The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 16, 1919, Page 1

TO HOLD LAWYER DEATH CHARGE On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise e Seattle Star Entered as Becond Cinss Matter May 9, 1899, Tides in Seattle THURSDAY OCT, 16 First Low Tide ont FRIDAY 06 7 First Low Tide 02 a om, Lt tt Priest High Tide Second 20 Scopes Pom, 31a te Low Tide Tide | Second 39 Pom. BT Te Rom ba Lew ™., Per Year. b; 06 to Mail 9.00 the Postoffics at Beattie, Warh., under the Act of Congress March 3, 1 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1919. Weather Forecast. Tonight and Friday, fair ably gentle southerly IN LABOR SESSION prob- winds. First degree murder charges were pre- pared against Attorney Edward F. Kienstra! today following the death of John Cicoria, | proprietor of Columbus cafe, in the city hospital at 3:10 a. m. from bullet wounds. He el g l 3383 ial been : jail Tuesday, after Dep-' Prosecutor John A. Frater had filed charges of assault inthe first ‘t ns sg sek gated teat’ Krein page nec and announced that he would file first degree murder charges late today. Arrest of Kienstra, who lives at 4828 Gilet ave. 8, j He was ordered held 3 it The Mooney committee was formed by the council last spring to etrange for a Mooney strike July # The strike failed. Under the alias of the Class War Prisoners’ Commit- tee, a strike was called for October '8. This was also a failure. Altho a great many of the dele- | gates elected to the Central Labor Council are classed as conservatives, |the radicals have been in control }thru their faithful attendance at meetings and the failure of the con- | servatives to do #0. Conservatives turned out in full jforce Wednesday night, however, re- solved to take the upper hand. ii |his office, Detective Byrne went to his residence, where Mrs. Kienstra told him that her husband had left | for downtown. Sergt. P. F. Keefe and Officer F. Ducett were called to the city how) jpital at 3 a. m. this morning to take the dying statement of John Cleoria. The police version follows: | Sergt. Keefe asked Cicoria if he! (recognized him. | “Bure I do,” was the feeble re sponse. i | “Can you tell us anything more! about the affair?” asked Ducett. | Denies Lawyer | “Did you hit the man?” continued : the offi Mrs. Miller died during a iauneh | ‘Me euerr trip across the lake with her hus | # ! welfare is‘ wrapped up in the ability of its citizens to find batting an evil that has grown so monumental that it defies s Following one of the stormiest sessions held by the Cene The timid will find one objection or another with the back in a clash with more conservative members when that. They will urge claims of unconstitutionality and what which is classed as “Reds, was discharged, censured, and invested in the construction and maintaining of houses. It. fellow beings. ear golcetcag aap sagem fe grater wg THEIR EVIDENCE ts of operation, It is aimed at those who deliberately set out to gouge : In support of the proposed cit® ~ it been in force since that time, we would not today be in Jottices at 1980 Westlake, has’ placed i Radicals, led by Frank Turco, city council @ mass of evidence of FOR BLOOD SUCKERS. [than three hours the argument | apartment house leases. HE cry of tenants for relief from unscrupulous specu: RADICALS FIRED. reasonable roofs over their heads. the wildest dreams of avarice. Our city councilmen must tral Labo: @ severe set- proposed li efieiea af the Mocnsy, defense cotumletet tam ter tal not. Beat of these deter the wiThis temit, however —- WILL interfere with conscienceless — most of without any material increase in Mayor and Council Are Given their helpless victims. rent restriction ordinance, and urge offices at 1930 Westlake, has placed such an unhealthy i t. SEATTLE HAS = §f,, Batis. tea by sional Spe . y OP"! greed and profiteering on the part waged hotly back and forth. When! prider seth a orate pee PHELAN WARNS — i if T lators must not fall on deaf ears. Much of the city’s Mayor Fitzgerald has ‘evinced the proper interest in com- AND CENSURED lend him all the necessary co-operation. r council here, the “Reds” sustained licensing ordinance. They will pick this flaw and bj The result was that the committee, the personnel of with any reasonable returns on money yee rene vel TENANTS FILE them Japanese, who have no re; for decency or their |} cos have doubled and trebled their rates. High Rent Data The Star proposed such a bill