The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 23, 1911, Page 1

This life is al ting show; We learn t! To view its plea Just as they ris with a frown and yet to go the curtain down “Vole 13, NO. HAMILTON IS FLAYED Labor Committee Exposes Commissioner's Scheme—Relative and Friends Fatten Off County Hospital Business Whil Patients Suffer (FROM LABOR COMMITTEE'S REPORT.) “While the cor tt ri iat a political graft exists that, if exposed, would bring sha fpevery taxpayer in King county and oust from their position the officials cc iw “Hamilton, chair es, has filled the positi friends, regardless of ability. 1 idased at Dearborn’s recommendation r the Bee Hive store at Georgetown, owned Hamilton's nephew.” bunch of paupers. ‘Hi the action of the|come and see a pa r demands, to death from a hemorr 4 by the/ lungs,” said ove. Labor Counc!! to tnvesti-| ii county hospital conditions, oa aight reported their findings qecommended that the commit Tee be Continued to work in con age with other public con with the object of bre wp the Hamilton machine; securing ‘the @ischarge of Dr. Corson and Dearborn; reinstating Dr and Miss McGregor report com as follows took charge the were dirty, the food half the patients half cared the walls have been Everything th wp apd the food is ser ~ feparate dishes e pe ¢ Dr. O'Rourke for and kindness a: goon return” ‘De. Corson is described as “un cold and calculating, t to the needs and deaf to : scan 4 or unfortunates. report Kives a number of tp feod, Dr. Corson told them he| O'Rourke's work, then wasn't first Hamilton ecter th the ition. n of the board inst f county commission ms with re an ovis ajority « and managed jrestaurant, but only of thy Substantiates Star's Charges. The report the charges in last Mon Star The bread was soggy and The meat served to the tuberculc sis patier tough that w could not it with They «i th satd one raw hy ally food and q repeat i as he mad ad ts was so rate all corn T al ape in ft as big an « ad beef for two years with a change. Ni k, no mu no bacon; ¢ beef, bee leftovers ha «s. W De walls v comn hospital progress ag ster in visitir foun bak ye ay A new engaged Night patients had a good m something unheard of fore. Yesterday they «i cast mutton with dressing for th time in two years anges tt ad been ast the ton stew were first and fay Paid $25,000,00¢ There Is No Demand for Municipal, Say the Fat and} i Me eck Directors in Annual Report. By United Press) NEW YORK, March 22- a ‘control and regulation of pub clares that the ‘That | dua! telephone that as fast ax confidence {n pre tection agaiust the real or imagin Ewiities Ras effectually killed gry eviis of monopoly increases, for municipal owner-| position to the mergers will United States, is the crease. Mthe annual report of the} As to the financial conditién ¢ the company, the report declare the American Tele. Co., madé pub-| that In 1910 the gross revenues ¢ today. the Bell system were $16 ¥ report’ recites the | which paid dividends of $: companies arc|The net revenue of the with the Bell wher | Telegraph & Te’ legally be done with| year is given as $31,933,000, whic tt » | yielded dividends of $24 6,000. TE Aesericans Ordered Shot (By United Prese) | tial and ordered shot ANTONIO, Tex., March 23. is said to be J. Hamilton Dignow! Feached here today that|ty, a miner and cattle man of Chi cans who were captored | huahua. The Identity of the ot in federal soldiers in the has not been disclosed fighting in Chihuahua have tried by drumhead court-mar publie penses, addin: be 006 America: been confirmed. Bubb, J. S. Wangen Bridges, Jr., called on| motion for a new trial. ad Re Affidavits charging Jurors Al ietriet Attorney Elmer E. Todd Mubb, J. 8. Wangeness, D. Thomas Bridges, Jr., statements to make affidavits| Davies and Robert the charges made in af-/with making certain filed by Hillman's attor-\tending to show their dixqualifi D. Davies was at the| yesterday afternoon attorney's office at nese this afternoon for the same) These affidavits will be} with the clerk of the district | tomorrow. ow because of iliness, and that othe wisé he would never have consen’ d to the verdict of guilty. Counter affidavits by am not worried over Atty. | pt to get a new trial,” ae today. ‘ | troduced District Attorne: | When ©. D. Hillman convicted | Todd } appeara before Judge Hext Saturday to receive Settenc, a number of affidavits |lot of 1 Counter affidavits will be in-| nature the arguments on the|mer E by “The only thing me was that they didn’t bring in ore affidavits of the sam Todd this morning. ONAIRE IN MAIL FRAUD (By Untied Press.) SINCINNATI, Obio, March 23 Wien P. Harrison, millionaire of the World Manufacturing WAS convicted tod in the States courts here of using alls to defraud. tie was found 08 seven