The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 8, 1914, Page 1

2 4 | | ‘GYPPED, MAYBE! ET’S make it a whirlwind finish in the Hamil- ton recall. Let's volunteer our services Sat- urday and Sunday. Let's meet at the Recall headquarters in the Lippy building, Saturday afternoon, get one of those petitions, circulate it, and get it signed up. Members of the labor unions MORE THAN 45.000 PAID COPIES DAILY . WEATHER FORECAST — R. tonight and Saturday; modera southerly winds. VOLUME 16. | THIS will meet at the Lippy building Saturday after- noon for that purpose. Members of the Com- mercial club have already rolled up their sleeves and are on the job. It’s a cinch to get signatures to recall Hamilton. He has been the biggest cause of high taxes in King county. Workingmen, The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News he Seattle Star NO. 63. SEATTLE, WASH,, | U.S.SHIPS HUERTA Dictator Gives Orders for Ces- sation of Trade With This Country. MORE TROOPS ASKED Admiral Mayo Anxious About British Interests at Tampico. HELD BY) 3 A\\'// oy WASHINGTON, May 8.—Admiral Howard reported to the navy de- partment today that Huerta had @rdered that no American vessel be permitted to clear from Mazat- Tan. ‘The message is dated yesterday. Howard's message said also that Obregon, the Mexican commande, a establishment He also promised to protect non- combatants and foreigners. Howard's message also declared VERA CRUZ, May 8. —The Mexican woman arrested here several days ago, charged with “snip- ing” American blue- jackets and marines was ound guilty today by the court martial which tried her, sentenced to six months’ imprisonment— and released. Her release was by Gen. Funston’s order. “‘T’'m for any woman with nerve enough to shoot for her country,” he said. that many Americans were inside the rebels’ lines and did not care to leave. Mexican vessels were forbidden to clear for American| ports. The order indicates. that) | likewife | “~. eo | \! r / \SIMMIE-E-E - </|GET YOUR SHOES |ANO STOCKINGS |ANO COME IN THE | Z\MOOsE AT ONCEY yp ns . = File FTER® Huerta wishes all trade between the two republics stopped. NOW WHERE DYU - — i} WASHINGTON, May 8.—A threat from President Huerta to with- draw from mediation was contain- ed today ina protest against the diseretionary authority given Gen. » Funston to advance the American lines beyond the Vera Cruz water- works. The dictator asserted this amounted to a violation of the terms of the armistice. MONEY'S GONE? ST. PAUL, Minn, May 8.—As sistant Attorney General Wm Stevenson, who has charge of the collection of Minnesota's Inher. itance taxes, is planning an inves tigation of the value of the estate left by the iate Frederick W Weyerhaeuser, the timber king. As reported to the state authori VERA CRUZ, May 8.—Refugees|tiex, the estate represented only from Mexico City say that the death | 975,900. was rumored there of Querido Mo-|” gtevenson _ believes heno, minister of commerce and in-| haeuser's fortune dustry, and ex-minister of foreign| Jonn D. Rockefeller, affairs. lsomewhere between $100,000,000 Some reports have it that he died} ang 1,000,000. from an unknown cause and was)” secretly buried. her, mid Stevenson, the late |timber magnate made vast gifts | before his death, or the bulk of his | PICKETS WEAR jini" leo es K BLACK SHROUD cans on WA NEW YORK, May 8.—Albert| Turner, shrouded in a black, hood-| King county democrats will hear ed gown, who walked up and down|an address by Dudley G. Wooten in front of the homes of John D.| Saturday noon at the Good Kats Rockefeller, sr. and jr, with ajcafeterla on the subject “Mexico band of pickets similarly garbed,| and the Mexican War.” was arrested yesterday. He was| J. Lindley Green of Seward. arraigned with in night court, charged | Alaska, will speak on “How to De masquerading on the streets,' velop Agriculture in Alaska THINGS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW ABOUT SEATTLE S ‘rammed f was settled as a lumber camp in 1852. It was named for Chief Seaith, a friendly Indian, who died in 1866, nd is buried on the Suquamish vation. Hostile In- dians atternpted to wipe out the settiernent in 1856, but were defeated in a fierce battle by men landed from the U. 8. sloop Deatur, then in harbor. Seattle's growth has been remarkable, From a population of 80,671 in 1900, the city has developed into a@ metropolis of 304,136 today, making it the most important city west of Milwaukee and north of San Francisco. LEED HAS LOTS OF JOBS NOW, THANKS | It's a funny Httle old world. And| The superintendent in charge of | not such a bad one after all. \the new steam plant on Lake Union ‘ jeame to | ‘6 home and offered Yesterday a man came into The | nim temporary work, which Leed Star office in whom hope had been | accepted completely knocked out. ] Gets a Permanent Place | Today, the same man looks out! But this morning Leed got a permanent Job from the Union Otl upon the world in a most optimistic | reine ail start work there | way. Monday Yesterday, he was out of a fob. This morning the telephone bell His wife and three bables were fac was still jangling with offers to help Leed And from Everett came this tele- gram from BE. A. Sims “Your paper of tonight has pitiful tale of man named Leed requiring employment. Send Leed to my manager, J. O’Con- ner, taking message that | ing starvation Today he’s at work. He had his score of jobs which had 1 him. All winter long the man bad tram i the streets looking for work—-any kind of a Job. Has Many Chances | The man ne ed Be Po i chao want him given employment were, 10 at edd ie an | somewhere, at least to tide him tut in Girt funny world, stil over until my return.” and Cre job failed to meet un Leed was in The Star office again yesterday this ing, look ye PI Hardie: baa ‘Phe ‘Star éoine oft|*= morning, looking years younger. His heart words. 