The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 4, 1912, Page 1

y, YES! TAFT HAS BEEN A-BUSTING A LOT OF BAD BOLD TRUSTS, HASN’T HE? renege tay Bo oy TOBACCO TRUST BATH TUB TRUST BEEF TRUST for the disso song. ; . Company be- American Tobacco Trust attacked in government suit A criminal action for violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Injunction suits were begun against the Beef Trust May 15, 1906, against seven individuals and against twenty-nine individuals and sixty-five corporations law was begun against THIRTY-TWO INDIVIDUALS 10, 1902, and a criminal action against TEN INDIVIDU- corporations. July 19, 1907. ’ . ' / : Oil stock was quoted in Wall Street on the day Tobacco Trust's stosk was quoted at $300 per share in and SIXTEEN corporations—makers of kitchen and bath- ALS, including the cattle kings, Armour, Swift and Morris, room enamelled ironware, who combined to PUT UP begun on March 21, 910, for violation of the Sherman Anti- at $550 Wall Street on day suit was begun, was begun PRICES—December 6, 1910. Trust law. The actions in these cases were under the CRIM- May 29, 1911, the Trust ordered DISSOLVED: by the on S| M 14,1911, T is- i A a a 6 pues wiles ae eed Ps United States supreme court. "Whe trial was héld in Detroit before a jury in the federal INAL SECTION of the Anti-Trust law. Defendants, if by the Un s s ; ndar cule convicted, liable to both fine and IMPRISONMENT. When the decision was handed down “di: olving” the To- * quoted at $679 per share AFTER company lost " 1 1 acai A verdict rendered by the jury on February 29, 1912. The. trial was held.in.Chicago in. the federal court before ~~ Trust, stock was quoted at $500 per share. Oil company stock was quoted the ot merica® Tobacco company stock is no longer on the ‘ ‘ Standard oe i ene pectin lh 7 4 J d all indi di a jury and continued more than two months. s per share, Go! Jury disagreed an indictments were dis- A verdict, returfted by. jury last week, market as such, bu®is represented by stock of the subsidi- Aaeereul® ary concerns, which are now worth mere than $700 per she trust was “di d Acquittal for all defendants. The Seattle St ONLY INDEPENDENT NE WSPAPER IN SEA’ SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1912, VICE GANG BURNS THIS PLUCKY PREACHER’S CHURCH . Roller skating fad is on “fuil tilt” again in Seattle. HOME EDITION ‘oa LEADER ALLEN 0 OUTLAW GANG REPORTED SLAIN Telephone Message Says That Wesley Edwards Is Killed With His Uncle, Sidna Allen—Reports Still Unconfirmed Because of Lack of Telephone Communication. Don't grouch. le yout funny bone once ms while; read the jokes « on page 4. VOL. 14, NO. 29. POSE. SCHEME GET MEN HERE | BREAK : STRIKE Met thai et Meelis intends oa] mers in Hoquiam and Aber }from Seattle to break’ up the strike .. t ‘aah charge of using the mail ra ON THAINS AND NEWS STANDS Be ONE CENT Springtime, Tra-la! First Straw Hat HILLMAN GET A-FEW MORE ik Clarence BD. Hillman, the con- vieted millionaire real estate man, | when a laborer named Con Fiyna IM ‘oo N f julent purposes, unl some reported to hi mthat he had paid - \ ? t it week, The writ of man-) 50 to the Upplinger Employment from the cireult court, which | eney, on Main st. for a job at ‘ | Expected here either today or! bie only trom | pcg our dngr ow oo Wiese oFrow, has been delayed, ac- pat ond the mili owners keep discovered that fact he refused to ae motes Var sthoy a Die. ‘eeeret from the laborers go and demanded his money bac! . wy fe huntine ai Waskington teying to send there. The Hesketh ss told by the employ i ne ee Pe ee cart leds make the men take the mont agents that there was no lon j ek” not arrive un! r strikers in Grays har. er a strike there, bpt the president + them stranded there, |of the council advised them to read | “pest the let serisations in the the reports from Grays harber more Hilman case was sprung yesterday carefully, and suggested that by Frederick Hurch, formerly at " Y (By United Press Leased Wire) te i ROANOKE, Va., April 4 j-—Sidna. Allen and Wesley Ed wards, his nephew, the two re- jmaining members of the Allen jclan of bandits not captured,) |were killed toda | {tle with the detectives failed here today have jut few tel- ephone lines in this vicinity are working, and communication with the mountain districts is uncertain « Flynn's money be returned to him. Piyne got bis money back, A few minotes later two more la- boring men, named Hoggat and Mor ris, made the same complaint to Hesketh. They had been hired by the Pioneer Employment Co. on ; Washington st. near First av. The for them here. Pioneer