The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 8, 1912, Page 1

know and all prob- like Diana Dill- She's going to with Star readers in a new . a watch for her. a VOL. 14 NO, 217. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, NOVEM “WASHINGTON’S NEXT GOVERNOR |LISTERIN = OR BY SAFE MARGIN Returns from 1,863 precinets| in the state, compiled this morning indicate Frnest Lis- ter’s election by between 1,000 and 2,000 votes. There is little possibility that the returns from the missing 70 precincts can change the result The vote st Lister 95,987 Hay 94,167 Hodge 75,921 xis as follows om all available figures at! hand, Will BE Humphrey, repub jlican, seema to have defeated Dan | | Landon, progressive candidate for Jcongross, by about 2,300 plurality Jin King county, Humphrey got 20, 4 votes, against 20,089 for Lap don. The progressives are still hope ful that Lav wil! emerge from Snohomish county with enough of a lead to overcome Humphrey's lead ! in the other counties, This, how seems doubtful Humpprey | led Landon in King county by 486 votes. Counting the democratic) vote and socialist vote, whieh ‘was 18,161 and 6,400 respectively Humphrey got than one-third ot the vote in King county Humphrey» smal! lead in King county is tncrease by over 1,000 in Whatcom cc 400 in Skagit county, 100 in Kitsap county, abou 40 votes Ip Island county Complete returns from Snohom eh co received late this after noon, place Den Landon 2,269 votes in the lead of Wiltam EB. Hum phrey, in that county Landoo fears the delay of the count in | Whatcom county, which is in the ban of antl-progressive election lows TROUSERS THIEF ON JOB AGAIN After several weeks of inactivity } in the the cleverest thief bunch | who has been fatt ithe residents, the trousers thief, ie back | on the job. He made bis return visit at a hotel at 2325% Firet av at a room occupied by F. J. Allen Allen heard the burglar leave, but, as in most of the other troaners thefts, wae unable to pursue, The trousers were afterwards located but mot the purse containing $70 that was in a hip pocket Others who received calle from the burglar brigade were: Miss M. Ogden, 1019 Pike st, 4 rings and o gold chain; Giovanni Nicolacelo, 3418 Jiat av. 8, $16, and J, G. Byler, 386 Galer st. who returned home after a month's absence to discover ive dozen pleces of silverware gone. erent aneee cee aeene *% WEATHER FORECAST * # Rain tonight and Saturday; * \@ brisk to high southeasterly # # winds, Temperat at noon, ® “i * * Cea WILSON HAS 442 VOTES He came to Tacoma from England He married Miss Alice Thornton of aged 9 CALIFORNIA et Lister, new governor of Washington, is 42 years of age. 13 years of age, and has lived in that city ever since. has two fine children—Florence, a girl of 18, and John, Y BEATS HODGE «My tod Y IS IN DOUBT ss. : 116 : complete returns |e athe eee a ee HR From everywhere make it virtually, Mt Lister. democrsi, carried, Jones (D.) 14,886. . pects RGk aasenenne * ‘certain that Presidentelect Wood | Mmaty in the gubernatorial Milla (P.) 20,123. # computers of election returns # | fow Wilson will have 442 votes in} WTAIG over M. E. Hay. “Row Commissioner Public Lands. * in California this afternoon # the electoral college. Belated re- BMearessive, ran within 116 Savidge (fj 20,107 *® here claimed that Wilson had #& turns from Wyoming rural districts Mllay. The count was com- Schooley (D.) 14,9 *# won the state from Roosevelt # give Wilson that state by a narrow ‘King county this morning Kaafman (P,) 19,729 & by about 100 plurality. *® margin and, although California is Landon in the Superintendent of Instruction. | # # still in doubt, it is believed here ‘MnOfficial reports in King Preston (R.) 19,617 ahhh hhh ehhh tht eh that the above figures will stand. Wilson will assume office with hie party in contro! of the sena’ and house. Latest figures show 48 ‘485 votes. Humphrey re A votes, Landon 20,049 18,161. Monroe (D.) 14,446. Beach (P.) 21,498 ‘WILSON WILL GET roe ot or aman d it ators will be elected. Precincts the v other! Fishback (R.) 19,028 