The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 16, 1914, Page 1

THURSDAY LAST DAY TO SIGN SEVEN SISTERS ODAY, tomorrow and Thursday are the last days to sign the “Seven Sisters” and the other initia- tive bills if you want to be sure that your signature will be counted. The petitions must be in the hands of the secre- tary of state at Olympia by July 3. They must all be certified and checked by the registration offi als MORE THAN 45,000 PAID COPIES DAILY LAFE HAMILTON, supported by “Me Too” Knudsen, has nothing on Kelly of Everett, temporarily mayor and city council rolled into one. va-WHO’S THE THIEF? VOLUME 16. } in the various cities and country precincts where the signatares are obtained, In Seattle, the registra’ in which to check the petit 18 is the last day petition local office. that will be filed later. But So, 1f you live in | Seat NO. 97. tion office requires 10 days ions, This means that June 8 may be submitted to the It may be possible to have petitions checked it is safer to take no chances, ttle you must hurry. Sign today. The measures, “Seven Sisters” Petitions may be signed at the Labor Temple Sixth and University; progressive headquarters, Boston | block, Second and Columbia First av., International Clothing Co., 523 Pike st. are seven separate You may sign one of them or all of them. They provide for the elimination of private employment agencies, the amendment of the compensation act so as to include “first aid,” the “blue sky” law to protect investors from fraudulent stock companies, the abolish- ment of the useless and expensive bureau of inspection which is composed of “lame duck” politicians, the con- solidation of certain offices to eliminate duplication of expense, a road bill to eliminate the “pork barrel” system q of legislation, and the fish bill Raymer’s Bookstore, 1330 initiative | SEATTLE, WASH., The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1914. MYSTERY IN DEATH OF G BRIDGES ASKS COLMAN DOCK AS PORT GIFT Outlines Comprehensive Plan’ for Central Dock System for Hand- ling All Passenger Traffic. cided yet. They enticipate little trouble in gaining control of the Grand Trank whart. The property is merely under a Jease to the railroad company, which has the privilege of purchasing at a later date. But the commistioners believe the Laurence J. Colman, owner of large sections of Western and First avs., besides a lot of other property, buildings, etc., been given the cheer- ful alternative of making the commission a Grand Trunk would prefer doing as of the Colman /|‘id the . eee line, | ke, “Wie = texminus fOr "| Tissica's wher 1s getting bert most of the Sound passen- get steamers, or of having all his business taken away by this same port commission. “Heads we win; tails you lose,” says the port commission to Mr. Colman. Right now, the con:misstoners are treading water, ‘ting Mr. Col- mss answer. Port Needs the Dock ° ‘The port commission fixures this factiities minus the outlay of money | the Grand Trunk has experienced. FILE RECALL WITH AUDITOR way: Colman has plenty of worrles— and wealth—now withont tits dock of his, and the dock has suddenly | loomed up big in the port's plans for water front development. | next week. The port wants a ferry and rapid| Attorney Mende today stated transit terminus to handle all pas-|that several petitions gpd to senger-boat traffic some place along | been certified to in the th, water front. The Colman dock,| precincts in pencil are being, yet combined with the Grand Trunk Pa-| turned #o as to have the certifica- cific anc the West Seattle ferry slip| tion made in Ink to avoid any legal between the two will, it thinks, with | quibbling. certain alterations, serve tha pur-| Comptroller Carroll has returned the Hamilton recall petitions to the recallers, as Frater’s injunction only stopped him from checking the names Fortunately, Hamilton peti tions were alres checked whe: the injunction was se srved There will therefore be no hiteh |in the Hamilton recall election on | that score. ALL LAWYERS N KING'S LANDS AT EMPRESS PROBE QUEBEC, June 16,—With Lord Mersey presiding, the rgyal com mission charged with thé task of The Hamilton rec: all petition will | be filed with County Auditor Phelps pose. But if the capitalist chooses not to give the port this dork, it will turn the new Bell st. wharf into the terminal, and presto! Mr. Colman's dock, along with all its office rooms, will go a-begzing for business. It’s’ an embarrassing dilemma for Mr. Colman! Will Charge Him Rent The Colman dock, lying between Columbia id Marion sts., with a width of about 52 feet, and the Grand Trunk dock, with a 47-foot frontage, between Marion and Madl- son, leaves but a 66-foot strip for the port—two small an area for the construction of the proposed ter- mi Yet steamers berthing at either of these wharves use the port's fair- way. If Colman is unwilling to torn over the wharf, he'll be charged) $1,000 a year for the privilege of infringing on this area. the ady Ditto as to the Grand Trunk