The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 3, 1912, Page 1

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TITUS, LEADER OF STRIKE, ARRESTED ON “TRUMPED-UP CHARGE part of the mill owners, who tried to ship the, strikers out of town by packing: them into box cars, Had n for Sheriff Paye ounty, who arrived in Hoquiam just about that time, the strikers would have been thus ship release of Dr Herman strike leader at Ho- and Aberdeen, this on the motion of aad States District Attor | Jedd at Tacoma reveals the unlawful methods : the mill owners to the strike. | was rrested on Geoover d by Attor mifor the Lytle Mill tt was dug ot law nty Men in One Car. of the care 80 men bad been locked up with practically no ventilation, This feat was ac complished at the point of Kuns and bayonets in the hands of special po- eemen, The strikers w not armed, and never were armed dur ing the entire strike, In fact, there was no disturbance in Hoquiam at all until last Monday morning, when the armed special deputies resorted to unlawful tactics, Want $2 Per Day Mayer Ferguson of Hoquiam ex pressed hia sympathy with the strikers when the strike began. The men are demanding a higher wage. They were getting only $1.80 a day. They Were getting $2, .Dut the Lythe mill reduced. it 20 per cent, But the mayor bas been pow, . erless against (he milt owners, who company. The charge) soem to control the other two com- conspiracy against the) missioners of the city of Hoquiam, Sement for aivising menjand the latter control the police de iy a to work | partment " Sees eas made by Chiet of Until Saturday Qdon of Hoquiam, and Mrs Thus nor any one © a to communicate with} ¥ Attorney Todd was of the action propo and when he discover situation he left for Ta. F gomunissionet Seth C. Warren. dail at $10,000. Mor as friend of the ia’the thatter, advising what the law in the) ‘ Morgan, by the) i commanding Hoquiam national} night one might known that a strike was on, so far as violence or rioting “as con cerned. On Saturday night. the mill owners imported several hun dred special policemen, . These ov Titus was brought by|anized at 4 a. m, Monday morning marebal, and asked for hix/ with firearms and big clubs, which |they used to advantage in their at arrest was followed by|tempt to ship out the strikers In @iscegard of law on the| box cars ALIST MAYOR HAS — LOST AT MILWAUKEE ! a, Weteed Poses : MILWAUKEB, April %.--Com plete returns from Tuesday * mo nicipal election here show today & i victory for Dr. G. A. Baoding, non partisan enndidate for mayor, over Emil Seidel, the socialist tneam \hent, by # plurality of 12,86 |. With a total vote of 74,226, the largest in the history of Milwaukee, almost the entire non-partisan tick et put up by a fasion of the repub- |ilcans and democrats, was elected For Bob La Foilette. ‘The latest returns today from the presidential primaries held through out the state indicate that Senater Robt. M. La FPollette wil) have a | solid delegation from bis home atate fn thin fight for the republican nom ination for president #¢ the national convention And Wilson. In the democratic primary fight the supporters of Woodrow Wilson today claim at least 22 of the 26 delegates from Wisconsin to the na- tional demoeratiec convention. They will not concede the remaining four delegates to Speaker Champ Clask Not Discouraged. Th soctalist forces a Jaunted + by the defeat, and are predicting victory at the next election. In dis cussing the results today, Congress- man Victor Berger, the only mem ber of the socialist party ever elect ed to congress, sald ‘This temporary reverse will serve to spur the socialists on to greater exertions, Heneeforth our LS GERHARD A. BADIN the candidate of a iat of Milwaukee parties Magettisan ticket, who de MEati Seidel. the socialist a the election yesterday ICTIMS NOW DEATH PACT Bishop, 58, who, entered into a death pact EJ. Fisher, a iongshoreman, 1 o'clock this morning at Wospital. The couple were Mis the Olympic apartments two ago, unconscious BS asphyxiation. Th poem afierward, but Mr between life and worning bringing the working class to the realization that sociallam is the only way out of a downtrodden condi tion GOOD JOKE ON ROY SAN FRANCISCO, April %.