The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 5, 1912, Page 1

is the leaven which stirs and wrinkles into Look The Star over with this fact in mind le like to be interested, like to be puzzled, even like to be startled, but, best of all, THEY LIKE TO BE Y PAGE. And if you find a genuine LAUGH here and there, the day’s work will be well spent for your Star _HOME EDITION jolly smiles the world’s scarred, old face. P. today, and you'll find at least A SMILE ON EVER _ SEATTLE’S ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1912. | Milky Way Henderson will ride on it in an auto now. See his tips to milk consumers ‘on page 4. about ¥ and pictures watermelons on page 5 toda: _ will “make your mouth water. Don't miss ‘em. VOL. 14—NO. 134, IDENT TAFT LETS HANFORD QUIT YE STAND FOR : NO. SUCCESSOR APPOINTED IS EI Superior Judges and Several Other At- torneys Mentioned for Appointment. (By United Press Leased WASHINGTON, Aug le» upon recommendation of the sub- committee of the house judiciary committee, President Taft this afte ernoon formally accepted the res: nation of U. 8. Judge C. H. Hanford, |for the Western district of Wash- ington. Hanford sent his resignation to the president while the subcommit- tee was in the midst of an investi gation in Seattle of charges against Hanford, by vwnich impeachment | proceedings wire intended. Upon |receipt of Hasford’s resignation, President Taft notified the house judiciary comm .ttee, and the mene bers of the subcommittee were or dered to ret to Washington from Seattle. President Taft retused to act on Hanford’s resigna iva une be cculd consult with members oF the subcommittee. “Charges Virtually Substantiated.” / € members of the subcommit- arrived here last week, and while th declared that the |cbarges against Hanford had ben | virtually substantiated, and that “the mass of evidence uncovered forced Hanford’s resignation,” it recommended that it be accepted, declaring the expense of impeach ment proceedings unnecessary. Possible Appointments. Three judges of the superior court are mentioned today as pos- sible successors to Judge Hanford, They are Judges R. B. Albertsoa, King Dykeman and J. T. Ronald. Albertson had been mentioned prominently for the position |years ago, when the new fede judgeship was created, to which! | Judge Donworth was appointed. Among the younger lawyers, Judge Dykeman is discussed as & likely appointee. Dykeman is a! University of Washington man and! has worked his way to the front, | He was president of the Young Men's Republican club a few years ago and is well known. Judge Ronald is the democratia STORY OF “MAN WHO FOUGHT IN WRONG WAR” Pat Moore was with Commodore Peary in Japan and Fought Chinamen, But Now He's “Up Against It” and Can't Get Pension. BY FRED L. BOALT Pat Moore fought in the wrong war. If he had fought in the Rebel-| Three lion or the Spanish-American war, he might today be enjoying a per-| sion or living comfortably in a soldiers’ home. Instead, he is living in a Japa- nese lodging house on King st In the nation capital there is a e Indiana Senator Sounds Keynote at Opening So \ Bull Moose Convention—Roosevelt and John- , | senator who is too busy to remem. Probable Ticket—No Excitement at Chicago F » | Ai4' ORINe the reveietibndttes have | ousted the Manchu dynasty and ee- tablighed a republic. They owe no thanks to Pat Moore, who did as he was told, bravely and well, and fought In the wrong war. Pat one RARAEAAKRAKAAARRER HARK KRARHERE if: FACTS ABOUT BULL MOOSE GATHERING national convention of new progressive party convened Coliseum at 12:45 today. F Senator Albert J. Beveridge, as temporary chair. , delivered keynote speech. n Roosevelt will make second keynote speech to- wa of once a broth of a bboy the County bhoys, He was born ‘way back in 1826. In 49 Pat left his native Ireland and sted as an American sailor on the old Roscoe. He was trans red to the sloop-0’-war Vanda and went with Commodore thew Calbraith Perry on his fa | me of the Orient was an unknown quantity days. Her gates were the world. She didn’t get acquainte Armed } with letter from President Fill- more to the emperor of Japan Perry sailed across the Pacific to say how-dedo. It took him three years to say it. The treaty was concluded at Yokohama in 1854, es tablishing trade and diplom lations with the United St Perry deserved and got credit. No one gave a thought to Pat Moore, swabbing decks on the sloop-o'-war The powers had thelr eyes on China, Great Britain wanted a slice, So did Germany and France. Uncle Sam was an upstart in the society of nations in those days, but ambitious, it will be nominated for president. Present Indica- ‘are that Gov. Hiram Johnson of California will be chosen Bis running mate. There are 1,200 delegates, and sessions r will last two or three days. eee ee eee eRe RE A RA In making his keynote speech. D, Aug. 5.