people, however, promised Gets Money Back | Hesketh to send po one out without recelved the firet inti | first notifying him of the strike sit- ‘the attempt to ship men! uation In Hoquiam and Aberdeen, VE STATES SUFFER the city authorities are to keep Seattle employ from hiring strike bere. President Hesketh eit has warned them that notify the laborers (hat acstrike in the vicinity of there would be trouble torney for Hiliman, tn @ suit for $27,500. the balance alleged to be! due for attorney's fee Barch re fted only $15,000 of n $40,000 fee | Promised him, he says, for the main 500 for de | cast He also wake fending Hillman against the charge that Be attempted to temper with ipective jorors, and $1,000 for man's defense in the contempt | charges in the cireuit court at San) | Prancince. \MATFIELD GOES. TO PRISON PL Jt is jwe in a fight jwith detectives, according to a jtelephone mes h received here from Hil Isville also | jnumber f d Jwounded two fatally | BARREN SPRINGS, April 4.—All efforts to con. firm the reports that the ban |dits, Sidna Allen and Wesley | Edwards, were killed in a bat. Va., The Allen gang judge, prosecutor other people in county court house on March 14 when a was decided against the elder Floyd Allen. | Most of them. escaped insme- tely after the carnival of shooting, the chase for them was maintained by sever- hundred men. All but the two men reported killed today had been captured killed the and three the Carroll case and \DR. HAZZARD, ON TENTH DAY OF FAST IS STILL SMILING Dr. Linda Hazzard tarts the 10th! tod t' ® c | today, “but I really never felt a day ot her fast today with a set of|ter than I did all day veutetiehs new guards. he atedly of-/1 felt happy and. contented, 0 oever Was the spirit that had hold of me.” Rev. J. Frank Norris, theichurch ruins and a sketeh of his heroic FORT WORTH, Tex. April 4.—)lramped-up charge of perjury Rey. J. Frank Norris kicked out of oped so See house 4 second tmp). A. Hatfield, the former i | e and destroyed it estate broker, will be taken by the his church a few rich members, who |) Now they offer to quash the In| penitentiary guards to Walla Walla paraded their plety on Sunday and gictment if be will leave the city. ‘tonight to serve a sentence of two WITH GREAT FLOODS, FLOOD SITUATION }would flood the entire St. Francis affected—iiiincis, Mig Dasin, an area as large as Delaware y, Mississippi, Ten.| with a population of 250,000. Arkansas. | WASHINGTON, April 4.—In spite | lof many sppeals from congressmen jthat the matter be taken up at B flesded or threatened— once, the ways and means commit- is, Tenn.; Fulton, |tee in the house of representatives Hickman, Tiptonville, today postponed the hearing of ye Madrid, Mo.; Marion and | bill appropriating $250,000 for the 2 lreliet of sufferers in the fi homeless at | district of the Mississippi valley alone, where a food fam-| The committee expresses the hope threatened. [that the water will subside tomor- are homeless at oth. row, making the appropriation un- slong the Mississippi. | necessary. Br at Memphis has reached It is feared that the levee oppo- 434-10 feet The weather site Memphis, Tenn., will collapse, r declares a 44foot stage |inundating Helena, Ark. F pervons known to have Flyers, in Death List Now Ptteweea eee ww crazed the roofs of several build w/ings and cut stertling figure Ss at Long Beach of C. # in the air, when the fatal drop oc- makes 127 aero- # curred. Gliding toward the beach fatalities since aviation # from a height of 275 feet, he at- He was the 22nd # tempted, at a 100-foot elevation, to Witan aviator to be killed. # | raise his forward plane to ease the tirdmen nave been ® Jar of landing. The mechanism in California. They # | apparently fatied to respond and * the aeroplane continued its earth Haxsey, who fell 5,000 #| Ward rush at an angle of 45 de Dominguez & Krees. . | * *! Instant Death. Juat before he struck, Rodgers Clara October 31, # | was seen to cover his face with his Mey tr N11, arte *tarms. The machine fell 60 feet + 1911, falling * trom shore, in shallow water..When cera, we * | the aviator's body was disentangled | from the wreckage and carried to a Page, of New York, ®/heach hospital, it was found that 200 feet to his death ® his neck and back were broken and 1 | death probably had been instanta duly 5, 1905, and C. P. +4 Loe it Long Beach,” | Witnesses to the accident say Rieee eh en eh ee that at the beginning of the la glide Rodgers dipped his aeroplane } Yates Prove |to avoid. several sea guile fly BOBEACH, Cat April 4. in-| 2¢Fo8s his path. Many believe that Fl elevate his ‘ to this humanitarian