The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 4, 1911, Page 1

IT WILL BENEFIT THE CAUSE OF UNIONISM ugh they are afraid to whisper it, re are some of the big hoping this MeNamara case will hurt the cause cause of the humble man and labo of uni work for But prove a « crooks in a living only way is neither politic worker has t port his fa ar: woman who hone won't tinet living A The outcome of the MeNamara case will benefit to unionism; it will fix sgne of the it may get rid of a lot of riffraff as hampered wnoinism for years, but it won't change the in erent j! he cause of the man who works. ren out of a hundred in the unions work for are banded together in unions because that's the can get a fair price for their labor. Unionismn anarchy; it is the sole opportunity the quare deal, a living wage, a chance to sup the fruit of his toil. The rnine men out of ten to get a square deal from the a boss who won't pay a cent more for labor than he has to, remains, if every self-appointed “Teader" HOME EDITION Se = is more blessed to give than to re- ceive.” Yet most of us hope for a very nm circles; nor a necessity in the VOL. 13, | EVERYBODY CRYING OR MORE BLOOD —LINCOLN STEFFENS. (By United Press Leased Wire.) CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—"“Everybody seems to be crying for blood. It te ‘thumbs down’ everywhere. Having got the McNamaras, the demand is for more victims—more men to kill.” ‘This is the burden of a special dispatch from Lincoln Steffens, in Los Angeles, which is printed today in the Chicago Daily News, He on to say: “The step toward peace has been stopped. The city is not rising to the emergency—neiiher capital nor labor. Peace was meant; war is de- clared.” Steffens’ dispatch says he does not know in what form the “golden rule proposition” was put up to Fredericks. “All | know is that he has demanded more victims, and the East is backing him up. “The National Erectors’ association has started a how! which is ringing over the country for more blood. One brother is not enough. Fredericks had his duty to do, and he did it. That is all there was to it, from his point of view. “Unfortunately, the first news was reported in bare shape, @hat might have been presented as a triumph for Los Angeles over itself and a concession long owed to labor, went forth as a pers w wmph for Fredericks, and one more good Christian kick for the under and “Fredericks and his group have turned what might have been and was meant as a magnanimous concession to labor into another victory a labor.” land went The bullpen blacklist, and the wrong and the constabulary rifle injunction, and the have frequently brought retaliation in the shape of bomb }fires and riots, BUT ALWAYS THE VAST MAJORITY O! /THE WORKERS WERE NOT IN SYMPATHY WITH VIOLENCE, AND WERE UNION M ONLY TO ¢ }A SQUARE DEAL Because a crooked labor leader proves a confe murderer, a bomb thrower, affects not at all the vital principle of the good of the mass, the helpless mob; just the crooked banker who despoils his depositors does not damn all banks and as a raving maniac, shouting weird imaginings in the name volleys, and the scab with a blackjack that dwells in the hearts of mothers and babes The McNamara brothers pleaded guilty to murder; should suffer the full penalty, And if the prosecution has any NO, 238 SEATTLE, WASH., ’ “There’s Money in Everything,’ Says Vail—and He Knows “There's money in anything you know how to look for it.” That's the explanat of dore Newton Vatl's success man of the big te which combined the interests of the American Telephone and Telegraph company with those of the Western Union, spent two days in Seattle, leaving on the Shasta Limited at 11:30 this mornmg And Vail's record proves that least for him, there has been money in everything. He is possessed of | @ great physique and tireless ener ny. With bis 66 years, he is a liv ing refutation of the Osler theory Here are of the things Vail | did in bie 1 He escaped th country doctor, aft cine with an » for a while He learned the telegraph business as a Union Pacific He spent three years as a rallway mail k, devised a system for facilitating the sorting of letters and was made superintendent of the Theo The phone merger, at of being al studying