counts, making pos- ‘tibie his imprisonment for : moe count of An appeal will b jor fines on each $1,000 to $5,000. taken, of course. The arrest of the manufacture P eral Hitchcock was alleged that Harrison's adve: tising lterature misrepresented vacuum cleaner which his compan sold through the mails, MOTHER BEAT HIM TO a fork Dr fa tired of 000,000 phone Co. for last ry Hillman Affidavits |tion, were filed with the clerk of Juror W. W. two! Beck stated in an affidavit that he was unableto hold out any longer the four |jurors mentioned adove will be in- surprised said District Attorney El trom | was the result of a raid ordered by ONLY SEATTLE, WASH PRISONER CAPTURE William Major, alias Urquat | McCulloch, Kennedy, ete., a federal prisoner, who was hunted by Alask fleials for five years and whe broke from the county jail here & month ago, has just been located and arrested in Clayton, New Mexico. UL 8 has b the country, got @ line on his man in Los Angeles, then Denver, then New Mexico. Major was largely through letters he ) | forwarded ‘| ‘This afternoon Warren wired Sheriff Hodge that he had located his man, Warren will probably bring him back, Major will be tried In Alaska INDICTMENTS 3) le Marbhal Joe Warren ‘| ARE RUMORED A persistent ramor wildfire at the court house this u ning that another indictment would be returned this morning by the grand jury Judge Main re mained in bis chambers, although there was no regular business for him At 12 o'clock, however, he quietly put his bat on and left. William Bowman, who became jquite notorious during the counell mmittee’s investigation last fall one of the owners of the Mar ette club, a swell negro gambling ©, will be placed on trial to morrow in the superior court for | white slavery He ta charged with |having caused a white girl to enter |the life of the demi-world. > 18 HE CRAZY? BUTTE, Mont., March 23.—Frank Scanlan was declared insane by the ourt at Fargo, N. D., and brought . as he celal Butte as his residence. A w be tween the states of North Dakota and Montana as to whose duty it was to care for him, was ended when District Judge Donlan bere found Scanlan sane. ZAST VS. WEST IN spread like to transact f. 5 of ” of One of them It H hers MRS. GEORGE WICKERSHAM, WASHINGTON, D. C., March 23 —There’s a war in Mrs, Taft's “cab- inet,” too. It’s a social war, with the west against the east, and with ney general, generaling for the east ‘The east—that is, New York, Bo: ton, Philadelphia, Washington—has been the whole sthear in the social game for years, But this year a de- termined effort will be made by the western ladies to wrest away the honors. The wives of Secretaries Dickinson, Franklin MacVeagh and Walter L, Fisher, all of Chicago, are leading the assault on behalf of Chi cago and the west Mrs. Wickersham, with the help of Mrs. Knox and Mrs, Meyer, is | confident of victory, although Mra Nagel of St. Louis Is expected to join the western group T. R. in Berkeley (By United Press.) OAKLAND, Cal, March 23.- Colonel Theodore Roosevelt ar rived here at 8:16 today from Los Angeles. He was met at the depot |by President Benj. Ide Wheeler of |the state university and¢driven in }an automobile to the Wheeler |home in Berkeley. At ten o'clock the student body and the faculty formed in line for the procession to the amphitheatre. r- t. y or It rr a y rr LONG who | sending cireulars all over| traced | had had CABINET WAR) Mrs. Wickersham, wife of the attor- | The Seattle Star INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1911, aiemmnnns DIVORCE DECREES ARE GIVEN Just one dozen unhappy wedded couples sought and obtained their |freedom in the Seattle divorcee jcourt yesterday. As usual, the uses leading to the divoree court just as numerous as the and the applicants repre d distinctly different types, There were old men and women, young men and women, rich and educated and uneducated. Married 46 Years. 0. P. Townsend was married way back In "65, He came west in 1898, }Hiin wife refused to leave her Boston home, He has not sen her for 10 years. He had lived with her for 33 years. He got a divorce yesterday, 46 years after he got married. Deserted After Few Days. Myrtle Corto also got a divorce yesterday. She was married to William Corto on July 29, 1909. few days later he deserted he: Seen PARIS, March 23.—With eleven passengers aboard, Lieut. Breguet broke ail records here today by flying three miles in his biplane. He flew across the aerodrome in four minutes. The total weight of the aeroplanes pas sengers was 1,500 pounds. eeeeeeteeeee ey > Seeeeeeeeeeee . cath hh hth Can a four horse power motor- cycle make 81.8 miles an hour? Patrolman Presho says Ray Yerkes, son of a commission merchant 4727 Ballard ay, made that rate of speed yesterday, covering 37 blocks in 93 seconds. Yerkes nays the pinch was made because he objected to Presho lift ing apples and other fruits during his visits to the elder Yerkes’ store. Judge Gordon assesed a fine of Yerkes’ attorney promptly notice of appeal. ‘STRIKE OVER (By United Press.) W YORK, March 23.