The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 8, 1912, Page 1

Our friend, Jawn D, is seventy-three . Years old today, and , eh surely jad) | In all your days you'll never a see ; 2 A buskier bloke than old | ~~~ Jawn D. arise VOL. 14. NATOR PILES GRILLED BY McCOY ~ IN HANFORD TRIAL Called to Defend Hanford, Is Questioned About Will Case and the Purpose of His Visit to y Perry—Intimated That He Tried to Have the —Attorney L. Frank Brown Gives Evidence Against Accused Judge. men in the profession,” the witness replied in answer to a query put to in cross examina i subcommittee i Hpvestigating the Inperch dee CH. nim by couns t against Judse on which feferred to the testh ‘of the etreult court beS"" | mony that the judge merely ap is gay this morning by the | peared sleepy, but never was and that he was able to rule clearly at Hemimony tn reference to drunkenness tor Samuel Ht ic ell times The witness said that the judge * was able to rule under the appear ances which he described “not be- cause he was asleep, but in spite of it.” Brown said that he saw the judge take drinks at the Rainier) " club, but could not remember hav. ing seen him at any public bar, De- scribing his appearance when he con- sidered him under the irfiuerce of liquor, the witness said: | “His eyes were bloodshot. His face was flushed. He had a broad watk——a sailor's walk, He would not stagger, but his walk had the indication. of intoxicotian. He |would get his breath with diffi. culty.” Brown was formerty associated | with ex-Senator Samuel H. Piles and ex-Supreme Court Judge Milo Root Judge Albertson on Stand. Jndge RB, Albertson, of the eu perior court took the stand Satur day afternoon and testified that he failed to notice any evidence of in- toxieation tn Judge Hanford ow the night of the Dr. MeCormick lecture at the Albembra theatre. Judge | Albertson presided at thet meet ing The witness sald he did net observe the jadge to any great ex-/ tent that night. Jadge Albertson | had seen Judge Hanford take a} drink oceasionslly at the Rainier) Ireland for the mi) cia and at public functions, but and received 25) never saw him drunk, and was sur-| | prised to hear it suggested. Wit-) ness never saw him drink at bara./ Character Witnesses. | Ira C. Nadeass, formerly manager | of the Northern Pacific, M BL) Haines, a real estate man, G. W./ ide, formerly United States marshal | and customs collector, and EB. C. Cheasty, merchent and native ron,| were called as character witnesses for Judge Hanford, and they all tes tifled that they had never eoen him | under the influence of liquor. W to get Attorney 6 drop the impr ; “fixed! was in : fa queeiions propound W. 1. MeCoy who was called by g attorneys as @ ter withess to testify that ve | never Was Under (he of liquor. ‘anawer to MeCoy's ques to admit that he had Perry within a month Dreamland rink meet friend both of and of Perry to ad-) +t that the charces foundation. This Defore the Impearh had been filed. and hat Judge Hanford told hed heard, through a jho had spoken to Perry, * be forthcoming spent a busy half bour " he didn't know the van will case fiem of attorneys div, wnegiong "asked by Representa & “partner, James BH. torney for the Seatile. Howe was called to. Called. of Piles’ fir! ber nip we eg ee oe | the possible exception of ide, al Hs dad & peculinr.| ‘he witnesses were members of the ‘ ‘dtowny, althoazh Rainier club, to which Jjucge Han | ford belongs Referring to a decision of the a) preme court named by Attorney) Rates of Tacoma, in which the| court cut down the amount of dam) ages in a personal injury case, a) though it had not been asked, Rep resentative MeCoy Saturday after. noon pointed out that the opinion had been written by former Judge Root, and that former Judge Gor court room. don was the attorney for the de} to a direct question by fendant company, the Great North Judge Donworth| ern. MeCoy gave a brief reminder te never grented a new of the fact that Root resigned when other reason than|it was discovered that Gordon had the attornéys arguing written an opinion for him in a case Me, although he explained in which the Great Northern was Judge would have the interested 0 to do. | In all, 70 witnesses had been ex-) Other Character Witnesses jamined on the charge of drun er eh Witnesses called | "E84 up to Saturday night. The 1 of me altention Judge. owerer, contradicted! of Hanford’s friencs se belore today when ae at | exhibited this ‘More in the new federa! recent years than in the Duilding four and more ‘The witness explained) ity partly to poor ven oe sieve ace Men TO Me cp admitted facts on both sides are | en taseieg