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

PEOPLE WON'T GET A CHANCE AT KICKIN’ THAT FAT PARTY AROUN’ , a Taft standpatter, won't open the way | _ Hay says there is no demand for a presidential| Dakota last week. | The supporters of Roosevelt and La Follette might of this state to say whom they want for primary but then he and every one of his standpat ad- They are afraid of the people. By their action just as well recognize this fact NOW and then get busy Hay, who happens to be governor, has the Viters know that the people do want to say whether |they admit Taft doesn’t like this presidential primary along some other line. BEE. certain fat man from an awful kickin’ they want Taft, Roosevelt or La Follette for t. business at all and his little ring of followers in this The Taft men, even while admitting that the peo- presidential primary be held, and Hay enough or foolish enough to use his ay power TO BALK THE WILL OF THE EDITION ~\)\) VOL. 14. NO. 21. TARTS AT NOON d to Formulate Rules to Govern Woman Long Test--She Takes Rooms at Hotel. av. Unitarian a Under Guard. G. MacDonald, rs. Haszard, from now on, is in consti pany of he of the Seattle | other of the watchers. ‘She will be William T. | #earded during the night by Mrs. ge Even the honest Taft supporters would grab at the state who UNTIL THE NEXT ELECTION will retain ple of Washington are three to one against their can- chance to vote for their The their man. They remember mepecaarene to what he Se CONTROL 1H ~ bli United INDIANAPOLIS. March four contesting delegates at large, the supporters of Col Roosevelt bolted the republican state conven tion here after four delegates had been tpstructed to vote for Presi dent Taft in the Chicago conven tion, The recalcitrant Roosevelt adber- ents objected to the ruling of the Of | committee on rules permitting con- tested delegutes in the convention ‘to vote on contests in which they man, but—. So there will be no presidential primary in this happened te ules tyiTierth | otate = this year. IN GREAT BATTLE ttle Star ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1912: aie STANDPATTERS'MEX. ONE CENT EIGHTY-THREE MINERS: AR ENTOMBED (my od Press Leased Wired WELCH, W. Va., March 26. Kighty-three were miners in the mine of the United States Coal and Coke jcompany at Jed, three miles jfrom here, today as a result of lan explosion at 7:30 o’-lock | Eighty-six miners were work jing in the mine at the time of jthe explosion, and only three} escaped. entombed there is but slight chance of} rescuing any of the imprisoned | workers alive Miners have organized rescue | parties, and the United States} mine bureau has been asked to} rush aid. Chief Holmes of the} bureau is expected to arrive ON THAINS AND NEWS STANDS Se After-damp pervades |the men, the workings, and it is feared |féndants affected by the jury's de-|* |control of the state government, are willing to take didate, still intend by use of the party machinery to standpat leaders know what would happen desperate means to save him from the people. make this state swallow Taft. MAYBE THERE IS SOME OTHER WAY TO DODGE THE DOSE. HOME EDITION i ii Hf Bu ' SR SSR EE Trust your fellow man—but count] Nj your change. BARONS ARE OT GUILTY” Millionaire Meat Magnates Escape Penalty After Ten-Yeas Legal Battle With Government. CHICAGO, Mar. 26—~After deli: AR ARKH RaHHhh hh jerating Practically 18 hours, the *# jury in the United States district * STORY OF THE BEEF |Court here returned a verdict of not * BARONS’ ESCAPE |guiity in the case of J. Ogden Ar-/* 1902 — Government investl jmour and nine other Chicago mil- * gates backing companies, |Hlonaire beet packers, charged with|* Judge Grosscup issues injune. |violation of the Sherman antitrust |* tion restraining packers from law. *® organizing giant combine. The jury returned ite verdict at* July 1, 1902—Indictments | 12:16 o'clock this afternoon. Judge|* charging combination in re- Carpenter immediately discharged * The weaith of the de-|* BEEF straint of trade against 16 packers, March 21, 1906 — United States Judge Humphrey grant- ed packers the famous “im- munity bath.” March 21, 1910—Officiais of National Packing company and tem of its subsidiary con- cerns indicted for alleged com- bination in restraint of trade. June 24, 1910--Judge Ken hetaw Landis dismisses indict- returned ion regates $190,000,000, * The defendants were: \* J. Ogden Armour, president of ;* Armour & Co.; Louis F. Swift, pres. |* ident of Swift & Co.; Edw. F. Swift, © vice president of Swift & Co.; Chas. |* H. Swift, director of Swift & * Edw. Tilden, president of the Na-|* tonal Packing Co.; Arthur Meeker,| ® general manager of Armour & Co.: * jwith a force of rescuersseqtip- ped with oxygen helmets | Edw. Morris, president of Morris & | |Co.; Francis A. Fowler, director of | ® |Switt & Co; Thomas J. Connors, |* ments, ruling them faulty. July 24, 1910--Special grand jury investigates beef trust. SSRSSSRSSSRSSHR SRS S SESE SS The output of the Jed mine |superintendent of Armour & Co.