The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 30, 1912, Page 1

RITE to The Star when things suit you or when they don’t suit you, Let- ters from readers are printed daily on page 4. ° VOL, 14. NO. 183, WE, THE OX, TRIES “NATURE FAKING” “Dave,” Ezra Meeker’s ox, which crossed the continent twice with him, is dressed up in latest style, with Bull Moose horns and @ bandana Handkerchief. Yep, Dave is some Bull Moose, a M v is taking aw ballot at the corner of Union . and Second av. He wants as many people as possible to reg- q their votes. So he got up this novel way of attracting larg crowds. He obtained the horns of a genuine bull moose and attached them to Dave’ A bandana handker chief wipes out the evidence of “nature faking.” GE ADAMS, GOLD DUST THIEF, RRESTED FOR COUNTERFEITING Officers Foster and Glover do not agree as to the aptitude for crime of George B. Adams, whore original downfall was one of the Most unexpected and sensational in Seattie’s criminal annals 4 murt have a kink In bis brain,” said Foster, “I told him so when we arrested him, and he replied: ‘I guess | must bave. T don't Know why ! did tt.’ ” “I believe,” said Glover, “that if Adame’ wife had stayed by him, if he bad had a home to come to when he left the peniten tlary, he would have stayed straight. | searched his room in the boarding house Mftef the arrest. The walls are covered with photographs of bis little son.” get - i ! = & SPECIALS IN THE NEWS Cheyenne, Wyo.—Wm. Jennings Bryan is today en route through [nominee for president. a burglar’s life here when Miss Berg! Toreha opened fire. Patrolman Welch heard a fusillade of shots, then shrill screams. No burglar, but bullet-boles everywhere — to 10 years for| ¥8* not so slow cost him $25 in police court and gave him a member- of gold dust while} *hip in Judge Gordon's “Speeders’” club. the U.S. assay office here.| Whea Joe took his friend motorcycling. t In 1906 and the discov- created al atthe time. Adams was ‘the social lights in the city, Teputed to be wealthy. Hiv| Oakland side, in 2 hours, 37 minutes and 28 seconds are salt to have! W $150,000. He is well jwith treasure amounting to $75,000, unearthed near here, where _ Married Society Belle had been buried 50 years ago by bandits, is the statement today of his embezziements | Wm. Rogers, a guide given the maximum sen-| two-counts, involving the bot: but’$7,500 in gold dust. Was married in 1904 to Mise 1; y Clary, daughter of Charles.) U.8. bank examiner here for! One child was born, Stod-| snow’? years old, to 4a devotedly attached. | a divorce while Prison, and the home bought and furnished up, | ile and all the fortune} ‘Was supposed to have in-| to the recall. If the senate refuses to a rich relative, were| seems likely, Howard will have to get off the bench to his wife. an Old Offender Man Webber, with whom! why does he think it necessary to spend a barrel of money to “con- became acquainted in prisou,| vince” voters? Teleased on August 9. Webber of @ smelter in Utah) 5, when silver dropped the ratiroads, the factories here today are closing. $1.25 to 60 cents, and he then duced the railroad service 90 per cent that it wae more profit-| _ErEPanreunl So make one's own money. He| — London—Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the actre ron served Several terms for coun-| here, ig declared today to be in a critical con ting since then. shows no improvement P he left MecNeti's island he “ROMER oUt Adams, borrowed some| from him, and soon per- the latter that they could) engage in counterfeiting. | is supposed to have supplied while Webber reuted the San Francisco—Mrs. Beulah Soderer of Santa Cruz is today reap- ing congratulations on her success in swimming San Francisco bay. Hollister, C. Fort Worth, Tex.—For the first time in their lives, two brothers, D. Stephens, 77, president of the State bank at Woodland, Cal., and W. Stephens of Fort Worth met today. The elder brother joined in the rush to California for gold in 1848, before the younger man was born, as should be respected. Let us respect Bill's claims, has. jon, Mrs, Campbell Portland, woffragial that women be given the ballot. feeretly 50,000,000 negotiated for by A. Wendel Jackson, who is alleged to be bought the paraphernalia.