The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1911, Page 1

ii ET SEATTLE STRIKE NOW | _The bitter struggle of the people of this: wholelattracted the whole United States. The story of the nation to regain their rights rapidly approaches the/defiance of the people to Hanford’s injunction last ‘supreme test. But for Seattle the supreme test is at/Tuesday reached into every city and every town and § hand, and Seattle must meet it with the supreme effort. |€Very hamlet where the telegraph wires run. For the i Tonight, at the great Dreamland mass meeting of first iy in this nation-wide grapple with monopoly- | Siscmmeled cimenshin. the opening cuns against the citizenship, the opening guns against the controlled courts the people had brought matters to an ———— i penne guns agai -lissue. The crisis is at hand. It cannot be evaded, bulwarked plunderbund will be fired. For once the + oe vaeeanl ha xeeeased and for once li be -~—j|smoothed over, compromised or dodged. The people are €'ready to meet it, and the people of Seattle tonight at heard, and its echo will encircle the world. the big mass meeting in Dreamland Hall will sound This impeachment movement against Hanford has, the battle ery so that the whole nation will hear it. ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1911. ONE CENT. THE PEOPLE’S VOICE WILL BE HEARD TONIGH tumrtony gana LEAT sem aimee |NO Soft Pedal Speeches Will be i pre night and by day, gaining « litle today and tle tomorrow, AND ADVANCING 1TS NOISE. H eard at Citizens’ Mass Meeting STEP LIKE A THE FIELD OF JURISDICTION.” — From Thomas Jefferson's TACOMA SENDS DELEGATION Works, Vol. ie page 216. | An anti-Hanford delegation from Tacoma will Pi —- = AWF 0 R D tend the meeting, according to a message received by, Se = “I wonder ever has be beccane: of fi ping-pong?” “I remember Leon Ling, but Ping jf Pong seems to get away from me. } What did he do?” “Anybody can find fault, i Eastern statesman. “Yes,” replied the man from the West, “but it takewa wise and lucky political Prospector to ‘oa it in os panies oe we said the Ok TPAINS ANP. w VOL. 13, NO. 158, BY THOMAS JEFFERSON Oliver T. Erickson, the people’ 's foremost coyncil- man, will preside at the citizens’ mass meeting at Dreamland pavilion tonight. Mr. Erickson is a public official who has never lost sight of the people and the people’s problems, and’ his opening speech tonight will | tbe i in the nature of a keynote of the people’s protest. THE OTHER SPEAKERS The other speakers will be: Judge Humphries, well’ known progressive; Will Atkinson, municipal ownership leader; State Senator W. J. Bryan, who car- belt; Attorney tell what Tacoma thinks of Hanford. Tacoma citizens have probably felt more of Hanford’s injunctions tham Seattle has. All during the street car fight there when the Fern Hill suburb was resisting the Furth combine’s attempt to gouge them for a double fare, Hanford was the busy injunction granter. He issued one injunction (By United Press Leased Wire) | MANCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 25— | ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 25— Lehigh ener ieee ger train No. [Telephone message thie afternoon, jwent over a bridge # * | peceived at 3 o'clock from the scone | 0887. PR Te I oy semi | ef the Lehigh Valley wreck, says 36|calied upon. The train was east- are dead and 50 injured. The| bound and carried a number of G. ‘Wrecked train went through a tree A. R. veterans from the Rochester “tle and into Cannodaigua lake. invention. IMPORTANT! Plans have been made to accommodate all the people who turns out for the great protest meeting against Hanford, Crawford and Furth tonight. The doors will be | opened promptly at 7:30 and ushers will be on hand to seat the people carefully and orderly. Wagner's band will Parade the business streets before the meeting and then give a band concert in front of Dreamland hall. The music will be good and the speeches will be great. “HANFORD MUST ' 60,” SAY PEOPLE still riding free when a transfer is denied them on the payment of a five-cent fare. Seattle Star was cheered by, ig mass meeting at Lakeside Ball, Dunlap, last night when res-| 8 were introduced commend-| for ite work in people in the against street car Star the tition for the impeach- ment of Judge Hanford and are leirculating them in the street cars Very few passengers let indorsing the atti-| the pe yotition go by them without af Dilling were adopted fixing their signatures from the enthusiastic) “Handford must go” is the watch- |word of the people of Seattle in came jn for a 8¢-|general and of Rainier valley in| b Yere criticism, Several speeches| particular, 2 je by n reidents of| - _ | the valley inc | “wy in life,” said the pas- _ 1a which the this who ently, “con in sav ied the maiden, with a line {8 un-| soulful longing, “save a nice looking People are Jone for me. | today nsists @ situation on the j mal this morning. <== | “FIGHTING VANCE” COMING ” years ago gained in Tacoma of a federal Fighting Vahce, public confidence when, in defiance court injunction, he took a force of weett, former mayor of when the Stone-Wet 5 Mer conc sorted to blockade | Methods put policemen on Mhe cary and ordered them to run yi head t) 1A ¢ and poles of a telephone com- , which grabbing the wires » | pany streets. ‘s was + jand reasonable, Residents have cut out of The} city employes and cut down the|1 BULLETIN W. R. Crawford, the boss of the Seattle, Renton & South- |ern road, was arrested at 2 o'clock today by Deputy Sheriff | Hugo Kelley. Crawford is charged with violating the public utilities law, .