The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 16, 1911, Page 1

THE EXPRESS TRUST KEEPS ITS HAND IN THE PEOPLE'S POCKET BECAUSE THAT OLD “COP,” CONGRSS, IS EITHER ME EDITION VOL. 13, NO. 98. The Last Days of School (As It Seems to Jimmy) Squandering of People’s Money on Mismanagec Fair Ended by Court’s Order—Evidence Substantiates Charges Made by} Star. “it’s the court's duty to protect the taxpayers if the county commis sioners do not."—Judge Main With this remark Judge Main yesterday afternoon granted the in fenetion preventing the Western ashington Fair associat! a prk wate concern, from getting any more county money, and at the same time preventing the county commission ndering of oney iw this particu ny more out at th ntinted a Su on taken p Brough g aubsta the charges made by Th the pos by this paper. Commissioners Rapped. “I will grant this injunction. court said, “for two reasons “First, it has been shown that the commission: id not make a prop er appropriation for the money that has been drawn this year. Second “the money, which had bee from the county to hold fairs been used to pay up old debts of the Western Washington Fair asso ciation. I have ans of know ing what this board of commission trs may do in the future, except by what they have done in the past % Graft Shown Up. The evidence showed up detail all the charges of extrava gance which The Star made aga the Western Washington Fair asse- ¢iation and which the county has had to stand for the past thr years. It showed that in 1909 th Appropriated 0 te.the ff foncern, but no fair was held. It showed that while the county was given a bill of sale for one-quar Yer interest in the Madison Pi Grandstand by the als eonsiderazion had no title to —— EXPECTS * “THOUGHT CHICAGO, June Thought waves, filtering into the minds of 12 “good men and true,” who will hear the case of Evelyn Arthur See, founder of the solute life eult, are axpected to result in his acquittal, according to the belief of See. See, who is charged with mistreating girls in his “junior Kaekkktakeeaeenen * LAWYER DIES IN PRISON. #& TRENTON, N. J., June 16 % While waiting for the court of % pardons to grant him a parole % from state prison, H. Le in Applegate mer Trenton yer, died today at the pris * oe hospital from a complica % tion of, diseases. He was sent % to prison in 1898 to serve a fit ® teen-year sentence for forgery % Four years later he was pa- # roled on account of {il health & but he was later arrested on a % charge of obtaining money un- % der false pretenses and was re- in every ounty in latter | verted back to Oliver C McGlivra, | the owner of the grounds. Salary Grabbing. The evidence also showed 1 salary-grabbing condition the county had no say whateve the selection of the fair employes: it paid all their salaries. it paid Secretary Richards $200 a month for a whole year, though the fair was only a six-day affair, It paid Emmet C. Brown for publicity work for any he in advance of the fair. The same extravagance a te perint of the ry exh 2, to an assistant to secretary and several other of tala. me dent Saves $11,000. And it showed that in 1911, while no appropriation had yet been mad: for the fair assoctation, although an $18,000 levy had been made for county fair purposes, the privat oneern drew down $7,000 to da injunction saves the peop $11,000, being the remainder of the $18,000, which the Fair concern ed to get this year ore called to the sta that they knew very litt) The t T dent, and C. B, Yandel, one were absent from city during the trial Clise and Yandell. and Ya are he je for the manner in which money was used. T ors knew iittle or no’ the affairs, and th names we ed to lend an alr respectab thing The court's decision wil! undoubt. edly cut out county fairs until they can be run in an honest, efficient manner for the inte ing community, which they purport to help, instead of for the benefit ci spons. the éounty oth ing abc ot et of salary grabbe FREE HIM | nat WAVES" TO common wealth bell thought waves will pla as portrayed in Augustus Thomas’ play, “The Witching Hour.” He will ‘ask permission to address the| jurors himself, so that the public will discuss his case and the thought waves created will favor him. @ part HOW POLICE s is slack in the police There are not as| my ts m as there were a few months ago. In other words, Jaw violators are more scarce. The |town is cleaner. However, the pitiable cases of the unemployed are still with us. Every day a number are tried on| the charge of being “wilfully idle} and without any lawful means of Busi court, these days lof th Il |death if he | work lof no avail. SESE EEE EEE EEE EE support Every day men are con victed. on this charge, men who would grab at the first chance to make an honest living. A policeman has seen some fel low loiter around Washington st.