Pa-| investigating the sinking of the cific. Empress of Ireland, recently Both concerns have agreed on|in collision with the cogier Stor- stad in the St. Lawrence, off Fath er Point, began ite work here today. Among the first witnesses will be Capt. Kendall, of the Empress $600 a year, but the port has said nothing doing. He'll Lose All Around So Colman will not only lose the trade, but he'll be loser this extra kale. of Ireland. The commissioners may wait} Lawyers from Quebec, Montreal, along until October for Mr. Col-| Ottawa, London and New York! man's answer, or they may take ac-| were present when the hearing! tion immediately. They haven't de-! opened DR. RICHARDSON ON CARPET AGAIN a “The house doc tendent of the county hospital, was|tor threatens that they will be elted by the county commissioners |thrown out if this amount is not today to appear before the board signed over to the county to explain charges brought by| “After a man has been sick for a members of the Longshoremen'’s|month he is in no condition to union regarding the treatment of| work. If he has no money, he is in patients: a worse fix than when he went in.” A delegation of three from the} Knudsen believed {t merely union made a complaint that pa-|matter of law tients taken to the county hospital) McKenzie protested that if such are required to sign over to Dr. a practice exists at the county hos Richardson what little money they | pital, it works a hardghip on the have, on threat of eviction | men “When our men are hurt they; Hamilton promised the com are allowed $20 a month by the|plainants Dr. Richardson would be state insurance commission,” said |cailed before the board. BY NEXT WEEK ‘ANOTHER U.-W. ROMANCE HAS GONE FLOO-EY | Boy and Girl, Believed En-| gaged, Turn Out to Be a Real Married Couple. IN DIVORCE COURT) Parents Take D Daughter Away| to Make Her Forget; Learn She's a Wife. | epidemic of University of Washing ton romances (7) that have been stirring students the past few weeks |developed suddenly yeste: y with |the filing of a divorce action by Fern Strange Driver against Marion | Driver, charging non-support. | The filing of the complaint was the first intimation friends had |that Marion Driver, member of the | Kappa Sigma fraternity, and promt. nent varalty debater, was married to Fern Delta Delta Delta sorority girl, Strange, manager of the H. J. Heinz \Co. Take Young Wife Away |. They became engaged early last fall, but the girl’s parents promptly put the ban on the whole matter jand took her, in December, to Los Angeles, apparently to break the on- gagement. Now, it appears, the couple separ- ated man and wife, The complaint recites that Mrs. Driver has been dependent on her Parents for support, practically ever since the marriage. ‘The wife is a boon companion of Hazel Palmerton, suddenly married a few days ago to Theodore R. Pape, in Tacoma, while ostensibly on a visit to friends in that city “MY PAPA DOESN'T DRINK’--DOES HE CHEW HIS WATER? Port Townsend, June 13. Editor The Star: Traveling with a little niece and nephew on the train recently | over- heard their talk. The tittie boy said: “My papa doesn’t drink.” The little girl said: “What does he do, chew his water?” N, 8. GORDON, 1229 Tyler St. The mails are ° bringing dozens of jsuch clever sayings to the editor's | desk, and dozens more are wanted The cutest saying received each day will be published the following day. Slip us that bright remark YOUR} youngster made BED BURNS AND THIEF ROBS 'EM; THEY SLEEP ON Francis J. Preciado and Dick Sny. der, employed on the steamship Alameda, took a night off last night and dallied with the joy-Juice. Early this morning they took a room in the Chicago hotel, Fifth av 8. and King st When they woke up this morning the men found the bed on which jthey had been lying partially | burned | Preciado woke up on the floor with holes burned through his underclothing. The fire had been put out with water. The door of the |Foom was standing wide open Preciado was minus $20 and Sny der lost $40. Neither has any r lection of what happened. ‘SHAVES IN AIR VIENNA, June 16,—Winning a bet of $100 that he could shave him |self while aloft in his aeroplane, Pilot Konschel yesterday guided the, plane with his knees while he lath- ered and shaved his face. After fin ishing he looped the loop several times and landed, The other side of the case in the| daughter of Agathus| the girl who was/ Ella G. Winrter BALTIMORE, M4, Jone 16.