The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 13, 1912, Page 1

Letters Cynthia Grey's letters are so jmteresting you can’t afford to . miss reading them. See page 5 VOL. 14. NO. DOSEVEL PRS EET ST BODY KNOWS WHO WILL BE WINNER AT CHICAGO CONVENTION” he Roosevelt Nor Taft Has Enough Instructed eles for Nomination—Uninstructed Delegates ‘Hold the Balance of Power in Big Game. ‘Star today prints the third special dispatch received during three days from noted correspondents at the Chicago conven first was from Gilson Gardner and the second from Oliver | | Each story was written “from the inside” of convention at) w is pretty positive that Roosevelt will be nominated, an | Taft will be winner, and Rickey today says that “no- * The stories, taken together, present three distinct “an gonvention views.) BY H. N. RICKEY (Special to The Star.) dune 13.—There is no law against political prophecy, thing about this republican preconvention situation, standpoint, is that one man's prophecy is as good as ‘?, scores of men here, journalists, statesmen, ntarstates- i who are perfectly certain that they know just what happen—who is going to be nominated for president, on what the platform is going to be, etc., etc. fe that nobody has the slightest idea what is going to the history of American politics there never has been a Matien situation pregnant with more possibilities Pmay be renominated, Roosevelt may be nominated, they both ‘ ed, neither may be nominated. Events may so. stape that either La Fi tte or Cummins, the only other avowed may be chosen. And finally, it is not at all beyond the pessibility tha: some man not yet mentioned, at the psycho : . when the upwards of a thousand delegates and thelr at grips. may say or do a thing whieh will make him the Bryan did at Ciiicago, 16 yeare ago. certain: Neither Taft nor Roosevelt has enough instructed nominate him, assuming that all, or nearly all, of the con the national committee are decided In Taft's favor, which + not much difference in strength between Taft and Roose- $ led delegates, the advantage being slightly with Taft. ot INSTRUCTED DELEGATES HOLD BALANCE & Or Roosevelt be able to win enough of the non-instructed * give him the votes necessary to nominate? The Tat man ‘ The Roosevelt managers say yes. In both cases the to the thought. It fs doubtful whether any man in either confidence which the statements given out from time to to convey ote” and claimsare altogether bluff for the moral delegates and the folks back whether any man wil) know with any degree of cer- uninstrocte’ delegates are going to line up until the ‘has been completed, at the opening seusion of the con- Tuesday. In the meantime, the most energetic, craftiest, pus, political manipulators in the country will be Mninstructed deleagtes .to win them either to the Taft cause. Of course, efforts are being made to win © to either side, and large claims of success along this made by both Taft and Roosevelt managers. Bat it is ie that much headway will be made in this direction. ¢ been calied for the biggest game of politics since the of the republican party. Political history is going to be r the next few days. it is not too much to say that the fthe party which, excepting eight years, has been in control government for 50 years is to be determined. = |AY N JONAH DAY” ts no “Jonah” day for family, nor is the 13th Jndging by the Cayid Court house tory is June brid.s ft Y day at t ise window thir Bone of that | ~ Johnson of Portiand escorted W. O. Johnson Clande Gage, |onched at ® on the calendar, and} THAN FISH STORY on June 14. 19tz. | his morn-| LINDSAY, Cal, June 13.—Seized #1 thos| with a severe fit of coughing, Mrs. J_ A. Meens coughed up a live cen- jtipede. It had been in her stom jach since she swallowed It, four years ago in Arizona, and had be come restless. Wee LOS ANGELES, Jane 13.—Act- ling upon orders of their officers | 1,500 anion men affiliated with the} Los Angeles building trades councit| struck today. Only men who were at work on jobs where other than union labor was employed were called out Work on half a dozen buildings in course of construction m the business district was suspended. Contractors late today were making strenuous efforts to fill the places of the strikers with non-union men. i Bese eee nne IR FORECAST & Tain tonight and & Ainidliivenaionrcniccajnaitiamiiie Moderate southwest #| PORTLAND, Or. June 13.—At “Temperature at noon, ®|the meeting of the Pacific Coast «| Advertising Men's association here| demonstration in hope of stamped-| # it wae decided to hold the 191% con- S88 eH 4 4 4 eee! vention In Sacramento, BOALT SEES ooh WE Note—Seqres of dramatic critics, scores of noted men ef tWo nations have seen and written about Maude Adams’ “Chantecier’ Columns upon columns, pages upon pages y, but it is doubtful if anything more | any one has seen the true meaning than Mr. Pred L. Boalt of The Star staff. MW Miss Adams in the “Chantecler” at the Metropolitan His story about it all follows.) BY FRED L. BOALT bag St. Patoo, the dim, had stretched his old bones across kennel and was preparing for -s" he growled, drowsily, “of adawn.. . . as alittle... puppy's... belly... Dt or if Bi te wad BY and pink hen id Pato it} | And then—we didn’t. We laughed becau 4 ridiculous dream. We stopped laughing becau Upon us that it was a beautiful dream—for a dog. More rf @ dog who was the father of many puppie tea a baby's ear’ it's as perfect as wax or the inside of a! ot 44 rosy pink as the sky before the sun tops the Cascade 7 Proper perspective when you go to see “Chantecler } Maude Adams is wonderful—and who would think 00) could brag and strut and crow when once she'd donned | the feathers of the cock? But more wonderful than all} Benius of that French dreamer, Rostand, who could see all} in the fowls of his barnyard. We who filled the Metro-| T h 89. __ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1912. Samson Is Coming to Chicago And Samson said: T WINS en a “Let me die with the Philistines,’ and he bowed: himself with all his might, and the SBT: — ONE CENT iw e Sta HOME EDTION HIS FIRST BIG VICTORY “HIS MISSOUR AINS AND 5 STANDS Be DELEGATES SEATED For First Time National | Committee Shows Dispo- | sition to Sift Claims to} the Bottom. | (By United Presse Leased Wire) CHICAGO, June 13,—-Theodore Roceevelt’s first big virtory before the republican national committee | was cored this afternoon, when the Roosevelt delegates at large from Missouri were seated over the Taft contestar For the first time fince the hearing of the con teste started, the Taft members of | the committee showed @ disposition | to go te the very bottom cf a con | teat and as a result the Roopevelt! delega'es proved to the srtipfaction | of the comm'tice that there was no question as to the legality of the'r election. | Motion by Penrose motion vo seat the ree of or Cr radical committer took In the »rine to the Roosevelt | and lawyers j there were eight dele | each with half a] elected from Mixsourl. Thi desired that the rep ntation from that state be the game as in other sta the proposition was made that the first) four names put on the list of dele gates to the national convention be made the aul elegates, each | with a fall vote, and the four other delegates be made alternates. As/ ™ delegates Senator F t who, with Sens chysetts, hav the two me the Penrose oo of Mas erized ane chara Taft men The! contest ae on lead came a8 @ Surp committeeny Original at large, natio gates yote committe and IN CHICAGO MONDA (By Unites Press Lessee Wired CHICAGO, June 13.—-Theodore Roosevelt will arrive next Monday in Chicago, to personally lead his fight for the presidential nomina- tion before the republican national convention, if the plans of his chief Hievtenants here teday do not go awry. When Roosevelt arriv: in the city a monster demonstration will be organized to convince the dele- gates of his popularity. His boom- ers believe that 100,000 Roosevelt shouters will yell for their leader, and this move wil! influence enough of the delegates to give Roosevelt control. Following the announcement that a hurry up call had been sent for Roosevelt, the Taft leaders, includ ing Wm. H. Barnes, Jr. of New York, Senator Penrose of Pennayl vania, Senator Crane of Massa chusetts and Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin held a long conference. Later they declared they expected the Roosevelt people to attempt a ing the convention, The Jaft lead. duty, and, lo, the sun bas risen! Ww too, have our owls, eject the noisy ones, although | may start a riot on the floor of the convention. Chairman Barnes of the New York state republican committee, who is the head and front of Taft's Steering brigade, announced today | that he had talked with all the egation leaders here, and says that he has a list of signed delegates which shows that President Taft will have a clear majority. Up to this morning the commit tee had seated 142 contestants, Roosevelt getting but one delegate FREDERICKSON ON TRIAL. O. FP. Frederickson, found guilty in the justice court of violating leight-hour law for women is on trial today upon hia appeal before a jury In Judge Giiliam's court. He is charged with having worked Mins Matilda Primely for 14 houre on April 6 in a lanch and deélicaty.sen shep on Pike st KILLED BY ELECTRICITY. The Electrical Workers’ union, local No, 77, today received a tele gram stating that Ray Casey, for merly of that local, was electro- cuted while at work in the shops of the British Columbia Electri¢ company, Vancouver, B. C., yeetor ers admit they have arranged to day at 4:50 pm “<CHANTECLER” AND WRITES ABOUT IT | who hate the light; our sneaking, prowling cats; our vain peacocks; our sneering, cynical magples; our pedantic woodpeckers, wisdom. We have our game cocks, whose ery is all of “Kill! Kini” have our snobs and climbers and soc —in the barnyard Chantecler” tells us of hidden forces which control our destinies: Presently another's song is heard. song is hushed in death “There must always be,” it is cler, “a nightingale in the forest.” gabbling Greek definitions learned by rote and calling it We 1 pretenders. We are all there is a faithful mirror—-and more. It The nightingale’s explained to the wondering Chante- And so there must, Chantecler is humbled and almost broken by the knowledge that his morning song does not summon the dawn. The barnyard needs bim. | must be kept among the quarreling hens The beasts in the barn, stupid souls, have come to Ji them when breakfast time has come. work to do. to scratch for bu rely on him to Duty is bigger and returns to the ra than love. He | barnyard. And mesh of the net pins her golden feathers to the earth. iny—on the hunter’s table. the end, and she fulfills her de But he still has his He ie still master there. Order The chicks must be tanght aves the pheasant hen in the forest she falls into the hunter’s trap; the For her it is She is a woman to the last—~a little weak and foolish--an easy prey to jealousy; but she rejoices that ¢ “T, too, They are forest. They strike a pretty fair han bad in them. Yhantecler has escaped, have my work,” she says. all very human—these goo d folks of the barnyard and average—and so do we, There is AIS. RECOUNT aUlT Juice Albertaon at noon today threw a thurderbolt ir the Gill camp when he ruled with the Cot terill attorneys that before the bal lot boxes may be opened for a re count, there must be a showing made, by competent evidence, that there had actually b some fraud iu counection with the original count The Gill complaint charges that in some ofthe precincts voting was allowed at irregular hours, This the court held must be shown be- fore the ballot boxes would be opened. On Monday, the Gill at torneya took {it for granted that Judge Albertson's ruling as to a re count was broad enongh to excase them from offering any testimony whatever, but that a recount would be had upon the mere proof that the ballct boxes had not been tam. pered with since election day Refore the actual counting of bal lots should be begun, the Cotterill attorneys have one more motion to make. This lest one is to require the Gill contestants to show, by ac tual testimony, that any oallots in any “precinct, were miscounted in| favor of Cotterill, Should the court) rule with the Cotter}! attorneys on} thie péint, and the Gill attorneys fail to produce such proof, there will be no recount Five more students who voted In| the recent municipal election were declared disqualified by Judge Al bertson this morning in the contest of Hi Gill against Mayor Cotterill All five said that they had voted for Cotterill BANKER IS" FOUND DEAD my "ress Leased Wire) SAN JOSH, Cal., Jane 18.—James Costa, a prominent private banker of this city, was found dead today | by his wife, hanging tn the loft of a@ barn at his residence. Costa, who was found on the morning of February 28 tied to a} chair in his bank, with the safe door open and papers littering the floor, | stated that he had been robbed of | $4,000 by two men, Since then he| had been moody and despondent Gov. Hadley headed the delegation, he quickly agreed to this propost tion. Taft Gets Others. The Taft delegates in sissipp! contests which preceded that from Missouri, practically uwept the board. With the excep | tion of the &th Mississippi district, | where the delegation was split,| Tatt and Roosevelt each being! given a delegate, the other cc | were decided in favor of the men, they being seated from Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth Seventh distncts MAN FOUND DEAD WITH — ROPE ON NECK What is believed to be another suicide was discovered last night when T. Numaumi, a Japanese maid at the Alps hotel, King and May nard, unlocked the door of room 520, and found its occupant, Benja min 8. Ashworth, in bed, dead A rope was wound around his neck, and two pairs of socks, rolled into a ball and covered with saliva were found on the bed near his head It was thought at first) glance that murder had been com-| mitted, but after an examination | of the room, the bed and the body itself, everything pointed to suicide The rope, which was wound around his neck, was an ordinary trank rope. A nose was formed in the end, slipped around the neck of the man and then the rope was) wound, again and again, each turn} being apparently tighter than the one before. The door from the inside. ee “the Mis-| tosts Taft | the} and and | was locked} *) *| * * *® —Proclamation ‘we day by Mayor Rolph ordering * *® that the United States * ® be unfurled over eve j building in San ‘© morrow, June 14, the 135th an * niversary of the adoption of * the Stars and Stripes as the * national banner SAN FRANCISCO, June 13 was made to- eebeeeee ee ee ee po You KNOW That the average value of farm land in the state of Washington is $44.18 per acre, and that ten years ago it was only worth $11.68? That there still are 1,977,000 acres of unappropriated govern ment land in this state? That 1,500,000 acres of this land is in Indian reservations, and that this wii. soon be thrown open? That in Western and Southwest ern Washington alone there are land Weatherby Acounrel —SAMUEL JOHNSON. r T Do man . R. Aide you was formerly social aide to Roosevelt? know Seattle young Story on page 4 CONGRESS UNANIMOUS - FOR INVESTIGATION OF HANFORD CHARGES | Authorizes Judiciary Committee to Make Investigation Sub-Committee Will Come to Seattle to Begin the Probe. (By United Press Leases Wire) WASHINGTON 13 The h ithorized Chairman June use today 4 Clayton of the diciary committee to investi the against United States Judge C H. Hanford of Seattle by Con gressinen Norris and Be ger, and unanimously invested the judiciary committee with power to begin a thorough in quiry gate allegations filed In accordance with the com After house comm Chair yton announced that the sub-committee, come posed of Representatives James {M. Graham of Illinois, Walter 1, McCoy of New Jersey and | Edwin M. Higgins of Connec jcut will go to Seattle to taka testimony against Judge Hane ford tee, LABOR COUNCIL DEMANDS REMOVAL OF HANFORD Declaring that the charges pre sented against Judge C. H. Hanford in the impeachment proceedings in congress are matters of common knowledge, the Seattle Central La bor Council, at its meeting last night unanimously adopted resolu- tions urging congress to go ahead immediately with the investigation, and “to rid Western Washington of a judge who has proven himself meray and temperamentally un- it” The full text of the resolutions is as follows Whereas, There have been intro- duced in congress resolutions in stituting impeachment proceedings against Corneilus H. Hanford, dis- trict judge for the Western district of Washington; and Whereas, The charges presented bear out the common knowledge of the decisions and persona! habits of said C. H. Hanford, district judge and Whereas, It is been seen in public public claimed he has places and on conveyances, and on the | bench during the progress. of trials, in a beastly and, = of intoxicat NO TIME FOR Wh Hi the citizenship Olsson becaw in the ist abridging the right guaranteed eve ery citizen of foreign nativity; be it Resolved, That we urge congress to immediately take up the inves tigation demanded by the impeach- ment charges, to the end that West- ern Washington be rid of a judge who bas proven himself morally, and temperamentally