The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 18, 1913, Page 1

> WEATHER FORECAST FOR SEATTLE AND VICINPTY: PROBABLY FAIR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY; LIGHT NORTHERLY WINDS The Seattle Sta WRAP HER IN LACE CURTAINS And Haul Her Off to Jail on Big Dray CHAMPION EGG EATER LOSES Indigestion Overtakes Him at 17th RELL, Pa. June 18—(Special.)—Officers wae sought to arrest “Big Annie” Longweight on HOUSATONIC, Mans, June 1 (Specia f charge of disturbing the peace of her husband Louls Morris, champion fried egg eater of Berk found her in bed. The woman, who weigh® 850 shire, lost his firet wager in not being able to eat lunch car here unde, said ber clothes were hidden and defied 25 fried egge iri a contest at a num || —, the constables to take fer, They ute oes hays After eating 17 eggé Morris was attacked by acute i urtains, wrapped her In them and too _ Tr * - indigestion, and a physician worked over him for k oa OLA ii THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS ont an hour before he was restored to consciousness oe NO, 94° ATTLE, WASH JUNE 18, ONE CENT oh wi"itt.2%2 | EDITION , WEDNESDAY, 1913, —— GEN. CHITTENDEN THANKS THE STAR i To Editor of The Star: I want to thank you for the active and influential part you took in bringing about the result of yesterday's election. The vote is the people’s mandate to proceed with the harbor work under public control. Yours sincerly, GEN. H. M. CHITTENDEN. GRAND JURY GLOSSES OVER CHARGES: | INDICTS STAR FOR PRINTING GRANGE ——— WHERE TEAM AND MAN PROPOSITION “4” PLUNGED FROM BRIDGE ~ REPORT; OTHER For publishing the report of the Pomona grange, ty m furnisihng water EDITORS ACCUSED | — f to u fs being specially Te ee ee |which was largely responsible for the calling of the made for j grand jury, the editor of The Star was indicted for 80ARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS et | libel by the grand jury at 8:30 Tuesday night, when |. ,)%° Jur finds that on ——_———_——_ w4ae it finally adjourned, after being in session since May 5. the jury “com . Proposition 4, namely to Incres Proposlti on 5, which defined the pol | Bond in the sum of $1,000 was fixed by Judge "7,0" err \ ” Sion oor y the Chamber fey ¢ Se "een commission, | This |Renald and —— this morning, without the ap- anarig te pfcllgwing, wordy, the Jury sbontutely: ubstantiates the i was defeated by a vote of n 1, outlining the com \F . returned at the Kenzle.: af y to one in the port election Tuesday. At noon today, the complete 09 Proposition 2 a Wetory for the me ’ ive plan of harbor improve. was carried by a vote of 14, involving | Two other indictments were jsame time against three other editors, each of whom | is charged with criminal libel. ing that he had absconded with $1,000 of “socialist “The methods adopted by the board in the conduct of road work cannot entirely escape criticism. This fault, however, is due largely to the fact that there is a too apparent tendency of the THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY, AND iS ONE OF THE CAUSES ti — * 1 board of county commissioners to indulge in what might be termed for 271 precincts in the city Proposition 2, cancelling the id ; repo. |Qbbentes tends or the Sa i ‘log rolling.’ IT HAS BEEN, AND IS NOW, THE CUSTOM OF \ | owed only 3.227 votes for P opo 1,000 bonds tor the Harbor te A. J. and C. B. Blethen of the Seattle Tinies are) eg eee ee ae ie nes ta KAvon TE | Feesinet it. 000 for the Fast vane uae charged with libeling Joseph Jarvis, a member of the personAL OR POLITICAL FRIENDS IN THE MATTER OF Ey edhetion Gr & tee ee te ‘ , . intimat-. APPOINTMENT OF ROAD SUPERVISORS, FOREMEN AND The port elect! ut by a f 11,264 to 1,881 Hulet Wells’ faction of the socialist party, by intimat- APPOINTMENT OF ROAD SUPERVISORS, FOREMEN Ane uission, the Munic: nd issues, r ed a three-fifths t i 4 tits, Semmnerctal club vote. Both got more than a four change.” The article surmised that Jarvis may have FOR 4 GREAT DEAL