The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 12, 1911, Page 1

ION es HOME EDIT 1 refused this poem Why do you offer it to See here! 9°. Editor three months I thought your t © must eurely have improved by this time. Crawford won't go to jail. It’s no crime to collect double fares, or triple fares. The public service law which our street car bosses didn't ke at al! is today harmless and toothless, judges Main and Ronald pulled the teeth, and they did it ekillfully enough to tickle the grouchiest corporation lawyer. “an act relating to public service properties and utilities, pro- viding for the regulation of the same, fixing penalties for the viola tion thereof, making an appropriation, and repealing certain acts.” WINS AGAIN ‘The attempt to force the sale of municipal car bonds immediately, twhen It Is conceded that they would not find a ready market, failed to By the councl! yesterday afternoon, en voting against the en- tale, two—Wardall and Griffithe—sustaining it. ‘An earnest audience of Rainier valley and other citizens interested f& the municipal line gave its approval to the final action « Several in the audience took exception to the remarks made by a naen Blaine and Griffiths, indicating that they had considerable Goudt as to whether the bonds are legal, and that to put them on sale would hasten the test as to thelr legality > At the request of Councilman Erickson, Senator George F. Cotterill Bi. ealled upon. “sy “sg COTTERILL SPEAKS “Personally,” said Cotterill, have no confidence in the policy of Se city criticising and discrediting tts own bonds. If there is any the bonds, then why not ask your new corporation coun: ‘opposed to the sale of bonds as long as we have $5,000,000 lying use- om fa the banks. I am not in favor of the city paying something like | $90,000 a year for Its legal department and then going outside to ask outsider, a legal bond expert, so called, for his opinion. 1 ‘ of & policy which would permit us to set aside the vote of the people at the last election merely on the opinion of some eateider who might deciare the bonds Illegal, and thus force us to re question F. X. Hall and Hugo Kelley, of Rainier valley, made spirited talks, out that nearly a year had passed since the bonds were voted neil had failed to take any steps looking to the construction Its substance, in part, WHAT ABOUT PLEDGE “We don't know anything about the legality t we know that the corporation counsel ruled that they are valid, and we know that nearly 4 year has w 1 : Who has the right to question the legality of the bonds that ts people voted? The council hasn't. Each member of this body gave Pledge to The Star on this very proposition, and any move which i tend to delay the building of the munictpal car line ia a viola thon of that pled; Blaine, who has shown decided opposition to Cov man Erickson’s plan to transfer money from the general fund to take ‘Sp the municipal car line bonds, protested that no man In the council Bas repudiated any pledae, and stated that three out of every five bond © fesves bad deen deciared invalid by the courts. SHOWS UP BLAINE Couneitman Erickson took Blaine sbarply ‘Preach of faith. “At the time of selling the other bonds, earlier in the year, $300,000 >) Worth of municipal car bonds were attached. Blaine said he did not © think ft advisable to sell at that time. When I told him that if we put the car bonds up for sale alone, there might be some difficulty in find purchasers, be said be would agree to a transfer of sufficient money the general fund to take the bonds up. For that reason, I agreed Postpone the sale of the bonds at that time. It would be suicida put these bonds up for sale now, I don't want them shot all ¢ of the bonds,” said to task for an alleged | SAY HOW ABOUT OUR COAL $ WHATS Ths MaTTER WITH You PEOPLES — WHAT~ THE MAN IS ON HIS WAY HERE NoWS WELL 11's AsovT Time! WHERE HAVE You 1 BEEN With TAAT COAL? walT ARQUNO HERE ALL DAY FORIT! THAT FELLOW GETS WeRe ~ 1". TELL Win someTHINe! WELL You SEE ive Been ‘Y WORKING SINCE FIVE OCLOCK THIS MORNING AND HAVEN'T MAD MN THING TO EAT YET, WE'RE AWFULLY BusY, Li PUT NOUR co, Yes, | Guess > DevTEeR CWE HIM A TFEEL SORRY FoR THAT POOR FELLOW, | THirtk VOL, 13, NO, 245 the coun: | our city's legal ad-| ONLY SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, provided for a little corporations | nickel ride a jail sentence for officers of big public if and a few such tricks as that utilities they tried to collect a dime for a That little provision was the sharp tooth that bothered jthe corporations quite a bit of the law during its consideration by They had a hot time about it in Olympia. But the last |legislature didn’t think that tooth needed pulling. So Judges onald and Main split a couple of hairs and pulled the tooth | themselves Now read the title to the law again, for it’s the title that CONVENTION AT [ae CHICAGO ON JUNE 18 Republican Committee Turns | Down Presidential Primary Proposition—Nef