The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 1, 1911, Page 1

“I wish the people of Seattle success in their efforts tment e United States Senator Poindeater today. eee te ~ Een Nes * _ OUR JUDICIAL OLIGARCHY— The following js an extract from an article in La Follette’s Mage sine by Gilbert B. Roe: “The decisions which I have reviewed in these articles constitute the reply which the courts have made and are making to this progress ive movement. Unmindful of their experience in the past, they are again Jnviting a conflict, the consequences of which must certainly be @isastrous to them and possibly to the country as well, If these tons seom unduly pessimistic, I intite your attention to the language ee once DANGER WHEN PEOPLE AWAKE . Powers are being steadily exercised in behalf of the wealthy and pow-|of the mai nor heed the earthquake when it begins to rock be Orful classes, and to the prejudice of the scattered and xegregated peo-| their feet; see them present a spectacie not unlike that of Nero fiddil ple; that the power thus seized includes the power of amending the while Rome burns, There is danger that the people will see all SOnstitution; the power of superintending the action, not merely of at one sudden glance, and that the furies will then break loose Congress, but also of the state legislatures; * * * that great) that all hell will ride on their wings.’ f trusts and combinations may place their yokés upon the necks of the; DANGERS AHEAD? e { People of the United States, who must groan forever under the weight “At the time this language was used the employers’ ability I showing the tendency of the courts to override and control the other departments of government and to protect property righte at the em pense of human rights, and concluded hia address as follows: “Phe dangerous tendencies and extravagant pretensions of the courts which I have pointed out ought not to be minimized, but odgit to be restated. Their resistance ought not to take place, as advised care, by rk eting the invaders foot to foot,” but It ought ¥ place under the wise and moderate guidance of the legal 4 rotession,| without remedy and without hope; that trial by jury and the ordinary the workmen's compensation law, and the law lat but the that the people do not always so act, In popular) criminal justice of the states, which ought to be kept near the people, in various Industries had not been frunuifiea by Jape ae re often borne with stolid — Bc HS be are to be set aside, and federal court injunctions substituted therefor; r into sudden fre! st of one of the greatust jurists this country ever produced, whose opinions . as justice of the Missourt court of appeals are read and quoted wher- ever the common law prevails, and whose legal text books are authority in every English-speaking caurt in the world, In bis address to the state bar association of Texas, tn q Thompson reviewed the cases decided up to that time, Thom; I refer to Judge Seymour minating point is reached, when t and redress thelr grievances by tear down the fabric o lawyers; that is to say, at the feet vernment Itneif, , that the people wilPsee at one sweeping glance that al of their government, federal and state, lie at the feet of wa y; that thome he people bu violent and extreme There is of the judicial oligarch: ures, and Tam | p Ht the will eee these thi eee thelr enrobed judges doing hinking and powerful; see them look with solemn cynicis ——$——————— CITY EDITION One can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Think how many men still put coat shirts on over their heads. The Se _ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE 63 FAVOR PEOPLE'S OAL PROJECT direct to the consum Be 6 as to whether it would be best open States to go lato the coal business and mine and sell Just then Senator Miles C. Poindexter.came down stairs, and the wo, With Senator Poindexter's son, ordered a hearty breakfast But before they went into ¢ he dining room Senator Poindexter and Pinchot posed for The Star's photographer. "That's an awful ordeal on an empty stomach,” smiled Senator Pof dexter. PENH: cone ina, 1 THERE IS ONLY ‘There may be two sides to every story in the world, but that doesn't hold good in the “uncontested” di-| freedom yorce sessiong up at the court house