The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 20, 1914, Page 1

“A. B.” C" Mediators Optim-}* 00 YOU GO TO THE MOVIES? \ MORE THAN | 45,000 PAID COPIES DAILY GEN. DE LA 0. has cast his lot with Huerta, He'll be a good hand to do the hollering when Villa takes Mexico City, VOLUME io JOHANNA HILTS FIRED Johanna Hilts, a Seattle girl, foray been fired. i It developed today that “ hen Mi poenaed to testify in the hed arings to forewoman at the laundry, § said: Miss Hilts’ offense cx hearing. ee HY NOT KEEP POSTED, THEN ON WHAT'S GOING ON? ON PAGE 3, EVERY DAY, THE STAR TELLS YOU THE FILMS THAT ARE BEING SHOWN AT ALL IMPORTANT THEATRES The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News ~ The Seattle Star WASH.,, WE NO, 74. SEATTLE, ar past a faithful employe in the Troy laundry, has Hilts returned from Olympia, where she had been sub- ix a minimum wage for laundry girls, Mrs. May Jeffries, “You haven't any job here. wnsisted of telling the truth about the girls’ condition in the Olympia You're fired.” Miss Hilts gave evidence regarding the wages of the laundry girls, and conditions under BELMONT’S CHORUS | GIRL-BRIDE TELLS | STARTLING STORY: By Nixola Greeley-Smith | i r) Mrs, Raymond Belmont, wife of the for, ‘>¢ eo mang yd saccade tie second son of one of the richest men of per sins pig eT Re in the United tes, has just re- nt to begin by saying that | cetved from a New York court an wl aR neh "deat ge Hd allowance of exactly $100 a month mya Gun 5 de nat Om to be paid to her by the young hus- would have teft me if band who deserted her a few days ther had not worked on his after the ceremony which made her Sher eatucats. The oe August Belmont’s daughter-in- ee . f the Belmont millions was pire. Belmont does not believe fed against Raymond's love pie me, and that money won day.” young woman who captured th ARB ITRATION | Re terest of the heir to millions n ver’, slender and has a long Ort- 3 MEX. FUSS iat set with strange, dia- of Br 10g ig Belmont left her of his own rord ated in the office of her attor- yot acq | mond-ths mapas eyes of a smouldering ay. bar A] precy is attractive without Pihough she is now only 24 the unmistakable stamp sed {a cut deeply upon ft. Raymond Belmont wet ‘wat barely 18—under pene ge. From that time we They pon always together. istic as ov hee Raymond told me that First Day's Session. are ie in his own set are ern | re bgkulls.' ‘I'd marry one of WILSON ON THE WIRE} tramPt) could find one that had ttle sen said, ‘but | ont : United States Envoys Keep| Such ajthing doesn’ ee ee i * ” jhe wedding ymond tel- President Posted by Long- | | Atter 1 °\partment and told Distance Phone. | my maid © Prepare a wedding feast land to hay® ® lot of wine. id had not been drinking rere married, but at that wards he did drink a NIAGARA FALLS, May 20. Back Ditration of the United States and/ Mexican differences was scheduled | to begin here today. The “A. B.C.” mediators were! hopeful. Minister Naon of Argentina spoke in an especially optimistic tone. Not only, he said, did he think the American-Mexican trouble would be | settled, but he believxed the con- ference would have a far-reaching effect in cementing good relations between North and South America. Stay on American Side The Americans, Justice Lamar and Frederick Lehmann, stopped at the Prospect house, on the Amert can side, in the interests of speedier communication with Washington. “Raym when we party aft o’cloc« that night Henry Ned and demanded to were married. rriage certificate was then he where ped at it and the bedroom 4s sleeping. s the way you married he said, turning back} with a sneer went away and at 3) eturned with August | him, Into the roc Well, bh o'clock he Belmont, Jr. “The | ter woke up his ed him if he d. Raymond said | A special telephone wire con hen August looked pects their suite with the White dreadful sneer | jouse, remark. Besides the mediators and en ‘Look he! voys, there is present a small licked you many a army of newspaper men you make another Welcomed by Canada that I'll knock you At 11 o'clock Lamar, Lehmann| remark likey i. window. and their secretary, Percival Dodge,| clean throug, aiy got him to go formally their respects to the Well, they §, mediators, calling on them at their| “way with thet. ooo. he