The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 13, 1912, Page 1

_ Let Taft Know what Seattle thinks about Humphrey’s "aay ” lore he gets the life job. | anybody present this evening H] “God-Ha' tes-a-Coward péeral judge? ] LW PHREY FOR Humphrey jf Make or Break an DERAL JUDGE g” Meeting of Young Republicans Develops Into When R tment of Lame Duck to Federal Bench. signed by every important law firm in ne was forwarded to Attorney General night, protesting against the appointment vy to the federal bench. sign the telegram is Ballinger's, .. together” din. ‘Men’e Republican ercial club rooms and for. to President p held off the ap- esolution Comes Up Declaring The single big law * [that the president has selected a politictan and not a lawyer for the judgeship. 1 worked for him for ; man,” Rummens seid, “bu he is without the slightest qualifi cation under the pun to be a ji To make him judge would be ward & superannuated MISS NANA BRYANT matinee girls, according to Nana Bryant, really make ‘@m actress’ popularity in the early i Actress, She Says You can’t get sness for the federal bench. Attend the Dreamland Hall meeting tomorrow afternoon. petent after he once lands on the bench. Better protest rid of an WSPAPER IN H., SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, i120 WHY SOME FOLKS SUSPECT THE BENCH That great and good leader, Willum Howard Taft, has unfailingly frowned on those scornful and irreverent citizens! who did not accept the judiciary at its full worth—that is, the self-fixed value of the wearers of the ermine—-and because Arizona wanted to have something to say about the firing of judges, he ponderously stomped on the proposed constitution until he kicked out the secall amendment Willum Howard is strong for the respect of the public for the judiciary, and considers the federal judges peculiarly re- moved from the common herd. . Naturally Willum Howard, baving the judicial tempera- ment in large gobs distributed. thro his system, cri¢s:| “Holy, Holy, Great Judge! Heaven and earth are full of thy! glory, and the job is for life.” But the common herd, we mutts who merely carn a living} and get some part of it in hand, is apt to consider a judge) amenable to dissection, investigation and analysis. We con-/ sider a judge no less a crook, incompetent, dub or valet of Big Business because he wears the ermine, and has a life job. The average Seattle citizen will not regard God-Hates-a- Coward Humphrey as any more of a progressive, competent, fair, impartial or worthy judge than he considers him a worth- while congressman. If Taft picks a soft spot for Humphrey to fatl on before the voters kick him out of his job, and be- cause that soft snap for this lame duck happens to be the federal bench, it does not change Humphrey, does not make him the less small, bigoted or standpatish; IT DO MAKE IT MORE DANGEROUS, BECAUSE IT GIVES HIM POWER THAT ONLY COMPETENT, HONEST MEN SHOULD HOLD! A Humphrey, when elevated to high judicial positions, is merely an object lesson in how not to do it. It seems to further convince citizens that party prestige and political) chance make judges out of men ho otherwise could not make a living at the law in a police court, and that the sooner the people contro! their judges, and kick them out when proven false, weak or muddled, the sooner will justice take off her and give a square deal to every man, instead of groping in the dark, and giving it ta the cause with the longest mitt. . The man who would not suspect, despise and contemn a plan to make the highest judicial positions a dumping ground for political derelicts and worthless outcasts, hasn't enough res to object to any sort of an intruding swine nesting in his baby’s crib, and any branch of a polit party that con- siders CM. srall ated a farce of government and digging a dirty grave Humphrey on the federal bench for life! Boss Tweed for attorney general! Satan to comduct the service next Sun- day ! Bah! If Taft forces that sort of a stench on the nostrils of SEATTLE ONE CENT. 3 |Hammond, Candidate for Corporation Counsel (This ie The Star's fifth article telling about the candidates for cor- poration counsel of Seattie.) FRANK E. HAMMOND | He raised fancy pigs to go to) school. Which means only that the pige were raised. They didn't go to school. They were sold for fancy prices so that Frank E. Ham- mond could go to school. You see, | Frank