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

The Cub “Seoop, the junior reporter, is on ‘page 2 today with another hu- morous adventure, Scoop is the Jatest entertainer for Star 5 readers. VOL, 14—NO. 1 4). ~The Seattle Star ““THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER’ IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1912. IN THAINS AND | WH STANDS Be HOME ONE CENT Oh, Bill! He is the “Who's Who” of the dramatic world, and he’s in Se EDITION attle this week. See page 4. IS PRESIDENT TAFT’S FAREWELL FRAUD ON THE PEOPLE OF SEATTLE Seattle, corporation attorney desperate fight, in driving from the bench an unfit man, the senate has been considerably reformed Fortunately, BNATORS WILL "FIGHT NAMING OF HOWARD 7 (By United Press Leased Wire.) . WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 Poindexter, Borah mmiins have united to block the confirmation of the ap- at of Clinton Howard, named by Taft yesterday as judge to s H an impeachment investigation some weeks ago PPoindexter has received a flood of telegrams describing das a special interest advocate and urging the senator Senators rcceed C Haniord, who resigned under bt against his appointment Telegrams are also in the ‘of Senators Cummins and Borah, both of whom are of the sen judiciary committee, protesting against confirmation of Howard One telegram of protest describes Howard as a confirmed r a franchise grabber and a corporation lawyer. tor Borah stated today that it will not be possible Howard to get the confirmation of the senate. However, fa certain that the full force of the administration will be edin an effort to jam through the appointment. HOWARD IS RELATIVE OF ATTORNEY M’CORD to all members of the senate judiciary committee, pro- the appointment of Howard to the federal bench, have today by & number of Seattle attorneys and by local pro- je leaders. The opinion is general here that the senate will re- fie confirm Taft's action. In this event, there will be no successor to Mend named at this session. Taft could make a recess appointment adjourns, but his appointee would not remain unless the confirm him at the next session. RELATIVE OF McCORD fact, developed late yesterday, that Howard is a retntive by age of McCord. of Kerr & McCord, corporation attorneys, who . the Hanford case, has aroused added opposition to his m corporation attorneys, jealous of Kerr & McCord, like to see some other man appointed TORT here believe that Hanford’s appotntment can be held patter Taft leaves office, next March. Then the new president Rave the privilege of appointing Hanford’ . LLINCHAM PLANS PROTEST MEETING |, W Aug. 20,—) More than half of the attorneys, the ‘county is not mincing |Iabor unions and the county grange Ks opposition to the con-|have telegraphed to Senator Poin fies of Clinton W. Howard of | dexter, urging emphatically the ne- iam as federal Judge to suc-|cessity for bigcking Howard's con- “Hanford, who was forced | firmation by the senate. The tele bby impeachment proceed-|grams alleged that Howard is a rr him. A bi« protest | raflroed lobbyist and a representa- + i being arranged here. itive of big special interests. OOR MUST BEAR HEAVY BURDEN OF TAXATION; MILLIONAIRES ESCAPE Uatted Press Leased Wire) adding: ° HINGTON, Aug. 20.—Denun- “The land could not be bought for of the aystem by which the $25.000 per acre. Improvements are . : assensed at $25,000, which amount ef the slums of Washington ¥oui4 not pay for the stone wall in to bear the heavy burden front of the property.” While millionaires _ papapnal Tate to the house todsy) HOT ARGUMENT Srport returned by a special n-) 5 7 sHopkins argued with a man, committee. The report name unknown, Iast night, in truly that the overassessing of Western style. Politics was the subject. The men disagreed, the argument grew heated, the debat ers hot. The man who differed with Hopkins turned on his heel and left in disgust. When he got to the edge of the sidewalk he changed his mind. He turned around, shaking his fists, and start ed for Hopkins. As he drew ne Hopkins drew a sixshooter. One shot was enough for the other mem ber of the argument. He vanished. he homes 1 Z. Letter, Boardman, Lars Anderson, B McLean and former ted Senator Wm. A. Clark, all res, are undervalued to John R. McLean's home, the report says that 00 per acre,’ SACK NEEDLE CAUSES DEATH. GELES, Aug. 20.