The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 17, 1911, Page 1

ONLY SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER MAY 17, 1911 IN ONE CENT. SEATTLE ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS ba ME EDITION TOT DESCRIBES MOTHER'S MURDER Aviator Falls 75 Ft. (By United Pre: LOS ANGELES aviator 1 at Dominguez f first t In bis machine, Curtiss b May ki was ins ther home-m: had reach he a Ha twice, ¢ lane, ctreled field rising higher until he had attained & height of 200 feet When above the jud swerved suddenly ward the ground as if to alight. Half way to the ground he apparently changed his mind and turned his rudder the ch time stand he to Death : Leased Wire Direct to Seattle Star Office.) 25, an ateur n Hartle t fall fron Anna accident a wl ad gor was the machine > pxeCL the ground lear of t in was broken. instantaneous. Hartle had not yet qualified fc his p nee, but had ights el made ERICKSON FIG Erickson has drawn ly to Light Superintendent dence lighting. Ross ared that Erickson's duction of rates in home chting would be “ruinous” to the plant Fr owing is a sum mary of Erickson’s statement Home owners and users have made the plant possible. They are grossly discriminated against tn rates Instead residence Counc k de proposal for r of « loss of $15,000 in ixhting, the books show a profit of $54,000. The ‘depre ciation’ account is fictit a dol lar never having been set jor such a fund. Saloons v' “A saloon or b& Ballard is charged $ fi andle power hours a day for a month. A home owner the Broadway district within a stone's throw of the station, pays $5.04 for the same ser vice. “Ros: aside Homes. gh 6 for using ghts eight argument as to the city being near its limit of supply is not valid. The output can be increased one-third within six months CHEAP LIGHT favor t rent 8 paid Puget “Discrimination is shown of street light rates a: dence rates, Street of the general ? company, with din W tate, wi! ds of lots, contributé to this fund. Workingmen Are Stung ‘The per kil enhances while Mill cant lan Ye vac d the Instit watt hour the value fi of as much for an The men growing rich without labor getting the cream of our lighting plant, while those who make Seattle grow are getting the skim milk. The cluster 1 al. Abo endit than one-fifth and Pine st. di ht per ¢ es is for ligh 1 of the Jackson st t impr Coples we ade of both Erick }son’s and Ross’ letters for councilman to study ov A meeting of whe to thoroughly discuss the |will be held in the near f matter ure. STANDARD OIL DECISION MAKES OTHER CASES HARDER S. 0. WILL OBEY COURT y United Pres Leased Wire.) NEW YORK, May 17—Attor- neys and officials of the Stand- ard Oil today busy prepar- ing to meet the terms of th supreme court's decision that the big corporation must be dis- solved. Moritz Rosenthal, chief coun- sel for Standard Oil in the trials in the lower courts, declared the trust would reorganize by di- visions into producing, manufac- turing, transportation and sell- ing companies. Stocks Stili Booming. NEW YORK, May 17.—The stock | market boom which followed the Standard Oil decision continued to- | day. A slight halt followed the opening as the result of profit tak ing, but the demand exceeded the supply, the offerings were soon ab- sorbed and prices advanced again. The industrial stocks and railroad shares generally gained. On the curb Standard Oil was two points above yesterday's close. American Tobacco advanced the curb from 474 to 500. It was rumored that Tobacco officials had completed arrangements for re- organization, if the supreme court | should decide against the company | May 29, pected to be handed down. Standard Oil, on the curb, vanced from 6.66 t to 6.78, Seer rr eee tees +e * Occasional rain tonight and *& * Thursday; moderate south to # *% south west winds. *) * * li sl theta nl lt lh le fa on} when its decision is ex-| ad-| (By United Press Leased Wire.) | WASHINGTON, May 17 lernment prosecutions of the stee! | beef, bathtub, electric, paper | glass, and sugar trusts in the opinion of lawyers here to day, are all likely to be affected by the supreme Standard Oil decision. doubles the jin every case, in that the of trade caused by tions must b Gov coal, steamship gravely court's It practical ly prosecution's work thelr combina proved unreasonable For this reason it is very prob able that the proceedings of thi government againat some of the | Smaller trusts will be abandoned | In the beet trust proceeding, especially, the “unreasonable” feat ure of the supreme court's decision will be tested. The beef trust attor }ney recently filed a demurrer to | the indictment fo inst J. Ox |den Armour and packers for conspiracy which was built al most entirely around the “un reasonab)eness of the govern ments contention as to their monopoly of the beef trust Something Wrong With Thin Women | (By United Press Leased Wire.) CLEVELAND, May 17.