The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 19, 1916, Page 1

) a . The President’s Corner BY WoOPROW WILsoN The real teat of a community tap wl eompulsion of law, but No nation can Itve w gent & nation exc uation and purity When | waa « @Pposed to baring, pK uct tt t been Dut because sophomores are p (From “Wht and Wisdem of right, 1916, by Doubled NEW YORK, Oct. 19. The Cunard line steamer Alau- mia struck a mine early today jn the English channel nounced here today. There | were no passengers aboard, all of them having been | landed. A majority of the crew was saved. The cablegram to the New York Cunard office follow: “Alaunia struck a mine in the English channe! this morning and sunk during the forenoon. Deni son and majority of crew saved. The Miner teft New York for Fal- mouth and London. with 200 pas- sengers aboard. Officials here said all her passengers bad bee landed at Falmouth and she was proceeding on her way to London when she struck the mine. The cabiegram received here stated that Capt. H. M. Denison of the crew were The Alaunia was armed for de fense against submarines, but she Re war munitions. FAIRMONT, W. Va., Oct. 19.—More than 100 miners employed by the Jamison camp at Barrackville, three miles from here, were en- tombed early this afternoon by an explosion of damp. Accurate figures on the probable death list are not available, but early reports a ee ee occurred at 1 iica'in cae anoaal f\ POssEs CHASE »7 TRAIN BANDITS BLISS, Okla, Oct. 19—A posse is scouring the country morth of here for six bandits who last night held up Santa Fe mail and express train No. 405, shot and killed Exprese Messenger A. Norman, @ynamited the safe and escap- @d with an unknown amount of money. A desperate fight is expected if the bandits are located, as they were heavily armed and did not hesitate to kill Norman when he| showed fight, and shoot a baggage man who failed to keep under cov- er. Flagging the train as it sped thru the 101 ranch, the masked bandits uncoupled the engine and express car, ran them down the track, threw the express safe from the car and dynamited it. Throwing their booty into a wait- ing automobile, they raced for the Bills. Some trainmen estimated fhe loot at $10,000. fficiais, however, were author- fof the statement that the rob- got no moncy from the express car. “Hard Cider” Howard Who do you think he is? ‘ You couldn’t guess un- less you have read “The Idyll of Twin Fires,” and paid $1.50 for the book. You can find out next week in The Star for six cents. One cent a day— that’s what The Star costs. The new novel-a- week begins Monday and ends Saturday. ‘It’s a Real Story of Real People and} ik, the Cunard offices an-| —— |laid down therein was correct. ot what it does under Man and You Surely Win! ; PROTEST MEETING AGAINST MILO ROOT Following the vain efforts of | opinion, and that the report of the committee to that effect was upon an ex parte investigation, where I) bad no chance to face or crom*| examine the witnesses, nor any of them. } “TE feminded you that the court | Wae divided in the decision of that | case—three voting in favor of the railway company, and four, includ. ing myself, against the company, that I wrote the majority opin- fon against the company; that if the attorney or company had power was contemplating. impeach-. over me sufficient to write an opin. ment proceedings against him. jfon for me, they would have had} Trustees-of the Bar association,| power enough to write it in their the grievance committee and the own favor, and power exough to committee on judiciary have recom: | have me vote for, instead of against, mended publishing in full the find-|the company. ings in the Root case, made by the) “I told you that I thought the State Bar association committee in| record itself showed the charge to 1909. be absurd on its face, Replying to President. Wilmon|. “At the recent primaries 23,872 Tucker of the Bar'association, who, | voters expressed their confidence in with Attorneys E. C. Hughes, Rob-|my character and ability by voting ert C. Saunders and W. H. Gorham.