The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 8, 1912, Page 1

0 A MILLION Met bd THE FAMOUS BOOK, “PROTECTION AND FREE TRADE,” BY HENRY GEORGE ARE BEING DISTRIBUTED IN THIS CAMPAIGN AS PART OF CONGRESSIONAL RECORD UNDER GOVERNMENT FRANK. ANYBODY DESIRING A COPY OF THIS WORK WITHOUT CHARGE CAN SECURE IT BY ADDRESSING GILSON GARDNER, 612 MUNSEY BLDG., WASHINGTON, D. C. If there are any new Star who are not read- ing Cynthia Grey letters ss a great feature. INSANE MAN SHOOTS 2 AT REMERTON stant ckmaster at the govern rion, was killed and Geo. W. Trahey, t nded by John Haley, 45, this morning, by physicians to be insane. Ditton, 11 o'clock n that Trahey and Ditton conspired 1t paying him a large sum of money had been in the employ of the government for 20 years was captured after the shooting. © Ditton, a clerk in the office, rushed from an adjoining room gee what the trouble was, and as he reached the door Haley opened ‘on him, shooting him through the stomach. TIEMPT TO MURDER 2 SAN DIEGO POLICE Man Dying—Bloodshed Occurred Near House Sur- rounded by Police and Believed to Contain I. W. W. Leaders—Arrests Made. (By United Press tensed Wire) | GAN DIEGO, Cal, May &—Joe a Bohemian, is dying to In a hospital here, two police are seriously wounded, more $0 alleged |. W. W.'s or sym are being held at the po station, and the entire city is as the result of a shooting fast night, which the po allege was an unsuccessful at fo assassinate Policemen | and Heddon. some time the watehing 1 house ¢ that the I W been conducting a Bere, were making exe Stevens were % duty th gay they were the jail in the dark by an unknown! A thorough search of the K st. “who fired on them with a re-| house was made today, resulting in Stevens fell with a wound /finding three loaded revolvers and | but returned the fire.\a riffs, to which was attached a it ts sald, rushed at the Maxim silencer. Two revolvers was firing, but was struck| were found on the premises ta head with an ax. A riot call j night. | fent in, and police, militia,) Captain Myers said today that and citizens responded |there may have been more guns, | was found near by, fa-|but this was all he knew about.) wounded. Heddon declares | He said that several of the | is the man who struck /|tives who searched -the house had jwith the ax. Five men were found guns and locked them up in tm the garret of the house|their lockers at the station to be) taken into custody lused as evidence. Prowlers Dressing as Women to Escape Arrest. ot night ;gang of thugs who hide their iden-/ tity in the guise of women's clothes The three were seen near the Pickwick apartments when Officer Norton detected them. Before the| officer arrived on the scene, how er, they had fled. The woman was dressed in black, and wore a} smal! bonnet Charles Ditton at I who has been declar i] wounded, died Haley had the ck t the govern at S # 2 The police, aided dy citizens, | started today rounding up all 1. W./ W's and those whom they declare! sympathize with them. Among the/ soners is A. J. Van Bibber, sec-| of the Cooks’ and Waiters’ AM will taken out of the police declare. Conspiracy Charge. Later it was declared that sev-/ eral members of the I. W, W.'s who | were found in the house atter the | shooting, including Woodford Hub | bard, a leades, will not be sent out of town with the rest, but will be held and charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Hubbard was confined today in a cen in the coun ty jail, away from his comr . who were in the detention room of retary union town have de. who pol K at Ws nod detection " tm the vicinity of Boren av Pike st. last night by Officer) iron, one of whom was dressed woman, lead the police today Believe that the num iries that have kept lively during the ean be traced three ast two a small SERRE RR RRR EH ee se READ THE STAR PINK And get ail the baseball dope. The only “after-the-game” tien, containing full nine innings of description—telling how the last man was out. Nationa! scores, American scores, Coast league “Mores. Ali the amateur news. All the dope. Get the Star Pink ‘and you get it all. o * * * * + * * . * PRR RRR hhh hhh riners Select LOUIS HILL Dallas for 1913 TO RETIRE 103 ANGELES, May & Was chosen today { os NEW YORK, May 8—James J neil of Hill today confirmed a report re id |cently current that Louis Hill, his son, will retire from the presiden Week beginning May 1 be cy of t Great Northern railroad, Biven over to the us in favor of C. R. Gray. J. J, Hill Watio festivities t A.