The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 29, 1914, Page 1

3 ‘ “allowed Superintendent George Al Eight Militiamen Are Reported Killed in a Charge on Force of Colorado Strikers MORE THAN 45.000 PAID COPIES DAILY MOURNERS PICKETING VOLUME 16. FAIR TONIGHT NO. 55, AND THURSDAY; LIGHT SEATTLE, WASH., JOHN D.’S OFFICE WITH CREPE ON THEIR ARMS NEW YORK, April 29. | —Upton Sinclair, the sauthor, and four women today established a “mourning” picket line be- fgre the Standard Oil of- fices as a protest to the refusal of John D. Rocke- feller, Jr., to arbitrate strike differences in Colo- rado. All five were immediate- | ly arrested. Sinciair appeared in front of the | indard Ol! building at 10 a. m. He wore a small piece of crepe about his arm. | Mrs. Belle Sielberman, wearing @ black dress, arrived next. She carried a white fiag bor- dered with black and five black stripes. In the center was a big red heart. Suffragettes Join Crowd | Mrs. Stelberman tried to see} Rockefeller, but fatled. Later Miss Elizabeth Freeman and Miss Doina Leitner, English suffragettes, and Mra. Remington Charter joined Sinclair. The sidewalks in front of the building were packed with people. None of the five resisted arrest. | -At noon a relief picket line reached the Standard Ot! building | and resumed picketing. ! Mrs. Sinclair in Line The line included Mrs. Sinclair, | who was attired in a white suit) with a band of crepe on the left arm; Mrs. Luey Huffaker police were keeping the side walks clear, but the new pickets continued to pace up and down the streets. Rockefeller’s secretary C. C. Haight, said that Rockefeller knew nothing of the demonstration. In the Tombs police court Sin- clair denounced Rockefeller. “This is the first time that a pro-| test in the matter of human rights has been taken directly to head- quarters,” he said. “Usually some employe is singled out and made the scapegoat.” George Stesling, poet, accompanied Mrs. Sinclair along the picket line. The pick- eters tramped steadily back and forth, from Beaver street to No. 42 on three men. . The the California Broadway. Calls "Em Murderers “We created no disturbance,”! SEVEN ARE KILLE IN BATTLE TODAY es TRINIDAD, Col., morning at Forbes during a clas Ing to news received here thi: four Japanese. The strikers w burned the tipple and ot! bulldi | Fuel and Iron Co. andj only minority afternoon. said to have captured “orbes camp, THE PERUVIAN BANANA HOUND! SEE STAR PINK The Star's Town in Re view man has discovered the original fullblooded, Peruv- jan banana hound. He is at tempting to arrange for a bench show for freak pet stock. You will find out all about it in The Pink's Town in Review tonight. If you have anything in the way of write the Town in Review Man about it, said Sinclalr. “This invisible gov ernment should be punished be. fore we are. The Standard Ot! and/ its alles constitute an invisible government. “There are murderers at 26) Broadway. Rockefeller knows ev erything that 's transpiring in Col-| orado and is directing operations | there.” Rockefeller Statement | In reply to orlew of his ine view with Chairman Foster of the | congressional investigating cor mittee the junior Rockefeller t» sued a long statement last night. He and his father, he said, were interested only in the Colorado which, he as serted, controls but a third of Col- orado’s coal output, and besides this, said the statement, they are even in that eer ue Wairing this question, ho the oll king’s son went on to ar: gue that the company «ranted all ite men's demands before the strike was thought of. The only issue between the company and its men now, he asserted, is that of the open . “This,” he said, “is a matter of principle which we could not ac cede or arbitrate.” JUDGE IS DEAD Judge William H. White, one of the begt known men in the North- west, died this morning at Provt- dence hospital of erysipelas at the age of 75. He was at one time a/ member of the supreme Washington, April 29.—8e ven etrikebreakers were killed this h with striking coal miners, accord- Among the dead were ngs. Then they abandoned the camp. The mine guards and strikebreakers fied. The strikers were said to have berts,and ‘his wife and baby to/ leave before attacking the camp. Two troops of the Twelfth U. 8 cavalry reached Canyon City at noon and immediately detrained. | Regulars Relieve Militia They will occupy the mines In Fremont county this afternoon, re-| lieving the militia now on duty. The regulars were not mounted and will serve as infantry. | It was said today numerous| militia officers had resigned be- cause Gov. Ammons had asked for the regulars, thereby branding the state troops as incompetent. Scattered shooting about the Walsenburg hills was reported at noon. 20,000 Shots Fired Militiamen reached Louisville last night, after the strike leaders had declared a temporary truce at the Hecla and Vulcan mines. , | All firing had ceased, but the mt-| litia occupied the mines and hills and dispersed the strikers It was estimated that 20,000 shots were fired at Hecla yesterday. Throughout the day, 400 miners| lay in an irrigation ditch and at-| tacked the Hecla stockade. Late in the day the mine guards | turned water into the ditch in an} effort to rout the strikers, but failed. } Miners Keep Up Fire | ‘The miners stood in water up to} their arm pits, but kept up a con- | HOW JOLLY NICE! Members of the Chamber of Commerce will entertain J. H Estill, commercial superintendent of the London dock system, at tuncheon tomorrow the New Washington hotel. io tinual fire. Three strikers and| three guards were wounded during the firing, two probably fatally At Walsenburg, in the southern | Colorado fields, firing was still in progress today. court Of | hysterically, | sttempt be made at rescue. DENVER, April 29.