| for a couple of weeks, He has been | calling on the employment agents every day, but has failed to get work. Finally his last dollar is gone. He now frequents the free employment bureau, But compett tion is keen here and unless he is quick to grat of th » slips when It is handed through the win dow, he will soon have to go hun gry. Finally he is picked up by @ cop” and run in. “Not Working, so | Ran Him in.” | The policeman testifies about as| ws: “I have seen this fellow out down around ‘Billy, the He hasn't done a tap of ® turned to prison. kkk kenkhenhhhh NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HICKTOWN BEE The the aa is wearing bon. Hiekt fe hang | Mug’s. Bonita, N Stingray vwhal, Salmon, and Tarpon be third submarin Atlantic fleet ar ster, Mass., on ge of about 150 OO Ee eee link: * | Snapper, + WANT TAFT TO MARRY 'EM. *& |longing to the % WASHINGTON, June 16.— #| division of the * President Taft has recelve % en route to Glouc * letter requesting him to mar- #|M underwater * ry acouple in New Jersey. %| mies * The president today refuse d to *| * Revolt in Ranks * divulge their names 1 dada dadadndhdndndadhdndndednd ———— KL PASO, Tex., June 16.—Aener. Jal Viljoen is eriencing consid jerable difficulty # assembling a force for the prpoosed expedition agninst the insurrectos in ‘Lower | California. Th urgent troops at Juarez, it is sald, are in a state voy On Long Voyage NEWPORT, R. L, June 16. Under command of Lieut. fonald | employed SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1911, WOM IS ARRESTED|"GHILD SHOULD KEEP $18,000 auro FOR VIOLATING Q-HOUR LAW MRS. HENRIETTA SOMERVILLE Mrs. Henriette Somerville, manager of the Washington Paper Box Co, 1009 Western av the first employer of female help to be prosecuted for violation of the &hour law. Bhe is charged specifically with employing Mattie C. nine hours last Friday. The informa’ was tssued by Prosecuting Attc Murphy, and bears the names of Mattie Carse, June Olander, and seeeeeeeeeeeeeteea as witnesses Mrs. Somerville has b up a siness in Seattle. She te of teaching trades * ito girls, to all Prosecutor Murphy make this case at employers of femal An effort will the supren atitutionality of the summer vacation Is take ployera contend that wh hour Yaw has been uphe hour lim! yn might be unr sonab The penalty fixed for the violation e &hour law is a fi om $10 to $100 for each offen WHALER LAUNCHED, The steam whaler Moran splash ed into the water from the ways at Moran yard last event craft {9 a steel of! burner length and is built for long cruises “PROTECT” THE hopes xample for be made to have rt decide th n w before the The em w n at held to be work for several weeks, #o him in.” He may plead that it was impos. sible for him to get work. He may plead that he would be tickled to was given a chance to oftentimes his plea is ran, But Gordon has never ‘been a of the unemployed, He know what it Is to be un He doesn’t know what m place to place, to gain an hon n't realize that Judge member doesn't it means to go fre asking for a chanc est living. He dc most men become disheartened in the end and give up the fight “Adorned” With Chain. After the poor fellow has re od his 30 days’ sentence he goes to the stockac Here he is “adorned” with a chain around his waist and another running from this down to between his ankles, Another one is put around his ankles to keep the desperate criminal” from running away After men of all cha his own kind, but pickpockets, ete, to influence his mind he leaves the place. He has no more money than before, He has no more employment He is as truly fully idle and without company with many of them nough drunks, a month's acters, Novel Lecking Device on| Steel Piling Used at Havana This drawing shows an end view of the steel piling driven into Ha- vana harbor to make the 20 