The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 14, 1908, Page 1

LAST EDITION NO. 205. vol THE SEATTLE STAR PASS-KEY THIEF HAS LEFT To WN Wan Who Has Been Robbing Apartment Houses De- livers His Key to Chief Wappenstein, and Says He | Js Through With Dirty Work. *] had to do tt keep |south, and I hope and pray that aie oarting. ont! | will never do anyt this ae hed four pa een me ing the aes words houses. s thought 1 had bette pote from an UC t joave town and quit t ty work Wappenateds t . od The ason tha that 1 nd you Room a play! letter and key let you was bt 8 know that the Vig has left Ne wretter,: wt to | the I hope you won't get atruige bis name hat he | an, inne man, so | hope you has robbed severa and | will be pleased with tt ont taken money whied be vs cop | Yours trul from starving, Bat that be has « ME FOR A RETTER MAN tenet @ to « u Keys In Box will itve & “yates pees Ty Tn the box nine skeleton The letter is as fol! ke which Wappenstein Letter to Chief wn © excell burglar tools. “Seattle Wash twe bary small key aad «A key “Dear Chief: A ne start for home toe 1) Numerous ot apart ooaid vend you y ent house yen committed Tice are the ke eon |v ten days, and on onciier aces to | tr ane was effected Ty cxvcen 2 and ans of what tne victime call Mart for bome « . je |e pe this work befc had t sf Is known the thief? KR to keep from sta : ave b or 1s onthe squard eeenay now ne said Chief Wappenstein ° AFTER COAST BOATS FOR TRANSPORTS (By United Pr SAN FRANCISCO P Net ot For Henry an examination ec Coast with a ape ability as transports and colli was of all Paoifie ned by fb the ton some Glass navy coast weeks Rear Admiral been engaged in of vesnels of the amahip company tal view to their avail has learned that a com Amertedn vease which might the government be will be fn the possession of the officials uth soon, department at Wash we DIPHTHERIA IS RAGING AT STATE REFORM SCHOOL (By United Press.) [that the public schoole have been HRHALIS, Wash, Feb. 14— | Closed ’ Acting on this the school fe of ie an opt a“ sae ~ teachers’ institute which was to Me state reform school 4!) have been held here, has been ween Teports of fs extent Ore) changed to Centralia Thompson of the reform ways that there rs that five have died in the from the disease. They are en Coleman, 4 daughter of the! The preliminary examination of of the reform school " Milla. an craploye. a daugh.| % Hearst, of 6 station, on @t the night watchman and/4 ree of obtaining money by jfalse pretenses is being held in that the oviginal cause | Judge Gordon's court this after spread of the disease was | boon. @@ the fact that the school John Kingsbury e complain het quarantined wide ant, saya Hearst, representing that ts the feeling that the | he owned four carloads Mf potatoes be from the malignant disease Hable to break out In town! ¥ wed $400 from rut him te out on bonds of $1,000. SEATTLE WASH REE IEG TRAN, * * a THIS 18 THE LIMIT, *) * *| * (By United Prees.) * * WINNIPEG, Man, Feb . |} ® —As a rewult. of a By * \* closing crusade started by * \* Lord's Day Alliance under the ® | * Lord’s Day act, one man * * been arrested in the act of ak. & * ing a bath, Undertakers ¢ * ® dveting funerals have been # ® taken In custody and newspa ® permen taking notes on ser *& * mons have not escaped the ® *® keen ¢ of the law * * More than 500 summonses * ® have been lawued for alleged #| *% breaches of the law and po * ® Hee offi are busy serving #| , ® them o * * RARER ee Headquarter vice reer > Tre ADMIRAL EVANS. és abbuian eastern political headquarters of! », ie ; Taft will be established here nest| Through you, who sails with gun |The way you grab the railroads, Ed fe. Secretary Hiteheoek retires|.A8¢ many brave men back of ‘om,! In just too utterly sweet! ow and will at once take| ¥@ send this valentine and lo | How we'd love them, every one ol ima’ fais ‘boemnias aive to eneh man Jack of If they only would compe TRAGIC ‘New York’s Deputy Fire Chief Loses Life (By United Press.) NEW YORK, Feb. 14-—€ |Krager, deputy fire chief York, was drowned today in a sub basement