The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 19, 1913, Page 1

KFO é is in 4 arance » nt &* ting r Su, , thou ing a mt Sat desig S$ an, -2¢ 15¢ n La ed narh the v Balm pats com nd 3 in # nade per ° Commissioner Knudsen voted for warrenite and the grand jury says he should be recalled. McKenzie voted against: warrenite and the grand jury says he WEATHER FORECAST FOR SEATTLE AND VICINITY: PROBABLY F OLD DAD SEATTLE !s digging down in hia jeans with fine good will to finance the coming National Confer ¢ of Charities and Corrections. committee from the Already & spe Rotary club has raised 500 from business firms and individuals. Subscrip # should be made payable to G. K. Betts. can Savings Bank and Trust Company VOLUME NO. 95 18 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1913 STAR READY FOR A Aside from the amusing feature of the grand jury’s indictment of The Star, which newspaper was | largely responsible for bringing that jury into existence, there is another side. The Star advocated the | calling of the grand jury only after long deliberation, and only after numerous honest and reliable citi- | zens had urged it upon The Star as its plain duty. The Star was informed months ago that King county farmers, through their organization, the Po- mona Grange, were making a thorough investigation of road building. The Star printed the findings of these investigators in the best of faith and for the sole purpose of protecting the interests of the people. Even the wishy-washy censure of official waste and official negligence and incompetency contained in | the jury’s report justifies The Star’s course, and convinces the people that things needed an investigation. | The grand jury substantiates The Star when it finds that the “log rolling system” and “pork barrel methods” of the county commissioners, and the favoritism shown to political friends and personal friends, | CAN YoU BEAT IT? LOVE COMES The grand jury admits there was something wrong in the Clapp dock- site deal. County Commissioners Lafe Hamilton and Al Rutherford put that deal through. Commissioner McKenzie protested against it. YET THE GRAND JURY RECOMMENDS THAT M'KENZIE SHOULD RESIGN BECAUSE HE WAS NOT WORKING IN HARMONY WITH THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CLAPP DEAL. The grand jury substantiates the charge made by McKenzie and The Star, that S. H. Barbee made $5,000 rake-off on the Clericus docksite deal, and that the county was stung in that amount. Who was respo- sible for this bit of loose business? Commissioners Hamilton and Ruther- ford. YET THE GRAND JURY RECOMMENDS THAT M’KENZIE SHOULD RESIGN BECAUSF. HE DIDN’T AGREE WITH THE MEN WHO ARE TO BLAME FOR LETTING THE COUNTY GET STUNG The grand jury confirms McKenzie’s charges that personal and politi- cal friends were put on the public payroll to the detriment of the county, causing “expensive waste” on King county roads; that “political considera- tions too frequently took the place of proficiency.” Who were responsible for this “expensive waste’? Who played fav- oritism? Commissioners Hamilton and Rutherford, and to some extent Rutherford’s successor, Knudsen. pcKenale: fought them and exposed this loose management of King county affairs. YET THE GRAND JURY ADVISES M’KENZIE TO RESIGN. . oe ee The grand jury bitterly scores the contract to the Barber Asphalt because warrenite paving was specified. County Commissioners Hamilton and Knudsen voted for that contract. McKenzie alone voted Pr pe earn ey: YET THE GRAND JURY RECOMMENDS M’KENZIE SHOULD RE- Pereira eee SIGN BECAUSE HE DIDN’T WORK IN HARMONY WITH HAMILTON tie cottaxe i: ( Park, ( and AND KNUDSEN. : tak big Ulty oe For 18 years (the same 18) FA Th d j bstantiates the charges made by McKenzie and The Parker, formerly of Barnesville Star that i anaes sure was not left to public bids, and that Hamil. (3. ‘lt succossfully i slooded ton’s friend, Noice, secured this fat job. It finds that no check-off of any estate Eighteen years ago Mrs, Parker sort was kept on the number of bodies cremated. Who was it that met in private session to put this deal over? Commissioners Hamilton and Ruth- d. Wh d it? Comm mer McKenzie. orforvET THE GRAND JURY TELLS M’KENZIE TO RESIGN BE- CAUSE HE DOESN’T WORK IN HARMONY WITH THE OTHER COM. MISSIONERS. The grand jury finds that Architect Gould wrote his own contract for | COLORADO SPRINGS, June 19./ building the new court house and that Commissioners Hamilton and Ruth- ah driver ca th el dpRahea erford accepted it without consulting the prosecuting attorney or other- The Liberty of the Press,” by wise acting in a businesslike manner regarding it. The jury finds this little | ited Staten Diatrict Judge Smith piece of business “will cost King county thousands of dollars of needless {1 eit: National Prewn Associatior expense.” THE GRAND JURY RECOMMENDS THAT COMMISSIONER | 1!" 