The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 15, 1912, Page 1

ME EDITION } aristocrats of this world must {if people, for from them the what they get = Sa “VOL. 14. NO. E LEGAL KILLING OF MIKE, JUST A DOG This Is “Killing Day” at t the City Pound, and Henry Gregg, | Dog Catcher, Moralizes on the Stern Law That the Uniit Must Perish and Only the Strong Survive. HERO AMOK? Two] perplexing ques nthe jury which over the « t Herbert court this after ‘find that Howard truth when be said) entered the pr . F. Douglas. | potlatch p furs, suits, jee paraphernalia. | aequit Herbert | Drother. if they lon, then they Howard, | way high| ary offense | | and} ¥} % Question. true, why is How this chance? question that the over. Is he stak pie hope for free eae be declared lg he depending upon court, prosecution phe married a gir! oa ‘only two short “in His Eyes Shone a Perfect Faith in All Mankind.” Executioner, Henry Gregg This te “killing day” at the city pound Mike was the first to die, The condemned, 20 of them, went noble brindle bel), stiff-necked and lion-h & bullterrier bitch, mother rs, pring winners among them & collie, whose Inminous med to pray, and just doge—mean, stinking, cringing pariahs, outcasts of the city “Mike first,” satd big Henry Gregg. chief dog-cateher, “I've been watehing bim. There ain't much going on that he don't see and un derstand. Ani I've sort of got a notion that if Mike was to see one of the others die, he'd anderstand what wax coming to him. And t | couldn't ‘low that, nohow Mike, a fox terrier, came trotting, sharp ears up, eyes alight, stumpy tall awageing, Hie wiry body writhed and cavorted in an « we of de light. His red tongue kissed the hand that fastened the collar around bis neck. He thought it was a caress. But why was Gregg fastening another collar around his body Funny place for a coll: And what did Mike know about electricity, volts and cirevltal. In bis eyes shone &@ perfect faith in all mankind. 1 never do get used to this part of the business, pulled the lever. Snap! of the tes; And Mike was dead. He then} Dead before his quiv attorney idle bulldog was executed Over the bor/ if so, he wax game. Th of the trial pertog Then the oy hey were burned. Td like to have spared Mike. He had to die, though, and it wax best to do it quick wan ily pet, and well ! that by the marking d here | tou hed the clay shell that had been Mike with the toe of his boot was playing in the street with bis master’s children, and they t a stick into the road and ordered bim to fetch I While doing t | bidding, an automobile bit him It was a quetr case. No bones were | his nerves—these terriers are high-strung short and far apart at first, then longer fered while the fits were on, though he times. The owner brought him bere. He wasn't caught in the There wasn't any help for him. It.wan 1 > kit him Gregg helped bis three assistants load the es into the wagon and when it had one he lit his pipe and «ighed A bit of a philoso pher, is Dog- Catcher Gregg. ! “THE LAW OF LIFE” he said I don't mean written law ordinances, ‘for such cases made and provided.’ It’s the law of life law of the survival of the fittest, [| know a man who worked hard his life for a railroad, at a mean wage, and by and by be got old and he couldn't do the work. He had to go. I know another who worked at his trade—a skillful trade—in a factory. He got his bh mashed in the machinery of course, he wasn't any good at that trade any longer, and his brains were in his hands, anyhow. And he 8 oe aeeree we don’t kill men when their usefulness ts gone, the! I killed Mike and the rest just now, but we haven't any use for I sometimes think my way Is the hove mes Indian’ way It's the way of all primitive people 2,500 DOGS KILLED "A. YEAR t hardened Gregg. He understands Dog-catching and killing haven #6 the snow fali and likes dogs. He catches between 4.000 100 In the course oe Covered their | year, and electrocutes between 2,500 and 3,00 Kood beg. are sold by the city, which enjoys a revenue of $7,000 to $9,000 frou this sonia aeeneres that the | No dogs are caught for revenu betw en November 1 and April 1, but Rave already dix-| only mongrels, the sick and old and un : i pm ot " 1 wish you'd remind the public,” sal i Mees A boay! bay + a in Lin for taking out dog licenses. A li — ane Pert 1 » tag must be a dog's collar if the Oday shows | for females. The license tag and Dowd did owner doesn’t want us to catch bim the owner must pay of the three Doody, $1 for bis return, If the dog fs not clatmed keep him 48 hours, Be That Mike and His rib Howard Hanlon ek degenerate. Hy unsuspecting to thelr doom * arted, but sick now, and old a entered young Anna the marriage ‘was of age. just in order bin M.