The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 25, 1912, Page 1

vol ed, with Buffalo ad says: “Want- chauffeur, married man experience.” Imagine married man without ex- gaeanee ae be interested in “The Music Duel,” a theilli of the old vets at the “Home,” will follow eens ttn The ILEGED BRIBERY ORY IS TOLD IN . Alternate Juror ‘Seamed and Sensational Trial of Darrow Begins in Earnest—Fight Starts Early on Testimony. chief pre M, Blakesiey. © donate juror Fredericks. % eee ee eee eae eA RAE aeaatateeeee * we SD and haa been fined for thi ae te bheos of jurors and is convincing Darrow sa) jurors »! T can prove « (By United Press Leased Wire.) N. Lockwood, a venireman in the ANGELES, May 25 gate, with whose witness at the ve on bribery charg’ H, Franklin, who was in the employ of the McNamara de. him with an offer of bribery, of which Franklin con- told the same preliminary told me,” said and had the han: #1) would qualify a» & juror in the McNamara case and of not guilty e furor who was to strike « ‘on the ground shown. jon content & conspiracy ‘matters finally ca examina errr ee ee ee el man witnes am innocent of bribing either of ely Geo ttemp| begin He a a es. 8 by a the wit Hu rat the that has been accepted as the 13th acuses Darrow of wholesale and asserts that the case ed money from Detective Bert ence in every particular, eettteeeeneee ted bribery Darrow is charged, w: ning of the trial of Clarence Da: related the circumstances of De- offen: ¢ related from the witness stand of Franklin ness, “that the y fand he Was working for He at first of id me that time (hat there was conversation between Lockwood was hear , in that no conspiracy conversation was in further and that they woald be able to re was considerable argument, back and deadlock on this point. Judge, 1 that both aides sobmit authorities in support of their , saying that he wor Court was then ad nid read journed be made to lynch the yesterday of town, taking sale keeping Believ ‘bad subsided, the pris pee a Le them and rile on the matter antil 1:30 o'clock Monday after- oner was returned here early day A mob of about 2,000 persons at onee @athered at the jail and the prisow authorities conipelied to surrender the negro. He was taken to the outskirts of town and tied to a stake, the mob piling wagon loads of ofl-saturated wood about him. Wevis was brave until the flames began to lick his body, when he begged loudly for mercy Another negro, who had to a similar offente, wag burned at the same spot a year ago. a! DRTUNE TELLER $391 FOR GOOD NOW SUES FOR MONEY BACK i K. Rrown for 1) | around the left ankle, she says, and|Cuban revolution, should such ac everything = ‘® fortune tell aalist and palm this privilege she in. return Mary was B ber “lucky.” Lav that going é Thesday “a e scissors ‘fewing a pebble of one's glove, other ra has to be night, “in hair bor- | friends.” go- | into each of them. i fish around | under in the and a xperiments of Bot brought any par-| T. | buried “holy water” in a strawberry patch She also alleges that she passed through the “chicken and the pigeon worlds.” This, she says worked out in such a manner that she bought the fowl and the fortune | teller ate them. All she derived out of the “chickens and pigeons” was the pleasure of sticking nine pine | “SELF-DEFENSE” Seif-defense will be pleaded by L. Richards, the Snoqualmie iy shower of good for-|farmer who shot and killed Henry Sef which she relates to th Mt court in a complaint fled In other words Money back. Is one of the Be filed in some time the fund, the process of mak began by “scratch Toumbling » told to repent + ” she alleges gin tan tat di Wore a sma! Laura She ng b a “pow n terre 1 chain ‘a Fund to e Them «= a Whose firm wi mmer M Ewing st. and Wa the « 4 fund to encour og to locate nny, birds they hav: ae always te you They will cont mustn't have They're ing on Diliman, his neighbor, after a dis {pute arising from the breaking of a calfs leg. Richards claimed that Diliman came at him with a hatchet. The coroner will make an utopsy today. According to Deputy Sheriff Stringer, one of the shots entered Dillman’s back. Richards has been instructed by his attorney, C. Reynolds, not to discuss the