medi Ready to Put Special Session Up to Hay A strong delegation of progress ives will meet with Gov. Hay at Ta. foma tomorrow to urge upon him the calling of an extra session of fhe legislature to pass a direct pri mary bill insuring the people a ehance ‘to select their own de gates to national conventions. Pro- gressives from every portion of the state will be represented The delegates will hold a ing at 10 o'clock at the Temple of Music, and will confor with the governor at 1:30. The for a six-day sesvion has been computed by Chief Clerk Loren Grinstead of << ONFEELING THIEF While the Gamma Phi girls w sinking their dainty bi-« choice bits of turkey Thanksgiving day, which theey spe ay f the sorority house at 45 E.,, an unfeeling burglar with a pass key, and ¢ of the choice article Bailed down. As Police, the burglar departed with four large, pink French plumes, two gold fountain pens, a silver Purse, a gold necklace, a gold soro- Fity brooch, and several fanc waists. — ispids i om th, N entered thered some that were not ported to th LITTLE IRRITATIONS OF LIFE “YM THENEW (C/ * Yessun, 8033, AWS DE NEW JANrTOH, OF OLE WYN Done Quit LAs’ NIGHT, BOS: railway mail service at Washing ton He quit the governme cause he saw in 1878 abouts, that the telephone, invented by Bell, could be made a vast bush hess proposition instead of forever held as an amusing | thing And he made of making others money in the t Then he made rew* | also introducing ke* | Argentine are not! And, while in thought he might 1 money by startin aystem in Buer copped the coin, all right Then, after being in the telephon business for about nk with practica rvesting all nt job be or there. Demand for — jthe house | $10,000, be prepared raised by standpatters that it cost about $100,000. The pr ives are also armed with by members of the legisla’ to prolong the session. There will be attle, including H. Walker Paul Mobr, Thomas Hanson, Austin Tworoger, Joe Hughes, and Julius of the University of representatives at and the progressives will to meet the objection wil money As a result ee that there was ne business © money telephone mm the by America, he delegates from | Mayor Dilling, John H. Perry, Murphine, Ole . Griffiths, Philip Smith, Mre P. B. C. Herban: of Washington And he Ge 20 years aK mone start y and ne h sorts of he in} being | play-| THEODORE M. VAIL | decided to retire to a farm. But he kept of making leven as a farmer—Vail's fai ing about 4,900 acres tn area no in Vermont's fertile fields In President Fish of the American Telexraph and Telephone Co., resigned, to t bealth And ¥ a a 10-yea tren was brought out of bis to head the big merger wan effected mone 1907 owing farm at 6 that “HE'S INNOCEN ” McNamara Brothers Will — (By Unit HALL Press Leased Wire) OF RECORDS, LOS A 4 Positively assert | client was nor Henry ease of Bert H. Franklin, charged with bribery, was called before Justice Young, asked Dr continua He stated that he had been working on the case, and that he was satisfied that could dis the allegations made against that he had bribed eGo. tence of Lockwood, a prospective juror in John J. will get not more the McNaamra trial 15 and probably 14 years ome |fver, the sentencing the will be an ident, as ready been arranged that h innocent T. Gag ing former when the ¢ By United Prese Leased Wire) LOS ANGELRBS, Dec. 4—It certain that when Jas. B, MeN mara and J. McNamara arraigned in court for morrow the ers, Jame is John are of the broth a sen while than How men has al B. is younger B., will receiv ife imprisonment, TENENT AND WE LIKE First Socialist Elected Here Judge Richard Winsor E. Shorrock, 2.868 Edmund Bowd 73 | H. 8, Crosby | Dr. Maud Par Jacob Mades. The firet socialist ever elected to public office in the elty of & tle was elected Saturday, when Judge Richard Winsor headed the | list for the school board 0 | The other successful was E. Shorrock, whi |on the board for nin rs Dr, Maud Parker, who was thought to be a strong candidate, failed because of dissension among |the women’s organizations, and be cause of the fact that a light wom en's vote was polled. There were 3,896 men and 2,521 women voters, | Judge Winsor will take his seat |with the first board meeting | January Advices from Everett and