fellow says you were getting jthe coin and cutting up with certain fellows.’ ‘He's a liar; he got the lion's share himself,’ came his answer like a flash. “Then | sat back and let him ‘come through’ to his heart's content. Before he finished he implicated a dozen men and they in turn implicated | higher-ups until we got straight evidence on the men we were after. | It's a simple tittle plan, isn’t it?” WHERE WILL THEY Go? ention serve the ms in Walla W ter the white slavers,* e ysecutor emiled know. " inite informatior FLOCK IN WITH INFORMATION, 1 Burns. “My a year to make Fellows who which was ng to us t rything they know pu have to do r tech the fur fly when that grand busy. I} confidence in Mr. Murphy, He b and I imagi he can finish it MURPHY STARTED IT. Murph with hands untied. y last spring while a deputy little friend Ruef gave him confess. Thig have been enjoying recently kicked out are ve conceived the under Prosecutor I knew co a qniet I wou her a bai were en,” said t d that if I were afters who ast to const prosecutor. “I started d prosecuting at e despotled Seattle and Phe time has ¢ out in rmin: torney & give guilty 1 name from going the penitentiary CONFIDENT OF HIS EVIDENCE. When the first jictments are returned I re guilty and take their medicine I want to clean the city ofa 1 grafter I certainly have evidence. I don't will reach as yet, but it is going to enmesh a 8 who have had an easy game for many years.” ame noised about yesterday that Burns and his corps on the job and had been for months almost a panie gang TUPPER BEFORE BURNS. Gerald appeared downcast. Tupper, usually all amiles, Tuppe passed through a Burns . third degree 1 well into the morning and it seemed to have jarred hig nt alr CLANCYS CALL ON MURPHY. | nd Jonn Clancy were nervous callers at the prosecutor's 1* Somes erday afternoon, while other members of the sporting fra- | ternity were in high glee to think that they at last had an opportun- | ity to get even with the high-ups. are advise the guilty | know how far the probe | number of persc | When it be leuths wer reigned ir vice 1 Clarence looked worrled. which last usual oc Frank ye Wappy secluded himself yesters day in the orfice of the Alaskan jbar and denied himself to visitors, One of Burns’ detectives was an um jobtrusive watcher of Wappy’a movements. Gang Watches Murphy. That Prosecutor Murphy himself jis being watched like a hawk de. veloped last night when he started for home. A taxicab trailed after jhim as he walked toward his real {dence. No violence was offered, but the taxicab and {ts lone oceus pant, a man, followed close behind, rphy waited for the watcher to approach him, but the latter hurried aw when detected. Late this afternoon Ah King, known to the police as head of the Chine: gamblers, was closeted with Burns and Murphy (By Staff Special.) OLYMPIA, ‘eb. Mu Fol sful pt yes Land ( to get Gov. Hay to oppose the | passag the bill wiping out his office as constituted at present, a \further step was taken today in the ywing an unsuccessful atte rday by friends ‘ommissioner Ross house. Repres Wright, Groff joined in a bill an investigation of the entative and Farnsworth calling for land office enator Ruth, who consider of the changit land commission include three men instead of Jasked for a continuance of motion till Wednesday It | granted Washington or-Hlect Miles Poindexter has named a iates in okane, and in showing Col. Roosevel good time during his coming trip to the West coast : will ask for re- bill to one, his was mn senate ig the NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HICKTOWN BEE mpany has new belt house, | more of them. More of these kind who have laughed and said nobody could get them, | because they were too big. It won't do them any good to | run away—we'll get the indict | ments and Murphy will bring them back.” That was all of the interview |, In view of this man-hunter's past achievements, it looks as if Seat |tle might forever rid herself of the Schmitzes and the Ruefs and the] whole gang, doesn’t 1 John Murphy has the evidence Burns got it—the same kind that sent Ruef on the way to San Quen tin prison Who will be the first to start for Walla Walla? s got twine iting to be Wart again, th a haat Pans: back on The 2 palr has asked for her job Boe,