OF BOTH JUST AND UNJUST CRITI. hy Tbe Star didates were to be elected, the port la matter of fact, Jarvis is in the city to contradict the, COUNTY, IN THAT THE MEN EMPLOYED ARE NOT ALWAYS neck All the other propositions were election Tuesday drew greater in. | t, y THE MOST EFFICIENT AND DO NOT GIVE THEIR BEST d by an overwhelming terest and brought out a larger publicly owned West tle number of voters than {n most sim- Merry, for which $200,000 in bonds {lar elections ‘are to be Issued, was carried in 271 Returns from the county precincts ’ te by a vote of 10,211 against are slow, but almost everywhere a big vote was registere against Proposition 4, which was made the center of the election battle. Ap even bigger victory was re eorded for municipal ownership on | embezzlement charge. | The Blethens were represented by Attorneys |Fulton and Kelleher in court this morning, who will prenes bail of $1,000 each. The third indictment was directed against Ed-| |ward Clayson, Sr., editor of the Patriarch, a weekly SERVICES TO THE COUNTY. Yet, In the wishy-washy mann wasted by Commissioner Hamilton ion that Commissioner Mc! sug! POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS TOO FREQUENTLY TAKE THE PLACE OF PROFICIENCY.” er exhibited through the report, the grand jury falls to state how many thousands of doliars have been and his working partners. Instead, It goes on to say that a “working agreement has been effected by Com- missioners Hamilton and Knudsen,” and then makes the astounding Kenzie should therefore resign, be- cause he was not working in harmony with the men whom the grand jury finds guilty of “log rolling, NORTH TRUNK ROAD AND PAVING CONTRACTS The grand jury severely scored the recent contract awarded to the Barber Asphalt Co. for paving the North Trunk road with two miles of brick and four miles of warrenite. The desire to favor war- | publication, who is charged with making an attack upon the moral fitness of Judge Ronald to sit on jeither the superior or federal court bench. Clayson |appeared personally before Judge Ronald this morn- jing, and was allowed cae ane —- 1 al a fake. instead of making {t brick paving throughout, is strongty critt . Hi was to Judge in- | suT— \toah’s ae aga | 2 Per ome reser Se blame Is placed upon Commissioner Knudeen |, “I don't know what the indictment charges,” | ‘commenced because of tris’ paving contract. "Yet not one word It said Judge Ronald to Clayson, “but if it-is-for libeling | s2/¢ against Commissioner Hamilton, who voted with Knudsen in favor A | of warrenite. McKenzie was the only commissioner who objected to ‘me, I am sorry for you. I will transfer your care to the warrenite and insisted upon brick throughout. MON-MILITANTS NO DISCORD ON J ON LONG WALK WILSON'S PLAN vane i ' TONDON, June 18—A monster oss mained) siti Neils are planned by — if ae Ripert - WASHINGTON, June 1 im waftragets began thie morn-| ing nis established custom of talking a ed by Giband, |, the newspaper men only at cer ‘ - r prea’ | 4 puce suffragets left Newcastle tain periods, President Wilson call- Judge Mackintosh, who will give you a square deal.” |ExHUMING AND CREMATION OF PAUPER DEAD fon fost to walk to London, spread- ed the correspondents to hin office r A * a MET atc sgs ce sate faa otaee maThe asia: to.satute The grand jury substantiates practically The grand jury finds that no, bids were called for the contract to . ~ exhume and cremate the county dead. It finds the county. failed to 1 f_ detachments are to start reports that the democratic leaders every charge made by Star to the effect that the jeep n check on the count of the number of bodies delivered by HL. S t parts of England 4 ed in ard te ° red loss vo de or lton's t ¥ in the week all converging in Tency reform program county has suffe the of thousands of dollars i eit ane JB iseryr ‘the pine ck et tthe: Sone ke ile a He said that Secretary of the by the unbusinesslike, extravagant, and inefficient a, BUT—The jury fails to state