impulse the le Bie plane - | loss of the aviator’s life may be at- simple dip toward the wa tributed. today to have caused| When Mrs. Rodgers was notified of Cal. P. Rodgers, the of her husband's death she stood inental aviator. motionless for a moment and then Was about to conclude al collapsed. She is now confined to fight in which he had | her room under care of physicians ODY 15-ROUND FIST FIGHT __ RESULTS FROM INSULT TO WIFE D, Or., April 4 fo call time and break them in the > Through 15 gorestreaked rounds with inches, Thos B. Neu J. H. Beckley, @ prominent real estate s over an alleged insult to Mrs. Neuhansen on at Kast 16th street and Broadway, this with their fi other, surged back chimly ip an arm *When a bystander, bade him desist and the combatants hotly pemmeling each Seross the “ring,” Mrs. Neuhausen sat iL, husband's “corner” and urged him on. largé audience, sought to interfere, she fight it out both men were ould hardly o exhausted that their blows lacked steam stand, after nearly three quarters of an hour milling, the referce called the fight. It was mutually de- fall it-a draw, but before they parted, words were spoken of Meeting” soon to settle their differences for good and all. |, YOU'LL LIKE MOTHER JONES 45 years mother Jones has wandered from one coal mi the other, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, helping pies, weeping with the sorrowing, caring for the ways helping with a strong hand, a strong tongue ‘ong sympathy. the stories she has written for The Star of life among and their families are wonderfully vivid. There pa thd pathos and humor and strong passion, and a flood local color _ § 1 is a little shabby |week days jon unlicensed namer, view—and And this is what tbe friends of unbridted vice did to this brave and honest preacher in retaltation Set fire to bis church 99,000. |. Bet fire to it a second time and destroyed it, Lows, $80,000. Tried to assassinate him by shoot ing at him through his study win- dow Burned the house of the wife of | the former pastor of bis church. / Set hfe house on fire. Secured his indictment | ties - = Laws, | You’re Looking ye | Girl, ik Gok vee copes in thie morning's mail, } | to several phases Editor The Star: To the young jclerk working for $18 per week who asks whether it Is possible to marry and expect a happy home on that j amount | No, emphatically, it is not. Why? You are looking in the wrong place lfor the gir to share that home; you are looking at the wrong style of girl. To expect her to help you make a comfortable home and to do it Within the limit of your sal ary, besides putting away a litte nest egg for a rainy day, is non sense | The girl who receives all of your attention, your interest and your favors is the girl who, if she is working on a salary, spends her liast cent on clothes and never bas lear fare left by pay day; who, if de pendent on her father or brother, is requiring him to spend all bis money on finery for her; but she manages to Wear a $50 hat and an extreme “hobble.” She is the girl ithat you turn to look on the street;.the girl you are proud to have your friends see you with on the car or in the cafe engage for every available dance; the girl who never sits out a dance but is always surrounded by several men, ‘each considering himself jucky to receive one smile. What about the other little girl who works for $7 a week and lives well within that amount by spend- ing half of her evenings making over last summer's hat or dress, laundering a white shirt waist to wear at the store next day, or help ing the woman with whom she lives to care for the children in order to lessen her expenses. This little firl you take not a second glance at; you never ask her to go to the theatre with you because some of your friends might see you, and she 1s not up to style and her coat It matters not to you that she knows how to darn gocks and that she could also take lan Interest in the events of the day that you might read from the |newspaper while she sewed; she is not stylish and perhaps she has a plain face and a natural com |plexion which is not perfect, there fore she may stay at home while d your money on the other id you spe girl, yet she is the girl who ¢ marry on $18 a week No, sir, | am not a “soré-head” nor have I the complaint of being took rentais from bawdy bourses on Norris ealls thelr bluff by refasing to ten Also, he denounced \to ave and demanding an immed! treaking | from the pulpit grafters who fatten! used on a Kay C.” who wrote asking The Star if it was possible fer a young { married and live happily on $18 per wee! the girl you | years