The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 24, 1912, Page 1

D “VOL. 13. NO. 281. he Seattle Star LY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1912. VICTIM ON FF CROOKED JUDGES jal to The Star) 24.—: the justice, An article fairly bursting with whole American system of and which rips the very ermine ide from the backs of corrupt judges of high and low degree, will be put on the streets here tomorrow in body's Magazine. The author is C. P. Connolly, a well-known investigator and writer and lawyer He says that he has been working on the present expose for 15 years, and that he is prepared to prove that big business interests “have re- treated into the courts and are to make their last stand the judiciary.” He says: “While we have been giving to judges a reverence that men once gave to kings, the forces that corrupt every other branch of public life have been no more” reverent to judges than to aldermen, While we y worshipped they corrupted.” the subject coy ‘te of any state do not polson igs ta the first | the stream of law tn that state Hag array of alone; they flow from common , be wealth to commonwealth, corrupt: has caring the entire legal aystem of state in|country. Once out of its environ of both ment there is no suspicion that be- Digh and hind any decision was a foul in is an | Nuence.” perver:| For instance, he says, the #u- preme court reports of the state of when the) hington are widely used in the sates have citation of decisions in an immense : in body of litigation throughout the powerful | Northwest. Take this example: as Foraker' M. J. Gordon, chief justice of the yivania, ‘state of Washington, once such a decision that mo one but the Missour!,| widow or children of a man kitled and the at his employment could collect have, / damages from bis employers. THE attorney, RESULT WAS THAT THE ;and| MOTHER OR SISTER OF A SIN- like pup-| GLE MAN COULD NOT COLLECT have in| FOR His DEATH. “To be a married man, under this cause single men got the employ- ment. KR was a blow at the home.” | Gordon later became attorney for ithe Great Northern railroad. which elected W. A. Cite: to the senate, refused to vote for Clark. IN| This man had a case in the courts involving $100,000 and he was told “| decision, was to be biackliated, be- . On ber of the ant mir, he says, je men! leatslature, judges | would vote for Clark largest ED AND LOST THE SUIT ON A He read de-| TECHNICALITY. He and) Connolly charges that Milo Root, ‘a judge in Washington, permitted |former Chief Justice Gordon, after ithe latter had become attorney for jthe Great Northern road, to write a “T aw decision which Root later handed out of down, favoring the Great Northern. pave of winter “1 shall prove,” says Connolly, into an {tn writing of articles on the courts sway of which he will presert in the future, re . “that it is a national housecleaning we S prosperous of the judiciary that we need, and Montana, its ; Vin we need it now.” ‘ite resources grt. TRAGEDY OF THE DESERT (By United Prese Leased Wire) SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Jan. 24 "Love to you all, I tried to get | out, but can't. Name the baby after | me if it's a— This unfinished message, presam- ably penned to the wife he never again would see, is belleved to be u the only word left by a man whose was beset by the skeleton was found in the desert ; ) with near Klinefelter, Cal., by Frank ‘W. in a\Chauze, who arrived in San Ber- " |Aardino today. It was written on ime an attorney the fiyleaf of a battered notebook, le to certain | Which contained no means of identi- |fleation except a poll tax receipt, No. 7621, tanned in Bakersfield Chauze found the skeleton and -| the book lying close together, half buried in the sand. ‘Put Blame on Train Men By United Press Leased Wire) CHICAGO, Jan. 24.—Holding Con- ‘or Jas. Brainard and Plagman ry Broecker of train No, 26 gineer Robt. Stuart of train 3 responsible for the wreck at r dy, in which James T. Hara and three other rallroad of- met death, the board of in anded in its report of inveati- «ation today. The board finds the ‘road men guilty of negligence. Harahan Funeral, ‘The funeral of James T. Harahan, former president of the Mlinois Central railroad was held here to- day All business except that of an emergency nature waa suspended , | 0% both the Rock Island and Ilinois |Central roads while the funeral was in progress, trailed and room, B o'clock uting at-| vy of sen that experi lawyers tried | He tn OW. A. Clark to the| Bt the cost | mS YeRReance yor mers Obnoxious to a Bila od Bit ans jpn l* WEATHER FORECAST (Ay decided |* Rain tonight and Thursday, Wirn of the |* high southeast, shifting to # * southwest winds, Temperature ® of state) * at noon, 48, * * * * * * a le A i Ee i i Me Ne eile a a) verye) 4 hopes the letter will serve 4 ° MILO ROOT. OPEN DEFIANCE TO SUPREME GUAT SL ‘Unite: OLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 24 | Open defiance of the Ohio supreme leourt was shown here today by | President Bigelow in an address |before the constitutional conver |tion, Bigelow’s remarks were \prompted when opponents of the initiative and referendum cited the ordinance of 