The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 6, 1911, Page 1

thetic odor, wlll NOW DEPEN WITHORK The proposed recall against although the indications are tha petition the petition to warrant the recal If Bothwell! insists on this point the petition to warrant the recall The recall assoctation filed 2,646 wupplemental names to the Dilling petitions late yesterday afternoon. petitions for the recall of the four councilmen were filed. That means that this project was drop-| ped as being hopeless at this time. How Petitions Stand. The former petitions for the re. the required number. Since then) about 980 of the original siguers! have asked to have thelr names | withdrawn. ‘This makes a total | shortage of about 2.875 5 to be made! up from the 2,646 names filed. In the former petitions 30 per cent of the tr} were thrown out OF PROPOSE Defeating the court house and the proposition for $1,000,000 bonds munteipal dock and the fsolation hos! pal league, as printed in The Star While the vote was light, the de the court house bouds was emphatic toone v By a twotoone vote th plans commitsston. tenden, Robert Bridges and C. missioners. The following is how the people County Court House Site, $1,500,000 Cedar River Watershed Land, $1,000 Art Museum Site, $500,000 Fire Houses and Sites, $266. Stable Site, $100,000 Wegt Waterway Rridge, $50,000 ¢ Substations, $30,000 Munictpal Dock, $25,000 - Isolation Hospital, $25,000 . Westlake Ave. Bridge, $50,000 ———= BE 0 On Counetiman Goddard fests the} responsibility of defeating Council-| map Griffiths’ anti-siraphangieg bill yesterday. | The mayor's veto was up for a} vote of the council. The vote of two-thirds of the council is neces sary to pass a bil} over the mayor's veto. That means six votes. Coun. cllmen Griffiths, Erickson, Hesketh, | Kellogg and Wardall voted to pass! the bill over the mayor's veto. God dard, Blaine and Haas voted to sus tain the mayor. | Though this and a similar bill have been voted on several times God-| dard has voted in favor of it every time until yesterday. Had he voted ie Stephenson, a man of 82 and worth €20,000,- 000. Maybe, but we don't recognize tae bee \ davit from each citizen asking for the withdray CITIZENS VOTE 0 tlon yesterday practically accepted all the indorseme The port of Seattle plan was carried easily GODDARD RESPONSIBLE FOR STRAPHANGING BILL FAILURE 05 UPON WAL OF NAMES Mayor Dilling is still in doubt, t it will be blocked. All now seems to hinge on the withdrawal of names from the original City Comptroller Bothwell has intimated to the anti-recall ! petition al of his name it may leave enough names on erection. 11 per cent of the 2.646 names for various reasons are insuffictent t number of good names will be brought below 2,275, providing Bothwell permits the committee to put im the entire list of with. drawals The Dilling committee ts contin ulng securing withdrawals. Re cali of Dilling were 1,375 short of /quests to withdraw from the peti | tions will be honored by the city comptrolier’s office until the peti- tions are certified to the city coun ell. ‘The checking of names on the pe- tition will not be started in the registration office until tomorrow WN BULK 1-BOND SSUES ee Court House and Museum Bonds Defeated—Watershed, Dock and Isolation Hospital Issues Passed. museum bond issues, and ing for the Cedar river watersh pital, the pe cision against the museum site and The first was defeated by a fi © people decided they did not want to consider a new court house until after the report of the municipal | and Gen. H. M. Chit Remsberg were elected port com vot No No No No .. Yea Yes No for it this time passed Counciiman Goddard calla all of these bilis “tomfoolery.” He says he is “getting tired of them.” “IL made a mistake when I voted stain the mayor's veto yester- said Counctiman Goddard this morning. “It wes my inten- tion to vote to pass the bill over the mayor's veto, but | became con- fused when the vote was being taken. While I have never thought much good, if any, would come out Of the bill, I still wanted to be con sistent and vote for tt, as 1 had done in the past. I voted to ac cept the report of the committee. It waa certainly not my intention to change front in a few minut it would have to ! MOVING PICTURE. BLL IN COUNCIL The moving pieture operators held the center of the stateg at the meeting of the public safety com- mittee of the city council this morn- ing. The question before it was an or- dinance introduced by Councilman Hesketh, which provides for a $3 q fee for each operator for a three- year term. It requires an examina | F tion as to competence, the examt- nation board to consist of the fire marshal, the city electrician and a| practical moving picture operator, | to be appointed by the mayor, This. the operators claim, will safeguard | the public and will protect the in-| terests of the operators better than the present arrangement. BOYS’ SUITS (All-W6ol) | SPECIAL | 300 BOYS’ SUITS | TWO PAIRS KNICKERBOCKERS $5.00 | Shafer Bros! Arcade and Arcade Annex. Beet eeeeetee ~ WANTS CITY T SHORTEN HATPINS -< iad J. C. Wheeler, 507 N. wants the city council to shorten hatpins. Yesterday a letter was read to Y. block, the council from him. He sent a newspaper clipping with it in which was told of a hatpin accident re- cently happening in San Francisco in which the victim subsequently lost one arm by bloodpoisoning and may dic. The letter was referred to the} Public Safety committee. Cee ee 2 ee ee eed % Same Old Dynamite Killed Two. * * NEWBURYPORT, Mass.—A * * stick of dynamite left in the * * old Chipman silver mine in *® Newbury, 15 or 20 years ago, ® exploded today, instantly kill * ing two workmen Hartshorn and Dantel Stamus, * both of Boston, and seriously * injuring two others, when one * of the workmen stryck the dy- * namite with his pick. * Work was resumed at the ® mine recently after operations * had been suspended for a num- * ber of years, * Tree eee ee eee es MRS. DIXON, FORMER PROMINENT POPULIST, DEAD DENVER, Sept. 6.—Mrs. Helen F. Dixon, at one time influential in state politics under the populist regime in Colorado, died yesterday in abject poverty. She had been dead eight hours when found in her | An elocutionist of she won fame during After the popu- became addicted to ‘onol squalid home great merit the popisist w lists lost, she morphine and The Se ~~ VOL. 13, NO, 167, "| grandmother's home, and, of course, George ®) ONLY INDEPENDENT ACQUITTED BEATTIE Murder Defendant Says He Will Eat Sunday Dinner at Home—Beulah, Still Loyal, Says He's Innocent. AReRRRRRHRE RARE RRR +4 TERFIELD COURT #; SE, Sept. 6.--Apparently ® firm in the belief that his ac quittal ia a certainty, Beate said this afternoon "l will dine at home Sunday with my father, brother and sisteer, I have no doubt @ ver dict will be returned Saturday night, and | am certain that the jury believed my story. We have arranged the family dinner Sunday to celebrate my lease eeeeeeeeieeeete seeebeseeeeee tee w eke eee eeeee (iy United Free Leared, Wire Bireet'te | who has for years been @ leader in the conservation and irrigation movements. | CHESTERFIELD COURTHOUSE, | "*™Mb*r of the Fisher party. |Vay Sept. 6—For the first time| Walter I. Fisher, secretary of the /ionor. In addition to Secretary since he was arrested for the al-|interlor, is due in thig city trom |#isher, Former Senator John 1. |teged murder of hie Wife, Henry|Alnaka Friday morning or after-|)¥i#0> and rresident Howard El Clay Beattie, jr, today asked for! noon, In the evening the Commer a4 cin weak en Peels rats Nap ipentogpsmi a - ng. [it lub and Chamber of Com-|s Immediately after the banquet eaaae tro ne et ie will give a banquet in biajPisher will leave for Yellowstone [him since they put me in here. | The baby i; at Dover, Del, ite |could not be brought to its father, Ail Testimony in PUSH WORK ON With all testimony fn the case {n, | the jury spent today strolling about | I the grounds of the courthouse bere | h @ lawyers and Judge Wat | are in Richmeood, wrestling Jover legal arguments in the hope of Influencing the judge's charge. Chesterfield in deserted by the crowds which, since the trial began, have flocked daily to the spectacle, eager to enjoy every detall of the most 6 ona: murder trial Vir-| Peay toward the construction of ginia has seen for decades, elty car line, Councilman Beulah Binford, the woman In the | Erickson Introduced an ordinance case, ts still here tn bee eth ae | directing the board of public works is bitterly disappotn OK |patked of the itmelignt in whieh | (Sn for bide tr the eonetrunion she expected to shine an a witness, |! the rosd and for the purchase of ‘Afraid of M rotling stock, etc. The bill also “They were afraid to put me on| directs the board to subdiside the ithe stand.” she cried in ber cell to- | @ into severat contracts. In order | mT to facilitate the construction. day. “They knew 1 would tell the| truth and they were afraid of the| , tie believed that eqestruction on | trath could not believe that | ‘h@ Borth end'will begin first. Sev eral legal complications are still in Henry killed his wif, I knew Paul Beattie Hed, Why don’t they let | ‘he Way of operations on the south end }me out of jail? The trial is over! and they can't use me any more. | Some one will suffer for this.” | Arguments in the case will be be gan tomorrow. Beulah Thinks “I'd give @ million dollars to see | Menry eat his Sunday dinner at/ home with his family. 1 believe he's innocent. No one knowing him 8 well as i could belleve other- LINE Another real step was taken yee city utilittes committee, of which, Erickson ts chairman. YOUNGEST PRISONER TAKEN TO JAIL He's Innocent. jee.” | With the above words Beulah Binford today announced ber be- Net that Henry Clay Beattie, jr. | was not guilty of the murder of his | wife. | Although Beattie, in testifying, classed her among the lowest of |the low, the girl apperently bears | Ro resentment. Told by her mother that Judge| Watson and the attorne: r doth | the defense and prosecution had| lagreed to her release from joll to- | morrow, Beulah sald | 1'll take the first boat from Nor-| folk for New York. | Asked if she were going alone, | the girl grinned: “Well, I reckon | Was arrested yesterday on a charge I'd better not tell.” Jof assault and battery. Reverting to Beattie, she said: | “Even if I loved him and he was! guilty, I should think he ought to be punished; But I cannot bring | ever taken to the Jail. / d/ JERSEY CITY, N The prison- er zi Mii lice station in his own carriage with his mother as the power. BACK DUES |< R. Blumenthal, who charged |that the three Parker boys, Thom- ST. JOSEPH, Mo,, Sept. 6—Al-| as, Charles and Edward, had hurled leging that a large number of its /stones at and hit him. The two members, who are among the weal-|oider brothers are aged & and 10 thiest and most influential men in|years. After examination they the city, have not paid their fees | were allowed to go, in custody of and dues, the St. Joseph Country |their mother, to be arraigned later club has taken steps to have them |this week compelled to settle thtough the |—— courts. The first sult was filed to-|f—~ day against C. Willis, president of the Willls- Lu Lumber eom- pany, who is alleyed to be behind | to the extent of $150. 225 MORE OFFICERS WANTED WASHINGTON, Sept 6.—To supply the demand of the war de artment for econd Heutenants lor the infantry, cavalry, field and coast artillery, examinations of civ- ilian candidates~for these commis sions were held at military posts | On This Side of the Lake Acre With Running Water throughout the country. seeneineeatinioenencereet Lays fine; rich, black soil Some view of Lake Washington. THE Situated four miles north of city limits, near Lake Forest Park. Price $400 Terms $10 Cash and $7.50 Per Month | FANNED “Oh, hully gee!” The bleachers | shout. OLE HANSON & CO hi holies 914-315-316-317 New York Bik. One, two, Casey's out. i ee a : SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, S| PROPOSED REC f @ The ordinance was referred to the! J., Sept, 6.) is building the Thomas Parker, a %-yearold child, { Sen. Clapp. police records avaliable here show | big Thomas is the youngest prisoner | t myself to belleve that he is guilty.” |er rode to the Second Precinct po] GOAL motive [interests are allowed to The complaint was made by Jo-|tnder lease the government might WSPAPER PTEMBER 6, 1911. STL = ECRETARY FISHER tle Star IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. ae LET U, §. MINE COAL —SENATOR CLAPP. SAN FRANCISCO,, Cal, Set. 6.- Ben, Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota the at progressive in congress. de in favor of the Wnited States having absolute charge of the de ¥elopment of the Alaska coal fields. Mis reasons are few, though power Tul, and he hits att very founda tion of corporation rottenness when he rejects the proposition of leas- ing the enormous beds of ‘coal to the Guggenheims, Morgans or other powerful Interests "The United States government Panama canal,” said t is doing it well The United States government can mine Alaska coal ang do that well So far a8! The plan to’ lease the fields to the business interests is LESS THE GOVE TROLS, ABSOLUT SPORTATION OF con ) THAT RAD business: ntrol the the fields Why? Because if the transportation and = run just as well make them a present of all the fieelds. The reason for this is simple. We have inteerstate commerce laws, all know that with the railr combine working together it 1s possible to freeze out the independent dealer, despite all the laws ever written With the railroads owning the rail road to the coal beds, it would be impossible for any outsider to lease a section and work that lease be cause the railroad would refuse to handle his output. Kee REAR % BANK