The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 31, 1911, Page 1

oe z Fa cs F, HOME EDITION | The latest benevolent device is mud pie playgrounds for the little children of the rich, Why should lights of childhood be reserved for the JUN GIRL LAYS BARE STORY OF HER. CASE SUP ‘The final hearing on the tempo- Pray injunction granted by Hanford {to the Crawford line bondholders was commenced in the fed court room this morning. The room ‘was crowded with people, most of from the Rainier valley. City Attacks Jurisdiction. The entire morning session was taken up With arguments on a de murrer interposed by Assistant @orporation Counsel Howard D. maintaining that the fed- ; a1 court has no jurisdiction in y Pikatter. Should the demurrer | De denied, the arguments on the Injunction will probably continue afternoon, and the decision may be reached until. tomorrow. If Granted, the demurrer closes the 7 with a defeat for the Crawford *pondholders, Hanford Makes Statement. Judge Hanford opened proceed this morning with a statement 3 ing the injunction. He said that there had been no reason why “any one should rise in indig tion.” He deciared that there hi deen no reason to regard his decis- fon as tyrannical and arbitrary. Position of Crawford Concern. Magbes in his argument exposed ‘what he termed the ridiculous posi- ‘tion in which the injunction has 3 the Crawford line. | The supreme court of this state bas ruled that Crawford must issue | transfers on a five-cent basis. The federal court has declared that he "Must not issue transfers on a five- Hi {i all the de- ONLY VOL. 13, NO. 162. POINDEXTER IS DUE HERE TODAY cent basis, it “The Seattle, Renton & Southern railway fs in contempt if it does and In contempt if It doesn't.” Hughes cited decision afte® de- cision showing that the bondhold. ers have nothing to do with the | company until it becomes insolvent | and is ousted by the bondholders. | He exposed another phase ‘of the complaint, on which the injunction was issued, namely, where a tend- ency is seen to show that the city and the Crawford line are in a con- spiracy to wreck the finances of the company. McCord for Bondholders. E. 8. McCord, who represented / the bondholders, attempted to show & conspiracy between the city and the people of Rainier valley, to de- stroy the property of the company. He cited the $800,000 bond issue, voted last spring. He called atten- tion to the appraisal of the Craw- ford line. He declared that the city even planned to parallel the existing line, which, be said, could not be; done. Crawford was an Interested spec-| As Hughes expressed — SSS = cape tator, seated by McCord, now and |then conferring with him. ‘Still Ride Free. Conditions on the car line are \practically unchanged. People jride free when transfers are de- manded. Conductors refuse to ac- cept transfers from the 8. E. Co.'s lines, but passengers ride without paying any fare by offering the | transfers. BEULAH WILL TELL TER STORY ABy United Press Leased Wire.) CHESTERFIELD COURTHOUSE, | Va, Aug. 31.—Beulah Binford, the ‘f7-year-cld girl for whom, the state Denys, Henry Ciay Beattie, jr., slew young wife, holds a secret | which could condemn or clear the PS banker, who is on trial here for his life. | Beth prosecution ana defense be- Neve the Binford girl could clear | up the mysterious killing, but each le afraid to put her on the stand | Wet knowing tc what she world tes Interviewed in the jail today, _ the Binford girl refused to give any hint as to her story. “If they put me on the stand,” she said, “I will tell the truth. No, ge tell what my testimony will Se, but it will be the truth. I hk: awfully well. He and { , Were good chums, maybe too good. we hove been pals for years. “I never nad a chance-—I was too 1 did not know what it all , but Henry was my friend took care of me when every: was dark and dreary. I don’t that, It is hard for 2 girl to her way in the world when hing is against her, but we through some way. “Ltried to go straight. But when I tried to do honest work ne pointed me out, saying girl's no good.” Then I had 2. Asked if sh /be chums again if the banker is ac- | Guitted, ehe said: © “T eouldn't trust myself alone ‘With « man accused of murder. I think I could never be alone with again. I would be afraid—" ‘and the shuddered involuntarily. Job Weinstein, 14 years old, cor- ‘Foborated his brother's testimony, ) Contradicting Paul's story that he had taken the gun apart when sold The lad admitted that he was not ‘Mig enough to handle the weapon fm the manner mentioned. and Beattie would THRILLING. TORY OF JARDSHIPS NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Bringing a story of marvelous endurance and almost unbelievable hardship and peril, the Mohawk arrived in port today with the captain and crew of the four masted schooner Maicoim Seevy, which foundered off Cape Romain during the ter- rific hurricane which devastated Charleston and the Carolina coast early in the