Judges J. FP. Mair and W. R. Gay today listened BB ys 0 stories of unhappy Ww ‘s. gis Pulse was defendant in ao sult brought by Edward. The hus band sald that bis wife had @ fierce temper and it was her daily pacstime to hurl dinner plates at his head. They have not lived to- gether since 1904. Decree granted. Mabel Vance is & prepossess- Mabel Vane is a very prepossess- ing young colored woman. Sho ask- ed for a divorce from Harry Vance, whom she married at Columbus, O., nine years ago. Two years of liv- ing with Harry was enough, the wife said today, He beat ber habit- ually and then ran awaoy. Mrs. Vance hasn't laid eyes on him since 1904, she sald, Decree granted Very “Mean Tempered.” Grace Oakright said ber husband, whom she married #ix years ug was very, very “mean tempered,” and bad thrown butcher knives at ber rather often, They have @ daughter, Viola, aged 5. Since sep aerating from her heuband, Mrs Onkright has been working in @ lo en} hotel. Decree granted with cus tody of child to mother representatives met Manager Kruttechnitt of ..e Har- riman roads. Anxiety was the keynote of the in both the camp of the thin a few might be called upon to industrial ONE SIDE TO: ra old, They were married but after four years of turbulent housekeeping. Joseph dis- appeared, his wife said. He later wrote @ letter to a friend, saying he was going to kill himself and would never come back. Decree entered. Alimony Awards Alimony awards are rare in un con! cases, but Judge Main gave Dora C. McClellan an award of $12.50 a month and $50 counsel fees, together with the custody of her S-yearold daughter. The de. cree is entered against Robert L. McClellan on the grounds of drunk enness and snonsupport. The hus. band will be allowed t osee his iit tle girl only on Sundays and holl days. 3 in Woman Barber Sues Sadie R. Farley, suing for a dt yorce from James Bird Farley, said that after her husband went to New and was never she sysees to rhering a5 @ cans of earning 4 twine, farley left her with four children, all under 5 years of age. Decree entered. The theory of h ditary losanit was somewhat supported by testh mony in the suit of Alfred Reney lof Des Moines, Wash., against his wife, Allee, It was shown that the IN “UNCONTESTED” DIVORCES IN COURT [5 MURDER TRIAL RaaRHKKAHARHRARAH * ® CHESTERFIELD COURT * HOUSE, +a, 1—With * an element of mystery inject *% ed by receipts of a telegram Seeeeeeeeeeeenee bell REREAD CHESTERFIELD COUR 4 Va., Sept. 1—Serupulousty attired, Preparatory to taking the stand In his own defense on the charge of wife murder, Henry Clay Beattie, Sty today voiced tive seiple. that hie own testimony 90 fat to ward convincing the jury of his in- novence. - “ft shall be glad to take aad do something in my de- fense,” Beattie declared. “| shail tell the truth, for T MADIGON, Wis, Sept. 11a Folietie’s Magazine, under the cap- tion of “Taft's Blow to the Con- sumer,” launches today a new at- tack on President Taft's tariff action. Addressing itself directly to thé consumer, the magaiine say: “You have chastened the con- grens that played you false in 1909. you have rebuked In more ways than one the president who called the Aldrich job the best tariff ever devised. But what will you say when your representatives pase bill taking from your shoulders th |.| burdens of the woolen trust duties which President Taft admitted to be indefensible, only to be folled in their effort to do something for you by the president's veto?” RIES wife has been ingane for the past 23 years. She is now tn an asylum at Toronto, Canada, and her augh- ter, 20, is in an insane Mylum in Connecticut. Decree entered. Wife Only 18 The most interesting case of the day was that of Serita P. Candie against Nathan Candor in Judg' Main's court. The wife, who sued for freedom on eruelty grounds, is only 18, very beautfful, and came into court gowned in a very elab- orate ight blue bridescloth gown, eut decollete, and considerable val uable jewelry. She wis accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Wiizabeth Perry, who conducts an apartment house on Broadway, ‘The young wife said that she mar ried Candor, then a stenographer with the Dollar Steamship corapany, in June, 1910, They went to live with the bride's mother, but Nathan was very ¢ , the wife