The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 26, 1914, Page 1

. ple can amend the new charter if they adopt it aA LE changing it or amending it until the ye ar 1917. The Seattle The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print SEATTLE MORE THAN 45,000 PAID COPIES DAILY WATCH FOR Star extra tomor row on heavyweight champlonship fight in Paris. NO. 106, VOLUME 16, WASH., FRIDAY. JUNE 26, 1914. The Hinky Dink boosters, apologizing for some of its crooked jokers, say the peo- | ® Hinky Dink framers inserted a clause in the charter which prohibits the people from within a year. This is a plain lie. The Star the News WEATHER FORECAST — Fair tonight and Saturday; warmer Sat- urday; light southeasterly winds. BAND ANOS ONE CENT NEWS SE c “| SAY CP. YOU REMEMBER MY OLD FRIEND MR DINE, DONT CHA? YOUNG BOY OH, SURE | R-R-REMEMBER ~--HIM.--- YOU BET !! ~ ACCUSED ~ BY GIRL Then, one da arch of th | nve ion is being ad oday i } By Norman Rose : Th m, one di y Mare , oe hie ‘ cing made toe iy, - i ALBANY, N. Y., June 26—Is 18 | home of Henry I an found i en ee eee } Yearold Malcolm’ Gifford of Hud | home of H . Sageine vere ceny, who accuses a private detective, inters Gon, N. Y.. one of the greatest he-| 1 chauffour's li cnse and othe ested in the case, of threatening her with further prosecution Foes this country has ever produc-| ns) The money was missing’ | unl she yielded to improper demands @d—a mere boy, who, like a knight | "f° Soir dave soni 4 SPECIAL eae’ 4 : @f old, is gladly riding to his fate ithin a few days coun yd mes | The girl collapsed following her‘ purse and offered it to him, sh@ for ® woman's Aonor, even though |" Givi yr" iy yunrald nom of| PRIVILEGE preliminary arraignment in Judge|*#id. He declined the money and that fate be the terrible one meted | °° Gifford. Jr, Is yeanole NJ Frater’s court, She was taken into| ‘en made an insulting proposal, tae Out in the Sing Sing deathehair? | & ich manufacturer of Hudson, girl asserts. She ordered the de ’ Or oe Y., @ short distance from Albany jthe jail matron’s office, where she /tective from her room and saya Is 18-yearold Malcolm Gifford} !% April young ¢ ifford. was arrest | told her story that he replied he would “get her” lee ons ot the cca ed, lodged in prison and char She sald the detective paid her by raising the charges filed against DEA dladieress ever 41 | With the murder of Clute }a visit at her room last night and her to grand larceny. in the courts of the E <a Gifford Leaves | proffered his ald in having prosecu-| The young woman was badly BET tones mm thot ‘hie On the @ay of are’ Mie thi tion dropped if she “would be a| worked up over her experience. | IF VICTIM HE WAS, had ther gave him to go to Hoosick good girl elieving that he want-| She is charged with having stolen Sein a taly oe te bene aig jand. attend a dance that. eveaing,| ed money, she took @ bill from her|a shirt waist from a store. Rot even know him? |then to a dinner and dance at the ; g Troy City club on the evening of} | :: Find the Woman April 1. PERFECTLY Ll 4 Such is the twoheaded question; Gifford went to the dance {n Hoo-| GooD E mow being asked by young Gifford’s| sick, went to Troy th t day, BRICK & Millionaire friends here, by all and the evening of April 1 found napintas : The answer that most of them|him a guest of Derrick L. Board-| — The people will not be allowed sing syndicates offered considers 7 make, at least those Gifford num. . & boy of his own age. Two aie ~~ to buy port bonds in small blocks| bly above this margin. M bers as friends, {s the ancient r boys were in the house-party Ce aa | after all The bide have been rejected and French adage: “FIND THE WOM Boardman and the other two | ce . YO ——Vy1d - ec the issue of $75,000 of bonds will ~ AN!"—to which they append the| boys started for the dinner at | % MARKS THE SPOT W> POINTS TO BRICK WATCH SPOT AND BRICK This ts the decision of the Seat- he readvertised and offered for Corollary that in this way y will the club. Gifford left them, 24 - v.05, 330 wr Rea aca meee ———— tle port commission after consider-|sale on July 8. Gifford’s innocence be established saying he would not attend the | — Jing $120,000 in applicafions from| The bonds were offered to the ever blackened! dinner, but would arrive tater. small bidders. The commission! public in small lots as an expert On the morning of April 2, 1913,| About 11 o'clock he rejoined | found that the bids in $100 blocks|ment. The