The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 14, 1912, Page 6

JURY DIVIDED, SETTLE DOWN. TO QUIET GAME, HERE ISS A FivE-YEAR OLD CHILD DOT MAKES UR STORIES Vonce® At first, there came forth a jan-||(\ TOR DER MAGAZING. DINK OF TADPOLE. guageiferous volley from that fury IT— A MERE BABY! WHY room CAN'T YOU Do SOMEDINGS Ten men and two w on were @eliberating Gn the ¢ tate against A. S. Johnson, ed with a statutory crime. After supper things Bailiff Sheehan thous had been reached. He waited to be summoned. But no such invita tion was given by the jury And the silence continued. It became oppressive to Sheehan. So he put of the charg. his ear to the keyhole. “Clubs “ are trumps,” he heard fome one say, in a leisurely man ner. ° Sheehan unlocked the door “It must not be so,” he told the furymen. “No card playing toler ated fn this house.” ; “Whatchergivin' ust" demanded the astounded “good men and trug “Them’s the rules,” said Shee han, He demanded the cards. “¥' can't find that rule in Hoyle's,” fiippan remarked one of the, jurors Sheehan reperted the matter to Judge Ronald. The jury failed to reach an agreenent “If you had arrived at a verdict, it would not have been worth the paper it was written on,” said Judge Ronat 1, before discharging them, “The ploying of cards ts un lawful while the jury is del/berat fag.” VOTE ON STRIKE; AWAIT ANOTHER (Editor's Note.—Two y a vote of 53 to 40, The bill, the senate, A change of seven v 1911. Representative Franc Like Dorf 8 ago the ington legislature defeated a bill to abotish capital punishment by thersfore, P. Goss, resubmit it at the coming session lower house of the Wash did not come to a vote in otes would have passed the bill in who fathered the bill, will Omitting a great mass of sta MEETING JAN 6 tistica which Representative Goss prepared, the following is, in . part, his argument to the legislature and the people of thie state.) Members of the Electrical Work ‘ ~ fs’ union in Seattle, Tacoma, Ever BY FRANCIS P. GOSS ett and Bellingham have voted to While IT most « rat oppose capital punishment strike, according to a statement I fe - 1 P aa ; 1 Be ; made public Friday night by Vice}! most positively favor a punishment that shall only President Morgenthaler of Pacific} punish adequately, but at the same time shall n ioe District No. 1, of the Electrical}our civilization and violate one of the, fundamenta of Workers’ union, after a conference | mankind detween representatives of the The ne '. eet union and A. W. Leénard, vice pres. he opponents of sympa € ident of the Stone-Webdster interests} With crime and crimin th the: ne in the Northwest. cessity for the protect lic welfare A general strike will not be called) They are not swayed wholly by the emotion those wl immediately, however. < igpetia! Negotiations between the union} favor capital punishment char and the Stone-Webster corporation} But | do raise my voice in bé¢half, - ~ i will be open until January 6. Onjof that submerged tenth of human with the closest 7 and vestip that date the question will be de-|ity so little understood by most | them ne the ceremony cided definitely, Leonard is a com-|people, and so out of tune with | possible paratively new man in the field.|the world of indifferent thought. |ABLEST WRITERS AGAINST He {s anxious that time be givenjit is a terrible thing to kill, but|LAW OF RETALIATION him for a more thorough investiga-| Bulwer reminds us in forcible lan-| If capital crime bas ever been ted the Committed with full premeditation guage that “Society has er tion of conditions. The union workers will make no concessions in their demands ed | uniform scale wages and complete recognition of the right of the'men to organize, save Morgasthaler, SEATTLE WOMAN NAMED HEIRESS TO HALF MILLION} ; ‘The family of Mrs. Amelia Fred- erick Chittenden, living at the Le- once apartments, Boren av., has in herited half a million dollar fortune left by Miss Octavia Frederick, a year-old ectentric recluse, who died recently in The bedy of 4 found in a small apartment above a barber shop at 24 Hoyt st.. New York, surroundedby 13 cats which had been her pets. The stove had been overturned.! She had suffocat Mrs. Chittenden came to Seattle about & year ago. She has two daughters, Clara and Edith, and one married son, Edward L. Chittend-n,| REPRESE NTATIVE F. P. GOSS who lives at 2825 ith av. EB. NAME CHILBERG gallows at the end of the lane, in stead of guide and direction posts at the beginning.” GREAT PRIVILEGE TO PLEAD FOR HUMAN LIFE ith this thought uppermost in my mind, I realize that, grave as is AS PRESIDEN OF NEW CHAMBER" ‘sas, of assassination, Trustees of ‘the New Seattle|lives of those human beings who, Chamber of Commerce, in their an-|for want of the guide and direction