The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 12, 1916, Page 1

A VOTE FOR POINDEXTER TODAY IS A VOTE OF APPROVAL FOR HONEST, fearless service rendered you. IT’S TO LAUGH THERE'S ANOTHER SNICKER IN BUD FISHER'S FIUEND GRORGE, THE eT ~ hk S ' y dK, HE STRIP, AT THE TOP OF THE SPORT PAGE, TODAY IT WILL BE FAIR TONIGHT LITTLE JEFF AND THE ELONGATED MUTT DASH LOT OF CANDIDATES W aeties ANOTHER SERIES OF LAUGH-PROVOKING LIKE GEORGE A WHOL ’ 8. THIS PAIR HAS MORE FOLLOWERS IN PREDICTION, THE POL PUNT S rats PAIR HAS MORE FOLLOWER: THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS PREDICTION. THE POI VOLUME 19. SEATTLE, Ww. ASH., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, It is more. It is your emphatic disavowal of trickery, fraud and deception. of Humphrey, Humphreyism and all that the term implies. The Seattle Sta Husband Offers Bible as Defense of Cutting Rival — { Bn ne ee eee eee WBIBLE PASSAGE WHICH BYRD CHOATE —_s; / SAYS WILL BE USED IN HIS DEFENSE | =— From the sixth chapter of Proverbs 27—Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? 28—Can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned? 29—So jhe that goeth to his neighbor's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. 30—Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry. 31—But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shal! give all the substance of his house. 32—But whose committeth adultery with a woman tacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. 33—A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach | shall not be wiped away. 34—For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not | spare in the day of vengeance } 35—He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest con ( tent, tho thou givest many gifts. BY LEON STARMONT= ©, ' MAYFIELD, Ky., Sept. 12—"“My defense? The Holy Bible! I followed the scriptural injunction in so maiming the man who wrecked my home that he will never wreck another! | “The unwritten law, and the sixth chapter of Proverbs, | are all the defense I need!” | Thus Byrd A. Choate, wealthy farmer and stookman, upheld his attack on Henry Campbell, nearest neighbor, to whom at the pistol’s point he had given the choice of death or emasculation! THE CHOICE! Sudden death at the pistol’s point, or a death-in-life as the victim of the surgical blade! The fate that Stanford White met at the hands of Harry Thaw, or that which Jack Cudahy tried to wreak on Jere Lillis in Cudahy’s Kansas City home! That was the problem before Henry Campbell as Byrd Choate con fronted him beside a lonely road where they had driven, in the shade ft a cedar forest “The knife!” said Campbell. sos e*+ * @ © Byrd Choate is out on $5,000 bail, but keeping away from the scene of the operation Mrs. Choate, who had left her husband the da on Campbell, is at a brother's home, near by She denies any wrongdoing with Campbell ™ The woman in the Choa’ | Campbell mutilation case, and the | man who optrated on a neighbor whom he accused of wrecking his home. BiG VOTE OUT before the attack Campbell is staying on his farm, but has made trips to Owing to the great number Wingo and Mayfield, looking for Choat Physicians are not of candidates in today's bei inti! the trial. Campbell also denies an mary, few returns w me in kaa Salley 3 i until a late hour tonight. For wrongdoing. this reason The Star will not Mrs. Choate frequently spent the night at the Campbells’ home, my: ~ y " bsent. But Mrs. Campbell supports |] flash the reguits. eae 4 |] “The Stars private exchange A third woman will figure in the trial and is expected to give | Main 600. will be Kept open un dene vore > lv th the | til midnig! ‘or the accommo: sensational evidence—Mrs. Dunnigan, divorcee, whe lived with h poner ay nthe: Soe a _— oss ® may stay at home tonight, and, ~ by calling The Star, obtain the They talk of nothing else at Wingo, three miles from the Choate Intest: election returns. farm, and of little else at Mayfield Choate owns most of Wingo, It's a little business street one block long and 300 feet wide. On one side of the street are brick stores; on the other side are frame shacks; in the middle are water troughs and hitching posts, where the tobacco-planters of Graves county tie their horses. At the head of the street stands the market town, with a = | With candidates still flood | Ing the city with campaign lit | erature, the polls opened un- | spe STREP BYRD CHOATE Eons PYRD CHOATER. ———_..