The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 14, 1912, Page 1

eR ARE PN“ Re i 7 gh of them guilty of first de- IS THE COST OF CHANGING OREGON'S VIEW OF HANGING MEN BY THE NECK BY FRED L. BOALT ! Or, Dec, 14.—-In 10 days) est has aged 10) Streaks of gray have ap pabhis temples. His face is re and seamed and lined with erty ama care. , an hour after the ex at the penitentiary, he "Do you think | accepted the bit ity from choice? | fa not want those men to die net even think they were murder. With a stroke of ‘pen, with a word, | could " their lives. | didn’t | hanging was | foolish do it, My enemies, the very peo erucified, urged me to do it, But | would not. The future will shdw whether | did well or il.” The situation, while it lasted, was unique, Went, leador of the antl banging | movement, in Oregon, had gone up Jand down the state, before the elec tion,in November, declaring that barbarte, wrong and and electorate to vote for its nt He ad the five con} demned men until after the election in the hope that the people them selves would save them But the electorate waa, curiously enough, for hanging murder by the necks! friends urged me to The Star in Uncle ’s Star Circle column on 4. Read today of the interested be new contest Uncle J started. NY T tific. World for Tuberculosis on Monday dman Says. N, Dee. 14.—Dr. F ted to the Berlin Medic Pyeats of laboratory experiments he had « f tuberculosis, and that ted and cured upwards » will submit his tr has announced Monday, he will) Y certified case of tuber. }to bim by physictans or fc ° om purpose. B SKEPTICAL five weeks that have Dr. Friedman's start- rent to the Bertin the doctor has with letters and tele- all parts of the world. iit of the publication in the medical and lay is much skepticism on fof many of the leading Ha of Berlin as to Dr. Fried- ls There have been so ‘Claims as to tuberculo- that the scientific worid Mental attitude of dis im advance any new ly true, however, kas convince. that many Clans that in thiw ad Ib the Berlin Medical soviety t overstate his discovery skeptical have demand Friedman give them #0 they could submit fo the acid test of cases of tubercu- the most rigid observa- n Dr. Priedman has fefused to give his one, On the ground , from « small drop of ‘could develop enough the world and deprive ¢redit and recompense ‘s final answer is Fag He has opened spectal | until they were dead J ack has VOL. 14. NO. Q TREA Will Get New Franz Friedman, who er 6 that overed a rederich al society on Novemb during the past two years he} of 600 cases of lung and bone} eatment to the scientific world | serum every certified case of tu berculosis sent to him BOARD OF HEALTH TO PASS ON DISCOVERY The test cases he will treat will| be certified at the royal and other | clinies, Dr. Hamel, sesistant director of | the imperial board of health of Berlin, says thix board will be the last body ‘o pass on the efficacy of the Friedman treatment, and that no official cor he A can be expected from the bow ntl alt the greatest doctors in Bertin have | confirmed Friedman's claims I have personally talked many Berlin physicians about "OF. Friedman and bis claims, and found there is much skepticiam among physicians who have not personally observed and mined the tuber. culars Friedman claimed to have/ eu Gn the other band, four physi cians of standing whom Friedman has trusted and permitted to see his treatment, are convinced, they told me, that Friedman has discoy ered the long-sought germ.) These four doctors are.Prof. Schleich, in ventor of local anaesthesia; Prof. | Konrad Kuster, who bas practiced medicine for 50 years and received & royal modical title; Dr. Erich Muller, chief physician of the Ber lin orphan asyinm, and Dr. Karfun kel, chief physician of the East Side polyclinic Prof. Konrad Kuster said te No American doctors could be} more skeptical than I was two years ago, but I have seen the Friedman treatment in 500 cases, and I am convinced that Friedman| can cure tuberculosis of the bones | and lungs, the latter in not too ad-| me fo treat with his new! vanced stages.” ——ee INEROUS