The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 26, 1912, Page 1

SS E EDITION | as ss of Luetsow says the ii MH is to be reason- . We must say if Wil VOL. 13, NO, 309, belp it PEEP AT SEATTLE THROU ~ een my opinion that my election would that Seatt ’ restore ‘Februa of the Je has resumed its normal condi- confidence in the city,”—H, C 21, 1912 Gill campaign Gill’s election will ‘that Seattle has resumed its normal con- attle's viewed through Eastern eye W written rton J. Hendrick of That is, what » When it ion will Gill's normal condition? hat kind of a reputat Seattle in the It is contained in an article ew York, and Mr. Hendrick, ine last October which prevailed in Seattle during the tells us plainly what the East, at! d to Seattle in ease Gill is again results which followed Gill's former ¢ found ep fashion. rick says: 1 contest almost identically the Rehting for and against civic order usually ranged on one side the panders, hand book men and race track followers—there track touts, and the other professionally migration of the whole miscellaneous assortment ir company the bankers, the utility corporations and frequ Against them usually stand middle class business man, the and the clerk, the churches, men’s ath ie ons. Those who have a direct large. ently. ~ SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, | “In the case of Hi Gill, however, the le were not aroused, The breeziness of Gill's cauapllaon ctvbihad many | light-hearted voters, ‘I want the bands to play in the parks,’ | said Gill on the stump. ‘I want the people to sit on the grass in | the parks and eat it.” What Seattle needs is a mayor who will Ret a chief of police who will handle the restricted district, who will back the chief up when delegations of citizens call and | Protest, and I’m the bird.’ “The people of Seattle evidently thought that he was. small rey ah they voted for cakes and ale. ‘Ane they certainly got them. All the disintegrating cle- ments of Seattle society claimed Gill's victory ax their own. All Bya of the morning the streets and cafes and hotels were filled with drunken men and women wildly celebrating the arrival of the wide-open town. ‘They sent telegrams to the brotherhood and | sisterhood in nearly all the Mrgest American cities notifying them that the Seattle harvest time had arrived. , “Each arriving train brought its quota of gamblers from | El Paso and Kansas City, prostitutes came from New Orleans jand Chicago, pink-guffed procurers or ‘maques,’ crap-shooters, was a large of men and women who make their living by commercializing the lowest instincts of human nature, According to conservative esti- mates, not far from two thousand characters of this kind were added to the population of Seattle in a few weeks. ‘E f geeioler from Nome to Texas who could get a ticket,’ a fayor Gill himself in an official communicat-on to the ¢ one, result, that is, are usually arrayed ‘came to Seattle and proceeded to open up.” interest arises from a natural inclina nn tely the second class outnumbers ighly aroused comes out victorious. STRIKERS and Children at Lawrence Today— se Women and Children, Clubbing and Ground—Pitiful Scenes. . “The limits of the restricted district were the limits of | Seattle itself. For the most part the established pooulation still plied their vocations in the business and residence districts. Rte thule intent scorenets eee TEDDY WILL THAT NOMINATION HUMBOLOT LOO HIDDEN NEAR oEATTLE j through the night of the election and far into the early hours| magi The Seattle Star ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE FEBRUARY 26,1912... ° ~ H EA The old conditions were as prevalent as before and the segre- gated area was given over to new arrivals, ‘The place was open twenty-four hours a day and seven days the week. From 8 of rookeries came the strains of the ly-gurdy and the Srumming of the cracked piano; the streets were Niled with jee eg istributing cards and enticing curious crowds within; das Halls, bagnios, ‘crib houses,’ opium dens, noodle joints, were rumning, not in sequestered, darkened corners, but openly, ar in the full glare of the electric ligit. The district was ‘of thieves and pickpockets and was the constant scene of and brawls, "In twenty-four hours the city seemed transformed almost ically into one great gambling hell. All kinds of games pt in full view of the public. Cigar stores and barber shops a live business in crap shooting and race track gam bling, deawing their patronage largely from schoolboys and de partment store girls. In the back of billiard rooms poker games Were operated as openly as in a mining town. At one time it ldoked as though the whole of Seattle was gone mad over faro, roulette, black-jack and