that Judge Hanford would drink at Mlormeys for the ¢'a-| times, that he also drank at public R.A and the 0.W.,| bar that he would go horn Court stenographer,| "9Mt, that he appeared 6 Gmployed by Piles, Don-}St/eet care and on the bench, that) tH te-tratiéeribe testi |he used to close his ey nod and ie the Sullivan wilt] seem Napping beth on a ‘ C. Bowman, United bench. Witnesses against Judge ‘ ~ {e0| Hanford testified that these were Manteca? *¥P°'""| evidences of intoxication and inat- 16 ov | tentiveness on the bench. Witnes- in nesses *ere eg in favor of Judge Hanford said one testifying @% | that he used to work late at night Hends or close acquaint-|on his decisions, and that he only ‘the judge was never seen |had the havit of closing his eyes them, and that he pos-| and appearing sleepy when he was characterist really engaged in thought. ester aes ots | BAIN TALKS IN LOS ANGELES, July &-—-That Bert H. Franklin, agent for the Me Namara defense prior to the trial of the dynamiters, gave him $400,/ x ly Condition.” } an attorney Practicing in Seattle testified he saw Judge ih 4 condition on the *he considered com-| ; that once the Wim fn an anteroom|a!though it was expressly under oom, and the witn |stood that his vote on the McNa Ht the odor of whiskey,|mara verdict could not be pur- One night he saw the Chased, was the testimony of Robt Pi sich @ distressing condi-|F. Bain in the Darrow trial today. | Pie street car going home| Bain was a juror in the trial of} Melt it his duty to follow|the McNamaras. WO See that be came to nee over and over was the sad- his life to testify to Which he could not artainty as to time of oc- the manner of the the bench, Brown said had a mannerism Wsleep. He was petulant irritated.” described how he ee #feument to the judge} mM time he observed him in Hy drowsy A DANGEROUS CONTENDER tins a patise the judge head quickly and ordered | Brown was sure. ‘| understand your dog didn't get Jo proceed. 1 er, that the judge had gone|a prise at the dog show.” by Cory, The Star's new cartoonist, printed during the Chicago and Baltimore conventions, eagerly for his splendid pen pictures, and they aren't going to be disappointed, They probably will appear several times a week in The Star. See the one about “Grandpa” on page 8 today. NO. MAND“IMPEACH la mysterious personality that dom | of it. 'NEW PARTY’S | leal convention will be held. The Seattle “SEATTLE’S ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JULY 8, 1912 THIS PHYSICAL DWARF BUT MENTAL | GIANT DRAWS $75,000 SALARY | Steinmetz Paid Salary as Big as President's for Knowing More Than Edison About Electricity—Here's His Story. CHARLES PROTE PITTSBURG, July 8.— Walk. ing with @ friend in the lobby of the Scheniey, a Pittsburg woman grasp ed her companion'’s arm with an ex- clamation of amazement. heavens!” she “What's that?” “That,” said her friend, “is Stein metz, who knows more about elec STEINMETZ over twenty bout 25 then. In nine years be was chief com the General ago, He was years sulting engineer for Hlectrie company has inventions said.| Steinmets perfected than 100 tricity than anybedy elise in the world.” “Why!” said the woman, “! thought Edison knew the most about electricity.” What she thought most every body else thinks. About 99 people out of a hundred never even heard the name of Charles Proteus Stein metz, Nevertheless the man was right. Stelomets knows more about electricity than any boty else mission of electrical light and pow ler for jong distances. Also a plan Pittsburg |for controlling transmission. And [many other things too deep and ob- struse for the mind of the layman to grasp. d the General Electric com Fut the mind of Charles Proteus pany pays him $75,000 a year for |Stetnmets «rape ‘em like glue, knowing it Its « regular octopus of a mind. They called him merely Charles | Ideas shriek for help when they at first, but his schoolmates in|fall into ite tentacles, The 18,000 Bresian, Germany, where he was |employes of the General Electric, born, nicknamed him Proteus be-|who let it do thelr high voltege }thinking for them, stand in pro found awe of that mind. ' a mind worth having around. That's why the Gene Electric for=s out $75,000 a year * cause of bia dwarfish form. He is only four feet high now. The nick name stuck. Now he has proved it| & prophetic name by changing him self from a dwarf to a mental giant, | And that's why the rule about Driven from Germany in his|smoking in the General Electric youth, because of socialistic activi. |shops was broken. When the rule ties, Steinmets went first to Zurich, | was made Steinmetz said: and later to America. He