|for me, Should I defer to them or met with Judge Root on October 7/to you and the 21 or less attorneys | jlast, asking him to withdraw, Judge| whom you say were present at the| Root addressed the following: |meeting which appointed you to! “Referring to your recent visit to| wait on me with the suggestion that |me and your suggestions that I|/I withdraw my candidacy? Your| cease to be a candidate for superior |threat that the newspapers would court judge, I have to say: |Tepublish the old matter if I did not “You said your objection was| withdraw ‘s disquieting but not con- | based solely on my supreme court | trolling } record; that you and those for whom youwere acting did not think I had done anything dishonest, cor- |rupt or criminal; that no objection was made as to my ability; that my | record since leaving the bench was, |both as a man and as an attorney, |bighly commendable; that the un- “I consider the threatened assault |fortunate act on my part was the upon myself as a dastardly, coward. |permitting of a railw: torney to|ly attempt to humiliate myself and write the opinion on a rehearing in jfamily, and a plece of undeserved |the case of Harris against the Great | persecution. |Northern Railway Co, (48 Wash.) “In justice to my family and to 37), altho you said that the law/ 23,872 of my fellow citizens who voted for me at the primaries, and Denies Charge in Justice to myself, I beg to decline “1 told you he did not write the| your suggestion.” HISTORY ROOT CASE | BRIEFLY REVIEWED | During the fall of 1908, ugly ru- | mors concerning Justice Milo A ‘Root of the supreme court of this state gained such wide currency that Chief Justice Hadley asked the State Bar joclation to inves- tigate the charges, The corimittee appointed by President liridges consisted of Al | attorneys to induce Milo A. Rost to withdraw hie candidacy for the superior court, the Seattle Bar sseocia- tion will hold @ meeting Friday night in court room No. 1 of the city-county building te launch a formal protest against hie elec- tion. . Root resigned from the ev preme court in 1909 while under fire, and while the legistature Speake of Family “If they wish to join with you) and with those with whom you are working to tear me down, besmirch my reputation and humiliate my family, they, of course, have that privilege. write the opinion. He wrote but inatead of showing it to the other judges and filing it for rec- ord, he sent it to M, J, Gordon, then attorney for the railroad. Gor- don, on May 14, 1908, in a letter to Root, complained about it, and | wrote an opinion | first meeting with Root in Olympla | |torreys John H, Powell, T. L./to discuss the matter, Gordon's | Stiles, L. C, Hudson, Harold Pres-| opinion was then forwarded to At ton, and George FE. Wright. They |torney Begg at St. Paul, chief had no legal power to compel wit-|counsel for the railroad. Begg nesses to testify. However, they/eent the opinion back to Gordon, reported they were able to estab-|saying it was “satisfactory.” Gor- lish definitely three things: {don sent it on to Root, and Root Harris Case 1, In the case of Harris vs. the [crea Northern, Judge Root was designated by the other judges to filed it as his own opinion. What Change Meant The decision of the court favor- (Continued on page 8) WILSON | would have | do. | the cruiser was lying off this coast |transatlantic himself, after | | |heavy snow storm held all of the SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 19, ROUSES OLD CH BY ROBERT J. BENDER U. P. Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Oct. 19.—Presi- dent Wilson arrived at the New York Central station at 1:05 Pp. m. today. mous crowds met the train and surged thru the station, cheering loudly ae the president and tes party left the train. Tho lined the streets to see the president pass on his way to the Blackstone ho- tel, After a short rest at the hotel, he left for t club, where he is to speak ata luncheon. At South Bend, Ind, pulled in. | School children waved Mags and sereamed their delight. Rain was still falling. “I have forgotten how to make campaign speeches,” said the preal- dent. “The record is made up, and all you have to do now In to say what you think, If | made a apeech| to tell you whet TI) think of myself and that I cannot It is very delightful to have | such receptions as you have given me, and as | have been going along |the road, it makes me feel very | good and I thank you from the bot tom of my heart.” Hand Is Scratched The president greeted handshak- ers with