nearly two years ago. Had ing ite soveey ene Oe fae |before Mayor Fitzgerald and the — ROOM FOR LEGITIMATE INVESTMENTS, BUT NOT ff roca the conservatives. For more |Ereed and! profiteering on the part the vote was finally called for con-| HE $ ; servatives triumphed. | Stanners of M. Cramer, secretary, A resolution carried calling for a|the association has brought to the financial accounting from the|#ttention of the mayor and coun- _ Mooney Defense Committee. The|Cl! the further disagreeable fact ~ resolution declared “that a large that not all the speculators blamed part of the funds secured by the|fF extortionate rents are Jap- committee had been used to spread @"¢8¢, but, on the contrary, some radical propaganda” and “important|f them are whites, | COAL STRIKE TO “Mebby Trick” Is don our streets, they might in- Fetreat to the near- mat makes living these 7m ing; you nev MR when you go to bed | will wake up a Bol- flunkey of cap- Feactionaries, with , about the ma- tax tities and a horrid the law. ‘ Our today’s hoot SMS, shouting reds may * ous conservatives. tay be consid- Of the procession. eee HER thing we on yesterday : a thought ia & simple little slab ‘bacon, Otten we get reckless ‘Our substance in riot- butcher was at his ‘80 Was the bacon. Same same price and ev- y 2 Nn foot today are farmer just about 44 three months ‘being bought for as rough heavies, and @ AsO the top price was it was $22. dropped from 60 bork, or hams, or band, Monday afternoon. Walter P. Miller, her husband, is stih held at | the county jail pending investigation of the case. He insists that his wife fell or leaped overboard while his back was turned If symptoms -of poison are found in Mrs. Miller's stomach, an expert analysis by William H. Dehn, pro fessor of chemistry at the University of Washington, will be ordered, Dr, Tiffin declared, “There are several points I want to clear up,” said Dr. Tiffin Thurs day, “and I want to be sure before I make any report.” He would not say whether, in his opinion, the death of Mrs. Miller was caused by drowning. No analysis of the blood found on the launch will be made, Deputy Pfosecutor T. H. Patterson = an- nounced. There were no cuts on the body of Mrs. Miller from which she could have bled, he said. No bruises were found. Several theories are being follow. ed to explain the death of Mrs. Miller, Poison, shock, drowning and apoplexy are possible explanations. The apoplexy theory has been prac- tically abandoned, however, follow- ing an examination of the brain of Mrs. Miller. No abrasions of the brain, common in apoplexy cases, were found. Hinges on Examination Miller's freedom practica}ly hinges ‘on the examination of his dead wife, Deputy Prosecutor T. H. Patterson (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) sausage, or spare ribs, or lard dropped 50 per cent? They have not. The farmer who feeds the hogs today is feeding thern at a loss, with grain and mill feed prices as they are. The consumer still being gouged for about the old top prices, which glways gave the mid- diemen wide margins of profit, with hogs twice what they are now, A few facta ike that induce al- most as much meditation as even Ermentrude. fikin the producer and rob the consumer—a great game while it laste. “Did you hit him at att” } “What did he say to you at } the | office?” | *“f can't talk.” Clcoria reptiea. |Let Japanese Stay in Asia,’ | faintty. “Did you make any move toward your hip pocket to draw a gun?” “Where?” gasped the Italian. “At the office.” | “Not at all.* | “Did you make a move of any | kind, to draw a handkerchief, paper, | or anything pocket?” Cieoria did not answer this ques |tion. Hix breath was coming in He died at 3:10 at all from your A. Gankill, police stenographer, took his last statements in short hand by the bedside Shot Once Before Cicoria, shortly before his death was reported by hospital attendants to be holding his own. They ex- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TwOy @ Beau Brummel Had Nothing on Handsome Jack Judges, clerks and even depu- ties were shocked, appalled and amazed, when Sheriff John Stringer appeared at the county city building Thursday morn- ing wearing a black ‘Prince Al- bert. The suit was an elegant fit. The coattails hung demurely or flapped flippantly, depending on the speed with which Stringer moved. Two little cloth buttons occupied a place of prominence right where the tails merged with the coat