The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1912, Page 1

you climb on the wagon? Hold oy or you'll fall off, ker- ; flop ‘There's fun in the falling, but remorse a rs headache, "In the bump at the end of the drop! __ ja VOL, 14. NO. Jos yon cn the New Year. Do z in Mee si, O INDICATE HOES IN GASS ROOF THROUGH WHICH MEN PLUNGED. ) CHARGES PLACED AGAINST BURNS MEN; WOMEN PROMISE AID | Bould anyone be arrested In con-| Thayer was emphatte In bis a with the distribution of the | declaration that he did not believe Ant!-B club ctreulars, there any jury or any law contemplated ite 26 prominent women in Seattle |the punishment of people for ey will put up the necessary | gaging in a fight for the moral wel fare of the community, Prosecuting Attorney Murphy has filed no charges against any of the men arrested Saturday, but has the matter under advisement. they that they are not} That no law was violated is the im any criminal act. While | firm conviction of C. W. Corliss, at he B Detective axency, comply-|torney for the Burns detectives. Bg with the request of Prosecuting conspiracy,” tt Murphy, has agreed to pplies to the distributing the circulars, this|concerting of action to accomplish foes not necessarily mean that they |an unlawful end. The object sought suppressed. be to be attained by the A. B. C. cireu- | “There are hundreds of people in| lars is a moral one, not an unlawful le, many of them the most one. What might otherwise be women in the city, who criminal libel {# justified by our individually undertaken the/ statutes when made in the honest tion of the circulars, and rf belief of the truth of the statemen fs an endless chain of these |in fair criticism of public matters of en f . erest itive statement R. Thayer today. will put up their and not surety ” says Thayer, “so “ R. FRIEDMAN TURNS DOWN | UNLIMITED OFFER TO CUR DAUGHTER OF A PRESIDENT led Prem Leased Wire. | physicians who are standing by bim LIN, Dec. 31.-The medical in the present controversy. on and scientific circles of , Minister Masson of Uruguay of- fered Dr. Friedmann any sum he Ml Europe today are watching with) u of hundreds of tubercu- ally to take it to Montevideo for i by the new Fried-|the treatment of the daughter of serum in the institute here. (the president of Uru . who is to the skepticism fering from tuberculosis, and to ‘by bis attitude, Dr. Fried-| return the unused portion. continues absolutely to re) Friedmann would not consider all requests for samples of his the offer nor see two French spe- serum or give it out to the cialists brought here from Paris by profession. Apparently la the ministe; under the fear that his se He has nm so stormed by phy- may be stolen from him, which | sicians that he refuses to see most 4s admitted in medical circles of them, but is devoting his time to easily be done by obtaining personally inoculating patients who quantity of the serum, come to him with physicians’ cer- Tefuses even to give hisitificates that they are suffering loyal friends a few drops— from tuberculosis. TI-JEW PACT PORTLAND TO YODEL vf A ge ITH RUSSIA orus oO! | volces singing IS TERMINATE Yuletide carols on a large platform Wire. . $1.—The in the business district, with a brass band accompaniment, Port- land will endeavor to hold a sane New Year eve. The singers will each wear a rose and will march to the platform from the First Prea- byterian church. David Bispham, the brags baritone, will be the solo- ist of the evening. An extra detail was abrogated by this coun-| ot police will be on the streets to because it discriminated | check rowdyiem. Against American Jews, terminat- yates: et os today. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Dec. 31,— , Although the lapse of the treaty|Criminal prosecution of three offi- the United States at the/|cials of the New York, New Hav- of Russia's excessive tariff/en and Hartford railroad—Vice , it is tacitly admitted both| President Horn, General Manager and in St. Petersburg that|Hollock and General Superintend- will be no tariff war, and|ent Woodward—was assured here beth countries will adhere to|today when they were served with terms of the old treaty until|bench warrants charging man- convention is signed. slaughter as the result of the train ie already has made over-|wreck at Sau Gatuck October 13, looking to a new pact. when seven persons met death. PEAR E EEN ERR EY HE HAD TWO APPENDIXES; DOCTORS GET BOTH. * SCRANTON, Pa., Dec, 31.