The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 4, 1912, Page 1

kicker has the same se him all the time, for his motion get him anywhere, VOL, 13, NO, 264, | The Sea ONLY INDEPENDENT NE SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1912 ATION MOURNS DEATH OF “FIGHTING BOB” effects from the old wounds in the ‘civil war or from the recurrent at tacks of rheumatiam, from which Pine suffered for years. er ft FOR MAYOR I will be asked ty contest at ‘of citizens to be hall tomorrow ore. fet call the meeting ide. Other will ‘evening will be Wil- Wilmon Tuck partaking of a hearty Admiral Evans went to his library, He was stricken there about 2 p.m. Members of his fam- fly immediately summoned Dr. 8. 8. Adams, who found him in great pain. Responding, apparently, to treatment, the admiral fell into a i |of the alleged operation. | ral Rvane and his email taken ri efter Dé Fotinatent trom eetine service. wg WROHINGTONT ‘Sane ™ ae"wyien Testles sleep, and his family be I immediate danger was ive. sation mourn sre My passed. He awakened, however, shortly after 4 o'clock, and, raising me himself on his elbow with great dif- |fleulty, announced that chok! “tam unable to get my breath,” he said. Then he sank bac! fully conscious to the tast, died at Reet ee se & | Picture of Admi * his family. | the dead naval; Steet wee es ee we! * * “Fighting Bob's” Career * "Rvana was born 65 3| * *) * * # Admiral Horn to San Francisco on ite world-|® years ago In Floyd county, iniontes | girdling cruise. ® Virginia. He was at Annapo- The navy department will have # lis when the civil war broke ike of the funeral ar- @ oat, and he was immediately These will be with- # assigned to sea duty. At Fort the dead officer # Fisher, N. C., he recetved the % wound tn « thigh which crip * pled bim for life, But he Admiral Evans’ death was end (® served through the war with den. When be arose yesterday he) ® gallantry, In the reorganize 4—Deaperste riot- announced to members of his fam-'® tion of the navy and the de rhe velopment of the first “white squadron,” Evans took an ac tive part. He commanded the Dolphin on a cruise around the world to test the firat product of an American steel ship plant. He commanded the battleship Iowa in the fight with the Spanish admiral, Cervera, at Santiago. In 1909, as an admiral, he started to take the great battleship fleet around the world, but iiness compelled bim to give it up when the fleet reached San Francisco. * boll] «| rai * *) *) * * * pd *) * *) «| * a | for'® some time, He sald he felt no il SUPREME COURT JUDGE MARRIES (By Gaited Press Leased Wire) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4.--After a hurried trip from Honolulu, Jadge | Antonio Perry, aasociate justice of | the Hawaiian supreme court, ts here jtoday to claim as his bride Miss ; Bugenia M. Venderburgh. They will be married Tuesday, and will imme-) diately return to Honolulu. The supreme court judge is unusually young for a man to be dying at in his responsible position, being . No siate-| but 40. He is well known on the iy the family.’ Pacific coast. eee * | | eeeeeseeee * * * * * * Jan. 4.—Mrs. W. * ! o = RARER HAHEHEH NIX ON GRIZZLY BEAR SAN JOSE, Cal, smart set is warring against what it terme San Francisco's sensuo' wavageries, “the Texas Tommy. |“Bunny Hug” and “Grizzly Bea: | They were danced at the swell Ve | dome, and debutantes were dragged | home. SSS pe SS EE SET IRRITATIONS OF LIFE j t-Relieiohalahaielclahalele * |® The big meat packers long }® ago boasted that they used | “everything but the squeal.” ® And now that they have got ® WOMAN DOCTOR AARESTED.SAYS I'S MISTIKE Dr, Katherine Harrison, on Charge of Mansla tr, Denies Knowledge Girl Who Made Dying Statement Against Her. With Dr, Katherine Hi in jail, facing a cha of mavmavel ter as the result deat dep- esition made by Augusta Boon, o young Vancouver girl, offic! to- Gay asserted that they are deter. mined to drive Seattle's illegal Practitioners out of business. The warrant for t rest of the woman was issued by Progecut- or Murphy, after the dying state ment of the girl, with other evi- dence, wax submitted by the “Van-) couver police, and was served on Dr. Harrison in her apartments, at 1707 Bellevue av, She spent dast| night in the city jail, after failing to raise the necessary 94,000 bail, and at noon today she waa removed denies ever performing at operation, or ever seeing, less treating, a woman named