| refused to discuss a report that he Cutts of Savannah , was elected | Will resign the chairmanship of the} ; Outer guard of the order,| Great Northern ‘board of directors he only elective office filled by the |'m favor of his son E Session. Cutts received 301 fh @ totai of 43: Hie election was then m Dallas, } council will ho il meetings May 11 12. r con DO YOU BLAME | VOL. 14. NO, 58. The Seattle Sta ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE ‘She Makes Dean Take Lid Oft SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1912. OF CHEAPER RATES Commercial Club Passes Reso- lution Favoring New Electric Light Ordinance and Prai ing Municipal Plant “Under these circumstances, m to be the duty of every user of electricity who the welfare of the city at well at his own inter. ing plant, inst petitiors, for the increased suc cess of the plant will result in further reductions in rat while the prosperity of rivals will only result in larger dividends to their stockholders, who are, for the most part, non- residents of the city.” The words quoted above are , [conclusion of the report, unan HAZEL FOLSOM Miss Haze! Folsom, aged weight 90 pounds, will make her first bow to the Seattie public Thursday evening at the Univ auditorium, when she will appear in the leading role of the George) Ade opera, “The Mocking Bird.” She will have with her 60 living, breathing “coeds,” including five choruses, and 20 university athietes of impeccable sang froid and mag Bificent proportions. Miss Folsom ix determined, when | at the} she bas finished ber studi university, to her name on the stage, ar regarde Thurs day's perform an an event tech nically known trying it on. the dor It's my chance,” she says. She came within an ace of miss ing her chance, for the no heard that “The Mocking Bird” was a wee bit on the Fluffy Ruffies order she waved the lid, preparatory clapping it on tight She was persuaded, however, to witness a rehearsal, and her ver dict was Not as bad as I was led to expect.” Hazel was born In Tacoma, but stoned by taking the first boat to Seattle, where she lives with her mother, at 1621 18th av In “The Mocking Bird” she ts an innocent young thing who learns to firt. rake ube ne " no to SERRE EEE ERE REE ED Superior Creatures. Yomen are certainly the mental superiors of ux men. “What makes you say Seeing my Wife spank the baby, read a book and carry on a conversation with her » mou full of hairpins all at * the same time. Boston ® Globe. SEER HEH Denouncing T. R. Again PEEBLES, O., May 8—?r Taft started his speech early today, addressing « 1,500 at Batavia at 6 a. m. ued denunciation of Col. Roose featured the remar reference being made to the former president in every one of the 15 speeches he delivered during day. LITERARY BURGLAR OAKLAND, May 8.—Police here eeeeeteeeee resident king crowd of Contin: president's are searching for a “Mterary burg: | lar” who stole 112 pounds of books from Oscar Kenyon. The loot in cluded a 28-volume encyclopedia, valued at $150 HE DIDN’T KNOW PORTLAND, Or., May 8.—“How should I know it was not for me?” explaining to the court why he had opened a letter meant for another orge Albert and used a $30 check it was addressed to me.” He got 30 days. pa sity | the mat ly ado “i by the Commercial Club, of the committee appointed to tn quire into the proposed ordinance providing for a change in city elec trical rates It Is pointed out In the report that the municipal lighting plant, under the present rates, shows a surplus in excess of the total operating cost and Interest on bonds, in view of which fact the committee regards the proposed lowering of rates as conservative, and recommends the approval of the ordinance, The committee further points to ‘the splendid record the lighting reduction in rat led, it Ras compelied its competitors to make similar reductions. ‘ALL WANT TO. HELP VINCENT SPEND HIS COIN (he Vatted Press Leased Wire) NEW YORK, May §.—Because cranks are dogging his footateps day and night, Vincent Astor, som and heir of the late Col. John Jacob Astor, has sought seclusion today {im the house at 840 Fifth ay., which Col. Astor left to bis seeond wife, Mra, Madeline Force Astor, All er of schemes are presented cranks and faddists, all want ing to help the young millionaire spend his great fortune. “PUT ONE OVER” | ON MR. JOHN D. (hy United Vrews Lenned FARRYTOWN, N —Catehing the lieutenants of John 0. Rockefeller fast asleep, irving G. Boyant, » farmer at Pocantico Hills today has “put one over” on the ol! magnate by David M. Mil- candidate for , by one vote No suspected that any one would dare to oppose Mra. M | ton’s election, but Boyant took | off his coat and went to work Wire) jay 8. |GRANT’S TOMB UNDERMINEO?