The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 4, 1914, Page 1

Duke, killed by one at Sait L the law of compensation on t MORE THAN 45.000 PAID COPIES DAILY LARRY DUKE killed a man here with an auto, His cousin, Woodward ake. Is he job? VOLUME 16. The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News NO. 87. | TWO WOMEN 8 INVOLVED IN VICIDE CASE A “mystery woman,” who tele- phoned police headquarters that she has positive evidence that Michael D. Samuels, 43, the Nome, Alaska, merchant, was murd and did not commit suicide, added | new feature and a second woman to the case, which has been under po- lee investigation ce the discov- ery of the dead body yesterday aft- ernoon in Samuels’ quarters at the Mr. Sanr did not commit sul tide,” said the woman over the phone. “I know how he was killed. Some one else did it. I can prove a” The mysterious woman broke sonnections when the police asked her name. Later, !t is suppose: the same woman called the morgu and asked for permission to view the body. An officer was sent to watch for her, but she did not ap- pear. heart by a revolver bullet. Whether the merchant died by his own hand or by another ts the problem Detective Capt. Tennant and Coroner have before them for soluti Police offictals Late divided in ‘thetr opinions. In downtown business circles Samuels was known as a “thoroughly good feliow and « fine man.” The first “woman in the case,” Mrs. Blanche Smith, the former wife of “Deep Hole Joe” Smith of Alaska, is held at the city hospital, where she was taken last night - GIRL-WIFE STICKS TO HUBBY, HELD AS A BIGAMIST SAN FRANCISCO, June 4.—Ed- Samuels was shot through the| from the ne of a friend at 1903 Yesler way. She ts still hysterical and has as yet been unable to talk [with officta! She is the woman who rushed Into the hallway screaming, “Daddy has killed himself! He has commit ted suicide.” She had a room next to Samu | Today she {s delirious and fre. jquently cries out, “Oh, why didn’t Daddy kill me, too. Why did he doit?” Offictals tnvestigating the case to day learned that Mrs. Smith, who is} known as “New York Blanche,” reg istered at the Seattle hotel Tues. day evening under the name of Mrs. Samuels. According to Samuels friends he met the Smith woman several years ago. Samuels, his friends say, seemed despondent over his family troubles. | “The last time I left Spokane |}my Httle girl ran after the train jand fell down. She was crying when I last saw her and !t made mg feel} badly,” he told them. | jamuels’ wife had sued for di yorce in Spokane, but a reconcilia tis hd the family wae to be led. Mrs. Samuels is hurrying! to Seattle and is expected to arrive | today. The body was removed to the Rut. | terworth parlors. Samuels had $425 in money with him at the time of| his death as well as a watch and| Jewelry. CARS STOP FOR FURTH FUNERAL’ | | Street cars on the Puget Sound| Traction, Light & Power Co. lines | stopped for two minutes this after: | noon as the funeral ceremony for Jacob Furth was started in Scot PROBABLY MR. Avro FIEND WILL BECOME SO Acc USTOMED TO OUR ANTI~SPEED BUMPS SEATTLE, WASH.,, TI LOT OF OFFICIAL BUMPS Chief Griffiths’ recommendation | to the city council that bumps be/ across the main streets at als of a block, to stop speed ing, has roused up a storm of dis cussion, pro and con, The chief hasn't spectfied any particular variety of bump. ” he) i'm just an adviser. My idea is to have a series of gentie bumps, to act as @ sort of reminder—iike the rhymes, ‘Bumpety-| bump to .' Just enough to make It uncomfortable for the reckless drivers, but so small the reasonable drivers won't be both. | | ered. It's a matter of economy with ¢. It would enable me to us the police for other purposes. And I think {t would ®ffectually discour age the speeder.” A Buttermilk Bump It was suggested today that the bumps be molded like the circus incline, where the auto leaps the gap. Speeders would bit this in cline