caissons comprising the cofferdam — built about the wreck of the Maine, The novel locking device shown makes it impossible for the piling to sep- C, Brigham the submarines Gray-|of indhbordination. TTS FATHER'S NAME" lworns ABKING DIVORC FOR HERSELF AND GIRL. WANTED HER MAIDEN NAME/ “A child should go by its father's! | name. It Is unfair to the child, to, | the mother, and to society to change ite name when the mother gets « divorce,” said Judge Main this morning, upon en a decree of | divorce to Mra. Mabel Forsyth Cook |from Edward J. Cook, a shingle | weaver, who, it is alleged, failed to support his family and abandoned | dis wife last Septembe |after a baby girl had been born. In her divorce complaint, Mabel Forsyth, be restored to ber, and that the baby, who fe still um |christened, be also permitted to take the name of Forsyth | When Mrs, Cook was asked. by her attorney on the this morning if she done, ehe hesitated 1 don't know Ma just right for th father’s name DIAZ IN SPAIN ress Leased Wire) 16.—The wanted gir) not to have she sald be her (By Oa VIGO, Spain, steamer Ypiranga President Diaz of Mexico, arrived today. Diaz did not leave the ves se! here, however, and she steamed on to Corunna, where it is the former Mexican leave the ship. June SEER EERE EEE EDISON SEES TROLLEY'S END, The Storage Battery Will Take ite P the Inventor ¥ W YORK, June The niua of the young electrical world working along stor battery development lines will put the trolley car out of business, according to Thomas A. Edison, who is attending the convention of the National jectric Light Association in soon t city Yee trolley « to be put out of bus Edison sald in the convention there won't be any trolleys Some asked him when 1 am not a clairvoyant,” he replied, with a wave of his hand I don't know how soow these bright young fellows can do it, but they are a great lot < is going Mr After a while * ne eeeeeeeteeeee cake hhh UNEMPLOYED any lawful means of uspport” as be | fore. have acquired the “stockade” However, he may the fdea while in that there are oth: means of mak ing a living than an honest way, He may refuse to go hungry and run the danger of being run in ag a vagrant. Next time he is arreste od it Is probable the charge ie highs a »bery, burglary, or the like, Then the police point to the man and say Do you see? always was would work The “vagrant” {s the most police court habitue. will He is crooked crooked, He He never pitlable: SAN QUENTIN, June Magana, Mexican, 24, who mur dered J. B. Lampkin, February 18, at Porteryillé, was hanged today at 10:02 o'clock. He died almost instantly, his heart beating only 18 seconds. 16.—Juan ee ttt te tk kt tt th * ‘Adolt and Osgar” are * * helping put the jeweled bon *® net on King George Don't *® * miss their funniest stunt on & * page 3 every day * | Ok RO OR te tk Jarate when once in place, except under the terrific pressure neces sary to break up the steel of which it is made, MELBOURNE, June 16—A land |slip, belleved to have been due to the recent seismle disturbance, hag taken place at Leongatha, Where the |ground for an extent of 10 acre jhas riven asunder in all directions, In some places*the fissures are elght feet across, In gttempting to crossone of these earth chasms, a |ma{l man fell to the kpttom, He was rescued with considerable dif. ficulty. two weeks) Mra. {Cook asked that her maiden name, | witness stand | thts | bearing former! dictator will SHSSEPHE EES ESE SES EERE EE SER Ee RE Ee *) |itting on the edge of the FOR MRS. JACK P NO WONDER SHE SMILES (By United Press Leased Wire LONDON, June 16.—As gift to his white wife, Jac Johnson has ordered a Chal costing $16, The negro pugilist today mers 000. contracted with a jeweler fe $2,500 worth of interior fitting included in the fittings Gold vases and cai matches and cigaret boxe flask and scent botties powder bo on 18 karat gold and then, Limousine, ° show that he did mot care for ordered a duplicate xpense in silver for ordinary use. The car Is royal blue In color and is lined with blue and gray brocade. MSHED VITRIOL INTO HER FA Oy CHICAGO, June 16—After a tusing her of allenating the a fections of her husband, Mr the police, lured Mrs. Drunisia tle of vitriol in her face. Ph siclans today said that if Mr ly disfigured. Mrs. rrested. CHICAGO, June 16 Miller, of Attorn ler of