—Roy Carruthers of the Cliff House ts in a state of collapse today as a result of answering telephone calls for "Mr. C. Lion. He anewered 164 calla before date April 1 Affinity Wears Hubby’s Clothes ~ SAN FRANCISCO, April % When he found that his wife had an affinity, Frank Seazillo, a bar ber, was peeved. When he met the affinity wearing his beat suit of clothes he became real angry and ad his wife arrested for theft he OUS MAN MURDERS WOMAN 00, Frenzied be of Mra W today, where he cut ; killing’ her instantly mt bis ‘own throat Springfield Hi, April 3—The re- port of the state charities commis- sion recommends that all corporal punishment in public or private in stitutions caring for children be pro- hibited, eA, FI@., April 3 onfessien ef W, declared tc Me WH seubtY Of the mu Hen Rabe of indian MPrebood cre ated fr¢ xiliary erie Prove that on the Knabe was Was aboard that y Was flashed to Per murder ae SAID WONG IND, Or., 4 Or., April 68 anders: a Indge @ with You'll have to pay $240 extra your livestock,” said the con ductor as he punched the passen wer's ticket. Why, I've got no livestock.” Weil, there’s a worm in that ap- ou're eatin’, isn't there?” divord con ly not,” PR dolary,: blandly repited said the | ple |nave kone through the.waly seas} f Aberdeen and Hoquiam and nev-| campaign will be one of education, | ‘ remembered the! Old Senator Stephensgi'® Why not indict the common | Meat packers pure as snow cherub, Lorimer an.angel people | = x ‘POLICE TAKE BABE FOUND ONE CENT Siwe sive OWNERS TRY LAWLESS METHODS TO BREAK S TRIKE | [0SE$ JUST A NATURAL CRIMINAL IS THIS | ON RICH MAN’S DSOR STEP This blueeyed, month-old baby, In | the arms of Officer Williston, was | found on the doorstep of the dome of John Lindsay, 408 39th ay, 8, at 10 o'clock last night, The nameless little lady rede in style to the city hospital in one of the municipal au tomobiles. The baby was wrapped in an ex- |pensive wool and silk shaw! and lite clothing was of fine workman- |ship and costlf material, it a perfectly healthy and normal spect men, with a penchant for milk and sleep. All day today the policemen off duty at headquarters took turns jog: ling the foundling. Officer Willis: jton, shown In the photograph, won the admiration of all by bis re souree and tact. He checked an ip dipleat tantrum by making facesat }the baby and making a clocking | 4¢ sound. . The. baby .smiled, yawhed sleepily and fell asleep. * Madero Denies It (By United Press Leased Wire) | NEW YORK, April 3.—In a tele gram to the Waited Press, President Franeince |, Malero of Mexico em phatically denies that. Japan has made any arrangements with his country whereby a Japanese colony ix to be formed in the vielnity of Magdalena “bay The. telegram says : The report ix completely incor rect. My government hax made no such arrangement with Japan. | Time of Their Life VENICK, Cal, April 3.—Four elee tions in five days are causing joy athong the wily enfranchised wom en bere. Tuesday high and gran lmar school trustee elections were oot atu: taaan telah ar lacheduled, Thorsday a sewer bond | delegation will giv lelection, and Saturday the rountet|36. WATCH THINGS FROM NOW palelection. Women officials at all! ON! “KAY C.” GETS REMARKABLE ANSWER TO HIS LETTER an amazing anawer received In saying he envied 8 BATTLE BOB” IS. (By United Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, April 3.- ments from the political burem President Taft here today declare he president tas 274 delegaien for the national republican convention in Chicago, against 30 for Rooscevit and 10 for La Follette With the delegates from Wiscon sin pledged to La Follettc aw are «ult of the primaries yesterday, the Wisconsin senator thus passes Roosevelt and jumps into second place in the race. When Senator “Bob” La Follette saw the returns rom Wisconsin primaries today, indicating his long Taft for delegates, he kes me second in the race. A ‘certain candidate’ was not in the race at all. The Wisconsin | Fotiewing is what may appear a lr ly to the young fellow who wr eberieg wen ond eondered if a fellow could get married on $1 | Week. The Star printed his letter on the first page Monday. This