| backed by the Standard Oil Co. of the United States, has been over took his arrest good natur-|gubseribed more than $10,000,000. but expressed regret that “ should have gotten into trou OM secount of him, Bey, San Francisco-——-Mies Eva Dubois, a candy girl, has lost faith in ~The Sea THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 90, 1912. | HEN ON TRIAL LOC | chief foe of the strikers, had Wyoming. campaigning in the interests of Woodrow Wilson, democratic San Francisco—The proverbial inaccuracy of a woman's aim saved The desire of Joe Gilda to show a friend from Chicago that Seattie | It happened Saturday night, | She covered the distance from Vallejo st. wharf to Lomg wharf, on the | —That a Mexican banker is on his way to Mexico| it} Cousin Bill Taft announces that his claim that he'll be re-elected It's about all Bill) Clinton W. Howard will go on the federal bench tomorrow, subject ‘onfirm his appointment, which if Hay has done anything to warrant his reelection as governor, Barcelona—Unable to secure coal, owing to the strikers tying up The strike has re- recently stricken ill Or.—Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, America’s foremost woman today i# in Portland, conducting a vigorous campaign urging Lendon.—It was announced here today that the Chinese loan of ONE CENT une 7 w Labor Leaders, Facing | Trumped-Up Charge, Treated Like Madmen SALEM, Mass., Sept. 30.—In the city of Salem, which sent innocent people to the gallows in, the 17th century, where Gal- lows’ Hill saw the execution of 19 persons in one day for the “crime” of witchcraft, where still stands the old court house| jin which the trials of the “witches” were held, today saw the beginning of the trials of Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, | leaders of the Lawrence textile strike last winter, on the un- usual charge of committing the murder of a young woman striker without any motive whatever, LOCKED IN IRON CAGE. Locked in an iron cage in the center of the court room, as were the bloodthirsty Camorrists in the recent famous} Ettor, Gio uitti and Antone Caruso, who is nplicated, faced a crowded gourt room Handeuf together, the three’ men were bronght } into today through ranks of militia, who guarded every en- Itrance while outside in the city stfeets nearly 4,000 men, wom- ie { children on strike, paraded with red flags to show their the a ed ypatt ” m Alleged Plot of Mill Owners. The mill owners and the police alarmed by the growth of the strike and the influence of these leaders | particularly of Ettor, bad been for j some time seeking a pretext to ar flimmatory” utterances aga Uy strikers, But he was nc rapted for murder of this ar woman. | The woman in generally thought t@ have been hit by a stray bulle #@ (hat not only is this murder cw reset the men and get them out of modveler«, but it may even be call the way. The pretext appeared| ed “rmurderiens,” when a woman named Anole Lo} Djatrict Attorney Attwill, it was pezzi was shot and killed fa a claah)lemmped today, feels that the grand learly one morning between thé! jury has given him a hard task by | strikers and the police 1 bim ‘to convict the labor! | Bttor and Giovannitil were then/ . It is generally believed larrested at midnight, January 30,/that the trials will be brief, the Arture Clovenntn having but fow witnesses. accessory be-| stat charged with being fore the fact.” They were held torney Geo. 8. Moore, of Los without bail. A writ of habeas|Amdelos, who is representing the corpus was refused. They are now ants, is confident that they ging to trial, after belng held in-| win ¢ will win,” declared Moore municado in the Essex county | Jail for cight months as murder sus pects Neither Near Scene of Shooting. “Th gran going Snto court | |i jury in the world that could) On det these men on the testimony | ERVENE HI Nelther Ettor nor Glovannitt! t@ povadduced by the state ual were anywhere near the p'ace when! conviction of these men would Los LEB, Sept. 30. While {the shooting occurred, Neither of B@/B conviction of the right of free) a iimatically avoiding a definite h and would be the first jndi approval of constructive crime. labor leader, editor or thinker thereafter dare to relieve Mf of any but traditional amen | of life.” |" Strike In Protest. PUYNN, Mass, Sept. 30.