28rer tx part follows: M'KENZIE SHOULD RESIGN, AND YET M’KENZIE ALONE REFUSED |e cannot command reapect by be TO SWALLOW THE GOULD BRICK. , |coming a recluse, or by wearing a |ailk hat, or a morning coat or a |white tle or by speaking In gut . Pra: . i j tural tones. To say he should be Of all the insane, asinine, superlatively silly suggestions ever made, the [iim tenes Te ay se et oe grand jury takes the bacon when it recommends that McKenzie should | resign because he didn’t work in harmony with the other commissioners, | and didn’t agree to the several things that the jury itself condemns. WILL M’KENZIE RESIGN? HE SAYS EMPHATICALLY “NO.” HE WILL GO RIGHT ON LIKE AN HONEST OFFICIAL, 1RY- ING TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE’S INTERESTS. _| “1am rendy at this time to repent OR | the assertion tt people did not ES -G JU s trict,” sald Fred Ne one of the CHICAGO, June 19.—A erusade| investigators for th Pomona The old morning paper hen that cackled and screeched so much nat organized was start-| gr We have Je our tt about the Clapp docksite deal now admits that deal was only a little ed here today when the Building gation with tho ' wid “loose end.” My, my! Such a confession of yellowness, such @ frank Construction Employers’ associa-|{t 1s based upon official records and admission of having tried to “rouse the rabble.” thor t noon ordered a lockout | documer We advised the grand —_—_—_ against 20,000 workers employed | jury t evidence certain wi It appears that The Star's good newspaper friends are mighty well on $0,000,000 worth of buildings. | nesses could produce. THOSE WIT: pleased with the outcome of the grand jury. Well, 80 long as they are) A dozen skyscrapers are affected. | NESSES WERE NEVER CALLED, | T ~ - happy, we should worry a lot and build a jail on It. Employ tomor Wonder why the other newspapers are now so eager to give The Star the full credit for securing the call of the grand jury? aid that b onist fr row eve un the city And while we're killing off a few harbor steals, “rousing ‘he rab. would be locked out A TIP FROM JOHN D.! P ia Indie i circulation getting a grand jury called, getting indicted by it, Star TOWN, 3 Peel oe 8 in climbing and climbing. Sure thing! We should worry two TARRY ow N, y. , June 19— | er three tate ber 1 started with leas than that —_—- sald John D. Rockefeller, as he An afternoon paper, dissatisfied with the grand jury, suggests that | gave a quarter to each of two little another one be called. Go to it, brother, and good luck firls who greeted him when leaving | chureh auce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Grand jury <nudsen for voting for warrenite paving for North Trunk STORK INVADES CHURCH pt} any shouldn't Hamilton also be recalied? It was Hamilton NE YORK, June 13.—Rev who made the motion to favot warrenite paving. Knudsen, in koéping 4 Arthur T. Brooks, pastor of Tarry his “working agreement” with Hamilton, seconded the motion Mec town Baptist church, yesterday an Kenzie voted against it nounced from his pulpit. the ar ° - — rival of Arthur, jr, the first child Commissioner Knudsen, who has Seen a victim rather than a prin born to a minister of that church cipal in the county mess, tays he will not resign on the grand jury’s| i in 60 years request. Now, Knudsen, you know you have only one more thing to go, Like a raisin and go on a NEE i senor teres Get right with the people. Break off your old agreements and be a real! bun, Be ado ciiae Lue tte: pulse public official. a” The Seattle Sta THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS TWILIGHT OF TWO LIVES MRS, PARKER AND HER HOME, LITTLE OLD LADY WAITS YEARS TO SEE LOVER OF HER GIRLHOOD RETURNING HERE IS A JUDGE WHO TALKS SENSE INVESTIGATOR FOR GRANGE STANDS PAT KILLED Isn’t It an Odd World? Commissioner Oh, very well! hould resign. AIR TONIGHT AND FRIDAY; MODERATE WESTERLY WINDS KNOWS A 904 thing when it sees it SEAT for nstance, are such a good thing f Charities and Ce tlor sto the city. They ¢ costers ference rrec This is one a tions of various kinds that will during the pres year HOME EDITION ON TRAINS AND NUWK STANDS, te FINISH FIGHT have produced an “expensive waste” of the public funds and have minimized the efficiency of the public work. The grand jury did not have the backbone, for some reason or another, to name Hamilton as the man who is most guilty of “log-rolling” and ‘pork barrel” methods, and pushing political and personal friends on the public payroll regardless of their efficiency. BUT THE STAR DOES NAME HIM. HE IS “LAFE” HAMILTON, COUNTY COMMISSIONER We FROM THE SOUTH DISTRICT. And while the gang chuckles now, we remember that we have heard the same chuckles before. recall hearing them during the first few rounds in our year’s battle with the Hanford crowd, and we are mindful of that good old saying that “he who laughs last, laughs