The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 7, 1914, Page 1

Judges Won’t Convene Hamilton Jury--- Page 2 Back to the Farm---See First Article, Page 3 Ho, Ho, Ho! Smilea Bit || ae Us. TuretaPeee 4 ||| (a FAIR TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY; LIGHT EASTER LY BREEZE; LIGHT FROST TONIGHT The Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS SEATTLE, WASH,, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1914 Don’t Miss Fullerton Stuff on Sport Page! | 3 I UUNONNEE Hana nNneTTUUUANNNNTEUU ANAT N AAA | More Than 4,000 Paid Copies Daily | TTT : SAAN NNVTUNAASEETUAAOUETU CE AA TERE AAHOU AEE I = = = = ire 2ajHUAAUUUUAAL TAT VOLUME 16, NO. ON TRAINS AND NEWS RTANDS. Be ONE CE) WHAT I SAW AT FALL OF TORREON §) AMERICAN WRITER TELLS FIRST STORY OF HEROIC DEEDS AND BLOODY SLAUGHTER ified brigand, moved down the Mexican National raliroad track to (of the house, and the dry like explod By Wilson Scott JUAREZ, Mex., April 7.—I have just come in from the battlefields of Torreon, where Mexican fought Mexican with ferocity of grizzlies and the headlong courage of Spartan For more than a week, ba d charg The mountain: ttle followed battle, charge fol- s rang daily and nightly with detonations of artillery duels. IT WAS THE GREATEST BATTLE FOUGHT ON AMERICAN SOIL SINCE WAR!. A book could be written this gteat battle, but 1 will « impressed me, the incidents tl | burned into the brains of the ¢ame down here to see GEN. VILLA IN THE STERNEST) PTEST OF HIS BATTLE-S( Tt was a strange looking arm base, on that Sunday afternoon whi _ A horde of 12,000 ragged, high THE AMERICAN CIVIL and possibly will be written of nly tell you of the hat hat thrilled me, the sights that little squad of Americans who ARRED LIF! y¥ that left Bermejitio, Gen. Villa's ich made history in Northern Mexico. batted vagabonds in command of a DIES: MAN. HELD B IT'S SIMPLY AWFUL WHEN YOU'RE OUT OF LUCK IN THIS GAME! LOS ANGELES, Apri! 7. —Police detectives raided an alleged “strip poker” in the fashion: est End district early to- yourg iris ree in vi stages of ‘The giris were booked at the station as delinquents under the names of Leona Parke, 18; Aima Taylor and Peggy Grown, 19. Later they were allowed to go to their homes. The men were not arrested. According to the officers, who watched the game through a window, all the party apparently had been losing heavily. They entered the room, they said, when one of ti fair gamblers would have been absolutely broke had she lost another “pot.” The girls are known to younger society people here. WIFE TELLS HOW PASTOR KISSED HER UPON CHEEK NEW YORK, April 7—“A kiss is but a smal! thing sometimes, but in my home it grew into a tragedy.” So testified Mrs. William Duke Moore in the ecclesiastical trial of Dr. Jacob R. Price, Methodist priest charged with improper conduct toward nine women members of his . congregation. Mrs. Moore sald the minister Kissed her after a prayer for her husband's conversion. “My aim had been for many years to secure th Higious conversion of my husban said, and she broke down as she added that the minister's kies defeated her aim just when she “had managed to get him inter- ested, and he was on the point of beginning regularly at the church.” OLICE “I Didn't Like to Disturb | Roomers,” He Explains, When Body Is Found. YP \SAY MONEY IS GONE ‘Relatives Declare That Dead | Woman Had $2,000 Which She Kept in Her Room. |. Conrad Leo, a restaurant man, |held by the police, pendigg in- Helen Hamlin, 52, landiady of the Golden Star apartments, 2229 Weat- jern av., has admitted he was with the woman when she died at 2:30 Monday morning He said he went to bed after she died, as he “didn't like to call the roomers.” Admits Finding Money The police were notified of the} death yesterday afternoon. Leo said he looked through a bu- rean and found a pocketbook with , Which he mid he gave to Mrs. {Emma *Kraston, daughter of the | dead woman. | The stomach of the woman was turned over to the West Chemical laboratory, in the Cobb building, | for analysis |. According to the belated report ai theadquarters, she was found lying| lon the floor, apparently suffering} from