The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 24, 1916, Page 1

The President’s Corner BY PRESIDENT ere ts only one way of hold fean public, and that is by pin alr I am effective a i" e dusty road and litt th Wit and Wind ¢ Wo WILSON ing the confide deserving It bad polttios oft mankind are those w clr eyes to drow Wilson Page & « SEATTLE, WASH., TU ESDAY, > OC TOBE R 1916, -TheSeattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES VOLUME 19. TO PRINT THE NEWS ON TRAINS ONE CENT 3 NIGHT EDITION ALL THE REFERENDUM PROPO- SITIONS, THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND THE INITIATIVES. FAMILIARIZE YOURSELP WITH THE VOTING MACHINES, THE WEATHER MAN SAYS FAIR TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY; LIGHT FROST TONIGHT VOTE “NO” ON AND HIEVES GET $100 000 IN JEWELS * 8 #8 oso es- 8&8 &® &© # ‘PASTOR SHOOTS HIMSELF TO WIN BE TTER PAY P ROOT’S NOT RE té i ) THAT'S MAIN ISSUE SAYS NOTED WRITER \ Sider Sent ceotod 12 meso tn ehe-8 909 Investigating the Rest case and other the supreme court, ottended all the heartage tren alee inteteks etre eee el mam in the state on the moral sh toa.—Editor’s Note. . te probabil: ertcomings of the judiciary of Washing- Are you interested in the Then you will be vitally ment that By Joe Smith 1 believe that a public official or a private citizen} who has gone wrong, and who has repented that wrong. should be allowed to com e back. I believe that the) efforts of the repentant sinner to return to the fold of) moral and political righteousness should receive en- couragement. But this is not the issue in the Root case. The} issue in the Root case is that Judge Root is an unre- pentant sinner. The issue that unfits him for election given no public indication that he has recanted his most! ral, political and judicial up-) serious offenses against mo rightness. in the Root case, the issue to the bench, is that he has ‘I do not refer to the fact that he resigned from the| bench under fire. If this were his only or worst of- fense, | would now favor Root's Bat it is not. M's worst offenses were his Prgssions while on the beneb. the Harris case, in which the inion was written by an attorue: Space forbids the enumeration of more than one or two. Conspicu- ous among them is the West & Slade mill case. In this case the court dealt with the law of careless murder. The legislature had en- acted a law requiring lumbermen and other manufacturers to safe- guard their dangerous machinery for the protection of their em- es. Many manufacturers neg- to obey the law. And when injored employes, who would have been protected by compliance with the law, brought suits for damages in the courts, the employers set up the defense that the injured em ployes knew the machinery was dangerous end unguarded, and had therefore assumed the risk. In short, the employers set up their p violation of the law w de fF against these damage suits. Court Was Packed it had been well settled in Judicial law that this defense was not allowable. The most conspicu- ous decision on this point had been handed down by William H. Taft in a federal court in Ohio. To secure @ reversal of this rule in this state, the manufacturers had “packed Washington putting on it three judges who were known to faypr its reversal was Judge Root, who, in private practice, had been attorney for a! large casualty insuranes company The rule was first raised on a rehearing on the West & Slade mill case. Four judges, a majority, held to the recognized rule, Three, in a lengthy opinion written by Judge Root, undertook to reverse it Din the interests of the mill com panies. In his opinion, Root makes a labored attempt to prove that Taft was wrong. Altho he remained on the bench the supreme court of | One of there} several years, there is no indication in any decision to which he wan a party that Root recanted from that defense of the corporation manw- facturers. There is.still no pubtic | notice that he has done so. os man he saw escaping from his house thru a window. His wife secured a divorce, the trial court allowing her some $30,000 as her share of the property. Richard- son's attorneys Merritt of Spokane. Wesley Merritt testified before the Bar Association investigating committee that Richardson told him (Merritt) that E. B. Palmer of Seattle, Root's former law partner, had told him (Richardson) that he (Palmer) would procure the su- preme court to reduce the verdict to $22,000 if Richardson would pay Palmer 