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The Sea tle Star a\\\ ‘EDITION | 7 his wife a machine. : machine. "fe > / Hi HI H i The pies that mother made don’t i) interest us so much nowadays as the} , Fed. 2—| go im not giving enough attention to Ween piace to entablish — himself fea ta the to deliver. might upon held jare to meet th his headquarters, on: | corpo’ # of the |Rainier valley today at two meet- oD the lings, one for the women in the af. Ethel }ternocn and another at night for today | Lakewood Improvement club. cond}. It wasn On the job, @8 & groundhog. VOL. OUT 10 ote Hl GILL The bigest curtosity Istate of Washington,” These words by Jules Redelsheim. er, chairman of the GUI meeting at Dreamland rink last night, totro- duced the “reformed” candidate. A bic and curious crowd filled the) hall and overflowed {nto the street. GIN also addressed an overflow meeting. James B. Metealf, who got 69% votes in & mayoralty campaign re cently, was the first speaker, He fbasked in sixeyliabled words, was | which three-fourths of the audience failed to understand, attacked reeall, and referred to him as “our fittle man” several times, He at tacked the church element, which he walled the “halo and harp” ele- Ment, and quoted scripture. He was followed by James FP. McElroy, former prosecutor, and a heavy stockholder In the Meadows racing track Miss Mary Krueger also cpoke. GUI in his speech said, in part: ‘The reason fo am in this fight im because they sald I would not dare to be a candidate again. “Tam not a candidate asking vin- @ication. | am vindicated to my jown satisfaction. “L recognize my previous mistake im the the police department of my ad ministration. "1 do not like to talk about my friend Dilling. The dead, to me, are genérally sacred. “Dilling called me “thief for do- ing the same thing that he did in transferring money from the gen eral fund. “1 know 1,464,000 times as much ‘and |adeat the city as George W. Dilting could ever know “I will bulld that car tine. But 1) hever was much of a believer in) Kenera) monicipal ownership. What| we might de and what we could do are two different things. “I was.the first to advocate a be | Municipal dock. “Tt want to see the Independent ‘Telephone franchise taken and con- trolled by the city.” Parien Meeting Thomas A. Parish had a little “coming out party” at Paysse's "13. NO. 289, | stall QUON GOES TO JURY (Special to The Star), PORT ORCHARD, F Quments in the trial of Or. Burtield Mazzard began at 2 afternoon, Following brief testimony of Dr. Eugene Kel- ly, secretary of the state health board, who merely identified the death certificate ma Claire Williamson's i ie reated. The defense offered no further evidence. One witness for the de- fense could not be located. An ad- Journment was then taken at 9:30 until 1 o'clock thin afternoon to give Judge Yakey time to prepare his written instructions to the jury. Following the reading of the in- structions, Prosecuting Attorney Stevenson of Kitsap county will make the opening argument for the » Attorney Gregory for the defense will follow, and Special Prosecutor Kelley of Tacoma will | end the arguments, It Ie not ex | pected that the case will be tn the! Jury's bands until tomorrow noon. PORT ORCHARD, Feb, 2.—Argu- ments in the trial of Or, Linda Bur. fietd Hazzard, the Seattle fast cure! Specialist, who is charged with murder in the first degree for the Starvation of Mise Claire William. fon, will probably begin this after- hoon, and the jury will nave the case in ite hands by tomorrow morning. j Wheo court began this morning | there were only two witnosses to! he examined. Dr. Eugene Kelly, secretary of the state health board, was brought into court on a bench warrant jssued yesterday when he failed to show up, to testify for the State as to the certificate of death made out by Dr. Hassard, which the state claims was insufficient in Its terme The other witness ta L. P. Schaeffer of Seattle for the defense, teutifying to the financial dealing of Dr. Hazeard and the Wil- Hamson sisters. Esther Cameron's Testimony. The state also scored an import ant point tn testimony given by Mise Esther “Cameron, the nurse) rirl who had testified on direct ex amination that ahe quit the Haseard Institation because she could not! stand it. Miss Cameron positively contradicted J. W. Webb, referred | jto by Prosecutor Kelley ax the | , | pure tainded youth,” and repeated | ;| made a special trip to Portland to “| dissuade her from answering the Mrs. Taggart Not Member That Mrs. T. A. Taggart of the Gul campaign committee in neither a member of the Federated Wom- clubs of Senitle or of the Y. . CA, as had been reported, fi the émphatic statement made by officers of each of these organiza. dons. very nature of the Fish. president of the federated clubs, “formed for mor- ality and clean government, it i* t we make this cer John Donovan, registration clerk, had