The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 30, 1911, Page 1

CITY EDITION They say that hanging a hurt him any. !no man who has ever been done any complaining. 0 LABOR LEADER INDICTED Tveitmoe and Johannsen of San Francisco and Munsey of Salt Lake, Arrested on In- It must be admitted that man doesn't hanged has VOL. eap » Year Near She’ll Pop the Question If-- a *dictments Returned by Fed-; eral Jury in Los Angeles— “Conspiracy to Transport Dynamite Between States? Prose Reseed wire) Dec. 30.— ine persons “se Tet ANGELES, Poltive assertion ther had been indicted by the federal) grand jury probing the alleged dyna mite Boat bia was made here this * afternoon by United States District | Attorney A. I. McCormack. The charge is conspiracy to trans: dynamite between etates, in violation of the federal statutes, ‘There are four counts in each in- dictment. Of the indicted men, three——Olaf Tveitmoe, Anton Jo- — hannsen and J. E. Munsey—are un Others against whom Indictments were returned, but who have not yet been arrested, are: E. A. Clancy, now in San Fran- cisco; David Caplan, M. A. Schmidt and another man whose identity has - Quentin penitentiary for dynamit- | fing, are also indicted. U08 “ANoe ANGELES, Dec. "Beer so-cOlat Tveitmoe and Anton Johannsen of ing the dynamite activities of the McNamara brothers. Arrested at Once. It is not known definitely wheth- these men are included In the of indictments returned by the " probers, but from the moment the jury started to enter the States district court room, with United States District Attor- “ney McCormick at their head, each the men under arrest was ¢ fally watched by federal authorities. at a given signal by Special wnment Agent Lawler, who re- ed stationed at the entrance fo gourt room, Tveitmoe, Johann- and Munsey were arrested wwe have just been arrested.” told the p: representa “indictments were returned us by the grand jury. | will “make no other statement. Our case | “will be tried in the courts, not in | the newspapers.” ‘Won't Give Nature of Charge. trio | Dep- | Marshal Sittle declared that no arrests would be made !n Los | Angeles during the day. District yey state the nature of the charge "pon which the men were held in enstody, but Tveltmoe's statement that they had been indicted by the grand jury was generally accepted as a fact. To E. J. Hendricks, « local labor leader, Tveitmoe stated that they could secure their release on $5,000 cash bail, and Hendricks is now scouring the city in an attempt to Faise the necessary amounts. Other unionists are looking for Clarence Darrow, who, it ix said, will be asked to defend the three men. The United States district court, with United States Judge Wellborn , adjourned at 11:07 this morning until 11:40, when it is prob- able that the three men will be ar- Attorney McCormick stoutly refused | raigned. Malcolm McLaren of the Burns 'y was responsible for the caaterent that the labor leaders had been indicted on a joint charge of conspiracy te transport dynamite between states in violation of the federal statutes. Came ag Thunderciap. ‘The arrest of the labor men came asa thunderclap to local union men, Government Agent Lawler having stated only this morning that no indictments would be re: turned until January 8. “now's your chance. | JANE GRAY Well, girls, it's your move. A few more hours and 1912 will make| its bow. Leap year will be here. There's at least one Seattie gitt who is not averse to leap year priv- ieges. “Sure I'll propose,” “Bat I'm going to w right man comes along,” she added. Which is only fair enough. Miss Gray has lived in Seattle a number of years, and she says that, honestly and traly, she'll go through with the proposal all right—-that is, if the proper one happens to come within proposal distance. o, I haven't made up my mind whether he’s cot to have blue eves or brown, or what color of hair he must have,” Mise Jane replied to the Inquisitve Star interviewer Seriously speaking,” Misa Gray jeontinued, and ahe tried to look very | jvery serious. Maybe she was. Her eyes, howover, twinkled rogulshly:| But then, they always do. “Seriously speaking, there's noth} ing wrong about a girl popping the | question, if she knows he's the only one she wants, and has a pretty fair idea that he wants her, too. Now, is there? The Star interviewer could find | no good argument against the prop- osition. Girls hang to straps in [street cars these day. They have the right to yote. Why not let them do the popping? | “Ot course, | have never really jasked the question In earnest, but }I think I could do it all right it} }1 agreed that the right thme had }come,” Miss Jane said. “I've beard | many different kinds of proposals op the stage, you know, and I've got @ variety of spoony speeches to select from.” BAD CASE Of MUD ALL AROUND) The little strip of ground at the/ foot of Ninth ay. S., near the Ben nett box factory, is about the mud. diest along th waterfront, and when Alex Swanson was fished out of this muddy pi early this} morving, he war che muadiest man along the