—C. H. Ballard, former post- office inspector at Fr is dead today, the result of a Wound in the temple rk needle. Ballard, the Reedle driven deep in his temple, was found near Newhall week. The police are undecided whether he was mur- or committed suicide, *ALL POLICE HAVE BIG”--NO, WE | MEAN ONE BURGLAR HAS BIG FEET D | OFF OF OUR ote BRAVE BOYS 5 BURGLERS IN HOT PURSUIT FEET We ievatas A) me 4 — 445 My, ST MRNCKS OF THe OG RUQUS ONE ¢ SZ W you have jarge feet, you are under suspicion. She cron burglar with large feet. Colossal feet. bigfooted burglar has been operating on Densmore avenue and | The police are satisfied that the same burgiar has burgled all houses. They can tell by the tracks he leaves. It isn't reasonable <“w there are two burglars with such big feet. last house visited by the big-footed burglar was that of J. Densmore, 2607 Densmore a the burglar wears No. 14. From the tracks, the police sue IPyou wear No. 148 you'd better prepare an alibi for The police are ¢ Saturday Bellingham, Everett, and the whole of western Washington should sound an emphatic protest against Taft’ as a life termer on the fede st may be unavailing. Possibly the Taft crowd can still muster enough pirates of privilege to jam this outrage down the throats of the people, cannot now remain silent while his place is filled by another graduate of corporation influence ince the insurgency movement started. Nearly all of the old speci It seems probable that Senator Poindexter, with the aid of other progressives, both democratic and republican, But regardless of what the outcome may be, Seattle should let it be known emphatically that she will no I bench. CLINTON W. HOWARD; i} | ' } | | [LOTS OF EM Appointed Federal Judge) | MIXED UP IN to Succeed Hanford. THIS YOUNG ROW Cows, lowing and otherwise; SAM Is A REAL chickens, small boys and a garden Jalil entered into a case in police court this morning. R. 1. Winslow and Conrad Huff are neighbors at him. Huff's cows are frisky and wil | They refure to stay in their own back yard. Last Tnesday night they went on a rampage. The re yt sults of the jamboree were: One 1 BW YORK, Aug. 20.—Polic! tence badly broken down, one lawn Lieutenant Charles Becker, held in| trampled on and marred, one gar the Tombs for the murder of Gaiy-)den, 60 by 20 » utterly demol bier Herman Rosenthal, was today | !shed, and one property owner, R H. Winslow, very indignant. Wins denied permission by Judge Mul iow voiced his indignation in the queen to inspect the notes of the c | Prosecuting attorney's office, and a | grand jury in indicting him. Becker! warrant for Huff's arrest was the | was indignant when informed that result. lnis motion had been denied, charg-| After listening to Huff's explana ing that he is being discriminated | tion of the wild and freakish oon against | lduct of his cows, Judge Silbaugh | Sam Schepps, who testified before | fined him $3 the grand jury, today sent District BATTLESHIP would need In prison. The list in- cluded a blue silk bed quilt, house slippers, a Turkish rug, white silk socks, newspapers, magazines and| an Leased Wire) Aug. 20.—The bill, providing for one battleship, was parsed this ‘Tenth av. N. and Blaine st, Wine j low has 4 garden, In which be takes lxreat pride. Huff has four cows,| | which are also a source of pride ie GAMBLER y United Press Leased Wire) writing material. After testifying, Schepps sent a long message to the mayor of Hot Springs, Ark., thank jing him for the courtesies extended to him while he was held there awaiting the arrival of representa tives of Whitman's office | (ity United WASHINGTON Maval appropriation afternoon by the house of represen: | tatives, the conference report being ‘approved by a vote of 161 to 50 Nine democrats and one republican voted against concurring {n the re port. The measure now goes to the president for his approval ; Moderate easterly winds The democrats who voted against |* Temperature at noon, 70, the bill were those who oppose mak le #! ing appropriation for the con | eee NK em struction of ba(tleships [ee ee tk th WEATHER FORECAST \* ir tonight and Wedn * * * io Certainly! Simplest Thing in World can block Taft's efforts to longer be a silent and cringing victim. WHY Dan'T You Wik: THe FIRM THAT THEY WILL HAVE To GET ALONG WITH OvT You For ANOTHER MONTH z LEFT $50,000 UNDER PILLOW, - HAY h ONE (By Unites Press Leased Wire) (BAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20. —Leaving $50,000 in diamonds | Otto A. Case, progressive candi date for governor, today formally withdrew from the standpat ticket and jewels under her pillow in @ stateroom of the steamship ‘Harvard, Mrs. E. V. Asety did (and announced his candidacy for et discover the joss until the same office on the i c o progressive Sia fowste cna ener tee, ticket. Case's withdrawal leaves be * |Standpatter Hay alone on the re [publican ticket. Col. Cose made |the following statement | ard White is $100 richer, | After her arrival from Los | 4 rooned Mitre cniteing anarin | "NO great party can endure, in an automobile, dashed through |™Y judgment, where ints leaders the chy to the wharf, where, |8PDoInt to office of vital importance | Seer & short conference with | {0 the masses the paid lackeys of | the eteamer officers, the gems jas gre and ae yp Pipes Depa tilaehes te jed wealth in control of party ma jchinery, backed by the big newspa ON A MOTORCYCLE } | } | pers supporting the system and con. cealing from the people the true conditions of our political life. 1 believe the new progressive party is free from such influences, and } has presented to the American peo: | ple by far the best platform ever submitted by any great party of our country, and upon such a plat |} form we will bulld a government of \the people, for the and by the people. It is Just as necessary