The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 27, 1912, Page 1

Music Duel Happened in Caroliny, “Didn’t” Says Crutches _ gOLDIER a) F aaimetvanotner ie git went’ to the way BY FRED OME, ORTING, stumped poren. ed fool A “Fain’t v0 T ia Viekeburg, eben any & North Caroliny enappe! dig I tell ve IT with the a Ballaine in this state working med for nomination of Je for congres page wp the gravel path which leada from the drive to the fools were born 70 or 80 years ago, Story on L. BOALT Wash, May 27.—An old man with! Wasn't ft our band that anawer “I caloulate,” mused the that there ‘Music Duel different ways. If you was there, heard it all kinds of ways Newbern, orth Caroliny, “Yeantr wary 2, 1864 pport if you can't take my Go on, sonny; tell us how tt We were in Pickett's infantry, Second Masaachisetts five battertes of Third New Y ing Newbern Totten, ed veteran !" he sald. “They say a fool's gorn leg his one say ‘The Music Duel’ took °'!® hoolboy could tell ye it happened rutehes one ett of "em cae heavy Didn't artillery? hear And ohn VOL, 14, NO. 74, SEATTL the happened in more division heavy with a chain’ of forts, and the largest We had a high parapet th Hey? with sarcasm places, ‘n it happened Reb's band? nh on crutches na dow lets hear how and on top of ‘em was “Well, air, the Rebs bet; and then they withdrew m & mile or more away “That night the sky turned tu Rebs had bulit, And their bang be: it wae a challenge; that's what it & breast wor that o twenty lve y t that's where it Look it happened,” shouted up in the adjutant gen boys together, and they clum to the top of the parapet, and they give ‘em ‘Star Spangled Banner’ good ar The Reba they listened until aive ue ‘Dixte’ And we come bi And they give us another Reb tu Netween times they give the Kebe choers 1ith Maine, 17th’ Massachusetts artillery, 198th New York and ork light artillery. We were hold of ‘om was FB ere, made of pine trees set on end. E, WASH., MONDAY, MAY 27, 1912, ka for and to a circle sharpshooters we had it hot and of Umber, Might “By and by, when the light was beginning to die out in the skyy our band started ‘Home, Sweet Home.’ And doggone if the Rebst band didn’t join in, and the two bands played it together “| pretty near cried, | was that homesick. And | bet a few of them Rebs was bellerin’, too. ‘Cause that wad what we was all fighting for—home; only they didn’t see it the same way we did. Good fele fers, the Rebs was, and good fighters Atte a good while the light died out of dled And by morning the Reb “That's how it happened—and where. “Didn't,” said the veteran on crutches (“The Finest Sentiment Ever Uttered in War Time” will be the subject of Mr. Boalt’s story tom orrow, obtained as a result of hie | visit at the Goldiers’ Home at Orting, You'll iike it.) Port Work Gen. Chittenden tells what has been done in eight months. See page 8. us, heavy, | have rid and red from the big fire the gun playing ‘The Bonny Blue Flag.’ w. And our band master got his the and the cheere Newbern, North Caroliny.® ky, nd hard they ack at ne, Pines 1 yell, and too wi ing was through with concert we they elve. heard with and then something I ever answered ‘em them t ON THAINS AND NEWS STANDS Ge HOME EDITION YBODY’S MAGAZINE SCORES HANFORD IRDERER’S W GENEVIEVE BU CHOSEN ST IFE STANDS BY Killed San Diego Inventor and Wife Will on Unwritten in Jail. peeeeeeere he alleged. €. tI his home, Rert Walted at the yotil Toliver and ferrived In their a fire on th , fatally wounde almost ny was former fers secretary. He bad to get damages on the ground of bis wife's affec y 57 Besse ee eee Press Leased Wis) 0, May 27.