The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 4, 1912, Page 1

JUNGLE BY JUDGE BEN LINDSEY Author of “The Beast and Me Jungle” (Written for The Seat¥e Star.) ~The peosie ot the nation ar joo the ‘ We ig tee throws! (N« eae oe eee thromgh (he us all eee ee ‘ I detailed my ' years ase and the je In ever ar behind his mahogany desk, directs the politics of cities, who subsidizes talented youths, who gives free reign to dealers in vice, and by his con trol of governmont steals by wholesale We see signe of the people's awakening everywhere, We see jit in the demand for direct primaries, for the initiative and refer endum, for the recall-—even of judges—and for the dectsiona of judges when those decisions shock the moral sense of the community The beast seents danger, Safe for the past four years in the Jungle of the republican party, it is trying to leap into the d veratic ranks, It had hoped to make a Taft tte candidate, Poor Taft, who doesn’t yet realize that his own “judicial temperament” was but a pleasant amile, which served well to mask serviee to this beant But the “east” never intended to re-elect Taft clously or unconsciously, t would have deserted him unceremont ly at the polls, Hut before it deserted, it would have taken care to | have planted upon the democratic ty some supine leader, who, by @ record of simy palliatives, ve become as useful a t The response that Theodore evelt is gaining from those states where the people rule Is not so much @ personal triumph as it ts evi to trust all dence of the growing insight of the people Into the causes of our great | national evils Shpuld Theodore Roosevelt be nominated, as now seems certain, it j wilt not be the Rough Rider who stormed San Juan hill, but the man who preached a doctrine of trust in the people, of faith in popular gov jernment, of the crushing of privilege, who shall mount the presidential ehalr. Tho democratic situation seems less hopeful, The and withdraw its claws when the people do not suspect | #toging @ ragtime song to the unthinking mphony of conservatiem to the timid, a Southern ballad to the prejudiced, in order that a Clark or # Harmon or an Underwood may be used to misrepresent the will and purpose of a great political party, whore find their principles embodied in a Wilson or a Bryan Not for long will these prejudices of partle The people are beginning to distrust party labels Tecognize their real enemics No man who is not ready to grant to every other r demands for himself, whether in political power or in ¢ ‘he Seattle St ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE trogele n who Is the people the time with ar on can bloodiess revolution that is now transforming the If the machinery of the old parties is found useless for the of democracy, there will be a new party, But in the end the win. > Palliatives will not do Men will soon find it impossible donations to charity They will find that the trick of purchasing respecta rent fools no one The ten commandments will be turies of progress Murder by thugs will be no more at machinery and unsafe mines learned to Adultery by the lecherous individual the adultery coerced by small wage Thefe of the treets w chets unwillin survis ny place in this great all great tr nation building # wall around the he Beast of Privilege had ita u ¢ away, The people are be arty Dames, party aymbols and com- ne of party names, party eymbols and con Henst of Privileg personal experiences in a book en: Sinee | wrote that story, the awak of these United States has been re the plain, every-day citizens now man’s mind or muscle, sithough not yet are they putting it sudment against theft applies not only who goes out at night with his dark welldressed, suave gentleman, who. purpone slowly wherein peor beast can purr to mask their unsocial crimes by We find it with pew interpreted tn the light of 20 cen- y corne ae “5 city, state that all wealt! have deter the gree ¥ Having used him, voters me nath ee horrent than murder by unsafe i par avall big busine they have is furable t ng will be no nd long hours for be as vicious lean ¢ the the eet tramp oF era and piackjack, | an’ all that he ‘ portunity, has | peor a at ar onuhpnmesil It’s the spice of life, and you'll find lots of it every day if you BOY AND GIRL Baltes Prose Tesced Wire) dune 4—That wi men intend to remorseiessly } thes roller over the Roose at the national conven _ | s indicated here today by) . in Marry S.) gf Indianapelis, who declared Taft would be in ab-| of the republican na when it meets here) the tteemen from: stat by the former president in New, who is chair littee, appoint committee to} is for the Chicago that the Roose- ‘Will not be given | convention | ok members acting Bominee for) sident ls elected. Fight T. R. x Br es honsercit men [wage a bitter fight on this) pe candidacy. ‘member