The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 25, 1914, Page 1

og J y ington. The paper is theirs for the day. a good job.—EDITOR OF THE STAR. MORE THAN _ 45,000 Paid Copies Daily j Report Carranza Has Joined Usurpert Cub Reporter Interviews the Mayor; First Fears Him, Then Admires Him WIFE’S PLEA | WINS LENITY FOR BRIBER Nick Balto Gets Off With| Fine on Score of | Poverty. } =~ | BABY GIRL IN COURT). Defendant's Daughter Makes Friends With Bright-Coated | Reporter. | BY RUTH THOMPSON “Do you think my husband would | spend $50 out of bis own pocket?” | asked Mrs. Nick Balto, pleading | for clemency in the sentence about to be passe d on her husband for bribing a sewer inspector. James Donofireo, John Gallict and Nick Balto were contractors on a sewer on FE. Gist st. Inspec- tor Frederick Davey claimed the sewer was not connected properly and he charged that Nick Balto of- fered Davey $50 to say the sewer was all “Both In Court Room Mrs. Balto and her 2yearold daughter were in the court room when Judge Macintosh asked the) naual question of the de‘endant: “Have you any cause why judg- ment should not be pronounced against you?” Much to the surprise of the court, it was Mrs. Balto who re- plied. She spoke with the elo ee eee people can go against the wishes of Approaches Reporter the people for any length of time Her little girl, unnoticed, slipped | and contises his usefulness in pub- around the end of the row of seat®! fic affairs.” and shyly sidled toward me. My| Hiram C. Gill, mayor of Seattle, bright red coat undoubtedly at-\was speaking. In this statement, | With an elfish laugh.|made in the simple, direct way she whisked back out of sight) which characterized his entire dis, o t to sae Ne as teh aut Of ussion of the affairs of Seattle to) e The Star cub Thursday afternoon, | work for 18 months. We have 10! Mayor Gill gave his understanding money and we owe & month's rent/ of the failure he made in his first| on our house. He can't be sent| administration of the office of chief | up; for we’ ‘ould have nobody to executive, and a promise for success support us,” continued the plea. | during the present two years of Se Baby Crows Happily attle’s municipal history The little girl's beady eyes and The cub had waited her turn with bright-flowered bonnet again ap-|inward quaking and sore misgiv peared around the seats. Her eyes ings. Every bit of campaien mud smiled at me, and she crowed, all |she had ever heard slung was relaid unconscious of the fate of the Halto|in her mind as her terror of the! family, which was hanging so pre- coming interview Increased. She cariously on the judge's words {was scared, though his honor’s little Allowed to Go Free | Irish secretary somewhat relieved a her mind with the assurance that 7 ayy ei magi ope ak nary | Mayor Gill had never been known to, Sete wea at all,” Mea, Balto naid, | Tighten any one in his life | “They were the men who were to Before the 15 minutes granted her, benefit by any bribe if ft occurred. |"ere "P_she had conceived a new ft was pot Nick.” purred. | idea of Seattle's mayor, and if she Mrs. Balto. was through. For a| had not entirely changed her mental few moments the court room was picture of his character, she had still, Balto was not sentenced.|™ade it over to fit a new side of The jndge remarked that the jury | "im. that she and probably very had found him guilty and that it|f¥ Women of Seattle have ever was the court's duty to pasa judg. | Teslized or seen—a big, manly am- ment upon bim. 80 he allowed | bition in him to make good Balto to go upon payment of a fine| “While I believe that 90 per cent of $100, without court costs lof the trouble during my first ad- A ih A sis ministration was misunderstanding, the other 10 per cent was my mis MEXICANS NOT take. T have profited by that lesson people of Seattle are satisfied with | me this time. At any rate no recall HELD BY U S$ petitions have been started," the mayor said, with a dry, kindly smile. e ° 7 @ “lL am determined to keep the sung boys and girls of the city out fF will toler- ate for one instant the attendance of young people in the cafes of this city. I believe that Tecan do more good by taking care of the young people than by amount of re BY FRANCES STONE “No man who wants to serve the WASHINGTON, April 25.