The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 3, 1912, Page 1

Hot Shots HEODORE” mea ' Colum tra St business men ments be pur nent bia State. ar Gift of God.” Absolutely no beginning to insist that their ad to pure Roosevelt matter.—Colum ‘Thus far, no editors have been summoned to testify in the une Br and descripti wedding “tees pr ideal page 5 today LLARD MAN SLAY. DINAN EGAL O ide on of an printed on. VOL. 14. NO. CE IS NOT R OPERATIVE Over Veto Saturday Night Was Labeled But or Cotterill’s Approval—Fight Will Be) !f Taft Did Not Get Three-fourths erection of 2 garage on nul the right of @ referendum op any | necessary for the “pub: se, health and safety”’ | ance it an emengen: my make it imposs dle New vote, it w ‘pix votes of the coun after Counciiman them on their wor for Dilling park any e that may later be found Those who voted Billing park garage were Peirce, Marble, Hesket Councilmen advocates, however po the charter t that must have three-fou coancil “aod the a appre’ park. And of the counc!! ourths vote provisic Dit aes hat i the opinion Bradford this a bice erectic ‘with this garage the excuse of R, IN WASHINGTGN, HE WON’T RESIGN: Wired a. — Ab against him, Wm. Miingis, upon his arrival own defense announced that he had are trying to Induce Lorimer to re ' the fight un’ I President She visit to Chicago wax to resign were sha When the latter Be did not see & Y CIVIL E em eased Wire) June 3 the sundry « Win was report It omits alt for & tariff boa 925,900 tra Md devotes $75.0 n Of an econon PY tommiseion. Cor. WH Wi be taker fhe bill the than that « includes $28,790,000 ana) construction for fortification $100,000 for 4 sub-t ‘0. DYKEMAN iLL King Dykeman of «1 has been i w wargeee siter e Fr court and has beer Pen t0 his duties today. TIC CRITICISM Us * M8 It fay about ovr t FO were all in tine what the garage Dil) says was inserted into the emergency teason, Mayor the and without «f park morning. Carr the} measure simply by patting in the! words to designate that the same ts necessary for public peace, health y The charter was careful this, and made such emer y Measures dependent upon a ee fourths vote and the mayor's approval. Where the approval of all these can be bad, it is mo: than kely that it really is an emergency bat not otherwh Council members recognized the necessity of seven votes on the or iginal passage of the bill, but claim that they. only needed ix after the mayor's veto, Blaine did not arrive until 9:20 Saturday night from the East Even thon there were only five coun cilmen present Finally Counetl man Erickson was found, and Coun | cthman Goddard brought him to the | council meeting. Erickson kept the | rest of them guessing for a while | when he inquired whether some | other place would pot be as suitable | to for the garage as Dilling park.) of Councilman Goddard replied fam tm favor of & garage, and T) do not mean that it must neces.) sarily boon Dilling park. If we can find any other place, I certainly | | w sal cy about to « oe it te t h, o P of shall be tn favor of substituting that place for Dilling park.” The other counciimen spoke in the same vein, and the bill thus passed Women Ready to Act. Members of women's clabs today notified The Star that they were ready to sustain the mayor tn his} - stand to preserve the beauty of Dilting park, and would stand back a of any Movement with that end in er " | SO) man in Chicago and does not intend to see him now. Although he appeared i, Lort- mer declared that he would attend the seasions of the senate regularly | now, and that he would speak in his) Leaders in the senate | sign before Senator Kern of In tit diana openg the fight against him in the senate tomorrow. This ac- r- tion is sald to have been brought to as a result of a canvass, which is reported to have showed that a) majority of the senators are against the “blonde boss.” "HARRINGTON IN DARROW TRIAL (By United Prese Lenard Wire) © LOS ANGELES, June 3.—That John R. Harrington, a Chicago at torney, who was employed py the McNamara defense, will be a wit ness for the state in the trial of ‘ Clarence Darrow on a bribery charge, was rumored bere today, when it became known that Har rington had been in Los Angeles for the last two days, District. At torney Fredericks refused to con firm the Harrington report. said le ing of "PARDON FOR | WILLARD JONES) (By United Preas Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, June 3.-—Willard Jones of Portland, Or., convicted ot jand frauds in which the late Senator Mitchell of Oregon and Binger Hermann, former commis sioner of the general land office, | were alleged to have been implicat ed, was granted an unconditional pardon today by President Taft. The pardon was based on the «round that improper methods were pursued in filling the jury box from whieh the Jones jury was drawn, at vil nly relate history when talk this case. T. R. PEOPLE BOLT N ARIZONA (By United Press Lensed Wire) TUCSON, Ariz, June 3.