and leap in the alr clear across the street intersection, over the heads of pedestri who would thus be out of dang Mayor Gill doesn’t like the idea of corrugating the streets “It might be well, out on some of the residence streets, where the real speeders are,” he says. “But it wouldn't be doing the square thing by drivers of other vehicles downtown, Imagine a milk wagon hitting one of those burmp# at more than a snail's pace. Tho would turn to buttermilk!” “They h lots of bumps tn the country roads, and ft stops speed milk! | The bumps would ing, all right,” sald Councilman Lundy this morning. “But such things aren't needed here. We should be able to control speeders without bum Put two or three #peeders in jail, and they'll stop!” What the Others Think Councilman Cooley spoke thus; “Maybe that bump idea ts all right, but it doesn't look right to me. Put two or three chauffeurs in jail keep them there. That'll atop the speeders. I'd like to be judge a while ‘ounciiman Erickson- toist drove along a Chic like they do up Second ay he'd land fn jail in less than minutes, I don’t believe in tearing up the streets to put in these bumps. Attorney Olson's suggestion that we take the speeders’ ma chines away from them for a week or two is a good one, but unfor- tunately the city can't do it. We tried to get an ordinance through to that effect last year, but found we had no jurisdiction. It's all in fan at oO wtreet | the hands of the state Don’t Need Hobbies Councliman Hesketh—I don't think the chief is serious tn thin bump proposition. I wouldn't con sider it Councilman Fitzgerald—What do Councilman Fitzgerald—What do T think of it? Well, not much, that’s all! Councilman Goddaré—Seems to lime that in a civilized country) there should be some means of stopping speedere without putti hobpiestor hurdies rarove tho room! stop them all right, but the police should do it without any bumps. DADS SIT DOWNON GOLD-BRICK DEAL INRENTON TANGLE Assistant Corporation Counsel P jerce expects to be ready on Friday ward B. Hastings and Hazel Knapp, |tish Rite temple, Harvard av. and | ¢, gij¢ the motion to modify the Hanford Injunction, which Is now pre- his cousin, 20, were arrested here today on a warrant from Chicago charging bigamy. The police say the couple admitted they were mar-| ried in Chicago May 18. Hastings, according to the police also admit- ted that he was married to Grace Sturgis of Waterleek, N. Y., seven years azo. “We are married,” said Hastings’ companion here today, “and there {s nothing anyone can do about it If they take him from me I will work my fingers off to get back to Chicago to him. My relatives are back of this, but I will never re. turn to them.” WASHINGTON, June 4.—Pres!- dent Wilson, acting for the govern- Ment, today accepted a monument contributed by the women of the South to the Confederate dead at Arlington. Union and Confederate veterans participated {n the cere- monies, QUEAK FROM od shnny Meuse CIORE. THUS OME FAULT TREL WAS CLE STRUCK, ET LICATHIG fF gh Rainier valley will be on a fin Ished exhibition tomorrow at the valley's second annual rose show, at the home of Harry Bruskevith, 2921 Americus st. There will be 100 exhibitors, | Broadway, at 3 6’clock. A mult! |tude of friends of th dead finan cier attended the funeral exercises, The services at the temple were in charge of St. John’s Lodge, 19, F. and A. M. Worshipful ™ jter R. C. Hasson presided Immediately following the public |ceremony a private service for |members of the family will take | place at the Bonney-Watson chapel, Broadway and East Olive st., with the Rev. Dr. Herbert H. Gowen, rector of Trinity Parish Episcopal |church, in charge. | Before his death Mr, Furth chose |the following men as his pallbear ers and they served as named Honorary——Michael Earles, E. C. Wagner, G. V. Holt, N. H. Latimer, |M. A. Arnold, E. Carstens, G: B. Lear, M. Furnya, H. C. Henr, |M. F. Backus, E. C. Neufelder, J