—Two appendixes were removed * from R. A, Spangenberg, and he is now recovering. The case fs said to be unprecedented. At the hospital Spangenberg was operated on for acute appendicitis. When the incision for the first appendix had been * made, and while the surgeons were about to remove it, they Giscovered the second appendix, about three-quarters of an inch * away. * RARER ERE RAR th eh TWO MEN CHASING THEIR HATS, _ FALL TO DEATH THROUGH ROOF ] he Sea 262 The second ‘man In two days to chase his hat out onto the giass shed over the Great Northern platform and fall through, died at 6:20 a. m. today. This vietim wi Archie L. Olds, negro porter for the Northern Pacific dining car service, just in from @ run, The first victim was Jack Thomas, who fell through Sun- day night and died two hours through the glass form 25 feet below is only six 33 UNION LEADERS GOTOPEN Precautions Are Taken to Guard Labor Leaders en Route to Penitentiary | PLANS KEPT SECRET Wives alt Relatives of Men Under Sentence Say Good-bye at Station! district court da delay in the) ‘dynamite spe the United bere today, ca }departure of t etal.” It was originally intended for the special to move at 10:30 o'clock, | but this plan was blocked by the | }action of the defense attorneys in} filing the two writs, and it was! decided not to start the train untit | there was no possibility of legal | interference. | |} While Judge Anderson waa post ming action on the write to} Thursday, Marshal Schmidt waw at | [the county jail instructing depu ties regarding their duties, It was sald he had heard reports that the was to be interfered with H The train started over the Penn-/ }Sylvania raflroad at 12:30 o'clock and is routed, It ia believed, via St Louie “There is a possibility, and | it te not an improbabitity, either,” Marshal Schmidt told “that an attempt to dynamite this rip will be no pioric.” “A pile of junk,” was the phrase used by Federal Dis. trict Attorney Miller, referring feet away from that made by Thomas. Like Thomas, Olds’ hat was biown off by a gust of wind sweeping around the depot tower and over the wall onto the giass, just out of reach. The glass is held in place by a metal frame work. Olds tried te climb out upon it, but slipped. TRIED TO KILL HIMSELF; FACES MURDER CHARGE Murder in the firet degree was the complaint filed by Prosecuting Attorney Murphy this morning to the 100 typewritten pages | comprising the two writs filed | by defense attorney. ‘ | Wives Say Goodbye ‘ | The convicted men were taken | from the Marion county jafll im fast) automobiles to a siding. where the “dynamite special” wae in readi ness, Everything had been so] secretly planned that the party was on ite way before it was generally known that the transfer had been jmade, The route of the special jis cnrefully guarded, but it [known that no stops will ve made wept where it is necessary to! jehange train crews. Wives and |relatives of the union men bade! them farewell at the county jail, | | bringing fruit, candy and other } |dainties, The women bore up bravely. Although their eyes were |red from weeping, they forced! |Stniles and cheered their buabands THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1912. ONE CENT Dy United Press Leased Wire INDIANAPOLIS, Dec, 91.--Fear by United States Marshal Schmidt that an attempt would be made to blow up the special train carrying to Fort Leavy worth federal pris on the 33 un leaders convicted | | of conspiracy to wolawfully tranw port dynamite, and the filing of | writs of eax and error in passing of the “dynamite special” | | e Star. HOME EDITION “ _, [HOLDERS OF BRCADWAY | J) TRANSPERS Cwcren RANCHERS GREEN LAKE Wine rt SPECKLED TRANSFER MysT STANO On THRO pricks EAST OF TH post a Phe: * po ad N s (Loa Ve. ry) CV isees FIND JOKERS IN DEAL FOR RENTON LINE That the proposed partnership! agroement between the city and the bondholders of the Seattle, Renton & Southern, for the ownership of} thet ling, in merely a scheme a block municipal ownership, is the View expressed this morning by) Mayor Cotterti!, Counctiman Hes-| keth, Councilman Erickson and otn- er leading advocates of municipal ownership “I am going to fight the propor! tion to a Minish,” announced Erick son today “The partnership agreement in Tull of viclous jokers,” said Presi dent Heaketh of the council, “and I am most emphatically against it.” A resolution introduced by Coun ecliman Wardall Monday calls for the submission of the partnership lagreement to the people at the elec tion March 4. It was referred to the utilities and franchise committees, against C. A. Johnson, who held his| With predictions that the motion |40¢ this afternoon is being conetd. ¢-year-old son in hie arms and faced a wenger train on the tracks south of the King st. station Decem ber 3, In an attempt to end his own and his son's lives The boy was decupliated. The father was knocked off the track with a broken leg. Johnson's attempt at suicide grow out of trouble with his wife. He said after the tragedy that he hed nothing to live for and wanted to wished to name for a small bottle|take his boy with him, that he did | © interest the results of the/of the serum, and promised person-|50t want his boy to grow up in such jand three days monthly for those a world. He has been in the city hospital He will be removed to the county jail next week. BOY WOUNDED BY A CHINESE LAUNDRYMAN Harry Freeman, 19, who worka for Geo. Graham, coal dealer at Seventh av, and Columbia st., waa shot through the right leg at 10:80 this morning by Chin Tun, Chinese laundryman, after he had enraged the Chinaman by throwing coal at him. He was not seriously wounded. Freeman and George and Lewis Graham were sacking coa) at the elder Graham's yard, and, accord. ing to their own accounts, oc casionally throwing a chunk through the door of Charley Lee's laundry. The Chinaman ran out of his laundry with a revolver in his hand and fired once at Freeman, the bifilet taking effect in the upper part of his right leg. Freeman is in the city hospital and Chin Tun in the jail. SMALLEST N. Y. LOT IS SOLD NEW YORK, Dec, 41.