—Bolting \the regular republican state conven tion because the Taft leaders re- fused to compromise in ‘selecting delegates to the Chicago convention, the Roosevelt delegates held a sep- arate convention today and elected a set of six delegates to the national pox | convention pledged to the colonel, | | | Roosevelt national committe: | people j stalling off burners in the engines, nes money-trust investigation..Pittsburg Gazette-Times In seventeen precinets of Taft didn't receive a sing Which shows that they belt Minnesota county President vote at the primaries this Week are also hitting him in the wheat Philadelphia North American, : Spooning on school steps has been interdicted in Junction Se ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER 80, SUPPORTERS MAY “BOLT” Controls Conven- tion, Colonel's Men Will Teke Radical Action— Today's Developments. (My that the Roosevelt supporters will bolt the republican national convention here if the Taft men get contro! of the convention by any means which they consider unfair, was indicated here today in a statement issued by Alex H. Reveil, chairman of the If the degision of U is flagrantly wrong, mant just or unfair.” declared Revell, nobody would respect a candidate discriminated against in this way if he tamely submitted | When asked If Roosevelt planned! to bok if unfairly treated, Revell) replied If . » Whose baby? The Star's at present. But The Star is going to give “Little Mary” Taike of “Robbery.” “You may put your own construc-| tion on that. Such a situation is one which will have to be met when/"@*¥8Y~~providing a real good home it arises. This is the people's move-|i# offered her. A home full of love ment. The people have plainly tn-| for the youngster, dicated whom they want. If the! “Little Mary” ts just 13 weeks of contest decisions are not fair, the See. is very fair, with biue eyes and will not ait idly by and see dark brown hair robbery by any political organiza tion when it frustrates the popular) lived, and will, which’ haa already been ex. * could wish. Pressed. |. The babe bas a mother—and a “We hope that everything will father, somewhere, The father de. come out right, bot we are pre serted, and the I®yearcld mother 9 pared for any emergency. What-/fot able to préwide for the little ever the situation is, we will meet) girl, so, though tt burts to do it, she it with the proper action.” | Wants The Star to find a real home ee |for her daughter | |EXPLOSION mone e: I A ary” “to the y ‘oF, Star An explosion thie morning in the | = Supply Laundry, Howard and Re- publican, severely burned Victor! A Matson and set fire to the interior | of the building. Matson was {n-| bollers exploded, burn- ing him. He was taken to the city hospital. His injuries are painful, but amt. serious. when the Driven off bis land by his own son js the complaint made by Albert L. Shears, an octogenerian, in a suit |filed in the superior court this |moroing. The old farmer alleges |that he owned some land across Lake Washington since 1893, but — his son, Albert Grant Shears, the latter's wife, Mra. Kate prale: planned to take possession of it oF mere show of brute strength, HOBART IN DOCTOR’S CARE Uy United Press Leased Wire) ILLSBORO, Cal ime 3.—Was ering $500 that he could walk up. staira on hia bands, Walter Hobart millionaire polo player, i» consult ing his physician today for a Hump. | ed head, bruised arm and wrenched knee. CRAP GAME DISTURBS THE (hy United Bread Leased Wire) ALAMEDA, Cal, June 3— caume their discordant crief of en, come eleven” disturbed a chureh, service, three high school lads and Of Se sons of prominent club women, were jailed for crap shooting In the} streets Sunde: ° Fame of Seattle |men from four part | court house and asked how to get m a marriage When Commander. Gage, 7 -| ther all said they would telegraph thouse. One te "This is the first time,” said "€ attie, and whose future ;marriage licenses in one morning. jee bride-to-be from Portland.” Se STEWARD REV. EBERHARDT\*::<: ONLY | ISCO, June 3 Mu-| 1S DYING tiny!” cried steamship officers here when the steamer Umatilla flashed Rev. J. F. Bberhardt of the Unt versity Methodist church was at a Wireless for “handcuffs.” A boat He | tacked by a stroke of paralysis at load of trons was dispatched at once, and the catain swore |7 o'clock this morning, and was re! wanted Hancock, his steward SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, — 3, 1912, She weighs just | one pound for each week she has! healthy a child am} -ALLEGES SON DROVE HIM OFF HIS LAND rccmenyreeren enaaeenn ge FOUR MEN AT CUPID'S WINDOW WITHOUT THEIR WIVES-TO-BE the country came to Cupid's window at the get Heenses without their future spoeecs of the Cupid department, iva future wife and a witness had (a appear with them at the window raphed to Portland wives are not City, Kansas. Life is becoming harder every cisco Examiner, What we need is not a new kind of coin, but more power to | + the old.