of the mirror thetory of the Pischler company while he and }his men were fighting a fire that had attacked the batiding Stix other firemen were injured, and 30 were overcome by smoke | Chief Croker bad ordered his men to fight (he Names from a position in the street, as he realized that |the building might collapse at any moment. Krager did not agree with jhis superior, He thought more could be secomplinhed by attacking the fire from the inside of the aries ot building. and got permission to Jead| lsevera!l firemen into the place A few minutes later he fell through a trap door and was drowned. The |men who sollowed were rescued by thetr comrades | Kroger wae known fire fat: HEARST WANTS TO RUN WITH BRYAN (By United Prowse.) YORK, Feb. 14.—Accoré ing to @ report, William Randolph Hearst is willing to de nominated | vice president on the Bryan ticket, it Mr. Bryan has no objection one of the best ere in the east | NEW CANDIDATES VIOLATED PRIMARY ELECTION LAW Fail to Report All the Expenses Incurred in Campaign for Nomination--Many Items of Miller Campaign Expense Not Shown. “Each candidat: the terme ployed men In certain precincts to) ® BOW considering a proposition Of this act shall file « represent Mr. Miller at the polling Patement setting forth eact places. Money and thing of value an Law Requires Account. . @onaideration or 5 at The law requires that these ex Bim or any one for him. w h penditures ineofar as they are BnoWledge or acqule - known by the candidate to have Purpose of secur) been made for him, to be returned eee ed * * TEDDY'S NEW STUNT, . * * * (By United Press.) *. WASHINGTC eb. Ms & |# Having fixed the gold coins # | @ “artisticaily,” by eliminating #| # the “In God We Trust” motto #! # and changing the goneral de- #| * sign, President Roosevelt tn t! * # to revise the national flag by #| fan entirely new arrange ® |@ ment of the stars. a \* * eee ee ee REGULAR @ im any way affecting } in his statement of personal ex tion to said office Sec penses. But if any of these sums Mary Election Law were paid out for Mr. Miller, with John F. Miller fe etther woefully im the meaning and intent of the gtiorant of the fact that several \#¥, Mr. Miller has inored the law Bundred doliars were expended by 8nd neglected to report them in his | Rimseit or others in his c statement } fhe recent primary campaign, or Mr. Miller's expense statément,| hse he has violated aw which fled with the city clerk yesterday Fequires him to file a tement of Contains only five items, as fob Ml of these expense law re- lows: Declaration of candidacy $30, @iires cach cand eo t a postage $4, car fare photographs Matement of ali sums paid out by | $12, total $61 Mm or by anyone for him Who Spent Money? Bome person or persons the re < n, per-|curred in writing, printing or pre feeted tor Miller an elab-| paring for transmission of any let Grate organization with the ex-|ter, clreular or other publication | Penditure of money that such an | not issued at regular intervals, and Organization tmpl e one rent-|for stationery, postage, telephone, | 4 for him ious headquarters |telegraph or public messenger Mh the Hotel Putler at a cost of charges, and the necessary expense | $8 to 95 @ day: someone the printing of literar bills and procured and hand Under the sonal fare very strictly ing expenses, of hiring halis am meetings primary law the per expenditures of candidates Nmited to travel and the expense in holding public All other expenditures Representatives Have aj}————— Battle of Words--- Cannon to the } Rescue. (By United Press.) the preparation of poll | are prohibited. books: someone arra for hold-| The expense statements as filed| WASHINGTON, Feb, 14.—Speak ins meet ir ll parta of thelby the several candidates show &| 6. Cannon's gavel wax heard today my, bala th Mhall rent and the ad-jnumber of violations of both the! \ith great difficulty ina xpirited ming necessary ¢ ike them |letter and the spirit of the primary |iine petween Representatives Engle Mecessfu! 