The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 1, 1914, Page 1

HE FOLLOWING telegram w “Have read your brilliant speech decls fer our efforts to obtain for you a conspicuot acm atta natn More Than 44,000 Paid Copies Daily AUUDONUANDANUDADANDUAUAOEDOERUNGUNONONDOGUUNAUDENUdA Me fe VOLUME 16. sent today to Congressman Will F, PAPAIN ARR AA —e PIN willingnes: FRONT OF ‘THE FAIR TONIGHT; aring your own and America’ 1s position ON THE Humphrey, of 8 to fight the world, FIRING LINE.” THURSDAY SHOWERS; attle, by Attorney MODERATE EA Thomas R, STERLY WINDS, THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS NO, SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1914, ONE CENT | new Horner and Jos. In such a gigantic struggle, your patriotic services will be a Williams ~The Seattle Star | ON THA HAIL TO RICHARDSON, OUR By Fred L. Boalt f T DID NOT happen at Billy the Mug’s Tt DID happen in the county commissioners’ Office, at the court house. The small man, scenting trouble, “the door. “Don't "dog: it’ “the big man. “Stay tay.” The small man halted and turned about fie was white, but he had himse!f under control “You are a dirty cur, Richardson!” he evenly. for answer the big Richardson rushed the small McKenzie, The next instant the two were in a s Richardson struck a mighty blow. The smallr man struck back furiously If the had been calmer he would have seen that this assault upon him had been deliberately planned. ‘The stige was set. His enemies were going to “get” McKenzie. had started for said to McKenzie,” what I have like’a coward, and listen to said IMMISSIONER KNUDSEN, who min- utes before, in the absence of Commissioner Hamilton, had voted with McKenzie to investigate the treatment of inmates of the county hospital, had mot even left his chair. His face was the picture JIMMY WANTS A 1G BROTHER; WHO iLL VOLUNTEER? Hungry and He Stole a Loaf of | ; Now He'll Have to Go to Reform-| 7 if He Cannot Find a Sponsor. county; No one Ne anewored th the Knock, and! two boys went Into the house! forcibly. According to law they! And that, the burgla) a few 17, in - {= soon to go to the reformatory at were) ~ Monrce. jhungry. They a loak of bread With another boy, 19, Jimmy| on a table, and they TOOK IT! | wandered away from Raymond. | Charged With Burglary ‘Wash., where he has lived, to see) The owner caught them in the the world. It wasn't long before/ act. The boys were arrested. the two boys found themselves hun-| That all happened on February sry. 20, last. The boys were taken be- Break Into a Shack ‘ fore Judge Frater and made a clean/ ‘Out in the Lake Washington dis) breast of the whole affair. They on Fuhrman st.,a colored man admitted they had eaten the bread. | a shack. The boys passed the! “We were hungry,” explained ed shanty as their travels led them! poys, simply, just as if such an ex- toward Seattle. cuse would satisfy the law “Let's knock,” suggested Jimmy.’ Judge Frater was disposed to be| “Maybe we can get something to lenient. Sister Takes Johnny | eat.” Luck favored the Davis boy. He} had a sister who assumed responst-| bility for him. Thus he escaped aj |sentence of one to fifteen years in the reformatory. But Jimmy has been in the county jail a month, waiting for a friend Judge Frater sald that if any one} Hiram,” said Mrs, H. C. Gill to the | would stand sponsor for Jimmy, he, | mayor at noon today, when he left too, could escape a sentence to for Portland, where he is to make | Monroe. | an address tonight before the{ Acting Prosecutor Ellis is inter-| Multnomah County Bar association. ested in Jimmy. He ts trying to| ‘The mayor's right shoulder is | find him a sponsor crippled from excessive band-shak ing. His watchful wife overlooks no chance to prevent an increase of the trouble. MRS. HI TAKES CARE OF HIRA “Here are the mustard plasters, He's a Manly Fellow | “We can't learn much about "his said Ellis. “But he's a| r fellow, and I don't tua jhe's bad at heart “If he could be taken into a good | -|home I am sure he would turn out give | Get money? rn bookkeeping and be better able to take care of it. If Fowsie Behool, 4th and ipo wr jorough taint TUG SINKS: 7 SAVED A tug was sent to the bottous. of | by the © hicago, Milwaukee & Puget the Bound at an carly hour this Sound Railway Co., sent her steel | : , nose half way through the Argo i, and the lives of seven) ‘ " led Sor thas ; Pathe As she pulled out of the big gap Waperilec, when the tugs Ars) 14m in the side of the Argo, the | Milwaukee came together off jatter sank The er Argo w "LOOK, PAR, THE CHAIR CUSHION LULU KIDNEYBEAN MaDe FOR MY BIRTHDAY. AIN'T 1T CoveLy ¢” “WHATCHA MEAN, CHAIR CUSHIONT I THOUGHT IT WAS A MINCE Pie.” of frightened and worried indecision