The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 13, 1912, Page 1

a . ——eesteeessnesieuenesteneensnsnniimsinents eee : ttle Star today prints the first 1912 photograph of the “sky line” of Seattle’ i [ re the only picture of this city ever taken from the docks, a this wi soeicllead bonion Fae grapher stood at the top of the Grand Trunk dock to f its kind ever taken of Seattle, ‘ “old folks back home” and this was accomplished because | will give them a fine idea of th i wer, about 200 feet in the air. The Star suggests that people send copies of today’s pa The Seattle Star ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE at enemas abe inks to cam es and friends in the Middle West, the East and the South. It ’ e marvelous growth of the Queen City of the Northwest empire. The Se- As aitle of 1880 had little over 3,000 people. The latest census gives it 237,000. The steady, sweeping per growth of the city and the maintenance of her position as one of the three leading Coast cities, ig assured. ¢ Star photo picture © in our state prison like that in fine hotel, only it’s Jonesome. See page 4. Watch for a big bunch of funny stories by Star read- ers in tomorrow's paper VOL. 14. NO. SICAL VIOLENCE INSTATE CONVENTION in Central Committee Calmly Boast That They Will Ignore Roosevelt Majority and Seat! All the Contested Taft Delegates. Beeeeeeeaeteeteeeeeneeeee THE ABERDEEN CONVENTION LINE-UP TODAY tes to convention owe to control ted La Pollette a Roosevelt delegates . teeter eeeteeeneeeaee een eane (bat Lewis county to be beard from, the Taft forces are whip to one on the eve of the Aberdee@ convention, which is called re! Morning. But the Taft leaders are boldly boasting that aeeeeeeeee | ARE DROWNED 62. ATHER AND HIS TWO BONS f In Trying to Save Life of His Sons, Parent Loses Own in Lake Washing- ton—-Widow and Four Children Left. In a desperate effort to save the lives of his two little boys, William, 12, and Everett, 6, Wil liam Cowan was drowned with the two children in Lake Wash. ington yesterday, and the three ie central committee, which is strongly pro-Taft, will absolutely | this antl-Taft majorit srepare a temporary rol] at its! y , seating all the contested Taft delegates, and wilt | "ene to enter the convention hall unless he has a certificate | B. W. Coiner } BRAGGING ABOUT IT | fram Was at first kept t, but so sure are the Taft lead Will be carried out that they are now bragging about it. That | steal, no one at s to deny ven Gov. Hay, a partisan, R fo © tion if this brazen } tobbery is ca: ly pleaded with standpat lead to abandon ¢ with ex-Sena sche The only concession he secured tor John L. Wilson, W. T. Dovell, Howard | L was a Willingness to give the pro- of the 14 delegates to the national convention. This was, Promptly rejected by Thomas F. Murphine, W. T. Beeks, Loren} and former Mayor Dilling. who were called into conference by the progressives manage to overpower the special guards | i Sasigned by the Taft men to the convention hall, they will not} Se allowed on the floor of the convention, much leas have a voice | ‘The Taft “steam roller” will thus seat 265 favorable | choose its own temporary chairman, select its own credentials | ‘and elect its own 14 delegates. If the “steam roller” tactics | mally adopted by the state committee at its meeting tomorrow Mprity of the delegates to the Aberdcen convention will be placed peeliar position of resorting to a bolt” because of Inability to} to the hall, If they should succeed in getting into the hall, | Bo question but that, be superior voting strength, they Me in control, and the Taft delegates would have to “bolt.” Phys | @ may thus determine which of the two factions is to do the first definite step in the program for the proposed convention the pro-Tatt « mittee came in Tacoma on Saturday, Taft delegates, outr hree to one, “bolted” the Pierce fonvention merely to A COD This was absolutely nec Y from a Taft standpo: erce’s 61 delegates, if uncontested, Mave given the antl-Tart 4 339 uncontested delegates and an | ed majority of at least fi f the “h picked” delegates} County and the co t from other counties | ail seated in the con | FRANKLIN FOR LA FOLLETTE lin county has five votes for La Follette as first choice and WM Second choice. It is the only county in the state, perhaps ountry, with this unnatural combination. Lewis county chooses today. nbered t } t 4 ltrict DETTER THAM DiANOMD: Spell of th. yesterday held jubilant, as they anticipate er ice crop by next January her turns warm be tings today erda throughout the @ Today dawned