The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 22, 1911, Page 1

Let us have harmony. This is the appeal of the business men of Seattle who are devoting much energy these days to the selection of a candi date for mayor. Harmony for whom? Harmony for what? Shall we have the harmony of that kind which will moke Se will bring our people more of the standard of living? municipal benefits and more Or shall we have harmony which will protect big busine: dens of our people, and make it more and more difficult for every man who works to earn a living? Seattle is engaged in the establishment and development of some great community undertakings. ighting sys water system, our prospectiv ely, at least, a public telephone sy: attle a better and a pleasanter place in which to live, which of domestic pleasures, and which will reduce the cost and ele yate from regulation, increase private profits, increase the bur- tem, our garbage collection system, our street railway syste ‘stem. HOME EDITION ee It is one of the ironies of life that he who pays cash has the poorest credit. Soe My “MNAMARA mi of McNamara Brothers Hoped Against Hope That Her| * Were Innocent—B i Prison to See Them. (Bz Talted Prees Leased Wire) CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 22. Ben after the confession which the world had been made, MeNamara refused to believe Doys were guilty. She exhib- IUSTER FORCED OF PLAC ‘TEMERAN, Dec. 22.—Yielding to ‘the determined attitude of Russia forcing an invasion of its terri- the Persian government to- Giemiseed from power W. Mor: Shuster, the American who | Been acting as treasurer-gen- @f the country in Lage Soo upon a basis which, (twa Would soon remove the | of Russian control. | Only after the most positive rep- i itions from the Russian gov- TEN AMENDMENTS = ut Now She's Too Ill to Go to ited a letter from John J., telling her to keep up her spirits, for her sons were innocent and that ev- erything would come out right. |Gradually, however, realization of [the truth dawned upon her, and when the heavy gates of San Quen tin closed behind her two sons, she began to fail. “The blow when her boys con feased struck Mrs. McNamara to the heart,” declared Rey. Father Hickey, the dying mother's pastor. “It will be a wonder if she long survives the blow. I know how many years she bas worked from morning until night over a wash- tub in order that her sons might be reared in the right way.” 3 OU E BY RUSSIA Jernment did the Persian parlia- ment act. It was finally reported that nothing but Shuster’s expul- sion would prevent occupation of the country, and at the last mo- ment the Persians yielded. } Great Excitement Despite popular protests, the Persian parliament —diamiannd Shuster in the midst of great ox cltement caused by the news that |Ruwsian cossacks had bombarded the governor's palace at Tabriz and had seized the police head- |quarters at Resht. =D TO CITY CHARTER ARE AGREED TO BY COMMITTEE Jedictary committee of the city Yesterday agreed to recom- mend the submission of ten amend- jelals to be elected to another office | during thelr term of office be re moved. That the four years’ residence VOL. 13, NO, 253. Ft ISAAC VOGEL JOSEPH ROBERTS NEW YORK, Dec, 22.—-A finger-| print on a cigaret case—the only tangible bit of evidence against} him—may send Joseph Roberts, a West Indian negro, to the electric chair for the murder of Isaac Vogel, Jeweler. Vogel was killed in a cellar a| few days ago and his clothes looted. | There was no cloe, and detectives | had given up hope of solving the Detective Hayes loft that only | Roberts had access to. | Searching among the recovered | effects of the dead man, he found @ cigaret case which Vogel, on the day of his death, had cleaned and burnished and wrapped in tissue paper to keep ft spotless. When Hayes opened the package he found the tissue had been disturbed and & smudge on the case. Capt. Faurot, finger print expert in the central office, compared the mark with that of many different ones tr police headquarters, and an [nounced that {t matched that of | Roberts, whose finger print had =— air Candymakers Taboo Sweets She was wrapping kisses—candy | ieaieaeiii Mente to the city charter at the! qualification for eligibility to