CLAIM POWER COMPANY PAID TO HAVE
SALK OF ITS RAILWAY LINES PUT OVER
tHRU COUNCIL; OTHER CHARGES FILED
Councilman Bolton Paid One Thousand Dollars
By President of Company to Aid Sale;
Whiting Tried Break Driver’s Union.
SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 22.—Developments before the city
council committee investigating the conditions under the Brown
mayoralty included: Allegations that Harry Bolton, running for
city councilman, was paid one thousand dollars by Robert T. Whit
ing, a representative of the Puget Sound Light & Power company,
as a compensation for using his influence in bringing about the re
cent street railway deal, in which the City of Seattle purchased the
street car system from the Puget Sound Light & Power company.
This money, it was stated came from A. W. Leonard, president of
the company.
Second: Testimony was introduced that Whiting, working for
the PurrT Sound company, joined the jitny driver’s union for the
sole purpose of wrecking the organization when its busses became
a serious factor in competition with the company’s transportation
system. It was stated that Whiting worked several months in his
efforts to break up the union, and that he was receiving a large sal
ary from the P. S. L. & T. Co. while engaged in this work.
Third: The declaration was made * that labor leaders in the
city were paid large sums to help put the deal through while it
wa-i pending in the city council.
Leonard, superintendent of the company, speaking of the charges
r: i *e that he paid Bolton the thousand to help turn the deal said,
“I have absolutely no knowledge of any financial transaction taking
plaet between Whiting and Bolton.” Leonard declared “so far
as his company is concerned not a single dollar has ever been given
to any member of the city council before or after the sale of the
street railway.”
The investigation of Seattle’s mayor and police chief arose out
of the trouble arising when Mrs. Brandis assumed the mayoralty,
at the time Brown went east to the Democratic convention. At that
time-- cliaiges ot coiiuption were made by her and all bootlegging
joints and gambling dens closed. Chief of Police Severyns was
dismissed from the force and also several police. After Brown’s
return from the East, Severyns was reinstated, and vice and cor
ruption continued unchecked.
SEATTLE, Oct. 22.—The money
which Seattle would get back from
its $15,000,000 purchase of the city’s
street car lines, if the contracts were
rescinded by court action, should be
split three ways among those who
have put all their efforts and worked
up the present case, special counsel,
fighting the municipality’s case and
the city’s mayor, Edwin J. Brown,
told^ Corporation Counsel T. J. L.
Kennedy, the latter testified this
morning before the city council’s de
partment of the efficiency committee
selected to hear the evidence.
Kennedy’s testimony charging also
that Mayor Brown wanted his son in
charge of the city’s court action, and
that the councilmen had threatened
to run the Puget Sound Power &
Light company out of business if it
refused to sell the railway lines and
that booze parties were given by E.
B. Minich, the mayor’s secret inves
tigator, with the mayor’s knowledge.
Thi$ latter assertion came from the
cofWiuding statements of Minich him
self.
SEATTLE, Oc.t 23.—Testifying be
fore the City Council committee,
which is probing into the adminis
tration, Mayor Browrn this afternoon
defended his appointment of T. H.
Bolton as civil service commissioner
of Seattle, and denied that the Stone
<fc Webster influence had anything to
which had failed because his inves
tigator, E. B. Minich, wTas unable to
produce the final evidence needed.
The mayor hotly resented the quer
ies intimating that Stone & Webster,
that the latter having sold the lines
declared railway probe;
BARTLEY H. HOWARD
Candidate on the Republican Ticket for
TERRITORIAL SENATOR
Capable, Conscientious and
a thorough Alaskan
He Solicits Your Vote
November 4th.
line to the city, were seeking thru
him to exercise the measure which
gave the city of Seattle control of
the city lighting department and its
entire equipment.'
SEATTLE, Oct. 23.—Continuing the
testimony before the city council
committee today, Mayor Edwin J.
Brown of Seattle denied that he had
sought wealth out of the suit to
break the Street Railway purchase.
