The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 24, 1914, Page 1

and the priests killed a number of lambs. The Turks More Than 44,000 | Paid Copies Daily | VOLUME AYS CHIEF OF POLICE TRIED TO GET’ UNION 16. Former Deputy in Tacoma Strike Makes Affidavit Him to Plant Dynamit Under Big Smelter. James R. Little, for many years a ‘diate United States marshal, an affidavit sworn to today, charges that Chief of Police Huggins. near Tacoma, ordered him to blow up the transformer at iter works with dynamite, in order that he (Huggins) might “outrage” on the smeltermen, who have been on strike for ths. says he refused to have a han: i i i if Ad 4 in a scheme so “raw,” and) i HIS MISSION IS KEPT SECRET tt to Ruston,” said Little today, ployment, and because police and detective work “because I was temporarily is my 2 as 83 y 7, this year, I called at the sheriff's office In Tacoma, Dick Daten, the chief deputy. He said the sheriff had all needed, but that the superintendent at the smelter might “og as a special officer. to Ruston and saw the superintendent, of Ruston, Dr. Pratt. had en asa private detective, sald: tt ae 3 and was told to a He Le g “You are the kind of 1 need here. engaged at $5 a day and expenses. By arrangement I met) that ah need and he instructed me to report to him at 4/ 4 LAW-ABIDING STRIKER SHOT to ‘work’ the three saloons to which he had get Greek—‘for he ts no good, and a bad actor.” a room at the Ruston hotel, and posed as a gambler. ht Andrew Oronke was shot. been shot and possibly would die, and tha er, he was a peace-loving and law-abiding man. ins replied: yom i a so far I by E i i i me to get acquainted with the strikers and, !f possible, He #8 “The tg ao’ Sth—-I met H. H. Wolfe, with a note from) _ Huggins, sayin: was to work with me. I took Wolfe to my room explained that I was posing to Mr. Johnson, the proprietor of the as @ gambler. REPORT GAMBLING; CHIEF 1S AMUSED g ne 75 cents. Johnson then suggested that there was a good game in 18, and that the players were special officers. da reported Johnson to Huggins for selling the whisky, and also bid him about the gambling. But Huggins laughed and said: ‘That's alee I sometimes play poker myself.” “Then he sald: ‘Little, | want you to get some dynamite and plant the transformer, and GET FOUR OR FIVE UNION MEN) R THE PLACE. When you have lighted the fuse, call me, and i! arrest the strikers and blame them. THAT THE ONLY WAY) IN THIS STRIKE. You make your get-away, and come back | and go to work.’ — TOLD ME THAT THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, THE R AND THE SMELTER SUPERINTENDENT WANTED THE iH bife and I then went to Tacoma, and on the way I said I'd re pre I'd do a thing like that, and Wolfe said he would, too, The bre angry | got WRITES LETTER AND RESIGNS JOB by I wrote a letter resigning, and gave it to Wolfe to hand i In {t I told Huggins that he was ‘too raw’ for me. be to say in conclusion, that an officer, in order that justice may be served, is justified in stooping to methods which in a private | capacity he would scorn. “I was Willing to pretend sympathy with the strikers; I was wilting | to try to join their union, in order to learn if they were making plans of violence ngainst the peace of the community. So far, an off! in the cireumstances may go. But when Huggins asked me to destroy property with dynamite, and to imperil human life, in order that strik ing workingiien might be falsely arrested and accused of crime, my! gorge rose.” to WHO HAS THAT PAPYRUS THING? PARIS, March 24.—A new investigation was on at the Louvre to- day. papyrus presented to the museum by Adolphe Cattant does, after the theft of La Gia tly recovered, it has a tremendous scandal con da, only rece “OH, PUR- PAH, MR. NUTTE KNOWS THE } meses JOKE. ICL AT "DIDYA EVER " CHes,’ HEAR THE STORY Nope. OF THE WHAT, wuz tr? When first street car line started in Constantinople, recently, prayers were when the power gives out, every little while as they're hurrying home That Officer Ordered quit his job as a special deputy sheriff at Ruston. ‘The former deputy marshal made a name for himself in Alaska, where, for 15 years, he was engaged tn suppressing for Uncle Sam the) liquor traffic among the Indians. Don't let anybody know of your capacity al | I reported to Huggins that | “We bought a bottle of whisky from Jobnson, for which Wolfe | PNE. ‘Tonight | will show you where | want the stuff planted,’) hought about Huggins wanting to job the strikers In such a It was a sequel to the disappearance of almost priceless Egyptian | The loss of the| treasure would have been a serious matter In any case, but coming, as) will say more than ' charged SHOWERS TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY; MODERATE | The Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS NO. PRIEST MAD TO MARRY IS EXONERATED Girl Bride Now ‘Says Charges Leading to Marriage Were Baseless. 