office | pisses, in March. One of these for the elimination of the veto power. Another rec- nearing george gp ys a r board to bay all city ‘mppiies. Other proposed amend- . are &@ second and third choice Seton ballot be used in a the restriction on city offi- be removed. | That the powers of the civil serv- |ice commission be enlarged. | That a new power site be ac quired. |" ‘That bidders on public work may | put up bonds, instead of cash or cer- Ufied checks | ‘That the Oregon plan, providing for publicity for candidates, be adopted 17 PEOPLE SEE DOG CATCHERS NAB ONE POOR LITTLE DOGGIE All the loves the dog | eatcher—nit. This afternoon, at the corner of ‘Boring and Fourth avenue, the ex- “terminator of dogs was plying his ‘trade. world A small, harmiess yellow cur ‘was slowly herded to his doom. Dog catcher No. 1 drove the little toward: the dog wagon, and eateher No. 2 deftly cast his Aittle wire lasso and it was all off With doggie—excepting the last sad ordeal, the conviction and ex- ecution. _ FIRST CANDIDATES _ PUT UP MONEY ___H. W. Carroll, former comptroller, and John M. Wolfe, former counctl- Man, ran a neck-and-neck race to Be Into the candidates’ filing line at the city hall this morning, 4nd Carroll won out by one minute. He ‘deposited $42 for the privilege of ronning for comptroller promptly at 9 o'clock, when the deputy comp- troller got ready for business. Wolfe followed 60 seconds behind, a deposit of $30 as council Manic candidate. Then business @uleted down for about half an hour, ‘when Charles F. Merrifield tripped ily alogg with $42.a# candidate comptroller. And then in about 8 hour George 8. Kingsbury came on with $30 to run for the Today was the first filing day, ‘Dut candidates seem to be in no spe- | al burry to leave their money “With the comptroller. Maybe It's ae of the proverbial Friday | Seventeen men and a woman watched the dog catcher snare his victim, and 17 men and a woman hoped that doggie would evade the snare and make his way to free- }dom. Funny, but public sympathy jwas decidedly with the dog. Now the dog catcher seems to be |a public necessity, just as the way- | ward dog is more or less of a pub- lie evil. Thus we tolerate bis of- fices, and sympathize with the | faithful beast, whose only -crime, after all, is in being a homeless 08. . Too Many Machines Mayor Diliing notified the coun cil efficiency committee that he will veto the bill providing for a $2,500 expenditure on a municipal garage jon the Coliseum site. This followed | his veto of the ordinance promulga' ling rules for the use of city auto | biies, which he declares are too |drastic. By selling seven automo- | biles, the mayor ways, no need will |be bad for a new garage, He ree- lommends the sale of two machines in the street departnient, one each [in the health, engineering, building land police departments. Emperor Better VIENNA, Dec, 22.—Official an- nouncement was made today that the condition of Emperor Franz Josef has materially improved, His attendants deny that hia condition has at any time been grave. There is little doubt expressed, however, that, owing to his advanced age, the emperor's illness has caused his physicians the gravest con- corn. | Pr Both “Blue Eyes” who wrote letters to The Star and | Scores of other children will “this year. Money donation have “one good Christmas” s, toys and clothing sent to The Star by kind hearted readers have been distributed fo the various poor families on The Star list. In addition to this a big box of toys and $25 in cash Sent in by people of Big I wake, Wash., for the Ryther en's Christmas were turned over to Mother Ryther The Star today. She was divine. Her hair was as golden as the bits of confection, | her voice as sweet, and her eyes as | |blue as their paper wrappers. She | lwas the kind you would associate | with a Robert W. Chambers book Janda box of bonvonr. But we no- |tleed that not once eid she eat one of the golden kisse “Why Is it,” we began timidly “that you eat none of the candy? { va You CANT Look A KISS IN THE PACE AFTER Youve WRAPPED Affw THOUSANDS — ndy,” she said contemptuous ly. Ugh, I hate it. Say, d’ya know} |Tcan’t even stand to look a kiss in the face—a candy kiss I mean, 1 like candy about as well as