for attempted jail . Hatfield had originally ate trinl. The charge is based of been charged with forgery and was his denial Wefore a grand jury that convicted. Pending his appeal to be wrote certain anonymous Ietter® the supreme court, a jall break was apres ge Aya attempted, and Hatfield waa con- Lending the movement a8al0st victed of being the master mind in the preacher int MAYOT. ‘that effair, The supreme court Hroncho Hil” Davis, who called ® inter reversed his first conviction aaae parser ead aL Sa a and ordered a new trial, but sus ae eee ig unia inaiter, It /feined bis conviction for jail break- may come tonight Good guess! |e The state decided not to press On that night the firebuge set fire 7 poe agg ee eee ene’ ang {breaking ax cuificient. Hatfield ts churchiess, is living in a Cirepreot | Shqut 64, His wife bas remained hotel and preaching in a rented Joyal to bim throughout his trouble, opera house visiting him every day. Hatfield! ag) Bad been In the county jail over) eighteen months. for the Wrong REBELS START FIGHTING | gets one Very | jon he raised. The an-| from “A Quiet Girl,” and here it ie: | AGAIN | BL PASO, Tex., April 4.—Return-| jleft out, because I don't like you/!& t@ the attack on Parral after | anyway. Why? Not because you | Gen, Campa's decisive defeat of | make only $18 pér week nor be-| Yesterday, revel forces under Gen. | cause you are not good looking, | Salasee again today are engaged in| but because you don't know and a | battle with the government troops | preciate a xensible girl wheo you commanded by Gen, Pancho Villa! see one. You think # girl has to/!® @ second attempt to wrest the have a pink and white complexion |'¢%" from the federals and a pretty amile to answer each| . According to dispatches from foolish nothing that you whisper, | imines. Geo. Campa has been re I haven't, and at the same time [| Plaeed by Gen, Salazar, who is lead am the average girl Inga force of 1,500 men against the Just think about it a little. ity, Gen. Villa is reported to have (Signed) A QUIET GIRL 00 men engaged in the defense of the elty, and ag most of these are seasofied veterans of the Ma-| deré revolution against Former | President Diaz, it is not believed | the federals can be distodged with- | out « terrific struggle. Floretta Whaley Is Home Again’ HEMPSTEAD, t. 1, April 4. | of the qu STRIKE ENDS IN ENGLAND) (By Vatted Press bt LONDON, Aprif great strike of coal miners which, for weeks, has virtually paralyzed trade throughout England, Scotland and Wales, causing untold misery to thousands upon thousands of the poor, was called off today by the leaders of the miners. The action of the miners’ execu tive committee came after a com- plete canvass of réferendum {vote on whether the strike should be continued, It was taken despite the fact that a majority of the men voted against acceptan of Premier Asquith’s minimum wage Dill as @ cure for their grievances. In explanation, the leaders de. clared that as # two-thirds vote of the workers was required to author ize a strike, the same rule was ap- plied to the referendum to con tinue the strike already in ex-| istence, and as there were not two. thirds opposed to thé resumption of |work, peace must be declared, . DR. FUNK DEAD MONT CLAIR, N. J., April 4.— |Dr- Isaac Funk, author and pub- lisher here, head of the firm of |Funk & Wagnalls, of New York,|awarded @ decree of divorce from | died at his home here today of}J. C. Silverstone, of the Boston heart failure, after anJjliness of two| Drug Co., against whom a judgment | | weeks. of $50,000 was secured about a year| | Dr. Punk was famous in literary |ago in Kansas City by A, L. Sher jand selentific research. Only a|fnan for alienation of his wife's af few years ago the publication of his|fectiona, The Silverstones have a book on psychic phenomena, “The]girl 13 years old. They were mar- | Widow's Mite,” created a big sen-|ried in 1898. Mrs, Silverstone ation among students of the oc-|owns 98 shares in the drug com cult pany and Sflverstone only one, jo with rector of . George's Episcopal church here, returned home today. The girl has been living with Cooke in San Francisco, She and Gooke left the coast March 6 and came to New York. The egirlcame to see her- grand: wmother here, and the former preacher remained in New York. Miss Whaley soon will inherit $25,000 from her fath- ‘er’s estate. RRR RKRRRR ER RAH * * * WEATHER FORECAST + Fair tonight and Frida * light frost tonight; mode *® westerly winds, Tem; * at noon, 47. * RRR AKA GETS HER DIVORCE Mra. Esther Silverstone was} | report —Fieretta Whaley, whe eloped |» The first straw