__ mn rin) aeowenes 1} Figures in Kentucky Cutting Affray ALLIES WIN IN, BALKAN BATTLE HAINES AND 1916. NEWS STANDS be ONE CENT 2 LOT It isa rebuke to crooked boss rule. It is a repudiation NIGHT EDITION WEATHER MA SAYS AND WEDNESDAY, A COULD MENTION WILL BETTER FOR THIS AT 8 TONIGHT CLOSE VOTE! This is your day. Today you voters have the say. Vote carefully. Mark your ballots correctly. Wherever first and second choice votes are neces- sary be sure that you vote for both first and second choice. The primary today is in many ways far more important than the final No- vember election will be. “SLOW DEATH” POISON ONCE USED BY HIM Lundin Told It May Be the Same as Found in Victim’s Body Today is the time for the people to rout the yellow dog candidates. Today| MAY CHARGE MURDER ‘the people have their only opportunity to smash the machine slate. : The decent independent candidates need your vote today. Candidates who |have played square with y@u, and who have been knifed by the bosses because they| jserved you rather than the bosses, need your support. Don’t be misled by fake eleventh-hour rumors and lies. Go to the polls early and vote. | ‘WIFE DIES BY “gas BUT Bape [ow "TS PROTECTED | After-placing ner Gweek-old | | baby before an open window, #0 it would escape death, Mrs. Ima Johnson, 23, wife of Wal- ter Johnson, insurance man, | to Mark Your Ballot Ask fo@a fepublican iicket when you go to the polls today. Yoti ean vote in the republican primary, then vote as you please for any |tieket in the final election in November. jtance for decision today are in the republican party, so independent | Voters should not wa: their ballots by participating in the democratic | or progressive primaries | stuffed the kitchen window and All the contests of impor-! A murder charge will un doubtedly be filed against “Dr.” Percival V. Allen, Prosecutor Lundin said Tuesday, if it can be ascertained that strychnine, said to have been found in the body of Miss Anna M. Daniel- administered prior te th here last July In the Sheridan apartments, which she shared with him as his wife. According to information furnish. jed Lundin Tuesday by Walter RL Thayer, chief of the local Burns Detective agency, Allen had been experimenting for |"slow death formula,” |said to have obtained from a fel- |low prisoner while confined in the IMinots state reformatory in 1895, . -- Lundin said there was a bare years with a which he is possibility that the fiuld used to embalm Miss Danielson’s body might have containea @ quantity of strychnine. To Hold “Dr.” Allen “We will hold ‘Dr. allen,” said {Prosecutor Lundin Tuesday, “with door cracks with paper, and | @OR UNITED STATES SENATOR— out pronouncing sentence for the | committed suicide by turning | Vote ‘cr Miles Poindexter for first chotce. crime of which he was convicted on three gas stove jets shortly | Give your second choice vote to any one of the other candidates |vesterday until lcan learn from before noon Tuesday in the | except Humphrey |Dean Frankforter whether the | Lyman rtments. | Fon GOVERNOR stryehn he found was adminis She had been aespondent for Vote for Henry MeRride for first choice, and give your second | tered ore death or might have days, it was said. | choice vote to any candidate except Lee, Hartley or Sutton. /been contained in the embalming L. C. Blewett, a fess er tg FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR fluid the same apartment hous Vote for Arthur Davis first choice, and for any other candidate ex-_ i | Melrose ave, smeiied the gas cept Hart for second choice Much sae ligne eat btn fumes, broke open the door FOR CONGRESSMAN FROM THIS DISTRICT— lthe mystery Tuesday by Tha vad and found the body Vote for Landon, Haliaine, Bryan or he Give any one of|who, for the firet time since AE The police rushed to th® [these men your first choice and any one of men your second /|jen's arrest, is said to have fure scene with a puimotor, but | choice jnished evidence of a possible mo- were unable to save her life. FOR STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS ‘tive for Miss Danielson’s death The baby was found croon Vote for Mrs. Preston. | It has. i ing, and happy, in the breeze from the living room window. The woman left no note ex- ining her act. Her husband Is an insurance solicitor for the Prudential In- surance Co., and wi out on his work and had not been jo. cated up to 1:30 p. m. For the remainder of the state offices The Star makes no recom COUNTY OFFICES | FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, SECOND DISTRICT— Vote for Herman Nelsen to any other candidate, Center on Nel FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, FIRST Vote for M. J. Carrigan ps a clean administration DISTRICT Hamilton. Don't waste your votes on any other candidate for sheriff Stringer is the only man who has a chance to defeat Hamilton. FOR PROSECU + ATTORNEY Lundin, Green or White. Vote for any one of