Taco: ma are to the effect that the so- | clalist candidates were defeated in both cities. } candidate | has served) RR tk WANT TO IMPEACH CONGRESSMAN LITTLETON WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 A demand that Congressman Littleton of New York be tm peached and expelled from eon Kress was presented today to Speaker Champ Clark, to be filed in the house by H. B Martin of the Anti-Trust league, The demand is framed as @ memorial accompanying the resolutions adopted by the league, which characterize Lit tleton as a trust ally * Cee eee ee ee ee ee CLAIMS ILLEGAL WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—The su- preme court declared illegal, to- day, the so-called Stacy group of claims in Alaska, which are valued at $10,000,000, Charles Munday and Archibald Shields obtained the claims through dummies, according Seeeeeeeeeeeet SSSESHEEE SEES EES * in | Be Sentenced Tomorrow, not to be hanged. Would Turn State's Evidence There was a r today that the McNamaras would ask for a continuance of puce, and that they would mak further ats ment to the district attorney clear ing up certain f of the case This was, howev nied by coun sel, and it wa » stated that so far as the MeNamara brothers concerned, they will tell only about thetr own doings and will not “turn ate’s evidence port und bats or under the gallow Jof some strange god, does not corrupt the undefiled religion! comes the chief age | will be j they | room. ) be; invelving him in th limit, The best t! get every crook, ¢ dirty ng that can ery felon, a wrong,” the better for And the sooner |ramké those of their the rank reputable members ployers, too, Organized labor in Was an outrage; it has, with the for the political good of the ney for no room for MeN The cause of unionism at man’ who works, or who believ hin gr AS 80 the rank and file get rid of the motto, ange, state political reform anywhere amaras that happen te nd ¢ On As pr and file. employers who stir ngton has been Wher bottom i es ina ‘Our quare evidence against any other labor leader, no matter who he may | etefnal justice dies from the face of the leader Id t the ed labor i behind and the organis the ner lynamiter ible right or kick out of their up hatred, never the only big agency n organized labor be there the cause of every deal; whenever the’ will union ¢ earth, The Seattle Sta ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1911, IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. McNamara Blew Up a Seaitle Building, Says Loc BY WALTER R. THAYER Loeal Manager William J. Burns Na tional Detective Agency. dames B. McNamara wae in Geattic August 31, 1910, and blew up the Lyon building, Third and James, then under course of construction. | did not learn of his presence here until after the explosion, but thé evidence is conclusive. Om Maf 1, 1910, | received an ur gent, telegram fro f. Burne tell ing the that Jas. BH. MeNamara war }in Beate, and asking me to searc ithe hotels. We made a thorough | | searel, bot failed to locate him, The | name Of neither J. B. Royee nor Me Namafa could be found on any of the hotel registers. Begin Another & We searched all traee-of him, but failed. August the Lyon bullding was blown up lmmpdiately we began another ne Aljout three weeks later we found the-bame of J. B. Bryce on a hotel regiater of « lodging house on Yes lers Way, The landlady positively identified Bryce as McNamara from hie@escription. He bad with him & Silt cane, which he took to his He did not occupy the room. except for this. Hix name was placed on the register August 40 1916, the night before the explosion Register Sent East. ared the register and to Murna at Chicago, from which piece it was forwarded to a har expert in the employ of ¢ agegey in New York, where other m be | had registered from registers were kept. Some of the showed that McNamara, a8 Bryce, pattle. upon this discovery with a m@ we Home colony of bay, near Ta-| colony Inbmediately | we pommunicated had working at the anafehists at Lake ——_ This ie the | Poutoffice Inspector Backus t break up With Dave Caplan. We learned that McNam been there a few days August 31, In company with Dave | Caplan, the anarchist who is now being hunted in connection with the Times explosion, and