The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 14, 1912, Page 1

re 3 today are printed a Bunch of real funny stories t real happeniggs, writ- ten by Seattle people Story of twelve dancing girls, who all come from 8ne town, e Seattle Star | ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE : . HOME EDITION Th VOL. 4 told on page 4 today. NO. 63 » SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1912 ony sew ONE CENT Or must we depend on the history nition has been of service to every” paragrapher in the country ever since. Hut Sherman was not in a joking mood when he defined war And there ix a dwindling army of gray-hatred heroes in America, who see nothing funny in Sherman's definition, What is war? There were no mercenaries In those armies of the North and South very “Yank” and “Jobnny Reb” fought for what he thought was right The noblest and best of all sentiments inspired every breast—love of home and country rhe issues on which they fought are dead, The old wounds are healed, The cotton blooms and blows on battlefields which once ran red with blood, The North cheers when the bands play “Dixie.” The old terrier in the butternut coat bares his head when he hears the strains of The Star-Spangled I The past is forgotten. Forgotten? Save in the hearts of a dwindling army of veterans who, on Memorial day, will march again beneath (heirtattered banners. They have not forgotten! On May 30 the Geattic veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic | Star wil! will hold their annual Memorial services Between now and then The Star invites them to submit to thie news per personal wartime narratives, Every man of the nearty 700 w trans in Seattle has a story—a hundred stories—to tell, if th tories could be compiled, they would make the greatest human-in' t docu ment ever penned. pay noe attention to grammar, spelling, punctuation or diction, and fauite in these directions will be corrected. The winning article will be the one having the gr tt dramatic interest Commander F. H. Hurd, of the Department of Washington and Alas- ka, and Assistant Adjt. Gen. A. W. Hastie t * promised to bring the contest to the attention of the posts. Hoth heartily indorse The Star's idea We Such a contest,” said the la to excite a friendly rivalry flo five Seattle an to which is to get the coveted flag, It Will also serve to keep alive that pacred flame of patriotism which burned #0 flereely in 61 é The presentation of The Star's f will be a part of the Memorial Guy exercises, and it is likely that the winning article will be read aloud | to the assembled veterans and their friends. To the post of the veteran writing the best wartime narrative, The | Veterans, you want that flag for your post. Address your articles to Mar will present a handsome flag and staff, in judging the articles, The | The Flag Editor, The Star. Will Unborn Babe Break ol [FORNIA e Astor's $10,000,000 will?] "yo pyr HE ELECTION pdadindindindndndadn dade adnan a the history books you Be the whole story of the civil war. You the movements of the armies, the b tles, the victories and defeats more important skirmishe You get a bird’ seve view, which leade he firing on Sumter to the fall of Richmond and the surrender a lee. re We who have lived our years in peace-tine cannot Imagine war tter, “in mure tan picture the pomp and panoply of war, but not the horror of war The Star avke the veterans to give the flesh-and-blood story These narratives should be of incidents in which the authors then selven figured, or of which they were eye wit Owing to the itattons of space, the articles should not exceed 600 words in length ories of the Rebellion are not in the history books. ee eny trom the lips of the veterans them: wwee—the men ‘ he the ranks. The forlorn hope, the desperate rally, the pos! ect and retaken, the trench held, the shock and crash of charge M iecharge, the ambush, the sentry hailing in the dark, all the litt Incidents of war-—these are not in the history books, | is war? ’ i Have the veterans forgotten if ACHESON RSME AND - WisT D Who Murdered His ‘Sweetheart Loses Last Hope Life. ON, May 14—The Rev. C on pastor ofa church in Cambridg at die for the murder of his 19 / sweetheart, Avis) : whom he killed with cy- bw : og the unfrocked min Bier Virtually was abandoned to f the last two of