1 © other neces | law. For instance, E. 1. Reber, un | nugnt, of California, and Cram td arrang t meone hired | successful candidate for city treas-| oacker, of Indiana, and at the same a to parade the streets to ad-|urer, reports an expenditure for! time pr ly saved the mileage tiger and had |hewspaper advertising, which 18| aiowed congressmen from being — ayed positively probibited. H. F. Jack-| cut 49 cents -a mile > age som, successful candidate for the re-|""Ty, view of the fact. that the mem. pte dt ngeindly inal | publican counclimanie nomination berg of the house enjoyed a raise po attle theatre dis- in the Fifth ward, paid out $120 for! i, salary last year, Crumpacker i iiedia ar nanee 1t| personal work in the ward, WhICN| thought it would be no more than m- | in prohibited right that the mileage should be ea cut from 20 cents a mile to eight cents, and told the house so In ¢n Co Umatiiia of the Pacific) and ran aground. raised havoe| ¥a# coming in and the machinery STEAMER RUNS AMUCK Luckily the tide in motion and she w Within . five | amendment. Englebright strenuously objected, and | Whereupon * he Crumpacker |locked horns and engaged in a real battle of words. Speaker Cannon came to Englebright’s assistance by preasing hin gavel into service, and that wae the ead of the gab- feet. Crumpacker the machinery went bpm amend md tre Umatilla craghed int pe Before serious New! RUEF INANOTHER “DEATH TEARS Weeps in Court Room While Affidavits Are Read. (By United Press.) BAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14.— Abe Ruef thie morning t In court land, with tears streaming down his face, listened to the affidavit of bie aged father and that of his sister, telling how he was led to plead gutlty to the extortion charge and to appear before the grand jary, relying entirely ypon the repeated assurances and promises of Wm. J Burns, Elieor Biggy and Rabbis Kaplan and Nieto, to the effect that if he did as the prosecution de sired he would be given full im munity The affidavits of the two rein tives of Ruef deséribed at length how they were suffering from « serious tiness at the time of his trial before Judge Dunne on leharge of extorting money from the French rew how they ha jlives of hia family pleading ‘guilty and retying upex the prom ison of the prosecutiun and ending io sURpense | Upon the conclusion of the rad ing of the affidavits, Attorney Ach | that would attempt affidavite from Heney and Judges Dunne and Lawler. | The affidavit of Ruef, by to th of his father and sister was presented to support the claim that he had never been legally ar r _—, ont read prior! ATTACK Aldrich’s Financial Bill Comes in for More Roasts in Senate. (By United Pri ) WASHINGTON, Fe 14.—An other attack Senator Aldrich’s }fimancial bill was made in the sen ate this morning, when Senator Olay, of Georgia, denounced it, in JOminute speech, as a vicious measure framed to “favor the rich jane powerful and te enable th lt control the tee of money ameinet the interests of the people [i Beuator Clay declared that Sen on lator Bailey's idea of issuing $600. 900,000 in treasury ne was & ch more effectual remedy and criticized congress for allowing & surplus of $300,000,000 to ac wamuinte in the United States treasury He approved of Seore tary Cortelyou's action in placing of the money in national ke, as he said it wae better off there than in the treasury \ ‘Tony Hill, a bartender, was ar jrested this morning by Detective Harbee and Officer Kent and held fo await Investigation of the rob bery of John Jackson tn his room, fat S18 Firet wv., last might Jackson ®aye $200 was stoten from bim while he slept. Two tien, whose names the police de jeline to divuler, say they saw Hill leaving Jackson's room last night —— oe _ SHOT AND KILLED (By United Press.) TACOMA, Feb. 14-—Jndge Rey |nolds’ office boy, Robert Cheney, aged 16, was fatally shot last night aa the result of an altercation be | tween Harry M. Owens and Gilee C. Rosh, both local attorueys, over the division of profits alleged by ttion of evidence for and claimed there w doe, Upon Owens it, Rush dfow a revolver ingly, and a struggle followed, re suiting [Mm the killing of the office boy Both