The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1912, Page 1

shins samen A tN sae acne ine aac a mR ere RAIN TONIGHT OR SUNDAY; HIGH SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS, DIMINISHING SUNDAY. The Seattle Sta _ THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE i eee SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1912.ONE CENT (xcRAiNs 4x0, HOME EDITION EW readers of The Star and especial- ly the kiddies in the family will be interested in “The Star Circle,” which is on page 4 every Saturday, _ Old readers always read it. Take a look at youngsters’ column. the high cost of living! That’ the thing to do, ain’t it? Sure. ~ Well look on the editorial page to- and you'll find another cracking sood and interesting story about what _ he parcel post will do. 4 VOL. 14. NO, 260, 38 DEFENDANTS CONVICTED OF CONSPIRACY TO DYNAMITE; UNION WORKERS’ OFFICIALS PUT BLAME ON STEEL TRUST | ATTLE LEADER == arcs Prominent Labor Men Facing Prison PRISONERS JOKE AS THEY ARE LED TO CELLS IN JAIL ; Penitentiary Sentences Expected ‘ducted; State Federation Head for Leaders and Fines for Others; Denounces Methods. Will Appeal Cases. 4 ARIAS (By United Press Leases Wire.) The real conspiracy is that, tona’ rectors’ association, has i goat J *% see trast againn the been the veal prosecetion in this ; ‘lll teens Gad teak 28. Peg arg my wher ce a Attacks fie Juce FRANK M. RYAN HERBERT §, HOCKIN. BA. CLANCY OLAF TVEITMOE. San Francisco, in the so-called dynamite conspiracy cal union, who was a] @AN FRANCIBCO, Dec. 28— trial, were found guilty by a jury in the United States ft gl “wed —— “Judge | Anderson _dulidoned ane court ag today > ase count in the greene aches Dare apenplag ven rs oe ns i naar charging them with i transporting dynamite. Re raeiracs verdict a proper defense for tnatr cliestns aly tee of the Uelendante—Deaiel Wadler ot ma scheme to put the union ee a Caitderaie Beltahan Teones Davenport, la., and Herman Seiffert of Milwaukee—~ it of business, but it will not commenting on the ver were acquitted. = ‘ seal slber aaron indies The 38 were found guilty on 52 counts of cons The men convicted today] oq on a similar charge In Low AD spiracy, in addition to the charge of unlawfully trans- “guilty of no crimes, and | geles ing dynamite, ‘The jury was out 40 b pe 25 minutes. The verdict was a general one. When it was ane nounced, the defendants sat with their faces grim and set. j ‘union will conti h —- ior them. Their. cases|“GOOD FOR UNIONS” There was a happy light in the faces of Buckley and Seiffert. ipp y i NEW YORK, 0 a So be ay Reeve WED, sad am tin Tedtannpelie Sateict, Was / Defendant Wachmeister broke down and cried um. J” youna ag a baby. j case was conducted in al NSuonal rectory’ anvoclation, sald caahoe cpa asiait soa sel li Judge Anderson dismissed the jury, after thank. ing the members profusely for their “good and faith- HO, MISTER DRIVER! ‘COMMISSION | } AT nc NTT Dp ful work.” Court then adjourned until 10 o’clocld BOUGHT HEADLIGHT | REGULATION BALLARD CONTRACTOR iss) morning. YET FOR YOUR NAG? when it favored the ac-| uioiis men with criminal reco’ All horse-drawn or propelled ares Trial Was Unfairly Con- J. T BUTLER HH. W. LEGLEITNER P. A. COOLEY ! While the Burns detectives, | nave Leen exploiting unions to thelr own advantage long enough.” vehicles, by a new ordinance that goes into effect January 23, must carry lights. “Heck!” say the cabmen. “Shucks!” say the vegetable peddlers. “Doggone!” says the driver of the pound wagon. They called a protest meet- ing for the following Wednes- bitter discussion. } “Wagon lights will be a AL ral . } rney General Tanner today blessing to our city,” he began. [submitted a legal opinion to J. D “Think what refuigence will be |Dean, who was tw reflected on the city’s manage [eating the farmers © men and also on the city’s streets!” in Kent this afternoon, that the After the tumult bad subsid- | Pauthamus law regulating the bus ed and Jim's wounds bad been dressed, Timothy Hardtack | constitutic asked the chairman*whether be | |" The cna ny of the commission men be open to ae shippers, #o that a check on the | ay a ® i prices at which their produce is By Sisold may be easily obtained. it} ae ae vale provides that commission guarantee of honesty |. The Pauthamos law waa tested # unconatitutional, but it was not pealed to the supreme court. Tanner's opinion today has given- Eithe farmers added courage in their fight against the robbery | “Pig methods charged against the Six” and other concerns on Went orn ay. |BRASS BAND FOR “Bvery body's doin ~ ae to the po- “trumental 8 / tee an the reason which prompted t White river! §. 1. Prill, a sbingling contractor, lvalley together at a mass meeting © turn robb iM is married | His residence is at 5623 inews Of commission merchants t# Third av H / The jaw provided that the books latter attempting to hold ap J. H Skitving. a carpenter, ‘ West 66th st Skirving wasn't in any | He ts a big, muscular jagents put up $6,000 cash bonds 4%! man, and when Prill, pointing « him, ordered | up bie hands, Skirving made a grab [before Judge Frater, who held {t\for the gun, wrenched the hold-up's band, and tore the mask away |be held up. jeun at piers gets ame a eg PUFFS ALONG FOR BLOCKS I! PURSUIT OF CAR, THEN GETS 1 He delivered a rain of blows that Skirving then got the Ballard sta tion on the phone, Patrolman Bowman and Chauffeur Fowles brought Prill to the station, where his identity caused general sur prise Prill told the police he had spent $1 fm a saloon, and that he had to account for it at home. Hold-ups were #0 common in Ballard, Prill said, that he decided to try the Prill’s gun was not loaded, and he said he didn't intend to shoot ‘The police are investigating to learn whether Prill is the one re sponsible for the unusual number jof robberies in Ballard recently an) L AW UPHELD HELD AS HIGHW AYM AN serehedcicnantiposng minor senso The concensus of opinion here is that Hockin, completely put Prill out of business. | Tveitmoe, Clancy, Ryan and Munsey will get both fines and cumulative sentences. Men like Murphy, ney, McCain, Painter and Ray, it was predicted, probably would be treated leniently. Their convic- |tion was a surprise. It was expected here that |more than 35 of the defendants would be dec! guilty. En route to the jail, |game, too, and get back his loses, | grinned. | "like everybody is doing.” | United States Marshal Schmidt was ordered by the court to take charge of the defendants, and all spectators were ordered from the |eourt room Clancy chewed gum and! agent Ironworkers’ local. Frank K. Painter, Omaha, busk ness agent Ironworkers’ local. Peter J. Smith Cleveland, former business agent Geo. (Nipper) Anderson, Cleve- | Defendant Frank K. Painter off/and, walking delegate. }Omaha sat chatting with his wife | when the jury came in. Mrs. Paint- ler fainted when the verdict was an |nounced, and was carried from the court room. | Laugh at Joke. Frank C. Webb, New York, fon |mer member International execu | tive board. Paul Morrin, St. Louis, business lagent John H. Barry, St. Louis, former business agent, THROWN OFF N | Five minutes after the verdict] W. E. Reddin, Milwaukee, finame FEMALE “TROOPS” , & 9 lof Indianapolis aw, | Smythe ot pudfichael ~. Cunnane, Philadelphia, ‘gp . s., ‘eter | busines: 2 ie aaah “ota tanto tous Suppose you wanted to go out to;gates were smashed shut and loge | Sortantiels, Gicil wars wal ee re Pusaisie: ia AH! HEARSE DRIVER PR i veh shoa pa Yi ee jthe Universlty alstrict, Freatn OM the street and out of) vised with Inughter over a Joke) mer member International exect HAS BRILLIANT HUNCH late this afternoon, the eutfragete | And you started downtown 0M @/" guppose all that happened to {ome of pocven Boar gt bn A cor a Aer ae “You will,” said the chair- |marching from New York city to|J#™me# st. car, YOU! Wouldn't YOU be mad? | tt be given au opportunity to. ap-| mer business agent’ peer man, “because a wheelbarrow |the capital to present a petition to; And paid your nickel to the con-| Then, suppose, Instead of waiting“! 1 oun the verdict when court] president Ironworkers weit is a conveyance, and a convey- |Gov-clect Wm. Sulzer, stopped ductor according to Hoyle, for the next car, you hoofed it as|PiN Ven’. Monday. The attor| Frank J. Murphy, Detroit, wall ance is a vehicle.” here today for lunch. They then! and got a transfer according to|{@&t &® you could, right after the |Teconvenes Monday. the Mitel’ cate, a i Thereupon Tim removed his |continued thoir journey car, puffing away for about a block, |N678,"C) ‘enter an appeal today. foulihan, Chicago, finane coat and made ready for the ex- | Mrs. Joseph Gavit and Miss Eliz. | '™e "les, | And supposing at Third and Cher-/°FY ay aM. Ryan, president of the secretary Chicago local No. 1, pulsion of his vehemence. abeth Smith, president of the Al} And spotted a Cowen Park car at|ry you got aboard, and the con In _ choke’ organization, took the] James Cooney, Chicago, busines@ “Sit down,” said the chair. |bany equal franchise league, togeth-|'Third av, and James, jduetor refused your transfer be-| orice calmly, ! agent xictrepans man; “you're not a union man.” jer with 60 suffragets, met the| And jumped off the James at. car |CAUse you didn't get on at Third | VOT One oy said Ryan, Jas, Coughlin, Chicago, former Unable to speak, Tim wrig- jmarchers here. The entire party,|and made a wild dash for the/@Md James, would it make YOU) won cripple our union. The | business agent. : glod in wrat with’ a brase band in the Jead.|Cowen Park car, madder? work will be done just the Wm. Shupe, Chicago, former bus Bill Wellman, a hearse driv- |headed for the capital, And, just as you got there, the| That's how H. H, Reynolds felt, me under other officers in |iness agent. — af er, suggested that all the lamps ———— —o — hea Phas on the night of No-| dane en peal ia unavailing.” Ernest G. W. Basey, Cincinnat!, rr. y TR Bs nena edgar A “ “atl Tveltmoe and Clancy heard the | former business agent Indianapolis * itself paralyze the ordinance jtumbled out on the pavement. In| “ on shee’ x ese ¥s “4 Fiiecaily. is treaeport + a en tage a Hilarious applause greeted [court today, Reynolds alleges he | PAPer ron a aa then carefully | KE. E. Phillyps, Syracuse, secre: + Kan: i fell on his back and struck his head, |'0 bits slowly r. Ite * ronworkers". Secretary A. J, Mooney “Friends in misery, for years this suggestion, until some one scattering the bits about the floor. y-treasurer Ironworke a local. Angeles county bullding| and years we bave got along | asked who'd do the buying. pe OEE Pa nee Gameges: Marahel Schmidt told the de-| Jas, B. Ray, Springfield and il, sald today: nicely without carrying lights Finally the chairman said it - fendants he would give their wives , president Peoria, Mis. fran an opportunity to talk with and ers’ local, visit them tomorrow—the day be Edw. Smythe, Springfield and In Life insurance: me Verdict js a surprise. The} on our wagons! Why should was getting late. fore they are to be sentenced. Peoria, financial secretary Peorla If so, don't fail to look up the ad of the Northern union is the only one] we do it now? We shouldn't. So the audience adjourned, The Men Found Guilty local. FOR 50 NEW Frank M, Ryan, Indianapolis) M. L. Pennell, Springfield, Ms, president of the International As-|former president Springfield’ local. Life Insurance Co., which appears on page 2 today. not been stamped out! Let me read to you why!” feeling gratified and much sociation of Bridge and Structural] W. Bert Brown, Kansas City, This is a home company, with its headquarters would have to carry a lantern on his wheelbarrow. day night, Every’ Milkmen and hack-drivers were there with speeches written. Expressmen were present, and also men who couldn't express a thing. Drivers of brick wag- ons came. Drivers of convine- hi i iflsez # af of thought and delivery we there in abundance. The meeting was no sooner called to order than up Jumped Lawrence Sidd, frothing at the mouth, “On this outrageous ordi- Bance,” shouted Sidd, “I am unable to express myself.” “Then sit down,” said the chairman. Peter Hardstruck arose, wav- GELES, Dec. 28.