the books with him when he got to precinet 263 in Georgetown | his morning. But he could find no) The man who lived im the place selected by the election committee refused Supporters of Thomas R. Horner, it-|eandidate for corporation counsel 454 New York block, at 8 tonight to discuss campaign organization. Hugh Caldwell, candidate ration counsel, will speak in sitl,|both men and women before the Candidates for the council will appear before the Municipal league | - at the noon-day lunch ia the Raths- keller tomorrow, Charlew F, Morrifield, candidate for comptroller, will speak before ||the Taxpayers league and Federat |jed Improvement clubs next Thure- day, |. Ole Hanson, in his speech at |Paysue’s ball last night, said: “The |Bush terminal proposition is the |biggest that has happened in Seat \Ue since | arrived.” 1 ||. OAKLAND, Cal, Feb. 2.—Crazed by ill-health and financiat troubles, Joaquin Bello today attempted the lives of his wife and small daughter, and, frustrated in this, incinerated himself by setting fire to and de- Stroying the old ranch house near he town of San Pablo, in which the n't much of a shadow, for the sun It peeked through the clouds, According to the old tradition, I've and sleep six weeks longer. I'm it means six weeks more of winter, wet ear and gooseflesh for them. How- im going back to the hay. for|* that the latter had told her he State's subpoena. She sald that he offered to see that she got three or four months’ wages, and that Dr. Haraard would see that she got a new position. Later, she sald, that Webb. in the presence of a witnens, visited her at the Navy View hotel, and said that bad offered her noth ing but a new position. Sue told that a lawyer suid Webb's action was bribery, to which | he ts alleged to have replied: “You ean call it that If you want. te Each Is Willing | « Inited Preen Leased Wire) | ‘G BEACH, Cal, Feb. 2— The wife of Aviator Prank Champion is vying tofay with John Gibson, a mechanician, who accidently shot | him, for the privilege of sacrificing | several inches of skin, to be grafted | on the wounded man's leg. Tomor-| row the doctors will name the suc-| cessful candidate. Gibson shot Champion as they were leaving Do- ming nex field, Jan. 6, a shotgun he) earried accidentally going off. j RHRRAHRKHEKEHHHh sf * * tonight; Saturday in # creasing cloudiness followed ® by rain; moderate easterly # | winds. Temperature at noon, * 39, *) * SPREE RE HEE sa x! WEATHER FORECAST Pair Photograph of the rear-end street car accident happened, by The Star's staff crash and both legs were broken. oe: “—_ That He fl Be Hanged ‘ Katoi Rallivan, proprietress of a SANTA BARBARA, Cal, Feb. 2-—| oming and boarding house at 510 Haonted In bis waking moments Ninth @v.. was charged with 7) and terrified at night by dreams In| 'ne t8€ eight hour law on x com which the accusing faces of the two! Dlain€: fled today by Axsistant | men he murdered appear before Labor Commissioner Evelyn Chant him, twisted In death, Jesus ¥riqai ler. information wai texued by fell on his knees today before Judge | De) Prosecutor White. 1 Alexander, who had sentenced him | charged that Maud Flynn, employed | to life imprisonment, and pleaded! ox & ‘Waitress and chombe-maid that he be banged. Yriqui, who i was worked 11% hours a day. | powerful Mexican tunnel worker, hours, according to the information, shot and killed two Mexican com-| were from 6:20 a. m. to % p. m, pantons last Christmas evening be-|and from § to § p. m. cause they refused to drink a Christ- —————— - max toast with him. SCHMITZ FOOLED HIM AT THAT} gan FRANCISCO, Fe. 2—Wwith PORTLAND, Or, Feb, 2-—Con-]1 jurars im the box, passed for fronted by his debtor, a physician, /eause, but subject to peremptory who held two revolvers, an trate | challénge, the trial of former May- bill collector demanded one, which | or ne EB Schmitz, under an in- the medical man gave him. “Now | dic ¢ charging graft in connec we staid on even terms,” said the tion with the fixing of ga» rates in collector. ‘ot yet, mine ie loaded, 1906, le progressing with difficulty, get out,” shonted the doctor. ‘The | owing to frequent delays and con- collector called the police. | Ganances, Postponement — until — ." | 2:30 this afternoon was granted to- ALLEGED BOODLERS ELECTED Gay py Judge Lawlor, on the repre- MONTREAL, Que., Feb. [sentadin WF District Attorney Cun- spite a hot campaign by the Citi-| ha that Assistant Berry, who ig con- zens association, Montreal elected | ducting the proaccution, was indis- five of her old council alleged to posed, be boodiers. Alderman Lavelle was | aG: ies , ELOPED TO PROVE IT elected mayor. | LONDO gland is to| SAN RAPABD, Cal., Fob. 2— build a new fleet of torpedo Woat | Florente Fillippini‘s parents destroyers, Hiritish navy shipbuild-|woulda't belleye she had eloped ers today being unexpectediy called| and béen whrried to Marino C upon to send in tenders