said he hotel When he cab rather's office, but The mediators and envoys, both Was going to he id not tell for several da American and Mexican, were wel- her had sald—only comed to © ada by Sir Jos. Pope,|ine what his fa nt was so ‘hurt and nder secretary of state; | that Mr. Belmdpt, “2s ng Wert ane of Agriculture Berrill and | stunned’ that about it.” MOTHER JONES FOREST FIRES (MOTHER OS THREATENING MANY CAMPS. EMGRIALDAY worker, who} “® Sen. Lougheed, of the upper house famous la bo Forest fires are burning today in| by soldiers durf'® the Colorado the vicinity of Martha's lake, eight | strike troubles, wil! be the central miles northeast of Bothell, on the s Memorial day Everett interurban road Reuse cggae OE by socialist The fire started Jast night and| exercises to be # spread quickly through a large ter-| and labor men. 4), “ ‘ ritory of timber. Meager informa A big parade wi) Maren throu tion was received at horlff's| city strecta andi end at @ gran office today stand. in the vacg™* lot. behind the Loget camps are in the threat-| Washington hotel, | ey ofthe ened region Another small fire A, Hutchinson, rr mittee, re started at the Everett Logging Co. | Joint Momorial dd’ Comm tee. tract, near Everett |ceived a«° telegr@™ today A torce of fire fighters are at-|“Mother” Jones, Accepting the gattle | tempting to check the flames. THINGS YOU OUGHT 1D KNOW ABOU _ SEATTLE f Seattle has a free public library containing 206,Po2 volumes on January 1, 1914. Andrew Carnegie donated $22 t ation to visit S¢ the erection of the main building, the city providing\tne remain der and a site which cost $100,000. An ample maripnenen fund has been supplied by the city, There are e iidings. libraries, five of which are housed in permanent) pulldings: During the year 1913, 951,063 volumes were issued fo Millions visited the several reading rooms. PRETTY BRIDE OF NEW YORK TRACTION MAGNATE’S SON mont, | who tells a staff writer of The ir how the miilion- aire father of her young husband stole him away from her, and has now | given her a $100-a-month allowance “The power of nt millions,” she pitted against | FINANCIERS WILL ATTACK MELLEN WASHINGTON, May 20.—Justifi-| times its original cost. cation will be the plea of Wm. G.| Attorneys for the financiers in- Rockefeller and other financiers to| sist that no act on which criminal charges by Chas, S. Mellen, former | proceedings could be based has president of the New York, New been divulged. & Hartford, before the Inter-| They say it is solely a question state commerce commission that|of whether the New Haven pels the New Haven road paid millions | too much for the Westchester road. |for the Westchester line, when in Mellen said the real trouble in| reality the stock, according to Mel- the New Haven-Boston & Maine |len, was not worth more than “10 merger was the latter’s ownership | cents a pound.” of trolley line: This, he said, Mellen’s judgment will be criti-| started the original criticism of the cised by the financiers, who will) amaigamation. also assert that the Westchester The witness also denied that the road is a six-track nd eventually w BECKER DEFENSE DEALT A SEVERE BLOW BY JUDGE high-power line be worth thre profits resulting from the deal ex- eeded $2,000,000. NICE SHIP, THOUGH, OUTSIDE OF THAT! ST. LOUIS, May 20.—Be- cause a crew of bedbuge boarded Missouri's navy— cruiser Isle de Luzon— while the relic of the battle of Manila bay lay at anchor in the harbor here, the Mis- souri naval militia may be , TORR, May, '20.—'ERe “ae without @ fighting ship. for teue of the trial of some time. or, charged with Secretary Daniels has Hh rman Rosentha complained that the gallant . craft has been sadly neg ee lected by the Missouri re. ing _Clrofies had exon asrves, crime, “so far as he knew Anti- Speeding Judge Is Caught With the Goods BERDEEN, May 20.—When T. B. Breuner, a prominent A attorney, was stopped by an officer on the charge of auto- mobile ng, he was told to appear before Judge Snyder for trial. Scrutinizing the passenger in the rear the officer found that he was none other than Judge Snyder, trying to hide his face with his hat. Judge Snyder has been fining every one arrested for speeding. 