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

— _ rs OW THE HAND OF BIG INTERESTS REACHES INTO CITY HA Nearly a year has now elapsed since the present councilmen were elected, yet the big issue on which they were elected CERTAIN COUNCILMEN WHO FORMERLY AGRE » TO ERICKSON’S PLAN OF USING MONEY —the munic ipal car line—is still far, far away. ' FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO START THE CAR LINE HAVE TURNED TRAITOR. And it’s the hand of crooked big interests, using the people's officials as pawns, which has succeeded in blocking the The big interests have assumed that the car line bonds are invalid, and now they have hatched up a clever scheme to get « car line project thus far, and which has arranged the program for another year of delay, the council to test the legality of the bonds. And certain councilmen who ought to know better are falling for the trick. These big interests, which fought the car line bonds, did not propose to abide by the people's overwhelming decision THE PEOPLE DID NOT ELECT COUNCILMEN TO DETERMINE THE VALIDITY OF THE BONDS for a municipal line, Special interests are often defeated, but they never admit defeat. They work desperately at election | THE PEOPLE WANT THEIR COUNCILMEN TO PUT THESE BONDS THROUGH. BACKED UP BY THE time, and they work just as desperately, but always under cover, between election times. PEOPLE'S CREDIT AS THEY ARE. ‘ wey SILENT MANIPULATION OF BIG INTERESTS HAS SUDDENLY COME TO LIGHT IN TWO ket THE BIG INTERESTS WANT TO FIGHT THESE BONDS, LET THEM COME OUT IN THE OPEN PRE 7 D FIGHT, THE PEOPLE WON'T HAVE MUCH PATIENCE WITH ANY COUN J - THE cITY ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT HAS NOT FOLLOWED ORDERS IN PREPARING THE SISTS IN PLAYING THE PART OF A TOOL FOR THE ENEMIES OF THE CAR LINE. WHETHER THAT PLANS ASKED FOR BY THE CITY COUNCIL. | COUNCILMAN DOES IT HONESTLY OR DISHONESTLY. worn! The Seattle Star ng in Southern Europe. They call it a ie a ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE skyscraper, VOL. 13, NO. 242 SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 68, 1911 ONE CENT. 23w3"21x.4°2 Not to peeve you, but purely in an in- jcidental manner, we would repeat, gently: “Christmas is coming.” > DYNAMITE PLOT } AIMED ATTA President Ordered Present Investigation When Explosive Was Found Under Bridge Over Which He Was to Pass— McManigal Accuses Other Labor Men. The Story of M ti qi | | | _ TELLS STORY Young Woman Who Shot Millionaire Stokes Gives Sensa- tional Testimony Against Him—Tells of Being Kept on His Country Farm, NEW YORK, Dec. 8—While her saying that I ‘was too | two sisters, Mrs. Singleton and Mrs, | cir! » eo |Andrews, wept in the crowded At court room, Lillian Graham, who, | brok« with Ethel Conrad, another show Marcus orders girl, is on trial for the shooting of cess in orde Millionaire W. E, D, Stokes, took er from an jon, i ie. &—That the} Meanwhile rumors of another 3 government's in jon of the | sensational confession are in cirew- | ' Bileged dynamite outrages which it/iation. The report is that a well ie claimed were ordered by Pacific | Known labor leader ls being impor } 4 east labor leaders will be more tuned by his relatives to tell what | gweeping than at first, became he knows under promise of im (By United Press Leased Wire) | Rumored Confe: : LOS ANGELES, De ss Graham y and Judge five-minutes’ re- to recov. nyaterics, Rana when it w ened that the munity by the government. The |the stand today to tell of her rela-| When she teat alleged attempt to blow up Presi-/ special agent hopes that thie tnds tions with the man upon whom she |she said that she dfted Sousa Gent Taft's train while he was on | vidual will “come through,” and ts} fired in her apartment. nonettge vetcane Mp Pharmr ‘ his trip through the Coast states | his | q okes up to the time of her i p 9! bending ev effort to hav 6 lon “ let Miss Graham appeared very |leaving New York in 1907, in the fast October is one of the objectives. reintives show him {hat his first 5 All’ Day. Mrs. Florence Kelley, Going Home. ler Christmas. nervous and was apparently on the |chorus of a musi show ree- rae or eeres: Pree duty in to bis family HOW ONE “MERRY” CHRISTMAS /lacking