for three|Tonissin. $0 Florence eloped abips capabie of coping with mod-|agaip and left a blazed tail to the ern cruisers, cletgyman'# residence. > ee _ ONLY NDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1912. ONE CENT. tuitae |i d Car on Pike St. CURIOUS GROWO'HAZZARD GASE|Rigture Shows Wreck, san Pike st. thie morning, taken a few minutes after the » The motorman on the rear car was caught in the |torminal company, apoke. ~ POISONED? (BY United Prose Leased Wire) FORT WORTH, Tex, Feb. 2- Charges that Edwatd Throckmor- ton, son of former Gov, Throckmor. ton, who was expected to give damaging testimony against Mill jonatre J. B. Snead, on trial here for the murder of A, G, Boyce, sr, | met death by poisoning, were made here today state attorneys. Throckmorton was found uncon scious in the lobby of a hotel here, and died late last night Throckmorton, the prosecution says wan standiug near Snead when the latter shot down Boyce, following quarrel over the elope- ment of, Mrs, Snead with A. G. Boyce, jr. ‘The Quix Congress has issued an- other invitation to T. A. Parish to appear before the questioners. Parish ts given his cholce of two meetings next week by BIG FOREST FIRE United Presse Leased Wire) BERNARDINO, Cal., Feb. —More than 100 men under Forest Supervisor Jenken are fighting a stubborn fire which is raging today in the forests of San Bernardino mountain, near Seeley Mats. Hun- dreds of acres already have been burned over MILLION-DOLLAR FIRE By United Prese Leased Wire) ARLIFAN N. 8, Feb, 2.—The Acadia Sugar Refinery, with all its stock, was destroyed by fire last night. Loss over a million dollars. “Japanese men do not make good husbands—for American women.” that their husbands should choose their friends; they must make their jown. Perhaps it seems natural and just to you that a woman should —Mrs. Mina Minthorn Torikai. “american women do not make Kenzo Tori Two young people tried a dangerous experiment. they could defy the wiadom of the aj girl, he a Japanese, The experiment failed. fail. For of the union a child was born~ almond eyes of her handsome father For nearly four years they elu somehow, some time, the experiment would succeed, though always the truth was before them. “1 respect he says Torikal, “He was always good to me,” #2 day, when Judge Dykeman granted her decree, was the wife of the young Japanese. And yet the experiment failed, sons of the American girl. W puzzled and bewildered her, THE MAN" Kenzo Tortkai, Japanese, ‘mall dapper, as the Japanese always are, Fruit and Produce Co., Western av. years and considers himself thorou scrutable, stare out upon the world t him an academic look, In manner hi “We had many friends,” he said, a good home. Benny than that now. “In Japan girls are taught to be else, ‘They must respect and obey reverence for their husband's family ing more honorable than parenthood beautiful than old age. “WOMEN TALK “In this country the women talk The American ways are And now they know it was foredoomed to There is no rancor in their hearts, no bitterness, but only grief. | und on the glamor of courtship and honey moon was gone, and she was face to face with the realities of domestic “life with a mate of allen blood, it wi band was nlike any other man she knew. There were no worrle ered everything carefully, without hurry. do not think the fault lay in us entirely choose her own friends, “In this country marriage is a pai ‘They thought | huslandd, ges by marrying—she am American; their fathers and mothers, | seen us Japanese “American women have neither id how we feel about their slang In loud tones.” ww good wivee—for Japanese men.” 4@ girl now 18 months old, with the! They and with her mother's golden hatr. | ang desperately to the hope that,| In pa he pinched her arm, and s' ‘efi, s'long, chicken,” said T trium saying a word. “We have different standards of ent 1s, different education | would i We tried to solve the pro but we did not understand.” THE “LAW' sel in the case sought vain ye the woman, who, until last Tues Why? No need to give the rea ‘as borne in upon her that her hus: His whole outlook upon life Harry ung iheontions in the world, got marr’ encounter dozens of littie proble jit was ary for one or the oth partner if 'S STORY of stature, but ithe, well-knit and is a trusted employe of the Pacific He has been in this country s#ix bly Americanized. His eyes, in hrough gleaming glasses which give e is gentle; his English is faulty. “American and Japanese, We had about money We had consid- We thought we would be ‘The trouble was deeper Torlkai, since the se not the Japanese ways. I know that faybide hospital, » good wives and mothers—nothing their husbands, ‘They must have and for their own. ‘There {# noth in Japan. There is nothing more is a ft po When realize that It Is half Amertcan, OF FREEDOM” Some day the alien bloods of ‘freedom, They are not willing They have no