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Be WELCOME, WELCOME, WOODROW, BUT WHAT’S YOUR REMEDY? Welcx \ THAT WE CAN'T GET ba EDITION! __ nt m nk «ly in SUBSTAN MAL JUSTICE WHEN THE COURTS } iws don’t amou ONLY SEATTLE, INDEPENDENT 13, NO. WASH CRACKING THEIR WHIP OVER COUNCIL'S HEAD he And you're s« Fe Basin whip over the head “Big Busin interest aml bene y nin What cares the auto-riding five per cent about strap hanging? And yet the council has actually been discussing this damnable evil with which only ninety- five per cent of the people have to contend! This ga fit on! nt . There are rong finish The w ontost third pietu Still the councilmen have been wasting time on this light question, pledge given to the ninety-five per cent to reduce the cost of home lights. No wonder “Big Business” is mad. Why, here th 1 by intere if 16,000 fort ' 1 { pare city jail ying to fulfill their uphela | complim the mnntially dra tubs & treated in t nm city hone the it mat mun »ple, have actual been i Jetermine the nety cent irig, toiling t Newspaper or “Ene NL “We, the jury, find for tiff in the sum of $1.00.” This was the sealed | reached last night, and opened at 10 o'clock this morning the breach of promise suit of Miss M: Aronstein against F. S. Lang, rich |atove manufacturer. Miss Aron: | stein sued for $60,000. When the jury was polled, Piss olh Winship and Gorey, said the verdict was not theirs. Fore. man W. E. Starr and the other nine jurors voted for the small verdict, which sete a record in King county Neither Miss Aronstein nor Lang waa in court when the verdict ae not pl s i g for We occupy the boxes and the reserved seats. common mob gets in there, and they don't count.” That's the attitude and the language of “Big Business” to your council. And that’s why we members of the “mob,” we people who constitute the great ninety- | five per cent, will do well to watch OUR councilmen just now. “lows ing to us Only the} an the’ plain verdict. IN BALANCE that powder will be burned | "iy before Diaz is brought to his knees | °A¢iomeyW. E. Hays, for sah | |is indicated by the arrival here of| ,ronstein, announced he would file} |two freight cars loaded with am-|4 wcotion for a new trial, He said if jmunition, Many believe that Ma- |e ‘Aronstein was entitled to $1, or |dero was being tempted into @/ anything, she was entitled to fair Diaz trap when the president sug-| compensation | gested that the rebel chief go to}” aio it will urged by Hays} the capital. * | that the court erred in not instruct According to Madero’s friends, | ing the jury that if Lang attempted | attempts at his assassination were! to wreck the «ir life damages | to have been made in Moxico City.| should be granted to punish Lang Madero up to last night had fully | as well as compensate the injured intended to go, when, without ex-| girl planation, he issued a statement |that he would flot go until Diaz had |resigned and De La Barra had been ffstalled as ‘temporary president, two OLYMPIA, May 20.—A teat case to determine the constitationality of the Workmen's Compensation act will be instite in the supreme coust about June 15. Howard L. Hindley, a Spokane newspaper man, will probably get the job of secretary for the com mission. George A. Lee has been appointed for the two-year terme C. A. Pratt for t four-year term. while J. H. Wallace will be in for six years, | BOSS COX FREED (By United Press Leased Wire.) CINCINNATI, May 20—Judge Wm. L. Dickson, who, Prose- cutor Hunt says, was put on the bench by Boss George B. Cox, today quashed the in- dictment found against Cox charging perjury as a result of the boss’ denial of having received $46,500 graft money from former County Treasurer Gibson and $17,000 from for- (By United Press Leased Wire Direet to Seattle Star Office.) WASHINGTON, May 20.— The attempt of the Mexican government to extradite Gen. Re. Pryce, leader of the rebel forces at Tia Juana, who was arrested in San Diego Thursday with 34 soldiers on a charge of fillbustering, re- ceived a setback here today when the war department or- dered their release. JUAREZ, Mex., May 20.