of the national from Nebraska in the} primaries, | Will demand imme- | to the committee | that he holds a_cer }of-election from the gover: | When informed of Howe!l’s io fe, New declared that Howell's would be tabled and that Rosewater of Nebraska. a Man, Would be elected chalr-, the national committee to f c cansed the | ef committerman ot ve uprople here are jubilant president's victory in the ‘Gurention, insisting this fore Miemph for Taft a: Chicago MLLEGES MONEY CAME FROM __ SAM GOMPERS ‘Writes Press Leased Wire) ANGELES, June 4—*Ciar Darrow told me that he got direct from Samue! testified Detective Bert feferring to the $4,000 fo have been paid McNa Talesman George N. Lock M4 for the purpose of bribery, the morning session of the “ » who is charged the bribing of McNamara jur Matement wan Swore he had that he had read | ‘that the district by HM made when told Dar , pwaDe the bills , he sald, laughed that that was B& the money. had core the president of 1h Ho Ps Labor. legation wa n mt had contended that “Cl told me tbat if 1 would Se eulity and take a fine me fee that f got $2,000 DOYOU Know | Lif Howe, the man who Atchison Globe tam« 18 Ame Betu a pattie? lam Lincoin looked Of the City of Port Ee “PMP” is only the abbre for “Jamen ton of the how at “ponsibility? 7 Dean Miller School at the state % Washington university WO worth of timber yi champ nd * £4 L. Drew, Manager of the! has feen in the for over 16 years? iting Dykeman is the » Washington man § S9perior court Judgesbip county? | 1) Vital Problems "Being discussed in Cynthia Grey's interesting column of letters on page 5. VOL. 14. NO. 81. ACTRESS IN SEATTLE WAS ENGAGED TO EDWIN BOOTH } Ir ry yw ida Vernon today, and as she was when first engaged to Edwin Booth. BY FRED L. BOALT Ida Vernon, who is Lady Creech in “The Man From Home,” at the Mocre theatre this week, and Edwin Booth, greatest of tragedians, were twice engaged to be married. Their dream of love never came tr Their story, told te me today, is one of the saddest romances in stage history. ida Vernon is old today—old and beautiful. With her, wherever) she goes, she carries a letter which Edwin Booth wrote her. It is yer) lowed with age and crinkles in the hand like parchment. It is a cruel biting letter, in which she is all but cursed, but the white-haired actress treasures it above silver and gold. Long “befo’ de wah,” a slip of a girl of 12 was playing infinitesi-) mally smatl parte in the old Boston theatre. In those days each the atre had its stock company, and the great stars traveled from efty to} city, theatre to theatre, playing the classic drantas which shall never die There came to the Boston theatr rising young actor who patted) the girl's brown curls and remarked that she w winsome child, The! actor's name was Edwin Booth. For two seasons and a half Booth played at the Boston theatre, and | watched Ida Vernon grow from a little girl into a slim girl-woman. He coached her in the art of acting, and delighted to see her budding gonkus | blossom into the perfect flower. And she gave her heart to him, though | he did not know, or even gu When the war broke out, Ida Vernon, uncompromising rebel, re ined to her home city, Richmond, Va., and remained there during the | Het «. Richmond worshiped her } After the war she went North ag starring, and ultimately joined Booth’s company at the Winter Garden, in New York. Booth's wife Mary Devlin, she learned, had died, leaving him a baby daughter, Edwin They played “Midsummer Night’s Dream” and he Merchant of/ Venice,” and other plays of Shakespeare. And on a never-to-be-forgot-| ten day, between rehearsal and performance, Edwin Booth declared his love for ida Vernon—wooed her as he had never wooed in mimicry— wooed and won her in an empty theatre, on an empty stage. The “profession” likes a bit of gossip. Not much was talked about | besides the betrothal of Booth and Ida Vernon. The theatre-going pub je heard the news, and cheered them when they appeared togethr upon stage. Then they quarreled. the girl was proud. Each wai peace. Booth had a rival th A little thing; but Booth was fiery-tempered; d for the other to make overtures of In a fit of pique she told him so. Taylor, the New York banker. she married the banker. He knew she loved Booth; He was glad to get h on any terms “Some day,” he said, “you will forget Booth and learn to love me. 1 will be patient.” She did not tell Booth of her marriage. Perhaps it Certainly it was foolish. Today she is her own harshest judge. she was young, she loved Booth, and she was afraid. In the months that followed she lived a ie. Her quarrel with Booth was never definitely patched up. But he, mercurial always, could | not stay angry long, and he took it for granted that they were still en was wrong But gaged 4 inter Garden burned down. 10 eee ane on tour. Ida