emocratic sen | “ nda -aanigaae Murph “(Dd 1 | WYOMING This is half of the total membership | Governor. Collins (P.) 20,110 and will give Vice President-elect Congressmen-at-Large CHEYENNE, Wyo. Nov, &—Lat-| Marshall the deciding vote in Frost (R.) " of a tie. The democra Dewey (R.) est figures today show President | hope to get two or three additiona elect Wilson is leading President is, making Marshal Connor (D.) White (D.) Bry Falconer (P.) 22 necessary for control of the senate | ILLINOIS’ COMPLETE UNOFFICIAL COUNT | Taft by 600 and that the democrat Hie nominee doubtless will carry the state. The republicans claim the | missing precinets will give the zi | |wtate to Taft, but this is not credit . "ach P + | to Taft, pies | CHICAGO, Nov. §—Complete un CALL FOR MEN jed ag “es; ben san — official reports today give Wilson | (By Ualted Peum Tasers wey [tre Dat ae ee eed. The Roosevelt 389,561, Taft SPOKANE. Nov. 8--Calla for |seems to be better supported, The sine men from the lumber districts of | margin, however, will not be more) jenocrat, has a plurality over De {D.) 14,90 British Columbia carry with them than four on joint ballot, and later) oon republican, of 110,654 returns may eliminate this (P) 19519. Ge ®) ba It is impossible so far to forecast the complexion of the legislature as belated returns are confusing Tacoma Progressive Progressives made a clean sweep in Tacoma and Plerce county, elect-| ing. their complete county and leg-| iglative tickets with the exception) of one man. Hodge also was given a big lead over Hay in Pierce coun. offers of as high as $3.50 a day for bushmen, and the minimum rate of | wages for this kind of work is EGG BRINGS ON A WEDDING | MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 8,—-Be \ecause a joke loving storekeeper at |Menlo, lowa, transferred an egg | from a “home” erate to one which w sent to Minneapolis, Miss Ma- tis O JUDGE DECIDES THAT snoring is not a punishable of neighbors complain. COOK OF THE Philadelphia department of pili} an order forbidding any employe from using profane | Wiser of Meni # Ca 1 Wilton | ty and rae & close second fo Lister. permit Advance permits for cases of emergency | Wiley, to “kid” the Bree Monlo, - IN, PA—Mrs, STEPHEN NAGEOTTE of Frenchtown,|*!! Of whom he knew, wrote his ‘onfess” {8 Marder Seeaty, is the proud mother of her second set of triplets, The |"#me and address nearly two years go a little over 13 months ago, and consisted of two girls| 08°, 0% An eae which was placed 1 the i aang de boys, One of the first trio is dead.| sumption, but a storekeeper pur- O HEARSE DRiveR WAS fined in Passaic, posely placed it in another crate, W'etonae JUST ‘D---N’, SAYS When Offered $10,000 , N J, for break- DENVER, Colo., Nov, 8.—Jacob 8. Kransno, a Russian iMving in Jasper county, Iowa, has confessed that on a promise of a reward of $10,000 IGE BURKE HAS been abducted from the agricultural Sreenhouse in Washington. Mra. George Burke is a beau- ISTER’S ELECTION SURE; HUMPHREY AGAIN SQUEEZES THR | And woo't he from now on and for SEATTLE BER §, 1912. ONE CENT NEWS STANDS Be saunas HOME EDITION The Seattle Sta ~ THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER ‘ opi OW did election suit you, What do you think Col. Teddy ought to do now? What's your n of this weather? Write about it all for “Editor’s Mail.” OUGH GANG RULE BROKEN IN THIS STATE <i _ - THE PEOPLE DID KICK THE GANG OUT OF POLITICS. The people's verdict is in. And in the most unmistak- able and emphatic terms it puts an end to gang rule in this state. Despite the fact that the people opposing the old machine were divided almost evenly into two parties were fortunate enough to make almost a clean sweep, never- theless, The few standpatters and machine politicians who escaped did soi by a vote slightly more than 33 per cent of the total Ernest Lister, a clean, progressive democrat, was elected | govegnor, thereby breaking the kingpin in the boss-governed| machine. While it is true that Lister reaped the. benefit largely of the great fight ade by Bob Hodge