FOLK HELP LE CHIMNEY KIDS; MORE C himney-kids idea sure on strong. Every mail appeals from big- for the privilege of ‘on the ground floor in Mership of Santa Claus, rs’ smoker at M4 last night netted $72.37 mney kids when round. nearly every minister from the pulpit, ask the tree that ever to len the eyes Lttle-chimney & Milwaukee rail- ASH NEEDED {road company has notified Mique Fisher that they have at last lo- |cated the very tree. It has been laid low and is on the way. It | watt reach Seattle, probably, Thurs- day. We've got toys and toys and toys. And more than $200 in cold, hard cash. And the contributions keep pouring in. We get telephone calls from young women who are dreas- ing dolls—anywhere from one to a dozen; others who are canvassing their neighborhcods for coutribu- tions. . All this is mighty fine. But 6,000 kids are more than a few. They would make five regiments. And we don't want to give them ,a@ skimpy Christmas, | followers. hanging amendment |mark this |} Were known, Weat A prominent Portland clergyman Argued from pulpit'and platform for capital punishment, Society, he sald, must be protected. He had many They voted the anth down, But the voters at the same election gave women the franchise When the results of the election washed his hands” of the whole murderous buat news and sald to the people, in ef fect ‘On your oWn heads be it and on your children’s,” And he announced that preparing at the bloody feast” for the craclfiers. The five would die, not one at a time, but in the same hour! Now, It fs a curious phase of the public mind that one hanging at a he was MRS. AUGUST MONT, Jit Chorus girl wife of New York maltt millionaires son, who in said to ve deserted bi after a three days’ honeymoon. She Lindner, known on the Risie or Ethel Lorraine. IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN HERE? singe as These are t to The Star's Christmas fund for the Nttlechimney kids. It's just ao start, Lote more money and toys are needed A J Co.) Albert Har Don't publist B Parrar Co. Re Hotel D publish Ham (National Bank 00 » Mr, De pre (Pacific Coast Steamship ¢ Cams | Tric fate Cab J ercial Importing Co. riingham Low Me. iB. Bier * Gerv 00 Mr. , (inden ndent Brew in 10.90 weal & Wheeler 5.00 J. F. Janecke (Angeles Brew- ing Co.) + 10.00 y 1.00 Rosenbaum Co. ee Lord : 2.00 om Motor Co, employe’ 22 1 ‘0 union ington Chauffeurs’ \elub jance Washineton Klenert Co. 5.00] Chauffeurs club Hunter (impire Lite Insurance Co.) Galbratth-Bacon Co E. F. La Rowe (American Ex- press Co.) His. (Allis-Chalmers) n & Co. fo Sewing Machine Co ity Sash & Door Co | Purcell Bate Go i Augustine & Kyer 16 Ibe. candy |imberlal Candy Co 40 tba. candy Lesile Power Grocery Co. bx oranges Don't ublish 100 Iba, nute P. Powles Co. box apples ¥. W, Godwin Co. 2 ban. Jap oranges Standard Furnitu order on goods McRae & Brannigan $10 worth fruit and candy pair of shoes : toys 6.00 6.00} 5.00 2.00 250 purreli Go, Grand Union Tea Co Stone-Fisher worth toys William KR. Johnson novelties Butler Bros. box miscellaneous goods Mr. Lusk « 2 boxes apples BIG CORNER ON EGGS IS BROKEN UP PHILADELZFAILA, Dec. 14.—Eggs sold generally throughout this city today for 2! cents a dozen, as a result of the crusade inaugurated Wednesday. In addition to the 7,000 cases containing 2,520,000 eggs, sold under the direction of the Houseknepers’ league, retail dealers sold from their own stocks the same price. In some in- stances an even cheaper rate was charged, one dealer advertising suffragette eggs at 23 cents a dozen. penitentiary a} was Bisie} 1 09] Hurst, 45! 