Vernon was both glad and sorry. d, when she suffered his eect Je tae e 4 from him in Baltimore, An actor with whom he had a eed alan ha weet had accidentally stabbed bim in the hand, The accident would necessitate substituting another play, one in which she would be needed. Would she join the company at Pittsburg? Her husband, believing she wished to go, urged her to comply. a she ylelded to the temptation to Booth again. Husband and ai e went together. A hotel balcony fell. Taylor was killed. Booth, go ng to the hotel to learn why Ida Vernon did not come to the theatre, learne that the man who had been killed was his flancee’s husband! i They did not meet Booth wrote her the letter which she arg wah There is solace for her now in its npc saad ml for if he had love: 7 1 been tempted to pity her. ae Fe Nag hava Vernon was reconciled to never seeing him again. Years passed. It was said Booth and his wife were not ned They separated, and Booth wrote Ida Vernon, asking to renew the ot friendship. The Booths were divorced, Bodth went again to his ¢ " love to tell her he was free, He admitted he had married, as she pas done, in anger and pique. They had made mistakes, But there was yet They could still be happy in their love. She was a woman now, matured and beautiful, The company was broken She up. lived the lie to the en way And her love for SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, JUNB 4, 1912. QUARR AULHAMUS 9 CANDIDATE W. H. Pauinamus of Sumner, president the state senate, will hate late for governor this all, This some of Pauihamus’ closest friends here and leaders in the Roosevelt fight. Pauthamus will entiet under the Roosevelt banner, whether it the progressive republican banner LEARNS IN ONE DAY THAT SHE’S A WIDOW AND vouched for today by i or that of an entirely new party as|- the result of the Chicago conven. tion. His formal announcement will probably not be made until after the convention. Paulhamus was one of the chief leaders in the pro- gressive republican convention at Aberdeen recently. Landon Not Candidate, Almost coincidental with the aa- nouncement of the Pauthamus boom comes the posttive deatal on the part of State Senator Dai Len don, president of the Ki County Reosevelt loague, that he ls a can- didate for governor. “| never intended to be « candl- Gate for governor,” sald Landon this morning, “and I am not going to be.” KERN HOTLY | DENOUNCES . LORIMER (Ry Unites Preas Leased WASHINGTON, June 4-—Hotix denouncing the election of United States Senator Wm. Lorimer of Titinote as the flower of political crookedness in America, Senator John W. Kern of Indinna today ff the senate opened the renewed fight on Lorimer by announcing that he intended to consy two days in bis denunciation Senator Kern represents the toh nority of the senate Lorimer com mittee, which favored unseating the “blonde be from Chicago. In opening he ridiculed the majority of the committee's argument that as Lorimer was once exonerated, and no new evidence had been pre sented, his case was res ajudicata, and could not be reopened DAUGHTER OF PIONEER BOREN DIES SUDDENLY Gertrude Boren. Boren, one of the first tle, di last night home Hollywood. Miss thought she h d a nol the chicken house about and went out to investiga ring back was attacked troke apoplexy died soon after The Boren fa first to comme t rected the first on tl und on whieh the now stands, A bi let on the southeast corne tilding tells of the fact The funeral will be home of the deceased's M. i. Ye r, on Bor Yesler is the dwiahter o' Y . Who wos Mr, I nother of thy oldest Lavinia ter of ©. D. settlers In 8 her oren at clock On ¢ at at fi ° out 9 she ac c and ily Seattle was one of the Mr in Borer Seat Howe # tal tnat house ee building cousin, Mr nav. Mrs f Min. ACA ond OUR PRECISE ARTIST Booth had never faltered, He was taken to the Players’ clab, sent for her. She went to him, heavily veiled, to Four times she saw him,.and what pi bedside is not for the world to knew, The | But the light of a perfect understanding was in his eyes. trance. when she kissed him—and died, daugh-| ‘TAFT WIN Booth fell ill, MRS. LAMMERS Mre. Anna Madge Lammers, bride of a year, learned today that ie a widew and worth a malition | dollars. Bhe sobbed when a realization of ‘these two big facte were brought e to. her. The knowledge that was rich beyond the dreams of javarice left her cold. “I cant’ grasp it *Tean't believe that nk i* really dead. The money’? I can't think f money now. I would give it all up if it would only bring Frank back to me.” Plays for Big Stake. Mre. Lammers wasea Butte Sie was married to J. Franklin Lammers, a young miner, in that city on May 23 last year, by Rev &. Noftsinger, now of Seattle They moved to St@ilacoom, near | facoma, where Lammers bade bi jbride good bye to go to Alaska to play for a big stake that would “put them on easy street She waited, receiving loving, joy jos letters at rare intervals | Lamsners was in the interior twa t,” whe said He 8 succeeding He located good which, the Anna | Minnie E., in the © two of and the river dis mines, Madge Coppe .}| COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 4-—Con |trotling the Ohio state republican |eonvention here today by working adherents President Taft elected for him the |six delegates-atiarge from the |state, and despite desperate en deavors by the Roosevelt clans, ob tained a clear cut endorsement of the present chief executive for the republican nomination for the presidency. After the Taft victory, lit was immediately rumored that the! Roosevelt men would boit the | convention. | The First Test. | The first test of strength & ~ GARDNER DEAD J. D. Seattle, died lastnight at his home Park and had a good majority, of | | Gardner; 67, a pioneer of Fauntleroy He came to 1883 in Seattle in been en gaged in the real estate business He five years ago Several he suffered from a stroke of paralysis, He ts aurvived by a widow, two daughters and a son, Mrs, Otto A. Case, Miss retired about months ago we Gardner and A, Gardner the marriage was postponed where, when the end was near, he e the reporters at the en- wed between them at the t time he could not speak. He smiled ONE CENT S DELEGATES _ AT LARGE IN OHIO eaecay, HOME EDITION NIOWS STANDS Be a | WORTH A MILLION just turn to page 4. FL RESULTS IN MURDE YOUTH KILLS GIRL _ BECAUSE SHE WOULD (By United Press Leased SAN FRANCI6CO, June down by a jealousy crazed boy of 19 years, Bernice Lily Godair, a 17- year-cid high school girl, is dead today, and Chas. H. Bonner, the slayer, ie in jail charged with the murder, which he admits was pre meditated. Mine theatre with her aunt fronted her on front of her he knocked uy the shot went wild irl ran up the steps just Bonner Godatr was short rning from a ore midnight wh Bonner the sidewalk e and fired the rev Screamir of her ed the times in of the heart n con in The aunt hom| door rapid and ans she fired f fon, two the girl's instantaneous sat down on the the police In jail the boy declared that Mi Godair had made engagements with him which she failed to keep, going out with others, “She drove me erary, he said Wanted Companionship. When the police arrived a few jminutes after the shooting, they found Bonner with the still smok ing revolver in hie hand, staring dazedly at a pool of blood where his vietim had fallen. It was sev eral hours after being taken to jail nefore he would talk. Then he de- clared St was not love which at- tracted him to the girl, but that hor companionship solaced him for the loss of his 13-y old brother “1 Killed Bernice in a fit of pas st,” said young Bonner. our plercing was steps to wait for ftriet, he sold last spring for $225, 000. The former was named after his wife Wire) | 4.—Shot jwhen NOT BE HIS “CHUM” Crazed Because Girl Refused to Go With Him, He Waits for Her and Takes Her ‘Life—Sa: Companionship, Not Love, He Wanted. ys It Was er gone there would be no one 9 console me, and rather than see her affections lavished on another, I took the law into my own hands, In her I found the companionship which I lost when my favorite brother, Wilfred, died less than @ year ago It was not love that attracted tme—it was something greater. [I carnot explain the bond that held together. I realized when I first Bernice beside the bier of my brother that in her alone I find the companionship his death had robbed me of “Drifting Away.” Words cannot describe my wretchedness when I realized she was drifting away from me. De spondency seized me, and then a terrible passion, which at times overwhelmed me. “Bernice refused several times last week to let me go with her on pleasure trips. Monday night 1 begged her to let me accompany her to the th ¢, but she refused, 1 rode as far the theatre with Eerrice and her aunt, and then went and bought a revolver. J! waited for her to come home, and | saw her coming, | ran’ toward her crying that if | couldn't have her companionship, no one se should, and then | fired. Ew hing was confused after that. When together we seemed to live in a higher plane, and I am sere that when death comes to me thie pleasant condition of things ‘ili be renewed in another world, | have no fear of the consequences 1 could With | of my act.” Accidentally killed. | Very recently—the exact date is in doubt—Lammers was killed in # snow slide near Kennecott. His body was recovered, but that of his companion, J. McCarthy, has! not been found The news of his death was pub- lished in the Tacoma Times and was read by Mrs. Lammer, who at|« first believed that the similarity in| « names was but a coincidence. i*® A Meeting Today. | Then came word that T. M * wright nea8 man of ( * i* in the N Lamnyr’s heirs. Mrs, Lammers |» ted Cartw in Seattle, and| g at the Seattle!» t word to him, and|® bey will meet this afternoon l& by Rev. Noftsinger called on Mrs.