attorneys accuse the other 2 somone suit} refusal” pay threaten: | j JOHN DO. ROCKEFELLER The publie’s heart is with John i But nothing could be worse You have the public's heart, because | U's heart is in ite purse JOHN MITCHELL Afte our career { grateful be For ye Bu ONE CENT WEATHER AND BATL OCCASIONAL RAIN TONIGHT MODERATE WINDS RDAY; EVELYN NESBIT. |Your sm are modern C The be potent ‘ t ny hardened hearts And Thaw a married = LURIES ARE VICTIMS OF STRANGE TRICKERY eee eee * * *# ALASKA AUTO RACERS, * . . * (By United Press.) * & UTICA, N. Y,, Feb.. 14—* *# The Thomas, Zust and Dedion * # automobiles, entered in the * J Paris rif, reached * ting, the tou * * started for Syracuse * * * eh ee iletllela JUMPS FROM BRIDGE Wealthy Man Leaps From Brooklyn Bridge to Icy Waters. | (By United Press.) NEW YORK, Feb. 14-—James rant, a wealthy manufacturer, while crossing the Brooklyn bridge in an sutomobiie, accompanied by two women, leaped from the mea | chine into the icy river, and ts now | in a preeartous condition at a hos pita Hundreds of persons who were walking acroms the big epan wit nessed the daring plunge, and Grant's two women friends swoon: ed when they saw his form disap pear over the railing. A passing tug separated Grant from the drift * cakes and brought him to for making the MINERS ARE ENTOMBED (By United Press.) DURBAN, Natal, Feb, 14 two men have been a coal at Glencoe as result an explosion today lis believed that all of them leap Forty the It have mine of Rush to have been withheld’ ‘by / of deliberately shooting the boy. | perished. | Owens. Cheney died two hours after the Rush was engaged in the collec | shooting. Owena is in ae a <== Attempting to stop one of chorus girls a she left the Family theatre, on Pike st. last night, a masher was knocked down by F. Edward Whitney, a fight ensued. The performance had just been concluded when the masher stepped up and accosted the chorus girl Whitney, who was following close: ly, saw the act, and masher in the face. he alr was charged with fists the, the manager, and | atruck the | vip ACTOR PUNISHES BOLD MASHER & moment, after which the to his heels. Bystand ers offered to help Whitney give out the punishment, but he de tlined help, stating that he was en | Jags himself Fomen on the bill this week re: ported that the same man had been | annoying them since Monday night, and Whitney was chosen to con bim that th | other parts of the genlal for masher took Crowded with passengers, car No. 6 on the Madison st. line, crashed into a team of horses drawing a wagon loaded with earth, on the steep grade between Third and Second avs, at 8:10 o'clock this morning. The car in the one which dashed at Third av. yesterday One of the horses struck this morning was killed, its neck being broken. The other suffered broken leg and was shot soon ate down the grade and left the track} KILLED BY MADISON ST. CABLE CAR erwards by Humane Officer Vau- . Alex Deitrich was driving the team which belonged to Contractor Ae orig, who has the contract for the avating being done |tween Third and Second avs. Deit | yieh drove his team down from a pile of earth directly upen the down bound track, apparently not ne the approaching car The horses were struck squarely and hurled into an exeavation a! Deitrich jumped and escaped in | jary. ATTEMPT TO HOLD UP A STREET CAR (By United Press.) SPOKAN Feb, 14.—Daring on the part of Dr. W. H. Cumming, a well known dentist, in attempting to snatch a gun from the hand of ihn ttn eo ca pa, each armed tome getting booty ir oe a street car at the and Laurg) #1 te. fived nine or ten shots at Conductor Gi fe B, Smith and the dentist three hold-ups are described | As Young men, one short and two of medium height. They wore neither masks nor overcoats. One of the; a thug and loter sending @ stiff}irio fell from the cat in trying to kond, ehrtehing @ revetwor, Jaw, and the ml | CATCH ROI ROBBER lowing the confession of Gar field Long, bis alleged con Charles EB. Christy was this morning by Officer Sisler as one of the men who used the tele: phone game to rob Mrs. L. Fletcher the