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RIT OF “SUBSTANTIAL JUSTICE” IS “DRIVEN HOME” Seattle mother refused to testify against her son. ye law son * the state of Washington provides for such cases. a wife,” may not refuse to testify against her son. s¢ Mitchell Gilliam of the superior court sent the woman to jail for 30 days. “Il take them as | find them.” w is sacred. The law is THE LAW. this “contemptuous” mother had served but three days of her 30-day sentence, Judge Gilliam ” said J The not make the laws. Gilliam. . the judicial attitude. her again into his presence. may £° he said. a a * says the sacred law of Sep ears, “Keeping you in jail would be levying toll on the most sacred sentiment of the! the mother to jail he applied the LETTER OF THE LAW. ME EDITION } SSSI: pigs—ercept when they are} men HAZZARD TO Test of Strength Without Food Next Tues- Star to Secure Committee to Watch and Fast—What She Says. FAST 30 DAYS DR. LINDA HAZZARD. Hazzard, re-jit, however, in the hope that the — medical fraternity might take up! 3, her offer for scientific investiga | ron | thom, she says, Aske Star to Name Committee. rently is unwilling to age of a setentific in- | vestigation of the phenomena & letter dated [tached to such a fast as I propose Star to snper:|to take,” Mrs, Hazzard says in her 40 see that it is/ letter to The Star, “and as J have ae fide. jalways, believed The Star to be wants a com-|falr to everybody, | now ask The Preferably of | Star to name a commitiee—-if pow the fast. She| sible a committee of medical men ing constantly|and women—-to observe the fast one or more of| which I shall begin next Tuesday, will take rooma March 26. And in ead aperecrsy periment house}! would suggest that it iy Her fast| will be necessary to employ two ‘with the sole|or three persons, so that at least she may be per-|one of them should be with me at and allowed] all times, both day and night. 1 she may de-| wish to reserve only the right to | use all the water that I may want, iy willing, but anx- | and the privilege of going about as to any reasonable! may wish in the company of ene to aseure|or more members of the commit that the fast is| tee.” observed on was | EXPENSIVE GLORY Lorol to submit her Ernest Lazmoor, 1118% Third ay., the obsersé | was on his way home late Inst night je Biar foliows wimtt bby her to fis Kinet when he met # negro woman at the and Spring Sétoclation and to| corner of Seventh av W. ©. Wood-| st. who was about to faint. Lux Mead cg ree| moor lent a helping hand and soon Her letter to the| brought the woman back to her was sent on|senses. When he reached home 10 the three doc-| Ernest found that he had been te lator “touched” for $23 in cash and a on the Na says 4, | Re reply from] certificate of deposit Dr. Hazzard,| tional Bank of Commerce for $50. Mth and Woodward) Ernest told the police this morning iy declined to| that this first-aid-to-the-injured was Of the medical |an expensive glory edged the re} tier more than ‘nothing further Dr. Hazzard regard let DAMAGE CLAIM TO MAYOR H. B. Lovejoy, tianager of the eamer Calista this morning pre sented a claim of $200 to Mayor Cotterill for damage to his boat, cafised by the city fire boat Du- wamish on March 2, at pier 3. Lovejoy says that some unknown man was running the fireboat and bumped right into the C a} says ph: n down! under Strain Bhe has SEE! TAFT GOT 2,500 VOTES DN. D., March 22.—That the vote for President State presidential preference primary will not Dis shown in additional retursis received here ications today are that Senator La Follette’s tr Roosevelt will be about 12,000, although Mistricts have not yet been heard from, Static vote was about 5,000, “VOL. “ NO. i 1 The Seattle ‘WOMEN IN CHINA ON |Newest Suffragettes Smash , Windows and Things in | Riot in China Today. NANKING, March 22.