00} ‘| brother and W. G , | tive soclety, say $3,800 of the money If the mothers of the state could have Voted on the amendment, it would have passed,” The Nttle governor Metened to them, hour after hour, day after | day, Week after week. He received threatening letters, His wife did too, Their child would be kid te of terrible things if the men were | |time makes but a alight Impression jupon It, A ingle hanging is worth & paragraph fn the papers—no more. publle does not shudder when it reads of one man being strangled to death But five! 4 Public opinfan in Oregon, if one can judge from the agitation that followed the executive's announce ment, flopped “over, Delegations |} poured into Salém from all parts of the state. Many were friends} in the ant+hanging movement Many were the enemies of afore time whe pleaded with the gover. | AGAIN, “HUT | WON'T DO IT! nor to save the men who a month| And day%y day his face became before they had beet so anxious to| more marblewhite and haggard, see hanged, But mont of the dele-| and his eyes burned more and more gations were newly-enfranchised feverishly in their sunken soc women, who sald But he #hook his head, and “The vote was not representative pressed his lips, 4d met all argu "YOU ARE ASKING ME TO DO THE THING | WANT TO DO,” |HE SAID, OVER AND OVER SEATTLE SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 14, 1912.QNE CENT FIGHT FOR WAPPENSTEIN PARDON RLIN DOCTOR IS ee BOYS AND GIRLS, CAN YOU W ments and pleadings, unanswerable answer GOVERNORS AND OTHERS IN AUTHORITY HAVE HAD AND USED THE PARDONING POWDER SINCE LAW BECAME AND WE STILL HANG MURDERERS. IF 1 SAVE THESE MEN WE WILL AY THE ABOLITION OF CAP. AL PUNISHMENT FOR YEARS THE PRICK OF THIS REFORM THE PRICK WK MUST PAY—I8 FIVE Lives.” HE WEAKENED-—A LITTLE IN THE CASE OF TAYLOR. Hf COMMUTED TAYLOR'S SEN TO LIFR IMPRISON with the same They at him, hammer and ton ters, Inwyers, business unions women, They ca he stood pat went mini labor him The Seattle Star THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER | SEATTLE, WASH., NEWS STANDS Se RITE ESSAYS? TRY IT! GET IN ON STAR’S THEATRE PARTY ~The dictionary tells u a. synon yan iba word baving a like meaning, |} OF an almost similar meaning, aa another, Rvery little boy and girl, thea, will tideretand when it is sald that ' Happiness is synonym for Christmas, In i€ not so? Every one ts py at Christmay time | It \s am appropriate season, th for aynouncement of T j theatre party for the children, a most wonderful party, too, be sure Off across the ocean, In Europe, a Yery famous and very learned man, Maurice Mactertinck, wrote a play called “The Mlue Bird In the symbolic language of the play, the blue bird in the sign of happt nese, It is a beautiful production, There are child actors, and it's a children’s play Tt tells the story of a boy and his little sister, who went and dreamed (he most marvelous dream, im which they mec Dog, and Cat, and Milk, and Water, sad Fire, ald many other familiar things which, in their dream. have taken humalt form Fourteen year-old Burford Ham pdep, the Bnet! i role in “The Blue Bird" ever takea by Star's you may to sleep boy actor, has the lous any youngster on the stage And the heroine, Editha Kelley, fe @ iitfle girl who can act better than most grownups THE STAR 18 GOING TO GIVE 1 BOYS AND GIRLS, UNDER THE AGE OF 16, WHO WRITE THE BRST ESSAY OF 156 WORDS ON “HAPPINESS.” SPLENDID SEATHAT THE PRESENTATION OF | “THE BLUE MRD” AT THE MOORE THEATRE, DECEMHER 24. CHRISTMAS WEEK iy There will be 11 prizes. The author ofthe beet tksay wil) get o box of four seats he next ten will rede ie 16 chotce pairs uf down near the front The essays must be not more than be Words long, and must be neat. ly wri on one side of the pape: They must be in The Star orn | the prize winners will be announced tt weats, iday noon, De: ber, 20, as following, on Saturday. } ntributors to date g/T0 INVESTIGATE " EXPENDITURE OF | WELFARE LE AGUE TO DEFENSE FUNDS.) DEMAND REMOVAL OF SALEM, Or., retribution for Dec. 14.