—“On to} Chihuahua” is the word here today |among the insurrectos who, despite |the declaration that peace is as |sured, expect that fighting will be immediately resumed when the| present armistice expires. | With the idea that Madero has been halted a Diaz trick, the| Halted in his return to Mexico by | pels are already planning a hard|orders of President Diaz, General/to talk to those acai — ae lblow. Two hundred and fifty fed-|Bernardo Reyes is stopping at Ha-| Miss Aronstein, eral soldiers who were captured | vana. talking to a door, They couldn't with Navarro are today repairing| It is believed that the activity of | understand anything except the the Mexican Central railroad under | Reyes’ supporters, who will seek to| vulgar ranting of Attorn Fulton, | y guard of armed insurrectos, and|have him elected president, caused |Get the case before a different kind Coal Part 9) 1,000 rebels are ready to leave for|Diaz’s action, It is said that many |of @ Jory and I'll get damages in y: | Chihuahua Maderoists are ready to sipport | pay for puffering, (By United Press Leased Wire.) That the ders believe Reye he déclined to discuss the : rf ak on _jof the $1 judgment SEWARD, Alaska, May 20—An ticipating » demonstration when the | | a LEHRER KAKAEKANERRERWRENHRR EERE HK Miss Mae Aronatein, who steamer Edith arrives with foreign coal for the Alaska Northern Rail-| is in San Francisco, sued Fr }Lang, a wealthy First av way Co, A. H. Wheatley, an officer| manufacturer, for $50,000 ot the ‘company, today requested | balm,” loca) officials to swear in extra She claimed that he proposed deputies for the protection of the} marriage to her the first time they cargo. Deputy U. 8. Marshal W. H.| | met by chance on a Broadway-Pike Whittiesey complied with the lear. Lang, she said, directed her| quest to the home of a friend with whom) There ‘s talk on the street today of following the action of the Cor Calle Jurors Wooden. “The jurors acted like wooden men,” said Miss Aronsteln, when seen at 1017 Jefferson st. She was peeved, but not downcast, for she was confident a new trial would be gran ted or an educated man or woman jurors,” continued “was just ike | AFRAID oF REVES MONTEREY, Mex. May 20 size rebel le home ‘ank 3./ stove heart WHO IS RUNNING SEATTLE? “Will the legal ordinances governing this city be made the nine men chosen by the people to make ordinances, or they be made by a group of self-appointed outsiders who not been elected to do this work?” The above, on a postal card, signed “An Anxious Citizen as in the mail recelved by Councilman Griffiths yesterday, indicating that the public fs being aroused as to the activity of Big Business in council affairs, by will ave re hours for a 15-block walk, telling |AR ang Seattle Star SATURDAY, MAY GIRL GIVEN * i* *) \* *) * *| * * le * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * she was to visit, and took up two) @ova coal party. her all about himself and making Oe ee ee ee al i AGAINST US. , AND, BEFORE to these WE GET THROUGH MEASURING YOUR BIGNE ild ke your answer question Do you consider judges above the people? If you don’t, then you must admit that the people should mind you Admitting this self-evident truth, then can you tel! us how the haveé thesright to fire their judg that means, recall them? In other words, Woodrow, doesn’t the recall of the you've been talking so much about? AND IF YOU’RE AGAINST | GRESSIVENE WHAT control their judges—THEIR JUDGES, people can control their judges unless they judiciary go right to the root of the g t evil that THIS VITAL MEASURE YOUR REMEDY, WOODROW? THIS SUPREME TEST OF PRO- DENS| NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. 