-Chi- nese ites today attack. ed thé quarters of the Naional assembly here, routed the | Stateomen end broke all the / windows in the buliding. The | franchise right hi Certain restrictions upon their right te vote. |The attack of the lexpected. “They crowded into the jeorridors of the national assembly bullding past the doorkeepers and | denounced ortminating Pulting hair women were incensed because clousty, women Was uD- and scratching vb on, “may legally refuse to testify his woman is in contempt of court. By relea Bully again—only he inst her husband, | Send her to jail Some day there wi We want such judges. icalities, \their teeth. “The law is sacred! But the man in the street has not this faith. are tired of the law's delays, the law's contradictions. ing her he realized the SPIRIT OF THE LAW—SUBSTANTIAL didn’t go far enough, If we ever get them we Hands off the law! His ation of SUBS JUSTIC The mother ought not to have been sent to jail at all. arise a judge who will dare, when the letter of the law seemingly conflicts with the spirit of the law, to realize SUBSTANTIAL JUSTICE. shall hear the reactionaries weeping and gnashing The law must be obeyed!” eyes were opened long ago. Plain, ordinary folks Plain, ordinary folks are weary of “precedents” and which send mothers to jail for loving their sons and let rascals go free. ie public is coming to realize more and more that there i the application of the law and the app! We want judge es who will administer SUBSTANTIAL JUSTICE at all times, REGARDLESS OF LE- a difference—a vast difference—between TANTIAL JUSTICE. 'GAL PRECEDENT. S$ AND LEGAL QUIBBLE, IF NECESSARY. ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTL SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1912. NEPHEW OF LEADER OF | ALLEN GANG CAUGHT RAMPAGE the resolutions as de) ey attacked the assem-/ |Dlymen in what was practically a, i free fight. Thon they hurled chairs | through the windows, destroyed 4 Rreat mass of official papers and} marched from the bullding, de-/ lmanding their rights, In th stredts the suffragettes were at tacked by the police and a bot fight om eued. Boom Battle Bob’ In California; “BIISGG. acct 35-—-Racour, aged by the result of the primary ia North Dakota, and by (be announce ment that Senator La Follette will probably make one of his yg ed| speeches here, organizers of a La Follette club here are looking for.) ward to enthusiastic meeting to morrow night, Wm. B Smythe.) who has just returned from the East, where he was in conference with La Follette and others, will make the prin address, He will have a prominent part in the La Follette campaign in this state. “Under existing conditions, Smythe today, with La Follette to defeat than ride with any other leader to victory. But I believe we shall carry California, that La Follette has a good chance to hold the balance of power in the Chicago conyention, and in this care the repubjicean party will have & platform and candidates repre senting the best aspirations of our time.” said | She’s Famous Now PITTSBURG, March 22-— From obscurity to day is the experi ginia Lee, the 20-year. ographer of this city, declared by Andrew Carnegie to be the prettiest girl in the world, who is being besieged with offers from wife seekers, theatrical managers and artists today. Since the laird Skibo pai eae upon her, Miss L as been swamped with pro posals from wealthy men, and one New York artist offered her $5,000 to pose for him. obliged to run the gauntlet of big crowd gathered about the Giver building, where she is employed, in going to her work today. Miss Lee has rejected all offers, PAJAMA PIGEON PASADENA, Cai, March 22 This city’s reputation for aristoc racy is being maintained today by one of the prize pigeons at the poul try show, which will not go to sleep at night until its owner, W Bach, puts a pair of pajamas on bim. And the pajamas must be of red silk to match his complexion, or “Rufus,” the valuable English pouter, pouts, ONE PRISONER STILL MISSING Frank Josephson, who, in com pany with a fellow prisoner, Chas Murphy, slipped his shackles and escaped from the U. 8. revenue cut ter Tahoma early yesterday, and who was caught by a patrolman at noon yesterday and returned a pris. oner to the hold of the sbip, was this morning remanded to the city }jail for safe keeping by the officers of the ship. The Tahoma ts preparing for a trip to the navy yards this after |noon, antl the officers did not care to take further chances on Joseph son escaping. Murphy ts still at large. POSTPONE EF BARONS’ CASE CHICAGO, March 22.