| Frequent | | NEW YORK, May 8 cracking of pavement around Thalf-million-dollar tomb of Gen 8. Grant, on Riverside drive day has led to the belief that the edifice ts being undermined. The chief engineer of the park depart ment has been ordered to investi gate the U to Tee ee TT eT eee ess SAILORS CHARGED WITH STEALING DIAMONDS 8, May & A ®, whose name {fs with held by Capt. J. M. Ellicott of the cruiser Maryland, is con fined in the ship's brig today awaiting trial on a chargesof having stolen from Mrs. P. C. Knox, wife of the secretary of state, diamonds valued at $3,400. It was said that the jewels disappeared from Mra Knox's cabin while the Mary land was off San Jose de Gua temala, during Secretary Knox's recent trip through Central America. They we recovered from a San Diego pawn shop, March 29, * * . l* * * \* * * * * * \* . * os * * * * Viet tt tk tt tk tt | eee eee eee eee eR eee the first His nearest s of Honolulu opponent | HER FOR THIS?) SAN_ FRANCISCO, May 8.—"He | Was James MeCandic Who received 23 votes REREAD EKA RH é : Fair tonight and ae Westerly winds. threw hot soup in my face, tried to| cut my throat when I cried about ft, * | threatened me with pistol and ha *|mer, drove me under the house,| 3 *|threw me down stairs and beat my | raters * | mother,” said Mary Roceacoi. she ; RK kh ee tm got her divorce OUR PRECISE ARTIST|ARE YOU A GOOD 4 RAT CATCHER? PORTLAND, Or., May 8.—Coun- ty commissioners are looking for an | expert rat eatcher to rid the new| county court house of rodents. The | commissioners believe a man is bet ter than a cat or a trap. VICTORY FOR FISH REDONDO BEACH, Cal., May & Fishes which make Redondo waters | |thetr home are smiling today, be-| |cause a team of horses that’ ran away on a wharf splintered a con- | signment of 10,000 fishing poles ‘from Panama. Loss, $1,000. Temper “For the love of Milke.” WILKES-BARRE P ‘a., May 6—For several years the ‘of Ben Dilley has been tied up because of a ca ‘eh . wealthy bachelor, stipulated that his estate, the lie ee more than $25,000, was not to be distributed dur- of his ty One of the cats has since died, but There is known to exist a muffler to muffle the noise of snoring peo ple, And the muffler has worked fine, ‘tis said Now, who'll invent a muffler to stop the cackling of cackling hens and crowimg roosters? The person who ean evolve such cackling-killing instrument will be worth a salute of 37 guns. The chicken owners of Seattle will see |a that the guns go off, too. The latest people to get into tron Other shows igns of reaching an old age. ble because of charges that their hens and roosters cackled and crow- ed when it was against the rules of etiquette to cackle and crow are the Rodmans, on Wallingford av., who own about 250 to 300 chickens, whowe noise can't be suppressed Now, it happens that the residents: in the vicinity of Green Lake are opposed to this chicken music, And it happens that the Stones, in’ par- have their griev: gainst the Rodmans in the superior court, asking for judicial aid in the suppression of the un- \ friendly cackle, | since | ONE CENT DR. HAZZARD FAST. LOST Photo of Dr. Hazzard taken by how she looks after her 45-day f At 6 o'clock tonight Or. Linda Burfield Hazzard will dine. Having gone 45 days without feast giuttonously at the Georgian Cafe, Fourth av. She will devo three ounces. There wi Gish of rice euceule Aigestibility it wil food on the market Having whetted her tuto six leaves of head lettuce an The second course masticated Jet out a notch In her belt and con of water. The breaking of the fa liom. A dozen piates will be laid Dr, Hazzard weighed 142 pou began. Her weight fell to 135! for the test. Weighed today, she During the last 10 days of th Sceupying a total of 12 hours act 50,000 people She drank 12 quarts of water @ pulpy mass be three courses. tly prepared shade ohe an appetite nen 5 SILVER DOLL The public is Invited to oN mH NEW AINS AND 1 venir, HOME BREAKS HER 40 POUNDS | | | Star photographer today. It shows it. food, the fasting specialist will of provender weighing exactly her do it. | Hazzard will tackle a | For nourishment and machine chewed First. Dr by herself mically digested, } on the the doctor will wade nolnted with olive oll of the purest and consumed, Dr. Hazzard will cinde the feast by drinking a glass st will