The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 19, 1914, Page 1

ALLEN DALE, MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP CHAMPION? AW, RATS! ALLEN DALE vociferous exponent of municipal ownership during the daya when he was a candidate for the city coun Cll, sustained a sudden and severe attack of icy feet when he Cc aM opportunity to uphold his preelection mouthings before a Mass meeting at Rainier Beach last night Dale had been extensively bi lled as one of the prineip speak Although he was in the hall during the eartier part of the even Ing, when they called on him for his speectt it was found he had quietly tucked his tall between hy is legs and sneaked away MORE THAN 45,00 their duty Byron. HO bids PAID COPIES DAILY THE TRULY brave are soft of rts and eyes, and feel for what them do.—-Lord VOLUME 16. ABOUT THIS ONE, GENTLE SIR? PLEADS WITH PROSECUTOR FOR HER BABY | : “I want my little baby girl : was the plea Mrs Edward Wright, in the trial?” to State’s Attorney J an't I have her with me Magdalena Werner made before the opening C of the second day of the woman's trial today She stopped the prosecutor in the hallway before going | to J ige Mackintosh's court She would be such a comfort to me, I think have her?” pleaded the mothe P room to again face the jury Can't I r, tears in her eyes The prosecutor told her she might see the little girl in} private. I'S THE BEST * SPOT TOLIVE, q LOOKATTHIS! ) WASHINGTON, May 19— Seattic ie the healthiest city in the union and Washington the “healtttiest state, according to statistics for 1913, issued here today by the census bureau. The death rate for the entire state of Washington is placed at 85 per thousand and that of Seat- tle at 8.4 per thousand. The death rate in North Caro- lina is the highest of any state in the union, with 16.8 per thousand. The hation’s death rate is 14.1 per thousand. The death rate of other cities follows: Los Angeles, San 14.3, and Philadelphia, 15. SETS TABLE FOR HUSBAND, THEN TAKES HER LIFE’ Mrs. Hiima Wiorone, 21, set out one plate, one cup and saucer, one knife and fork, etc. on the kitchen table of her home, at 224 27th av., yesterday afternoon, placed a bak- ing of bread beside it, then stop ped up the chinks of the kitchen door and windows, turned on three jets of the gas range, and ended her life. Wiorone found her when he re- turned from work last night. He carried her outside and summoned medical aid, but she was dead. A note, addressed to her hus- band, read “Worthful Dear: was made clear to me that I have done you so much wrong that my life will not be able to bear it. Bu the old saying is, ‘Death settles ev. erything,’ so [ have decided to set-| tle with death. I have caused you | too many sorrows for me to live. “HILMA.” HE WANTS IDEAS Chief Grittiths pr promises credit to officers on the police force who make suggestions for bettering the the police system. In a general or- der issued yesterday, he said he would welcome any ideas the men ander him might have. SPIRIT STUFF! Sam H. Newcombe, arrested ye day on a charge of steal- ng a case of tobacco, this morn- Ing in police court told Judge John B. Gordon he thought himself invisible at the time. He drew 30 days in which to fesume his earthly form. The mother’s face lighted up at his words Mrs. Werner seemed refreshed an | she entered the court room, She | smiled faintly as her three attorneys took their places and the grind of the day was on. Court Room Crowded The court room was crowded to its capacity, and bailiffs and court officials found difficulty in control- ling the mob of men and women) and many young girls who could not gain admittance. The court room, except for the se-! rious looks on the faces of the jury | and Judge, resembled a school scene as Assistant County Engineer W, H./ Nelson pointed out locations on a} map of the Werner ranch and the | vicinity of Issaquah. Mrs. Werner brightened as she talked with Counsel Poe about pic-| | tures of the ranch, | Mrs. Mary Sutter, a sister of the| accused, appeared in court for a mo- on the map. Bloody Mattock Introduced There was a noticeable tension in| the silent room as the bloody mat- evidence by the state. Mrs. Werner closed her eyes. Women in the audience shuddered. regained her composure. Attorney George H. Rummens, for defense, objected strenuously to photographs of Werner's body be- ing admitted. He was overruled by the court. Witnesses Missing The state annoyed in the jfallure of several important men | witnesses to show up when called. A suspicion of a smile went over the room as a court bailiff report ed that “two of them went off to- gether some place.” Attorney Rummens enlivened the proceedings yesterday afternoon, “sticking their bills into his busi | ness” every attempt he mado to see | various witnesses. He demanded the righ’ to inter. view Henry Werner, son of Mrs. Werner The court assured hir see the boy at any tim Six Women on Jury There are six men and six women jon the Jury which was chosen and |sworn as the session closed