Au- guste Boon, Her attorney, L. es says the police have bi red. Prosecuting Attorney Miller re- has against the woman, aside from the dead girl's statement, but in this ts contained the name and ad- dress of Dr. Harrison, and the date Tt tn also known that ¢ local thorities are in possession of affidavite from Vancouver people, in which the dead girl is said to have admiited | CI her plight and the Illegal operation. ‘There is pathos tn the dead girl’ story, She eame to Seaitie un- known to relatives and friends, to seek ald. She became acquainted with Dr. Harrison through adver. tiaements carried in two local news: papers. The girl gave the date of the operation as Dee. 4, and she died in Vancouver last Saturday, after making her dying statement. What Doctor Says. In the city prison this morning, Dr, Harrison said she bad never 4 after signed a death certificnt: says she did not even know she was | ander arrest until Informed by re | porters. She says she waa told she war wanted as a witness in & Japanese murder trial, she is about 50 years old. Prosecutor Murphy says his of flee will tnatitute s crasade againat | mal-practitiouers, mair and femate. | He says such cases are the hardest with which hie office bas to oon tend, because no one ie willing to proaectite, on account of the pab- Helty. i d Coasting Allowe Chiet of Police Bannick wishes to correct the Impression that the de- partment has placed a ban on coast jog. He sald thie morntog that re cent orders ixeued to patrolmen were to stop consting only when it was over car tracks or sidewalks or dangerous corners. Said the chief: “L wish to correct an impression that has gotten out In regard to an order prohibiting all coasting in the elty. There was an order ie sued from this office January 3, 1912, to the effect that consting across street car lines, noticeably dangerous places aud sidewalks and crossings where dangerous to pe destrians must be stopped.” SENSATION IN LOCAL GIRL’S TRIAL SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4.—Par-| ther charge preferred by Mins Ethel| Williams of Seattle, when a com- plaint was sworn to on a perjury charge for the arrest of Joseph Wat- IN S le Star EATTLE Iii, Too bad I} be spanked Ml the youngs' a8 ARCHITECT AND HIS MAMAH SATIATE THEIR ECSTATIC SOULS IN COZY BUNGALOW ) } 5 4 1 it i | ‘i er os Rugs, N Architect Wright and Mamah Gorthwic, with a glimpases of thebungalow where the “hegira” is o fuses to disclone what evidence he| @ 87d artist's sketch of the way Wright helped his Mamah over the creek on the slushy day their ex- BY &. Cc. ROGERS SPRING GREEN, Wis., Jan. 3— ‘Every man has to live his own sife, and he ought to be allowed to live ita he thinks best,” explains Frank Lieyd Wrig wealthy Oak Park, tect, now on his sec- ond “epiritual hegira” with Mamah Borthwick. More than a year ago he atartied hie fashionable friends oy “negiring” to Europe with then Mre. &. H. Cheney. Mrs. Cheney returned to her hus re . too, went back to his wife nix children. Apparently the eceantric architect was forgiven. But & brick wall was built straight through their fashionable residence, separating husband and wife. “Mrs. Wright is @ good woman and a good mother,” her hasbend She joxplnined. as he stood at the door of ‘hin $60,000 bungalow. At his side Was Mamah Rorthwick, young ond pretty. “But.” the architect added, “whe Ik a separate unit. haa pever been a real companion— wife to me; always she was the mother of my children. As a moth: er she was at her best: she knew not my work, my inapirations, my a “It is wrong, #0 cruelly wrong, to Shalt the city acquire the owner ship of publie docks? Shall the city own its telephone system? Here are some of the little frrita of Mfe borne by the people under the private ownership of pub- He utilities: Stung by Wharfage Monopoly. L. ls Moore, a farmer at Pierson, Wash, actosa the wound, paid 40 cents for wharfage at the Colman deck for a crate of chickens shipped to him. He then had them re- shipped to Brownsville, Wash., and the wharfage charged him at an- other dock, pier 4, amounted to $1.25, or 285 per cent as much as at the Co dock. Wharfage, to- gether with totaled op to nearly 26 per cent of tion was added today to|the entire value of the chickens. | Jan. 4.