The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 31, 1919, Page 1

(MOTHER SHOOTS BABIES! | 10:61 pom, 19 tt Qn the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Eoctered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1) SEATTLE, WASH,, FRIDAY, The SeattleStar |2 it the Postoffices at Heattle, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 8, 1819 OCTOBER 51, 1919, *% Weather Forecast. CENTSs Final Edition Per Y. (l t and Saturday, puthert Mail 6.00 to $9.00 Tonigh' gentle SS anwersn AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH [Eel in State EB is one highway is town to travel whieh tries out the juices of a Christian character like a hot skil- Wet, it is the stretch of Lakeside avenue, alongside Lake Union, these slippery days. No highway has more traffic, and it i# one of the narrowest streets In the city, Just now they fe starting to pave 20 feet or #0 Mere, and the piles of sand, gravel, plank, cement and equipment jut out here and there to add hazard to the course, A small boy, leading a cow for three blocks along this avenue, will hold up several dozen autos. A sravel truck, dumping its load, ‘And then, several times a day a wreck is spilled on the highway, and for hours the traffic boils and eddies and surges around this ob- struction. Somebody lost two wheels off a light roadster on the avenue yes- terday morning, the wreck was left crosswise of the narrow roadway, autos. waited to get a chance to dodge around. Seattle could use a traffic engi- Neer who would see to it that ar- teries like this were kept improved &@ bit ahead of the public need. A month blockade of thousands of freight, express, passenger and delivery cars on such a highway as this cost the city more than the pavement. . ND if there was a traffic engineer, he would watch some of these downtown streets, and see that they were re- Paired as soon as they show signs of wear, instead of waiting until the entire surface is ruined before an improvement is started. Union street right now is being Neglected, and is being torn to pieces by the yard every day. A few loose brick are being stuck back into place, but they are Kicked out faster than they are re- A repair gang, with some con- crete, some new brick and a good roughneck boss, would save this street; save a lot of expense for auto and truck owners, and impose but a slight burden on the city funds. Next to putting a pavement down right, there is nothing so im- portant as keeping it up. Most of the billions this country has spent for highways and streets have been wasted; not s0 much thru the graft of the paving trust and the greed of the political con- tractor as thru the desire to in- stall a cheap pavement in the first place, and the gross neglect of these improvements, once they are made, LABOR SESSION TO END TONIGHT Resolutions condemning the open | shop and all who attempt to eral tute it were passed at the spec conference called bh the fate Federation of Labor in the Labor Temple Friday. Means to reduce high living cost, steps urging na- tionalization of hasic | industries, and action to secure closér harmony between labor units in the state were discussed at length. Resolu- tions along these lines were passed, ‘The conference was scheduled to adjourn Frigay night. FIRE DAMAGE $2,700 Fire damage resulting from a Wiaze in the Fremont Auto and Re- pair shop early Thursday was est! mated Friday at $2700 by Fire Mar- shal Harry W. Brighurst. "20 Mines to Close Final orders commanding the 6,000 com miners of the state of Washing: ton to strike at midnight were tasued | from state headquarters of the pUnited Mine Workers of America, District 10, here Friday morning. Production thus will cease in the 70 mines of the state, and within a week, it was forecasted by Ernest Newsham, secretary of District 10, the supply of coal in the state will [be exhausted. All loca! unions, Newsham said, had been notified that they must par- ticipate in the strike to the last) member, with these exceptions: Pumpmen employed in keeping the mines clear of water, engineers and }llkely, Newsham said, that ] | Dominion government would forbid | shipment of Canadian coal here to Felieve the shortage certain to be caused bythe strike. “The people of Canada are them- selves clamoring for coal,” said Newsham, “Even if we can draw on | the output of Vancouver island mines it will be a mere drop in the |the executives here designa' bucket.” This is the first time in this dis. trict the miners and mine operators have fniled to settle their grievances by negotiations, Newsham said.) There is no complaint against the operators in this district, he said, ex- | cept for the present break, which is laid to the operators’ refusal to | negotiate as previously. Business relations heretofore, he said, have been “very cordial”, Newsham outlined the demands of the miners as follows: | A xix-hour day, a 60 per cent ad- vance ig wages and a five-day week Miners are now averaging 9 hours and 45 