The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 23, 1912, Page 1

‘ ) | ‘ Mt to attribute to others the base- A woman is adorable some- times, _Jovable frequently, changeable often, dangerous always. VOL. 14—NO. 150, OIL IRCHBOLD AMITS | USING TRUST COIN TO WIN ELECTIONS y United Press teased Wire.) INGTON, Aug. 23.—That Theodore Roosevelt attempted po- ‘on the Standard Oli company during his second admin- because the trust failed to follow up an alleged $125,000 con- with a second and larger contribution in the campaign of 1904 substance of testimony given the senate campaign contribu- Icemmittee today by John D. Archbold, president of the Standard ‘Arehbold’s denunciation of the former president was extremely bee, the witness openly asserting the attacks waged on the Standard r Roosevelt, which he sald were unwarranted, directly resulted deaths of Henry H. Rogers and Henry Tilford, two of the com- directors. CALLS LETTERS FORGERIES freely admitted that his company had contributed $125,- ty the republican national campaign in 1904, but he stamped as a ‘and malicious forgery letters published {n certain magazines pers, purporting to have passed between himself and Sen Penrose, and in which it was intimated that $26,000 was to secure favorable Standard Oil legislation, TELLS THE DETAILS testified that he had every reason to believe that Roose ‘and approved of the contributions made by the Standard Oil 3904. Cornelius N. Bilss, treasurer of the republican national in 1904 chbold declared, told him that Reosevelt had been W the contribution, and would be pleased with @ second and larger Archbold said he regarded Bliss €¥ an entirely reliable man. Later, Archbold said, when Standard Oil directors to further loosen their parse strings, Bliss again called at his office, and advised him that it would be for the good of the Of Co. to make another larger contfibution. Archbold said ® was the amount suggested. This, he said, was taken up 4 Oil directors and the request voted down. Then Arch- that immediately after Roosevelt's election hé started his iacks on the Standard Oil Co. “a GETS REAL MAD Arehbold’s jaw set hard when he reached that stage of his testi- ig nothing !ike it,” he snapped, “in the annals of American Nothing has ever occurred in even darkest Africa to compare wit. We have all the available data concerning these attacks, and day the inside facts will be given to the world.” ‘an efforc to prove his contention that the Standard Of! attacks by Roosevelt were unjust, Archbold cited the case of the company. of Buffalo, a Standard Oil wubsidiary, The federal attorney at Buffalo, be said, notified the department of justice ; jon that there was no merit In the case, and that it was aitful if a conviction could be secured.” Arehbold alleged that this was then flashed back to the government's Buffalo representative “Damn the merit; go ahead and get a conviction.” ; VISIT TO WHITE HOUSE %, then told the committee how he and Henry H. Rogers, had paid « yinit at the White House to Col. Roosevelt. While he sald, made no direct reference to the 1904 contribution, @tremely polite ant affable. has been some criticism,” he alleged Roosevelt told them, always to be expected.” to meet again this afternoon, asserted that the contribution alleged to have been to Bliss or the $25,000 given Penrose had never been returned. no request for its return, so far as he knew, had ever been made ‘Of the interested parties. Morning Session. currency. Bliss sent me a receipt, the active head of Standard but'{ bave not been able to find it.” before the senate bold promised Senator Clapp fmvesticating committee that he would make further search ing he was nervously and would try to produce the re Nu b imported cigaret. jcetpt. Clapp presiding, . Archbold said that early in Sep delay of 36 minutes, caused tember a conference was held in absence of a quorut, the his office, attended by Treasurer a1 9:20 o'clock. The Bliss, Heary H. Rogers and him- is composed of Senators self. Asked directly by Chairman of Pennsylvania, Jones of Clapp if he sent Penrose a check and Pomerene of Obio. for $25,000, Archbold said: the members were in their) Paid in Currency. | “No, I think the money was pald ____ Two