sald. The mother-in-law testified that she wanted the young couple to live together, but she was afraid that “they'd kill each other before they got through.” The young wife smiled amusedly at this sally Candor {s now in California ee was entered So, as may be seen, there is nev er two sides to a story in the “un- contested” divorce session up at the courthouse. rather De : 4 PHOTOGRAPH OF G “A QUIRREL i to The Star.) RAVENSDALE, W , Bept. L— a affray here last night in, wae Deputy Sheriff Starwich imme- Giately investigated and arrested Jack Ramshek, another Austria) A revolver and two empty shells were found near the body. At first Ramstek dented having a gun, but finally admitted the shots had beet fired and that it was his cun It is claimed ili feeling had ex- isted between the accused and e ceased for some time. Sheriff Hodge and the coroner held tmmediately. quest will 47 acres of rolling land sitiate in Snohomish county, near Gran- ite Falls, in a well-settled com munity. Part of this tract lays level, the balance rolling, but is not so rough but that all can be used, The soil is fine, being quite free from gravel. Would make an ideal dairy ranch A fine trout stream crosses It It 1s on @ rural free delivery and milk route. Terms, $50 cash and month, Perfect title, free abstract and warranty deed given with final payment, OLE HANSON & Co. 914-315-316-317 New York Bik. $iba . 'yesterday arrived this afternoon, and the im | SEATTLE, WASH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1911. ‘ORD PINCHOT AND SENA TOR POINDEXTER by 8 P This Morning. INJUNCTION HEARING ON AGAIN TODAY attle Star the most objectionable decisions been rendered against organized ns extend to preventing laboring men quitting their bor and the courts had barely entered upon the work of dest employment, although they are lable to be discharged by thelr em- state statutes regulating great corporations, When one considers nd perpetuating a state of slavery the work of buliding up a@ judicial oligarchy has gone forw Judge Thompson used the language que teadily advanced toward above, it must be adm! realization of the danj EDITION = Tomorrow never comes, unless it’s the mgrning after, Awful Tragedy in Home of Wealthy Los Angeles Physi He Had Overheard Wife Telling Children He Had Acting Strangely—Double (iy United Press Leased. Wire) LOS ANGELES, Sept. '.—Fear of! being committed to an insane asy- lum today caused Dr. Owen Ryan, 50, to send a bullet crashing through his wife’s brain. He then turned the revolver on himself, sending a bullet through his heart. Death in each case was instantaneous. The murder and saicide occurred just as the couple were about to partake of the morning meal. Their two sons were dressing in an up- stairs room when they were startled to hear two shots in rapid suc cession. C. D. Ryan, the older boy, grabbed a shotgun and rushed downstairs, He was horrified to see his mother lying at the foot of the banisters, a gaping wound in her head. His father lay across a dining room chair with a bullet through his heart. Dr. Ryan and his fa to Los Angeles tly moved ringfield. Francis J carry on the p |through the Bast come here in the Hanford case: Seattle Star, attic, Wash Write me at San Pranctsco. Shooting Followed. 5 4 lit, two months ago and pure! : & handsome home on South [ street, a fashionable residence digs trict Acted Strangely A week ago Mrs. Ryan co ed that the pbysician was strangely. As no improvement noticed in his condition, Mra, and her sons yesterday congul friend relative to having her band committed to an asylum. some unexplained manner, Dr. Ry learned of bis wife's intentions chided her about the matter at breakfast table, Mrs. Ryan attempted to leave tt room, but was intercepted by h husband at the foot of the ats He held a 32-caliber revolver in Bi hand, Taking deliberate aim, Bf fired. The bullet penetrated they brain, and Mrs. Ryan died _witi a gasp. Ryan then returned to € dining room, sat down in @ ¢ and ended his own life. Heney’s Telegram Accepting Offer to Defend Seattle Heney, the noted graft fighter who will come to § to defend ‘the nine men arrested in the e's fight here, has He was en route to the coast | following telegram to The Star on Weduesdey, accepting the offer te Hanford case and to finished