24. BROTHERS HAD GUNS Pointed Revolvers at Priest During Ceremony, She Con- fesses in Affidavit. PITTSBURG, March 24.—The tn side story of the forced marriage of Rev. Miles Sweeney, former pas- tor of a Catholic church Sewlck ley, to Misa Mary Moran of Pitts yburg, at Welleburg, W. Va, was! | cleared up tb today qT ere married by Rev Francis Biddle, past, of a Chris tlan church, on Jan Brothers Forced pevties According to a voluntary afft davit, made today by the former | Miss Moran, her three stood with their hands grasping re- volvers in their overcoat pockets as the ceremony was performed. | The marriage was forced, she said, as a result of false allegations to her brothers by her sister, Eliza beth Moran. Says Her Sister Lied Mary «wore that alleged improper jrelationa between herself and the | priest existed only in the mind of | Elizabeth, who, she sald, cireniated | } Pratt, when I told him the |false stories because Mary refused from. the m to lend her dressen and hats to) wear at social gatherings. “My sister Elizabeth,” sald Mary, “wrote my brothers at Hammond, Ind., that the priest went out often with me, and that he gave me handsome and hats. She also told « my room wae with Improper pictures. “My brothers arrived here Jan. 25. Brothers Beat Her “The first thing they did was to strip me and give me unmerct- jful beating. On Jan they | ‘WE GOT HIM, AND WE'LL GET SOME MORE | ordered me to make an appointment | | with the priest. I did. My brothers jaccompanied me. Each carried a |revolver. We drove to the meeting | place in an automobile. Priest Knocke Him Down “When Father Sweeney appeared, | We arranged that Wolfe should pass as my / Danie! accused him of accomplish | jing my ruin. Father Sweeney | | Promptly knocked Daniel down. “Then my brothers forced Father | | Sweeney into a car and we drove to hia home. My brothers sat up with | him all night. Next day the priest and myself were taken to Wells bu fg my brothers compelled Father Sweeney to marry me.” RUSH TOLL BILL | WASHINGTON, 3 March 24.—Im- patient because the rivers and harbors bill ts delaying action on President Wilson's request for re peal of American tolls exemption, democratic congressmen demand ed today that the rivers and har bors bill be sidetracked In the re peal bill's favor. Detectives investigating the Bal: |iard rowboat mystery found them selves without a tangible clue today | Great brothers | ® acific Coast climate! with bigamy, at Los Angeles. SEATTLE, WASH., TUES Two Soldiers Fire on Mexican Troops EAGLE PASS, March 24. —An official report on the firing across the Rio Grande Sunday by Mexicon federais was made here to day by Capt. George Win- terburn of the Fourteenth cavalry. He reported that two American soldiers had re turned the fire after the to stop be! troops who ed the internation. al border line into Texas. Capt. Winterburn said he did not know whether any of the Mexicans were killed. ‘ASKS 15 MEN TO “SERVE ON BOARD OF ARBITRATION In an attempt to to teamsters’ strike, Mayor Gill today t letters to 15 influential citt zens, requesting them to meet with him and help thresh out the prob- lem No peaceful end will be reached | unless cooler heads than those now ding both factions are brought Into the situation,” the mayor says, in his letter, Ministers, lawyers, real estate dealers, a physician, a state unt versity professor and members of the judiciary comprise the mayor's selection, Upon receiving a reply en to whom he directed |the letters, the mayor will set a date for a discussion of the situa | thon. | This action follows declaration of |the Team Owners’ association that | there was nothing to arbitrate. | Lattera were sent to the, follow: }ing? “Byrn Phelps, Harold Pres- ton, Judge H. KE. Hadley, Prof. Prank Cooper, Rev. J. D, O. Powers, | Rev, Herbert Gowen, Henry Brod- jer, Dr. George Horton, Rt. Rev. Bishop O'Dea, . J. Ramsey, James E. Price, eorge Ii. Lamping, J. P. Ronald and RB. Albertson. GOV. COLQUITT EGGS TEXANS ON IN MEXICO FUSS worry ing Washington again today by his nti-Mexican activities Houtchins"—adjutant gen- eral of the Texas militia—Gen. | Bliss of the federal border patrol telegraphed from Eagle Pass to Secretary of War Garrison, “states the governor han offered a reward of $200 each for the delivery to the authorities of the five men Jcharged by the newspapers with leomplicity in the killing of Clem jente Vergara.’ Vergara’s suspected slayers were Mexicana and are now pre |sumably in Mexico. erick, Fred E. Sand M | Gifford Pinchot asealls “radium lobby.” GILL NAMES HARBORMASTER Alexis Payase, an old-time rest | dent of Latona, was today appoint ed by Mayor Gill as harbormaster, thus bringing to an end the hard within the est contested place mayor's appointive power. There were about 200 names presented for the place. Paysse was raised in Seattle, at | tended school engaged in the boating busin d ran a tug tee- Hee!” Tu TRY ) THAT ONG ON Hucpa!' boat, He was also associated with bis father in a grocery and hard ware store at I na NEW YORK "My eweetheart is lost, I die,” shouted Andres Danno, as he hurled himself before a sur face car. The motorman stopped and Andres later found his bride, who had bec separated from him on the pie “Hawt HAw ! HAW! HEAR TH’ Vest | erminate the “SAY, HULDA, GEVGR STORY OF TH’ FFICERS FRAME DYNAMITE PLOT? [Wow is it that women factory workers get only five cents for making a shirt, while a Chinaman gets ten cents every time he washes it? One swat is now worth 1,000 in mid-summer, Bradford, war veteran, SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS DAY, MARCH 24, HAMILTON IS CHARGED WITH 1914, County Treasurer Hanna At- tacks Commessioners in Filing Upper Answer. And Here's Another Little Matter Concerning Road Machinery Repairs. Replying to the mandamus ac tion brought by Cectl H. Upper to compel County Treasurer Hanna to pay him $3,000 for the automo- bile formerly belonging to Hamil ently sold by Upper to Will H. Hanna today filed his answer, charging consplir- acy to defraud the county Hanna alleges that ton and the county Hamil- ton, “being desirous of selling it to King county and dispos ing of It at an exorbitant value ed into a conspiracy with Cecil Upper prior to October 29, 1913, and pretended to con- vey the auto to Upper,” that thie conveyance was fictitious,” and “that Knudsen and Hamil- ton, with full knowledge of the facts, violated their trust when they signed the The report of the spectal inves tigating committee of the Commer clal Club on the county commis- sionera will come up tonight. Sev- eral sensational disclosures may be_made. This committee has been at work tnearthing the case against Commissioser Hamilton, rtien- , and against. Kandeen since Inst December. Wholesale instances of reckless Attorney Thomas Meade made the assertion a week ago that some of the transactions were of such shady character that the peniten- tary {s yawning for “cerfffin people.” An illustration of the way busl- ness has been done for King coun- ty is given in the purchase and re- pairs of a Case traction engine through the agency of James Wil- son of Georgetown, a Hamilton protege. The county paid $3,485 for it, in| February, 1912 In November, 1912, after only eight months, the records show that the county paid for rather ex repairs upon it. of the ite wae for spokes to the amount of $1,526.35, and another item was for wheel rims to the amount of $2,364.77, The rims and the spokes Inciuded in the repair bill, and paid by the county, amounted to a total of $3,- 891.12, OR MORE THAN $400 OVER AND ABOVE THE ORIGINAL COST OF THE TRACTOR BOUGHT EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE. JOHN ETO RUN Judge John E. Humphries has announced bis candidacy for the |wupreme court, He will not resign from the superior court in order to |make the race. He claima he was | elected four years ago, and in |apite of the opposition which his }summary contempt proceedings |Tast summer aroused, he will win, | hands down |ASK EXTENSION - Rainter valley citizens will moet with the city council utilities com. mittee Thursday afternoon to dis cuss extension of water mains to |that district DIANA DILLPICKLES IN “THE STORY OF THREE EGGS” —A 4-Reel “No, YOU LOAFER |" (AN SINCE YA QUIT WORK TI. 4IN'T CONSPIRACY |FRAME AUTO TRADE?) expenditures have been found, and | Writer says every time a woman cuts her frock an inch lower or her skirt an inch higher, she parts with just that much of the illusion and mystery on which masculine love is built. But she seems to succeed in attracting a lot of masculine attention aged 80, ESDUVNIUAAUAUAU Ae AneeAsne Aen i NIGHT