Contributions. in currency. Right bere? sae |matie two contributions to the state that no such letters as itee In charge of the 1904 re- been published, purporting to have campaign,” said Archbold. passed between Senator Penrose ‘Was for $100,000 to Treasurer and myself, exist. i N. Bliss of New York, “My agreement and the payment oY dead, and another of $25,000 to I think, were made in my office Tt was some time | The nature of the signature attach I gave Bliss the/ed to the published letters makes ice. It was paid In them look suspicious.” AGAINST ME,” SAYS ROOSEVELT EW YORK, Aug the charge by Senator Penrose Pennsylvania that an enormous Md had been raised by Geo. W. fo secure for Col. Roose the reguiar republican nomina- at Chicago, and letters and tel- instructing Chairman Cor tm 1904 to refuse campaign ms from the Standard Mi Co, Roosevelt issued today the mg statement Penrose would do well 23.—Regard- | Penrose. “Senator coindexter told th truth when he said that renrose jand his anies are in a conspiracy to preserve corruption in politics through slander and mendacity to oppose the only. man and the only party seriously endangering the rule of corruption in politics and finance—the progressive party and its candidate.” TERMINAL LEAS! NOT YET SIGNED The signing of the Harbor Island terminals lease between the port commission and the Pacific Ter- minals Co, has again been deferred until the meeting of the commis- sion this afternoon. Besides the objection raised by Secretary | Bridges and his refusal to sign be- |eause the companies had not filed |their incorporation papers in this |state, a dispute arose over the |question of who should pay premiums on the bonds which the Which actuates his own acts. Matement that Geo. W. Per- a primary cam- 000,000 any Femotely resembling that sum Méliberate falsehood, which he in be a falsehood when he Teason Senator Penrose, his cal allies and backers and the ets in the world of high fi- are against me now,” Col. it continued, “is that they thelr kind could not use me T was president, and because d every politic Nestly. There is more than tee of good faith to carry out part of the agreement. and business alike by endeavoring | the) company must put up a8 a guaran-| its|chain and a thim away lon a post in the € The Seattle THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1912. TRUSTER BITTERLY Se DOES IT PAY TO PEACH ON YOURSELF? | ONEC ON TRAINS AND Swe Star HOME ANDS Be ATTACKS T. R. That's what Bill Burke will find out, while he’s testing our Christianity. EDITOR'S NOTE.—The experience of Counciiman William Burke of Philadelphi ample of the difficulty of a crim) narrow path. He was elected to the council on a “reform ticke' @ period of faithful public service and exemplary private life, he eud- denly resigned his office and confessed to a long criminal ca- reer, including a seven years’ term in the Massachusetts state prison. le tem) he riven to the revelation b: ckmall on the part of a former convict, who threatened to TLL: Ee eeerprereraereennS ero, DID SHE NOT HIT THE BOLD BURGLARS? YES SHE DID NOT Mrs. J. A. Muleahy, weight 110 pounds, is one of the pluckiest as well as one of the smallest women in Seattle. When two burglars tried to force an entrance into her home, 1207 Twenty-seventh av. N., last night, Mrs. Muleahy, alone in the house, jet fy six shot: with a young can- non, the first two point-blank—and missed Her husband says, if she ts one of the pluckiest women in Seattle, she is also the worst shot In the whole Northwest Mulcahy, up to two years ago, was chief of police at Juneau. He fs now night foreman’ at the Fort Lawton tannel, As his work keeps | from home nights, he gave Mrs. Mulcahy a revolver and | instructed her In its use / At 9:30 last night Mrs. Muleahy heard a knock at the kitchen door. | Arming herself with the revolver, ‘ | she opened the door and saw two men through the screen door, “ which was latched. : vy 1 Ignoring her questions as to i i what they wanted, they tried to force the screen door. It was then that Mra. Mulcahy fired the first two shots. The men ran around the house to gain the boulevard, which the house faces. Mra. Mul- . . caby ran to the front door, and MRS. J. A. MU from the front poreh fired