The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 5, 1915, Page 1

Street railway ma of Los Angeles are losing lots of prom } sleep In these days and Mights of “Jitney b This is the ported by C. C. Ciosson, former competition. Information re ingto: dent HE STAR is the only Seattle newspaper that has its own special correspondents on the bat- tlefields» of Europe. The leased wire of the United Press delivers into this office the best and quickest service on “spot news” happenings. Our correspondents furnish the descriptive sidelights. Recently Seattle. inently Identified fight to seoure the Lake Wash: n canal of the southern city and while here in He now Is a resi Assistant Superin the street railway situation in Los the of Seattle investigated Angeles. In a letter dated December 31, Closson writes “Since the time of Mr VOLUME 16, Startling Developments Hinted at by Pros- fer police protection. police on Dec. 26. men. of the un race for his Marie Miller, 35, was | shot down In cold bieod by her husband, Morris Miller, a baker, whe.then turned his weapon on * Mimeelf, late Monday after moon, as the culmination of a which started In their 4310 34th eve. 8. and tragically after the wom- two blocks to es fired during aa two shots | across her |last shell f smashed. looking out of a nine. The boy| badly hurt, Mrs. Miller arose and ‘was slightly cut by glass. Neighbors, attracted from thetr jen, “wore held at bay by Miller. Wife Begs for Mercy ren L KILL WIFE AS SHE BEGS LIFE the gun against her back, sending Death | Held as witnesses, under heavy bail, at the city jail, are Gladys Reteres, F. J. Quinn, alias Bennett, and George C. Rice. The prosecuting attorney's office is secretive concerning the text of the affidavits, but & is admitted that the prosecution of Crane will constitute a thorough probe into alleged) graft and into the relations existing between the police and vice. The affidavits were secured by Deputy Prosecutor Crawford E, White. the warrant, which charges Crane with “receiving the earnings of one Gladys Bates” into her body. | was instantaneous. Miller then raised the gun to his temple, pulled the trigger, and fell He had used the body. In the chamber. The house was found in disorder Chairs were overturned, picturer | strewn about the floor and dishes Throws Her Out of Window After the struggle in the house missed Robert Miller hurled the woman through a | of Mrs. ©. W. window. Blood streamed from cuts began to run. An Irish bull terrier owned by cage the shooting and the wom. | the couple was standing guard over| ert tried to interfere, but/the bodies when Deputy Frank Koepfli arrived. The faith | ful bull snapped at Koepfll savage » Miller caught up with hin wife ly. All efforts to coax the dog as she reached the front yard of away failed, so force was resort the Wheeler home. ed to. Cowering on the ground, Mrs Miller w member of the 4 Miller for mercy. Bakers’ union, and until two months * “My G Morris, don’t kill me.” ago worked at the Seattle bakery the pleaded. His wife ha@ been employed as a Miller seized the woman by the waitress in a cafe at First and) _ © &rm, coolly pressed the muzzle of Cherry st. up untll two weeks ago LAVS ROUT TURKISH ARMY 1 6UESS THIS WiLL TAKE THE PLACE OF A BUTTON Coroner | ecutor Murphy; White Girls Who Swear They Paid Negro “Boss” for Police Pro- _tection Locked Up as Witnesses. Felix Crane, negro saloonkeeper and “king of the underworld,” was arrested late Mon-| Gay on a warrant based on affidavits made by women alleging they paid money to Crane| There is much more to the case than this. The prosecution will endeavor to find out der $2,500 bond, was released at 7 o'clock last night, bail being fur- Collins, J. Tutt and Frank Smith. ‘is a familiar figure around police headquarters, appearing as bondsmen for dent- who dresses..quietly and well. He is known}. towards men who are down and out. Crane is the proprietor of the Cascade bar, 167 Main st., pat- ronized by negroes and a few whites. A Star reporter found him there late last night. The wants of many patrons were being filled by a bartend er so fat and black and wear- itg a duck sult so immaculate- ly white that the contrast was startling. A group of negroes were squabbling