office of the commis & milkman, driving along t the other boys. They noticed | | averaged only par, while bond-buy-|sion was flooded with applications, — Albany and Troy, saw an empty au-| that his clothes were disordered | | 4 Tomobile standing at the side of the) and mud-stained, He said he | id. He found the cushions soak-| had been toa fire. It isa fact | | : ith blood, and in a ditch he dis-| that THERE WAS A FIRE wed the body of Frank J. Clute,! near the Boardman home at | a Ste had been killed by three bul about 10:30 that evening. S va fired into the back of his head! Find Ciue For NEARLY A YEAR there was Mot a clew to the assassin. The Gontty authorities were absolutely | Gifford was in good spirits at the dance, and no one observed anything unusual in his man- ner, After the dance went home with Derrick Boardman. HE OCCUPIED A BEDROOM WHICH HAS A WINDOW NEW YORK, June 26.—A total of © 28 deaths and about 25 prostrations | race, jumped Into prominence and was backed heavily today to win The University of Washington crew, which finished third last year, wos | figured a keen contender Three races were inctuded {n to. day's schedule. The first event, an WATCH FOR RACE EXTRA t The Star will thoroughly cov. | er the big race at Poughkeep- sic, and a few minules after the first crew has passed un- |resulted from the three days’ heat wave which was moving eastward }today trom the Middle West...The |fuli foree of the wave had not yet! | OVERLOOKING THE SPOT [reached here at noon, One death, | 4¢F the wire will have an ¢X- | | cightoared race between crews rep- ON THE ROOF WHERE and 12 prostrations were recorded |‘ om the street. The extra | | resenting Cornell, Columbia, Penn- CLUTE’S WALLET WAS [here At 10 a. m. the thermometer, | Will be the first out in Seattle. | |/syivania and Syracuse, was an- FOUND! stood at 80 degrees. As usual, the |nounced to start at 4:10 p.m, in * More Evidence densely populated East Side bore scadinalion ~~? a two-mile pull down stream. ‘The murder was committed with|the brunt of the suffering. Fatall-| Freshmen eights from the same IS VOTED DOWN an automatic revolver of 26 caltber.| ties from the heat in other locall-| perfect for rowing’ “The water, (Colleges, also a crew representing | After the discovery of the pocket-|tles were reported ax follows | book, such a weapon was found in| Philadelphia §, Indianapolis 6, pawnshop at Northampton, Maas.,| Pittsburg 4, Detroit 4, Cleveland 2 where Gifford had attend a pri-| Columbus, 0. 1; Linco! Neb., 1 vat school. | Twenty prostrations w reported There were only two persons who 12 from Pittsburg from Cleveland, 1 are reported tu have seen the au-|and 8 from St. Paul , Wisconsin, were scheduled to start jat 5 p. in a race for the same distance, also down was smooth, with only a faint breeze blowing. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 26 Every crew of the six entered in the varsity ASHINGTON, D. C., June 26.— house so amended the legis ive appropriation bill as to cut; ators’ mileage to and from the pital from cents to 5 cents! m. stream, The big event—the varsity eights elghtoared race to be|—was scheduled to start at about the Hudson rowed today here per mile. “ ~ oa 6:15 o'clock. One of the largest » When the original bill was voted tonicnaie, with its two occupants, on Cooler weather prevatled general-| was given a chance to win, Cornell | crowds in the history of the event ‘on in the house, four of Washing. | the death ride Fine 2 sere meant | Y Se ee, We oat had the most supporters among the| attended today’s regatta, Hundreds ion’s five congressmen voted to rr jorne. She is said to} |rowing experts, but not one of the|/of yachts and motorboate were have told friends that Clute drove “retain the 20-cent rate. Congress- u | five others lacked for adherents ranged along the course, which was © man Bryan, progressive, was the| is car up to the curb to speak to | Syracuse, the dark horse of the policed by revenue cutters. Ve@nly one who voted for the change. | b€T, and that she saw his passenger, a i -0: elbancoeadlaly a man with a mustache, Gifford | wore no mustache. The other witness Is Ethel Clute. widow of the murdered man. She! ersistently refused to divulge UNCLE SAM IS GONNA GET T.R.SUPPORT DLD SOL GETS r she clearly saw the pas eee =e . FIRE BLAME ao that ake could Ndentity| -OYSTER BAY, June 26—In. a Bets him. Whether her testimony {s to} COmference with progressive leaders; NIAGARA