-H, Thompson ary that the boy de ‘of credit for Ne is going of him.” young be has been ” dadge Ronald said Grease, and Then he ur * followed. the ring body touched the floor He saw Mike's end. Di mangy mother of many Hiter A heap of dead dogs on whim floor. Later rk was done @ far he said Gregg when bis we I bred—you r i and more as chipper enough But the shock upset speti« of shivering. frequent. He suf bet ween regular we * statutes and teday continue W's te ie Moriey, Tay- escaped yester penitentiary miles south of ating Warden Warden Charies A. C. Heilman. ‘the city jast night terrific snow. that the fugi-/ sither in Lin. ‘The authorities Secured no trace 2 e s man way them you know It's the po Once caught #80 | Shen sell or kill him. You wouldn't want a d { yours, a dog you Nked ind chummed with, to go that way. You wouldn't want to think thal jin trying to save @ dollar, you'd lost @ pa’ ?'Here’s Very Latest ‘“Bunco” Game The telephone bell the the city work toe ther. well-dressed man wa Washington Annex hotel yesterday.) ent of the Archibald, “You Washington Annex? This ts the from the Washington Annex? Did Transfer Co. Let me speak with one you get a message from the trans. jof the porters, * * Hello, fer company? Well, I'm the man porter! Say, run across to the) ‘The telephone message didn't Krehibald hotel, and you'll find 4 come from the transfer company man we owe a dollarseventy-five A porter at the oy hotel wax to. Pay him. We collected for victimized the same way in the | moving his trunks at the depot, and game hour. Hotel people say the| the hotel people collected a second geheme is brand-new time. You'll see to it? Mich : obliged, Good-bye. BERLIN There was nothing extraordinary of his bipl in this re The transfer com-|ing a flight pany and the hotel porters all over Tetlow, Witt« ~ SHAM BATTLE ess ‘platoly. heard in this city. The (By United Wire) fort's guns, trained to cover the Sound and unquestionably to guard against any approach of the PORT TOWNSE! D, Wash., Mar.| enemy's ships, however, proved en \6.—The much-mooted question of|tirely inadequate to check an ap- whether Puget sound is sufficient ‘a will be 1% SUarded by ite forts from # rear again tonight. attack by the enemy on land has proach from land | 1 Me rary Meek, demure been decided in favor of the enemy| w . The board of cen. yesterday ax the result of a sham|# all the naughtly| battle which took place at Fort\® Saturday; brisk south y's Manager| Worden. Five artillery companies # southwest winds. S regular Quak-|made the attack, while one de-|\w ature at noon, 46 |fended the fort, A two-hours bat le >| rang at standing March 15.—One wing} » collapsed here dur by Aviator Witte at was instantly killed Wall FTI TOI Ott to tok! *| WEATHER FORECAST *& Occasional rain tonight and * | fore today | Wiley ONLY INDEPENDENT N TTLE, WASH, fo FORCED TO RESIGN | Great Government Food Expert Would not Stand Persecution Longer, and Quits Service, After Taft Administration Refuses to Back Him Up. (My United Prens b WASHINGTON, Marthe nm of Dr, Harvey W. Wh pure food man,” which was Phe id to Becretary of Agri-| culture Wilson today was the final echo of his jong fight agai influences which for tried to cripple his work as chief chemist of the bureau of chemistry in Wilson's department. This fact was learned within few hours after Wiley resigned. developed that Wiley, a w jdelivered an ultimatum to Secre tary Wilson that either Dr. F. L. Dunlap, associate chemist who was Wiley’s antagonist, must quit be or Wiley would resign. Wilson would not discharge Dan lap, who refused to resign and ade good Wiley's determination to rule tp Wire) Te the a It ago, | hia department or to get out took | |form at jot Dr the time his omploymest | H. M. Rusby of New York was probed. Attorney General} Wickersham then recommended | that Wiley “merited condign pan-/ labiene but a congressional com- mittee aod Presideot Taft exoner ated the pure food man Wiley’s Statement Wiley's resignat was effective today Of it he “After 29 years in the govern. are wervice I have had all 1 want bave received a dozen offern tsa ail over the country, but have not aw yet fully decided which | shall accept. I have promised to deliver a few lectures in Colorado and Nebraska. Then | will com sider my future. It will take thme.” on sald NEW agers of Magazine that Dr YORK, Mareh 15.