The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 11, 1914, Page 1

PROMINENT SEATTLE ATTORNEY WRITES ON THE INJUSTICE OF THE LAW By Sil H. ine i * criminal, and he will learn some of aniaitng th He will feel the degradat } self-respect, The amelia of pri dirt will tarnish bia whole life ne will #tifle the things they knows of jatl Ife eating away hin hin good Intentions, Its vense © THIS GREATEST OF AMERICAN I have shown how innocent men are outraged and ME WILL PAY OZAR POR ruined ment, if they happen to be poor, CRIMES—THE CRIME OF HAVING NO MONEY The unfairness grows when the poor man ts actually The man of small means may of our criminal laws tx only waitin At his trial he needs a la thrown into a panic at his arr up his re measures his fee, not by the amount of work to be done, traffic will bear.” Th man the exper Before he hears the dron| to trial and the scope of that er net for unfairness gathering into man of small means, the man who t himself above that nstant necessity, which forced throws out a | {te meshes th saves, the br vietina, an who has ker nakes sted he may pur iving bonds. If he ha money and friends he will eseape the ordeal of waiting in jail, If he has none of these, he will spend his days and weeks behind bars in the same cell, or same corridor with those finished gradua' . n of official injustice whom society terms the hardened JH. Perry | some cases he Will need ex} mare s of witnesses from d urces, takes account of excape thin outrage but the injunttes wyer. Ignorant of courts, he is eat. The lawyer shrewdly sizes his fears and usually gravity of the charge nor the but by the mere rule of “all the vert testimony, He may have to pay istant towns ing clerk read the words “not guilty” his meager savings, his little home, his small busi iness has paid remorseless tribute to the Law's blundering,' 100,000 MEN DAILY TO cruel and senseless efforts to vindicate itself ro: DO LEC \ND It he had been guilty of @ misdemeanor money would have pur-| 4 ‘av AND CRIPPLE» chaned fr n, and for the poor man who is guilty, the law by Ite Wet your wats tails and velo for tha 7 delays and inequalities adds many times to the nalties which it re-!4¢ has exacted from {ts own citizen ¢ ENFORCI quires from its more fortunate ela LAW It is even a crime to see a crime—if a man is eae ; teas Ao siete ® - a \ poor, The innocent by-stander is often dragged in as The Government of State can do wrong. They do commit mar a witness. If he is unable to give bond he is held in wrone BECAUBE it ts adn tered on t h HUMAN jail, paying the same pe geography which the crimi he has money he retains hi which jails him \fter the trial he is given fee, in most states for one d PODAY THI bis Hberty and paid a wittess MENT APPLY THE GOLDEN GOVERNMENT IS nalties for his accidental AGENCIE nal pays for his crime. If Let the law require the government or state to s liberty. It is his poverty be just as responsible to its citizens as it requires its citizens to be to it. LET THE GOVERN- RULE ITSELF. It PAYING NEARLY will be no longer a LAWLESS GOVERNMENT, but 10 TO\a GOVERNMENT OF LAW AND JUSTICE. TAND READY TO FAIR TONIGHT; |: gnnsnUtnNddtUUOUUUANNENEOUUNAANOENEEUOOUANAn AEE Ht More Than 43,500 Paid Copies Daily | STAN ONAL AHI STUAUANUNNNLOUUUUNNNUUOUANNNNUOLOGNOOUONNOGNOUOOGNUOOOOD VOLUME 16, MAN FOR A DAY NO. 13. a boy, of ® man ong men for a while e “dolled up” fh story of "A Man f dressed up as & man and went man efit from head to She relates for Star reade By Eva Turgeon Denied that great privilege in life, I have al live among themselves. I wanted to see what I used to wish I had been born a boy ways wanted t -e how men live—really : enjoyment they got out of smoking, and playing men's games, that are forbidden to women After I read the story of the girl who did the trick in fiction, I decided a real, enough Seattle girl could do it just as well as the imaginary girl : Getting the clothes was a problem, but I finally induced a y friend of mine to borrow a suit from Shafer Bros. And with a nifty hat, white collar oe tie, and an overcoat, I sure- sailed out of my room, feeling very fearfully A MAN! I nearly lost my nerve right at the start. It seemed to me that every one on the street could see right through my sguise I got Second and Union before my. stage fright left me. Then it was sailing Down Second easy black stand and a thought struck me I passed a boot carelessly ve me a dandy skirts to bind hand satchel for iid to the boy at me and g “Gimme a st He didn't ever climb up onto the stand. No tight I felt foolish when I started to look for my 5 myself and quickly dug my hand down into my trousers’ pocket I turned the corner at Second av. and Pike st. and collided with a man. I scream, but remembered in time He turned around and id just hine money, buf cau started to as cross as he could “Why don’t you watch where you're goin’, you blamed kid!’ Then he said another short, emphatic word ; : At first I was fairly stunned. My sensibilities were outraged. The idea of a man swearing at me But then I happened to think and I was glad all pretty good at that, for he didn't know the difference I grew bolder and swagg red up to a newsboy “Here, kid, gimme a paper,” I called over I guess my disguise was SEATTLE, WASH and doing all the things} RAIN THURSDAY; MODERATE SOUTHEAS The SeattleStar | THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 1914. TERLY WINDS SAY AAUUAUNANNATAAAAUAUOATAAAAAUUGENGGAAOAUOUA AGT EI MMM ETO OX TRAINS AND NEWK STAN ‘ONE CEN PASTOR WITH 32 WIVES ON TRIAL! BESS HAS HER REVENGE; HER BOSS IS FINED | Superintendent of Mine Who Overworked Mule Convicted Before Justice Wright. Are Less to Blame, Judge Declares. By Fred L. Boalt. “Ress,” the Paetfic Const Coal Co.'s mule at the Cannon mine, As the unconscious instigator of the prosecution, the outcome gives me no satisfaction I encountered Bess, you may re member, at the time of the mine lcave-tn at Frankiin last month, |when one man was killed and an other entombed for seven days 1 took Bess’ picture and came) | away Warrants Are Issued » Humane soc y ad in The of the unb that hour shifts, and sle saw Ress, and tsw ts for the s nperta te tender t driv the thr dants guflty nd de r work eir or at 2 in finding the defer that Beas an old crepit. mule The drivers Jess culpable than he Up to the Directors Even so, The superintendent was taking orders from the general man aker. And the general ma r wa taking orders from the board of di rectors And boards of directors of coal | mining companies know it is cheap: er to work a mule 24-hour shifts until it dies than to work three mules eight-hour shifts. It would be idle to suggest an American Federation of Mine Mules to demand of the operators shorter hours and three feeds of oats a day Mules are tactless, cross-grained soulless and incoherent it ms equally idle to fine work- ingmen for obeying the orders of a higher-up, who, to hold his own job, MUST MAKE PROFITS FOR THE | HIGHEST-UPS, WHO ARE MORE INTERESTED IN DIVIDENDS | THAN IN THE COMFORT OF | MULES. ABUSED, SAYS COURT| Drivers, Who. Took Orders, | Catch Woman Thief by Ankles; Save Life LOS ANGELES, March 11.—Officials of a depart- ment store decided today to forego prosecution of Mrs Bertha Pukeshofer, 50, who tried to leap from a fifth floor window when she was caught in the alleged theft of a corset The woman was seized by the ankles by two plain- clothes women when she leaped through the window. She dangled 70 feet above the pavement, her skirts fluttering, until pull. to ‘ety Then she fainted. ‘FAILS TO APPEAR AT ALTAR; BRIDE Franklin, is avenged. Justice Wright yesterday fined| Walter Warnock, the superinten dent, $25, and three “skinners” $1 each for cruelty Mareh 11 yet ex-) from | MARSHFIELD, “Ore., J. FH, Strain bas plained why he wan absent bis own wedding, though that func tion took place anyway Miss Belle Clarke had ac red band, but - aid ny r at the ceremony Miss a ke cast about Sad the « throng for a substi. | tute he selected Wm. Strain, son of the bridegroomelect, who fs now her husband | Father Strain has not yet ay or | ra. Attorney Gort pve ed McGouvran pre Secutadl? for the oak anes clety Be pomed to him tha I am satisfied sald the court. | ‘DEAD IN BATTLE | | NEAR MAZATLAN | €L PASO, March 11.—Comment- ing on a report from Nogales, that 2,500 rebels had been killed in bat- tie at Mazatian, Rafael Muzquiz,| jrebel consular agent here, said to day that if such a thing had hap- pened he was sure he would have been notified of it. Inasmuch as he has not been no- tified, he did not believe tne report It was given credence by others, however. | |HEAR CHARGES ROCHESTER, R. Wash March 11 ernor Lister and Public Ser vice Commissioners Godman and| Lewis will today hear the charges | brought by eltizens here against | Commissioner jt Frank R R, Spinning aT SEE HIMSELF IN FUTURE | Jacobs motion Frank |The Star photographer, discovered it pictures. Jacobs bought a moving-pieture camera recently and practiced us ing it on the members of his fam ily. He caught Jacobs, junior, and ; ; e rey |# playmate playing in the yard. He started to hand me a paper, looked at me, and then commenced to