minutes from the time they enter the mine till they come out, | | Newsham said, and the six+our basis | would make the day practically eight hours. Miners’ wages, he pointed out, are now $5.89 a day for highly skilled men entrusted with the most danger- out and difficult work. Highly skill- | ed men in the city are getting, on the average, $8 a day and are de- manding $10, and the miners feel en. titled to equal pay. The five-day week, he said, would| not interfere with production, be-| cause the mines of the country do| not average more than four days’ operation a week now. Some mines, | he said, operate only one day a week, | while others operate six. The miners desire to make operation uniform, he said. Neither would the short} work day interfere with 75 per cent| of the miners in the United States, who, he said, are working on a tonnage basis and are paid only for what they dig. Thousands of Seattle homes, ac- cording to dealers, are pretty well | supplied with coal and will be able| to withstand a long siege. | The Northern Pacific is sald to |have a 60 days’ supply of coal on| | hand, the Great Northern a 40 days' | | eupply. The latter road obtains much | | of its coal from Canada, which is | undisturbed by the strike. FIND BODY OF MAN IN LAKE 80-Year-Old Rancher Victim | of Drowning | The body of A. J. Fagenberg, aged | 40, who disappeared from his ranch at Houghton, across Lake Washing-| | ton, was found in Lake Washington, across from Madison park, Friday afternoon, County bloodhounds had been at tempting to trace Fagenberg since Wednesday, F. A, Audley, 1644 15th lave, N., and Walker Fagenberg, son of the aged man, located the body, | carefully guarded as during the war. | ministration’s ~ TROOPS ON WAY TO FUEL FIELDS ‘The Mine Workers’ Chiefs Defy Court) ssi Order Restraining Strike; rag Be: in Transit Will Be Seized ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio, Oct. 31.—The coal strike is under way in Eastern Ohio. Early today 1,300 miners laid |down their tools in various mines thruout this section. | Union workers in the remainder of the section were reported | places were raided by the officers. steadily joining the list of idje, and before 4 p. m., which as the “zero hour,” all mines | were expected to be closed down. Union leaders claimed 15,000 men would be oyt before. night. SALT LAKE Pe gh oe Oct. be Fstge «J One thousand coal Tents and portable houses have been sent from the East, so that when the miners are ejected from mine property they can be housed. Bas ERR a P HeRC RK | WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Fuel Administrator Garfield today issued an order instructing the director of railroads |to take all coal in transit and divert it according to a pri- ority list. This function was formerly exercised by the} fuel administration. | HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Oct. 31.—Nearly 1,000 First di- vision veterans from Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky., were due | jin Huntington this afternoon for duty in the West Virginia a aay. coal fields during the miners’ strike, local officials said to- day. Troops are coming on two special trains, the first due | here at 2 p.'m. | WASHINGTON, Oct. 31— (United Press.)}—Approach of the zero hour in the threatened strike of 500,000 coal miners —midnight tonight—found the government secretly moving troops to strategic points in the affected area, while steps were taken to enjoin union leaders from directing the proposed walkout. The troop movements BY J. L. O'SULLIVAN (United Press Staff Correspondent.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 31, | ~The strike of bituminous coal miners of the nation will start | a¢ midnight tonight, in defiance | of a restraining order insued by | Judge A. B. Anderson in United | States district court today, | the United Mine Workers of Amer-| |tea, declared: “This instrument will not avert |the strike of bituminous mine work ers, and will not nettle the strike | after it occurs, The injunction only complicates to a further extent the problems involved in adjustment of | the controversy.” | Lewis declared he regarded tee | ance of this order as the most “sweeping abrogation of the rights! sy of citizens, granted under the consti- President Wilson issued an eX-| tution, and defined by atatutory law, | ecutive order re-establishing max! /tnat has ever been issued by any mum prices for coal as they existed | rederal court.” when the fuel administration coased| ai, statement of the head of the to function. This order was the ad-| . mine workers’ union was issued half first direct act in| MM afloe he n'a ed b carrying out its policy of protecting |1)) un ataten deputy marshale the public in the strike. The im. Lew! pod gh te Deron va with Mediate effect of the presidential | 4 “Ct ttive board, announced hel | order will be in forcing a reduction would make an oral etatenent. ie [1s coat arian f= seand gestions Of the | dictated it