—Keen and by what he said goed sleep in nearly Bert G. Lewis, the man who, Saturday te death C. H. Tolliver. ‘man and inventor, and teday said he could He was apparently lef that he was in in shooting Tol- to death, and his theory sail bis sald Lewls to a re “My lawyer hos told m gaything. It's done am willing to take eae JUDGING BATTLE STORIES Adjptant General A. W to act, with The Star, as the veteran of the Civ Pwill win for his post ed Memorial Day. G@elock this afternoon - of the manuscripts narratives deserves th: Thursday, Memorial we DYED ON PARK WORK it ort by b This will make P00 Interiaken bo: toll at Woodlan mpetion of that park, ma ied Wad in Magnolia park Weround and more r; at. Lineoin i & field house and ré at South Pp, ements ached the park the park concrete rd, a nd d the dredging of G ihe filling in of the Bthe old chore line and + be called for Onis @& a Wes | yt q ie; is snow 90 shiver to | is warmth * you happ the tele between war Meeable outdoor Your wants to The all Main 9400 anc feet dry, your tem and get what Nn you want it 000 PAID copiEs| DAILY, Law—Slayer’s Wife Visits the consequences, That sleep last night has made a new man out of me. For montha | could not sleep, for thinking of this thing. But now an reat In peace. It was evident that the murder Totivers had been planued for months, bet that bewls' affec- tion for his wife was as strong as ever | Pathetic Scene At the police station today, with rs running down his cheeks, he id the little woman in a crush embrace and almost smothered her with kinuge With her great brown eyes swimming in tears, Mrs. Lewis beld her husband's face | clone to her own, smoothed down / ruffled halr and returned bis| kisses. | God ts with us,” sobbed Lowls. Yes, God ta with ua.” repeated his wife, with a sob, “He will be with us to the end. And 1 will ab ways be with you.” Then the jailer, who was almost weeping, too, signaled that the time was up, and the two were parted, throwing kisses at each oth- er until the prison door hid them from each other. While the inquest was being ar- ronged, Lewla was taken before the detectives at the morning roundup. He looked at them all without a sign of flinching or nervousness, As they led him back to his cell, Lewis said ) “Poliver and his wife once Hked | me so well that they wanted to adopt me as thelr son. They also wanted to adopt my wife.” And he shook his head as if the thought pained him. SD his Hastie and Mayor Cotterill judges in the flag contest i] War writing the best wartime a handsome flag and staff, to be } | Miss Genevieve Buckner he jndges begin the task of read this morning elected official pas- and deciding which of the many e prize. The winning story will Day AGED WOMAN - KNOCKED DOWN BY AUTOMOBILE E. E. White of 706 S. J st, Ta coma, in his auto, knocked down | Marguerite Mrs. Augusta Simmons of N. 76th st./al! of whom will have th and G mwood av., as she was on ity to fly tn the order na her way to church Mrs. Simmons should Miss Buckner change who is 70 years old, had stepped off | mind a Green Lake car at Westlake and| “Great,” said Miss Buckner this Pine, and when White attempted | morning when informed of her to stop his car to avoid her it skid-| good fortune. I'm just so delight “ded and strack her. He took her toled I don’t know just what to say the Seattle General, where, it was|she added. “And you bet your life announced today, that she was not|I won't get cold fe either, wher in a serious condition. |the time comes for me to be ready ORTH SENTTO REFORMATORY Richard Orth, the young man! who was arrested for the hold-up | in a taxicab of William Dammon, | was this morning sentenced by | Judge Gilliam to from one to fif teen years at the state reformatory at Monroe. Orth pleaded guilty to lthe charge at the advice of his ‘mother. Orth is a former employ of the Seattle Electric company, having run on a Yesler way car for few months DARROW CASE LOS ANGELES, May 27.—-Judge Hutton reached his decision today | on the admissibility as evidence, in} the trial of @larence Darrow, of} matters pertaining to the alleged bribery of Juror Robt. F. Bain in the McNamara trial | Darrow is being tried on & Spe) ii. bears are on the rampage peony ‘die o ge keg iy tvelin West Seattle. They have been same case, and-attorneys for the de- | seen and Seearenely Opeaens by © fonse aver tat the Bain affair can-|2umber Of people. One © - » little eub Another not legally be brought into the pres-| bears Ie a cute My pe ing e > ag Sin ent trial Hutton’s ruling. will be|!