4 = L WEATHER FORECAST — Fair tonight and Thursday; modérate easterly winds. EDITION THAING ONE CENT Shwiter’ AND DNESDAY, MAY 20, 1914. ! which they work. She took occasion to say to Frank Nixon, of the Raymond steam laundry, Raymond, Wash., a member of the committee who advocated allowing laundry girls 10 cents for each meal: “Jt’s easy enough for you to say that girls can eat on 10 cents a meal. Talking | that way doesn’t hurt your stomach and it doesn’t make your heart faint and your head swim as you slave, slave, slave. Your meal at noon today cost $2.40 for yours¢ If. You've allowed yourself at one sitting more than you would give a laundry girl all week. Today the state labor commission is holding a session in Seattle. Johanna Hilts is going | to get her job back, or the commission is going to know why. | STEROID SRE ans = ace AREER, STATE OFFICIALS PREPARING CRIMINAL CHARGE AGAINST MANAGER WHO FIRED’ GIRL May 5, On Tuesday, Miss Johana Hilts, employed in the Troy laundry, managed by B. F. Ivy, received a summons to serve on the advisory committee investigating minimum and other rkers. the wages for laundry She told Ivy of women w« summons. He gave his permission for her to go. | At Olympia, Miss Hilts served on the committee and gave testimony regarding wages land conditions under which girls work in laund | When she returned to her work at Troy laundry, Monday morning, she was in- tformed by Mrs. May Jeffries, the forewoman, that she was “fired,” and that her place had jbeen filled by another girl Miss Hilts, discharged for failing to notify Mrs. Jeffries that she was going to Olympia. | surprised, took up the matter with Ivy, the manager, who told her she byt Ivy said: “Mrs. Jeffries is responsible for the work being done, and must fill a girl’s place when she don't show up.” He admitted he e had neglected to tell. Mrs, Jeffries Miss Hilts had received his permis- | | a ene tate sion to ympia- | At any rate, Miss Hilts was fired, and the state labor commission, with Labor Commis- ioner E, W. Olson at the head, is in Seattle today gathering evidence against Ivy, with a jview to starting criminal proceedings against him for the discharge of the girl under such > | circumstances | “The | with a thing like this, others will try it situation is serious,” said one of the commissioners. “If this fellow. can get away We are convinced that the laws protecting employes will apply in this case.” That the f6rewoman knew before Miss Hilts went to Olympia her mission there. was | evidenced by the fact “that she jumped all over me with both feet for doing anything against [| ~tn, jthe interests of the bosses,” saad dae to Miss Hilts dJehdane Hite TR. TICKLED MRS. WERNERHEARS MURDER AS HE MEETS HIS GRANDSON CONFESSION READ IN COURT pisces of vantage today in Judge which she says she received in @ Mackintosh’s court room, when Mrs. lonely jail cell after she had craved OYSTER BAY. L. IL. Magdalina Werner took the stand it all her life? Col, Roosevelt lost no time in ting down to business today May 20. get-|!n her trial for the murder of her Shortly after the murder, the husband at Issquah. of her husband's funeral in Ii One of the first things he dia| Her thr attorneys lost in a quah, when people of the country was to summon his secretary, John | Vivid legal battle when the court places flocked into the town, she McGrath, from New York, The|Tuled that her alleged confession sat crouched, half fainting In an um colonel overhauled bis accumulated | Could be read to the jury comfortable chair in the kitchen of | mail. There was a mountain of it The defense sought to show that her ranch home, a creature of al Redding afd answering it promised |the purported admission of knowl- Ject terror. to occupy several days jedge of the crime w obtained |. It was a raw, chilly, disagreeab! Won't Talk for Publication ‘after officials had promised Mrs. day. The stillness of the ranch Werner her liberty from the county jal and the home seemed uncanny. Loved Her Babies A slow fire smoked gloomily in the stove. Three little children hung back, The colonel would not talk poll ties for publication, He had an afternoon ppointment with Geo. W. Perkins of New York, who ts coming to Oyster bay to see him. |W Confession Is Read The state won a telling victory en Assistant Prosecutor Edgar J.