—Com-| ing a score of typewritten the belt believe this will be done.” 04 Presn Leased Wire its contest with the Steel pleased with the outcome of [and I am positive that this) CAESAR’S BUGGIES thelr meeting. through its branch, tl N CARRIED NO LIGHTS remitinineiaoecaniee For an hour and a half he read the history of transporta- CITY CONTRACTS Ironworkers. walking delegate. ITS FIRST NICKEL tion, from the beginning of civ- H. S. Hockin, Detroit and Indian-} W. J, MeCain, Kansas City, bus a lization to the present time. apolis, formerly secretary-treasurer|iness agent, FRANCISCO, Dec. 28,— e showed that the crude ve FOR MUNICIPAL ‘Cats sree is 5 of the ge vieagiae He as R. agp sr orreerygiices the first nickel earned by| hicles of ancient Greece car- Jalling attention to the many| John 'T. Butler; Buffalo and In-| genera organizer of United Broth ist municipally owned and op-| ried no lights, that the chariots RAILWAY CARS h f i burglaries of the last few weeks, | dianapolis, international, tiret vice erhond of Carpenters ana Joiners. : street ’ reside: . k Mic bung, Bos Mayor Jac’ foiph of an| thet the woodeurwhooled carts ee ee Chiet Bannick, in his annual report /P"yveq J. Shireman, business agent| ness agent Tronworkers’ local. 0 OLened to public use here| of the early Phosticlans ware FLOR each Saturday in The Star. to the city council, asks that 60 ad-| Indianapolis Ironworkers’ local. Chas. Beum, Minneapolis, busi- new Geary st. line, which} not subjected to this most out- The board of public works, acting A Star want ad will get u result: uickly, ditional patrolmen be appointed to] J. J. McNamara, former secre-}ness agent local building trades pe hed after one of tie| landish injustice of being fore. jon the recommendation of Superin: Ge Fe neat: ; patrol the residence district, tary-treasurer of. the Ironworkers, coune i. iuake bac bitterest fights in the| ed to carry a beacon. tendent of Public Utilities n- Call us up today—Main 9400 or Elliott 44, or i e now serving a 1b-ye e Michael J. Hannon, Scranton, of public-service corpora “And, “éoncluded Hardstruck, | tine, has awarded the contract’ for P y : neal been trying for/gan Quentin, Cal, prison for dyna- business t Ironworkers’ local. tion on ‘d anywhere.| his face growing redder and kis | 12 sets of car trucks, ioetise in = more convenisnt, ca]l at the downtown office, 229 pel mont . to ie me o. milting. aie swiss tie ek Neenah . ala, How ora ape words sadder, “in the name of | municipal railway, to Me Standar! ‘ P . : @ report submitted shows an . B. McNamara, serv on- | membe ene exec e A $500,000 LOR Patrick Henry and the Liberty |Motor company of Pittsburg. ) Union St., with the Souvenir & Curio Shop. alarming prevalence of crime|tence in San Quentin for blowing | Ironworkers. i keaclaats EW YORK, Dec. 28.—Achille| bells of 76, why should Their bid was $620.50 a pair, among the young people of the city, | "P the Los Sausieg Times building Re ran Bi se aee, Series as the celebrated French| torchliight our wagons Fg t ; The are it the 12 car bodies ‘ Of the 19,078 arrests made during area | A coo Suku hy Tene engla 4 wl y t of antoists, who wil t to the Cincinnati Car company . Mech » Eros kers. . » “Toray, TebUiy one’ west ian us sooner or Jater, any- at $3,272 3 car. Contract for a hy- THE STAR GUARANTEES MORE THAN the year, 2,014 were under 21. There |dynamiter and informer. Patrick F. Farrell, New bh i call when they con- draulic plunger freight elevator for 40,000 PAID CIRCULATION DAILY. were 15,170 males and 1,908 females| Olaf A. Tveltmoe, San Francisco, | former Bister executive board late a new villa or alterations answered Hardstruck use in the elty garbage plant went , : arrested. SeSaeary Oe Ws CAllioeas Put Peed Wether: tails local ancestral halix, 1s respon- k into his seat ‘ 4 ng pn theca nal wecret ' @ new drawing room in Jim Carenot, to whom a kero- |for $2,360. The Baliard Marine i It cost the city $474,070.85 to run} pA. Clancey, San Francisco, for- nancial secretary Ironworkers’ Mackay's Ros: L. L,| sene lamp had descended from |railway was awarded the contract nee, Polvee,, Caper ee brigies oe be seeabes | ot the Ironworkers’ ie casate Aaetale Sonam Hi h \dget ecutive + x | Pe aD ot more then $609, pool celta a Aer ba A agrcae ee eee | 8496,712.60, J. BE, Munsey, Salt Lake, business, business agent Ironworkers’ locak