the corps alieniats, who have ‘mamining into Richeson’s ‘condition, reported to Gov mene N. Foss, and it became that only one of the entire of specialists had expressed Tey Geokt that the pastor was “ac . fifor bis crime. Gov me indicated indirectly that um "I of the two final reports The alienists declared strongly the condemned man was in & be would not interfere with etecution. AVE 2 FROM DROWNING IN LAKE the screams of (wo fens yesteriny near the Medison wher! at Lake Washington, W George, who lives in a house the lake, saved two stran } from drow nin fa two men struggling “Water about 30 yards from and burried in his canoe ‘ete. The men were cling aS upturned cance. They fe lifted into George's boat and genore. One of the strangers in a bath robe while among the posts ween lim * Sherman called it “hell,” and the defi. | HANFORD AGHN OVERRULED BY - HIGH COURT The deeision of Judge Hanford rendered in 1907, entting down the taxes of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern from $145,390 & $81,540, has heen reversed by the} circuit court in San Francisco, andy now these two rallorads mat pag to King county practically the, fait [amount of the original assesame and interest f our yoars, amoupt? ing in all to 201 The fighting of the’ case throvgh to the chrewit coort by Aasehsor Parish has therefore saved the tix Iphyers of King county over $140, 000. The fall « nt due the coup ty will now probably be paid by the two réfiroads, as i le not likely that they will try to appeal the case to the United States supreme court The taxes of the two roads were increased in 1907. The N *on axsessed at $106,000 and the Great ‘orthern at $39,390 Hanford, how- ever, out the amsexsment of the N P. to $60,700 and t sseonment of the G. N The cirenit court, In reversing | Hanford, sustained the original as MAN WHO WAS DISFRANCHISED BY RULING OF JUDGE HANFORD HOW THE DELEGATES LINE UP UP TO DATE Theodore Roosevelt a71 President Taft 148 nator La Follette 86 stor Cummins 19 *Uninstructed 114 Contested cone 156 Nomber of delegates to national convention 1 Necessary to nominate (majority) ott Needed to give Mr. Roose s majority... Needed to give Mr. Taft a majority i Yet to be elected. See eee eee eee eee ee eee ee velt "Includes 88 from New York tat SSRSESSES SESE EEE SESE Pere ee eee ee eee ee (By Untied Press Leased Wire) LOS ANGELES, May 14.—Clear weather favored the Southern vo- ters who are casting their first pres idential preference ballots teday. it was estimated by the managers of the various didates that a record preliminary election vote would be cast in Los Angeles city and county, There are about 275,000 registra- tions in the county, but many of these are duplicates. Republican leaders estimated that 60,000 of the registered republican vote of 189.000 would be cast. Democrats predicted a vote of 17,000 of the 42,000 regis- tr stimates of cxmpaign managers today fellow: P. A Stanton, chair- man of the Taft committee—“Prest- dent Taft will have at least an ever break im Southern California and should be given 35,000 plurality in Tanarionad |eesement in every renpect with the) @imws seqrce franchise tax, ted to only $6,100 the state tax commie ed the taxes on the rail roads, and they have paid the high er assessments made without legal av HARRY-GURTON contests } 13 DIE WHEN Sstcntenneeectee IRON MINE CAVES IN head the queeniy crown | ip of New York's famous | IRONWOOD, Mich. May Thirteen are known to be de @ result of a cavein of the Norrie tron mine near here today, in which fifteen miners were entombed ‘Was folly dressed. They Two were reseed at noon, the rest give the'r nam: perishing in the poisonous gases “ which filled the mine. The cavein blocked the mine of the exception which amor AT LEFT, A SEASHORE SNAP- SHOT OF MAS. MADELINE FORCE ASTOR; ON RIGHT, MRS. AVA ASTOR AND HER DAUGHTER. beLow, VINCENT the state.” ASTOR, WH! T. K. Kase, president of st. MOST OF THE GIANT FOR (Folleite leaeue. Genator La, Fob TUNE, lette will get 30,000 plurality. He will carry the » r of Col. Astor may result in king of the will by the child never saw—by his posthu- heir, who will be born in July, whom he cut off with a ty 000, giving, after the jeicamet| They quote the famous Chari his $100,-| Stachelberg will ca Stacheiberg Goa oat Pager Sad rok | made no provision for