1787 eréating the Northwest territory, of which Ohio is @ part, and™the recent supreme court decision in the case of the atate vs. Boone as indicating that the court will invalidate the init ative and referendum on the ground that it conflicts with that ordinance. “If the decision of the Ohio su preme court fa not repudiated by the people, said Bigelow, “thie convention will be reduced to the position of an ordinary legislature and the work it does, though it be ratified by the people, may be ve. toed by the court. “The friends of initiative and ref: erendum are just awakening to the fact that the supreme court has Jaid plans to have the measures set | “Spinster Bride” Is Shocked Again (Bz_United Prove Leased Wire) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24>- Mre. Margaret | Armstrong Howell, the Spokane “spinster bride,” is recovering today from hysteria which seized her when brought face to face with her husband in Judge Rives’ court, wi he is petitioning for a guardian. “Oh, stand between me and that awful man,” she cried to her attorney when Howell ap- peared. She then testified that she had not recognized that Howell had “wicked eyes” while he was importuning her to marry him. “But | do now,” “Oh, | do now.” she cried. Young Cramer Must Stand Trial In spite of interceasions in his behalf by his mother, L. M. Cramer, who admitted that he planned the robbery of his. mother’s jewels, will be forced to stand trial. Detectives Keefe and Hubbard yesterday swore to a complaint for robbery, and the young man will be remo to the county jail today. Mrs, Lottie Cramer, the mother, still insists that her son $s innocent. TACOMA, Jan. 24-—~Mrs. public morais officer, is Inveaiga ing reports that high #7n00) gir! are learning to smcxe, DEAD GIRL’S LETTER IS READ! AT TRIAL (Special to The Sta: PORT ORCHARD, Wa The letter speaks of Claire hav- amination of Mise Mar-|seral geret Conway, life-long nurse and companion of the Willlamson sie ters, whe hurried to the Oialla sani- tarium upon learning of Claire Will- jamaon’s death, for which Dr. Linda B, Hazzard, fast specialist, is now on | triat for firet degree murder, was | Just what parpose the defense not @x- plained at present, for it practically overrides the purported will of turns over much of her property to Dr. Haw ward. In addition, Miss Conway, Who spent seven weeks at Olal bringing Dorothea back to suffi. clent beatth to enable her removal from the Hassard sanitarium, sald that she had never seen the letter which she leaves $125 annually to the Olalia institution, and in which she requests that her body be cre- mated, Wiliam L. Coliter, cashier of the Northern Bank and Trust Co, of Se ‘attic, followed Mies © y on the witness stand for the He tes fiffed to having transferred ac counts of the William#on girls on the HMazuard account. The first Was on an order signed by Claire and presented by John Arthur, at- torney for Mra. Hazaard, transfer- ring $1,011.30 from the Montreal bank. This was on April 22, 1911, the day that the Williamson sisters ‘were removed from Seattle to Olal- ja, The second transfer was a $539 account that Dorothea had with the Bank of Canada. This was done 08 & power of attorney held by Hageard.: The third transfer was ONE CENT. 25 0t"3133,.8" FOUND IN TRUNK before today, & 9110 peasion. WHERE COTTERILL STAND A Series of Short Extracts From His Platform Showing Just What He Thinks About the Various Important Municipal lseues. BY GEORGE F. COTTERILL LAW ENFORCEMENT 1 betteve In direct legislation aad honest law enforcement Under the Initative and referendum provisions, which it was my privilege to help place in our city charter four years ago, the voters of Seattle have at all times direct control of ety law-making. Similar power exists by state law for ee the ctly charter. The constitutional amendment will ily next November extend this peaple’s power to all state ta With the people thus armed with to make or unmake their the duty of sworn public to make the people keep their own laws, admits of no honest Anieriean argument to the contrary It is true that homan nature cannot be abolished by law, that men and women cannot be reformed by city ordinance or act of legislature and ne one has ever made such pretension. Hut between that axiom atic acknowledgement and the peltey of official overlooking, tolerance, connivance or arrangement for law violation, whether with or without the usually attendant evils of official Bribery and corruption, there is & gulf as wide and treacherous as treason, # chasm as deep and black as anarchy. There witli be no “policy,” either “wide-oper if Lam called to take the mayor's oath of offi eet fort! " “halfopen” or “cloned, . The people's law in their statute booke—the will of the people, expressed in due form of law—that, and that only, will be my law-enforcement guide. With all the resources provided, within all the limitations of human ability, with all of courage, determination and conscience which I can summon to such a task, | promixe constant, faithful effort to enforce law, without fear or favor, diseriminatieg or vengeance. | cannot, and should not, attempt to enforee personal standards or ideals, unsustained by existing laws, I coujd not if I would, and I would not if 1 could. 