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

ING BOOZ Star readers the best opposing it. stay at home may when the measure comes up. 00Z —ON= . RIAL! MORE THAN 45,000 PAID COPIES DAILY series, Prohi Human nature resents such Interference! What the r has already acc omplished for himself by cholce. The natural law of the Individual choosing to abstain Is the only prohibltory law that can be effective, M. CAMPBELL. The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News SOME PEOPLE may think the war stopped to let the moving pic ture men catch up. VOLUME 16. NO. 78. Complete Text of Proposed City Charter on Pages 8 and 9 = is on trial in the state of Washington today. are debating the question through the columns of this paper Scores have written letters in which they refuse to commit themselves to a definite Tesleba, The Star will later have another interesting announcement to make on the WET bition laws never elevated the welfare of any people. that he decides to stop, and not because he is told that he must stop. In last week's contest M. SEATTLE, WASH., Laws which seek to abolish a custom and deprive people of thelr rights always have failed, as they muat fall, When a man quits drinking, It le for the reason n who does not drink wants to do for the man who drinks by force, the man who does not drink MONDAY, MAY 25, of 714 Galer st., and M “wet” or “dry” subject No, my wayward so restore 1914 decision, This habit of man is undergoing a hearing which terminates next November. As an incentive, The Star is giving two prizes of $5 away each week for rather advocating Campbell were the winners. Their letters follow: Am | my brother's keeper? Thia is the question that each one to himself must look capitulation or personal liberty is not the Issue. ther The rune of the poisoned drink are almost irreparable aches or mend a broken home, of human ashes. friends n, whose ¢ps are ever backward, precious. ONE CENT regulation then how gladly would we make the barter Is money a just and fair exchange for this destruction? this sacrifice so In this question of liquor, ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS, Be the best this week will DRY the question No letter as a more satisfactory means. The contest be Your brother, The people will render the verdict favoring Could an abundance of coin heal the many heart- But the deadly fire has left a waste The riches of a nation could not let us not forget our unfortunate brothers, for are we not their keepers? M,. TESLEBA, 714 Galer St WEATHER FORECAST — Fair tonight and westerly winds. at the polls. prohibition and This indicates many the last of the present your sister, a fond mother’s 4) AST EDITION Tuesday; moderate | TORULE | ITSELF! ture will do with a good law. House of Commons in London| Passes Home Rule Bill for Third Successive Time. [NOW BECOMES A LAW, lof the minimum wage conference and told the truth. But what now? sam» «Peers Cannot yt Override It on} then “punish them.” hy Third Passage; Quick Vote | = PUNISH THEM! HERE'S THE FUNNY PART. THEIR PUNISHMENT ' Is a Surprise. WILL BE A FINE OF NOT LESS THAN $25 AND NOT OVER $100! | IRELAND A GOOD LAW AND A ROTTEN BUNCH! E Johanna Hilts case furnishes a splendid illustration of what a rotten legisla- | And State Labor Commissioner Edward W. Olson lost no time in getting lafter the Troy laundry proprietors. They have been arrested. If they are found guilty of violating the minimum wage law, the judge will THE Miss Hilts was fired from the Troy laundry because she acted as a member f |JUDGE COULDN’T SENTENCE THEM TO ONE MINUTE IN JAIL, a al LONDON, May 25.