The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 10, 1912, Page 1

STAR TOMORROW BRYAN FORECASTS DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION AT BALT.MORE; “NOMINEE WILL BE PROGRESSIVE.” VOL. 14. NO. The Seattle Star ONLY INDEPENDENT NE WSPAPER- IN SEATTLE 86, SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1912. ONE CENT DON’T MISS THIS STORY WONDER. } WHat THE omen | 2 FELLOW ON THAINS AND NHOWS STANDS Be HOME EDITION MORE CHARGES AGAINST HANFORD MENT AT WHITE HEAT; TAFT CLAIMS 577 VOTES Leaders Scoff at Claim and Get Ready for Hand Combat—“‘Roosevelt and Johnson” Te Discussed—Taft Gets Indiana Delegates. most imprtant developments ry the day were the postpon for delegates from the Fourth congressional dis a, until Wednesday, and the decision in the indiana giving the four delegates-atiarge to Taft. as bis gxate eter and been Theodore and bus wife indication that ! contro! the re half a dozen beth Taft and Rooseve't are in secret confer Rumors of deser from the Roosevelt and oe vigorously de of both. it is Jast-eminute coups course of prep greatest doubt psfelt by unprejudiced as to where the vic rest. Dixon stil! denies Rocseevit is coming in person. geeeeeeeeeree Med Press Lenwed Wire) | dune 10.—That Presi- gpl 577 votes on 40 more than suffi- his nomination, was over the long-distance te the White House to D. Hilles, secretary His message to than 100 Pacific coming press with siasm all the rhe It the vately agers was * * * * * 7 * * + * * * * * 7 * 7 * * * * . * was: Rooseven etery hth be has the slight teciding California, and Washington dle contention is tech- to the convention! ‘o@ the fnitial roll 455, La Fol | Claim. ms here scoffed at} ring it based on/ ca of Taft leaders, and Bot by any means rep } feelings of individual ‘M. Dixon of Mon-| infaief of the atserted that so ly Taft delegates into the Roose, ‘that the Colone! wil! on the first ballot All Taft Men. today Gre satisfied, tee intends to seat) contestants, realiz-| pelt leaders are try-| the delegates per lot elt of Pittsburg, Roose-| in Western Pennsyiva- @ new Roosevelt committee, and fight on the floor i f Roosevelt on the temporary It men plan to before the creden MM they lose there managers plan tt & minority report of the try to prominent Villisea, The man, 11 for president, Johnson a Meeording to reports here Which no one would definite W to be the presidential November. Hundreds of Men already on the ground my Spreading the re California governor is with the colo- Ses unchallenged of the report is hourly Teported that it was been definitely de Roosey leaders left last night from An if asleep. gle derer. The guest Los * * * Plan Bolt. men plan to claim ion, if a boit Rational convention, men are the bolt-| Flinn of Penn elt’s “steerer,” Fine Roosevelt forces yn Of the election y in Qvery state where Primary, and that Roosevelt candi ballot as the regular Read } Arm” Suggestion. this progr @ Tatt forces kate. his wife the debt face te Policeman i rouble, UNderstood +11 4 temple It delegat: ¢\ this the conventior ny | denc Occurs, Taft lead With t Barnes of Ne | here today to © Headquarters BM Perkina thay; fh the Blacks Font Seattle Star wii With stories PPaper can do, May report the y the rds headquarters chot's headq rooms reserved Roosevelt Congressman | tide of Roosevelt Both Dixon and Flinn | | ) a 4 La Folle aseu that ja phone message from that place. eight and Mra. J. B. Catherine, aged 9; Floyd, 7 Misses Edith St Blanche Stiliinger, Laid as If Asleep. The bodies of the victims laid as} ¢ hairman Rosewater answered There is no clue Is the only thing to fear. * says about it on page 5 HRAKRERERHTEARE KES! financial F Seattle bear shot with a revolver at 10 o'clock vorning hospit Brown denied that there trouble discouraged aphe and cartoons, of dollars are being spent Gifford there sal Roosey Pin riers are he same ho’ for Col Jr ngworth 26,000 Shouters. Practically the convention will Wednesday Roosevelt coast ering fo mn admit that to all the delegat be here Thursday men from arrived today, loudly the col Roonevelt shouters are | e convention to im- hearers and by or enthu- | their outbursts will be effective re prted here today that| te delegates have 4d Roosevelt's they wil prt man the vote for - NOPE- vouRe wrone SENATOR BORAH 13 NOT LOOKING FOR. A BARBER BAOP colonel, possibly