The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 20, 1912, Page 1

The Seattle Star eee, Ce ~ SEATTLE’S ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER VOL. 14—NO. 121. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1912, § MAKE NEW MOVE. Hyas Tyee, come again, When another year is done. We'll work and eat, and scheme and weep, And catch up on much-needed sleep. 80, come, old scout, o'er the billowy deep, For another week of fun! Hyas Tyee, au revoir! Depart in your craft of light. We've had a week chockful of joys, Stayad out all night with the girls and boys, Reveled in mugic, color, noise— 1, old top, G-O.0-D N-I-G-H-T! BMS THEE ap LENES FOR + NORTRUND Go Over Waters in a ; ‘onig “4 . "Wt er one.” Blaze of Glory T ht ed | : 2 Stevens’ case was continued, = Auto Parade One of Gi | ARCHIE WAS DETERMINED. Last tures Archie O'Hara, #till in hin teenay got drunk Monday. “he court let Dim go next morning 3 ies of Pot- four hours behind fun, he got dmimk Tuesday to catch up. The court let him go again Wednesday hie couldn't pay $1. Friday and Saturday Hyas Tyee, au revoir! Tom La nt bails from Chicage. » got drunk Monday, “Ya gotta fine town Patrolman Young, “but otta s¢@ Chicago, Come on back with me, and I'll pay all expenses You leave us tonight, to return to, » Northern kingdom, but you) one of the nicest men | ever met ‘will come agaimin 1913. And so, au) on SUBPOENA BOOKS OF KERR & M’CORD; PLUMMER ON STAND SOME DIDN’T ENJOY POTLATCH END, | BUT ENJOYED BEGINNING TOO WELL verybody enjoyed the Potlatch. Some few hundred started out to enjoy it, but couldn't stay for the fin They made the mistake of trying to force the fun by artificial m It can’t be done Frank evens, a cockney, met p girl at a dance, He iiked her, and she liked him; so he went out of his way to entertain her, JUST "IT 'ER ONE “1 took th tidy h’all over the Bloomin’ piice,” he exp! ‘er the h'aeropia and b'everytiiak, and then she up FIRST WIFE AVENGED BY SECOND; LOVE PIRATE KILLED Congressional Committee Takes Unexpected Action in Open- ing Way for Thorough Probe of Hanford’s Relationship With Kerr & McCord—Investigation of Hanford’s Land Deal With Railroad Leads Up to Time Ballinger Became United States Land Commissioner. HANFORD REDUCED COMPANY’S TAX WHILE HIS LAND DEAL WAS PENDING ined to Police Judge Gordon yesterday, “showed Wil d shook me for a blighter in a uniform. So Twenty Got drunk he told You're here, ya An unexpected move indicating that the congressional committee intends to probe deeper into the relationship between Judge Hanford and Kerr & McCord came this morning when the federal committee ie sued subpoenas for all of the stenographers’ records and books in sald Young, and led Tom to the station. SENT TO HER WASHING. name néedn't mentioned, got through the All right. Let's start now, A nice old lady, wnone first half of the week, but yes ; 1 be stilled t s Fevoir! } it’s been a swell and elegant Pot Vatch. You can't call us quitters, Tv . There's a gone feeling) tee pit of our stomachs, and our) ‘ look like burnt holes in a t, but we stuck around!) You'll! have to admit that much—we stuck around! We'll make a more formal adieu tonight. We'll meet you at the! grand stand at 9. With much pomp and circumstance we will wish you q upon your journey 'rawe the lights will die out. 7 Si- auld ac. We'll sing n our hearts. Hyas Tyee. lence we will follow you. We Se with you to the last moment barking. You must leave us en, and we may not follow, Your noe will glide away into the dark . and we will wait. Your frail ft will burst into Mame, and for| & moment we will see you silbouet-| ted against the night. Them slow Hy, the flames will die, and Hyas yee will be seen no more Gearge W. Allen will be back kh he old job, ax usual, Monday f Great Auto Parade. ee gets _a proper send-off! ea ‘the Potlatch man-| that the a eg ed parade thie afternoon wil! ter than anything ever staged in) ttle. There will be more than cars in line, each garlanded and with flowers, and each matic of some phase of Seat- 's greatness. The parade starts at 3, from the i stand. Sixteen benutiful | will be awarded to the winners ‘the various classes, as folows: Class K. representing makes of ws; Class N, typifying the Pot-| tch; Class covered touring | open touring cars with floral dec- tions; Clase D, open roadsters ranabouts; Class PF, typifying fe; Clase E, electric car H, typifying progress; Clas: jon of cars representing bs; Class L, single cars repre. ting nationalities; flag cars and itoftown cars. Patek eeeeneekteeee * b FAREWELL PROGRAM. * 3:00 p. m—Decorated au # tomobile pageant. * Line of march: Parade © forms on Fourth, north of «| Blanchard; moves south to Le- nora, to Third, to Prefontaine, to Fourth, to Jackson, to Second, to Beil, to First, south on left si of the street to Yesier, right turn around Pioneer place and north on First on left side of street to Bell and disband 4:00 p. m.—Free pipe organ recital at First Methodist Epis copal church, Fifth av. and Marton st. 7:00 p. m—Aeropliane flights along waterfront of city from Terminal isiand. 30 p. m—Smoker and re- ception for naval, marine and revenue cutter officers and yachtemen at Rainier club. 30 p. m—Closing cere- monies at grandstand. Fare f well to Hyae Potlatch Tyee and monies at grandstand. Fare- grandstand to conduct Tyee to waterfront, whence he will depart for the north in a flaming canoe. Fireworks Spectacle on waterfront after tour of the city. 00 p. m—Fireworks in Oriental section and general street carnival. | bedi nda Minin Min in Me in Min Mi Min in Mian Min Rin Minin Minin Mia Min dinsin ndnin in ind See hhhhhhhh 200 CONGRESSMEN VISIT WILSON (By United Press Leaned Wire.) SEA GIRT, N. J., July 20-—~ ' Goy. Woodrow Wilson spent this morning in drafting his let- ter of acceptance of the demo- cratic presidential nomination. This afternoon 200 congre: en 45 expected to arrive on a spe- train to visit the nominee. = ption to them will be held ‘of the lawn and veranda of the little white house. ERILL ON VACATION | Mayor George F. Cotterill will tomorrow morning for a trip way weke, President Hesketh of the council will be acting mayor absence. | scorned MRS, JESSE C. BY C. E. RODGERS (Special to The Star) ii COOKVILLE, Tenn. July 20—The| ("the ofher hand tt we vecond | second wife has the right to kill wedding Mrs, Judd went to Nash-| the love pirate who stole from the | ville often to meet Barnes first wife a husband's love! On May 30 Mrs. Barnes got this | Se says nearly every person ini note from Mra. Judd: “Better go! Putnam county, Tenn. |down to Nashville tomorrow.” These peopie have already ac-| Next morning she didn’t go, but) quitted — unofficially—Mre. Myrtle | trom her window w ‘the other jarnes, the young and pretty sec: | woman going by on the train ond wife of Je rnes, a That = afternoon Mrs, Barnes wealthy retired distiller and land-| waited at the Buffalo Valley depot owner, for slaying Mrs. Della Pip-|for the Tennessee Central train. pin Judd, May 31. | When It came she walked through Jesse C. Barnes, now 50, of an old | the cars to the rear platform. There Southern family, owned a bie dis | gtoqd Mre. Judd. Not a word wa tiling company at Double Spring®, spoken; not a cry was heard. Five where he lived with his wife. There shots rang out, and five bullets en- ® young girl was growing into beau tered Mra Judd’s breast; two tiful young womanhood. She was & pierced her heart. Pippin, also 4 well-known Southern| Mrs, Barnes was a crack revolver | family. Wood Judd wooed and wou!and rifle shot. Her hoaband told) Della Pippin 18 years ago. |i that she could bit a dollar nine BARNES. woman since ne married the second time,” Sooh afterwards, village gossip} times ont of ten at 25 yards with a bas it, Barnes beg: taking notice | revolver. of the young Mrs. Judd At her home, Mra. Barnes met her Stronger and stronger grew the | weeping stepehiidren, who had stories about the alleged infatua-| heard of the shooting. tion of the wealthy distiller for the “DON'T CRY,” SHE SAID. “ALL beautiful wife of his. poorer neigh-|QOUR TROUBLE ENDED NOW. bor. YOUR DEAD MOTHER 18 “When Jesse Barnes firet began| AVENGED. ANO MY BURDEN 1S) paying attention to Mrs. Judd,” &|GONE.” Then she gathered them Double Springs woman explained, | in her arms and awaited the com- “we ail thought it was innocent | ing of the fath enough. But it wasn't long before} Next morning Mra. Barnes and they got too intimate. Everybody |her husband came to Cookeville. seemed to know it. Wood Judd came with bis two little “Mrs. Barnes never let on as how | boys and daughter, made mother what was going on. But|less by the shooting. Not a lawyer how she knew. She died, /at the county seat would take a some folks say, of a broken heart.” | case against Mrs. Barnes The present Mrs. Barnes was} At the hearing before a justice | Mrs. Myrtle Brashear, born at New-| Mra Barnes was charged with mur-| tonville, Ind., 35 years ago. They and bail was asked for. The} have one little daughter, Jessie, two erson to walk up and sign years Old. Barnes had by his first |the bond was her husband. After wife six children, all living him came nearly everybody in the The village folk say that after | county owning property Barnes’ second marriage, the bride| At the Barnes home, all is now began getting letters telling her of|peace and harmo The father the alleged intimacy between her|was playing with little Jessie when husband and Mrs. Judd 1 called; the mothet was watehing Strange as it may seem, Mrs, | Jessie's efforts to ‘skin-the-cat’ on Judd joined the letter writing | the lawn swing brigade. Some think she did it to 1 can't talk about it,” Mre drive the wife out. Others believe | Harnes said, “it is all over now; that she was then ‘a woman|seems like a bideous nightmare.” | and wrote the letters from| “1 will spend every cent I've got | }if necessary to fi her, hadn't |husband, “Never have | loved her <udd! better than | do right now!” | jealousy Barnes told me that had anything to do w he th th MARTIAL AND INDUSTRIAL PARADE BIG SUCCESS; THE PRIZE WINNERS The throng that jammed the For the most typical sidewalks for two hours yesterday {tation of an industria afternoon waiting for the combina-|by float or otherwise tion army and navy and industrial|eup, Seattle Mill & Manufacturing parade were well repaid for their| compan second, cup, Stetson- wait under the hot sun. It was @| Ross company. first-class parade, | For the float or representation There were the jacktes from the \typitying the industrial growth of battleships, the regulars from the |geattie-—PFirst prize, cup, Grote forte around Seattle, and the state/ Rankin company; second, cup, Se militia. Stepping down the avenue /attle Brewing & Malting company to the stirring straihs of martial! or the pest float or representa musi¢ they were welcomed vocifer| tion of an organized industrial in- ously |dustry-—-Firet prize, eup, Denny Then Renton Clay & Coal company; sec: every man, woman and child in Se : . attle was proud of—the industrial | One cup, Washington S¢w - com parade. This showed what Seattle bad in the way of industries, and a fine showing it was. Float after float went by, each having some|* special feature to make it popular,|* WEATHER FORECAST Prize Winners. * Fair tonight and Sunday; For the most artistic float by| ® light southwest to west winds. one firm or individual—First prize,| * Temperature at noon, 66, cup, Suess Glass company; second,| * cup, Craftsman Bungalow company.|*kx# kkk kkk kh hhh hk —— represen enterprise First prize, | followed the section that CER STICK TO SINGLE MEN. CHICAGO, July 20.—Men, when you go out for a “night with thé boys,” be sure your: friends are single. Else, according to Municipal Judge H: you may lay yourself open to a fine for alienating some husband’ fixes dent when Mrs. Michael O’L: | got me terday she drank a little Your honor,” she wept Go home and take in, Arthur Stettin nt buesing over his crab n: about, Stettinus blazed caded himself in hiv shack down the door, subdued the away at F ney ring for had to have the money to buy a | Andrew's rotten geograghy cost him $20. plained that be Puyallup beer to prove Sergednt beachcomber r civic patriotiam. my wadhing is out on the line thin minute.” wnid Me judge | beachtomber on the spit near the Standard the intruders with for On pl anc A percussion cap Jackson and rolman Rob’ and the court fined him $20, OFF ON HIS GEOGRAPHY. 50 cents, You can buy on the boat to ien't strong nt em Potlatching son The airships were were darting then barrk anyhow 1 many small craft cannon two feet long of police patrol t which he couldn't pay | quart. He ex no boats for much a There are for that Puyallup. Thirty-two cases of drunk and disorderly alone were disposed of by Judge Gordon yesterday, and the docket was crowded again today. Potiatchers are no fun. You're doin’ well,” morning. Lend fine fun—this Potlatehing and shoved and stamped on tll T'nt Biaek and biv fe a billet time for a sitdown meal since this eraecan started. I gotta act like I enjoyed it. The eye on the calendar. Te EMPEROR OF JAPAN IS DYING TOKIO, July Warned that the mikado is sinking steadily members of the Japanese royal fim- |lly are arriving bourly and fasten: ing to the bedaide of the dying ruler. All members of the cabinet and other important government of- ficers assembled at the palace, The public has been warned that death may come at any time and the streets are crowded with anxious throngs. According to a bulletin issued night, the mikado's temperature fp 105, pulse 104, and respiration 38. He became {ll a week ago. Prince Katsura has been advined of the mikado's dition and is ex pected to reach Tokio quickly. The hetr apparent is Prince Yosshihito, born 1878 HELPLESS IN CLUTCHES OF A LIVE WIRE STANPORD UNIVERSITY, Cal, July 20.—Held helpless in the clutches of a highly charged wire for five minutes, Frank Walter, a stadent of the university, was most shocked to death in a fire which partially destroyed the Zeta Pat fraternity house here today. When the flames, which started from an electric tron, began to en- velop the building, the student vol. unteer fire brigade answered the call, and in fighting the flames young Walter touched an exposed wire. It was five minutes before sald the driver This makes five for you today. band,” saté the arresting officer. He removed bis helmet and wiped the sweat from his brow I've been jollied and roasted and kidded to # crisp, aNd | junction from Hanford last summer in the Renton case, and a crook in me neck, and | ain't had But I'm beartn’ up because, bein’ a shrewd officer, I} he could be torn from its grip, The young man is recovering rapidly dudge Gdérdon says he hasn't enjoyed this Potlatch. POTLATCHING, NO FUN. Hie’'s dead to the wor on one of me f The police say, ¢ a police auto to a copper who had made an arrest {n First av. this between Hanford and the were associated in the Hanforg Irrigation large fees ‘through Hanford's court in the Alaska you go! Oh, it's I've been pushed 14. Hoist! I Ye Sat‘day, thank heaven, and tomorrow happens to be me day off.” GREAT FIRE | SWEEPS OVER | VANCOUVER| {By United Press Leased Wire) VANCOUVER, B. C., July 20.— One of the most spectacular fires in the history of the city and which, for a time, threatened to destroy! the entire business section of the) city, broke out shortly after mid-| night this morning on Main street | and Park jane, Six important bus | iness blocks were destroyed, in-/ volving a lose of half a miftion dol- tars, about haif covered by insur ance. fireman was severely injured by a fall. The fire originated in a shed back of the Champion and White} five-story batlding, and ts believed | to have started through careless) handling of matches by tramps, who | used it for sleeping purposes. It} was communicated to the pion and White building & building supply concern, quickly spread to the A B.C. K® rage, rosring through the concrete abd brick building: SHE’S ACQUITTED (iy United Prem Leased Wire.) CHICAGO, July 20.—Acquit- ted by a jury of the charge of killing her husband, Mrs. Rene B. Morrow is today in seclu- sion at the home of church frienda. When the verdict was brought in Mrs. Morrow threw her arms about the neck of her attorney with a cry of joy, and then wept violently, sobbing her thanks to judge, jury and friends. She was led from the court room by fellow club women. | oe READ THIS, AND THEN CALL fs WOMEN THE “WEAKER SEX” | Mrs. C. H. Lewis, of St. M idaho, was writing a letter in the Hotel Frye last night, when a thief grabbed her hand bag, which w. lying on the desk by her elbow, and ran out of the hotel. Mrs, Lewis right after him. he thief streaked it to Third av. and down the hill to the King st. de- pot. Mrs, Lewis was right after him. ‘The thief darted through a Fiynn, charging him with “stealing her husband “My husband Mike is never home,” said Mrs. O'Leary, glar- ing wrathfully at the defendant. “Since Mike met this Flynn person he’s out every ining and on Sunday | don’t see him at all. Flynn has alienated his ictions.” To prove Mrs. O’Leary was right, the judge assessed Flynn $15 and costs. gone gate and gained the tracks, with Mrs. Lewis on his heels, when he fell into the arms of Patrolman Forbes. At the city jail the thief said his name was Oscar Hoffman. The bag contained $80, most of which Was recovered, A daylight burglar entered the | 4 mer Congressman Patrick Gill, dem oerat ome of Mra. G. H. Engleman, 3018 Interlaken Avy., at noon yesterday through a bathroom window, and, encountering Mrs. Engleman, de manded her diamond earrings and tings. Mrs. Engleman pulled a can- non and began to shoot, She shot about as straight as most women throw, but it seared the burglar so that he took a header through the window by which he had entered. An. over-boisterous merry-maker on Second av. last night made the mistake of using a tissugpaper tlekler on a large and determined- looking lady in perfect training. The lady feinted with her left and then shot a heavy right to the * The merry-maker fided into the crowd holding his face. a multi-millionatre tobacco manufac SHE WON'T BE | MARRYING A CONGRESSMAN || } - Bwie Miss Laura Merriam, daughter of the former governor of Minnesota, and Congressman Theron F. Cat- lin of St. Louis Mo. Miss Merriam | is prominent in Washington society. | TON, July Theron blican, of St. Louis, is today facing the practical certainty | t he will be unseated from con-| ress, By a vote of 6 to 3, the house plections committee decided to de. clare Catlin's ele iMegally ef-| fected The 20. committee voted to- seat for Catlin is the son of Daniel Catlin, turer of St. Louls. He is 44. Testi mony showed that the elder Catlin spent over $10,000 tn having his son elected. Theron Catlin was educat ed at Harvard. He is engaged to marry Miss Laura Merriam, daugh ter of former Gov, Merriam of Min. nesota, FIVE FIREMEN ARE COOKED TO DEATH ON SHIP) NEW YORK, July 20.—With a grewsome story of five fire- cooked to death beneath her decks, the Italian liner Prin. cipe de Pledmonte arrived in port here today. On Wednesday the steampipe leading from the liner'’s port engine to her main boilers burst, trapping six fire. men below the decks In a com- partment filled with steam, Five of the firemen were cooked to death and one was rescued alive. Other members of the crew to the number of the offices of the attorneys dealing with the Seattie & Renton street | Jadge C. H 22 were slightly burned before they managed to escape to the decks above. CONSTANTINOPLE, Tewfik Pasha today accepted the grand viziership of Turkey. He plans at once to form a cabinet to replace the one which resigned sev. eral days ago, on account of frie tion and rebellion in the Turkish army. July 20.-— car concern. In addition to the famous that the committee ir of the Renton road tion. Kerr & McCord, repr application made by William ¢ for a receiver in the state court insolvent. Within a few alleged that appoint a receiver, which he The move nm torneys today as being high Evidence, brought thus two Rer tends to pre and the ac road he gover and McCord drew packers case. Kerr & MeCord Letter after letter is being read before the Hanford investigation committee today by George H Pigummer, Westerf land agent of the Northern ific, detailing the steps by which the Hanford Irriga tion Co. acquired some 12,000 acres of land in Eastern Washington from the railway company. Many of t letters written Ih 1905, 1906, 1907 and 1908 have been read during the morning session, indjcating that the N. P. held off the sale on much of the land wanted owing to an agre ment with the reclamation service Ballinger May Figure in It. About that time Richard A. Bal Unger of Seattle, intimate friend of commissioner, and in 1909 he be n8 mm injunetion case it enting Rent t comm’ in were the attorneys is believed present receivership affairs ert & McCord in that comnee- line bondholders opposed the mer president of the road, ng that the company was not McCord went into Hanford’s olvent, and asked Hanford to was looked upon by at- significant. far, attorneys has b has shown that the relationship very close. They company, and both Kerr who secured the fa- Cooper accepted Plummer's recom mendation to reduce the price to Hanford. McCoy Asks Pertinent Question. Representative McCoy wanted to why prices were reduced it was discovered that the irrigation company was getting bet ter land than It figured upon. ‘Why shouldn't the price have been raised rather than reduced? McCoy asked “I felt that they couldn't afford to pay the first price,” Plummer janswe ed. Hanford, became land | cd Plummer ‘ben added: “There is a Iimit which an irrigation project can stand.” Representative Higgins here 2#le “Is there any limit whichys railway company may ask for its came secretary of the interior un-| lands?” der President Taft McCoy then made the statement On February 7, 1908, Judge Han-|that Cooper had written in one of ford wrote to Plummer, according