E. Chilberg, E. W. Andrews, R. V. | Ankemy, A. H. Soelberg, James D. Hoge, Dan Kelleher, E. Shor- rock, H. Middaugh and Herman| | Chapin. Active—James B. Howe, A, W./ Leonard, W. J. Grambs, W |L. H. Bean, L. R wffin, D. C. Barnes and Fran The body will be mated. CANADA BARS “MOTHER” JONES “Mother” Mary Jones, militant labor leader, is in Seattle again to day after an unsuccessful atten to ente Canada, en route to th strike zone on Vancouver Island, | e she planned a speaki tou She was denied entr: by the immigration authoritt will take up the matter with Secretary of Lab Wilson at Washington, D. C., and also with the labor com. missioner of Canada. HILL FIND OUT To ascertain {f the state expect to ave some ay in the m 6 ment of the Firlands tnberculost hospital, just because it has giver a check for $5,049 as its share of the expenses, Mayor Gillleft for Olympia this morning. General assembly of United Pres byt n church adjourns at New castle, Pa, Jury, which found FE |nesto Asbert and Eugenio Arias | | guilty of murder at Havana, fear |ing mob, is guns, guarded by venting the city cars from running The council Wednesday, propor cent of the gross receipts for 25 ye The immediate improvement by injunctions and corporation counse’ by unanimous vote, reje: by the receivers to pay the Seattle, * legal squabbles, was ordered by the council, and 1 was directed to assign one man to devote his entire) on Fourth av. 1d the gold-brick Renton & Southern 25 per Rainier boulevard, hitherto delayed the time to the job of getting the grade and pianking raised. In a determined effort to bring Renton railway tangle to solution without paying a robbers’ price, city officials are now engaged in a triple header campaign. The first is to put the city cars on Fourth av. by securing a modification of the Han- fordized injunction. The second is the flat turn-down of the proposi tion to tle the city up in a 25-year deal with the Renton bondholders. The third is to push the regrade of Rainier boulevard immediately There has been some dispute as to the title of a certain strip, and the city was adjudged the owner, the Renton Une’s claim having been thrown out by the court. The com pany was awarded $2,600 tn the con demnation of the boulevard, and 5. Best,| when that is paid by the city, no SHOULD further obstruction to the regrad ing is expected. Tracks Must Be Raised The regrade will compel the Ren ton line to raise its tracks, and, ow ing to the expense this would in volve, the receivers had been fight-| ing the improvement for months, compelling the people in th to seek circuitous routes. | Contract for the improvement | from Atlantic to Bayview sts. has already been awarded, and anoth. er for the grading of the boulevard from Bayview to Hanford sts. will be let soon. Mayor Approves Mayor Gill and Superintendent Ve ntine, who met with the coun cil Wednesday, have approved the plans to hurry the improvement of Rainier boulevard along. T counci! turned down the per cent 25 year proposition after| Councilman Cooley reported that] the cost of operating the road) would be anywhere from 69 to 90 per cent of the total revenues Several members of the council met in Superintendent of Utilities Valentine's office today, and with Corporation Counsel Bodwell, his aide, Hanson, and City Engineer Dimock, di ed a p of action It was the sentiment that the street improvement would be pushed through {f the councilmen had to spend the rest of their time In jail They called on Bradford to keep them out of jail as much as possi ble. Bradford promised to person- machine jally supervise the work of his de- partment in the matter, WIFE PLACES TEMPTATION IN MAN’S WAY Now Judge Refuses Her Pe- tition for a Divorce; Blames Her for It All. SHIELD HIM Now Heroine of “Boudoir Divorce” Says Friend Stole Her Husband. LOS ANGELES, June 4,—Mrs no valley |Margye Farnel, wife in the sensa-| tional “boudoir divorce case,” who named her friend, Miss Louise Zim- merman, as