The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 29, 1912, Page 1

over seventy thousand votes in Seattle. Gill got less than one-third'@f them at the pri y, Gillism will lose by more than Eee to trust any who is a good enough to admit that there are good reasons wh: work and vote for Gill. werd T CAN TAKE ONE OF THE hat Star is concerned, The Star has no man for a whissler— |i} i ~ i) I} H | | VOL. 13. NO. 312. twenty thousand votes. Every voter he ONLY primary ¢ who stays at home helps Gill. lection. He polled every Gill vote then. Wake up, you voters. If all the anti-Gill Wake up, WAKE UP. GIVE GILLISM Seattle INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1912 Sta IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. ON TRAINS AND \ MEWS STAN ie be zens will turn ITS DEATH BLOW NEXT TUESDAY. | HOME EDITION | Some folks just can’t make their voices i) behave. } another, | They say one thing and do THIS IS FOR ONLY A FEW STAR READERS Hi Gill’s support is made up of two extreme classes. One class comprises the noisy, wide-open town ele- be financially benefited by a reign of Gillism, The other class represents the special interests, combined and standing unitedly, have great power, but they would be in a hopeless minority if deceive a considerable number of honest working men, legitimate business men, and decent people gener- . and whose welfare are absolutely endangered by Gillism. This Vg knows that nothin, NATURAL GILL V y these two extreme classes, the open town and the can be said, that no argument can be TES AWAY FROM GILL. It is not with juarrel with them. The Star concedes to them the right to vote 6 REPRESENTS THEM AND WHO STANDS FOR THEIR INTERESTS. T COBBLES INDEPENDENT A COUNCIL AGAINST absorb that;chise which turns over to the city pre | the Independent company the ty at the expiration of the franchise, | ® proper Co, came in| if the company fails to remove all This removal is consi a physical impossibility, so that the y has practically an unquestioned interest in the Independent Co, No Rate Raise for Two Veare Bradley assures the mayor in bin communication that there will be 90 raise i rates for two years. He ways he will enter Into « solem lagreement with the council to that | effect. } ‘This, of course, will have to meet | with the appreval of the council and | tee comm! 4 SE SEE AL SCHEME Rumerous other propositions and charter amend- must vote next Tuesday, the following 4 the port commission, will be found on the offietal | ‘the following recommendations on these various | COMMISSION'S PLANS by the port commission will be presented oa) Ae ae ite on East waterway. , site om Salmon bey. ‘om central ry. Bond {ow terminal Island termina! project. Bond tseve 29000°.! JOHNSON 1S 8 pertain to Star advises its readers most emphat-| eee thix project in its present ot safeyua point of being ridiculous. & tially by paying out dollars for Ts. wh are unanimously opposed to it. ir. Ayers, the chief promoter, has wterminal except as an advertising writer, d that many of the representations and misleading says: are improvement scheme. peck site at Smith's cove. $1,000,000 bond issue. * # # ® * voTe vés. Bond issue $850,000 Bond Bond iseve $760,000. we $150,000. VOTE YES. project. Bond issue $3,000,000, insne $350,000, : water front. the misnamed “Bush form. The} ion is un-| attle can't 50-cent | ded. ‘The propos | now had time to study They had no} | no have AMINAL The Central Labor Council jlast night unanimously went o <sie eens from the streets within | on record against the te 1 a rep) ‘scheme. Not one member voted |in favor of propositions 7 and |8 With only one exception the labor council followed The | Star's advisory ballot on all of jthe 42 different propositions land charter amendments sub- | mitted. He’s Left Waiting at the Church United Leases Wire: WINDSOR, “Eng, Feb ie Left “waiting at the church,” Eric Loder, a scion of British nobility, today was put in a ridiculous position when Gab. rieita Ray famoue stage beau- ay, jilted him at the last mo- ment, much to the amurement of London society, whicn was out in force to attend the wide- ly heraided ceremony. fess #t the Cathoil> church, where the marriage was to take place, but the bride failed to ap- pene She refused ali explana- tien, Reewehheeeee * FEBRUARY 29 &% Remember the date. it ® comes only once in four years. * if you want to know more ® about it, look on page 6 of The ® Star today. * eka wtweeeeene (By United Press Lease¢ Wire) COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 2¢.