The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 30, 1915, Page 5

At Cheasty’s The Time Is Now! VERYTHING in this big Men’s Store sharply underpriced— 10 to 50 per cent, except a few con- tract goods and the INVINCIBLE SUIT, always $16.50. While you have seven more days in which to take advantage of this matchless value-giving sale, each day the selection grows les —hence we say, the time is NOW, while in the great Clothing De- partment All $15 Garments are... .$11.25 All $20 Garments are.... 15.00 All $25 Garments are.... 18.75 All $30 Garments are.... 22.50 All $35 Garments are.... 26.25 All $40 Garments are.... 30.00 Spal Pre during this sale. Cheasty’s fea- ‘tures only the best — Oshkosh, Hartmann,. Likly Wardrobe Trunks and Leather Lug- Society Brand Clothes corre ah Oe Lunch and Soda 312. Pike St.—Adv JAP MINISTERS QUIT IN A BODY. TOKIO, crisis, which July 30 —The cabinet it was predicted out of bribery n the elections, came today when Premier Count | of all the ministers en bloc | The } matter but has not yet accepted the resignations. | The emperor called the elder | statesmen into conference this aft-) ernoon to consider the situation He will not take action until they have passed on the resignations, | The resignation of the cabinet was precipitated by the arrest of K. Hayashada, chief clerk of the lower house. This was |charges that Viscount Oura, home minister, had accepted $500 from a political candidate last spring. | Oura tendered his resignation, which was accepted by the emperor. ‘PASTOR TO TALK TO DEMOCRATIC CLU Rev. Cleveland Klethaner, pastor) lof the University Christian church, | will address the King County Dem-| ocratic club luncheon at the Good Eats cafeteria Saturday noon, The subject will be: “Honoring the Flag.” Miss Ruth Linrud, who recently caused a delightful sensation when she sang at night from the bluff! overlooking the southern end of Woodland park, will be heard tn vocal selection. She will play her own accompaniment MOOSEHEART BOY ‘Wue-to-Nature EETH| Finest looking and most usfactory artificial teeth in ‘World. “An audience that packed | Tivoll theatre to its limit Thurs \day night heard an excellent band | concert and vaudeville program by the Mooseheart Boys’ band, from the Moose home, at Mooseheart, |i. The youngsters, who range in age from 8 to [8 years, played all |the way from ragtime to classic in a way tbat met with the unquall- | fled approval of those who omic! | them, Ceol, agreeable, strong, light durable. Made to properly any mouth. They restore a Mouthful appearance, plumping| socks and removing It per set, $5, $10 and $15. Crown and bridgework a spe- would follow the scandal growing) Okuma presented the resignations mikado is considering the) on the harp.| BAND MAKES A HIT | the! ORALTHESIA Our new method makes all Operations painiess. Our offer— We hurt you, don’t op: id convince the most skep- Lowest prices in the city for jase work. DENTISTS] | 1420-22 SECOND AVE. Bom Marche | court from | Wright's ' BOSTON] waren suontace OLYMPIA, July 30 tice of appeal to the Superior Court decision jon file here today, the appeal will be heard October term of court July 30. SALEM, _ Ore., irrigation purposes cording to advices reaching state engineer's office today, upholding validity of the prohibition law, It is probable in the FILE "APPEAL NOTICE ~Forma] no: supreme Judge the is The streama in Eastern Oregon are the lowest in many years and water for) is searce, ac BECKER DIES PROTESTING CONTINUED | FROM PAGE 1 Eeeee swung open. appeared | Goes Coolly to Death His face was solemn, but his ey were clear fixed upon the pathway to death It was not with an air of brava 1c him as the guards adjusted the trodes and looked about calmly, noting the witnes: ed to tighten the straps which were to hold his body as he wan shocked into eternity constantly intor prayers, a Becker's lips reiterated the word Jesus, have mercy Repeats Priest's Prayer These were his last words. Ov and over he sald them, even as b face was covered and his vol smothered by the adjustment the head and face pleces. was slit and his leg bared from t knee to his she strange pleture. Becker's face w mostly