—Some- woman alive, Dr. ©. W. Moots of | Toledo told the Ohio Medical con vention at its closing session today Thin scolding wives and sisters and angular irascible women of all sorts | need an operation, he declared. very time I see one of these | women coming into my office with jher sharp face, flat chest and in Jelastic muscles, I am in doubt whether to feel sorry for the pa tient or for myself,” he said. “The reason they are so thin {s that lsomething is wrong with their in ternal workings, and they ought to | be operated upon.” each | » council | thing is the matter with every thin| | | ‘GIRL BEATS DETECTIVES IN RECOVERING STOLEN ARTICLES {ttle slip of a girl, arte of sleuthing ttle, ne adin, 8 just untrained in yet a any ty men of the she's dy é exe! Ra Mi put the tment so far tc should find the r faces to the wall While detectives worked and fatled to recover M $48 and $15 suit Me: if got out a day vered both Merrill, 21 tle detective that Mary and pretty de rea k-taking m with n week | Merrill's M halt pawn at rill by dine d oved owne ot Fy and | ance aghe whore home 610 Che Mi during Merri the afte and 6 that 6 tive called mation. He sald he 4 to find article Set Out Herself fter waiting became dlegu out hersel was @ A di Miss lagher, 8h FRED GALLAGHER. FEAR HITE He bought the ported scription « n whe He Helped Giri SUICIDE CHICAGO, May 17.—With no immediate relief in sight from the torrid weather that has held Chicago in its grip for two d. many heat prostrations were reported today. Hans Schmidt, a tailor, crazed by the heat, committed suicide by hanging Several of today’s victims are Not expected to recover. MISS MARY MERRILL She Beat Seattle Detectives. JONES TO BRACE UP SHERMAN ACT | restraint | | abl | |hardt over a dog, brought the latter | before WASHINGTON, Three bills were D. C., May 17 introduced in the | today restoring to the orman senate power law Jo (Rep. an amendment combinations whether reasonable unreason should be declared unlawful. | Culberson (Dem., Texas), offered | a similar amendment. The amend-| 7" !terstate commerce commie ment fathered by Reed (Dem., Min-| sourt), provides that every combi- | hation or conspiracy In restraint of | 2° Cents per 100 pounds in the tariff t i hereby “a” b shipped reasonable and ille wauk its former anti-trust Hooray, Beer Kegs Will Be Cheaper (Dy United Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17 that of Washington) providing restraint trade or sion today ordered fon of jon from amento, Cal sW YORK, May 17.—Although her husband is'a deaf mute and im mune to afl noise, a row Mrs, Kathryn Ekhardt First st., Brooklyn am willing to go but I won't stand for the dog.” Mrs, Ekhardt told the court that the dog was “a pretty little poodle that never harmed any one. magistrate asked her whic liked best, } and after deliberating she decided ‘or of the former and promised | rid of the dog. Husband and wife jeft arm in ar h Magistrate Hylan in the court of domestic relations, Brook lyn, yesterday. Mrs, Ekhardt accus ed him of desertion “Your Honor,” wrote Ekhardt, “I er MORE CRITICISM OF COURTS; ILLINOIS SOLONS DO THE JOB SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 17.—The state senate of 34 to 11, adc a resolution.criticising Judge Petit of Chicago for his decision whereby Edward Tilden, president of the National Packing Co., was enabled to avotd showing his books, which are alleged to have contained ‘entries showing that Tilden acted as collector of a “slush fund,” which Wm. Lorimer to the U. 8. senate. today, by a vote THEY WILL TEAR A BABE FROM ITS MOTHER’S BREAST THEN HANG THE MOTHER, BUT THE LAW WILL BE VINDICATED sn’t the u p in Sault Ste. Marie, itting in a cell w The woman killed her hust Never mind the details same old story of a woman turt a brutal master. If Angelina had been rich had humbled her by chilled her with neglect, instead of at the groggery, law a queer critter and i she Mich aiting for a life ar Y. ffairs” Angelina Napoletana is 1 for death. vand. ou can easily guess them. The ning at last in blind rage against and refined and if her hus with her women friends f he had got drunk at the would ve been able to strike back without actually letting blood She could have hired a detectives. The husband could courts, his innermost secrets ruined, he could have been made that his.old mother and his si and scandal of it all. have been dragged through the blazoned abroad, his business to suffer through the sufferings ters would feel at the disgrace id | whispered a word in his id | club | ling of the | retaliation that her her to strike there for But sister Angelina had not the weapon had. When the time came but one way he killed him In court she