proper, Sheriff Jack's explanation for the sudden blossoming out is that no sooner had he ordered two new suits than the tallors went on strike. He had to wear his only suit on the hunting trip he has just returned from, and that ruined it. Hence the Prince Albert. ‘The red tall hawk destroys nine times as much destructive vermin, by weight, as it does poultry or OF JAP THREAT Is Senator’s Attitude the Shantung amend- in a brief speech today. Leaders in both parties in the sen jate expected a vote on the Shan tung question today | This amendment would alter the treaty of peace. It would change the clause relating to Shantung 80 as to restore that province to China in ite entirety, instead of giving Japan the German mining and rail road concessions in it "I would, by any legitimate means “i an her armies,” I n declared she must expand, then her ex sion in Shantung by agreement with China is more acceptable to us than her aggression in America, both north and south | Asia Ample Field | “If we exclude Japan from Amer lica, as a wire national policy, then |we should not be unduly alarmed |about Shantung. But we need go no further than Shantung in the ac ceptance of this idea. What she holds in Asia is an ample field, The league of nations will prevent her forcible expansion in the future, and Japan is a member of the league of nations. For this purpose we must keep her there. | “If an uncompromising attitude on our part should alienate Great | Britain and France, and force them to stand for Japan, pursuant to their treaty obligations, it might Jeopardize the succegs of the league of nations itself and the treaty of peace with Germany.” Phelan warned of the danger of Japanese penetration in America and declared that by “surreptitious entry,” and a “phenomenal rate,” the best lands of California are falling into the hands of the Japanese subjects. “Altho not accompanied yet by the tramp of troops re | ¢ " dvance or turn! prensed optimiatic hopes for his re. |Check her Wapan's) adva birth | Answer of Jap Arrested following a that showed hix milk contained elty teat 15 per cent water, K, Imai, Jap anese dairyman, shook Wis head in bewtiderment. Then @ great light dawned up. on him. “Mebby,” play tricks. water in car “And you'll get about 30 days and $100 fine for it,” added C. F. Frasch, clty health offi who made the arrest Imai keeps a on a truck; farm Junetion, The farm ix equipped, other things, with a pump. he said, Boy, “somebody mebby, put small cow herd near Renton among | and the salvos of naval guns, | it fs mone the Jess a real con guest,” Phelan declared. This | expansion in the movement | whould be diverted into Asia, he | explained, While there appeared to be no chance for the Shantung amend |ment, republican leaders believe that a reservation expressing dissent |from the transfer Japan and reserving complete free- dom of action on the part of the | United States in any. controversy that may arise between China and Japan will pass by a majority vote. Johnson Amendment Following the Shantung vote, an hour’s reading of the treaty will bring the Johnson amendment before the senate, This proposal, which would give the United States six votes in the league assembly, will be rejected, administration leaders be- Heve, altho possibility of adopting a reservation is admitted, Such a reservation would declare that in any. controversy involving the United States, only one vote could be cast by the British empire. Administration leaders believe that no amendments to the treaty can be | parsed. Announcement in Paria that an Indefinite delay will result before the treaty ix put into effect, was not ;held to change the situation in the senate . Water in Milk? | of Shantung to} HIT CITY HARD | Supply Here Small; Bunkers Empty in Three Days information had been withheld from} the rank and file by the committee.” Carrying the fight on, conserva- tives pushed thru a second resolu- tion abolishing the committee, During the debate F, B. Clifford of the shipyard laborers and radical Already in the grip of a coal short-| candidate for president of the state age, and with a nation-wide strike of | federation of labor at the last con- |coal miners) called for November 1,|Yention, | Seattle was facing a serious situation | 7 | today | Some coal dealers reported they |had been + sable, as yet, to fill Sep: ‘tember orders. Others said they needed three times as much coal jthey have on hand to satisfy coal- less