his left hand. His right band is bandaged bec: of a scratch inflicted by @ careless en thuatast who palm bandaged, fearing Members of the party are greatly cheered by receptions given the president all the way thru New York. The climax was reached at Syracuse, where a spectacular ova- tion © » Given by 15,000 persons. CRUISER SINKS | “SUB,” REPORT NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 19—A German submarine, possibly the U-63, has been sunk off Nan- tucket, according to a me the British steamer North Pa- cific claims to have receive The North Pacific is taking on bunker coal here today. Altho she arrived here Mon- day night from New Orleans, the North Pacific did not report receiving the message from what was said to be a Gritish | | | cruiser until today. The mes read: “German submarine sunk east Nantucket.” Officers of the North Pacific said 8,000 peo-| ple lined the streets when bis train | The Seattle Star ON THAING 1916. ONE CENT a Seattle’s Most Beautiful Model, Ruth Reynolds, Who Has Posed in Nude for Artists, Tries Vaudeville Ruth Reynolds, jattle Mode! Miss Reynolds also has Known as “Seattle's most seen beautiful model,” Ruth Rey- posed for Mellen's life class, nolds, « statuesque blonde of Attle’s most talented young alluring curls and curves, is artists Many of Imogene Cunning: ham's most beautiful and artistic photographs were tak- en with Mins Reynolds as the model. taking ber Initial dip in vaude- ville here this week. She is the “corset model” {i “Oh, the Women,” the hesdline gitzaction at the Pantages this Serre ine very “Mins Rey- nalad p poses on a revolving platform on the stage. Just 20 years old, the fair Ruth i» declared by George Mellen, a Wellkoown Seattle artist, who has painted her in the nude, to have one of the most perfect forms he has ever | and for John Butler, one of Se- { Miss .Reynolis was seen here “at the Moore in “Every- woman” and also, more recent- ly, in the prologue of “Civiliza tion,” at the Metropolitan, but this is her first experience in vaudeville. She makes with her mother. 114 16th ave. home here Ida Rey- her Mrs. 8. nolds, ‘LABOR’S MEMBER OF CABINET, SEC. WILSON, TO SPEAK AT THE MET He will be entertained at a dinner by the labor council at 6 p. m. Fri day. He may also speak at the Bremerton navy yard Friday noon, A double-hammered drive in behalf of President Wilson will be made at the Metropolitan nated Roosevelt at Chicago, Monday night. Secretary Wilson is the first to hold the office of secretary of labor, that department having been organized under Woodrow Wilson. He is also the first man holding a been called off. ‘TRADE BOOMS A London cable to the United) Press a few days ago sald a sudden reduction in insurance rates on shipping by Lloyds had aroused $ speculation as to whether the U-53 had been sunk, jeaptured or had returned to a Ger man port, it being believed that the reduction was ordered because ldoyds had received “inside” in- formation. ARMENIAN TAG DAY Volunteers. have been ed | to report to C. W. Wilcox, 1002 Third ave., Friday, to enroll for work Saturday which is to be the American-8yrian Relief association's tag day for the benefit of the starving Ar- menian children. Peat ee POLITICAL MEETINGS { TONIGHT | Republican—At Kent, John F. | Miller, 8. R. Rodgers, Eugene A. Childe, county candidates; | | wax, 4 | | | at Black Diamond, Tom Revelle, | | George Rummens, county candi at | Howard Hammond, | dates; umelaw, | Coagre rank county candidates. Democratic—At Fremont hall, George Cotterill; Elflers hall, | Third and University, Henry | Albers McLean; at Dudley hall, | | South Park, and at Elliott | | school, Edward J, Brown and | county candidates. | ————* ‘WEST IN SNOW GRIP LINCOLN, ‘Neb, Oct, 19,—A Middle West in its iey grip this morning. From Wyoming eastward into lowa storme were raging, with no prospect of letting up till even- athe bishops for action, junton card who has ever held a cab- linet position. Secretary Wilson was ja miner in the Pennsylvania coal foreign and domestic Seattle's fields. «He was one of the execu-| tive committee which organized the |commerce during September, 1916 United Mine Workers of America.