be in the nature of a fync nds a few days before the fast during the time she was preparing tipped the e fast she ual talking, 14 lectures, which were heard by only while the fast lasted. ARS FOR | FUNNIEST HAPPENING HERE Have you found the Yesterday The Star daily the funniest st Star readers Readers tributions, and te manuscripts This ann ies of did not lose “lay the Fu is your chance. Y You see funny happenings all about you haps, the knack of describir things you see. Here, then, i Remember, you don't ha writin’” to win. If the fun Editor will langh at it and « polish For the best “funny” printed eac Keep your “funny” inside 1 possible And don't forg happening in Seattle names, wherever possible The winners will be they will only have to ¢ money. Address your your pla anne all at articles te Mrs. Olson Free Again the wom: Mrs, Christine Oleson in who Iast October attacked Supe rior Judge J, F. Main with a horse whip, and was fined $1 and costs, sed from the has serving out of $3 per day, On October 27 Mrs. Oleson, b Neving that her husband had been mistreated in a suit brought against him, attacked Judge Main in the corridor of the court house before the afternoon session of court was this morning r county jail, where April 24, costs at the rate been the she RENTON RECEIVER + The question of a permanent re ceiver for the Seattle, Renton & Southern railway will be decided this afternoon, when Judge W. A Frater will render his decision. The case camesto court on the petition of W. R. Crawford, former president of the line, who desires the appoint ment of a permanent receiver, “funniest thing’? an hour This is not “ | | residing i nounced that it would print local happen ent in by con- | their | | in sending in their nny Ed busy on sense of humor, You have, per- the a s your chance to win § j ave to master of “fine is in your yarn, the Funny verlook lack of literary ou 1g humorc be a h day $5 will be paid. 0 we and shorter if real Give must be about a fiction contest ce and date story a to day, and their sunced from day The Star office to get Funny Star. the Editor, The BOY HIT BY CAR" Dominick Asury at 1112 by a southbound electric car, injuries about the body. The boy was removed to his home, where his wounds were found to be not very se IT WAS A FAKE LOS AN¢ LES, May hundred Shriners pu drunken Woman surr quarry and disputed several policemen rest. They then ¢ skirted brother tc a round of drinks Chief of Police § aged 12 Dawson years, | was | run down § tule slight suffering | ce and ous. Two fake their the right of to make an ar ‘orted their be- an where was charged to >bastian | FORO TOTO TOTO * May &.— * *) *| *| *| * SAN FRANCISCO ® The price of a woman's hair is $1,002.50, according to Mrs. Agnes Rose, who is suing Melaine Biock, a hair dresser, for that sum. The dresser ruined her hair and burned her scalp, she says. * * RTI EK Tr. leach one having half a vot South | Don’t miss readirg thrilling story of the girl, the prince and the white horse on page 4 today. EDITION HOW STEEL TRUST MEN BURNED UP “BAD” EVIDENCE Great Sensation Sprung in Government's Suit Today— Whitney, One of the Trust Managers, Tells How He Burned Papers in Boiler Room. (By United Press Leased Wire.) NEW YORK, May 8—How officials of the steel trust, facing government prosecution as a monopoly in restraint of trade, calmly ordered their subordinates to burn all evidence of lawbreaking the instant the federal suit was filed, was de- tailed here today before Referee Henry T. Brown by Harry Whitney, an official of the Worcester, Mass., plant of the American Steel and Wire company, a subsidiary of the steel trust ubpoenaed | Fort He Coltor Whitney order of Frank Wire com the f M. Dickin- ernment in er Sec acok he evidence Baackes, president of the American many. He ceived Baackes’ order imme- ing of the government's suit to dissolve who wit! pre direct 1 and after son the by Ste ecution declared had destroyed BURNED IN BOILER ROOM. he had, by Baackes’ order, gathered idence against the Steel and Wire com- were ir ffice of Cragin, its assistant ester plant, personally Whitney papers containir declared 1 al 7€0. ped them to the We er room and directed the fireman to burm ANOTHER SENSATION. another sensation when he followed up by a flat statement and Wire com- my before the he steel trust, Prefacing this, rec the operat s of the wire pool under the direction of Supervisor Jackson. He asserted that Jackson fixed prices and arranged what companies pare icips in the pool should bid