a lecture when he sent t Just Salisbury, Mo., Aug. 30, 191. accept employment to defend editors and others in Hanford case, FRANCIS J. HENEY, ~— today, but King county hasn't a game warden with power to make =}an arrest. Hogan, the so-called game ward- of accepting prisoners en, and Rief, his assistant appoint- jed by Commissioners Rutherford and Hamilton, both learned that! |their power fs limited when Sheriff Hodge released Sam Martin from the county jail where leged deer-killing charge. Tho Crawford injunction hearing |ocion order is belng continued will be continued in Judge Han-|ynti) further order by the court. Hford’s court this afternon. An an-| KE, 8, McCord, the attorney for |swer to the complaint of A, 8, Pea Peabody, opened the afternoon ses- sere te jon with an application for an Hpody, Yepresenting Eastern bond.|* < Iugidere, was filed With tha court) <metemens © Bis complaint. This 8 filed with the scout|was denied, but permission was faahes,” attorney for the city, |#iven-to renew the application at Judge Hantord decided that the|"°™e later time jetty must enter a plea in abatement, ae kk ee eKeenkeeee ‘and that the answer will be used as | # THE WEATHER. fan affidavit, accompanying the pleal® For Seattle and vicinity: Hin abatement. | Fair tonight and Saturday; The court took the question of|® light northwesterly winds, |the demurrer by the city under ad-|% Temperature at noon today, 75. lyisement, In the meantime the in-| tk & kk RR RRR RR RRR ‘Alaska Deeply Interested in Visit of Poindexter and Pinchot (By Special Cabto Unit ) CORDOVA, Alaska, Sept, 1.—Alaska roused to intense interest by the coming visit of Senator Poindexter and Gifford Pinchot. Some towns that formerly denounced the conservation policy most bitterly are waiting to give a frank hearing to the advocates of that policy. The people are especially interested in the campaign for govern- mént minas, railroads and steamships, which is generally preferred to the leasing pian. THE IMPEACHMENT petitions are still coming from people of Seattle and vicinity. TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: We, the undersigned, citizens of the United States Washington, believing C. character, conduct, habits, tempefament, and his disregard of t tion, respectfully request the House of Representativ mittee to investigate his conduct and his judicial decisions duri of formulating Articles of Impeachment. N. AM i} ADDRESS NAME *| Pacific is serving to help the campaign in the most remote sections of Western Washington. and residents of the District of Western H. Hanford, Us $. Judge for said District, to, be unfit by reason of s of the United States to appoint a com- GIRL KILLE BY TANN (By 0 Press Leased Wire.) NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Sept. 1.—Stalled in the sand beside the railroad crot jof Toppenish, a joy-riding party of | nine was struck by the Northern | railroad’s Spokane-Seattle train early today. Miss Frankie Vaughn was thrown under the wheels of the locomotive | Jand instantly killed. Ed L. Smith, | traveling ‘Balesman for the Carbon: ado Coal Co., with headquarters in | Seattle, was thrown, with the Win- |ton Six automobile, forty feet down \the track into an irrigation ditch and sustained a broken leg and oth- er injuries, which caused his death in the Toppenish hospital soon aft erward, PETITION achment movement against Hanford The great bulk of he law, to hold his present posi- ng the past ten years with a view ADDRESS: last night! Hogan had placed him on an *} 1 DEER SEASON OPENS; NO POWER TO PROTE ‘The deer-hunting season opened | “Hogan has no more right to ar rest & man than any other private |) citizen,” declared Hodge this u ing, “and I won't take any chance: from bing without a warrant.” es Hogan and Rief were appoin by Commissioners Rutherford Hamilton for political reasons they had ousted Hodge's men acting as deputy sheriffs, had necessary power to arrest violt of the game laws. —— ———aes KINDNESS if Old tin can, Wagging tail, Little man, ing half a mie south | f Makes dog sail, TWO. PAIRS KNICKERBOCKERS This is an unusual value in Boys’ Clothing. The gar= ments are of all wool mate- rials, and there is an extra pair of full lined knicker+ bockers with each suit. Arcade and Arcade Annex. ene eet