| gained $7,691,795 over the same From 1900 to 1908 he was secretary. |month in 1915, according to the re- treasurer of that union In recognition of his labor affilia |port of Port Warden Paysse. tions, the meeting at the Metropol-| Exports and imports {tan theatre Friday night will be{for September, totaled $32,710,025. held jointly under the auspices of|in september, 1916, they totaled | the Central Labor Council and the] go 516 30, Nonpartisan Woodrow Wilson Jeague. President Proctor of the| In Siberian trade alone the trade Seattle Labor council will preside.|of last month amounted to $1,05 Secretary Wilson was a delegate |&35, as compared to $4,364 a year to the American Federation of La-|ago. bor convention held here in 1913.1 Oriental commerce about doubled SOUND FERRY HIT S TUG IN FOG Carrying 200 eatly morning passengers from across the} bay, the ferryboat West Seattle crashed into the tug Hero! about 7:40 a. m. Thursday The fog screened both craft, whose paths crossed about 300 yards from the downtown ferry landing » one was injured. The tug was slightly damaged. prow. rails were broken, Quick work on the part of both pilots resulting in the immediate slowing up of both engines, averted what might have been a more serious collision, Ban on Remarriage of Divorced Persons | Is Causing Church Row | primase is ja Hl ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct, 19.—The! The proposed new canon, which important divorce question in the| Was defeated last week, would have prohib: ' Episcopal church conference, which feereaae satsaateera oerer ant was killed in the house of deputies! \divorce for any cause whatever. last Saturday, may again be| The present canon permits the brought before the ruling bodies of) marringe of the “innocent” party the conference. \to a divorce decree he present It was learned today that the|law was ruled in order for at least house of bishops, the “senate” of|three more years by the deputies, the church, in secret session dur-| when the laymen in a body refused ing the night, had practically de-|to concur with the clerical mem- cided to bring the question before| bers. The proposed canon de- feated after a two-day deb: PA a theatre, where Secretary of Sate Senator Helen Ring Robin- Labor William 8. Wilson will | son of Colorado, who was to speak | ight, and [at the Metropolitan Friday after. tens ree Oe ‘noon, wired she will be unable to Bainbridge Colby, who nomi | yo here in time. The meeting has IN SEPTEMBER this year, | Its | t does of It» own volition. einton Or heal FR ae 5 aa ARE YOU GOING TO HEAR SECRETARY OF LA BOR WILSON SPEAK AT THE METROPOLITAN I used to be very FRIDAY NIGHT? SURE! HE'S THE FIRST LABOR Sea detiea. et Thmieoome UNION MAN WHO EVER HAD A SEAT IN A PRESI LWoedraw™ Witeon,” cosy THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS DENT’S CABINET, AND THE WEATHER MAN ay, Tape & Ce) BAYS: “FAIR TONIGHT AND FRIDAY VOLUME 19. AND NEWS STANDS, Be 'LUNDIN OPENS WAR ON ORDER FORGERS The first step to mits was taken Thursday Palmer, acting under orders | filed an information in the superior cour against John of the Milwaukee R. R. The complaint charges Hurley with changing the ~ Campbell to J. This particular package of liquor was included in a con- |signment of eight packages, permits for each of which | Hurley, former employe name of C. L. jhad been forged. Hurley, at the time the forgeries) came to the notice of the prosecut-| or's office, was employed as the Wells-Pargo agent at Auburn. = later resigned. The liquor was c signed in care of a man known rook |J. 8. Ryan, supposed to be a ficti-] |tious name. The consignment had been Y mistake over the N. P. ated jand Agent J. W. McKee, realizing the permits were forged, refused to deliver the shipment Har’ according to Palmer ing he w awkward position. in believed to have written a letter, signing the fictitious name of Ryan in which he asked that the liquor be returned to Jaffe & Co,., at San Francisco, But McKee n otified the | county authorities instead The handwriting of the myth- |man, Ryan, corresponded with that | of Hurley. It is also claimed that Hurley was in league with J. P. Terry, another Wells-Fargo agent at Auburn, in the practice of permitting Ma aged tinweanceled: Perey tofacink tral] cy against him, Hurley faces a penitentiary sentence. will “Cc. F. " who wrote The Star recently concerning condi- tions of public concern, please office? The “C. F." can help attie a better city if he'll call and discuss fully the matters touched on briefly in letter.