landed in| “tll either smoke or get out.” New York penniless, something He stayed and smoked. nates the electrical world —_—_ aa ERE "The territories have no place f [a national convention, and will not be considered,” said Senator Dixon,) in commenting on the signatures, | “The call jays down no rules a# the methods of choosing dele- since each state will be ex d to select its delegates by lis paraphernalia The representation will be cut! down to just one-half of the pre vious conventions, which was deen- ed advisable, since this convention is to be notably a deliberative body, and will certainly be composed of a class of men altogether different from those who usually attend con- ventions. CONVENTION ON AUGUST 5 NEW YORK, July 8.—At Chicago on August 5 another national polit- it will be very different from that Taft- controtied republican convention of last month. It will be the first con- vention of the national progressive party. A call to the people of the United States who are in sympathy with the movement to send delegates to the convention was given out Sun day by Senator Dixon of Montana. Theodore Roosevelt's campaign manager. The call is signed by the committee chosen at Chicago, and bears the signatures of Roose velt followers in 40 states. —— This is the record day for ball money, $2,010 having been put up) by offenders of the law Saturday night and Sunday, Most of the ball was forfeited by the offenders fatl ing to put in an appearance at court this morning et ee Our Representative Called for the fourth time, the other day, upon an adver tisér who really ought to be using The Star, but who has a distinct aversion to advertising men. “The solicitor from The Star to see you,” sang the stenographer to Mr, A. in his private office. “Can't see him,” snapped Mr. A “One minute, Mr. A.,” said our representative. “If I told you I was a reporter, representing over 40,000 families of Star readers and that I wanted some information for them, you'd probably give me a little of your time. Well, I am. I'm not an advertising solicitor to you Iam a representative of over half of the people of this city, readers of The Star, and who want to know what values you can offer them. And they look in this paper to find out. Will you tell them, or will you pass up their trade? i Something in that thought for you, Mr, Advertiser. One Paper in the Homes of Seattle is Worth 10 Papers Outside of Seattle. THE STAR 16 THE HOME PAPER OF SEATTLE taken etree while ‘No-—but I believe he would have he brent deal to go coun-|defeated the winner if bystanders Hon Of #0 many le| hadn't pried them apart.” OVER 40,000 PAID COPIES DAILY. a ilies | more most of which an much to the expert and little or nothing to the layman He invented the mercury arc jiamp, that gives three times as i much Ieht as the old-fashioned arc. He invented the meridian in 7 descent. He Invented various ap pliances for elevator motors, He perfected a scheme for the trans d'him as America’s foremost artist in his line of ' THAINS POET, SIFTING EVIDENCE, FINDS HANFORD IS, ISN’T, WAS, WASN’T The Star's poet, after hearing the various witnesses in the Hanford impeachment hear- ing, in a somewhat baffled mood penned the following : Judge Hanford gets drunk, Judge Hanford does not He does and he doesn’t It's all perfect rot To say that he does When it’s clear that But it’s plain that he was, Though we know that he wasn't he doesn't He nods on the bench, He nods on the car; say that he nc Is wickeder far Than to say that he nod At Bill the Who peddles the stuff That puts folks to slee barkeep For Bill knows a nod Means “the same as before,” While a nod on the ¢ Is as bad as a While a nod on the bench Proves His. Honor has Ly swallowed That's known ar nore ; The Rainier Club Is a club where the richer Guys gather at night And fill up on licker A lie! It’s a lie! A membership vote'll Prove that the club is Strictly teetotal To sum up: Judge Hanford Is, thongh he isn't; And did, though he never Has, up to the present; He would if he could, But he can't, so how can he? He is, isn’t, was, might, But possibly can be. | He's the best and the worst; He's stupid and wise; Condemned by his foes, He's praised to the skies / By friends of the Bar And Big Business Men As the best judge we've had Since goodness knows when! His morals are perfect, His morals are punk; Some one’s telling truth, Some one’s talking bunk; ‘To sort what from which Oh, regard them with pity Is the difficult task of The Judicial Committee. YOUNG GIRL IS TORTURED AND MURDERED (By United Prose Leased Wire) NEW YORK, July 8—Although they have two men under arrest on suspicion, the police today admitted ‘TONOPAH IS) RUINED BY GREAT FIRE, (By Delted Press Leased Wire) |} TONOPAH, Nevada, July 8.