waterfront. Alex was in toxicated as well as muddy~-he ad mitted both facts when rescued from his predicament by Police Ser- geant Lee Dagner. Swanson wasn't exactly ill, or injured, but he was rather cold, and muddy—so muddy that Dagner was in @ quandary where to take his charge. “To the city hospital,” said the sergeant, as he loaded Alex into the police patrol. It was a bad case of mud all round. When Dagner helped Swan json into the wagon, he (Dagner) [became very muddy, and when he had unloaded him, the wagon was muddy. By the time the nurses were half through, they were mud dy, and when they had finished, the | hospital was muddy. | HURLED 60 FEET IN AIR Hurled 60 feet in the air by a be jated dynamite explosion, Lewis An a workman, is at the Seattle General hospital today, after having miraculously escaped serious injury He was clearing land for Dr, C, & Davidson, just a little north of the city limits, when, after placing a charge of dynamite, hes pped up caught him in the considerably shaken up, he is not be- lieved to have sustained any inter- nal injurie AER EM CIRM S WEATHER FORECAST * Rain or snow tonight and * % Sunday, Moderate southerly * w winds; temperature at noon, 7 ONLY 13, NO, 260. PETITIONS FOR RECALL FILED Wardall and Blaine Must Face the Music at Last—Plan to Hold Recall Election on February 20. The recall petitions agatnet are filed forts will be made to fix the dat Same Date as City Primary, Counctimen Wardall and Blaine They were received by Deputy Comptroller Chandler at noon today, and checking ap of nany with begin next Tuesday, Ef of the recall lection at the same time that the primaries are held, on Fwb. 20. Those in charge of the recall petitions are confident have secured the necessary 15,000 comptrotier should find that any more that they In any event, in case the the peti. names. names are needed, tloners will have ten days to get them from the now registrations that begin Jan. 2 After the city comptroller has taken 10 days to check up the names, the council may set the recall election any time within 30 or 40 days. January 2, For instance, if the and finished January checking if commenced Tuesday, 12, then the council, by allowing the full 40 days, can set the election for February 20, which ts pri mary day. If, on the other hand, mary day, three of the counclimen, During the counel! sete the day before the pri it will necessitate a special election. Most of the names on the recall summer, when the recall war started agninat petitions were obtained Jast Mayor Dilling and the past few days the petitions were completed with sufficient names to spare to warrant the recall managers in filing them HERE’S A RECORD; TRIPLETS BORN TO SEATTLE WOMAN Palaces of the rich on Seattle's hills may not be exactly resound. ing with the merry pe many babies, but there’s many a from children's voices or the cooing of poor little home in less pretentious sections of the city that is overflowing with the kiddies, One of these latter homes is that of Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Paul, 5551 23rd st. S. Triplets were born to this co The three babes born the a five pounds, or a total of 15 pou uple yesterday. me day are all girls, Each weighed nds for the three. The little mother ie amiling cheerfully today, and her triplets are*kicking lustily and yelling defiance to the universe. Mr. and Mrs. Paul are not ri ch. In fact, they are quite poor, sickness has been quite a strain for Paul. jut what of that when the reward ie TRIPLETS! Why, THE PAULS GAY THEY ARE RICH, AND THERE ARE HUNDREDG, YES, THOUSANDS, OF OTHER THE SAME, COUPLES WHO WOULD SAY And there is at least one man in this country, whose initials are “T. R.." whe would much prefer to shake the hand of Mre. Paul than of all the Hetty Greens in the 1a GETTING ANXIOUS; MSCO, Dee. 20.—-| Railroad ‘chiet of the Southern Pa cifle company are becoming anxious about their jobs, the silence of Puts ident Wm. Sproule being taken as a forerunner of just such another wholesale shakeup as he made when he took hold of the presidency of the Welle Fargo Co, Many changes are certain Jan. 1, and it is thought that among them will be organization of an entirely new executive staff to direct the trans-bay electric ines. TLL HAVE To Give. You A Four DOLLAR. ROOM,—HERE BOY TAKE THIS CEHTLEMAN TO 308 |KNOW HIS FATE SOON {By Uatvea Breas wire) OROVILLE, Cal, 30.