nual meeting Friday, elected J. E | posts, took the leisurely lane that Chilberg president. D. Lowman |leads to thq gallowa; to plead for was tendered the office for the|the misshapen souls the guilty fourth time by unanimous vote, but|I know that when we turn the last declined the appointment. pages of the human document upon Chilberg had been acting as|which are recorded the cardinal treasurer since the departure of|crimes that bring men to their R. 8. Stacy for Tacoma, and his|ruin, we must needs pause to pon- election left the office of treasurer|der the problems and see if there vacant. is not a more effective remedy for E. F. Sweeney and John C. Slater |the ills of the world than the legal were elected as vice presidents,|murder of men with blood upon James D. Hoge treasurer, J. E.|their hands and the blackness of Chilberg vice treasurer and C. B./despair and abandon in their Yandeli was re-elected secretary. | hearts. Lowman, declining to accept the} When we remember that {ft has office of president for the coming }been proved by the most abundant year, expressed his appreciation of |and trustworthy evidence that “the the approval of his efforts shown |greatest proportion of crime is the by the trustees. result of poverty and early priva- —_— tion—that one-half, perhaps two- thirds—of those who take life are flagrant instances of society's gross neglect in educating the souls God committed to tts keeping, Inherent and ungovernable minds just hov- ering on the* borders of insanity, if not wholly insane and irrespon- sible—this malignant feeling of re- of the Corner market, where |yenge toward most criminals be- the poultry show is in progress, {comes ferocious and brutal one might be led to think that [PRACTICAL SIDE AS eggs are exceptionally plenti: | WELL AS ETHICAL fol in Seattle. ‘There can be no compromise be- As a matter of fact, the price |tween a law for the abolishment of of eggs is going down, whether |capital, punishment and any law ur not it's due to the number |which has for its ultimate the of cackles on First av, Local |jegal murder of man, whether dis ranch eggs are now selling at |cretionary with the judge or jury. 45 cents a dozen, guaranteed The abolishment of capital pun- eges at 35 cents, and “good” |ighment has its practical as well as LOTS OF CACKLES; EGGS ARE LOWER From the barnyard noises issuing from the second floor eggs at 20 cents. It is expected lity ethical side. On its ethical that if the present weather Jside there are arguments of the continues the price will drop |moralists, who oppose the capital |’ still lower. Two weeks ago ranch eggs were going at 55 and 60 cents. POKER A HIGH ART IN LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14.—That poker, as a high art, has many de- votees in Los Angeles, is the opin” fon today of the manager of a thea tre who advertised for a dozen poker players to “supe” a gambling scene in a play. Eightythree jteboard manipulators were in Ine at his office at the appointed hour. He is considering an elim- $nation tournament to select his men. ENGLISH CAPTAIN MURDERED TEHERAN, Persia, Dec, 14.— Tribesmen near Shiraz, capital af the province of Fars, murdered Captain Ackford of the British army, according to word received here. penalty on the ground that {t is un- Christian, unauthorized, unjust. And there is the practical side. No man ever benefited by seeing the state break another man’s neck or drop “his head into a basket Ceremony and the dry husks of the law cannot take the horror out of such an event. On the contrary, it tends to dull and deaden the fine feeling of sensitiveness which Jies at the basis of gentle human na- ture, and out of which has grown the magnificent culture of our civ- ilization. At the moment, it is not so much a question of hardening men so that they may do the world’s rough- er work, as it is the question of softening them to the gentle de- mands of society, Human nature should be tender and responsive, not tough and unresponsive. Because of the degrading and brutalizing effect of such execu- tions on the public mind, the law has gradually changed from mak- is flooded ing executions ,@n occasion of pub- . Me rejoicing Ps surrounding them Western av. market with Jap oranges. of consequen the very fact of jitn commission Is proof th }threatened death penalty deterrent How foolish, the suppose that even the extreme pen alty can lessen or prevent such of tenses she ablest writers on social sel ence and penal legisiation, among them HBecarria, Lafayette, Wake ffeld, Jobn Quincey Adams, Bone min Franklin, Mantaigne, Living jston, Brougham, Cobden, Bentham | Blackstone, Victor Hugo, and our more recent day the beloved Tolstol, have held to the principle has no right to take alty is not a new and untried ex Russia and in three states of Mex -£0. Statistics show that In the states where death penalty has been abol ed, the increase in homicide has not been greater, or in some in stances aggreat, as in those states which haye not abolished it I hold, therefore, that the state cannot find judicious warrant for going beyond the disarming and confining of disorderly persons JESSE C. Attorney of the United States de ADKINS, partment of justice, who has charge of the government's probe into the alleged traffic agreement between the Grand Trunk New Haven railroads, which; it is feared, will keep New England “bottled up” for exploitation by J, P. Morgan and Charles 8. Mellen, ISMAY RETIRES FROM WHITE STAR LINE LONDON, Dec, 14.—Formal an- nouncement of the withdraval of J. Bruce Ismay from the managing directorship of the White Star line is expected here daily. Ismay's health, it is said, is broken by the criticiam to which he was subjected when he escaped from the Titanie wreck while 80 many women and children went down. A union carpenter of Colorado and his wife walked 45 miles to Pueblo for employment rather than work with @ nonunion artisan, hurro Baths Sulp RHEUMATISM seaaay Vas BOOKLET— Wars A TEENY, WEENY LIVED WAY-Y-¥ DOWN INA Deep DEC-EEP WELL. UND HiSs NAM© WASs CLAUDIE.’ in| he old law of retaliation is ot solete. Men and women are be ginning -to realize t pge has} tno bearing on the problem of crim | inal reformation | The abolition of the death pen periment, ithe at home or! jabroad. Its total ion Is pro vided in the Statutes of Michigan, Wisconsin, Rhode island and Kansas, and in the countries of Switzerland, Belgium, Prus ony, Holland, Finland, Italy gal, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Roumania, Tuscany, Coxta Rica. and the! THE STAR—SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, ‘|\Adolf Relates the Heart-Rending Story of a Little Pollywog DERE UND HE MAGNATES WILL GIVE BOY A DOG FOR CHRISTMAS “Seattle, Wash., Dec. 14, 1912. “Mr. Kempster: Dear Sir. Last Sunday one of your cars fran over my puppy and killed him. I brought him clear from Alaska, and he didn't know much about street cars. He was fine to play with, and my father said that if 1 wrote and told you about how he was killed, maybe you would send me another one. Sincerely, “ELMORE BOWMAN, “2310 Mth ay, 5." Out of the voluminous mall re ceived by Superintendent Kemp- ster of the Puget Sound Traction, | Light & Power Co. ry day, the abaye letter occupied more atten tion than any other—and some of the others were important business communications. Kempster showed the letter to President Furth and to Vice Presi- dents Leonard and Mischner, and to Attorney Howe of the company, |It was unanimously decided that jthe boy is to get another dog. Young Bowman is about 12 years old He's going to Christmas. PORT ANGELES MAN HEADS DAIRYMEN By United Prose Leased Wire RNON, Dec. 14.-—+At the closing session of the 20th an nual convention of the Washington State Dairymen's association Fri- day, Donald McInnes of Port An geles was reelected president, © get the dog for W. Ortin of Sumner vice president and F. E. Smith of Seattle secre- tary. The convention was marked by unusual harmony in all matters of business, and was considered most successful, AMERICAN SHOT IN PARIS PARIS, Dec, 14.—Walter Mumm, member of a prominent family corm nected with the wine trade, leg seriously wounded today in a hos. DAY — (AH, HERE Comes DER SAD PART) =—— UNTIL pital here, He says he was shot by an American woman known as Mrs, Barnes, 1912. CLAUDE WASS OH, 30 HAPPY TILG VON VON DAY HE GRew UP, UND DOT WASS DER LAST OF POOR CLAUDIE,—> Georgia Girl Who Cuts Big Figure in Society at Washington Miss Lucy Hoke Smith, elder daughter of Georgia senator, a lead- er in younger set at the capital.) — BECOS$S VEN He GRew vP— 800-HOO— He CROAKED! OSEAR, I Bout HAP BROKE IT TO You MORE GENTLE, 'WOMAN SERVES | Mrs. Ida M. Simmons served a sen tence of one hour Friday, after |pleading guilty to a charge of em bexzzling $814 from the government while employed as postmistress of Gettysburg. This unique sentence was impos ed by Judge Howard, following a passionate plea in Mrs. Simmons behalf by her counsel, Prosecuting Attorney William B, Ritchie of Clallam county. Mrs. Simmons sat out the hour in the marshal's office. Ritehie detailed a story of the woman's life and her struggles for} her two babies, since her desertion | by her husband. He said the wom an did not understand figures. Judge Howard ¢eclared that he was | convinced there was no criminal in tent in the embezzlement The shortage has been since the woman's arrest. EXPECTS 600,000 EASTERN TOURISTS | J. B. Chilberg, chairman of the |transportation committee of the| | Washington