was indict Los Angeles with the McNe marae. Instead of coming to Seattle rect; McNamara had th McNamara stayed at Cooper's lodg ng house at Lake bay, where they hadi@ namber of books on explo | sives. MeNamara and Caplan tried at al Detective and d felon, a| fight every attempt at reconciliation, the better for the em been guilty of ism dic li hidin and y ne ever ro behi coming to him WHI VIOLI WHO WOR} GHT TO and hat FOR MAN HEREN IS WON If the win in a ¢ \ND HIS IN- A FIGHT they could a hundred; the na- battle the 1 th ettled little men lay the that's the only are ever going Meanwhile, little rer that be injured by THAT'S DAY, WITH | TRAITORS, A for way all he by and tion prob to be made injured 1 its rank TER OFF BRANDED THE I dut will ember just ever or rid of the M Is AMAR TED FROM tting NHY UNION THE Med ND ELIMINA BET TO- AS i NIONS. If the famine in India petite pala thi severe, Mr. Carnegie will no doubt hustle ff a library off to the starving natives. CLARANCE DARROW 7@™ MAY BE ARRESTED WAL TER R. THAYER “PILLING POISONED Mayor his home ing serious had been down-town the water Dilling is confined to with ptomaine poison. He is reported not in any danger. The mayor eating a good deal in restaurants during famine, and he is un: able to trace exactly what caus ed his iliness. He was quite but is mu will probably Wl yesterday, uch better today. He be unable to come to the city hall for sev. eral days. to @mploy a man named Nichols tc go to Tacoma to buy 4 f namite, of fering him big money, whieh was | reftieed. | offered the t City Engineer Dimook stated this morning that work has beg borings a the nature of the foundat | new $1,400,000 power da dams are being contsructed in bed of the r can be made It is not kown how many borings will be necessary to determine the bedrock, but the work will be con tinued in pursuance of the plans ¢ former City Engineer Thomson ee non the Cedar river to determine Coffer tb that teh borings er 08 WEATHER FORECAST Occasional rain tonight and Tuesday; moderate southeast erly winds. Temperature at noon, 43 KRRHKERR RRR [Pteeeeeee 27 Days and then the New Year. Why not make a start toward independence thi year? Start paying for acreage north of east of the Country @ fine view of the plece af tle and Club, with lake. s Fine View Acres $400 $10.00 monthly Don't hesitate, once Two trips to land daily, rain or shine cash, balance but come in at OLE HANSON 4 CO, Third Ploor New York Block to the government's charge. m for the ager of the | thre | identified anothe | Home | more than 40 per cent of any line of Then McNamara and Caplan went the manager of the Tacon ower company and asked for per cent dynamite ing the wanted to blow out stumps. They » price for it, but the manager became suspicious, He told them 90 per cent would blow up the earth; all they needed w 30 or 40 per cent dynamite. He re- | fused to sell it | Get the Explosive | the two went to the man-| LAter again, the an wanted They bought per No caps and fuse the anarchist now ny being who bought the Had Maps With Them A man whom we had at the Home | colony reported that McNamara and Caplan discussed blowing up a num. | ber of buildings, and had map: thefr location From there McNamara came he | registered on Yesler way, and aft the Lyon building explosion went to San Francisco, later going to Lo Angeles and blowing up the Times butlding. plant vinged the latt blow out stumps cases of 40 dynamite, 100 No. tof double tape The manager of cen 100 | plant later | at the explosive. col as one of of BERGER ASKS FOR REPEAL OF SHERMAN LAW WASHINGTON, Dec erdéseman Victor Herger ine istemember from Milwaukee duged a resolution this afternoon in the house of representatives provid. | ing for the repeal of the Sherman | antitrust law and for government | ownership of any concern owning | Con ocial intro: | business. yf SHOPPING Days BEFORE Curistmas Father buys Willie a steam en gine because he Hk to tinker with it binself, | Arehbold | Wm | elected enforced the the week Th alth fe for dr work catic and water mas v Dec JOHN (By United Pr YORK NEW cial and Rockefe Jing direct Oth dard re on wm sident a presidents retary, as rector, L. J G. Ro surer tre Pr bold, vice p and W. C was elected Thanksgiving chools rs