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HOME EDITION VOL. IX. NO. 65. i A COTTERiLL PROGRESSIVE ELECIEO HI BILL ri 11.

BONDS CARRIED SIXOWI TAX BKATEN AT MAKK HTKONG KIN. ft A ft A ft A A A ft 0 ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft WHO IS MAYOR-EIiFXT Who Is George F. Cotternll, newly elected mayor of Se- attle? 9 Cotterlll is probably the most thoroughgoing progressive in the state and recognized as a man of unusual ability. He favored all the reforms now under debate In the nation yc-ars ago and sas. carried the democratic standard again and when certain of defeat.

9 Twelve years ago he was defeated for mayor of Seattle. He has run for congress and was the democratic nominee for S. senator against Poindexter. He was state senator for four years. Cotterlll was born in England 4 7 years ago, came to 9 at 13, became a civil engineer and came to Seattle 1884.

He is an ardent prohibitionist and is head of the 9 Good Templar movement. (By ,1 Press leased Wire.) SEATTLE, March 6. 280 precincts out of a total of 291 reporting their votes, unofficial returns this afternoon indicate that George K. Cotterlll Is elected may-, or by a majority of ibetween 500 and 600 votes. A re-check of the count may change the figures, but a majority of 500 is considered a conservative estimate.

The single tax amendment Is apparently defeated overwhelmingly. The Bogue plans for a "City Beautiful," which were prepared at a cost of $75,000, have been rejected. SEATTLE, March a lead of probably about 500 votes, ueorge F. Cotterlll, progressive democrat, was elected mayor of Seattle yesterday over Hiram C. Gill, republican, ex-mayor and open-town advocate, who was recalled from the mayor's chair just one year ago.

In the nomination election Gill polled 24,632 votes, Cotterill Yesterday's unofficial returns thus far counted give Cotteriil Gill 29,600. The total vote cast is near the 65,000 mark, yet the two candidates ran neck and neck, the city being almost evenly divided in every ward except the First, which Includes the vice sections. There (Jill polled four votes to one for Cotterlll. In the residence sections, Cotterill's consistent small leads in nearly every precinct overcome Gill's big majority from the First ward, i lie outcome was in doubt until early this morning. Pour socialist candidates were defeated in the finals.

The socialist candidate for corporation counsel, E. J. Brown, made the (strongest showing and polled about 25,000 votes. One socialist candidate for the council lost by less than a thousand votes. Over $50,000 was lost on the election, much of it at the rate of 10 to 1 and 6 to 1 on Gill.

Following the primary election. Gill GUARDS KNOX WITH GUNS MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March of representatives of expatriated Colombians and others that bis visit meant further American domination and fear that these representations might cause attempts at violence or Insult, special precautions are being taken today to guard Secretary of State Knox. He traveled here from Corlnto in a special train heavily guarded. A pilot train preceded the special and another train followed it, each carrying a machine gun and soldiers. TACOMA AVENUE BUSINESS LOTS Lots on the west side of the avenue between 18th and 19th for (1,000 each, and on the East side between 17th and 19th $1400.

All assessments paid. Calvin Philips Co. 211 California Bldg. Phone Main 22 men freely offered even money that he. would win by 5,000, and 10 to 1 that he would win.

Single Tux Defeated. SEATTLE, March first returns on the single tax proposition indicates that the measure is beaten. It requires a three-fifths vote to carry, and five precincts just in show 393 votes against and 70 for. Thirty precincts give the single tax 986 for and 2.786 against. The single tax advocates have already conceded defeat.

TO-DATS ODD NEWS (By United Press Leased Wire.) BOISE, old time county election'system for delegates to the state republican convention will be the means by which the voters of Boise and Ada county will make known their choice of candidates. The count convention will be held here March 30, and the tsate convention at Lewiston May 15. PORTLAND, Manufacturers' association held Its annual "Made in Oregon" banquet last night at the Multnomah hotel, which was attended by 125 persons. The greater part of the furnishings and edibles were Oregon products. PORTLAND, Telegraphic warrants are held by the police here for the arrest of W.

E. Campbell, aged 60, and Mrs. Nettie Foster, 50, of Rosehurg, both married, who are accused of eloping from that city. The warrants were sworn to by Mrs. W.