for Chair- man. ‘They tried to pull the painful tooth out the legisla ture (Bz United Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Repub- lican national convention will be held in Chicago. It will be opened June 18 next year, This was the decision of the national republican committee, which met here today. | The committee, by a rising vote, accepted the resignation of Post master General H. Hitchcock as chairman of the convention ar range * committee and elected former Governor Hill of Maine to fulfill the unexpired term unttl Chairman New assumes charge. The announcement of the appoint- ment of New as chairman and the personnel the convention ar rangements committee then fob lowed. The following subcommittee on the call of the convention was named Borah, | York; Lowden, braska By an overwhelming vote the committee defeated the resolution favoring the presidential primary, only seven members supporting Senator Borah, who forced the Idaho; Wm. Ward, New South Carolina Rosewater, Ne Want Primary Delegates most serious stir in the early stages of the committee meeting was caused by the Obio delegation insisting that the delégates at large to the national convention be se lected through a presidential pref erence primary instead of by the state convention, They declare that unless their demand is granted they will select an anti-Taft dele gation at large Ohio already has a ing for the selection aressional district delegat republican primary COST $132,697, TO CONVICT M’NAMARAS (Ry United Press Leased Wire) LOS ANGE) Dec, 12.—To bring the McNamara brothers to the bar of justice cost the taxpayers of Los Ang county $1 detective feex, according to a report today to the board of supervisors. | children from a Page st. house here, The Pinkerton tive Agency. | under the very eyes of detectives hitherto unmentioned as having | watching it. had a hand in the trailing of the dynamiters, according to the re-| port, received $27,685.94 for vices, the Burns agency $45 jand the district attorney's tives $21,978.08 These fees include the reward of 6,000 offered for the capture of B. Bryce,” or McNamara, by the county, the remainder being for expenses incurred in traveling, ho- tel bills and office work ‘Primmer Is who hy law provid 42 con at a (Ry United Press Leased Wire) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12— | Mrs. David Caplan, wife of the man | wanted in connection with the Mo | Namara dynamitings, is missing to: day, as are also Olaf A. Tveitmoe and Anton Johansen, executive offi cers of the California State Build ing Trades council, and friends of Caplan, Schmidt and J. B. McNa- The trio are wanted in the present investiga Mra. Caplan took her two LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12.—When the federal grand jury resumed its probe of dynamite outrages today nearly all of the 133 witnesses sum i from San Francisco were on to testify, as most of the # were made 96.29 detec hand poenas able Immediate! Although there of the grand jury terday Lawler, special nm was busy preparing for quisition by inform iasued return was no session Onc nt agent day's tte Hy hearing the In spite of the refusal of Jose-| phine Primm testify against her father, after making sensation jal charges against him, Barney | Primmer was found guilty on o statutory charge by a fury in ae} “T've made sion, but I won't tell yet And Hay thinks he's fooling told his political bosses all about selves make the decision to make the deal look a little le ist a tip. Hay’s decision is to |Gay's court today. Miss Primmer w custody of the charged by the ney with perjury |statement made |eutor Kennedy lly repud: | Miss Primme: ordered in the iff, and will be jecuting attor according to the by Deputy Prose after she deliberate her sworn affidavit had made her affi |davit after secreting police officers |in the Primmer home to get the evi dence which resulted in Primmer's arrest. i ee | You can't get a man worried about the future state just after he has had a hearty breakfast. O a si pro me Acre) nd One | Quarter j | $ i to TR tk tk { * * Another Spanish Princess. * MADRID, Dec. 12.—Queen * Victoria yesterday gave birth # to her fifth child, a daughter |* King Alfonso and the * now have four children living * es MILLION-DOLLAR FIRE OWEN SOUND, Ont., Dec, 12— In the worst conflagra tion that has ever visited this town, the entire elevator plant of the C, P. R. was totally de- stroyed last night, along with 1,000,000 bushels of grain. The loss is placed at over a million dollars. ( queen Settee ee ee | | We have for sale a magnifi tract for $500 land is covered with a growth of large trees cent view | has small spring and fine view of lake, North of the city, on this side of lake. $15 cash secures it, Have you done it early? vt OLE HANSON @ CO, ‘ ‘i | Not that it's any of our busines |< ‘Third Floor New York Block perhaps, but the asking has got to be a sort of a habit. Se OO OE. The Seattle Star INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER DECEMBER IN SEATTLE 1911 ONE CENT. 12, {opened the way for the judicial tooth pulling. “What does that title ordinarily mean? judges. And then they answer right off the bat that it doesn't |mean what it says. The title provides penalties for breaking that law, the judges admit, but did the legislature know what kind of a penalty the law provided? Ask the legislature. The court finds that while the legislature meant to impose penalties, it didn’t mean to put corporation officers in jail. Of course, say the judges, the legislature could really do it if it asks the learned HOME the phone? No, I don't : EDITION call your husband up ¢ I want to call him down.” |wanted. But did the legislature mean to do it? And the answer to that is, that when the members of the legislature debated whether to put i nthat provision “95” in the public service law, fixing jail sentences, and after a stormy session, decided to put it in the law, they didn’t mean what they did, but were probably disc ussing the effect of the aero- plane meet at the Panama exposition in 1915 on the profits of the Seattle, Renton & Southern Co. Does the title say jail sentences? refers to penalties. And the proper penalty is just a slight slap on the cor- poration wrist. No, indeed. It only LL HAVE NO MERCY ON UNION LABOR M AN LF AP : 10 ~ AWFUL DEATH | Man Strips Off Clothes, Smokes a Cigaret, and Then Leaps This photograph shows Oscar Lawler, fi been appointed to handie a fede whether or not union labor is mixed up in the dynamiting plots. On right ie Edward A. Regan, dep- uty federal district attorney, who is aiding Lawler, Hay, b *! BINNCH TRIAL QUE }| tempt nd of Richard Ballinger grand jury in Los Ang | tentimony of a number of local wit- nesees. Mra. H. D. Ingersoll of San Fran- cisco arrived at the federal build. ing early, and this led to the belief that he would be the first witness to go before the inquisitors. It was at Mr«. Ingersoll's home that James B. McNamara Hved while in San Francisco. Evidence in Box A mysterious looking 125-pound box, supposed to contain evidence to be used tn the federal probe of the dynamiting cases, was recely ed by express at the office of the U. 8. district attorney today, hav ing been sent from the U. 8. mar shal at Salt Lake. Chief of Poltce ©. Sheriff Hammel and the deputies who accompanted the McNamara to San Quentin prison, returned to Los Angeles today The trip was uneventful,” Sebastian today showed wonder man that comp that he BE. Sebastian | said) John McNamara | ful nerve and is a| Is respect, despi act is a self-confense Found Guilty THE GOVERNOR’S SECRET my decision on the question of calling a special ses- | chuckled Gov Hay in Seattle yesterday. | somebody, presumably, Hay has his dectsion, if the didn't them py delaying his “decision,” is trying raw to the people. ecial session against the 2 The trial of Joseph Bianchi, detective who shot Frank who started to run away jasked to submit to arrest }suspicton of having lace curtains, and was kil come up tomorrow in Judge Main’s court. Bianchi is charged with |manslaughter, The state will at-| show that Bianchi wan. tonly fired his gun, and that the jarrest could have been effected without the resort to shooting. Bianchi claims that the killing was aceldental the Harris, when on the some , will Where to hide the Christmas tree; that's the problem. ————=—— WIFE OF A DYNAMITE SUSPECT IS MISSING former secretary of the interior, which Is Investigating as to WRECK W §2 i, United ‘Press Leased NEW YORK, Dec. 12 District Attorney Buck conducting the prosecution in thi trial of Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad for the alleged shooting of Millionaire W. E. D. Stokes, an nounced at the opening of the trial today that he will complete the cros#examination of Miss ham during the day. Miss Conrad will then take th stand Miss Graham appeared on the and today a nervous wreck. testified that after writing the “sui- cide letter” to Ethet Conrad, in which she blamed her downfall on Stok e drank carbolic acid, but recovered. She admitted that Ethel took the letter to Stokes and ob tained $200 for her. ‘Asaistant who ts It’s Emperor George Now DELHI, India, Dec. 12—Ind' vassalage to Great Britain w again formally proclaimed to the world today when, in the presence of 100,000 persons, representing some 300,000,000 subjects, 150 na- | From 19th Floor of Chicago Building to Court on Ground | Floor—Hurtling Body Fatally Injures Another Man. (By United Press Leased Wire) CHICAGO, Dec. 12-——Before the leyes of a score of persons, J. F. | Greek, manager of the internation. ai Association of Machinists, of stories below, from the rotunda | of the Masonic temple here today. | His body struck a showcase, which was hurled from its fastenings and hit Harry Evans, injuring him, |by the case purchasing tobacco. The tobacco salesman was slightly injured. reek rode the 19th floor, which is the topmost story of the building, in an elevator. Then he — to SERVES COLUMBUS, 0., Dec. 12.