unfit for the position How Hanford Explains It. ch to members of Alkt of the Native Sons of Washington, Judge Hanford . last night, at a benquet at the Hotel Frye, said that it was not he who is on trial in the impeachment pros ceedings, but that it Is constitution: al government “Evil influences,” he said, “are here to try the spirit and the man- hood of our people, threatening the institutions of our country and our constitutional rights. I believe you are all my friends, and that you will agree with me that it is not myselg who is on trial before the nation, but that ft is the constitutional gove + decision revoking papers of Leonard of his membership party, thereby In @ spe camp, No. HONEYMOON. CHICAGO, June 13.@Mrs. Moore is for anything pro- bet,” Pittsburg L r, whe gressive, you ared the actress, in Pitts g yesterc political situation here in tl “We times,” Mrs. & Field company in the cast did not have much t inued Moore Moore is filling ee an BIG SLIDE OF ROCKS CAUSED BY CLOUDBURST (By United Pre Leared Wire) HUNTINGTON, Or., June 13.—A cloudburst today caused a slide of earth and rocks on the main line of the O..W. R. & N. between Lime in Baker county, Or, No one was injured, The slide is about 400 feet long and completely blocks all east and west traffic. Two hundred men were rushed to the scene of the slide and put to work clearing the track. It will be impossible to clear the track before night. jay “S} engagement Alex P. Moore, proprietor of married Lillian Russell, the Moore is taking in the interests of Col, Roosevelt ne for a honeymoon in these is working and so am I.” the Weber with ‘PRYOR ON TRIAL AGAIN | Charles Pryor, the ex-policemam whose conviction of sensational white slavery charges preferred agairst him by Miss Regna Abrame son, a 19-year-old Norwegian girl, was reversed by the supreme court, was again put on trial in Judge Ronald's court this mornitie. Miss Abramson charges that Pryor kept her a prisoner for three weeks in a First av. house, Three charges, bearing upon her complaint, had originally been filed against Pryor. One was la dropped. Another re- sulted in a disagreement of the ‘jury first, and an acquittal on sec ond trial. WHAT’S THE LESSON ABOUT TONIGHT? What does Advertising, the new educator, say? Much Travel? and other resorts where cool Land? Some Eastern W tility described on page 7. N Of interest to you? Quebec, the Seaboard, the North country, That's better. breezes blow on August days ashington farms and their fer- earby farms listed in a goodly number in the classified columns. Toilet requisites? page Clothes? Surely dren An abundance of them—most any 2 a representation of the best stores in Seattle which sell clothing for men, women and chil- FIGHTING MAD HILLSBORO, Cal, June 13.— Four prominent clubmen, members of the “milliopatre militia” here, are fighting mad. Pntering a lead ing San Fraftcisco cafe in they uni- forms, they were promptly expelled with the curt remarly “We don't fe soldiers.” more good 7 ¥ j There’s a lesson tonight on a subject in which you are most interested—somewhere in the advertising columns of he Star. if ‘ Purn the pages and find it. Over 40,000 Paid Copies Daily to root jas} night recognized ourselves in the feath- uppeta on the wt the play, is, lu!l 6f—~lessons? No; reminders. end had, wise and foolish, gods and devils. In our human society Ghanteclers who imagine thé sun wr they summon it—vain, mi rful men. And we have Jealous of their Chantec for their work, They, F seded of their lords and masters, wh edie their secre’ lon them in gentie,»ioving étuel ty res the phestant hen, with ner wiles males Chantecler forget his 2,000,000 = acres” of logged-over lands? That the state school grants subject to sale amount to 2,083,501 acres? That the new official name of China is “Chung Hua Min Kuo, * building in San Francisco to- * ple’s Own State?” The best of all I like Patoo, Chantecler’s faithful friend. He is the barnyard realizing his own limitations, humbly family man of th r : 0 wo td, Ese fi ‘Sa well ‘in that state of Tife to which it has pleased God to call him. And you can wish your friends no better wish than that they may dream of a dawn as rosy and pink a baby’s ear—or a little puppy's ey ens Adama dpened her engagement of four performances at the Metropolitan last night, . | Tha and tand| or lease ye