DEPOSITS INCREASE * Bank deposits in Seattle for * the quarter ending September * 1 show a gain of $800,000 over * the quarter ending June 1. * * * * * * Although those patriots who fram idea even of the downright cussedness of a modern corporation judge they did, however, took no stock in the modern Special Interest theory that judges are cacred and select individuals. They inserted a clause in their constitution saying, “Federal judges shall hold office DURING GOOD BEHAV- OF ALASKA JORETARY FISHER ON DECK OF REVENUE CUTTER TAHOMA, Fisher stands at the right in the photograph. The man next to him is William E. Smythe of San Diego, | | | | Pe ee ee ee ee oe ee eee eee MeMalel IN ALASKA National Howard park a Eliott. dexter Senator Pe Pinchot are or tomorrow the pe They plan to,go ove trai) followed by the F ty, and expect to get bac ttle about October 1 SGENE OF STRIKE Trouble Over New Charge Made for Tables — Mayor | Settles affair. | The Pike street public was the scene of a strike this morn- | ing. It was settled before 11 o'clock, the strikers getting what they wanted. The strike was over the charge to be made for the tables used by the vendors of fruits and vegeta-| bles. Some few weeks ago the city council passed an ordinance pro- market viding for a charge of 20 cents for |* the use of each table in a booth,|* First Day's Registration. the city to maintain tables and|* Grade schools zi $2,464 3,830 keep everything in a clean and san. * High schools ry condition. Thies ordinance goes into effect tomorrow. it has been the custom for the farmers to have their own tables and pay a man 10 cents a day each to keep | things clean, The bill was passed | for the purpose of assuring clean- ON NEWS STANDS TRAINS AN CITY EDITION. King George was shooting snipe while his troops were shooting strik- ers. Royalty and Big Business open- ing the hunting season together? Nineteen-Year-Old Sons of Aberdeen Farmer Foully Killed Bodies Found Buried Under Bark and Leaves—Big Poss@? Searching for Murderer. (Special to The Star.) —Two 19-year-old boys, twins, have Their bodies, cunningly covered with bark were found iate yesterday afternoon, after their steps had posse and bloodhounds he twin sons of Henry Bayer, a farmer living near of each youth was a bullet-hole, showing that # ABERDEEN, Wash., Sept. been foully murdered he and tre: been tracked-by a sheriff T double murder had been committed. John Turno, uncle of the boys, is suspected of the crime. hermit for 22 months, The theory is that he had an idea lived the life of that it ie believed he is insane. the boys had been sent into the woods to kill him. found near his shack. BLOODHOUNDS FOLLOW TRAIL The bloodhounds followed Turno's trai There they lost it, but word from the posse to day is to the effect that they had taken up the trail again, and that Turno was probably concealed in the fastnesses of the Wynooche. ficers do not think he will give up without a fight. , The Bauer boys left their home Sunday on a bear hunt, and were, ed until yesterday morn-ing. The whole country around the The third man is another | scene of the double murder is excited, and the men are helping in the he had made a camp. not mr search for the murderer. (By United Press Leased Wire) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 6— “Billy” Rudolph, one of the pro- prietors of the New Turner hall here, was shot and probably fatally wounded at noon today by a woman who gave the name of Johanna Ras- copp. She is locked up in the cen- tral police station, while detectives making a search for the wound. cafe was filled with —= — 8084 GD TO SCHOOL FIRST DN Kae * * Total * * * * * +. * * * KRKRKKAREAR AER Owing to unsettled weather and other conditions the registration at the first day of school yesterday L IN DOUBT IS DUE HERE FuDAT if TWI IN B 0 YS « WOMAN FATALLY SHOOTS | “| MAN IN CROWDED CAFE PIKE MARKET He has and has acted so strangely The bodies were to the Satsop river, where Of. | patrons, the woman, fashlot dressed and pretty, burst th the swinging door snd. while dolph was w z om drew a pistol from tt is of ar and fired point blank. dolph fell behind the bar, | liness and at the same time abolish | showed only a slight increase over! the 10 cents fee. | This morning the market inspec tor started in to collect his 20] cents for each day. At the same time the other man still insisted that he had 10 cents coming. There | were no new tables, The farmers refused to sell their | goods. A burried conference was held. Mayor Dilling sent instruc tions to the farmers, through his | private secretary, ‘that ments would