around a dilapidat- ed pool table. An aged colored man, with cotton-fleece hair was warming himeelf et a red-hot stove. In a corner nimble-fingered pianist wae emring out rag time, an athietic young negro playing a bags drum, a snare drum and a pair of cym- bails all at once, and a big, (Continued on Page 2.) M'KENZIE LOSES HIS FIGHT FOR VOTE RECOUNT : There will be ao recount of the ballots in the contest for the of. fices of county commissioner, Judge Albertson so ruled Tuesday. The contest was brought by David McKenzie and Dr. Walter T. Christensen, progressives, against Mike Carrigan .and Krist Knudsen, repudiicans. On the face of the |returns, Carrigan was elected by about 400 votes and Knudsen by 200. WHEN A MAN’S MARRIED Justice Brinker SEATTLE, Bates and Catherine! John F. Murphy fears for his witnesses against Crane is shown by the| under which they are held—$1,000 each in the case of the women, and | | } | | O'Brien's visit, there has been an immense increase in the number of ‘jitney bu “The police extimate is, | be lieve, that there are now about 700 ‘jitney busses’ operating in the city of Los Angeles, and | should say there are probably WASH., TUESDAY, JAN more than 500 more operating in other cities and country dis tricts of Southern California. 1 note that Councliman Allen Dale seems to poke fun at the autobue idea; but he should come here and see what the jitney busses are doing to the UARY 5, 1915. Sister Marie Felicie of the French Red Cross ere et weer ee BELGIANS SPARE THE LIFE OF KAISER’S SON; KAISER SPARKS CITY By Mary Boyle O'Reilly erie ORetity» articles f her (Readers of Mary LONDON, ithe German army!” Nurse Marie Felicie of the French Red Cross has escaped ~NGLAND, DEC “Ms DIEU! I’ve seen the devastation the utter ruin wrought by earthquakes never anything like the Belgian countryside overwhelmed by | detective named street car companion and the Ir terurban electric railways ® “If they continue to increase at the rate they have the past =f few months, | expect to nee the Los Angeles electric raliway system offered to the city at t about its physical valu, The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News ONE CENT On NEw Woman Tells SomeSecrets | of NightLife to The Star. The big. difficulty in get- ting at the truth of police graft lies in the fact that the testimony of women of the underworld type is dis- credited at the outset. Who will take their word? Early in November, in Chief Griffiths’ regime, a letter from a woman came to The Star. We print excerpts from it now, and readers may ac- cept them or reject them, as they please. The letter is “Myrtle Hayne.” “Tam writing this letter, not as a snitch or a stool-pigeon, but [ am telling you the *trath and nothing but the truth, so help me, God!” She ts “one of the slaves” in 9 resort on Dearborn st., she writes. “I came here six months ago, hav- ing a sick mother and two little sisters to support. I worked a while in a store, but I couldn't make ends meet, so I apiied for work on Dearborn st.” Paid for Protection She details the exact terms of her employment, one {tem being “$10 a week for protection.” Remember that this letter was written long before the arrest of Crane and the securing of the af- fidavits from the Bates and Rob- erts women, The letter continues signed | “There fs a negro named Feltx Crane who runs the Cascade bar. You go to him and ask him to place you. This he does for ‘Then he sends you to one of the white slave dumps, and the land lady tells you her terms. Each| y . Inndilady {s allowed two girls be- 18 (BY Leper |stde herself. © s+ OF 8 Cee, She Names Detective yet never, “The protection money ts given to Felix and he hands it over to a (she here men- tions a name) Now Felix doesn't get the pro tection money for himself. That from Brussels to London with a first-hand tale of the awful (s supposed to be divided up with | desolation of the stricken land the police an ddetectives on that | 6 1 ws | line, _ “All Flanders,” she said to me when T met her here, “is! “mat Feltx has the privilege of filled with Belgian fugitives, returning now to find if their|/running a wide-open gambling little homes have been spared. Spared?. Good God! Every-| dive, and all the tiegro hangers-on explained. I saw her in Brussels, Though she was French, August thing. EVERYTHING—has been destroyed ‘ou soe, | know, for I have traveled over all this country on foot —« fugitive with the other footworn fugitives!” 