—As a si i protest to the ‘treatment ac jod Jou, Ettor and Arturo Gio them appears to have known of the existence of the Lopezsi woman./ They could not have had anything axainet her, for she belonged to the strikers, So far as the accused | leaders are concerned, such a mur: der would be absolutely motiveless, The strikers, on the other hand) tay the wouan was shot oy the yo) lice for the porpowe of planting a) expression of opinion as to Amert can intervention in Mexico, Seva tor William Allen Smith. of the senatorial committee tn | Yextigating American activities in the revolutionridden southern re public, today gave out an interview which is taken United States may at any m take action nent case againat the strike leaders, The; epanitl, Lawrence labor leaders, “Hundreds of Americans have authoritiga figured it out thie way: | @P® Went to trial at Salem today) been Inauited, attacked, wounded Ettor afd Gltovannitt! had been the alleged murder of Anua Lo \and killed in ® spasm of uncon making speeches, some of them ta | MRF, 1,000 Industrial Workers of trolled hysteria,” declared Senator World quit work here today. | Smith. “while hundreds of millions of dollars of American property have been confiscated, ruined or stolen without so much as an apol flammatery. A riot occurred later,| aby anc in that riot a woman was killed, | plan to stay out 24 hours Ettor and Giovannitti, therefore,) “HAVERHILL, Mass Sept. 36. were guilty of her death. | Mote than 1,500 1. W. W. shoe work * the same line of reasoning on a one-day strike bere as | OK. wou ay proved that writiess| pratéet against the Ettor and PP arn Smith then added sig cantly Wood, head of the woolen trust, and mnitti trial, There was a bik ration with speeches, but Misorder The government at Washington cannot satisfy European states, or _|leave entirely to the future gener ~ | Oxity of Mexico the property of its jcltizens or the property of Kuro | pean subjects without taking great chances of disrespect for the Mon CONDEMNED MURDERER | ter republic if we fall to meet such CARSON, Nev., Sept. 20.—-Picking the lock of bis cell in the death |an emergency as the one with which chamber of the state penitentiary Fred Skinner, sentenced to die) we are now confronted.” for the murder of a woman at passed through the gallows | - ~~ “ room which bad been prepared for execution, and ecaled the jail LABOR LEADERS’ yard fence to safety. Skinner yesterday, but the fact was kept secret until today | The escape was one of the moat ltentiary. Skinner, an expert electri@ign, had been feigning Insanity. | He left a dummy In bis bed in the h chamber, fooling the guards) | who made hourly rounds, Making hi§ Way to the prison yard through ithe gallows room, Skinner went to thejelectric fence guarding the south | outlet. He short-circuited the curres§ @nd elimbed over. Then he re} stored the current and fled to the tains. State police and prison guards m searching the mountains for the fugitive today, but have secured no w aw to his whereabouts. killed He, too, had made “te | the woman ing in the history of the pent- INDIANAPOLIS, Sept conferences before the opening to- morrow of the trial of 51 members of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Work ers, nccused of flegally transport ing dynamite, were id here today by the attorneys for both the prow ecution and defense Senator John W. Kern, of Indian. apolia, one of the attorneys for the | defense, conferred with the defend j ante for several hours today CLOSE MILLS 3 Regains Health When ‘He Finds Dog Says Kiss Offered by Porter Worth $20,000 ——— LT, | ox., Sept. 30.—Miss Min-| PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 30.