FALLS, June | Huertistas showed no signs of re be for or against the accused boy|he™® Yesterday, Col. Roosevelt re-| one 4 4. C. mediators were connt-|Céding from their contention that That the rays of the after. |i one knows pudiated the story to the effect that) Tie 4 i the Mextoan rob. | Hterta’s succomor must be an ab noon sun, focusing on oil- | 6 Wedeen? he had at any time entertained the|!ng today on the Mexlean edie nonttal Gobad tek an goaked work clothing left by | go all the evidence against the) i1e% Of supporting District Attorney |el representatives’ arrival here | The sadeelinaty ences painters, caused the fire that [hoy is practically circumstantial itman of New York as a fusion | saturday to take up with the Huer-| promising, but the mediators for the second time within six |The whole case against him could| reasive-republican candidate for) +144 envoys the organization of a|8¢emed confident MERCED, Cal, June 26—Pas- senger train No. 3, on the Yosemite SNWORTH, Kan., June 26.|at their head, the party reported for the few who are|to the warden at 9 p. m. yes 5 They had dined well in Kansas —-Except Valley railroad, was wrecked about| Waiting for new trials or were par- <a eet mn exe | 10:30 tas night, two coaches going|doned by the president, the labor| spite of what i ae in lover an embankment into the leaders convicted at Indianapolis of| This morning, in prison garb an Merced river. Two men were kilied complicity in a dynamite plot/numbered as before their ond i ets yg - ¢|#ainst non-union employes were/all were assigned to the task of * Harris, county tpg back at work inthe federal prison} putting steel into the west Marip county, and A. C. Ma /hore today. With Frank M. Ryan! building. honey of Merced, conductor, were killed. The train is known as No. 3, a summer train. It consisted of a combination baggage ear and smoker, a day coach and two Pull- mans. OFFER TO AID FIRE ‘VICTIMS AT SALEM WASHINGTON, June 26.—Ernest | Dicknell, national director of the Red Cross, first telegraphed to Sa- lem, Mass., today, offering assist-| ance to the fire sufferers there, an then left in person for the stricken city to lend all the aid in his pow- er eretary of War Garrison said GOVERNOR ASKS FEDERAL TROOPS 26.—The PHYSICIAN HURT IN AUTOMOBILE While attempting to pass anoth- er automobile on the narrow plank paving at 30th av. S. and Dearb t., this morning, Dr. W. A. Mote nich, 5716 Rainier av., drove too near the high embankment that- skirts the street and his car went over the edge, turning sev : somersaults and landing 50 feet bee low with Dr. Monnich buried in the debris. ‘ He was removed to the Swedish ~ hospital and Dr. George M. Horton |summoned. Dr. Monnich sustained | BUTTE, Mont., June situation created here between warring factions of the rival min- ers’ unions was still tense today. Gov. Stewart sent a message to President Wilsop, asking that, a force of regular soldiers be trans- ferred from Vancouver Barracks, Wash., to Fort Missoul, so they can be ready for duty on short notice in case of emergency. FAIRBANKS, June 26.—The| Alaska Citizen, a democratic week- , will start publication as a daily \his department is ready to do all|July 1 and will support James|™a@ny severe cuts and bruises, Buty lin its power, and telegraphed to| Wickersham as delegate to con-|Dr. Horton is of the opinion hig] | }Col. Hawthorne, in command at] &ress okell te not fractured. |Fort Warren, near Boston, for a | report James Mullarkey, Issaquah, suc Being Just One Man’s Opinion By THE SPECTATOR A WOMAN'S SPITE I have run into a few cases of a woman's spite in my time, but for real meanness I haven't seen anything in this fine that equals that case down East in the town of Salem,| «paward and Joneph will remain | every schoolboy. criminal law, If a man has been where they used to burn witches to death. Two women living! tn after school.” After the boy days were over| convicted twice of a felony he may ig ‘te fell out and one built a spite fence. Nine feet! two bos , neathinty their paths parted and they lost| be adjudged an “habitual” and sent ott Bigetoae “sein pag fe chatting | Lw® boys grinned sheepishly 98\ track of each other, But during|to prison for all the way from 10 high she built it, of great, rough boards, com el WItING | their mates filed out of the class|the time they learned much of the|to 40 years. If he has been con off the view of t treet irom her neig window room and romped away with