today in more states than Who come from there are prone to or strychnine, For we knoW verge of weeping. She was dressed | Vielie Mims at aes ed When the president arrived had |. it is known that in discussing the) LASTED OVER UNTIL EASTER have it, Ohio honors itself by for- tuberculosis.” But that, surely, is now that fatigue is a poison gener in a Norfolk jacket, white hat and “ee oe sata ae er : and was told that dynamite had isuggestion that if he “came/ TIME, WHEN THIS YOUNG bidding employment of girls under|& reason for extra care of such |ated by the living organs. A Tea heavy yeil tie: Soto sived 3 daa . Deen found under a bridge near through” as the government de! WOMAN DIEO OF TUBERCU. 15 afte young workers. sonable dose of fatigue poison fol Born in This State from Stokes on his fs bara, and that it had been bis farm in Lexing- poem Dasbere, by sae nions 2re® be probably would either get) LOsis, A VICTIM OF HEART Maggie's Case A second merchant said Bhe lowed by a period of rest and re I am only 23 years old,” begag |ton, KY., asking me to come there one- j undoubtedly put abt] Ms > vs & pardon or at least a material) Legs, BELATED YULETIDE| The story of Maggie Shayne is Mved tn a part of the city where freshment can be taken, day after Miss Graham 1 was born in for a visit. He said he would have 25e § Re ee ai ca tet Washing (concession in the shape of having) gHOppiNG. the type of thousands of expert: tuberculosis is endemic in the ten-day, without permanent injury. | Washington state and lived in that jother guests, and I saw eo tm a department of justice a ashing: | his sentence cut short, J. J. Mc | BY FLORENCE KELLEY ences of young clerks, Her mother |@Ments, She had little chance of But an overdose steadily repeated cour until my poor mother /priety in going. When I arrived — fe «tea. The present probe ts the out: Namara said that wh this ‘miKDE |General Secretary the National /had a plate of hot soup of # cup /eseaping {t.” Another reason, sure- works havoc. | died |at Lexington only Stokes an@ = come. be so, some of the men who were 4 oe tak oe “ cie ty, e: * * © he pice broke and e | colored serv eh Tt fs alleged that 20 attempts to vg Shaggy aoe 2’ secncing bien Consumers’ League. of hot cocoa waiting when Maggie y, a extra care of wuch young) ,,, January and February the hos- ee her voice broke and she |colored servant met me. He drove ery, : ee ee ee at P| After 20 years of continuous, pa-|came in, weary and cold, after sell-|Workers, tens of thousands of | 70) Janualy ade Ferrans oe Oe | sobbed me to the stock farm, bot quae vith Bi dynamite bridges « y {Would have ah easier tas Bet tient effort, t mpaign begun by ing toys all day in an overheated }Whom live where tuberculosis is be 4 girls, all with After poor mama died,” contin-|were no other guests. 1 the Harriman lines have followed |ting him out of the way, while Be tye con i dane hen walking home /¢Bdemie. and women, boys and g ued the witness, “I t to Los | shocked = the recent strike, and these are to] would also be known aa a “squeal consumers’ league of New York basement and then wi | rheumatiom often fatally attacking news, went to Los | shi and asked where they ihe faveatigated. Sensational devel-|o- > g wat he te de. | 204/Pat Christmas crueities has be- through snow and slush to save! Maggie Shayne was my young heart, or with pneumonia or Angeles and lived with my sister, | were said they would am Gements are expected by the KOv-|termingd tear nothing, [S0me nation wide. Never before \cartare, for ner wage was only $6, (neighbor, She was as directly | 10.4 suberculcsls. Mrs, Singleton. In 1906 1 came | rive in . Sin ck ae ea eee were such Christmas displays ready ‘though she had worked seven years |killed by her employer and his |"*? here with her. We took apart on we eee i ernment eae in charge c ") That the government probe Will pefore Thankegiving. if the pub- for a leading merchant. Sixty customers, the Christrnas shoppers,| They @ aying the penalty of | ments at the Ansonia hotel. 