poison. And it sure is fierce. When your gent’men friend buys a box of bon bons you're in an awful fix. I've got mine educated to buying salted peanuts, but some girls ain't so lucky.” Mamie had butterscotch hair. didn’t match her work. She was wrapping chocolates. She, too, seemed to have forgotten that can- dy was made to eat. We suggested it It I thought it would be to get all the candy you wanted,” sald she, “but it didn’t last long. I haven't touched a piece of candy in two years.” “Two days 18 about enough to cure them,” said a Seattle candy manufacturer today. “We just let new girls eat all they want, That cures them,” “And yet,” we ventured, “we know a man who works in a brew- ery who has never been known to refuse a glass of beer.” “Well, there it’s different,” sald the candy man, “It's Itke a kitchen. You never see a cook eat a full meal.” Wo have been carrying pound boxes of chocolates thrice a week to a certain person, We are look- “Say, heaven ing for a job In a candy factory for her. At our public mong them are our dock system, and, he Seattle Star ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1911, FINGER PRINT ON CIGARET CASE MAY SEND MAN TO CHAIR FOR MURDER |The Finger Print on the Cigaret Ca been detectives were trying to run down | the perpetrator of a safe robbery. At the time of the safe robbery Roberts was arrested because his finger print the anfe door. never tried, charged “This is country tha! used an evi portance in Inspector Hi ~|WANT matehed that arouad He was indicted but and was finally die the first time in this t finger prints will be idence of the first tne & murder case,” said ughes ee FRISCO’S LID OFF (By Unite rpg Zaenee tre} SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2: af ‘Off come: New Ye San Francisco's lid clamors an “Let the pot of hilarity boil and bubbi over, or let the city officials who have attempted the un- timely reform answer for it.” Society head of th women are at the 1 protestants. Every- body seems to resent the in- sinuation cannot propriety. RKKHEMHHRRRRHRE WEAT Rain to brisk to hi Temperat ake celebrate without that San Francisco im. HER FORECAST * might and Saturday; # igh southwest winds, & ure at noon, 52. * ee ee ed ONE DOLLAR Bari C. DAMAGES Wren was awarded $1 as damages for being ejected from a Ba’ lard car on August 7, when he offered a Capito! Hill The conductor refused to ac- cept the transfer on the com- pany's ru point is al st. Wren tained injurie aued for $1 verdict cai suit. THE TO SS) MEN le that the trane it First av. and Pi alleged that he « to his back. He 00 damages. The rries the costs of the r PRIOR | LAST CALL CHRISTMAS HOPPERS FURNISHINGS REDUCED Cutt tir handsome ‘Tbe. cial Men's 81.50, f Bi Men's Knit $1 valuen. ry shopping ¢ Sha Muffler rks Scart Pin plnah cane, HH ular $2 1 gia fn value, wets and Fine Soft te ‘#, wpectal special tere, special $2. rly and do your onventently, and Arcade Annex All of these undertakings are designed to and WILL make living conditions better in Se But their suceess means the curtailment of special inter How will y harmony program affect these underta Will your ha est profits. ings? facturer so long as it is profitable to the private competing company to maintain high rates? Will your harmony give us free public docks, for instance, while the owners of the private docks are parties to that hare wa Will your harmony reduce gas rates and give us a decent telephone service? Will your harmony sell the street railway bonds? ttle for the many mony reduce lighting and power rates, lessen the load of the householder and the burden of the manu- If your harmony will do these things, come on with your harmony, ‘Iwo hundred thousend people of Seattle want hare mony of that kind But if your harmony is but a cloak under which to re-establish the old plundering order; if your harmony is but a crust to the under dog to make him forget his kicks, why, to the devil with your harmony. _The under dog prefers to fight. IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. debt. Now | starve. They used to put a man in jail for if you are poor you can only SHOTS MAN [THEIR DREAM TO SAVE HER mae ce CHILDREN! (By United Prose Leased Wire) LOB ANGELES, Dec, 22,-—-Joe Tartes, a Mexican