numerous other forms of ente ‘tainment provided in the thirty or forty gambling places opened up under the administration of Hi Gill) The town was overrun with “Jotinnies,’ ‘kids,’ 'Crooked-Fingered Ryans,’ and other ingen- ously named deities of the worlds of chance. There were regu- larly incorporated clubs, the ‘Glim Club,’ the ‘Union,’ the ‘North- efn, which were merely euphemisms for gigantic gambling houses. “The shame of the situation was not so much that these conditions existed as that they existed with the connivance and even the protection of the police. On this point there is not the slightest doubt. ° ~ “Conditions of this kind, of course, have only one possible meaning. The rea! explanation of the restricted district was the WANT TO END QGHMITZ CASE SAN FRANCIBCO, Feb. 26—A startling development today marked | Pa acy EDITION Two Philadelphia men lived on a dol- i Jar a week for six months and got fat.|ii HOME wen at avis be STERN EYE enormous financial interest involved, Not everybody realizes how profitable is the business of catering to the average man’s love of excitement and dissipation. The Northern Club ran for | fifty-four days and the earnings are estimated at $200,000. The Midway, one of the largest brothels in the restricted «istrict, netted its i ge se from $10,000 to $12,000 a month. “Naturally these conditions: aroused the ange: of Seattle against Gill. But the mayor seemed entirely proof against pu'y- lic sentiment. He treated with the scantest courtesy delegations of protesting citizens. He did not even acknowledge letters ad- dressed to him by respectable citizens and organizati is. In- stead of taking steps to crush these evils Gill “attempted to | establish them permanently.” After telling the story of how Gill was removed in the re- | call election, Mr. Hendrick closes his article with these sen- tences Wy “Seattle does not claim to have solved the vice problem. What Seattle has done has been to end the alliance between these elements and the constituted authorities. The people |now control their government and the vice exploiters have been driven from public life.” What, then, will Hendrick, what will other Eastern writers and observers say of Seattle if this city returns to these conditions again? Gill Says that, with his election, observers in the East will consider that Seattle has returned to its normal condition. Hendrick points out what the condition is that Eastern observers saw in Seattle under the former Gill administration; Will Seattle return to that “normal” condition? Will Seattle again permit Gill to disgrace this city before all the world? If Seattle does thus disgrace herself, will the women of cattle be a party to the transaction? MAN AND FOUND MURDERED | Skulls Crushed With Blunt Instrument—Husband of Slain Woman Says He Trusted Companion Like a Brother—No Clue Yet to Mysterious Crime. } the trial in Judge Lawlor’s court of | Former Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz | on a charge of bribery, when both Latborr pa and defense presented for the Puyallup car at Larchmont wil motions to have the case dismissed. ear} vilson was 38. His real name Lawler continued the case to|*1"7 ‘0esy found the bodies of 8) 4.5 Aiden, he having taken the man and woman, their skulls crush- name Wilson from the family which yeday afternoon, when he will make a ruling. ed with a blunt instrument, lying in raised him. He was unmarried. Attorney C. A. Pairall, represent-|the road. | Brown broke down when he ident- ing Schmitz submitting the case) The victims are believed to be ified the bodies, but talked calmly Without fuhther evidence asked the Mra. Willis Brown, of Larchmont about the affair iater. court to direct the jury to acquit and Jack Wilson, a butcher employ-| Willis Brown, husband of the Schmitz, He gave ae bis reason the ed by the Great Western Meat Co.,/ murdered .woman, was taken into refusal of Abe Kuef to tostify in the public market her who | custody as a suspect shortly before against Schmitz unless the indict | bearded at the Brown home. |Boon by Sheriff Robert Longmire ments hanging over him were dis-| Wilson and Mrs. Brown came into and is being held periding a com- miseed and the refusal far Of | Tacoma last night to spend the eve-| plete investigation. Judge Dunne to dismiss them. ning, returning on the last car. T' His arrest was made upon the District Attorney Fickert based bodies were found 200 feet from the conflicting statements made by bis motion on the weakness of the |car ling on the road to the Brown! himself and nine year old step son Indictments. home. ;Ben, who contradicted _ Browns The sheriff's office is looking for statement that he had not been out Brown to see if he can .throw any during the night. Brown said he light on the case. He is:30 years had remained in the house and kept older than his wife. a fire going and supper warm until Willis Brown 70, the dead wom-/12 o'clock and then had gone to bed. an's husband, denied any knowledge e went out twice” said Ben. of the crime today. “After mother went away we had “I had no objection to Wilson go- supper and then he went out and Better ——m— Press Leased Wire.) us., Feb. 26.