a posthumous York is discussing. ae Sette kekahekeaehak * £ tall, well-developed figure, a charm that society people say is magnetic and a commanding presence. The dead millionaire’s first wife * SAN FRANCISCO, May 14. & Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, is consid ry ibility all New heir. A child was born to Mrs. in the poss! y @ —-With the doubie distinction ®- Fifth av, is Stachelberg eight months after her MUST SERVE shaft with debris it is believed the lower workings of the mine are burning. Work on all neighboring proper the pink mite of humanity,) * coming may chuse such a war in the courts and society as) stuply holding its breath, waiting |» band’s death, The court broke the will to give this child an equal share with the oldest. The Astor case revolves about ered, on the other hand, as band! capped by being in the middie for- ties, She bas always been known as a haughty, austere figure, who intimate friends, of being the first general elec. & tion in California at which & women were entitled to the & ballot, and the first in which & possesses a few ON, Wis., May 14. F. Dietz, the “defender on dam,” was today | LEONARD OLSSON @ retrial of his case by | Leonard Olsson, the Tacoma so-{Scandinavian race, He is a hard Mate supreme court. leialiet who was disfranchised by | worker, but has not enough money 3 was convicted of kill lorder of Hanford on the federal) prosecute his case in the higher : | Of Kill-| vonch, has lived in the United|courts. However, ft ia Hkely that 90 deputy sheriffs and . States about seven years. Physical [the socialist party will appeal the @entenced to life imprison-| ly he is a fine type of the sturdy |case on behalf of Olsson ties was suspended and rescue par tiés formed. Th for bodies citizens of California have had & the opportunity of expressing & their preference for a candi- & date for president by the di- & rect vote, the state primary © election drew out a heavy poll & today. * In San Francisco it was esti. & mated that 106,000 voters # would cast ballots, and of this © number many thousand were & women. * *® RRR ERA EERE m has never seen before, So- the word “survive.” In his will Col are searching | ctasy loaders acknowledge that com: Astor provided for ail children other petition for drawing room favors be than Vincent and Muriel who “sur- ‘eween Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, the vived™ him, | firat wife, and Madeline Force As-; Astor died April 15. The posthu itor, the girl-widow, is already very | mous child is not yet born lkeen, They say that, in the final Did this expected baby ANGELES, May 14.—The | anglysis, the woman who holds the bim? x body of W. R. Lodge, igupport of Vincent Astor will come) If the answer is: “No such per agent of the Puente Ol! company }to he THE Mrs. Astor. son existed as the baby when Astor at El Monte, was found early today! Wall st, though, is not so sure died,” this point cau be advanced on the Pacific Electric tracks near}ateut Vincent Astor holding the bal-| A: physician can be convicted of that town. Lodge carried consider-| ance of power. If young Mra, Astor manslaughter who performs ah able money when he left Los An-| needs more money than the will of operation that kills an unborn geles early last evening, and when! her busband affords her, big law- child the body was found* his pockets |yers downtown declare that she may Fifth av., while discussing these were empty The potice believe he| be able to obtain it by breaking the | things back and forth, rather favors will precedent means anything, she was murdered and robbed and the| Wil in the name of her child, when |the younger Mrs, Astor. She is|may even hope to secure for him a body placed on the tracks ht is born lyoung and yery beautiful. She has/ division with Vincent. merely swung the big stick of the \TTEST TC SAW EVELYN their power to prepare the tem porary roll of the conve (By United Press Leased Wire) gates; that the state PITTSBURG, May 14.