four more shots at the burglars as they fled. Then she Incontinently fainted. A man passing heard shots and a scream, and notified a motorcycle cop, who found Mrs. Muleahy un conscious on the steps “1 wasn't frightened,” said Mrs Muleahy today, “until it was ail over.” 1 never heard of a finer spect men of bad shooting,” remarked the ex-chiet of police > campaign speeches for Col, Roose JUST LIKE THAT! | veit, progressive nominee for presi Mrs. Grace B. Warren, 552 Belle-|dent, in this etty and tributary ter. vue ay. N., hung b iver purse|ritory, must be cut in half in ac mmer theatre|cordance with a telegram received last night. She placed it there,|from National P ssive Seere. turned around to hand her ticket|tary Davis, Portland progressives to an usher, turned back and the|had arranged for Col. Roosevelt to had a gold|speak in Vancouver, Wash., and » pocket in-|Salem, Or., with two short talke in purse is valued at $105, Portland. He may only speak here, | LCAHY ee ee ee * WEATHER FORECAST. * | Generally fair tonight and * *& Saturday, light westerly * ® winds, Temperature at noon & |® 64 *) [Kee ee hhh |SHORT STAY FOR T. R. PORTLAND, Or Aug. 23. gon progressives today |pointed because the sc side. RUM DE DUM DE DUM Dum-DUM. AQF Do we really feel as we think we feel when we read the story of the greatest character in escaped convict in Victor Hugx erables?” all fiction—Jean Valjean, the y's "Les Mis- masterpiece, If divorce was not invented by the devil he certainly has made * many infringements on the patent EDITION HOLDS SISTER 8 HOURS OVER EDGE OF CLIFF consciousness and thus saved th@ girl's reason, Twilight came, still the young man, tired to exhaustion, clutched; the skirts of his sister. Minutes |seemed hours. Hours seemed cene |turies, He could not move his feet of losing his toe hold on boulder and going with his sis, ter down to death. At firet he held fast to the skirts jwith both hands, then, as that \straining position rendered bim ‘nearly mad with pain, he alternated. PARIS, Aug. 23—The terrible) experience which befell a brother) and sister a few days ago easily leads the roll of narrow escapes from death in the Alps this sum-| mer. For eight long hours Henry| Van Goethen, a young German) |tourist, lay crouched with his feet braced against a boulder, holding the skirts of his sister, Miss Van Goethen, while she hung over a| precipice nearly half a mile high.| The girl, with her brother and| her fiance, Maurice, Sombardien ascended Mount Saurosse, and in| returning took the perilous pathway leading to the glacier of Domenon. As they were rounding a granite) dge, clinging to the rock wit |hands and feet, she slipped slid away toward the edge of th It is said of Laurence Sterne he shed tears over a dead | Precipice ass, butt was callous to the suffer ings of a living mother. Are we a natior of Sternes who shed tears over the sorrows of an imaginaty Jéan Valjean, and send back to “hell,” as he calls the outeast’s life, a real Jean Valjean in the person of Alder- man William Burke of Philadelphia? Burke was borh a gitter-snipe and knew neither father nor mother, jhave done under the circumstances ability—which would have made lealling—he became what the underworld calls |} He was Wnvaryingly successful until he and then he was caught bec and then he has no brains.” He: sefved seven years in self of the drug ha’ Would y He thought out his life task life when he got out And he Would you or T have done that? He sdved a little money w whod-finisher, after he left prise five dollars. ness and made some money and has a child. He became a thief, aise state's and resolved to liv He was a good speaker and helt as you or I probably would Because of his natural him a success in any other good thief.” ame a drug fiend, he a says, & dope fiend \“hasn’t nerve enough to steal unless he has the stuff in him He broke him- I have done that? prison 1 of a straight made good on his resolves hile his working at trade of om with a suit of clothes and] Would you or I have done that He won the respect of his neighbors. He went into busi-| He married a respectable girl| 1 red to carry Philadelphia for the reform ticket, which broke the hold of the old gang on that town And now he has sent in