hidden by the guards they worked about the chair adju strapa condemned man wore t black shirt, open They gave him nce of a workman than the nd buck! \ Imiliar to the public Executioner Is Young Man The official was dapper young man His name was not announced, b it was sald he would receive $100 $50 each-—for executing Becker a Sam Haynes, a negro When all was ready, at the straight out, ing straps. For a minute it w stretched thus. cifix tightened. Then, when the current w switched off, the crosa alipped fro the relaxed fingers. jit Becker's body then dropp the cloth was turned ba a photogra; was revealed wwite's Photo Inside Shirt The picture was pinned Inside t |shirt. The doctors pushed it |They then held the stethoscope Becker !mmedinte and were unfaltering INNOCENCE on ly that Becker stood alone there tn the doorway, Hut no hand aided his step, No guard watched him for fear he would collapse. The low volces of the priests and Recker's own whispered exhorta tions echoed thruout the chamber Hecker a black crucifix about 10 long in his left hand. As almly sat back in the chair he ra “i the crucifix to his lips, Father Curry and Father Cashin intoned Oh, Lord, assist me in my last agony I give you my heart and my soul.” Becker remained unshaken Then the condemned man help Father Cashin and Father Curry nd or nin The right leg of Becker's trousers he The sight of this bare leg was one | of the most striking features of the} asl as| he prescribed black trousers and loose throat more the appear a STAR—FRIDAY, JULY 30, U.S. FLAG IS TORN DOWN IN MEXICO CITY WASHINGTON, July The state department has made urgent representations to the Zapatistas in Mexico City, de manding an explanation of the assault upon Allan Mallory, an 1915. PAG 5. FURUSETH CALLS CHICAGO TRAGEDY Me‘Dougal « fouthwick WARNING OF GOD Americ from the ® Mexica an, his automob route to the coast by Zapatista soldiers, An American flag flying from achine w ff and trampled upon by the ne, who was dragged while en orn from ite Upon warden ture oper er, John Fune Chure Recker wife at 1 ant th or in “MY | TION before you | knowin. earth which returning to the " ato film the scenes attending the It was understood Becker's broth body today, from Poughke ra Was ma condemned BECKER'S OSSINING ing wt Rech ed ater typ the victed man. DYING G can Grave that Is to receive me "| the face of that, | of those who and in the pr | and your God, | absolute Innocence of the foul crime for You are now about to witn my de is the lives of the Innocent. ruction prison the ¢ away the moving plc rs who had gathered to exe: | cker, would claim the taking it to New York ‘al services will be held h of Saints F t rand leave 8h where final ™. fe, to G of bis had come a fin Whitman to man a nv re e DYING MENT July ent of STATE 20. he dy Chas ¥. but sien of the handwriting follows DECLARA entiemen: ' stand in my full senses, that no power on ve me from the In In the teeth condemned me nce of my God prociaim my which | must di by the state organized to protect May ut | nd the execu toner, in full view of the witnesses calmly shut the switch. As the powerful current shot thru his frame, Becker's big body shot} tugging at the creak The dying man's grip on the eru- as mn A guard caught od |back in a position of utter collapse. | Physicians ripped open the shirt. As ck ph he side to |Becker's heart and felt the arterien of his neck demanded The cool executioner swung t |switeh shut and open again. jcrumpled y again against the straps. The doctors again tented heart, and seemed to argue as | whether there was still evidence ife. They again directed an ord to the executioner, and again t current was shot thru the body Becker's lips parted in a ghast strain smile. Three physicians among the legal witnesses we iked to verify the death of t jcondemned man. They nodded their agreement that he w jdead Becker Pronounced Dead It was exactly 5 when 1 |for the most part, |whispered prayers They were the but occasional only ones who jxympathy showed either in their |) phy-| talked \faces or gestures, The guard, clans and attendants calmly. Another shock w he The ed the to of jer he limp ly from re he advanced, |felt for beats of Becker's heart, and followed by! or. Farr, prison physician, announced }loudly: “I pronounce this man dead.” During the ghastly ceremonies the priests stood solemn and silent | ly ne Warden Osborne was not tn the prison. He does not believe in ca jital punishment. As a protest he left Sing Sing the hour fixed for the execution and} Ossining |walked alone over the | Drives Movie Men Away His face was drawn and p- at rt It's healthful, delicious, The kiddies better for them than pastry. 