—"I am not at this time a candidate for the republican nomination for the vice presidency.” Thig was the summing up by Governor Hiram Johnson of Call- fornia here today of reports that he is to be Col. Roosevelt's run ning mate in case the latter {s chosen at Chicago. Johnson made his statement to the United Press, Pretty stenographers? Why, they're in every office bulid- ing in thie little old town of ours. The Seat typist: eas betas 4 and prettier than the “make-bell Tt is with the third class that this newspaper is concerned. It is with the few honest working men, the few legitimate merchants, big and small, and the few decent average citzens who for some mistaken reason, or who through sympathy, or because of deception, are intending to vote for Gill. It is to these people that The Star says Gillism is a danger. It is to these people that The Star desires to show that they will pay the price of Gillism and the other two classes of Gill supporters WILL BE THE ONLY ONES TO RECEIVE ANY REWARDS FROM IT. Tt is to these people that The Star wants to point out that brass band vice exploiters and the slick franchise grabbers are not backin, AND WILL GET IT, AS THEY DID GET IT BEFORE. It is these average citizents, who have absolutely nothing to gain from Gillism, that The Star wants to say Gill's FLOOD OF PICTURES OF PRETTY STENOGRAPHERS Photo by Jacobs’ Shop EDITH EVERETT, STENOGRAPHER WITH THE CRANE CO. Butler grill for a fourth. Tomorrow another prize will be announced Contest closes next Tuesday. Mail photos to “Wallingford editor. You haven't any good picture MILL OWNERS GIE IN 10 It is to these people alone that The Star wishes to talk. Hi Gill with their unlimited campaign funds, for nothing—that these interests will demand their price honeyed promises of better times ARE NOT MEANT FOR YOU. MAN SLAYS WIFE AND DAUGHTERS United Press Leased Wire) FRANCISCO, Feb, 29.—Driv- ne by overwork, Samuel QTRIKERS | ox URWHENCE, “Mass, Feb. 20— | Fisher jass., Feb. — | Fishe teh; ri Early settiement of the strike of Eijk Tam > faaneiy, loans ease oarty textile workers is expected to f0l-|today shot and killed his wife, Hen- low a semi-ctficial announcement |rietta, and his two daughters, Ail- that President Wood of the Ameri-| een, aged 1 He then can Woolen mills had wired from | end, Boston, notifyi his associates! The tragedy here that the strike must be settled |unti! nearly noon, when flames wore at once. It is expected that the mill seen issu from the Fisher rest owners will submit to the strikers’ |dence on First av. Neighbors broke compromise agreement before the into the house, firat coming upon end of the week. the body of Mrs, Fisher lying in the tome jhallway, The bodies of gthe two That the dynamite found in a train: virile were found in a bedroom. while was not discovered |sonally investigatting the tragedy, believes that Fisher first went to his daughters’ room and shot them as they lay in bed. Attracted by, the sound of the shots, Mrs. Fisher, it is believed, went to investigate, She was met in the hallway, the police believe, by her husband, who chased her back into her room. The disordered appearance of Mra. Fish- ers room indicates that she made ‘a desperate fight for life. A window in the room was shattered, and a bullet hole in the ceiling and an- other in the wall showed that two of the insane slayer's shots went load of goods for the American Woolen Company was but anoth “plant” on the part of the mill own: ers to arouse public sentiment against the operatives was the as | sertion m leaders. day, Wm. D. Haywood, former secre. tary of the Western Federation of Miners, who is directing the strike | of the id far in that which has been plant by detectives in the employ of the | mill owners, The federal authort-| thes are investigating the strike and | it tw very likely that local detectives | with dynamite on their hands had | to get rid of it in a hurry, so they placed it in the trainlond of goods) for the woolen truit.” ‘At 86 Realizes_ Father’s Prediction’ OAKLAND, Feb. 29.—Mre. Susan Mills, 86 years of age and founder of Mills college, has registered Ing her affiliations Hean. The registration was held yesterday at the college and about 100 women students also were recorded as enfranchised women. Mrs. Mills said wae real- izing the predictions of her fa- ther years ago that women would some day vote, and that some of his family would live to see it. Imagined Fall —| From Sixth Floor) George Ganley thought he saw a - wild, The third apparently took ef. Fisher was found dead in another | fect a trail of ona pres thare that part of the house. The origin of | Mrs. Fisher struggled to the halt the fire, which started in the girl's | way where she dropped bedroom, is not k n. Their bod-| Fisher, it is belleved then went * were badly burned. to his own bedroom, re-loaded his a Shot Girls as They Slept | revolver, sat down on the bed, and lef of Police White, who is per-| fired a bullet into his own brain. 