1 want to thank all the good peo- ple who offered to help me,” he said. I never knew there were so many kind people.” At noon today was too full for mar the press yesterday afternoon, con re ny taining the story of C. F. Leed, who had determined to ask the mayor to lock his family in jail to save th from hunger, when the tele phone began to buzz with offers of a contribution of help 15 from friends at the office of o eareen soto came direct Pacific T, & T. Co. and $5 ed's home from Peter Peterson, 160 28rd av., << One Man Leaves OF ware received at The Star office. ; wo railroad om pan The money was sent to hts jobs home Manager McKenzie of the Metro. politan was anxious to put Leed to work his family te t at th place until they got on thelr feet again Manager Johnson, of the WASHINGTON, May 8 Secre restaurant on Washington st, had| tary Daniels planned to sail at mid a job for Leed night on the Mayflower to join the A. Reed, president of Ole|cruiser Montana, carrying the bod: & Co., left $5 for Leed jos of the marines and bluejackets Elliott Bay Yacht & Engine| killed in the oceupation of Vera Co. had a job for him Crug, off the Virginia capes « |ean thelr | | threats of landing U. 8. sailors were | war upon defenseless Americans, | have suf- fered by his extravagance, mismanagement, and | housewives, business men—all classes loose transactions. The Hamilton-Upper auto outlying districts in the deal is only one of numerous deals in which Ham- ilton played King county for the goat. People | have made special trips from the country and the | petitions to them Saturd IT quarters to sign the petition. Holmes to deduce that if everyone city to the Recall head- Let’s take the jay and Sunday, and we'll tie the can to Lafe Hamilton good and plenty! AST EDITION DOESN'T take Sherlock closes up like a clam when you en- ON THAINS AN NEWS RTANDS. fe FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1914. tera ONE CENT YEARNED TOKILLA MEXICAN } | | American Girl Is Heroine of | | Capture of Vera Cruz | by Marines. |WAITED WITH RIFLE | Faced Death in Her Home for | 18 Hours While Waiting for Soldiers. By W. H. Durborough | tar Staff Correspondent.) | RA CRUZ, May 8.—Mies Ciar- ita Cameron, 19-year-old American girl, le the heroine of the hour In Vera Cruz. Everybody, soldiers, sailors, ma- Fines, all admit more heroiom larita than in any warri 'Y- She sat on the top stair in her |home here for 18 long hours without | sleeping, rifle in hand, waiting ex- |pecting every minute that a horde! of brutal Mexican raffians would) burst in the door ond try to drag her with the retreating Huerta army into a captivity far more dreaded than death itself! Save Their Last Bullet By her side, during all those sleep- }leas hours, stood her father, saving! jone last bullet, which would have} saved his daughter from Mexican} jhands, had they been overpowered | Jarge numbers! | Misx Cameron and her father be-| vigil when the first! made. Mexican toughs then started thelr! Women Are Insulted Insults and threatae were heaped upon women and girls The Camerons, unable to get} through the city to the protection of- the American warships fn the har- bor, barricaded their doors and win- | dams took up their rifles and walt- ry |. Was the frightened? She was not! At least she in front of the wr |emy, little American girl id so when seen ked naval acad- Wanted Chance to Kill “It was a great experience,” she sald. “T really wished the Mexicans would invade our home, because it would be giving me a chance to get jeven for the insults that I was |forced to take from bandits at our ranch, 57 miles west of here. “L could have killed any number jof Mexican ruffians without a bit lof feeling, because I think they are | |the most despicable people on the} earth.” The Camerons are refugees from the interior. Miss Cameron was educated in Erle, Pa., and at the completion of |her school work joined her father in Mexico. ‘MASKED HOLDUP ROBS A TAXICAB A LA BLACK BART In true Bla Bart fashion a masked highwayman, armed with a big revolver and wearing a black mask, held up a taxicab at 24th and Marion st., at 3 a. m. today. The robber got nothing for his trouble. The taxicab was driven Miss Clarita Cameron, heroine of 18-hour watch, standing in front of the naval academy wrecked by shell when American marines and lors occupied Vera Cru: COUNCIL VOTES TO By a vote of 7 to 1, the council this morning voted Itself the priv ilege of disregarding the charter provisions with reference to fran-|thing about franchises, the court chises in extension lines | held. In this manner, the city conced- | 5 ed its defeat, after four years of | f) fighting in the attempt to compel the traction company to make chase the lines without paying any thing for the m franchise. . jckson voted | solution to disregard | “\- Ww. referendum, or by any char- ter