29, stay with the wounded In spite of German occupation, Nursed 5,000 German Wou inded Nurse Marie Felicle | tne chie! 10 days after its capitulation. she told me then that she was determined to A PRETTY CLASSY MITTLE PIPE CLEANER. ) MUST HAVE Lost THE KEY To THIS quit GORE him 65 a week and buy “ee pay their booze of him hangers-on and landladies all f is ignorant of this.” SAYS 180,000,000 WOULD HELP U. S. y all] The say Judye Albertson ruled that no Pecrget malconduct fas heen "Since then,” she said to me today in London, “I must have nursed LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5.—Dec- lghown by the evidence, and that | 5,000 wounded Germans! Aj were childishly ignorant about the war,| aration of President John Bar. the honest mistakes in counting | ell pitifully ‘tor peace, Scores of them acted like men half asleep. | ic acti Raddy lp cone ey coule y 6, rac e, terrible tensi ad brought) !0 PETROGRAD, Jan. 5.—A tremen-|the arrival, in Transcaucasia, of the ballots were so few thi A ould Days of Sesteios eyes! Lt ony fatigue, terrible tension had broug Americas, with 180,000,000 pec. Slav reinforcements, which, striking|9°t possibly have changed the re-| them to the edge of imbe ple, would come to the aid of ee sees Sy the Rectians of the) ee rark the flank, eat thei sults. Riven the contestants, he | “Brussels le a huge hospital. Not two in a hundred is woe cree oe ale et Turks in Transcaficasia was an. ped re two; taking al their posi.| declared, had to admit the honest | stricken men die from wounds. Rather they sicken with country become Involved In a y , . . io the election officials. | ————A nounced today by the war office tions, with enormous quantities o ba rl Silas jor ppena jen atee (Continued on Page 2 Col 8) great war, with a European or munitions and great numbers of! you | —— = | Asiatic power was causing The Ninth Ottoman corps, sur prisoners THE BEST that the nternational Peace Forum could do was to! much discussion today. It was rounded, had surrendere ‘t wae Cowsacks are pursuing the fleeing €leventh annual child labor con-| pray congress to call a conference at the end of the war And this te} mate ‘ m } .in an address said. The victory was attributed to’ Mohammedans ference begins in Washington about as well as anybody can do. | before 250 lusiness men. ‘TOM, WHAT DID You Do To MY HaIRPINS? profitable to operate autobusses without i Motorbusses Have Street Car Folks Badly Worried Dowa in Los Angeles tendent of City Utilities O'Brie® uch additional charge for the urrender of franchise rights Perhaps the same situation nay develop in Seattle “The city might find it more po han to buy existing street car nee, especially if it has to pay FAAINS AND STANDS, he HELD IN POLICE GRAFT PROBE JUDGE BURKE TAKES UPSTAR FIGHT ON REN Rents may come down on Second ave. The Bullding Owners’ and Managers’ association has been | stirred to action by Judge Thomas Burke, president of the Chamber of Commerce “We are considering the mat- ter now,” said Judge Burke to The Star Monday afternoon. Referring to The Star's editorial calling upon him to take the initia- tive in @ movement to bring the rents down to a reasonable basis for legitimate business, Judge Burke remarked that “ft was a dif- ficult job to wish on any one. “It's no easy thing,” he continued, “to tell any one, what rents. to charge.” Judge Burke on Job However, Judge Burke is evident- ly on thet job. At his suggestion the question of rents is being dis cussed by the Building wners’ as- sociation This, of itself, indicates some Progress, as, according to Secretary Bradley of the association, rental fore not discussed, it being consid- ered a matter of private interest to the individval landlords. Figures obtained by The Star) stiow that rentals on many choice! downtown blocks on State st., Chi- cago, are not much higher than they have been on Second ave. for about $12,000 a year in Chicago. Rent as High as Chicago's Seattle stores pay nearly that much on Second ave., as an average. ome pay more High rents,.as The Star pointed| out in several articles, have been| the cause of forcing a number of legitimate merchants out of busi- ness The interest evinced by Judge | Burke, who {ts himself a landlord of! | two or three choice buildings down- | town, is therefore encouraging, and lends hope that the rent situation may be relieved in some measure in| 1915, CARDINAL | ARRESTED AMSTERDAM, Jan. 5.