best.” Seriously, The Star, in this affair, stands where it has always stood, as the people’s newspaper. for the people, AND THE STAR STANDS STRAIGHT UP, READY FOR A FINISH FIGHT. ‘IS WALLOPED: PANIC NIPPED ‘Here Are Full Details of Plot That Was Intended to Make This First | Week of Big Depression in Busi- | ness. ONE CENT By David Gibson (Editor Bank Notes Magazine) A money panic, carefully planned by Wali beside which 1893 or 1907 would have seemed pros been nipped in the bud, The panic, well under way, stopped when Secretary of the Treas ury McAdoo, acting with full approval of President Wilson, announced that the United States treasury was prepared to loan country banks $500,000,000 to paralyze the Wall street gamblers. The money trust Inquiry presumably will be reopened, and there will be no bankers’ | feast on ti carcasses of the dead businesses. There positively no doubt that Wall street deliber: out a panic to throw some of its enemies into bankruptcy, tariff and currency reform a black eye. For three months pai¢ repre sentatives of New York banks have been traveling around the country, spreading alarm among bankers and dropping hints to companions im Yuxurious Pullmans. Trust-owned newspapers have been following {them up and seconding the motion by announcing a coming shortage of money and a country-wide stagnation of business to result. | All this time prosperity was on a sounder basis than ever before— |crops, steel production and exports had broken all records. bankers, and rous times, has WHERE SHE WAITED 18YEARS FOR HER HUSBAND and her husband agreed to dis “Howdye,” he stammered. The stock market refused to respond. Wall street sulked, then agree. Eleven years of married “Howdye, Mr. Parker,” she Te | planned a panic. It sent forth its agents to scare business men. Then {fe had demonstrated that they | plied, quite calmly it began to hoard gold until the money market was almost cornered. could not be happy together—or #0) Mra. Parker's hair was gray, and | ew York banks announced that money was scarce. At the same time they thought, at least seed rgd Np ge in her {ac their vaults were bulging. ; They separated that had not been there 18 years One of the loudest of the howlers had reduced Its loans She went her way and he went ako. Mr. Parker's hair and beard | creased its deposits by weakening securities, until it had jeoreeta tee his had grown white, But that 100K | gtock of money nearly $20,000,000. Recently they met for the first|into each other's eyes took no ac The bankers began to refuse loans, ‘Their allies in other big cities tine since thelr separation. Com-| count of years. It set an oid ache | forwarded them. There was a shortage of credit, but no shortage of ing to Atlanta from Jacksonville, athrob in the heart of ench of/ money, Country banks and business concerns all over the country Fla, on business, he entered an of-|them. couldn't get money. A great Western ralroad, with over 7,000 miles of fice, and there she sat. Their eyes| Mr. Parker sat down beside her | tracks, was thrown into bankruptcy because Wall street refused to loam met and she made room for bim as it $3,500,000, a loan that this road had often floated without difficulty, —_——___—__——_| Semurely as she did in the days of uch was the situation on last Friday, the 13th. It threatened to their courting, in Barnesville, Ga., he a second Black Friday !n the New York stock exchange, A panie long ago started. The stock market was almost in chaos. New York securities He accompanied her home on tho lread reached lower pric th: 1 o 907 Geciey Coe ee a nich too | Bac alivady: eae wer prices than during the panic of 1907. Three weeks of this would mean bread lines, factories closing down and flower gardens and then sent him hanks suspending payment of deposits. back to town. Next day he called Then came the official announcement that the bankers no longer again had to look to Wall street. The United States this year would, if nec The neighbors were interested. ossary sue up to $500,000,000 in emergency currency under the Ald- much to the credit of a man to have| Some old sweetheart.” they, toll rich.Vreeland act to 1 any crisis. said of him that he is ho h other with smiles and nods. This meant a federal war against Wall street. There was ro need “We ate free in discussing the Pare we ad astounded when Mrs. of the money after it was offered. One threat was enough. president of the U. 8 80 should /¥! er feo rod ed him among New York banks suddenly found millions and dumped them on the we be In discussing the courts. |” re! a Ww days later “ loan market, the high call loan rate dropping from 3 to 1/9 per cent ip Such ecriticiam is helpful rather t's Mr. Parker.” said she, “my | a few hours. One New York bank reduced its rates for time money, ob a. We've agreed to agree fered to lend freely of its surplus reserve of $28,000,000, and