The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 6, 1912, Page 1

mating Teddy In eon- pretty Planning and they're achem- The at & Moment opportune phe women from oun vy Addame the * pound y having Theodor wldent econd ortent. in 0 VOL, 14—NO. nominatior bof Kray 135. ROOSEVELTISMS FROM KEYNOTE SPEECH. ‘old parties are husks with no real soul within either.” need today is to face the fact that we are now in the midst of a great economic evolution.” essential wage. SEATTLE, WASH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, | LT SOUNDS _in the progressive program is the right of the people to rule.” business, big or little; we are against crooked business, big or little.” et Oo eee tariff must end. The tariff should approximate the difference between the a bosses and their agents at the Chicago convention treated political theft as a legitimate political American people and not the courts are to determine their own fundamental policies.” should be devised for making it easier than at present to get rid of an ” stick-in-the-bark legalism, the legalism that subordinates equity to technicalities, should be recog- potent enemy of justice.” ‘ must submit to such 1“ public regulation as will make it a means of life and health, not of death seevelt urged the immediate construction, ownership and operation of railways and telegraphs in favored the leasing of coal lands. ly argued for the policy of conserva tion of natural resources for the public as a whole, ‘UNSEATING OF NEGRO DELEGATES (By United Press Leased Wire.) 6.—Enthusiasm almost without parallel was #hown wt Theodore Roosevelt arrived in the convention hall taal prosressive party to deliver the “confession of faith,” on he expects to be elected president of the United It was 12:35 o'clock when 4 i | i i B £23373 z % i 1 Hy Roosevelt was very specific in dealing with the labor problems. Industry, he said, must be regulated .|te mean life and health and not economic evolution. Measures. it then explained emsential in the pro- fe the right of to rile. He favored i les, direct elec- a short ballot, i practices acts imaries as well as the ‘ity of campaign during campaigns. Tepretentative overn- i the le to themselves the Minimum Wage Commissions. The colonel advocated the souks ing of minimum wage comm! il He advocated immediate ac- tion in state and nation so far as requiring a minimum wage stand- ard for women. He favored legisia- tion to provide compensation for industrial accidents and deaths and diseases arising from nature of in- try. owe stend for a living wage,” Roosevelt said, “for a standard high Want Ad Do for You? A Want ad in The Star can speak | to over 40,000 families every eve- | ning. It can tell them your wants. It can say to them that you have a house or a lot to sell or it can tell them that you will buy a house or lot at a bargain price. It can tell them you have lost some article or found something. It can dispose of that piece of furniture which you do not need. It can tell them you have furnished rooms to rent. In fact there is nothing you may have for sale or desire which will not ap- peal to many of The Star’s family of over 40,000 readers every eve- ning. Only a few cents cost secures you a want ad in The Star. Phone your wants, Main 9400, pay when you are down town. Want Ad in the Star Is Read by 40,000 Families Every Evening death and inefficiency. Ultimately, | ta | | CHICAGO, Aug. Col. ' Theodore Roosevelt's “confession of faith” overshadowed everything else which came before the nation- al progressive convention today, delegates admitted that the action of the provisional national commit- q children ix abnormal and should be prohibited,” said the colonel, “so aid the farmer. He urged the co- operative business system among a the farmers, Anti-Trust Law Broken Down, As a sole remedy, the anti-trast w , in actual practice, corm- pletely broken down so far as put- ting a decided stop to business abuses, Col. Roosevelt pointed out. It cannot be enforced universally, and sporadic enforcement causes continual unrest. Furthermore, ft is no real check, as shown tn the Standard Oj] and tobacco trust casea: Concentration and co-opera- tion are conditions’ imperatively es- sential for industrial advance, as the most progressive economists admit, and the remedy Iles in regu- lation of industrial concerns by a governmental commission, just as railroads are regulated by the in- terstate commerce commission, “1 believe in a protective tariff, Roosevelt said, “as a principle a proached from the interests of t whole people, and not bund! = | BY T. R. MEANS BIG C. previous election ‘resentation tm fw | It provides that hereafter gate be apportioned for aia i i z RE PPEE REG? 02 alias : i | HIS SEAT IN RECALL ELECTIO (By United Freee Leased Wire.) OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 