Ol and C. following ‘SCHOOL ON AGAIN :::"" “Ob lon't teacher, know ommon expres n the chools this morm ing, following the of combined week of with last tion ine, fa vacation of tht water Now esumed morn b the t yet inking 1 the m, which begins Fri J continues until Jan D. RESIGNS # Leased Wire) Dec. 4 of the directe l company today ne will be Christ ay it annual of the Jobn presid er resigned as Stan jer di vice G vice ignations in the rporation of New Henry Flagler Rockefeller nd director, M. Pratt Folger, Jr., as sec arer and di as director and assistant H.C tant Drake ckefeller officers were John G. Arch A. ©, Bedford H. Bedford esident, resident Teagle, F a director ; I 5 5 Bigs made of terials patterns Boys’ These to withst | | | eo in OVERCOATS SPECIAL $20 grade heavy, various garments, all wool ma attractive OVERCOATS SPECIAL garments are made and heavy wear Shafer Bros id Arcade Annex (By United Press Leased Wire.) LOS ANGELES, Dec, 4.—It is reported today that a special grand jury may be drawn to investigate the bribery developments growing from the McNamara case. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4.—District Attorney Fredericks expects an- other confession of bribery in the course of the day. If not, there will be another arrest. He made this very plain today, when he stated that he had the “goods,” and would make all concerned come through, CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 4.—“Watch for arrests at any hour” is the word sent from the offices of the National Erectors’ association, fol- lowing a conference today between H. R. Brady, secretary of the asso- ciation, Detective Burns and Capt. Wascher, federal secret service oper- ative. Detective Burns arrived early and immediately rushed to the Erectors’ office. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 4.—“Investigating into the dynamite cases | growing out of the McNamaras’ case in Los Angeles, the United States | authorities have uncovered the most damnable plot ever entered into in this country,” said United States District Attorney Miller here today. Developments in Los Angeles Bribery Scandal—Juror’s Wife Ad- mits Bribe. | Sensational Other Big Labor Leaders Un- der Suspicion May Be Ar- rested in Federal Probe of Dynamite Plot. (By United Press Leased Wire) | HALL OF RECORDS, LOS AN GELES, Dec. 4.—That Clarence Darrow, chief counsel tor the Mc Namara brothers, who have pleaded guilty to the dynamiting outrages, was to be arrested charged with bribing jurors in the case, was the report circulated by persons close to the prosecution today. District Attorney Fredericks re. |fused to.deny or affirm the report Following the confession by Mrs. Robert F. Bain, wife of permanent juror No. 1, that she accepted $50 as earnest money on a bribe which |was to have totaled $5,000 if she | would influence her husband to dis regard the evidence against James 8B. McNamara and vote directly for acquittal, came the announcement |that the district attorney and his assistants are withholding much j evidence of the gravest importance. , Mrs. Bain'’s Confession Bait specific the money 4 qualified a turned it over rney h he canna} s Mrs. to be it to her “Know Nothing About It.” nee Da was seen at al befo the aid that to make at this t hing about said, “and is that I answer for my acts the district attorney Waiting for Another Confession. Despite the nflicting re ports in evidence, it was also stated by pe the entire the tly tive of here this mat 1 n say am willing to I am here if wants me ter, right he now many « been cl the rons who have ever mat men say entire ed, These arrangement that culminatec Jin both McNamaras pleading guilty | was that this was to end the entire matter To off this is the itive assertion of District Attor Fredericks that he knows all g this bribery, but that is waiting for nd permanent juror t and turn his bribe money » him before he acts Bain’s Statement Bain said today “My wife has told all to the dis triet attorney 1 cannot say at this time how much | know of the mat ter She can for herself. Mrs. Bain have told erything to attorney 1 signed my name to a statemen which truthfully tells of how it all occurred, I am so broken up over it all that I can hardly think. It/ is terrible, and the world will never | understand 1 At this juncture Bain broke in to} remind his wife that she had been | cautioned by the district attorney | to make no statement concerning | the bribe In reply to this Mrs, | | Bain said “Well, let the world think | what it may—t! have told the | county prosecutor all of the truth.” 