in one day bought $7,000,000 worth of commercial paper. The day before thie her agata harder) bank had been the loudest calamity howler about a money shortage. than harmful “Some courts in the past have un: er dertaken to punish newspapers be, / had to court cause of articles criticising the than! did t irst time,” Mr. Par. WALL STREET HAS BEEN GIVEN A TERRIFIC BEATING, AND courts, That practice i now vir- (wt declared before they left on| THE PANIC HAS GONE ON OVER OUR HEADS LIKE A BLACK tually obsolete, No judge ever yet ‘eir, honeymoon : CLOUD, PROBABLY FOR GOOD. maintained his dignity by bringing |. in Onan 4 spent the win oe —_———— — an editor before his court and pun mau ati xe a, but she ways we Ishing him because of animad- Us) make this our summer home ND ENE versions through the columns of a *° She can look after the flowers.” 9 e newapaper.” "AYERS NOW SAYS HE ALS h REL. “WILL COMPROMISE Ah, our genial young friend from) commission's partner tn managing — |New York, R. F. Ayers, is again! the leasing of the wharves and ter- Ps t and the jury now comes forth with nited Press Leased Wire +_/minals, ete. the amazing statement that 1t was| LONDON, June 19—Emulating|With us. You remember him! He's) tion “Attorney Preston's recom: {mpossible to find out the coat of|the feat which cost Miss Emily |that Napoleon of finance who, in| mendation, Ayers’ offer wae post- the graveled roads per mile.’ The Davison her life during the running |the br band language of certain poned by the commission for future grand jury in one breath, con Sb Sh ile Teun me newspape to make us all Consideration demna the methods that controlled | 5" get, during he running of| ~ a road building under Commissioner|the Gold Cup race at Ascot today, prdeperous once upon a time. iamtiton and he next breath|@ttempted to stop August Belmont's| Ayers, you know, Is president of the | backs up and shows an unuaual] horse, ry, while he was head-| Pacific Terminals Co. ncorporated | ° ° eagerness to let him down easy.”* |{ne# Held. The man was knock.|—sneorporated for $500. | e Big-Little publication by The Star of/@4 down and Killed | Wen, Ayers has been saying range committee's report was|, Despite the efforts of spectators|some mean. things about us for to stop him, the suffraget ran in|turning him down—at least, that |front of Tracery, waving his arms,|Was the report. He was to bring ——|!n one hand a revolver and nthe sult to tle up our harbor develoy- | other a suffraget flag. Just as the |ment, and predictions of dite calam- horse struck him he cried ‘ont |itles to befall us were made freely. something about Miss Davison and |and often | went down in a heap under the} But, ho! What's this? horse's hoofs. | Ayers visited the port isible for the grand jury's in t against The Star. Paper Full of Good Things 2 p dictme Some big league snap- commis jot pictures, are looking for a man wearing a tbs |sion Wednesday. PAGE &—Pity our Seattle mile union sult, a new straw hat and | Did he storm? Was he, furfous? lionaires. nothing else, reported hovering ANY OF IT YOURS Did he fume, and. bluff, and blus- | PAGE 4—A blind girl, prey of about the North side | ter? white slavers. - | @ | No. Ayers is polished young [| PAGE 5-—Some entertaining SMATTER, MA! With two tons of gold bultion,|™man, and his language and demean hints on the making of a WOOLSTON, Mass., Juno 19—|¥alued at $780,000, the steamer |Or were entirely according te ys Snatching a dynamite cap from her| Humboldt is here to unload the | Hoyle PAGE 6—A sane woman patient baby's mouth, Mrs. Daniel Holmes! frat consignment of yellow metal| Ayers xently suggested that the at Steilacoom, Béalt tella you aceldentally hit tt on a nail and {of the season. The gold came from {Port commission and he shoul! per story Shier ult deen taneen Fairbanks, Circle and. Dawesn (compromise, He held a valid conf PAGE 7—The problem of POISONED BY ROSE Most of it belongs to the Guggen.|tract With the port, he said, and so eugenic marriage hits New “ hetm syndicate, which operates the |What's the use of dey) : York's East Side. akan fable 4 He hg | Ay said he wouldn't insist on 32 S—The man who NEWARK, 0,, June 19—Jose-| ~U%o! Geld Mining Company [the original loeation on Harbor rin Kinemaoclon a phine Burg, fourteen, liked the} SMMILANNUAL CONCERT wasteland, and was willing to shift the . mell of a rose so well she tried to|given by tke Seattle Choral asso. terminal location to some other | eat It, Doctors saved her from|ciation in the auditorium of the {portion of the island adjacent to the | The largest element in the growth of jdeath from bug poison which had! First Methodist church last night, | publicly owned wharves to be built, | [Yatlr Miceectte ue ies Tae endorsement of its sew been sprinkled on the rose bush. A big audience attended, (au he wanted was to act as the!imore wan 2,600 ex-studente.—ady °