The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 19, 1912, Page 1

Air there is eVen more than on Queen Anne. it interesting. | i's SAID SAL } Federal Investigators Making His Land Deal With the No of Injunctions in the Recall Are Subjects of Today Indicating that the congressio! Hanford Irrigation Co. road, the government the record a 5) servation Congress in 1909. In thi reclamation service, the Pinchot mercifully. and its pu investigate GoT According to the testimony of agent of the Northern Pacific Co., from the railway 12,000 acres of Plummer testified that when of those lands, the company had tt had with the federal reclamath _ leased from this obligation, the ¢ Plummer testified. According to Plummer. Were sold to Hanford at |, acre. the lands 50 per Would Accommodate Him Plummer revealed one letter from Capitol Hill | Read Fred L. Boait’s story on page 7. You'll find Investigation. ance to the developments already a ch made by Judge Hanford before the National Cov. rarified vo cathe “NO. ~ SEATTLE’S ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER 120. JUDGE’S LETTER ° E- WOULD ACCOMMODATE HIM Rapid Progress, but Will Not | Be Able to Finish Probe This Week—Hanford’s Can Topper, rthern Pacific and His Granting aud the Renton Transfer Cases nal committee attach great import made in the investigation of the! N. P. rail} rohase of land from the ; exhibit. in re today entered 8 speech Judge Hanford attacks the policies, and Mays conservation un 12,000 ACRES Western sales acquired which | George H. Plummer, the Hanford Irrigation Co. land in Eastern Washington the reciamation aapticiniant had kept in reserve as long ax possible Hanford first applied for the purchase to refuse because of an agreemont jon service. As soon as it was re ompany made the sale to Hanford, / In corroboration of his testimony several days ago, Frank Burpee, the Bellingham inventor of salmon can- ning devices, filed a letter with the! Hanford investigation committse| which he claimed was written by the judge in which the latter bluntly urged that the lands be sold to him, beth from aivantageous business reasons “as well as from any desire the officera may have to accommo- date me.” Piummer read one of his own let- _ ers in which he urged the higher __ officials of the company to give | ford “special consideration.” Acquired Schoo! Lands. Asked by Representative MoCo: he meant by that reference er replied that he would) used the same expression if other high publie official and responsible man made a similar offer. As soon as the agreemen with the reclamation service ex red, the Northern Pacific sold the, to the Hanford Irrigation Co., the witness testified. It developed from the testimony of H. L. Klock yesterday that the Hanford con also acquired 67,000 acres of ae ‘te schoo! lands. Klock charged there had been no adequate od-| Yertising of the proposed sale of these lands. Plummer haf with him all of the jence of the N. P. upon : the subject, and he constantly re’ ferred to the letters for his informa.) tion. These showed, said the wi ness, that the railway people had withdrawn from sale the lands de) sired by Hanford, aecording to an Agreement with the government, reclamation service. Judge Han- ford, said. Plummer, rg several letters and met with the N. P. of ficiais’ in two or ‘hree confereneos at Tacom: Won't Finish This Week pite the rapid progress made erday and today the govern it Investigators wij} not able fo finish their work tomorrow night ax they had planned Hanford Injunctions. Both the Gill recall and the tle, Renton & Sc ern injunction suits were the subject of investiga- tion this morning. Both were brief- Ty reviewed in oral testimony, the cominkttee apparently relying chief: ly on court records in those cases be Those who testified were Walter Shaffner, attorney for Gill in the Frank. H. Scobey “seven-cent tax case, in which Judge Hanford grant ed 4 restraining order against the expenditare of any money by city officials to hold the recall election Wilmon Tucker, attorney for the Public Welfare league, who opposed the Scobey suit; Scott Calhoun, cor poration counsel during Gil and the Renton contests, and How ard D. Hughes, assistant corpora tion counsel Preceding them, V attorney for Sutcliffe Baxter in sev eral receiverships, testified that most of the ereditors objected to the $65,000 bid of the Stone-Fisher Co. on the McCarthy bankrupt stock Referee in Bankruptcy John P. Hoyt testified to the laws governing re ceiverships and bankruptcy matters. Guard Expense Ghaffner testified that Jndge Hanford refused to grant. an in anction of such latitude that the eity officials would not have the right to “incur for the purpose of the er McClure, recall tlon. The judge said that he did not want to stop the election, said Bhaffner, but merely wanted to oard a taxpayer from unnecessary expense. Accordingly, sald the hess, Judge Hanford narrowed the injunction order to prevent merely “actual paying out of money Tucker corroborated this, but added that any “‘restraining order Of that kind” would tend to preju dice the ali, as the day for hold ing the election was drawing near Calhoun testified along the same Mine. & also «touched briefly on the Renton injunction case. How ard Hughes, his assistant, who han dled that case, followed with more detail Sued Own Company. The testimony showed that in the last case, the Peabody trustees of the Henton . tine brought suit Against their own company to stop ¢ company from [yt more than a nickel fare This bore out the charge fn ™ impeachment complaint that) midge Hanford, by granting first restraining order without no tice to the city officials, officially countenance ed collusion in that tase * Calhoun testified that he did not know Judge Hanford ever called him by telephone on thig matter, a6 Attorney Preston for Hanford in- an indebtedness” | wit-} “refusing to col-| "on its) the | ee earlier in the investigation. | Attorney E. S. McCord. It urged Burpee to see Judge C. H. Hanford about the latter's invention of a can) topper. The interview which fol-| lowed, in the judge's chambers, ac- Jeording to the witn: occurred be- |fore Judge Hanford had fixed the amount of damages against Burpee [in three patent infringement cases. The letter, in part, follows: on Saturday Judge Hanford Hed me into his private office] and showed me the plan for his | proposed machine for can topping He is desirous of having a sample machine made as soon as possible, | and says he would like to have you | make it for him. He left for Spo kane today, and will return here on Saturday night. He would like to have an fnterview with you next Sunday along with myself. 1 think it would be well for you to) | bring down a little drawing of your machine so that you can show it to him in advance. I would like for| the court to see your plan of your machine before he submits his plan to you. | think it is worth while) for you to come down and see him in regard to this machine, whether you make any agreement with hiro about it or not. I very much desire that you meet him next Sunday.| Kindly tet me know at once wheth ler you can come down on that day We will consider it a personal favor if you will do so.” The witness said thi MeCord, | however, told him that unless he} was “on the market to buy” the| Hanford patent, the judge did not care merely to show it to him. Burpee told MeCor@ that he did not want to buy, he testified. Accord: ingly, McCord did all the talking In the judge's cha 8, and explained the situation to the judge. sald the witness. Hoe admitted on cross-ex-} amination that Judge Hanford neve talked with him directly about pur-} chasing the patent “Steam Roller’ Tactics. George M. Gibbs, a wealthy Van-! couver, B. C., man, complained to/ the committee yesterday of “steam roller” tactics.in the Western Stee! Corporation bankruptcy case. Gibbs is a heavy stockholder in the com-) pany. He said he made hit objec tions against the hasty sale of the) assets of the company to the Metro- politan Trust Co. for approximately $650,000. Gibbs pointed out that the steel company's property on Graham island alone was easily! worth $700,000, he I attempted show,” said] Gibbs, “that the Metropolitan Trust Co. would not have loaned the com $600,000 unless the secur “| was worth mutch more} erty t I objected to rushing matter Gibbs asked the committee to as | certain, if possible, what figures the| uators placed upon| tee! Corporation Co. Metropolitan \ the Western | property: Peterson Again. M. Peterson, the timber} land owner, who testified last week] that he saw Judge Hanford drook| on two or three occasions, and who} made the charge that practicafiy | every business man in Seattle and} every member of the Rainier club knew that Judge Hanford got | drunk, was recalled yesterday, He} fixed January 27 of this year as th date on which he saw Judge Han ford intoxicated the Rainier bar. Starr of the Stone-Fisher Co. corroborated the testimony of George H, Stone yesterday that an offer of $65,000 had been made by that company for the bankrupt Mc Carthy store, which was rejected by Judge Hanford. Stone's bid was to pay $10,000 cash and $15,000 every month until paid. He testified that there was no question raised about the security of his bid, but that it | was rejected on the objection of an| attorney who said a Chicago cred-| | Charles itor was coming to §eattle, and wanted a postponement of the sale As it eventually turned out, Judge Hanford’s receiver, Sutcliffe Bax- ter, ran the business at a dead lose for a number of months, and the creditors finally got less than $11, {000 out of it. Mrs. B. J Olive! er, or, 8045 Lafay@tte Place, swallowed half of a two- jounce bottle of carbolie acid rg lmorning in anfattempt Mt suiclde Dr, 1. B. Green summoned and got there in time to save her life. She would give no reason for her attempt. | who “invested” | vacuum cle SPEAKER CLARK AND GOV, WILSON’S HOME IN 8E. ING SINCE THY BALTIMORE ee against him. WOODROW GIRT, N con J VENTIO:! ARCHBALD MUST BE READY FOR HIS TRIAL BY JULY 29 By United Press Leased Wire.) WASHINGTON, July 19.—Sitting as a high court of im-| Horus had never been recorded, back to mony of their own In the garden of the old Longfellow home at Cam-| . | bridge, To make it legal the words were read by a justice of peace in front of the grandstand this after- Numerons love letters were tn- ately the bridegroom, who bas just finished a seven-year "000. And an Industrial Pages, SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, ld 19, 1912, i WILSON SNAPPED AT THEIR FIRST MEET- eT | peachment, the senate today gave Judge Archbald of the com- merce court until July 29 to prepare his defense to the charges} TDWORGEE TELLS OF SEATTLE FRIEND Pretty Woman in Portland Sues for $50,000 for Breach of Promise. (iy United Prem Leased Wire.) PORTLAND, Or,, July “19.—Mre. Helen M. Goodeve, 28, a pretty di- vorcee of San Francisco, today was to continue her testimony in her suit for $60,000 damages for breach of promise against R. H. Thompson, jts adopted son of R. H. Thompson, #r., one of the heirs to the imme e of R. R. Thompson, a Port- land pion | On the witness stand, Mrs, Good. eve toxtified In response to Thomp son's pleadings #be obtained a di vorce and prepared to marry him. settling up her affairs in San Fran glaco and coming to Portland last year. She declared then the de fendant refused to keep his prom. ise. She wants $50,000 damages for alleged breach of promine to marry | ber Mra, Goodeve friends in San told of telling her} Francisco of - her} ¢omiag marriage to the prominent | Young Portlander, at whose wish Bhe asserted she procured a divas “| from her formér husband, She de-| seribed in detail the numerous pres. ents that had been en her by| California friends ne these friends she mentioned a Mr. Casey of San Francisco, whom she said] had given her $209. As an lilustra-| tion of the material damage she} bad suffered through Thompson's) nileged breach of promise she testl-| fied that William B. Hofins, of Se attle, “a good friend,” had, before | Thompson gave bis allesed promise to marry her, presented her With a deed to $50,000 worth of property in Seattle. When she thought she was going to marry Thompron she tertified she gave the deed, which troduced as well as much evidence regarding lovers’ and Mra. Goodeve were alleged to) Indications are that the senate desires to push the trial to|have taken in San Francisco. The a conclusion before the adjournment of the present session. After Archbald’s defense is in, the house prosecutors will —" were addressed to “Dear be given until August 3 to reply. ow | Attorney Worthington, for Archbald, stated today that cae throughout the jurist would plead not guilty. Nil nos. Archbald was in acm senate, ate, accompanied by his eat ee and her eyes filled with) ears, LINCOLN STEFFENS)HER NEIGHBORS GAMBLER IS ON STAND (By United Press Leased Wire) 08 AN July 19.—Lincoln Steffens’ v ardi Broder nd the continu me wtrag Jove letters, supposedly written. by Goodeve was an excellent | When it came part, her voice to the “Dear Nell” GET ESTATE| REPORTED TO (iy United Prem Leased Wire) STOCKTON & the social |. rer y declare Cal, Ju iy 19.— aT that I am a widow ONE CENT strolls Thompson | | riage 1 BELIEVE get to know all the HAVE CONFESSED. NEW YORK, July 19—Conster apital and labor were|and that I have no children. Ti stion reigned ‘ai police h ete alsee ‘wees Steffens resumed|hereby bequeath and devise my|tors here today at the spre he stand in the Darrow ¢ day p Aus pa canada ol oa |property to sone in this wittiuaconfirmed report that a gambler aca “Witeitiet Aliopaan’ Posdorichs 4, all of whom, from time ex!|/ad made full confession of the demat |tenditig from one to forty’ years, (eAmUlNs situation In New York to his sak on chnseliies? | District. Attorney Whitman. The re ee a jhave been kind i bave shown igambler, whose name was not re 1 belfev in Christianity leourte ies to me vealed, was sald to have nm given eat te pillta vadiéal thats Ry this paragraph in the will of immunity from prosecution in re Whe district attorbey rubbed hia |*e? | Jane Sanders, who resided }furn for his confession seeasatiy eka nih 4 min. | oe 2 ‘ears on & farm near this |} Whitman made another dema while a surprised murmur ran oes ‘ Idow if that, th rors ingle ound the court room and their children were today given jf stances surrounding th { after he had accused the Es Pte sigy YOSEMITE. SWISS MINISTER COMING jpolice of protectng the gambling YOSEMITE, Cal., July Camp PORTLAND, Or July 19.—Dr.| Interests Curry is in partial ruins today, fol-| Paul Ritter, miniat ‘om Switzer} - lowing a $20,000 fire there. Many | land to the United States, today is} LEIPSIC, July 19.—While maki of the guests lo the persc in Portland. He is on a tour of the jh * final flight for an aviator's effects and 60 or 70 tents were de-| West to study conditions prevale ut}cense, Lieut. Pressen of the stroved. Th ¢ started in the'among the Swis residents He| m n army was killed when his mon laundry adjoining the dining m. leaves tonight for Seattle oplane capsized hér day | THE PARKER PALACE IS The Parker palace, silent for a r is gay with sound again. After serving less than a year of | his two-year sentence on McNeil’s | island, George H. Parker, who help- ed to get the cash from thousands of working people in the Northwest in the United Wire in his palatial less stock, is back thome on Capitol hill. He found everything #hipshape. Thanks to efficient and regularly paid gardeners, the sloping lawn js nt as green and velvety as cons! care could make it The red gerauium beds, the shrubs, the jas ming and the hollyhocks are in full leat; and perfect flower. There's not #0 much as a single weed in the drive which le Prospect st. under the to the garage wher » Parker car, with every part oiled, waits to take its master on merry spins long the boulevards. Within the $200,000 house the fame perfect order reigns, N kept dusted the bronzes »s, and the last word in ners has renovated the silken rugs. The curious may aesthetic delights of that interior, even from the outside, for the win dows are hung with heavy draperies of ecru Jace costing a trifle of $400 or so the pair the question, for the doors beneath those fluted Corinthian columns heavy and guarded by flunkies well paid to preserve that seclusion which their master demands when he is taking his ease in his hom One may, however, pass by “Wireless stock’, house and enjoy the lines of its Colonial archite ture, and catch from afar the fra grance of the geraniums. Uncle Sam has been not view the kind to To enter is out of| the} So the federal pardoning be which Warden Halligan of MeNeil's| chairman, home island is come ¢ United other and factory on agents, stock, used now serving a re It Is no longer a But the who sold on parole Wireless better U to call thousands ie hands, Jackson st, {ted The Bait, Hy useful purpose, “bait.” ot THE PARKER PALACE h now The Wire OCCUPIED