for contracts. CLARK WINS; KEEN PIE ng of evidence with his tes " ndictment ted ted ing CLAR PIE APPETITE DEVELOPED (By United Press Leased Wire} [all probability, must be classed as WALLA WALLA, May &—Wash-| reactionary. All the old conven- ington democrats today have en-|tion abuses were in full play. dorsed Speaker Champ Clark's can| Tricks and trades and cunning ma didacy for the democratic presiden-/neuvering had full swing, and It tial nomination, and the Clark men,| was only natural that a convention in complete contro! of the state| controlled by gag rule should re convention here, have put through | pudiate its own declaration for pri- their own slate of delegates to the maries by refusing to recognize the national convention. The 28 dele-/ primary delegates as the true rep- gates to the national convention, resentatives of King county demo a Turner on the Job. Turner came into the game at @ structed to vote as a unit, egates are not bound by ironclad instructions to support any one) belated hour. In fact, not until a man. . | few days before the convention met 7 At one time a stampede for W:|aid the ex-democratic senator, who Clack wba Mat that Pct era has been favored by President Taft relied and stemmed the Gemosstre-| Vt Severe: .. Delimuass “Appoine tien for the “Ocmmonec.” ments, evince any desire to go to When the convention by an over-| Baltimore. So he conceived of the whelming vote decided to reat both |Scbeme to double the allotted num- contesting delegations from King|%*? of delegates from Washington, county. C. G. Helfner, democratic |8i¥M& each a half vote, and send state chairman and manager of the|28 to Baltimore instead of 14. Wilson campaign in the Northwest,| $0 when the delegates began to angrily to: off his bad and, fol.| arrive in Watta Walla they found lowed by most of the members of| Turner strictly on the job. From Wilson King county delegation, | his room the urand hotel the ft the convention hail wires were laid and pulled. Post- | office pie looked good to many dele- (By Star Staff Reporter.) jgates of the old variety of politics, A keen appetite for pie dom-|and Senator Turner proved to be an inated the state democratic con-| expert wire puller. His lieutenants vention at Walla Walla, Even the | numbered the sleekest fixers {n the mere anticipation of national vic-/state, including in his immediate tory and juicy slicing at the polit-| staff Alfred Battle, Ballinger’s law ical counter mussed the ears of the | pa isugh Wallace, capitalist delegates ali up, and a half dozen | corporation representative, W. Rust, clever politicians, led by George | Guegenbeim representative, and H, Turner, exsenator, manipulated|D, Merritt, Spokane, Martin J. Ma- the proceedings at will. loney, Colfax, H. J. Snively, Yakima, The net result is that the last|D. M. Drumheller, Spokane, the democratic state convention that! political manipulators in the old will ever held in this state, in! days in their respective countle DEATH RATHER {LOST HIS CLOTHES THAN DISGRACE |, a-208v, or, tay s—sust a8 Oscar Powell was ready for the wed- j ding, he discovered some one had stolen his dress suit. He rushed to her arrest, Hazel Raymond, a | the home of a clothier, got him out waitress residing at 1716 War- |of bed and bought a “ready-made,” ren av. attempted to commit |in which he went through the cere- suicide this morning in the |™mony. National hotel, when Officers 4 Husted and Upland entered her room and arrested her on a charge of indécent conduct. She picked up a bottle of toothache medicine, swallow- ing the contents. She was re- moved to the city hospital, where she is reported to be out of danger. tner Preferring death rather than the disgrace that was to follow “With every reduction in rates which the city lighting plant hai inaugurated, it has compelled a reduction in rates by compet: itors. It therefore a 7 TONIGHT the people who are looking for rooms will find a splendid list of good rooms on page 7. if you want a room, the way to get it is to read the “Rooms for Rent” column of The Star. Women who have extra rooms in their homes find that the renting of one or two of them makes practically no difference in the housework, and that the revenue goes quite a way in lessening the high cost of living. A number of young married people are paying for pretty homes out of room rent money. Couldn't you? The Star is the people’s paper. You can reach the young men and women who rent rooms through a Star want ad, Try it. Over 40,000 Paid Copies Daily. i