6. weeping victory in a recall elec. tion at which the voters expressed their preference to the extent of nearly 7,000 majority, Mayor Mott today resumed bis chair as the chief executive of the city, and Commis sioners T. C. Turner and W, J. Bae- cus will also remain in office for the remainder of their terms, The vote on the Mott recall primary was 17,061 against recall and 10,937 for it. On Turner the vote stood 16,856 against and 11,011 for reeall; Bac- cus 17,463 against and 10,094 for recall, The women voters played a large part in the election, and much ered- it Is granted their efforts for the re- tention of Mayor Mott and the com- missioners. SPEEDERS FORFEIT BAIL Ed Bereth and Gillis Da Fiong| #9 each forfeited $20 bail money this morning rather than answer to # charge of speeding on a motoreyel RICH GIRL CITY DOG CATCHER. The city recently decreed picked up within 90 days. MILWAUKEE, Aug. 6.—Miss Leonore D. Cawker, a wealthy lover of dumb animals, today is entered upon her official duties as city dog catcher and pound keeper. by her own wish that she was appointed to the task. Miss Cawker has maintained a private kennel for years. It was that all stray dogs must be Miss Cawker immediately ap- plied for the position and was appointed. Her private auto- mobile will be used for that purpose. SPAPER ; ONE CENT ¢irusin' BY FRED L. BOALT ness,” said Adolf of The Cave, “is rotten A lucky if he makes a living these days.” Cave is a vast piace of refreshment, under- Along one side is the bar. Distributed over flagged floor are many tables. Adolf's waiters, megaphones of their hands, bellowed the or- bartenders. The ringing, and the rather well. mourned Adolf. “They euatomer was weeping a tale of woe into the of another. Watchful Adolf stabbed bim with a of ice. I've told you once already,” be sald tn « ix, “that panhandling don't go here.” he Iachrymose one, his tears frozen, slouched up > stairs leading to the sidewalk above. Expert- teaches it ia wike to get a move on when peken to in silken tones by large men with hes da. Adolf once was chucker-out for Billy voice of he he eyes of the proprietor swept the establish- t, There was no trouble anywhere. He could +e control In other hands for a little while. Come into the office,” he said the boxdike office, hidden under the stairs, . in a reminiscent mood, told me of Billy the and of the days when business was “good.” 0 thieves turned a trick, and, in making their separated, according to a pre-arranged plan. y were to meet at a certain place, at a certain no to divide the spoils. tut ‘the thief with the loot failed to show up at the dezvous. Instead, he realized on the stolen goods fi spent the money. He spent it at Billy the Mug’s. The other th Murray bis name was—found his Partner drunk and asleep on the bench near the stove, with his head fa forward on his breast, where he sharpened @ large claspknife on an iron railing. He sharpened it carefully, trying the edge from time to time on his When satisfied with its keenness, he on. Adolf saw the hatred in the man’s haggard face snd burning eyes. He had, he says, a premonition of nding danger. But there was no tl Moarray lifted the head of his sleeping partner, so that ft rolled back, exposing the neck And with one sweep of the arm he cut the throat. It was an unwritten Iaw at Billy the Mug’s tha if you spent your money there, you were privile ta stay the night, There was the bench already men- Ds tioned. If the bench was full, you might put your beck to the railing around the stove, hook your arms “STILL RUNNING” as «The following report is on the > a n to stop, an file at police headquarters: ‘Of. int he mead fiver Braillard found two men in a’ still running.” ame out of the TO START AKO MA AINT LOOKIN? ,] 'M GONA BEAT IT THE STORES WiLL BE OPEN AFTER THE GAME, GUESS VLL AIKE OUT AND DO MOTHER'S SHOPPING Y ALL FALL FOR IT--FROM GRANDSON TO GRAN box car this morning at Railroad av |He told them to get out m started to run away fired his revolver, ran away The Seattle Star SEATTLE’S ONLY PRO OME EDITION on it, and hang. It was possible to sleep thus if you were drunk enough. If the police were after you, there was the coal hole under the stairs, “Scotty the Bum” was the handy man. He ran errands, swept out, kept the fire going; and made himself useful in many other ways. They used to call bim the “night clerk,” because he assigned cus- tomers wishing to spend the night to bench, rail or coal hole. In the morning he would rouse them and send them about their business. Not infrequently he would find a sleeper he could not waken “Oh, Adolf,” he would call, “here's another dead one.” Nobody ever went by his right name at Billy the Mug’s. There was Book-a-boo, and “Gimme” and “Tom, the Crip,” and many others, each having his