Winnetka, Ing sult and accompanied by two children and nurse, en the shallow water of Lake Michi at a public beach today. A splashing about for a time all turned to the Mra, Miller was ov heat or heart weak Mra W. dressed in-a, b Su wife 8 reome eit Ww water ard by fell forward, face down four inches of wat Th did not cover her head. Her pli was not discovered for some ti Then she was dragged out, but died. * “Some # chefs” are ® ost and value *% Look for them on page * ipes of 8 sure to be of are containing and #. Johnson insisted Unttiea Press teased Wire) Eleanor Moreholtz, according to Dujek, a pretty young widow, to her front door and dashed a bot Dujek recovers she will be bad Moreholtz | DROWNS IN FOUR INCHES sand and sat down. Seeded dete eee * * to housewives SLEEPING OR GRAFTING. MAYBE HE OUGHT TO | BE INDICTED. IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. BOY EOUAPED POSSE VALLEJO, Cal, June | Melville, 19-year-old 16. bandit, |rounded by 200 men, has escaped. | Today he is believed , to jon his way to Sacrament }the posses surrounded the hil crest | If, and fired occasional to make certain that he did escape, Melville, on his hands knees, wormed his way along a cree e Seattle Star ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ON TRAINS haw BANDIT Fred sur be While 1 on the boy had hidden ots not and dry bed and through the lines of men who were watching for him, “Fought 'Em Wu bis customary Appeared atthe Thr nd told Mra, Adolph | Was in charge of the had fought the and 4 when she tried ho were sleeping in the b time they were aroure was mntle away SACRAMENTO KNOWS HI SACRAMENTO, June 16 Melville, the boy bandit, whe eaped from a pouse ” near 4 by the eto The pollee Melville who robh re June 3 1 motorman volver to band brava Mile trub place, th to a Lied from poune He He In the ville nearly a allege operated that it was trolley car conductor |point of a thelr mor ‘WORTH CAPTURE b at (By United Press Leased Wire DETROIT, Mich, June Anxiety to his wife and dren caused Reuben Kreatz. ed at Walla Walla, Wash ulleged embersiement of fr the Pacific Light & while he was 8 for that concern, he pol ed pe al times over tring whether a issued for his arrest. W told fat be wae was nt went to the ed tt » sur a auditor der Kr « tee ay headquar the teleph: warrant na been fins or ende Bids for the received by the bi works this morning ded into 10 ain divided rat bid refuse ard of The | we | j He in! 30 was for from one jet ing of th Repeto all th t Fa and Peter Syme districts th o haul gart Interbay bid on ubdistrict « of Queen hi s of Ballard 1746" June is shell Re t R wectl thr ne TURTLE, FRANKFORT turtle weighing C rf i. w bea ri e Insc on 746 na ( y Alien was fishing the head out mn shot it w k of H. nklin a terra bea Henry Cook, 1 terrapin aft wht poked Jand Alle Delbert Cx the edge of F counties, found the inscription Cook released the hibiting tt his claim that Henry Cook was a ber of the family man and Ande Mil ath in red to relatives, gan fter re- | he ted Breas Leased Wire.) 08 ANGELES, June . 16 sh he retained no anime toward Police Judge Rose, had just fined him $2 for viola a traffic ordinance, E. Hartup vited the court adjourn |"come down to corner little drink.” w thi ght me oon to the SAN came DIE from Tecate Mexican liberal Tia Juana yesterday back and is going we posed an attack on today that orce which has t. It is Ensenada ille fo to Standstili.” he whe at he stand n the ling M Fred Val ay assert ped a forcing the the over TO SEE CHILDREN ; 16 chil ant “e tere bh nted, sta hauling of garbage put city hich sub th nski Man ng oO sir whe Soft for Judge To sity who ting in and ra iO, June 16 wort the left turned sup is BRR ee eH / planned = 2 msn A pedigreed hog was killed by a Georgia railroad and a jury awarded $10,000 damages. And you couldn't get that for ten dead section men. “Never Again,” Says Young Boy) Who Stole Joy Fluid joy fluid, They took with the help of two emptied all the bottles Last night Losey was the custody of the police Peterson boy, accompanied by his father, appeared at headquarters this morning. Joe and the other two boys were released, but George will have to go before Judge Frat Carl Wising and Walter Mt out other in go into some. and steal beer sald Joseph Peterson, 16 years old, this morning when telling vuventle Off cer Boggess how it all happened he Peterson boy lives at Alki Point. He was mowing a lawn for & man at Rainier Heights yester day. George Losey, a boy of Joes age, told him of a place where he could get some beer. Led _ by George, the went into Lebra Pat rochi’s house at Twenty-sixth av.