why Hamilton and Rutherford met ities wen es Legler Geiabhcce tad weneantatative Geass methods of the county administration. But for some in private jon, without notifying McKenzie, when this contract w : en red , a 4 ; . et. An eports that “no criticism can be made of the in range their vacations so as to Of Virginia, who are in charge of the mysterious reason, however, the wording of the T@- | which Noice obtained the contract.” The grand jury then go: 75 to is ern pg re a Se en ees port shows a decided effort to gloss over many of put the whole blame on one little county employe, G. B. Arnold, who, > it appears, mation. NEW COURTHOUSE The grand jury have already decided in the re THE PORT COMMISSION The jury finds that “A PROMINENT BUSINESS MAN OF SEAT- TLE INTERVIEWED SAID ROBERT BRIDGES, AND DURING A PERIOD OF SOME 30 OR 45 MINUTES URGED SAID ROBERT Tia préabdek’.onit: bie daeesnge t6 should have counted the number of bodies brought for cre- congress and a draft of the curren cy bill would be presented Monday THEY'LL GO HOME these facts and an apparent desire is shown to soften the criticism against Commissioner Hamilton, in par- ticular. In a similar way, the grand jury goes over the bribery charges made by Bob Hridges. [t admits that a prominent business man asked Aridges to change his attitude on the Ayers fake, saying “there will be money In tt for you (meaning Bridges) and for the rest of us, too.” Yet the grand jury, for some reason, didn't mention the name of this “prominent cities and towns visited are ex ted to ald the cause in every 7 possible MNK KILLS TWO substantiates what nt trial Judges Smith and Albertson BAUFPALO, N. Y., June 18—En-| CHARLESTON, W. Va., June 18 business man | AGREEMENT.” Tweet “tis cekaacir va edi aved tothe anne dge f Fred Ludeke and Fireman Chiefly as a result of the clash The grand jury dismisses charges of police graft, bribery of milk in-| Hae E NE wilt BE MONEY IN TT FOR YOU (cent og iriieet j fam Froelich are dead here to- botwoen’ Senator Martine of New spectora, the alleged fraud on Proposition A and several other minor | Wt“ TRERE Wh ie ): Cmeening Srieae | oe Sijall boy wanted to Jersey and Quinn Morton, mans charges, ax not being of sufficient importance to take up the time of | ANO FOR EST OF US, TOO. would Dpe f ¢ . ‘ ury, and P ting atto: — Ses the throne ne pes — r of the Paint Creek Operators the grand jury oe these charges are referred to the prosecuting attor The jury fails to name who this “prominent business man” is, and, | association, which nearly ended in ney for investigation furthermore, goes on to excuse him, as follows: he ied t : a fist fight, the United States sen However, the grand jury takes up the courthouse scandal, which | “The prominent busin man explains that. hi | al pound ere’ New York Cen- ate mine strike committee decided has already been thoroughly aired in the courts, and finde that the court| iy... te fre Ucecral prosmerity which might ne eeeied Soa } em house, climbed Into a today to transfer {ts hearings to right In concluding that there was something wrong in the Gould [cer °° & na te ee “eh ie th pele hea es to the whole of ie throeeh tha yards eageneine | Washington | contract and the $950,000 bond issue election. 9 Ys - Bridges In particular. gg ee a “ m Senators Swanson, Kenyon and| ROADS } | , dark CORE treien: trai. rashing into & Martine will leave tonight for The first matter discussed in the report is the matter of roads, The | a el ke was instant- Washington, where the investiga grand jury could not find any traces of graft in the purchase of road } 50 ” Toelich died a short tion will be completed | machinery. The report offers the opinion that the King county roads, | | at sa 8. Tal mine operators were ex-| when completed, will form the best system of good rdads that can be] { found anywhere en the Pacific coast BUT. The report admits that it was Impossible to find out Just how much these permanent graveled roads cost per mile, and that “mistakes have been made in the beginning of the work,” and that mew plans for vari. ed today All asserted that | the war In the mining districts was i caused by attempts ‘to unionize the miners, and that the mine| BY GRAND JURY'S INDICTMENT “I am astounded by the action of )ed on if for months, and the figures | necessary to system wan 7 ft ; t the situation ous routes have met with the criticism of many farmers. And the re-|the grand jury in indicting the ed- | we gave The Star we obtained from » PIERR Island of Mar. port also {tod of for publishing our the county auditor. The jury Re, June » earth MINNEAPOLIS June 18.—| “The nt roads which have been and are now being con-| report,” said Secretary Cotterill of |didn’t call any of our witnesses, hock sh sland to-| Frank Kinnsk, a fireman. dead | latructed in the South district are nearly all in the extreme south end the Pomona Grange investigating |and I at a loss to under d | , is re-/and seven others are seriously, pos-| of the district, while the trunk roads just outside of the city limits are committee today. “We gave The|by what means they artived at : n v en |siblty fatally, injured today through | AMONG THE POOREST ROADS IN THE COUNTY, and in the out our report after we had work-| their conclusion.” epee Mt Lerupt- being caught under a falling wall skirts of the city of Seattle the streets that connect with the main coun = Tr ee ew years ago, resulting in when the north high school bulld- ty roads are {n a deplorable condition.” | ytd life. No casualties ing burned early today. The loss THE CLAPP SITE ] SHOULD eect Feported to will reach $350,000. The grand jury would gladly indict J. M. Clapp and A. Bystrom ' Pd nd offi former confidential employe in the state the report says ters from people who have gotten The Star’s tafety razor, telling us how well they like it. This razor is a really high class one, one that would probably cost you, if you bought it in the regular retail way, at least $2.50. But | William Davis, a teamster em ployed by the Zickman coal and wood yard, 20th and Madison et., |was thrown from the Madison st jailing. bridge when a runaway street car under the arrangement which The Star has ED ata Ay fell 80 deat ta ine made you get it absolutely free with a year’s Pee en bl rec i oe subscription, at the regular price of $3.25. You le iz a a Dariean te prapl fan also get this razor with three and six. (1) (106 ie tise tek ahi months’ subscriptions at a small additional ee orate erie cost. See the large display ad which appears tae ie Gene ae saat ecntie today on page 2, for full and complete details it, Davis, ou tho seit Mas pene of this generous offer. | hondlong over the rail of the | The impetus of the car, after its Wirace dowa the uill, forced the Where Driver William Davis was hurled 60 feet from the Madison . bridge when a runaway car hit his team and drove it through the THE CLERICUS SITE The grand jury 1s unable to find that S. H. Parbee paid any of the! 000 which he made on the Clericus docksite deal “for assistance or influence” to put over the deal with the county commissioners. It mild apy ly refers to the fact that the Clericus site was needed because the C! horses through the rail, aplintering | dockaite was found inadequate by itself, Barbee, the report says, paid {t, The animals hung tn the bar-| gi 990 to the man who loaned him the money, and apparently made a| ny United Prose Leased Wire ness in midair when the wagon] prot of $4,000 himself GLENDALE, Ore, June 18 jammed againat the pole, As the BUT—The grand jury falls to say why Commissioners Hamilton | still presumably roaming the wilds horses were strangling, the #trap®! ang Rutherford held a private session on October 26, 1912, when thelof the Cow Creek country west of were cut, and the horses dropped | Clericus deal with Barbee was negotiated, It fails to say why Commis: here, Raymond Diamond, the youth Davis, falling close beside | sioner McKenzie was not notified of the meeting or of