—| } At 1:30 p. m. cchie Gov | Ammons said reports of a serious clash at Walse burg between strikers pase militiamen had just reach- ed him. He understood, he said, that the clash was precipi- tated when Col. Verdeck- |burg ordered the state |troops to charge the strik- ers, who were entrenched on a ridge west of town. Ong report indleates that five militiamen were killed,” sald Am:| mons. were sent to capture one section of strikers and that only two re turned. The other eight were sald to have been left dead on the fleld Officials of the United Workers here admit they had cetved reports that eight sold were slain at Walsenbure. 186 MEN GIVEN UP FOR DEAD IN’ EASTERN ECCLES, W. Va., Apri 29.—The last hope that any of the 186 min- ers, entombed by yesterday's ex- plosion in the New River Collieries company’s Number 5 mine . here wae abandoned today. Choked entrances, fire and gas filled tunnels made it Pecans. orf for rescuers to get into the work. ings, but Manager H. C. jens of the company and Chief Earl Henry of the state mine inspection serv- lee agreed there was nothing to bring out but re re Mine Number 6, though danger | ous, was not eo bad as Number 5. Of the 60 men who escaped from it alive, burned. Widows and orphans surround the mouths of the shafts, crying. and begging that an FORMER CONSUL NEW ORLEANS, April 29 | Bringing a cipher message from Former American Consul Letsh man at Frontera, Mexico, to Secre jtary Bryan, the steamer Living- stone arrived today from Mexico. Leishman, according to the eap- tain of the steamship, is held by Mexicans and has asked that a warship be sent to Frontera at once GRABBED IN GALVANIC 6 RASP OF MAIL BOX, JACKSON ST. FOLK LEARN TO DANCE THE TANGO Mine MINE: many were frightfully | HUERTA GETS COCKY AGAIN; FROST TONIGHT; The Seattle Sta THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, PEACE? MEBBE |Asks International Court of Mediation and Wants to Pick Half of Them. |GETS READY FOR WAR | Delay Afforded by Attempts to Settle Trouble WASHINGTON, April 29—A report this afternoon says the South American medi. be n the U. &. and Huerta had asked both sides to refrain from further military or naval movements, pending further ef. forts to re: peace. : BY JOHN EDWIN NEVIN WASHINGTON, Aprii 29.—The | Mexican situation apparently had resolved itaelf today into a diplo- a pusele. gontina ‘an@'Chile, reapectively, Were in almost constant conference at the Argentine legation They admitted privately their task was nearly an impossible one, but they declared, nevertheless, |that they had hopes of accomplish- Ing it. Exchange Messages President Huerta long messages were exchanged by telegraph. | Spanish Ambassador Riano, act Ing for Huerta, had frequent inter- views with Secretary Bryan | President Wilson and Secretaries | optimistic Secretaries Garrison and Lane of | ithe war and Interior departments, | ‘and Postmaster General Burleson did not try to hide their pessimism. It was understood they be- lieved ti ce negoti tions 8, Huerta doing his utmost to consolidate the various Mexican forces. It had leaked out that Huerta + bitration, with half It» members of | his own selection Won't Consider Demand President Wilson, according to all | accounts, would not consider such a | | plan, #ince it would amount virtual lly to recognizing Huerta At the pl junta here ft is in- sisted that Carranza and Villa were Jon the best terms, but government | officials doubt it They are convinced Villa is ir reconcilably at enmity with Huerta, |but that Carranza is believed to |favor a combination with him. | It is even reported the two are in communteation PLAN FIRLANDS DETENTION HOME TO HELP WOMEN Chief A, E. Griffiths and Health |Commissioner MeBiride will ask | | the city council to allow establish | ment of a women's detention home Jin a well-suited building, intended been used as a laundry at municipal sanitarium at Pir. nds, Little expense will be tn red, and no objection Is ex od. Women serving terms in the city | jail will be transferred to the home. The ideal surroundings of th | country place, it is hoped, will have |a beneficial effect on the unfor- tunates, | Diseased women will be assign- | | | | on ed spectal quarters. The plan has Mayor Gill's hearty Detective Majewski figures some-)teered to drop off on bis way home | approval body put one over on him, Residents in the vicinity of Jack son st. and Twelfth av. reported to the police that a