-Mate} the Good Housekeepts announced here today Harvey W. Wiley had ac opted & position ax “director of & department of food, bealth and | sanit . which that magazine Will establish at Washington | Wiley, the magazine announces, | will remain at Washington. Want His Secret KOME, Mareb 16—Hy vigorou! sweating, the police today are at- | tempting to gain from Antonio DAlba « atarehixt who King Vie a of hin if any,! ta Hmmanuel nd what backing him ndition me per were The offi wand al war ably will re of the tinues ee of of the a Major Langa king's guard. bullet fired by ed. He prob The K thro ove celebration Vietor con Italy. | { First Blood for T. R. GUTHRIE Mar Hot squaybling, in whieh the velt adhere off firs marked the of the republican ention a house b the state committee, unabated ixhout i ox hit hon: | on in lahoma the op After whieh was preparing a temporary roll, had unseated 200 delegates instructed | for Roosevelt adherenta of the former president under Charles Hunter, broke into the theatre and, | despite a stiff fight by the Taft! men, took possession of the floor, | |Hayden Probably Succeeds Donworth, JUDGE HAYDEN WASHINGTON, March 16.— Judge Elmer V. Hayden of Ta coma may receive the appoint ment for the federal judgeship in Western Washington, made vacant by the resignation of Judge Donworth. inquiries made by the presi dent of the Tacoman's record lead to this conclusion. Sen- ator Jones visited the White House yesterday, still cham. dent will annonuce his choice on returning from a trip to time. Scoy reensor board: |e ensued, and the firing could be|w eA RAR RA RR RR M4 New England next week. FRIDAY, MARCH 15, DR. WILEY | he [fully pained acces | out | dream? ticatly suburban traffic is completely par- alyzed. eee: The Seattle Star | EWSPAPER IN SEATTLE 1912 * _ without bail fer shooting ie.slowly dying. you shot scious mind, arise from 1am dying, You Ret the S2caliber pistol, and, in dreamland, piece the revolve the body of her husband and f Did « then return the pistol same her place by the side of dexperately wounded and Mra. Daisy Virich-Opie-Grace, who is he husband, whom, it is believed, “You shot me, Daisy, met Oh, 0: —you kitled me.” Those were the accusing words Eugene H. Grace, a prominent [Atlanta contractor, cried as he lay | Near death's door in a local hoe scious husband, and sleep pita His wife, the widow.of # morning, unaware even then wealthy Philadeiphia pa » the fearful tragedy enacted | Tacturee, had been broug thetr bedroom? |} By the police to be con ‘race, during brief inter with what was thought Of consciousness, seems now octet - the dying dectaration of think that it was el a dream bis wife was asl when she him, and that when she awake she knew nothing of her @ dream “crime Mrs charming foot three socially yp They werr always her gg the wounded man inslet 4, “you are the one who shot me Why. how can you say that?” he protested. “You are trying to make me out & murde and they Will take me to jail ‘You ARE the one who tried to me,” Grace repeated in piti the jail bail in 40 an't Grace is me rok mn in the od a year a be happy says ti for F ning of March was going to his Ga. Wher groaning. the was bim and the tr heard of kilt! Then they led and placed her in released on $7,600 was rearrested and batt The wife She bat held away was later with the me of G In murder annals of shooting baffling mystery im the police histery Mre. Gre the charge. I'm as innocent & Rew-born babe,” she said arrest and the accusation husband are all a horrible take Did she shoot her husband in the nan, wan hink with G much Kot matte N My my mis i's condition Grace had just insured for $26,000, payable and the police are this § circame oe says