1 have no desire to be officially stronger than the law; I trust my official strength may never become weaker than the jaw No Individual, or hasiness, or eorperntion living within the law need fear honest law enforcement—others ought to. No one has right to expect more tham ihe law the law requires | : / permits or lees than BATTLE WITH INSANE JN FIRE (Ry United Press Leased Wire) DANVERS, Mass, Jan. 24.--Bat tling with scores of insane persons to prevent them from leaping to thelr death from windows follow ing a fire in the state insane how | | pital here early today, guards of the | cries ta the country? | eeitation “tere Gemngeted to wee) russ Prof, Abram Smith of the 1 v0 jJournaliam department at the Uni Viole y hed the) ; PN ac Phin m0 0m Bho mmr trea versity of Washington was a news- jomping out only by the bravery of | PAPCr Writer in Seattle? thelr nurses and attendants That Mise Emma Van Arnum of Firemen assisted the hospital at-[thbe launch Skeeter, in the only woman purser on Puget sound? taches in removing the patients, | and it, is believed that all are safe, That Anna Held is 38 years old? DO YOU KNOW? measure of suffrage granted to women? ‘That three of the candidates for corporation counsel studied Jaw in Washington, D. C.t hen } produces more all the mining indus-| The Trunk Which Contained the Body of the Murdered Man (BY United Press Leases Wire) BOSTON, Jan, W4-—-Lawrence Abbott of the New York Outlook is couvinced that, while Col. Roosevelt has a number of friends among the alumnt of Amberst college, there are a few today who do not feel Jany too friendly toward the former president Hisses were mingled with ap plause when Col. Roosevelt's name was mentioned by Abbott lest night at a dinner of Amherst alumni, when he referred to the former SUSTAIN RIGHT — OF COMPETITION Judge Dykeman has formally signed the order sustaining the lright of competition by retailers jand dismissing the action of the Fisher Flour Milling Co, against C. A. Swanson, the Westlake grocer, who cut down the price of flour |from the “fixed” price by the | wholesalers. . The company has taken an ap peal from the decision which holds that a contract (xing a minime price at which a retailer may & Hfood stuff, in void BANKER’S TRIAL SET | SPOKANE, Jan. 24.—The trial of | Edgars Wyman, ex-cashier of the | defunct Bank of Commerce, at Wal Ince, Idaho, has been set for Mon |day, January 29 Wyman has entered a plea of not guilty, He ts charged with having issued false reports regarding the bank's condition. STAMPEDE FOLLOWS GOLD STRIKE NELSON, }, C., Jan. 24.—-A stam. | pede has followed a strike of rich lore near the St. Eugene mine. Th ore, it is reported, assays $600 a ton in gold alone. LITTLE IRRITATIONS OF LIFE | | to dy Is Not Pleas Idea’”’; His Name Is Hissed ( ii | i i HH) Living on Ki i) the winter t — | bination. | HOME EDITION | ing to “Amhers | | i i ice tead and sauer kraut in ime is our idea of a bad com-| Mi BODY SHIPPED HERE FROM PORTLAND Mutilated and dismembered, the body of a Chinaman was discovered in a trunk by baggagemen at the King st. station this morning. Let ters and papers on the body in cated that the name of the victim was H, Seig Bing, and a small ho! in the forehead, delivered with a sharp instrument, and the throat slashed from ear to ear, plainly showed the man a victim of foul play. The record of the trunk at the station showed it was shipped |from Portiand on Northern Pacific train No. 314 on December 21, and arrived in Seattie at 5:00 in the afe ternoon of that day. ’ Partly from the odor, and partly from the fact that all overdue trunks are shipped to St. Paul for auction after 30 days have elapsed, was due the gruesome discovery, this morning. ‘The body was cut in three places and packed in cotton and rock salt. A brown derby hat was push down over the face, In the pockets were found a let- ter addressed to H. Seid Bing by the Wing Sing company of Port- land, for whom the victim was un- jdoubtedly employed. The corres- pondence indicated that the Wing Sing company operated fish can- nery crews, and that Bing was a foreman. With the letter were a |number of time books, but all were in Chinese | president in iilustrating the “Am beret idea.” The demonstration when Abbott said “| will take an actual case in ius trating the Amherst idea by refer- ring to a maa who heartily believes in it and who has successfully prao tjced it for 30 years, Last autuma ‘1 would hardly have dared to men- tion his name at a public dinner, but [ think that I may safely do so now. “The man I mean is Theodore | Roosevelt.” ADYAL PARTY TN CRUSH BY NEW YORKERS (By United Press Leased Wire) NEW YORK, Jan. 24-—Almost occurred }|mobbed by an enthusiastic and |cheering crowd that blocked their path through Wall st. today, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught and Princess Patricia were forced to battle their way through a mael strom of humanity which threatened to crusn them. | From an automobile which was |the pivotal point of the whirlpool of | cheering thousands, the royal party }including Ambassador and Mrs | Whitelaw Reid, and their guards, plunged into a rapids of crashing |humanity, which threatened to car- jry them off bodily. Police, detec ves and government secret ser. ico men clubbed a passageway |through the human wedge from the aatomobile to the entrance of the | Stock Exchange, and the party dis lappeared, disheveled and out of | breath. | Leaving the Reid mansion in three automobiles, the Connaughts jand the Reids, Princess Patricia, |the Indy-in-waiting and the duke's bodyguard, became separated. The | first machine was lost in the traffic | down town, but managed to reach the Stock Exchange before the oth- jer two cars. | Thronge of excited thousands ed- jdied about the cars, and the ma- chines had to be driven through the financial district Women Active in Cotterill’s Support | | | Officials of the Northern Pacifi¢ |are confident they can secure a line on the mystery through their com- |prehenstve checking system. This system will show whether the trunk was received locally from Portland or whether it was a through ship- ment. If local, it will also show the |expressman who delivered it at the | station In Portland. ] Police Search for Woman Seattle police this afternoon re- ceived a report from Portland that a Chinese woman, at 81 Second st., Portland, had given the trunk with the body in it to Joe Starfas, ex- pressman, to be taken to the depot. They are now trying to find the | woman in/the case, who is said to have purchased a ticket for Seattle, “While removing the trunk from the house to my wagon and from the wagon to the baggage room at the Union station I noticed that the trunk was unevenly packed,” |Starfas stated. The detectives jhave definitely learned that Seid | Bong, foreman of the Alaska Fish- ing company’s cannery has been | missing some weeks. When last seen he was liberally supplied with money. | Search for Expressman. PORTLAND, Or., Jan. 24.—In an effort to discover clewg that would lead to the identity of the murderer of the man found in a trunk at the King st, station, in Seattle, local de- tectives this afternoon searched for Joe Starfas, an expressman, and an- other one named Joi. They both brought tranks to the Union ‘@epot at Portland on Dec. 20, which were checked to Seattle. Starfas’ stand is at Sixth and Glisan sts., near Chinatown. It developed this afternoon that” the Northern Pacific officials knew of the murder yesterday and had written the Portland police concern- ing it | The detectives working on the | case are of the opinion that the vic- tim, whose name was given as Seid Bong, a Chinese, was the victim of Chinese tongmen. TRY SCHMITZ ROW | SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24.—Ex- |Mayor Schmitz was unexpectedly ordered to immediate trial by |Judge Lawlor today on the long |pending charges of graft, A jury is being selected today, although the defense was taken entirely by | surprise. Schmitz is charged “with acting with Abe Ruef to bribe a former member of the board of supervisors to fix low rates sought by the San | Francisco Gas and Electric com | pany. Want Telegraph Trust Dissolved WASHINGTON, Jan, 24.--Charg- Although headquarters are now open for all mayoralty candidates, the Cotterill candidacy is thus far the only one have a woman's or- ganization behind it Separate |rooms are being maintained in the Lumber Exchange building for wom en. Miss Lucy R. Case, prominent labor woman, is assisting Miss Wit | ting, the secretary in charge. | The Cotterill campaign is the only | one, too, that has advanced suffi-| olently in preliminary organization | announce definitely plans for speechmaking. Cotterill will cover | | the entire city in his speaking cam-| |paign, beginning Feb, 1, ‘The quad: | jrangular debate which has found} favor with Cotterill and Wells, the | |socialist candidate, is still being! jignored by Parish and Gill. | |_ ‘The present indications are that Parish will make no public speeches | himself and will not attempt to make his platform of general state- ; ments more specific, Parish, who, as tax commissioner, has been a {member of Gov, Hay's standpat or- | ganization, yesterday tendered hi ‘resignation from the state job, “to take effect at the governor's earli- ing that the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., a $700,000,000 corporation, is a monopoly in re straint of trade in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, Geo. Lam- bert, a justice of the peace in Pel- ham, West Chester county, N. Y., through Chas, Duskind, his attor- ney, filed a petition with the de- partment of justice today, praying for its dissolution, The petition was officially filed upon its arrival at the department, WHY HE KILLED HIMSELF TACOMA, Jan, 24—That Howard Forbes, coma accountant, who killed himself in Seattle erday via the morphine route, was a re- mittance man whose supplies had been cut off, is ace: ed here by his friends ag the reason for the suicide. TAKES HIS OWN LIFE Howard M. Forbes of Aberdeen committed suicide by taking a large quantity of marphine in his’ room at the Hotel Morris, 1426 First av., psterday afternoon. Despondency over family troubles Is thought to have caused the man to take his Hife,