grin. I grew!" imtown ona screen, the reel fur red in the face and he laughed. I handed him a dime and hurried on and the little fellow) nished the family with an evening's was game enough to keep still I was sure flustrated and away from there, 1 stopped three bloc down | nd made up my mind I'd see it through or get caught. I[ Brown & Hulen’s billiard room, in the Rathskeller building And, eaSalid Ah to Betsy, who should be there but my friend who got me the suit. He nearly choked at first, but then he just smiled and said, “Shoot A ain Steve?” He introduced me to a friend who wa vith him as “Steve Hopkins’ of Portland The man » polite and showed me w to play I wondered if men were that polite to newcomers in_ their It was a nice place Phe men smoking ,and well dressed. It was a glorious experience. I,envy men more than ever now. untrammeled life. No skirts -nothing to bother them. , nearly ran to get went favorite pool parlors free, + two or| into} entertalnment “We must keep that: always,” said Mrs, Jacobs, “We'll enjoy seeing It wher our boy is older.’ It was then the idea hit the pho tograph Moving pictures to re place the old family album—reels showing our children as babies in swaddling clothes, as toddlers tak ing teetering steps to mother's | knee, at the kindergarten age and | playing with Noah’s arke and dolls, rammar-school age, at high- They wave such a| a age, and on on to manhood aand womanhood, A new use has been found for! When your boy marries and you are a grandfather, you can get out the reel showing him when he was a baby, who Is now a man and a} father ON THE WARPATH LONDON, March —11.—Several public buildings in the town of Bul cole were burned today by’ militant | suffragettes, Damage, $100,000. LOOMIS QUITS March 11 W A chief of police, placed his today with the newly commissioner of public Thomas J. L. Kelly EVERE Loomi resignation appolr safet property? Let, tlyatt-Fowells h you how ¢ wells business went, track of it training ie beat Advert | lund fell for the plan, | that on September 24, 1912, Dahlstrom and Miss Enginnd occupied th “Wishtnrton. ‘LIVE BABY WILL Confidently expecting that his spell wa: potent as ever, Rev.| Albert Dahistrom, the “Heliga” preacher, who is alleged by government officials to have had 32 wives, planned, while in jail here, to spirit out of the country the chief wit ness against him, Edna Englund. LANDS WORTH | This came out {n testimony in federal court today, when his trial on a white slave charge was begun. Seattle Woman Is Among : : Half Dozen Who'll Split | a Wonderful Fortune. IT’S IN A COAL CLAIM. | Prof. Landes Testifies There's | $17,200,000 Profit in ! Miss Edna Englund | Each 160 Acres, George Lee, a porter on a Northern Pacific Pullman car, testified | ERY The testim was ve by Frank E. Anderson, a memb of he Seattle fire department, former dof the much fed minister Anderson visited Dahlstrom tn jail shortly er his arrest. It was then, he says, that Dahlatrom urged him to go to Tacoma and vinit Miss Englund. “Marry her,” Dahistrom is alleged to have advised Anderson, “and take her to Europe. I'll furnish the money.” Dahistrom’s spell over his flock, er, seems to have vanished, ither Anderson nor Miss Eng- Maybe California in the i r same berth: white croséink Yrom” Orekow “irico ; This @ the specific act named in the indictment upon which the| 2% 4 mining country; ma covernment « its case under the Mann act he Nien Se ee George Cariton and several other witnesses testified that Rev. of tw in °98 and the Chisana Dahistrom, at his “Heliga” colony, frequently preached that it was %199/"9® more recently. God's will for a man to have many wives, and that it was unnecessary, But When it comes to @ tee trugh ithe dorw coe marlon: Y|mining claim, the richest Ii plece of country lies only miles out of Seattle. It's a coal claim near Glacier,” ROOF IN Whatcom county, worth about has, 900,000. : Six Persons Get Land ‘i Title to it was awarded yester laay by the United States land ofe fice at Seattle to six joint claim. nts, Mrs. Mary Wheatman. 