The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 31, 1912, Page 1

+ Cleveland author who of- $1 to anybody who will qead his book will learn that ‘gome people will do anything for money. The Seattle ____SEATTLE’S ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER pOoDROW WILSON 1S AILOVER OF THE OUTDOOR Lire wo PROBABLY The . Yeuns mut mansy a> v — AW SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1912. a W. WILSON AS THE FEARLESS HUNTER OF BiG Game WICK DEAT ’ ” | | Hi Pe I HL $ 3 * ; it | y/, MRS HERMAN ROSENTHAL Wife of murdered gambier. Pais reenact nastenind foreed them to arrange for the Killing of Rosenthal. In addition to investigations be- .jing made by Mayor Gaynor, the board of aldermen and the police, the grand jury continued today its probe into the murder scandal. It .| plans to trace to its highest benefl- declared probable. This | ciary the “slush fund,” the collection ‘ill “come through” with| of which Rose described. District of the police grafting| Attorney Whitman {s holding aloof the men higher up,|from alt other investigations and in the plunder, which | with the sleuths of the Burns Do- have aggregated more tective agency, is devoting every a year. District At-| effort to keep secret the facts he o is anxious to get/has learned until he can land in jhis net some of the big fish, who sso says have profited by the al- three high! Hance between the police and the senator,| underworld. Becker, still defiant med in their) and protesting his tnnocence tod by “Baid a preparing his defense. He sa ehief collector, “Bridgie”|he can prove that Rose, Webber and Harry Vallon, the trio| and Vallon have entered into a plot Welare Becker plotted and|to “job” him. IEHEAD OF “RENTON ROAD FOR $50,000 one of the most un- against E. M. Mills, the Seattie, Renton & bern railroad, for $50,000 dam- 1 > dala Peet of this ; in, id in a head-on Mon On January 22 iast. P. Spooner, attorney for to make Mills person- ible, instead of suing Hon company, as is usually a Mills, who is a member of waleago firm of Peabody, & Co. was about to when the ers were om him at the Perry hotel. ts have not yet been filed Peet charges that Milly ili ; ; ; -|DECISION ON JUDGE HANFORD DUE NEXT WEEK WASHINGTON, July 31— Chairman Clayton of the house judiciary committee said today that it will not be decided until next week whether the impeach- ment proceedings against Unit- ed States Judge C. H. Hanford of Seattle will be dropped. He said no action will be taken un- til Congressman Higgins of the investigating committee which sat in Seattie, returns to Wash ington. WOMA NFATALLY HURT PORTLAND, Or., July 31.—Miss Grace C. Dow, 35 years of age, tele phone operator at the Hotel Ore- | gon, was fatally injured when an oe Givcontinuance of the | automobile in which she was riding B President last Dercabee my (struck a Japanese fruit wagon near thie order resulted In the oijPortiand early today. Miss Dow B the third (etd, i the col-|aied while being remove dto & hos- GES days Inet winter Druk | pital. ‘The shock of the collision he teccivcd hese | threw her from the machine to the him a te road on her head, and her skull, was en’ HF lite. fractured and neck broke NEW YORK, July 31.—Newman Erb, acting for the Hawley inter eats, continued negotiations today Marguerite Miller,|for the purchase of the Denver, 6 Zickw Marguerite| Northwestern & Pacific railroad x Relief Corps will hold ReMi monthiy social at Wood- ies ean Lancheon will 5. The hostesses Jones and Alice|The terms of the purchase are be ing withheld, mi THE HOTTEST DAYS ARE OVER” SAN FRANCISCO, July 31.—"When the hottest days fever, Minnette, dear, { shall send you money to join me Mrs. Minnette Burnside alleged today in a divorce Plaint her hushand wrote her from Douglas, Ariz. This, Said, was in February, 1907. are never been in Arizona,” added Mrs. Burnside, mglas must sure be a hot town, for I have not re- #4 line from Clarence since.” “land will always be a “deadii LANDON PLEDGES H Editor The Star: Witt GIVE US VOLUMES ABOUT WOODROW I am profoundly grateful for the endorsement of The Star. TRAINS AND WH SEANDS Ge (" 7 »\ f CHANCES ARE THE MAGAZINES WHEN WE WAS 4 DARING Cowboy — || Amazing Trance ) Feats by Girl It is all the more gratifying in view of the fact that it was voluntarily made. To have the confidence of The Star is to have the confidence of the people. I stand unconditionally and irrevocably for the principles advocated by The Star, know- ing as I do that you are in true sympathy with the cause of the people. I promise you that if elected I will make such a record in congress that The Star will not regret its action of teday. Yours respectfully, DANIEL LANDON. 2 eee ees HERE’S ONE NEAT LITTLE JOKER ST THAT STANDPAT HAY’S CORPORATION LAWYERS WOULD LIKE TO SLIP OVER “The plaintiff to serve upon defendant an informal statement of demand without notice that the matter will be brought before the court in a preliminary way on a certain date, say 10 days. The parties to appear before the court on that day;4he court examines preliminarily into the merits of the controversy, with the power to put the under oath; the court makes a preliminary finding, for plaintiff or for defendant, and fixes the amount of bond which the supposed unsuccessful party must give before prosecuting or defending the action, such bond to be large enough to indemnify the opposing party, if ulti- mately successful, for costs and full attorneys’ fees.” The above is one of the schemes for judicial procedure reform which is being gleefully discussed at the meeting of the State Bar association at Tacoma today. It was suggested by Gov. Hay's commission, appointed recently. Here is how it works out: You're a poor man, You have a lawsuit against a big cofporstion, You file your com- in court. Of course the company denies that you are éntitied to anything. bonds to guaratitee that you have a good bonds, you can’t have your case tried by issues an order. He requires you to put case against the company. If you don’t furnish a jury or at all. How does that reform strike you? proposes. Here is the reason: Gorham of Seattle ig attorney for the big steamship interests. the commission of the same class. “Such procedure will discourage a lot of unmeritorious litigation,” says Hay's commis- sion. Of course it will—all litigation is unmeritorious from @ corporation standpoint if the corporation is likely to suffer. What matter if such procedure would practically do away with trial by jury? matter if a poor man will have to abandon a meritorious case often because he can't put up What matter if a judge of the special interests word thus have the opportunity lease? Seoul what they're after. But they've got a long guess coming if they think they can fool the people into making this kind of judicial reform the law of the state. = oe a Ee big bonds? of shutting a poor man out of court whenever he should Standpat Hay’s commission of corporation attorneys the corporation attorneys of the bar association. DIVORCE SUIT — IS SURPRISE AT UNIVERSITY |2in2!3"ncsttr enn Mrs. M. &. Daggy filed suit, alleg| studies and goon she became Mrs. ing cruelty, for divorce from Prof.| Daggy. M. L. Daggy, formerly head of the| They were married in Seattle on oratorical and rhetoric June 6, 1905. They tiave a 6-year of the University of Wash old son. Mra. Dagey now alleges No divorce filed in recent years| that her husband bas an ungoverna- in Seattle proved a greater surprise | ble temper and that he had threat- than the Daggy suit, At the Uni-/ened to do her injury. Prof. Daggy versity of Washington the Daggy|has been lecturing on @ come to be regarded course. as typifying the ideal Mrs. Dagay was a coed when she first met Prof. Dagey. He had come to the University of Washing: ton to take charge of one of its most important departments. — It lyceum BY FRED L. BOALT “Susan Brown. Disappeared from her home, No. ... Blank et. W. Description: 18 years, 5 feet 3 inches, 128 pounds (about), blue eyes, brown hair, lower front tooth missing, freckles on nose. Talks with slight stutter when excited.” A commonplace description of a commonplace girl, It is one of many on “the hook” at police headquarters. The police reporters con them over hopefully every day. Sometimes they read between the lines a “mystery” story, A “mystery” story is always “good” on dull days. More often than not there i ports. More often than not the “lost” girls are indeed lot story of how many of them are “found.” But it is not a “good” story. In the days when the old restricted district flourished, the “dead- line” was a geographical fact, You could step over it with a single stride, If you were a man you could step over the line and step back. It was an easy step, either way. BUT IF A WOMAN STEPPED OVER—— But if you were a woman, you could step over with ease, but you could not step back, Respectable society stood on the respectable side of the line to guard against your return, For, if you were a woman, you were accursed. There was—and still isa way back, But it is a steep, rocky and cleuitous way, and you need a@ strong guide. You must sneak back to when respectable society isn't looking. a geopraphical fact. But there still is ” “The desk sergeant