the “other woman,” and was refused a decree by Judge Monroe, on the grounds that she should have protected her husband from temptation, says “Any woman Is a fool to let another woman spend the night in her house, even if she is there. “Keep your boudoir to your. self, and you will have a better chance to keep your husband, too. “Don't forget that even your best friend is a woman and your husband a man. “You cal ford to protect a man who doesn’t want to be pro- tected. “Don let even your most Intl- mate friend wear your lingerie and boudoir robes, especially If they are very pretty. But Mrs, Farnel says emphatle ally that she will push her fight for a divorce and the possession of her T-year-old son Harold, to the high- est courts She is a motion pleture actress, and her marital woes grew out of an unconventional party in the boudoir of her home {URSDAY, JUNE 4, 1914 CENT THE DRIVER STARTS FROM HOME WITH MILK; AUTO BUMPS REACH TO THE GUTTER, THE DRIVER DELIVERS THE JUICE OF THE COW; THE CUSTOMER FINDS HE GETS BUTTER MP PLAN GETS BUMPER |THEY’RE SPENDING A QUARTER MILLION TO SAVE THE DEAR PEOPLE---HERE as the “Seven Sisters.” | Where is the money coming from, and why? | Conceived i directing genius behind the league. Yes, it’s the same Ed Sims who was the stand- pat whip and floor leader for the reactionary forces jin the house last session. | | And it’s Ed Sims who raised the false alarm cry |that it will cost a tremendous lot of money to pass jthe “Seven Sisters” and that it’s a mighty expensive experiment to legislate directly by the votes of the people. First, the Stop-Look-Listeners said it would |cost $300,000, then $500,000, then a million, and now | they’re shouting it will cost two millions. | WILL IT COST THE STATE A SINGLE PENNY |MORE, MR. SIMS, TO PASS THOSE MEASURES |THAN TO DEFEAT THEM? No, not one red cent. And here is another point, and a more important e. Granted for the sake of that it wil cost ‘& lot-of mdney to adopt fiative ure: WHO IS TO BLAME? YOU, MR. SIMS, ARE TO BLAME. YOU AND) THE STANDPAT MACHINE WHICH SPEAKER) |TAYLOR AND YOU CONTROLLED IN THE LAST SESSION ARE TO BLAME. These are not new measures which the people! are to vote on and which have the endorsement of the |State Federation of Labor, the Farmers’ Grange, and the Direct Legislation league. } They were up in the last session of the legislature. | They came to your rules committee, Mr. Sims, and) what did you do? YOU BURIED MOST OF THEM WITHOUT) |LETTING THE LEGISLATURE TAKE A _ VOTE.) 'YOU PIGEONHOLED THEM IN COMMITTEES. Had you given them a fair chance in the legisla-| jture, there would not have been any need for this great big expense that you pretend is bothering you. | It is only a pretense, anyhow, Mr. Sims, and you! |Stop-Look-Listeners. You are spending more money |to defeat these bills than your proportionate taxes | would amount to on account of the cost of placing |the initiative measures on the ballot. | _ The meat in the cocoanut is not your public| spirited interest to save the taxpayers any money, because you will not save them any, no matter if the Pog ts ge win or lose. R CHIEF CONCERN, MR. SIMS, I KILL THE FISH BILL, WHICH WILL MAKE YOU. AS HEAD OF A BIG FISH COMPANY, PAY THE |SAME RATE OF TAXES THAT OTHERS PAY FOR |THEIR PROPERTY. THAT’S WHERE THE COL- a GENT IN YOUR CASE IS HIDDEN, MR. ; And the employment sharks, of course, are help-| jing you because they want to continue their graft on laboring people. Your friend, Speaker Taylor, and the other lumber barons, of the Stop-Look-Listen | |league want to kill off the “first aid” law. And so on| |down Fed line. | ERE’S A GREEDY, SELFISH | |MOTIVE THAT IS FURNISHING A QUARTER oc | |A MILLION DOLLARS TO DEFEAT THE |SISTERS,” AND NOTHING ELSE. UB TEAMSTER IS CLUB OFFICER | MAKES PINCH STRUCK BY CAR | {was seriously and perhaps fatally Judge John B. Gordon, of the po-|!nJured this morning when, in at lice court, is away fishing today,|tempting