*-With express strike called off un- nditionally, many of the Wells Fargo and American express drivers | applied for thelr old Jobs today, but jonly about half of the old employes | were reinstated WELCOME? Richard Achilles Ballinger, late secretary of the interior, will be warmly welcomed home on his re turn Friday night by his special interpat friends in Seattle. On |Satutday night at the Washington |hotel these same special interest | friends, posing for the occasion as |the “people of Seattle,” will try to make Richard Achilles forget. WOODBURY, N. J., March 23.— Bob D. Hughes believes he hag the oldest cat in the world in “Rex,” who is 26 and is still active. GOING SOME.’ CIARKIED 1 1865 1 TO TWELVE UNHAPPILY WEDS | WE HAD ANOWN THE QEFENDENYT To SE A PAN OF POOR PRINCIPLE SUPPORTE. WERSELF FOR THREE YEARS CAREY DESERTED, H/T 12 YEARS AGO Sketches of Divorce Seekers Made in Court by Star’s Artist. Mary Murphy had to make her own lying a month after she was Joined in wedlock to Thomas A Mabel M. Cargill's husband de ferted her intermittently for periods of two and three months at Murphy. Elizabeth Dolby took a time. Blanche P. Boys has had beck her spouse on four different earn her own living as a pecnsions after he . a t her husband too support her. Anna Boloom was deserted eight years after marriage. ven the two children could not keep Hiram Helmer He left five years after married Bertha May Helmer Refused to Support Wife William B. McLean was not in much of a burry to leave as »p at the corner grocery and tell the man behind the counter that he would not pay his wife's bills any mo he grocer was one of the witnesses for the wife, Hannah C. McLean, to prove non: support, She testified that she no longer had husband any Send Aid to Homeless Kiddies Acknowledged yesterday $38.50 of aiding the home Received today— | “It is one of the best things The ing firm $10.00 | Star ever took up,” said one man oe H. Johannoson .. + 1,00| who lives near the home. “I have kA See 1.00|been watching Mother Ryther's 1,00) work for years and doing what I 5.00| could to help. How she has got 1.00 | along all these re nobody knows. 1.00/ She seems, however, to keep things 1.00 | going, and none of 1.00 | go cold or hungr, 1.00 to ifaveling man, wh &B ungovernable tempe @hently beat her. A. A. Brownell, industrious looking, clean cut im, told the court that his wife Geserted him tn 1899, 16 ‘after they were married Bursts Into Tears. Jessie E. Hansen bad to run a and act as bartender back in uaky, Obio, she said, while her husband gambled and bought ‘dfinks in other places, It broke all up to tell the story yester nd when the ordeal was over, said, » and at he 80 to # the court granted her a decree, Id not control herself, and t in tears. CAR HITS. BABY Running squarely in front of a flying interurban ear, the two-year. old son of 8. W. Perkins, 5602 Du- 1.00 Henry M. Clay 10.00 Mra. R. G. Heisler + 10,00 Mra. H, A, Gaddos, Spokane.. 1.00 Mamie Gaddes, Spokane 1.00 Mrs. F.G.P. .. j 1.00} Mra. L. C. A. $52 worth of groceries. jured at 2 o'clock this The little fellow’s skull was frac tured. P. H. Polson, motorman of the car,.was placed under arrest at Georgetown and the boy was hur: ried in to the city hospital. FOLK TALKS AT ““U” Ex-Governor Folk of Missouri, the man who rid St. Louis of its graft | ing politicians, 1s in Seattle today Mr. Folk addressed the students of the law school at the University of Washington this morning, and lectures at the university auditor fum this evening. ‘WOMEN GET SUFFRIGE (By United Press.) SPRINGFIELD, Il.,»March 23.— By a vote of 31 to #0 the Illinois senate this afternoon passed a bill empowering women to vote for cer. tain candidates for city, village and township offices and on questions of public policy, The bill provides that wherever it is adopted by a Total cash to date .. Star readers are coming to the] ald of Mother Ryther's home. More than $85 has come in within the last two days—almost enough to keep the home going for two weeks | enough to lift the careworn ex pression for 10 days at least from Mother Ryther’s face The bulk of the contributions so far has come from people who are none too well off themselves. Some- times It's a woman in widow's black "I knOw the sufferings of the poor | peoye Mother Ryther is helping,” | she Mays. Sometimes it's an old man with tofl-worn clothes. Sometimes a lit tle boy or girl, “Mother sent me in,” they would say Mrs. Gaddes and her daughter Mamie read The Star articles over in Spokane and did their part