and the ‘few Progressive papers that fought for the people's cause and exposed the gang, he secured the benefit honorably and honestly. Had the voters opposed to gang rule been able to agree upon a set of men with whom to fight their cor there would have been a slaughter of this country has never before non enemy, standp witnessed along the line HE IS ELECTED JUDGE FOR TWO MONTHS BY ONE VOTE Judge G. W. Sampson—Judge, If you please, G. W. Sampson—is a fat, jovial man, and passably shrewd You've got to give him credit for shrewdness Didn't he get himself elected, with one vote, to the superior bench? Doesn't that one vote give! him ah @asy job for two months, | for which he will draw down $6667 ever be entitled to sign himeelf,| not Mister, but Judge, Sampson? He did. It does, He will. | Sampson was a candidate for shortterm judge. Nobody but Sampson and a few trusted friends knew it, but he was. He wisely neglectdd to file with the auditor.| It wasn't necessary Ho remembered what all the oth-| er lawyers in town bungering for| office--which is the whole bunch forgot—the short-term judgeship. He had a few #uekers printed| and handed them to his friends, About 100 of these were voted.) Sampsan hoped nobody else would | think of doing the same, Nobod aid But the election clerks Insisted on entering the name as a candi- date for the long term, and nun bered him among the “alsoran Bet one clerk, more Intelligent) than thé rest, came upon a Samp-| son sticker, and entered the vote) properly, One was as good as a hundred or a thousand or a million. It elected Sampson to the bench Maybe that vote was Sampson's He admitted he voted for himself.) Today Sampson notified Auditor | “JUDGE” SAMPSON Case that he-was entitled to a cor} tificate of election. jagup.for hm Sampson'a shrewdness entities |‘. t F him to sit, on the superior court], “One of them,” sald Sampson to- bench from November 15 to Janw-| 44, ‘must step down. I don’t care ary 13, He will have the appoint which one. It will be for them to during the: short “|decide. On the 15th of this month rete dl and two balliffs for! T snail be at the court house, ready Under the law the governor ap-'' oben court.” — s potnta, aiiccessors to fill out the unexpired terms of judges who, E. TITLE EV N through, death or other causes, S A IDE CE Joavag, the Wench. The state consti ’ tutién provides that an appointed IN WORKERS TRIAL judge shall not serve longer than the next succeeding general elec tion, and the qualification of a suc-| Bugene A, Clancy, a labor leader of cessor. San Francisco went to Seattle in There are four appointed judges! aygust, 1910, and that following his INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 8.—That on the King county bench—Dyke-| sig ae man, Mackintosh, Smith and My-|Vi#lt H, W. Pohiman, a Seattle la All four were elected Tues-| bor leader, wrote to J, J, McNa- | day, and in ordinary cireametances,| mara that Cancy ha@ met his man all four would have been appointed| after being in Seattle a week, and by the governor to serve through|that he understood the situation, the short term, | was brought out by the government Or, it three other lawyers had) yesterday in the trial of the forty- had Sampson's hunch, they could|five accused “dynamite plotters” have ousted the quartette for the here The government charges UPPOGED anther. ‘U , he had falsely accused himnelt of i Aaah, eR OLAR CAUGHT ON the porch of a Williamsburg, NCLE JOE murdering Mrs, Mathilde Herms. . Woe out to be a victim of toothache. DANVILLE, Iil., Nov. §.