—The! administration is trying to correct! the impression that Huerta, believ. ing the Americans were preventing | Mexicans leaving Vera Cruz, had| ordered Americans detained in Mex- feo City. The Mexicans turned over to Col Carona when he delivered Charge! Thus far indications are that the harmful influences: Neither jof | Chief Griffiths nor my 7 ; striction on the ho have the @ Affaires O'Shangtinessy and his! panits of evil firmly fixed upon party to the Americans, were In-| them. If you go downtown now you formed that their countrymen in| + : Vera Cruz were quite free to leave when they pleased, but that there! were no facilities fo- their transpor-| RAISES STORM tation. ANNOUNCE. ‘SPEAKERS| IN TOLLS FIGHT Speakers at the Presbyterian y iG . ; u HINGTON, April 25,-~/ Ministers’ association meeting | gtorin of eben was Rouse pias, Monday afternoon in the First after Senator Miles Poindexter had read into the Record a letter from the American Society for the Prew o Rights in the church, will be Dr. J Chief of Police ¢ E. A. Johnson. Tate Mason, | iriffiths and Rev. | lervation of Ameri }Panama Canal Zone, protesting DON’T NEED Him against the tolls repeal bill WASHINGTON, April 25.—-Gov Senator Poindexter referr West of Oregon was today refused | the attitude of the Carnegie permission by the state d tment| ment on the tolls question, and of to enlist five companies of Coast ar tillery ax infantry in the Oregon No-| tional Guard. | the wealth whieh, he declared, was on @ watered marke ” sucked from the American people | TO THE READERS OF THE STAR: All editions of The Star today are the handiwork of a staff of editors and reporters selected from the department of journalism of the University of Wash- If they have left out any of the things in which you are interested—why, it’s up to you to wait for Monday’s editions, that’s all. The Seattle Star | THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS NO, 52. SEATTLE WASH Whenever Hiram Gill runs for mayor, his enemies cen- against him district. women who Miss Franc Journalist, Wash, the city man and fh forth in her will not find the pitital sent of! young girls, 16 and 17 years old, drank on the streets. “The enforrement of this rule againat minors [ must place almost entirely to the credit of Chief Grif- fithe. He is a fine man, and one who has the moral interests of the city thoroughly at heart. “Chief Griffiths is going to make them dance decently in le. No dan is under ban save the indecent dance. O; can dance improperly the old-fashioned German three-step as he can any of the new dances.” The cub had waited in the onter office for a half hour, one of a long list of people who must see the mayor on business important and unimportant, She had heard other appointments made in answer to x him, Her impressio: in the Unive: One of the young heard Hiram Gill in that dis es Stone, junior of Vancouver, She went down to irda: is work are set story. the jangling summons of the phone; she had watched Seattle it stretched for miles around the tri angular building, the hub of the elty, a great, living, broathing city, throb- bing with good impulses and misdi- rected ideas, with lives of Joyous) happiness and those broken with disappointment and faflure; she had realized the responsibility of the man who stood at the head of this city, ite Institutions and people, and she had wondered if the mental anxiety and the burden of the re aponsibility could be compensated for. Some such idea was expreseed to his honor. “Is it worth while?” he repeated. “Worth while? Yes. The feeling of achievement in the fa of xuch responsibility is what makes it worth while, “Why, I simply had to run this DESECRATED ‘STATUE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON N MEXICO CITY WASHINGTON, April That a statue of George Washington was razed and several Americans were arrested in Mexico City prior to Charge d'Affaires O'Shaughnessy’s departure was reported by Consul Canada at Vera Cruz to Secretary Bryan today. J. Starr Haunt, bis family and several others were taken from the train before it started. At Lavilla, in the capital's outskirts, Burton Wilson was arres: d also. Members of the O'Shaughnessy party told Canada that a perfect reign of terror prevailed in Mexico | City TAKE ARMS AWAY NOGALES, Ariz, April 25.