mail box on| \their corner waw cutting up some-| thing dreadful | It was charged with electric cur-| rent, they said, and folks who came to post letters got free and patn-| ful lessons in the tango. And they couldn't break loose, It was mighty amusing to the lookers ‘on, | the box was only playing possum, | victima didn’t care much After a dozen of them had kicks, Majewski volun but the for it, registered | but to wupper and see what the trouble | was He wox “It's got a devil in tt,” od a squat little Jap. wan and touch it,” leered an other bystander Majewski did—very nothing happened Folks in the neighborhood figure | found a crowd around the volun te gingerly They still walk blocks to the next mail reeeptable to drop their let ters. ‘ROASTS POLICE ABERDEEN, April 29,—Poilee Captain Church received a tongue lavhing from Margaret Illngton, stress, yewterday, when he or |dered her chauffeur to the police station for violating the speed or. | dinance Hyatt-Fowells, 4th and Pine, has a rep utation of being thoroughly | high-elann. Tt i not the largest business school in the jetty, but it fs a nly the best | Advertisement Between the trio of mediators and | Bryan and Daniels were outwardly | Avother says ten soldiers| Dictator Takes Advantage of} that | } | wants an international court of ar-| | | | | |More than ever is his perennially Last || | EDITION VILLA STRONG EASTERLY BREEZE THAINS AND ANDN TALKS WITH By Fred L. rsa 1914, BOALT| . PASO, April 29.—I have seen and talked with Francis« fe is a name that is magic through all Mexico Delayed here on my way to Galveston, vere I probab e shi eithe Cruz or Tampico, 7 heard that Villa had come across the international br dge with Gene \ngeles and driguez, and was OG minted a suite of room at a spindle hotel ° his staff came down T her I went I sent up ca And the general and | P to the ny. New m h 1 Vi s lot here in El Paso. But Pred t. Beak | . » had come far, 1 explained ) he made me welcome most heartily Coa a ie | > We—the five of us—repaired to the cafe. Villa ordered drinks, taking ginger Inet ow tor | ale for himself. He does not use intoxicants. And, sitting there, he told me the the border story of his career phy ogee Gen, “I Villa, they call him, The “Pancho” stands for “bandit,” bat trouble. between bandit and soldier and victorious general, he is the idol of the Mexican people, 7 the United In a fertile valley among the bills that surround the Mexican city of Torreom in hin aoe there lived fifteen years ago a sturdy young farmer whose efforts supported Ris ~ aged parents and two sisters, both ing than himself. The ranch was small, yet there was none in all Durango more productive The Young Rancher, Francesco Villa. re The young rancher was Francesco Villa (pronounced Veeya), nieke named ho,” the same “Pancho” Villa who recently captured Tor reon and who is looked upon as the greatest fighting man In all turbue lent Mexico. Young Villa loved Lis sisters dearly Both of them were @z tremely beautiful Mext girle, dark, with long, straight, black hair and bis: ish brown, sparkling eyes that never were still, Of course, the Villa girls w popular with the neighboring young ranchers, who sought them as c sany on jong gallops over the roads through the woods adjoining Torreon. : whom Villa dis e There was a young magistrate in Torreon liked intensely Word eto “Pancho” that this magistrate was) seen ogling his eld sist Later Villa detected the pair in In rage he order his sister home clandestine meeting threatened the young magistrate with death should he dare set” foot on Villa property again. That night, upon his arrival at the ranch house, young “Pancho” commanded his sister to cease” her friendship with the magistrat The Villain Appears in Villa's Life. The senorita’s eyes filled with tears. She had become tm fatuated with the wealthy young man, At the morning meal next day the elder sister was missi A search of the house failed to reveal her. “Pancho” was ried. He discovered then that the young magistrate, too, disappeared. The pair had eloped. The brother's rage no bounds and at once he girded himself for pursuit. He galloped madly to the home of a priest whom he knew, — Get your horse and come with me,” were the” only words “Pancho” spoke to the man of church. The priest obeyed In silence they rode off into the bills, where Vita, was confi Pushing on, despii Pancho” and the priest came upon the couple in camp they had pitched in a sheltered nook. Villa said no word, but drew his revolve: 1s a dramatic scene. “Pancho” turned to the priest. |” larry them,” he ordered sharply. ‘usal was on the churchman’s lips, but a — ish of Villa's revolver caused him to comply. An Amazing Wedding; Then Murder. There in the dark of night, in the hills high Torreon, the marriage was solemnized. It was marriage accompanied by no words of congrati tion, no Smiles, no kisses, Within ten minutes from the time Francesco Villa's sister became the young magistrate’s bride she became his widow. t Searcely had the ceremony been said than V stepped between his sister and the magistrate. he turned to the priest Make ready a