1s sold everywhere. borhood druggist or confectione can supply you. Just tor “Seattle Cream leading seller. ask Made by CREAM CO. Ice Cream The Daily Dessert re- freshing. And it's always ready, love it and it's Our “Cream of Quality Creams” Your neigh- lee ” It has grown to be the THE SEATTLE ICE r Almighty God one who hae any degree to death, “And now on the brink of my grave, | declare to the world that | am proud to have been the husband of the pur. est, noblest woman that ever lived—Helen Becker, This ac knowledgment is the only leg pardon every contribu in my untimely acy | can leave her. | bid you good-bye, Father, | am ready to go. Amen, (Signed) CHICAGO, July 30.—"The hand of God, thru the terrible Eastiand disaster, has answered those fighting for the repeal of the La Follette seamen’s law. Had the law been in effect, Chicago would have been spared this horror. By that act but 1,200 would have been is Becker went to her husband's cel! in the death house, where both en Mrs. Charles Becker dured the indescribable torture of} the last farewell Accompanying Mrs. bordering on prostration. Five Men Pay Penalty With the execution of Becker five| owners begged ¢ wei ytion from the own rules captains 0} | general land di Over ing evid Becker were } than attack against the present f Inspectors are elther|sued allowing the ship owners to! are|load her r engineers recommended ship owner. ‘A onetime employe is made in jee of the Seamen's Act.” Expect Indictment of 10 More in Investigation of Eastland CHICAGO, more indictments are to be returned by the county grand jury, which will plete Its probe Into the East- ter this afternoon. duly 30. 100 «with ence. shows “The crux of the trouble ts that there are no definite standards of safety established by congress The supervising Inspectors, with the Inspector general, make their They by some — Ten xpected com: summoned before the federal grand jury, which began hear that the men have pald the death penalty| new Seamen's Ac for the fourier of Rosenthal on the! secretary W c. morning of July 16, 19 The four) department of commerce has made pale.|gunmen, convicted of the actual| public letters written by W.H shooting, were executed in the|Hull, general manager of the St same chair in which Becker went a: Joseph ansportation company, his death owners of the Eastland. In a letter to the governor last} Hull, in his lette pe gett night, Becker bitterly denied|AGAINST THE NEW LAW ain charges which the governor was|SOUGHT TO HAVE IT CAt quoted as making, and reiterated |CELED, his innocence “on the brink of the| He even admits that under ue world to which you are sending me|new law he could not operate th before my time.” |Hastland under the conditions she Whitman was alleged to have| was running under when disaster said that Becker offered to plead|ended her career a it guilty to second degree murder and| Here is an excerpt from one 6 to give men him in |graft.” testimony alleged to have the Becker Denies Charges “With a cruelty almost inconcety able, it is stated that my first wife died under circumstances warrant against several shared with| ot “police| written Ju “The season fro} | clusive, people, 1s servers fo! and has li y une proceeds sastland, @ 12 to Sept is licensed to carry ne 30 opera m Juni equipped with rt fe rafts and lif the last Hull's letters to Secretary Redfield this » in 0 ting 8 life pre hat number of people | eboats ca inspection acl ng suspicion that I caused her| ae gta death,” Becker wrote for 771 people. Ho declared his wife died of con sumption and that never before had! against! | suspicion been directed him “With the ald of Judges who “In order