— | could disregard all contests Neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. | Chas. Holman, stepfather and | all Taft delegates; and that since the state committee rented the con mother of Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit today that vention hall, they could refuse ad alleged two- mission to any or all Roosevelt-La e¢ Follette delegates. In a word, the year-old son, “Anthony,” have insurgents were told that the pro been at the Holman home in Taft committee could put 365 Taft Brookline, a suburb of Pitts delegates on the temporary roll and| burg for a week. They de- thus run the convention with tricky clared that they have seen Ev- little movements all their own elyn and the vavy together Line-Up of Delegations several times in Brookline. The uncontested Roosevelt-La Detective Roger O'Mara of Follette delegates are: Adams, 8 Pittsburg, who assisted Thaw Benton, 8; Clallam, 8; Clarke, 16; in his attempts to secure his Columbia, 7; Douglas, 7; Grant, 7; release from the Matteawan Ferry, 6; Garfield, 6; Island, 6; Jef. insane hospital, where he was , committed following his shoot- ferson, 3%; Kittitas, 12; Lincoln, lowing 14; Mason, 1; Okanogan, 5; San ing of Stanford White, still de- | Do you expect the jury to believe that you could drink two glasses nies Thaw’s paternity of the | Juan, 6; Snohomish, 33; Spokane, | of whisky and ten beers and not have your mind affected?” 61; Stevens, 14; Pend d’Oreille } enita, | “Yes, Wahkiakum, 5; Walla Walla, lee Ok eeeRAA RE RRR Do you expect me to believe it?” Whatcom, 14; | Whitman ie . Yes Gewie.) #1 LOVE HIM AND I'LL STAND ® a ores ya Ok re POPC eee eee ee eee ee eh tat, 10; Mason, 5 Jkanogan, 6 "a | cific, 10; Skamania, 5; Skagit, 19 | PHILADELPHIA, May 14.—That Thurston, 13 Whatcom, 1; Whit she will work her way to os n 2 8 Yakima, 23; (Lewis.) geles and be present when Elias Pens” eeatectd tolemnias Douglas Allen goes on trial there fog) a: w |for issuing alleged fraudulent, near Sosy aide checks on the Commercial National Kitsap, 13; Chelan, 12; bank of Los Angeles was the decia-| Secretary Snyder ration here today of Ada Clark; a the subcommittee on pretty California girl who eloped when hg refused to turn over with Allen. the papers in his possession “+ love that man” Miss Clark told King county contests will the police, “and | am going to stand| cued before the committee nemage’ of ait Mt by him.” sll the doors in the aren Grinstead and George é a Walker, progressives, and by tHe ONY tiles, have been open all NEVADA MERCHANT at 6 o'clock this morning, as against /4A% and in some places electr! FATALLY STABBED 55 degrees at the hour George Rummens and W. T. Dovell| have been installed L ° eee son | TONOPAH, Nev., May 14.—Fol terday | rather than a host of loyal acquaint- ances Bank accounts being equal, it is more than likely that Madeline Force Astor would win out in this battle of feminine ambition. But the money that she has been given by the will for her personal use will not permit her to compete with Mre Ava Astor, if the latter is supported by her son—the $75,000,000 heir. Madeline For Astor's only hope, then ems to be an attack on the will for the “benefit of her chifd.” If it is a boy, and the Stachelberg 'OIL AGENT'S BODY BADLY MANGLED survive” Los mangled ene ENTRAL COMMITTEE PLANS BIG STEAL Nor did the standpatters claim that there was a just reason. They NEW BISHOPS © POLIS, May 14 the establishment Episcopal residences at - Cal, and several ja the United Stat the establishment of six Bishopries and the @ Bwhops Warrer the committee or @ the quadrennial fonference of the Bhiteopal church re here totay Fecommendation for » tS Means that thee eseeeeeeeeee eee ee eee PORTLAND, Or. May 14.—With 4 two-cent stamp oh his back, Ed, a snapping turtle arrived here from \ Kansas, being classified as second class matter Ree. | of | Los | and ad and Epivec ener ee co FACTS ABOUT THE ABERDEEN CONVENTION Convention opens Wednes day a. m State central seasion today Total number delegates Necessary to control, 334% Uncontested Roosevelt - ba Follette delegates (278% with out Lewis county.) Uncontested Taft delegates (127% without Lewis county.) Contested delegates (228 without Lewis county.) La Follette-Taft delegates, 5. rd Today’s Funniest Today's prize of $5 for the funniest local story goes to Ed- ward Judd, 620 New York building, whose contribution to the gayety For more laughs turn to | page 3. committee in HOS of nations is a ended. Thaw, declared appended Evelyn and her Loon THE FOOL WAS NOT FAR AWAY it was in the superior court, when the Hon. Arthur E. Griffin was: presiding in that tribunal. The witness on the