—Owing to » iiiness of one of the jurors, the case of the government against J Ogden Armour and nine other mill fjonaire beef barons, was postponed today until the afternoon. Attor. ney Butler will close the argument for the government, und after Judge | Carpe ter reads his instruetions ‘the case will be given to the jury jj this evening, th: “1 would rather go} R.| } ret of the La Alien, over whose the | deadly Virginia eutiawry began, He was wounded and captured. With | him are Detectives 0. 0. | two leaders in the pursuit of the Allen gang. | (By United Preas Leased Wire.) RICHMOND, Va. March 22.——-Word tl Sidna Edwards, nephew of Sidna Alien, leader of the Alen been cap- } tur at Mount Airy, here today | in a telephone message. The report said Edwardes had overpowered without bloodshed and would be taken at once to Hilisville, where Fioyd Allen and his }#en Victor, two other members ef the gang, are in jail. FIVE ARE MURDERED IN NEW TONG WAR (By United Prean Leased Wieed i) was slain at Antioch, The SAN FRANCISCO, March 22. murder of the night occurred Five Chinese are dead today as the Oakland, when Lee Quenn, 4 result of @ new tong war, which Free Mason, was shot by | broke out simultaneously last night| fear tong men. in San Francisco, Onkland and 8 ramento The first outbreak occurred here) when two Americanized Chinese) entered the store of Tom Lung company and left the principal own- er, Tom Lang, lying on the floor, riddied with bullets. Death was in-|© stantanéous, Both assailants ¢ caped. a Two hotirs later Pd was found dead in his room. Four bullets had been sent into his|*#® TA AAA HAAR RAR RH |body. His assassin left his revol-| ver behind, The third killing occurred in Sac If ramento when Wong Hong was|* heavy shot #ix times in the head and body \w easterly by Hee Sam. He lived but a few/* at noon minutes. Hee Sam was arrested. |® A few hours later @ fourth tong, RHR Say, Pipe ‘the New Derby and Summer Styés. for Men Folks pence pact entered into several 8 ago by the warring tongs, | of Police ‘White today is ser Neusly considering distributing gun- men in Chinatown to end the di ders. “Put an end to the fighting at cost,” White told Sergeant Yee Chow Wo/|bayne of the Chinatown squad. WEATHER FORECAST Fair tonight and Saturday frost tonight; ight winds. Temperature OF ae” Luan ij j }inas | Been ror Mee ny MUSICAL | COMEDY FOR |wH LYEARS DER Hee, hee, hee; ha, ho, ho! Pipe the new derby! Oh, isn't it too sweetly Where's a rock? Men, are we goin’ to stand quiet- ly by and let these fashion creators make comedians of us all? Or shall we let them go on until they break into jail of their own accord? All right, we will, But this new derby, ole, ole, it's hard to look at without blinders, Look at that ve- randa@ around the edge. They've UGr Wire THe NEw Tour UR UINA Te Sher Toi ANS ha, taken last cut off a story and added ft to the veranda so we wouldn't get wet, that’s what they've done, This low derby with the broad brim has made a hit in musical comedy for years.* It always has been and still is very popular with the immigrant, and has coaxed amiles from thousands of sight seers. With the new tight clothes and narrow shoulders that are the fash- fon the new derby will make a pic- ture hard to forget, ha; ho, cute? ‘Areueed over the violation of the, ) eeeeeeee A | thur 1} e Star E ONE CENT PHONE RATES T0 | GLIME ON APRIL I ‘And This Is No April Fool! Joke, Either—Just What Is Resulting From the Com- bine of the Two Telephone} Systems. | While the city council is wrestling | with the telephone tangle, the Pa: cific Telephone Co. cheerfully an- nounc that, beginning Aprit 1 (and it’s not intended for an April Fou! joke, either), the independent lsubscribers will be courteously in-| vited to pay the rates of the Sun- set company. And, jet it be here writ, lest any optimistic tndepend je@nt subscriber should not be pos- | sessed of the fact, that the Sunset jrates are higher, appreciably and ‘considerably higher, than the rates that could be collected under the HOME EDITION skate “skates” though EAL FIGHT FOR EXTRA SESSION Struggle for Preferential Pri- maries in This State Begins —La Follette Sentiment Is Strong. ON 1 NEWS W “THE GIRL WHO DID” ANDS Be