in helping. The biggest bit of aid came from one woman who did not want her charity known. A delivery wagon backed up with $52 worth of assorted groceries. “From Mrs. L. C. A.,” was the only name given. Many people called up on the tele- phone to commend The Star plan Alc «cs ni Rael ys He’s Going to Improve the Straw i ere, AGO, AS SHOWN BY THE ABOVE EQUATION. referendum women more than 21 years of age may vote for all offi- cers who are not constitutional offi- cers. Dorothy Arnold the Text. “The Girl That Disappeared,” re- ferring to Dorothy Arnold, missing New York heiress, was the subject of a lecture last night at the Y, M. C. A. by Mrs. M. A. McKenzie, Be- ginning tomorrow afternoon, in room 833, Liberty bldg., there will be a series “of free lectures to women on purity and kindred sub- Jects. TEST EIGHT-HOUR LAW. SACRAMENTO, March 23.—It is reported today that a test of the new eight-hour law for women will be made by a telephone system in the state, employing thousands of girls. It is said that the girls have been told they can have a two weeks’ vacation during the year on full pay and be prepared to werk all the overtime required, berry, But— any affection for her! * | with @ children ever | But some Respond WAR BLUFF SCARES ’EM Developments Today Indicate Show Japan That U. 8. W Get Foothold in Mexico— Are to Be Withdrawn WASHINGTON, March 23. will withdraw entirely from Mexi heart unto That War Move Was Made to ould Not Allow That Nation to Secret Treaty Between Mexico and Japan Abrogated, and on That Condition U. S. Troops (By United Press.) -Sweeping assurances that Japan co, and hereafter will take no part in Mexican affairs, it is said here today in diplomatic circles, were given yesterday to President Uchida, the mikado’s ambae JAP-MEX AL state t Taft lor to the United States. ANCE Dispatches received today from Mexico City confirm this. 8 a consequence of American naval and military mobil- at his conference with Baron BROKEN They ization, a secret Japanese-Mexican alliance has been abrogated. | It ix definitely known that Pres! dent Taft and Ambassador Uchid agreed upon what statement of the mbre publi and naturally announ |liness of the other's « | Secret Treaty Framed L of this parade has been learne Mexican f which officials of publicly denied, was last April by a special agent, and that the Unit en has since that time been watching the course of events with Increasing displeasure | Under this agreement Japan | practically controlled the Isthmus Jof Tehauantepec and all the ports Jof western. Mexico be Guay Jamas. Finally, 10 days ago, the | Pacific Mail Steamship company jrealizing the futility of competing | with the Japanese on the coast of Mexico, announced its withdrawal Jof ships from Salina Cruz, the |terminus of the Tehauntepec Isth | mus railway Explains War Move. e secret Japanese agreement by diplomats who are behind the scenes, related chiefly trade relations, and through them opened the door of Mexico to Japan. The pact was such that it could been made the basis for a stronger alliance, This what the United States feared, and it was this prospect which in: duced President Taft to smash all pr nt and order the mobiliza- tion which blocked Japan's scheme. Warning to Diaz. movements of the troops diplomats say, were a notifi- cation to President Diaz that no trifling with the Monroe doctrine would be permitted, and were also & notification to Japan that Amer ica was awake to the situation, and would consider any aggression an affront of the most serious na ture. io was to be mai 4 the friend try. In spite | ment necret the | both it Japanene existence nation framed pane ow to easily have The there Japan Backs Down. Baron Uchida's conference the president, it has been the Japanese diplomat that his country would all efforts to get a coaling |station at Campos, near Manzan ilo, would not seek to secure a |naval base at Magdalena bay, and would refrain from all further of forts to colonize the isthmus of auntepec. For Japan, Uchida also promised that all efforts to secure another alliance with Mex- ico in conflict with the Monroe doc jtrine would cease, and that here er the Japanese would allow the United /States to deal with the Mexican situation without interference. At learned, agreed | ceass ico Admits It. NEW YORK, March 23.