case. ‘JURY CONVICTS JAMES WILSON James Wilson, or Demetrius Econ as he gave his real name, was found guilty, yesterday afternoon, of the charges preferred against him by léyear-old Loulse Jordan. The jury.stayed out only 40 minutes: VOL. 14. NO. 73. iting ¢ ¢ Music Duel.” SEATTLE, WOMEN KICK OUT POLITICAL BOSS en! MRS. LUELLA B. JOHNSTON {Special to The Star) SACRAMENTO, Cal, May 26 The women of this city have taught the men a lesson in practical polt ties, By organizing a machine of their own, they routed the profes sional politictans, defeated all five candidates put up by the Southera Pacific machine under the astute leadership of Tom Fox, and swept into office the five commissioners of their own choosing These commissioners will put into operation Sacramento's new commiasion for of government on July 1 Among them is Mrs. Luella B. Johnston, bead of the women's ma. chine, and the only woman candi-| date for commissioner who was successful at the primaries in get the final Ucket LAST DAY FOR wartime story as related to Fred L. Boalt b S ° att ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE WASH., SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1912... ONE CENT ‘MAYOR'S VETQ|WORLD’S BIGGEST BABY | WEIGHS 130 POUNDS US TAINED BY COURT . Judge Dykeman Sustains Position Taken by Cot- terill in Seward Bar Case) -—Too Many Saloons in| Block. * “The charter means what it says —that not more than two saloons in one block shall be entered from the street upon which such block fronted.” In these words Judge Dykeman this morning sustained the position taken by Mayor Cotteril!i with re gard to the Seward hotel! bar, and denied the application of Arnold Zbinden and Jules Zbinden for an order campeliing the mayor to sign the license : The Seward hotel and the Afas kan bar licenses were passed by 4] counct! at the same time,* A’ thire saloon on the block om Third av.{ between James and Jeffersen. # is the Drexel cafe, The mayer ve, toed both licenses and sent) a mee sage to the council, pointing eyt that the city charter allowed only two saloons on the black, ang gak- ing that the counell ne which of the two licenses shold eprmitted to rem: Disregarding the charter provisien, the counell passed both Heenses over the may- or’s veto, and the mattér then Went to the court Dykeman’s Opinion, mune! for the applicant Judge Dykenran, In bie opinion, TERMINAL CO. PRESENT PLAN: Monday will be the last day for| the Pacific Terminal Co. to present} & proposition t6 the port commis-| sion with regard to the Harbor Ih and project. This date was spect-| fied by the comminaion in ite letter answerkig the nine interrogatories | propounded by the Ayres represen-| tatives here. At that time the Ayres company delivered a sort of uitimatum on two particulars, one of which was intended to compel the port commissioners to accede to deferred payments on rental for seven years, This the commission flatly turned down, Notwithstand- ing that ultfotatury was defied by {Co's works at Bayonne the commirxian on that point, the Ayres representatives, ts under stood, are ready to present another scheme on Monday, WARSHIPSTO STOP REBELLION (My United Preas Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, May 25.—A for- midable array of battleships, with Rear Admiral Osterhaus in com. mand, was this afternoon ordered to mobilize at Key West ready to take a hand in suppressing the The ton be deemed necessary. jfleet includes the third and fourth © divisions of the Atlantic fleet, in- cluding the battleships, Georgia, Nebraska, New Jersey, Rhode Mississippi, Missouri, Min- BIG BALLOON IS DESTROYED Uatted Pres tensed Wies) LEIPSIG, Ger, Muay 25 ‘orn lfrom her anchor by a sudden squall, the dirigible balloon Pa seval VI was destroyed here today, and one of the soldiers on guard near the balloon was injured by the flying tackle. The Parseval dir igibles rival those of the ill-fated Zeppelin type in districts which hye overtaken them. FIRE DESTROYS BUTTE THEATRE BUTTE, Mont. May 25. |Hmpress theatre, of the Sullivan |} Considine cirenit, was destroyed by fire here today, The loss is es timated at $50,000, covered by in- | surance While the cause of the fire has not been definitely ascertained, {t