after the first bai- La Follette headquarters de- nied the rumor. MURDERED WITH AXE (By United Preas Leased Wire; DES MOINES, Their heads crushed with an ax, the bedies of eight persons were found! ing an open letter from Senator today in the home of J. 8. Moore, @)y 4° Follette regarding California's merchant, of | June 10. hardware according to a tele murdered were Mr Moore, their daughter their sons, Her Paul, 6, and the ilinger, aged 20, and 17. with no signs of a strug- to the mur- bloody ax which is supposed have done the work was found in an upstaira room, which contained} mediate disposition. of the matter the corpses of Paul and Floyd. The two Stillinger girls lay in the chamber their faces beaten to a pulp. of the house, with alin ite ake sieeie a Re * * - doctor *) * FEAR what Star's OVERBURDENED BY TROUBLE, HE | SHOOTS SELF) Discouraged by the long Illness ot | worried and despondent at contracted by the same ruin ing bim in Brown, a conductor for} Electric company, un the strain of his himself in the left and is now at Provi the point of death her eyes, Mrs. had been them that rash act good husband and the the matter was that he and worried in between caused the great repub..can conventiay as no other feaders the best convention stary they ever saw, and write cartoonists The gs Pictures a in The Star toda mite Colossal politica Mfordao miss The and very man tle between Star’s report of it. on The Star's staff in Chi- i drawings from Chicago are printed and woman is inter Roosevelt and Taft. also, have elt, and wife,! and) to More the beholders / They're off! tive grown Big Stick, the Roosevelt | delegates from Western Washing: ton started to Chicago on the 10:15 ¢ rawford, Milwaukee train this morning. They jwill be joined by the E | Washington delegates en route. reading from K. Brady shows, E | The picture Hleft to right, Judge TAFT GETS FOUR | INDIANA DELEGATES, (Dy Detted Press Leased Wire) CHICAGO, June 10.--After unan- jimously seating all the uncontested California delegates to the national convention, the republican national committee today, by a vote of 48 to 14, decided to postpe action on the contest from the Fourth Cal fornia district notil Wednesday | This action was taken on request of the Taft m and despite the strenuous protest of Francis J Heney, who will appear for the | Roosevelt delegates and the deleca tion of the national comraitteeman, Geo. A. Knight of California, that the del “would leave a bad taste tn the mooths of the people.” Argument for Taft. S. Fred Hogue, editor of the San Francisco Post, speaking for the Taft contestants, sald “The papers in question Include & message from Governor Johnson primaries. The California law as paaaed shut out all delegates except }those favering a certain presides tial candidate. This law cost Presi [dent Taft six delegates and La Fol Hlette four.” And for Roosevelt. Senator Borah here asked if un- contested delegates already were on the temporary roll call, and “The chair so rules. They will remain there unless the committee decides to reconsider on passing these cases.” Francis J. Heney demanded He said “Does this committee disfranchise 400,000 voters? Let w tell the committee something. W will stipulate anything these people Pasa us to do. In view of the ru want | ELECTRICITY; WHAT IS IT, PLEAS A young man with an old face and | by @ pr s bulging forehead excitedly ad-|in the Armory ed a bunch of brother dete pee to the 34th annual convention Armed with a na-| Chebalis ot * days jana. wet kkk ah hk \ im- | ceived 1oF the National Electric Light asso-| ciation in the entrance to the Arm- Jory ¢ this morning. Here we are—2,000 of us—elec | tricity experts. We know ail there lis to know. We know more than | anybody else knows. We take elec- ltricity and make it beg, play dead, roll over and do other cute tricks. And we don’t know wnat the darned stuff it! We don’t really know any more about electricity than the far- mer’s wife who caile up her neigh- bor on the phone. We don’t know |any more about it than a baby who | gets hold of an incandescent bulb land turns it on, It makes me mad |to think about it!” | Vari-Colored Specials. When the electric light people hold a convention, t y hold a CON VENTION. They began coming last night. They came in a Red Special from Boston, a Pink Specls from New York, a Green and an 0} |ange Special from Chicago, a Purple Special from St. Louis, and a Gold {en Poppy Special from California Today the delegates registered }and acquainted. The conven tion proper begins tonight with a lreception to John F. Gilchrist, the president, of Chicago, to be followed got |washed and dried electrically. ARMED WITH NATIVE-GROWN BIG STICK, ROOSEVELT DELEGATES LEAVE SEATTLE accompanied the delegation. A large crowd of progressives as fombled at the station to cheer the delegates and to bid them success Senator Poindexter, who heads the Washington men, will join the re Of the delegation at Chicago. Wash county, alternate; Richards, Oakville, delegate; Books, Seattle, alternat Johnson, Seattle, delegate; Thomas: Lewis county, delegate; Thomas F. Murpbine, Seattle, dele gate, and Robert Moran, fan Juan county, delegate. Beeks did“ not}ington’s delegation ix the only one leave this morning, but may join/according to dispatel that may the T. KR. men in Chicago In a few) he saved from the Taft wm roller Mrs. Thomas F. Murphine}in the hearing of contests befor That many loopholes for possible ballet tampering ha ‘the sax guard upon the ballot boxes *|einee the election on March 6 was the drift of the crossexamination j@onducted by Mayor Cotteriil’s at jtormeys of witnesees called in be- half of Mayor Gill in Judge Albert- Son's court, where the hearing as to whether a recount should be had began this morning. A wide discrepancy between former Comptrolier W. J Bothwell and former Chief Regir tration Clerk William Gaines de }yeloped, Bothwell testified that all jthe ballot boxes were kept in the basement of the Prefontaine bulld ing, while Gainer was equally post itive that the boxes were divided between the basement and the ree istration office. Gaines also ad mitted under crose examination that the seals on many of the balic boxes have been broken since « ing. to the comptroller's office i Lf due to mov them Roosevelt man, referred to the : ; examination by George F. Vander cela gg: Peale warned bY iveer, chief attorney for Gill Wine 4 Cotterill’s attorneys also br Presiden Tere tne eterccoon won {out the sensational admission the part of ines that for the four delegates-atlarge from Indt eee nee hie ballot were not locked up at all, bu kept in a hap-hazzard fashic paper boxy. He said that |20 clerks could have had access to those keys. The mayor is represented by Ed gar ©. Snyder, Vivian Carkeek and former Supreme Court Judge W us. White, Gill is represented by George F. Vanderveer, former pros ecuting attorn George Tennant and Walter Schaffer more that there is a plot to throw] out all of the Calitornia delegetes, i want to protect our rights Chairman Rosewater here inter. rupted Heney, erdering the San Francisco attorney to “confine his remarks to the district he repre sents.” At this point Senator Borah broke | in with: “He will not. If you do not hear his remarks because you call him an outsider, you will hear a long speech from an insider.” in testimony { mon asserted they fon in the which con convention corruption Roosevelt were Indiana trolled — the Charges of were freely men filing a thetr claims swered for President During the hearing of the Indiana polis prin state fraud and voiced, the long brief outtining Merrill Moore Taft ought on five boxes * WEATHER FORECAST * Fair tonight and Tuesday; & light westerly winds, Temper * ature at noon, 62 * Ch Reh cRchahichelaleteleletelahelel HAVANA, June 10.—-Re >ports re- here today from Santiago way that a force of negro rebels at- tacked a company of American ma rines under Captain Edwin O. Main-} Cotterill’s attorneys scored waring and were repulsed. The ma-}first point this morning when rihes, who were guarding the Hl]Judge Albertson granted their mo- Cuero mines, sustained no casual-jtion to excuse University students tes. from further attendance in * * * E? | And you don't know what it is, or what it looks like, or what it’s made of, or where it comes from, thing about it, except that it’s use- ful, And you know as much about it ae does the wisest of the 2,000 electricity experts who are attend. ing the convention. enade dance and iv It will end Thurs day Millions of Bulbs. In preparation for the convention, the Iinemen are stringing millions of red and white bulbs in the Arm ory and billions and billions in the downtown streets, The drill bali BY CHAMBER gentlemanly and ants will explain in technical lan} contest started by the pub committee of the Seattle guage, which you won't understand, just why electricity does things, amber of Commerce for the best essay on the attractions and advan They will make you see what a large part electricity plays In your life, and how much larger part it may play if you will let it. tages of Seattle and Western Wash-| You are, say, in bed, You talk ington from the viewpoint, of tour with somebody, before rising, over | ist, and investor, wa the phone. You dress by electric won by Miss G ys Kelly, 17, of 4210 light, and, going down stairs, you | Burke av. press a button, which sets the elec-| The prize was $30 in gold achools of Seaitle were invited to participate in it. The second prize of $20 was won by 14-year-old Kath- | tric cooker to buzzing. When you jerine Crawford, 1424 Sencea st homeseeker and all | have breakfasted, the dishes are You go downtown in an electric runabout or an electric street, car stopping off at the tele yh office | to send a wire to a business assoct ate in New York or Timbuctoo, You scend to your officesin an electric | elevator. Or you go to your factory the wheels of whic® are turned by electritity, Teenses grante ky |This morning ies Cones 3 Total 137y GILL CONTEST HEARING; | “| OOPHOLES FOR FRAUD” the | court or any-| WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TUESDAY Hanford Charged With Being “a Tool of Corruption and Special Privilege—Charges Before Judiciary Committee Tomorrow. WASHINGTON, June 10.—A bitter arraignment of Judget | Cornelius H. Hanford of Seattle is contained in the impeachment | charges which were compiled by Attorney John H. Perry of | Seattle and filed direct with the judiciary committee of the house | of representatives last Thursday by Congressman Norris of that committee The complaint has been in course of preparation for several months, and was undertaken before Judge Hanford rendered his | decision in the Olsson case, which resulted in Congressman Ber- | ger’s impeachment indictment ag ainst him. Con, ceeding lfor lly fore the charge Iti a probe Se I tine larges are presented in deal wi man N¢ ed ainst Juc the nt the Hanford tor judiciary same t res th peachment pro- will worrow, bee the Berger commerce court, pre complaint committee at ed ¢ that a subcomr the as are ted to bee rittee will ittee will be appoir : i of the charges at once, and that this comm | gin | visit Norris indict- th his personal sically and ith wi the ment thes red him ther fi Hanf lis gu and ende mat- he is gross mis- and rd ilty wherein of f hi ance the national committee, Loren Ise Grinstead, who will present the gument for the local Roosevelt del- gates, left yesterday The big stick, which will be presented to the Chicago convention, is a natural “Big Stick,” grown in Island county Miss Nina Armstrong of San painted a ploture of T. R. on { and also the American flag, and the state Mower, the rhododendron. Su the alleges “That confidence n to such ge is past; contempt and dis- le said Cornelius ations with core a period of years States revised complaint Cornel of the an exte ha pect, esteem at jl ple t e of Washin nt tha er for useful service as such j t he br the judi i iblic scorn, wh nercial r¢ d tioned, rd and ed him over the United indivic violate the tion 601 pecified in detail against Hanford are: 1—That Hanford has become addicted to excessive use of liquors, “indul ging in drunker oral dissipation in va- riots ms and barrooms in such late hours after t that he ed himsel for his duties the fol- g day “he sp salo today and to take thelr the first thing tomorrow t veer resisted this, He had sub poensed 44 students, and intends to show they have no legal resi testhnony unfit” Vand mit cts of such intoxication im , intolerant, unfair and unjust. : ; 2—That FeLi ei H. Hanford “is now and for many years dence here last past ha® b a gross mora d dissolute , Foes’ examined: this shoring |S past. h been hy D a mmoral and dissolute man,” and were: W. J. Bothwell, Cs ented the Seattle prior to its being apt Edgar, William Gaines, C. E Rippe, BE. C. Snyder W. H. Gowan, | R. V. Roesler and Capt. W. H Beering FRENCH HONOR TITANIC DEAD PARIS, June 10. the men who went Titanic will b according to the for exclusively by The Cec the rend and