|were arrested with south arf! Judson st., where| posed to have been they found five or six bottles of the! plices and boys “7 will body's house never agi placed in while the Dawley Losey, sup. his accom CAN'T MAKE A RENO OF LOS ANGELES (By United Press Leased Wire.) decided that Davis had no legal res- LOS ANGELES, June 16.—The|idence in Los Angeles. suit for divorce brought by Robert! “I believe,” sald the Judge in dis- B. Davis, the multi-millionaire bak-| missing the @ase, “that Davis ing powder manufacturer, against|came to Los Angeles solely for the his wife, Jane W. Davis, wae dis-| purpose of securing a divorce. Any- Court Judge Munroe. This action | another Reno out of Los Angeles is missed ' yesterday by ' Superior|one belleving that they can make was taken’ because Judge Munroe| greatly mistaken.” me A EDITION CRIME PLOT _ ALLEGED Suspects Are Arrested—Alleged Story of How Victim’s Plea for Mercy Saved His Life, T coal minerg : by Deputy, suspicion r “knew too Arina for $50 Arina, into @ nza ta on rinket and @ Vellas to The Vellas, that the Cosenza onal proof who arrested night Sheriff Vella zun was under, covered before he could do any " ect the $50. it that Hae mt in § | Arina and t itted to mee senz anci wher i t Dey k last nutic to Vel ties had h ma wher dey t the ed his to hav to Detect Arina believed with the Just € Bia “knew she vhole connect‘om affair ¢ Bianci too mu ff's force hat h” senza The about has not heem d the police believe t the recent blowing up the Black Diemond ider his ly \ re that the the nes, a BARR RRR RRR RR RH OH + IT’S A GLAD TIME FOR THE TAFTS By United Press Leased Wire.) June 16.—Gifts of silver Taft, in anticipation of t silver anni It ts pre that the array of silver ¢ White House will surpass nything ever before erican home senate have presentatl sent | WASHIN nt iTON ed in today an $: the gift of silver, of and many is a present have ome Stee EEAED HMMM EREE EYE ¥ ¥¥ 4 HENS Y YS OH * * . * * . * * . * e i ppialataseget ot PUTS BAN ON AUTO HORN. # NEW YORK, June 16—The # ciety for the Suppressio: (Dy United Press Leased Wire.) * Unn y Noise has Gecided | MINNEAPOLIS, June 16.—That * to turn its energies for a time # Senator Miles Poindexter, Wash- * to checking noisy automobile ® ington Insurgent, is an unqualified |* horns. According to Mrs. w * Isaac Rice, the wealthy # supporter of Senator La Follette of /% pre: of the association, # Wisconsin for the presidential * “the of these startling ® nomination in 1912 is the statement * horns is terrifying and use ® made here by W. I. Nolan, who is|* less.” The police, she urges, # in charge of the La Follette head-|* should be compelled to take ® quarters. * the numbers of machines using # “There is the ®t shrieking horns and report ® opinion of the insurgents here re-|* them to the health department, ® Garding the presidential. nomina-| # which she thinks has power t0 # tion,” says a letter from Poindexter | * suppress the nuisance. |to Nolan * x Keke kh EDITOR SHOOTS (Ry United Press Leased Wire.) STOCKTON, Cal, June 16—« m B. Axtell, editor of the tinel, today shot Charles Sollars of the same ctty. Physicians say, Sollars may die. The shooting grew, out of stor of an automobile ac cident which occurred Saturday, Two young women had started to Stockton in Mr. Axtell's machine, It turned into a ditch. Soll: came along r. His stories the cident angered Axtell, and @ quarrel followed. POINDEXTER FOR LA FOLLETTE : no change In FOUR MAKE 343 YEARS, ACA, N. Y., Ju At the « Mar sis 16. of the three ended whose Jame from Bt ber ted to 86. ‘ came noun Marshal H Low Mrs who Mr youngest of Spencer er octogenarian Fisher was c she was Thev’ve Got Coin, Too | WILMINGTON, Del - hn FE son of Mr. J of this city a p eedings Madeline of Al dent of any WANT GRADING SOON. Fifty property owners from’ Bale d y lard appea before the st sterday, urging avenue grading be begun af Councilman Wardall suge that an early date be sef further hearing. June and |D Dupont daughter ‘vice pre —= NO. 7—WILLIAM J. BRYAN IN 1940