* ordinary size. The shir a a big as a mule, The fourth is as mypamyenstereis 4 | bi as an elephant. And the big HOUSE ROBBED 1.0! sisi vesisens v4 Last night residents o& West be ae y, ye attle, aided by the police, an tl seh pesears of W. W. Westgate, vvmed with every «variety of 809 First av. N., was entered some Hunted for the bears, but | time daring the absence of the fam-| weapon, wy ‘ect ily, between 1 and & p. m., yester. | did not fin 1 day, and from $500 to $600 worth of| ‘The eltizens do not say there are jewelry taken, The burglar got in|five bears, They insist there is through the window on the front|only one, mds irey'4 are mistaken. porch, A large and expensive co) | There are five bears. lection of silverware was left. ve ©. P, Constantine, 1714 46th rt teen dollars in cash was also taken. Parmalee next at the ‘flight with Phil Thureday afternoon Meadows. The names of 18 candidates were shuffled In a box, and, In the presence of three judges, the name of Miss Buckner was the first one lto be drawn out by Fred Henry the office boy. Mise Myrtle Meyer was the next one chosen, then Miss Patsy Schwartz, Alberta Campbell Miller and Elsie Dodd, opportun ed her — BULLETIN! IN WEST saw the one the size of a mule, W. The Larger Picture Is That of Mise Buckner, the Winner, the Other Giri ts Miss Dodd 14, the Youngest Contestant wasito go up. senger to ride in The Star aviation| FIVE BEARS ON THE RAMPAGE CKNER IS AR’S BIRDGIRL CITY EMPLOYES STRIKE. FOR cPAE Sixty Men on Mt. Baker | Regrade Claim They Are Not Getting $2.75 Per Day. Cidiming that they are not get-| ting the full $2.75 a day guaranteed 1 Hone by the charter provisions lemployes on the Mt, Baker regrade | job this morning went on strike. The contract for this regrade, the work on which I# at present being done at 29th ay. 8. and Holgate st., jhas been let to Andrew Peterson. | | Peterson, it is claimed by the ke} ers, bas been paying only $2.26 a| day, and was taking & a week for board at the camp b matn taining This moraine Peterson posted up a notice saying that the board would cost $6.30 from now on.| When the men saw the bulletin] they immediately threw down their | tools and walked out. Of the 75 em-} ployes ained | jthie morning allege | jthat unless a man * to board! | with the Petereon camp he cannot get @ job, In this way, they claim, | Peterson is able to get around the {$2.76 minimum wae fixed law jon all elty work The strikers propose to take up thet fight before the councl! today 1,500 NAMES TO MRS. JOHNSON’S PETITION ‘The people of Seattle are against punithing 4 woman for desiring to hide @ “past.” And they are ex pressing themselves in black and | white by signing their names to the petitions for the pardon of | Mes. Gladys Johnson, convicted of telling a lie in order to bury a blot ted page in her lift These peti tiene had hardly been placed in the Quaker, Bartel! and Ow! drug stores on Saturday when over 1,800 natures were obtained | And there has been hardly a tet-up in the number who are anxious to sign the petitions today 100,000 MEN BACK TO WORK LONDON, May 27.—The strike of 100,000 stevedores and lightermen, finished &\ which for several days completely successful exhibition, The avi-itieg up British shipping, was ab ators will rest up for thelr tO leuptiy ended here this afternoon, days’ meet at the Meadows an bets teatiane wet and pdjuc The promoters of the meet have} oq alt difficulties. . Bott planned to t The Star aviation] concessions,. government ht immediately Morton's} bringing pressur gational parachute jump Of | settiement. oa.’ Ghouls the. Webther DATE ENDING FIGHT IN NEW JERSEY i carry his passe ser HLIZABETHPORT, N. J, May making a long circle | business jon and then} Much refreshed after a restful President Taft continued to the landing in} the grandstand | campaign ong the Jersey ay. His first speech minute delivered | by Parmalee he Just tell Mr that I'll be ready the moment says #0.” | Miss Elsie Dodd, lcontestant to enter the race, was lelected the sixth person to fy} | Miss Dodd ix just 14 years old and isn't one bit afraid of the air, so she says. Parmalee and Turpin will arrive in Seattle this afternoon from Bel- lingham, where they the youngest at sides made officials ter o bear for ar plane Parmale over the cit over the return front place of Sunday his she ing Bayonne Tonight the Atlantic City Roosevelt is speaking covered by Taft election ie tomorrow at SEATTLE president will speak at in the te ritory Saturday MEMORIAL AT | PLYMOUTH CHURCH) | Members of the Join F. Miller James A. Sexton and the Stevens ats and the Ladies of the G. A 'R. and