Referring to the contract, Mayor
said that “I told Minich, my secre
tary in' the matter and others that I
didn’t want a dollar out of this street
car deal. I wrant you to know that
there is enough in my estate to keep
my family if I never make another
dollar. I had sagacity enough to
know that if we were successful in
exposing this fraud, I could have the
governorship or the senatorship la
ter.”
He also declared that discord and
Islandei is besmirching the name of
the Spirit City. The mayor issued
a formal statement in wdiich he would
call on a group of thirty-two repre
sentative citizen to step in and take
the facts as they find them and apply
the remedy, be it the rod or the re
call.
GOVERNMENT OPENS CASE
AGAINST OIL COMPANIES
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24.—Govern
ment counsel today opened the c^e
against the Pan-American Petroleum
Company, a Doheny organization, for
the cancellation of the oil leases held
by the company in the Elks Hill na
val reserve.
M’ADOO UNABLE TO
TAKE STUMP FOR
THE DEMOCRATS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 20.—
William G. McAdoo, today noti'ied
Senator Swanson, chairman of the
speakers’ bureau of the Democratic
National committee that he would be
unable to undertake a speech-making
campaign in behalf of the Davis and
B. > an ticket due to his health. La his
leHer McAdoo charged that Comidge
has no sympathy with common peo
ple in American, and that where iln y
are concerned he is inarticulate, be
cause his cause is not their cause.”
HIGHWAY BOARD
SEEKS FEDERAL
AID FOR ROADS
At a meeting of the Territoi’ial
Highway Commission, held yesterday
in the office of Governor Scott C. Bone
who is chairman, the Commission went
unanimously on record as favoring
the extension of the Federal Highway
Act to Alaska, says a recent issue of
the June^ja Empire.
A resoluton to this effect was adopt
ed and will be forwarded to Washing
ton for presentation to Congress at
the December session.
MONTGOMERY WARD AND CO.
TO HAVE EASTERN BRANCH
CHICAGO, Oct. 22.—Montgomery
Ward and Company, the mail order
house with headquarters in Chicago,
and branches at Kansas City, Mo.,
St. Paul, Portland, Ore., Oakland,
Cala., and Fort Worth, Tex., has de
cided to invade the East, and is
offering bonds to the amount of
$1,500,000 for the establishment of a
branch at Baltimore.
SILVER IS 70 CENTS
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—Silver has
been canned to a new high mark for
the year at 70 cents an ounce. Bul
lion dealers give a heavy demand
from China as the chief factor in
the rise.
SHENANDOAH BUCKS
HEAVY WIND AND RAIN
STORM ON WAY SOUTH
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21.—Bat
tling through fog, rain and wind blow
ing sixty miles an hour, and for a
while reducing her speed to ten miles
an hour, the Shenandoah, enroute from
Seattle to Lakehurst, New Jersey via
-San Diego, passed over San Francis
co at three yesterday afternoon.
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 21.—The Shenan
doah arrived at six this morning, stand
ing out to sea awaiting the lifting of
the fog before coming into the field.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
CONSIDER STATUS
TURKISH FRONTIER
GENEVA, Oct. 21.—The president
of the council of the League of Na
tions has informed Sir Eric Drum
mond, the League’s secretary gen
eral, that he will convoke an extraor
dinary session of the council to ad
just the differences between Britain
and Turkey regarding interpretation
of hte status quo of the frontier be
tween Turkey and Irak.
COOLIDGE LAUDS LUTHERANS
CHICAGO, Oct. 22.—Coolidge in a
greeting read here today, lauded the
contributions of Lutheians to the de
velopment of the Original Colonies of
this country and to the struggle for
American independence.
ALASKAN SHOOTS WOMAN
AND THEN KILLS HIMSELF
SEATTLE, Oct. 21.—Sam Erickson,
an Alaskan shot and killed an uniden
tified woman and then killed himself
in one of the hotels here this morning.