— Lured to the lonely upper reaches of a little creek, and there slain under cover of a drizzling rain, Is the weird and fascinating theory of the prosecution in Baltimore's girl mur- der mystery—a strange and baffling case that bas stirred the whole East with a feverish interest | The body of Ella G. Winter, |stenographer who vanished after lmeeting her sweetheart, Capt. D. | Merideth Reese, Jr. aboard his houseboat, fails to disclose the slightest clew to the manner of her death. Her Body Found In Water Her body was found tn the water, but the autopsy revealed no water in the lungs. Traces of poison, too, were absent Ella G. Winter is dead. How did ahe die? The best physicians in the East cannot teil. She was not drowned, she was not poisoned, she was not strangled, and fall- ing off a pier while experiencing an attack of heart failure is out of the question. The girl is dead, undoubtedly murdered, but her slaying was ac- complished with such fiendish in- genuity that the best minds in the medical profession are at a loss to know how it was done. Her Sweetheart Released Reese, the last person to see her jalive, has been released. | John Rice, a negro cook Reese's houseboat, has been arrest- jed, but no evidence against him can jbe found, the on | D.M. Reese The girl went to spend the week- end on the houseboat with Reese, On the last evening of her visit | Reese, who is a well known yachts- }man and lawyer of this city, |her for a trip in his motor boat be-| fore landing her at the pier. | He was the last person to see | her alive! Another Girl in Ca Since then mystery envelops the case of the stenographer, whom Reese admits he was in love with, but told her he would never make her his wife, He asserts that there may be some grounds for a suicide theory, but declares he was not the cause. “A year ago there might have been cause for jealousy,” he said, “but recently, There was no other girl.” Reports say there was another | girl aboard the houseboat the night Miss Winter diss appeared Teddy Roosevelt Is going to visit the state of Washington this fall, and “go down the line” for Ole Han son and other candidates on progressive ticket Acting State Chairman Herbsman | | was advised/today by Senator Poin the ROOSEVELT WILL TALK FOR HANSON |party that Roosevelt will spend at |least three days In this state. He probably will come here September. And,” Herbsman says, “he ts go- ing to support the progressive | party's candidates, and progressive candidates alone. This is positive," dexter and national heads of the! EVERETT, June 16.—It's trouble to find out who is boss of this town It's T. J. Kelly Just now he's the whole cheese, the main gazabo, the high honky- dorum and mogul mogulissimo He's It, with a capital “I.” Kelly proposes city ordinances, seconds his own motion, passes the bill, signs, ‘forced, no} and sees that it's baa KELLY’S THE WHOLE THING; GOVERNS EVERETT UNAIDED the council, the head of the He's the mayor, police commissioner, finance department, the fire depart ment, the commissioner of public works, and everything else in the city hall He'll run the town himself until July 28, whea two other commis- |sioners are to be selected to fill the places of former Mayor Chris- tensen and Commissioner Thomp- son, who were recalled. took | in} ; be abolished? AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST — Fair tonight and Wednesday; light westerly winds ON THAINS AND NPWS STANTS ONE CENT OMEBODY has stolen the records from Justice Brown’s court in the case A of J. E. Brockway, Lafe Hamilton’s road supervisor in Vashon, who was | found oy of misusing his office. e records are gone. There isn’t a clue to them. They’ re missing. They ae. walk out of Brown’s court alone and unaided. Who is the thief? Unless they can be found, the case against Brockway falls. He has ap- |pealed from Judge Brown’s sentence, imposing a fine of $100 and costs, to the |superior court. The clerk must make a transcript of that record before the ap- peal court will try the case. Therefore the case will not be tried unless the thief is found. Brockway y will not only save the fine, but he will also save his job, Conviction in the lower court was not enough for Hamilton. Lafe said he had Brockway’s resignation but would not let him resign until the higher court also convicted him. Hamilton want: Brockway whitewashed. JUDGE DECIDES T0 TOUCH DOES HEN SET SPEEDERS’ POCKETBOOKS: ON EGGS--OR __ NOBODY SENT TO PRISON DOES SHESIT? Question Brings Belliger- ents to Star Office. |AND WE DIDN’T KNOW! | We Depended on the Diction- ® After Judge Gordon had imposed | & $20 fine on the first speeder be iy: fore him today—"speeders’ day” he gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling, | then looked grimly at the big crowd | | before him and spoke thus, very! slowly and impressively: “BEGINNING THE FIRST OF |*" |NEXT WEEK, | SHALL IMPOSE A FINE OF $5 FOR EVERY MILE \IN EXCESS OF THE SPEED LIM., ND SHALL FINE ALU PER. SONS VIOLATING THE ORDI., NANCE RELATING TO PASSING STREET CARS $25.” | The present fine is $2 a mile. | Deep stlence, followed by a gasp! Then came a buzz of mueverintion, quickly silenced by the bailiff. 70 Cases Up Today One of the largest dockets of speeders and violators of the traffic ordinances on record faced Judge peg today. There were over 70 Rnterds, and i Prank Linguist, W. Other apeeders—E. C. Roundtree, H. J Myhrwell, Fred Magnusen, Ted Anderson B. Good. Traffic Ordinance ~ ary, but the Blamed Old marked a man in a Phinney av. car | | [SETTing | |autos and motorcycles, whose own-|!0& issued a warning to sightseers Book Straddies. | this morning. _ NEN REDDING, Cal., June 16.