to keep Its maxi- mum carrying capacity at the ure we would have its. equipment in lifeboats 662-3 present fig to increase life rafts and per cent. werg misied into misconceiving “This is a physical impo the testimony offered in my bility. trial, and into misstating it to the Jury, and on appeal, you have proved yourself able to destroy my he wrote. “But, believe me, I will surren- der it without rancor. Not all the judges in this state, nor in this country, nor the governor of this state, nor the district attorney, nor all of them com- bined, can detroy permanently the character of an innocent man.” “If It were possible to put this amount of equipment on the Eastland the weight that SIEGEL'S $ Sample and job lot SHOES for the whole family STALLS 18-19—PIKE ST. cscco>m 2B IN ot aco Sas 2 ee ee “CHAS, F, BECKER”. | lowed on board. The law | operative Nov. 14. Under it I Te —@) believe the Eastland will be the priove, This was denied | last catastrophe of this kind.” Arriving at Sing Sing, Mre,|..Sharp in his defense of the La Follette law, and leveling a bitter |steamship inspection, Andrew useth, president of the Satlors Union America, thus gave vent |to hia feelings today on the East land disaster, | Says System Is Wrong | “The federal inspection system ts radically wrong,” he said. “In apectora want to hold their job |'The active inspector mysteriously }loxes his job genera in | epectors are not as critical as they} might be—and we have Eastland disasters. | “Don't blame the inspector Damn the system. John Lynch, her brother, and John} tecker, the condemned man's} brother, They left the prison at 1:15 e Arriving at her home in the} Official hveugdehents ; Seade, |Bronx, Mrs, Hecker was in a state! oie following the caprizing of | the Eastland with the loss of more | 1,000 lives owners ESTABLISHED Store open tre m 9a, m. to 6p. m dally ond Ave. and Pike St | “Our Booster” uits for Boys $5.00 Human Ballast! The sketch j } ss above shows how the weight of Oy, Snows 2,500 passengers on top instead of These are full seeat sufficient ballast below toppled $1.00. over the Eastland and caused the loss of more than 1,000 lives, It is said by seamen that land's stability line, short of the gevernment ment. one ever taken, seth, of Andrew aster on United States service. pector over his old boss’ vessel The Public Is Helpless “It is a vicious system. I duced to very low prices the tr tors of their three-fo' W power to make the rules, enforce low-heel models the rules, and judge the ow 1 i 38 ings. That must be done. oH) Baie Des I charge the federal inspection We system with being « failure. The Misses’ ghastly records of disaster supy me “Secretary Redfield | do not hold responsible, for in the multitude of his duties he has to depend upon his bureau chiefs. And these bureau men instance—tt rervice, him. How Inspection Has Failed “Had they done their duty the Eastiand would not have been allowed to run until final. ly she fell over on her side d became a ‘coffin ship,’ for she was known all over the lakes as a ‘crank Inspected in ¢ her excursion 6 have proved he inspectors knew faults and knew that more 700 people would prove dangerous. But in Grand Haven in 1914 she was tasued a perinit for 2,000 “Then this year a permit is is down with 2,500 people. “And it is this system—the ship that are fighting for a re- Secretary of Commerce Red- field also conducted a separate probe today. There were hints of a rup- ture among federal and county officials as a result of Assistant State's Attorney Sullivan's in- sistence upon permi: question Redfield’s steamship Inspectors. Eastland Owners Protest the New Law for Safety on the Seas would be added to its upper deck would make the boat dif- ficult to handle. If our life-saving equipment »wed to remain as it is at pres ent, our carrying capacity would Redfield of the| be decreased 40 per cent, or 1,028. | You can see that a daily reduction of 40 per cent in carrying capacity would amount to considerable dur- OPERATING ing the season IN | REVENUE.” Vincent Astor owns more dwell- ings than any other man in New| Buffalo police will hereafter York, but nevertheless rents bg: bow into the