State Panama-Pacifte | International exposition committee, jat a meeting of the committee Fri: day, declared 600,000 people | jean be brought from the Eastern states to Washington during the paid up| She will entertain Miss Esther | big fair, i Clevelar@, daughter of Grover! He thinks Seattle will get most Cleveland, in January. of them, either going or coming. BLESSING FROM HIS MILLIONAIRE DAD) By United Prose Leased Wire. NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Declara- tion that his millionaire father, Frank ©. Havens, of Oakland, Cal., is reconciled to his second mar riage, and had wired parental biess- ing, was made here today by Harold Havens, who recently mar- ried Miss Estelle Houston of Fres- no, Cal “Dad told me to use his yacht,” said Havens, “and go to his country place at Sag Harbor, That looks like we had his blessing, doesn’t it?” A portion of the sum realized at the successful bazar of the St. Marks parish guild, December 4 and 5, is to be used toward the building fund for a new church, |He urged that the railroads be per jsuaded to grant long stopover priv- ileges so that tourists may get a chance to see what Washington, and particularly Seattle, ts like. HAY AND LISTER AT UNIVERSITY BALL With the big gymnasium beauti fully decorated, orchestra half con. cealed in a leafy bower, and a large assemblage of youth and beauty, the grand march started off last night for the varsity ball, the big social event of the college year. In the line were Gov. Hay and wife, Governor-elect Lister and wife, President Kane, and many other prominent men and women The committee had spared no trouble or expense, to make this ball @ success, Their efforts were very much in evidence, | SENTENCE OF ONE | HOUR FOR THEFT WHY STATE OF WASHINGTON SHOULD ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT | | | | | | SEATTLE CITY OFFICIALS —~ WILL AID IN STATE-WIDE INQUIRY ip SOCIAL Ni WENATCHEE, Dec ® for recallgn 200 words, EB. Crichton, health commissione against ip a ike numbe of Beattlc; Mayor Hindley of § ', once recalled, an @ ane, Mayor Cetterill of Se | be disqualified to “ai Mayor Seymour @f Tac Sena tor McGuire of Waterville and Re « took issue oo resentative 1 Sumner of Wenat ardall’s recommenda! comprise a committee ap especially the last prov d here to make a report to Cotterill favors certain changes next legislature on the social the recall law, among others a pit mn vision that a vote be taken for edt This subject was the most impor. | 4salnst the recall of an official aglt tant discussed at the conference of bis successor elected a month i the Wast League of Munici-, When the vote ie in tavor of fa palities Friday ———— re ndley Crichton, arreryc ; Br ae ihe eles tereont|| Rev: M.A. ah fiman Max Ward-|| Will preach two sermons Sam spoke. That restric day, both dealing with al evil in cities fails || *¥bJects. The sermon he genera} opinion | ™orning will discuss of the speakers Lapses,” in which he wilt show Connetimen Wardall presented a|| the lapses in the chureh. draft of propoeed amendments to|| *¢'™mon Sunday evening he recall Jaw, providing that hired|| @iscuss “A City — Without , n sbal! be prohibited, tnac|| Crooks.” In this sermon be will the petitions must first be stamped || discuss the effort to free the at the clerk's office, that the peti-|| city of crooks, and: the eis tions must then be filed in 90 days,|| Present status, and why that the ballot must contain rea-|| laf efforts should be used at ei} any » in the future the o& casion arises dially invited. WOODROW LIKES FRIDAY, THE 13TH HAMILTON DANCING HIPPODROME Hermuda, Dec Friday the 13th, has no rrors. for President-elect Woodrow Wilson, according to his statement here today as he was pre ing to ‘return to w York I am su stitious about 13," Wilson said, “but not in the usual way. I think it a good date to end my vacation. I was 13 year @ professor at Princeton university, I became the 13th president of that col e and there are 13 letters in my name Clemmer Theatre Seattic’s Best ey House. 1,200 Seats—10 Cents FOR SUNDAY § COMED , 3 COMEDIES MATT DENNIS - AT THE MOVING! PICTURE HOUSES You'll Find Intexpeting Features at the baa Listed Below ——— | MELBOURNE Sthtome of Glass Curtain’ Entire new See Sunda program tomorrow. papers for our special photoplay attraction. i Special Sunday offering—I Four Americal pw ii Three big va Me acts, Three 26% [as and Cherry hotoplays. Silent Jin an Eclair masterpiec® ene “Blood Will Tell,” a 2-part K.-B creation, The Girl tn the y ir,” @ modern mystery: “His Day,” a Ma masterpiece. 2d and Madison Maud Muller will be shown here Odeon Theatre =: so ea nded upon Wits ature tler’s great pc Other good ples FIRST AT PIKE tures. 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