them, COUNTY CORONER Vote for Dr. C. C. Tiffin. For the remander of the county offices The Star makes no recom- mendation. AUTO THIEVES Four shots were fired and one man wounded in a desper | ate motor race and running gun fight out Duwamish ave early Tuesday, which ended with the capture of Harry Smith, a chauffeur, 28, and RIOR COURT JUIX \ Robert Meldner, a butcher, 25, | candidates for superior court judges are to be nominat of 1913 Minor ave., alleged auto bandits. William Engelke, of 1600 Se Albertson, ed, The Star advises Tallman, Ronald you to vote for Lane, McCabe, Smith and two others Mackintosh, who visited who is now making good, or for Claude jcther relatives and acquaintances of his reported that five witnesses. C. Ramsay, who prom ; FOR SHERIFF Center your votea on John Stringer, ané thus help to defeat Lafe cerning the “slow death formula.” can din reports the first Mrs eying the from a |nois reformatory and that it would | slowly NON-PARTISAN JUDICIARY [52 So vccasien ane to gain have told the Burns detective, accompanted Allen near was about her with nesses who would testify len years with eats and dogs. said, t young daughter, who became sc was hastily conducted by D: been learned, according to Thayer, that A. B. A. travelers’ jehecks amounting to $300 and ts [sued to Miss Danielson had been j indorsed These checks will be placed in ev- idence in case a murdet charge is Don't waste your votes by giving them filed and shed by Allen. Detectives for the Burns agency Allen's first wife and be produced to testify con- Gets Formula in Reformatory Thayer's information given Lun- Allen as often talked of slow death.” He told her, it said, that he got the formula young chemist in the Hl. Allen had kiN a person without leay- ie to the beach Francisco, wheré they drink together. This 10:3 m. The next Sav da hot she knew, it is said, she was in a |hospital ward, and it was midnight, The police said they had picked up on the beach at low tide her money gone, and all jmarks of identification removed, it is sald Experimented on Cats Thayer said he had found wit- that Al experimented for several the “slow death” on At one time, it Is tested the formula on his now 18 years old, ill that a physician called to revive her, Word that a chemical analysis » Frankforter, of had the University of Minnesota, had disclosed the presence of strych- nine in unmistakable quantity was received in a telegram from Min- neapolis by Lieut. Wilmot A. Dan- jelson, the dead girl's brother, Monday, within a few hours of tae (Continued or. page 5) talk, | men's cemetery after they eulogizing labor, and Rey, Maurice Bywater, rector of St. John's Episcopal church, was in cbarge of the services. was in the longshore- in Mount Pleasant Interment plot, Stray electric currents from a railroad are supposed to cause trees on one side of a Brussels street to in the longshoremen’s union hall,|bud again and sometimes blossom have shed their leaves khol po nbs Alay i Be . | FOR SUPREME COURT JUDGES eis ct aera. tn w Dich, Coes, cores are filed with men and diye |: Tepeuey,, weve Sepempete: prs ise tie Hed been Golem acestding | Vote for Parker and two others for the long term, Sidewalks in a of Choate’s stores are ed with men and boys dicted that a monster vote BY ED L. KEENE to the story he told the polles; Vote for J. Stanley Webster for the four-year term, or i” tf te bap jess am U. P. Staff Correspondent | did the shooting and finally Telephone calls were coming | | f ; LONDON, Sept. 12.—The captured the two men who, it 1 . Preparations are under way for a sensational and hard-fought, in to the auditor's office, police palpsan’ ribis wiiie ‘tus eon Meta haa talon Hncoar thor LEGISLATIVE TICK ET trial at the next term of district court at Mayfield headquarters, candidates’ hy | rolled back under heavy Anglo- Westlake ave. and Stewart st. The Campbells have employed Pete Seay as special prosecutor, | quarters and newspaper offices | French attack in the first big | about 10:30 Monday night FOR THE LEGISLATURE IN THE FORTY-FIRST DISTRICT While Choate will be defended by M. B. Holifield, with other sttorneys.