AGAIN rd, of! in big which the suckers *eeee eee George H, He punished bim for|who nibbled “The Pait’ and were using the mails to defraud by send-}caught on the Parker hook are jing him to McNeil’s island, But}still on earth, Many, possibly, have the penitentiary officials saw that/ started new savings accounts jeorge H, was no ordinary prix|. And H., in his palace sur oner; 80 they gave him light work/rounded by the beautiful rows o to do and let him go frequently to red, red geraniums, is at h Tacoma “to have his eyes treateds"|ngain after his somewhat trying-ex- | Two years is not a long time, bat) perience. He refuses to say what | jit seems long in the penitentiary.| his plans are—but, of course, the world’s path stretches open and in viting to man with stocks and let George Mi/ bonds and business acumen, before f of his two-year term was comple INSANE VAUDEVILLE | AGNEW, Cal, July 19.—The in sane patients at the asylum here re getting up a vaudeville show Nearly 50 inmates will perform, in cluding a 1-plece orchestra, com edians, soloists, song and dance men and a Chinese laundry sketch on News How would you like to spend your honeymoon at a sanitarium where |" your new husband was taking a prolonged fait? PROBE HANF ORD'S “DEAL WITH BRIDEGROOM ON A FAST; BRIDE IN A SANITARIUM Epidemic!! Reports from various outlying points indicate thousands of visitors to Seattle returned home inoculated with Potlatch bug. Epidemic of disease, which is contagious but not deadly, is feared. “WY AND MY DAY” IN POTLATCH One More Big Day, “Daily Grind” Takes tana ing Role Again—Fireboat Demonstration Tonight. ee ee ees This Afternoon and Evening’s ¥ Potlatch Program 4 p. m—Free pipe organ re % cital at First M. E. church, Sth av. and Marion st. 5p. m—Aeroplane flights along waterfront. REFERERS EERE EE ES 8:30 p. m—French dancing fete by Seattie school chil- | dren. 8:30 p. m.—Fireboat demon- stration on Elliott bay under searchlights of battleships. 9 p. m.—Grand ball in honor ® of officers of the army and & navy at Hippodrome, Sth av. & and University. * RPE ROE One more day. One more, and we'll go back to the daily grind, It has been good for a little while to let business slide and to be kids again. You might call this the anti- climax. Seattle and her guests were tired and sieepy this morning, but far from disgruntied. Today's Army and Navy day, and it opened with cool breezes blowing and the sky overcast. It felt fine after the heat of the last two days. The weatherman’s doing his part. It will be fair,” he says again. The crowds downtown were up to the high Potlatch average. They | will see the soldiers and .sailore— regulars and amateurs—2,000 of "em marching with the dash and pre- cision of animated and intelligent Sete eee eee This ia what Mrs. Jessie Holliway Dana is doing and she seems to és i think it Is @ splendid kind of a honeymoon. Mr. and Mre. Edmond |*utomatons. | And they will hear Trowbridge Dana are the English portrait painter and the grandson of = blare and crash of martial mu- Longfellow, who were married the other day by a special marriage cere- get @ good cl Dana has very soon in {has painted the portraits of George Bernard Shaw and a number of the She has the of her countrywomen and dresses most simply and very but on the titled folk of ton frock, 1B bv it f sandals, use she wears no stockin enough to add them to her simple attire, IEVE that real love is jeaning out pr an American college. England no corse’ MY MARRIAGE CREED. Holliway Dana By Je the only thing ‘oung people 8 not Harvard, went on an extended fast Why did | andertake a fasting honeymoon? before I began my wanted to start from the foundation anew vared himself to teach philosophy and hopes to begin who think they are in love worst parts as wt There's to be a big athletic meet which will follow the same route of the Army and Navy parade, and which will give visitors to Seattle a glimpse into the industrial an@ commercial potentialities of Puget Sound. But the big diddings, from the spectacular point of view, will come” off tonight. The fireboat demonstra- tion and fireworks will be a thriller. That fireboat can squirt morena- million streams at once, and it will ido it tonight, while the fireworks are going off and the