E. Campbell. They are now In hiding here. OMAHA, employes are busy today trying to thaw out 210 sacks of mail bound ror the Pacific coast, which arrived here from New York and New England, a solid mass of ice. Most o( it Is ruined.

The freezing was the result of a fire at Aurora, fll. The mail car caught fire and the blaze was extinguished by a flood of water. C. Jurgens owned a $1,000 bull pup, several automobiles, and has been spending $50,000 a year by posing as a rich inventor when he was just a week clerk. WASHINOTON, V.

William Stilzer, wlio went to Alaska last summer, yesterday urged government construction of a railway into Alaska coal fields and open the mines. SAX AN'TOXIO, Texan The "6th anniversary of the tiagedy at the Alamo in which Crockett and his men were slain by the Mexicans, was observed today. The old mission which was the scene of the historic conflict was a shrine visited by hundreds of persons. BANK ci.i:\itiMJß Clearings $710,540.27 Balances C. PLAN PAVING Jefferson ay.

is to be paved to Center st. and then and opened out to Regents park. The paving Job was ordered this morning In one district estimated to cost $57,000. The grading job will run out $30,000. If the people vote the bonds the city will pay $15,000 toward the leaving Job.

The Tacoma Times THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TAOOMA. 30 CENTS A MONTH. WKPN KBDAY, MA XCII Wl2. Capt. Scott, His Boat and South Polar Regions WILL AMIDON SPRING A BOMB MAN IVDHTBD IN CENSUS PKOIIK HK WOL'JLJ) THINUS AT Will Red Amidon spring something in the census cases this afternoon? "J'm not going to be made the goat," he said some time His chance comes this afternoon when he will open the defense in his trial under five indictments.

The government put on a mnss of testimony yesterday afternoon ami this morning. Proprietor after proprietor of hotels or lodging houses in bis district came in showing that thero never had been any such number of persons in their places as Amidon listed. 700 Men Phonies? The Fawcett hotel proprietor testified this morning he always kept a complete register. He said never had there been over about 300 men in the place. Yet Amidon had over 1,100 on the census roll at the Fawcett hotel.

It is apparent there was some padding. Public Interest In the Is great to know what Amidon is going to say about it. Will he implicate others not yet caught the dragoet? Special Prosecutor Newton said the government would lohw its case about 4 o'clock today. Then It will be up to Amidon. Snead Murdered; Fued Is On (By United Press l.ciiwd Wire.) AUSTIN, March received today from Georgetown, 30 miles from say the father of J.

B. Snead, recently tried In Fort Worth for the murder of A. G. Boyce, was shot and killed there this morning and that the murderer committed suicide! Another report says that J. B.

Snead was slain, a member of the Boyce family doing the shooting. Snead was recently tried here for having shot and killed A. C. Boyee, following the elopement of Boyce's son with Mm. Snead.

The was unable to agree and a new trial wae ordered. South Pole Reached First By Scott IX)XDON, March is reported here that Captain Bcott has reached the South Pole, thus defeating the aspirations of Japanese and Norwegian explorers who started on similar expeditions about (he same time. The Royal Geographical society admitted that it hud heard the report but was unable to vouch for its Captain Roland Amundsen Is conducting another expedition to the South pole. He sailed from Today's Grist, of Comedy and Farce at Courthouse Bill Armstrong, manager of the Olympic club, may have to pay the county $250 forfeited bail money unless he can prove that H. K.

Sturgis committed suicide. Sturgis, a legless painter, was accused of having improper pictures In his possession. Armstrong put up ball. Before his case came up Sturgis disappeared, leaving his clothes and a suicide note on the wharf at the Commercial dock. It's up to Armstrong now to prove that Sturgis is really dead.

For three pay days running George E. Van Alstlne, N. P. railroad man, has come home with the story that he had been held up. Three was onre too often and Katie, his wife, asked a divorce today alleging that he had spent the money over the bar.

They were married in 1901. Clarence A. Walte asked $2,000 from the Pacific Traction company because he fell out of a car at Oakland station. An unsympathetic jury today handed him oat G. Plotz Thinks, King Lear Too Gloomy to Be Funny "The next time I want to'have a good time, I'll spend a half holtday In the morgue," grunted Qesozus Plotz the Sixth aye.

philosopher, this morning. "What's the matter?" asked the patient city editor. "I went to see Mantell In "King Lear" last night," said Plotz, "and I came away feeling like I'd attended an inquest. They stabbed two or three fellows, one at thorn map of the Antarctic regions showing the difficulties by Scott in his trip from McMurdo sound to the pole; Inset ire pictures of Scott's boat, the "Terra Nova," taken as it left Now Zealand carrying Scott's party to Ross sea; and the explorer him Mf, Buenos Ay res late In 1910 Into Hues sea, where he was left near King KiUiinl l.iinil. the Fram, his boat, returning to South America to await the coming of another The Fram Is Nansen's old Arctic ship.