— American refugees, arriving today from the interior of Sonora state, reported that they had been reliev- ed of arms and ammunition they carried with them by a party of Mexicans, who boarded the train be low the border. A renort was cir culated here that Mexican rebels “t Nogales, Sonora, had received a telegram stating that American marines have been landed near Guaymas, & west coast port CHURCHES UNITE TO BID GOOD-BYE Rev, Francia J n Horn will preach his last sermon as pastor of the Plymouth Congregational church tomorrow At the evening services, the churches that recently held the Unity campaign will join with the Plymouth congregation, and Dr. Matthews and Dr. Leonard will give short addresses. Monday -evening a reception will be given the departing pastor and his wife at the church OUR GEORGE IS SORE ABOUT MEX. INSULT report com The by er” mobs. Ernest Knight interviewed the statue of “George” which adorns the 40th st. entrance of the pu George was highly incensed at the new “1 suppose that down in Mex- ico City they gave me a dinky lit: f| tle sword like the cap’ of mil- itia carries when he leads the grand march in a military ball,” growled the veteran. “Now, If | were down there with thie mighty sword that Lar- cans where to head in at. “With one fell stro! trusty saber-bludgeon, | off eight heads or stamp the brains from as many more with my two immense brogans. With these hands | could wring nine necks atime.” As the reporter started to leave George said, in accents military: “Hold! Telegraph Bill Bryon that | offer my services for the honor of my other self.” GOT NEW COGNOMEN BY D'LOSS SUTHERLAND Robert Moles entered a saloon by mistake Iagt night and forgot how he got in After getting mixed up with a considerable amount of the siuff from the wooden pt he forgot his name. The offt who found Robert chrixtened bim for the time being Jobn Doe, John got five [days this morning to regain his memory. oe SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1914. ing, or watching with idle curiosity | i | | time, and make ft, { had to vindl- cate myself for that recall.” ove Mayor Giil sald that he had no particular reform measures in view other than those already taken, | until the tax levy comes up before | the city. When this time comes he} Is going to make an enormous cut) in some of the superfluous tures of the city's money, he The only department expenses that | can be cut until the report of the} finance committee on the budget comes In are those of the city health department, and a saving of more} than $2,060 each month has already | been effected in this department. | view was ended, for the! . but ttle’ mayor} must go on interviewing and being | interviewed until the city hall clock | should proclaim the day's work over, | and then, perhaps, on into the night At any rate there would a balf dozen meetings to speak before, just as there had been three after-lunch eon appointments, Yet his hand-! clasp was firm and sincere, bis | rather quizzical smile, lighting up| vst blue, behind their | gold-rim spectacles, kindly, and his} parting words from a firm mouth, | without the much advertised corn: | cob, were of commendation for the work of the University of Washing: | ton if “ee Below, on Pioneer square, 200) men stretched ont on the grass in| the warm sunshine of late April, sleeping under papers, reading, mus- the rapidly changing crowds of the | afternoon, above them Old Glory, | around them the city, In the base ment of the city hall the old stories | of hard luck and trouble were being told In Seattle's police headquarters to men under Austin FE. Griffiths, a} new type of chief for Seattle. Up on the second floor, inthe | apex of the triangular building, was Seattle's new-old mayor, working out his salvation as a useful member of society in pub- lic life, vindicating himself be | fore his people proving the | trust of the people in so sweep- | ingly giving him another | chance, and planning for a bet- ter, greater Seattle on ONE CENT HUERTA DRAETS FOR WAR Secretary Bryan Admits Receiving a Tel- egram Announcing the Arrest and Ex- pected Execution of Nineteen Ameri- ans and Bri WASHNGTON, April were drafted into the federal army by conscription in Mexico City during the — past three days, and feeling against the United States is running so high that volunteers are enlsting daily, according to dispatches received here today. MADRID, April 25.