The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 19, 1914, Page 1

THEY'RE GOING TO KILL AN INNOCENT MAN DOWN IN GEORGIA BY THE EDITOR HE whole nation is excited about the ca dh Atlanta He is a young Jew of good character, who ls accused of foully and degenerately murdering a young working girl. An eloquent prosecuting attorney got him convicted on the evidence of a criminal negro, who lied over and over again Public anger against the murder, rather that the murderer, coupled with some antiJewish feeling, enabled this eloquent lawyer to get from a jury a verdict that this miserable witness told the truth when he said Frank did the deed, and lied when he said something else 1 think there ie little probability that this unfortunate young man ie guilty. | THINK HE HAS BEEN RAILROADED TO A CONVIC TION. And | think the governor of the state will not allow him of Leo Frank of GUARANTEED PAID CIRCULATION 90,000 COPIES DAILY VOt to die. | cannot conceive that a decent man in the governor's chair, given the power to do away with such iniquities, will let him die The Interesting question to me is why we are so excited about Leo Frank We are rather callous to vastly greater wrongs than his unjust execution would be, Many miners die every month from preventable accidents, Shop-girls will die from the cruel ties of the Chris shopping season If Leo Frank is executed, it will be only a mistake in human justice, They take place all the time, in our jails today are thousands of men whose only crime is poverty, If they were well-to-do, er even comfortably poor, they would be at liberty;; but It Is hard to get people excited about them. UME 16. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, DEC. 19, Newapaper men are saying In editorial offices that readers are tired of hard-luck stories GO INTO ANY OF THE PLACES BELOW YESLER WAY WHERE HOBOES AND BUMS CONGREGATE—THE CHEAP LODGING HOUSES AND SALOONS—AND YOU WILL SEE MEN GRADUALLY DYING, BODY AND SOUL, OF SOCIAL WRONGS, Le ance Frank may die, though | hope he may have a deliver If #0, he will die.a good man, | belleve. But these other men gradually lose all semblance to up: rightness and real manhood Their spirits are dead long before their breath leaves their bodies; and when they die, it Is under the grinding wheels of a railway train, In a wayside brawl, under the snow of a storm, anywhere the Angel of Death may happen to find them: And the women of their class—-who can tell of the mysteri The SeattleStar The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to ON THAIN AND NEWS STANDS, Bo 1914. ONE CENT Print the News ous dreadfulness of their passing away from the scenes of their jong dissolution? AND YET, WE WHO GREEDILY READ OF THE EF. FORTS TO SAVE LEO FRANK, REFUSE TO CONCERN OUR SELVES MUCH WITH THE THRONG OF BIRDS OF THE SHADOWS, WHO ARE LOST EVERY NIGHT IN THE TEM- PEST OF THIS MODERN LIFE Unless civilization is a delusion and Christianity a fraud, we are as much to blame in the one case as the other. But we may cry out for Leo Frank and spare not without disturbing anybody's vested rights, WHEN WE COME TO THE SALVATION OF THE POOR AND DISINHERITED, WE ATTEMPT TO MAKE AN OMEL ETTE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHICH WE MUST BREAK SOMEBODY'S EGGS. THAT'S WHY WE PREFER TO SPECIALIZE ON LEO FRANK AST EDITION | WEATHER—Generally fair TIDES AT WRATILE TLANG TO CLEAN OUT GAMBLERS i Society GIRL WHO MARRIED FOR LOVE { FINDS HUSBAND IN ROOM OF ANOTHER SELL AT a DOLLAR By Fred L. Boalt When our dance at Dreamland last night was over, the littlest of the Whirlwind Beauties from Pantages’ was absolutely ‘ petered out. She was no longer a no more than a sadly sigh- aoe limped into Joe Schermer’s cubbyhole of an office and slumped into Joe's swivel chair. T've had a perfectly gul-or-ious time!" she sobbed, while her tears ran rivers through her makeup. “T dance for a living and then I dance for tun. Being @ dancer, I natural- ly L4+love to dance.” She wepted frankly, honestly, and felt fetter for it. She dabbed her nose. 7 “The last partner I had said he was from Nome, Alaska. He thought | was a polar be: I had to tell him the things he was step- ping on weren't the floor, neither were they snow shoes, but my feet. Oh0-0-0!