The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 26, 1911, Page 1

ee is ) vty Hi i | ARREST ‘HOME EDITION as ~The Te is getting so now that an honest qrust is afraid to go home in the dark, i | VOL. 13, NO. 159. SPEAKERS CALL HANFORD DRUNKARD | AND A JUDICIAL ANARCHIST; CROWD | OUTSIDE HANGS HIM IN EFFIGY TO POLE d Citizens in Mass Meeting Called by The Star Take a Decisive Stand in Crisis Confronting Them—Mose Remarkable and Spontaneous Gathering in the History of Seattle. _ Five thousand people packed into Dreamland pavilion last night and sent up, ty cry of defiance of lawless special privilege and an emphatic protest against | Hanford that will find an echo in every state in the union. | No meeting was ever held in Seattle before like this; no federal judge ever| in for such a scathing arraignment as was hurled fearlessly against Cornelius | ford, judge of the federal court for the district of Western Washington. There was no mincing of words. CALLS HIM A DRUNKARD “] was taught to respect the courts and judges,” said Councilman Erickson ing his remarks, “but one night I was riding on a street car when a man the car. I asked a neighbor the name of that man. ‘It’s Judge Han- he replied ,and right there I decided that I did not respect all courts and all, for Judge Hanford was drunk.” Erickson’s fearless and emphatic words brought forth a storm of applause. “] do not respect Hanford,” declared Erickson, “any more than I respect any drunken old skate.” | HANFORD A JUDICIAL ANARCHIST “Some finicky folks in Seattle complained a while back that Emma Gold-'| the anarchist, had delivered a fiery speech in our city,” said Will Atkinson, | speaker. ‘They feared the harm of it, they said. But a thousand Emma| in a million years couldn’t do the harm that one Hanford has done in the/ ‘week. Our danger lies in the anarchists who desecrate the judicial ermine,| HANFORD IS A JUDICIAL ANARCHIST.” TRIBUTE TO THE STAR When Senator W. J. Bryan opened his speech he paid a compliment to The) was received with a storm of applause that lasted fully a minute. “I am here to say what | r “But first | want fo tell you that in this fight you have got everything because you have a real newspaper fighting with you. ALWAYS FOR THE PEOPLE always for the common good and always for right, truth, justice and the side of it. I mean The Seattle Star. It may be that somebody has got to jail in this fight some day, and it may be that the courageous editor of The, E Star will go to jail. But if he does, there will not be a cell big enough to) Auld the roses that the common people will send to him, and the prayers of the) 0 that he has fought for will be his recompense. | “God bless a real newspaper like The Star. And if you want to know it, I'll that The Star has got more influence than any other agency in the whole Washington. ee “I, too, took an oath when I became a lawyer,” continued Senator Bryan, ‘to st the courts when respect is due. But! don’t respect a judge who doesn't re- the people whom he has sworn to serve.” HORNER’S POWERFUL ADDRESS Attorney Thomas Horner made in many respects the most forceful address | the evening. He knew his subject well and his powerful voice rocked the , i i of cheers and applause as he drove his points home. ™ “| HAVE NO MORE RESPECT FOR A TYRANT ON THE BENCH THAN} ATYRANT OFF THE BENCH,” said Horner. “INJUSTICE IS INJUSTICE | HETHER IT WEARS THE | “Ie j | | | “ROYAL ROBES OR THE BEGGAR’S GABAR-| * AND ALL THE DECREES ON EARTH, SOLEMNLY PRONOUNCED MOST AUGUST TRIBUNALS, CANNOT MAKE IT RIGHT. | “Every infamy in history has been sanctioned and approved by the courts of | time in which they existed. 