to board a Queen Anne and Thomas B. McMahon fs sub-|@¥. car, he was struck by a car stituting on the bench from the opposite direction. Kin The acting judicial admiral this | S¢Y, Who lives at 1806 Sixth av. W “SEVEN | morning swatted Ben Taro $5 for! Was starting in search of wort | speeding in the University district, When the accident happened, He Ben Taro is the first arrest made | bas been out of employment a | by Robert F. Booth, the new Auto- Week, He has a wif ‘and mobile club officer. Booth says|tWo children. He was removed Taro was going 26 miles an hour, to the M hospital | Incidentally Booth wasn't far be The car that struck Kinsey was | | hind driven by Motorman M, Hamilton Henry Weller and H. Wrage |#nd was tn charge of Conductor B. Livingston The two appeared at the 0 police station and made a full report the accident later, mic drew $5 each for selling gooseber- ries in strawberry boxes, advertis- | ing that the boxes measured a full | quart, ON AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST: Gener- ally fair tonight and Friday; warmer TKAINS AND Friday; gentle westerly winds. New aN x THIS ISA GOOD IMITATION, == ‘Know HE YY Is Y// KING // HIS MEALS IN SEATTLE te - Why! IS The Stop-Look-Listen league is spending more than $250,000 to kill the seven initiative bills known mystery, it is now known definitely, however, that Ed Sims of Port Townsend is the 15,000 FACE FAMINE AND PESTILENCE IN MEXICO BY CHAS, H. RAYMOND ON BOARD FLAGSHIP CALI- FORNIA, Mazatlan, May 27.—(By Mail to San Francisco, June 4.)— With their supply of food and wat- er nearly exhausted, 15,000 men, women and children are facing death by starvation and disease at Mazatlan, as a result of the contin- ved blockade by the rebels under Obregon. Rebel sharpshooters, firing from Piedras island upon the fortifica- tions, are daily taking their toll of non-combatants in the streets, San- itary conditions are growing stead- ily worse. The death rate is in- creasing alarmingly. Only the wealthiest residents are able to obtain meat and vegetables. The condition of the poor is desperate. Epidemic Threatened Au outbreak of pestilence that will cost the lives of thousands is JAP SHIP MERGER LONDON, June 4,—That | probable, medical men say, unless the siege is lifted in a short time, The tew remaining American refue gees in the city are preparing to seek places of safety on the ships in the harbor, Intrenched on Round Top, Mon- tuoso and La Atravesada, the fed- erals are still holding out against the rebel attack. It is reported they have an independent supply of food and water sufficlent to last them for several weeks. Gen. Obregon, with 6,000 troops, is operating between Tepic and Guadalajara, Rebels report capture of Culima, an important railroad town, about 60 miles east ot Manzanillo. Railroad communt+ cation between Manzanillo and Guadalajara has been cut. Reports of fighting come from as far inland as San Marcos, about 80 miles west of Guadalajara, ‘AH! PLUMBERS NOW GET THEIRS sentatives of the Toyo Kisen, Nip- }pon Yusen and Osaka Shosen Kaishas, Japan's three big steam-| DRS MOINES, Ia, June 4—A ship compan had closed an ar-| federal grand jury has today re rangement here for amalgamation turned 36 indictments against of the trio of lines was reported me | members of the National Plumbers’ here on good authority today iation, the so-called Plumbers’ The union will give the com he indictments charged bined companies a fleet of more ispiracy in restraint of trade, than 250 vessels e members » all residents of oy the Middle West LA GRANDE, Ore. June 4.—A blinding snow storm raged for two WILL PLAY CARDS hours in La Grande today. Then| The public ts invited to a card No dam-! party which will be given by the Homesteaders’ society on the sec ond floor of the Standard Furniture Co.'s store, tomorrow e' the snow turned to rain age was done, Four days ago the valley sweltered in an excessive heat wave, a