20, 1911 ON TRAINS AnD NEWS STANDS ba VITAL REFORM ISSUE. SEATTLE—10 nd city 30, bi Press 12 o'clock, committee} IN clock, meet nquete d by GOVERNOR WILSON’S PROGRAM ed by Prine nm men; afternoon, ride put coting at Dresinland aper men % at rb, nai the fina girls bas diamong | | | | Y $1 full rle says be that it wheth lov mags it was o! 1 him. The ral tim The case a Wal Fulton dene d it as a frame-up. He admitted that Lang and Miss Aron stein ged in “affinity” glances | and fir somewhat SECOND DAUGHTER OF GAYNOR WEDS WILMINGTON, Del, May A second daughter of Mayor Gay nor eloped here today and wedded W. Seward Webb, Jr., son of Dr. W. 8. Webb, former president of the New York Central, The bride is Gertrude Gaynor, 22. Edith Gaynor, now Mra. Harry K. Vingut, éloped to Wilmington a year ago, and the Vinguts accompanied |Gertrude Gaynor and Webb to this city, Mr, and Mra, Webb will live in Los Angeles WAME NEW CHIEF Mayor Dilling will name a new fire: chief next week. He would| Progressives who had watched havé Whked to appoint ex-Chief|the New Jersey college president's Bringhurst, but civil service rules | 00d work in cleaning up abuses In say that no one removed on| his own state and who had hoped charges may be reinstated |to see him come out for the judicial Bringhurst was dismissed on| Fecal before he left the We arges, said to be utterly unfound- | 4!appointed today ed, preferred by Mayor Gill Woodrow is #0 Clark has been acting chief since| {he recall that tt makes him m now even to talk about It the dismissal of Boyle. « Pon Vicees tha: Giecstian: teenies: From the time he left Kansas City, progressive newspapers who realized the widespread dissatisfac |tlon and loss of confidence in the Jcourts, have been asking the gover- nor about the recall So he's getting mad about it I have discussed the matter so often,” he said today, “that I do not bel I have anything to add to it. Also, my secretary has copies of all my discussions on the recall of judges. I haven't anything more to Bay about it at this time Goy. Wilson was ready to talk dhout the recall of other officer about the commission plan, the Lang, | ed GOVERNOR M. E. HAY MAYOR DILLING GOVERNOR WOODROW WILSON Posed especially for The Star in front of the Washington hotel today. Wilson of New| initietive, the referendum, direct) far-reaching as the Dred Scott candidate for primaries, the Oregon s; stem, home| decision, the governor's only definitely, fi-/rule for Alaska, the length of bed thef recall sheets at hotels and most anything | else under the sun | The governor, who is a sua} Court's Act Unfortunate. | smooth speaking man, tall, slight But he stopped talking when the |'gray, had a formal reception to all of judges came up. | mewspapers at 10 o’olock, Gov. Wilson made one significdt| which he answered questions remark, however government—that is all the ques He was asked tions except those relating to thd court decision In the recall, case, Thinking of Presidency. I have heard comment,” he said, The governor's formal interview “that the insertion by the court of brought out a few new principles of the word ‘unreasonable’ into the government. Jaw was unfortunat “| don’t think | have sufficient Yes, UNFORTUNATE information about Alaska to say word used by Wilson. whether | would give it home rule Still, it is the New Jer ‘or not—if | had the opportunity,” h@ nor's position that the courts can) added modestly. only INTERPRET the law—that it cannot MAKE the law. If that law doesn’t satisfy the people, they must change the law, but not the judge. | Yet, when the supreme court did actually MAKE LAW by adding the word “UNREASON. ABLE,” which the congress had refused to put in in spite of tre- mendous pressure, and had ac- tually changed what congr plainly meant in a decision Gov. Woodrow Jersey and possible president in 1912 nally dead set against of judges. re about the supreme Standard Of) decided against a Se ed *% PORTLAND, Ore.—Thirty. * six years ago Mrs. John J® * Buck, then a music teach * accepted a dollar from a pipil * to buy her two — plec of * music. She forgot it until to * day, when she recalled the inoident, bought the songs and * mailed them, They reached former Miss Laura Kelly, * Robinson, Kans RRR MADISON, Wis.—By a vote of 15 to 11, the initiative and refer endum bill passed the assembly. was the gover: United Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, May 19—The house today passed a resolution | calling on the secretary of war to furnish intormation concerning con tracts for army shoes since 1901. Congressman Diterderff charged that Herman & Co. of Boston vir |tually monopolized all army and jnavy contracts, (By ve See eee EE ES