—To obtain money alleged he have tyisappropriated by attor- neys retained to defend Noble Faulder, one of the convicts hanged jhere yesterday, the Prison League of the Pacific Coast Rescue ac ;through its attorney, Row will take immediate action. ulde’ | lar ides was & native of Austra: line university grounds, this petition ame across the ocean with nearly | W&# adopted and will be circulated 00 to spend in his defense. The | “We believe that the Uni | McLaren, super-| versity of Washington should intendent of the rescue and protec-| strive to inspire and maintain the highest standards of life, character and citizenship in our state, and to this end must be guarded from the Intrusion of all sinister or undemocratic influences. It is our conviction that the acceptance from Alden o'clock this after-| J. Blethen of the gift of chimes o the univertity fs a danger s precedent “We believe that Alden J Blethen is one of the most ma lign influences in the state of Washington, and that his ree ord and influence through his conduct of the Seattle Times, with its persistent and shame jong ridicule of morality and civic virtue, and its support and encouragement of persons and licies that tend to debase and At & nieeting last night of the newly-organized Washington Wel-) fare league, one purpose of which Is to remove the Blethen chimes from was misappropriated The body cf Noble Faulder was | buried in the Odd Fellows cemetery here at noon today. The bodies of |Frank Garrison and Jack Roberts will be interred in the City View jcemetery at 4 noon Mike Morgan's body is in charge ot Father Moore, the Catholic chap. lain of the prison. SANE ANSWERS TO || FOOLISH QUESTIONS I am fifteen years old and been keeping steady company “ n yearn, anxious to marry me. you think we should be married now hee or wait a few years?—Mae Kdythe eprave our public life, are if such as to make any associa- ag tion of his name with the unt versity an affront to the people of the state. “Purthermore, we believe that the “Blethen Chimes,” as inseribed, do not comply with the terms of the original offer that wan accepted by the board i have} with Kindly tell me rease from doughnuts. Children Heat the doughnut red-hot and run it through a clothes wringer, how to remove Mother of How can I take wrinkles out of wall paper?—W. ©. Of regents. Send two-cent stamp and we will <"We heartily endorse and mail our formula for cold cream. commend the action of those © university students who pro- Please tell ine how to take the! tested: against the acceptance shine out of @ serge suil—L, W. &| of the chimes and believe that Sprinkle taloum powder over the| .thay have set a fine example abine and rub vigorously with a| of courageous citizenship. jPiece of soft chamols, “THEREFORE, we hereby THOSE $12,000 CHIMES the board of regents University of Washing Ernest Lister, govert and the mem legislature, in have petition of the ton elect of the state bers-elect of the the « named, o acquire or to act, ach steps as Will re sult in either removing from the university campus the chimes in question, or forever isassociating the name of Alden J. Blethen therefrom.” he league ele President, Harry Moore; vice president, Maxtin Korstad; secre tary, Glenn Hoover; treasu Stuan A. Rice. An office will be opened immedi ately at 224 Lumber Exchange, and etary Glenn Hoover will be in charge Glenn Hoover the university as they as officers who lost his job in the aftorney general's office for having made a speech upholding the university students who pro tested against the chimes. Hoover was given a nice letter by the attor ney general but told that his action was embarrassing to the adminis tration and that his service would not longer be needed Inasmuch as rumors have been current that there was a campaign ment that Charles W. Wap- ein should be pardoned by the nt governor as one of his last acts, a resolution was adopted pro- testing against, the pardon. I BE A DE EE * * WEATER FORECAST * * Occasional rain tonight and * * Sunday; light —- southerly * * winds. Temperature at noon * * * * RIKI KIKI IK | is the graduate of |“murderer.” They they said, “Roh They wept over him threatened him, | premedita They fell on|erts ts tn their knees before him. But he} makes shook his head and said wove “1 will not interfere. are four lives? other Morgans, ane difference,” de “They must no clared the rnor What | die There will be | ri pat and Fauiders, | ty°trag t one tired little and Garrisons, and Roberte—a “holding out against so many dozen next year, perhaps, in d re do what they wish- Oregon alone. Shall | save jed, t he wished it with these four and let the dozen /all his heart future murderers hang? And At the ver what of the murderers