1 never believed in the direct in a speech at the \ Yes, HI GILL OPPC THE INITIATIVE CALL EVERY DIRECT L TH \ ro EVE R CAME UP IN HIS TEN YEARS IN THE COUNCIL. Gill and his crowd stayed away from the council meeting so that there would not be a quorum to submit the initiative and referendum to a vote of the people in 1900. GILL AND HIS CLIQUE TRIED THE $ AMI TRICK WHEN: THESE CHARTER AMEND- MENTS WERE PRESENTED AGAIN TO THE COUNCIL IN 1908 he law was plain that the council had to put the matter to the people's vote if the petitions had the sufficient numbersof names. IT WAS NOT MAYOR MOORE CALLED IN A DOZEN ‘ ON JANUARY 30, 1908, WITH ORDERS | ARRE THE ABSHNT COUNCIL- MEN AND COME « THEM TO ATTEND TO THEIR DUTIE COUNCILME THAT GILI AND HIS RING FINALLY SHOWED UP AT THE COUNCIL MEETING. And, of course, the people, when they got a chance, voted for the initiative and ref- erendum, which Gill opposed primaries,” Hi Gill said rona hall on Februagy 20, 1908. ) THE DIRECT PRIMARIE “-NDUM, THE RE- ISLATION MEASURE (Below is the first of a series of five short talks b: i en © y Mr. Cotterill to those readers of The Star who a in favor of Gillism. Mr. Cotteritl articularly to talk to those Star readers who, because of some n idea, or who, because of deception, are intending to vote for but qualified it by saying that, lwhile he did not expect to be in and grossly exaggerated. e, “1 would ones on the stage, and the scores of /ready, Mins Stenographers, just go picture being received at The Star|to the Jacobs Photo Shop. second) woman leap from a sixth story win-| G dow of the N York block this/ ope Editor.) morning to t ent in the al-| These talks, of course, will be of interest to all Star readers.— th would lead the commission to modify its} opment as planned is out of_all propor- expe into on the se IN FAIL( DISTRICT Moters’ scheme NOW and give the port! ation of the near futu and le proposed it MUST IN- UNLESS SUSTAINED | TRE evidence has been presented | the vice presidential r. be a demagogue if I sald 1 would not accept ILL MEETING Hi GU filled the Coliseam theater at his noonday meeting and his audience was enthusiastic in the ex treme. A contribution of $20.20 was ortunity to work out a port development | taken up for the Lawrence strike sufferers. lare still teeming streets traversed | be picking up, as he bas sold a glass to this town, him, but it tion a step. here, it cannot what a really ry” looks like. indwich ee rorneted ion, and plant at Irondaie, and ; to the great @riziy bears the in no time to 1,300 oe Mito @ roaring indus roar hundred memes daily the mirac ‘wleel, and got to $20 a day for nek. Night and day ene of the plant buried the sky, and tt 4 ery awoke Medieval forest ‘town, saloons sprang f@ saloons av of $100 a da money and Even now they eee whose a . ‘ou could % @ ih Irondale then, } the a} it Industrial | Map. There | snreads the news that things mustjand a compass, | want a room, by broad avenues—on the map. There are beautiful residential sub-| urbs as far away as Discovery Bay on the map. But only on the map. | The scarred hillsides are dotted with homes—some shacks, some) pretentious dwellings—but they are empty. a dilapidated look, Flower-beds are | choked with weeds, Gates hang by | a hinge. For sale” signs tell the melancholy | could not possibly achieve its pur-) “Cap.” he said, tale. Irondale, which a few months ago | had a population of 1300, now has} scarce 500, The rest have agattered. | Only those remain who can't get out. They are, of necessity, the} ery ones who can least afford to Boise blew in and called on “Cap” | remain—they are the family men, the home-seekers, who paid any- where from $1,500 for a “business | site” to $125 for a “Jot in the sub- urbs,” And they have no money. For a time the Weatern SteM Cor- poration pald ite men in “bine slips, Some of these were turned over to lawyers for collection. Some were discounted at a heavy loss. Some were accepted by the merch- ts and boarding house keepers. There is $27,000 owing the men, Rent? Never Pay It! Nobody pays any rent in Irondale now. Landlords don't expect to be paid. Half the time the merchants don't take the trouble to open up in the morning. What's the use? To be,on the safe side, the proprietor