|* tates Steel /and Louis H. Heyman, manager of August 11, 1910 — Indict- ments ef fr Two women, with their throats badly scratched, and a man who had been smaahed over the head with a beer bottle were last night taken to be city hospital to have their mark» of battle patched up. The two wom en are booked at headquarters as Mrs, Sadie Clano and Mrs. W. A. oormen Ss | Wright, and the man gave his name as Arthur Oaks, An open charge le | placed against them, pending inves tigation. At about 12:45 this morning the ith Alfred it engine Holtes: Liquor Co. store, Firat ay. and Bat- tery st. Aa the trio were about ta leave Oake came in the door, apparently searching for some one. He rushed at Firletenstein, who got out of the way,.and then Oaks directed his attention to the women. With the pen knife that he drew trom his pocket he eut the throat of Mrs. Clano almost from Hat < § = z : i i 2 ALE i groaned beneat 2 yard wide. His legs sug- like email hams. He was not ‘up and gasped at the herculeap proportions of his isious strength. Here indeed, a Man! iy,” said the visitor, scowling. tan | do for you, Mr. Murphy?” , did ye ever see the day when ye'd give yer sow! Yr ag same time prayin’ to Gawd Almighty to pever saw that day.” , would ye help @ man that would be quit o' the T could, Murphy. Go on.” . THE STORY ¥ er. Perhaps ye have no knowledge av It's a good thrade, and well-paid, but the Tisky, and the men ip it ar-re a rough lot—good but wild and rovin’. ‘as wild as the best ay them--or the worst. But, be won to the top—ot as far ax ‘twas possible for a man Wid-his hands and has no schoolin’. I've been fore- job when the loss ay even ‘wan day meant the loss . eennreetirs that’s relyin’ on the foreman to rush . ‘ A MASTER OF MEN wid me—beggin’ yer anner’s pardin for seemin’ to men stand up to the wurrk. I ask nothin’ av them if—and they know it. | can stand on a swayin’ raft ide and sixteen stories up, with a 56-miie gale blowin’, if for hand or fut, wid nothin’ wader me but air—and the eaich red-hot rivets in a bucket—I can that. the men to do this or that, they do ft—runnin’, Or aY me fist. For I'm @ big man, as yer anner can see, Vm drivin’ at, yer anner?* . Bit go on.” BENT THEM TO HIS WILL sthrong, I'm teilin’ ye! And all me life I've taken Was it men or iron, I bent them to me will. In all the war-rid there was none so sthrong as me. fm to, Murphy.” h, I'm no butiy. I'm not wam to harbor a Bot hound an enemy, or fight wid him, onless be But | feared no wan, No wan, jndge, yer anner! Ghrink. ‘For why, says 1 in me pride, ‘should I fear At oF leave it alone, as I like.” as Were afecred av it, and dared not touch the stuff feave it be. ‘I can take it or leave it alone!’ J says, & fool in the wur-rid that says the same. id capable hands, rough, scarred and 18 AFRAID and fought wid them hands- 4 now I can't hold Pes 40 Gays I've been on the dbrink. Three times in me tremens--and I feel them comin’ on agin—-and, they're hell! And I'm afeered—me that was never Weak—me that boasted of me sthrength and bent ‘Me will! What's in the stuff that’s so much sthronger | can't I beat down the cravin'? Tell me, judge, yer to do!” ‘ef E I've never been there. I'm no crook. But somewheres Set it—where they'll gnarrd me, and tie me, hand and i for, when the spells ar-re on I’m bad and would do anny- F, even—for drink.” THE PROBLEM take the pledge, Murphy?” it V4 only break it” You to the Brotherhood league, on King st.” guarrd me there? Would they keep me off the <t no? Would they be deaf to me threats and plead- what fo suggest yer an a ® eyes were bloodshot and wild, The muscles of im the agony of hin desire. He knotted his buge hands M flattering, and with them beat his massive breast. B fudge! Don't say ye won't! I can't fight it alone—it's Murphy.” to snap within bim then, and he slumped, dou PA chair. And he sprawled there, shaking, mumbling, sheds D as a castoff garment. | going to do with him?” asked The Star man, who to the strong man's story. ‘i wald Judge Gordon, ear toear, He then went after Mrs. Wright, whom he served in. like manner, although she is not cut so seriously. The bartender, Dexter Chambers, | grasped a beer bottle by the neck and proceeded to break It over the head of Oaks, which laid him cold for several minutes. The patrol wagon was then called and the bat- Ue-scarred trio taken to the city hon- pital, where their wounds were dressed. They were later remanded Cut in Tariff (My Valted Press Lensed Wire) WASHINGTON, March 26.