a stroke of apoplexy. Relatives who say she had $2,000 in her possession before her death, | and that the money is missing, ask- ed for an investigation. | MR. SECRETARY, ‘YOU GOTTA SEND FLEET HERE. TOO Puget sound and Elliott bay will jnot be slighted by the great fleet of battleships which is to <isit San| Francisco during the Panama expo-| sition | At least, we won't if the war de- |partment heeds the request for-| warded to Washington by the Seat- tle Commercial Club today. Not only does the Commercial Club ask that the fleet pay tts re- pects to Seattle, but also that a} certain amount of the repairs nee- essary to the war dogs be done at| the Puget sound navy yard. | The fleet will comprise the great. est squadron of Anmrican battle. | ale the on Torreon’s outlying to ankers of Gena, Benavides each side of the track A troop train carried the artil pital train brought up the rear. Villa himeelf, his discarded for the bandit garb his men loved ao well, rode at the end of the line on his pinto pony, grin ning through his snaggled teeth and shouting maledictions in Spanish to the mules of the supply train, or stopped to give a sandal-clad peon soldier a light from his corn husk cigaret to the south was Gomes Pal fo, the federal front, and behind that squat, adobe town was the Mountain of the Cross, which mark ede uniform | woe and Herrara spread out for miles ing mine, NOT A MAN CAME A flanking attack was tri Garcia, They shot out from the vaqueros flying in the wind, the the tri-color of their flag snapping in the breeze on i by the ret lery, and the white enameled hos powdered dust flew in the alr OUT OF THAT HOUSE right of the col riders shooting as they Again the graduate gunner on old Mount Pila caught their range and dropped shell after shell at their horses’ noses. Riderless ponies went under Maximo wiid and continued the charg the hats of the The galloped, and| suddenly | derales! ted #6 It was taken up and repes | Panic spread and the lines Villa, who had ridden to the Angeles to bring up the artillery, rode neck gallop. | “MI DIOS, 1S THIS THE WAY YOU MOUNTAIN MEN FIGHT? ADALANTE!"” HE SCREAMED; “ADALANTE!” | The rout tor 1 t the rifles continued from the | corral, and ch three deep in front of the dun-colored | It was discovered and the Gen. Maximo Garcia had been killed in the cavairy charge, Gen. Trinidad Rodriguez had been wounded and Raou! Madero, brother of the AL: iry mn, rebel infantry charg and re-charged the great corral, when zed boy in the ranks, ering lines of the rebels. panic rear to plead with dapper little Gen, to the firing line in a break- would not explode, tillery was Yestigation tnto the death of ‘Mrs. | ed the goal of all rebel ambitions j mertyred president, had heen inju in the north—TORREON " : : j from under him. se. b> > | The order for retreat was blo hs iebnaut eavcamesied ste slege was left with its load of dead the meaquite brush of the desert o and munched their tortillas, fear ing to light fires, for the attack was to be at night and without warn- The next day and the next t c red when his horse had been shot wn, and the first battlefield of the dying. and harges were resumed, hand grenades (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2.) ing. Rifle magazines were ton barte| full of cartridges, ammunition belts which girded the men two, three| and even four times were inapected and filled from long boxes having a red “W" stamped on them, the im evitable afteraiinner cigaret follow. ed, then Fall in!” ‘The famous ship cannon, El Nino,| was unlimbered and loaded. The} cavalry mounted thelr diminutive! WILL OUR HINKY DI ee | charge i . By Fred L. Boalt I see by the papers that “Bath House John” is fighting for his po- litieal life in Chicago téday His opponent is a woman! They say she has a better than even chance to win. What can thinking of? In my unregenerate days I knew “Bath-House John” and his friend and fellow-alderman, ” For nearly 3 ee | Five thousand men threw them- | selves on Gomez Palacio, where the | federal troops squatted behind a} | Breat corral made of sun-dried brick, | | Five machine guns were mounted on the wall. Gen, Benavides