week. Cashed to Masts. Lashed to the upper masts, the only portion of the vessel above water, Captain Henry Dodge and seven of the crew clung to their | precarious perches for two days and three nights. The ship, laden with phosphate, encountered the gale Saturday night. After terrific billows had time and again swept over the vessel, carrying a Portu- guese sailor to his death in one of the surges, Captain Dodge came to anchor. On Sunday seams began opening and the schooner rapidly settled. By Monday morning only the upper spars, to which the men had lashed themselves, were visible above the surface of the oc the night the men, all but uncon- scious with fatigue, watched in vain for help. Finally on Wednesday the Mohawk hove in sight and they were rescued. Plans Changed It is reported that Pri has changed the pl west and will visit he goes to Frisco, coming here on Taft's first plans were to visit California first and come to Seattle October 16th and 17th. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31.—Fol- lowing an argument over the own- ership of a cheap pipe, Santi Sottile fy dead and Frank Vitali is under arrest, charged with murder. Vitali is alleged to have shot Sottile (ATE NEWS (BY UNITED PRESS ‘through the heart. LABOR LEADERS PESSIMISTIC. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31.— of the union labor leaders he Th eee mism holds full sway today in the BULLETIN LEASED WIRE.) in it fts with General Manager ischnitt will prevent a strike and predict a general walkout before ithe end of the week on all of the Harriman lines west of the Missis- river, FEAR GIRL 18 HELD. |. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31.—F. “Who disappeared from her home he P Sgainst her will at Spokane, Wash, ‘BPPealed to the police to aid her in tions the girl is living at Spokane. GOMPERS IN PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 31.—Samuel P American Federation of Labor, arri Wight he will address a large gathe ra case for his subject. TOURISTS SP! faring that Pearl Adams, the girl ¢ last January, Is being detained , Mrs. Evatt, the girl's aunt, today ascertaining under what condi- PORTLAND. Gompers, president of the ved here today from sacoma, To- ring at the Armory, with the McNa- ND $100,000,000 PARIS, Aug. 31.—More than $100,000,000 has been spent by Amer- in Europe since May 1, according to estimates of the A good share of this tremendous total, which exceeds /000,000 the figures of last year, f i agencies Paris has enriched the feople All day Tuesday and throughout | Oct. 8th and remaining two days. | POINDEXTER PINCHOT Senator Poindexter, “the new senator from Alaska,” will arrive lin Seattle this afternoon from Spo- lkane. Poindexter is en rovte to Alaska, where he goes to inform himself fully as to conditions there and the needs of the people Gifford Pinchot, former chief for- ester, is expected to arrive here with Poindexter, but whether or not Pinchot intends making the trip to Alaska is not known. In view of the recent turn taken in Alaskan affairs, P dexter's trip is of national importance. There is no longer any doubt but that the policy of dealing with the Alaska resources will be one of the big ts sues at the next presidential elec: tion. The lines will be drawn be- tween the Morganheim plan and people's plan, according to present indications, and there is no doubt as to where the progressives will be found. Poindexter is going to Alaska to arm himself with information and to get in touch with the people of Alaska. The Morganheims have their senators to represent them, and now it appears that the other people of Alaska will also have rep: resentation in the U, 8. senate. BIGGEST BATTLESHIPS WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Plans discussed today in the navy depart- ment are to make the two new bat- tleships allowed under the recent appropriation 28,000 tons’ displace- ment, which will make them the biggest vessels in the world, They will have a main battery each of ten 14-Inch guns. HH KRERKEARRR IRE * * * THE WEATHER. * * For ttle and «vicinity: © *% Showers tonight and Friday; * % light southerly winds. Noon * & temperature, 71. * Kann ahhh NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HICKTOWN BEE Tiop pickers are beginning to ar rive In town for the harvest. Bd barber, says they ‘out don't lant week Gingulse for all we ke he Seattle Star INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1911. ONE CENT. | Last January Hanford granted an injunction which, had it not been reversed by a higher court without delay, would have prevented the people of Seattle from) holding a recall, which cleaned out the vice gang and payed the way for a general rosecution of the men responsible for the city’s shame and disgrace. In that} ight The Star was aided by the Post-Intelligencer. Below The Star reprints an editorial from the Post-Intelligencer of January 7, 1911, dealing with Hanford’s injunction. It is of unusual interest