of the Washington hotel leaves a note on the desk; “If you want a room, select the one you like, I will be back in the He knows very well no one will An optimistic saloonkeeper of beer When the boom was at its height Rev. G. W. Davis built the First Congregational church, and almost got it paid for, He discon ed services a month ago, as there was nobody left to attend ‘em. And, be- melancholy and farcteal proceeding which might coax wry smiles to the ne “There are at least 20 families in Irondale who are absolutely destit- ute and starvin: id Rev. Davis. “This ia Irondal Only the other day a man from Wingate, police judge, deputy sher- iff, real estate man, laundry and in- surance agent, who hails from New Hampshire 4d never got the worse of a “dicker.” “Will you kindly direct me to Irondale?” said the man from Boise, “I've bought some lots here and I'd like to look ‘em over.” “This is Irondale,” said Wingate, and the stranger looked startled. “Well, where's Bayview ay.? That's where my lots are. If you'll Il me how to get to Bayview ay I'll have no trouble finding the lots because theres a four-story brick block on one side of them and a theater on the other, and they face Olympic park.” Then We Went Home “Oh, I know Bayview # though I've never been there,” Win- gate replied. “It’s right here,” and he put a finger on the blue-print map on the wall. “It's no more than four miles from here, and the trail’s fair almost half the way, so you ought not to have much trouble finding It. But you'll need a guide of course, The well office, and the few that space per- mits to print, PROVE IT. The fair stenographer in “Get Rich Quick Wallingford” will have |eaxeeptible to femine charms, as he | “nothing on” Seattle girls, we can see that plainty Remember, there's a box at “W Hingford” performance at the Met- ropolitan next week aa & prize for one pretty girl, $10 in cash for an- other, two orchestra seats for a third, and a dinner for two at the hae is some thick.” The Botse man went home with- lout viewing his lots. “There are lots of folks,” said \“Cap,” “who have lived right in Irondale since the boom began who have bought suburban lots and have lnever been able to find them, Bu' Already they are taking on | sides, passing the plate would be a| they're there, all right.” A Gun Biggest Money-Maker While "Cap was talking a friend Windows are boarded up.|faces of the congregation, but it) from Port Townsend dropped in. “what'll you take |for that rifle on the wall?” “What'll you give me?” Yankee answer. | “Fifty cents,” said the friend, and braced himeelf for a roar of protest, “Gimme the money,” said “Cap.” The bargain was made, and the friend took down the prize from the wall. The barrel was clogged with rust was the |was missing. The stock was falling | to pieces. | “Hey!” wailed the owner, “This blame thing won't shoot.” “Never said it would,” said “Cap /“1ll buy it back, though, if you don’t | want it.” “How much?" “Two bits.” Presto! The ancient weapon was |again the “Cap's” and went back to lit's place on the wall, | “This has been a hard winter.” ‘mused “Cap” Wingate when the friend was gone. “I don’t know what I'd a-done if it hadn't a-been |for that rifle. It’s brought me the \only real money I've since the ‘plant shut down. I've owned it eight times—and it’s still mine. | Every time I sell it and buy It back, I make two bits, € the Captain! Even “Cap” Wingate has felt the pinch of hard times since Irondale became a “broken burg.” How are The ejecter would not work.| The breach wax broken and part} of the P-I building, and he'll @ one of you free of « J. Rufus Wallingford is at all take & round of the Seattle busi |neas offices and interview some of | the young ladies who play on the| keyboards, rb hurry up with those pletures, ai you going to soak a law-broaker if he bas no money? Who's going to Day magisterial fees in a “ham. sandwich town"? Who's buying real | estate In a town that’s on the blink? |. “Why,” grieved the “Cap,” “the| jHottom’s even fallen out of the! |lanndry agency since Irondale quit | Wearing white collars.” “How do the people here live?" Wingate was asked “Well, we get along somehow,’ jhe replied. “For one thing, there’ |no rent to pay. And water's free. ml all you've got to do for fuel ts | jto pick it up in the woods. The| | farmers have been good, too, and! |you know there's some right good | farm and dairy country a few miles | . They come In with vegetables | ind exes, and we distribute them among the families that need them most. There's some hunger, but not fis much as you'd think. But there ain't