slowly, and with great 7 nd deliberation, ae restores the follow-| ‘phe order restrains union officials | ‘ fron “Fixing tho prices of bituminous!” Gricring the strike. one Sere Siete ee ee, Issuing instructions to union mem- | Fixing or regulating commissions | Hers to continue the atrike. jof persons or agencies performing | paying strike benefits from union the functions of middlemen dealing | py ).qs in bituminous and lignite coal, ine, caida ae. toed as ako “Fixing or regulating gross mar-| quest of Special Assistant United |gins or prices of wholesale and retall| statey Attorney General A. B, Ames. dealers in bituminous and lgnite|j; way based on two wartime acts coal.” of congress, Appended to the president's state | Irirst—The Lever act, which pre- ment was a list of maximum coal| vents restriction of the supply of prices, f. 0. b. cars at the mines. food or fuel during the war. Wilson's Orders Second—The act under which the The text of the executive order! United States government took over was as follows: control of the railroads. “Whereas, The United States fuel It was also based on the broad (CONTINU ed ON PAGE TWO) (CONTINU ep ON | AGE TWO) were an Government officials believed that nothing can stop thousands of miners from quitting work at 12:01 m, tomorrow and every precau tion was being taken to prevent the mining regions from being the scenes jot civil strife Maximum Prices | Rey, | utilities, |report to Mayor Fitzgerald and the city council of the earnings of the| John L. Lowls, acting prosident of |*%) Sheriff's Men Smash Up Game Gambling resorts at 605% Jackson st. 655% King at. and six other Those who conducted the raid includ- ed Deputy Sheriffs J.C. Connor, C. HH. Beebe, C. H. Jarrett, C. H. Kear: Ata Leo, N. L. Leveall and Stewart Campbell. ENT CARFARE |Must Provide W Way to Meet Paving Costs Uniess the city council |nictpal street. rallway for paving costs entimated at $40,000 a month, the city will tbe compelted to in- augurate @ 6-cent fare or #0 rogu- late jitney bos traffic so as to bring the ¢ity a revenue of $1,000 This the gist of a statement made Friday by Thomas F. Mur- phing, superintendent of public which accompanted his municipal railway for the six months ended September 30. According to Murphine’s report, the revenue of the municipal rall- | way from all sources for ‘the last six months was $2,703,824.29, an in- crease of $276,279.14 over the cor- responding period for the previous} The total operating expenses are shown to be $2,211,736.85, as com- pared with a total of $1,629,509.16 for the in 1918, The net revenue for the Inet six months from the municipal raflway is shown to be $21,610.11, after de- ducting $391,729.18 interest on out- standing utility bonds, damage claims, industrial insurance and other items. POLITE BANDIT GETS NO CASH Leaves Office After At- tempting Holdup “Throw up your hands, and throw them up quick!" was the order snarled at Harry Kroutz, in the of fice of the Washington Loan Trust company, 111 Stewart st., Fri |day noon by a masked bandit who brandished a heavy revolver. Kroutz, who is president of the loan company, answ dd that he did not have any money andthat there | was none in the office. The trustful burglar walked out of the door and disappeared, ‘ FREE MUSIC RECITAL Free to the public, an organ re- cital will be given by Judson W. Mather, assisted by Hamilton Nason, tenor, at 4 p. m, Sunday in Plymouth Congregational church. MAYOR C.B,FITZGERALD ADMITS HE DESERVED ARREST |SO DO OTHER PROMINENT MEN—PLAYED HALLOWEEN PRANKS “The Livingston family had a gate. The day before Halloween Dave went out and wired it fast to the fence. We decided this was un- Mayor Cecil B, Fitzgerald made the startling admission Friday that jat one time in his career he should |have been arrested for a Halloween How he happened to drown has not been determined. prank he played in Ballard. “De gang,” said the mayor, “In- cluded Dr, David Livingston, form: erly head doctor for the Northern Pacific, who was then a kid lke the rest of us, sportemantike and after Dave had gone home Halloween night the rest of us swiped a pair of nippers from a hardware store and cut the gate loone. “We bung it from the telephone , Ballard’s main street ‘Living: wires over after putting @ sign on it, ston’s Gate.’ “And the next day the Livingstons, not knowing we were the prank: $2.50 to get the . There's a reward of $1,000 stil) (CONT'D ON PAGE EIGHTEBN) recedes | |from ita proponal to assess the mu- | corresponding six months | and | *|nounced at noon, daughter, Betty, age Ss the Providence hospital. Both were the stomach. tions were ‘wounded in |performed this afternoon and physicians stated that the {little girl has small chance for recovery. The mother may recover. word of the operation. After the tragedy, The stricken father waited at the hospital for Mrs. Graham struggled to a phone BOY DEAD; WOMAI AND GIRL WOUNDE Obsessed with a passion to end her earthly exterminate herself and children, Me Wind Winifred M. ¢ ham, 24, shot her little boy, |instantly; fired two bullets into the body of her | 4, and then turned the lat her home, 1083°T Thistle st., shortly before 10 The little girl and the mother were taken|* 7 Billie, age 6, who died on ¥: pe 1 Tragic Vi of ‘Shootir jand called up her husband, Neil B. Graham, 25, salesman} jat the Florsheim shoe store, 915 Second ave. | Graham hurried home and found | jhis wife sitting by the bedside of | |her bey. The mother had placed him in his bed and carried the lit- |e girl to the bedroom. “How Cold He Is!" | With her hand on the forehead of | her dead boy the mother was moan- jing “Oh, how cold he is!’ the father and home Seeing her husband she cried, “My boy is gone!’ and then col- lapsed in Graham's arms. Billie was shot three times—once [thru the heart Bloodstains in the kitchen re- yenled that the shooting had oc- urred there. ‘The mother had, used a 22-calibre revolver. ‘The police were unable to get a |statement from the mother, who |lapsed into unconsciousness, | “Lost Her Love” But they found a letter, addressed \to the husband, which revealed that Mra. Graham was suffering from bitter sorrow end remorse. eighbors were — grief-stricken when they learned of the tragedy. Graham was stun | The home was a neat, attractive | Uttle place. Colored pictures, which children delight in, were mounted in| the attractive bedroom | Billie was a bright, loveable little | fellow and his sister was sweet and loved by the whole neighborhood. — | He played almost every morning |with the big, good-natured police-| |man on the beat. Suffered Headaches | Women who knew Mrs. Graham) | recalled that she has been suffering | |from intense headaches and that re- | jcent letters from her parents in| | Missoula, Mont., told of troubles they were suffering, | The neighborhood believes that Mrs. Graham became temporarily in- sane, | Yet the farewell note, which was retained by Captain of Detectives; Charles Tennant, was the basis of the police assumption that the |shooting was premeditated. Little Betty was unconsctous| when the father arrived. With her mother, *she was taken fn an ambu- lance to Providence hospital. “They are both in dangerous con- dition,” medical attendants § an- ‘The two tots had evidently been playing before thelr mother opened fire, Both were dressed in blue jdenim coveralls, In her letter she says she must take Billy with her, because other- wise he would be too lonely, and that Betty must also go with her because her pretty face will some day cause her sorrow. when | police entered the | “T've shot the children,” she sobbed. “1 Must Take My Babies,”’ Wrote Mother The following is the letter written by Mrs, Graham to her husband, in which she attempts to explain the motive for the shooting of her two babies and herself today: My Dear Beloved | Neil: I can't go on like this, the years ahead of me look awful. I am slipping out of your life, just for your own good. It is almost five years since I lost your love, tho. You have tried to make up to me those three awful years. “I can't seem to forget. “Give my love to your folks and to mine. Ask them to for- give me. Oh, my poor mother and father, They have been so brave, “Take the little black book (Science and Health) and learn what life really is. If I had read mine more, I would not be doing this awful thing. “I punished Billy. His poor little bedy is all red. I will burn the whip before we go on our journey. I must take my babies with me. Billy would be lonesome without me, and Betty's pretty face would only mean sorrow to her, like mine did. “Give Dot any little thing she might want. Send Betty's new coat to Paul's little girl and give Billy's coat to Pliny Finch, “And, darling boy, whatever you want of mine is yours. I must go now, for the task ahead of me is hard. The children are asking me why I am crying so hard. Bless them, they will never know, “Good-bye, good-bye, my darl- i w. “Oh, the house seems so still.” Youngsters Get an Early Start for Halloween Several Seattle youngsters fooled the police and advanced Halloween a night. Several reports were received Fri- day at the station from indignant citizens concerning the pranks of} gangs of small boys thruout the city Motorcycle Officer N, P, Anderson, responding to & call from the con ductors of the Mercer st. carling, COLLEGERS “PEE-RADE” broke up a gang of lads who were Friday night is the night of the famous “Nightshirt Pee-rade” of the University of Washington football rooters. Husky undergraduates will serpen- tine down Second ave. chicly attired Mi Py pulling the trolleys from the cars. Guests at the Imperial apartments, Mth and E. Pike st, complained of the soaping of windows, ‘The police are preparing for a busy night Friday, The upper photograph Winifred Graham, who 6-year-old boy, Bille, and her-baby daughter, Betty, tried to end her own " The middie picture shows the lower picture is Betty, Providence hospital with her me