—Perhaps the smallest and queerest shaped @t ever sold in New York ts t which the New Yorker Staats-Zel-| officers of the Hotel Worket tung has bought from Mutray Boo-|ion, Details of the plan are cock. fully guarded. Its smallest dimension is one tt ~—- foot; its largest seven feet and| INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. $1.--In- * | three-quarters of ah inch, The/dictments were returned against * | other sides are four feet, 10 inches|every director of the Cincinnati, wland five and one-half feet, The|Hamilton & Dayton railroad here Staats-Zletung is the owner of the|today by the Marion county grand *|remaining property to the east of|jury as a result of the recent the Edison building. The little}wreck at Irvington, a suburb of lot was transferred for a nominal consideration, jfor a new trial would be granted. | |. The men have not abandoned |hope of securing an appeal, and| seemed to find encouragement in |the light sentences imposed by | | Judge Anderson. They petated out! that the law regulating federal prisoners regarding good behavior would reduce their terms measur- |ably--seven days a month fur the under sentence of six and seven | |years, five days a month for thone [getting three and four year terme, sentenced to one and two years. M’MANIGAL TO BE LIBERATED? INDIANAPOLIB, Dec, 31—-Free- dom for Ortie B. McManigal, the self-confessed dynamiter, will be| his reward, it ie believed here to- day, for testimony against the union men convicted here for con- spiracy unlawfully to transport ex- plosives, Detective Malcolm Me- Laren of Los Angeles will leave for that city soon with McManigal. The exact time of the departure is kept secret, GUARD HELD FOR KILLING PRISONER SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 41.— t.arged with murder for shooting and killing Louis Mayntser, a drug fiend who escaped from a road gnng at the county jail Thursday, Deputy Sheriff Henry Dorgeloh Shortall here today and his case was set over until Thursday, when the coroner's inquest will be beld Dorgeloh declares he shot at the prisoner's feet, WAITERS TO STRIKE ON NEW YEAR'S EVE NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—A gener- al strike of walters in a dozen east erm cities just when the New Year's eve celebration ia starting, is the reported plan here today of leompany. His relatives are Tide tree was arraigned before Police Judge | py" by the former committee, which is composed of Councilmen Brickson, Hesketh, Goddard and Haan SANE ANSWERS TO FOOLISH QUESTIONS ore CAT Wubarh?—Mre, P. Nur Ask your husband Silk ja nice to wear ata summer * y for it resort, but wouldn't muslin be t when bear hunting? Particular Pogay Not best, but safest Mow can T wash out a long train?] —floetety Sarah. The railroad company will take| eare of that. My father has two brothers, of whom is mansger of t What relation when I am riding on on cars?—John W. He's your aunt, Bessie and I are in love with the same young man, but he gives all hits attention to her. 1 told him I would make him love me yet, and) he! bet me $100 I couldn't What} mall 40°—Lovenick Disguise yourself in man's cloth- ing and take Bessie to a dance. This will arouse the young man’s/ Jealousy and he will fight with you. In the first clinch, while you} are tightly clasped tn his arms, tel him who you are and demand payment of the wager. T have « list of the birthatones but do not know what stones stand for the various professions and trades, Can you give me a list?— The only ones we know are: Shoemakers—-The cobblestone, Soldiers—The flagstone. Jockeys—The curbstone. Ball players—The diamond, Locksmiths—The keystone. Married men—The grindstone, EXPLOSION OF tho engine set the gasoline tug Leonora on fire near Leschi Park Monday. She burned to the water's edge. THEY REALLY CELEBRATE, THESE FOLKS ‘They will celebrate New Year's eve in Black Diamond tonight emphasis, let us repeat, they will celebrate New Year's eve in Black Diamond For Joe Krause is going out of business. They will sing a song on Broad way. They will quaff a toast in "Frisco. In Seattle they will laugh and «ing the old year out. In other places they will hold the customary frolies. But— They will CELEBRATE in Black Diamond A sovereign people, overruling the bibulous inclinations of Black Diamond, decided lant November that, after January 1, there should be no saloons in unincorporated | ner 2. of thereabouts, City Utilities | towns in the state of Washington. Black Diamond is not incorporated. There {# one saloon in Black Dia mond—Joe Krause’s. Joe's place is & block Jong. Digging coal is thirsty work At stock into the street “Boys, help yourselves Sheriff Hodge has detailed Dep- midnight Joe will rush his He will say: uty Joe Hill