he has all wants pow hin h suspicious Mr a money Did she. the | controllable while Gietates following the un: of a subcon MAN RUN DOWN ANDFATALLY INJURED BY INTERURBAN Boyd, 35, a walter at the|rate of speed | Palm cafe, 1 First av A Willme saw struck by a Seattle-Tacoma whistle, but could 9 urban, jocal No. 19, this t tention. Th about T1:10 o'clock plied the em juries: that will Mkely too lw death Boyd and kn The yards, Kye witne ner of shout a warning st. as the accident was work motorman urban static Boyd's condition serious ing down th MIDDLE WEST IS. TIED UP IN SEASON’S WORST BLIZZAR parts of Oklahoma nesota and the Dakota: swept by terrific gale panied by a heavy fall of snow ficlals of the trans lines have abandoned efforts start more {ns and are endea ing to get ef to passengers rooned on stalled trains. No ¢ bound tr due early today been ted up to noon motorman d's danger him with t attract bis an then but str Robert 8., was . inter rning, @ sustaining in ult in his for tt « him wea who trie¢ to Boyd say not the fauit of accident occurred at the cor First av. 8. and Connecticut Hoyd was on his way to The tratn left the Inter at 11:05 and was go- avenue at a mode (My United Cress Leased Wire lowa, CHICAGO, March 15.—Practical ly the entire Middle West is tied up today in the worst blizzard of the winter. .All traffic on the big rail roads centering in Chicago is prac at a standstill while all Hiinois Kaneas, Nebraska and repor When Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot was forced out of office by Taft, the nation lost the greatest specialist in that line of work it ever possessed. Today the great private interests ap- parently have forced out another true servant of the people, Chief Chemist Harvey Wiley. As Congressman Murdock declares: “Wiley’s re- tirement is a personal loss to almost all the popu- lation of America.” And just yesterday we learned that Mahlen Pit- ney, foe of the labor unions and friend of the national “higher-ups,” is to sit in the highest court in the world. About time for a big man of the Lincoln, the REAL Lincoln stamp, to jump to the front, isn’t it? ONE CENT %}.2" 41% DID WIFE KILL HUSBAND WHILE SHE WAS ASLEEP? uncon unt! wife several Min. be continental HOME EDITION | il When I'm mad I'm glad to think I'm} no madder; when I'm glad I'm glad to think I may be gladder SA i Ui TWO OUTLAWS ARE CAPTURED Little Girl Victim of Big Court House Shooting Dies Today— Allens, Father and Son, Are Caught—Militia and Posses After Rest of Gang. | | } (My United ¥ ensed Wire) | county court house at Hillavitie, to A ‘ 8 5 ease SPRINGE.Va:'ulor 1h — | say" are dodging In tne. tof the head of 20) tastnesses of the Blue Ridge moun deputies, arrived here today and|taing, with scores of derermined fermally arrested Floyd Allen and| men in full pursuit. The penned igen Mee Reaate oasis ie eae composed of members of some of father is over my dead body,” Vic-| the” romans farutette, Udine tor Allen told Detective Feits. Be fore the youthful bandit could bring aortic Aneel peony i conn ermin 0 avenge ndite’ | Winchester into play he was over powered and placed in irons. Floyd slaughter | Allen offered no resistance. He is eo | weak from the wounds inflicted by the deputies yesterday, and was un |able to put up a fight. As he was! ‘being carried to the penitentiary, he predicted that the fugitive out flaws would effect his release be fore night With the Detcetive Felts placed a double guard @ the structure and left U with his posse to take up the chase Store Raided ything points wired certain and the at ourt room and ine hooting affray The dead: Judge Thornton Massie, Commonweaith Attor ney Foster, Sheriff Lew Webb. The injured: Floyd Allen, brother of Sidney Alien, leader of the bandits, Court Clerk Dex ter Goad, Jurors Faddis, Kane and Fowler, and spectators A, Howlett, Bruce Marshall and Stuart Worrell, Reports here laws, 17 strong racing for the North Carolina border as fast as thelr rugged mountain ponies can carry them. Hundreds of eltizens and deputy sheriffs are scattered ong the border line, and it ix not believed that the bandits can get by them without a terrific struggle. two Allens safe in’ jatt to trouble today Mann follow deputies the out- Gov are in to bandi A hardware