The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 2, 1912, Page 1

Rankin McKee Rankin, in Seattle this week, is “grand old man” of the stage. See story about him on page 4. VOL. 14. NO. | es — TORTURED WOMA‘ ASKS FOR LAW TO LEGALLY KILL HER (By United Press Leased Wire.) NEW YORK, Aug, 31.—The legal and moral issues of Ruthanasia are présented to the people of New York state here today by Mrs. Sarah Harris, an incurable paralytic, who asks for the enactment of a law which would permit a physician to . end her suffering by death. Euthanasia means painless death, Mrs. Harris is a patient at the Audubon sanitarium. r alysis has stricken her every faculty save brain and speech. Physicians admit their helplessness in Mrs. Harris’ case, assert ing it may be years before she dies. “When a brute of the lowest animal kingdom,” says Mrs. Har in her appeal, “is suffering, it is killed and put out of misery. Bit a cruel order forces human beings to suffer, [ seck a law which would permit physicians to kill any person incurably affected, who prefers death to a life of suffering.” Supt: Lloyd of the Audubon sanitarium says he is inclined to favor the law if it could be safeguarded and restricted, He feared, however, it would open an avenue to make murder easy. eee a 5,000 MARCH IN BIG LABOR DAY PARADE Old J. Pluvius tried his meanest} for the firet time in a labor parade. to spoil the Labor Day parade to- In spite of the fact that the rain @ay. He tried a few fitful splashes kept many women out of the parade, Just about the time the big parade jt was one of the biggest in Seat- ‘was to start. But he couldn't fright tle’s history en anybody. | The order of parade was as fol Right in the midst of the down. lows: Marshal Onstott, Assistant pour President W. L. Onstott, pri | Marshal Mobr, police, firemen, Min- @ent of the Central Labor Counci!, isterini union, Women’s Label who marshaled the pa: gave the league, Journeymen Horseshoers, signal, and 5,000 men ard women| iron and Bridge Workers, Laundry defied old Plute and marched from Workers, Teamsters, Garment} Lenora and Fourth down First av.. Workers, Chauffeurs, Coopers, Gre | turning on Washington st to Sec-| cers, Confectionery Workers, Buteb- and av., marching north to Lenora,| ers, Cooks and Waiters, Bartenders, where the parade disbanded to at-| Mail Carriers, Icemen, Machinists, | | tend the picnic at Leschi park this| Pattern Workers, Hollermakers, afternoon. Guvnor Teats of Ta-| Printers and Pressmen, Typograph coma, author of the workmen's com-| ical union, Sheet Metal Workers, pensation act, will be the principal Painters, Glaciers, Sign Painters, ir. | Engineers, Carpenters, Plasterers, About the time the head of the) Bricklayers and Plumbers. reached First and Madison! President “Bob” Hesketh of the Piuvius recalied his decision to! city council was in line with the pen the day, and the sun broke) Cooks’ union. out WHY DID CON OLIVER W, SANFORD OTIS SANFORD A conductor on a Ballard Beach car, J. T. Tribett, shot and instant ly killed two passengers—father bright and clear, joimine in the! : ‘ ) gmiles of the paraders and the thon) MEDAL GIVEN i who lined the sttwets watch- TO BURBANK y the big turnout of laborers, ; members of the Ministériat} SANTA ROSA. Sépt. 2—The di- “union braved the rain and marched | rectors of the Sebastopol Graven fight behind Marshal Onstott and «(ein Apple Fair Association have his assistant, « K. Mohr. Four presented a gold medal to Luther} ethers rode in an automobile. | Barbank expressive of thelr thanks | At First. and Lenora Inspector|in making an exhibit at the Apple| Powers and a platoon of po-| fair which closed yesterday beaded the marchers. Behind ‘ came about 160 firemen and 16} about 30 pleces. Several pretty Moats were in line. first was that of the Women's! and Label league. The Horse- unton had a float carrying a| forge and an anvil chorus. The) 2 also exhibited their line of | “yy fk on a pretty float. The pert earried a dog on their float and | & whale of an imitation) » supported by about a dozen | labeled the largest in the z NS The waitresses were repre-- “I understand that your brother by a*bevy of pretty women is in trouble with the police in New &@ float which advertised their) York.” tags for aa Waitresses’ home.