rode }at this wall with his trim, brave Zar. agona brigade, the pride of the rebel | ‘my, to return two days later with # ranks cut to pleces and more than 200 of the brigade missing, Lerdo, the litte towa at w of the mountalr ”, and was also beaten back And this is how it was: Confident {that the federais would flee, hey jhad done at Juarez, at Chihushua| and at Ojinaga, the rebels, old men, | boys, soldiers of fortune from for-| eign TION F TED WOMEN, ed the Brittingham corra THE ARTILLERY BOOMED B |HIND THEM, THE MACHINE | GUNS. DEAD AHEAD CLUCKED)| THEIR CACKLE OF DEATH, AND) THE RIFLES SPAT VICIOUSLY IN| ry LOOPHOLES OF THE cor.) | From Sierra de la Ptla, the moun } jtain which browbeat Gomez Palacia| jto the west, the federal cannon| dropped their bursting #t rapnel| shells among the rebel troops with a DEADLY HAIL OF BULLETS. A little group of outriders gained an adobe house squatting on the edge of the town like a great loaf of aS: the First ward be years with monotonous regularity. No woman could hope to defeat | “Bath-House John or “Hinky Dink” in the First ward I used to know. . No chance! *- The First ward was selfish. Some wards, being high- toned, want asphalt pavements, shade trees, cluster lights and park- ed curbs, Other wards want free beer and a friend to go on your bond. “Bath-House John” and “Hinky Dink” gave the First all the beer it could drink, and free beds, and meal tick if your rent was overdue, they paid it. If you got “sent over” to Bridewell, they pulled the strings and got you out. BEING WARD ALDERMEN, AND NOT ALDERMEN AT LARGE, THEY DION’T NEED TO APPEAL TO THE CONSCIENCE cars from Torreon bat-| AND INTELLIGENCE OF THE The photographer did not} ENTIRE CITY FOR RE-ELEC- Note the discard. | TION. They appealed to the F " ish desires and desperate needs of the First. And, when you walked up paid your Rath-House Dink.” Gen. Villa superintending the removal of wounded on flat brown sugar. A trained fader tlefield to Chihuahua, where the rebel hospitals are located. gunner found the range and dropped |Mention that the band around Villa's head meant that he was wounded a shell through the thatched roofied sword and the spurs. election time came, to the polls and debts of gratitude to John” and “Hinky Tam ships ever assembled at one time. ! DIANA DILLPICKLES IN “WELL, I DECLARE, MAR, LOOKA WHAT I FouND IN TH’! OLD “Cess see tT, DIANARS THAT'S THE KIND OFFA HERO THAT - He od 7 a WERE TRS maT wines esiraniatednietanntnangins fore election day they came drift | | | beggars and thieves—a villainous. 1 WASHINGTON, April “Hinky Dink’s” hotel. They got | balloting yesterday, stands today torists that unnecessary nolse tion Into the case of a 15-yera-old ing for all letters, correspond. Thus w to Councilman Peirce, resigned Complaints have flooded ing, apparently suffering from the negotiations in regard to Once a year “Bath-House John” date. France received three votes) downtown hotels on account of cer, after talking ‘with the girl, pose it is still an annual fixture, and denied that it was intended - | The chief has also placed the The child admitted that she and It was a bilious’ function, I thor of “Sweet Marie,” died today that of other nations to pass ° You can phone your WANT | 4, yet refused to implicate others| The tickets cost $5 apiece, and “HER IDEAL TYPE OF HERO” . MY, WHAT T0 SEE LETTERS INSIDE TRACK IN WILL PUT SOF l OF PORT. GIRL ‘De wake samrente dussly subs, / ’ | they used the floaters. Months. be- | | ling into Chicago—the yegss and | "boes, the stewbums, macquemen, C. J. France, former president of Chief Griffiths Issued orders | Deputy Prosecutor Crawford werhey ant Sok dcite: doa eaaaaine the Municipal league, as a result of today to patroimen to warn mo- | White is conducting an investiga- free drinks in “Hinky Dink’s” sa- jas the probable man to be chosen| of machines on downtown /xirl who was taken to her home at loon, ence and records in the state |>Y the city council as a successor, streets must stop. | 1921 20th av, 8. Inst Friday even-| |, Mage articulate! department's hands bearing on Six ballots were taken yesterday | headqua rom persons who ie