—Ree ommendation for the downward re vision of duties on cotton goods and demand for further funds for tariff board were contained in & special message sent to congress today by President Taft, transmit ting the report of the tariff board on the cotton schedule. A portion of the message In de voted to a vigorous defense of the tariff board, at the conclusion of whieh the president demands an emergency appropriation to supply the organization with $20,000 @ ‘month with which to continue its work. The democrats in the honse of representatives have practically de- termined to off all appropria- tions of the board and the presi- dent's message thus marks the opening gun in the fight for the existence of the board. The cotton report consisted of a voluminous detailed discussion of conditions in the cotton industry in the United States and foreign countries, but the labor factor inthe production of cotton received scant considera. tion, 30, 000 Throws Out of Work Masa, March 26,— 000 textile mill work- ers were thrown out of employment here today when the owners of every mill exe@pt the Lawrence company plant announced that they would close down. This action fol- lowed a strike of operatives at Hamilton, Mass., in the Bott and Prescott mills, After the milla closed 5,000 strik- ere paraded, the women and chil- dren bearing American flags and banners reading: “We want a liv- ing wage. Give us 15 per cent In- crease. Teddy, Jr., Smokes Pipe at Banquet SAN FRANCISCO, March 26. ~Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., while at a banquet given in his honor by a number of politiclans and prominent citizens, smoked # huge pipe during the speechinak ing that followed the dinner, Map Shows Where Rebéi Troops Marching en Mexice City Decisively Defeated the Madero Troops iat Jimines Vesterday (My Vetted Prose Leased Wired) EAGLE PASS, Texas, March 26.—| Private dispatches received here to-| day indicate that the rebel forces! completely routed the federais at, dimines. First reports stated that! the rebels had lost, but it appears! certain now that they were the vie- tore, and this explains the suicide of Gen, Gaias, the federal leader. Hage 8 ‘was resumed thie mern- ing, the government army re treating toward Torreon. The advices say t 1, Campa, Tellea of the federal forces, | crushing his army, Gen. Campa used dynamite, killing many of the! ehemy and destroying much fed-) eral ammunition, It is reported that 400 federals were siain. With trains from J{minez bri ing In scores of federal wounded, Torreon is in o high state of ex- eltement. | ‘The federal troops were evidently [thrown Into a panic by Gem Cam-| | pas attack, many deserting. The! victorious rebel general expects to pis own brain. He dled Instantly. arrive at Torreon tomorrow, where ee ther battle is imminent, as Hu-| wexico CITY, March 26.—Re- erta, the federal commander, 1 | ruging 10 accept as authentic Presi ~— to reach there at the same | gent Madero's ement that fed: time. eral troops had “crushingly defeat. Gen. Salas, who left the war min-| od the rebel force at Corralitos, istry to take active charge in Chi- their losses in dead, wounded and huahua for Presigent Madero, met carntured amounting to 1,000,” res Gen. Orozco in battie, 20 miles south | dents of the capital this afternoon of Jiminez. The federale were driven are greatly depressed b wd their losses in killed, wound. that the suicide of Gen. Salax indi- und captured amounting, ac catex a decixive rebel victory. ig to reports, to hundreds. | It te generally bet here that General @ Suicide |the impending rebel attack on Mex- G Salas and part of bis army jjco City will commence before the retreated toward Torreon. Budden-|end of the week, and all foreigners ly Gen. Sains drew bis revolver, have untied in an effort to protect and, before any of his staff officers life and property when the battle could interfere, sent a bullet Into | starts. T. R. SPENDING MON! Committed