yester day. Mrs. Sophie Hall, the §-year-old he could mother of Mrs. the accused woman during recess: when she is permitted to be with h daughter. The affection shown by the two women {8 one of the features of the | trial. JOE KAUFFMAN FREED; BUT THEY - GRAB HIM AGAIN erty minutes, Joe has been in jail since last November. i | of grand larceny, on which he haa} [been held since he was dismissed | las a witness in the case against 8. Michaelson. But meantime Prosecutor Ken nedy found he wate wanted as a witness on another Cape. Just as Joe was getting ready to leave the courtroom a deputy sher [iff came and took him back to the jcounty jail THINGS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW ABOUT SEATTLE] Seattle is one pf the most important ports of the nation, Coast cities and the Orient—in fact, to all parts of the world. The city's annual water commerce aggregates $125,- 000,000. More raliway mail routes operate on steamers leaving and arriving at Seattle than from any other d American port. ched to the Orient through ment, to identify certain locations tock used in the crime was placed in| One jurywoman seemed faint, but Werner, is a constant companion of “Yesterday in our conversation it | panion of| | Joe Kauffman was given his lib- | O The meeting wae called at Dugdale’s hali by the Rainier Beach Boosters’ club, the dominating influence of which is B, B, Moser, a lawyer, to disc the matter of a new franchise for the Seattle, Renton & Southern railway, and, If possible, to slip through a reso- lution favoring It Raiph Nichols, Moser and others had It all cut and dried Dale was billed as one of the big guns of the meeting. He was expected to assist in getting the resolution over After the Moser-Nichols interests had occupied moat of the The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News The Seattle Star NO. 73. SEATTLE, WASH., GOING TO BE SOMETHING DOI (GOLLY, | GUESS I'D BETTER DUST UP DIS HEAH PLACE CAUSE | RECKON DEY "S GWINE TER BE SOME NEW MEMBAS _NITIATED * * * * * * * FOR DINNER YSTER BAY, L. Col, Roosevelt is expected home today by dinnertime. Wireless messages from the Booth liner Aidan, on which will reach quarantine about 4 p. m. It is not tions. Arrangements have been made for a launch to take him from pier at Sagamore Hill. All accounts agree that the ex-president, due to an abscess in the wonderfully on the voy: His family, howe’ rival and details of his plans a possible. Chea hake MAY 19, NG, ANYWAY! evening, the time of speeches was time. He was given 15 ] Couneliman Erickson refused |} them up. | “This thing of municipal ownership is not a battle, but a war,” said Erickson ter. of a municipal tin them were in hell i) “Lam getting sick and many a 1914, * * * TEDDY’LL BE HOME | when he accused deputy sheriffs of} TODAY 1, May 19—Oyster Bay is feverish with excitement. he Is a passenger, said the ship xpected that the colonel! will be delayed long, either by the health or customs regula- quarantine directly to the private thou jh very ill of fevers, and suffering from a wound 1g when he reached Para from the Brazilian Hinterland, jonably good health. not wearied by a demonstration on his ar- has picked up ELDRED COMES (CAMILA, DANCER, WwW | came back today at Wylie Hemphill, pr yesterday afternoon for four|has attempted to suppress the May | | Iasne, He was discharged on the charge |tain articles in the April iasue. RIGHT BACK AT | CARRIES PRAYER READ OF ALUMNI BOOK INTO COURT Gowned in brown, with a hat to match, her hair dressed low over her cheeks, Camila Casaleria, vau deville dancer, took the stand again today in Judge Gilliam‘s court to complete her testimony against Stewart Steele, a taxicab driver. Steel is accused of kidnaping Ca mila and driving her into the out skirts of the city in a taxicab, Andrew J. Eldred, editor of the| umnus, official publication of the ashington Alumni association, esident of the association, who} President Landes objected to cer | and forbade the issuing of this month's |numker on the campus. It was Miss Casaleri carried a small printed down town. prayer book with her to the stand | determined attempt to protect your private and political frieng, He | cussion until after tomorrow's meet | ing Eldred in a letter to Hemphill to- day some article of this last issue might jcontain a lead which, gated, would result in widespead in | quiry of | university funds.” by private families, which are pald for thi old. She said she had the book with her “Tl construe your action as a last the night of the alleged attack and that it rolled from her purse to the ground Bursar rbert T, Condon, from public dis of the board of regents,” said The Best Read Page Want page has be- come as interesting to The Star readers as the news of the day They have learned to watch for the opportunities that are always appearing and are ready to grasp the ones that appeal to them. Your Want Ad In The Star, no ter what {te nature, will be read by two-thirds of the people of Seattle and vicinity Phone Main 9400, ‘4 think you