—my poor feet! Gee, I'm She drew her kt her chin and nursed two ridi y small, high-heeled booties. Hergired face puckered in patn. id what thanks do I get for she demanded. “The man! from}Nome—I swear he was as “cn as a house and weighed a ton —said he always thought actresses could dance! Now what does any body know about that?” Whereupon all the other droop- ing Whirlwinds reproved the lit- tlest one, reminding her that she danced for sweet charity's and that virtue is its own reward But the littlest one was still in rebellion. # ‘Little-chimney cried in scorn. “Who's a chimney kid? I! I! We y Vancouver Christmas week, don’t we? Well, then! Who's coming around Christmas morning In Van- and wish ME a Merry Mrs. Hilda Special Correspondence. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 19 The last act in a sensational love drama in which one of the most | beautiful, popular and wealthy ma trons of New England has been the heroine, was enacted in a hotel here when Mrs. Hilda Brickhouse! directed detectives in the arrest of her husband. The ending of the romance was as sordid as the beginning was ro mantic. Four years ago Miss Hilda Tru deau, society favorite, gracing a home of wealth and standing, and daughter of the millionaire mayor of Willimantic, Conn., eloped with Thomas F. Brickhouse, a telegraph operator at Washington, D. ©. | breaking her plans of marria ota with a prominent young attorney | A few days ago she saw the man TO LET EM KEEP JOB to stom ste ‘had eiven ner iove | with every sacrifice, dragged from the room of another woman In a sie latent of the hotel jel pic hotel to which she had trailed him | ference recommendation that wom-| @fter years of searching. en shall not be allowed to work in| ar stands, which will be dis cussed Monday by the welfare com. mission, is conceded in official ctr- cles. kids!’ (Continued on Page 2 charging neglect and abandonment, sworn to by the deserted wife. Only the restraint of the detec [tives prevented the disappointed He was served with a warrant, tet et 3erlin Celebrating Victory -- Hungary | Threatens Revolu-| tion; Has Austria| Badly Worried. | LONDON, ‘Dee. 1 Russians were retreating along their entire 250-mile front in tai atatement brating wh-t (is claimed to be the greatest German victory | | | | | of the war. It was added that Gen. Potlorek who had command of the Austrian forces in Servia, would be relieved | of his command and probably court martialed for the disast term! nation of hin campaign Hungary Revolution Feeling against him was bitter throughout Austria, the view being that he was to blame for permit ting the weakening of forces t help the Germans in their struggle | with the Russians farther north | The dangerous temper created in Hungary by the Austrian gener al otaff's failure to prevent the Rus slans from crossing the Carpa thians into Hungarian territory | was revealing itself today as the jreal cause of Austria's defeat in | Servia. | Apparently revolutionary out breaks have been occurring not Jonly in. Hungarian towns, but in |the Hungarian parliament | Threaten to Secede Count Tisza, the premier, is quot ed as having threatened that Hun-| gary would secede from Austria and continue the war in accord ance with its own {nterests unless better protected in fature. This utterance appears to have fright lened the Austrians so badliy that they withdrew large bodies of| |troops from Servia to drive the Slava back across the Carpathians, | with the result that the Servians| speedily succeeded in expelling | ltheir invaders’ weakened army | from their country LABOR LEADERS TO SPEAK AT TEMPLE “The Socialist Party and Orga: ized Labor” will be the topic for a open forum discussion at Socialist |seaten 711 Olive st, Sunday night, 000 to $100,000,000. + 8 o'clock | Prominent leaders in the labor) | SUN GETS $10,000 movement will speak. Among oth-| ers will be: J. G. Brown, president To pay current expenses and to|of the International Timber Work-| keep operating the Sun temporarily |ers’ union; Martin Flyzick, prest- at least, until a receiver's sale can|dent of the Miners’ union; E. RB be negotiated, Judge Tallman Fri-| Ault, editor of the Union Record,! day allo Receiver Weston to is-|and A. W. Swenson, of the Typo sue $10,000 in recetver's certificates | graphical union. Brickhouse wife from attacking b husband with her fists when she accompan- led the officers to the hotel, where Brickhouse was arrested RAILROADS MAY GET $100,000,000 MORE UNDER NEW RULING WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.