1 first | throu the country. When we itch, Investigation. . jbe lengthy is shown by (the @® \tic really lives up to the promise cents a week carfare totalled 10|m8 though they had given her ar- the evils of all of us. jmet Stokes in my sister's apart to the’ house there samp seemanign! Aceusse Others. |nouncen nt that 150 subpoenas #Fe\of the present this Christmas per cent of her earnings, 80 she )«memmmmsmupnemm: = = 5 | ments there |still no guests. I was alarmed ang nor. Ortie McManigal today flatly ac | being served by United States mar. “Not Formally Introduced” jasked him whe they were. He answering. In a tittle he negro servant left and & “Mr. Stokes and I were not |formally introduced. I was playing — eugene ai hese eanligry |enule In the various states of the [2howld be freer from the horrors of walked, hard as that wes en He ’ M H F S ttl a number o! jeaders | st ¢ various states 0 te here and in San Franciseo of hav |. estern Pacifié slope. Every ef-|CrOwslne, overwork, rudeness, late jstanding from & & m. to 10 p. m | res r. anna From Sea e, . 5 on Y for luncheon To guard. the ROUFS and consequent lines suf- | with only « half hour , ing been in the dynamiting song br is . . seacoast and the {ered BY men, women and children "on account of the rush.” '° ° ° ° |the plano one day when he entered |was alone in the house sits which he alleged he was cognizant or ae pot 8 Caaee than any Christm. In the past Rut after the second night Mag- it In 1S rips and said My child, you play j Stokes.” ef. He completed his testimony to. jmen tations (shot be Known | quarter century. glo Shayne was too weary to eat ’ ’ |wonderfully well.’ After that I be-| Springs a Sensation day, and the work of hearing other juntil the documents are actually)" por many yours Christmas has or drink the hot food. Magxie’s jcame very familiar with Stokes. Miss Grahas a then created a sem she denied the testi- |mony of Stokes to the effect that he had been guilty of no improprie ty with her until Attorney Jordan, for the defense, tary pte pend oy ae oe the pad the letters which Mis8/was not an {ynocent-woman. at Graham wrote Stokes in 1906, ex-/the time Stokes snlmitted to the plaining that it was “to show the|court a letter written him by Miss innocent spirit of the child who! Graham, which she made cer- was writing se letters were jtain admissions. Stokes had sald Witnesses was begun handed up in ‘open court been for thousands of young work: /one consuming wish was for bot ers an experience to be looked for: | water for her aching feet, and then os = = == = 3 |ward to with anxiety 4 looked bed. She slept badly, her back |back upon with horror for the giving almost as much trouble as little cash girls tn hundreds of her feet huge stores, it has meant incessant} Morning found a lagging girl, f : @ ? rattle of pencils on counters, or |with no appetite for the coffee and impatient cries of “Cash! Cash! |roll which was all she had time for. a ‘ Here cagh! At the end of the fortnight of work Verbal q it te ¢ that any like this Maggie was ill of pneu He came to see me often and sent| sation whe me, oh, so many nice notes and| letters. I always answered by note or telephone. ly ve « the defense claimed rreis between oppos | atiorney - e has established 6 p. m. or 7 monia. By Easter she was dead of Bushy notes that this letter was writte: meational “The Hicks gir? mentioned | tat me cy er was written in New ._ ae atlenunien-ot-eltection: cote aitie teamentor been |P: M. as the closing hour, for chil |quick tuberculosis. 1 Only Wanted $50 York before she visited him et Lam A! . 3 between two gray-haired women in mn in Phillips’ company, subse /@ren under 16 during the cruel An employer, in speaking of such Jordan showed the witness one |ington, but today Miss Graham tes- S, . * ney teen piri occupied most t to the annulment of the mar-|Tush from mid-December until New |cases, sald: “Shayne Is a west of the letters which she had writ-/tified ‘that it was written under lors, : 3 of the morning session today with the second Mra, Phil-| Years. This merciful provision is const of Ireland name, and people ten to Stokes, which he did not |compuision at Lexington. read. He asked: “Did you r psel for Eliza Phillips et The defense introduced testi lips © “He Dictated Every- Word” mony to show that John W. Phil ed et RS ge? A on = age oes Stokes for $2,500 in that “That letter was written that Hips, the subject of the high priced/that Phillips’ action after ° “THE CONSP . F LOVE.” spo} Might at Lexington whil ED i ions, somewhat resembled a transfer of hix affections from Mrs. | ee ere Ae BPIRACY OF IA af No, indeed. 