—(BULLETIN.)—The Madrid Press association re- ceived today the following rebel army: tary Bryan today from Consul Americans ail along the line between Vera Cruz and Mexico City are being held as hostages by the Huerta forces, “El Dictamon,” a Vera Cruz newspaper in Mexico City, says that four Americans were killed in Mexico City today. If this rumor is confirmed, Mexican capital. ARMY OF JOURNALISTS |) ROUT EDITORIAL STAFF |: Twenty students of |! journalism from the Uni- versity of Washington turned theory into prac- tice today and got out all editions of The Star. They ‘covered the town,” read the copy, headed the stories, and made up the pages. They are all to blame. Their staff, chosen and assigned by Professor |; Frank G. Kane, follows: Managing editor, Farnsworth Wright; telegraph editor, Ralph Hall; city editor, il O'Neil; copy readers, Conrad Brevick, Ernest Knight; editorial writ- ers, Ralph Benjamin, Robert C. Wright, Enoch Anderson, Farns- worth Wright; sporting editor, Frank S. Evans, assistants to sporting editor, Earl Sample and Keith Goodman; car- toonist, Ted Cook. Reporters: D’Loss Sutherland, Clarence Shivvers, Alvah Weston, Walter Tuesley, Harold Allen, Paul Hodge, Ai- mee Watters, Louis Sea- grave, Paul Neill, Dexter Armstrong, Clark Squire, Frances Stone, Ruth Thompson, Helen Huston, Anne Hurwitz. STILL HOPE FOR VILLA FRIENDLY TO AMERICANS JUAREZ, April 25.—Gen, Fran- cisco Villa, today sent the follow ing message to the American peo |ple through the United Press “My personal wish is that Amer- icany will continue to blockade Vera Cruz, and all other Huerta ports. If America does this, we are sure to have the rebel army in Mexico City soon, and | solemnly promise Amer ica that | wil) see to it that drunken Huerta offers a full and satisfactory apology for various insults to the ‘great friend of the masses of the ‘Mexican people—the United States.” PETER MILLER Peter Miller, who has been given sufficient sentences to keep hita tu the state penitentiary for hundred years if he should serve ithem all, and who for the past four |years bas been fighting against go: ‘ing to Walla Walla at all, won an- other victory in the state supreme court yesterday, when he was grant ‘ed until June 21 to file his petition the next for rehearing. The case under appeal at the present time js an indeterminate sentence for burglary of 20 to tu years, given bim in the suposior court of Pievee county The supreme court upheld the de. cision of the lower court, Yat in granting the petition for earing jopens a loophole by which be u wy | lyet escape sentence, vy or “I protest most energetically against the invasion of the Mexicans will unite and fight the invaders with their last breath. thousand resident Spaniards will co-operate with us.” WASHINGTON, D. C., April 25.—Nineteen Americans and one Englishman have been \rrested in Mexico City and may be executed, according to a telegram received by Secre- {got within the American lines at); into Vera Cruz. The O'Shaughnessy | pag bi of ixace ent party was delivered safely, but '@*t night at Denver between Personally, we think they NIGHT EDITION THAN tish Subject by Huerta. 2S.—(BULLETIN.)