The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 15, 1911, Page 1

A real-life de spots as thrilling as any in re sions of the McNamara brothe: Some men are afraid to do it is manlier to be ashamed to do wrong. Sonn ca ATTEN AND WILOCAT” (By United » NEW YORK, Dec, 15.—Charac- ferizing Ethel Conrad, who, with Littian Graham, is on trial here for ve story, full of dramatic situations, in|in the California penitentiary for dynamiting in Lo mance, lies Wm. J »road, is not the real her behind the confes | jurns, in spite of t rs, who are now serving terms! gone wrong, but =n ONLY VOL. 13, NO. 250 THIS MAN IS WORTH $100,000,000 AND HE’S ON HIS WAY TO COURT TO BE TRIED AS A CRIMINAL PACKER the shooting of Millional Stokes, as “a most astoundin: bination of kitten and wild ca’ “the most remarkab! ave ever seen,” Ai Attorney Buckner y beg pening argument to the jury for) the prosecution. As Attorney Moore closed the ar-| gument for the defense and Buck to address the jury, the show girls became) visibly nervous Buckner announe-! » would not spare either girl, and then entered suddeniy*into & scathing arraignment of Miss/ Conrad. shouting “The master mind of this whole fearful mess came upon the scene about May 1!—Ethe! Conrad, the most remarkable woman | have ‘ever seen, and | hope | shall never see another like her. Only 19 ars old, gentiemen—think of it! Ye most astounding combination ef kitten and wild cat | ever saw. Mf ghe gets away with this o at 19, what will she be doing at 25 Throughout the attack Miss Con sad hid ber nervousness behind an Attitude of defiance. Mike Graham | wept steadily during the ordeal. NIKULA TOO FRANK | Nikula’s frankness in felling the court that he paid $50 each for witnesses in a damage sult Janded him in the county jail yes terday on a bribery charge. Nikala gued John Hall for $1,250, which he Claimed was his contingent fee for securing Witnesses for Hall in his ease against the Northwest Lamber company. Hal! was injured in the mill, and recovered ages. Nikula’s bonds were fixed at $1,000. FIVE REASOKS Leander ISTMAS A $10,000 dam-/ An he popular impression that has ‘© of this story, The man who Progre: the Lo really the of the riet attorney in Mr. W. G. § 15, 1911 —BOB LA FOLLETTE ¢ Leader Writes to California's Governor, Telling Him He Cannot Afford to Surrender a Principle for Ma- terial Committee. (By United Press Leased Wire) CAPITOL, SACRAMENTO, Cal., Dec, 15.—In a statement which re- views in scathing terme the refusal of the republican national commit tee to allow a presidential primary, It in the ex- clusion from the national conve tion of delegations elected by the Gov. Hiram W. Johnson to y jared that the progressives California will stand on the prin- “in the ction of @ alt matters, the of ciple that president, as in people should rule He quoted a previc to the effect that the reactionaries alone had anything material to gain by the adoption of a presiden lal primary Jaw at this time, since 5 statement lthe progressives are in a position 4. OGDEN ARMOUR ‘This photograph of the head of the Armour meat packing industry was taken in Chicago as the multimillionaire was walking toward | the federal court to face trial under the criminal section of the Sherman antitrust law, | INDICTMENTS FOR FOU _ FRISCO LABOR LEADERS. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.--Infor [mation was obtained here today |that Attorney General Wicker jsham has been Informed from Los Angeles that sufficient facts have | been obtained there by the grand Jury investigating the dynamite eases to warrant the indictment and immediate arrest of four Call. | fornia labor leaders, | It ts said that Special Ausistant Attorney General Lawler, who is conducting the Los Angeles probe, has communteated the whole facts! to the attorney general and is now | awaiting instructions from him on | the method of procedure. | It Is now up to Attorney General | Wiekersham to direct whether Law. | jer shall proceed and obtain orders for the arrests from Federal Judge Wellbora in Los Angeles, or wheth. er the entire matter will be put up| to the authorities in Indianapolis and the arrests be ordered from there. ] | “BOR LEER LADUN LEAUEH ‘EM BAG; BROKE LOS ANGELES, Dee. 15.—Ro- mors that a prominent San Fran-; / elseo labor leader is to make | | confession of complicity in the dy-| | namiting of the Los Angeles Times | building were current today about | the federal building, where the fed- eral grand jury is conducting an investigation into the so-called dy- | namite conspiracy. | While the report could not be verified, it was said that this man | is holding out for immunity in case | he involves still more prominent ee union labor officials In the local. dynamiting. Neither Assistant United States Attorne neral Os car Lawler nor Fredericks would discuss this phase of t matter, but each admitted that sensational | developments were liable to break at any time. G ‘How Carnegie Got Wealthy (By United Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, Dec. 15,—Sen-| ator Geo. T. Oliver of Pennsylvania | PAWN