hat of the season made its appgarance on Second av. thin morning, There were rumors of a Panama at large yesterday, but proof is lacking. This morning's straw was a broad-brimmed, low-crowned satlor of the newest style, and very natty. It was worn by, a clean-cut, self. possessed young man who wasn't in the least disconcerted by the grins that greeted him from onder derbies and felts and caps. YOUNG AMERICANS JOINING REBELS PORTLAND, Or, Apri: 4—That agents of Gen. Orozco, the Mexican rebel leader, are busy in Pacific const cities, enlisting men to join his army at Jiminez, was reported here today, One young man ts known to have gone from here to to Gen, Orozco at. Jimines, and he {s said to have been one & large party, His expenses w paid and jt js thought a number of other men are being enlisted in Seattle, Tacoma, San Francisco and Los Angeles. |ADMITS ‘TWAS FALS INDIANAPOLIS, April 4.—Au thorities at Portsmouth, N. H., where Seth Nichols, the sailor who claimed to have killed Dr Knabe in Indianapolis, rest, today telegraphe ichols has admitted that his con fession was false. CIGARS COST $800 SAN “RANCISCO, April 4 Jose Pracham, a Shasta county | miner, insisted on treating two new | {friends who were going to sell him | }a ranch to cl s. When he turned back from the cigar stand they had vanished with $800 of his Diner— Walter my cocoa's cold, Put yer hat on, keep tab on her during the 0-day fast which she is undertaking. Her free lectures, given three times a week, are drawing unusually large crowds, and yesterday two of the women present agreed to act for a part of the time as her guards. possible, Mrs, Hazzard will attempt to have two or three guards re- main with her simultaneously dur- ing all hours of the day and night. Dr. Hazzard seems to be possess. ed of renewed vigor today. She looks bright and cheerful, although unmistakably thinner by the con. stant loss of weight ‘This is not mere tatk. she said LOT OF FOLKS WANT THAT BABY | Many persons have visited the city hospital to offer a home to the litte three-weekold infant left on the porch of the residence of John Lindsay, president of th Lindsay Mill Co., 403 30th ay. S., Tuesday night. The baby is in good health today and will be given to one of the many applicants just as soon as it recovers completely turned a card which hg found on his lawn over to the palin, bearing 4 woman's name and address. The [police are runuing down the pos. sible clew | NEW LAWN MOWER PORTLAND, Or April 4 crany last said neighbors, crowding around Chief of Police Slover as he tramped over his lawn with two big fat boards attached to his feet Slover was trying a new invention to take the place of a lawn mower He's SAN. FRANCISCO, L. Addison loan sharks debt now |son has | ruptey April c, borrowed. $120 from four years ago. The hes $2,764, and. Addi filed a petition in bank Her next lecture will be given Friday afternoon at Theosophical (hall, 1426 Fourth a id on the following Tuesday, tr ig rally jcelebrate the 14th day of the fas, will be held at Arcade hall. “On that day,” Mrs. Hazzard said with an amused smile on her lips, ‘I am supposed to be dead, accord- ing to the many physicians who be- |Heve that no one can go without }food for more than 14 days. I'm going to treat the* public to the merry sight of a very much alive corpre.” | Mrs. K..E. Wells, 318 Wall st., acted as Dr. Hazzard’s guard this | morning: . Dr. Hazzard is taking a- 20-mite |ride about town, today in the com- pany of Mrs. M..H. Evans. She got \up at 8 o'clock this morning, read and answered a big batch of letters. after taking her morning bath, and at 10 o'clock started off on “Babe,” \th esingle-footer loaned to the fast specialist by a man interested in her experiment. ‘OUR PRECISE ARTIST Lindsay “There was a movement on foot.” PUT A METER ON | CIRCULATION fact tion is the largest, Star’s Circulation In Excess of 40 surrounding towns. CLAIMS Don’t pay your good money for the circu- lation claims of any newspaper, unless those same claims can be “metered” into proven Every automobile salesman claims his car is the best, but watch them climb the hills. Every newspaper salesman claims his circula- but ask him to prove it. The burden of proof in such a case should be on the newspaper making, or allowing its representative to make, such a claim. : The is accurately “metered.” The Star welcomes the opportunity to prove to any merchant or reputable committee in Seattle that its actual paid circulation is ,000 Daily - And The Star welcomes the opportunity to tell you just where this circulation goes— how much in the city and how much in the