lis believed to have resulted from crossed electric wires. BY FRED L. BOALT “Worried?” wailed Jolly Amelia. “Wouldn't you be worried if you) was gettin’ pecked and plumb fra gile? “Of course I'm worried.” Jolly Ametia got weighed yester- day. She is the fat lady with the |101 Ranch Wild West Show. She had a hunch she was losing weight. She wanted to know the worst. She hung up the 600-pound weight and the 100-pound weight, and set the sliding thingamajig at 50, And the beam didn’t budge! | Whaddi tell yuh?” she eried in \triumphent despair, ‘Didn't I tell yuh | was gettin’ plumb fragile?” | With a hand that trembled, she moved the sliding thingamajig back —back—back—and finally the beam wavered and rose. And then Jolly Amedia knew she weighed exactly 637! “What a life!” ‘LAs’'en while I tell yuh. I was born in Los Angeles. No bigger'n most bables—good and plump, but nothin’ remarkable, But I growed fast, she moaned “When | was school age | was twict the size of most. The kids \gimme the laugh. Had to have a special seat made to fit me. Other girle had beaux. N ofeller wanted |to keep company with ty Ameli: | 1 have an affection: and romantic | disposition—but what's the use? “LT was ambitious, too, If | couldn't find a giant for a husband, | some fella so big that I'd be to him {like an airy, fairy Lillian, 1 wanted to take up some kind of useful work, So I thunk, and thunk, .and lthunk, but I couldn't think of any one thing I was fitted for more'n another, And I kept gettin’ bigger | and bigger. bimbeby become recon- ys to my? ‘Amelia, you're a success ba fat lady, if nothin’ else.’ All right. tw was goin’ to be the fattest lady on the mortal earth. So | fed up. “And | got some fat, believe me! “Then | hitched up with this here Wild West outfit, and my troub! began. We was showin’ down in | California, in some squidge tank ltown that | forgit the name of, when | President Taft today addressed 18.- ‘ | 000 employees of the Standard Ot) \eeweral large crowds. }noop be spoke at Harrison and New- | Seeink nothing but victory shead “The | goin’ to be a fat lady, |) que with much ingenuity that the gnicon in questtbn does not front on Thidr ay, But there is no merit in this..contention. The matter, stripped of its fefinements, pre sents ong, vital question, namely did the framers of the charter in- tend to limit the number to two in any one block TAFT AND TEDDY SCRAMBLE FOR N. J. VOTES JERSEY CITY, N . May 2 how they handle the iy Bahadied raptakatadaigtenena 4 Ea route to Kearney, the president spoke to This after- *® THREE-YEAR.OLD JIMMY IN @ POUNDS AND INCHES. * Weight, 120 pounds Helght, 40 inches, Around head, 25 inches. Neck, 15 inches Bust. 34 inches. Wailat, 37 inches. Around art above elbow, ® 13. inches, & Wrist, 9 inches ark, ASHURY PARK, N. J, May 26~ for bis candidacy for (he presiden tial nomi: the recept New Jersey points, Col. Roosevelt arrived here early today with the announcement that he ex- pected to swéep the state In the primary election next Tuesday. The former president Is to deliver five speeches in this vicinity today and will speak at sabeth tonight. He [will spend Sunday at Oyster Bay, turning to New Jersey Monday thomb, first band, @% inches Around thigh, 26 inches. bave knee, 17 Inches. low knee, 14 foches. Ankte, 10 inches found foot, 8% inches Langth of foot, 7 inches, Acroes shoulders, 16 Inches a finger, near Seeeteeeeee eee eee eeee | REFUSE RECEIVER? | lee | Judge King Dykeman refused to clk. .. SAVANNAH, Ga., May @5.—Soon [appoint a receiver for the Kleven Kighty Orchard Tract Co. after Bimimy Adolph Cody of ne and hearing John G. Pierce's reasons for t Ye! Iry, was born, his parents requesting one. Pierce has a note/= on. Ware. pulling sth Woorld @ strapping big baby he was.) of J. R. Jacoby, sole stockholder in Before be was able to say dada,| the company, which, he says, is un- Jimmy had the big baby record of | eee eee paid, and asks {gr judgment on it | His complaint charges that Jacoby has debts between $60,000 and $70. | 000, and that bis aseets are mingled with the property of the corporation. “CAN SLEEP NOW Guests at the Seattle and Seward hotels and the Arctic club will now [be able to sleep in peace, as Judge Dykeman