Indian athlete, jlep fatally wounded here today from four revolver wounds inflicted | by Mire, Frank Hunter, when Tortes ‘attempted to foree an entrance to \her home to renew a drunken quar- (rel with ber husband, Mrs, Hunter jis the mother of two small chil- |drea, weighe loss than 100 pounds and Is in delicate health. | “1 did it to save my children,” | Mra, Hunter told the police, “I was | afraid of Tortes. He tried to injure ot the bullets from Mra. | Hunter's revolver passed through | Torten’ body, another went through bis-arm and a fourth imbedded it- self in hin right thigh, A BIG DAY FOR JACKIE Tomorrow is the big day for dackie—tomorrow his future mother and father will be cided upon. But the first “big day” will the onty one of a bunch of ‘em for the For on will be es corted to his new home, and then will come his first Christ mas presents, and a lot of other fine days during which he will | be experiencing for the first time a mother’s loving care and a father's tender protection. Jackie is ‘vst as excited as the rest of om about Christ mas. He knows something big le going to happ: going to be made very, very PRETTY GIRL | IS KIDNAPED (By United Press Leased Wire) | just CHICAGO, Dec. 22—Police are!” For Harry R. Wills and Harrie searching the skyscrapers of the|/P. Barnum the tender dream of ceived in the long ago come true. ler, a pretty 15-year-old girl whoa reality—it ie a mysteriously vanished November | 25 long years. 29, and from whom a note appea' ving fact afte box. “Help, release me, | am a pris |iovers. They dr ongr in room 917.—Violet Buehler.” | down the path of That is the note. But it gives | in hand. no intimation in what building the | girl is held a prisoner, and as the note was not discovered until the} postman reached the postoffice, the polite are making ag of the entire district lowed. In the lapse of the ry office | ried someone e blocks !y being investigated. The | detectives fear, however, that the girl may have been spirited away Apparently the note was dropped out of a skyseraper window, fut tered to the ground and was picked up by @ pedestrian. Being ad Gréseed to “The Postman,” the) here, b finder, who has not yet been lo-| Wills again. cated, dropped it In the nearest mail| box. (By United Press Leased Wire) NEW YORK, De Lying on the floor in the kitchenette of his apartments here with bis head thrast into the oven of a gas stove, the dead body of Walter M, 8 Lowell, known on the stage as Wright Lorimer, who starred for years in the “Shepherd King,” was found today by the superintendent of the building. He had committed suigide by inhaling gas and had evifiently been dead for hours other, died. accompanied her 81- from their home | Alaska, and she spent the summe: old fathe | she visited friends in this city, for this couple second sight. It was “love a Seventh av. Pretty fine Chri them, this “dream.” mas present fo SHORTEST DAY Using lots of “juice” to light your home just now? Well, cheer up, the days soon will be growing longer. Conse- quently the nights will be grow- ing shorter and the need of artificial light less. Yeaterday and today are the two SHORTEST days in the year. Sun comes up in Seat- about 7:30 or 7:45 in the morning, and jumps for China again about 3:30 in the after oon—just long enough here to say “How do you do?” as it were. Old Sol will stay with us several minutes longer every day after this. Spreckels Brothers Fight Each Other (my United Press Leasea Wire) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 22 Claus A. Spreckels and Rudolph Spreckels brought action today in the superior court here against thelr estranged brothers, John D. and Adolph Spreckels, for $8,000,000, and $4,000,000 Interest y lege that their father, the late Claus Spreckels, ploneer sugar king, had given the defendants $26,000,000 of his. $36,000,000 estate The estate is claimed as commun- ity property, and the contestants al- lege that $18,000,000 of the estate belonged to their mother, Anna ©. Spre js, #0 that in giving John D, and, Adolph $26,000,000, thetr father gave them $8,000,000 more than his $18,000,000 interest. eee eee | STORM WARNING A storm which is now over British Columbia, moving east, will cause high south to south. west winds here today and to- night. eeeee eee EE YER olehotoliatetRehatod HE APOLOGIZES SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. RENTON BOULEVARD Gouncil has started condemna- tion proceedings to prepare for the conptruction of the extension of 28th av. 8. which ill run from Jagkson to Rainier Keach. It will be about seven miles long, and will be called the Renton boulevard, | 22.