—Personal investigation by of Washington of alleged brutality to g Lawrence police and militiamen may - y, to senatorial action. f tity, Senator Poindexter talked D with seven women arrested by the! §re00 sore the commitment papers, were de- | the total er also visited a soup kitchen where 16 Barns sleuth ba: ‘Then he visited the jail and learned fogs BE poy can & f women were locked up, no charges/« bys awaited the arrival of the niles from Seattle. The rob- bery was committed in August, 2 lat Jackson street. Up to this time 1910, The game ahead Pegg er t ig-| lested. } right now fs to Order to jone W. Binge “yt order — given to ig 0 Pemba the | _Bolice swarmed | wani to have all the evidence gath ° among the strikers, raining blow! eal ise petice| after blow on their heads, regard. /Cred And In proper shape before an the they ke the sixth arrest, which ice anes kastien tama tee donee | fer the most important in the Tf this is brought to a sue. termination, the hiding (By United Press Leased Wire) ) ebildren. TACOMA, Feb. 26.—Men starting | one time. “Wilson's” Real Name Alden She was on the stage at i A of the ‘ loca: Bender Case ~— Is Dismissed United Press Leases Wire) | ANGELES, Feb. 6—The y will cane. Car , was continued until t _foreed from Jackson | into the Common. go are waiting for us. Please let us alone.” “Beat Women on Breasts” in|, The only answer was a command an by the officer in cl fnto jail. choked he was flee strikers Tespon- men, women and children continued | whore 11 inches of mistak-| their march, singing. After each at-| the tack they calmly reformed in line ope and marched toward their ee and railway traffic may not! “sgmneal | street, Which fol- Were dent Taft will order both workers at Lawrence and the causes) the women on the breasts and hips. break the heads of the women.” Little attention, however, was thie order, the heads of women being broken. | paid to scores of Despite the clubbing, some of the TAFT WILL ORDER PROBE WASHINGTON, Feb. 26-—Pres thorough i: strike of textil vestigation into th Hine intend.‘ which ied to the brutal clubbing of ‘Btreets as|women by the police and state Of the po-| militiamen. was, 4 theatre, % house os hall, * hall, than) Mies ti here | n surgical from the grafted thus! "the | BY burning. | an, was * 47 or ? 176. po- WER @raWn clubs’ House, rer *| DO| the United Press today by Congrese- man Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin, following a visit to the Whitr (Ry Untied Preae Leased Wire) | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26~~ * | Siashing three men across the face with » knife, an armed maniac run amuck here today and is at large #00 the waterfront with half the, police foree after him. Hanne Behard and Wm. Leader first attacked by the madman a cut. They pursued him and caught him, but a! flere Nght he eseaped While running away second time he slashed a third The injuries of Behrard and | Leader are not serious. *) |X kere WEATHER FORECAST t Showers tonight and Tues © day; light south to southwest * to|* winds. Temperature at noon, : * This was the statement made to) of the loot will be divulged. sexenth arrest will be of a man prominently ee gs . He do with the ertme, but discovered the guilty parties, it is alleged. He is said to have “lald down” when handed a “divvy” the loot. The seven were to The sixth person who is being shadowed night and day and the only one who knows the exact hid ing place of the treasure, is the pro- of a saloon on First av. to this saloon that the gold was packed in suitcases from the until other arrangements could be BLIZZARD SWEEPS " GEATRAL STATES (By United Press Leased Wire) | CHICAGO, Feb, 26.—-Street, car traffic Is paralyzed here today as the result of a blizzard that was Again the strikers retreated and sweeping the north central states) Ink again the police charged. with Chicago as the storm center.| |» tailed in low: pw fell. The snow iies 20 feet deep in many of the railway cuts in that A dozen trains are resumed for many hours. Ne raska is in the «rasp of a driving nowstorm, the worst of the winter jand one of the worst for many | years, jompletely tied up. TWO -KILLED morning. Wayne Bennett, an en making connections witha trans- former at the Arena ice rink, touch. ed a live wire and was lustantly hilied. ¢ was married. J. K. Watson, a carpenter on the new Chalmers church, was struck @ied before he reached the hospital. El PASCO Feb. 26.