—~The | the trial of Dr. 0. C. Joslen, op a| Moore is now enthusiastically ‘in| favor of muniting! docks. The Telephone Grats. G. F. Mather paid $18 to the In- dependent Telophone company on kins, 4 bellboy, who, with Martin J. Prince, another bellboy, testified ad- versely to the Williams girl. was booked today at the city prison | and the police are seeking Watkins. | | The two testified that on a certain | pight last Auguet Miss Williams was | red from the Palace hotel. They | mentioned a certain room. The pros- jecution, investigating, ascertained | # into court they are using the ® squeal, too. Philadelphia * North American, eee RHHHETRE ALLEGES TERROR OF COST OF LIVING DROVE HIMTO MURDER hat on the date mentioned the room {had been ocupled by Dr. L, D. Blod- |gett, a prominent physician crom Tulare, @ regular guest. January 1, 1910, for a whole year's rental of a residence phone at 3202 Prince | Judkins st. He received $1 discount | at that time; On January 1, 1911, he again paid $18. He received no Br “LINCOLN, Neb, Jai cases are set hig periodical, Commoner. “The McNamara confessions 4.—Exp ' “Thies Is manifestly unfair, She | HOW THE PEOPLE ARE STUNG BY MONOPOLY the freight charged, | suffer in bonds of indissolubie mat- rimony,” says Wright, “My wife Ought to divorce me. She knows that none of your courts will free me, but that they will do #0 if she asks. As for myself, | care nothing for the so-called ‘conventions’ of #o-) clety. 1 choose to live as my heart, my feelings, my desires, dictate— | and not otherwise.” “Then why bother about Wright obtaining a divoree?’ Mra, 1 queried. | “Because they won't permit me to live my way. Already this noto- |Hety you newspaper reporters have | | given ys bas nearly rufned me no-| cially and financfally. Without the income from my business, | cannot support Mra. Wright, my children and ourselves.” “Ourselves” included Mamah Borthwick, I took {t Isn't it possible that Mra, Wright does not value the presence of her |buaband in dollars and cents?” Mra. Wright for me does not ex ist any more, except as the mother of my children, She should under. jstand that as well as we. When | | first met Mra. Cheney, her husband introdveed me to her, The effect was electyical. I loved, loved ax I never loved can but once in a lifetime. that night on Mrs. Cheney was in | discount this time, but got a receipt showing he had paid up in full to January 1, 1912. On January 2, 1912, he tendered the Independent company $21.00, which was in accordance with the | higher rates allowed by the public [service commission. But the com- }pany Was not satisfied with that, and refused to accept the money junti) Mather should agree to pay 50 cents additional on his 1911 bill, for which he had @ year ago re- ceived a receipt in full. Receipt in Full Not Honored. The 60 cents represented the in- | creased rates which went into effect in November, 1911, When Mather refused, he war told by Manager | Webster that his telephone would be taken out, and this notwithstand- ing the fact that the company has been getting the benefit of Mather's | $18 in advance, which at 4 per cent | interest Is worth 72 cents per year, more than enough to cover the 50 | cents increase, even if the company | were entitled to it. Mather is in favor of municipal telephones, and for their acquire- ment as soon as possible. n on Those Confessions ressions of Wm. J. Bryan's opinions forth today in the current issue of it say: have given enemies of organized la- bor a chance to libel all connected with organized efforts to protect ners, The same men who a@ indignant wi ver the of libel at all who are forced to earn their bread by the sweat of their brows. Organized jabor has learned a ies eaeeeeeee werrecrettrrtrr set ers. different to her husband and I to my wife. “Day by day the feeling grew— we must leave apd ching to each other, We agreed to spend a year together. Then, if we still felt that we were created for each other, Mr. | Cheney was to divorce his wife; my wife was to free me. Mr. Cheney did that, and became a martyr; Mra. Wright has made me a social outcast “by ber stubborn refusal to SPURT RE REE ERY * *® BY FRANK L. WRIGHT 1 am tired, The woman is tired. We are living the life that truth dictates, Our hope is that we may benefit human- ity. Our determination is to be true to our ideals at all costs. Against 4 passion that was & passion of man for woman and woman for man, but be- neath and above ali that a passion for truth, not content with self sacrifice, that count- ed the loss of worldly esteem, the scorn and insulte of so ciety, as things well