—Boston Herald rhe Colonel is at least leaving no adjective win the battle—Atlanta Constitution IN SEATTLE ON TRAINS SNEWS STAN _ONE CENT BERGER BEGING ATTAGK ON HANFORD of Justice — Plans Early Introduction of mapench| COPS WEAR SHORT COATS Prenn Lenned Wired | WASHINGTON, June 3.-—Bitterly | attacking United States Judge C. H,) | Hantora of Seattle, both as judge! aed man, Congressman Victor Ber- @er today filed affidavits with the department of justice in pursuance }Of bis campaign for Hanford’s im- Prachment Berger bas arranged to confer with Attorney General Wickersham @b@ to learn if the department of $nstice approves Hanford'’s decision i® depriving Leonard Olsson of Ta | ‘oma of his citizenship papers be- muse Olsson is a professed social ist. Berger said today “T have filed Hanford’s Olsson apinion asx well a# personal affi Wits attacking Hanford’s personal acter. When I learn the depart- Mment's side of the case I shall in- troduce in the house a resolution demanding his impeachment. Ke idiers of any investigation the de- mt may make, | ball intro- the Impeachment proceedings. 4 should be impeached, not ly for his Olsson opinion, but be- he personally is unfit to oecu- wy the bench.” REAM * WEATHER FORECAST * Pair tonight, Tuesday fair & @ and warmer; moderate north. & @ erly winds, Temperature at *& ! mice dicta Salle Patalbekal.s Officer Hickcox Coat for Seattle “Cops.” The Seattle police put on their new, short coats this morning. ‘I am not a vain man,” remarked | Officer O. W. Hickeox, No. ‘so if I prefer this short coat j the uniform frock, it is not for rea of personal vanity 1 may a good figure—but let that On. March 24 of this year, the 234 complaint alleges, the old man w told to “get off or be kicked o the land. The son, it is complained, | 8°" Shook his fist in the father’s face, | "8¥¢ Placed locks on the doore of the P** house and barns, and left bim, fig mratively and literally, out In the fold. The father now asks for a festitution of the property and for} vee pense he point ie that fear of the law lends speed to the heels of the evil doer, and a desperate courage to his heart, and it is therefore neces sary for the man on the beat on foccasions to run swiftly and fight 2 | efficiently ‘And I put it to you, how policeman going to ran swiftly the skirts of a frock coat flapping about his knees? And how is he jwoing to fight efficiently if he has This morning |t0 wnduckle bis belt and take off| his coat before he can get at his gun and ‘come-ons'? “Consider, too, the the policeman who must walk the asphalt beneath a summer sun in a coat like a blanket, that weighs a ton “that four men, not residents| “1 understand that those short coats are @ step in the direction of residents, have asked for ; hing up for the Potlatch One man comes fro ures jes from Kansas and) wii; observe that this cont is good fit and that the material broadcloth of excellent quality is a garment of which we need not be ashamed when the town is full of Potlatch visitors “While | am for the short coat as a distinct utilitarian advance upon the long, I am bound to say that esthetically the short coat worn by a fat policeman is not an unqualified success. Certain broth ler officers, whom I shall not name, is a center ls spreading parried. They all thought they could none of whom lives in Seat told each that discomfort of them and meet them in the court *apia” of} , Ported ‘in a dying condition lo’clock this afternoon. Rev, ardt has grown old in the of the church. He recently brated his 75th pirthday thor of a poem entitled "The Great Northwest,” which has received Considerable praise. At his bedside |&re his wife and several intimate pants Two sons are in the East =» “at 1 Eber orvice cele He is au “BEING A GENTLEMAN, THE GINK HAD TO DO IT” BY FRED L. BOALT Your gr t need, at the moment, gentle reader, may be the price of a haircut, John D. Rockefeller once offered a hundred thousand dollars to the person who would make his hair grow. Your keenest hankering, at the moment, may be for a $10 meal a swell ri urant. John D. Rockefeller would part with a large frac- tion of his billion if he could eat— ind digest—a meal of ham and, We want the things we haven't. We pine for » things we can’t get. We pursue the unattainable with infinite zest—until we get ity Then we don’t want It. Which brings us gracefully and logically to the picture shows. Those moving-picture suit of the unattainable . There is on Second av. a moving-picture the word in luxury and beauty. Its patrons, for the most part, are well- jreased, well-fed, well-behaved people, who keep servants, eat dinner at night, and are willing to pay the heraldry sharps to Miscover for them That their ancestors came over on the Mayflower. ‘They are nice folks and perfectly proper. The manager of this theatre to give his house a “tone.” But what the patrons want i-thunder stories of crime, o neiig law-abiding, they pine secretly for a life of violence. The next best thing to being a hold-up man, or a pirate, or a train robber, is hold-up man or a pirate or a train- robber in action. Not for a would the patrons of this theatre admit their leaning towards t it is there, just the same. ples in the old former restricted district, on Main st., there Is an- subject of moving show people kiiow the fascination of this pur- Shrewd merchants, they cater to it atre which is the laat works in a few films of art and travel and get—are | The meeting was neid in the same ice | hale where the Taft men were elect. ling thelr set of delegates. jcture theatre. The blonde lady in the cage will pass pene tat dante There are no plush seats there; only long wooden benches. You may smoke, Bat you must not spit. A sign on the wall pays: “If you spit on the floor and the inspector gets you, it will cost you $2 to $65. There are possibly a hundred employment agencies tn the neigh borhood. The theatre is patronized by miners, loggers and sailors. Not pne in a hundred of these men lives in a home of his own. You will find them in the 10-cent “flop houses.” Not one in 20 wears a white collar. The proprietor of this theatre knows his public as well as the pro- prietor of the Second av. establishment knows his. The Main st. the- atre telis no blood-and-thunder tales of crime. It tells stories of high society, of which this is a samp! A ball is in progress, Marble columns. hind a bank of palms. Men in dress suits. gowns, and studded with precious gems. professional dancer to amuse them. A young sprig of society falls in love with her. His mother, a widoy tells her faithful lover—a blase gentleman wearing a monocle— that Tf he will save her son from the designing dancer, she will marry him. The blase gentleman makes love to the dancer, takes her to a swell restaurant, and they return in a taxi, in alighting from which the dancer falls and breaks her ankle. The blase gentleman summons a doctor, who announces that the lady will never be able to dance again. And she falls honestly in love with the blase gentleman. But what's a poor girl to do who has to depend on her nimble legs for her living? : Obviously, it's up to the blase gentleman, He puts it up to the widow, who agrees with him that the supreme sacrifice must be made, He kisses her farewell, while a bewigged and liveried footman turns his back. Then he returns to the dancing girl And the loggers, miners and sailors al! agree that the gink did the right thing, the only thing a gink could do in the circumstances—that is, if he called himself a gentleman. An orchestra playing be. Women in low-necked They have employed a pretty unturned to to} By JokKesmiths Hit Weak Spot of Bi _The Seattle Star , HOME EDITION ‘WIFE; KILLS SEL g-Wig s a favowite diver in the blend Consulting the ion for r but the mistake Review The sole says, “The post-grad Gazette Pirits i otten come elected 8 out at h reason for pre uate idency course Pittsburg lime Grinstead This young Seattle man is go- ing to raise the dickens at the Chicago convention. See page 4 WIFE WANTED A | with | | | You| what he meant. | Serer ee ete ee eee eT eee. | and threatened her. in Latest Style, | like a demon.” DIVORCE; ALLEGD EXTREME CRUELTY Frank Comrada, Insanely Mad Because Wife Wanted, Divorce. Murders Her and Shoots Himself— Couple Parents of Nine Children. aah tk hk Ae Comrada shot her husband in self. defense. The police scout the thee ory. Mrs. Comrada’s brain was pierced by a single bullet. There were three wounds on Come rada’s head, two or them trifling, and all three were surrounded by burnt fiesh and hair, showing, the police say, that Comrada’s hand held the weapon when the shots were fired. Comrada was a partner in the; firm of Turgeon & Comrada Shingle} Co,., which operates a mill in Bale] lard. A week ago Turgeon comef plained to the police that his part- ner was drunk or unconscious on a sawdust mill at the plant. Come} rada had been drinking, and be an@ his partner had quarreled over busi! ness matters. Last Thursday, ‘according to the! police, he ded over to his wife hig entire property, presumably in @ last effort to bring about a reconcile] jation. If that was his motive, the! attempt falled. Divorce Complaint Tragedy. Catherine Comrada, woman, was afraid thing that happened why she filed the divorce suit om May 20, after having lived with Comrada for 26 years. “A number of times within the last three years,” she said in her {divorce complaint, “he acted like a demon. At late hours of the night he has appeared by my bedside and with his eyes and face distorted. With a most fearful appearance, he ened to destroy me.” other part of the complaint, Comrada said that her hus- band was “so violently drunk that cted like a mad man and had several times driven her from her home, and that she was compelled to call the poli¢e; that he would threaten her and abused her; and that she was on that account com- | pelled to take treatment