store € miles wt night and a ammunition taken he Ailen clan is re Little Giri Victim. The list of casualties result ing from the shooting affray in the Hilleville court was increas ed to four this afternoon, when Betty Ayres, aged 13, a witness for Floyd Allen, struck by a stray bullet, died from the wound. The girl ran screaming from the court room when Floyd Allen started the shooting with @ revolver given him by @ Blue Ridge mountaineer. She was shot through the body as she was running from the build ing. Armed with Winchesters and sawed off shot guns, the Allen gang of bandits who yesterday conducted @ carnival of death in the Carroll Local Man Caught in California SAN FRANCISCO, March 15. —George F. Smith, 23 years old, of Seattic, was taken from the steamer Kansas City here to- day as a fugitive. The police say Smith admits the theft of a motorcycle and a typewriter from a hardware dealer named Spinning, of Se- attle. When searched at head- quarters, $650 was found in his possession. He claims the money is not involved in his present difficulty. He is anx ious to return north to settle his difficulty with the complain “BOB'S” PLAN ESTOWN, N La Folle that he from April Mount Airy raided ply of arn It is b ponnible and Town Shakes With Terror. of milida today for the scene Hillaville is shak- of a report nd doubling on returning here to Allen, who lies dai d in the jail here orities have asking that se d to Two com en state will leave here Mann unites protect. the rday’s shooting bee was Floyd, Sidney and Jack brothers, and 14 mountaineer All but Floyd escaped, al- is believed that Sidney of the gang, was se the « here Yest sta Allen friends though Aller verely GREAT MINERS" STRIKE. DUE NEW YORK, March 15.—Practl- cal certainty of a strike in the an- thracite coal district came here te |day when negotiations looking to [a settlement of wage differences were abruptly ended. Goth the operators and the committee rep- resenting the miners annoynced their determination to make no fur- |ther concessions. This means that \the strike will begin at midnight, | March 31, unless one of the factions eee bed til r te ire? re her of in that tet kh keke hhh * ARRESTED FOR KIDNAPING AT SURPRISE PARTY EVERETT, Wash. March d to -attend a sur arty given by his parents, Alva Burgett from Everett to a suburb, only. to on a kidnaping charge. The parents say the girl was only 15, while Bur gett alleges she told him’ she was 19 when he married her. & RRR RRR BULLET IN TEMPLE PASADENA, Cal., March Henry W. Wilkeson of Columbus, Neb., aged about 30, was found jdead in an alley fm South Pasadena |today, with a bullet hole in his temple. A revolver was lying be- side the body, four chambers emp- ty. The police believe it is a case of suicide he hus-|here today Washington and that on wi North 1 he w and return prise bride's journeyed Pinchurst be arrested life a stumping gon, Calife having aska ria « primaries ided as to whether or stump ¢ THOUGHT MAN A COYOTE: KILLED KENDRICK, Ida., March 15, —Mistaken for a coyote by An. tone Dahi, father of his fian- cee, Mabe! Dahil, a handsome mountain girl of 18, Richard Sundby, of Parks, is dead, the victim of Dahi's gun. The young people were to have been married this spring. Sundby was walking in a canyon toward the Dah! home when Dah! heard the bushes rattle and, thinking a coyote was skulking in the shadows, fired, The bullet plowed through Sundby’s neck. He died shortly afterward his sweetheart’s arms f she not he w er sta <iRaENEEWETER Reeeeeee eens H.| and| hi | ap | was PASADENA, Cal March 15.— | Henry M. Wilkerson, @ well-to-d re |tired merchant, formerly of Colum- } bus, Neb., who has been a patient at a sanitarium here, wandered away | last night and committed suicide in jan alley near the Southern Pacific jtr acks He shot four times before | he ded in killing himself i with a gullet in the temple. , WE WONDER WHY! Over 40,000 people who read The Star every evening could easily secure another Seattle newspaper for one penny. BUT THEY DON’T These people—over 40,000 daily— buy The Star because they have confidence in its news columns, Andthissame confidence is extended to the advertising which appears in The Star. OVER 40,000 1 tol hat the} and| i in succet D ing om of ma. | ast: | had}