lost, we bal ed the humiliation of growing cbildren. * * * * * * * * Peer eres RRR RAR ERR RRERE * * * * WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight; Friday rain or snow; moderate southeasterly winds, Temperature at noon, ® a * RARER REE EARTH TILTS CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 4—A series of earth vibrations were registered today by the seismo- graph at St. Ignatius colle -Father Odenbach deciared ti the earth floe on which Cleve- land is located has tilted slight- ly to the southwest, probably affecting a triangular stretch of land from Cleveland through Elmira, N. Y:, to Newburyport, Mass., and southwest to Cincin- nati, Father Odenbach believes that Monday's tremors caused the floe’s depression. BOOST TO _ WILSON BOOM United Press Leased Wire) NEW YORK, Jan. 4.—The asser- tion by Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey that President Taft has set an impossible task for his tariff board struck a popular chord here, and added impetus to his boom for the democratic presidential nomina- tion is seen toda: Gov. Wilso! criticism of the president was made while speaking before the National Democratic club, Wom. J. Bryan has arrived at Tam- pa, , and it is expected that he will announce his campaign policy at the Jackson day dinner, next week. LA FOLLETTE ILL (By United Prese Leased Wire) JOLIET, lil, Jan, 4.—Sen- ator Robert M. La Follette ar. eeeeeeeeeeee * * oftentimes that pants can’t before they are cut down for iter. JUDGE [0 oHOT DOWN Captured After Two Hours’ ice Over Desert—Lynching Is Feared—Assailant Angry Over Verdict, (By United Press Leased Wire) RIVERSIDE, Cal., Jan. 4.—Lying in wait in the hall of a downtown office building, John Chinnici, an Italian, shot and probably fatally wounded Justice of the Peace Helton Webb as he was entering his offices today. Chinnici then slipped downetairs to the street and fled toward the lopen country, A posse of police and deputy sheriffs at once took hie trail, which led toward the des ert. Captured on Desert Chinnic! was captured on the border of San Bernardino county by Sheriff Wilson after a terrific chase, The Italian, on a bicycle, for two hours eluded the posse, and gave up only when he fell, exhaust- ed, from the machine. Wilson is taking every precaution to guard his prisoner, The man was brought to Riverside surrounded by armed deputies who feared an attempt at lynching by Webb's angry friends. Feeling is running high and the sheriff has ordered triple guard throughout ‘the jail. The shooting grew out of a civil suit Involving $90, in which Chin- nici and his brother were Mtigants, | Webb decided against Chinnicl, who stormed from the court room in @ rage. Chinnict fired four times at the Justice. One bullet found its mark, plowing through the right shoulder and lodging in the right lung, Webb was rushed to a hospital, where it was stated he had little chance to recover. STILL NO WORD FROM BRADFORD Comptroller Bothwell had re ceived no answer up to noon today | to his letter to Corporation Counsel | Bradford on the question of the validity of the recall’ petitions | against Blaine and Wardall. Brad- | ford announced yesterday that he | would take up the consideration of | that question at once, but he has |e0 far given no official intimation |as to what ‘is opinion will be. | J saaicineeniiieg jONE MORE TRIAL IN LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4.—After waiting more than six months im jthe Los Angeles county jail, Bert | H. Conners, Ira F. Bender and A. |B. Maple, labor leaders charged an conspiracy to dynamite the , Hall of Records here, were brought jto trial today | It was learned shortly after the | Session opened, that separate in- | Soteents had been returned by the «rand jury, whereupon separate trials were ordered. Maple and Bender will go to trial officially Monday, with Conners to follow, PERE ERE REE EH Doubtless by this time Mr. Taft is wondering whether he had better continue to call him “My dear Theodore” or plain Colonel Roosevelt—Los = An- Beles Express. + eee R EEE NNIPEG, Jan. ing from a carelessly thrown cig- arette destroyed the Excelsior Mo- tor Works and garage with 20 auto- mobiles and eight houses and two stores. The loss was over $200,000. With the thermometer 30 below zero, the firemen had a terrible Ume getting control of the Names. BLOWN TO ATOMS VANCOUVER, B. ©., Jan. 4.