—Ac beused of the marder of little Helen Rumball while she waa trieed up to, 4 seantling In the aftic of hee home at Gridley, Arthur Lewis, brother of the child's stepmother, probably will know hie fa before night After a hard fight between attor neys over the summing up of the case the jury took the matter at 11:15 o'clock today. The greatest interest is expressed fn the trial, and the court house in crowded to ‘hear the verdict SR Si Wau sik, | Oon'T BELIEVE | CAN DO IT AFTER Ace. VL WAVE To SIVE You SOMETHING & | The peattle ; ylar INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH,, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1911, a CENT. Here’s Fretty Little Nevilla, ee Cl Artists’ | A town may have but 1,500 inhabit-; ants, but you'd bet on four times that | when you see the people going to the depot to watch the train come in, Model, Youngest West of Chicago THREE MORE CANDIDATES FILE TODAY Thomas M. Alderson filed with the elty controller today as a can- didate for corporation attorney, making the second one in the race for this position. Deputy Prose- itor Caldwell filed several days ago. Frederick D. Chandler filed for the posttion of controller, and Ed ward Terry, present city treasurer, put im bile application for another term. Chandler has been chief dep- | uty ig the office under Bothwell and he will have the support of his chief in the present campaign, There was little change in the mayoralty situation today, The so- called bosiness men's committee ts | still, looking for the “third choice, and there was some talk of getting Jos§ Collins into the race. How evet, Josiah will probably think ton before taking a chance NEVILLA WHEELER Seattle child model, at the top, her sister, Juanita, below. ita has now “retired” work. Man Is Arrested (Ry United Press Leased Wire) GRANTS PASS, Or, Dec. 30.—-R. and | Juan- from the in Pullman Berth| Nevilla Wheeler is 8 years young, a Se girl, and artist’s mod She's the youngest model west of Chicago, artists say. The artists in| the Northwest are proud of her, and this week discussed taking her to some of the big art centers in the East. When pretty littl Novilla was asked today how she liked posin for pictures, she exclaimed, in her sweet little voice Fine I like it better than I do to go to school, or play dolls, or anything.” The other girl in the picture is] Juanita, Nevilla’s older sister, but she is not posing now. These two bright Seattle young- sters are the daughters of Mr. and Mra, D, A. Wheeler of Kenwood place. Nevilla attends the Green Jake school, studies music and plays with her dollies, just like other little | girls, But she does the posing in addition, and is bard at work at it nearly every week She has been posing since she was 5 years old, and says she AL- | WAYS wants to do it mother \smilingly says that she can help jout the artists until she gets some | what older; then she'll probably re tire with a snug little bank account Ramored Judge Ramors were rife this morning | morning, by Chief of Polle thatJudge Wilson R. Gay of the su- peripr court will resign early next! Frank +f. Collier, deputy district at- take over the manage-|torney at Portland ot a local paper. mo! me hu to if ‘hh the y phatically deni first have that such a rumor is out,” toldThe Star today, “and I positive-|son for his arrest was because of | ve no intention of resigning.” | trouble he had had with his wife,| Tacoma, today brought in a verdict ize Gay had given out a state- mest Jast spring that he intended! her a ten-acre ranch in Multnomah to Pedign, because the salary was|county, took what other valuables | G. Allison of Portland was arrested | Suppose YOU ight this | Minute, aud see McLane, instructions from ited train here, before da on telegraphic The telegram give the reason why Allison | was wanted. 1| ‘The man stated to the police chief, he | however, that he supposed the rea- Judge Gay | did no ed this, intimation jury in the case of manslaughter, liberation. He stated that he turned over to and a dazzling reputation. Nevilla can “hold in a Pullman car berth on the Soath-| minutes at a time before she rests. Gay Will Quit| orn Pacific southbound Shasta lim-| a pose” for ten try it for just ONE} how you like it Manslaughter (By United Presse Leased Wire) REDDING, Cai., Dec. of ‘Daniel Fleming, for the murder of George Vall after 12 hours’ de- Sentence will be pro- nounced next Wednesday. not sufficient on the bench. Later he decided to finish out his term. SHIP IS SAFE (Ry Waited Press Leased Wire) SAN DIEGO, Cal., Dec. 30.—The | narrowly escaped death in the Sal- German Ship California, out 163| vation Army hall here last night, days from Shields, Eng, and given! when the interior decorations inct- | up for lost, hax been sighted 20/dental to a holiday miles off Point Loma. She Is be calmed, Tugs have gone to her. = he bad and left. ASHTARULA, 0., Dec. 30, Christmas tree. fully realized their danger, the inte- tior of the hall was a mass of flames, The California was last seen at pe 4 Horn early in September ANOTHER BLUE EYES TELLS WHAT SHE DID WITH THAT TEN DOLLARS Seattle, Wash, Dee. 28, 1911. I want to thank you over and over again for being so kind and good to me on Christmas, for | was very much sur. prised to get $10.00 in gold, all my own. It made me feel as if I was olf Santa himself, for I never had so much in my life before. I have now a nice red sweater, and I had all the candy, nuts, oranges, apples and cookies I could for Christmas, and so did my broth: er andthree sisters, and above all, it made me so happy to be able to give a few good things to eat to a family of seven children near our house whose father got hurt and cannot work, and they did not get much of anything, for nobody seemed to remember them. I also gave one of the little brothers a pair of good shoes that were very welcome. I only wish I could have given much more. So please tell the man that sent Another Blue Eyes $10.00 for itamas that he made 15 hearts happy by his kindness, and I am that will make his heart happy too, and that will be 16 happy Dear Editor: ‘Well, I will close by wishing you a Happy New Year. ANOTHER BLUE EYES, 1033 Elmgrove St. 200 HAVE A NARROW ESCAPE Two} | hundred men, women and children celebration caught fire from a candle on the} Before the guests SILK SKIRT FUND (By United Press Leased Wire) SAN JOSE, Cal., Dec. 30.