- McGregor as an outrage, Judge Deasy has apologized for contractor's apprehension. Gregor produced a rece’ he had not stolen Mrs, Sam Ludo money on a train, AND MRS. HARRY WILLS isn't often that dreams con- But sometimes they do—perhaps to make other peopi¢ dream on. | loop district today for Violet Bueh- | their first youth has at last become | Twenty-five years ago this Harry ing for aid has been found in a mail| and this Harriet were boy and girl med of walking je together, hand But somehow there came a break in the dream, and separation fol- Hoping years Al search (their paths widened, and each mar- | Time went on. numbered 917 in every building for | The wife of one, the husband of the A few months ago Mrs. Barnum in Nebraska to |there. Returning a few weeks ago accident, she met Harry And then the years rolled back Their dream came true Wednes- day evening, when they were mar |ried at the Baird Apartments, 302 Tenth av., by Rev. Joseph Garvin. | They will make their home at 2312/ eee Branding the arrest of James W. Police ie t to show 6 MEN Vast Army of Men With No 00 JOBL IN CITY | Work, No Place to Sleep and Nothing to Eat—What Are YOU Going to Do About It? “There are at least 6,000 men in Seattle today, job! nd penniless. Five hundred men have taken ad- vantage of the league's efforts to tide them over. About 100 are be- ing fed every day.”—Rev. Frank A. indent of the Broth- Somehow, when you stop to think of that little statement, a lot of the pretentious Christmas offerings of the fortunate among us, gifts from the well fed to the well fed, seem like @ travesty on the name of Him} who gave hungry multitudes bread, and plucked His Christmas dinner from a cornfield | Just dwell on that a minate, yo | prosperous folks--6,000 MEN I |SEATTLE TODAY WHO DON’T |KNOW WHERE THE NEXT | MEAL 18 COMING FROM--ONE | MAN IN TE! OF THE CITY'S | MALE POPULATION, IS IT POS- Talk about starving serfs in Rus- | SIBLE THAT THIS I8 TRUE? sia, worry about the Chinese hun- sry ones; what about your duty to the fellow alongside of you who can't get a job and who te hungry? And that man isn't a Chinaman or 4 Russian, either—he's your sort of man, only he's dead broke. Maybe that setter pup of yours could miss a meal—what? There are 100 men sleeping in the league every night; there would be ou N oe more if there was room. Have ysa a nice, m barn for a hungry, cold, shivering man? There are a lot of boys, chaps who left home because of the press of poverty, down at the league; they are getting their start in life by waiting in fine | for a meal a day. |. “A surprising feature of our work has been the large number of young men who are out of work and penniless,” says Rev, Heath. “Don't say those t ; they {hurt the town,” remaz @ com- fortable capitalist, when he was jasked to help feed these thousands of gaunt men There are men walking the | streets of Seattle tonight who are starving and who want a job. These men are your brothers. What are |you going to do about it? A Christmas that sees 6,000, even 600, men hungry in an American | city is a mockery, a horrible, sneer | at all that Christmas means. Were you ever hungry? Did you ever walk the night out hunting # bed? What are YOU going to do about it? | Maybe you don’t like this sort of | talk, It's easter to be fat, warm and comfortable, and to think only of the pleasant things—BUT THERE ARE 6,000 MEN STARV- ‘ING IN SEATTLE, j By United Press Leased Wire; SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22.