— The Interstate Commerce Com- mission announced today that the railroads which were grant- eda5 percent increase in freight rates would file new tar iffe immediately. Estimates of the additional revenues created as a result of the decision vary from $20,000, WHEN A MAN’S MARRIED “TOM YOU CAN POLISH |» THOSE DINING Room SOME OF THE SILVER WHILE | GBT USA WELL DUST OFF | we 2k $A gg N®XT, TO! * eek eke kt et ee LAR RETREATS! SKATING GERM HAS TOE-HOLD ON FOLKS OUT AT GREEN LAKE; BRASS BAND TO PLAY ON ICE SUNDAY AFTERNOON, BY HECK! Doesn't the picture make your feet itch for the feel of a pair of skates? They are two Green Lake disporting themselves iheet of ice form- 11 be turned 0 The Star's “chimney- " party at Dreamland. The band will assemble at 2:30 p. m. 87 MEN. INRAID War has been openly deciar- ed by Police Chief Lang upon all gambling places in the city. Two raids were successfully made by the police Friday night, resulting in the arrest of 87 men and the seizure of about cording to the chief, there will “ no let-up until the city is | of the gambling joints’ | which have sprung up recently | ‘Im comparatively large num- | bers all over town. | “I have information at hand of \the existence of several other gam- | bling places, and I am going to get | right after them,” the chief said. | The places raided Friday were |at 214% Washington st, and 408 Fourth ave. S. In the first place the biggest haul was made, 79 being arrested, together with H. Cook, the propri- etor. Sergt. H. Cinnamon and three. patrolmen engineered the raid. So brazenly open was the gam- | dling operated that the police expe- rienced no difficulty in gaining en- trance. They quickly barred the doors and corralled all the players. It took two hours to get all the men booked at headquarters. Besides 0 in cash, a la quantity of cards, a “chuc The weather got a bit warm- er today, but Weather Prophet Salisbury promised it would cool off Sunday. Fair weather tonight and Sunday is pre- dicted. in Lake station. The girls are not alone in their fun, Hundreds of others have found enjoyment on the i Ice skating is as rare as ra- dium in Seattle. Ergo, there Is In progress a general exodus to Green Lake. The pond adjacent to the shores of Green Lake, an earth bulwark separating the two bodies of water, The Ice Is two or three inches thick, with a surface approximately two blocks square. Sund ternoon the Gri Lake residents will have the Green Lake Amateur Band on the Ice. A collection will be taken up. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19.— Can you imagine women and girle—hundreds of them—plead- Ing tearfully to be allowed to go them “the only way. than “the lest way"? 1éuess We Down THIS EVENING SAN FRANCISCO CLEANING UP; CITY DRIVES OUT ITS WOMEN, outfit, dice, chips, etc. were taken. Cook was released on $100 bail, | Five others, also charged with aid |ing in running the gambling place, put up $60 each. Forty-six others put up $10 each’ for disorderly con- duct. CRIPPLED SHIP 100 MILES OUT; SAN DIEGO, Dec. 19.—Convoyed in| by the cruiser West Virginia, the de- this state at the recent election and|stroyer Perry ana naval tug Iro- made effective December 15. Their| quois, the freighter Isthmian, which | Profession, the oldest in the world, | ran on a reef off San Benito island, jand long tolerated and licensed in| yesterday, was limping toward San | If you can, you may appreciate one of the gravest problems con. | fronting the authorities of this city on the eve of the 1915 exposition, It is the problem of treating in. telligently and constructively the case of the women who have been thrown out of their red light dens/ by the abatement law ratified San Francisco, has suddenly been outlawed, eee What {is going to become of them? The atm of the law was primarily at the property owners who fatten- ed off the shame of their tenants, (Continued on Page 8.) Diego today. At daylight she was a little more than 100 miles south of this port. At her present rate of speed, should teach here this afternoom Hugh A. Nolan appointed Ever ett postmaster; G. Dallas Shannog [gets Anacortes office. _ WRONG DONE PORTLAND, Dec. 19.—Charg- ed with assault with a danger. ous weapon, John H. Killman, 19, Is under arrest today after shooting and seriously wound- Ing Claude Rhinehart, 35, be- cause he believed the latter had chioroformed and mistreated BOY SHOOTS MAN TO AVENGE YOUNG SISTER his 16-year-old sister, Sylvia. | Encountering Rhinehart on the | street, Killman opened fire, after, he |declared, Rhinehart had thrown |mtones at him. Rhinehart was struck twice, but Nie is believed he will recover,