| as are his superintendent, Hartung, and other employes of the road. HERE'S THE LAW The law under which Crawford was arrested is this: “No street | railroad company shall charge, demand or collect more than 5 cents for |one continuous ride within the corporate limits of any city or town. Every street railroad company shall, upon such terms as shall be just furnish its passengers transfers entitling such passengers to one continuous trip over and upon portions of ite jlines of town not reached by the originating car.” PEOPLE STAND BY STAR. Resolution unanimously adopted at the Dunlap meet ing last night: “We, the people of the Rainier valley, in mass meeting assembled, hereby tender our hearty and sincere thanks ‘he Seattle Star for its courageous fight for the people's rights against the powers of privilege and plunder, and we pledge our warm and unwavering support to its efforts to purge the federal courts from men who use their judicial positions to prostitute the law and outrage justice.” See Peeeeererrrrery: THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturda light northeast to east wind Temperature 78. — PAUL BEATTIE TELLS. STORY United rress Leased Wire.) COURT} Paul Beat 1 a hd * * * * * * tok tk te tt tk a tk (By CHESTERFIELD HOUSE, Aug. 25: tle arrived in an automobile early |today, nervous almost to the p of but to tak | 9 , ury hie 8 Ihe he gun Hen . ged with hav. jing used to murder his wife. It Is Jon Paul's story that the defense is ating its principal attach Beattie is.c ducting hie own defense, He relies on his law lyerg for the legal technicalities |but they are allowed to settle noth ing without referring it t Attorney Smith of the defen gued that Dr, Munn’s tetim |the effect that wounds extended to the back of Mrs, Beattio's head was inadmissible because Beattle's in i} dictment stated that a wound “in the face” caused his wife's death RICH GERMAN KILLED . PARIS, Aug. 25.—Ludwig Lowe, of the Berlin family which Jnvented | the Mauser rifle, lost his life in an| auto accident near Ruen yesterday | ew York women, Miss Irene D. Cote and Miss Hdith Roenbaum, | accompanied him, and had narrow | excapes. $10 Cashi| and 17c a Day Buy 5 Acres Of level land near Auburn Suitable for chicken or fruit ranches. These tracts lay level, are on county road, Price $60 per acre. | to mill. Better come in and see us about these tracts. OLE HANSON & CO. 314-316-316-317 New York Blk. Near postoffice, store and large} | ries the” scalp of one judge at his Thomas Horner, Hugo Kelley, Paul Mohr, labor leader, and Thomas Revelle, insurgent attorney. ed tonight. The orators will speak straight out and the meeting will likely go down in history as one time when the average man’s opinion was expressed pub- licly and emphatically. ATWOOD IN NEW YORK: (By United Press Leased Wire.) yds NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—Atwood |“) completed his flight from St. Louis |by landing on Governor's island in| sic New York harbor this afternoon. He | passed down the North river, |posite Manhattan island, at o'¢lock. | YOUTH !8 LOST. BAN FRANCISCO, Aug After h here, t lie ind any { presse a the tffered the op: t hadn't r the spot k, 19, who a or, B.C, August 18 company with a friend, Charles |Hardacre. He disay ‘ days later from a room in a local hotel * . vy come on! “ENDURANCE ALL-WOOL SUITS ULLY GUARANTEED Five hundred petitions demand: ing the Impeachment of Hanford came into The Star office today, breaking all previous records for a We, N ces Washington, believing C. OU NG x H. tion, of formulating rticles of Impe NAME Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex. PELLAGRA KILLS 33. (g United Press Lenwed Wire.) AUSTIN 2 \three persons died of p Texas last month Tehre will be no tame, soft pedal speeches deliver-| another Goliath towers ov Hanford, U. character, conduct, habits, te: mpers ament, and his disregard of the law, to hold his present posi« res esectitlly request the Ho mittee to investigate his conduct and his judicial decisions during the past ten years with a view, ADDRESS Thirty-| ° an increase ot| against everybody in Fern Hill, but the Fern Hill peo- ple proved to be the original insurgents and they won their contest. They now ride for a five cent fare. EXTEND IMPEACHMENT CAMPAIGN oe pp rg campaign was launched in Ta« coma today and plans to extend it o all W Washington are being made. ies — ee —— t named Goliath He was a cr ul z, long time. ef The people had 9 what we call an insurgent a0 d retold the story of their oppress! too great, too powerful, toa of the giant and fell beneath his threatening 1 of the People, and David! It is a more powerful Goliath is a much more powerful David than the othen ger and he is ready to fight to the last ditch, ant since the world began will happen to this modern mone «PETITIONS AGAINST HANFORD ROLL IN quick response from the people. Petitions will be printed and cir- culated by the impeachment com- mittee at once and the whole west- {meantime the petitions will be placed In the hands of Congress man Warburton, progressive of Ta+ coma, and Senator Poindexter to be presented to congress without delay. ern part of the state will be cov- ered, Unless Hanford reigns in the, TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATE the undersigned, citizens of the United States and residents of the District of Western S$. Judge for said District, to be unfit by reason of e of Representatives of the United States to appoint a coms achment, NAME ADDRESS BERLIN—Kalser Wilhelm hi sublic to | Sted an order forbidding any yer of the imperial fa pre; |day by the state health, | ber of the imperial family her acting as a theatrical “angel. Twenty-two were females. culprit is unknown. evious month, ac)