100. Whether Richardson paid Paimer the $2,000 was. never actually es tablished by the committee. Kenny Beaton and I chased Richardson over most of the sage brush wil- derness of Douglas county to get him before the committee, but did not succeed. Later a friend of | Richardson brought him to Seattle to appear before the committee, but he fell into the hands of Palmer jand disappeared. ' But the damning fact conspicu lously rema‘ns that the decision in the supreme court was written by nn the sum offered by | Palo Pamir Spent the Money it was Palmer who, at this | time, as shown by the committee's report, was expending for Judge |Root the campaign contributions promised him by Attorney acre | of the Great Northern ratiro: When the state sought go prone- leute Gordon for embezzling some $75,000, Gordon's atttorney, Dick im, of Spokane, went it to meet Chief Counsel Begg of the Great Northern, returning West with Begg in the car. On that trip, Nuzum threat (Continued on page 8) ELECTION FRAUDS IN COUNTY PROBED Deputy Prosecutor Heiseil, accompanied by members of Sheriff Hodge's office, 'eft for Snoqualmie Tuesday afternoon to investigate charges of elec- tion frauds in connection with the recent primaries. A prominent county official is under suspicion of deliberately | SHEA, | Of the Irish Brigade” Is a soldier's story. It js full of brave and thrill- ww aa adventure, It is clean, f holesome fiction. Be pure and start it Monday, t’s the next novel-a-week in The Star. switching votes for one candidate and counting them to the credit of another. A recheck was made Monday night of the 80 ballots counted in the district after complaints had been made by eeveral citizens It was learned that 22 votes which had been cast in favor of a candidate for sheriff had been [ie to another candidate. It is said that voters had actual- ly recognized their own ballots as being chalked up against the candi- date they had voted for. State charges will be filed, it is | believed, ts soon as Helsell can complete his Investigation PARIS, Oct, 24.—Serbian troops have resumed the advance against |Monastir, capturing German-Bulgar trenches to a depth of half a mile, and inflicting heavy losses on the seneeny, it was officially announced | were Merritt & latter's private | WINONA WILCOX trating, and they TELL things of the heart.” Star tomorrow modern, up-to-the-minute “great pwblem.” She Writes of Love Are you interested in LOVE? Are you interested in MARRIAGE? PROBLEMS OF SEX? interested in the announce- The Star has just added to its staff one of the most brilliant woman- writers of America, a woman who has won a for herself the world of journalism as “a writer of the human heart.” This writer is Winona Wilcox, and her talks on the matters that spring from the affections won her, in a few years, a tre- mendous following on one of the greatest of Ameri- ca’s newspapers. Now Mrs Wilcox’s writings will appear The Star. You will that they concern the things you are most in- terested in, the things that make YOUR life happy or unhappy, big or little They are keen and pene- THE TRUTH “the name in in find about The first series of articles from the pen of Winona Wileox will be three in number and will start in Their subject will be: ' WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH MARRIAGE? You will not want to miss any of these, for they are in their treatment .of the RUST WITHDRAWS TO DEFEAT HOWEL Frank A. Rust, one of the most prominent men in labor circles of this state, Tuesday withdrew hie candidacy on the progressive ticket for secretary of state, in order more effective the for the defeat of |. republican, the present holder of that office, Rust will begin Wednesday a campaign in Eastern Washington in behalf of J. M. Tadiock, democratic candidate. Rust declares that Howell's atti tude of enmity towards the prin- ciples of the initiative and refer endum make him « “dangerous man for that office. “Secretary Howell,” says Rust jin a statement made public Tues has been compelled many times by mandamus proceedings to |do the things specifically required ALLEN FACING BIGAMY CHARGE is were expect C) noon against “Dr.” Perc’ Allen by Deputy Prosecutor Selden, of Pierce county The information ‘> expected by Deputy Prosecutor Helsel! as the result of new evidence discovered late Saturday after. noon, that Allen had married Anna Marie Danielson in Ta- coma on July 6, Allen was convicted a month ago on a statutory charge In con nection with his