the letters that the Hanford peo to the correspondence read to the committee this morning: i”, he thought, could afford to pay #10 an acre for practically all the “I am assured that the consent) iaad of the reclamation service to the ret of the tained.” While the name of Ballinger was| not mentioned this morning, the reading of the letters indicated un mistakably that the congressional Plummer replied that he had lands can be ob-| Written that to Cooper early in the negotiations. Hanford’s Letters. _ Shortly before the committee took its noon recess today Plummer read two letters written by Judge committee intended to lead up to, Hanford on the official paper of some connection with his adminis | the tration in office. Higgins Does Questioning. In fact, Representative Higgins who has been conducting the exa ination in behalf of the committee. referred once or twice to the fa: that it took some time for the P. and the Hanford Irrigation Co to obtain the release necessary froin the reclamation service. To this, Plummer once replied that the final release for some 8,000 acres was not obtained until June §, 1909. At that time Ballinger was already in the office of secretary of the in terior. Price of Lands. The early correspondence be tween Hanford and the Northern Pacific officials related to the finan- cial arrangements for land to be purchased. It was at first agreed, said Plummer, that the Hanford Ir rigation Co, was to pay $3 an acre for poorer lands and $10 an acre for the better lands. It was subse. quently discovered that there were more better lands than had been ex pected by Judge Hanford. Thi sald Plummer, would the amount of the investment plan. ned by Judge Hanford, who had figured on an average of $6.50 per acre, All They Can Afford. A proposition to reduce ‘the price on the poorer lan was then submit Writing of original offer. dated Mareh 7 Commissioner way, said that lowered price « added: “And I believe afford to pay this change In the Plummer, in a ietter 1907, to"Chief Land Cooper of the rail he considered the fair one. He then that i¢ all the: The “they” refer United States district court, In Which the subject of the release of the lands by the reclamation ser- vice was @iscussed. These were written in March, 1908 In another letter from Plummer » Cooper, dated April 2, 1908, Plummer wrote that the Hanford Irrigation Co. sold much of fts land at high prices, “bat on long time”; that it was a good proposition; that the Hanford people wanted to buy more acreage than they had at thet time; that he recommended it; that while they did not have much money just then, they would have jhad all they wanted had not the | money panic come on. | mittee have raised) have s to $1 an acre) Northern | country, Representative Higgins wanted to know why Cooper referred to “Judge Hajford’s offer” in a letter to Plummer, instead of to the Han- ford Irrigation Co. Plummer re- plied he could not answer, Asked by Higgins if he knew whether Judge Hanford took the matter up with other officials than himself and Cooper, Plummer said he did not think so. Higgins then re- marked, “Of course, you do not any real information aboat that.” Cuts Company's Taxes. When Plummer got off the stand at the noon recess today, the com. read into its record the transcript of the case of the Pacific against King in which Judge Han- ford reduced the taxes of the railway about $40,000 during the time when these negotiations be- | tween Hapford and the N. P. were an} going on, BELLI awards to the winne: Baker marathon of the Mt, will be bestowed red to the Hanford Irrigation Co.|by Governor Hay. Make Your Advertising Refine for square dealing appealing, dignified, plea ful, as well as intelligent and f mind that great matter of your good ing and above all, truth- eful. Always bear in | name, your reputation A businéss which is advertised on these principles can- not be stopped. Competitors may fight their hardest, money conditions may be bad, but the firm will grow. Successes a made in advertising by sticking to a well defined policy of giving the best that’s in you all the time and never trying to fool the people. Also by advertising regularly, day by day, week by week, in such a way that yeur announceménts will be read in the homes. One Paper in the Homes of Seattle is Worth 10 Papers ° Outside of Seattle. THE STAR 18 THE HOME PAPER OF SEATTLE OVER 40,000 PAID COPIES DAILY.