1 will not say who it was,” she Jeontinued. “It was not this sae Franklin, though, ‘The district at |torney has that information in his jhands, too, It may all come out jafter the Franklin trial Since my husband was drawn as | a juror I have been bothered al most to deatti, When I reflect on | what occurred I do not wonder that }I was half crazy. They were ques |tioning me and the neighbors. They |just worried the life out of me. “I would give my life if this had |not happened. 1 hate to think what my relatives will do, It ts terrible and I cannot say at this time just {how it all happened. It happened, |" and now I am doing, or I have done, the best I could. I told everything about it all.” Franklin Case Delayed. The case of Bert H, Franklin, the part et pos pout ak aid 1 € the distri | preparing | revolver lay near INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 4.—United States authorities here today admit that certain prominent labor lead ers are under government surveil- lance, and that new arrests are ex- pected momentarily. Eight detec tives of the National Agency, of which Wm. J. Burns is head, are the case against them, and it is semi-officially reported that at least 12 of the “higher ups” in the labor ranks will be indicted on a charge of complicity in a plot for the illegal carrying of explosives on passenger trains engaged in in- terstate commerce. Burns to New Yor now en route to Cleve land and New York, and will go to Los Angeles la’ abouts of Frank Ryan the International Associatic uctural Iron Work- John J. McNamara is causing specula- Bur ns is h was secretary tion. The Worke pleas of Nami b will meet executive ard of the Iron the Me- ar- rs » con: entered by brothers when Ryan accused of having paid $500 to » Lockwood, a prospective and $3,500 to “Cap” to hold for Lockwood when delivered the goods,” was 1 to come up in Justice $8 court, but by agreement it tponed for a week, On the heels of this postponement came a report that Franklin would plead guilty to a minor phase of the and would receive leniency. Want Everything Dropped. The direct demand has been made y District Attor dericks on ry one concerned in the alleged clean breast of the ma He has made no promises of immunity, it is said, but conceded that he is anxious to the matter up, and incidental- business” interests of who, it is charged, “traded of Jim McNamara” for an which they could win the ction here, are working des- their word and all the side issues growing the McNama' dropped. Fredericks May Block It. Whether they can get District At- torney Fredericks to see their logic is a question. He i ed today that he had made no promises, and would 4 none. Fredericks’ di- rect ch: that had been no party to any conferences and that he would have no part in any, has diseoncerted the theorists who have been declaring broadcast that the era of the “golden rule” had been reached here in Los Angeles. HEADLESS BODY (By United Press Leased Wire) TACOMA, Dec. 4. — Reclining Jagainst a tree, the headless body, of a man was found in Point De fiance park by N. L. Tallman, The skull was eight feet away with a bullet hole through it. A 44-caliber It was evidently having dropped months. Identity is is Gee talesman Whit bribery tan th clear this the perately to keep ee he uicide, th off after m a mystery |BIG GOLDFIELD - FIRE Unit dain IFIEL! which head ny . Nev, De completely destroyed the Florence Goldfield mill is a serious blow to the camp today, as it puts the Florence company, the second largest producing concern of the dis- trict, out of operation for a long peric Bravery of the engineer and cage tender, Who brought the miners to the surface, prevented any casualties. ~ SINGERS TONIGHT Williams Jubilee Singers, a dou- bie, mixed quartet of negro sing- ers, will be heard at the auditorium of the Y. M. C. A. tonight, as @ JUBILEE chief detective for the defense, ‘Who | feqture of the lyceum course,