—The house of | q commons has passed the Irish home rule bill for the third time. Under the law it will become ef-| EVER GUILTY THEY MAY BE. lords rejects tt. } In political circles Intense excite-| ment prevailed. |pass a minimum wage law. i The vote was 351 to This division was strictiy pout-|Of the lawmakers had been pledged up to it. Br feal and the vote was practically inherent standpatism of the republican-democratic h hen thi passed its second reading except |itself. And we have this “joker” Penalty. — That’s the joker in the minimum wage law. There almost always is a “joker” ) fective, even though the house of of that kind when the legislature is controlled by a bunch of hardened stand- |patters such as the kind that ran things in the 1913 legislature. The people had emphatically demanded it and most But when they framed it, the; “unholy” alliance asserted | that, since then, the conservatives | have gained a few seats at bye | elections. The quick vote was a surpris Crowds had flocked to Westmin- ster, where parliament house fs sit- uated, in expectation of a red hot debate and violent antthome rule demonstration. The people stared, open-mouthed, when they received the news, Fighting in the North was con- sidered almost certain. Orders were issued from Dublin to the police in County Tyrone, where feeling was especially bit- ter, to carry their pistols constant- WITH REGRADE; KILLED BY SLIDE Out on W. soth at at. they have a neighborly pian of helping each other in the work of reducing their | street. f ly. | chair in Judge Frater's courtroom. Nels Martinson, a plasterer, 62 7) years old, and Daniel Keck, 56, were | There was a nail on the chatr. ; doing « friendly turn for Mark J,|_. The nail, according to a sult) a4 MeKoel, 241 W. 85th st, yesterday, | Speckert filed today, “xnagged and "4 They were working at the base of | Dierced” the seat of his trousers. ‘ ” a bank 20 feet high. One of them) Also, It injured his person a " loosened the keystone or the bit of. For all of which Speckert asks | i | pwr yer.|$1 damages from Attorney Frank j | gravel holding the mass of dirt over. | *! Cn ; npictaies wits | a ius |head, and the whole side of the bank | Paul. counsel for 8 er i Hee 1 lcaved In. t ¢ pro Martinson was buried beneath it Wants a Big Sum : |Keck wasn’t so near, but he was; He ax for al gy Be sum ~ 9 : | knocked down. r he other $25 . he When they dug Martinson out he! says, is owing to him for damages) NEW YORK, May 25—John |... Goad | of various other sorts D. Rockefeller, jr., may yet hear Keck will live. | The suit fs one phase of Speck- the story of the yee tenons? ed | ert's fight against alimony proceed from the lips of three the ings brought by his former wife,| women who lost their husbands THROW POSIES | Mrs, Regina M. Speckert, through! and other relatives in that bat- | Paul | AT BO SWEENEY | 2:200 Frater recentiy signed an lorder committing Attorney Speck | | ert to jail on charges presented by , He declared recent communi- | ‘The Seattle ( Commercial Club en-| Panl to show that he had refused to cations from the millionaire in- dicated he might see the women and that he would wait here un- til tomorrow for a final decision. tertained Bo Sw , new assistant! pay $1,438.78 in back alimony alleg secretary of the interior, at luncheon | ed to be due his divorcea wife. today. Mayor Gill and other speak-| ‘ ers congratul d is nm ending before Jud WOW ABOUT THE CAGARS. cHaRLey ¢ 30 Youve Gone AND DONE IT, WELL~ WELL~ WAIT UNTIL. Youve BEEN MARRIED AS LONG AS | HAVE! THEN SRE WHAT You sav AIDS NEIGHBOR LAWYER SPECKERT SITS DOWN E_ON-A SHARP NAIL; NOW SUES: RIVAL ATTORNEY FOR $25,000 A. J. Speckert, a spiritualist min-) Aton yards to the level of the regraded) sso. and a lawyer, sat down on a/ ured out by Attorney Speckert, who | declares good spirits are aiding him | in his trouble, is given in full in the men in legal circles consider a remarkable Attorney Paul's pedigree, as fig complaint, and forms wh | document. A motion to stay the jail sentence | false affidas | daughters, | | “The defendant, Paul, Is en- iMtif? ie informed » to act as a law nd motion clerk for small and minor matters in the office of a distinguished down- town law firm,” reads the com- plaint. “He is a young man who has r andy hair, and who lowers the dignity of the legal profession by smoking a small pipe with strong tobacco, thus injuring and impairing his undeveloped brain. He is de- sirous of securing notoriety and Newspaper advertising at the expense and reputation of oth- ers. He has been blown Into the wrong profession by an un- heardof or unexpected legal cyclone.” Paul is reed with filing a in alimony The spiritualist lawyer maintains | that he was ordered to pay $30 a month for the support of his two and that they have now relieving him reached