the Women’s Rellef Corps formed in marching line last night as they entered the Plymouth cliureh, where memorial exercise were conducted, Rev. J. K. Mc Clurkin of Pittsburg preached the sermon. Old*Glory and the old soldiers were also honored in th lother churches in the city. Mayor Cotterill made the address at the | Pirst Methodist church ,Vv. Arthur thought he same bear, but he is The bear Arthur saw was only! three feet high. Mrs. Rose Kelly, | living at the foot ef 41st av., saw & bear nosing about the house last night. She said she thought it! must be a baby bear. Patrelman O. P. Perry led @ posse late last night to hunt for bears, but found none. They found several persons, however, who had seen bears. The largest was the size of a house. saw the mistaken DO YOU KNOW “That the city water works are valued at over $11,000,006? That the city’s light and power plant is worla more than $3,000, 000° That Dr. Tate Mason, candidate far coroner, is a native of Virginia can trace family connections With three presidents? 4 That Loren Grinstead, who will preséut the Roosevelt argument for thix state In the contest at Chicago, used to be secretary to President Kane the University of Wash. ington? RRR KKK * Showers tonight or Tues * w day; moderate southerly *® | winds, ‘emperature @t noon, * |e 57. * le TTR RRR RI pasedd at the iast election, 60 city |- HIS NOTORIOUS RECORD PLACED BEFORE NATION Cc. P. Connolly in June Number of Magazine Tells Story of Judge Hanford’s Rul« ings in Northern Pacific Land Cases and of the Judge’s Actions, Which Cul. minated in Last Summer’s Crisis in Seattle—“The Trail of the Federal Judges” “If the government secret service would follow the trial of ceng tain federal judges, it would do the country a real service.” In thi Cc. P. Con ‘ y noted writer, begin¢ ly agazine, on “Bi the trail of various federah s their relations tof n to Judge C. He ay n the ber of E Het f the country 1 much Wash Northern in his career decisi ple les along the y cific lands, for ne nd and artic eryb« the 1 s up ges in diff an juc specia Haniord of Connolly interest the trict te 1 land decisior€ 1 thet ana date tha rev t otoriou Hi a rendered by as federal judge, kc ns of more recent run the down aroused the protest 1, from Mine Hanford, “the pany every ale les on each side of its side of its track in the the railroad company ¢ than $2.50 per acres amoung the sete For ta starts his Railr > 0 nese’ to Conno government ad ternate section tra the state territories Phe the 1 to settle of 40 miles on each that public for not 1 to distribute tl the untaxec vortgaged these lands k in ic f expressly said the should. sell or T. P. CONNOLLY The ent tlers gover wanted to ence it ha “The had statec at publ of the It emerged as nuirage in mir contre land by Northern if ancient . ific The government grang sold you must sell isions, to the highest and best bidders. By Railroad company went into the hands of ree Iway company, disencumbered of its debts, and! without condition. It was enabled to sell the land at any price Railroad coy the lands single sections an the Northern Pa Northern Pacific rant npany 1 the hammer and they under 1 yor tgage are fi them sale, in federal courts, the invested with this great it saw fit. grace ceivers ALL SOLD IN ONE DAY. of the clerk of Judge Cornelius H. Hanford’s court in Seattla this was done. The list of lands in the Washington jurisdiction had been made « months in advance, wing each subdivision sold fog $2.50 an acre As a matter of fact, the land had all been sold in one day, NOT TO SET< TLERS, but to a committee of gentlemen appointed by the Northern Pacific RAILROAD company, who in turn transferred the lands to the Northern Pacific Railway company, which ‘ all loft in the off that out in In a ss i derice ice is the evi . hows h volume, st thus became an ‘innocent purchaser.’ “The same proceedings took place in other federal jurisdictions. By a fiction, and with the connivance of the federal courts, these men in control of the Northern Pacific company, ac quired an empire, free of conditions, estimated by competent authorities to be worth ONE THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS.” : HANFORD AND BALLINGER. t rds record during the last few years, Connolly says: Friday, August 25, 1911 Cornelius H. Hanford was hanged in ef~ k in Seattle, wihle 5,000 people gathered in that hall’ to protest } ' Tracing ‘On the Judge Drear decisions figy opposite against his Hanford had been pressing public patience for some time. He had granted an ine the attle, “Hi” Gill. This injunction had been granted on the petition of a non-resident of Seattle, who paid an annual tax of less than one city property that stood in the of a friend of the mayor. Judge Hanford ion in a case in which R ger, former secretary of the interior, wag this opinion, to protect Ballinger, he had delibe was the basis of the conspiracy alleged in the case, r" cument was in the handwriting of Ballinger. THAT WORD “ANY” een on th and in public places en doze on the bench. He was the last resort of by A few nths anted new tfi in @ jury had rendered a verdict against one of the Stone & Webster corporations that he had given an instruction to the jury in which the word “any” was used been used h ich for the He induced a good many lawyers who were their to their sorrow) in his Hanford irrigation ul from Federal Judge Charles Swayne of Flori who whe had cases pending in his court. The whose accounts are mentioned by the attorney, junction sinst the recall of mayor of Se cent on some na had rendered a de sional methods; 1 charged with unprofe stated tl th n erately at a certain document not in the Kandwriting of Ballin Hanford constantly on streets in a state of gross ine hearing ses he would oft « ca tressed gal necessities m ago he g a Id not have | } | is habit to alloy ge fees to his professional cronies in receivership caseg hi urt to invest avin ( differed only x before He procure as indor Hanford’s ¢ irregular ti c in me on his notes ft enterprise used to as ser lawyer being THE RENTON CASE. franchise of the Seattle, Renton & Southern railway, an interurban line, provided for a five-cent fare within the city limits of Seattle, and the supreme court of Washington had de<« cided that the annexation of adjoining territory to the city brought the territory within the pro- I visions of the The Rainier ley, through which the street railway ran, wa@ | anne xed to Seattle after the charter of the railway company had been granted. é | The railway company declined to obey the decision of the supreme court of Washingion, | he street car passengers refused to pay the eXtra five-cent fare demanded by the company. They be cars and would not leave ther Augustus Peabody of Chicago, as trustee for the the instituted a friendly suit against upany, in Judge Hanford’s court Hanford thereupon enjoined \ railway charter val arded the 1 yondholders of interurban line, his own co interurban company from failing to collect a ten< ¢ as enjoining a landlord from failing to collect his rent, or a lame “Judge cent fare This was as sensil Jman from failing to limp. “The of mandamu | mandamus would not lie in this case; Hect. ‘The company wanted the process of a federal court, behind which is | writ would have compelled the company to collect these fares. But so the judge enjoined the corporation from failing to cols the force of federal to intimidate its passengers, “INJUNCTION RUNNING AMUCK.” “No better illustration could be cited to show that the writ of injunction is running amuclt in this country. Tricks like this are frequent among federal judges.” Connolly's articles on the courts will be concluded in the July number of Everyboc state in the Fast will be the last article of the series ly’ Se control of courts Phe STR Luscious strawberries are just beginning to get cheap enough for Mr. and Mrs. Averageman to buy ‘em for week day dinners. On page 5 today The Stat prints some fine little recipes and hints on how to handle the berries to best advantage. FATHERS AT ADVANCED AGE NEW YORK, May ‘That Dr, David A, Gorton, the Brook lyn physician and father of twins at 80, has not established a rec ord among men who have become fathers at advanced age, is shown by the following table Age When Child Born, AWBERRIES RIPE Born, 189 Child. Daughter Daughter Daughter Son . Triplets -8on e Twin girls Name. Andrew Carnegie Benjamin Harrison W. A. Clark . J, HW. Thirley Ambrose Calhound Thomas Ludway . John W. Province 1908 -1909 - 1908 .1908 1911