wanted to show that could make hin own through college. When he was a kid, he sold newspapers, just because he} [liked to do it, not because he had they had crammed gold and the to, He also ran a confectionery |store before he became a lawyer. | Hammond was born in the little | |burg of Hamburg, la, 34 years) }ago. He copped some oratory med-) als in the pabile schools and then | jentered lowa university, graduat. ing from the law department in| | 1900. He then went to Washing: | |ton, D. C., for a little extra study | the George Washington univer: | and in 1906 came to Seattle. | Hammond is married, haa three/ children and lives at 1728 32nd av, Anyhow, EDITION f Taft will have one vote in i this district—that is, if Humphrey hap- pens to be home. SAFE CRACKERS — LOOT BANK, THEN FLEE WITH CASH Engage in Hot Running Battle With Citizens, in Which One Is Probably Fatally Wounded—Robbers Drop Bag Con- taining Several Thousand TKR TTR hh hh * * & The bag of money dropped & by the bandits was taken in Newport was dynamited four years ago and $1,000 stolen. The county authorities believe that the same men “pulled” both jobs. Seeeeeee eee * * * * * * * * * © * * * * i i A ie i ln i in in in i (By United Press Leased Wire) NEWPORT BEACH Cal. Jan. 13—Three cracksmen early today blew the safe of the State Bank of Newport and es- caped with the cath aftef a run- ning battle with citizens, dur- ing which one of the bandits was wounded and Bradley Kemble, a fisherman, was shot twice in the back and perhaps fatally wounded. Bills of large denominations were scattered about the streets by the bandits, who in their flight dropped a bag into which bills aggregating several thou- sand dollars. Used Nitro Glycerine @ crackemen shattered the bank safe with nitro glycerine shortly before 2 o'clock in the morning. Working pidly, they Dollars. tgathered practically the entire con- tents of the vault and rushed into the street before they were inter- rupted, The detonation caused by the ex- plosion rocked the entire village and within five minutes a dozen citizens, armed with shot guns, had blocked every avenue of escape. Wm, Hall, z saloonkeeper, over- took the cracksmen as they were attempting to reach a buggy they had left at the edge of the town. He exchanged more than a dozen shots with them, one of the trio falling, apparently badly wounded, Desperate Gun Duel One of the bandits, carrying bis wounded companion, reached the buggy, while the third member of the party engaged Hall in a des perate gun duel, ADD ROBBERY—NOON nJoe While the fight was in progress the men in the buggy lashed the horse into a gallop and disappeared in the direction of Long Beach, The third man fled to the bay and escaped In a row boat. Posses directed by Deputy Sher- lifts Robt. Squires and Geo. Law and Constable Jackson of Santa Ana, are onthe trail of the trio, According to telephone messages from Squires, the trial was marked by great splotches of the blood of wounded pandit. Kemble was shot while pursuing the robbers, upposedly by a \charge from Hall's gun, when he crossed the range of fire. He was taken to a hospital in Santa Ana, where two gaping wounds in his |back were dressed. His recovery ts doubtful Three Years ‘Worse Cold |In the recall campaign, Hammond | was an active Gill partisan. Wave Is Due ote re BELOW ZERO TEMPERATURES this judicial district, the English fongue can't spit out red hot words of damnation fast enough to keep up with the insult ee ee ee for Grafting OLUMBUS, 0., Jan. 13.—Con-| % vieted of complicity in wholesale | grafting in the Ohio legislature, | | Rodney Deigle, former sergeant-at-| TTERILU'S Yoce vote. i thet was ¥ ee = JURY DISAGREE that the Wo be discussed thatienged Ai- with the Mr. Allen think Men's Repub- to act in Of the people waguely repli: fo objection to A: Child rained the point the club couldn't con- er just then. Overruled. the matter right of Presi i. “This matter that the club some action on it. If Mt now, it will have no to act.” Pierce, who man- campaign for con 4 ta & substitute motion | - Tesolution, that a Called for the following matter. Dou Rot a substitute 7. + fy pore that the meeting was greeted by| from all parts at this stage n that “it was a|* the club to pass reso Appointment of offi. the President is making Poo, iy anewered Viv. ra he contemplates lor hi 'to hin Judges! this.” meant Makes His Point. Peet WHR urged the adop- , Saying that & real feeling the members Appointment of mt would i it that we should mei Three minutes after the meeting adjourned Ole Hanson completed arrangements for the Dreamland PETITION [a ‘who hasn't a ‘sin-| rink mass meeting to be held tomor row, by renting the hall over the telephone. FILED TODAY DR. JOSLEN'S George F. Cotterill is now in the mayoralty race. His petition was filed with City Comptroller Both- well this afternoon, and his active plans paign. The chief business of tonight's meeting will be the selection of a SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 13.