Primaries or the old convention system? The fight is now on in earnest intial preferential law: and a systematic Eampaign has been organized today to urge upon Goy. Hay to call an extra seasion of the legislature for this purpose. Tonight tel signed by representatives rious factions in both the repub- lican and demoératic parties, in- jcluding the Taft organization, wiit | be sent to ail the members of the |legistature, requesting them in ad- ba] | Independent company'¢ franchise even after the boost in the latter's rat lowed by the state public} | service commission. In the language of the the realm, the announcement of Pacific Telephone which has been permitted to absorb the Tndependent Co. rou same | you he. coin of | Co. we kant jand only $1.50 before ber pw service | fates w Into effect Similarly, your bust boosted fro $7.50. dust ander what theory the pany i presuming to raise | tease is not quite clear. At [public meeting on the telepho j situation held by the franchise con | mittee Wednesday afternoon, Mav. jrice McMicken, attorney for the few mor the Ne coptmine 0 per} com: the Baldwin (on left) and T. L. Feite (on right)— | | company almost shed tears in pro away marriage, and two children | testing at the very mittee cal x & public yneeting to jtalk matters over. He sald it was) unfair to divcuss such things right out where every oF puld hear all about them. When the question of revoking| the Independent company's fran-| jehise came up. . {his hands tn horrer, and contended that it could not be legally done |for the Independent company, he said, had the right to assign and | nel ite property to whomsoever it |desired. In other words, MeMick en's defense to the city’s claim that the Independent Co, has abandoned its franchise is, that while the companies are me |tual mechanical con cerned, they still are operating un |der two distinct franchises But, of course, when it comes to raising the rates, MeMicken will undoubtedly argue that the Inde- pendent Co. ty off the map, and the jonly franchise to be considered is that of the Sunset company. Oth-, erwise, asks Mr. Average Citizen, how can the Sunset rates be levied upon the 13,000 or so which are operated under th pendent franchise? | Held Up for $2.60 : | An unidentified man last night up and robbed P. L. Eddy, at the corner of Howard av, and Den ny way, as the latter was returning to his home, at 702 EK. Denny way The robbers efforts were lightly re d, as he obtained only $2.60 i the man as about 2 5 feet 11 inches tall 5 pounds, light gray suit and black | fe it hat dea of the com Search for Son The police are in receipt of a tele gram from John Nassear, 630 Jarvis #t,, Louisville, Ky., through whieh |the sender asks that the local police try to locate his 22-year-old son, Ar Nassear, who was last heard from while in Seattle, Nassear's aged mother is anxious for h | wishes that he return home sear'’s description is as follows 22, § feet 6 inches tall, light hair, \biue eyes and fair complexion HEIR TO $8,000,000 CHARGED WITH BURGLARY LOS ANGELES, March 22.—Mor ris Condory, arrested in the home of Mrs. Jack Pasadena pleaded not guilty to a charge of at tempted burglary when arraigned today before Superior Judge Mc Cormick, His hearing was set for March 27 Condroy is the grandson of the late Count Charles Neal of Copen- hagen, Denmark, and sole heir to his vast estate, valued at 32,000,000 korana, or approximately $8,000,000 in American money. | A SNEEZE HIS UNDOING LOS ANGELES, March 22.—A) sneeze was the undoing of Sam) Davis, 17, amateur burglar, who} crept under Geo, Bonyer’s bed when Bonyer returned to his room, | which Davis was investigating, jthe juvenile court will decide, \wap born in Halifax, MeMicken beld up be |dition to lending their suppert for jt je calling of the extra session to jagree to take up the question of the primary onfy, At Tacoma this afternoon about 50 of the leading Roosevelt sup- |porters are holding their first state | conference A resolution bas al ready been drafted calling upon the if Sovernor to convene the extra ses- sion. The King County Republican entral committee, meeting tomer- MRS. HANNAH MATSUSAK!, George Matsusaki is dying. the fears of the doctors at the city! i€ hospital are realized, Hannah Mat-brow in the counell rooms, will take susaki may, if it please ber, add | similar ac further chapters to her already re-| The Taft | the pre tial primaries in this markable matrimonial story. \etate is explained by the general Hannah Mateusaki, nee Lundell, feeling that “Bob” La Follette will England, 19 carry this state fly under the years ago. When a very litth ir jbrimary system, but that Roosevelt sent to live with her grand. | | wil probably win in a state con- Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Stew.