in all jer and the years to come? Shall t through save these four and so delay jhe » the movement to save the More necks of thousands of murder- | him t ers yet unborn?” \wan ria were still among It was a broader vision than/the 1 Save them! theirs, They could see only the “FOUR LIVES, NOT TWO,” HE immediate 4 t SAID, “IS THE PRICE WE MUST ied in with | FAY FOR THiS REFORM.” It was a curious wele moment when Fauld- were dropping to their death, he arguments of who reuinded was yet time. Mor- Garrisor the traps 8 meeting and Robe Morgan anger, not Are you for capital punish- ment? Or against it? Repre- sentative Goss, on page 6, tells why he believes it should be abolished by this state. oemaise, HOME EDITION GOVERNOR HAY IN | SEATTLE, REPORT ~ CONFERENCES ON ‘Petitions Biecalated habia Clem- ency for Former Police Chief; Chilberg a Signer. Will Charles W. Wappenstein, former chief of police of Seattle now serving a three-year term in the penitentiary for bribe-taking, be pardoned by Gov. |M. E. Hay? | The governor has denied it several times. But |the fight for the ex-chief’s pardon has been resumed this week with dogged determination. This morning, it is reported, Gov. Hay spent one hour, between 10 and 11 o'clock, in the private of- | fices of J. E. Chilberg, president of the Scandinavian Americe» bank. Four or five others were present during the conference, which is said to have con- cerned the Wappenstein matter. enstein's ‘broth | —— *y In thie “FORCE EXPRESS _ the week cir » Seatst| COMPANIES TO 0 SHOW BUSINESS Hay a Chitberg te Que Chilberg mation coneerning th 1 will gay this,” he today. “There have six conferences in my morning, and I expect more this after vate business Was cussed for caned Wire WASHINGTON, Dec. 14— The interstate commerce com- mission ordered today that every interstate express car- rying company in thé country submit before February 1, com- plete statements of business on certain designated days, and show cause that date why the ‘slow rates, recently " suggested, should not be declared effi tive. said at noon ffices this five or noon. It's my there a pr the pardon of Way stein? Was Gov. Hay prese ing one of the conferenc office this morning?” he wa “Lam not in the babit of te who attends any conferences in my office,’ said Chilberg, “but 1 will tell you this. I signed a petition CHILDREN FREE TO this morning king for the par-| BIG POULTRY SHOW, don of Wappenstein, and God speed Schoo! children of ten years and the day when he is a free man.” Gov. Hay could not be found at wader were admitted free to the the Washington hotel, where he is \fifth annt show of the Seattle registered, at today. King County Poultry association this morning. Children of all ages PAYS $150,000 FOR caickens on exhibitio on ‘the JUST ONE PAINTING ¢ uathel’ Firat aia bie Corner market, First av. and Pike NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Henry BE. | st., will be admitted at the special Huntington of Los Angeles today te of 15 cents throughout the added another celebrated painting /day to his collection. It is a Romney| If the portrait of Mrs. Sarah Siddons, the picks up as it did yesterday, the English actress, and her younger | manager t hopes that the ex sister. The painting is of the old |penses will be about covered by re English school and is said to be|ceipts when the show closes to valued at $150,000. night »position lling attendance at the show Savings Are. the Foundation of the Nation’s | Prosperity Are you reading the talks on saving which ap- pear in the ads of the Bank for Savings in The Star each Monday and Saturday? You should not miss them, There’s one today on page 3. If you follow these ads carefully you will soon find your- self convinced into starting a bank account, if you haven't one already. We repeat—Star want ads bring results—that’s what you want when you advertise. The Star, with its guasanteed circulation of more than 40,000 daily, has a vast army of readers, and among them there’s bound to be some one who is looking for just what you have to offer. 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