| “Nothing of the kind. You forget) ‘Chauffeurs’ ‘union was in line ‘that he runs a gambling house. PERFECTLY SAFE | QT ¥ | by inferring that he has used the county| ‘ Nothing could be farther from the truth, and the | _ Review, being an honest publication, will of course cor- _ Feet'the false impression at its first opportunity. Bob Hodge has not used the sheriff’: auto one day ‘or one hour in his ign. He has not made a single has not distribvied a single jistri in his office that they were never to or campaign literature with them when mak- through the county in connection with the sheriff's office. They were not even to in their pockets! And the rule has been Hodge, as the Review says, has made a remarkable <ampaign, even though he has been, and is, practically ; funds. Hodge has overcome obstacles, finan- and otherwise, that would have defeated most men. men would quit in despair. Hodge is NOT that kind of a man. His almost superhuman will-power, his abiding} nce in himself, his broad-gauge treatment of pponents, his rare optimistic spirit—these have trated again and again, throughout the cam- m, the fitness of the man. in the campaign Hodge was tendered the use femall auto by a personal friend who lives in Oregon. fas in this machine that Hodge made his remarkable ile trip through the state. It is the only ma- ‘ he has used. -. He has been embarrassed and seriously hampered ih 4 But the greater the obstacles, the his efforts have been. He has made strength do the work of dollars and cents. He is poor and cents, but rich in strength and grit. is THAT KIND OF A MAN. 4) He | ward, dead. and son—at the end of the line 9:45 o'clock Saturday night. “bdid it in selfdefense. They were following me to knock my off,” Tribett Is alleged to have said immediately after the shooting. When the polloe searched the bodies of the victims of the tragedy Oliver W. Sanford, a grocer of Ip terbay, 43 years old, and bis son, Otis, 23, no arma were found on them. The Sanfords bore exce lent reputations. So far as can be learned, they were strangers to ‘Tribett, The Police Theory The police, searching for a clew to a poasible motive for the crime, have evolved a curious theory. The Sanfords boarded Tribett's ear downtown to go to Ballard Beach, where the family wax wait ing in a launch they own to go on ‘ja two-days’ trip to Purdy, on Hen- derson bay. All the remaining passengers, {with the exception of the Sanfords, left the car at the end of the line The Sanfords remained while the car was being switched onto the “¥" for the return trip. Both Hit Over Heart They were leaving by the rear platform when Tribett drew an automatic tol and fired with deadly precision—twice. Both vic- tims were hit in exactly the same place—just over the heart. The father stumbled down the step and walked 10 feet and fell, face down- The son dropped in his tracks on the platform. Motorman Seegers and W. B. Russell, storekeeper at Ballard Beach, had just left the car, they say, when they heard the sounds of & souffle, followed by two shots They did not see the shooting. ussell sald to a Star reporter: “Tribett said to me after the shoot Those men were following me to knock my block off.’” Tribett was arrested without a struggle by Patrolmen Evans and Simundson and taken to the Bal This is the Day of Labor, This is the Triumph of Toil, When they march in their mighty millions, Sons of the shop and the soil, And those who are bent from the benches, And those who are pale from the mines, And those who are old and broken, Are part of the serried lines. This is the Day of Labor, When those who delved and built, Who made the roads and bridges, Who tunneled under the silt, Have straightened up from their toiling, Have turned a space from their trade, ee DEEP MYSTERY lard station, He told the police he had had trouble with the San fords way out.” are looking for other © get light on the na alleged quarrel far the police investigation barren of results. The fords were quiet men, who did drink and who were well itked Se has been by thelr neighbors, It was not} their custom to travel on the Bal lard Beach line. The police put aside the theory of an old grudge as improbable The theory now favored te that Tribett, a nervous, temperamen man, was driven to the act by accumulation of petty annoyances