—Editor. STORM DAMAGE TO TOTAL $250,000 NEW ORLEANS, ports from | Oct. 19.—Re-| NIGHT EDITION prosecute forgers of liquor per- when | WRECKERS KILL in Auburn Thursday on this charge. the red danger light turned aro If convicted of the state charge #0 a8 to show only the green light. year The engineer thought he had a bape: 4, 7) BILLINGSLEY IS | officers to locate Logan Billingsley, . | wanted on a second charge of vio — \Isting the liquor law, had proved fruitiess Thursday morning. | direct charges that Billingsley had aleo hol in a warehouse at 2128 West- | lake ave. jand sale. Mobile and Pensacola! second conviction of tne dry law — BOOZE Deputy Prosecutor from Prosecutor Lundin, D. Camp on a permit. QWHEN THEY DITCH TRAIN. MANITOWOG, \ Wis., Oct. 19.— Train No, 111, Milwaukee to Ashiand, on the Northwestern railroad, was wrecked here early today, and the fireman and engineer killed when the train jumped the track and plunged into a ditch. Steel coaches saved the passengers. Railroad men said the wreck wae caused by train-wreckers. The motive is not rpg It was the first attempt in lative yearn to wreck the tral ‘The swit NOT ARRESTED” All efforts on the part of police “a The complaint, by which was filed Prosecutor Lundin, for the purpose of barter — The maximum penalty under the said the total damage in both cities | 48 cited in the complaint is a $500 — from yesterday's hurricane would | fine and six months in the county | Jail \CONVICT ESCAPES {not be more than $250,000. One per json killed by lightning at Mobile {and another drowned at Pensacola |compromise the death list. ‘HE IS SO STINGY SHE ASKS DIVORCE LOS ANGELES, Oct. Welsh declared today Mike MeMurr SALEM, Oct. 19.—Police Chiet he believed y, escaped Oregon 19.— | penitentiary convict, responsible for Charging her husband with |the burglary of the residence of E. being overly saving, that he |v. McMeehan, here. Nothing was lived on 4 cents a day, and used (taken but a complete outfit of the limb of a tree for a crutch, clothes, including collars, shirts altho he wi worth $200,000, Mrs. Sarah Hancock Loudon was today suing James A. Loudon for divorce, PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 19.—Po- lice are on the lookout for the first highwayman reported in| many we Chas. Jamar, Lioyd Matthews and Lioyd Larsen de clared they were held up not far from the business center and re- leved of $1 by the proverbial | ‘lone bandit jand neckties and a hand-bag. Thus | equipped; the fugitive is thought to |have boarded a train for San Fran- cisco. candidate for the legislature in the | 44th district, lenge to the republican candidates, Frank to debate tions With him. [the measures. Robert G. Cauthorn, democratic has renewed his chal- A. Manogue and C. the Dwyer, referendum ques- He is opposed to Oddities of pinechle, drew the first good hand he has, held for years and fell out of his chair dead. e- NEW YORK—iIntroducing Zitel- ka Dolores, the $1,020,000 beauty, Broadway say like a million dollars, and, since | Harrison Fisher has pronounced her legs the most beautiful in the | . world, they've been insured for|street he sent for an ambulance, $20,000. | Refore the ambulance arrived, how: heat) ever, Goldwater's’ father dropped CHICAGO—“He keeps calling up | dead, and the wagon took away his my wife, who is pretty, and try-| body, ing to ke a date with he! see Frank Radke, masseur, said, when he advertised in the papers for » |certain saloonkeeper to meet him | : ary CHICAGO—He loved her nice. Feldman, ORANGE, N. J.—Calling tocheer) University of up a dying friend with a game of | Margaret Follered, co-ed, eloped to 80-year-old John Hawkes |New York, terson ness partners and their wives were divorced stage | same court within an hour of each she looks | other, Joldwater saw a sick man on the Loth, that around his neck and threatened to hang himself, ly-groomed finger natis, so Samuel/wouldn’t do It when she told him Russian student in the|to “go ahead and hang.” the News Chicago and Miss . SAN FRANCISCO—Charles Pe- and John Cunha are busi- from them today in the eee SAN FRANCISCO—When Morris SAN FRANCISCO—Mr: Anna seeking a divorcee, testified her husband put & noose but got mad and