—Recog- nizing the danger in the near ap- Jproach of leap year, @ score of | bachelors meet February 29 to plan }a defense against the “more deadly than the male.” They'll have a silk skirt tune FIRST WOMAN CLERK KANSAS CITY, Dec. 30.—Miss Adelaide Utter will quit a job of 19 years’ tenure Monday, when the United States clreult court here will go out of existence. |to be merged with the federal court Miss Utter was the first woman to be appointed to a federal court clerkship in the United States. DO YOU KNOW?) That Postmaster George Russell was born where the Sullivan build- ing now stands? That the postoffice used to be lo- cated at First avy. and Seneca st,? That Federal Judge Donworth used to be a law partner of Former Senator Piles? That Prof. J. Allen Bmith, who has written one of the most author. itative books, quoted in arguments for the recall of judges, ete,, prac: ticed law for five years before be- coming a university professor? PLUNGE TO DEATH IN THAN “Oregonian” Wrecked in Da- kota — Report Is That Wounded Passengers Are Being Cremated in Flaming Cars. . (ity United Prees "Leased Wire) | DEVIL'S LAKE, N. D, Dec. 30.—It is reported here that 25 persons perished in a wreck on the Great Northern at Sharon. Every physician here has left for the scene of the disaster. The train is the “Oregonian.” It is reported that the wounded are being cremated in the smashed cars, but owing to the inaccessibility of the wreck full details have not yet been obtained. It is reported here that the train went over a 15-foot em- bankment and that the cars are still burning, with bodies of those caught being consumed. Eight injured persons have been rushed to the hospitals. The wreck was caused by a derangement of schedules, due to the running of special trains. The. wrecked flyer left here ‘at 10:30 o'clock last night. Plunged Over Bank. From the meager reports in the hands of the rafiroad heads, the en- tire train, except the engine and mail car, plunged over the embank- ment. Then fire started, and with- in half an hour four cars were con- sumed. A courier brought rellef from Sharon, and the injured were carried away in sleighs and attend- ysicians and nurses from station near Sharon. arm, the only physician on the train, though himself sert- ously injured, gave relief to the maimed passengers. Among the dead are said to be the |eonductor. and a brakeman, ‘MAY BE FIGHT AT PEACE DINNER (By United Press Leased Wire) | NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—That old | Hibernianism, “we'll have peace av | we fight for it,” well describes the situation apparent before the wide- ly-heralded = “peace —_ banquet,” | which, with President Taft as chief guest, will be held tonight at the Waldorf-Astoria. Following denunciations of the banquet by Former President |Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and Mayor Gaynor, the war spirit is so rampant that precautions to pre- |vent a serious clash have been tak- jen, and fop the first time in the |history of a formal feast here, thirty police will attend, prepared |to oust any guest refusing to-ac- his peace unadulterated and exactly as prescribed by the com- mittee on arrangements. Fifty oth- er police have been detailed to |guard President Taft. | Taft to Make Hot Reply | The president, usually pacific, is jexpected to talk “right out in meetin’” tonight, and to reply hot- ly to Col. Roosevelt's allegation that the peace treaties now before con- gress, to applaud which the ban- quet will be held, were conceived in a “spirit of hypocrisy.” Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clews and Chas. A. Towne are also sched- uled to speak after Taft's address. A special train from Washington will bring numerous diplomats. to grace the feast. It will arrive at 4:30 p. m. and start on the return to the capitol at midnight. OPEN H¢ HOUSE AT Y. M.C. A. Thousands of visitors are expect- ed to take advantage of the oppor tunity afforded to see Seattle's greater, Y. M. C. A. in action on New Year's day, when the associa- tion will have an “open house” from 2 to 10 p. m, and both men and women will be welcomed. Special athletic and aquatic feat- ures have been arranged for the gymnasium and swimming pool, and all of the special events will be re- peated at intervals to give all an opportunity to see them. HERR RRR KEKE The court is|* *® NEW INVENTION * TO FOIL CUPID * IN LEAP YEAR ® * * n* KKK KKK EEK