Suicide ) jeordi ENDING MONEY _ TO WIN, SAY TAFT MEN (By United Press Leased Wire) =| niate, President Taft will get 24 un NEW YORK, March 26--That contested dolexates and Roosevelt \the Roosevelt forces are spending one uncontested, Of the other 18 |more money in their primary cam: districts, the Taft men publicly |paigu’ito secure for Col, Roosevelt claim all, but privately they con- presidential nomina- cede eight districts to Roosevelt ever been used a apy previous primary in New York even by the Tammany forces, is) the charge made here today by Samuel Koenig, chairman of the New York county republican com- mittee, Koenig declared that he knew the) Roosevelt supporters “distributed $75,000 in this county alone, andjlots of the city, fifty residents of are spending lavishly everywhere|Capitol Hill last night voted $500 in the state where there are con-| for the clearing, leveling and equip- testa,” | ping of a playfield on the lot bound- The Roosevelt followers ridiculed |ed by 18th and 19th ave, and E. Koenig's statement, * Aloha and B. Roy ats. The plana Of the 43 districts In New York}calf for a ball field, a handball - court, four teanis courts, the grass- ing of a portion of the tract, as well as providing It with benches, Arcana Lodge, F. & A. M.,, last night entertained the mombers of British Columbia andthe state of Washington grand lodges at the Scottish Rite cathedral. Yesterday \afternoon the visitors were shown jover the city boulevards and parks |!m automobiles, after which a din- ner was given them at the Arctic | olub, . PLAYFIELD FOR CAPITOL HILL In co-operation with the Seattle Garden club in that club's efforts to beautify the unimproved vacant | Regular Department Store a Fea. ture of New Ocean Liner The Red Star Line, of the Inter tationai Mercantile Marine com- Pariy, announced yesterday that Matiand & Wolff of | Belfast had ler big steamer for the New York “Movin’ picture! Huh! Can't) Antwerp service. She will be 670 fool Silas, Been standin’ here feet Jong between perpendiculars, half an hour and she hain't moved accommodate 3,000 passengers and an inc will have a large department store. been-given an order to build anoth- | goes to the United | Corporation Late today 14 of the 86 miners were accounted for. |caped when the explosion occurred land ten more were rescued alive this afternoon, One body was re covered Nearly all the vietims were mar ried men. They had been in the shaft leas than an hour when the | explosion occurred. The Jed mine worked both day jand night shifts, employing 15° now union whites and negroes on both amoke and fumes issued mouth of the mine imme. | diately after the explosion, but this | soon disappeared. WASHINGTON, March 26.-—Two rescue cars were ordered rushed to |the assistance of the 8% miners itombed in the mine of the U. Coal and Coke Co., at Jed, W. Va iby the United States mines bure ee tod | | | a HIGHT. GALLERS KEPT BUSY The house thieves are consistent in their operations, and as @ result many “overnight entries” were re- \corded at police headquarters this |morning. F. H. Farrah, 1117 W. 65th #t., reports that his house was lentered and robbed of $16.50 in cash and two watches valued at $00. The showcase in front of the Cav- anaugh hat store, 1310 First av., believing was pried open during the night! jand severa} ha Mra. J. H Jobngon, 1228 1% 8., was vis ited by thieves, who took away a | wateh and several other trinkets | The room occupied by Thomas | Redmond, at the | Was entered and thoroughly ran- jaacked. F. K. Gaffney, 208 Pike st., junknowingly Tost a blue suit while absent Burglars gained entrance to P. C | Ewing's room, in the Fourth Ay |hotel, and made away with $25 in leash, but were leave his valuable gold watch be hind, A burglar had crawied jthrough thé front window of the house at 1211 E. Olive st., and was going through the dreeser drawers | when Mrs. W..J, Brown made a fuss land scared him aw | Mrs. MoM. Krack had set her lyellow grip down to purchase a |tieket at the King st. station and jreturned to find it gone, INJURED BY CAR | In an attempt to board a moving Beacon Hill car at First ay, and Yesler way, last night, Charles | Preston was knocked to the pave- ‘Ment and severely bruised. He was taken to the city hospital, where it was found that his injuries were | slight. ALL BRITAIN IS SUFFERING LONDON, March 26.