3 aa : “I€ anybody objects to the recall of judges, just ask him in whose interest the s have interpreted the laws? When will they interpret them in favor of the 2 Answer: When the people make them. K : Horner brought his speech to a close by reading the resolutions printed else. in The Star, and as Chairman Erickson called for a vote on them the “ayes y lifted the roof. jegle : The other speakers were Judge Humphries, who as a lawyer said it was his y to respect the courts. His remarks about municipal ownership brought a ck response from the people, but the audience didn’t agree with his idea of re- “Mect for courts, right or wrong. q OVATION FOR “FIGHTING MAYOR” > A.V. Fawcett, former mayor of Tacoma, who headed a committee from that city, was introduced by Chairman Erickson as the first man who defied a Han- le injunction. Fawcett’s reception by the Seattle audience amounted to ovation, and as he detailed his two fights against corporations | protected by ford injunctions, he was interrupted time after time with invitations to move to “Fawcett told how he defied a Hanford injunction ten years ago and with a crew | of city employes went out during the night and cut down five miles of poles and n in the recent street car fight in Tacoma he took an aggressive stand aad compelled the company to run the cars when a blockade was attempted. LABOR MAN CLOSES MEETING a ada Paul K. Mohr, well known labor leader, brought the great meeting to a close a logical and effective address dealing with a modern interpretation of the tion of Independence. The band played the Star Spangled Banner, and great throng, cheering, marched from the building. HANFORD HANGED IN EFFIGY While the meeting was at its height a crowd of several hundred young men ly appeared at Seventh and Union, opposite Dreamland pavilion, and| an effigy of Hanford to a tall telephone pole. There it hung until just be- sy meeting adjourned, when it was cut down and dragged through the streets Pat the head of a long and silent procession. Hugo Kelley, introduced as the man’ who arrested Crawford, was greeted cheers and shouts of approval. “We people of the Rainier valley have learned ur and to digest injunctions before breakfast,” said Kelley. He used some words in describing Crawford and Hanford, and brought the crowd to its feet ONLY” INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ANTI-HANFORD tle IN SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1911. Sea MEETING WHEN HUGO KELLEY — ARRESTED CRAWFORD Star SEATTLE ONE CENT. Adown the stream of life, they said: Together peacefully they'd float ; But just as soon as they were wed, ox in es BOLAND be Tehy both began to rock the boat NEWS STANDS be. LEADERS Mt Warrants mise = Seryed Frank Kimball Claimed to) Have Decided to Hoodwink C. D. Hillman—$17,250 in) Two Days’ Work. Captured with the goods ina cheap lodging house in Tacoma, Frank H. Kimball, alias J. Lb. Wortham, allas J. A. Matthews, al feged forger, was taken to Seattle |last night. Pinkerton Detectives P. |K. Ahern and P. P. Robinson and City Detectives Adams and Pete |son made the arrest. Wortham, as he Is booked at po- jlice headquarters, is said to have | p,” war- nine of the leaders in Federal Judge C. H. obstruct the end sued this afternoon : it to impeach and + Charging “conspiracy tc the Han are being ser anders, Attor: Hugo Kelley mer Mayor B. H. Ca Taco: erry Paul Mohr, Will cilman Erick Tho id, Coun- \tkinson and lissioner W Totte € b \t ey Todd. The sa , a fully and ssued by Unit may on the subject of judges and bosses,” said Sen-| + |on Third ay. below James, where he | e#cape. he told of the Rainier people’s defiance of Hanford’s injunction last Tues- Snapshot Picture Showing Arrest of Boss Crawford by Deputy Sheriff et ley. 1-9 Jail Deputy Sheriff Hugo Ke “Take your hands off me, Kelley rested W. R. Crawford, manager of the Seattle, Re @iarled Boss Crawford. Southern road, Third av. yester} But Kelley didn't take day—much to the dingust of said |Off till he had Crawford sta Crawford |Bustice Brown's court Horace Barnes swore out a war} > Crawford put up $100 cash ball andjand while he did #o a court clerk of made a good natured joshing remark | to Crawford * hands ed for C Hity all right, alt Justice, Sheriff Hodge turned the 2 Crawford warrants over Deputy Sheriff; Kelley couldn't find Sam Wat Kelley, and Kelley started on the| lace. It is believed that Wallace trail. Crawford was finally found| was “tipped off,” and made his He later surrendered and furnished $500 ball. Crawford is charged with viola tion of the public utilities law whieh makes it a gr F meanor to charge more t fare on 4 street car wit tunita The punish fine or a year in jail for | tense, It ts intimated that Cre wf [he arrested again today for further violations of the same law Most Remarkable Meeting was consulting some of his engl neers. He saw Kelley ming and) scowled most cordially 1 guess you're my prisoner, Crawford,” whispered Kelley Crawford took the warrant in his hands and insisted upon reading it over two or three times, Finally his behavior taxed Kelley's patience and the deputy grasped his prisoner by the shoulder to excort him to In the History of Seattle The most remarkable gathering|Seattle, and never before in the| |history of Seattle has such a cause and suéh a principle been the sub- ject of a united public opinic The Star made its first announce: ment of the ting on Thursday in the history of Seattle. That was the enthusiastic com ment of scores attending the mass meeting at Dreamland last night which was called and arranged for om this short notice a crowd of people turned out which jammed Dreamland to the doors and over flowed into the street never before has one news together such a mass of people in “THE PEOPLE NEVER FORGET | The people never forget a nian) coma streets who, as a public official, has 1 and despite the injunction, to strike at the common y force of men and during the When former Mayor Fawcett of Tacoma was introduced last night | Seattle pe nemed tc all about Faweett and they cheered him to the echo when he told of his de fiance of a Hanford injunction over ten years ago. Hanford’s injunction at that time was in the Interest of a telephone concern which was grabbing Ta MILITANT MESSAGES FAOM TACOMA Here are some of the messages sent to The Star last night by Ta- |g coma mén wio were in the famous | BETWEED SEATTLE defied the injunctions that Hanford AND TACOMA gouge them out of another nickel: | NEAR AUBURN “Had we known of your antiHan- ford meeting sooner, Tacoma would have sent a delegation a thousand Land between the two largest ¢ities in the state is bound to be very valuable, We have strong.” From Harry H. Collier, one of land at $60.00 per acre in five- Auburn, on bt wires Fawcett las just $2.50 to hundreds of pe arose and invite over here. "You're too good for they shouted Faweett to come Tacoma Five hundred members of the sailed on the steamer Telegraph at neon today for Rdmonds, where they are enjoying their annual out fog with @ genuine Rhode Island elambake. Tacoma’s leading progressives— | “Hanford ought to have been {m-| peached 20 years ago, Sorry I can't get over there to say wo.” From Lorenzo Dow, ste sentative from Fern Hill—"We are all for the people in their fight over there, and the tmpeachment too. We will stand by Seattle peo- | ple in the fight to get a represen tative of the people instead of the | corporations on the bench.” | From Ex-Councilman plett— | .e are with you in the fight to throw Hanford off the beneh. Han-| ford is an old politician from the | ground up.” » repre go0d up. acre tracts terms of $10.00 cash and $5.00 Free abstract; per near per month fect title, — . | OLE HANSON & CO. WEATHER FORECAST | Fair tonight and Sunday, light|$. 314-815-316-317 New York Bik. portheasterly winds. GE ts IESE Me Cet and the second yesterday, and yet) New England club and their friends | | secured $17,250 by two days’ work | / in this city. He hol the best 1 of justice ws m ashing- van th D, Hill bre of fraud. Tw bought « plece of land of He paid bim with a bogus draft on & Dallas bank for $10,00 | Hiliman’s personal check for $5,000 in change. This check he « Wortham worked Seattle |yesterday for more thar The detectives found a suit case | jin his room in Tacoma containing nearly $17,000 in currency Wortham has been traced all over the ern part of the country. | He bas worked banks in Cincinnatt, | New Orleans, Oklahoma, Kansas | City and Dallas, Tex. It is believed that he has got away with more than $100,000 doring the last six months He carries a small printing press | and paraphernalia for canceling \stamping, perforating and marking check and drafte, His usual meth od is to deposit a draft for $10,000 | for collection, thus gaining the banker's confidence. The rest is easy. Wortham told the detective bad read of Hillman whi firnt ot ¢ real estate | winter 000. Atkinson self to arres was t nitted I AT RACE (By United Press Leased Wire.) ELGIN, III, Aug. 26.