Young man wrote a manly, open sort of letter. He showed that he was 2b cynic or a man soured on life. He just wanted some advice on the | marriage problem Here is the rather remarkable reply: she read of high schoo! girls baying " . baad Saba lonly $10 dresses for graduation Béner, The. Ger) Soon as they get married they'll jmarried man with thr want a wardrobe fit for a queen, aE geno arta a T earn all the money I need, but, be a. ae Neg lieve me, I'd rather be single on $18 | signs himse y |ly makes me wish I could. bat some | tine $8 Se are these young fools over the head | wanting to a EXPLOSION ae He says he envies mar wives come down| SAN FRANCISCO, April 3.—Five Why should! men are suffering from severe hot a wife buy her husband's | burns here today as a result of @ |gas explosion aboard the San Fran clothes and do everything else? Doesn't a husband have to earn the |cixco-Portland Steamship _ > comp pany's liner Rose City and spend It all running the house: The vessel had been in drydock |house? Women ought to be lihey have a home and & man tolfor repairs, and all fires were ex- |take ea of them.: Then again,| tinguished. Unknown to the boiler | these young pec oughtn't to be| makers and others at work on the erlastingly anxious t steamer, gas caused by a slight ofl I wish | was single leakage began to gather, resulting only getting $18 a week in an explosion, which almost tore | satisfied. That young shirt seller |the ship from its stays, 3 leub talks about going to theatres |tered the workmen among the ma and enjoying hime Why doesn't |chinery in the boiler room in he stick te #7? W has he ever | sheet of fame | thought of hearing a crowd of kids | . Marc Antony Pinched yell at night after he bas worked aay? What If he docs Ue in A! syx pRANCISCO, April 3,—Ce little room by himaelf? He hes a jeste Giormanati went to an Itailan have to worry about ripe | balmasque attired ax Mare Antony house, getting in on time and st9-)ang'won the prize. 80 puffed. up x in at nights when he ra |did he become that be insisted on |parading the streets in the vos ne out with the boy# havin good time. Then he doesn’t have a wife|Pi elie forfeited $100 bail scolding him all the time if he gets 5 home a few minutes after supper's ready, That's all bunk about sitting un der the home lamp. They always | hand out that sort to your ople | He says he felt encourage whens ‘Millionaire and Laborer Work Together ‘to Fight Flood Waters filling bags with sand and carrying CAIRO, II1., April 3—Millionai them to the levee walis. Women assisted the men by baking bread and laborers are working side by) and making coffee for the all night side here today strengthening the) A ene today woveral i nleiie dykes in an effort to prevent the and barns were swopt | city from being flooded by the rag- but it is believed the occupants ling waters of the Mississippi river,|caped. The seepage has let con- | which tfeaten to burst the levees. siderable water into the city, but #o Both above and below Cairo the far a flood has been averted. river at several points is 50 miles| More than 20 women and chil wide, completely swamping the low-|dren were sent from the city last lands. Farmers declare that it will night on a special train, but the require years for the bottom lands| majority of the women refused to to dry out sufficiently to be tillable. | go, preferring to remain behind and All night long citizens of all sta-|help thelr husbands save the city tions in life worked at the job of|from threatened destruction, rmit me, ® ebildren, man who counter and it certain. } to when I read about | married. [ried men whose and buy their clothes so € | rea Pitteburg, Pa. April 3.