They had been living together, the
landlord of the place stated. Erickson
had lived for a year at the hotel on
a stake he obtained in Alaska. He
was thirty-five years old.
DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN
CLAIMS DEFICIT $150,000
IN CAMPAIGN FUNDS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 22.—
W. Shaver, chairman of the Democra
tic National Committee and James
W. Gerard, treasurer, of the same
organization, testified before the Bo
rah committee investigating campaign
funds, that while the committee had
fixed th esum, $750,000 as that need
ed to finance the coming campaign
of Davis, they now had a deficit of
$150,000.
COOLIDGE TALKS ON
OBSERVANCE NAVAL
DAY, OCTOBER 28TH
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 20.—In
a letter to Marlon Eppley, National
chairman of Navy Day, to be observ
ed October 28, President Coolidge
emphasized the following points.
1. The Navy must be as strong as
the disarmament treaties will allow
it to be.
2. The Navy has made important
contributions to peace and in the
days that are ahead must further ex
tend its activities in the interest of
the civilian population which pays
for its upkeep in taxes.
3. Promise of peace activities jus
tifies the people in making increased
appropriations sufficient for mainten
ance of the navy at its full strength
during both peace and war.
ARGENTINE FLYER NOW
READY CROSS PACIFIC
TOKIO, Oct. 20.—Lieut. Zanni, the
Argentine flyer, is chartering steam
ers to j>rotect his proposed route
across the Pacific to the Aleutian isl
ands. He will take the same route
the American flyers mappeJfcmt, and
will have vessels go ahead With sup
plies to establish bases.
SAILOR GIVEN 15 YEARS
FOR MURDER OF GIRL
TACOMA, Oct. 20.—Declaring him
a disgrace to the United States Navy,
C. W. Nichols, a sailor on the bat
tleship Arizona* w'as sentenced to 15
years in the penitentiary by Judge
Cushman. Nichols pleaded guilty to
killing Minnie Flem, a young girl
whose neck was broken by a blow
from the man’s fist.
OFFICE ALIEN PROPERTY
HOLDER BEEN ABOLISHED
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 20.—
President Coolidge today directed
that the office of alien property cus
todian, which was formed during the
wrar by orders of President Wilson,
be placed in charge of Wm. W. Wil
son, Seewell W. Abbott, the pres
ent general manager and the assist
ant general council respectively of
the bureau, which will be abolished.
JOHN DAVIS ATTACKS
SPEECH OF COOLIDGE
--
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 21 —
; John W. Davis, presidential nominee
hen the Democratic ticket in a speech
i in this city last night, in referring to
j the stateent made recently by Pres
i ident Coolidge that under the terms
j of the Washington disarmament con
i ference “we are now entitled to a
! navy equal to that of any other na
i tion,’ ’has asked, “when in the name
| of Great Jehovah and continental con
j gress did we have an agreement in
! order to maintain a navy equal in
strength with other powers?”
With biting sarcasm, he contin
ued, “I do the President justice to
believe that he did not know the
import of what he w?as saying. Sure
ly the United States does not need
an agreement with other nations to
maintain an adequate national de
fense.”
ERICKSON’S VICTIM
IDENTIFIED; LEAVES
3-YEAR-OLD CHILD
SEATTLE, Wn., Oct. 22—Sam
Erickson’s victim was identified to
day as Madeline Running, aged 22.
She was the divorced wife of John
Mark, her separation having been
?! anted here one nr. r.*’> ago. The
woman leaves a child three years of
age.
DAWES PLAN CAL SING MUCH
GOOD WILL IN EUROPE
NEW YORK, Occ. 22.—“Although
the Dawes reparation plan has been in
operation but a shir, time, there is
more hope, more go»1 will, aye, and
| more charity abroa.; in Europe thau
there has been for til 2 past ten years
v last, if not almost f.rcrv time im
memorial,” Sir Esme Howard, Brit
ish Ambassador to the United States,
declaied in an addres.-; here today.