family pride Tam trying to be fair, as 1 ager, attorney for Mrs, Torikai, sums up the case thus le, clean-living, normal, but of different blood, with the best ere was to be happiness in the home. willed And facn was convinced that the other was in the wrong. was an inter-racial union of a kind that cannot but end in misery. ‘he only mixed marriages that are happy are those where one or the other—husband or wife—gives up individu jolutely subordin: A NURSE NOW aration, has been employed as a nurse It is not the Japanese way. rtnership The Wives do not obey their speak without respect of You cannot understand how terrible that humility nor dignity, They cannot going to theatres and parties alone. k outside a boy of 20, perhaps, was chatting with a girl he squealed in shrill laughter the boy. 4B'iong, kid,” the girl replied, acrutable eyes behind the glasses of Kenzo Torikai gleamed in hough he made no comment. He had made his point without living,” continued the man; “differ: now she blem, we tried to be happy together, " OPINION ly to effect a lasting reconciliation, “Two It was inevitable that they. should every day. Dozens of times a day ner to surrender to the will of the Both are strong It is trying to forget her trouble in hard work,” sald the matron, baby is in the charge of a matron appointed by the court, ry arrangement, and both parents are allowed to see it. looks at its golden hair, one forgets that it is half Japa- nese, © But when one looks into its almond-shaped eyes, it is hard to It will war in the child's breast some day we will know just how utterly the experiment failed. dough that STREET CARS COLLIDE IN DENSE FOb Enveloped in the dense fog short- ly before 9 o'clock this morning, Madison st, and 19th av. cars crashed into each other in a rea end collision. 4, Robinson, motorman on the Madison st. car, and J. W. Pierc @ clerk, were badly injured, and five or six received minor injuries a The collision curve leading off Pike st fore av. The 19th av. car was was waiting on Pike sf at the switch for the Melrose car to leave the Pike st. line when the Madison car, nol aware of anything Ip ite way, came sweeping down the bill and into it. The rear platform of one and the front platform of tile other were badly smashed The seriously injured men were at once removed to the Seattle Gen- eral hospital, Motorman Robinson sustained fractures to both legs. Pierce's skull was severely Bruised. “Rescuer” injured. While Patrolman C. BE. Rix was rushing to the scene of the accident on his motoreycle he crashed into & laundry wagon in the fog and was thrown heavily to the ground. One arm Was badly sprained and he was v's office for re. the to Mel ON TERMINAL SCHEME The Coliseum theatre was crowd: ed to the doors last night by an audience of about 3,000, who came to hear the favorable side of the termina! project presented. John C. Slater presided. Scott Cathoun, Alden J, Blethen and Charles Haw. ley Fenn, a representative of the “We got the best terms we could worm out,” Calhoun said, “and if the port commission thinks it can Ret any better terms, then I say, ‘God bless it” The commissioners have not yet |completed their plans for the sub- | Mission of the terminal proposition to the people on March 5. They lare going over the details of @ tentative agreement with the terminal people that is intended to safeguard the people from a monopolistic control of the water front. Harold Preston, the attor- ney for the commission, has been jin session with the commissioners |for three days now | $260,000 FOR GEM WASHINGTON, “Feb. 2— The wrangle over the owner- ship of the famous Hope di mond was brought to an end to- day when Edward McLean, son of John R, McLean, the million- aire newspaper _publishe: the difficulty with the jeweler selling the diamond to McLean has been adjusted, Mrs. McLean will wear the 44! carat stone at her reception here tonight in honor of Rus- sian Ambassador Bakhmeteff. Juarez Wrecked EL PASO, Tex,, Feb. 2.--Mexican mutineers the Juarez garrison today ected a new cabinet of mu- nicipal officers, all of whom are in | sympathy with the Zapatista revolu- |tionary movements. | Juarez presents a scene of deso- lation today rivaling that prevailing after the two-day battle, last May, ¥ Francisco I. Madero led the |rebel troops against the federalists, The damage will exceed $500,000, {but few business houses escaping the looting by mutineers. May Stop Recall (By United Pres Lensed Wire) TACOMA, Feb, 2.—That the res ignation of Superintendent Collins of the city light plant may stop the gecall on B. J. Weeks, commission er of light and water, is believed here te ‘ Weeks’ and Collins’ administra- tion of the light department .has been under fire for weeks. Weeks has agreed to name a suc- cessor to Coiling who will be satis- factory to his critics, and to give him full charge of the plant. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.