cold Sd With a nipping tir F Hundreds of smal ww Sto their great de pat lice had formed i Lak A And that it was of for skating m8 announce of bituminous ™m ve And still climbing Sunday afternoon a temperaty of 83 degrees deal-| reached maximum & rine was lee thhaa wih a s FOIE RTI IRIN ar ® ana yoie" find the weather oppressive, and your collar wilts, ation te gs Underwear sticks to your skin, and the perspi- poyn rom the end of your nose, and your nose is fe © tymptome of prickly heat are already making ie It—cheep up! * The teleg Middle West. is companies report many wires down in the ' dlings nowing back there-—wet, soggy snow that t M0 the wires and breaks them, * * * * * * * * * * * ‘chee “9 by AIEEE REET ECE Te CT Cee lweph Alasso, the Hotel Butler bodies lie in the morgue today, side by side, Cowan and bis two sons were out and yesterda started younger son on the take oe t house camping all night morning, before-they their home journey, th suggested a boat trip ar the University Cowan had paddied his cance about 300 yards from the shore when Mil | Hensley, aged A6. who wae fishing near by, heard appeals for help from the direetic { the chnoe When he arrived there Cowan was straggling In the water, with Wit am clinging tightly to his father's neck srett had already Kone down. Cowan made a vain attempt te grasp Hensley’s boat, but on ia jstrength had vanished and son went down to thelr de Hensley started for aid, and al! morning the lake was dragged the bodies. About 9 o'clock the body of Cowan was recovered. and 16 minutes later the bodies of the twe boys were brought up leaves a wife and four the eldest five, to mourn at their home, Kast Cowan children the loss 5oth at HODGE SOLID WITH MINER FRIENDS Sheriff H day visiting with old-t the mining district of and Wiilkeson You needn « cot told pent Sun frien Carbonadc Bob aroun Bob, fe pr won't ernor they oKres: candidate, be votes against you in the whole they assured him The ineurgent sheriff could hard ly express the deep gratification fn spired by these he miners with whom he had worked side by ot so long ago. It's good to know that the fel lows who, perhaps, know you best are down the line for you,” he said this morning. BOCCI PLAYERS FOUND GUILTY Leonardo Perrato and Ben Anardo, charged with making with $3,000 belonging to Jo cook Italian There three aide Both detta away d that sum in the who wage | Bocet were gaine called | morning fouhd gullty of grand lar | by a jury in Judge Ronald's leourt, The men put up the defi that Alasso lost the welching out of his bet by putting ap the criminal charge against them, Aiasso testified that befc the game was finished they had ceny 50 | skipped out of thé state and had to be extradited from Montana 4 . MRS. TILLMAN WANTS DIVORCE COLUMBIA, 8. C., May 13.--Al leging that her husband, Benjamin {R. Tillman, Jr, a son of Unite | States Senator Tillman, is a chronic drunkard and that he has treated her in @ cruel manner and squan dered much of her fortune, young |Mra. Tillman bay filed sult for di | vorce, In her petition Mrs, Tillman re cites many instances of cruelty on the part of ner husband and of phys jeal abuse when he was drinking SEATTLE wager and was | WASH., MONDAY, MAY 153, 1912, ALL YOU JOKERS GET A CHANCE TOMORROW When the Funny Editor took the job, he didn’t know there were in | Seattic so many thousands of Bill Nyes, Peter Dunnes, George Ades and Mark Twains, waiting for a chance te delight a laughter-loving public with their funny stories The task of selecting the funniest funny from the thousands of funnys which have been contributed by Star readers multiplies with each auceseding mail. There can, of course, be but one best. But many of the near-bests are so very good that it would be a sin and a shame to deny them publication Therefore—extra, extra!—The Star tomorrow will print a big bunch | of the near-bests. And the Funny Editor regrets that the authors can | mot al! get prix ) A. L. Anderson, 446 NOw York building, wins today's prize of $5. “MR. N. G. BLANK, C. O. D.” My OAdS PACKAGED While spending yesterday afternoon in Kinnear park, | overheard following conversation between three Uitie girls. They had heen aing that her mother was the best, ber father th » largest, and so on. And finally (bey got to dis the he cussing Utles. | Said one: “When @ bundle comes to. the house for my has bis name one it, and M.D.’ after it Said the second Humph' What's ‘M.D. nes to our house it has ‘D. 1.’ ‘after father's y The third fittle girl was silent for a mouen umphantly: “Well, just two letters aren't much When a package comes to our house, ft has. name By their silence, deteat father, it When a package then she said tri father has three D. after fat My 0. or's the daughters of the M.D. and D. D. SON, 446 New Y PAPA, SHAVING, CUT “ABDOMEN” of 1 ae admitted their k Building I was visiting a sick lady recently 16 She prattled almlessty, as girls of th to another. Finally Papa always cuts himself when he shaves slipped and he cut his abdomen 1 told her she must be mistaken, but she insisted that she jed physt in school and knew the exact jocation of the 1 asked her where the abdomen was, and with her | touched her Adam's apple MRS, W. N. HUPP, dn | “The Management Will Not Be Responsible,” Etc. when a «i age do; dif or called mone sun) | This morning } had »: abdome to tell me nee afe It t a amble for A young pened in Washingt lunch man n ¢ on n ring noon a scr reached f Another He fo lor bis hat finitahir md rose } awn lar bi earch for @ too, departed A third nm k a ha Then derbies r were tb t ed th man to ver umble them und folle and of odd While econd returne in nd went away & part ur rowe it They could 1 nting and compla apologized for taking the wrong The third man Teturned, a oo, apologized for his unintentiona mistake. The party waited for No. 1 to return, but, though they waited he did A wail tified that 1 had come to {HEADED DA ARDS, 1114% Third Av ists SAW A SEN. BOB TO REAL BIG RAID, FINISH TODAY FRANCISCO, May 13.—| of Eas tourists in wagons applauded as Cie: United Press Leased Wire) red down the doors| SAN FRANCISCO, May 13 Fresh from a trip to: San Diego, om Chinatown voters, ‘ they a lon not come No. lunch pa TOUR SAN Hundreds rubbernech the police battere of gambling how and dragged forth They thought their benefit tern | in hurried trugglin 28 g Ce he addressed Robt. M. La Fol lette arrived here today to bring his sampaign for Californians’ su port of his candidacy for the repub lican presidential nomination to a close with an address in Dreamland |rink here tonight Brown saw a dark object and fired. Senator La Follette declared that Hin arm was knocked up just in|! his speech tonight, on the eve of time, as he was aiming at the head |e state primary election, he will e, a8 yr Be . Cn F reply to any sonal if a sleeping man. Brown fainted,| make no rer of a sleeping man. Brown fainted. |i irgos that may have been made ae against him by California support Jers of the other republican candi HE BELIEVED IT , 1 am| dates. LOS ANGELES, May 13 am a socialist. I be ve in a fair divi jon of wealth,” read a note left in one of a dozen half-depleted dinner pails at a construction camp, The hungry Marxian was not pursued. CARRIED COOP, TOO MOUNT WILSON, Cal, May 1% Carrying on his back a chicken coop in which he had been®con fined, Washington,” an eagle | wounded ly a hunter, disappeared to- day in the empyrean blue, He wag one of the largest birds ever seen in this section where 7,000 lestials Senator was for IT WAS A MAN SAN FRANCISCO, Mo Peering into some shrub wounded mad dog |PREPARE FOR DEATH OF-REV. RICHESON (By United Pres Leased Wire) BOSTON, May 13.—Preparations for the electrocution of Rev, C. T. V. Richeson, condemned to the elec- trie chair for the murder of his sweetheart, Avis Linnell, were be mun today by the warden at the Charlestown state prison, where Richeson |s to meet death May 19. The death cell was put In order and the electric wires inspected. HOME 1,000 AREKILLED OROZCO Io BEATEN | Twelve Hours Fighting Ends in Com-| plete Victory for Army of President Madero. PUR ee PRINCIPAL FEATURES OF DESERT BATTLE thousand federais and rebels killed and wounded, with losses about equa! on both sides, in 12 hours’ fight ing in the desert south of Yer. me from daylight until night. Five thousand troops on each side, and considerable cavalry were engaged Federals routed repels and captured 10 cannon and wagon. loads of hand bombs Rebels destroyed train, bridges and supplies in retreat. Gen. Orozco admitted defeat, blaming reverse on superior artillery of federais. One 7 * * * * * * * * * * . * . . * * * * * * } ee ee ee es ee ee (My Untted Press Leased Wire) | CONEJOS, Mexico, May 13.— Gaining possession of this town after 12 hours of fighting on the desert, 300 miles south of the Ameri-| can border, in which the rebels were put to rout, with heavy losses on/ both sides, the victorious Mexican) federal army, under Gen. Huerta is! preparing today to attempt the com.