no money.” And the Forest Broods The mill is silent. The waves lave the barnacied piles of the dock where no ships are moored. The forest broods. “We used to brag,” said “Cap” Wingate, “that Irondale would soon have Seattle skinned a mile, and ‘Frisco looking Hike @ country cross. yoads. We'd be bigger 'n Chicago, bigger 'n New York, bigger 'n Lon- don. We believed it, too. But we ain’t singing that song now. We're @ ‘broken burg’ if there ever was e.”” While Irondale sits and waits for help, while the mill is silent, there are three receivers, appointed by the court, who are receiving $25 a day each to straighten out the af. fairs of the Western Steel Corpora- tion. The only thing they have done, so far as Irondale knows, is to advertise the plant for sale on March 46. it in the play, he might love bis} officers find the od Sok of | head and heart entirely were be tole par Bagg cot le are Ragged jas he wrote “insane name on the police blotter j j widely circulated that he would re- ley below. He rushed into a near by offi and two men rushed to telephones to call the police When the patrol arrived, did the Mattened on the pave. ment? No. Did they find George Ganley They did, and took him back in the | wagon, | “I'm a traveler, and I'm going to} stay around here a few days—then | I'm going to Seattle,” satd Ganley. | “I see,” said Police Clerk Justus, | after Ganley's | | PEKSS A OSE SEV ESS * * * WEATHER FORECAST * * Fair tonight and Friday; */| % moderate easterly winds. * * perature ab noon, 43. * * * * ee ee Dr. Wiley Will Stick at His Post} (By United Press Teased Wire) WASHIN IN, Feb, 29.—Brand ing as absolutely false the stories | sin his present position and seek the democratic vice presidential nomination, Dr, Harvey W. Wiley government pure food expert, de- clared today that the reports of his intended giving up of his work in the chemistry bureau was the work of his enemies. Dr. Wiley said that I shall resign and seek polit- jeal preferment are manufactured and circulated by anonymous ene: mies.” “These stories RRR RK KKK *% Socialist Mestings Tonight * * Caswell's hall, Mountain View * * = station, Green Lake. * *® Odd Fellows’ hall, Fremont * RAKE ARERR Cotterill Meetings Tonight. Gallinger’s hall, Califor- i . and Lander st. Junction hall, West Se- attle. Gatewood Seattle. Pleasant Valley Presby- terian church, Fort Lawton. West school, BY GEORGE F. COTTERILL ‘ The People’s Progressive Nominee for Mayor The final campaign ts half over, and already Gillism is driven inte its last ditch. The masks of false issues have been torn aside: the dust of superficial fallacies has been blown away; the fancies and falsehoods of a vivid imagination, clothed in .the varied vocabulary of Gillism, j have ceased even to afford entertainment, and are now repeated me- chanically at the suburban stands, with parrot-like precision and pianola accompaniment Gillism now stands exposed before thi election decision, exactly for what it is, marked by its own brand upon the public records of Seattle. It will be supported next Tuesday only by its victims, its past and would-be beneficiaries, its sympathizers an those newer residents who may be deceived by misinformation, . "or these four classes let us have pity for the first, contempt for the second and charity, facts and persuasion for the third and fourth, In these short talks to § from the platform, I use.the term “Gillism” not in any onal attack upon the private life of any “man, but as the deserved and distinguishing name of a de basing and destructive perversion of city government to selfish pur- poses, which has been indelibly written on Seattle's past by Mr, Gill and his associates and environment. Seattle repudiated Gill and Gillism one year ago by 6,000 adverse plurality, Today it stands before the people with a thousand less sup- porters, defiant, unrepentant, brazenly demanding a new lease of life. More debased commercialism! More victims!! Your money and your lives!!! That's what Gillism demands next Tuesday. CONFIDENCE, MR. ADVERTISER Is one of the greatest assets of any newspaper. From an advertising standpoint that newspaper stands foremost which enjoys the confidence of its readers. Some newspapers are purchased just to be glanced through quickly and laid aside. Others are purchased and read thor- oughly from beginning to end. The Star enjoys the confidence cf over 40,000 families daily and they are guided in their pur- chases by the advertisements which they read in The Star. Does this interest you? Let our agent call. ~ Over 40,000 Paid Copies Daily community, in the hour of