calmly pleaded guilty her to be hanged. He was about to set the date when society, and law, order, justice and civilization would be vindicated by dangling this poor girl at the end of a rope, when somebody ear. So they called in some doctors and the two great professions the law and medicine—concurred. , Then the date for the hang et for Aug. 9, 1911. By that time she will have had a baby and then they will take the baby from its rich wa and the judge sentenced woman was mart lawyer and a squad of private| mother’s breast and hang the mother by the neck, with a rope, juntil she is dead And the baby? Oh, it will be quite safe under the shelter of the socieé is vindicated by strangling a young mother, AND THE LAW WILL BE VINDICATED, y that } } bpreni Mt! | | governorships | Abram Goon back to my wife,| ponitia. The| she| r husband or the dog, | =2/ Sasabe south to eerrrrrerrrr ss t | D. Baker, EF. BLAINE ON DECK AGAIN Man Who Tried to Defeat Car t Bonds Shows Up F Corbett FB Hinde a end from th EL PASO, Tex. Peace negotiations are at a standstill today, pending word from Diaz. Judge Francisco Carbajal, envoy of the presi- dent, refuses to explain the cause of the delay, and there is an undercurrent of feeling that further war is likely. It * apparent that a hitch has occurred somewhere. WASHINGTON, 17 there Is ¢ p in Mexico withir bur May bab two da age ent di Pr fi rs mday by Col the at El Paso. Beevers | troops Colonel Judge Carbajal and President Madero had come to terms, and that ment of the ¢ of the only waited the confirmat bargain in Mexico City Rebels in Cabinet. Steever's telegram nt confirms repor government to obtain agreed that th Is three cabinet positions as follows war, Gen sald th Provine virtual ann wire Col to Diaz has have governorships, Minister of Galas; minister of § Vaaquez Tagle; minister of nacion, Devasquez Gomez of the 14 rebels will alea will r Sone 10 pea rebe and Gor tice gube which the nor Cayon, Sinaloa; F catan; Guadelupe Gor 4s and Coatuila hua Y acat warez Rebels Still Fighting SON, Ariz 17 p like mushrooms, of Mexican rebels today are |trof of not only the Altar distric | bat the entire territory fr ‘ort Lobos, Despi facts that the rebels have c scores of towns, they ar affairs without th molestat al: the tured ministering strfiction of life or the of property MUST TELL OF That ty of peace 4 was the American sha Manuel Carranzé GUILDHALL, Vt vt trial on burg m: on ved nd testified that of ties and frier xtremely busy the and } new there of real wa number at al ly pny George” will have a good the c te that the Within k hours 4 | The Star 14| his plea for him tain man . r adoption than 24 published hi a half doz d to a he omes b been op mails are expected to requests for the boy and within a few will be made from me, a Later years old ago n Ke fa ed 1 his mothe ond mother te she died, an is five several a ye ago. A of him until noW a woman who h « care n a m WAPPENSTEIN police d with Five members of the served in the first “. 1 Ingwall © partment were sul poenas to testify gtein trial on the to come up May Frank B. Bryant, y Lee, D. Hedges. tek tk Ok TOR tk tok Charmer Arrested as Spy. COLOGN Germany May “Mile, Thirlon, an attrac tive Parisian resident here was arrested today charged with being a spy and obtaining the secret mobilization plans of the German army from an army officer. Sho offers the romantic de fense that she asked for the plans to test the honor of the officer, who was a suitor for her hand, 17. KKK KKK are Wappen indictment Floyd W. Miles and Eliza MISS HELEN JACKSON, Prettier by far than the love of love of Dante romantic for his Beatri than the simple story Maud Muller on a summer's day, is the story of the union of two hearts in this busy, bustling, rush ing city of ours. Apollo had to flee from the god. dess. Dante's passionate love was x {never requited, Maud Muller's % | Judge rode away on that summer's * | day, and it only “might have been.” | But the romance that started in the more HEHE EEE EE EEE * WOMAN ON TRIAL FOR MURDER GAZES AT HEART OF HER ALLEGED VICTIM Homes and Hearts Open to “Sunny George,”’ Orphan Boy, Judge Will Marry | Fair Stenographer Apollo for Daphne, happier than the | of} FIVE-YEAR OLD IS ON THE STAND Dy United Press Leased Wire Direct te seattle Star Office) TACOMA, May 17—Desorily ng how, he sald, Roy Moorhead his Mrs. Sadie Buchanan, then held her head under the water in Gig Harbor until she was dead, five-year-old Jimmie Buchanan, son of the red woman, told a story on the witness stand through which the prosecution hoped to send Moorhead to the gallows. just the ven-year-ol strug father from Mr Florence Dodge of Li iiliam Heath struck mother, ny of decided estify with hearing Jim he was tog weight an@ 1 stricken from the as Ralph's words tende ve his father were left im Jimmie could not be cozened inte *% when first put on the but later he was flanked by brother and then answet estions very readily, thow Describes the Killing. and sayin porch of his home the murder was alk occurred on the water t distance away, Jimmie was his age on when Where was Mr i first saw He was out r Where w ‘She was on Did she have she t Moorh: ywing his bo ur mamm: the beach.” anything in her in her what did Moorhead do?” “He came up on the beach and knocked her down with his ear.” Did anything happen to the oar when he hit her? Yes, the oar broke. Then what did Moorhead do?” “He holded her in the water and sat on her.” “What did you do then, Jimmie?