—San Francisco today is declared to be overrun with 40,000 unemployed men and women due to an influx from every section of the country as & result of exploitation of the Panama Pacific 1915 exposition, Labor unions are warning their branches all over the country to advise thelr members to stay away from California, people was fashioned and couched ordinance, and that the In those words Corporation Cou ways champion of the. people's ca LINE ORDINANCE, Cotterill, father made. CHINESE. GIRL CONFESSES T0 MURDER (By United Press Leased ba PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 2— Confronted here by Seid Back, uncle of id Bing, whose mutilated and dismembered body was found in @ trunk in Seattle, Oi Sen, the Chinese woman who was captured in Billings, today confessed to | Seid Back that she killed Seid Bing and shipped his body to | Seattle from Portland, aceord- ing to detectives. The confés- j sion was made a few minutes fafter the woman arrived in Portland in the custody of of- ficers She was taken direct to de- tective headquarters from the depot, where Seid Back await- ed her. When she faced Chinese, she turned to the officers. “I will talk to him. He can tell you what I say,” said she. The woman was ushered into a private room with Beld Back and the officers withdrew. For half an hour the couple talked excitedly, the woman almost screaming at times. Then Seid opened the door, Certain of Accomplice He told the officers that she kad confessed, but was extremely ret- icent concerning the motive that led up to the killing and declined to say whether she killed Seid Bing unassisted and cut up the body and shipped it, or was helped by an- other Chinese. When asked by detettives wheth- er she had confessed, she said: Yes.” The police are certain she had an accomplice. Oi Sen will be questioned throughout the day ‘if necessary, in an effort to wring more details from her, Al 1d Accomplice Caught. {iy United rece Tensed Wire) PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 2—Wong Si Sam, a Chinese kitchen man on the steamer Dalies City, was arrest- ed this afternoon and jeintly charg- ed with Oi Sen, the Chinese woman, captured at Billings, Mont., with the murder of Seid Bing, whose dismembered body was found in a trunk in Seattie, whence it had ben shipped from Portland. Wong was arrested at Fourth and Ever- ett sts. a shert time after the po- lice reported that Oi Sen had made a confession to Seid Back, uncle of |the teunk-murder victim. BLACK HAND arom OUTRAGE Wire) CHICAGO, Feb. 2—Another Black Hand outrage was uncovered here today with the finding of the | mutilated bodies of Pasquale -and Salvatore Marello brothers in an Italian boarding house. The men were hacked to death with hatchets, the weapons, stained with blood, being found beside their bodies. Nearby was the photograph of a beautiful Italian girl, which was also covered with blood. Ten suspects have been arrested, RRR RRIRERRERD saw the stern “THE WAGES OF SIN” SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.—~ In view of the fact that im- prisonment would cause his early death from tuberculosis, Geo. A. Terry, the young bank clerk who confessed embez- uling $13,000 from the Inter- national panking corporation, was today admitted to proba- tion by Judge Cabaniss. Terry says he spent every dollar of the money in riotous living. FERRER ERR EEE HEH JUST IN TIM TACOMA, Feb, 2.—While playing jin the room where her tiny baby sister was asleep, the 4year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm, | Strong of Sumner set fire to a cur- jtain around the baby’s scare away the “booge; mother rushed into the room and grabbed the child from the crib, smothered her in a blanket and ex- tinguished the flames. The baby |was found to be still asleep and had escaped without a single burn. |Fears Daughters’ Beauty DENVER, Feb. 2.—John Stack- house, under arrest for cruelty and accused of feeding the break- fast of his wife and two daughters to the family dog, declares that ar- guments that he may offer in ex- |tenuation of his acts will have no weight against the extreme beauty of his two daughters, and he is_re- signed to his. fate, which he de- clare will be nothing less than a penitentiary sentence. Peer e eee eee eee S| SSSSeSteeESSE EEE AND COTTERILL WROTE IT “The propositton outlined in the ordinance and submitted to the in such clear and express language that there can be no doubt as to the real meaning and purposes of the people gave intelligent expression of their opinion upon the proposition submitted.” unsel Bradford concludes his opinion holding that the municipal car line bonds are valid, And in this connection it should be stated that George F. Cotterill, use, WROTE THE MUNICIPAL CAR “The clear and express” words are the words of His language is always clear, straight and to the point,

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