—After| ig gue 8h ; aged ; the of constant search, William |, 1% order to show Eastern houses nie lagher, a pretty 1%yearold felt bas found the dog which bit that the Washington mill owners girl of Moody, filed sult here Tast March, has had it examined | 8°, able to keep up their own |against the Pullman Car Co, for) and ascertained the animal was mat pee ome peeetionty. 10 per: Cont of | as insulted by | uffering from rabies, From a skel-|'t@ mills were closed up, accord- | $20,000 alleging she a negro Pullman porter who offer- ed her $1 for a kiss, She says this happened while she was traveling a few days ago from Columbia, Tenn. to Montgomery, Ala. ing to general understanding yes- The demand for shingles to local lumbermen, and they believe that ¢ton, to which he had shrunk ov the constant worry that he had hy.) draphobia, Scovel! is on the road) to health. ) the easterners were attempting to A measure, the mills were | retalitory shut down altogether. TO FREE STACEY for the terrier and from a content ed husband and father became a ST. LOUIS, Sept. 30.—That a move is under way to secure the morose, fear-strick release of Walter Stacey, accused of robbing the New Westminster r| | terday has not been satisfactory ACTOR CAN'T FLY NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Rob- ert Loraine, the actor-aviator, has been refused permission to fly. His managers, Liebler & company, don't want box office receipts knocked sky-high by a BURGLAR’S MISTAKE CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—Mra. W. C, Laidley lay perfectly still h loud 4, watched a burglar taking bank, is the report here today. The drop from the clouds. er money But when the police have asked for a fugitive s i jurgiar attempted to hug and | Warrant, charging Stacey with as SCULPTOR IS MAD Kiss, her, she fought him until saulting Lieut. Burns in Chicago. PARIS, Sept. 30.—Sculptor he fled and left the money be _ a Epstein ‘traveled here from hind him. London to yank off the tar- ———— She Wants $15,000 paulin which the authorities A CHARITABLE THEORY 4 had veiled his Oscar Wilde for Getting Fat »| montment in Pere Lachaise cemetery, on the ground that {¢ was-immoral c ELAND, Sept. 30.—Value for a fall and consequent increased weight Is placed at $15,000 by Mrs, Anna Gibbons SAVED BY HELMET \gypey fortune tellers. While one was describing the dark, handsome é " 7 » Cle ling to the secret service wane wan ib Wed, anetlion Inciad THU ageh til) of ite contests, : LONE er ee eauwar peaay od Seat. va arrest followed after| : an syril_ Foggin took a 60-foo ee ;~O >e Watch over Webber on the| Portland, Or-—Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Grant saw Policeman Schard| tumble at Kast Bourne, but be- la adc racers ey Rot lea’ ‘upposition that he would| standing behind a tree. They thought he was a footpad qnd ran,| cause he was wearing a leather . ve counterfeiting alone. They Schard ran after them to show he was an officer. They ran faster.| s#fety helmet, escaped with BL Nevada, Sept, 30.—Unless t they have lettcrs which| Grant reported Schard to Chief Slover for scaring bis wife, only a headache, the mine operators here recogniz wan changed between Adams - en the Western Federation of Miners Dn lebber, the former using the | Gary, Ind—"The operation was a success, Both patients will re |e wk tk wR RR Rw Re th and grant the men an increase of i Fidalgo and the latter George| cover." This was the bulletin issued at a hospital here today where |*# ! 50 cents daily, all union miners and DEL etOw, which clearly estabiish| Miss Ethel Smith and Wm. Rugh, a erippled newsboy, were the princi-|t | WEATHER FORECAST # smeltermen will strike, according E the-comspiracy charge. pals in @ unique skin-grafting operation. * Occasional rain tonight and * to announcement made here today, Ne Man Not Talkative - - ne * Tuesday; moderate to brisk *| “We have the most horrid milk]The company is expected to an- old many when asked for a Robert Olson, St. James hotel, 1516 First av., In his strotling of Sat-|* southeast winds. Temperature #|man milk is full of water.” |swer the demands Thursday, the drawled: “I never yit|urday night met two or three congenial souls, all of whom were thirsty | * at noon, 57. *!