at this time. Here is the editorial, heading, “GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION” IS HERE! Venerable and aged man, austere and inexorable character, respected professionally, learned | and studious in the law, Judge Hanford is the last man in this commur with whom we would} ever wish to disagree or differ, one of the last men of whom we woul ay that he showed ran-| cor in opinion, one of the last men of whom it might be said that one of his decisions was anile nd caduke. Shrewd lawyers, in the heat and zest of legal contests, mak often do violence to the sound and sober reason of the law; in the warmth of debate thin are said which never would be said in a cooler atmosphere ; but it is unusual, it is extraordinary that a jurist of Judge Hanford’s long experience should or could have reached the conclusion reached and announced by him in the case of Feank H. Scobey, who prayed for an order of court restraining the recall election. : . » many extraordinary pleas, and often The memorandum decision on application for an injunction by Judge Hanford is intended] te restrain, not merely the city comptroller, not merely the city council, but the entire elector jate of this city, and it was prayed for and issued upon @ pretext so thin that the wonder is that] jany judge could have stooped to consider it, _ Judge Hanford says that “any*taxpayer, resident or nonresident, is entitled to a which a court of equity has power to grant.” That is true: but has a fedéral judge “powe | trammel the electoral rights which the state, ina proper exercise of its constitutional powers, has granted to the people of this city? Ifso, it would seem that there is nothing a federal judge) may not do to the hurt and destruction of popular rights. If the “equity” jurisdiction of the} federal court can extend so far that one nonresident citizen can prevent an election duly author jized by law, and one, in its preliminary stages, which proceeds according to the terms of the law, then the states possess no power which federal courts are bound to respect | Such a doctrine is revolutionary, and its announcement by any federal judge is alarming to the last degree. _ . The thinness of the opportunity which Judge Hanford has grasped can be realized when it is known; if the court is to take cognizance of such an alleged state of facts as it appears to have} done; that the “injured nonresident taxpayer” could by no possibility be injured to exceed one | dollar; that he is a “dummy” in the case; and, even if he were bona fide, to allow a nonresident jof this city to stop an election, regularly provided for under the law, in the manner Ju Han-} | ford tries to stop it, would mean that municipal government disappears and federal govern t] steps in, a “government by injunction,” such as has been denounced by both Presidents Roose-| velt and Taft H Judge Hanford says the Scobey suit was “intended to frustrate efforts of a minority of citi-} zens to reverse the result of a general election by ousting the choice of the majority.” But the state clothed the people of this city with the power to adopt a charter which would authorize the “minority,” so contemptuously referred to by Judge Hanford, to do precisely what they have undertaken to do in the recall matter. What right has a federal judge to say the peo ple shall not exercise a power they possess pursuant to a legislative grant and their own votes ? The people of this city have agight “to reverse the result of a general election ;” they have the right to oust or not to oust “thetlwice of the majority,” and the issue can be submitted to} them upon the petition of a minority. | By what occult process has Juége Hanford been able to reach the conclusion that the “ma- jority” of citizens in this city have Hot changed their minds since the general election? And if they have changed their minds, what right or power has he to deny them the privilege of making a record of the fact in the manner provided by law? He has no such right or power, and for him to attempt to exercise any such right or power . is an assault upon popular rights, 44 assault upon the supreme power of the state and a display of unrestrained arrogance of authority mever before equaled in the judicial history of this city or | section. ; ) Judge Hanford speaks of “frauil, forgery and false official certificates.” The as as mean as it is shallow. Judge Albertson takes the broad, right-minded view. _ _ But suppose there have been “fraud, forgery and false certificates,” would that have author ized Judge Hanford to strike downy the power of the state by the wrongful and tyrannical use of the writ of injunction? It would not. There is no federal question in the issue persenied to Judge Hanford, and by no stretch of the imagination can a federal question be read into it unless it is to be conceded that the federal courts can invade the jurisdiction of the states, rob them of their power to make laws, and strip their