yesterday teed a tempo- rary order on the Raymond Con- crete Pile Co. which ts doing the work in the basement of the L. C, {Smith building, restraining them running the donkey engine and pile driver between the hours of 10 p, m. and 7 a. m. fhtend to give substantial proof of This morning a subscription ttle Comme terer, 171 turned over to the Tutt, 8. H. Stor ception, the proceeds date has not been determined. All the colored people I. hay “approve The Star's suggestion of ing business.” The Elks have subscribed husky proportions. The question of giving Johns to the attention of the city coune | MODERATOR MATTHEWS BACK NEXT WEEK Dr. M. A. Matthews, who was elected moderator of the Presbyte- rian church of the United States at the recent convention in Louisville, Ky., will arrive home next Friday by Potlatchers, Potlatch bugs will rule in Aber deen tonight, when an army of Till kum of Elttaes will take possession of the city, and it is expected that nearly every resident of the logging metropolis will be bitten and imme diately develop acute cases of Pot latchitis, A scouting party, compos ed of Hiyu Tilikums left for Aber deen, who report the town is willing and ready to be taken, Ev. ery buflding is decorated with the American flag and the Potlatch bug, and the storekeepers have dec i a half-holiday for the occasion, Aft er the initiation Into the “Bug” mys teries at the Grand theatre, there will be high jinks at the Moose hall The play, “The Golden Potlatch,’ will be given. came in and seen me sit jth ponderin’. And, ‘Am he says, ‘a jolly fat lady is the most! | gladsome critter in the world, but a! sad fat lady is worse'n a funeral, besides bein’ no credit to a sid \show. Me and you,’ he i | goin’ to fix up a new contrac’, with la clause in it stipulatin’ that you gotta crack a smile durin’ business hours.’ “Up to then | was just ‘Amelia,’ but when the new contrac’ was \fixed up | became ‘Jolly Amelia’! and | had my picture took with a grin yuh could see a mile. Well, I take it youh never trav. eled with a cireus, Bumpin’ ‘round in tarins, Up at daybreak Jatin’ and sleepin’ all hours. A-settin’ jhere grinning! Strikin’ tents at |midnight and hikin’ to the next town. How yuh goin’ to keep good and fat travelin’ with a circus? “l'm gettin’ plumb fragile, | tell yuh, I'm wastin’ away. | ain't what yuh might call slim—not yet —but I'm buxom. And a buxom lady ain't fat, is she? Do yuh won- der that I'm worried? Could you grin if you was a buxom fat lady?" |the bo brass ca Resembling a larg | which tells the exact time of ing. Communication will be the correct time. ° dames A Cody, dressed in his prettiest smile, and the a COLORED PEOPLE START A FUND FOR NEWTON JOHNS The colored people of Seattle are proud of Newton John Yarber shop, on Main st., and patrons avked to give what they can afford Aberdeen Invaded ‘11 Year Old Boy UNIVERSITY TELLS TIME BY STARS. “y of the stars, now graces the University observatory build- vessels on the sound and coast to keep them informed of The transit is in charge of Prof. James Gould of the astronomy department, a y an old war veteran at the Orting Soldiers’ Honie. It will be printed Monday. Other stories by Mr. Boalt, telling le St The man who loved a fair- haired girl Is planning suicide; For when his heart HOME EDITION ON THAINS AND uw » captured quite. She up and dyed. ‘WIFE RUNS AWAY WITH 5 CHILDREN A mother and five small children were arrested at the ing st. station yesterday afternoon because they deserted their husband and father | In Victoria, B.C. The city jail au- | thorities find the problem of what to do with the prisoners embarr |ing. For the mother, Mrs. Be |McCieave, is a woman of evident | Fefinement, and the children, rang. jing in age from 1 to 11 years, are |s0 well behaved, and show evi- | dences of such gentie breeding, that jit goes against the grain of their jailers to keep them behind bars. For 12 years 1 stuck to Jim, said Mrv. McCleave, today, “I love him as dearly now on our wed ding day, but for the sake of, the children 1 had to leave bim “Jim runs the riding academy in Victoria. He's been aronnd horses and horsey men all his life. Rich folks go to him to be taught to ride “Before little Jim, here—he's the oldest—was born, my husband was cruel to me. But I said to myself ‘When the baby cores, Jim will change.’ Jim didn't change, though |] kept on hoping. He took to drink | ing “Lied for Jim.” “Many’s the time I've lied for Jim. People would come to take lessons, and | would kay Jim wasn’t home, When all the time he wasn't fit to give a lesson. And I lied to jmy neighbors about Jim. I told them he was a good husband. I never told about the blows and curses, “He was bringing up little Jim to be a horseman ittle Jim won @ lot of prizes, and one of them for the high jump. He hold record for the high jump on the Pa cific coast Bat a little while he was going to mak to a jockey co Jim said little Jim fn There's a rich man t's idea of world’s biggest baby. the world. Jimmy's three now, And he keeps right on getting fat and sassy. Now he weighs 430 pounds WITHOUT CLOTHES and JUST BEFORE MEALTIME. He weighs more than) his mother or his older brother, and| rapidly catching up with his! father, He has the appetite of a cotton-| field negro. and the digestion to » care of all the food b 8. | } of the usual baby diet for him. | Jimmy A. likes anything that’s good| ** * * kk waRAR AAR RR H fo eaj, but HE LIKES PIE BEST. | * * For breakfast he gets four large|* _ Petitions for the pardon of biseulta with bacon gravy, biseuits | * Mrs ladys Johnson can be and butter and ayrup, two glasses |* ® d at any of the following of buttermilk or two cups of coffee,| * Places down town He holds that, and it holds him for|® | The Bartell drog stores, 610 a little while. % Second av., between Pike and then he gets ont the) ‘ outside of more biscuits, butter and|* Union sts, Westlake and syrup. | Pine, First av. and Pike. * The Quaker drug stores, At noon he gets rid of a lar 4 plate of greens or any kind of vege-|* Third av. and Madison st., 404 Pike st., 113 First ay. table, with boiled bacon, corn bread, | * biscuit, two. glasses of buttermilk|* The Ow! drug store, Third and « whole pie, In the afternoon| * 4¥- and Pike st he makes a raid or two on the pantry and then has a supper in keeping with bis other meals. And after that he doesn’t have te eat any more until the next morn ing. eeeeeeeeeee * heftalieliciiciielicteliel Tek eeaee Hundreds of people are anxious to sign the ms of Mrs. Gladys Johnson, who ¥ sentenced to two -" | years in the penitentiary for telling aa aise 2/4 le, which injured no one, but | was intended to keep the secret of }a marred past. Men and womer | both have become interested In her case, and petitions have been placed today in seven drog stores in the downtown section of the Sev jeral other itions are being cir | eulated by prominent men and wom en from door to door. A Unique Case. of Gladys Johnson fs of its kind that has They their appreciation of his heroism for Johns was opened at Tutt's of that establishment are The money collected will be e reial lub. only 4 Broadway, on and others have “ formed themselves into a committee to arrange for a ball and re of which will go to swell the Johns fund The e talked with,” said Stone today, setting Johns up in the shoe-shin to the fund, whith is assuming ‘ | a site for a stand will be brought | il Monday vse | today at 3 o'clock. ‘no more names will be considered cial Star aviation» girl will chosen picking out the lucky number from Shoots Himself MISSOULA, Mont. May Rather than be a witness 4 his father, who is unde¥ indi for burglary, Arthur years old, shot and. kil here today. He was expecting a|with Mr. Phillip Parmalee. deputy sheriff with a subpena himself, His brother said he hada|*and.'n readiness to jump into the : “ |machine, should the first girl give to snap the revolver twice before . fl it exploded, up her desire to fly. Two More Girls Enter a This morning Miss Bmeline Ear ly declared that her experience in the air ought to entitle her to a }echance to soar with Parmalee at the Meadows next week, She told The Star aviation editor that she |had enjoyed a touch of aerial nav ae aR RR et ee HH ivation once, and the thrills she ex == sees perienced on the way toward the moon made her feel as if she was | destined to be a future birdwéman, carried up a thousand feet Jin a balloon in Minneapolis,” she