®™ “I hit him with a rock,” said the boy. wi when mothe ad a stick then, Jimmie, Moorhead water?” and Evans.” the Oar. | Jimmie, did you that oar for today’s | Moorhead hit your mother with and n is of a| Would you recognize it again if you whose | should see it?” finish fine Yes i eived up to Deputy Prosecutor Burmeister y noon, If you are not in yet,| brought in the oar and another Diamond rings cannot be| broken one of the pair Moorhead day, but some prett} | Was supposed to have had. He hel@ is going to pluck a up the upper half of the broke Monday oar, and asked if that were ft, “Yes, that’s the oar,” said the boy. | “What oar?” : “The oar my mamma with.” “How did it happen to be broken that way?” “Why, he hit her so hard.” Bought Him Candy. On cross examination, Jimmie balked on answering questions of |Attorney Lefebre. The cross ex amination brought out that Prose | cutors Notle and Burmeister bag | bought Jimmie ice cream and and, Jimmie sald, told him story to tell on the witness stand are|and not to answer Lefebre's ques straits and | tions Following this, the attorneys argued an hour as to the testimony of one so young as five, and finally the judge ordered it stricken out, Case Near End, the examination of oné more witness, the state will rest case this afternoon in the trial Roy Moorhead, accused of the mure der of Mrs. Sadie Buchanan at Gig |Harbor, State's witnesses during the forenoon failed to materially strengthen the case against the ac cused man. The two principal witnesses were | Captain J. Reid, master of the jlaunch Audrey, and O. Forrester, employe of the Buchanan ranch, BEEF TRUST g “TOPEFUL NOW y United Press Leased Wire.) CHICAGO, May 17.—His action resulting, it is safd, from the U, 8 supreme court decision in the Standard Oi) case, Federal Judge Carpenter today gave attorneys for J. Ogden Armour and ten other packers indicted for conspiracy, one week in which to file a petition for the rehearing of arguments on thelp jdemurrer to the indictments, They Liked Poetry. The rehearing {s definitely de | Before long, Judge Brown discov-|manded by the packers on the jered that his typewriter girl Nked| ground that the Standard Ofl de |poetry—often wrote poetry, too,|cision regarding “reasonable” Te | Brown likes poetry, too. straint of trade covers their cases Cupid's work was easy after that. | and them immunity, In less than a year after their first = |meeting, Miss Helen Jackson was On ae Yard Graft betrothed to Judge Brown, The marriage will take place June 24 Is a Seattle Girl. Jackson is a Seattle girl Will the man who wrote to is the daughter of J. Jackson,| Cynthia Grey, care of The Star, rly a grocer at Green L asking where to turn in eve Brown began life here dence on navy yard graft at newsboy. He shined shoes, bec Bremerton, call and see, oF write to Elmer Todd, U. 8, die trict attorney, at once? Office 310 Postoffice building, Seattle, what did you held your et from ui The ch girl of mark friends a Pp Fr rock’ girl next Moorhead hit to work for ing unny support herself and she has asked The a good home STORM | Southwest er own living is keep. She is unable to| he boy, too, so Star to find hir storm yed on the the Washington and Ore The storm is approaching Vancou- ver Island, moving east and will hie south, shifting southwest this after. noon and tonight warnings disp sound n coast | With maze of law offices in the New York block will find a happy cul jmination when Judge Fred C. | Brown will lead to the altar pretty Helen Jackson as his June bride How They Met. When first they met, Brown was called into the fice of Attorney Thomas F phine to perform a marriag mony, Murphine and h grapher, a petite brunette, the witnesses to the wedding. Judge Brown frequently cs upon Murphine after t He casionally had some typewriting to jdo, and Miss ckson's services When the legis: lon, Judge Brown d out the primary court bill with Miss Jackson's aid, and had it introduced in the house. Judge law of. Mur- cere. steno- were | led assures * Miss She a barber, studied law at nights, and is now serving his second term as Justice of the peace.