Ticeave - \ealled today a number of witnesses| 8. W. Allen probably is the only before the Stanley congressional/man in Seattle who ever pawned| committee Investigating the steel | money trust for the purpose of discussing) With Christmas approaching. the freight rates for steel products | he's trying to figure out just how over the steel corporation's roads|he's going to make merry on the and steamer lines between the | pawn ticket Great Lakes and Pittsburg | “Pawn tickets may be an asset, Senator Oliver was then exam-|especially when they call for good ined regarding Andrew Carnegie's| United States money, but they scheme for controlling the steel in-) won't look at them in the toy shops, dustry by controlling the railroads. | stores and refreshment shops,” Al “Carnegie maintained a great|len said. part of bis prosperity through ar-| Allen is @ walter. Money was rangements with the railroads for} not coming jn es rapidly, as. he de. secret. rates lower than those bis | sired when the Lincoln penny craze competitors paid,” was Senator|was on, and the thought he saw | Oliver's statement. |some easy money in speculating in —__—_——-— [the pennies, He sold thousands of jthem. Then everybody seemed to ENSUS MER | be supplied and the pennies were a drug on the market he had made fn the penny specula: tion came easy and went the same | way, Then Allen got bard up, He kept $16 worth of souvenir pennies sus enumerators, indicted for|for several months, He took them frauds in the Tacoma court, arose|to a pawn shop, and pleaded guilty today before U.| “If 1 could get the brownies out 8. District Judge Rudkin. They|of hock I could make some money were each fined $50 and costs. jon them,” Allen said, “They would Special Prosecutor Newton sug-|go like hot cakes at the lunch |gested that the men be allowed to|counter, but how am I going to change their previous plea of “not|raise the money, and Christmas guilty” to one court and receive| coming is beyond me, I've played 4 nomingl fine for neglect of duty, |in hard luck before, but this is the Trial of the “higher ups” will be- | hardest hard luck game I ever went gin Monday, |» against.” aS wey? ya ay | Ze awrsr (OF WARD Luck PAWN TICKETS POR MONEY- WUT NO MONEY FoR WE 15 ¢ PLEAD GUILTY (By United Press Leased Wire) TACOMA, Dec, 15.—-Fifteen cen }itf, and Taft possibly will |reason, have their support on both jtry now to send a solid La Follette deb egation to the nominating conven tlon, These facts he contrasted with the action of the national com- mittee in Washington last Tuesday “In October ast.” stated the ‘while I had under com Gain—Johnson Takes Hot Shot at National jwould enable us to contro! the next national convention and the nom {nation for the presidency w hot afford to do it—and we hot atford to have you do it, even if you were willing. “"You have gone the straight, dl rect way from the beginning of your public caree have few men in our time, Whoever have you set one out of line is a bad counsellor, He is not the real friend of the cause and not your friend. ‘No, Governor Johnson, put the Presidential primary up to the very font in your call for an extra ses sion, fight the reactionaries to the nch for the delegates, and . the battle line will show are not a lot of ¢ Politicians ready to play the the crooked way to for hour, ““if we stand for anything it is for fundamental principle, the tite, the soul of self government. We ean afford to be beaten, but we mon w t j taff would | Me) Angele amara correspondent for The The Seattle Sta INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, DECEMBER IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. [HERE’S THE GREATEST | CHRISTMAS WORLD | the question of a presi./S@Mmet compromise or Juggle with dential preference primary, I wrote to Senator La Follette advising him that the progressives of Call fornia had determined that such @ the vital thing. You never have, and | know you never will. | “*(Signed) et i} primary ehould be held, and ex-}"*ROBERT M, LA FOLLETTE’”| | plained fully the «ituation in Call fornia, the possibility that fictt R [tous issues might be Injected into | that we were be. the campaign, and foregoing a poiltical certainty cause of principle. La Follette’s Letter “I received from him the follow- ing letter, which I quote without comment “Washington, D. C., Nov. 3, 1911 “Hiram W. Johnson, ‘Sacramento. Governor Johnson: Your letter of October 26 in just at hand and presents clearly the situation, “If you omit the presidential preference !aw from the subjects to be considered by the legislature at the extra session, which you are about to convene, you will prac tically contro! the selection of the delegates to the national conven tion In 1912 and they will all be progressives “It would be a great thing to have California leading the roll call for the progressives in the next convention. If you pase a presi. dential preference primary law the stand patters may carry San Fran- cisco and some adjoining territory jon the exposition issue, and some of the counties in the southern part of the state