death warrant,” he ordered Again the churchman would have refused, i young “Pancho’s” revolver made him obey. Setsing the priest's leather bound book and tearing the fj leaf from it, Villa coolly wrote the words that death for his sister's abductor. At the point of pistol he made the priest sign the paper. Villa's Daring Life as a Bandit. A moment later a shot rang out. The offending © magistrate, a new husband, fell dead. A snapshot Villa ordered the priest to take his sister home. of Gen. Villa He galloped off into the darkness, His career as @ In the field, bandit began a wearing the For 14 years after that night's horror Villa was — typical Mexi- a bunted man. He roamed the mountains and 4 | can bilan pursued by Diaz’ relentless rurales. He had which take narrow escapes. He fought them back fiercely i the piace of | an overcoat in chilly weather. | ~— was often wounded, but he always got away, : Even then he was a hero among the peons. They — gave him shelter and food when they could. : And so the years passed until the Madero rebel lion began, Villa wanted to be a rebel, and he did take some part in the first revolution. Once he was captured and was in Jail for a time while Madero was president. Some how he escaped His fame as a leader and general has all come with the past @ year, He was in El Paso when Huerta became dictator, and he de termined to take the field as a guerrilla chieftain against the usurping president. a 4 wit six companies he crossed into Mexico. In a week he had 100 men. In a month 500. Then the dispatches in American pap began to tell about him—about his raids in northern Mexico and his» | defeat of detachments of federal troops. His first conspicuous success was the capture of Juarez, conspicuous because Juarez is just across the river from El Paso, His Rapid Movements Dismay Federals. Quickly arranging the orderly administration of Juarez as a rebel. ae he gathered his soldiers together and fell like a thunderbolt on @& superior force of federals who were leisurely coming up to Juares to or| |hang him, and utterly routed them at La Mesa. Before they could rally he marched straight for Chihuahua, their rear, and took this most important city and state capital northern Mexico. He was quick as a cat, and his rapid movements dismayed the olng federals. They retreated across a desert to the city of , on the Rio Grande. Villa sent a subordinate to beat them, e subordinate fought the federals for a week, but failed. Villa Tt was WOW! WHATAJOLT “What ho!” quoth the court, but the heart! Words to that effect fs sad.| “Yes, your honor,” replied Albert. “I had retained Will B. Morris, paid him $150, and he was to get some) .1., more money, but he didn't get it,! 6! and he withdrew from the case.” | 92!" "Tis crool! Others may laugh, of Will H. Morris, lawyer, tear-laden volce moist today. You may have in the past accused his tears as nature-fakes. You may have called them crocodile tears. h “‘Abem, ahem,” said Judge Fra- hurried to the spot and defeated them in an afternoon and an evening, But not today ter; “He got the $150?" utterly dispersing an army of 5,000, commanded by five of Huerta’s Yesterday afternoon, in Judge) Hess nodded |leading generals. r Frater’s court, Albert Hess, con “And now you want the court to| After Ojinaga came Torreon, and now- vieted in the federal court of white| appoint a lawyer for you?” \ Will Villa tackle the Americans next? slavery, Was up on a state charge. Another nod To me, here in EB! Pago, he said, as he had said many times before, a Albert wanted a lawyer appointed) “Very well, then, I'll appoint Will that he would not, “The Americans, he told me, “are my friends, by th court. UH. Morris.” (1 like them,” WHAT’S THE IDEA, LISTER? Why was John H. Wallace, labor representative on the workmen’s| What is this “friction,” governor? The public Is entitled to know, compensation board, fired, Gov. Lister? The public knows something of the work of John H. Wallace, and Let's have the real reason. |has been justified heretofore in the belief that he was working for the “There been friction between Wallace and Commissioners Ernst |common good. 4 and Daggett,” it is reported. But what has the friction been about? Just now, when an initiative bill to enact the “first aid” provisions Has It been friction over the “first aid” provisions which Wallace | into law is being circulated, it is a serious sethack, governor, TO FIRE has steadfastly championed, and which the lumber barons and the fish) THE ONLY MAN ON THE COMMISSION WHO HAS HAD THE COUR. trust have bitterly fought? AGE TO CHAMPION THIS BENEFICIAL LABOR MEASURE. 4 it been friction over Wallace's plan to abolish the hospital fee! Twice the standpat gang in the legislature has succeeded in defeat graft, which has been robbing laboring men of a million dollars a year| ing this measure in thie state? i 4 | Wallase iw thorn ss ele side. HAS IT BEEN BECAUSE WALLACE HAS REFUSED TO “BAR- nd Wallace is now dismiss GAIN” WITH INJURED WORKMEN AND HAS ADVOCATED PAY-| 18 THERE A DARK GENTLEMEN IN THE WOODPILE, GOV- ING THEM THEIR FULL COMPENSATION? leRNoes al