life with the Dan- felson woman, whom he disowned following her sudden death here in July. He failed at that time to ad. mit of his marriage with her, in [sisting he had a wife in An geles Allen's arrest and conviction fol lowed a sensational attempt on the Los BY GEORGE MARTIN United Statt Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct, 24,-—~ The hall boy, who had just had the mad scene from “Lucia” made over into a new fall necktie, decided to permit the reporter to intery Miss Hempel Miss Frieda Hempel, that is, the grand opera prima donna | who lost her music to the Ger man censor at the frontier, She also lost her equilibrium here when she saw what the decora- tors had done to her apartment. The hall boy did his best, but with a hall boy who can’t occasions attempted to juggle bal lot titles to deceive and confuse the voters “The prerent state pamphlet is sued by Mr. Howell dealing with the initiative and referendum meas. |ures is a most glaring ¢ his brazen efforts to evade the law and mislead the voters My sole purpose in entering this ;race was to defeat this enemy of the people, but I fear this would not be accomplished with three can- didates !n tho field. I therefore shall from this day cease to cam- paign for myself, but will go out and work hard, or harder {f pos- sible, for the election of Mr. Tad- lock, who, by reason of wide ex perfence at newspaper, university, and other educational work, is em inently qualified for this service. Whatever I may do in this cam paign will be done without hope of Root and the judgment reduced to by the statutes, and } the statutes, and has on | vasroye personal reward.” a part of the girl's relatives to have as the result of mysterious death Helsell said that the county would permit Allen to be sent to Tacoma immediately for trial, but would insist that he complete his county jail sentence if he was con victed on the new charge. U. P. CAR ORDER = TO BOOM LUMBER PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 24.—Fif- teen million feet of lumber must be supplied by mills of Oregon, Washington and Idaho for the con- | struction of 2,500 freight cars or- dered today by the Union Pacific, A number of big firms here will bid on the contract. One thousand five hundred box cars and 1,000 au tomobile cars are required MRS. R. W. EARLE of New York is here from a hunting trip |as jurors, and at the same time col-| in British Columbia, with a hide of a grizzly bear speak German and a maid who wouldn't speak English, an ap- peal to a janitor with a deep bass beard was necessary. Elevator Man Called Thus, by the ald of a funereal elevator man with a face as long and monotonous as a Liszt symphony, was Miss !!empel lo cated in B flat, in the middle of a high note and a neck She stopped sing and, threading her way carefully among the decorators who had torn up everything and were playing ragtime with the furnt- ture, @ out, “1 cannot talk to you,” said L ample of | a murder charge placed against him | RICH FAMILY CHLOROFORMED | IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, Oct. 24.— |} One of the biggest robberies that has occurred about New York in years was reported | to the police today, when| Frank Grey Griswold, promi-| jnent Wall st. and man, told of burglars enter- ing his Long Island home last night and escaping with jewel- ry and silver valued at be- tween $80,000 and $100,000. This estimate of the lows was made by Griswold and his wife, who motored in to headquarters to re port the robbery. Family Chieroformed Griswold, his wife and her daugh Miss Mary Canfield, are be peen chloroformed by the Griswold home. lone of the show places on Long jIsland. Griswold and his wife told |the pollee they awoke this morning jwith severe headaches, and the \daughter wan fil In one of the rooms was found a rag or handkerchief, which was be jleved to have been saturated with chloroform, and to have been used in rendering members of the house [hold unconscious. Footprints were found tn all the sleeping rooms. urgiars Take Time ‘The burglars apparently took their time. They ransacked draw era and closets thruout the house, opened jewel cases and picked out jonty the mort coutly gems, and piled the cere boxes up behind curtains 8 on escaped in an auto, Griswold said automo bile tracks leading up to the house) were found in the grass, XI MURDERER KILLS WOMAN | NEW YORK, Oct, 24.