1 only wanted $50,"| Mokne 'stebd eran nee the ’ aT Tateneig Puitionlatty wos Phillips No. 1 to Mrs. Phillips No Rev M A.} atth ws, pastor of the First Presbyterian sora - Beggar = —_ = tated every word,” declared the ter ‘@namored with “the Hicks girl,” 2 was not material church, will preach a special sermon Sunday evening, in Sie and nasdéd- aaeeae” | witness. “I! was horror strick- from his subject, he will tell something of en and did not want to write it, but he made me. He said that if | did not write it he would telegraph my people that | was there alone with him, and # 8 not supporting her. id be “Dent Go an Stane” ow r pal ree ag forever. 1 “I told Stokes that I did not have| jfigs G The girl's hibited by that she wa mother's Stokes w ankbook was e attorney iving money from state at that time one dege Beach-Dunlap 1 Center league i i T 5 last night, petitions were circulated . for the single nd reduced city Hghting, about 200 signing. o ‘ cilman Oliver T. Erickson spok $ | 2 bis amendments to the a vital interest ng 7 he Conspiracy of Love” is the subject of Rey. Matthews’ sermon. The general public is invited Seattle people ther” or r At a meeting of the council yes. ™**#UFes Bi iad | wear == any too much money,” Miss Gra-| remained or ths’ free eg ferday, Councilman Griffiths op- . jham continued, “and asked him |Gayg and then re st ee thea 24 posed the Erickson street car. pro- Accountants’ Dinner ig rau on or men what I should do to make a living. |tcal troupe at’ Memphis. ‘She 00, : Gam. He sa He told me not to go on the stage, | saded: “Later, when 1 returned to . “It was understood this contro; The Washington Society of Cer-| Yersial bond issue would be litisat! tified Pub Accountants held {ts| ll d . ; li geek par in Ba, — fi ed, and every Intelligent Man annual dinenr at the New Rath t o Stoke SS i eS Alleged Against Moores Sak sen Oh eae : a tigated before it is sold. The evening was W. R. Mackenzie of ae : i he Ansonia hote ent to sh . i Most sensible thing to do ia to de-|Portiand, vice president of the| Revealing an alleged fraud iny Alaska ditch, and had to sell all of and, on his bended knees, be termine the validity of the bonds.” | american Association of Public Ac.| Wich over 200 worki nm are| his stock to t of the country begged me not to anything to Erickson claims the council?! countants. sald to have n swindled, no only _ Promised $250 a Month: é bs 4 my sisters about Lexington, say- ¥ assume the bonds are legal. Talks were given by EM Moor-| Ut of their wages, but out of money} Exhibit A was introduced in the 7 j x , ing: ‘For the sake of my dear le ] house, A. J. Quigley, J Robert-| they invested in worthless stock, | form of a labor contract drawn up j tle boy, don't nyone.’” SIGN PETITIONS son and C. M. Williams t government is trying the case) with Link. The co provided “ a J * 2 4 John | *eainst A. H 1 C. A. Moore of) that Link was to get $250 a month, (By United Press Leased Wire, ag the A a Investmen $ cash and $125 stock. He had | CHICAGO, Dec. 8.—Fighting for ment company fn the federal court to buy worth of stock before levery point in the effort to save f, from jail J. Ogden Armour and ING 4 E. G. Shorrock presided, @ meeting of the Rainier! Medlock acted as toastmaster. = today, charged with ing the mails he got the job. did. ie bogey 4 Pa nine other millionaire Chicago packes indicted for criminal con The most damaging evidence| His against the defendants was given|the instruments for $100 of x See ‘ ; spiracy under the Sherman law, s this morning when Joseph B. Link| money and got $26 more in cash : John §&. Miller, chief attorney for (c A ot Portland testi He sold 1,250 shares of stock for} ¥ * a |the packers, foday cross. examined BEFORE —" fied that he ngineer | $25 to get pe at great length jurors accepted by z= ing work for the company on Ate Blueberries. |the government in the court of ‘ ; , United States Dist < if he got his board, he pe ee ee ce “Spaniards [ss 1: yo susim eaty