that a candidate for the high office of governor of this state have as his foundation for his campaign a con structive and progressive platform as it is for a party, and upon my platform, written long ago, embody ing, as it does, the vital fundamen tal principles contained in the pro- gressive primaries, I will appeal to the people to nominate me in the | progressive primaries to occur Sep. jtember 7th I | not op! num & Bailey's cireus will » held at Fourth and Republic advertised, but at the corner rth av nd Lenora st, on site of he Potlatch grand Arthur—Ab! Madeline. kslow you love me truly? ah, a Madeline—Arthur, nothing but of F Jove could make a girl ride bebind| the i ber fiance on a motorcycle ‘stand how do I JIM-JAM BOTTLE SIMPLY POSTPONES INEVITABLE END BY FRED L. BOALT The boy who runs the city jail elevator earned his money. All night it traveled up and down between the receiving room in the basement and the jail on the top floor. It carried a capacity load. every up trip. Chief Bannick had told the department in an official order that too many drunken men, too many women of doubtful character, too many beggars and thieves and too many lawless people of all kinds coved the streets. Go the week-end was celebrated by casting the dragnet, and more than 300 curious, dilapidated fish were caught. They were brought to headquarters by wagonioads. Two-thirds gave bail to appear in police court on Monday One hundred and fifty made the trip with the elevator boy. The police raids were made Saturday night and Sunday thorning. One hundred and twelve cases were disposed of in police court yester day, Many prisoners were released without trial. By yesterday after noon the jail receiving cells were empty again “They come and go,” said Jailer Humes, “and come again, to know their faces in time.” NOT A SWEET PLACE A receiving cell is not a sweet place at 2 o'clock of a Sunday morn- ing. There’s a smooth, hard floor, There are smooth, hard wails. There’s an iron-barred door, and there's an iron-barred window high up under the ceiling. Nothing else. Not a chair, even. Not avstick of furniture. At 2 of a Sunday morning the recetving cell is as full of men as a can is of sardines. For the most part they are a sodden, sullen, dis spirited crew. Half of them are drunk, ‘The rest are moochers, panhandlers, with here and there a “classy gun”—an aristocrat of the underworld, who draws about him the mantle of reserve and endures ag best he may this inferno of sights, sounds and smells The sober take care of the drunk by sitting on them. It is safer to sit on a man’s chest than to take a chance of his sitting on yours, THE JIM-JAM BOTTLE They kept the jim-Jam bottle busy,” said Jafler Humes The jim-4am bottle is an institution in itself. It contains chloral, It fs not pleasant to take, and doctors do not often recommend it. But it dulls jangled nerves; and in crises saves men from madness and death. “The old-timers,” said Humes, “know, even in delirium, that the bot- tle can save them, The dope-fiends love the stuff. All night they screamed for it. We feed it to them a wineglassful at a time.” “OLD MAN HART Old Man Hart died the other day in the city hospital, on the floor below the jail. He had reached a condition where even the jim-jam bottle could not help him. You get thieves, | Old Man Hart had been in the jail for drunkenness more times than the jailers could count. He was a fine old gentleman in his rare mo ments of sobriety He never faked delirium, as the dope-fiends do, and be had but to ask for the fim-jam bottle t it “They need something more than t bottle,” said Jailer Humes. ‘Here they have nothing to do but think about how good a drink of whisky would taste. We feed ‘em and let ‘em go when they're sober, | And they're back in a week, worse-than before. . “THEY NEED WORK IN THE OPEN” They need a workhouse, and the stockade isn't big enough. They | need a place where they can work in the open and get that good tired feeling that makes you hungry and sleepy. There's nothing like dig | ging in the dirt to get the booze out of a man’s system. Work outdoors, |and a good sweat, and a bath, and good food, and dreamless sleep— | that’s the fife Sometimes the overworked jim-jam bottle fails, A man sings a | ribald song unnoticed in the ving cell, The song becomes Inco: |herent screams. It is easy to become calloused to such things, Per- |hinps the jailer orders the songster to “shut up,” and goes back to his pige and newspaper “THEY GO QUICK” Ry and by the prisoners are routed out for court. Most of them by leep on the floor. But one does not waken go quick,” said Jailer Humes. Of conrse, if a drunken prisoner is too obstreperous he is taken out Jof the receiving cell and put in the padded cell, If he is just ugly, he gets |the “black hole.” And there are individual cells for special cases. death cell, t now hey CAUSE it cell “You get used to it,” sald Jailer Humes, But he added as an after thought: “The last one got me going, though.” It was Miller, Miller slew the woman he loved and the man of whom he was jealous. He was drunk when