EDITION= m SUUMAANTTTUETTLATTHTTTT ONE CEN ese Look! nt OLS “WHAT YOU GET AND WHAT WE GET” is the title of the latest effusion of honeyed words and smooth phrases. written by Jacob Furth’s hired publicity agents in the kept press. “You get four-cent tickets. You get transfers. You get longer rides and greater comfort,” they tell you, at advertising rates. Yes, you get transfers. But not with tickets. As to longer rides, the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co. has refused to build a single street car extension in Seattle for three years. As to comfort and convenience—you waited all last winter for heat in street cars, and some of you were still ve during the winter just past. ALL OF YOU are waiting for the chance to buy tickets on street cars. Convenience? Jacob Furth is fighting tooth and nail in the supreme court to keep you from winning the ticket case. THERE’S LIE NO. 1 SPIKED! “We get the same old nickel with the exception? It has shrunk,” wails Furth. When, how, or why has it shrunk? No expense for extensions, no transfers with tickets, and $60,000 a year additional taken out of the pockets of public by the withdrawal of ticket sales on cars. can | | “The Blectric Company What You Get ‘Ou grt Scent tickets You get transfers You get longer nder \: greater comfort—more for, out inoney in other word ¢ yt that same old mckel— with the exception IT HAS SHRUNK ¢ have lo give you more for . ft, therefore we get less, measured tn purchasing power and in actual exchange ow Wet. you get wuld coon be freeter then whet we get Hf pur he demands were all met ‘There is © point below which ne F ITS FURTH’S LIE NO. 2! “There is a point below which no one vive in business, and that point has been by the street car company,” says Furth. You're kidding us, Jacob. That point is reached until the watered stock in a a conperations i squeezed out and the earnings are based on the actual, not the fictiti bors ne That point is not reached if the company refuses to make | provements and the city’s population continues to grow and to give uy ooagee on the same investment. it Hy ip g fred H And besides, you know, Cleveland ing the street car business pay, on a THREE-CENT fare basis. IT’S FURTH’S LIE NO. 3! TAX! DRIVER FOUND GUILTY |WAVES GOODBYE AS HE GOES TO ELECTRIC CHAIR he a young man ac-; with the young woman In his tes- Lillian | mony. He sald he met her at 2 o'clock Roberts, a married woman, after] inthe morning at 14th av. and Uni- they had ridden in a taxicab to @lversity st. and that she said, “I wooded place in Seward park early |guess I'll have to go to jail, as lin the morning of Jan, 18, was |have missed my car home ‘ guilty by a jury last night in} “Oh, I guess not to jail,” Newall! BOSTON, March 24.—William A, © Mackintosh’s court. sald he replied, and the taxi ride| Dorr, murderer of his uncle, Geo. owall genied improper | ‘conduct Ito her home was proposed, |E. Marsh, was electrocuted in the HILMAN DRAWS SIX MONTHS =<: 5 |morning. He was calm to the last, Dorr slept untt! an hour before his Kilman, whose “contes-)1 | nected “Se emple as the Ingtigator of the affair. The plot failed when death. As he was strapped into the the 10 sticks of dynamite were {electric chair he waved farewell to |the Rev, Harriman, Attorney Neal Barney, and Gen. Briiges, the ware den of the prison planted in the wrong yard. LANDS BIG ONE |Orpha Marsh, of Stockton. | ‘The telegram read: “I wish my jend were to be as painless as j youre Cc. M Newall, cused of mistreating Mrs. | Charles ston to participation In a dynamite nt to discredit striking union masters caused the arrest of Jack mi as the led guilty He in His nerve was remarkable. Yesterday the condemned man re- ceived a letter from his mother and a telegram from his aunt, Miss strikebr der ‘of the affair, ere before Judge Frate sentenced to six months county stockade. ne AVALO: , Catalina Island, Cal., Kilman last week called for; March 24.—John Raymond of Vie- | oe — Deputy John Roberts and sald he|toria, B. C., is telling friends how! ALBANY. N. Y.—State a wished to make a clean breast of/ he landed a 53-pound yellow tail, | vetused to censure state offic! sinaee his connection with the plot. In the largest ever captured, with alt to extradite Harry ‘Thaw \his story he is said to have con-| light rod 0,000, Film| "SHE HADN'T HEARD !T! *“Screecher’”’ CUT DOWN THE: HIGH COST OF LIVING taking EVGN By advantage of the many bargains that appear in the ads daily. 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