on the lemon tar without issues. This would be very harm- ful. It would go all over the coun- that California is progressive in everything, leading the older states on most issues, and will sup- port Taft in whole or in part will appear that we are divided in our strongholds and greatly weak en us, It will bo a very bard blow. It will come at a time when it may turn the tide. You know how the |influence of early conventions and elections count, and we cannot stand it to lose an inch of groug in many of the progressive states and hope to win. The standpat or. ganization understands this and Hitchcock secures an endorsement for Taft every time @ state central committee assembles for any pur °. “Just One Thing Worse” “ "But, governor, hard as it wilt be, there is just one thing that ought to be and will be harder and indeed more harmful for us, and that would be to throw our princt- ples to the dogs whenever an op: portunity offers to gain a tempar. ary advantage by so doing. If it Land Opening Prices are Always the Lowest When one opens up a new subdivision the first effort is to get people interested and get them buying. The price ts made so low that as time ¢ can be raised. The first buyers always get a little the best of it Get In now at our opening prices at North Bnd Acres, Price now $400 per acre. Terms $10 cash, balance $7.50 monthly Two trips daily, rain or shine, OLE HANSON & CO. Third Floor New York Block de , PHONE CASE HEARD TODAY Arguments on the Independent company telephone rates are being }made in the supreme court today The city, which is resisting the rais ing of the rates by the public ser vice commission, ix represented by iwtant ‘orporation Counsel ‘4 Hughes. Following the sorption of the Independent pany’s stock by the Bell telephone interests, the public service com mission, on a petition alleging that the Independent company cannot continue to operate under the rates fixed in its franchise from the city |raiwed tho rates accordingly. The city is contending that the fran chise provisions cannot be altered | The supreme court decision iy not expected for several days ROBBER HELD FOR MURDER (By United Press Leased Wire Direct to PORTLAND, Or., Deo. 15.—Be- jcause he attempted to invoive Frank Jennings, his ex-employer, in a larceny case, Leon Lochard, jocmreeeet robber, serving a |tence at Kelly's Butte, today faces ja chi of having murdered little Barb. Holzman in a rooming |hOuse In Albina last March. | Lochard has been part tified by Mrs. Bertha the man who rented the her lodging house in which the | little girl was first brutally assault ed, then d. | tw ’ son first saw Lo- said she was “pretty ere,” but reserved decision until abe could see the accused man in when he engaged the room Although the evidence Lochard ts circumstantial thorities deem it strong. against the au It in joriminals that he killed the child | At the time of the Hoizmman mur der Jennings was living in Port- jand and Lochard was doing solicit \\ng work for him in the vicinity of the place where the crime was jcommitted. After the murder he janid, Lochard quit his work and would not solicit in the Albina dis trict. KARR RHRAKR KE rd |® WEATHER FORECAST Rain tonight and Saturday; * brisk southwesterly winds ® Temperature at noon, 44 * ee ae ae Le BEFORE HRUSTMAS | pel 2 a Pi Willie is read ing a new thrilly er, “The Mys4 te of the Trunk; or, . Where I | Found My Presents, com: | eludes alleged admissions to other | * * * *} * * * * JAC Jackie, smiling, dimy Iden hair cript | This is little of th burnished g Grey's own « Well that’s Anc one n of him. ruble as a Christr where he will th area y in Se in the world less he som wo present great | Of course | Christmas him, destiny of a ¢ and his fu j So, scores will presents me some will want din wel deci ire in before sayir j take a down deep ir your faith in littl little Jack The ingly n on Chris If you belic to the editor self, y« h orni in your heart ur home YOUNG ALDRICH ELOPES WITH LYNN 15 secret for mor rich, son of Mr A Blanchard, a mer Senator rich of Mildred today. The ce then have ten bride f on been per the hat and coat the murderer wore forgiveness of the pon ‘MUST PROVE BOLTED DOOR VW YORK, Dec. 15 Tt is ly predicted here today that the case of Max Blanck and Isa Harris, owners of the Triang Shirtwaist factory who are on trial for manslaughter in connection with the death of-nearly 150 people mostly girls, when their quarters were destroyed by fire, will never |go to the jury | ‘The court today ruled {state must prove that the door produced before the identical with the one through | which the ed in the girls emp |factory sought to escape from the flames GIRL SHERIFF (By United Press Leased Wire) LAKEVIEW, Or., Dec. 15.