| [plete annihilation of the rebel! | forces. Wher the federals galloped into eir vi the tld be seer . ton in ove 4 ast ws The fire f ainded, both trew the CESS REWARDS WITH $40 CHECK TA BARBARA, Ca), May Rosy George f nd and we pursued which the to gr i PRIN », who 006 he w ound hs th e pri San M mail CAME Horturoas ja » conduc 201 Yeale jof Pletcher this he He came back from the “HE BACK” George 2310 Elliott reported to the po ft a man by the name in ¢ » of his stand | about 3 o'clock ur early mornin stepped out for a few mir lares that when $88.10 were missing ash register. The police | the today while dec investigating case His Wife: You needn't make any excuses, John, It's all right; you're of Hard | 1 just in time to walk the baby for an hour or two. EDITIO SO -Photo by Jacobs. CIALISTS AROUSED OVER DECISION IN THE OLSSON CASE Try to Compel Judge Revoking Citizenship of Tacoma. (By United Press Leased Wire? INDIANAPOLIS, May 13.—Over shadowing in interest even the race for the presidential nomination, delegates to the national socialist convention here today lined up sol- idly behind a movement to compe! United States Judge C. H. Hanford of Seattle to recali his decision an- nulling the citizenship papers of Leonard Olsson of Tacoma be- cause the latter admitted he was a socialist, or face impeachment pro- ceedings. Congressman Victor Ber- ger of Wiscon indignant at Judge Hanford’s ruling, promised, on the floor of the convention to- day, to take action in congress im mediately upon his return to Wash- ams from repub- in all in which tions of the to prove Hanford permitted personal preju- dices to rile his action, were red to the delegates. The decision, the de say, will be carried to th ates court for reve al, if necessary 1 they freetv charge that the ion is the di- rect result of Judge Hanford’s op- position to the recall of the judici- ary, he believing, they say, that by depriving Olsson of citizenship, he ABOLISH’ COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE Heres in King county will be conducted ates United ter the socialist campaigns | by an executive committee of seven The was county rday will cen at a er after a and @ secretary tral commit mass convention yes ium JUNE 14 FLAG DAY YMPIA roclaimed Jun of Wal that all citizer t ary anniver * cision of nal Socialist Convention Begins Movement to Hanford to Recall Opinion Papers of Leonard Olsson ‘would curb West in tb the agitation in is direction. The reports of the recall come mittee and those of the permanen® jals were presented to the cone jon today The morning ses sion was devoted to a discussion of Judge Hanford’s decision, the selec tion of a new chairman, and ‘the reading of routine reports the Tacoma Socialists Aid. TACOMA, May Local sociale ists will take up the fight of Leon ard Olsson, disfranchised by Judge Hanford, and at a meeting last night named a committee, consist- ing of Rave Brown and Busine: Agent Burns of the Central Labor € ncil to arrange for a mass meew ing to consider the question TAKE ACTION HERE. Resolutions condemning the dea Judge Hanford depriving Leonard Olsson of his rights as @ citizen ause of his socialistic affiliations,” and the effort to prose- cute him criminally, will be passed by the executive committee of the aunty socialist organization of this city, which meets tonight. This committee will also prepare @ cam- paign for funds to carry Olsson’s appeal to the United States su | preme court if necessary. [FALLS 3 STORIES | 10 HER DEATH PORTLAND, Or. May 1 Plunging from her apartment win- dow to the pavement, three stories below, Mrs. Perry McDonald Fuller, wife of # weil known contractor, suffered injuries which today bave resulted in her death. No one was with her at the time of the acei- dent, but it Is s sed she toppled from the window when attacked by a sudden fainting She had been an invalid for ye SERRE ERE Ee Ee * Fair tonight; Tuesday, fair % * moderate easterly Temperature at noon, ® « ee HAVE YOU BALANCED YOUR BOOKS LATELY? How long Speaking ¢ in yourself a where do What's y market? ~ W actual for But owe it make your e you s Get out Chances through Seattle. OVER DAILY. you bring as to the vapital earn the highest per cent possible. your off a trial balance this very are with a better salary attached ready for you if you can fill it Competent people find positions Star 40,000 PAID since you took stock and made up a trial balance? of you and your interest $a man of woman only today? What would in the open cent on your you stand worth? u worke hat. per Aluation are you earning self? Never thought of it that wa ? alive, you kiddies to hould! wife Man and strike night. position pencil and there's a Wants quickest in COPIES -