—The butt | tormer Senator Beveridge declared into position for nis] “We stand for a nobler America. the donkey and the ele-| We stand for an undivided nation.’ 7 when Senator Joseph | We stand for a broader liberty, a & of Montana rapped for the | fuller justice. We stand for social) ‘convention of progessives| brotherhood as against savage in.) 7 order at 12:45 The | dividualism. We stand for an intel. [7 instead of a / . The big hall was reckless competition. We stand for id with red, white and biue.| mutual helpfulness instead of mu-| nd of the hall were pictures|tual hatred. We stand for equal| Lincein and Jeffer-| rights as a fact of life, instead of a) other was a large por-| catchword of politics, We stand for Rooseveit. the rule of the people @ prac- today lacked the tical truth instead of a meaningless ‘accompanied the fighting | pretense. ws cruise Seeeeeeeteeee® Japar lin those ! closed | want 1 to a Prost Leased Wire.) VW /@ stand for a represen. 8 seat on the party tative government that represent: o. Roosevelt was the | the people. We battle for the actual for the presidential | rights of man. out our principles we program of construc- tive form. We mean to tear down only that which is wrong and out of date; and where we tear down we mean to build what is right and fitted the times. We harken to/ the call of the present. We mean to make laws fit conditions they are and meet the needs of the peo- ple who are on earth today. That we may do this we found party through which all who believe with us can work with us; or, rather, we declare our allegiance to the party/ PAT MOORE SLICING UP OF CHINA The unrest among the masses gave the powers their excuse to butt They said in effect to the Manchus: “We'll quash this uprising if you'll give us this and that.” And so the partition of China began. Pat Moore was obeying orders, as a sailor should. When his su- periors served him a musket and cutlass and told him to go ashore at Shanghai with the others, he went. He was glad to go. They put down the Shanghai rebeilion. Most people have forgotten | there ever was a Shanghai rebellion. But there was—it was the war Pat Moore fought in—the wrong war. SHOOTING YELLOW MEN It was the meanest kind of a war. For six weeks or so—Pat can't remember exactly how long—he lay in a pestilential swamp, shooting | jdown crazy yellow men wearing pigtails as fast as be could load and/member of the superior court fire his musket, For weeks he lay in the mire and ooze, with a pitiless|bench. In the event that Presdent sun beating down’ upon him, and the stench of dead flesh smiting his|Taft may decide to appoint a dem- nostrils ‘ocrat, Judge Ronald probably would Though he and his fellows killed many yellow men, there seemed | get the plum no end to the supply. Two yellow men took the place of every one; Outside of the bench, Harold fallen. These yellow men held life of little worth Preston, who aided the defense of So, to relieve the tedium of slaughter, the sailors from the ships | Judge Hanford, is most prominent- would, from time to time, charge the yellow hordes, drive them back |}y mentioned. Preston turned down and retreat in order to their camp. jan offer on the supreme court of Day after day Pat fought and sweated in the camp. Night after/the state about a year ago. night he shivered in the mire. And by and by a horde of grinning yel-| agen ecneeontnal low men swept over him, trampling him under foot, so that finally life “SKYLIGHT” left him. (This is not history, but the fantasy of delirium.) (Dy Detted Press Leased Wire) When Pat Moore awoke, he was in his hammock, a sick man, and LOS ANGELES, Aug. -lthe Shanghai rebellion had passed into history. He never recovered , ing Judge Geo. H. Hutton’s ruling in| from the chronic dysentery contracted in the swamp, after various wan A “skylight” artist visited three He made | stores on Union st., between Fifth Saturday night. In on in this city and gathering at Balti moose convention to- ‘to be more or less of affair, utterly de- on and fights. But ould not be properly some of the spectacu- y's launching promised by Beveridge ote” speeches were Albert J. Beveridge, ted States senator from delivered the first imme- he was announced as 's choice for tempo- Colonel Roosevelt arrived at Chicago from Oyster Bay today, and was greeted at the accom TESTIMON OF nARROW \“BOY ORATOR” IS. | “THE BULL MOOSE KEYNOTE SOUNDER BITTER RECK ELECTION AT DAKLAND (By United Press Leased Wire) i, 7 The speech was wildly applauded. | Negroes to Fight for Seats. The negro delegation from Flor- ida decided to buy tickets to the Coliseum and make a fight on the floor for their seats in the conven tion, Perry Howard, leader of the Mississippi! contestants, said the negroes from his state would take the same action if the decision in their case is the same as in the Florida ruling. A blow at “boss ism” was struck by the committee when the Lightner delegates from| OAKLAND, Aug. 5—With the ad- the First and Second Obio districts | ministration forces of Mayor