After the vote, Hamilton had come in, him Dr. Richardson, of the county hospital, mand a re-reading of the gesolution After Hamilton and Richardson had come, stroll- singly and in pairs, many Hamilton henchmen They stood about, waiting, Thus was the stage and with to de- ing, set eevee HEN the big Richardson struck the small Mc- enzie, the Tlamilton Hamilton leahed against the The play was moving the planned it From the had no chance have a chance. Richardson an athlete. McKenzie is small of stature, 55 years old, not in good health Richardson rained blows upon the smaller Me- Kenzie. One of them knocked him down. Then, according to all the rules of fisticuffs, Richardson should have waited for his opponent to rise. But the big man was not fighting that way. He threw himself upon the prostrate McKenzie, and struck him again and again and again in the face henchmen railing-—and stage manager grinned grinned as had McKenzie he should first it was apparent that It was not intended that is a young man, six feet tall, and and Jimmy Dexter, Who Needs a Friend “BUSHER’ LANDS FIND GIRL’S BODY “ONM'GRAW; PUTS 4 MONTHS AFTER HIM TO SLEEP SHE ENDED LIFE HOUSTON, Tex., April 1.—Man ager McGraw of the New Yor} Giants nursed a sore jaw here to- jday as the result of a fist fight yesterday with Pat Newman, man. ager of the Houston elub. The two magnates quarreled just before the game was scheduled to start. Newman landed on Me Edna Sjolseth, 21-year-old daughter of Mrs. I. L. Sjolseth, 1513] Seventh av. N. made good her threat to Kill herself Badly he decomposed, the young girl's body was picked up in Union bay Tuesday afternoon. Recovery of the body clears up the myster- Graw's jaw when the New York | tous disappearance of the girl from manager referred to him as ajher home om [tec 4 busher. McGraw was out for three} Suffering iibhealth, the .girl fre. minutes | quently threatened to “end it all.” McGraw, it was announced, is She reiterated this statement on now trying to buy the Houston the day of her disappearance. If he is successful, he says,| Boys in a rowboat picked up the nan will last about 15 minutes | ta from the as manager.” “WHAT A CRUST You GOT, KNOCKIN’ IT $ YOU'RS ALWAYS HURTING MY FEELINGS! “IT DEPENDS UPON WHO KNOCKS” with knotted: fists, The henchmen THEY WERE “G LAST! Save for the sound of scarcely any sound at all. motionless, held betwéen big bully who sat astride Presently a little tri McKenzie’s head and The tiny stream became Almost unconscious, fort, flopped over on hig blows that were mashing Then by the hair, hand-hold—with both hai many times against the rin: ‘TTING” meandered Richardson grabbed hy the ears— rinned. AT Hamilton, M’KENZIE ned. blows on flesh, there was McKenzie lay practically the powerful knees of the him, ckle of blood crept from across the floor. a . MeKenzie, with a last ef- face to escape the rain of his face to a pulp, him by the collar, anywhere he could get a nds, and drove his face floor. » p “Say ‘Enough’! he shouted. “Enough!” said McKenzie iiecilgts- his bloody lips. “LOUDER!” WITH BLOOD-LUST, CRIED RICHARDSON, MAD AND AGAIN DROVE M'KENZIE’S FACE WITH SICKENING FORCE AGAINST THE FLOOR. “ENOUGH!” said McKenzie again, And at last the big his feet, his face working M’INTYRE TO BRING SUITS At the right appears the letter was really the cause of the knock-down-and-drag-out the court house yesterday, \Dr. Waldo Richardson, superinten- dent of the county “beat County Commissioner David zie, an older man, and Com. Late Hamilton trounc “woformer: sheriff. County Commissioner MeKentie is recovering today. He declares he | believer the stage was all set for a rough house. It te the opinion of many to- day that the fight hae crystal- lized public sentiment against Commissioner Hamiiton. The second recall petition will now be pushed against him dill- gently. Willi Demand Redress “There will be redress demanded in the courts for this affair,” sald Commissioner MeKenzie. “I re sented Dr. Richardson's statement when he called me a dirty coward, I told him I thought he was a cur. Then he rushed me and struck me in the fage. He got me down and pounded my head on the floor. When others tried to interfere they io attacked. It looks like ne was set for the affair.” Mcintyre Will Sue, Too McIntyre also stated that he In tended to bring civil proceedings againat Commissioner Hamilton for his share in the wild fray, which was finally quieted when a riot call to the sheriff's office brought up a squad of deputies In command of Under Shoritt McCormick. REFUSES $15,000 LES, April 1—In a} formal notice today, United States Judge Erskine M. Ross declined a bequest of 5,800 shares of Arizona w the His son was made The stock is will