a legal age, of the payments. Good Spirits Helping Him The complaint cites lawye to the injury of his reputation. “It 1s true that the spirits of our departed friends aid us in earthly stri says Speckert have That's more than Paul can say.” ‘LAKE MUST BE PATROLLED, HE TELLS COUNCIL: In a communication to the city council today, Chief of Po lice Griffiths recommended an appropriation for a set of grap- pling irons for use in recover- ing bodies from Lake Wash- Ington, This Is the outgrowth of the long delay In finding the bodies of the two boys drown- ed off Leechi park Friday aft- ernoon during the crew races. The chief also recommended that organization holding events on the lake hereafter, be compelled to provide patrols at the three central points, Medison, Madrona and Leschi, in case of accidents. Beaten almost to insensibility by a young thug who held her up just after she alighted from a Phinney av. car, Mra, A. C, Wynbearo, 148 W. 59th st., was robbed of $6 and a gold watch near her home last night. They had to before the court in claiming that Speckert owes $1,439 | numerous newspaper stories pertaining to the # faith in spirits in the case, which Speckert says have been read by hundreds of thousands of people, our only good spirits helping me. | nicipal Saturday and Sunday, days of its active existence. twenty-nine ried during the twe sold business) fares tickets sold, ean any sort of to whether the lin maker from the start, ficials are jubilant over ing made thus far. LINER HITS BIG Becker (at (left) and Mrs. Lillian Rosenberg. COL. ROOSEVELT TO VISIT WILSON AT WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, May 25.— Former President Roosevelt will visit the White House to- morrow President Wilson let it be known that he had invit- ed Roosevelt to luncheon. The colonel found he would not have time for this, but re- plied that he would go to the White House before his lec- ture before the National Geo- Graphic society. NEW MUNICIPAL CARLINE DOING FINE BUSINESS “Division A” railway of th the Seattle mu- paid good the first two Five thousand, three hundred and passengers were car- jays. aturday the cash 4.70; ticket fares, (doesn't apply $49.60, Yesterday's results $93.40; ticket $62.50. several days, however 1 idea be gained as will be a money but public of- the show- 24.80; tickets Saturday's to Cash $21.80 were fares, Not for BERG: LEAKING MONTREAL, May 25.—A wireless from the Northern Canadian Steamship Co.'s Royal Edward today said the vessel grazed an iceberg 110 miles east of Cape Race, starting several plates, She was leaking slight- ly, but Is in no danger. returns | fares totaled | ‘FRENCH DOLL’ TELLS WHY SHE TOLD STORY THAT WILL SEND BECKER TO THE DEATH CHAIR “| HAVE MADE ANOTHER SING SING WIDOW,” SAYS THE WIFE OF “LEFTY LOUIE”; “IT WAS MY DUTY” rt By Nixola Greeley-Smith | NEW YORK, May “HOW DID I COME TO DO IT? Lefty Louie's “French Doll"—"the | girl who has thrown the black shad-| ow of the death c path of Chas, Becker, ONCH AND FOR ALL," as the prosecution boasts—repeated the question after me slowly ne had been grilled by the Beck | er attorneys in an attempt to break down the testimony that she “heard Jack Rose tell my husband that if didn’t ‘croak’ Rosenthal, Becker | woula frame’ him Tells of Terrible Hour “If I answer that question for jyou,” she said, slowly, “and the tears rushed to her eyes, “it will be | to tell of the most terrible hour of ALL my life, “It was on Easter Monday that It came to me that! MUST | GO ON THE STAND. It was before the sun came up. It was | before the people began to go to work, It was—it was—it was while they were killing Loule up r across the there in the terrible death- house! All that night I couldn't sleep. walked MILE AND MILES, | gues! through the dark, emp str through the long rows of tenements. | Overhears Becker Threat | “At first I cried out loud as walked, and then after a white, | when I felt that it must all be over up there at Sing Sing, | began to grow quiet, and what Louie had | said to me came into my mind It was Easter Sunday afternoon, | the last time I ever saw him, and | asked him if he DID shoot Rosen than He sald, ‘No, kid, 1 didn't—hon est to God! “Then I said, ‘Well, Louie, what