The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 16, 1916, Page 1

afl WHAT WOULD YOU SAY -3y G If someone stopped you on the street and offered to sell you a $1.50 book of the latest fiction for six cents? You'd think he had stolen it, wouldn’t you? And perhaps, if you're a law-abiding citizen, you'd call a policeman and have him arrested. Well, The Star is going to make you just such an offer. And we ask you, in advance, to forget that policeman stuff. Beginning Monday, The Star is going to publish A BOOK-SIZED NOVEL EVERY WEEK. These stories are by the best authors. They are standard works of fiction. The Star has purchased the publication rights to these stories, and is going to give them to you, ONE EVERY WEEK, beginning Monday and ending Saturday. Be sure to read ‘THE ROSE GARDEN HUSBAND,’ starting Monday in The Star. Or save papers and have book to read Sunday. MERITED REBUKE EMBERS of the Municipal league, in open meeting Tues- day, repudiated its special commit- tee’s report on candidates in several important instances. The league is to be congratulated for this action. There was _ pernicious activity among some members of the commit- tee in having its report published pre- maturely as a report of the league. This is now plainly apparent. The proposition that a body of pub- lic spirited men take up the various candidates, question them on essential matters, then place their findings be- fore the public, is fundamentally sound. Voters haven't the time to look all the candidates up and get ac- quainted with them. The idea is good. Bat it is a privilege than can easily be abused. It is just such conduct as the present committee’s, obviously an attempt to give some candidates an unfair ad- vantage in the report over others, plainly taking a dig at some candi- dates without justice or reason, and damning still others by faint “vice intended by the Munici as a whole. REPORT IS ALTERED Muny League Shoots It Full of Holes When the members of the Municipal league got thru with the report of the special “investigating committee’ Tues- day afternoon, it was scarcely recognizable. The committee was roasted \ by a number of speakers be- eaute it rushed the report to print before the members could pase on it. As It turned out, the mem- bers didn’t agree with the com- mittee’s report, and amended Jt In several places. amended, the report gives pmas F. Murphine, independent s der in the legislature and can "didate for corporation counsel, James E. Bradford, present corpo ration counsel, and H. M. Caldwell, also a candidate for the same of- fice, equal rating. It also gives Otto A. Case, candi. date for council, aa high a recom- mendation as any candidate for the council. In the case of BE. H. Guile, candi- @ate for corporation counsel, the members of the league added one syllable. | VOLUME 1 ii SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1916. NE CENT IN Thousands Fight WINSTON N. C., Feb. white woman death penalty Carolina? The answer, which Gov. Craig will give, is being awaited breathlessly, not only in North Carolina, but in many of America! Thousands of persons have already signed peti- tions for clemency for Mrs, Ida Bali Warren, SALEM, 16.—Shall a pay the in North cities a Oo the murder of her hus- band, J. G. Warren This state has never yet allowed & Woman to pay the extreme pen- alty, but the details of the murder charged to Mrs. Warren are regard ed so horrible, the state's record may be broken now! He Tells of Murder Convicted with Mrs. Warren is Samuel Preston Christy of Texas, sentenced to die the same day, and Cliford Stonestreet, her son-in-law, sentenced to prison as an acces sory Christy stated, on trial, that he met Ida Ball in Winston-Salem in 1908, and they lived as man and wife. In 1911, he said, they went to ‘exas, where the woman opened a ARSON SUSPECT. IS CAUGHT HERE Deputy Sheriffs Take Fugitive in Mountain Canyon HAD ESCAPED THE LAW Charles McDaniels, wanted In Portland on a charge of ar- son and reported by author!. tles here to be one of the last members of the so-called Port. land arson gang, was arrested Tuesday by Deputy iffe Brewer and Campbell in a rocky canyon on Cedar moun- tain, 18 miles from here. McDaniels was taken on a war. rant sent to the sheriffs office by Constable Weinburg of Portland. The two deputies were seen ap- proaching the home of McDaniels, merely |and the fatter, with his brother, John, left by the rear and sought to The committee had reported his /escape thru the canyon. record in the legislature as “satis- factory.” Using the article of The Star as the basis of comparison, that Guie’s votes measures were opposite to the votes of Tom Murphine, and that brother. wie supported vicious legislation le Murphine opposed it, the Members of the league changed the report to read that Guile’ - ord in the legislature is “UN: Outside of that, nothing hap pened to the committee report. At times the debate waxed pret- ty furious. Malcolm Douglas, a member of the law firm of Douglas & Bone, vehemently protested against any changes in the committee report Dovglas is a supporter of Cald weil Cc, F. Riddell, former law part ner of Caldwell, also defended the committee report. Cc. J. France, J. Y. C. Kellogg, and B. Shields led the successful fight for the amendments. J) TOWN FLOODED NATCHEZ, Miss., Feb. 16.