—‘{Twenty years hence robbers will be usimg flying machines,” sald Superintend ent of Police Thomas A. MeQuaide in an interview,* “But there wilh be ky detectives, too.” (By United Prens Leased Wire) 8 IN SECOND PLACE past Cairo,| Linda BH. Hazzard lowt 14 ue Exactly In the first week of it. Ter weight was taken of by, Thomas G. MacDonald ‘Gfrector of the Seattle Ath bh, She looks thin and pale, éxcoptionally well and y ehe in supposed to be dead, aceording to some y' na, Who assert that a bu man being cuntot go without food for more than 14 days. Aa a diversion from the long find the horseback rides that has been taking during ‘week, she now proposes to noone, art rae, when hunger returns, fant’ Will have to be Burfield Hazzard saye go without food for 30 Star ix interested from Wandpoint to see If she can af The Star would be ff 4 or four neighbor who s0ch a fant. It in for this Only that The Star is anx “have all proper safeguards sbout Dr, Hazzard, so that i her it will be absolutely on the lequare. The Star is not concerned }with the success or fatiure of the \S0day fast. It will report the re- fault, Whatever it may be. | This fast, 80 far ax The Star is concerned, bas nothing to do with State: |e Tnesatt's case in connection of with the Williamson sisters If Dr. ny satisfaction out ing which he \e- | not do, she is en- jlitied to do it. Hut, ax far ax The | Star te concerned, the fast is j undertaken nelther to vindicate nor condemn Dr. Haszard with refer. enc® to her recent conviction of | manstaughter. The Star bas no opinion to offer to her guilt or innocence in that | ‘The Star at no time attempt- @@ to offer such an opinion ‘WOMEN CLUBBED | “PASSAIC, N. J., Apri! 3.-——-Brutal | Hazard get jor doteg sor mies say she dubbing of women here today fea. tired "= clash between the police ‘ king textile workers. The occurred at noon when the } ‘attempted to disperse a gath- @ing of strikers and sympathizers. The police, without warning, charged the body, paying absolutely no heed to sex. | The strikers charge that the sale police are trying to emulate ‘the example set by the soldiers at | Lawrence, Mass., claiming that 22 women were clubbed troyble. } TEETH PULLED; SIGHT RESTOR 1 SANDUSKY, 0., April 3 ‘ears, and given |per than getting $76 with a family. | Edward Kennedy, farmer near here, received his normal sight following the ex traction ef two badly ulcerated teeth, AVIATOR HURT VALLEJO, Cal, April 3 Masson, the French aviator slightly injured here today as a re isult of @ fall from his machine af \ter making a 17-minute flight b from San Rafael. In landing, Mas. \son struck the soft ground of the race track and was thrown from his aeroplane, cutting his face painful ly and receiving numerous bruises RERKKARRRh he * |x WEATHER FORECAST * Showers tonight and Thurs & day; modemte westerly winds. *® Temperature at noon, 49. [RH ARRKKARKRAKE mn Gynsaenes, She--The Browns have the cutest |baby, John, and it talks all the | time. He—Does it? What a poor judge of babies | am; I thought it was a boy, Didier || was || —— || FORGER SENTENCED TO TWENTY-FIVE YEARS THE MAN OF MANY YOUNG MAN OF MANY NAMES, WHO WILL BE OLD MAN WHEN LIBERATED “Harcourt’s is the perfect crim inal mind,” said Prosectiting Attor ——~|ney Caldwell today of J. F. Har. |court, alias Blystone, alias Warren. ton, alias Hill, who yesterday was jsentenced by Judge Ronaid to 25 |te 35 years in the penitentiary for ‘forgery. 1 1 do not mean,” Caldwell added, “that Harcourt is a clever criminal. 1 mean that his mind is criminal. 1 do not believe he ever has an honest impulse. For instance, | most criminals lie before convic- tion, bat after’ conviction at least feel the impulse to confess. The penitent mood comes to most wrong-doers. Not so with Har- court, We have watched him. Ev- ery word he speaks or writes, ev- ery changing expression of his face and it is @ good face—every ges- ture, every act of his is a He.” Will Be Old Map When Freedom Comes | Harcourt, in jail, was asked by The Star photographer this morn- |ing to pose for his picture. He is 33 years old. If be escapes with the minimum be will be an old man when he regafMs his freedom—if he lives that long. He squared his shoulders jaunti- ly and laughed. “Sure,” he said. Guarded by deputies, he posed In the courthouse yard. Every dép- uty had a hand in a pocket and on a“ gun. Hareourt’s bold eyes roved. His mind weighed the chances of a getaway. He concluded it wasn't worth risking. Click! went the camera. The criminal, for a space of 10 seconds, jet his gaze wander—to sky, to houses and trees, to free men and women. bent on honest business. He took a deep breath of free air, sighed, and laughed again. And then he went back to his cell Eight