—“Damn"| meler of Newton, Iowa. CANOES ACTIVE IN New South Wales, and no po-|was the only comment offered by| The reward, he told the police, ny ILL. OF “Uncle Joe” Cannon here today|was promised him, by Simon to be MRS. LOUISE REMSEN of Boston leaves her hus-| when advised that his political man-|Krampe, father of Leo Krampe, fore in installments of 6 cents a week agers had abandoned hope for his| who was convicted of the crime and IATHEWSON, ON A North Carolina hunting trip, shoots | re-election to congress, Official fig-|sentenced to life Imprisenment. ‘ denies it was a cub. ures from the 18th district give|The motive of the alleged decep- tion, he said, was to obtain a par. {don for Krampe. EAFEITERS ARE GETTING scarce, Chief Bannick} O'Halr, democrat, a plurality of $75 over the former speaker, short term, As the hunch oecurred| that James B, McNamara was in to Sampson only, only one of the! Seattle at the time, and that Clancy four appointed judges must step| met him there, they | The voters of this state rebuked Taft and the old special | interest | State crowd more emphatic They gave Roosevelt and t of any western. state. They defeated the standpat ernor, They chose more than jthroughout the state. | And most important of all, |repetition of gang rule. ally than any other western he new party the biggest vote , boss-ruled candidate for gove They elected two staunch progressives to congress. They clected over 20 progressives to the legislature. two score cotinty officials the people of this state armed themselves with the initiative, the referendum and the recall, | three good and faithful weapons, as a protection against a The Star today congratulates the people upon their vic- rs sueh as|tory. This newspaper feels proud of the part it played in this great history-making epoch. The Star feels proud of the hard As it was, however, the people won notable victories all | fight it made for the people’s cause and it feels satisfied and l gratified at the outcome. CHECK NAMES ON RECALL PETITION Work was begun this morn- jing by a big force under Chief | Registration Clerk Gaines to check {up the recall petition against Mayor Cotterill, which was filed | last evening. The petition con- jtains 1,415 sheets and approximate. jly 23,650 names | about | the: In order to bring petition, 16,500 of se signatures must be those of a recall | bona fide voters The petition is filed by the so called Seattle Recall association through John L. Kahaley, presi-| jdent, and Charles §S, Carpenter, | jmanager. Kahaley used to run a lteam and dray outfit and Carpen ter was formerly in the county treasurer's offic Both freely ad. mit that they a mere “dummies” and that the real inte the recall move seek t identity under cover ts behind o keep their Print Names of Signers Mayor Cotterill has expressed his confidence ia winning the re- call election, In case one should be called. The names of ali those who signed the recall petition against him will be published by precincts and circulated in each district “I have lived up to every cam- paign promise,” said Cotterill. “Se attle is today a clean city, and the people will vote again to keep it clean.” "NOTHER WAR PARIS, Nov. 8&.—-Strong prob- ability of an immediate war be tween Austria and Russia over the division of Turkish territory seized by the Balkan allies is seen here today in dispatches from Vienna and St. Petersburg. Vienna reports say the government has massed a |large armed force on the southern frontiers, ready to invade Balkan territory. STAR READERS— MEN, WOMEN AND | CHILDREN | dollar. | catering to public wants children’s clothing. And } Here is an opportunity to complesely outfit at what one of Seattle’s most reliable clothing houses says will be a saving of 25 cents on the Redelsheimer & Co. have won a reputation for reliability and fair dealing through years of in men's, women’s and on page 4 of this issue of The Star this firm is advertising a list of special offerings at prices which surely must be an in- ducement to purchase quickly. Do you read all Star advertising? There are h being advertised daily in undreds of such bargains all lines of merchandise. Nearly all of Seattle’s most reliable business houses use Star advertising space. And by the way, The Star want columns are winning a name for them- Selves as result getters. When you have a classi- fied ad of any kind phone it to The Star and then watch the results come in over 40,000 copies daily, | office or phone your ads. Souvenir & Curio Shop, Elliott 44, . Call at our down town 229 Union st. with The Star sells