—Af-| campaign committee of fifteen, who ter casting nearly two dozen bal-}will manage the contest. This lots, all with the same result, the|committee will later name the one Jury im the case of Dr. Otto C. Jos-|man who is to direct the campaign len, charged with having betrayed |and who will have charge of the the 17-year-old “candy girl,” Ethel) progressive headquarters in the | Willlams, has been discharged, and | Lumber Exchange building. | preparations are today being made Wilson Won't Manage. |for @ new trial, The vote of the| Rufus R. Wilson, who succesefully Jury stood 6 to 6. The panel was| managed the Poindexter campaign out 24 hours, and who has thus far handled Cot- | Pending the retrial, Prosecutor |terill’s campaign, has withdrawn, |rrank J. Murphy will immediately | Owing to some opposition. Mr. Wil- proceed with the perjury charges |s0n took the action he did purely against Martin J. Prince and Jo-|for the sake of harmony. He will |seph Watkins, bell boys, who gave|*#sist the Cotterill cause in any |testimony against the girl's char-|¥4Y possible, but some other man | acter. will be selected to actively manage j the campaign. (PEERING INTO | _ BARONS’ BOOKS ' | {RT United Pree Leased Wire) liow zero and a blizzard raging, 25 AGO, Jan. 13-—Special Gov-| patients were removed early today ernment Attorney James Wilkerson | from the Edmonton hospital, which today announced that the govern-| was on fire. One wing of the build: ment Intends to examine the books | ing was destroyed. of the Morris Packing Co. He said} eligetdiAtennsialtheonine it probably will take a month for| Alaska, with miles of unopened expert accountants to go over them. | coal deposits, and without fuel for At the resumption of the packers'|the Arctic winter, now can renew trial today, Harry Timmons, chief| ite paeans of praise for the carpet- accountant of the Morris test cost| bag system. department, began his task of ex- pareen Dlaining the firm's records. The A 0u AS | court room was littered with books, the shipping lists of the concerns SAN ANDREAS, Cal., Jan. 13. —Because he does not believe EDMONTON, Alb., Jan. 13.—With the thermometer at 20 degrees be- |for three years alone comprising 40 | volumes of 1,500 pages each. KHER * * * WEATHER FORECAST * * Rain tonight and Sunday; *® * high southeast winds, * contained noth- ing more than a bundle of worthless catalogues and a bot- tle of ink “The expressions on the ban- dite’ faces after the operation, said Cassinelli, “were about as funny as three ulcerated teeth.” * KKK KKEKKHhhkhhhh '$15,000 BAIL NOW } (By United Press Leased Wire) LO8 ANGELES, Jan, 13,—Now held on a fugitive’s warrant, Charles | Dean, acensed of complicity in the an tn |New Westminster bank robbery in] SENTENCE POSTPONED AGAIN |Canada, under arrest here today, Is| REDDING, Cal. Jan. 13.—Sen- jheld in $15,000 ball, instead of} tence was today again postponed in \$1,000, which he was preparing to} the case of Daniel Fleming, special |farnish today when authorities fore-|raflroad policeman, convicted of | saw the move and had him held un-| killing Geo. Vailier of Tacoma, untl) der a fugitive warrant, January 19, to allow a motion for’a The $1,000 ball was fixed in po |new trial on numerous affidavits to lice court yesterday for a minor|be filed by Attorney Hall for the statutory offense. defense. SCHOONER “TURNS (By United Press Leased Wire) ASTORIA, Or., Jan. 13 —Bulletin. The schooner Admiral turned turtie late this afternoen and three ef her crew were drowned. ASTORIA, Or. Jan. 13.