| Roosevelt will not discuss 1916| Wright read the document in open frightened at the sight of the stran- presidential possibilities or pro-| court gers and the mother who moaned gressive-republican affairs until] Mrs. Werner was composed as incoherently. after these interviews. |she took the stand. She said she A newspaperman stood abashed, Tickled With Grandson jeould remember nothing until a regretting his intrusion at a tim when questions seem useless. harsh The expresident seemed entire-| week or two after her arrest, when ly to have forgotten his new South | she came to her senses in the jail American river in his interest in| I don't remember signing any But even at that time she his new grandson, Richard Derby,| paper at all, I came to in jail and talked of love. jr, gon of his daughter, Ethel, and|didn't realize where I was,” she “My poor babies!” she Dr, Richard Derby said | moaned. “I love them so. He was delighted with this young Promised She'd Be Out | What will become of them now? person to the point of infatuation Some time after that, Deputy Noth can ever be right He looked tanned and robust, but| Sheriff Roberts saw me and said | aga’ had | conside weight and|‘You come out and tell me what When she arrived at the county walked with a slight limp. |you know about this, We're wast jail she was the same distrustful ing a lot of money looking for the creature who resented the intrusion a criss | OS limamhners Lieven emia obeken can of strange officials into her home, 1 dude ee thine” Vaeceaasiy iah-slnee lane Henth, youIL te One BE tere ‘| a «. Wernat, Photohraphed: Veoter-| gait tee oie js not the largest business achool In the| give : ; ‘ rs. , ~| sa’ She believed every one was ites wut It is unquestionably the beat. “'ve days. If you don’t, you may day in the Jail Yard, against her. | be in here a year.'” \dvertinement The matrons at the county jail, three kindly we n, cared for her, The change began to work, And The defense claimed this alleged} statement of Roberts amounted to] ignce Werner, was on the verge of a col- as she testified as to her A promise. er's ci > e - 7 p 7 "7 Rich Black Their contention failed to hold be- jaacantee 8 condition after the mur aoe a ae ked—really talked » . a e pgle . Ronayne ? Sd Rene pa thier tise 0) “Mrs. Werner might be termed! “in all my married life, since t Garden Land say Seana iummund Osta the Young-Old Woman Who Was| was 16, the only love | have known i Never Loved is the love for my children,” she In the purported confession, as . ok “ Just south of city and on elec: |). to ure hits, Mrs, Werner ie |, Love, oF the lack of it, plays alsaid. “I LONGD FOR LOVE ALL noe e. Read the rest of predominating part in the life of|MY LIFE AND | DIDN'T GET IT, tric car line. Read declared to have admitted a meet ing with Frank Pieoni, charged jointly in the crime, in which he asked $100 to do away with Wer- ner. Part of it reads “When | got down to the stable, Frank was down by the this woman of the hill-lands. “I never knew what it meant to have some one love me until I came to the county jail,” she said It was a hard life to live.” Then came the weeks of waiting ~ for trial. Women who at times spend a few of their howrs in the i “I didn’t know there was as much | jail saying pleasant words to suf- kindness in the world as T have re-|fering humans, stopped to talk ived from women who have visit-| with her. It was 9 new experience. the offer in the farm column on the Want Ad, page. Star always carries a The list of good buys in farms and If you are think farm," truck gardens. ing of "going back to the read The Star Farm News each fence. His hands were all i me here, and from the matrons. She bad been ill, but she recoy- night and look over the oppor bloody, and there was blood on She's a Changed Woman ered. The pallor left her face. She tunities offered his coat. | went into the The Magdalina Werner of today|geained 40 pounds in weight. She Your farm ad. in The Star will go into two-thirds of the homes in Seattle and vicinity. stable and my husband was dead, He was lying just as he was found,” Mrs, Sophie Hall, and the Magdalina Werner of 10 weeks ago are two different women. Something has wrought a remark- mother of Mrs, [able change, f} and smiles and talks with people. « Such is the woman the state hag placed on trial, é 3