It is apparent that the defense Joseph Bellevue, & Nome miner, 500 GIRLS IN REBEL REGIMENT. SHANGHAI, Dec. 8—Five hundred Chinese girls g here for the past month, were to- t of the rebel army by the ms were isstied to them who have been drilli day formally rec leaders of the re The Amazons are commanded by female officers, The force is as enthusiastically patriotic as the men and the girl soldiers are determined to participate in the next battle Seattle Jution ar |intends to try to remove all farm: ers from the jury, and that it will try to qualify business men to try the packers. oceupi | i part of the morning con | |cluding his testimony of yesterday, ew p He said that of the 12 shafts he ex amined, only one had pay dirt, 10 the Maine” ——— = WASHINGTON, Dec. side explosion—meaning a Spanish H |mine—blew up the — battleship 5 Maine in Havana harbor, according Acres ; to a formal report by the Vreeland board of inquiry into the disaster, for Here's Will Hanna and Part of City's Fortune Tucked Snugly Away in a Couple of Traveling Bag } Also do your letter writing ts HE'S GETTING TO) Scot BE VERY BUSY BEE {7 en s From now the busiest man in the United States will be the mail Suits Special pl5 few Christmas ~ packd Browns, grays, blue —An out s have be gun to find their { way through Un ON AL cle Sam's fingers ; 5 ; 5 $ § § |which was announced this after ii : and in a week or |} : ; ; , 5 ; $ ; : N ; $ noon. ‘us us so Seattle mh . Ah, ha! whom have we here? trusted with the bonds, and that wk men will be ery : oe “ * aw he hit the excursion, To send them| Which causes Girl Into Bay paeniiqroem: trom as hel by express it would cost us all| postmaster Russell to remind the | will look when he steps off the | gi.500, and by mail $500. If he} gene: sablia af Spatila the . |., BELLINGHAM, Dee, 8-—Mre, Ole} train at the Grand Central station travels real modestly, King | Seema! public of Seattle that th jMartin, wife of @ shingle weaver} we have listed with us 2% $/in little old New York a few. urer can make the |believed to have been frantic as a |result of domestic troubles, threw her 7-year-old daughter in the bay |} “\shortly before noon today. She/? had just seized her second little || girl to pitch into the water when } Be ae weteea mee sg Fel chaser will clear up the land this ‘ ¢ k and the mail carrier ve some consideration tn postal cl alike des RyS county's t acres of land situate north of }|from now trip for the University, within one-half {| County Treasurer Hanna, gen-| So th serges and mixtures are included in the as- sortment of patterns, These garments represeut a shipment jearly than to mail too late—and it's |? that arrived late and are conse: | | better «hedged oo so roel un | quently marked at a low figure to insure quick disposal, [this early shopping movement \elernan, “weitne m cool $1,160,000 4m [trip for Will’end « bunch of bonds] .D2u't only shop-early,” he exhorts, ema ol $1,750, p fo P Mt ot bonde| snvt san oarty” spline Lake |W gold harbér bonds of King county.| for New York city high fnancters | yy me eM to alt too will sell it $2 One million, seven hundred —and|to fondle ’ Th over four years, provided pur. }} fifty thousand—Just count ‘em! Some little change, eh? besiae Hanna has been duly authorized | * ko RR ROR RR ee ee and empowered by the county com: | * «|= Missioners to make trip to’ WEATHER FORECAST *| — Manhattan town. and deposit the/s | Rain tonikht and Saturday; *| | Funeral services for the late Rev.| Shafi bonds with the Columbia Trust|#® high southerly winds, Tem- %|James Cairns were conducted in the | B leompany bank, You see, our wise}* perature at noon, 50. *| Fremont Baptist church yesterday a er ros commissioners figured that Will) ® | Ministers of all Baptist churches in Arcade and Arcade Annex was perfectly honest and could be|* A RRR ARK RR RH HH HH! the city attended the services ate shington, W. 0 cash, balane winter. This jand is worth more money |the woman could be restrained she |had thrown herself overboard, A liongshoreman, named Walters, | jumped in and rescued the mother, while Clark Percy, with the aid of a crab net, saved the drowning | OLE HANSON & Co. 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