— Scores of persons are maroon- ed today in the flooded town of Newellton, and it is report ed one person has perished. wenty-five thousand acres ‘are submerged. Unsettied weather tonight and Thursday; probably rain. owing | on important |have covered the sheriffs with his) After chasing the pair for a mile, the deputies finally cornered them. John MeDaniels is reported to rifle and defied them to take his Deputy Campbell drew his own gun. McDaniels surren- dered and prevented possible blood- shed. . M’DANIELS HAD LON ESCAPED CAPTUR PORTLAND, Feb, 16.—The grand jury busied itself today to return an Indictment against Charles Mc Daniels, arrested near Seattle last | night, as the last of the gang which attempted to burn down the Unt versity shingle mill in Portland, nearly two years ago, Tom Pattison and Hugh Priest are now serving terms of three to ten years {n the penitentiary. They were convicted Inst May after a bitter fight, in which the name of union§eor was more than once injected. Glen Hoover, the Seattle attor ney, who defended them, admitted, he had furnished Charles McDan jela, the state’s leading witness, money with which to flee to Wash ington Hoover also said McDaniels con- feased it was he who started the fire. Detectives searched Washington for him for months Hoover was fined for contempt of court because he spirited Mc Daniels away, boarding house and Christy worked as a railroad section hand. In 1913 J, G. Warren, a railroad worker, came to live at the board- ing house, and a short time later he and the woman eloped, taking Christy's savings. Tracks Thema Month Christy tracked them a month, carrying a revolver and ready to slay the man. Unsuccessful, he returned to ‘Texas, married, and was living happily until a letter from ida Ball, who was then married to Warren, asked him to come to her. He left his bride “the other woman. ; In Winston-Salem, where the Whrrens were living, Christy said the woman told him she wanted to |get rid of her husband, that they planned his murder and executed jit August 18 | Mrs. Warren testified that on | the morning of the murder she | awakened earlier than her hus- | band and placed a handker- | chief, soaked in chloroform, over his face. | Strang! | Then, she she called Christy and he strangled War- ren to death. It was testified Christy and Stonestreet placed the body in a |trunk, took tt eight miles in a cab to Muddy creek, where they bruised | the face to make {t unrecognizable, tied weights to the body and }eunk it. Christy is facing death stotcally. UNDERTAKER KILLS AND BURIES WIFE NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Having confessed that he had killed his wife because she scolded, had em- balmed her body, forged a doath certificate and buried her, Harry Schroeffel, an undertaker, will be formally charged with murder to- day He -was arrested last night while attending a banquet, after police had received an anonymous letter, telling of screfama from the Schroeffel home the murder night and went to COLLEGE GIRLS LIVE ON $765 FOR YEAR NORTHAMPTON, Mass, Feb 16.—Smith college girls’ expendi tures average*$766 a year. Only 8.2 per cent is for pleasure, jo INDORSEMENT IS DENIED ROOT New York Republicans Won't Approve of His Candidacy G. 0. P. SLOGAN SOUNDED NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—For. mer U. S, Senator Elihu Root | was today denied the indorse- ment of New York state repub- licans for the presidential nom- ination in the report of the reso- lutions committee at the state convention, William Barn: whom Roos of the party in New York s was victorious In the prelim. Inary engagement with Gov. Whitman'e supporters at the opening of the session this forenoon when, by a vote of 36 to 8, the resolutions com- mittee refused to Include in- dorsement of Whitman In a olution concerning national tions, such = ind ment will be reported separately. Unmeasured censure of the democratic foreign policy, coupled with critcism of Its economic Ideas, will be the re- publican conservati battle cry In the coming campaign. This fact was admitted by repub- Mean leaders today, when they re- convened for their state conven tion, after hearing ex-Senator Elihu Root, as temporary chairman,| sound such a slogan last night “No flag 1s dishonored and no citizenship so little worth the claiming In Mexico as ours,” he de clared, after suggesting armed in jtervention should have been used | to force Mexican reape Of the policy toward Europe, said: “Our diplomacy has lost {fs au thority and influence because w have been brave in words and irres: olute in action. * * * Woe have been blindly stumbling along the} road that, continued, will Ivad to} Inevitable war.” | At the same time he critic |the administration for falling lhave already provided proper paredness for such an outcome ised to} pre-| 'KENKON MARU Lost LONDON, 16.