searchlights of the warships in the harbor are playing. Edwards will make another flight this evening, if the wind permits, and tonight the soldiers and sailors will be entertained at a ball in the Because I wanted to life work,” says Dana. “T Mrs. Dana fs a talented artist who brilliant white and red complexion in a blue, one-piece cot underclothing. About the she bows to convention Neth etre olutely necessary hat is wanted to a happy mar- should try to as the best of each other's char. acter—they should be sure that their ideals and aims are the same. If possible each should live a time in the home of the other that the | Armory. every-day habits and moods of each may be studied by the other rsgreag 7 BELIEVE that both the man and woman who intend to matry|** * * ******* ** ema shouid have a scier knowledge of the laws of health, particularly the|* Saturday's Program—Farewell: ® laws of sex * Day * 1 BELIEVE that eve an and woman should get a doctor's certit./* 9 to 10 a. m.—Aeroplane © jeate of health and f before they take out a marriage license % flights along waterfront. * 1 BELIEVE the numbe idren in a family must depend on the|* _ 1:30 p. m.—Huge demonstra. & health and strength of the er and on the income of the father }® tion by children of the city # | BELIEVE the wife must the one decide upon the number or * Plagfields. Pageant of the ® children she will h and when she will have, them * queens and totems at grand- & 1 RELIEVE the wife must have absolute control of e mar * stand. Concert at grandstand. & relation This we an important step towards the production of ®* 3 P- m.—Decorated autome- © stronger and more itiful race. * bile pageant. * ARVE y woman who gives birth to a child should be * 4 P- m.—Free pipe organ re- & given a no n t * cital at First M. E. church, & I BELIEVE that every house for her husband * 5 Pp. m.—Aeropiane flights. # paid housekee any other woman not his ® 8:30 p. m—Closing cere © for the same * monies at grandstand. Tyee * EVE most women cook te thereby ruining her hus. * will be escorted from grand ® hildren’s estion and te * stand to waterfront, whence *& =n —— + * he will depart for the North in & EAGLES’ NEW Salas * a flaming canoe. Magnificent * of a Cones ae elon the ® fireworks display on water © tag and eatablishing of grades oni oe : bed ORGANIZATION}: dite aramaning of grades: on is 9 p. ma—Fireworks: late of i: teckel ponte Was # ental section. * For the purpose eater eff ideataed np FE sion, * 9p. m—A general street * lency anagement ling that & new one be drawn aan {x carnival throughout the city. of the nization of ph uaamncgantbare: KKK RRR ER the E ast night at) === Se ae 9S ES the sta ation Bes dare LUT RARAE RARE RERAERRA NEE ER of all the state aeries forme¢ e * new organization and elected Frank | POTLATCH TOO MUCH FOR TWO COPS * Dowd etary of the local lodg * There are two members of the police force who today are # the mo lodge of the order, a8/ % thinking of the Potlatch with anything but pleasant thoughts. © pre * They are Sergeant Lee Dagner and Patrolman C. J. Clark. Both * The st Eagles hope to make! *® are in the city hospital suffering from injuries received at the * the new organization national and) * hands of overenthusiastic Potlatchers. Sergeant Dagner barked * to institute a uniform system of # his right hand on the teeth of a man he was arresting, and blood * keeping ks. The new plan will) % poisoning set in, Patrolman Clark's jaw interfered with the strong * be submitted to the national aeries | ® right of a husky he was trying to quell, with the result that the for consideration * jaw in question is fractured. * - * * POR ORO RR TOTO OO ER KER ER “How ofte on your ‘Only once, railroad nis wu kill a person do madam.” * WEATHER FORECAST x G ally fair tonight and Saturday,.not much change in * temperature; moderate south- ® west to west winds, Temper- ® *| ee aie ABOUT WHITE SPACE Most advertisers feel that when they are paying for space, every bit of that space must be filled either with big black type, with descriptive matter or with cuts. Yet they want their advertisements prominent, The general tone of a newspaper page, combining the paper and the black ink, gray. 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