customers. | Schools, it is said, have a suf- ficient supply stored to keep build ings comfortably heated three months | | “In three days.” said W. B. Monks, jof Monks & Miller, one of the big- | Best coal concerns in the city, “if the | supply was suddenly cut off, there wouldn't be a chunk of coal left in jany yard or bunkers | Mines at Renton have been closed | down Those at Grand Ridge, the other local source of supply, jbeen tied up for several days, owing to an accident | Practically the only domestic coal from Utah and British Columbia. Monks said he had yesterday wired an order for a consignment of Utah coal, which brought a reply that no more orders would be accepted for at least 60 days. Output Snapped Up This apparently has left the city almost entirely dependent upon Bri ish Columbia for its supply. The output of Wellington coal, in Brit. ish Columbia, 4,000 tons per day, of which Seattle is getting approximately 2,000 tons a month by barges, Altho the miners’ strike will not affect British Columbia mines, where the workers and company are sald to have a three-year working agree- ment. Seattle's share of this output will likely be considerably reduced as soon as the strike is called, and other cities begin reaching out. Carbonado coal, now the only locally mined product on the market (CONTINUED: ON PAGE TWO) have | is said to be about! coming into the local market today is| | severely criticized Frank urco, radical leader. Argument on the abolition of the committee lasted until nearly mid- night, and the council adjourned without considering any other busi- ness. Latest Reports From America’s Three Sick Men WOODROW WILSON -- The president's general condition was unofficially said to be unchanged, The swollen gland which troubled him recently has been reduced. SAMUEL GOMPERS — At Gompers' home it was stated he rested during the night, He was anxious to get up, as he said he felt much better. ‘ COLONEL USE—Physicians reported House “doing very well." SENATE TO GREET KING WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—The sen- ate voted today to receive the king and queen of Belgium at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday, October 28. T need a first class serving maid. rll get one sure—J’m not afraid ; For Star want ads results will bring, Be it maid, or house, or anything, The above rhyme is en- tered in the Want Ad Rhyme _ Contest. The author, B. P. Castner, has the right idea about the pulling qualities of The Star Classified. A petition signed by ten tenants of the Madrona apartments, 30th aye, and Cherry st., prays for “re- Hef from the rent hogs” and de- jclares rents in those apartments have been raised just 100 per cent in less than a year, The petition shows that were raised from $5 to $10 on each apartment on October 1. On Octo- | ber 8 tenants were notified in writ- jing on stationery of Metcalf & | Metcalf, real estaters, and signed by F. G. Drake, landiord, that an- jother Increase would take effect | November 1, This increase will be even greater than that of October 1, in some instances $10, in others $15, on each apartment. | Tenants of the Victoria Terrace apartments, 1120 15th ave., formerly {controlled by a Japanese, were in- formed by a Mrs. McMahon about the middle of September that she |had acquired a four-year lease on the premises and rent would ‘ba raised from $35 to $45 a month. Mrs, McMahon took possession |the morning of October 1. Before jnoon that day the lease had been |disposed of to J. V. Sheldon, and Mrs. J. Steen took manager, | Notice to vacate has now. been | Served on all tenants, numbering 30, the alleged reason being that Mrs, | Steen considered them undesirable and the house was to undergo re pairs. Investigation is said to have shown, however, that four-room apartments are now renting for $60 a month, three-room apartments for $52.50, and two-room apartments for $35. The only repairs made consist- |ed of kalsomining or re-tinting rooms and halls and carpeting halls and (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) \Says He Ordered olonel on Trial war department expenditures com: mittee that on November 11, 1918, he against Col, EK, A. Deeds, for misman- agement of aircraft work, but that Secretary of War Baker then ordered )@ new investigation, & charge as. rents © WASHINGTON, Oct. 16—Samuel | |T. Ansell, formerly acting judge ad-~ vocate general, today told the house recommended a court-martial |