126604 | 20th av. N., Seattle; John P. Sth art, Blaine; Harry C. Smith, Clam 97 en per-jence C. Keplinger and Joseph Mi | afted in- iF ankovitz, Bellingham, and Douge | jas H. Hinton, E When Mrs baby came sled mouth’ The medical fraternity buzzed|to the with interest It appears that there teeth a have been :ecorded in America but | jaw, nec three cases of the kind wasn't pleased than bored James Cavanough’s| Several operations will be neces: | the doctor looked puz-lsary. One has already b. here wasn't any r00f to it8/tormed, Flesh must t mouth. Curiously eu igh | . appearing in the upper | which is underlaid with three “a ce ssitating delay. But it i*| veins of anthracite coal. | almost certain that same day the | Located in Forest Reserve He|Cavanough baby will have : Somehow | plete roof to its mouth | renne ined is located ta. an te ae Proud:ef it Now The claims were filed on in 1909, a com they wer from the disgrace of| Cavanough was released from the| I 1911 he overnme oi being the parent of a child with a|stockade yesterday, and when he| 2,191! the government | phi roofless mouth. So he went on ajlearned of what the doctor had the ground that the land was chiefly | done { aren Justice Brown sent Cavanough to off garment | yesterday the stockade, under the “lazy hus hey do say,” he boasted, “that)” Prof. Henry Landes, state geole & band” act, and for six months Cav- there are but two other babies in| gist. now. president of the state anough worked, willy-nilly for the) America like mine.” | university; F. H. Whitlock, consult- bt county. The $1.50 a day came in| “'Twas the making of him at the|ing engineer, and Charles News handy to Mrs. Gavanough stockad: Mrs. Cavanougn told hail, efficiency engineer, all testi While Cavanough was at the Justice Brown. He's off the drink fied that the coal found was pure stockade, the Cavanough haby was for good, and glad to be home again. | anthracite. having a roof made for its mouth.| AND—WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? Tidy Profits in Sight Dr. James B. Eagleson undertook) HE CAN'T TAKE HIS EYES OFF| it was estimated by them that the job. i THE BABY.” jeach 160 acres was capable of pro {ducing over $86,000,000 of coal, on WHICH THERE WOULD BE A CLEAR PROFIT OF $17,200,000, ;. Mrs. Wheatman is the wife of John Wheatman, manager of the | Washington Saw Co. | cee The sub committee of the | TONGS WARRING house judiciary comittee was today preparing its report on | the probe of charges against Judge Emory Speer of Georgia. STAR BECOMES A MEMBER OF AMERICAN AUDIT ASSN. The Star has joined with the leading papers throughout the United States, and national advertisers and advertising agencies in member ship in the American Audit association. The Star is the one daily paper in Seattle whose circulation state. ments have never been questioned by its advertisers, and was the first Seattle newspaper to join in this movement to guarantee truthful circulation statements to both foreign and local advertisers. Among the organization committee are the following RUSSELL WHITMAN, formerly publisher Boston American, man ROCKHILL MAY |" eNRY DUMONT, Pacific Coast Borax Co., secretary and treasurer. GET MOORE JOB) curtis . eravy, Woman's World, Chicages) STANLEY CLAGUE, Clague agency, Chicago. F. R, DAVIS, General Electric Co., Schenectary, 0. C. HARN, General Electric Co., Schenectady EMERY MAPS, Cream of Wheat Co., Minneapolis. @. M. ROGERS, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland. JASON ROGERS, New York Globe, N. Y." ° . G. VON UTASSY, Cosmopolitan Magazine, N. Y. | »LAFE YOUNG, JR, Des Moines Capital, Des Moines. Some of the first members of this association are the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Daily ews, New York Globe, Seatt Star, Spokane Press, Minneapolis Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Portland News, Des Moines Capital, Tacoma Times, San francisco Examiner, Los ngeles Herald, New York American, New York Journal, Chicago Examiner, Chicago American and Boston American, spree PREPARING SPEAR FOR JUDGE SPEER WASHINGTON, March 11.— BE MODEL FOR MOTHERS’ CLASS. From the unusual interest being n in the course of lectures be given to mothers under the di rection of the Mothers’ aining it is believed the largest audience of the series will be in at |tendance at the fourth lecture |thurada at 4 o'clock, on the sixth floor of the Bon Marche. fat, bouncing baby will be a real live model to illustrate the lecture on the care of the new- born child The lecture tomorrow will also deal with the pre-natal care of the mother, As the lecture course continues for six weeks, the life of the child through its mental and physical de. velopment will be carefully ex plained by prominent physicians, PORTLAND, March 11.—Twe | Chinese tongs are preparing for war here. 3 seho WASHINGTON, March 11 i was reported that W, W. Rockhill, ex-minister to Chile and ex-ambas: | ador to Russia, would be named to succeed John Hassett Moore as counsellor for the state depart ment. Victory for the rebels at Loma,| southwest of Torreon, was claimed it Chihuahua, Mex, today by Gen Villa