lake all dangerous} place in which to live. we taken from prisoners. . the Eaat- the imaginary I line Indicated in the picture above, was only four inches deep, 16 inches require Below is a picture, the only Furu father of the Seamen's Act, who puts blame for Eastland dis inspection rt in this he men in the inspection unfaithful to eland in 1912, rmit only allowed| carried in addition to the her; than is We ants have just Several broken lines Oxfords, several Special $1.00 pair Conmenny Trousers $1.00 and received in cheviots and tweeds, $1.50. models ¢ just unpacked hipment of Our special is “Our Boo There ter Suit is no better me 1 for the ne weeds in ‘OM id tans; yle with plain h pockets pairs of very Suit Trousers Sizes 6 with ¢ 18 _ Caps and Hats Tweed the big finished with sweat band, 50¢. Tweed Caps $1.00 hoys’ heavy mad in talmacaan in large shapes, Trousers 6 Corduroy wear. roomy. Sizes to 18, Knee Pants $1.50 a Fall line Knee of Boys’ Third Floor Women’s and Children’s en’s Pumps and Oxfords, Repriced for Saturday’s Selling { Pumps ‘and Oxfords re- men’s White Nubuck and Canvas Shoes, made rmerly $4.00 to $5.00. Spe- men’s $4.00 White Canvas Oxfords $3.35. and Children’s White Snowbuck Trot Moe $2.00 to $3.00. —Second Floor. Formerly Little Boys’ Wash Suits Reduced $1.39 to $5.50 Dandy little Suits for play wear, made of good- looking and strong material and neatly trimmed. Russian, Oliver any color. and plain combinations SWISS PROTEST | VIOLATION OF LONDON, July 30.—Switzer- land hi protested to Germany against the violation of her | neutrality by German airmen, a Berne dispatch stated today. FIND SHORTAGE IN ~ 30. SPOKANE, ‘July are today temporarily i | following discovery ance A. A. Kraft treasurer. Twist NEUTRALITY SPOKANE ACCOUNTS Two em- ployes in the city treasurer's office suspended, of a shortage} 0 to $3,000 by Commissioner The shortage occurred while| Arthur A. Lewis, now public ser- | vice commissioner, was city Lewis hurried to Spokane last night when notified of the matter. | and Middy styles in most These Suits are very special. Girls’ Dresses Special 50c Street and Play Dresses for ‘little girls. ¢ ginghams and chambrays in attractive plaids Materials —Third Floor BIG “BAY “BATTLE” NOW ON NEAR TACOMA | | | | | ‘TACOMA, July 30—A ble battle by theoretically raging near herd, Last night, reserve rations were | prepared for the infantry bivouack- Jed camp Louis F. Hart, where ré sistance will be made to the theo retical advance of the enemy. | Trenches, barbed wire entangl | ments, and everything else in on ern warfare except real dum dum bullets and poisonous gas, will fig- jure in today’s battle. The climax in the National Guard encampment jis expected within the next 24 hours. SALEM, Ore. July 30.—The re- 1 election of J. K. Starr, district attorney of Wheeler county, will be held Aug. 16, Secretary of State Oleott has announced today. Stafr is charged with incompetency and | neglect of duty, STAR WANT ADS | BRING RESULTS Union Dye Works: (Inc.) EVERYTHING IN CLEANING AND DYEING Office ND E, UNION _ FLYNN HEALTH CHAUTAUQUA Opens Monday, August 2d, 8 o’Clock TENT AUDITORIUM =» W. Earl Flynn. He makes you laugh your- self sick while he teaches you how to get well. Seats 2,500 Easy Chairs Electric Lighted Lenora, Between Second and Third Aves., One Block North of Moore Theatre One of the Many Testimonials From Ministers “To the Pastors “Dear Brethren 4 to the members chatrman “Temple Baptist Chureh We have a few of Mr. Flynn's booklets we will give free while they last, Monday night. Admission 25 cents, or this ad will admit two Free W. Fart Flynn health campaign in Los Angeles for six weeks. of the evangelical churches of the city timate places the number of people of the miniatertal committee y that Mr Flynn's campaign had our hearty f “Los Angeles, March 25, 1914 the noted health lecturer, conducted a Tt has resulted in untold A conserva~ who heard him in his lectures for Los Angel am ndorsement, and at d the great health ualified approval nave a campaign, they embers of the churches and to rely, J. WHITCOMR BROUGHER, Los Angeles.” valuable 50c illustrated any night next week, Cut it out.