judges of the right to constrité and interpret them. Judge Albertson, of the state court, expressed the sound view when he said the other day that “courts must not hunt for obseure reasons to thwart the will of the people,” and that “where there is any dotbt in the court's mind” it ought to be “in favor of the expression of the popular will.” If any judge had a right to interfere with the recall election, on any ground whatever, so far as the present records are concerned, that judge would have been a state judge, would have been Judge Albertson, not Judge Hanford. Judge Hanford has staggered in where angels might well fear to tread, for any judge who is bold and audacious enough to seek to smother a free people by a wrongful and unauthorized use of the great writ of injunction, invites a popular wrath which, if it does not scourge him} from the public service, will at least leave him without the sympathy and respect of his fellows. ‘The sober, temperate public opinion of this city has been declared in favor of the principle and of the application of the recall to unworthy public officials. The Post-Intelligencer knows that it stands for the people in this. As against so intemperate, unsound a decision as that of| Judge Hanford, the people will win, as he probably will soon see. | umption is RRRRRRRRRARERHRERREREAE RRA BREEN ga | 3 BROTHERS KILL fx LOSES HUSBAND BECAUSE SHE BET ON RACES— NOW TRIES TO GET BACK 8OME OF THE MONEY CHICAGO, Aug. 31. Mrs. Bernice Beatrice Billings Bronson, daughter of Mrs, Etta Billings of Marshfield, Or., has lost her husband and $1,000,000 as the result of playing the ponies. This fact was brought out today through the filing of a suit by Mrs. Billings against Wm. Ryan, a wealthy handbook agent, to recover $10,000 of the fortune her daughter has lost, she alleged, through betting on the races. Rebbe e tee EE * Oe ee ed (By United Prose Leased Wire) | | MOS ANGELES, Aug. 31.—| | Bursting with a terrific detonation | jand hurling blazing gasoline over| six men, a gasoline tank exploded shortly before noon in the shops of | the Grundy Motor Car company. W. Oakley, auto repair man, was severely burned, five others escap- ing with minor injuries, — ae . The famous chicken raising country about here hasn't anything on the stork, Five arrivals, four of which are twin, came within nine bours. | Three brothers, named O'Dea (Bill, Ed and Tom), and Paul Bussey, a neighbor, went bear hunting a couple of miles be- yond Fauntleroy park yesterday afternoon and bagged a big brown bear that weighs about 350 pounds, AVE YOU SIGNED Seattle Lays fine, on a graded county road, has a grand view of Lake Washington, situate near LAKE FOREST PARK. Price $400, terms of $10 cash and $7.50 a month, There is no better place to put your savings than north of Beat tle near Lake Washington. have taken action, having thelr entire membership sign the petition. in at an encouraging rate. cireula' TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES :— on Washington, believing C. H. Hanford, U. $. Judge for said Di cha tion, respectfully request the House of Representatives of the mittee to investigate his conduct and his judic of formulating Articles of Impeachment. | A i] NAMB DDRESS NAME OLE HANSON & CO, 314-315-316-317 New York Bik. ON TRAING AND NEWS STANDS be £ Two feet is suggested as the legal width of hats to be worn by women in churches in Georgia. The primitive Christians knew a better law than that. LAVER Git |HELD IN ROOM FOR ;TOMONTH | (By United Press Leased Wire.) | SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Aug. 31—Miss Jessie McDonald, 21, daughter of a wealthy contractor, today laid bare the story of her 18 months’ stay in a room adjoining [an office of Or. A. W. McDavit, | prominent local dentist. And all | San Bernardino—that is, al! that | could crowd into the squalid court | room—was there to hear the story. | Dr. McDavit, who is charged with | statutory offense in holding Miss | MeDonald a prisoner, was smuggled into San Bernardino from Riverside shortly before 10 o'clock, Fearing mob violence Sheriff Ralphs spirited | the dentist out of town 10 days ago jand secreted the prisoner in the | Riverside county jail. | Greeted by Angry Roar. | An angry roar greeted McDavit | ashe was hustled out of an auto- GERTRUDE “LA REND” HADDON mobile and hurried into the court . |room. A dozen policemen escorted t may look Ike roses on the|the dentist through the crowds. He stage, but it isn't. But it's for-| was hissed and jeered as he took a tunate that a girl like Gertrude La| seat almost directly opposite Miss McDonald, who never once glanced Seattle Girl Wins; Staked Poor Stranger A movement to have every labor union in the western part of Washington taki case against Hanford is one of the plans now outlined to swell the list of petitioners. In every mail petitions are coming Some of the petitions carry from ten to fifty names, showing that volunteer are at work of their own