—Dis- |patches from Mexico City, pub- lished today in the New York Her Jald, quote a prominent Mexican diplomat as admitting that the se cret treaty between Japan and Mexico will bé immediately ter- |minated by mutual consent of both |parties. The immediate cause of the treaty’s abrogation is given as the military demonstration by the United States, in which Japan con- curs, to prevent a misunderstand ing with America U. 8. Troops to Withdraw. The diplomat quoted says that assurances have been given by America that troops will be with drawn from Texas just as soon as possible so as to avoid the appear ance of haste While the Japanese-Mexican sit |uation was discussed at a long con |ference between President Diaz and his cabinet yesterday, no mem: |ber would give out-any statement jas to the conclusions reached. WILL REPBULIC FALL LISBON, via Badajos, March —Hoping to insure its return to power in the elections in April, the Portugues ministry today is ar |ranging to overawe the populace with an overwhelming display of military strength virtually upon their success, al- though the method is not free re- publicanism. CUPID PUZZLED Judge Frater this morning con- tinued until this afternoon the di vorce case of A. J. Henry, the bank cashier who charges his wife with running away with 8, Foster Kelly, former secretary of the Seattle Na- tional bank, Mrs, Henry filed an answer charging her husband with ‘non- support. Mrs, Kelly also started a divorce action against her husband, THANK RED CROSS WASHINGTON, March 23.—The American National Red Cross to- day received the thanks of the Chinese government for its assist- ance to the starving people of that empire. The Red Cross has re- cetved contributions amounting to $37,000, of which $83,000 hag al- ready been sent, secret | Life of the new republic depends | | en kth WAR DEVELOPMENTS apparently ex s United States gov protest against n's getting foothold in Mexico. * «Secret treaty between Mex * ico and Japan abrogated as a * result of United States military # demonstration * United States troops to be * withdrawn ee ee ee See eee eee eee eee John Lind, an engineer, was ar rested early this morning following a ride with a man and woman whose names he does not know Reaching Alki point the three got out of the taxicab, and Chauffeur fim Connell demanded his fare. The newly-found friend told Lind to pay because Lind didn't |have any money, the unknown beat him unmerecifully and disappeared with the woman. GIAL 19 ASKS DIVORCE Boy and girl love got another jolt }this morning when Voilet Newell that she had made a mis- when she married Charles | Newell and that she ought to be given a divorce | She was 18, he 20, when they be- came husband and wife on February 17, 1910. Everything might have been all right, says the repentaht | bride, if hubby did not have to rely on his parents to support both her jand him both Finally she had to go to their house to live and was forced to live jon their charity, she alleges. SHUT UP, SAYS: CZAR (By United Press.) | ST. PETERSBURG, March 23.— Foreseeing defeat for Russia in a jconflict with Turkey and a, revolu- Uon against the czar, Admiral Skrydioff, the foremost naval au- thority in Russia, received today an intimation that unless he curbed his tongue he would be disciplined. rydloff, twice commander of the Black Sea fleet, predicted de jfeat for Russia in the Far East, |owing to the czar’s unpreparedness for war with Japan. REE KKK TAX BACHELORS. OCONTO, Wis., March 23.— To support orphans and other needy children, the city coun- cil bas an ordinance imposing a tax of $6 upon all unmar- ried men residing in the city between the ages of 21 and 50. Fe ITO TORI TOTO IO ‘MAGNATES, FUNERAL STOPS DENVER. TRAINS (By Unite? Press.) DENVER, March 23.—David Mof- fat, the railroad builder, was buried here this afternoon. During the jfunera} all the street cars, power houses, mills and factories in Den- |ver were still for five minutes as a mark of respect All the ks were closed and trains on the Moffat railroad and on the Denver & Rio Grande ceased joperation during the obsequies, . March 23.— take Trrcrrrrr. ROeeeeeee PORT TOWN The old bark \Hesper, at one time the’ scene of a bloody mutiny, was | sold for $3,500 yesterday by United States Marshal Jacoby to satisfy a |judgment in a libel suit. In the jearly nineties while plying between N ork and San Francisco, five w of the Hesper mutinied red the second mate, Two ater for the crime. of the c } and murd were hung NEWS ITEMS FROM || THE HICKTOWN BEE Miss Pansy Tidds has bought her new Easter bonnet trimmed in Hellen Pink. We cannot print what Lafe Watertower says about it. A couple of belles from the city are visiting Widow Pike, It is rumored that they are her cousins, There quite a big fire at Hank Tozier’s barn today, but as everybody in town was there, there ain't no use writ ing it up. , Lafe Watertower says never goes to Tacoma any- how. The boys at the store were saying last night that Late is awfully sore about that anti- treating ordinance. There ain't going to be a paper printed on April 6. Ye editor will be over in Seattle to talk over polities with Kernel Roozevelt, who used to be pres ident. We will have an ex- clusive story of our interview with him on Aoril 7, he