—Sepa- rated from the jetty proper by 4s wall of water which is sweeping over the shore end of the structure, the Hammond life saving crew th’ afternoon has ali its apparatus ready to attempt the rescue of the captain, his wife, daughter and eight members of the crew of the Gov. ‘Hay Says He Doesn’t Know Much About Primary! jeial Presecutor Chas. W. Braynard Aside from the fact that the Hun- phrey appointment absorbed the in- terest of the “get together” dinner of the Young Men's Republican club, and they didn’t make much fuss over the presence of the gov- ernor after _ all, Gov. Hay lent some interest to the meeting earlier in the evening by admitting that he never ¢ the subject of preferen- tial primary elections much study, “I have never had to go down deep into it,” he said. This, coming after the Tacoma} conference with insurgents and bis refusal to call a special session to) pass a direct primary Jaw, gave Thomas F. Murphine, who spoke as! Poindexter in particular. ae G Say, girls, can you pop the question? been for most two weeks now. Now, honestly, do you think you What would) you say to the lucky fellow whom you would honor with a request to hang up his hat on the same rack with yours for life? You really ought to brush up on this proposal business, and The Star is to begin practicing up on how torspring the question and what to know how to propose? eay. f There will be 12 good seats given away—six at the Metropolitan and six at the Moore theatre—for the ones who can write the best The proposal must not exceed 100 words. many proposals as you choose. The contest is limited to girls and women—young, old, married, letters of proponal. can writ unmarried. To the writer of the best proposal tomiing into The Star office by Wednesday night, four good orchestra seats will be awarded as firat prize for the Thursday night performance of Robert Hilliard, in “A Fool There Was,” at the Metropolitan theatre, built on Kipling’s famous poem, “The Vampire,” and tells about a strong man who ruins himself for just “a hank of hair.” er of the next best letter gets two seats at the same performance. For the writer of the best letter that TURTLE;” 3 DROWN IRLS, HERE’S A PRIZE TO SEE IF YOU CAN POP THE QUESTION ‘schooner Admiral, who are battling jnst Wave and wind on the sway- piling far out on the Columbia r bar. ‘The Admiral, a four-masted Amer- jean schooner, bound from Val- iso to 6Gray’s Harbor, was wn against the jetty shortly be fore noom, and during a slight full those a her climbed to the piling deserted thé ship, which s00n ba ope was bumping ; way tor shore before a heavy southeast gale. The weather is squally and the bar is rough. chairman of the King County Re. publican Central Committee, and} who Is president of the Progressive league, an opportunity to rub it in) good naturedly on the chief execu- tive. Murphine said that without the preferential law, the delegates to the convention to name national delegates would be “handpicked,” and “handpicked” conventions, he said, were not any more popular now than they were after the late la mented Tacoma convention “which snubbed woman suffrage, direct pri- mari¢s for supreme court judges, in. surgency in general and Senator a <== This is leap year-—has te make it worth your while You This play is The writ-\ FORMER JUDGE CHARGED WITH | BRIGERT (By United ire REDDING, Cal., Jan. 13.—Charged with bribery, former Superior Judge Geo. W. Bush, counsel for the Bouthern Pacific, and Raliroat De- tectives J. J. Harold and Geo. W. Mundorf, stand today indicted by county grand egro, who was the principal witness for the prosecu-| tion when Railroad Policeman Dan- jel Fleming was convicted of man-| slaughter for killing Geo. Val of} Tacoma, is declared to have been offered money, a free ticket east and a life job with the railroad com- | pany. Harold Rogers, bodyguard to Spe- during the trial, hid in a bureau in the room in which the bribe is said} to have been offered, and secured the evidence on which the charge is based. FOR STARVING BIRDS MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. 13. —Touched by the pitiful condi- tion of thousands of gulls starv- ing in the harbor here because of the zero weather, city offi- cials today took steps to relieve them. Refuse and garbage col- lected from cafes and restaur- ants, usually incinerated, were apread over the ice, and thou- nds of the gulls gathered and d. thief catcher, the aerial 0 be in the same general the rest of the plain clothes crew; the Lon Angeles quartette that hunted bandits by aeroplane caught only bad colds. FOR FIRE HEROES NEW YORK, Jan, 13.