—The com: bined forces of Cotonels Campa, Rojas and Salazar, consisting ot 1,700 rebels, left Bauche early today to attack Juarez, and fighting is momentarily expected. Bauche ts but 12 miles below Juarez, and the revolutionists should arrive there easily before noon, Juarez is practically defenseless. Although Col. Villa, commanding 800 federals, in reported 50 miles south of the city, it will be impos- sible for him to arrive there in time, and several companies of citizens, numbering 400 men, have organized for the defense of the city, These men will attempt to hold Juarez until Col, Villa's arrival. It is be- Meved here that Juarez will fall before the attack of the Vasquitas. All traffie in Nebraska’ is| VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 26.—) Two fatalities occurred here this) ploye of the B. C. Blectriec Co.,while | on the head by a falling derrick and) « ROOSEVELT, AS HE: photograph taken at New ¥ It| started for Columbus, 0., to make his ‘United » YORK, Feb. ctive! Humboldt, and stored in a bathtub work of lining up delegates favor | of Theedore| From a [able to the candidacy Roosevelt for the republican prest- dential nomination nest here today. The letter of the former president to a group ‘of Western governors, in he said he would accept the nomina- tion for president, had hardiy cooled before Roosevelt the Metropolitan building had been | established. | Carpenter | at | Oliver Carpenter, a close friend Former Secretary to the Prest- \dent Geo. B. Cortelyou, and admit- ltedly one of the shrewdest pollti- | cians in New York state, will be in active charge. Col. Roosevelt is due to arrive here Wednesday when his friends expect him to begin a personal eam- paign for the nomination. Going to Arizona | First, it is said, the former presi dent will go to Phoenix, Ariz,, where his son, Archie Roosevelt, in study: ing. Col. Roosevelt, it is believed, will make severgi specches en rote, explaining frther his position on the recall of judicial decisior rather than the recall of judge mak lif the decision Here's the Letter Following is Roosevelt's letter: “NewYork, Feb. 24, 1912. “Gentlemen: | deeply appreciate your letter and | realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me, expressing as it does the carefully considered convictions the men elected by popular vote Before an audience that filled the | Seattle theatre, George F. Cotterill, \the people’s candidate for mayor, tore to shreds the attempts of the vice syndicate and franchise grab- bers to becloud the fssues, gave the He direct to the Gill ora- {tors who have falsely and mall \clously charged him with intending to close the theatres, moving pic: tures and baseball on Sundays. union la jing out with my wife,” he said. “I came home shortly after. We went began in ear. re in, weet | ! TODAY & few hours before T. R. the heads of government in states. agree with you that be 4 ig not one to be decided any reference to personal pref. erences or interests of any man, but purely from the standpoint of the interests of the people as a whole. | the nomination for p: has expressed its pref- erence. *One of. the chief principles for which | have stood and for which | new stand and which | have always endeavored and aiways shall en denvor to reduce to action the wine rule of the people, jore | had hoped that so far as possible the people may be given the chance through direct prim igs, to exprees their preference as) to who shall be the nominee of the Republican presidential convention. “Very truly yours, (Signed) “THRODORE ROOSEVELT.” ‘Taft's Man. Not Alarmed. GHICAGO, Feb. 26.—That Presi- demt Taft, despite Col. Roosevelt's openly entering the contest, would bewertain of renomination and re- election was the emphatic declara tom here of Congressman McKinley of Minols. McKinley said today “I haven't a word of criticism tq make of Roosevelt. He has been an irreprosehable publican, and he wilt ablde by the decision of the par to| THEATRE PACKED FOR — COTTERILL MEETING He} ty) Bat I am certain that Taft will be #enominated and. re-elected.” of trath in it, "They know what the jaw ix, and they themselves will not deny that I starid for law enforce- {ment. And the law says that these amaxements are jnst as legal on Sunday as church service is. They know that any form of amusement which js Jegal on any other day is onspiring rds here, was dismissed in the su- perior court today on the mo- tion of Deputy District Attorney Horton. Horton, in his motion, stated that the evidence in possession of the state was insufficient to authorize