his ment of the tragic facts of hi that he would be execrated as soon as the people found out} He intends to live stra his secret. resignation, with a full state life. He took it dor granted t and make a living for his family, but he seems to assume that nobody will give him credit for his triumph over the education. in crime Is he right in his estimate of the unforgivi He has shown greater qualities in get the American people? ting out of ing out fact? resignation. Will: Philadelphia will those wha think themselve a life of crime than most of us have Is he right in thinking us incapable of seeing that doom of birth, neglect, and ig character of hown in keep Mayor Blankenburg is in favor of not accepting Burke's or! stand with Blankenburg, without sin cast the stones at Burke which shall drive him out into the darkness? It is a test of our sincerity in ad IS A TEST OF OUR C iT AW THE LITTLE DUMPLIN? I KETCH YoU, | KETCH YOU iring Jean Valjean. HRISTIANITY. LOOK HERE KID. GLUB GLUB GLUB Wi -Ho~Ai-HO Startled by her shriek for hel; the girl's brother and fiance spran: forward just in time to see her dis appearing over the verge. Th brother threw himself flat on th smooth rock and slid forward jus in time to grasp the hem of her| skirts as she was going over. | Luckily his foot came against a] § all projecting boulder on the| © y edge of the precipice. Beyond | # that, he was help! Sombardien tried to pull the two back, but could} ULERY st | not. | his hands every few minutes, turme “Run for help!” the brother eried| ing the freed hand around rapidly, between gritting teeth, fearful that| to ease the strained muscles. n the slightest tug in pulling} Twilight gave way to darkness, them back might tear his sis and still the brother clung to his skirt and send her crashing down| sister. At last the faint shouts of 2.400 feet into the rocks below.| a rescuing party came up the moun- Sombardien ran back down the) tain pathway. | mountain It had taken Sombardien threé | The girl's arms had been injured| hours to go down the mountain, }in the fall and she was unable te|and five more to gather a party of} |help herself. Dangling there in| capable mountain climbers and re! space, she could see, far below,| turn. | floating clouds, through which she; When the rescue party succeeded expected every minute to be) in drawing the young woman from | hurled. Farther down she could see|the precipice, her brother fainted, tiny specks, the houses of an Al-| He is now suffering from a severe pine village. All the way down) brain shock. His sister will un- precipice and jagged|doubtedly recover from her ine he sight took away her’ juries. 250,000 SEE BOOTH’S BODY LONDON, Aug. 23,—-Clothed in a Salvation Army uniform, the body|, 0)! on of Wm. Booth founder and late |!" Elliott bay at the foot cf Thomas }commander-in-chief of that organi-|St. this morning by two boys, }zation, lay in state here today in| Rufus Hamilton, 528 First av. Ny the army headquarters in the Clap-| ang Harry George, 228 Second av ton district. ‘Thousands of persons | y- quiry at Fort Lawton showed viewed the body. The bier was} : surrounded by a guard of honor,| his name to be Lonzie Watking, Jcomposed of generals who had| private in company D, 26th infant served under the famous evangel-|ry, His body showed no signs of ist. It is estimated that 250,000 | violence, and looked as it it had srsons will view the body ‘been in the water two days. 7: Acres on Pacific Highway $560 $3 torn Ideal Waterfront Home $2,000 [2*, Young Man Wants Work ton av tar Room and Board How many, among The Star’s great family of readers, have work for this young man? The applicant is sincere and will be found worthy of our readers’ consideration. This evening we have chosen two most tempting offers from the Clascified columns. Go over The Star’s Classified page and note the many offers to be had. Acreage or a home site are the safest and most profitable savings bank for your money, and as the years go by you will look back with pleasure on the day when you accepted one of the bargains found in Star Classi- fied. ° Over 40,000 Copies Each Evening, Placing Your Advertisement Before 200,000 Readers ~ INEGRO SOLDIER'S BODY FOUND Body of a negro soldier was found