arrested, When the jailer visited the cell he saw Miller standing against the | wall, under the window. His suspenders were tied to the window bars, |The other end was about his neck | The position was lifelike, It was as if Miller was leaning restfully against the wall, At any moment before unconsciousness came he might have saved himself, but he would not, There never was a more determined, suicide than Miller “Well, Miller,” said the jaile No answer. The jailer's eyes traveled from the glazed ey: Miller's knees were bent! in “how are you feeling this morning?” downward, One of the individual cells is called the eqgdemned prisoners are confined there, but because It seems fated | tapwitness death in violent forms, Four men have destroyed themselves 8 attempt to cheat them of their victory in ridding the bench of Hanford by saddling upon them but surely a community that has just succeeded, after a long interest wolves who used to haunt the halls of congress have been driven to their perpetrate this his farewell fraud upon the people of this state. TRIES TO KIDNAP YOUNG. GIRL AND MURDERS FATHER © Girl Hides in Closet, While Nici and Brothers Fi With Murderer—Surrounded by emg Fatally Wounded. ' (By United Prose Leased Wire.) | Woe 4 to the yard, and ese BELLEPLAINE, Kas., Aug. 20.—/an iron bar, beat item ate ae After attempting to kidnap Ethel Consciousness. He then returned Manahan, 22, and shooting and er the house for the girl Ing her father, Matt Manahan, and! nan {oll on hie kuees-and wrayed te James Thompson, 16, near here to-| the slayer to spare bis sister, Wood ee eee shot himself | attacked him, but promised to spare reast and i P 8 wor Rmeee “te ig now said to be Se bog if he would help him to Wood went to the Manahan farm| Wood was surrounded by a posse: w where Miss |of farmers near his own farm, tw : ing him | miles wee of Belleplaine this aft-| n a closet. | ernoon le ra c |sirl's whereabouts, and Wood shot! lets intc his breast, He was taken him dead. The girl's father, hear-| to a hospital here and the attending ing the shot, rushed upon Wood.| physicians say he will die. MARSHALL IS'SEVEN ARE NOTIFIED INDICTED (By Vetted Press Leased Wire) (By United Press Lellbed Wire) INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 20.—In the} NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Seven ine | Presence of hundreds of prominent | dictments, each charging murder tw democrats Thos, R. Marshan | (2 first degree, were issued today. jof Indiana was today formally ra nd Sita ine Rosaethete tities here of his n r case pe meearmaree wre a the vice presidency A superser States. Marshall replied briefly, turned apalase Poling tient’ Oe pledging his support to the Balti-| Becker, who is alleged by Districs more platform. | Attorney Chas. 8. Whitman to have } v. Woodrow Wilson, of New | ordered the death of Rosenthal an@& |Jersey, the democratic presidential | to have furnished the money to pay. nominee and Wm. F. McCombs,|the gangsters for the actual killing, ‘hairman of the democratic national | Others against whom indictments committee, weré unable to attend.| Were returned are “Whitey” Lewigy |Gov. Marshal! was formally noti-|“Lefty Louie” nberg, Hai }fled. by Judge Alton B. Parker of | Harrowitz, alias Pp the Blood, |New York, who was temporary | Jacob Reich, alias Jack Sullivan, |chairman of the Baltimore conven-|leged to have been Becker's agenty jtlon, The ceremonies were held on | 40d Wm. Shapiro. |@ platform erected in front of the| : | democratic elub. |RUSH TO AID (CHASE MURDERER: phage iy | (By United Presa Leased Wire) | | (By United Press Leased Wire) | EL PASO, Tex., Aug. 20.—Rushe | REDDING, Cal, Aug. 20.—Spiera|!@ to the aid of a dozen American Kestakis, a Greek, who shot and 24 English miners who are be, killed George Kenomas, in Delta, a | Si¢ged by rebels in the Tominif little railroad town 38 miles north| Mining camp, 80 miles from the of here, is today at large in the hilla| coast, Mexican federals are en and the sheriff and coroner are on |route from Mazatlan today. The thelr way to the scene of the erime.|Americans and Englishmen are Kenomas was an assistant fore-| without food or water as well ae man of the work train, and during | ammunition, but are reported to be a violent quarrel was shot five | still fighting. times by Kestakig The shooting| The gunboat Denver is expected occurred on the work train, and/to arrive at Mazatlan today and ma the alleged murderer immediately |rines may be landed and rushed to took to the woods the scene. approaching, took refug Gov no nomination for of the United “Seeley Disnets and Monkey Parties Foreshadow Doom of Aristocracy” | TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 20.—Bitter denunciation of Mrs. Stuy- vesant Fish’s ball at Newport last night, when live butterflies and white doves were freed in the reception hell, was voiced here today by Eugene V. Debs, the socialist nominee for president. “Seeley dinners and monkey parties,” he sald, “foreshadow the |doom of modern aristocracy. 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