nickname, Book-a-boo was a great reader. “Gimme” was a beggar who was id “Gimme” because he was always asking for money. Tom, the Crip, was a cripple. One night “Gimme” came in rolling drunk and promptly fell asleep on the bench. The crowd had a lot of fun with sleeping “Gimm who, from long practice, could slumber with head erect. The got around “Gimme” that night me away by the hillside. an hour, getting drunker and drunker. “Scotty the Bum.” who was an expert in such mat- ters, remarked to Adolf; ‘Gimme’ don't look right, somehow. “Lift his eyelids,” said Adolf Scotty did as he was told. Old “Gimme” was dead. and roared “L There was a tough crowd of boys who hung around that corner. Adolf, having a station at the front end of the , could see them through the open door. They lay in wait for drunken men and “frisked” them openly Adolf checked off the names of half a dozen of them. “They're all in the pen now,” he said. Billy the Mug, most people thought, was French, with the negro strain, He called himself Billy Be- jond. As a matter of fact, Billy was a Polish Jew Billy made several fortunes out of the coppers and nickels of the mouchers and cheap crooks who fre: quented his place. He lost them betting on his own horses and game cocks, Billy was a sport. He got his worst jolt when he took a horse to Butte for the races. The Marcus Daly crowd trimmed him for $20,000. He had to mortgage his saloon ‘On the walls of Billy the Mug's are several pictures of Billy—a tall, handsome man, swart skinned. There is a picture of Billy's favorite race-horse. But Billy died broke, and the potter's field is full of the clay of men who contributed to Billy the Mug's prosperity in the days when business was “good.” Adolf says. ORR ORR OR RR ee y|* * car and one of|* WEATHER FORECAST * ne told|*® Fair tonight and Wednesday, * * moderate southwesterly winds. * is|*® Temperature at noon 66. * [ee RII IOI IO He THE GAME, FoR ME THIS AFTERNOON AND VLE WORK WONIGHT AND MAKE HIS MIND OFF | BELIEVE A LITTLE AIR, THIS AFTER NOON WoULD po ME GooD, GAME NOW AND THEN DOE: A MAN Good. TOO HOT INSIDE FoR ME TO DAY, GUESS VLL STEP ovT To THE GAME AND ¢—~ A BALL IT TAKES WoRK | BATTLECRY ANE | « They kept it up for haif| at she'll talk about n whe rinew in c " en he the euusecmmenntints TWO BULLDOGS MAKE ATTAGK OWLITTLE BOY | Threw Stones at Dogs and They Ran After and Caught Him—Boy in a Serious Condition. Preston James, an @year-old ne gro boy, was attacked by two vic- ious bulldogs this morning, badly chewed and lacerated, and now llee unconscious in his home, 2618 East Madison, in a very serious condi- tion. Th ing boy was going by the home of S n 1 27th av. N. Martin owns tw age dogs. He rre time ago for ne dogs, but was released mise to keep them tied up. s fence tight all the ut a lock on the gate did no harm. The the neighborhood * habit of throwing teasing »cked the morning, ones at the the dogs after d the bulldogs pounced d began to tear his body. je Franklin, 1834 27th av., a neighbor, ran to the boy's as nee and beat the dogs off. Dr. Miles was summoned. He cauterized jand dressed the wounds and sent the boy to his home. JANE ADDAMS TO SECOND TEDDY CHICAGQ, Aug. 6.—Miss Jane Addams, head resident of Hull house, Chicago, and one of the delegates-at-large from lili. nois to the national progressive convention, will second the nomination of Theodore Roose veit on behalf of the state dele- gation on Wednesday. Miss Addams is to have the honor of being the first woman to speak as a delegate in seconding a presidential nomination in a na tional convention, excepting the omer and socialist conven- ons, NEGROES WANT FINAL RULING CHICAGO, Aug. 6.—Col. Roose |¥elt spent the morning with Mrs. Roosevelt, receiving callers, the lat- ter including a delegation of suf- fragettes headed by Jane Addams of Hull house. Negro progressives of Arkansas jmet here this morning and decided to demand that Col. Roosevelt make final ruling on the negro question, ARREST SEATTLE MAN AT MEDFORD MEDFORD, Or., Aug. 6—Acting |on advice from Seattle, the Medford |police arrested Archie Dosborne of |that place at the Hotel Medford, |Dosborne is wanted, the Seattle po- lice say, for grand larceny, the charge growing out of a mining deal. Dosborne, who is also known jas L. C. Smith, ys that he was jready to return to Seattle and would have left here for that place with- jin a few days had the police left him alone. He says he will have no trouble in proving his innocence. Paris.—Discouraged by the strik- ers at Havre resuming work, the Seamen's union here today ended long drawn out strike at all ther ports, YOUR EYES LIE Another eye-deception—The inner circle on the left and the outer cir- cle on the right are exactly the same size, but they don’t look it! DDADDY =] YEP, iM THE BALL GAME ———— GOING To) ~—