—Mount | on trial. Nobody | to keep away from the crater, tour- TOURISTS CLIMB rover avr ox me logan: about the sitting hen,” re UP PEAK 10 PEEK funny, too, that the paper |made as rank a grammatical error Ree ic alge tases n| Lassen was slumbering today. | e@ stree! joining the c! a my ” was jammed this morning with| Th0ugh Forest Supervisor Rush- ists were beginn to pour into th era were inside | was sent to jail Hiser, in for driving an auto | while intoxicated, will come to trial | this afternoon. Harry Gillis, a county employe, is charged with driving without a license number. His case was laid over. ©. W. Knudson stopped too near a fire hydrant. It cost him $5. Ray Arron drove a traffic vehicle on a boulevard and was fined $3. Boy's Age Varies Charles Beeson, a retail lumber dealer, tried to prove that E. Berry |deliberately walked {nto his ma chine. The case was contin ese. | The case of Elm Glo | whose age, according to the Potten e, ’ |varies from 17 to 21, charged with WHEN IT R UGH : driving a motorcycle with false) loense numbers, was continued McSweyn, driver for the Stand- pou GHKEEPSIB, N. Y., June} ard Furniture Co., drove on a boule-|1¢—A stiff southwest wind blow: | vard, but got right off. He was dis- ing up the Hudson missed with a warning. practice difficult district An automobile stage line has been established from Redding to Manzanita lake, where a hotel has; been opéned to catch the visitors trade. From the lake two more miles of the trip is made by pack | train. Then follows the three-mile climb up the mountain side. as it did,” growled his neighbor, CONIBEAR JUST Sirsa not so sure,” the first speaker. “You ‘sit’ in a seat, and a hen ‘sits’ on a nest. are your pardon, but the hen TS on the nest, just like the sun po in the west! I know that ‘set’ is good grammar, because I keep Keo s: myself.” “Bet you $5 on it,” cried one, The meeting was adjourned to The Star office, and a pocket dle. today made tionary produced. for next week's W. W. Horner didn't show up and| regat he water was rough. FINDINGS: — forfeited $5 ball. Charge, violating| The crews which did venture. out SET—To sit, ese hen on traffic ordinance. | were compelled to dip water from SOR: >" Draws Fine of $20 | their shells. | “Guess I'll wear a new $5 hat to- Harry Fowler paid $5 for having! The Washington crew did not/ night,” remarked the one. “My bs hens haven't been setting all these no number in front of his machine. | row this forenoon. | Sam Birnbaum drove on a boule- A few of the other crews took | Years without my knowing how to vard. Fine, $3. short spins. spell it mn H, B. Havlick, alleged speeder, But read the rest,” said the who brought forth the judge's an- nouncement of a raise in rates, was | fined $20. He was charged with| going 30 miles an hour. Others on the morning docket were the following Violating Traffic Ordinance—G. C. Me- FAVOR CHARTER A hundred odd members of the Municipal league, which has 1,200 sey ee Cae hay Wig eulex: | members, voted, 76 to 31, at a ses Hodgkina, Litsey, 1. Lorkeison 3.|8ion this afternoon, to adopt the A. MeDo: ; . John Stone, | report of a special committee favor- he ls yeett:|ing the new city charter. There Alderson, W. A. Engel, Wl Doughes.| had been considerable opposition ty, Frank Peterson, Joe Takashima, &.|among members to the ward sys- ’. © Searing. /tem feature of the charter, Harry | | Chief of Police Aguirre of Havana chew, |Shot and killed Generoso Canal, Wilson, business partner, in a quarrel. A Ordinance Arthur ed. Murphy Sunnitt REFUSES TO PAY; other. And he pointed to the sen- tence following: Set is used by confusion with sit. Then he turned the pages, and came to: SIT—To crouch, as a bird on a nest. Re | “Guess that hat'll be mine,” he | exclaimed. ‘i distance telephone |original franchise granted by the| Finally mediators were appointed Renton und Seattle city of Renton, it was stipulated /to set about sitting in judgment hat when Renton had 100 subscrib-| upon the rights of the two sets of there should be no long dis- parties in this verbal set-to. In tonce tolls to S Since then, their decision, they sat upon both the company has been merged into parties, as being unconscionably has refused to pay long distance | the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph | “sot” in their ways, But with all tolls amounting to $14, The Ren-|Co, But Houser maintains that|their satire they didn't settle the ton city council is backing him up.|the original provision still applies, | situation, and the $5 remains as a The pecullar part of it is that| Attorneys of the company now| prize to the first man who can in- Es the company has not taken| have the matter under advisement. |terpret the dictionary’s answer te will long tolls between Paul Houser, attorney, of Ren ton, so firmly believes it that he Houser's phone out. It probably will go-into court in the question: Houser claims that under the'a few days. “Does a hen sit, or sett”