NEW LIQUOR CHASERS
WILL BE READY SOON
SEATTLE, Oct. 22.—By December
15 more than thirty new liquor chas
ers being built at the Puget Sound
naval station at Bremerton and in
Seattle are to be assigned to pa’rol
work in Pacific Northwest waters, it
was learned here today.
Twenty of the new craft are to pre
vent liquor running and smuggling on
Puget Sound, while seven others are
to patrol Oregon waters. Two of the
chasers are to operate out of Coos
bay with one out of Astoria.
TWENTYFiVE ARE KILLED
IN PICTURE STAMPEDE
ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 20.—Twenty
five persons were killed and 18 in jur
ed in a stampede in a motion picture
house in this city last night. A false
alarm of fire was raised by pickpock
ets and the audience stampeded.
SKIRTS ARE TO BE SHORTER
IN NEW WINTER STYLES
SEATTLE, Oct. 20—“Yes, skirts
will be short, oh, extremely short,”
confided Miss Grave Davies, associate
editor of Harper’s Bazar, who has
been chatting fashions this week with
leaders in Seattle shopdom.
“And hair?. Well, I’m letting mine
grow. It’s two inches longer now
than it should be, but I want it long
enough to roll linden for our big show
in January.” She touched white fin
gers to her black boobed locks.
Miss Davies makes an annual tour
of the United States in the interests
of good fashions as favored by Har
per’s Bazar.
STUDENT BODY OF
CLEMSON COLLEGE
GOES ON STRIKE
SPARTANSBURG, S. C„ Oct. 20.—
The entire student body of the Clem
son college struck yesterday as a
protest against the food conditions
at the college and also against the
unfair treatment of Hollohan, a
football player, whom they said was
suspended recently.
ALL WHO DRINK
ARE NOT DRUNK
SPRINGFIELD, N. S., Philip Lan
dry, jailed for drunkenness, com
plained that snakes were bothering
him during the night, and said he
had killed one. The police told
him that if he would sober up the
snakes would disappear, but he in
sisted on a search. The officers
hunted and found twelve large rep
tiles under the wooden floor.
CAUSE OF DAVIS AND
BRYAN BY NO MEANS
LOST SAYS DANIELS
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21.—Declar
ing that the result of the presidential
election will pivot on the western
states and that the cause of Davis and
Bryan is by no means lost, Josephus
Daniels arrived in Los Angeles to tes
tify in the federal suit to cancel the
Elk Hills oil leases held by Doheny
interests.
BEFUNCT BANK WILL
COME THROUGH WITH
ANOTHER PAYMENT
SEATTLE, Wn., Oct. 21.—Deposi
tors of the Defunct Scandinavial-Am
erican Bank which went a begging
two years ago, will soon get another
hundred thousand dollars thruogh the
sale of the Railway Exchange build
ing here to a New York capital
ist for half a million dollars, the de
ficient institution having an equity
on the property.
SHENANDOAH MOORED
AFTER STRENUOUS
TRIP ALONG COAST
SAN DIEGO, Cala., Oct. 22.—'The
giant dirigible, Shenandoah, is now
safely tied at her mooring mast in
the field here, after her trip to Camp
Lewis and return. The trip is con
sidered one of the hardest the Shen
andoah has ever experienced, be
cause of the fact that both going and
returning she was most of the time
in the teeth of heavy gales and was
forced to fight strong, contrary head
winds that reduced her speed to ten
miles per hour at times. Adding to
the discomforts of the crew of t$e
Shenandoah were the heavy rains
and fogs encountered all the way
north. At Camp Lewis she was forc
ed to spend the better part of the
day in the air awaiting the rising of
fogs which mantled the cap. On her
return to San Diego the Shenandoah
was blown miles out of her course,
and planes searching for her, failed
to find a trace of the giant airship.
Departs for East Today
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 22.—The Shen
andoah resumed her flight from.Camp
Lewis to Lakehurst, N. J. today, via
Fore Worth.