—Ca dinal Mercier of Belgium hi been arrested by the Germa "| military authorities, according to newspapers here today, be- | cause he toid the Belgians, in | } a pastoral letter, that they oe not bound morally by an orders. KARLSRUHE SINKS FOUR MORE CRAFT LONDON, Jan. 5.—The Ger- man cruiser Karisbuhe has | sunk four. more British and French merchantmen, accord- ing to a dispatch received here | today from Las Palmas, Canary | Islands. a fancy price to b franchise rights “From the revolution in trans red here, it seemsa quite possible that the autobus is destined to put the street cars out of com mission.” WEATHER FORECAST—Raln figures constituee one topic hereto-! A store of 25 feet frontage rents/ back the rtation that has lately ocour OME EDITION DES AT SEATTLE Low FIND A JOKER IN PROPOSAL” TOBUYS R&S, ae there a joker in the nton & Southern 28-y« 000 deal? be That's what councilmen asking themselves Tuesd council was to pass an o to purchase the railway, ai mediately the matter was to passed to the people for a endum vote. In other words, people, and not the council, to determine whether ‘the should go through. But the supreme court has |the people have no voice in fi chise matters and that the cou alone must decide those thi Inasmuch as the purchase | Renton line may be construed 1 e | th courts to involve a francl what is there, councilmen ask, to prevent some taxpayer from e ping fy and stopping the from voting or the Renton deal Which would be just what the © | Renton company would Ii C5 would save the uncertainty of | people's election for them, |they would still have the cou ordinance purchasing their road, The “joker” was unearthed conference with Corporation Coun= sel Bradford Mond: night, ae mg the Kenton receivers were | they must agree to make specific: provision that if the people do noty approve the deal by a direct vi the ordinance could not be | binding against the city. | This the recivers have not |agreed to do, and the entire S., Re & S. matters which wa’ to have lbeen decided Tuesday morning, | Was postponed for the afterneom jseesion of the council. ‘SAYS HE ROBBED TO | GET FOOD FOR WIFE “T was out of 1 work and my wite |had to have something to live ony | Hunger drove me to it. We had | to eat.” bo So declared W. H. Titus, 39, @ | laborer, to the police at Tacoma, ia alleged, when arrested for bur glaries committed at the homes of H. C. Crosby at Lake Burien, Mrs, | Julia Taggart, Riverton Heights, and several places in Seattle. Detective Landes brought Titus back to Seattle Friday HELP FOR NEWSIES C. Henry, the wealthy build- ing owner, announced Tuesday his annual effer to help newsboys who |save their money. Some time dur jing ‘December, this year, Henry | promises to pay $3 to every newsie who has made 12 deposits of not less than cents during each month of the year. ° 2 | The crews were set ashore. 66 caeries a pair of pliers” to m light and power, only a servant. Yes, Hiram; just a servant. The People. If they want to carry a pair of The people have given you the that right. When your veto is overridden, yo meant to be. up a referendum petition. But, for the love of Mike, don’t | stutt, Hi. IT DOESN'T GET BY L Hi SAYS HE’S BOSS AM the boss of the city departments,” quoted as saying, in his threat to fire any one “who so much as directed by a two-thirds vote of the council, tay Hiram; you're not the boss. The bos people elected the council to pass ordinances. that the ordinances of the cit? are executed. If you don't like the ordinance, appeal to the people, Mayor Hiram C. Gill is ake the extension to Tukwila of city You may think you are, but you're is a certain party known as pliers to Tukwila, they'll do it. The They elected you to see right of veto. You have exercised u are NOT the boss, and were never oe beef about being “boss.” That's old IKE IT USED TO,