accord, ‘ Rend, the dansuese in “The Awak ening of Buddha,” can do some thing besides thread needles or ry trays to a@ bunch of ogle ar- yed Lotharto! rirude La Rend is a Seattle girl with Alaskan history. Ger- trude’s private name ts Haddon and mother and two brothers live Ballard an 2 Alonzo avenue, rtrude and her sister, now mar- went to Dawson during the period of the gold fever a theatrical troupe. They and lots of it, and back to Seattle and bought a comfortable home for their mother. They went to Alaska again, but the venture proyed un: offabie attle—broke. The ‘ange Story. But here's the strange part of the story. Gertrude, with a heart tn her as big as a wagon wheel, staked a strange sick young fellow to boat e back to “the states.” Before accepted her kind offer, however, he forced upon her a deed to a claim on Bonanza creek, which, un- ried hottest with made money they came | tf she opened her trunk a few days forgotten having in The young man out of her she had her possession. had passed entirely memory, but the reappearance the deed caused her to wonder if it might not now have some tang ble value. Consulting several old-time Alaskans, she was told that her claim is right in the heart of a val uable mining area and that it is possible it is worth many thou- sands of dollars. “Well, I'm going to look into this mining claim of mine,” Haddon in her dressing room last night, “and if it’s there with the goods it's back to Alaska for me. I'm tired of the grind of show busi- ness and I want to come back to Seattle to my mother and my home, the only one in the world for me,” TONG WAR DEATHS CHICAGO, Aug. 31—Hee Yip Wing, a Chinese merchant, is dead today, and Moy Dong Tong, a laun- dryman, is tn a critical condition as the result of a tong war which has been brewing for some time. Chu La Hun, suspected of the shooting, escaped in a taxicab. BEAR NEAR CITY. ago, The bear, about 2 years old, has been frightening people living in the neighborhood for several weeks. Yesterday the O’Deas and Bussey went on his trail and bagged him with five shots. IT YET? up the impeachment Already some unions We, the undersigned, citizens of the United States and residents of the District of Western strict, to be unfit by reason of cter, conduct, habits, temperament, and his disregard of the law, to hold his present pos: United States to appoint a com- jal decisions during the past ten years with a view | ADDRESS and back they came to} of} said Miss | | toward the acensed man. District Attorney R. B. Goodcell announced that he would place but two witnesses on the stand for the | prosecution. These were Miss Me- | Donald and Dr. J. 8. Mancha, who | attended the girl during her iliness. | Shortly before court opened Dis- triet Attorney Goodcell ordered that McDavit be taken to a cell and locked np. “| do not want him in the court room while Miss McDon- ald is testifying,” explained | Goodcell. “I fear that the girl | may again be brought under the influence of his hypnotic eye.” At this point Justice J. B. Hanna |noticed several women with chi}- |dren on their knees. Proceedings | were halted while they were being ejected. Tells Pitiful Story. With quivering lips Miss McDon- ald then began her story of her meeting with McDavit five years ago. “I met him in his office,” sie said, “when I was having my teeth jattended to. He seemed an awful |nice man, and one day told me he | would kiss me if I bit him while he was filling a tooth. I did not bite him, and he said nothing. | e next day, however, he told me to press down to make an im- pression in wax and his finger ‘was pinched. TI did not know it was there, but he threw his arms around my neck and kissed me twice.” “After my third visit to Dr. Me | Davit's office I made no effort to | resent his caresses,” continued | Miss McDonald. “He told me that |he loved me, and I loved him. I knew that he had a wife but he would look at me and I would not seem to care. He promised that he would get a divorce and marry me, and that I would always be happy.” At this point in her testimony, D. McDonald, the girl's father, broke down and left the court room. COMPLETE TIE UP IN 10 DNS (By United Press Leased Wire.) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31.—T days is the time estimated by the majority of the shop employes’ rep- resentatives as the limit of time » The boiiermak- ers declared today that less than this period will see the company ready to deal with their federation, since the locomotives constant need of minor repairs. They are unequivocal in declaring that the repair work cannot be done by strikebreakers that can be se cured in the MISSES’ MANNISH COATS $8.50 to $25.00 These attractive and ser- garments are E in a new section that bY viceable dis- has recently been added to the Boys’ Clothing Depart- ment. It will pay young lady to inspect this Fall every line before making a purchase, ALTERATIONS FREE Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex.