The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 13, 1911, Page 1

erttl HOME EDITION emperor cee A man is fairly young so remembers how to roll a snowball, BRYAN HEADS THE DEMO RESULT OF STAR'S STRAW VOTE. La Follette Bryan Debs . Wilson Clark . Harmon Taft .... Well, it’s over favorites for presidential nominees were counted ‘The little contest has unquestionably proven to be the best forecast of the presidential situation yet taken in any part of the oA Follette is the great popular favorite for the republican nomi His name was marked with the cross—that little talisman to office—on & big majority of the ballots. Among the hundreds who voted for thetr cholce on the democratic was the big favorite—Bryan, in pation tickets Brya: BI Taft? stretch of the imagination. Why, poor Bill didn’t Today The “Btare straw Malloting on people's look-In.” with 76. votes out of the thousands cast eee long ONLY “VOL. 13, NO. 220 CRATIC LIST 000 02,195 920 455 440 230 130 75 came to an end, and the ballots “atraw" 1911 Black Menace to New York pite of three defeats, get what you could call, even by a He was the last man in the race, Harmon's much-boasted strength for the democratic nomination doesn't show up well in the state of Washington. And he has a regu: Jar political organization here, too, As for Woodrow Wilson, his com paratively small vote, not much more than half that given to the Com- moner, was 4 surprise. It shows the popular sentiment, though—no @etting around that fact, A feature of The Star's election was the jarge number of women casting ballots. Nearly as many women as men voted. Bome Seattle citizens had other preferences for the nominations. is today reeking with putrid garbage and the situation is menacing the lives of millions, Streets are piled high in filth, and in all the elty but ten almost useless garbage wagons | are operating, and these accompa nied by fifty foot, ton mounted and | claim thal two patrol wagons loaded with po-} ieemen, For Instance, Victor Berger, socialist, got 10 votes, Roosevelt 9, Senator Gore 5, ex-Gov. Fotk 4, and Senator Bourne of Oregon 3. Although the balloting was simply to show choice for nominations fim parties where there are big contests, the socialists polled a stron; vote for Debs, thus giving an indication of what they do in the actual election, Conditions are worse than they have ever been in the city's bistory, claim that but the striking city garbage collect The yeattle ear” | r INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH.. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, IN SEATTLE HOME EDITION unkind to kne ich for fi others are then robbed of the joy of put- Mi ting you wise. FACE DEATH What's the truth about Thomson? Much criticlam and much achieve: ment. Everybody will admit that. Much abuse of power and injus- tice to property owners—some will thers will deny It. Accomplishment of things for the lelty that could have been brought jout in no other way—many will others will deny it. Some day Seattle will probably ore are in complete control of the erect a monument to Thomson, city altuation, “|New State’s Witness Found HALL OF RECORDS, LOS AD AND FEATHERING GIRL (Ry United Prees Leased Wire) LINCOLN, Kas, Nov. 13.—With every room in the two hotels of which Lincoin boasts engaged for weeks in advance and boarding places filled, Lincoln today pre Pared to go through one of the Most strenuous periods of its ca- reer—the trial of 15 prominent @Rizens tor the ‘tarring and feath- ering of a young, beautiful girt, | Miss Mary Chamberiain. | Anticipation that the testimony which will be given will be of a decidedly risque nature has lured @ number of strangers to the trial while the prominence ef the m charged with the tarring has Sroused the countryside to a high} Pitch of excitement. } Trial will be called at 10 a. m. femorrow in the district court here. County Attorney McCand-| less does not anticipate difficulty | obtaining a jury, and declares will demand the full penalty— aahewe dpe Eby oF fine of $1,000 each of ity @ory of Tarring and Festnering On the night of August 7 last Miss Chamberiain, with her escort, @ barber, started In a buggy for a @ance at the schoolhouse where he taught, some three miles away. | iy after passing the outskirts | @f the town, three masked men ap- peared in front of the vehicle, and Toughly ordered the girl to get out. = sagen sch her escort for “ it ry out and hid in the bushes. The men then seized. the | girl and carried her to a bon fire nearby, where sev oth. @r masked men helped to strip her and apply a coat of tar and feathers. The application fin. | lehed, they vanished. | ‘The asada came from his hid-' Governor Beattie’s Only Hope Now (hy United Pree Leased Wire) | RICHMOND, Va. Nov. 13.—The @upreme court of appeals today re fused to grant another trial to Henry Clay weattie, Ir., “wea ven | of the murder of his wife, and sen. fenced to death in the ae! chair. As a result only the gov- ermor now stands between the Wealthy young wife slayer and death. The attorneys who have arrayed themselves behind Beattie are plan- ning to bring powerful influences to bear with the governor to secure a commutation of the degth sentence, At least a postponement of the execution, which {s set for Novem. Der 24 In its decision the sapreme court Furth’s Electric Lighting Co. announces a cut In rates, The Furth concern says it will now SELL CURRENT AS CHEAP AS THE MUNICI- PAL PLANT, because it has connected up with Stone-Webster’s new power plant, But that isn’t the reason for the cut in rates. The first reason is LIGHTING PLANT. And the second reason 1s that Furth’s in fluence pal plant. You remember when Furth's man was in| K charge of the city’s plant? the last Well, the city way But a properly cern which has its watered stock to pay dividend: ID. ing plant when the people threw the Furth man out, the Furth company’s rates, And if Ross or some other man does the right thi cern will have to make another cut before jong. Just electric Would Furth have reduced his prices? jeupport the prohibition ticket?) ling place, asnisted Miss Chamber. land says he will brave the Sierras, ‘al park here. that cream of the business would not be cut. GELES, Nov. 14.—-The net rv of today's session opment of Fred M. Webb, president of Southern California Onyx pany, and the passing for ca’ the ‘defense of T. J stock raiser. ‘The latter was being tnterrogat com engineer, Not now. It will take perhaps 26, and maybe 50 years, |for the big things to stand out, t He b of the McNa- | reviled, perhaps, th mara murder trial was the devel- | bas ever held a city office new states witness, deep in the heart the |must be mingled feelings. we by is a BI Green, aj bis fault, Served City 19 Years. In the meantime here's a man |ieaving the service of a city after 19 yours’ continued service. He holds & world’s tecord for achieve: ment (things done) in a itke office, been more criticised and » any mad who Down f this man there But not of bitten Ce Thomsen i man, Bigness has been It was hin desire to do big things that made him forget the little things—things which his orit- down today the lives of a large number, | steam ) | ON SINKING STEAMER Steam Schooner Washington in Surf Near Columbia River Bar—Life Boats and Life Lines Fail to Rescue Passengers and Crew—Schooner Breaking Up. (BY United Prees Leased Wire) | the » were such that no small NORTH HEAD, Wash., boat could survive in them. y " With the wind steadily gaint November 13.— UN- lin intensity and a blinding rails |falling, hope was practically given 4g |¥P of rescuing those on the ship, when a sudden ull in the storm gave the life savers their opportun+ before perhaps all of the persons aboard the wrecked schooner Washington | probably will be lost | Two members of the crew al- ready have been drowned. They ¢ were clinging to timbers on the deckload of lumber, and the timbers were swept overboard. the |ity and a line was shot to the ship. |This was quickly made fast, = |breeches buoy was rigged up and the work of bringing the tmper- fled wreck victims to shore, on the ashington side of the river, As communication with North Head was down it was not possible during the early hours of the forenoon to tain whether ed by District Attorney Fredericks |!¢# say were none the less import ‘jas to his qualifications when the luncheon recess was ordered. He had insisted that he would have to| sald Taomson, be actually convinced of a man’ gullt before he could vote him and Fredericks qv very closely along that ine BREAKS THE RECORD LAKEVIEW, Or., Nov. 13— Friende of Chas. Winkleman here today are anxious to back him against any man in the United States In a heavyweight eating contest, following Win- kleman's performance here last night when he consumed nine pounds of solid food, one glass of beer and three of water in 58 minutes. The meal consisted of 32 large beef and ham sand. wiches, 16 large § piehios and 16 large pi Winkleman is © jars * of a He says he has eaten 16 pounds Mead feed at one aitting. SUGDEN DEATH AT GIPSY SMITH, MEETING Unijed Press Leased Wire) MISS MARY CHAMBERLAIN lain to collect her clothing and |then drove her back home, where she told her brother of the occur rence. He immediately notified | the county authorities and demand Bo hog AND, Or., Nov. 13.—While €4_arrests. singing the first hymn at the Gipsy Fifteen young men were then ar-|gmith revival, Rey. Henry Nave, 60 rested. pastor of the Montavilla Presby terian church, was seized with an tack of heart failure. He was car | rium, and died a few minutes after merely refused the petition for an. | ward He is survived by two sons other trial because of error, without specifying reasons. BRAVE BUD MARS (By United Press Leased Wire) SACRAMENTO, Nov. 13.—Bud" Mars, the aviator, is here today city, and one who is connected with the Y. M. C. A. in Portland USES SAFETY PIN _ ll END HE HEAL LIFE) as did Fowler recently, Mara had a talk recently with Fowler and claims that weather conditions are much more favorable now than at the time of Fowler's attempted flight. Mars hopes to start ‘Thanksgiving day from Agricultur. |iMegitimate 24hour-old infant, at- tempted suicide early today in the county jail by piercing her wrist | ty pin. She had lost con- siderable blood when found by jail- ers. The wom the county hos where it was re ported she probably would recover. 4 DROWN a od Press Leased win NEWHAVEN, Conn, Nov Captain Britt and three members of the crew of the steamer Witch Hazel were drowned in a wreck near the breakwater here Inst night. She was sailing between New York and Providen Dog Proves Alibi | TACOMA, Nov. 13.—J.-C. Kelly, contractor, proved an alibi today for his Spitz dog, when Miss Emma Smith sued him for damages Miss Smith's dress was torn by a Spitz dog near Kelly's home. ly proved his dog was locked up at the time. » a oar nal Sp cia did * VOTER KILLED BY EXCITEMENT CINCINNATI, ©., Nov. 13 —John Wetterer, | 77, presi- t of the Wetterer Brewing Co,, died today a few minutes after he had been driven home from the polling place The exertion and excite ment of the election produced heart failure, according to the coroner, THE MUNICIPAL no longer extends over the munici- That was before recall election. if that arrangement still stood—if plant was still operated in such a Furth’s concern could get the then Furth’s rates muntelpal plant managed at all can beat a privately owned con 4 on and its high-salaried officials. Ross, who took charge of the light- is responsible for the reduction of SESS E SEER EES es SEE EE EEE ESE EE EEE RRARKKRERARE Supposing both La Follette and Bryan were nominated, wouldn't Wall st. secede? Or ing with the city’s plant, Furth’s coi uppose Furth had a monopoly on the lighting business in Seattle! ried to the rear of the big audito | who are practicing law in New York | > hang | me personally wtioned him | *pect him if he jon of her/ed as maid to. Miss Sophie Rrandt, |tle wrecks which have lniders iittle, except Ant because they were little. “A man may differ with me,” “1 will respect him A man may. attack, and 1 will still re honest. Dishom est difference of opinion I igndr Feelings on Leaving. What are my feelings on Teaw ign the office? 1 leave with the satlafaction that I have accompltely something for the city of Beat tte I leave with a deep feeling of regret that | will not be able te carry wtll! furtherework that I atart ed. But in leaving I feel that I am if he ts honest. only leaving. one branch of the pul Me service for another, and, to me, one which identified with the clty’s welfare— that of the port of Seattle Had my considerations been financial, | would consider my ac tivities of 19 years those of fool, who wasted bis time. But/ laid 400 miles of sewer; lald 400 they were not ae Behind Financially, There is no critic of Thomeor! behind—perhaps more—because of | the thme given the city, His genius is not a disputed quostion. As a mining engineer, ag a railroad en: gineor, his salary would have tripled that paid by the city. He could have left the city any time for more, Today Thomsen is a poor man. in 1881. He came back elty en: Bineer in 1892. Here are some of record can match Hie Record. Graded 700 miles of streets, paved 1165 miles, regraded 25 miles, mov ing 14,000,000 cuble yards of dirt Prosperous, and | manifestations supremely happy with his wife and little cbild, H. E Horton, an electrician, ved at Sun nyside. Working at his trade, he ‘Was making good wages, and had a | reputation among his neighbors for strewn his! thdustry and sobriety. Yet Horton engineer. He see# | way haunted hy the fear that sooner the means he con-| gr jater he would be apprehended by that they be) naval officers and arrested to an. swer to a charge of desertion. As & deserter he left the West Virginia in June, 1969, and went to Portland. He had secured permis sion to leave the veese!, but hé met friends ashore and decided not to return, Then Horton came to Seattle and worked as an electrician. Here he met a pretty girl and married her Sees Only Future. Engrossed in the big things of the future, Thomson even now does not look back with pity on the it path as city only the END; honorable. Confiscation of property, charged against him in his titante regrading projects, has to him resolved itself into acquisition for the city, a ne consity for future generations Thomson began to work for Se |attle ax assistant city engineer un |der F, H. Whitworth 30 years ago, There’s a Moral NEW YORK, Nov. °13.—Nettie! black and buxom, employ former comic opera star, wanted fiat and a plano, $0 she took the Brandt jewel box, .ocked a $10,000 pearl necklace for $56, which the pawnbroker assured her was a lot lof money for “worthless” pears, an dsecured $6 for # $50 gold clasp. | Before the ynoney went on the first installment o fthe coveted piano or & deposit was paid on the flat rent, “portly” Portley was behind bars. ee ee *% WEATHER FORECAST *& * Rain or snow tonight and # * Tuesday; brink to high easter. # * ly winds. Temperature at * noon, 41 WARKARARAKRKN HF iThe Way to Get Rich? “Buy your straw hats in the winter time.” This was the ad- vice of a wise old man. If he was asked to explain to you today what he meant he would tell you to buy real es- tate from us north of the city when the owners are selling so cheap. Think of acres at the price of a cheap city lot, Your choice of over 400 acres at $400 Per Acre $10 cash 1» all you need; balance may run over four years, LOS ANGELE! employ of a Wild West sho hospital her: The moment Miss Franc realized the danger, and, je’ stand directly in front of the charg! saw “ESMOOT SAYS WASHINGTON, Nov, 1%—Unit- 4 States Senator Smoot of Utah, | who is generally regarded as voic ing the attitude of the ‘egulars” in the senate, In a statement to: day, declares that no anti-trust, kan or currency legislation may be expected at the coming ses- ston of congress. After a conference with Presi- dent Taft today, Senator Smoot declared that any trust legislation ‘acted upon by the senate must be absolutely complete solution of the trust. problem. TO QUIT PULPIT PROVIDENCE, R. I, Nov. 13.— Because of “unkind things” sald about him, the Rev. Joseph Lam- bert, who officiated at the Astor- Force wedding, has resigned his pastorate and will quit the ministry for business. TOO MUCH HANSON ‘That is the complaint of a grocer ifn Allentown, and ho asked the supe- rior court this morning to change his name to J, .1, Oyen, being the name of the town ne was born im, His complaint alleges that seoks « change of name in order “to OLE [HANSON & GO. distinguish him" from other per ‘Third Floor New York Block {\sons, for Hanson, he says, Is entire- Inn! | ly too common a handle to go by, jmiles of water mains; ie even more vitally /the things no other elty engineer's! ope HIS MEMORY; GIVES UP to all outward; ‘Trying to Save Life, Girl Is Fatally| Hurt in Wild Stampede of Cattle ing a lariat from her belt, reduced 22 per cent graden to 4%; widened | business streets from 66 to 90 feet; | made fills of 54 feet; cuts of 140 feet; secured for city watershed furnishing 00,000 gallons for two central reservoirs and 36,000 horge- | power—a system which eventually | will Rive 44,500,000 gallons —3 HAUNTS A child was born and Horton was | happy. | The sight of a uniform on the| streets led Horton to seek cover, fearing he would be recognized. The fear continued to grow on him, and he confided to his wife that he | had deserted. Saturday the deserter walked into the police station here and told the officers he wanted to surrender. | “1 can’t sleep,” said Horton, “and 1} know they will find me sooner or later, 1 want to be tried, sentenced and get the whole thing over with.” | His wife did not know he was| going to su nder | This morning Horton was taken | in charge by officers from Bremer ton and taken to the navy yard for trial d Wire.) Francis, a cowgirl in the! lies perhaps fatally injured today in a) boat. the result of an effort to stop a stampede among and buffaloes which had headed for the tepee of Mary Eagle, a Sioux | ton Marine company, squaw, who had given birth to a pappoose earlier in the day. the cattle headed for the tepee she we took a ing animals, This partially checked the stampede, but while her attention was turned to one wing, a buf-| was at P falp in the other wing charged her. She wae trampled upon. | -FAST AIR TRIP | RHEIMS, France, Nov. 13.—Avi- tor Weymann, carrying two - |sengers, and 660 pounds addition. jal weight, today completed the. round trip from Rheims to Amiens! jand return at an average speed of |71 miles per hour. The distance is 190 mile: | WILDCATS KILLED The county was enriched this morning with the right forelegs of | | & cougar and three wildeats, and T. | M. Taylor of North Bend drew | compensation from the county funds for his skill as a hunter a total of $35. The cougar was one of the largest caught in this county, and netted Taylor $20. He is also entitled to the skins. MORE INGRATITUDE CHICAGO, Nov. 13.—After Frank Young had run three blocks to res- ene a lady's hat lifted by the soft breezes of Lake Michigan, and finally restored it to its owner, she | biffed him in the face, because she found a plume broke: WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Fifty: five of his ars will have been spent in jail if Andrew Lee serves out the sentence of 20 years im- posed on him for.burglary, He says he's a kleptomaniac, | been put aboard, and the doom | and swept on again, while the agon |ton was put into the lumber trade. sailors with it, this morn any of the Washington's passen- gers were drowned Driven on Peacock Spit The vessel, which left Portland for San Franciseo Saturday with 25 passengers, two of whom are women, and a crew of 24 and 60,000 feet of lum’ was driven on Peacock Spit yesterday afternoon when Capt. Winkel attempted to croms the bar in the face of a ris- ing gale. She had proceeded only @ short distance when she put about and th struck the shal- lows ing. The Washi m sailed from Portland day night, bound for San Francisco. She | got into the surf near Peacock spit, off Cape Disappointment, yesterday afternoon The Point Adams and Cape Disap pointment life saving crews are standing by, so are three bar tugs, but at noon no line had Desclate Scene Through marine glasses an oc- casional glimpse has been caught of some of the victims who have | ®ought shelter in the partly-demol- ished cabin and the lower deck The setting of the tragic scene is one of desolation. The beach between Cape Disappoiutment and North Head is rocky, barren and precipitous. Stretching away from | the shore is a great gray of water, smeared with Mines of white. ed schooner, whose fires have been extinguished, may be driven upon the beach at any moment Life Saving Gun Arrives. A heavy Lyle lifesaving gun has been carted here from Fort Canby Wash.,-and Captain Stuart and his life savers are patroling the beach, awaiting an opportunity to use the gun and shoot a life line onto the pen boat, Agonizing Scen ace Hundreds of people line the ssenger List beach, in a frenzy of anxiety, abso PORTLAND, Nov. 13. —Thore lutely helpless to aid, and compelled | who sajled from Portland on the to stand by and watch the gallant| Washington Saturday night were: struggles of the ip against the Mrs. Fullmore, Portland; Mr. and gale, the driving rain and the huge | Mrs. Ford B. Pangle, H. 8 Pangle, combers that curl and crash down |14 years old, who live on a fruit on her unprotected decks {farm near North Yakima; Cole- The ship lies in the trough of the| man Duell, J. H. Stanners, M. J. sea. One great wave lunged heavily |Grattinger, J. W. Gillespie, J. over her, swallowed up two sailors, | Doyle, Alaska; D. H. Eastabrook, Ed Nelson, A. L. Smith, Charles W. Wright, S. E. Kendall, M. D. Van Horn, Theodore Curd, Wallace Warren, Earl Young, Edwin J. | Williams, Martin Branty, M. Me Vitte. R. E. Ross, L. R. MeCoy, Ed Wade and John West. It was impossible to obtain the addresses of the passengers ex- cept those noted. ized spectators ashore watched The ship's position indicated that she would be practically a total loss All night long the life savers ha stood by ready to put into the tur- bulent billows at the first oppor tunity, But were unable to do so 8 the waves, lashed to a foam by | Under went Specials MEN’S WINSTED MILLS UNDERWEAR— - $1.00 MEN'S WINSTED MILLS FINER QUAL ITY iv | | * Honest and truly, that’s a & ISCO, Nov. 13.—The | ler way, says M. C. Winn. b caused the vessel to become regard e, N. J., Nov. 13, the Washing but was neyer a success, although a | MTths of the past 15 years, hoping murdered by some unknown person | w Kelly reported the dis- after the murder the vessel lay idle | that a woman, who had watehed jhoney Co, of San Francisco, New for a time to destroy the vessel. with two pails full of pennies for| fonglt SE Tagan |e eRee eee eee * * READ THIS % _ Well, if this doesn’t beat all ® Some chap got away with a ® % fact. The police received a # % full report of the affair. It's ® schooner Washington, | slumbia river, is the Iast Of 4 & AA A RRR A Re % ed in shipping circles as a “hoodoo 3 e Mot nany Built by the Moran company priePicrapte Agen ton carelessly compiled for years, the modern, séaworthy boat The year |*© obtain surnames of infants, after launching, while the schooner! — CETTE Dy KIDNAPED or persons Wo That was the beginning of tbe| rance of her 7-yearold son in the Columbia river, tied up in itl-|the ehild for years, kidnaped him gation. In 1909 the Washington machinery was installed, but the til-| fated schooner had hardly left port | | HAS SOME PENNIES | KEWANEE, Ill, Nov. 13.—Wm. deposit. Two years ago Brand de ed to save Lincoln pennies, and | (AT * gas meter the other night. & HO 0 A % disappeared from 615% Yes & a series of events which long ago nN 7 hal in Seattle, in 1906, for the Washing health authorities are to advertise tland, the watchman was | YORK, Nov. 13 When train of misfortunes, For two years| William to thé police she charged was purchased by the Olson & Ma when fire broke out and threateened FE. Brand walked into a bank here | |today he had 5,462 of them semad STU Paes UNDERWEAR— saps wp. Full Lines of BOYS’ UNDERWEAR ARTER Shafer E Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex