The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 8, 1911, Page 1

CITY EDITION Lives of all great men.reming us That if we would garner cash * We must leave big feeds behind us— We must learn to stck to hash; eee = ce MAY D RARRAAAAKARRERE & Three outcomes are posalble ® under the indictment against W Beattlc. The jury can find # him guilty of first degree mur- & der, not guilty, or disagree on wa verdict. The law prescribes w& the death penalty for first de- murder, but the jury can #& save him from the gallows by ® recommending clemeney * RERKKAAARAEAERR * * * * * * * * * * CHESTERFIELD CoURT HOUSE, Va. Sept. &—Hoping to place the fate of Henry Clay Beat. tie, Jr, in the hands of the jury to- night, Judge Watson convened court earlier than usual today Attorney Harry Smith, jr, chief counsel for the accused wife slayer began his argument at the opening of the morning session. He was followed by Prosecuting Attorney Wendenburg. These lawyers are regarded as the best pleaders in the state. The court room was packed to hear them. Beattie Not Afraid. Beattie showed no emotion as the Qrguments progressed. “We are making food progre he said today net the Slightest fear that the jury will bring in a verdict of guilty. It may disagree, and if it does I will be itted on the second trial.” t the defense is afraid of a! Bung jury wes frankly admitied by Attorney Smith in the course of his nt when he said: Bring in a verdict of guilty, bu @o fear that you may not bring | Verdict of not gullty. Judge W 0m instructed you that unless you ‘Were satinfied beyood and (o the of all reasonable doubt this defendant committed the erime with which he is charged, ‘e are not afraid that you will| - weartness, ISAGREE you must acquit him.” Smith paid a tribute to Beattie's character, to which he added: “The commonwealth's theory would make this intelligent, kind hearted and affectionate youth a dunce, a foot and a fiend in human form. How can you men believe such rot?” Smith made one statement which used quite a little stir in the court room “A man conetituted as is Benttle might have committed this borrt ble crime in « fit of rage,” he said. “Good men have gone mad with anger before, but the common wealth would have you belleve that he calmly planned and pondered this crime for days, They would have you belleve that with the bor rible plan in his brain went about in daily life for three days. lit is inconcetvable. The man who [committed that crime was an Idiot. | He chose a spot op the most trav- eled read about Riebmond.” Smith laid particular stress ow the question of reasonable doubt jand the unreliability of cireum- | stantial evidence in reviewing the state's case. “Can you believe?” he shout. ed, “that Beattie left the sweet and lov woman he married, the. mother of hie child, and planned to murder her in or- der that he might join this un- speakable woman, Beulah Bin- fora?” Sleeps Through Sobbing. After Smith had sobbed emotion ally and oratorically for three hours, the jurors displayed signs of One slept through much of the argument, and the court had frequently to tell the bailiff to wake him up, The case will probably be given to the jury ‘before sundown. > == RUN PORTLAND T00 United Press Leased Wire ) te which had been declared unconsti- tutional, Mayor Rushlight, Chief of Police Siover and City Auditor Bar- Dour today were fined $5 each by Judye Gatens. Wt is probable that the cases will be appeated. | The city officials refused to pay {the fines and as they trooped ithrough the court room door Judge |Gatens said | “if you come back here | will all get a good stiff fin | Later it was state@ that the offi. jeials had decided to fight the case jto the supreme court If necessary jand that the vehicle tax will be col lected despite the court's decision ain you THEY AL Sees L FALL FOR IT VOL. 13, NO. (0. 169. ~ Hanford Aga (By United Press Leased Wire.) OAKLAND, Cal, Sept, —Justi- floation of organized labor's eritt cism of the courts for their antt labor application of the Sherman law, denunciation of the metthodi of the det ves in the McNamara case and a warning to big business that it was making a fatal mistake for the recall and bad used it in ite oWD sessions. “How long,” he asked, “if we ha would such federal Hanford re- ie well: known fact that any lawyer will eacept any side of any case if the fee is large enough. Our judges come from the ranke of our law: in opposing labor organteattons, were features of an address made at Rice institute here by Samuel Gompers president of the A. P. o Referring to the initiative, refer- endum and recall, Gompers de- clared he was glad for the progress that was being made toward secur ers. How do they become sancti- hey ascend the bench? em? We hear talk of the independence of judges, but judges are not Independent. ‘The jurists of the federal benches are Gependent upon corporations for their appointments and there is not one of them but has served corpor- tng these provisions for the people. ate wealth after corporate wealth He sald labor had stood 26 years|hae given him his job. oe FISHER WILL TALK ON ALASKA TONIGHT « Back From Examination of Great Territory— Says He'll Make Statement Tonight—Bearing Coal Fields Not So Extensive as Supposed. “I have made no statements what as to the Controlier bay and coal this morning. “| have remarked, perhaps, that the trip wae enjoyable—but that is all, 1 shall prepare a statement this afternoon,” he continued, “and will read it tonight at the dinner of the Commercial Club. At that time | will say wha 1 may belie ka coal lande, But | have so far made no statements, and shall make none until them.” Secretary Fisher and party arrived from Alaska late yester afternoon on the revenue cutter Tahoma. After a banquet by the Com- mercial Club tonight Fisher will leave for Yellowstone park, accom. panied by President Howard Elliott of the Northern Pacific railroad, er bearing upon my conclusions ituation,” said Secretary of the The arrival of the revenue cutter Tahoma in Seattle yesterday af. ternoon, with the Fisher party on board, marks the end of one of the pes notable expeditions ever made by a United States cabinet min- ister s- two questions Controller bay and Alaska coal, FOUR IDEAS In the four “coal towna” of Katalia, Cordova, Valder and Seward Fisher's every word was watched with utmost Interest in the hope that It might foresbadow the policy of the administration on the coal |question, From bis private and public talks four well defined ideas | Were inferred If there are any legal coal claims they will be promptly allowed. In npplying the law, the secretary will have much tenderness for thore who have actually participated in the work of discovery a development, but does not feel, as he said, “particularly enthusianti¢ about those claimants who tell of the hardships of a country they never gaw.” The notion entertained by many Alaskans that the coal lands should) be turned over to enterprising capitalists “doesn't go.” The choice lies between # leasing system and direct government TROLLEYLESS CARS ON MUNICIPAL LINE Trollylees street cars may be {considered and the joint committee, ltried out on the proposed city car|appeared to favor it after it had An amendment was added|been explained that Crawford morning to the Erickson ordi-| would not be able to hold up pom nance in regard to constructing/sexsion of the line by invoking line, which instructs the board of | appeals public works to consider the secur- ‘ a, oe FIRE IN SHIP The judiciary and city utilities | sion this morning considered fav- | @iscovered today in the hold of the orably the ordinance, directing the United States transport Hancock, bids for the construction of the line | hundred satlors were at once put t ‘as well ax for rolling stock and | Work unloading coal which covered condemning the Crawford line was! amount of ammunition on " — ae ae ay yjare bre king, and many secretary of the interior was called north by the urgency of | Dae! ing of cars run by electricity in committees which met in joint ses-| NEW YORK, Sept. §—-Fire was board of public works to call for|in the Brooklyn navy yard. Two’ other equipment. "The question of | the blaze. The Hancock has a large AUS IF YOU ARE HALED TO POLIGE COURT advice to any one! ttle Here is a littl who may be haled into the police court Look prosperous. | je ol the prosecut- ing attorney by his first ni hen | you testify. if these rules are fol-| lowed closely, your case might be taken under advisement, and the judge may promise to pronounce the ‘sentence by telephoning to your of- fice. Henry C. Field, vice president and treasurer of a big Western av supply house, had been arrested for violating the speed ordinance. | Motorcycle Patrolman Olmstead, who had followed the machine for more than two miles, testified that | his speedometer had indicated a speed of more than 30 miles per) hour, Field was not in court yesterday | afternoon when the case was tried, His attorney, Bdwin ~. Ewing, who is also his business associate, ap-| peared for him, and also testified | as a witness, Ewing said he was} in the car when it Is said to have gone faster than the law allows. But Ewing did not think they were going very fast. Anyhow, they did not intend to go fast. He believed the speed ordinance is a good one He said he thought it was a pro- tection to human life, In testifying he ealled the city at torney by his first name. He gave » of close acquaintance with jordon. The judge told him was evident that the law had been violated. , Then it was that Ewing asked the judge to tele- phone the sentence to his offices in the Alaska building. Judge Gor don smilingly consented. Last night a $20 fine was imposed, but wp to noon today no telephone message bout it had been sent well dressed. | In the docket sat eight offenders, Ewing. They were all awaiting their senten They had no sug gestions to make in regard to tele phoning or anything else. They wore no white collars, None of them was clean shaven. They had no soft white hands. Their trousers displayed no newly made crenses, Thetr hair was not well kempt. Nearly all of them were broke, fi nanctally. They had all been found guilty of jsome minor violations of the city laws, So had Field, represented by Truck Garden Ranch 13 Miles South OF Totem Pole 5 acres at O'BRIEN Station, lays level, f# on county road, and has 636 feet fronts on the N P. R. R. One-quart from station on In This piece of land is as good ag anything in the White River Valley, the soll being a rieh val ley alluvium, Does not over flow The price is: $500 PER ACRE. Any reasonable terms. OLE HANSON & CO 314-315-316-317 New York Bik. go hs Ube ba IN Prosecutor Murphy was asked b Ing the Crawford o. Out.a misuse of the cedure. junction writ a The Seattle Star ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1911. SEATTLE ONE CENT. on CORES ABUSE OF INJUNCTION BEATTIE JURY . Gompers Raps y The Star for a statement concern: nd he gave out the following, in which he points such pro-| nd strongly objects to BY JOHN F, MURPHY King County Prosecutor as CONC He So far as Crawford v broken promises from him, erned, we have had nothing but has collected all sorts of money iMegally from the people, and the people will never get it back either. eject people from his cars in sp’ foment every decision of the ¢ ple’s contentions and against hi To ¢ fined Crawford wor Continue then to break the law, his fines as regularly as they w He did not refrain from using strong arm methods to ite of the fact that at that very ourts was in favor of the peo m uld have been a farce. He could collect nickels again, and pay ere imposed out of the very il legal nickels he had been collecting Crawford objects’ because the public utilities commis BIG PICNIC It In expected that 1,500 peo- ple will attend the big basket plenic that will be held Sun- day (instead of tomorrow) at Atlantic City park. The picnic will be a great Joliification meeting of the People of th inier valley, who will celebrate their vic: tory over the gouging Craw- ford line with the picnic fes- tivi There will be speeches by Councliman Erickson and oth- ers. Canada Excited OTTAWA, Ont, Sept. &—The feciprocity campaign in Canada to- Gay is most strenuous and attract fh the widest interest, Party lines conserva tive farmers are preparing to sup- ort reciprocity, Premier Laurier I aroused, and, In a speech at Sud bory, paid his expects to Pestdent Taft fo trying to make polities owt) Of reelprocity The French nationalists are mak Ing headway in Quebec, fighting the t. The maritime and prairie rovinces are expected to support he government strongly COL. ASTOR Is VERY BUSY TODAY NEW YORK, Sept John Jacob Astor's yacht Is ready to sai land # tug today transferred provisions enough for a prolonged cruise. Astor is scurrying about, apparently on most important errands. The home of Madeline Force, to whom the millionaire is to be married, also presents a | atene of great activity today. it ie rumored tat a minister has been found who is willing to marry the couple. Victor Murdock, congressman} from Kansas, arrived in Seattle] from Tacoma this morning, and ‘Waa creeted by a commit senting the King County Progress-| Ive feagne. Murdock will speak at} & banquet to be given in his honor &t the Lincoln hotel tomorrow evening. Other speakers will be ‘Thomas Revelle, Hermon Craven, | . P. Goes. Willlam H. Walker Will be toastmaster. HAS RIGHT T SPANK HIS WIFE, 4 WILKESBARRE, Pa., Sept. 8.—/ Alderman Ricketts of this city dis @harged William Novalous of Ash ley, who admitted spanking his wife because she was extravagant His wife had Novalous arrested, 4 he did not hesitate to admit fthatvhe haa beaten her. it is this way, your honor,” he explained: “I gave ber a sum of money every month on which to mn the house, When, a couple of days ngo, I found that she had used Gonsiderable of this money for an- other purpose, I got angry and spanked her with my razor strop.” ‘Ae Mrs. Novalous appeared none the worse for the spanking, the al derman discharged the man. WILD HORSES KIDNAP COW ALBANY, Or., Sept. &—A cow was carried five blocks here today on the tongue and doubletrees of a wagon pulled by a runaway team and escaped unhurt A big team belonging to C. R. Kandall started to run from First and Ferry sts, shortly before noon and fan out Ferry st. At Ninth st the team collided with three cows, which Prof, J. B. Leatherman, the owner, was driving to pasture, The team scooped up one of the cows onto the tongue and doubletrees and carried her there until stopped by workmen on @ new house at 14th street 0 horse fell when the team stopped and. the cow rolled off un hart NEWS ITEMS FROM ‘THE HICKTOWN BEE ardon tox 1 xome nic he wax a thought or mind, Lydle might have stra: ur Pap, sophy for you rain has washed the brick on the Grand Central hotei il quite gaudy; that Is, the Ne up and killed T A phi im. And that is the usual kind BROWN TELLS WHY HE ON SUNDAY) SENTENCED CRAWFORD | Justice Fred Brown, who Sentenced Crawford to Jail for Thirty Days for Charging Passenger Twi William R. Crawford, president of the Seattle, Renton & Southern, was sentenced to a term of 30 days in the county jail yesterday after noon by Justice Fred C. Brown, for violating the public utilities law, requiring street car companies to carry passengers for only a nickel fare within the incorporated mits of any city In passing sente: Judge Brow declared that to merely impose a fine, would be to make a farce of the law “A fine would mean nothing to @ wealthy corporation,” said Judge Brown, “To make the law effi cient, a jail sentence ought to be imposed, The punishment should be such as to prevent a recurrence of the offense.” Crawford was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Hugo Kelley on a warrant Hugo Kelley, the Rainier valley insurgent, who, as deputy sheri arrested Crawford on the charge of which he was found guilty yes terday, issued by Prosecutor Murphy on complaint of Horace Barnes, who testified that he was compelled to pay two five cent fares to reach the ef ‘om Rainier Beach. The facts admitted by Crawford, but his , Morris B. Sachs, question » jurisdiction of Jus tice Brown to try the case. Sachs contended that the complaint must News 61 ANU ITION . -_ —— — Lives of all great men remind us, Diamonds bright are hard to get; Riches never try to find us, You're the one to hunt, you bet! TRAINS AND be of objections made by ¢ car companies, trivial ones merely nieant for delay, Crawford doesn't really care whether the publia service commission decided his case or the courts. All he want@ is to drag it, The longer he could drag matters the more illegal nickels he could collect That's been the history in Duwamish valley, where the raik road commission did take the initiative. And what was the rev sult? Injunctons and appeals to the court followed. What's the use of a public service commission if their de cision does not remain in force until at least some higher court reverses it? An injunction in such a case is an abuse, and I am most sincerely opposed to injunction in such cases. Injunctions merely help to delay, and delay means extra nickels, illegally collected nickels to thé traction companies, Dragging matters from one court to a higher court means two td five years sometimes, and though the decisions may be against the company, the injunctions will help them collect the extra fares in spite of them. And the people have no come-back for their money. RECALL The recall election is off. Com potation Counsel Scott Calhoun |handed down a decision this mors ing which ends the matter. He ruled that wihtdrawals from the pe , tition are valid until the petition fe |finaily certified with the city coum cil. City Comptroller Bothwell's opine ion had been contrary to this view, Last night he requebted an opinion |from Calhoun. In his reply Cale jhoun quot the si supreme jcourt covering the case, closing with the following statement: ‘ “You are therefore advised that from the date of the first fling an original recall petition, authenticated, withdrawals may be made therefrom during the whole time your office retains jurisdiction: of the petition, which time termin= ates only upon certification to the city council that the petition is sal ficient.” A few minutes after Calhoun’s de- cision reached Bothwell's office 331 more withdrawals were filed by the Diliing committee. Shortly after noon another 100 came in. This makes a total of 931 withdrawala.’ — About 100 more will be ready early tomorrow morning, Added to Bh uy age of about 2,400 names. i As the second check of the call petitions was progressing this morning ft appeared that betweem 300 and 400 names would be added before the final check Is closed, That means that about 1,900 names — will be certified on the titons, or abot 500 short of m ing the required 2,400 names, Dilling Happy. Mrs. Catherine Stirtan of the Ree call association was present in the. comptrolier's office when the de cision reached there. She was very dissatisfied, though she refused to admit def Mayor Dilling appeared a few later, all smiles. ll, #t looks as though it’s all was all he said, t 0 Fares Within City Limits. be made by the public utilities com-| mission, and tie case tried in the| superior court. Judge Brown, how-| ever, briefly disminsed this piea and ruled that he Mad jurisdiction. Following the sentence, notice of appeal to the superior court was given, and Judge ‘Brown fixed the appeal bonds at $500. BACK UP, ANANIAS, BACK UP! | NEW YORK, Sept. §.—Motorists estas i oy H rook: BY JUDGE FRED C. BROWN. |“2O Grove down the Gory Bi | - A fine on a Yig corporation is a|T®d, near Tarrytown, yesterday, jnullity, When a corporation vio- |Teported that as they passed William. |iates the law, the remedy is to pun-|Rockefeller’s place they saw gray ish the individual head of the cor-| squirrels crossing the road with wim poration. Otherwise the corpora-/prellas over their heads to proteet |tions could pay a fine and go on in/them from the rain. the old, old way If, instead of be- t age on the old petitions 4 , this will cause a total shorty | |ing fined $29,000,000, the Standard | Ol Co., or any of those big corpor- ations suffered punishment by hav-| jing their big”men go to jail, the law would not de held in disrespect, as it seems to be sometimes. In this case, Crawford could keep right on collecting illegal overcharges and keep right on paying fines; the extra fares would take care of the fines and leave a handsome profit beside, | But when the officers of a corpor- ation must go to jail, ft is a vital shot, and the LAWBREAKING STOPS. Punishment should be meted out to prevent recurrence of it all, Jail sentences for officers are the only real remedy. A fine is sometimes a dire punishment to a poor man, and sometimes a jail sen- tence is a cruelty. But in this case ja fine of $500, the limit under the law, would be no punishment to |Crawford. A few jail sentences | would make them sit up and take | notice CHICAGO, Sept. &—Members, of the executive committee of the} Minois Central railroad shopmen’s| Irving Revere explains the story, which seemed so improbable. The | squirrels, he said, at their wits’ end to keep dry in the continued rains, would each get a cabbage leaf large enough to cover their body, bite a small hole in it, put their tail through, and travel to and fro pro- tected in their cabbage leaf craven- ettes. i | RARER * *) * THE WEATHER * * = For Seattle and vicinity: Oc- ® * casional rain tonight and Sat- , moderate southeasterly # Temperature at noon ®& 66. * * RO RR | BOYS’ TWO PAIR KNICKERBOCKER SUITS, 00 5. |system federation declared today |that all preparations have been} completed for calling a strike Mon day. Headquarters have been se-| lected and officers assigned to look after the various points of the sit-| juation. The different local unions |have also been instructed in the | part they will play during the strike. Whether the strike shall be called will be determined tomorrow when | ithe executive committee of the Ma- chinists meets at the Briggs house here. If the Machinists vote a “strike benefit,” 30 telegrams al- ready prepared will be sent to the |various shops along the road,«and |the strike will be in effect Monday | ag the orders are received 60 DOZEN PAIRS MEN’S PURE SILK SOCKS, REGULAR 50c VALUES, SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY, 20¢ Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex faethe the met quitting as soon