Years of Crime Harcourt began operating on the Pacific coast eight years ago. He came from Pennsylvania, where his parents, respectable people, still live, He is a college man. He has served two short penitentiary terms, at Walla Walla and. Oregor ty q He fs a perfect actor. He ae sumed half a dozen roles at a time, and played them all. was small checks. For a while Seattle he was “W. H. Hillman, of the Hillman Hardware Co.,” fn“‘bum iness circles, and at thé same tt at the Lincoln hotel he was "J Warrenton.” : When he fled to escape arr he was traced to the St. Fram hotel, San Francisco. When de- tectives broke into his room and said, “Harcourt, we want you,” he laughed, and said, “Good joke. I'm waiting for Harcourt. My name's Butler.” He was caught puzeling over a cypher telegram. “I'm a play- wright,” he said, “and this code tel- egram works into the plot. And on the spur of the moment he sketched the plot for the detectives, But the officers got the key to the code and read a Tacoma wom- an's warning to Harcourt that the Seattle police “wanted” him and to fly. Harcourt changed his name so often and moved about so rapidly that he had the police of the coast mystified, Three years ago the NAMES = | } ST. LOUIS, Mo Pennaylvania train No. April sat dead in the cab. other members of the t F | Terre Haute, « before covered that Larr was dead. | Louts. | tailur PLUNGE IN BAY | PROVES FATAL| Mike Kelly, of the Sound boat} Alice, who, while in an intoxicated condition jast Saturday night fell into the water while attempting to get aboard, died early this morning at 3207 Railroad av., West Seattle, from the effects of the shock. The leoroner warn notified by the West! Seatile pollee to make an examina-| | Must Wear Sandels |» The case of badly scratched up | | polished steamship floors, also the | mutilation of the handsome carpets, |®oth caused by long spikes in log: gers’ shoes, has been successfuly diagnosed by Manager Burns of the Sound Navigation Co,, and he remedy. It's to | Puget has wi make | Hereafter husky of the} | Woods who has the usual dangerous and destructive nails on the bottom lof his shoes will be handed a pair | of wooden sandals with his ticket | |purehase, which fit right over the hob nails of his boots, Enough san- |dais will be on hand to fit any six 4 boot | ALHAMBRA, Cz April 3. Twenty-four persons over 80 years | lof age will vote here April 8, in a total registration of 2,000. The oldest woman is 92, the oldest man ie His wife, 8%, also will vote, DEAD HAND ON THROTTLE 11 was rushing across Iilinois during the night, at a rate of 60 miles an hour, the engineer, William Larr, |! His lifeless hand cdntched the trolling the powerful engine in its flight in crew on arriving here. Larr complained of being ill when reaching Marshall, lll. the fireman dis- An assistant happened to be in the engine and brought the train on into St Larr’s body was put off at Marshall. Spokane police wrote the Seattle police warning them not to proceed jagainst Harcourt unless they had a jstrong case, Louis || “He's the slipperiest proposition that ever operated here,” wrote the Spokane chief. “He always pre- pares his alibi before he pulls off @ job.” He made one slip, as all criminal minds do, and it led to his undoing, He registered at the Lincoln as “J. #. Warrenton,” and the top of the road |/:j" had a backward turn. A de- |tective noticed the signature and compared the “J” with the “J” th appeared in some of “Hillman's’ bad checks, The Star Is the Forum for Public Discussion in Seattle It is the only daily newspaper whose col- umns are open for discussion of both sides of any question affecting the political welfare or the moral welfare of the community. The general public know this and they know its columns are clean. And they have confi- dence in its news columns. And the extend this confidence to its advertising columns. It is an indisputable fact that, knowing The Star columns to be clean, they place confi: dence in the claims of its advertisers. This is the reason why Star Advertisers Claim It Brings Best Results - the New York-St. ° throttle as though still con- The story was told by the train pulled out of foreman of th He had died of heart