in a hos- pital for months, and that she was still in feeble heaith.” Had Nine Children. The Comradas were married in 1886, and had nine children, five whom were of age. The other four are James, 18; Sam, 16; Ben, 15, and Charles, 13 Comrada owned one-fourth of the stock in the Turgeon-Comrada Shingle Co., valued at $3,500, and other prop- ‘erty worth $4,500. Dave Rubenstein, « Russian Jew, of Vancou living at San Jose Apartments, 310 14th ay. S. was found last night on the Sixth a bridge, almost unconscious. He said he had been on the bridge talk- ing to two jewelry peddlers of Van- couver, and declares that they threw salt in his eyes, partially blinding him, and then stanned him by a blow on the head and robbed him of $4,600, most of which was Russian money. venstein says he money from the Ostron Safe Depas- it vaults early in the evening and went on the bridge to buy some jew- elry from the two men, whom he had known in Vancouver. He told a rather incoherent story of the robbery to the police, and they could not learn much concern- ing the men who were alleged te have robbed him. A LITTLE STUNT OAKLAND, Cal, June 3.—While Chas. Holloway, acrobat, was doing jhis stunt on the Orpheum stage, ‘a jburglar was doing a lit stunt of }his own in Hoélloway dressing room. Holloway is minus $60 and @ $450 diamond ring. THE HAND THAT RULES TRAGIC LIST INCREASES The list of tragedies that has kept Seattle in a state of uneasiness for the past five days has been increased by the tragic death of Phil Parmalee Saturday afternoon. Although it took place at North Yakima, the aviator's death has local interest because of his recent visit to this city. Parmalee'’s death increases the death list of aviators to 152. Today the body of Joseph Miller, the murderer of Mrs. Effie Lassen and George Fel- ton, lies in the morgue as a re sult of self destruction in the city jail yesterday. Monday morning did not pass without a tragedy of some nature. At Ballard Frank Comrada shot and killed his wife, then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide. SEES REESE EERE EER RRR RE RE Foreshadowed SERRE Re - Mrs. | slain very Made mad by the knowledge that his wife, the mother of his nine children, was suing him for divorce, Frank Comrada, 52, a well-to-do manufacturer of Ballard, murdered her this morning and killed himself, at their home, 1736 W. Gist st. Mrs. Comrada filed suit against her husband recently, and the word- ing of the compl nusual in or- inary circumstances, ix doubly odd in the light of today's tragedy. In it the wife set forth how her hus- band frequently came to her bedside His fac contort with rage, and he Tragedy in Bedroom. Comrada entered the kitchen of his home early this morning, and, finding « of his daughters, said “Where is your mother? “In bed Comrada climbed the stairs, en tered Mrs. Comrada's bedroom, and an instant later four shots were heard. The daughter, without wait ing to investigate, telephoned the police, who found the bodies of hus band and wife on the floor. A 38 caliber revolver lay on the floor close by Comrada’s hand. A rumor was current that Mrs. —= and whose chest development is under their belts instead of under | their neckties, present a judicrous | spectacle in their short coats, which show an inclination to creep up| ward over their embonpoint “Still, if the short coat increases their efficiency as thief-catchers, shall we complain if their move |ment is not a picture?” The above does not pretend to be a verbatim report of what Officer | Hickcox actually said. it is only ee ‘SLAP ON WRIST BY ARCHBALD (By United Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, June 3.— That Judge Robt. Archbald of the commerce court refused to inflict severe punishments upon the defendants in the United States government's “wire pool” prosecution in July, 1911, was declared today by United States District Attorney Wise of New York, testifying before the judiciary committee of the house, which is investigating charges against Judge Archbald. “Over my protests,” asserted Wise, “Judge Archbald accept- ed a compromise plea—one never before accepted in that court. He then fined 83 de- fendants $1,000 apiece. DAM QUESTION The council this afternoon is all | primed for another tussle with the! vexing Cedar river dam question. A week ago, the council tied on the question of asking another ex pert engineer to make a report on the report of experts heretofore employed. This has left a sour taste with the councilmen who | have been “asking to delay work on the present dam site, and this aft- ernoon another effort to get this delay is on the program. LOS ANGELES, June 3,—The y of the peacemaker is hard, ac- cording to Louis Bradvica, Austrian, who tried to stop a fight between two friends. Bradylea has two bul lets in his right shoulder. The bel ligerents walked away arm in arm, ook the Men “I'm going to vote as my reason dictates.’ totter say not let your wife heag that.” you