—Charged | with homicide, Samuel Linker, ped- dier, and his son, Daniel, were ar- rested today after the body of Mrs. Samuel Linker had been found, ter- ribly hacked In her home. Louis Poiner, who admitted he was ai admirer of the woman, was held as & material withers The woman, hacked with an ax and a knife, had 27 wounds. A look of terror was on her face and a lock of hair grasped tn her right hand told the story of a frightful suet, WELL, JONAH WAS ‘PRODUCED BY WHALE PORTLAND, Oct. 24.—Three drinks of whisky which it is al- leged Andy Thomassen con- sumed at a lodging house must be produced in court before Andy can be convicted of vio- lating the dry law, according to the claim of counsel for the de- fenee today. Judge Bell postponed the case to give the prosecution time to prepare arguments. SAM “HAD” TIME Sam Cohne, 1907 Yesler way, told the police Tuesday that his Inger soll watch, with solid gold chain, |disappeared, along with a girl with whom he flirted Monday night. “I don't care whether I get back \the girl,” said Sam and watch I want BARS DOUBLE PAY City ctvil service employes can't leave their places of duty to serve lect pay from the city, Corporation 'Counsel Caldwell opined Tuesday GERMAN WOMEN GROWING ELEGANTLY THIN she. “I am mad, insane, fren- zied. Always the elevator is running the floor scale and groaning horribly. Always the little pink decorator is hum- ming. T am sure he learned from ff teakettle.” Alas, "Twas True! “But is it true?” Yes, it is true, The cenror took my notes, 1 should think they would have enough Amer ican notes in Germany by now without mine, but he took them, He couldn't read music, and I suppose he thought I would sing German secrets to Caruso but the chain} \ sporting | ‘WOMEN DROWN AS AUTO GOES OFF IN RIVER CHICAGO, | “Oct. 24.—Police boats today are dragging the Chicago river at 12th street to find the four bodies of the so- | workers who were drown- ed late tast night when the au- tomobile in which they were riding plunged inte the un- guarded open draw of the rive vertising agency, BYLVAN KU‘ 20, law student at University of Chicago. MRS. LILLIAN KLAUS- 30, sockal worker. MISS E cousin | J. Wa J Warner, | Miss The rescued her, 30, widow of Hug volunteer social worker; Sarah Bernstein, 30, worker. The body of Hugo J. Warner was recovered today 100 feet from the sunken automobile. The party was returning from an evening's work at the Maxwell set tlament. The Hmousine approach. ed the bridge at 12th street in the fog cautiously. Survivors said the signal box sounded no alarm and| |the car plunged into the open | draw. Investigation showed the }fuse controlling the signal was| blown out. It was thru the heroism of one of the drowned mén, who freed her |from the wreckage, that Mrs. War- |ner is alive today to tell her story. It is believed the four bodies are in the Hmousine at the bottom of the river. PREMIER “TRIES TO AVERT C. P. STRIK! WINNIPEG, “Oct 24.—Using an j}appeal to patriotism, Premier | Borden at Ottawa today issued an jaddress to the Canadian Pacific trainmen to delay their general coast-to-coast strike scheduled for 5 p. m, tomorrow, The men replied that a delay now is impossible, pointing to the road's bountiful | earnings on account of the bof the war, BRITISH BUY FLOUR AT PORTLAND MILLS PORTLAND, Britain has loade of flour Oct, 24.—Great | purchased two ship: in Portland during | |the last few days, according to ap- parently reliable reports today. British agents are eagerly seeking more, but are handicapped by lack of ships and milis to handle their orders. They are said to have paid more than the market price, which is $7.80 a barrel for patent flour | today | LONDON, Oct, 24.—Five million soldier letters arrive in England ev ery week from the front. or something.” “And 1s food———" “You, yes; therevis a food shortage in Germany, Food is #0 scarce that the German wom. en are becoming thin and ele. gant. Everything is scarce in Germany, but then, things don’t to be plentiful and » here, either, il, you don't have the card system here, as they have in Germany, It ts very ttre- some, Father wanted a new pair of pants not long ago, and he spent 24 solid hours getting pants cards certified so he could get them,” settlement |* ife Justifies Act and Joins Mate’s Protest MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 24.—Rev. John Wesley Dickens is on the way to recovery to- day from a bullet wound he says he inflicted in an attempt to commit suicide in order to teach the world that preachers are under- | tho the shot did not prove fatal, Rev. Dickens has expressed belief that thru his act the nation will be aroused to an under- standing of the poor treatment of ministers who, he says, have to live better than their incomes permit. Mrs. Dickens justifies her husband’s act,’ despite the fact that his death would leave her and their four children without his s port. “I feel that if Wesley's life is the price he and his f. had to pay to improve living conditions for preachers he justified,” she says. “Would you be willing to work to support your children if your husband died as a result of his act?” she was a “I believe we should be in the hands of the Lord,” she re- plied. Rev. Dickens received $100 a month. ' oem “Tt takes as much food fora preacher and” his. family as for any other family,” says Mrs. Dickens. “A preacher must always be well dressed. He always is expected, and forced, to contribute to many chats ities. This money comes out of his salary. “His wife must have proper clothing. She entertains and is entertained a great deal. Naturally, she moves in the society in the community. “Despite the strict economies we practiced, our salary ale ways was exhausted before it was received.” In a note Dickens wrote before shooting himself, he exe plained the agony of the life thru which he had to go, ‘I have slept but little this week and this little has bees irightful dreams,” he wrote. “Have not relished ajmeal ina week. My thoughts are hazy, my mind is dazed. I believe T would be stark crazy in another week, a grief to my family, a burden to society and a misery to myself.” The four Dickens children range in age from seven weeks to six years. HOPES HIS ACT WILL SLAY GOD’S ENEMIE This note was written by the Rev. John Wesley Dickens before he shot himself: “The tragedy of an overworked, underpaid, debt-increasing, mind-distracting, heart-crushing preacher, who, as a husba father and citizen, giving himself to the ministry of others, a could not keep living expenses within his income, and is crushed and crazed with humiliation at the pressing needs of his pre- cious wife and babies, for which he sees no adequate supply. “This will inexpressibly id to the dearest, sweetest, truest wife a husband ever had, and to the four darling little children, but, by the grace of God, they can survive it, and it ought to help thousands of other poorly paid, qualified preach- ers and their families to receive increasing salaries at least In keeping with the increased cost of living. “It will take something extraordinary and awful to bring negligent churches to the of their duty in this matter, and if this sad occurrence can do this, it will greatly advance the cause of Christianity, and | shall not refuse to pay the price, and shall trust that, like Samson of old, this last act of my life may slay more of God's enemies than all the previous acts com- bined.” RUMANIA IS CAUGHT BETWEEN 2 ARMIES in upon Cernavoda itself. The Rumanian force that evacuated Constanza is falling back hastily to escape annihilation, On Rumania’s western front |Field Marshal Falkenhayn has re |sumed the offensive, and is carrying |the battle to the Rumanians at sev feral different places on Rumanian soil. It is believed serious riots will occur in the Rumanian capital when the news of the loss of Rumanta’s only important seaport is made public. Mackengen's east victory was due partly to the Russo-Rue manians’ “lack of artillery,” The decisive victory over the Ru- manians is expected to have a tre influence in Greece, ttempts to win rt BERLIN, via Wireless to Sayville, Oct. 24.—The Ruma- | nian Danube town of Rasova, eight miles south of the impor. tant bridge at Cernovada, and | at the railway junction of Med- jidia, has been captured by Von Mackenzen’s armies, it was of- ficially announced today. “The enemy Is yielding In confusion before our right wing,” said the official state- ment. “The booty, « Including that reported October 21, is 75 offi- cers, 6,693 meh, one flag, 27 machine guns, 12 innon and one mine thrower.” | BERLIN, Oct. 24.--Two pow erful armies pttacking from east and west, threaten to crush Rumania in a mighty vise, and put her out of the war before winter, Field Marshal Mackenzen's German - Bulgarian - Turkish forces have captured nearly a third of the Constanza-Cerna- voda railway, and are pressing Greeco’s armed CHICAGO, Oct, 24.—“I've an ine jury to my_leg and can't work,” said John Sanders, “cWarged with nonsupport. His wife testified he was able to dance all “Guilty.”