—An- other fatal powder explosion occur red at M. P. Cotton’s contracting camp, at Kerrisdale today, a man named Nacleur being blown to atoms when he investigated an un- exploded charge of dynamite, “JUST LEARNING” SOUTH PASADENA, Cal., Jan. 4. —Mre. P. Rodgers, wife of the aviator, held for automobile speed- ing, was released on her plea that she was learning to drive. The po- liceman cranked her car and bowed her out of sight. SANTA BARBARA, Cal, Jan, 4 jit was intimated that the attorneys Taking of testimony in the trial of |may try to prove that the father was John Ri charged with the mur-|driven insane by worry over his der of his 4-hour-old babe, began to-| personal economic problems. day. The jury, which has been com. it was evident from the outset | pleted, is-composed almost entirely that the defense plans to base its|of farmers lying near this city. case on Rech’'s terror of the ever-| Rech bore himself unconcernedly son. It will be more careful in the future selection of leaders. “Society may weil pause and inquire if anything is wrong with eonditions which lead men into dastardly conspiracies against life and GRIFFITHS’ AMENDMENTS FAIL rived in Joliet from Chicago to- day sick, Oysters eaten in the Windy City partially poisoned him and he felt poorly. Despite this he decided to continue his speech making tour, and ad- dressed a big throng at the Auditorium, Misses’ Man- increasing cost of living. Further, | Morphine Fiend Was in (By United Prose Leased Wire) PORTLAND, Or. Jan. 4.—The mysterious “Dr. J. C. Day,” over whose real identity the Portiand po- Hee puzzied for nearly a week, ad- mitted today that he is Frank C. Smith, and is wanted in Los Angeles for embezzling $3,500 from Nellie K. Bell, The police assert that Smith con- the woman's money and said that he was willin) to return to California without tradition papers and stand t According to advices received here, Smith left his wife in Los Angeles eight months ago, when he dropped from sight. in court today. Identified; — oy Seattle Recently’: Bince his disappearance he has been in Alaska and British Colum- bla, He arrived in Portland recent- ly from Seattle, and was arrested for entering a room in a local hotel not his own, Following Smith's arrest, the po- lice officials found travelers’ checks in the sum of $1,000, made in favor drawn on the Bank in Victoria, B. C,, sev- eral checks on Seattle banks which proved worthless id a number of icles bearing different names. All efforts to identify the man failed, Councilman Griffiths proposed a charter amendment providing for the board of public works to carry jonimprovement work by day labor, giving the joba preferably to tax- ayers, was voted down this morn- ing, Griffiths put the proposed amendment up before the council sitting as a committee of the whole, and by & vive voce vote, it failed to get any supporting vote. Speak- ing, against the amendment, Coun- cilman Erickson said, “It would turn this council chamber into an employment office, and throw th doors wide open for potty politic: Griffiths was also turned down by a vote of six to three on his propos alternative charter amendment establishing a public welfare board to take charge of all penal ahd other public Institution: however, until today, when Smith was confronted with a full desert; tion and history of his case furnish: ed by the United Pregs, including the city jail. The council, in @ committee of the who! I ready agreed to submit a charter mendment along these lines draft. ed by the Charity Organization s0- ciety, which permits the council to provide the detailed plans for work- ing out the general scheme as time goes on, The amendment that will go to the people in March will al- jow the council to provide for eith- er a board or a commissioner to take charge of these institutions, and to take care of prisoners, re- moving that duty from the jurisdic- tion of the police, The Oregon plan of publicity for candidates came up again in the form of an amendment, giving the council the right to provide by or- dinance for the same. In this manner the cost of printing the Oregon plan amendment Is greatly reduced, TEN YEARS Fi ER OROVILLE, Cal, Jan, 4.—Ar thur Lewis, convicted of the mur der of Helen Rumball at Gridley, was today sentenced to ten years in San Quentin prison, OUR PRECISE ARTIST gazed long into her timpid Tailored Coats GREAT REDUCTIONS $18.00 $20.00 $ 8.50 $10.00 $12.50 values... 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