| “Oh, you mustn't blame him,| officials asking the labor leaders ‘to come of bein'| They repaired to the U & 1 bar. Three hours later Olson discovered |* *xidear. Remember, the farmers have|to wait until this date before tak- that his purse, containing $420, and his friends were missing, Rem RK KR RR Re dk ewe hall so much rain lately,” ing action, tle Star 1 =< HOME EDITION ED IN IRON CAGE YOUNG LABOR LEADERS ON TRIAL FOR MURDER member | fo mean that the; TRIAL TOMORROW | 30.—Final | ai I themselv: | / | ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN. Miss Flynn will be a prominent figure at the trial of Ettor and Gio- vannitti, She is a socialist worker, HE people alone know when nd how to use the recall. t's their weapon and it's harp. When others try to use it they always injure eB. Joseph Ettor DUKE, TOBAGCO KING, JERE James B. Dake, tobacco king, president of the n Tobac- co trast, is in Seattle today. Kiog | Duke is an inspection tour of the Pu ‘ country with s party "and Norwegian finance! . Duke and hisefriends are not tel- ing what other- they-ere inspecting, | wise then that their trip is for bus- iness as well as pleasure. The par- ity. whieh-ie*stepping at the Wash- jington, represents many millions, and farnishes the stokes. The finaneters will remain in Seat tle for several days. |BURGLARS ARE LESS ACTIVE jand has conducted mass meetings jall over the United States In the in-| terest of the prisoners, She is said to have a strong personal attach. | ment for Ettor. PROGERS HEAR BLIS9, JA. (By United Prow Leased Wire.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Testi- mony by Cornelius N. Bliss, jr. of New York, before the senate cam- jpaign contributions investigation committee, showed that his father, Chairman Bliss of the 1904 nation- al republican committee, refused to publish the list of contributions because the “contributors have the same right to privacy so far as their gifts are concerned as they jhave in casting their ballots.” A letter, written to Harry New, of Indiana, also declared “the cam paign was conducted on a high plane. According to Bliss, nothing was | found in his father’s papers to show | that the Standard Oil Co, contrib uted $125,000. Wm, Libby followed Bliss on the stand. He testified that he was employed by the Standard Oll Co. lin an advisory capacity. Libby said that he was active in Washington when the Payne bill was up for consideration in 1909. He said that be saw President Taft domany senators, congressmen and state department officials re garding the oll tariff, The burglary record for Saturday night was not as good as usual, only four being reported to the po- \liee yesterday morning. | Those who received first hand linformation that the light-fIngered |wentry were busy were. Paul Tor | no, West 63rd st, who as knocked down and out after q | ting a dance hall in Ballard, and | robbed of $35, the Spring Hill Gro- cery, 6301 California av., which was |robbed of $56.65; Fred Spinning, | whose store at 1415 Fourth av., was robbed of clothing and jewelry, and several members of the Y. M. |C. A, who lost various articles of jclothing because of the visit of a | young man, 18 years old, who gave jhis name as Hugh Fuller. I Tried Suicide at 83, Following Love Tiff 30.—As SHAMOKIN, Pa., Sept. ithe sequel to a love tiff, William Broscious, 83 years old, shot him- self over the heart at Elysburg. The attempted suicide followed a jquarrel with Mrs, Elizabeth Ott- Fetterman, many years younger, whom Broscious had been courting |for some time, and who is seeking |a divorce. Broscious was found by farm hands and brought to the State Hos- pital here, where he is not expect- ed to recover, STORM WARNING A storm now over Vancouver, moving eastward, will cause high southeast winds today and tonight in Seattle. The winds will prob- ‘ably shift to southwest Tuesday. BRING YOUR WANT ADS TO OUR DOWN TOWN OFFICE———= THE SEATTLE STAR 229 UNION STREET Between Times and P.-I. With Souvenir and Curio Shop