—With the |mine operators flatly refusing to |make a single concession, the life of the coal miners’ strike affecting [more than 1,000,000 men directly, and involving indirectly more than nine million other workers, today promises to. be indefinitely pro- Hlonged, Not a single community in |England, Scotland and Wales but what is affected. Government offi Jolals admit that the toil of the |strike not alone in money, but in human life, will be appalling. Mil lions of persons today are faciug slow starvation. . “Say, pop, wouldn't it be fine if you had a auto and could ride around like some of these rich guys?” “Yes, son, it would be fine or in- risonment—maybe both.” Three men en-| |inaugurated by the government in| | Nelson Morris & Co. | The war on the pabkers, which resulted in their indictments, was |1902, and almost unremittingly since that time the government has camped on the trail of the so-called “beef trust.” jthe indictments the beef barons jwere brought to trial Nov. 26 last jRefore United States Judge Car- penter, The defendants were represented {by an array of the most expensive [lawyers in the country. The Jury jwhich heard the evidence was jworth, in the aggregate, $50,000. sagt A scene of wild disorder was en- acted in the courtroom when the verdict was announced. All ten de- fendants were present. and their lawyers and friends gathered around and enthusiastically con. sratulated them on the outcome, After many attempts to quash | only | * returned against ten % * millionaire Chicago packers, % November 20, 1911—Pack- & ers’ trial starts before Judge w ~*~ Carpenter. rch 26, 1912—Chicago w guilty & * \* * * it * \* \* . jury finds packers not of charges, "= eekananakaennhaee ———__—__ for what these defendants did, | They used only legitimate business methods. Any other verdict woulé have been a terrific blow to the country’s legitimate business en. terprises, and would have meant jthat business cannot expand op | srow,”” | The packers and their lawyers |left the court room together |went to the offices of the Nat! z | Packing company, where an im |formal reception was held. anid | The jury took three ballots before reaching an agreement. The first | ¥ote stood § to 4 for acquittal. The Portland hotel, | kind enough to- Judge Carpenter made no com. | J8fors then debated for two hours jment on the verdict. He at once |*%d the second ballot stood 11 to 1 jdischarged the jury and the de," cquittal, The verdict was |fendant® and retired to his cham-|"@4ched at noon on the third ballot, jbers. Attorney Jobn 8. Miller, of counsel for the packers, was jubi fant over the result. He said: “I am pleased, what other No law exi; ever be Death Ends Divorce Suit: * (By Untied Prees Leased Wire) * SAN FRANCISCO, March 26—|® Death has ended the divorce suit | brought by Mace Greenleaf, the ac- tor, against his beautiful runaway wife, Lucy Banning-Bradbury-Green- leaf, according to advices received here today of the demise of the ac- tor in Philadelphia Greenleaf filed suit for divorce in Los Angeles last year’ w reset used | Greenleaf was reported nx have | $89,342 ap Piha pried re Ab eloped with a Los Angel | portions of special assessments, in a paper man and to have gone to|{¥ days. The council yesterday or Mexico. Greenleaf charged deser./4¢red the repayment, and Comptrol- |Uon but refused to name his wife's |!°t Carroll is on the job today draw- alleged affinity. The death of the | ‘SUP the warrants. plaintiff automatically ends the| The refunds on the various tm suit. | provements are as follows: ba Ba Bi | Stone av. condemnation, $872.30; Beene eee es van yyy, Westlake av. $5,957.72; Harrison * THE WEATHER. *& st, $1,648.84; Olympic way, * Fair tonight and Wednesday, %|$1,481.07; Third av., $29,870.66; * light frost tonight; light north: #/ Woodlawn ay., $8254; Pike st., * westerly winds. Temperature # | $3 Third av., $479.02; Fourth %* at noon, 42. wav. $22,469.40; Lane at., $232.65; RkKRRA RR ee ew ewe we 11th ay, $152.09; 14th av., $1,830.29. | eatin Ke RKKK PERE ROCKLAND, Me., March 26. 4 —With a record of 22.54 knots # on her standardization trip # over the Rockland course, the te hew government built battle # ship Florida today claims the t record of the fastest dread- * nought in the American navy, * and perhaps in the worlé. The & British dreadnought Vanguard, with 22.50 knots, was consid- # ered previously the fastest #€ battleship afloat, * Re RRR REE ‘More Money Coming Back The city will be ready to refund . or Will there acted to punish men | eeeeeetetent | The Star | Guarantees | a Daily Paid Circulation | of Over 40;000 It’s Alive | It’s Growing