Frank were seated. The evidence verge 40d fg Mott and Commissioners W. J. that “Boss” Cox of Cincinnati had mh packed the enti-Lightser -contact-| “ore? “4 F-.0. Torner relying on bese a slogan of “patriotism and the pro- tection of the home,” and making a “keynote” will prob- }that of Col. Roosevelt him- utterances of the colonel at the greatest feature He will speak will last two days. the nomination will be | Colonel's name as the pro-| ¢andidate for president before the conven . A. Pendergrast of New _ Progressive Plaftorm Will be several seconding including Gov. Hiram the Darrow trial today that the de- \fendant on cross-examination could SAILED ON SOUND WATERS | be interrogated in an attempt to Im- [peach his testimony, as to alleged| [incriminating conversations he had/ |with John R. Harrington, a former He served out his term of enlistment, and came, derings, to Seattle. For 20 years he sailed the Sound waters. Teddy Bosses It. many friends, among them Capt. “Jim” Carroll, Capt. “Jim” was his}amd Sixth avs. friend and backer, When Pat was too old to follow sailoring, the cap-| every case a section of the skylight Roosevelt's domination over moon of California and John M iter, & democrat of New Orleans which has been gone Col. the convention will be complete. Not only will he name the vice presidential nominee and the per desperate fight against the aliled, forces of the Taxpayers’ league and the socialists who charge the in- employe, at which dictagraph reco. ords were taken by the state, Assist ant District Attorney Ford quizzed the defendant-witness as to admis tain 1 gave him money fe had—and has | on which to live jcently, Pat was like a ship without a rudder other When the captain died none of them rich steamers Premier friends, but Pat on the re. among and | was removed and the store entered. e first store visited was the }china shop of Railsback-Claremore |Co. Nothing was taken there. The cumbents with subserviency to cor- porate inter unlawful use of the “police club’ and extravagance,| Oakland is today in the throes of | a bitterly contested recall election primary. While the voting began rather light in the morning, Indications were that before evening practical ly every eligible voter would cast his or her ballot. It.is conceded that upon the women’s vote the election will largely turn The socialists, who initiated the recall against the Mott administra- tion following police interference at a meeting in Hamilton hall last March, have as thelr candidates |Robert Vincent, a butcher, for mayor; Thos. P. Sheehan, for com missioner of health and public saf. Jety; and John H, Bustice, for com missioner of streets. Former Mayor John WL. Davie, with his slogan of “a dollar tax rate,” and Dr. F. Jackson, for com. missioner of public health and safety, are the candidates of the Taxpayers’ league. Close, who sailed with and who is now an inspector in the health department, and W. Powell of the Spanish War Veterans STRUGGLE TO HELP VETERAN but he is a veteran Roosevelt and his man- teady for adoption by the Tt fe likely that this th without a hitch, em- is favoring the initia recall, woman ard revision of the thorough corrupt practices @irect primaries in all them J. H Yosemite. Capt. H manent chairman of the convention, but he will decide whether the new party shall take the name of the National Progressive rty or pe petuate the name of “bull moose Most of the leaders favor the for. mer, but a number of the delegates are strong for the “bull moose” name, and will fight for its perpetu ation. | Rass-Heuter paint store, next door, lost two packages of gold leaf. valued at $16 Uhl Bros., wall- paper jobbers, had about $9 stolen. ‘STOLE $500,000 ‘WORTH OF JEWELS | CHICAGO, Aug: 5.—Seated in his cell here today, apparently uncon- cerned as to his fate, Jacob F, Guth- rie, who confessed he stole over | $500,000 in Jewels and art treasures, and who never obtained a cent from | his pinnder, storing the loot care- fully away in trunks, is a complete anomoly to criminologists as well as the police. When questioned today, Guthrie said | “had no plans when I stole and {I have no plans now. I haven't even engaged a lawyer. I'll take | whatever in store for me, I =| haven't any idea why I stole.” SHOULD TRADE ABOUT sions he made to Harrington. “Did you meet Harrington in the Hayward hotel February 147” asked » 7 a j the prosecutor, =) T him there Y met | Former Senator Albert J. Bever-}{n February, lidge of Indiana, who nominated Did | President Taft four years ago, 1a| next da jtemporary chairman of the pro-| from |gressive convention which is meet- jury?” ing at Chi today be compelled to testify. I told him the best way to find out would be | Lewis Kester, 30, a teamster, at |tempted to end his life Jast night] » several time replied Darrow. you not, on February 16, the| ask Harrington to refrain stifying before the grand Efforts have been made to get Pat a pensio wrong war. There is no