|% Lammers this morning, and identi-| » fied her, and also a picture of her|» husband which she carries in Alga ekkeekkeheehhak gold locket suspended from ber reck hain. ‘Though Lammers told native best ete he still; Corporation Counsel Bradford is has enormous holdings in Alaska. | today tussling with the city hall Roughly estimated, the estate he | park garage bill, which received six left. is worth $1,000,000. votes on Saturday night, following _.|the mayor's veto, and which has a fictitious “emergency” provision, de. jclaring it necessary to preserve j“the peace, health, and safety” of |the community. The “emergency” |clause takes the bill, or rather is intended to take the bill, outside of the people's right to a referendum | vote on it Mayor SEVERAL “I am investigating two or three other sites now, with the view of finding, if possi- ble, a location for a garage to take the place of the City Hall park, If one of these sites prove satisfactory, I shall cer tainly ask that it be substitut ed for the park site This statement Councliman A author of the City garage bill Cart dova. wa thwest searching for * * * * * * * * otel made Goddard Hall park this morning. was * * * * * * Cotterill referred the the corporation coun el ye day for an opinion as to validity of the measure, The contends that, granting the wency” feature of the meas it should have received seven of the council and also the 8 proval who tween Taft and Roosevelt came question of endorsement oosevelt men attempted to & for the rsing Taft ‘ol. Roosevelt won by 393 59%. On at The| majority r en | mayor On a division, T % votes to Roosevelt's the vote for the dele large Roosevelt xhowed trength. th ate bein Every except and a Pi eme ure mayor's a gate y ‘founeiim trifle more for Taft velt dele county containing Columbus supported the Taft delega Roosevelt strength being drawn from the delegates represent jing the rural sections a n fought for the the park garage bill ene the mayor does not it thowe | torr charter correctly, But| Mayor Cotterill is confident to rede —s of gates state as tied tight enough. OTHER FOUND FOR CITY GARAGE |e eee ew &)his position because a PLACES ARE he himself drew the charter amendment relate ing to the people's referendum and its application or non-application to emergency ordinances, The counciimen admit that an emergency” measure needs three- fourths vote of the council, om seven of the nine votes. They cone tend, however, that they got seven votes when the bill was originally introduced When the mayor. vetoed it, these councilmen say, the bill came back to them only on, the question as to whether the mayor's veto should be sustained or not This question, they say, needed only six votes But Mayor Cotteril| says that the weakness of such a contention ie obvious. “To say that a bill needs seven votes to begin with, and only six votes after the mayor's veto is ab surd,” he . in the meantime, preparations are being made by people anxious to keep the park free of gasoline, carburators, rubber tires, and the other 857 things that make a gary age keeper's life happy, to test the case in the courts if Bradford's opinion is against them, POLS eee ee DETECTIVE SHOT *« reported late this aft- % ernoon that Detective Frank Welch had been shot and fatal. % ly wounded at Hoquiam, while # rding the home of Mrs. J. S, * Creach, An arrest has been * made in the case. * * be - . Bid. eos — People who are wrapped up in themselves are seldom [SEATTLE MAN | IS CAUGHT SAN FRANCISCO, June 4 fessing five burglaries, which are [believed by the police to have r ted him thousands of dollars’ worth | of stolen property, Ernest Lowen-| 21, with a criminal record in} Seattle, is in jail here today. | Loewenstein was sentenced to the} Washington reform school in 1908 for a burglary in Seattle, He served ja term in the Walla Walla prison and was before the courts in Wash-/ ington on a number of occasions Con-| lost time Mra, Thomas Ray, who lives at the Radium hotel, on 4th avenue, yesterda afternoon swallowed some aatiseptic tablets by mistake and had a narrow escape from jdeath, The quick services of a doc; jtor, however, brought her out of i danger. jad man says “Do it now. jyour wants as they come The seconds chase the minutes into hours; days into weeks and when the weeks in their rush grow into months we look back and wish there was some way to regain The efficiency expert says, “Do it now.” Don't let time fly b your telephone is a }use it—tell your wants to the thousands ef readers of The Star and thus stop Time in its flight.” OVER 40,000 PAID COPIES DAILY. the hours hurry, The Star want without filling your elbow— Just call Main 9400.