-—A charming young woman is the present sheriff of Lake county, a state of affairs due to the ab- senoe of Sheriff W. B. Snyder, who is in San Francisco on bus Iness, and the recent resigna- tion of Deputy Miller. She is Miss Trixy McVey, and is ma ing a success of the sheriff's office, she has not had to ar- rest anyone since assuming the office. ing fre that the bolted jury ts ox FOR SOMEBODY and hazel § will him desp: keeping u wat art in two weeks Fred Rhod ! paper |first will appear tomor im thi « A man sitting in a poker game does not like to have his wife exercise the! THAL DOORS OPEN FOR VETERAN CAPTAIN “DON'T JUGGLE WITH THE VITAL THING” O'BRIEN GIVES PRESENT IN OEAVE TERM |Captain O'Brien, Convicted of Killing Best Friend, Sur- tenders on Learning Ti Appeal Lost. 7 “At heart I feel \not guilty.” ee , . This was the prime reason that led grizzled old Capt. Wil- liam P. O'Brien to the county |jail this morning, 10 minutes after he left the gangplank of the steamer Puebla, which ar- rived from San Francisco at 11 o'clock this morning. And O’Brien surrendered himself deliberately to a seemingly cere |tain term in the penitentiary of | five to ten years, Shot Life-Long Friend.” O'Brien was convicted last February 23 of assault in the second degree. He had been Sailing the deep seas for the last 25 years out of Seattle. During a drunken brawl at his own home, he shot his boarder and life-long friend, Alexander Smith, in the foot. An opera- tion, performed at the city hos~ | pital two hours later, resulted jin his death. | Spent Four Months in Jail. A charge of murder in the see ond degr first filed against O'Brien withdrawn, and the assault charge placed against him, O'Brien remained for four month in the county jail before he was re- leaned on $2,000 bail. Shortly aft jerward bis wife died, and he left jon the Robert Lewres, out of Port |Townsend, as mate, and went +, | Honolulu, pending his appeal to the S| supreme court from the five to tene year sentence. Desired Appeal Lost. Early this week he landed in San ncisco. There he received a am from his attorney, James Metcalfe, to the effect that the higher court sustained his conyvie- immediately the old captain, 5 rs, took pastage on the steamer Puebla, and without waite ing to see friends, attorneys or bondsmen, made a bee line for the county jail 1 don't again and will not m from justice stanc if as KIE. twer Jackie—and id a loving mother in h Star the 1ine—and Christmas to get the a el guilty,” O'Brien in reiterates, “and I ke myself a fugitive under any circum: justice demands my presence here, here | am. Besides, will not throw down the kind nds who have come fo my as- sistance by putting up bonds for me. I had to come to relieve them from responsibility. “You see, it was this way,” he said in the county jail this noon; we did have some drinks. I didn’t it myself, but my wife called out to me that Smith had a sauce- pan in his hand. The next minute 1 was hit right over the forehead, and while I was on the ground £ shot. I didn't mean to injure, much less to kill. I was more than half stunned myself. 1 do not really know the state of affairs as to my appeal, except what little the tele- ram contained. I have talked to no one so far, and I am told that my attorney is out of the city at present.” ndest of rand for with the of Jackie eager in their and The | try to think onl x where to Jackie, The entory of your w it Star fe a ything to and smil world owes t write your m, FACTORY GIRL having been kept a fact that Russell Ald h, and nephew of For s the husband of became known POOR After the Ald e Isla factory ar < The Lombardo murder case will Thanksg and since be in the hands of the jury late 1 earnestly working for the this afternoon. Following the tailor court's instructions, Prosecutor Murphy made the opening argu ment for the state, denouncing Lembardo as a deliberate assassin of the man who had. befriended him, Frank Rressi. The widow of the deceased and her five Little babies were in the courtroom, and cried incessantly ng < er, a modest ~ GOING SOME July 1910-—He piano. August, 1910—He discolored his | 8! wife's eyes. March, 1911—He choked her. March, 1911, one day later hit her a hard blow in the face. These are some of the entries in| diary of Ida W. Sypher, as she} i them in the complaint for against Earl J. Syphers, to he was married in Monte Wash., on July 15, 1907. He pretty good for the first year es, but supplied only She got th furnishings together her damaged the He Christmas Gifts for Everyone Men's Me sano, was or the fo and other self. WALKING DISEASE (By United Press Tieased Wire) PORTLAND, Or, Dee, 15.—The mysterious walking disease, from which hundreds of head of stock have died in Bastern Oregon dur ing the last year an da half, is hy drophobia, according to Dr White, secretary of the state bh board, today. household Slik Sox 8 Silk Knit ters, 280 in holiday bax. +. 9890 Men's Suspenders and in hox ++ 980 spenders, in box tik Neckwear ef Garters and ++. $2.00 $1.00 box $1.09 «820 Men's Bath Smoking Jackets R Bath Robes .... Robes 5 iy 5 § § ‘ 5 § : § iy ‘ ‘ § 5 5 5 ‘ 5 ‘ ‘ s 4 5 ; 5 | i BRIDGEPORT, O., Dec, 15.—Seat: | tering returns today indicate that | Shafer Bros Tom Lewis will be elected presi-| |dent of the United Mine Workers} of America over John White, &@ majority of about 40,000. Arcade and Arcade Annex ey } HIMSELF UPTO. © Specs areuninonveas eraser spteetea aetetincserr