are afraid that, The Star if invest as to the propriety of some his actions as a ‘guardian’ of the Wired says he won't resign Australia avoids orphan asylums vending parentless children to eir care until they are 14 years i MAN WHO WORE ARTIFICIAL NOSE DIES, A SUICIDE | Despondent |health, B, E, | Chilberg av. over prolonged {ll Hawkins, 35, 4014 hanged himself to a real estate sign at the corner of W Andover and Hillcrest av., in a lone- ly spot overlooking the bay, then shot himself twice through the head, at 2 o'clock this morning. Hawkins, who had suffered from cancer and wore an artificial nose, | was well known around town He was a married man, though }with no children. Until a fe months ago he was advertising so- licitor on an evening newspaper. That he was not troubled over his financial condition developed when the police found a bank book, showing he had deposited $1,452.10 May 12, in the National Bank of Commerce, In his pockets was also found a $20 bill and $4.35 in silver, The suicide was reported to the police at 7 o'clock this morning by H, S. Ralston, 4137 Hillerest av,, who found the body A street in Lyons—the Rue de la Republique—is paved with glass The blocks are eight inches square | and so closely fitted that water ¢ J not pass between, minutes. Lawyers have caused all of the trouble in the establishment ‘or Gill declared he favored a municipal line paralleling the reduced to five minutes. | to take the floor for such a short Then he proceeded to burn 6, R. & &., and was unalterably opposed to giving that line another franchise Councilmen Cooley and Lundy opposed the franchise, and sald they would go down the line with Erickson, Councilman Fitzgerald said he would have to be shown before he would vote for a fran chise, And Counciiman Hesketh said he would stick with the Erick. son forces until shown something better Each of these speakers was roundly applauded. Then Coun- ciiman Allen Dale was called upon. It was learned he had sneaked from the hall with all of the noise and clamor of a mo AST EDITION and tired of lawyers in this mat time | have wished that half of WEATHER FORECAST — Fair tonight and Wednesday; light vari- ON THAINS AND able winds, becoming easterly. NEWS BTANDS. fe ONE CENT “The treatment of patients (at the King county hospital) is brutal. I have heard ii] them scream for help and their cries would not be answered. As soon as a patient can get out of bed he is made to work. I was made to pass milk around, although | was barely able to stand on my feet. Penniless as | am, | would rather take my chances on the street than return to the King county hospital.”’---From the sworn state- iii] ment of William J. Meister, consumptive. I received no medicine ICVEVERAL weeks ago, after aged, haired David McKenzie, | sioner, was brutally beaten up by young and | lected at the hospital. whatever, except a little cough medicine, 4 which gave me no relief. Dr. Wooden came around once a day and would take a look and gray- county commis- | f, . powerful Dr. Waldo Richardson, superin- > tendent of the King county. hospital, ap- tea cae in ee and pointee and henchman of Lafe Hamilton, Mc- | WOWw@ not know him be , although I was confined at the hospital for nine weeks, My food was poor. “As soon as a patient can get out of bed he is made to work. I had to pass the milk around, although I was barely able to stand on my feet because of weakness. The same Kenzie's enemy, The Star exposed instances of Richardson's brutality to the sick and crip- pled at the hospital and called on the bruiser- superintendent to resign A committee of physicians was selected | stiga ardso! A 4 “ | pected, his fellow docs smeared on a thick The treatment of the patients is I 7 have heard them scream for help and their cries would not be answered. A patient to whom I served milk, named Thornton, suffer- ing from what they called tubercular menin- — gitis, was out of his head and would scream. They tied him in bed and left him The same is true of a patient named Wil: who died while I was there. “All things considered, penniless as I am, I would rather take my chances on the street and depend upon the uncertain and cold char- ity of the world than return to the King county hospital.” ae coat of whitewash, although certain changes in the conduct of the hospital were recom- mended. The whitewash is now growing very thin in spots. Following is an extract from an affidavit sworn to by William “J. Meister, jbefore John T. Casey, notary public, in this jcity, recently. Meister, who has consumption, jhas been sent back to Minneapolis, his home, }to die | “I came to Seattle in 1909 and have resjded here since,” reads the affidavit. “I am a |marble cutter by trade and am stricken with | tuberculosis of the kind commonly known as |‘stone cutter's consumption.’ Although I am pan sick and cannot live a I was neg- Ce ee ee RICHARDSON, INCIDENTALLY, H. NOT TAKEN THE STAR'S ADVI HE F HAS NOT YET RESIGNED. ‘Bk MOVIES? “HUSBAND IN FEAR YOUNGSTOWN, O., May 19. Gen. Villa’s campaign, which TACOMA, May 19.