stand was a salesman for the Hemrich brewery His testimony was very damaging to one | of the parties to the suit, and the attorney on that side of the case was endeavoring to make the witness admit that in the course of his busi- |ness he had drank so much that day that his mind was muddled and he could not distinctly remember what had occurred Both lawyer and witness were very angry, the former standing within a few feet of the latter, and shaking his finger in his face. And tXen oceurred the fol- uM San is today suffering fror led wound, after having Wd Killed his wife and eh in Pleasant valley ¢ from his wite was the « tragedy. > THE Straw \ CMAmues » * * o * * * * a * © * * * * * * * eeeeeeeeeee eee ete (Special to The Star) ABERDEEN, Wash. May 14.— | Bodily force may be more of a fa |tor than voting strength when the || republican state convention meets here tomorrow. This will be def. nitely determined by the action of | the state central committee today. With less than 24 hours before the scheduled opening of the conven tion, both the Roosevelt-La Follette forces at the Fairmont hotel and the Taft contingent at the Washington hotel are strained to the highest pitch, and it is generally asserted that two conventions undoubtedly will be held. The progressives had heen given notice several days ago that In spite { their undisputed majority, at least so far as uncontested dele gates are concerned, they would be but out by the state central com ittee from any participation in the organization of the con Through the interce M. 4. Hay, who ts anxious to a party split, which would inevitable defeat for re tion, overtures have been ma¢ the Insurgents of a division of the 4 delegates to the national conven tion equally with the standpatters, } Swung Big Stick Former Mayor Dilling of Seattle, Chairman Thos. F. Murphine of th: Wash, Ma ‘ Be going to heaven or hs Now, th ch Good-bye b last message left re Peitiu. who is dead t Weault of gas poison Seen 16 ing yn't you pretty near about four feet.” EDWARD JUDD, 620-21 New York Block, a natural born fool?” uncontested delegates alis, 20; Cowlitz, 11; | Jefferson, 3%; Klicki- hie are teom, 15; Asotin, 6. clashed with credentials all The ar by “NOW, AN D THEN’ With the thermometer reaching, mark 87 degrees at 12 o'clock, making it ve ry 7 degrees higher than the average) bis temperature this city, Seattle! have inetr today is enduring the second day keep open of early hot weather, Yesterday | M* te bs noon the temperature was 75. the city | ‘The day started with 71 degrees city | mpaig bulldix office in the u on door ¢ mm. All hotels and of veted their emporary heir employes t big of ention sion be wee avold hall nean If you have a phone in your home or place of business, use it when you have occasion to send a want ad to The Star. The bill will be sent later, the charge being the regular price rate. If you have no phone step into the nearest drug store and the druggist will phone your ad The Star leases extra telephone wires and employs a corps of skilled operators simply to make the sending of your wants a mat- ter of € and the saving of time. Main 9400 always gets The Star, OVER 40,000 PAID COPIES DAILY. same yes for the handpickers ORTLAND, Or., May 14.—Wohen, 4 Hlowing a quarrel over money mat-| a husband, James J. Laine, wham ather Prophet Salisbury said Ralph R. Upton, educator and au ters, John vich, a prominent she hag arrested for beating her, |todey that there will probably be 9} thor, in an address before the Cen-| pioneer merchant here, was proba ‘dased her as he was going to the| change to more moderate weather) tral school pointed out the dangers) bly fatally stabbed today by | no Mrs. Laine relented and | before tomorrow lof the streets and showed the stu-| Anrija Mirkovich. Crowds on the, oe, png repressing “he pre Seite’ so loudly the court quiet-| It is cooley at Portland, the Rosé | demts how to avoid them. ‘This talk | street threatened to lynch the pris them gressives Tould see no” equitable!od her by suspending Laine’s sen-|City inhabitants up to date having |is the first In @ series which he will oner, who is in the cnunty jail under | | reason for such a comprom tence. felt the heat only up to the 72| give im the schools here, ‘a heavy guard, | b tacher, don't fee thes boys stupid ~ 84 Mt also makes