and a couple of others! to be on hand when the crowd knocks the bungs out of Krause's barrels. WITNESSES TELL OF SIGHTS SEEN IN PEEP HOLES | By United Press Leased Wire LOS -ANGELES, Dec. 31-—The Eddie defense was expected today |to call more witnesses to testify re *\ garding the position of the peep holes in the door of Eddie's office, and the vision confronting a human eye applied to the outer side. Ac- cording to the defense counsel, wit nesses for the prosecution have tes- tified to incidents not plainly visible through the holes Eddie, who is charged with con tributing to the delinquency of Mrs. Alice Phelps, a minor, probably will take the stand before the end of the week. | WIRELESS SPANS ATLANTIC OCEAN By United Press Leased Wire WASHINGTON, Dee, 31 Catching a time signal flashed from the Biffel tower in Paris, nearly 3,900 miles distant, is the feat accomplished by the big wireless station at Ariing ton, Va, near here, according to information given out at the navy department today, BERKELEY, Cal, Dee. 31-—- Charged with passing 27 fraudulent checks, upon which he obtained about $400, Albert H. Moore, for- mer baseball umpire, is held here today for trial. “I intended to pay back all the money,” Moore told Justice of the Peace Robert Edgar, Qe ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee eee GETS SORE AT AUTO; machine to Peter Juric, a Gary overcoat, with a big fur overcoat. said Gormerly. The exchange vel elty, in which 16 persons were Seeeeeeeeee * of his bargain, Kame EERE GARY, Ind., Dec, 81.—Thomas Gormerly, a Gary liverman, disgusted because of his inability to start his auto, gave the Gormerly, stalled In the road for two hours without an overcoat, vainly trying to start his machine, noticed Juric “Give me that overcoat and I will give you this machine,” before the policeman got the auto to his home he was sorry ~~ * TRADES IT FOR COAT. policeman, in exchange for his was made in short order, and | data tietinteathatee tetiata ted RRR KKK ID you ever fall off a skyscraper’s D roof, And recall, as you wished you could stop, That it isn’t the falling that hurts one so much, the bump at the end of the drop? | * * * | ‘TRANSFER TROUBLES LAND SUPT. KEMPSTER BEFORE POLICE JUDGE Superintendent A. L. Kempster of the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co. was in police court this | morning. | For about a minute. | Then he turned around and walk- ed right out again. If he'd had a mind to, be could've |got himself “pinched.” If he'd @ wanted to, he could've been ar raigned before Police Judge Gordon But he wan't “pinched” and he wasn't “arraigned.” They kind of pected Kempster might step up to the desk sergeant at and get himself “booked.” headquarters You know, on Novem- Commissioner Valentine swore out a warrant against Kempster be- cause the Furth traction concern is violating & city ordinance and re- fuses to exchange transfers with (he | Loyal Heights line, which runs from Ballard to the north limits of town, They served a warrant on Kemp- |ster, but never “pinched” him This morning they thought he was going to surrender himself, get his name jotted down on the police book, put up some bail or bonds, step into police court, get “arraign- ed” and plead not guilty. Kempster had the company’s attorney, James B, Howe, with him But none of these things hap- pened at ail. Kempster and Howe briskly stepped ross the courtroom. Court was not In session. Walk- ed right into Judge Gordon's chambers, sald “Good morning” and “Happy New Year.” Didn't take up much time. Fixed it up for the arraignment and trial on January 9, said “Good-bye” and “So lon nd that was all there was to it. All of which doesn’t help us one bit to discover the exact point where when and how, and under what cir- cumstances street car transfers are | good and may be accepted by street car conductors, and where, when, how and under what clreumstances | they are not good. Maybe Vic's cartoon will help us locate the correct transfer points after this, and save a lot of frothy chatter with the cons as well ag extra nickels and the chances of landing on the pavement when wo argue the transfer question too heatedly on board the P. 8. T., L. & P. Co, cars. SOCIETY GIRL RUNS AWAY _ WITH CIRCUS ABBEYVILLE, La, Dec. 31— Three weeks after her mysterious disappearance on the eve of her ‘coming out” party, Miss Pearl Labelle, 18-year-old society girl of Eunice, a, was found with a cire ous, She was learning bareback riding and lofty tumbling. Hearing that her mother had lo- cated her, the girl hid in a stock car, where a policeman found her. HURT—BLAMES GALE Charlies Hart, 31, 321 Brown place, was struck by a Madison st. |cable car at Second av. and Mad- |ison st. at 11:45 Monday night and leut badly on the head and chest, | Hart was crossing Madison at the time, The storm was at {ts height. Bending over against the wind, his hearing confused by the strong | wind, partially blinded by the down- pour, he failed to see or hear the japproaching car. He was taken to | Seattle General hospital. 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