notay/things in fe they are not taught | victed three times his case is hope: | 1 whose € th obscured of Puri wits in the freedom beyond, The in the school books, Both boys did |les#, and life imprisonment is the ‘ a a lawye d to court. A mas-|tWo boys had “whispered during| things the law says is not right] penalty j tan 5 = ° r ‘ } e : hours” and the eagle eye of the|and they were punished for infrac-| That's the class in which Dris | ter in equity appointed. After he had heard the testi teacher had caught them. That|tion of the rules, They learned | coll and Rowan are now. They are | t mony and viewed the obstructi in person, he made his meant punishment as every school-|that the law and people are not as|hoping, as all live men do, that 5 award. The plaintiff is to get $15 damage boy knows. |ientent as the teacher down in San|something will turn up to better, ape ies , c H 5 “No 0 4 ald e pache: Franciecc cave e pr | thei t n ve Vhich shows, among other things, how elusive justice RE ho a ap Prag cp! hep’ Shang » who gave them another ae PRESS ALG Ee them at 4 > r+ ornly, coing to let yo shane 20, fs. Fifteen dollars for having to look at a spite fence all your) this time. But remember, if you Mates Once More—in Prison J si | ; . y ha A “Lifer” at 27 life | persist in breaking the rules you Ed and Joe are foget r ay AALS : 7 - real damage is something which no court could! Will be punished severely, That 1#| again, elr days at “shinny’ owan, who has the greater pun- But the real i oe ie ustlice ie words all.” are over and their meeting thie |Ishment ahead of him, talked free. measure, anyhow he one who sullers the worst Injury 18)" Phe boys raced jubilantly down| time was under circumstances |ly with a Star man today, He {s the woman who built the monument to her ill feeling; and|the street. They had escaped pun-| strangely different from dis- |27 years old, If he lives to be 70 next to her among the sufferers are the little children of Salem) ishment for the once. Th teacher! tant schoolroom days. The |years old he will have spent 43 ho daily have thrust before them this ugly token of the petty ) bad after all, They were| two school chums are now | long years bebind the gray walls of ee hich prown-ups a CTs “_ n another chance prison mates in the King coun: |the prison house at Walla Walla Meannesses Of which & 2p sedate ra vinta! vase eee | ty jail. Rowan is under sen That's a long time to stay tf one 4 fit of temper, with a scrape and then sunshine, i Edward Rowan and Joseph Dris tence of life imprisonment at | building quite human. But to build a grouch into permanent me- coll were kid pals, They played| hard labor in the Walla Walla He has no peeve against society, d ‘ than a passing weakness—it is a crime “shinny” on the same side at re-| penitentiary and Driscoll has a | but he believes that the habitual morial is more than a pa 5” if z 5 cess, passed out handbills on Sat 10 to 25-year ‘bit’ ahead of him. |eriminal law is unjust and that a I hope the great fire they had in Salem yesterday wiped | urdays and shared all the joys and oe ¢ i man whose “foot has slipped” once | jorrows that come Into the life of Washington state has an habitual!has a mighty hard time following out the spite fence. weeks resulted in a heavy loss [he swept away in an instant if he|S7vemnor of New York. That there ‘nal avilanbende exiec . ' Wednesday night to the 7. Aen eee ae itactory anewor| Will be no fusion of the two parties | Provisional government at Mex! A ee esp Wet! Gottstein Furniture Co. is the [to the police's question, “WHERE Yor a complete| City | jinvertigation of | the protocol opinion of Harry W. Bring |WweRE YOU BETWEEN 7 AND 11 _ ticket will be| Flushed with the victories at | signed © mediators and Amer hurst, who found charred rem- (gcLOCK ON THE EVENING OF Put Into the tis was the state-| Zacatecas and San Luis Potosi, it|!can and Huertista envoys reveal nants of jumpers at the spot | APRIL. 