—More than 2,000 Mexicans message from Gen. Carranza, head of the Mexican — : i 1 Canada at Vera Cruz. $i and they are believed to be in grave danger. it will probably mean an Ne Official Notice Bryan said he bad no official con- firmation of the news that J. Starr Hunt and his family were arrested and taken from the train on which Charge d'Affatres O'Shaughnessy, Consu! General Shanklin, their fam- ilies and staffs, were leaving Mex-| ico City, at midnight Thursday, or | of the story that Burton Wilson was taken from the same train in the Mexico City suburb of Lavilla./ There was other information, how-| ever, bearing out this news. Refugees in Danger immediate advance against the TRUCE STOPS. STRIKE W HOSTILIT TRINIDAD, Col, April . Three hundred armed strikers, . | by District President John Me! Th e ere was no question, however, / nan, of the United Mine Wwe that those on the refugee trains! o¢ america marched into were in danger until they actually |tnig morning, thereby carrying out” many others were stopped on the road. Bryan had received word that 20 Gov. Fitzgerald and Horace Haw. kins, the miners’ attorney. f Other = strike a railroad men were arrested on 4 | nogtitities x agree to cease: train running from Tierra Blanca pending further confer as they were on thelr way to thaj ences. The soldiers will not 7 | their position, and they will not — coast, and taken to Orizaba. hp : One hundred and” twenty-tive| phe srihere. Volant left men, women and children were de- | gj ha sitions of vant nan tained from a train between Tri Snnounced. the trace woe pata and San Juan del Rio, despite| ; i , tinue only on th og their pleas that they be allowed to| mine guards and gan iment ws 0 on to Vera Cruz. leave the state. These terms will pie, state | department notified he proposed at a conference ritish Ambassador Sir Cecil! hetween Gen Case and nnae a Spring-Rice of the reported arrest |" "°°" Gen. Case and Mela of an Englishman and the Brazilian embassy in Mexico City, acting for) the United States, was asked to in- vestigate and make all necessary representations to Huerta concern- ing steps for the protection of for. eigners It was feared, however, that not much would be accomplished. Americans in Mexico City been disarmed and have no m of defense if attacked. Even the stores of arms at the U. S. embassy were seized by Huerta before O'’Shaugnessy left Hotels invaded Rioters in Mexico City entered Porter's hotel, where Americans congregate, insulting the guests and threatening all sorts of violence. Several other hotels were invaded in the same way. The Amerisan club windows were broken and the cinb itself was sacked Several American stores also were looted Practically all business was sus- pended and riotous throngs filled the streets at latest accounts SOLDIERS HERE Acting on the report that all troops from the western United States would be routed through San: Francisco if sent to Mexico, Ot Case, vecretary of the Seattle Com — merelul club, wired this morning 9 = | Senator Miles Poindexter, at Wash: ~ ington, D. C., requesting him to use his influence in having all troops from the Northwest routed through Seattle. ‘ If Senator Poindexter is success ful in getting the war department to favor Seattle to that extent, it will 20 much to Seattle merchants, troops stopping at either San ncisco or Seattle will need a — t many supplies, which Seattle ~ merchants will be able to furnish: in case the first order is changed KILLS WIFE WHO WOULDN'T RETURN AND SHOOTS SELF Armed with a .30-30 rifle, Boyd; from Judge Frater suppress: T. Read, motorman on the Phinney ing the divorce complaint. av, line, went to the home of hiv, Within @ few days after man father-in-law, Arnbjornson Thorgen, | yf See. tuna Mrs. Read returned to her father’s ) 8753 6th av, at 11 o'clock last home. After several attempts to night, and shot bis wife, Angelina, | bring about a reconciliation, Read” | killing ber instantly with a bullet| went to get her. Ulis wife was through the heart. Then he at-| seated at a window, and when she | tempted suicide with the samejsaw Read coming across the yard, _ | weapo went out to meet him, He immed & Mrs. Read yesterday began ately shot her, ran out of the yard, suit for divorce on grounds of (then stopped and turned the gun cruelty. Her attorney, Henry upon himself, with probably fatal J. Gorin, applied to Judge result Mcintosh for an order restrain: The father-in-law took the twoom ing Reed from visiting his bodies inside the house and ealled © father-in-law’s home and both- ering his wife, The order was issued only a few hours be- fore the shooting. Gorin this morning got a court order Dr, Christensen, who said the wife had died Instantly, The slayer's wound was in the same place as ‘his victim's, and there is slight chance for recovery.