—The Ja anese 8. 8. Kenkon Maru, No. 11, bound from Mareeilies to Balti- more, foundered in a storm in the Atlantic, but her crew was landed today at Plymouth. i | ad Rae THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE ANARCHIST PLOT IS SUSPECTED IN CHICAGO BLAZE The Seattle Star NEWS on TH NEWS #TANDS GC. 7. WARREN. Mrs. Warren and Christy, her lover, sentenced to die In the elec- tric chair the same day, March 3, and Warren, whom they were con- victed of slaying. ARCTIC YIELDS A RICH TRADE FOR THIS CITY Alaska boats brought 18,262 bar. rels of whale oll to Seattle last THIS IS made by the port warden shows! that it was worth $289,238, The total THE welght was more than 4,400 tons. From here went to all 7 of the world The whalebone brought to Seattle from Alaska dur. ing 1915 weighed 5,835 pounds and was valued at rom the walrus banks of the North came 2,385 bales of walrus hides, weighing 232 tons, and worth $24,121 in Seattle. After being made up tnto ladies’ hand bags and traveling accessor. jes, it will be worth three times that much Walrus ivory received by from Alaska last year weighed sev en tons, and was valued at $3,491 M’LAREN FUNERAL WILL BE THURSDAY Funeral services for William J MeLaren, 59, retired financial man. ager of the Bon Marche, who died suddenly at his home, 416 17th ave., Tuesday, will be held from the Bon- ney-Watson chapel Thursday after- noon. PRINCE HAS NOT ACCEPTED AS YET SUSANVILLE, Cal., Feb. 16. —Prince Erik of Denmark, re- \ to most all the crowned heads of Europe, has been in- vited to become a farmer in a jhew Scandinavian colony near here. Because there is no telephone at the MacDonald school, a 12-year-| old girl, who broke a leg while at| play Tuesday afternoon, went with-| out medical assistance for a con-| sicerable time. | A schoolmate ran all the way to| the girl's home to notify the moth. | er of the accident. The girl's name is Vera Hallett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lesile E. Hallett, 837 The complaint against the Mac- Donald school is true also against most of the schools, as only in a few cares are telephones provided. WIFE SICK; HUBBY KISSED THE GIRLS SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16— Mrs. Katherine Gall, an in- husband took | weakn while looked on. Gall, answering her divorce action, denied it. GH EDITION NA CHICAGO, Feb. 16.—Destruction of the city hall by fire, along with evidence in the “poison banquet” case, was sought by anarchists today, the police believe. This view was given after investigation of a strang& fire near the laboratory in the city hall, where analysis was being made of the poison fed to Archbishop Mun- delein and others, supposedly by Sub-Chef Jean Crones of the University club. v A corked bottle was found with- in a few inches of the flames. When water was thrown on it, it eee, emitting an ginusual Another bottle which had ex- ploded was found in a coal room. In the bottom of it was a white powder, which chemists are an- alyzing T police. announced a that te sep ae a ere tate gether Thursday in a saloon where Crones changed a $100 bill. BRANDEIS WINS GROUND TODAY WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Louls D, Brandeis, nominee for the su- FIND MAN’S SKULL IN CITY GARBA When Peter Tuizco, of 518 42nd ave. N., driver of a city garbage the os eaipetes, is cargo at the ump, at 26th ave. and Mil stocd. a " end. He called to his ocia' and a furore of excitement en: Unloosened from its paper ping, was a human skull. The police were quickly notf an investigation was made, and it was learned that a medical stu- dent had thrown it away. It was many, many years old. OH, GIRLS! THE BOYS WILL WEAR LAVENDER ST. LOUIS, Feb. 16.—Lav- preme court, gained ground today in the senate hearing as to his fit- ness Under cross-examination, Presi dent Winslow of the United Shoe Ma-} chinery Co., admitted Brandeis had/| informed him {in 1907 that unless| the terms of the shoe company's ender vests for men this sum- mer! That was the decree of the Merchant Tailors while in convention here, The Ameri- can gentleman who lives in fashion this summer should have 13 suits, leases were changed, that he would} cease to be attorney for the com-) pany. This, he admitted, happened be fore Brandeis had attacked the leases as illegal. A LA SAMSON STUNT Joe La Rue started to show up Samson Wednesday. —— “I'm goin’ to kill everybody and tear down all the buildings,” he THEY ASK M’BRIDE | czca wnve tussing at the shingtes on a vacant three-story building at ee | 521 Dexter ave. Newspaper accounts of wood al-| Joe was taken to the police sta cohol poisoning in Seattle have | tion, aroused the attention of New York| ate committee for the Prevention of Blindness, They have asked | for a full medical report from Health Commissioner McBride. Mayor Gill will talk on “City Gove ernment” to the naturalization class at the Y. M. C, A. Wednesday night, ‘Dealing With the af FOR GILL | »4 | Since our| was thrown | | ° Editor The Star anclent Third ward Jupon the screen of fame by Coun cilman Hiram Charles Gill, no more substantial and successful civic counsellor has waged and won our battles Gill's superior student of munictpal affairs rarely been equaled, never celled, Gill {s completely prepared and scientifically trained for his job, at | which he labors effectively from 9| ja. m until 6 p. m. each day Gill deals with conditions | st of theories | Gill sits unmeved clamor, Jeither private or public, He does {that which he believes to be near. est right, unmindful of conse quences or opinions. Gill is the only mayor big enough and brave enough to ap- point a committee of really repre- sentative citizens to discuss and dissolve a serious labor strike. He exercised the power and right to remove, without ceremony, an army of amateur officers, whose personally perpicious activities de- layed termination of the team sters’ troubles Mayor Gill's ini tintive at that time proclaimed | ermanent public polley worthy of universal approval and emulation lle then and now advocated arbi- tration and adjustment in prefer Jence to coercion and clubbing. | ‘The open door at our mayor's office 1s characteristic of Gill, It |should be of any other mayor. | Mayor Gill has earned and deserves rousing re-election THOS, B, MacMAHON. constancy as ” has ex: by |is an honest man. Seattle Mayoralty Candidates for ae FOR ERICKSON | FOR GRIFFITHS sf ae — Mattar The Star ae ae Editor Star: Two years ago Gill the three principals in the race for mayor, I believe any voter who has { ‘Old the people that school children known the three men for a num-| Were reminding his children that ber of years and who has the best! he had been recalled, and he want- interests of the city at heart could makp no otbar choice than Austin |“, * chance to Mahe Good seal deem his name, and if elected he Griffiths. Mr. Gill is a small man in any ca-| would not run to succeed himself, pacity, trying to straddle the fence| This sympathetic appeal was suc and draw votes from both sides. | cessful. Mr. Erickson {s an excellent cit-| Now he ts again a candidate. He izen, a man of fair ability, but a) has broken his word and promise. © little “nutty” on municipal owner-| Gill's actions are hypocritical and ship, inasmuch as he is willing to|untruthful, Pretending to be @ support any and everything along | friend of municipal ownership, in this line, whether wise or foolish,/an underhand way he constantly thus crippling the cause rather | tries to injure it. He is supported than starting it on a sound footing. | by the street car company and cot Mr. Griffiths probably knows| porations whose interests and de- more of munietpal affairs than any sires are to cripple the light sini other man in this city, having | ang” other. municipal. ownershi . @ que p studied these questions in detall | rroiects, for many years. | Mr, Griffiths has taken an active | Pic Coase Degeobiig is saleing interest in every public question | having to do with the welfare of |8® knows that public debts have the community, and he puts his| been incurred which must be paid shoulder to the wheel and pushes | *2¢ no man has the power to lower on the side he thinks ts right. _| t@xes until these debts are paid, He has ability, caution and| Always supported by the liquor sound judgment, and, furthermore, /™en, he is now flirting with the prohibitionists. He says he has “reformed,” yet if rumors be trut, we have at present a big restricted district and gambling fs flourishing, Resides he retains a chief of police | | whose disgraceful conduct is well known, E. P, O'BRIEN, WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE Water will be shut off on 4 First ave. S., between Lander He is the same old Gill of the | st. and Forrest st, on Thurs- | | ays of Gid Tupper and Ludovio | day, Feb. 17, from 9 a, m. to 5 | | Dallievanni |p. m Let us elect Oliver T. Erickson | j and end Gillism here, ¢ iain THOS. R. HORNER. CITY HALL TRYING TO SAVE A WOMAN FROM DEATH CHAIR to Save Mrs. Warren, Who Helped Murder Husband ‘ THREE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ©