The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 6, 1914, Page 1

\ Boe Se T and bigger city. tents. MORE THAN 45,00 PAID COPIES DAILY PUT THE CITY FOURTH AV.! houn's thr Injunction in the scrap heap HINKY DINK CARS ON Let's put Scott Cal: nd the Hanfordize VOLUME 16. WHO IS MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP is at stake if the Hifky |‘! Dink charter is adopted on June 30. It will be the entering wedge of the “ie Electric Co. to obtain an hise. indefinite extension of i It will leave the people without any control either on the legislative or the of the city government. administrative departments It will kill off democratic government and sub- stitute practically lobbyists and politicians. utocratic control by professional Secret letters are being sent out in an effort to secure the adoption of the Hinky Dink charter. Headquarters have been established in the Haller building. A mass of literature has been printed with which to flood the city in the last days of the campaign WHO IS FURNISHING @aDDLE THIS HINKY DI PLE OF SEATTLE? THE SINEWS OF WAR TO NK THING ON THE PEO- The supreme court has ruled that the people have no Voice whatever on the subject chises are conéerned, the and void. The council The Seattle Electric and t Co initiative of franchises. So far as fran- and referendum null the entire say is he kn mayor have ws that It also knows that its franchise will expire in 20 years Tt knows, too, that in five years more, it will be unable to BILLY SU NDAY’S - SINGER IS STUNG FOR TWENTY Jury Gives Big Verdict THOU in Breach of Promise Suit Against Homer Rodeheaver. ° CHICAGO, June 6.—Twenty thou- | wand dollars damages for breach of promise was awarded today to Miss Georgia Jay by the jury which tried | her case against Homer Rodeheaver, Evangelist Billy Sunday's choirmas- ter. The jury returned it last night, Rodeheaver was quoted as saying that marriage would affect his career as a singer and therefore was out of the question. Girl Giggles Delightedly Rodeheaver was not in ‘\e court room when the clerk opened the WENTY-FIVE years ago today Seattle was practically wiped off the map by fire. was no more than a village then, but it was populated by a hardy lot of pioneers, and the + ruins were still smoldering when the plans were made and executed for the building of a greater It was in that trying period that the “Seattle spirit” Today Seattle is a city of magnificent buildings, with a population of over 300,000, the was born in a village of Seattle proud of, and we're st “Seattle spirit,” SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1914. Northwest bigger and greater yet. 6, 1889. And it has been mighty proud history. The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News ill growing. WEA tonight ON THAINS AND wester! NEWS RTANDS. Be ONE CENT healthiest spot in the country, enjoying the best school system in the land, with a university to be It has been a quarter of a century of great progress, and the augmented by a keen civic consciousness, is going to make the Queen City of the Seattle of today begins history with the memorable fire of June AST EDITION THER FORECAST — Rain and Sunday; moderate y winds SUPPORTERS OPEN MONEY BARREL FURNISHING THE CAST at any “wate ck” mpany with only 15 years AND IT IS GOING TO FORT THE SEATTLE EI FORTH TO OBTAIN THE ¢ CILMANIC SESSION Just one need session WOMAN HURT IN on the market unless it obtains an] for b that’s al The company know t constituted voter has an id buyer not of existence BE THE MIGHTIEST ECTRIC CO, EVER ONTROL OF ONE will is at pre jlarge. Every councilman. In addition, the too, for he has the veto 1 SO THE SEATTLI ITS HOPES ON THI Under that charter, of their council, the ma Phe councilmen be elect VARSITY GIRL ELOPES; WEDS A CHAUFFEUR University of Washington stu dents are stirred today by the news carefully kept that pretty Dore of the most campus, and nent & eloped w ried The facts were suppressed by the | atstracted parents of the girl, whose father is E. 8. Goodwin, manager of |the Goodwin Real Estate Co., until ay, when the young bric college chums just couldn't ke | minute longer i Meet at Uncie’s Home The fact that there war a social gulf between them didn't matter | much when Dorothéa Goodwin met | Marion Tuttle, a year ago, about the Umehe came tu work for Stix Goodwin's uncle, DE. Skinner, who! conducts a private garage at 725 [adth av, X | The young man, attractive, but with only his modest salary to rec ommend him to the parents of the girl, lived at Skinner's house, And |thus, through the medium of Miss Goodwin's uncle, he and the young woman became friends. jarried at Everett Parental opposition becoming stronger in the girl's home, the young couple decided to cut the |Gordian knot, and last week they disappeared from Seattle, just when Miss Goodwin was finishing her col- lege work for the year, and were married in Everett Then they came back and took an apartment at lith av, and Denny way invest in more EF PUT COUN- EI 1 the the traction company will and will joodwin, one pular girls on the of a promt man, has and Is mar HINKY for a week,, voice x r 29 can VTTLE ELEC “GRABBING ( 4 YD IN ELEC THEY CAN IN BODY OF VOTERS IN Past experience prov ild have t KA IS PINNING ARTER little « rR DINK CH ill r have no ve 30 different “ DRMATTHEWS' HOME AGAIN WITH AN ALIBI W. A. Major, Will-| Douglas, Frank D k, A. 8. Kerry, Walt McClure, Gould, et al. et a 1—all of you Presbyterians who belong to social clubs that sell Mquor Dr. Matthews came home night from the East with a pe good alibi Doc, you remember, is a member of the Arctic, Rainier and Athletic clubs and ts an Elk. But he isn't going to resign from Not fn the least it was all a mistake 1 assembly at didn't recommend that withdraw from such clubs, He says that it was merely a recommenda tion In @ report and that no action was taken | “fart Decauie clubs sell Mguorda no reason why Christians cannot be- jong to them, although the liquor jphase of them its objectionable,” said the pastor today. HUMPHRIES GETS HOTWEEK) Judge Humphries has been as: signed by Presiding Judge Frater to co ELE mntrol district The Seattle Electric Co. hing to gain by the Hinky Let the S. E. Co councilmen out of the 30, | indefir The and nee ys will be that of the pink tea mayor. |council . Cheer up, Dr » Calhoun, J. F. government—NOT. last eotly That} Chicago members TOLD OF Witness Says. CHICAGO, June 6.—That she saw | | Wm. Rapp, jr., and Mrs, Katherine | Dean, the former attired in a bath hold vacation court during the week| robe ‘and the latter in a wrapper, of August 24, the other judges of| strolling about the Dean apartment, the superior bench to fill in the time | kissing, caressing and nugging one from July 6 until the fall sessions | another, was the testimony today of ey |Miss Frances Ashton, a trained One court will be in progress dur-| nurse who boarded with Mrs. Dean, jing the vacation months lat today’s hearing of Mme, Ernes- “I am stuck for the hot week,|ting Schumann-Heink’s sult for a | but it's all the same to me,” said! THEIR TIONS THE ed that has nothing to lo Dink control the election of He will have no veto power. who - be real mayor, will be appointed by the verdict. His attorney moved for a new trial, and next Saturday was set for arguments on the question. Miss Jay was present, She did not try to conceal her de- Nght, but giggled audibly when the clerk read the verdict. Her friends crowded about her after adjournment, kissing and con- eratulating her. CAPT. GRIFFITHS ‘OFF INHISHEAD, HE ASSERTS NOW SAN FRANCISCO, June 6.—At- torney George E. Price, represent- ing Capt. Jos. H. Griffiths, the army paymaster accused of em bezzling $8,000 of government! money at Seattle, will undertake Monday to convince the court martial, which 1s trying his client at the Presidio, that @ mental breakdown, due to business wor ries, was responsible for Griffiths uct There was no | court-martial today. after three hours and 40 minutes’ | i deliberation. Miss Jay was backed by her! mother in her suit, which asked $50,000. Mother Writes Letters | Letters written by Mrs, Laura Jay, the mother, tn which, it is charged, she likened Rodeheaver to Richardson, the pastor-slayer, were brought in by the defense. LUMBERMAN IS GONE; FRIENDS FEAR HE IS DEAD . Friends of Nathan H. Jacoby, a vd prominent lumberman, for years in| the employ of the Stimson Mill Co. at Ballard, who disappeared several! days ago, fear he has committed suicide, as the result of a letter his wife received from him yesterday, fn which he said he was planning on taking his life. He was asked to resign from his position with the mill company sev- eral weeks ago, following a business trip to the East, during which time his accounts were investigated "NIGHT JOY RIDE; | CAR IS WRECKED Grace Patley, alias Blanche Will jams, 517 Seneca st., isin the city hospital with scalp wounds and body bruises sustained in an auto wreck which terminated a joyride at 1:30 this morning, near the cor ner of Pine st. and Melrose av. A. H. Sager, who is not a regis tered chauffeur and who was driv ing under the license number of George W. Ward of the Burke build ing, reported that the car track caused car to skid. The ma chine crashed into a ight pole and| "ance committee formally was demolished. Sager, Mrs. Har-|down the 25-per-cent-2 rison and Ed Holliway, the two lat ~ ° _—_— Homer Rodeheaver uninjured. JAP SHIPS OF WAR COMING Carrying 1,553 officers and men. |the cruisers Asama and Azuma, men-of-war of the Japanese navy, | t will arrive in Seattle's harbor on|nier June 26, to remain until July 5 on! the company’s property. a friendly errand However, the corporation valley for years. he declared, “be regrade of Rainier valley When he calmed down, session of the Angered because the council fi turned | Calhoun's threats will be unavailing, year-gold- brick proposition of the Seattle, ter of the Hotel Stevens, escaped) Renton & Southern, Scott Calhoun, | receiver, made an apparent threat | Friday to keep things in such tur-| Home With Dad) moti that the elty will be unable} | to make any progress in the Rainier | “Tt will take the city three years,” ore it can make any Calhoun said he did not mean to threaten hold up the development of Rat- alley unless the city damages | coun. | Reluctantly the parents forgave the girl and accepted their new son- in-law, and now all's well again For Twitching Feet Anybody Who Wears Our Shoes Wil! Have @ Fit bl ~~ Seattle store sign. RECEIVER ANGRY: THREATENS TO BLOCK PROGRESS OF CITY ,sel's office is of the opinion that anyhow. Mrs. Converse iT LOS ANGELES, June 6.—Mres. | Reatha Watson Lytelle Converse, bride of a bigamous marriage with Lawrence Converse, is back at her father’s home today. she knew nothing of Converse's private affairs when she married him and she would not aid any prosecution his legal wife may force Judge Humphries. . NIXON THE BUMP! “Forbid all but tr traffic autos to run on Second av. and there will |be fewer cases of speeding,” says | —— | Thomas McMahon, who substituted for Police Judge Gordon day before yesterday, He doesn’t like Chief Griffiths’ bump fdea. “What about fire apparatus and the police patrol? What would happen when they hit the bumps? he queried MAY LICENSE EM Police Chief Griffiths, Counctl- man Hesketh and others are urging an ordinance providing for the li- censing of all beauty and massage | parlors, the idea being to weed out jauestionablo resorts, GETS $4, 000, 000 | SAN FRAN ISCO, June 6. Smith, the “borax king,” She declared! FM has dis- posed of all his borax holdings in| California to a London syndicate for $4,000,000, | divorcee from Rapp. Deposition Is Read iss Ashton was not personally Pacer in the court room, but her | evidence, taken in deposition form, was read into the record by Mme. | Schumann-Heink’'s lawyer. Rapp’s and Mrs. Dean's stroll, Miss Ashton continued, ended in the }parlor, where the pair closed the/| | door and remained all night. Loved “Nonnie’s” Aroma Mrs. Dean, said the deposition, ad- dressed Rapp as “Billy,” and Rapp’ |called Mrs. Dean onnie.” A number of letters and telegrams were also introdw One letter, from Chicago, signed “Billy,” referred to Nonnie” as |“sweet clover,” and declared that | the writer missed her “aroma in this city of stockyard smells.” Liked “Sweet Clover” The ietters’ author evidently thought considerably of “aromas” and “sweet clover,” for in another letter he said: “This morning’s mail brought me| a windfall—three letters from you. | That apartment of yours is a bug-| | bear and a leaden vault. If it were not for that I could have you with me. You don't know how much I want you, you sentimental little dar- jling. You have won over my sis jtoo; but who could resist charms? Sends “Girlie” a Telegram “You are sweet clover, aroma and all, I want my sweet clover with your 600 HOO GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNCIL PLEASE TAKE Me HOME FOR a 98. Not ANOTHER rigs TELL TO THE POLICE PLAN TO MAKE PEDESTRIANS CROS; STREETS AT ” CORNER ONLY = y selection y impunity. rrRit co \ND OTHER ORPORATIONS CAN USE POWER TO BETTER SMALL DISTRICTS THE WHOLE of one IN CTIONS BY CITY. o- and every- charter. 16 Hinky Dink its franchise will be extended The people will have no recourse. The only election in which the entire city will par- mayor—and he will be a The city manager, The people will have a lot to say about their city ADOPT THE HINKY DINK CHARTER AND KILL OFF MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. BATHROBE WALKS, HUGS AND KISSES, Schumann-Heink’s Husband Wrote Letters About Woman’s ‘Aroma,’ me, but the aroma is not here. “You are my incense, my shrine, I worship you.” Still another letter asserted: “You are the sum total of all love —all that is lovely in woman.” é One of the telegrams was as fol- jo “I hereby certify that you are the best girlie ever. Love. Greetings, “BILLY.” She Saw Them Kissing Lillian Schmidt, another roomer at Mrs. Dean's, deposed that she saw Rapp and Mrs. Dean kissing. “Rapp,” sald the deposition, “would cook, wash dishes, run household errands, put down lino leum, or do anything else that Mrs, Dean wanted him to do.” ‘TEDDY IN PARIS ENROUTETO SEE HIS SON MARRY PARIS, June 6.—Col. Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by Mra, Nicholas Longworth and his neph- ew, Philip Roosevelt, arrived here | today. They were met at the station by Secretary Robert Bliss of the Amer- ican embassy, and motored to a hotel in Ambassador Herrick’s auto mobile. Tomorrow they will leave for Madrid, to attend the wedding of Col. Roosevelt's son Kermit and American Ambassador Willard’s daughter Belle. STAR WANT ADS have Lots, Homes, Farms. ready for you, on attractive terms.