—Aged and bent from the hardships of prison life, George Ury is practical ly a free man today after serving 10 years in the penitentiary for a murder which he did not commit After years of work by his faithful wife, Ury was found innocent by the pardon board. “For 18 months my faithful little wife has been in Columbus, de voting every spare moment to my case. Yesterday when I was called out of the prison I saw my wife. jand before I knew it she was hug LIVING TORCH (By United Press Leased Wire) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12.—A living torch, Mrs. Elizabeth Me- Eachern, 80, too old to help herself, was fatally burned in her room at the Sierra hotel today. Her cloth- ing caught fire from a small cook stove. She is dying at the Central Emergency hospital. REE RE RR WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight and Wednes day; light southerly winds. » o * * * Temperature at noon, 48 * * » * * * * * * * e PRPEE ROR ERR ES walked out on one of the two from girders spanning the rotunda, There he stripped off every stiteh of his clothing, folded the garments n on the other girder, Cigaret First. made ready for the plunge, but changed his mind, unfolded his clothing, took out a cigaret, light d the smoke with apparent njoyment, thre waway the stump, and raised his arms above his head in a diving pose. His body poised for a moment, swayed slightly for- ward, and as Greek lost his balance he gave a slight upward and out ward spring, head foremost, into the air. NNOCENT MAN 10 YEARS ging me through the bars, and we were crying like babies. She didn’t need to tell me what the board had done,” says Ury Ury will be 60 years old Decem ber 15, but expects to be able to support his family when he is freed. He was convicted with five others of murdering William Johnson im Wyandot county The pardon board now holds that he establish- ed a perfect alibi. Another man convicted with Ury, and also held innocent by the pardon board, died in prison Hot Debate on | _ Bogue Plans R. W. Hill, ¢ e F. Meacham and Ole Hanson shot off some fire i pposition to James T. Black- cdmund Bowden and George Littlefield in debate on the municipal pians as prepared by the ’s beautifier, Virgil Bogue. The e-Bowden-Littlefield trio the merits of the plans, other three shot holes » them. The debate was held under the auspices of the Real Ea- tate association, in the Commercial | Club rooms, and attracted consider able attention. the ENERGETIC HEN AT POULTRY SHOW TRIES TO LAY CARPET tive rulers knelt in homage to the | head of the alien house of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg. Amid scenes of and magnificence un history of India, in th where Queen Victoria was claimed empress by Viceroy Lytton tn 1877 ward proclaimed Lord Curzon in 1903, V, the first reigning English sov ereign to visit the Far East, an nounced his own succession to the imperial throne. barbaric pomp qualed in the pro- Lord by Viceroy King George was } Specials BOYS’ SUITS AND OVERCOATS INDIAN AND SUITS—IDEAI $1.50. BOYS’ CAPS, 50¢ and $1. BOYS’ HATS, $1 and $2. Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex COWBOY GIFTS— great arena | and where King Bd- | | There's Social Strife. The chicken show has hatched. And, ob, what a raft of chickens in one egg! | Today the Bon hen the star day at big performance in the new Marche building. A Kirkland was to try to lay a carpet. A record-breaking amount of feathers and cackling is assembled. Seattle's hen aristocracy is in session, Culture is as predominant as straw, Chicks that once lived in vulgar sectional bookcase roosts now reside in terraces, for their houses are double-decked. The hens had a tea at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. Fishworm j sandwiches and thimblefuls of rain- water were served, Several inter. was leaders, “I am the | boasted one original chicken,® My egg was 14 years snapped Mrs, White Rock, j Whose husband is the Beau Brume |mel of chickendom, “but your Srandfather was a bad e | “I am the smallest egg factory |here,” chirped a very minute hen, |“I weigh only seven ounces.” | Class feeling ran high at the show this morning. The fancy hens and roosters up an awful jeackle when a fine-looking utility, ge layer of her industry and openly declared that the “high- er-ups” were living off the fat of chickendom, while she, a humble worker, was made to scratch for @ livir A big Black Minorca cop stop |ped the trouble be.ore any damage was done. | But, leaving aside the soclal side of the chicken meet, there is sure plenty doing, There are chickens of every color and every hue. There are hens worth $1.60 that have paid for themselves in eggs over and over again. Then, too, there are hens worth $100, who haven't laid an | egg since they arrived from abroad, The judges got busy today, and badges of honor are being distrib [views were given out by social uted,