be made for the ta bles, that a meeting of the Harbors | and Public . rounds committee of | the city council would be held th afternoon at which tables would be | arranged for. The farmers will not be compelled to pay more than 20 cents a day SEATTLE MAN. HAS COIN WORTH $2,600 A. Nichols, of 916 Howard N has a coin which he says valued at $2,500. It Is a 50-cent piece of the date of 1853. It is \d that there is only one oth- er coin of that denomination In existence, and the other one is held by Charfts L. Cross, of Los Angeles. Reading a patch telling of Cross’ 50-cent piece, Nichols told The Star about the one in his possession. He has an exceedingly valuable collection of coins. He TOR I | * * THE WEATHER * For Seattle and vicinity: * % Sowers tonight or Thursday, * | % light southerly winds, Tem- * * perature at noon today 65, * * last year Schools corresponding day Superintendent of Sooper however, that he believed the end of the week the total number of students would show a very marked increase over the last fall term. Two new school buildings are being completed, and additions to two others are being rushed A daily industrial course, taking arrange Up half the time, will begin in all) grade schools, for boys and girl Heretofore this course has only consumed one day a week. CHARLIE TAFT HAS AVIATION FEVER BOSTON, Sept. 6.—Charlie Taft has the aviation fever bad, but the president has equeiched his budding hopes of flying fame with a stern in- junction, While his father is busy with the golf stick, the young aspirant for aviation honors daily watches the air- ships and dreams of what might have been if he had not had the misfortune to be born the son of the present presi- dent. COLUMBUS, 0., Sept. 6.—With President Taft, a native son of the Buckeye state, practically certain to be the republican candidate to sucoeed himselg, and with Gov Harmon, another native son, consid. ering himself in the lead in the race for the democratic nomination, Ohio may well claim to be the po litical center of the count The partisan pot began its bub bling with primaries to choose can. didates for many municipal elec tions on November 7 JOUR,” and then went on to fix up a process for getting rid of bad judges. And right there is where the forefathers fell imepachment weapon may have been all right in chines entered the field. But the IMPEACHMENT has been no weapen at all. RECALL can and will do that. Only the RECALL servants. wi And no one knows this better than the opponents of the RECALL, ed the constitution some over a hundred years ago didn’t have an down. ‘They framed up the IMPEACHMENT. True, the those days before the trusts and the corrupt political ma- It has not curbed judicial tyrants. t ll purge the courts of incompetents and corporation blood gushing ffom a wound tn side. At thi c e police station the womant that Rudolph failed to faby tion and that she wag him.” fill an obliga glad she “got WO YOUNG GALS ARE MISSING Two sisters, Helen and Minnig: Wickstrom, 18 and 16 respectively have been missing since Sui afternoon, when they left in the company of J. W. Dalton, jr, whe conducts a repair shop at 506 Dem ny Way, in an automobile, int ing to co to Mount Rainier, Am other man by the name of Charleg mond is said to have gone witty the party. , 5 Early in the evening one of thé men telephoned to Mrs. A, Joh 518 North h st, the mother the girls, that the auto had brokem down near Auburn and that bce > would be unable to get back befe Monday morning. Mrs. Johnsom was also told that they thought 1@° ~ was too cold to go to the mountatms ” That was the last heard of ie 4 party. The sheriff's office wag notified today, and search for the giris and Dalton is being mi Mrs. Johnson is unable to accout in any way for the disappearance) especially after receiving the m sage that the party did not inter to go to Mt. Rainier. : W. H. FLETT DEAD W. H. Flett, a lawyer prominents ly identified with the insurgent movement in Washington, di early this morning of paralysig, He had been ill for about a years Flett was one of the first to come out in favor of Judge Potndextet for Senator, and was one of th¢ organizers of the King County Pro- gressive club, Flett was a native of Wisconsin and had been a meme ber of the legislature of that state, “" SULLIVAN BACKER DIES NEW YORK, Sept. 6 Cusack, one of the, be sportsmen in the courtr terday. Cusack was Jo van's backer when the old champ was defeated by Corbett. He drops ped $68,000 on his protege at that time. Cusack also brought out Mul+ doon as a wrestler, making a chams pion out of the show that they Only the