AMERICAN IS MURDERED
BY MEXICAN; 1 ARREST
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Consul
Stewart of Toma, Mexico, report
that William B. Massey, of Mus
kogee, Oklahoma, has been mur
dered. One Mexican has been ar
rested.
COLD STORAGE PLANT
AT PETERSBURG IS
NOW BEING PLANNED
With its municipal power plant in
the last stages of um.iuuuiuii, fne
town of Petersburg is launching a cold
storage project, according to B. Green,
local merchandise broker of Juneau,
who spent several days there recently.
The cold storage project, which has
not been definitely formulated at this
stage, is at present being fostered by
public subscription. After a cam
paign of but a few days, $47,000 had
been pledged for it and it was expect
ed that this aount would be mater
ially increased before the drive ended.
No limit has been placed on the sum
to be raised nor have any definite
plans for construction and operation
been adopted.
The contractors building the muni
cipal power plant have made fine
headway. Power will be delivered to
the town on its own lines by the be
ginning of the month.
ALLIED WARSHIPS CARRY
REFUGEES FROM CANTON
CANTON, Oct. 20—While Chinese
troops continue robbing and looting
citizens here today, allied naval ves
sels are making extra trips to carry
persons fleeing from Canton to Hong
Kong. The situation in Canton is
pitiful, the citizenry being between
the rebel forces on the one side
and the government forces on the
other, both pillaging shops and rob
bing the people of their scanty pos
sessions.
HENRY P. DAVIDSON
WEDS ANNE STILLMAN
PLEASANT VALLEY, N. Y„ Oct.
20.—Henry P. Davidson, son of the
late international banker, was mar
ried here yesterday to Anne, daugh
ter of James Stillman.
“MA” FERGUSON WILL
HAVE NAME ON BALLOT
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 20.—The in
junction to prohibit the name of Mrs.
Ferguson, Democratic candidate for
governor, from going on the Texas
ballots, was denied by the Texas su
preme court today. In its decision
the court pointed out that Mrs. Fer
guson was duly nominated in the
Texas primaries and to deny her the
right to enter the November elec
tions would be wrong and defeat the
intent of the ballot. Members of the
Ku Klux Klan had secured an in
junction to prevent her name going
on the November ballots, stating that
inasmuch as her husband had been
denied the ri^ht to again hold office
in Texas the same decision would ap
ply to the wife. The court pointed
out that the twain were one only in
| the bonds of wedlock, and under the
law could hold property separately,
| therefore could hold office separately.
CASUALTY LIST GROWS
AS RESULT EXPLOSION
NORFOLK, Oct. 22—The casualty
list of the scout cruiser Trenton dis
aster rose today to six dead, two dan
gerously- in grave condition, and 12
seriously injured. <♦.
NORFOLK, Oct. 22.—Four more
names last night and today were add
ed to the list of dead from the explo
sion aboard the Scout Cruiser Trenton,
brings the total dead to twelve.
EXTENSIVE NEW SEAMS
OF COAL IN YORKSHIRE
LONDON, Oct. 22.—Discovery of
great new coalfields in southeast
Yorkshire is announced.
! Sinkings at Moor End, Thorne,
seven miles from Goole, have re
sulted in the striking of a rich seam,
which, it is estimated, will yield
about 23,000,000,000 tons of coal, or
enough to meet England’s need for
the next 400 years.
U. S. AND CANADA ~ 1
PROTECT HALIBUT
WASHINGTON, D. C., 0 \ 22.—
Exchange of ratifications bet en the
United States and Canada at their
convention to protect the halibut
fishing in the Noi h Pacific ocean,
took place here today.
KETCHIKAN RES ENT INJURED
IN AN AUTOMC Uii_E ACCIDENT
SEATTLE, Wn., Oct. 22.—George
A. Brown, former resident of Ketch
ikan and well known throughout the
territory, was seriously injured in an
automobile accident yesterday. His
condition is said to be serious with
little hope held for recovery.