who writes the lost-giri reports will tell you that four out of five of the girls who are lost have crossed it. Not one of the lost ones will ever find their way back alone. There must be guides. GUIDING THE LOST ONES BACK There is a woman working as a clerk In the city employ who for 20 years has given her labor and love to guiding back to respectability girls who have lost their way, She is a motherly woman, who has been too busy earning her own living and guiding lost girls to think of marriage, Already her hair is turning gray. This woman refuses to let me use her name. She saya it would hurt her in her work. For 20 years she has been penetrating the laby- rinth which Hes “below the line” and bringing back to respectability, over the rocky and circuitous way, girls and women who were “lost.” She has been well paid for her work——-but not in money, Well paid—~ no mystery lurking in the lost-girl re- Thi the Well, that’s what Gov. Hay’s commission actually Will G. Graves, one of the commission, is a railroad attorney in Spokane; Frank T. Post, another member, was the man who dtew the bill taking the supreme court out of the primary law; J. B. Bridges is the corporation was not very long afterward when | ee oe HOW SOME “LOST GIRLS” ARE FOUND parties or their representatives By William A. Feather. WELLSVILLE, Mo., July y I came several hundged miles to talk to an unassuming little country girl and find out whether the mar- velous stories told of her are true. For if they are, she is probably the most wonderful girl in America. And here is what I discovered: Bessie Stewart sees in the dark in thentight. inces «a8 gracefully as Genee, though she has nevi practiced dancing. She delivers lectures and re- ches poems that she has merely heard or read. She composes excellent music, though she has only the rudiments of a musical education. She sings songe that never learned. She telle her friends the secret records of their lives. She describes events taking place hundreds of miles away. Mise Bessie is the daughter of Charles Stewart, a farmer living five miles southwest of this village. These strange things are done when me is in a state of trance which physicians are unable to explain. During the past year she has often fallen into this state, remaining in {t from two days to a week. She seems transformed into another person——in fact, she acts the part of several persons. ehe became ill through over. work at Kirksville, Mo. normal school, where she attended classes 1909-10. She then left home to teach in Waco, Tex. On her return she began to reveal these strange powers. RARER * Then, the ian Of Aberdeen; W. H. she has nd there are a few others on What So do TAFT’S CHILDREN ON A TRIP BT. PAUL, July 31.—Robert and Helen Taft, son and danghter of president, will leave Beverly Ai 2 for Glacier National park They will be accompanied by sev- eral friends, including Miss Martha Bowers, daughter of the late solict- tor general of the United Stat Lioyd W. Bowers, her brother, Miss Isabel Vincent, daughter of the president of the University of Minnesota. The party will be chaperoned by Mrs. Vincent. * WEATHER FORECAST * * Generally fair tonight and * *® Thursday; light west to north. * *® west winds. Temperature at * * noon 71, * * * RK ‘but not in public praise. She qualifies as an expert, but she gets no t ks from respectable society, which draws aside its immaculate cL) leat they be contaminated by the touch of the lost and fallen. i" THE CASE OF “SUSAN BROWN” The missionary told me the story of.a commonplace girl, who m! be “Susan Brown,” who, in her innocence, visited a respectable et on the respectable side of the “deadline,” got drunk, lost her i ence, her good name, and found herself, bewildered and despair- ing, “below the line.” Society said r best mom wi ‘What's the use?” “You see,” the missionary explained, “she had crossed the line.” Drinking became a habit. She took drugs when the drink failed to sustain her. She blasphemed. She fought with the women of her kind, and with the police, In jail and out. And back to the old life. Back to the life of rouge and the red lamp. She was “bad.” She went the limit. Her {innocence lost, her good name lost, she almost lost her soul. “What's the use?” But the missionary, penetrating the labyrinth, found her in one of her best moments—rare moments now—her moments of contrition. They started back together over the rocky and circuitous way. They went forward two steps and slipped back one. The girl was weak, the road steep. And there were times when she didn’t want to return to respectability. ‘The missionary and the girl had two enemies to fear, the girl’s own weakness. The other was respectable society. two the missionary feared respectable society the more, RECROSSING THE “LINE” Like creatures ashamed they slipped across the “line.” That is, the girl quit drink and drugs and the missionary found her employ- ment as a servant in the home of a doctor who knew her past. Once, twice, thrice, she fell back over the line, And each time the mission: ary dragged her back, She hasn't touched drink or drug for six months, She is as one of the family, She has strength of her own, ‘and nedd not She doesn't say ‘es the ug “it is discouraging, though,” sald the missionary to me. “When 1 first found that girl she came up with me from the restricted district and we walked through Second a By and by she stopped in bie’ cafe. ‘it was from there,’ she said, ‘that | The police said she ts of contrition, her One was Of the Star D OF COURSE HE MUST BE A HUMAN. DYNAMO — THIRD When you see a fat man try to act cute to make a hit with the ladies, you can just bet that his wife is “visiting back home.” EDITION WOODROW WILSON ALWAYS SLEEPS ON HIS RIGHT SIDE HE USUALLY SLEEPS WiTH ws EYES TTT i SNC SDA IY NE SO D FEDERAL JUDGE. IN DANGER OF IMPEACHMENT Judge Speer of Georgia May Face | Charges on Grounds Alleged to Be Similar to Other Recent Cases Against “ Judges. (By United Press Leased Wire.) MACON, Ga., July 31—Probability of a third United States facing impeachment charges on grounds alleged to be not unlike in the ca of Cornel! H. Hanford a Robt. W. Archbaid, known here tod. when it was intimated that Emor Speer, U. judge for the Southern district of Georgia, probably would be pelled to defend his action in deciaring former Mayor Huff in tempt for writing a letter assailing Speer’s record on the | Friends of Huff stated today that the latter intended to charges of such a nature against Speer as would warrant cong) ordering an investigation. When Huff's letter reached Judge Speer, he canceled m for a (rip to Nova Scotia and ordered Huff arrested. The Hi estate here has been in court for 13 years on bankruptcy proceedii and in his letter Huff said that as Speer had been inactive for years, he proposed to get justice. “IMPROPER JUGGLING” “You have improperly juggled this case for the financial be of yourself, your relatives, special lawyers and others,” Huff wrote Judge Speer. Huff alleged that $94,000 tied up in the proceedings had been in the banks for years without interest, and Speer’s relative is vi president of the Institution, In his letter Huff referred to Speer a “petticoat pensioner and a yvenal and corrupt judge.” In paragraph the jurist is referred to as a “splenetic and spectacular, well as a crooked, eruel and churlish judge.” > “LOST ON DESERT | CHOOSE HAINES (By Unitea Press Leased Wire) (By United Press Leased Wire) * LOS ANGELES, July $1.—On the| BOISE, Ida, July 31.—John My desert, somewhere between Trini-|Haines of Boise was probably nome dad, Colo, and Los Angeles, at-jinated for governor on the repubs tempting to complete a Minneap-|lican ticket at yesterday's primary, |olis-toLos Angeles trip, in a big/although the result will not be defile touring car, are J. W. Walker and/nitely known until tomorrow. The his two sons of this city. Nothing|surprise of the primary was has been heard from the party for|showing made by Paul Clagstone three weeks, when a wire was re-| Bonner county, who is a close peg ceived from Trinidad that they /ond to Haines, in tne eta ahead were having trouble with the roads| or ex.Goy, John T. Morrison, who and could not tell when Los An-!was considered Haines’ most for: geles would be reached. midable opponent. sags essere LEAPS FROM EIFFEL TOWER. PARIS, July 31—An effort is being made here today to learn the identity of a fashionably dressed woman who, late yesterday, hurled herself from the topmost platform of the Eiffel tower. The limbs were severed before the body fell to the second platform, 525 feet below, where it was smashed beyond recognition. About 400 francs were found in the woman's pocket. Have You Anything For Sale? Advertise it in the classi- fied columns of The Star. Over 40,000 families read The Star classified columns every evening and would see your ad. No matter what it may be, whether a house and lot, a dog, piece of furniture, etc., there is bound to be some one among these 40,000 families who may want what you have to sell. And a Star want ad costs so little. Just phone your want ads to The Star. They will receive prompt attention. Main 9400. Over 40,000 Families Read the Star Every Evening Star Want Ads Bring Best Results