—Dr. Otto C. Josien, on trial before Supe- rlor Judge Lawler, charged with the betrayal of Ethel Williams under Promise of marriage, was plainly discouraged today at the unconvinc- ing result of the continued examina- tion of Amy Clark, one of the former caites of the complaining wit- is who are being put on the stand to show that the girl knew the doc- | tor was a married man. Miss Clark experienced a remark- able freshening of her memory over night. Her attention, directed yes- | terday afternoon to conversations in the Peter Pan candy store with Ethel Williams, she remembered only that Miss Williams told her t f if ————=— ‘DOCTOR DISCOURAGED A | AT GIRL’S TESTIMONY the doctor wag very good to her, She remembered nothing else. To- | day, however, she recalled clearly that Ethel William remarked she and Dr. Joslen were afraid-to be seen together in public, for fear they would be seen by. Mrs. Josien, The witness denied, on cross-examina- tion, that she had talked over her testimony with any one since yes- She admitted that Miss | and the doctor frequently left the store to ride in his automo- | bile in broad daylight, and that they displayed themselves in the dining rooms of various hotels and cafes. | “Did they appear to be concealing t.emselves?" asked Attorney Mur- phy. | “No, not exactly, but they appear- led nervous,” answered the witness. “DISMISS CHARGE On application of Prosecuting At- torney Murphy, Judge Gay this morning dismissed the conspiracy charge against Alden J, and ©. B. Blethen and Mike Powers, They were jointly charged with Wappen- stein, Ludovic and Berryman with conspiring to protect illegal places and lawbreakers during the Gill regime. NEVER WOBBLE? Bellevue-Summit cars never wob- ble. No, ne Physical imposst bility for the wagons to shake just a little bit What? You don't believe it? You know better because you've been a regular strap hanger on ‘em? And you think the cars rock so much at times as to produce sea sickness? Well, that's funny. Motormen and conductors and other 8. EB. Co. officials told the jury in Judge Ron- ald's court this morning that the cars run as straight and as smooth and sure as the public's nickels to the company’s coffers. Dr. A. R. Long, a dentist, must be mistaken, they said, In even sup- posing that a Rellevue-Summit car could act so rudely as to lurch round the corner of Republican and Summit and rock him off the plat form and land him on the street He sustained Injuries to his back, he testified, and asks damages. r r | re} Holding that Mrs, Mary J. Wall- ingford, 52, had secured enough money from John N, Wallingford, during the three years of their married life, Judge Dykeman de. nied her application for separate maintenance, yorce to Wallingford. The testi- mony showed that she had received $11,000 from him. Arguments In the damage suit brought by Eli Melocich, the Aus: trian laborer who lost a $12,000 ver. dict because Judge Hanford said he made a mistake in using the little word “an in his Instructions to the jury on first trial, will be made to the second jury this afternoon. Judge Hanford overruled the Stone- Webster company’s motion to take the case from the jury. for $7,500 | ENOUGH WITHOUT ALIMONY | and awarded the di-| ESTRADA DIES (By United Pross Leased Wire) | GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Dec. 22. —President Emilio Estrada of Echador died suddenly bere today. He took office January 1, 1911. He was taken ill in September and sent to Quito. SORE REE ERE EEE IGARETS SPOIL OPERA FOR HER & | CHICAGO, Dec. 22.—Miss % * Lucy Page Gaston, founder * * and president of the National * *® Anti-Cigaret league, is disgust- * ed with grand opera because * of the scenes she witnessed at | the performance of “The Se |x cret of Susanne.” In. this |* opera the star, Miss Caroline * White, smokes cigarets almost * continuously during the 45 |* minutes of the opera. After |* Miss White had puffed her |* third cigaret, Miss Gaston left * the theatre. “It is enough to * turn one forever against grand |* opera,” she said.. “It is an |* artful embellishment of a per- |* nicious vice.” SHER R OR REE ERE ue |* Cl i SO OR Rb bb bb bt Christmas Offering 242 ACRES $1,000.00 We offer today 2% acres of rich, level alder bottom land north of the university on terms $25.00 cash, $18.75 per month, This land is reached by the new boulevard which has been recently completed. It is near Lake Washington, and you have free use of the beach, which is specified in your contract and deed. Come in and let us talk to you about this, Two trips daily. OLE HANSON 4& CO. Third Floor New York Block |