of his wife. the principal heir. worth $16,000, FERRY STARTS Residents of Medina and Belle-| vue, on Lake Washington, enjoyed their first ride on the new port dis- trict ferry weschl today, The! | Leach! will make 11 trips dafly, and 110 on Sundays. " WHAT'S THIS, MISS DILLPICKLES, A HAND EMBROIDERED FLANNEL CAKGE HAWeHAW- HAW!" gold mine stock, made to him in the| « man was content to rise to with’ brutish passion. this Institution, we be of eat. At present we do CHIEF PLANS T0 TEACH PRISONERS A plan to provide instruction in elementary school work and a Il- brary system for the men in the city jail, the stockade and the Workingmen’s home, is being work- ed ont by Chief of Police Austin EB. of the police department. The chief announced today that he believed an effort to help the MINIMUM WAGE MAY BE PLACED OLYMPIA, Ww ash. April 1—No decision has yet been reached by | |the minimum wage conference, | either on the minimum wage or on » apprenticeship ruling » conference, cons employers, three rm representatives of th eral public, resumed its discus 2 this morning, after a long con- ee last night. The minimum it is believed, will Slo a , if an apprenticeship rule sat Intac’ tory to the employers is sanc- tioned, | ‘The employers $9.50 minimum, but the other six ffisisted on $10, The employers, | however, say they should be per- mitted to take on apprentices at) jless than the minimum wage for a; | period of six months, ting of si fe w A 4-Reel “Screecher’”’ “TeS-HEE — OH, THAT THING A FRIEND OF mine GIMME, ITS HARD TO TSK WHAT IT IS, GBuT SH@ MEANT pet Griffiths and subordinate officials | men during their days of confine- | AT $10 A WEEK held out for ‘ Tue R Ce carefull Former Bey business. to interfere. And for his interfere the jaw. McIntyre reeled and fe ‘Then came the men his wounds dressed. RDER! Order!” The county ” sent, were once more in Dr. pore I 66 ment will tend to prevent the evil effects of idleness and discontent prevalent In jails. Patterned After Cleveland's The Seattle educational plan for | prisoners will be patterned after the Cleveland, O., idea, which was strongly favored by Former Chief Kohler, advocate of the famous “golden rule” policy in police af- fairs. Elementary school books and ¢in- teresting works by reputable au- thors will be necessary for the suc- cess of the jail school idea, and an instructor will ald the prisoners. Chief Griffiths thinks these can be secured without a reqnest to the city couneil for an appropriation, Start Plan in Jail “I hope to get the idea in work- ing order as soon as possible in the city jail, the stockade and the Workingmen’s home,” said the chief. will be started in the | jail first As soon as the plan {ts started | we shall set aside a bunk room as ja study and reading room where the men may congregate during a certain time of the day. The in- structor, I believe, can be had with- | out expense.” 0.K'S GILL’S MOVE Corporation Counsel Bradford to- |to remove Adele M. Fielde from the | library board, after she had refused jto resign. Mrs, Emeline L. Norton passes Film 'S SOME- | | present planned, will p } defeated, EF. had been but one pi age sooty and excellen' uty Sheriff nothing of the plot, drop; into. 0 He alone had the ? setoike nce Hamilton - st from behind—a cowardly blow which The big diamond which Hat in his ring gashed McIntyre’s face, — fl unconsetots: on the’ to restore a semblance of. order whom we pay to conduct or business in. and McKenzie was led, half- fainting, effort th order. ee jon pushed, in to | journment. La Follette to It was admitted it c or th volt 3 bat Borah L 01 e tolls de! Follette in partioniar lea rae pared speeches however, look \ly lawmakers Wilson did n any such display of bitt the senate as was shown durit | debate in the house. Senators Vardaman, |Chamberlain and O'Gorn considered the principal opponents. A of the municipal Third av. and Pine t the Rainier val pone to pavatel the fenton y re ne Tuesday, strongly this extension. Mayor Gill, utilities cominietes 506 He also urged the the Lake Burien Ii day ruled Mayor Gill had authority rai ration Hanson is oem authorizing th “8 bonds, the Bact Ph the 0 $800,000 railway bond issue. The committee, has. autl the expenditure of $200 to cel the inauguration of the munieips | railway about May 1. KELLOGG TAKES: CRACK AT WA PLAN IN CHAR “Seattle has a better charter day than the tentative — ¢hi agrec upon, the revision cotns. sion,” said James Y. ©, Kel one of the commissioners, in jress before the Progressive I Tuesday night. He thus epitomized his sainst the . 30-ward-cor j ager plan, Kellogg said the charter, © Ch mney smoke Fallier France, sues land New tude 20,564 ft a, (s Linnekogel, nesburg. ney iy