--Fire and police commissioners of New York today granted a request from Wall/ street bankers that they be given permission to raise a fund for the firemen and policamen who did uch valiant work during the fire at the Equitable Life Assurance company's building, on lower Broad- way. Some of the largest banking houses in the metropolis joined in the petition, Relief will be given the families of the men who lost their lives, and comes in by Saturday , there will be four seats for the opening performance of “The Deep Purple,” at the Moore theatre, Jan, 21, rong play: ceived by Saturday, anc e. Send your proposals to “D. Cupid, cai This is another For the second best proposal re- wo seats will be given for the same perform: of The Star.” the firemen and policemen who were injured will recelve Mberal “if the Home colony folks are taking their daily naked dip warm winter afternoons. jarme of the state senate. in the penitentiary was sen | tenced today to serve three years His attorneys filed a brief with the supreme court appealing the case. Arguments will be heard January 23. Try.to Kiil Dr. Morrow CHICAGO, Jan 13.—Attempts bave been made to assassinate Dr. Arthur Morrow, stepson of the mur- dered inventor, Chas. Morrow, whose wife is accused of complicity in the crime, according to the’ po-| lice, who are making an investiga- tion. Dr. Morrow was shot at sev- eral times at night, the police say. Annonymous warnings have ad- mittedly been received by the doc tor, who is a witness against Mrs. Rene Morrow, the accused widow, in the preliminary hearing. “Change your testimony or pay the penalty—your father's fate,” is the threat said to have been con tained in the letter. Among those present last even- ing was Ole Hanson. ORGANIZING TO KEEP HUBBY AT HOME G. A. FORBES SPOKANE, Wash., Jan, 13.~—-The Spokane Y. M. C. A. will organize a Husband-Stay-At-Home club to in- duce married men to eliminate af- fairs of business, “office matters” and unnecessary social engage ments at night in favor of the fire- side. “The home ts the bulwark of the nation,” sald G. A, Forbes of the Y. M. C. A, leader of the new movement. “The modern mania for home leaving is spreading to the country and people are going away from comfortable firesides to attend all sorts of unimportant af- fairs. It is a serious question and the Stay-At-Home movement is meeting @ hearty response all over the United States.” Duluth, Minn., 22; La Crosse, Wis. 26; Davenport, Ia, Huron, S. Dak, Calgary, Al- berta, and St. Joseph, Mo., each 10; Battleford, Mich., 12; Green Bay., Wis., 20; Omaha, 12; Madison, Wis., 20; Esca- naba, Mich. 16; Des Moines, 18; Peoria, Tis, 16; Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., 28, j j + eeeeeeeeeeeee RCH eeeee eee | ee ee ee a et | CHICAGO, Jan. 13.—Another cold wave, more severe than the one | which has held Chicago in its grasp | for the past two weeks, is predicted this afternoon by weather officials. |The storm is rapidly approaching from the Canadian prairies, and is due to reach here tonight. The forecasters announce that it will be the worst blizzard Chicago has ex- perienced in years. With the price of coal boosted an- | other dollar a ton several days ago, and the thermometer today hover- tng around the zero mark, suffering in the crowded districts of the poor is already intense. REM ERR EEE Hy ONLY 27 BELow! COLUMBUS, Iad., Jan. 13, With the thermometer down * to 27 low zero, this district * is experiencing tha coldest ® weather of the winter today, #& * RRR E HEH * * * ; * * * * * * * * . eae NEW PLAYFIELD HOUSE OPENED The new playfteld house, erected jon the Ballard playgrounds by the park board, was formally opened last night. There was a large at- tendance, and the program was an |ugusually good one. There were a number of addresses by. persons prominent in local affairs, els bump Into that steam has the the mast, two each other in local harbor un- tile fire flashes from their steel prows, LAST.ON BACON SHINGTON, Jan. 13.—In a letter published today, President Taft accepted the resignation of Robert Bacon, ambassador to France, who is to accept a fellow- ship at Harvard. The president di- rected his letter to Bacon, saying: “I have a letier from President Lowell, insisting that Harvard is entitled to divide your services with the government.” Folke who were wondering what had become of Doc Roller may be learn that he lost traight fails in Denver last Pole with an awful name.