It is 125 feet long and 17 feet from deck to keel. The Fram carried 116 Arctic dogs, sled and skids, besides provisions for a seven years' voyage. Nothing hits been heard from Captain Amundsen lately, and it Is believed that his expeditlon In nearlng the Bouth pole. dollar. County Auditor Stewart's report today showed that the county has $705,592 in cash and on deposit at the banks.

The Jury's verdict yesterday In Clifford's court would have allowed Mrs. F. N. Main to keep tne $30 suit which she had bought from A. J.

Welnsteln's store, but Mrs. Main sent word to the Times today that she had returned them. didn't want anything I liaiin't paid for. And I stopped payment on the check when they refused to take- the coat back." The coat was not satisfactory, Mit. Main alleged.

former Deputy Sheriff Tillman from Home colony, in town yesterday, declared that at least 25 persons who voted at the school election at Home Saturday were not even citizens. TUlman and the anti-anarchist farces have employed Judge M. J. Gordon to prosecute the alleged illegal voters. showing the blood on arm, they put on gink's eyes out.

and hanged the prettiest girl in tne show. Yep, they actually did. And Old Whiskers, her father, dragged her in with a great red mark around her neck and the rope dangling. Whew!" It whs Ifine acting, though," Mr. admitted.

I'll take Anna Held for mine after he Mid. "It's cheerfuller." BROWN II Mi OF MANY WIVES IHHIiMC MritDKRHR THItKK WIVKH HACK IX INDIANA OMB DIKI) Mnnojous ciroc.m- HTANCES. 9 Brown's Marriage Record. First wife died June 1906. after two weeks' ill- 9 ness.

9 Second wife burned to 9 9 death March 7, 1909. 9 9 Deserted third wife in 9 9 spring of 1910 to run away 9 9 with Mrs. Virgil Jackson, a 9 9 married woman. 9 9 killed fourth wife In Ta- 9 9 coma February 26. 9 Is Willis who murdered his wife, Josephine, and John Alden, rival.for Mrs.

Brown's affection, a week ago yesterday at Bast Larch mont, a modern Bluebeard? That's a query a paper asks in reviewing the aged Tacoma man's marriage record there before coming west. Although Brown's first wire died after two weeks' illness, six years ago, his reputation was still beyond question until his second wife was burned to death at night in their home in 1909. A coroner's inquest found a verdict of accidental death. Despite his open grief at the time, Brown married for the third time within, six. months.

The third marriage was unhappy. Almost 'before the honeymoon wts over Mrs. Brown found I a note in her husband's'pockets from a Mrs. Virgil Jackson, formerly Josle Smith, a farmer's danghter. A few days later Brown and the woman ducked out, taking her two children.

Jackson and Mrs. Brown both got divorces. 5 But retribution overtook Brown -in' his fourth marriage. The woman, had stolen from another man against him, leading jto the final KAN request of Attorney Flcliert, elected against Heney in the big graft fight, Judge Lawlor yesterda ordered the jury to acquit ex- Mayor Schmitz on the charge of bribing Supervisor Wilson In tne fens cauu HOME EDITION PEOPLE DISGUSTED WITH STONE-WEBSTER SCHEMES nUHBRAIi JVOOUH) BY POLITICIANS TlU'HT JOB llMlnlii KOIt hONWOKTH. The local federal court situation is raiildly approaching the stattiH of a uational scandal.