about that talk, then, you had with | Rose that time he said tf you didn't ‘come across,’ you and the boys?” Fights Question Out “‘I always knew you heard that | out Recker would frame | vtalk, 1 | true sage e said. ‘Well from B Lewis. Dago Frank, Gyp the Blood and And when I am gone I want you to tell the world one other did it what you know till T am dead, squealer!" But don’t say “And that morning I fought it all thought Shall I keep my promise to Louie— to tell the truth about this thing— even if it sends ANOTHER MAN to if it Becker go through just alone with God, I that awful death-chair makes poor Mrs the terrible suffering 1 gone through’? “And only ONE answer kept on coming, ‘You must keep your promise to your husband and do your duty, NO MATTER WHAT IT COSTS ANYBODY!" “And so I have done it! even have Asinvs everything.” BALLARD MAN IS | : KILLED BY CAR Emil Norlander, 54, was struck by a car, No, 917, outbound, ing Ballard av., on Ione st., this morning, sustaining at 10 erward. He leaves a Colo, family BLYTHE (N TOWN Blythe. aturdey Evening Pe arrived last night, and is reg at the He Wash. ington with his wife d son, swart, who is on the staff of a Portland newspaper. Mr. and Mrs Blythe will leave for the East to- night, it was did bring me that mes , but I didn’t do any of the shooting, nor did Whitey I don’t want to die a And now Tam going away to rest and try to @ carpenter Fremont-Ballard while cross. 43 injuries from which he died ten minutes aft- in Greeley, 1A. 10 Fh HE TELLS” | | | will, from this time, be looking ap GARDNER OF PLANS (BY THE EDITOR.—As most of the | iY, of this newspaper know, The Washington correspond: jison personal “friend of js the result more natheritative than all the alleged intee- views and semi-interviews which have been broadcasted during the past week or two.) By Gilson Gardner OYSTER BAY, N. Y., May 25.—To rally and up- build the progressive party —that is the first political job to which Roosevelt will set himself when he gets back from Kermit's wedding in Spain. I told the Colonel I had come to get a political story. I told him I was going to write a political story and that he might — talk to me on politics or not, just as he thought best. I am not at liberty ~ to quote him or to say what he did or did not oF has cathe = talk about. I am just go- ing to write a political story. Roosevelt's public utteranee on the subject of his party (progres sive) and his own activities in the future were . these words. were uttered at a dinner given by. ~ friends on the night before his de parture 11 months ago: : Tells Where He Stands “The party ig solid, and it fs > the firm determination of rank = and file, no less than leaders, || to preserve its political entity, its solidarity and integrity, “1 will never abandon the ciples to which we progi have pledged ourselves, and te never abandon the men and en who drew around me to for those principles. THAT IS WHERE ROO! STANDS TODAY. The qi ers several questions, Cail disciples of easy opportun- are the republicans and pro ism” gressives who are talking amalgamating the republican | progressive parties on a pla ms United we win,” ROOSEVELT WILL NOT LEND HIMSELF TO THAT PLAN, 7 To Fight for Pinchot The division between the pro gressives and the republicans and the impossibility of harmony be tween them, is made conspicuous by the choice of Boise Penrose as republican nominee for U. 8, sem ator in Pennsylvanta. Roosevelt will be in it Penrose in no moder while in terms no less | paign and denouncing ate terms, emphatic will urge the voters to support Gifford Pinchot, pro- gressive candidate for the senate, Will Run for President WILL ROOSEVELT BE CANDI- DATE FOR PRESIDENT IN 1916? It is my personal conviction that HE WILL. If he lives and goes on fighting for th progressive policies as he says he he will, no human power can prevent that. 1 have an idea that when he goes into the congressional and ~ senatorial campaigns he — wilh, @% handle the Wilson administra: “3 tion rather roughly But all this will work out after” 7 the above mentioned conferences, Suffice it to say the OLD BULL is back with CONSIDERABLE SNORT fn his system, and the merry game of national politics \