the deal Fur-|who robbed the Glendale State him |thermore, the grand jury misstates the fact when it says that Barbee bank in broad daylight and fled One, a bay, lay screaming hu-| gold the Clericus site to King county for $15,000 “only a few days after|into the mountains with nearly manly in agony until some one| he purchased It from Mrs. Clericus for $10,000." $3,000, is today alone in the h from the bridge put it out of tts| The fact is, and the records of King county prove it, that Barbee |the pursuing — p having been misery with a revolver shot. Th@| made the $5,000 rake-off from King county the. very same day called in late last night by Sheriff other, a white, staggered under the} , that he bought the property from Mrs, Clericus.” Th Quine, dn the pleadings of Repre bridge, and dropped dead |jury has nothing to say why the county did not negotiate for the prop-|sentative J. K. Howard, of Glen Dr. 8. D. Coffin was driving bis! erty directly with Mrs. Clericus. The grand jury failed to clear up the|dale, vice president of the bank automobtle a few feet ahead of the} 35,000 mystery Howard declares no steps will be team, narrowly escaping being! Gower DOCKSITES taken to prosecute the young man Swept OF tae Biche, ‘when, Sis Tho grand jury devotes @ few Ines to two other docksites with|because he believes he is de ra Beane ped oar. a bp which no charges of graft have been connected mented 8, 10 was conscious and : in great pain, until an ambulance] FURNISHING WATER TO COUNTY HOSPITAL AND FARM Hank O'Day's experience in Cin took him to the Seattle General The grand jury finda that Commissioner Hamilton has not been an!cinnati indicates that e are hospital, Me may die. officer or stockholder of the Georgetown Water Co. since 1906, and that worse jobs than umpiring to be had, Frar arce Was formerly in the clothing business in the Arctic club building, but recently moved to Ronan, Montana. The family was on ip through the Flathead Indian reservation, and, finding the ferry out of commission, attempted to cross the river in a boat J, P. Scearce, brother of the sur: vivor, is a member of the Metz Mo- tor Car‘ Co, of this city SAVANNAH, Te June 18.— Lightning struck a pttehfork in the hands of George Dowdy, a farm- er, who stood on top of a load of hay, burned the gloves off his hands, tore the ¢rown o his hat and his left shoe from his foot, but did not ire him in the least cost of a course In bookkeeping wrthand at Hyatt-Fowells Is than at the ordinary business It is worth more.—Ady, re there were a law to punish those who take advantage of knowled gained from holding official positions, The Clapp docksite was negotiat THREE DROWN Th St 9 F ed at a profit of $65,000 by Clapp, the county paying $87,400 for it Clapp got hold of the site when he was in the government service, but bi 4 i e€ ar ) ree tan he acquired clear legal title till after the county deal was en % ae Frank Scearce, her younger : upon. The report states that Bystrom was given $11,000 by Clapp son, James, and her brother, Henr j lthat another $11,000 had gone to some other party whom the grand jury eradortt, former i a ety aZOor tS) }could not discover, The Clapp site !s considered by the jury satis: | drowned whil a i factory, and the price paid by the county as reasonable. \ ; Fl thead river in Ciel, ° e | But the report says nothing whatever about why the Clapp site was| according to word received ll selected by Commissioners Hamilton and Rutherford in preference to ‘ ap ay Sr e, the ving acisraction other sites which were offered at a lower rate than the Clapp site. iti And get a grand jury husband was the only one saved | has nothing to say why the Clapp site was bought at 85 cents per square called and then get in- Pra e' Srey posers is 4 Alread eae : foot when another site, with greater water frontage, was offered at 62) <° : till ving in Ballard, but, efforts ly we are beginning to receive let- cents, | dicted by it. of her friends to find her this morn- n ailing