—With the greater part of} the town in ashes, ‘Tonopah to-| they’ were completely baffled in) day faces a loss of more than} their efforts to solve the brutal’) $150,000 from fire, which early murder of 12-year-old Julia Com) today swept the business sec nore, assaulted and elain after be- ing ‘horribly tortured while held prisoner in an unocoupied flat at 2968 Third av, The child was found, denuded of clothing, and ly- | tion. Many of the best build-} ings in the camp were destroy-| ed, among them the stock ex change. Nearly all wires into the city were put out of com-| ing in a vacant lot at Third av. and| mission, only that from the 172nd et. yesterday. She was able|/ depot being now in working| to tell nothing fe tas the iden! order. allant. 7 : been working on the crime today | were lost in the blaze pronounced {t the most brutal in The fire started in the the city’s annals, Julia Connors, | who was unusually pretty and) large for her years, disappeared | late Saturday night, Hor frantic parents searched the neighborhood for ber and appealed to the police, but no trace of the child was found | until yesterday, when her body, gashed with knife wounds and bruised With blows from a heavy fist, was found, covered with a plece of stained ollcloth abd stuffed into a box lying in the vacant lot Knights of Pythias hall and, spreading fast, consumed the “Bonanza” newspaper plant, two two-story business houses and a number of dwellings. No] mining property suffered and stdck market operations will | be unaffected despite the des truction of the structure in which the exchange did busi- tigued by an arduous Sunday, spent receiving guests and declaring that he was “away behind in his work,” IN SEATTLE John ©. Mitchell, one of the fore. | most labor leaders in the United |Gov. Wilson gave out word that he States and former president of the | was “not at home” to anybody be United Mine Workers arrived in|fore noon, Seattie this morning. He will ad-| Gc Wilson this afternoon had dress a meeting at the Labor Tem: | appointme nts with Senator Gore of Star wz HOME EDITION |owned and contretied by jing Railroad Co. work, Star readers have got into the habit of look- While common men must daily toil, Jawn golfs with keen de- light, And reflects with joy, while others moil, On the upward trend of the price of oil, “PROSTITUTED HIS OFFICE FOR PRIVATE PROFIT,” IS CHARGE Judiciary Committee of House of Representatives De- mands Impeachment of Commerce Court Judge in Sensational Formal Complaint. (By United ress Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, July 8—Formal demand that Judge W. Archbaid of the United States commerce court be impeached for “misbehavior and high crimes and misdemeanors” was made to the house of represen- tatives today by the judiciary com- mittee. The committee declared Archbald’s “sense of moral respon- sibility has become deadened” and that he “has prostituted his high of- fice for personal profit.” Thirteen articles of impeachment were presented in the resolution, The judiciary committee’s report, filed supplementary to these formal demands, bristied with denunciation f Archbald. “General Misbehavior.” “The testimony ina he whole is the report says, “tends to support the general specification of eral misbehavior. Judge Arch- inted a United States for the Middle dis of Pennsylvania, March 29, 1901, and held that office until Jan- iary 31, 1911, when he was appoint- Jed an additional United States cir- uit jodge and designated one of the judges of the United States com- merce court The testimony shows that at dif- ferent times, while Judge Archbald was a judge of the United States) district court, he sought and obtained credit, and in other instances! sought to obtain credit from persons who had litigation pending in bis/ court The testimony shows that after Judge Archbald had been promot ed to the position of United States circuit judge and had been designat- ed as ond of the judges of the commerce court, he, in conjunction with different persons, sought to obtain options on eulm dumps and other coal properties from officers and agents of coal companies which were railroa npanies The committee summed up the actions as “having grossly abused the proprieties of his position as a judge. “PROSTITUTED OFFICE” “The conduct of this judge.” the report states in conclusion, “is exceedingly reprehensible, and in marked contrast with the high sense of judicial ethics und probity that generally characterizes the federal judiciary. Th ublic respect for the judicial branch of our government has almost amounted to reverence. “Your committee of the opinion that Judge Archbald’s sense of moral responsibility has become deadened. He has prostituted hie high office for persona! profit. He has attempted, by various trans actions, to commercialize his potentiality as judge. He has shown overwhelming desire to make gainful bargains with parties having cases before him or likely to have cases before him. To accompl this pur- pose he has not hesitated to use his official power and influence. He has degraded his high office and has destroyed the confidence of the public in his judicial capacity. He has violated the conditions upon which he holds his cormmission and should be removed from his office by impeachment.” JUDGE ARCHBALD IMPEACHMENT ARTICLES The articles of impeachment aim to enumerate as many as thirteen distinct offenses upon which the committee asserts Archbald sheuld be stripped of his judicial ermine Article 1 cites Archbald’s alleged partnership with E. J. Wiliams of Scranton, Pa., for purchase and sale of the Katy Did coal dump during the time that the Erie railroad, owner of that dump, was concerned in litigation before bis court Article 2 deals with the Marion Coal company deal, declaring that, at the time of “Archbald’s alleged interest in the speculation, the Lack- awanna railroad, owner of the coal company, was concerned in ltiga- tion before the commerce court Article % cites the alleged negotiations for the purchase of a dump from the Lehigh Valley Coal Co., ne: enandoah, Pa Article 4 deals with Archbald’s alleged misconduct in legislation brought before the commerce court by the LouisviHe & Nashville rail- lroad, where he is charged with “secretly, wrongfully and unlawfully” d regarding a witness. communicating with the attorney of the The fifth indictment cites the alie al with Frederick Warnke of Scranton, in coal lands owned directly by the Philadelphia & Read- charging Archbald with wrongfully fluence officials of the coal company to nt Warnke The charge is also made that Archbald “corruptly, willfully and unm lawfully” accepted as a gift from Warnke, a promissory note for $500, presumably for his services in the matter. i Article 6 alleges Archbald improperly and corruptly attempted to juse his influence as a judge with e Lehigh Valley Railway Co., te interest in the Everhart coal lands of Pennsylvania. secu ninth article conc Archbald’s alleged action on a $600 note, presented through John Henry Jones, to C. H, Van Storeh, for dis- count, Van Storch at that time being an attorney in Archbald's district court at Scranton, and shortiy before having secured a victory for his clients in one of Archbald’s decisions. “A TRIP ABROAD” The tenth article charges acceptance by Archbald at the time he was a district judge of a “large sum of money,” presented by Henry W. Cannon, then largely interested in corporations concerned in litigation before Archbald; the gift, the report says, being made so that Arch. bald might take a trip aproad. Its acceptance from “an official of cor- porations liable to be interested in litigation in his court,” the article declares, “was improper and had a tendency to and did bring his office of district judge into disrepute.” Article 13 is a general indictment against the judge for “his gen- eral business of speculation and profit” while a commerce court judge and a denunciation of his alleged effort to compromise litigation before the interstate commerce commission.” READ TO HOUSE The report and the full text of the impeachment articles were read to the house, Chairman Clayton then asked that action on the matter be deferred until tomorrow *| RILEY ESCAPES — = a a ® * WEATHER FORECAST *| Dan Riley, who was sentenced to * Fair tonight, Pies gpmd Pho = four months in May for grand lar- *® and warm 8 westerly 2 pscape 2c - |X winds. ‘Temperature at noon, * ceny, escaped from the county jail xen % yesterday, He had been working i * as an outside trusty, and while en- * i gag Oe ee ee ee 1 in his work walked off. - WOODROW WILSON’S BEST JOKE Here is Woodrow Wilson's best joke, He uses it in speeches to iNustrate running from fright: “A Southern negro dashed madly into his master’s house one evening and said a man had chased him with a knife and had then shot at him, “Did he hit you?’ asked the master. ‘*‘Mighty near it, sah,’ replied the negro. ‘He just missed me an inch,’ : **Did you hear th. bullet?” “Yes, sir; | heard it twice; onct when it passed me and onct Yklahoma and W. F. MeCombs of ple this afternoon. Mr. Mitchell New Jersey will be In the city for several days. when I passed it