1 ; ment issued toda . thought likely the rebels | ed, 1t was remarked today, that 1n where the fire started, on the |” yet, for 14 months, he sat inle ¢|¥ould undertake to dictate, The | promising not to requi war in fourth floor. ta cell ps sealed, r than HONK! HONK! gematt oF other “exnetion from answ one question! Schoo! is out and the kids ‘ ’ Mexico op account of | what has VETOES MEASURE Is beloved woman| | are thronging all over the Seiret die adenine Ce Mayor Gili today vetoed the|whom young ord SECRETLY| | streets in every part of the te Nec me none wee nance propriating | visited that night and whom he will, | city. Young and old are play co incident. — amp 7,800 fro » general fund for|not expose—for whose fair name he| In the paths of autos. Chief Lunch by wireless was the poss So AP the improvement of West Mercer | will gallantly ride, with his youth, Griffiths today asked the news || novelty enjoyed by members of }| BL. from Queen Anue av. to Beach |to the death chair in that little gray) | papers to warn drivers of ma- | || the Victoria Y. W. C. A. and Y.|/@ vr room at Sing Sing? | chines to practice dodgin M. C. A. yesterday on a sight oat ~ : | | and to use extreme caution | || seoing tour (CHARTER MEETINGS throughout the summer. Il" Want 60 ‘fonelies” was: the Charter talks will be heard | Besides, there's the matter aerogram flashed by the party tonight at the Bethany Pres- of that $5a-mile fine schedule | |fen route, It was received at the || | ¥terian church, First av. N to remind them. + cee basih aan tobay se and Roy st; Madrona Pres ° ° cafeteria when the visitors ar byterfan chureh, d av. and * “+ * KE. Marion st @sion ALS IN SCHOOL, YOUNG MEN ARE PRISON PALS NO | George W. Dilling, former mayor, }will addtesa King county progres sives Saturday noon at the Fraser Paterson restaurant on the “Rail roads and Legisiation in 1903 Dilling Was a member of the 1903 legislature. | PIGEONHOLED WASHINGTON, June 26,—Sena-| tor Owens’ bill to regulate stotk exchanges was stricken from the calendar in the senate today and sent back to the banking and ‘cur rency committee for reconsidera |tion, This means the bill probably ; Will not be reached again this ses-| The first installment of Harold MacGrath’s great novel, “THE MILLION DOLLAR MYS- TERY,” will be printed in The Star tomorrow. Besides being a real thriller, the story is at the same time a masterpiece. It has been “filmized” and moving pic- tures of the novel are being shown at the Colonial now. the straight and narrow path; again, but somehow I can't. honest game, and admitted I had thereafter. Calls It Unjust done time, There wasn’t much of © | oe | la chance, they told me. A lot of | “T'm not sore at anybody in par I don't think the habitual crim-| (ner men were ahead of me, inal law is just. It punishes a man believe Iwata inne a ticular,” said Rowan. “MY FOOT twice for the same thing. 1 have I believe I would have landed if SLIPPED ONCE AND ! WENT TO PRISON, AFTER THAT MY PAST WAS CONTINUALLY THROWN | BEFORE ME. It was my past tha caused my conviction under this habitual criminal law, It has al ways been with me, I can’t get rid) : the charge hadn't been filed against been punished for my mistakes, and | "1° now the law takes them up collec-|™°- The case should never have ely, makes a new charge of all/90ne further than the police court ag them, and punishes me for the Dee ree ae gees a! ene * whole, It doesn’t look exactly | Nght. e. RARS, CAF y plight 10 tae. robbed them. | say | didn’t, BUT “When I came out of San Quen-| THERE WAS MY RECORD. I have on [tin the last time, T certainty in-|Rothing to say against the polieg | ’ rr ei tended to play on the square, I'm ee . “Regardless of my other two|* Sheet metal worker. T got a J0b) tes tough, all right, but I am in the ship yards at $2 a day, when | ot beving about ie “As society is now, it is pretty hard for a fellow to make good, no matter how much he wants to, . T am up against a stiff jolt, but a man never gives up hope, I guess my lawyer will do all he can for 4 times in, I will always say that I wasn't guilty of this last charge here in Seattle—the third one, which went against me and got me the life sentence. “IF THEY'D GIVE ME A DAY IN JAIL, INSTEAD OF LIFE IMPRIS- ONMENT, I'D NEVER PLEAD | GUILTY TO THIS LAST CASE. I should have drawn That was on account of my past. If a fellow gets in once, his record is always with him “The man who gave me the job knew 1 had served time. I told him, just to be honest. I took the smaller because I wanted to mak Driscoll, the old-time friend “But There Was My Record” — Rowan, is years old. The eal |I'm not kicking on what has pass-| “Finally somebody kicked and 1|boys are among the youngest prise 7 ed. I'd like to believe that it was) was let ott, 1 came up here and! oners ever sent up in the state um all past, and would never come up!tried to get work, 1 played the'der the habitual criminal act, . me | “That's the way I feel about it