amendment, in franchise mat- ter. The legislature and the coun- cil alone had the right to say any- street car extension under fran- chises providing for common user Councilman against. the by Ed- the charter provisions, which had win D, Schretber, for the Independ-|}con. three times — attirmed by al - ent Touring Car company. Thel vote of the people. Councitman | A. Estus, 4902% Rainier av., robe went Meng Ae Schreiber’s | tegketh refused to vote, and Coun-| was fined $25 and costs this morn- ee tus big kie bape ieb cilman Lundy told the large delega-|ing by Justice Fred Brown, after i ; onceal:! tion from the outlying district |the near 3 ¥ 5 | earing of the comp! 3. od his wealth, $6. who have been obliged to walk a .6t: Oe sompialnt at: —— jw. ¢ il, a brother-in-law, who said Estus beat him up badiy last month, Estus gave notice of ap- peal to the superior court, O'Neil ts assistant custodian at the ederal building, and lives with |his family at 6517 57th av. S. How. ard Hstus declares he and his two brothers, W A. and Allen, took punishing O'Neil, whom they several blocks to the ear lines be-| cause the company refused to make | extension, that he voted for the reso- lution with the reservation of sean ning each franchise application. He predicted that the company, |having gained its point will show Upton Sin-|no particular inclination to extend & to Colorado to work | its lines. e strikers e charter p' ions ¢9 j turns of the strikers] While charter provisions cannot | {ine MMNsiins SINCLAIR GOES TO COLORADO NEW YORK, May 8 clair is gol in the interests there The picketing of the Roeke-| ordinarily be disregarded by the fellers’ offices by men and womenjcouncil, the supreme court had | wearing moruning for the strikers| paved the way for today’s aetion| Myatt-Fowells, #th and Pine, has a rep who have been Killed was con-|by declaring that the people Nad [i 9. Gro targone buslnten womat sae hs tinued no voice whatever, either by int city, but it is unquestionably the best.— — up this morning before Judge Gam room, you were getting yours. IS WHAT THE LAW DOES TO YOU | IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT THE DOUGH! [eG TO THE SoM JOE KEPT. INACELL 102 DAYS Now, After Three Months oF So, Kanffman, the Witness, Gets a Hearing. |HE WAS PENNILESS — Couldn’t Put Up Bond, So Our Inexorable Law Made Him Suffer for It. Joe Kauffman is still in jail. Joe is the one, you remember, who wrote to The Star on March stating that he had been in jail as a witness against 8. Michelson since January 16. Kauffman has no money or — friends to aid him in his fight: for justice. Being poor, the only thing he could do was to yield gracefully when the strong arm of the law THREW HIM INTO A CELL TO WAIT. He's been doing a lot of Idle waiting, because the law wanted him and feared he might not be | on hand when the time rolled. | j around. If he had been the possessor of $250, the law would have let him go his way, for the receipt of the sum, until the case was ~ called. THE MARKED MAN- NER IN WHICH THE LAW DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN RICH AND POOR IS VIVIDLY SHOWN IN THE CASE OF KAUFFMAN. “Michelson’s case has been com — tinued and recontinued so many times it begins to look like T to serve a life sentence just me witness,” said Kauffman at |time, “I am supposed to know something of this case Michelson’# ~ [mixed up in, but I don’t. I only |saw him once in my life.” Joe’s Still in Jail | Michelson’s case final trial this week. | He was convicted by a jury Tues day evening of grand larceny in case which charged him with the |}purchase of stolen wire from the Lake Burien line last June. But Joe is still in jail. He proved a poor witness. He clung to his story that he didn’t “h anything on*Michelson,” and failed to identify the man in court. |And so the state did not even call him as a regular witness in the © case, although it had held him In jail since January 16 for that very purpo: KAUFFMAN WAS HELD To |THE COUNTY JAIL BY THE | PROSECUTING ATTORNEY'S OF. |FICE AS A WITNESS FOR 102 DAYS! AND NOW HE iS STILL | THERE, BUT WITH A CHARGE OF GRAND LARCENY AGAINST HIM! “Newly discovered evidence by two witnesses,” warranted the filing of information against him conneet- ing him with the theft of the Lake Burien trolley wire—the same case jin which Michelson was convicted, | Says He Bought Wire | Any way you look at things, it | hasn't been a very rosy 1914 for | | came to Joe. Here's a little more of his story. “I was arrested last November, jabout the 14th, and tried before | Judge Gordon on a vagrancy or dis lorderly charge, I was not quite sure |what it was,” said Joe. “At that time some copper wire T had was introduced as an exhibit, I bought |that wire in Brewster, and have a | pill of sale for it from a man named Martin Saw Michelson Once “1 was sentenced to serve 30 days and pay a fine of $30, 1 served 63 jdays in the city stockade, and was |then remanded to the county jail in |the Michelson case. I saw Michel |son once. I went to sell him some | wire, and he refused to buy it “I did see him again, come to think of it. One day an officer pointed him out in a hallway at the court house and said, ‘You know him, don't you? told him I did not and he said, yes, you do; that’s Michel “Wh son.” Kauffman’s preliminary hearing on the grand larceny charge came x 4