—As the first car in the National trophy race |flashed past the judges’ stand on the first lap today, a long section of |the western end of a temporary stand collapsed, burying 500 persons in its debris. Instantly there w: other portions of th speeding automobiles. Soldiers with bayonets and dep-uties with their clubs quickly drove the crowd back, though hundreds of them were in danger, as the cars dashed through their ranks. A few minutes later the race was resumed, while the hospital’am- | " bulances were still on the course, removing the injured. More than 300 are reported injured. WITH OnlP 7 KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. 26.— Eleven persons perished as a result of the wreck of the er Alice, which left here a week ago bound for Bluefields, Nicaragua, according to reports received today. The ves. sel was wrecked In the middle of | the night by striking Viva Neuva! reef off Nicaragua. Officials of the Union Fruit Com- pany are reported to be among the passengers who took to open boats. All but one lifeboat reached the! shore, and in this one survivors |11 tives were lost. tive | that in wild panic and thousands of spectators from stands rushed on the track in the path of the FRANK H. KIMBALL He made up his mind he was going to get him, and he did. | y afternoon a banker Wortham as answering} en in a bulletin he Pinkertor the Pinkert Det Robinson trac KATALLA, Alaska, Aug. 26 ard hotel to a cheap lodging house | While walking over rough hills from i a | Pete point to this town, a distance of five miles, Secretary of the Interior Fisher sprained his ankle yester day. Out in a launch inspecting | the Cunningham coal claims, a big storm prevented the Fisher party from reaching the revenue cutter. They arrived here late at night, | HE For Hones FINO Feunes ARE FINE FOR FUR. 11! Natural furs tor Milady will dent father’s or husband’s pocketbook more seriously than a year ago! But imitation furs — will cheaper. “A pony coat worth $50 last year will cost this: fall about $45,” said a Seattle fur dealer today, “Fash- ion’s trend will be toward naturat jcolors, Blue furs will also be pop- , ular. “Russian pony coats will range from $50 to $200 or more, depend- ing upon the collar and cuff trim- mings. Much of the so-called pony skins are but calf skins. ‘These mi- ford will meet in M. W. A. Hall, tations sell for from $30 to $35. Columbia station, and the pres ; | “Most of the popular priced furs ent situation will be threshed jare imitations, and made from Bel- out thoroughly. | gian hares and cats, PETITIONS AG | Re om here telephoned his chief, Ahern, and the aid of the city detective department was en. ed. They found Wortham’s room, and when he refused to open |the door tt was br He |attempted to get off by way of the | fire escape but found this blocked.|drenched to the skin Besides the articles already men-| | The French government has some French books to our cong open be tioned the detectives also found a | suit of overalls and some hair dye. | Blanks in his possession showed men. We object to such cruelty. | It hot enough in Washington already yet! |that Wortham’s next aim was Port | land. The Rainier Valley people will hold another mass meet ing tonight. At 8 o'clock the people who have been fighting Boss Craw- NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HICKTOWN BEE paper today be INST HANFORD ROLL IN already signed to the petition demanding the impeachment of Hanford. That's the record for two days, and tthe campaign is scarcely under way as yet. |The Star herewith prints the petition n it, get your neighbors to sign it and send it to The | Star Unless Hanford gets off the federal bench pretty quick these petitions will certainly get laction before the rejuvenated congress of insurgent republicans and democrats. Sign the petition. TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES :— We, the undersigned, citizens of the United States and residents of the District of Western Washington, believing C. H, Hanford, U Judge for said District, to be anfit by reason of character, conduct, habits, temperament, and his disregard of the law, to hold his present posi- |tion, ectiully request the House of Representatives of the United States to appoint a com mittee to investigate his condiict and his judicial decisions during the past ten years with a view of formulating Articles of Impeachment l'hree thousand names re NAME | ADDRESS NAME | ADDRESS