Kvidencn 1h iiiiuiliiMiifc to indlcnte that Taft Is making the Judiciary hero a shuttlecock for politlciiuiH and a public twrvlce corporation to ploy with. A few weeks ago Judge Ponworth resigned, then withdrew his Humphrey Tiirnctl Ilitwn. Cnogressmun Humphrey wan promised the job then repudiated. I' I in. iliuilcn.

unheralded heretofore as of judlHal was thrust forward by the Stone-Webiiter power trunt for the Job, criiiiuiied down the throats of the local bur and now 1h hanging in the buhmco with Taft apparently nildecldeil. all bt'raiisr 1., iisun waata to go the M'linti 1. Tlu-re Is a well authenticated rumor that after Judge Don(worth'H worth'H he Is to become the legal hend of the lilg $40,000,000 Stone-Webster power merger in the Northwest. Nloiie-WcitHter Frame-up. This Is given credence because before anybody knew Donworth's resignation was coming Judge Shackelford had tied up the local bar to Klmer lluyden.

And Judge Shackelford Ik the local head of the Stone-Webster Interests. Hut the ambitious Humphrey put a iipoke In the wheel. Then the people would not stand for Hum phrey. Seattle herself rebelled. The rebellion was quietly assisted by John L.

Wilson, who had other Hchemes In view. Old Ambition. Wilson once got into the senate at Washington and never got over it. He wants to go back. Bo wheu Donworth resigned he saw the chance.

Force Sen. Jones on the bench and then let Hay appoint Wilson to the senate. Hut Jones balked. lie had never practiced much as a lawyer and had sense enough to see that he was being worked. Taft owes Wilson something.

Therefore he had Donworth recall his resignation to give Wilson another chance to push Jones onto the bench. Harden HUH Waiting. In the meantime Hayden is standing by with his trusting band In the great fatherly paw of the Stone-Webster Interests waiting. Taft balks at this only because he wants to play with Wilson If he In the meantime the people are beginning to gel onto the whole game mill are demanding a real judge. Want I teal Judge.

With Supreme Judge Ralph O. Dunbar, on the supreme bench since there was In Washington, Judge Chapman, 12 years on the bench in Tacoma; with Judge Irwln, 20 years on the bench in Chehalis county, and Water Main Ordinance Won't Help Owners Clerk Edwards this morning certified the water main ordinance initiated by Johnny Meads and others who object to the present assessment plun. Judge Stiles declared the ordinance illegal, and the mayor did not want to submit it to the people. Commissioner Gronen also called attention the fact that the ordinance provides that the assessnients must be paid back to the "person" who paid it first. This means that the owner of the property who has been compelled to pay for the assessment really will in many rases get noth- GRONEN HITS STREET LIGHT No more street lights.

Commissioner Gronen has turned down all request? for new street Ught extensions this week. "It will be wasted work to put in any new ones now as they will all have to be done over as soon as the line construction is rebuilt," said Gronen today. It is the first time on record where a light commissioner has refused to play politics and put in all the street lamps asked for. TACOMA, WASHINGTON, otherti to pick from, a demand, is being voiced that Taft get and place a people'a judge on the bench. The Juggling of the politicians and corporations with the federal Judiciary plum In Tacoma la getting nauseating.

RUEF BACK TO PEN REFUSED TO TESTIFY (By ITnltrd Pro Wlre.y fIAN FRANOISOO, March Dlsocuraged over his failure to the Indictments standing against him wiped off the slate, A In- Huef, former political boss of Han Francisco, will returned to Sau Quentln prison today to serve om aeatenoe for cry. Today, March 6. Ib a date that beai'n a fateful connection with Ruef's life. Five years ago today Ruef whs arretsed on the charges which finally resulted in hie conviction. On March 6, 1910; hla sister died of a broken heart, It Is nald.

One year ago today he began lite five year sentence and now he goes back to prtaon on the self same day to start In again after having been in San Franclsco for several weeks aa a witness In the Si -limit case. Much sympathy was expressed here today for Ruef fay reason of the acquittal of former Mayor Eugene 13. Schmitz. No legal steps are to be taken by Ruef for his immediate, release. Friends of the former boss point out that the case collapsed as a result of a ruling In the case of Michael Co Key which should also have applied to Ruef, In dlsciisring the case tixiay, Superior Judge Frank Dunne tald: "One point of law was applied by the supreme court to the appeal of Abraham Ruef and the directly opposite in the case of Michael Colfey, which yesterday formed the basis for the acquittal of Schmitz.

The incarceration of Ruet in San Quentln prison in a judicial outrage." Ing. It will go to the real estate agent who had the mains put and then charged up to the V'v The whole matter will i threshed tomorrow the 1' ONLY 5 f' More Days 1 Id Which To Register 1 tamamammtmmmmmmmmmm.