eee without a majority for any candi say they are unable to p in |some drug. ; the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, un- Miss Mary Brown, juvenile offi-}and “Hinky Dink" gave a_ bal- 4 on one ballot. His name ts being autos and motorcycles in ac- masque in the Coliseum. I sup- der which it is both asserted further considered today tlon all night long. turned the case over to Deputy | White for further action. A saloonkeeper friend of mine American shipping would be re- CHICAGO, April 7-——Cy Warman, ban on rag dances. °4 oi tae ean Fee 5 ‘ae me a ticket once, and I used the “Poet of the Rockt and au another girl had taken a bottle of | it. quired to pay the same tolle | port ine to a nwoodle cafe, but has| give you my word. at St. Luke's hospital here. He | , | through the Panama canal. had been fll for three weeks D now—pay for it later. ‘in the party. ________ the boxes sold at from $25 to $50. A 4-Reel “Screecher” Film “I DON'T KNOW WHO ! A COARSE MUG: WHAT YOU WANT THe GUY 3, MAR, BUI HE'S PERFECILY Han'Some? “w'y, CHILD, THAT'S YOUR DADDY WHEN He wuz, COULD Take ME PROM MY A ee. 9 being re-elected on alternate | he voice of the peo-| THIRTY | NKS GIVE jl saw 74 ee | cow ponies, the infantry broke into! r , the peculiar atiff-kneed shuffle! | ™ . - e ie which eats up distance, Villa’s saber| ahah ; ] ™ whistled the sflent signal for the ‘ | . | 1 % ' 5,000 people on the dancing floor at ove time, and they sald there were 4,000 out in the street’ who wanted to get in, but couldn't 1 suppose nowhere on earth out- vide of Chicago could such a crowd” as that be got together. There were society people, and nearso- clety people, actors and acti politicians, saloonmen, gamblers, workingmen and working women, * thieves, loafers, swindlers, macque- men and courtesans. Be “-* ae eee Only wine “went” that night. The waiters brought it in cases, The floor was circular, and the’ boxes were built around it, | Yond the boxes was the pi jand it was there and in the boxes: = most of the drinking was — one. night, their satisfied water, curiosity more than The wine flowed like We all got pretty drunk. I noticed one thing. Though they bought wine for others, “Bath- | House John” and “Hinky Dink” drank water! . a There were a number of ictresses who came late, from the burlesque and vaudeville houses jcourtesans in brazen displays jef their physical charms— |mostly over-ripe. t-| Pink fleshlings were modest jin that crowd. | And dance! The tango is ja chaste and tame — terpsi- jchorean exercise _ compared with the “Hinky Dinky Rag.” ee 28 80 Sia The drunker we got, the more “fun” we had. The la ter of the women became shrill and hysterical. In the free ma- sonry of drunkenness, social barriers were let down. “Good” women drank and exchai smutty stories with their fallen sisters. A drunken woman slipped while dancing and fell, and was carried, heels first, off the floor. There | were unnoticed fist fights on the | promenade. The details of what happened after 2 o'clock are not nice, Be sides, my recollection is hazy, We danced and caroused until gray dawn. As we crowded out jinto the streets, reeling, laughing | and cursing, the courtesans poune- ed on the drunkest of the men and tried to drag them away, The pick- | pockets were busy, too. And in jthe alleys and dark corners all jabout the Coliseum the thieves |were “rolling drunks.” see @ . It was clever politics of its kind. “Hinky Dink” is a_ millionaire, “Bath-Hou: ohn,” being genuinely generous, is comparatively a poor man. He has squandered several fortunes of easy money. They are products of ward poll- tics at its best—or worst. Every American city where ward politics is played has its “Bath. House Johns” and its “Hinky Dinks.”” And Seattle's charter com- mission would have us go back to the ward system of representation. What do you think of it, folks? LOS ANGELES, April 7.— The Rev. J. K, Cathcart, black, refused to testify in a civil suit, advancing the argument that no child of God could be compelled to be a witn Lat- er he agreed to speak If he was given his witness fee in ad- vance. “ The decent folks left about mid- They vied with the ©