—The divore-| tracted leprosy out there, and Taw culminated In the Mexican reb- | o4 wife of John R. Early, the leper,|sau didn’t, Barly didn't know he els’ capture of Torreon, was | is in terror today. For Early has|was a leper when he wooed staged throughout, at the cost wae ope ie - {ren oe era eye Army lassie nd George ‘ausau, the mai jattsburg, N. Y. of hundreds of lives, for the | wi4 won Mrs. Karly from her hus: Specialists Disagree convenience of moving picture {band and married her, fears for} But he found it out soon after, operators, wa asserted here his life. At first it was an almost imped today by J. M. Woltz, an offi- Once before the Tausau family | ceptible rash. A learned bhai clal of a local steel company, Was thrown into a state of turmoil / said the rash might be leprosy, He just back from Mexico. —the time Dominic Batori was at|was isolated in a place on the Po Villa originally planned to attack | | large. tomac river. Torreon at night, sald Woltz, and| Batori was a leper friend of| Then another and equally learn- — probably would have taken {t in| Early's at Diamond Head quaran- short order had he done so. The} tine station. He escaped. It was representatives of a Los Angeles | reported he intended to wreak his ed man of medicine said the rash was not leprosy. Early was libers — ated. But by then the suspicion of “movie” company protested, offer-| friend Farly’s vengeance. taint was on him, He was shunned, ing Villa $50,000 for exclusive A policeman stood guard for) reviled, driven from town to town, rights In the fight films and a day-|days over the Tausaus, and the| from state to state. light battle |three children that Early’s wife Move to Tacoma They came from Los Angeles to Tacoma—came like thieves in the night. Posing as “John Westall, ” Early bought a five-acre tract at Summit View, near Tacoma. An acre of his five acres he set apart for John Karly, the leper, — On it a two-room house. Around it a barricade of two wire fences, each six feet high, which he might never pass; nor might anyone en- ter to him. There he would remain until death The plan would enable him to be near his wife and babies, to even see them through the wire stockade, That was all he asked, There Tacoma found him out= he and his family. And Tacoma asked the whole world, what to do with him, “They threatened to blow up my house,” Early said once. To get this money, Woltz asserts | took from him, when she left him. the rebel leader delayed the assault And now Early is at large. until dawn, with the result that}; Tausau was a soldier in the Phil- the federal held out for days,|ippines, the same as Early. The killing about 1,000 rebels. only difference was that Early con- MELLEN SHIFTS BLAME ON MORGAN ‘The in-{ He admitted this was how the af-} side story of the undoing of the! fair had worked out, saying that New York, New Haven and Hart-| while others “had gone to Carls- ford R. R. was told before the In-| bad,” he had been left to face the terstate Commerce Commission to-| music. day by Chas. S, Mellen, former] Mellen then told a tale of the president of the corporation. | juggling of millions, z WASHINGTON, May 1 In re se to questions by So-| The soldiers of the Philippines Heitor Folk, Mellen said Ashamed of Hie Part came to see Karly. It was tial “I was president of the Northern) Mellen’s letter files indicated | Tausau met the leper’s wife. They Pacific R. R. for six years, The/ that mmany hal) had to be| became good friends. Tausau saw late J. Pierpont Morgan made me “taken care of” in connection with | her often. president of the New Haven. the Westchester deal Ang meer’ 's smile was ever more’ ‘ “I firmly believe,” added Mellen,| “I don't feel proud of the part “that the Westchester & Port Ches:|played in the Westchester dea ter railway systems were both sald Mellen, “I should never have projected for the sole purpose of|been dragged into it. But even I ‘holding up’ the New Haven.” | was kept in the dark until all the Predicted He'd Be Goat | details had been arranged, J, Pier- From his letter files, Mellen pro-| POMt, Morgan and Wm, Rockefeller approved the deal Finslly Mrs, Early obtained a at vorce and married Tausau, She took the children with her. Headed for Canada Early was furious—embittered against all the world. When they duced a remarkable prophecy he! “Poy iy . 3 sent him to the quarantine station, wrote in 1907, It referred to the; Mellen said that be clashed only | near Port Townsend, he was in @ Westchester deal, wherein ‘the! with Morgan and that he | page ¥ New Haven road paid 000,000 | emerged worsted, humiliated and) “Party escaped last Friday and for 26 miles of raflroad and fran. Shamed headed for Canada, Nobody knows chises, Mellen wrote how he got away, but Saturday @ Many repptations will be dam Acting President Landes, uni-| Diamond Mead attendant received sged, and in the end I will be the/| versity, may attend Mackinac con-]a letter from him, dated Victoria, goat.” ference directing disposal of bis effects,