soldiers’ or sailors’ home open to him The Catholic Ald society pays for Moore's meals at a cafeteria Close, Capt. Powell and others have dug down into their jeans for the price of lodgings Long ago enator of th | Jones was asked to use his influence to get Moore a pension, Jones reported that he was a veteran of the wrong war, Pat's friends asked the senator to get a special act through con- gress, giving Pat a pension. The senator asked for proofs of his serv- showing that he contracted his malady while in the navy Much red tape. Months and years passed, ‘Way back last May the senator wrote Pat that he would shortly receive an order to have himself examined, Then the act would be passed, no doubt, The order to refuse, and then see if they could at his home, 4732 46th av. 8 He force him to do 80 “Did not Harrington say to you, ‘Oh, Darrow, Darrow, Darrow, they| covered a handkerchief with two ounces of chloroform, cut his right wrist and lay down to die, His have the goods on you'?” wife found him and a doctor from Flushing scarlet, Darrow y| has never come ligtaaly teen fend ind bl eg It isn't much that the veteran asks. Fifty cents a day would mean the city hospital soon had him all right. “| ek c | comfort; a dollar a day would mean that he could have the fruit which that conversation took ‘place’ sr) the doctors tell him he must have if he is to live. It wouldn't be for LO8 ANGELE Aug. 5.—Deter not.” long, as Pat is 86. mined to end his life because of an - Pat needs two things: A pension, however small, and a little WOOL BILL money NOW, to tide him over until such time as congress shall see fit incurable hip ailment, Jose Cartez IS NOW UP today completed his 49th day with to grant a tardy reward to the man who fought in the wrong war. “DAY OF THE BOSS IS out food in. the county hospital, (By United Press Leased Wire.) SSatvatiney:| g TOPRESIDENT) QVER” DECLARES COLONEL helpless. He has lost 100 pounds, a vote of 35 to 28 the senate (By United Press Leased Wire.) this afternoon passed the wool CHICAGO, Aug. 5.—Five thousand jostling, cheering, enthusiastic | bill a8 agreed upon In joint |men_and women greeted Col. Theodore Roosevelt as he stepped from | conference with the house, |the Twentieth Century limited here, at 8:55 a. m. today, to direct the The measure now goes to the |Proceedings of the “bull moose” national convention, which assembled in the Coliseum at noon. } ie manne Hs prong Literally fighting his way through a jam of humanity, Col. Roose- | Taft “the ‘bill : oat velt and his party jumped into an automobile and were rushed to the Fee cal weith the meted l8 Congress hotel. Another crowd awaited him there. As the automo: e bile ran up and down the street to give the crowd a chance to see the| Eg diate i tna nin “pull moose,” a band struck up “Oh, You Beautiful Doll. Col, | spring. Roosevelt flushed and grinned, while the crowd took up the refrain This seemed to amuse the colonel. The machine was stopped and} scores of-moving-picture operators began work. Standing bareheaded in the sun, Roosevelt addressed the crowd, saying in part: “DAY OF BOSS IS PAST” « “It is a pleasure to be in Chicago again, this time at the birth of a new party, instead of at the death of an old one. By the 4th of No- vember the ticket nominated here six weeks ago will no longer be a factor in politics, Americans will not tolerate fraud or theft. The day of the boss, the crooked financier behind the boss, and the crooked paper, Is past.” eJones—I came up here lor a fev hat Chicago suffragettes believe Col, Roosevelt is their friend and] weeks to try to forget a certain girl, will work hard for the woman suffrage plank tn his platform was indi- Brown—Well, I came up here to cated by the throngs of women that greeted him on all sides, try to get one, Want Is Useless When a Star Want Ad will bring to you what you desire. Perhaps you want a po- sition. You may need help—a clerk or a housemaid. 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Becke |who is charged with plotting t crime and paying the assassins, t day withdrew his plea of not guilty and then walved pleading. Judge’Crain, before whom the case was called, immediately trans- ferred it before Judge Mulqueen, who continued the hearing until Wednesday. John Hart, Becker's counsel, pre- sented two motions to the court. One attached the indictment of Becker and the other, demanded the right to examine tie notes of the grand jury hearing on which the indictment was based. ° COME, BIRDIE, COME boss: we TOK tot tok EIGHT NOW * Just to add a little more ex- *® citement in the coroner's * race, in, which n repub: * Hicans have already entered, & Dr, W. H. Andersap filed this morning as the eighth candi- date, No other filings were * made this morning. A \chehelialiohohetalahetatelelialahelel Here's another eye deceiver: A bird that enters his cage, as you bring the paper close to your} eyes. 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