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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1914
Page
1
The piece notes judges facing removal rumors, highlighting Judge Speer’s potential fall. Chief Justice Walter Clark warns in New York that concentrated judicial power endangers the legal fraternity and cautions judges to heed scrutiny to avoid self-destruction.
Judge Richard Winsor, 74, leads the constructive socialist faction while Adam Rausch is the radical unknown. Each claims the other is an impostor as campaigns hinge on age stamina and civic vs unknown appeal. Socialists split could yield about 10,000 votes, enough to affect nominations. Tomorrow features a tense, divided contest with multiple candidates.
In Norfolk a letter campaign attacks H. C. Pigott as Catholic, urging readers to ignore religion in municipal matters. The incident follows the Monroe disaster with 85 survivors from 124 aboard, while 49 perished after Nantucket rammed the doomed liner in dense fog off the Delaware–Maryland–Virginia coast.
In Trinidad a Colorado militiaman assault on a peaceful protest proceeds under John Chase Adjutant General. Women are struck and a 15 year old girl is injured. Mother Jones remains jailed without trial as Chase asserts military authority over civilian rights.
At the United Mine Workers convention in Indianapolis Samuel Gompers clashed with Duncan McDonald of Illinois. McDonald branded Gompers a boozefighter while Gompers accused McDonald of slander. Charles H. Moyer also attacked Gompers during the heated exchange.
Today and tomorrow the registration books will be in the precincts from 9:00 to 9:30 a.m. A total of 32 372 voters have registered so far, with many more expected before February 10. The notices urge voters to register now at their homes.
In Los Angeles on January 30, Mary Small, aged 16, petitioned for divorce after marrying at 13. Judge Monroe refused the divorce, remarking you should have been spanked instead of married.
Patrolman F. H. Risley was stabbed in the back while dispersing three men near his home. He is hospitalized in critical condition after firing at two assailants and injuring none. Suspects Tony Sullivan 21 Joe Alfonso 27 and Tony Broski 21 were captured and held on an open charge.
Seven initiative measures filed by Miss Lucy Case of Seattle aim to abolish private employment agencies and the tax commission, establish a blue sky law and first aid provision, end pork barrel road funding with a 1 mill levy, abolish inspection and the bureau, create a new fish code, and seek to place these before voters next November. The proposals, backed by labor groups and the state grange, were sent to committee.
A controversial article argues creating a city county morgue to handle pauper deaths promptly. It proposes removing bodies to the morgue immediately, notifying relatives, or cremating if none are found, with costs shared by city and county and no morgue fees. It condemns private undertakers profiting from pauper deaths and calls for an ordinance to end such practices.
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