said, “and I wasn’t half as seared as I've been in some automobiles I've ridden, Honestly, going in the air is as easy a log.” Patty Swartz, the pretty cashier of the Circuit theatre. be real angry if she. doesn't TeacL ent | applicants will be shuffied is to be himself given the first opportunity to ride Five KKK REKRR KKH WEATHER FORECAST Showers this afternoon, to- night and Sunday; moderate southerly winds. . Tempera- ture at noon, 67 ¥ * * * * * +eeeeeaet nnog, an astronomical transit, day on earth by observation established by wireless with will cop 8°! other young ladies will be named | Twould have BIG FIGHT STARTS FOR “THE WOMAN WHO TOLD A LIE” The Star Aviation contest closes the coveted After this hour | Aeroplane Monday by lot, The girl She | up | as falling off little | FOR BOY'S SAKE Woman, Held tere ‘feb island Desertion, Tells Dramatic Story of Life With Victoria Horseman— Couldn’t Stand It to Have “Little Jim” a Jockey. well known Columbia in politics in British who has a fine horse in Jim's bie. He said lithe Jim would h to ride that horse This is Racing Day.” The raci ne in Victoria to This is th eday that little Jim ridden his first race it we had stayed. When Jim said he was going to make a jockey of little Jim, I thought of ail the jockeys and touts and race-track followers generally that 1 had known as friends of Jim. And I made up my mind that I'd save little Jim from golng the that most jockeys go. But 1 put it up to little Jit day wa first So They Left. “‘Littie Jim,’ 1 id—for that’s what i've always called him—Lite tle Jim, do you want to be a jock- ey?” And he said ‘No.’ “So, while Jim was asitep—he had been drinking the night before packed what few clothes we would need and we caught the boat for Seattle. ” We nded going to Fremont, where Jim and I used to live 1 where I have many friends. But the policeman arrested us just after we had boarded the train.” Youth Helps Family. the McCleaves was a 1% boy, Jack Malcolmn, who also arrested, on an open With year-old was chargé Jack has always been a good friend out ourse,” said Mrs. Me- Cleave, “and he helped us to get away. H ewas afraid to stay in Victoria, so I told him, if he wanted to go to Fremont with us, | was sure he could get a job. He's a good boy and he’s afraid of Jim.” Chief of Police Bannick has asked the Victoria police for further im formation regarding the case, “T don't want to go back to View toria,” sald Mrs. MeCleave. = ever come up in this state. In fact, only two states in the country, incloding Washington, make her ac- tion a “erime.” She was convicted of second degree perjury. She told &@ lie in court. The lie had nothing to do with the case that was then on trial, If it had materially af- fected ‘that particular case, she would bave been guilty of first de gree perjury. But the Washington law, passed in 1909, makes any He, however immaterial, a “crime.” dys Johnson was injured by a defective sidewalk. She sued the city and recovered $2,500 damages. During that trial, she was asked if she had ever .been previously married. She replied in the nega- tive. The city later discovered that she had been married, and that she had a “past.” The law of second e perjury was then invoked, a she was sentenced to two to five years in the penitentiary, Her husband, Henry Johnson, with whom she has liven in Seattle for nine years, knew of her “past” and also swore to the harmless lie. He escaped with nine months in the county jail. He offered to serve out his wife’s term for her but of course the law would not permit that. Mrs. Johnson has been in the county jail now for nine months Birdwoman for Star Flight Will Be Selected Monda job of flying in that She told the aviation morning that she re- experience in aerial this her editor ceived lby the aviation editor. The offl-|travel by riding in a motorcycle be | with her brother. The young man, declared, had acquired the knack of riding over chuck holes and dogs so skillfully that she ain? | w box in which the names of all the /often imagined she was riding an aeroplane instead of a motorcycle, his now es a total of 35 girls to enter the contest Bob Lagge—How many men work in your office? Little Dick—About half of them, ©