| P°n'0? art of Ballard. Wheo she was 13 married John Millx sentiment tn faver of years old stle It was a rap LIN, 2 ror William, accompanied by Prince now | AU&ust and Princess Victoria, start- led tonfght for Vienna for a short marriage: | 7m to Emperor. Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary. From Vienna the katwer will go to Venice, where he will be the guest of King Victor 7Emmanne), later voing to Corfu for ja vacat san were born of the union four two. It was not a Mille left hin girlw cured a divorce Stewarts of Ballard took she dangh ter, the parents of Mills the son. Hannah “Lundell Milts met Geo. Maisusaki, 22 American-born Japanese, 4 girl, now years old, and a boy ypy Miss “Tolléek, &f the Queen Anne high school, will.deliver an address * on “Birds” next Tuesday evening at the ¥. W.C. A. The lectare will |be “illustrated by stereopticon views general utility living at the Sorrento hotel said of him that he was the in velvet-footed efficiency S Matesusaki and | Hannah Lundell Mills were married in Vancouver by Rey. J. M. Canse. Five minutes after the ceremony the white girl turned — fr brown-skinned husband. She re. alized, she says, the “fatal step she had taken. They returned to Seattle the same day, and the next day she left bim Matsusaki was the Oriental pro totype of the “admirable Crich ton.” He went abont his duties as servant as though nothing un toward had occurred. His wife called on him Sorrento hotel Tuesday eve! had some of her clothing which | needed. He seemed glad to sec nd insisted on her drinking of ginger ale. It made her family It is last together.” Ne no!” shé cried. Yes,” he insisted, and took her io his arms. In the palm of one hand was cc led a knife, small but keen, “Kiss me.” “1 won't,” she screamed, giing to be free, Then she felt a sharp pain in her neck, and a flood of warm blood gushed down and dyed her waist. She must have fainted then, but only for a moment; she opened her ey and saw her husband holding a revolver to his throat. He fired and fell. At the city hospital, were taken, the girl strainedly about the “fatal step.” It serves me right,” she said. “I ought not (o have married him, All my life I have done things on im- I went to Vancouver with on an impulse. But when ceremony Was over, when the word was spoken, I realized that this man I had tied myself to was brown, while | was white; that he was a Japanese, while I was English. And--and—somehow, I couldn't go on with it,” A MILLION Is a big figure. It’s hard to grasp, isn’t it? The word is used so much at random, to indicate big- ness. The Star is purchased—actually sought for and paid for by (not forced upon) over a million people per month. The Star sells over 40,000 copies daily, or over one million copies per month. Mr. Advertiser, Mr. Merchant: Are you reach- ing this army of readers with your advertisement? You would like to, wouldn’t you? There is only one place where your advertising can be read by this loyal army, and that is in the columns of The Star. They stand by The Star, appreciate its pol- icy and. believe in it. They believe in co-opera- tion, and you can neither gain their attention nor their trade unless your ad appears in the columns of the paper they subscribe for and read. Yester- day’s gone; tomorrow’s a myth. Why not get busy TODAY? strug. at the where both talked unre- eh her a glass irowsy v together they the Alki hotel, Fifth av where Matsusaki had a room. ‘There the cloak of civility and humility fell from him, and he stood revealed the primitive man claiming his mate You have come You are my wife Pn repaired to back,’ he said We will live