| by the hundreds, asking for di Sinea hate aitee ihe Lilies ace its cae oes the oust Ras meal oie, areas Now A Pollet Both Choate and Campbell are of prominent families. Campbell) rections, during the Lip ity: began their offensive in the where he had left it, Engelke told) FOR THE | SLATURE IN THE FORTY-SECOND DISTRICT— yao ES Volae aupenring euiit sting Balkans. jthe pollce, he telephoned a friend, Vote for W. T. Christensen and Clay Lawrence Mrs, Choate has property in her own name, and 1s now suing) Voters appearing at the polling Do Sa A te at eee with ancter| FOR Cah TL aMiELATURG LTE FORTY THIRD DISTRICT— Choate for an accounting : places by that hour were 0 oe utheaean’ aaiicteel die’ cap- (car ead a revolver 2B dibtrldeiph™ wax dati ta ried api She is from Odion, Tenn. They were married in 1901. They have en “a reasonable time. to Cam Lit! ture of Bulgarian trenches on a They gave chase to the alleged) FOR THE LEGISLATURE IN THE FORTY-FIFTH DISTRICT— owes ballots tn case the crows ity apen| two-mile front to a depth of |bandits, the race becoming a nip Vote for C. 0, Qualhein —_——— ————————— | them from voting immediately upon} oir nite in the region north |and-tuck affair on the pavement] OR THE LEGISLATURE IN THE FORTY-SIXTH DISTRICT— ° ma te dent candidates have| of Majadan. An official state. jout Duwamish ave, past George Vote for Fred W. Hastings and C, C. Bras. Brides Get Death Threats in jalndtrendent candidates have! ment from Salenike announces |t0Wn pon ee ried, W. Hastings on 0. Cras es teresa ” 2 ‘ inteer watcher who are to stick ta bye hn ef! Seal by the At point about four. bloc ve Vote for B, H. Guile, : 7 t 5 places ching the| French and British. |from Duwamish station, it Ix said, “Poison Pen Letters on the Sat, dasion ine anne hing the! press dispatches. from Athens |Engelke calvod. to the men in his| —— = : ¢ ‘wap wd left iittle doubt that the great)car to stop. When they failed to é‘ E ve o f T h elr M arrl ages northward drive of the allies from |do so, he shot thrice into the air, as WOMAN WITH BABE 2500 LONGSHOREMEN MAYOR’S NIECE TO wlonika has begun. After 36|the two vehicles ran nose and nose| urs of heavy fighting, the Bul-|along the road at terrific speed WANTS WORK QuIcK HERE FOR FUNERAL CHICAGO, Sept. 12—Chi prospective brides to receive PIERCE site ave KecrostiimpWit Gig allibe |" aim iwoaapante ot the cther oat cago brides walk to the altar threats was Mrs. H, 8. Fuller. WED FRANK lin pursuit, Athens reported. |Kngelke said, only increased their pee pants, these days with fear of death She was Miss Grace Dickerson, ; | The Bulgars attempted to stem!gpeed, and he took one shot at If you were a woman 24 Special trains from Everett and in Dioie resets! Bon ee mee crank R. Ploree. agsistant secre-|the Serbian advance southwest of | Meliner, the bullet striking him| years of age and had a baby (Tacoma brought great crowds of A threat accompanies almost Paul. On her wedding day she Fran ‘Orr ublic works, Ostrov lake by a counter attack, |in the wrist who was hungry, what would (union longshoremen strike sympa ih | eal ae pg A Bai received a letter threatening |tary of the board of pit "| but were checked and thrown back,| Meldner cried ont, and the other| you do? thizers to Seattle Tuesday morning wedding of prominent persons her with death if the wedding |and Miss Vivian Gill, niece Of MAY*| Wittering severely lesan, who wae Griving, cut off the Thies the position of a (for the joint funeral services of made in newspapers, and the was not postponed. The letter 4. Gil), are to be married Wednes While the Bulgarian wings are engine, and both men leaped out,| black-eyed girl who came to | Harry Ragan and Joseph Goldsby, police are searching the city w signed “Elisey,” and ing Leing pressed bact:, Freneh guns|running for the brush alongside the, The Star office Tuesday and victims of water front violence for the writer of the “poison charged that Mise Olekerson fon it algerie have opened » big artillery duel in| road offered t@go anywhere for | Who died last week en” letters, was marrying “Elieey's” hus- the center around Lake Dojran as Ingelke says he gave chase. hing, viding. the. would Te Unda cteetiniebed diet), Rae Pe vthe only clue the police have band FIRE MUNITION DEPOTS: lif rovaging a French advance up| first peed (pa pbk cge potilias erpvialag, they ests Ma sottlimaled that, 2.800 fs sampies of handwriting Poison pen” letters, which LONDON, Sept, 12.—Artillery ae- | (),U\ynnn TP Eb a ore 5 ag py ag ek ca ane | te taste moamenian nen preny ope: Werner ore cali Hel cel hd Phe WM batt dpe ho 9 : See tanh |himself up, Engelke says, and| piace,” she said. ‘The services were held at noon a “t” much like a capital " were sent five other brides an ville wood and the Mo * gf both men were taken to the with housework can All the letters are signed © Prospective brides, and In each | was reported by Gen. Haig this sf “ee e a) EA fener Dacrdekies ‘calles station, cwiere Bevis Aung unan Yr pled Widet nih haat ttilak ah y." case the same charge and |ternoon. At Grand Court two Lek «iii dary of 78 words, they are held on an open charge. East 7453, | Attorney McMahon gave a brief in the fall. The first of many brides and threat were made. man munition depots were set afire.| a y 7