and by “ling over the troubles of street car conductors. He refuses to talk In his cell, and bis rare answers 16 questions are stattered incoherencies, But it ts known that he often spoke to other conductors of the annoyances of bis life. A week ago three men were arrested on bis line for disturbance. In Potlatch week a conductor was beaten up on the Fr t- Ballard ine, He brooded over these din turbances Five m * ago & man on the; Eastlake live, on which he was then | running, threatened to “get” him. He talked about the tncident for weeks. The police have learned that al woman hatled Tribett's car and th he refused to stop for her. He Jupbraided by a number of passen | gers, poesibly the Sanfords among them. F. lL. Wiley, manager of W. Jj Roope & Co., First av. N. and Har-| rison, sald today. “Otia worked for | me four years, He left the store) ft 9:05 to take the car. i know that! he did not drink. Certainly he was | sober then, He went to BE C.| Banse's ery, at Queen Anne ay,| and Mercer, and took the car from there, His father met him at Inter. bay. I knew both father and son| for 11 years, and I have never known two finer, quieter men than | they. 1 cannot believe they went | to the ond of the line simply to} ‘beat up’ the conductor.” | | Tribett lives with his wife and nine-year-old daughter 817% Nobb Hill ay ESCAPES NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—Reyn. olde Forbrey, indicted for two murdere and suspected of a third killing, escaped from the Tombs today white a special Quard put over him slept soundly. Forbrey tore out a ventilator, tore off bare over it and fled. The police say that Forbrey was a gunman and gangster, He is accused of holding up and killing Morris Schwartz kope, a jeweler. $100,000 VALUE The two boards of appraisers, cone appointed by the county eom- missioners, the other by the Unioon Trust company, to determine the value of Union Trust teland, needed for a dock site for Duwamish val lley, have agreed on a valuation of |$100,600, The coommissioners will review the report and ff the value tion seems Just will recommend its purchase at that price. ‘SEATTLE GETS ’EM American Hawaiian Steam- ship company, in arranging for the heavy shipping of this fall and winter, has taken ti of the steamers which have been making Portiand their terminal ‘The great city slept. aturdity. Jones is on the job. cog | Because hin the dark alley Ker-plunk! the alley. Ker-spludge! | side a garbags “Ha! Ba! frightened Ewe Lamb. cade Waa given to the plain-clothes | tery. | eat conject to the ow. tion has a @ ¢typtic Inacription and apparently only find the key. The words are: heavy shipments of freight for Now York and Hawaii, The shipping out of Puget sound thie winter is expected to be the heaviest on record. 7% * to* SPREE EERE RHR Ee ® Occasional rain tonight an * Tuesday; moderate south * west winds. *® noon, 58 bandstand dade dn dante dated By United Press Leased Wire) WHEELING, W. Va., Sept. 2-— Over 30 person perished in a cloud- Temperature at #&| burst today which nearly destroyed % | the town of Colliers, W. Va., accord: 4 em! Ing to dispatch To march with their worthy broth. ers In the world that they have made. This is the Day of Labor; And yet, among this throng, Are faces of little children Who labor the whole day long. And there are weary mothers, Who toll at the clattering loom, Leaving their wan-faced babies In the Ghetto’s filth and gloom. But they are as the work has made them, And they march in the ranks with men, To hasten the hour when the toilers Shall win to their own again, Theirs is the joy of doing, 220161 Though greed shall waste and spoil; This is the Day of Labor, This is the Triumph of Toi. ONE CENT ! EWE SUITCASE DROPPED FROM HIGH ‘WINDOW TO DARK ALLEY BELOW A clock in @ distant tower struck the ‘hour of 1./ Seuntliy «winging his night-stick, Patrolman Jones marched his beat Respeciable citizens may sleep soundly in their beds while | ated revelers, coming from a nearby cafe | Dold officer pause suddenly at the entrance of a dark alley arp ears bad caught a sound It was that kind of a sound, stood rigid. For a light glowed faintiy from a window in the hotel above “There's ugly business on foot tonight!” muttered Jones. Then It sounded to Jones just like a Ewe Lamb falling into a garbage can. | Gripping bis night-atick more firmly, Jones entered the alley. ean he found at Suitcase, Jones thrust his arm into the garbage can and brought forth a little, He took the Suitcase and the Ewe Lamb to police headquarters, The nant put forth a tentative suggestion that a certain congressman, recent: | ¥ ly ned from Washington, might be able to throw light on the mys-| He admitted, however, that the suggestion was based on the wild- A careful scrutiny of the Bultease and the Ewe Lamb gave no clue The Suitcase is inscribed on both sides, but if the tnscrip- ignificance the police have been unable to discover it. to Police that it may be a cipher pregnant with meaning if they could from that city and assigned ” them to Seattle, This is done Y asta Sos ar In order to help get out the | SS grey CLOUDBURST KI CREATES HAVOC IN EAST ~The Seattle St __"THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE ~~ SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1912, | THAINS AND iw ‘Tan Be LAMB AN It i | il | Stteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I —— = = might have sean the Why did he The sound came For a jong minute Jones Close be- department to unravel. Capt. Ten-| | Tt is meaningless, though it has occurred LLS 30 AND Colliers, a town of 1,500 inhabi- tants, ie headquarters for the Pan. handle raliroad, Fourteen miles of tracks were washed out. The dam- age to the road was so heavy that it will be weeks before traffic can be resumed. Gompers National labor leader, sends la- bor day greetings to the work- BIGGEST WAR BETWEEN CAPITAL AND LABOR IN HISTORY BEGINS TODAY i a ee HERE'S STEEL TRUST'S OFFICIAL ORDER AGAINST ALL UNIONS The following resolution was adopted shortly after the or G@anization of the U. 8. Steel Corporation by its executive com- mittee. This was shown by the Stanley investigation. “We are unalterably opposed to any extension of union labor and advise subsidiary companies to take firm position when these mo up and say that they are not going to recognize extension of one in mille where they do not now exist; that great care should be used to prevent trouble and that they promptly report and confer with this corporation.” Following this decision, the report says, American laborers felt themecives personae non gratae in steel trust mills and grad- ually thetr places were filled with hordes of unskilled workmen from the farms of Hurope. “These men knew nothing,” it ex- plains, “of the iron and steel business, but they were suffictent to fight the labor unions.” SHSSESSSE SHES TEESE SESS i oe BY HARRY BURTON “Having rung the death toll for ] WASHINGTOD D. C.,| thelr good American workers, they ae . je | Drought from Europe thourands up Sept. 2. Today REPS «The on thousands of immigrants, so jgreatest war between capital jand labor the world has ever |seen—a war between thousands lof oppressed workers and their many that they wore a path, one might say, across the Atlantic, right up to the doors of the blazing fur- naces of the trust. Dividends, vast beyond any Midas dream, must not joppressor, the money-mailed | po interfered with for any reason, |Steel Trust, jeven for humanity. | Samuel Gompers, president of the! American Federation of Labor, to-| ered !ts troubles at an end since its day outlined to me the great cam-| mills are filled with ‘docile’ work- paign to reunionize the steel anders. iron workers and thwart the orders; “But let me warn the steel trust of J. Pierpont Morgan, boss of thut| these men will not always be docile, most powerful of all trusts, | As they are realizing the'r predica- Gompers told me how the A. F. of ment, their biting dissatisfaction is “And the stoel trust has consid- - | thon, in fac L. Is beginning this greatest of labor struggles, a conflict at last directly between the workers and their arch: enemy, the money trust. He told, with tears streaming down bis face, of the terrible outrages which de cent American labor has been com- pelled to bear for years at the hands of the steel trust, above sll other corporations, and how this concera has crushed practically all that is good in living from the lives of its employes. “This battle,” said Gompers, “is not just for the men who are worth- lessly toiling their lives away in the steel mills; it is, instead, o battle for all humanity “We do not look for easy battle. Great corporations do hot want to grant their employes justice. “To keep from deing th deed, they have, with po money, corrupted leg! governors, congresses, courts and presidents! They fancy themselves safe from ail just demands of the peopie— the under dogs. “The United States Stee! Corpora , With solemn formality, while ago, declared for the an- {hilation of organized labor in its | plants. OT finding expression. Eventually it will result elther in an orderly organiza | tion of labor, bullt on American | Ideals of amicable co-operation, or it will be an explosion of pent-up indignation and protest at their exploitation. “There are some 20,000 workers in the steel mills, and, according to the Stanley report, about 80 per |cent of the unskilled laborers are foreigners, brought over to sup- plant American workmen, / “Our plan is to appeal to them | by a series of circulars. The firs, which we are now distrib | written in English, Polish, Slavic, | Lithuanian and Italian. It tells simply of the idea for organization. “The second will tell why organ ization will be a good thing. “The third circular will give the date and place for a mass meett: |for each locality. All meetings wt |be held at the same time. Simuk taneously the workers of the steel | trust will be planning their redemp- tion from slavery. Big men will \address these meetings, and from then on the fight will be In earnest. “And the workingmen will wake up, at last, to get their God-given ' rights.” WEEK 0 RAK KKKKRRKKKKKE HODGE'6 PROGRAM FOR CAMPAIGN FINISH Speaks this afternoon at Georgetown. Tuesday night—-Monster ral- ly in the Tacoma theatre. Wednesday—Speaks at Yak- ima en route to Spokane. Thursday night—Big windup meeting in Spokane. Friday—Returns to Seattle. * * = * * * * * * * * * * * * eeeteeeee a RAR RAREKEKRRAKAK Bob Hodge, people's candidate for governor, started out today on the whirlwind finish o% his cam- paign for governor. Hodge’e friends who have arranged for a series of big meetings, are determined to make the windup a fitting climax to his remarkable campaign. The Hodge meeting in Tacoma to- morrow night will be the biggest HODGE START S FINISH F CAMPAIGN one of its kind in years. Dickson, head of the Roosevelt forces in that city, will act as chalr- man, and Congressman Warburton and other leading progressives will be seated on the platform. Hodge supporters are confident of carrying Pierce county by a ma jority over all other candidat: leven though Paulhamus, one Hodge's opponents, is a Pierce county man. Leaving Tacoma Wednesday morning, Hodge will go to Spokane, stopping perhaps for a meeting in Yakima, where the progressives have one of the strongest organizations tn the state. In Spo- kane Thursday night Hodge will ad- dress a meeting in the city's big- gest hall. This meeting was ar ranged by the Hodge supporters there because s» many psopie were turned away at the last rally. Leaving Spokane at midnight, after the meeting, Hodge will come back to Seattle for the finish. Loss Over $500,000 Details of the storm are slow tn reaching here, but reports show that | it was the worst to strike Pennsy!- | vania and West Virginia since the Johnstown flood. The loss to the) ratiroads alone will exceed $500,000. | Bridges and telegraph towers and miles of trackage have been washed | out, | Towns outside of the storm dis-| trict are filled with delayed trains, none having moved since 11 o'clock last night. A later dispatch from | Colliers said that the bodies of Mrs. Ad Thorley and her daughter, aged 6 years, and those of an Italian fam- fly of five had been recovered, | 60 Families Marooned. CANONSBURG, Pa, Sept. 2.— This town was hard hit by the cloudburst which flooded parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Scores of trains, unable to proceed because of the washed out tracks, fill the outlying sections of the ards here, More than 50 families are marooned on upper floors of} their homes. Rescuers are taking | them to places of safety in boats. STUMBLES AND I§ KILLED SAN FRANCISCO, Sept Stumbling and losing his balance 4s he was entering the engine room of the tug Dauntless here today, First Assistant Engineer James P. 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