th midn lov th at from the ef is tyrannical Geo frequ ed 3—That since the Seattle restricted district has been closed, Hanford had been in the habit of visiting the residence of a cer- night and would return there- ite condition that it would physically to perform his judicial tenderloin inken and him unfit ally Jodee Hanford ties the 4—T junction ‘ 1 & Sor abused and misused the writ of in- a hearing” in a collusive , trustee of the Seattle, Ren- wn company, by which the on’ “refusing and failing to d “enjoin- at a certain in an attempt to and the laws of “by the supreme court of| carry passengers and, within the corporate limits was issued in violation of a ance of injunctions by any, ngs in a state court except in bank A monument to down with th erected in Franc now maturir will be raised which women yuntess Mario Venturi of the gr f the move Algernon Boysen will be given a he fund 1g money for transfer was issued the the { a president p of women Amer to n city, fear bout July 2¢ add to TAKEN FOR MURDER PASCO, June 10.—Charged with the murd Henry E. Christian. 1 state pre sen, cashier of the Bank of Pascc AR o ‘eontrasber,: Wee a2 rested re today Christiansen | died on a Spokane le & Port land train, after drinking from a flasy of whisky thought to bave con tained strychnine. | DO YOU KNOW | se.” in a protest Seattle 6—That Hanford That Seattle's water system abused the judicial worth $25, and that comr lighting system is worth $6,000, Seattle That Seattle's city parks worth $6,400,000? That you must have a before hotel, ngton ling a fiy this injunctior yhibiting t stay proceedi as d said company to e cent fare” er he of iss Garvey ptcy procee 5—That } speech and to petition congress to impeac “in the ill ted attempted be throttle the right of free citiz rom peaceably assembling him” by encouraging and ac- of nine men who participated Hanford at Dreamland rink in Se intimidate ens gal arrests” meeting uinst “willfully and unlawfully usurped and trary to law, justice and 1 to thwart the will of the people of the city from holding the recall Former Mayor Hi Gill on the petition of one obey, a non-resident, property interests, stop| which he claimed would be affected by the expense of such an Eng amounted t sum of seven cents.” —That Judge Hanford allowed to Messrs, Kerr and Mc« attorneys the receivers appointed in the case of the mplainant, against Thomas B. ern, et al, receivers of the Pacific Packing & Navigation No, 1,083, the exorbitant f $140,000, and said corporation were thereby largely consumed | financial injury of the stockholders and creditors; “that x | the allowance of this exorbitant fee was a pre-arranged and cor *|rupt plan on the part of ‘Cornelius H. Hanford,” and he did so ¥*/ because attorneys mmercially and financially 2, 1905, said Cors among oth« is powers reason, her 00 are 000,000 on s when restrained letter of whose ean Londen, | introduction at the Claridge land? That ates the president of the United | is never quoted directly in newspapers? | Cord, laska Pi | Met %| Co., *} “the as: *lto the for the ackers’ association, ¢ |e eee KOReennnee + * HODGE {% He's the most vital * turesque figure in * tics. Read Boalt's |& page 6 Tee ee ee eee eee ee | PASING THE BUCK fee o and pic poli on state story were « that on S. McCord and Jame 1 } as- sociated with him in this. Decembe nelius H, Hanford, E ers, promoted, orgs Hanford Irrigas tion & Po ),000, 8—That Hanford has repe itedly v riolated that portion of his oath of office “to do equal right to oor and to the rich”; that jhe tool of rate wealt nd] Bia with corn and hatred upon th » of the great n of mankind f better conditions; that in the case of Eli Melocich against Stone- Webster Co., which corpor represe by of [Kerr and McCord, a jury t of $12,000 for t le an that he the “any” in one of roperly ; that in setting le this verdict, to the plaintiff in keepir and the s A. Ke | incorpor ated the with a ca $25¢ strug asses 1 the Enginee in ation Judge Hanf was the same firn ‘ord set : the Juc used word nse > Hanfe ions im- rd said: (re was five time vere in that case Juc the fo by the it should have at tice lowing fact tl throwing yard! trash I throwed neither It throwed into yard." You gotta er into my “That wasn't my into your yard, [trash what was from the been at the time itisa was taken the my and jus ard next