him to ask a jury for @ conviction. ee ee ee * = SOCIALIST MEETINGS ® Tonight—Arcade hall; ® storeroom, West * Angevine hall, Youngstown, * * Tuesday—-Ward's hall, George. & * town; Dudley's ball, South * * Park. * * * | Tee eeeeaererweweeee for the sided. Walker introduced 3. A. Keenan, a former Parish orafor, as the first speaker and then immediately in- troduced Cotterill, The latter was greeted by thunderous applause as he arose. It subsided for a moment, and then it broke forth again, And when thi was concladed, three cheers were given with such vigor and enthusiasm as has scarcely been equaled In that theatre. Keenan showed that not only was GI Incapable of fulfilling bis duty as head of the police department, or as an executive who takes the oath to enforce the laws, but that Gil would bring about constant turmoil Roosevelt candidacy, pre- council, which repudiated him a year ago and ordered an investiga- his administration, resulting penstein's conviction of grafting. Keenan challenged Gill to show his ability as @ business man while in office. He showed that Gill rain- ed the light plant, so as to benefit the 8, E. Co, and that the only other business of importance that he launched was to organize the vice syndicate in his own office Cotterit said that the Gillites, finding no defense for their past record, were obscuring the issues The real issue is that of the home, whether it is a Catholic home, or a Jewish home, or a Protestant home, ‘an issue of the protection of all the homes tn this city. He continued: “I a mnot cater- ing to the saloons or any other ele- ment, but it is a false issue to raise the question of prohibition The Jaws of this city and state allow sa- loons to operate, and no saloonkeep- er who runs his place of business ac- cording to law, can be affected one way or the other, whether or I get legal on Sundays.” . George H. Walker, insurgent pro- spnivs,, fonder in the Poindexter elected.” Tonight Cotterill will speak at the Broadway theatre, Queen Anne “They know that there is no grain! fight and snow state committeeman| school and Renton Hill club house. and endiess bickering with the city | |regarded him as a brother. He had jlived at our house for a year. 1 do |not know of any enemies either of | them ha | On Stage Formerly Mra. Brown, whose age is given to bed and went to sleep. I don't know how long we were asicep. I woke up when he went out the next time. It must have been near mid- night. He was gone long J to go to the car track and back, a8 24, and who married Brown three | After hec ame home he went to bed | years ago, married before to a and later got up and lighted the and has tw jaro p. FATALLY SHOT Alleged Embezzler WL QuOR RAID suits Old Home GRANTS PASS, Or., Feb. 26.—A8| (By United Press Reasea Wire) | 4 result of a liquor raid here Satur-| IDNEY, Iowa, Feb. 26—Kari day night by the police chief and | Standard, former bookkeeper of the two other policemen, a near-riot re-| American National bank o! Pomona suited, in which a number of shots|Cal., from which it is alleged h were fired, and C. F. Bixy, a local | embezzled $149,999, visited his old photographer, lies near death with | home at Northboro near here, ac- & bullet in or near one lung. cording to reports received here to! The chief of police went to a barn |day. According to the story Stand- belonging to one F. M. Wickman, | ard 8 accompanied by his pretty where the chief learned a lot of| wife on whom he is said to have liquor had been stored, which had|Spent thousands of dollars. The |been hauled into the town after) Couple are said to have remained | dark in a wagon. only a few hours in the town where j — a Standard was born and passed his “And the police protection, sir, is| early boyhood, excellent.” ~_ “Any better than anywhere else?” “Yes, indeed, sir, we hate two Anarchists on the top floor.” “I beg your pardon, are you"— “That depends on what you want, sir.” | 1 TheClosed Book Gives forth neither wisdom nor information, It is worth Zero. Mr. Advertiser, what good are Circulation figures to you if you are de- nied access to the circulation books whence they come? The Star wants you to KNOW that its circulation records are open for your inspection, from beginning to end, from A to Z, at any and all times. It welcomes the closest possible inspection, in fact, and will assist you in every way possible to prosecute this examination to the very limit. The Star } has a Daily PAID Circulation in excess of I- 40,000 And We Can Prove It company ¢ competition. Gill and F was recalled, and the F urth lost, but later, as mayor, Gill put Furth’s m.:n in urth man was kicked out. Since then the city plant GOOD BU SINESS FOR THE S. E. CO. TO SPEND MONEY TO RE-ELECT GILL.