Alpha flats, 504 Pike st., Thurs. day morning Someone called Mrs, Fletcher to the telephone to hear a meaning | lene n wage. While she was thus jengaged pother ma robbed her room, took $5 and a money order for $2 from her puree, and es caped It is believed by the police that the man who telephoned and the . * has not explained his reason Mysterious Messages by Telephone and Telegraph Cause Trouble to Members of Merchants’ Printing Company. A case which bids fair to baffle mind Ch f t t See ot tad & la chants Printing elty For weeks i n rious tele | phone messages purporting to come from reputable busivess concerns in various parts of the elty, order ing quantities of printed matter have been almost of daily occur rence Not long ago the regular Stationery of a big Second av. bank was used, and but for the fact | that Mandel Lurie, the senior mem. ber of the firm, had his suspicions roused b the character of the | writing, several hundreds of dol entombed in| | | of Washington, one who stole the money were con. federates. Long was arrested yesterday morning, aod after protesting his innocence, broke down and con fessed Inter in the day The money order was returned | to Mre, Pletcher terday morning. INSTRUCT FOR BRYAN, in the mails yes. By United Press.) MILWAUKERK, Wis, Feb. 14 The Wisconsin democratic conven. | tion today adopted resolutions en dorsing William J. Bryan for the | == presidential nomination, and = in structing the Wisconsin delegation national conven first, last and to the democratic tion to vote for him all the time, SIG STRIKE IS IN SIGHT DENV men, engine men at all shop conductors. and brakemen on the Denver & Rio | Grande railroad may go on a gigan | tle strike that will involve all the Gould lines, is the belief of rail a men, The gong of the strike sounded when the Denver & Ho Grande posted a bulletin in all its shops that on March 14 the com hon will revise rules for em: ing mef. ‘The notice follow, iveeMarch 14, the rules and ations govegning employ- ing men in rtments, machine | | | while the ear was the last week el and helpers and Denver # Rio jars’ worth ef printed matter would be going to waste by this time Subsequent inquiry proved that the bank had nul oF a the printing, and that the writer had filehed the stationery in attempt Ing to play bis trick Louls R. Lorie ts the outside representative of the firm, and to date ie out a good many nickels in following up dogus telephone orders from firms in West Seattle, Rallard“and other points What the Luries claim to be the of this series of bappenings last Monday night, wheo pt of a telegram from 1 climax arrived upon the Grand Island, Nebraska, Louis was arrested and held as a fugitive from justice on the charge of forgery. The Lurtes point out that Louis has been In business in this city nce July, last year, and the crime is said to have been committed on January 14, of this year. Also Lurie has never been in Grand Ish and, and is absolutely unknown in that city. Through the efforts of friends, and the absence of any confirmm tory proof of the first telegram, the authorities released young Lurie on Wednesday. afternoon. Yesterday, however, Chief Wap pevstein was the recipient of am - other telegram of simil import, sent from Los Angeles, Cal, charg- ing @ like offense to the first, and demanding that if the state of Nebraska did not do its duty in the case, the state of California would It is maintained Larie was never in the State of California in bis life. Young Lurie is still entirely at sea to know just where the matter is going to end, or what will be the outcome teas ite, that Louis R, MOTHER > = —— IS PUT ON PROBATION rie dead if 1 the ac dramatically’ an Agnes McDonald be- in the juventie court “May God strike ever touch another drop of cursed liquor nounced Mrs fore Judge Frater department of the this morning The court ordered pretty 6-year: old Lucille McDonald, the woman's daughter, placed in the Mt. Carmel mission until the mother could make a showing that she would give the child proper care Mre. McDonald was arrested last Wednesday by Humane Officer Vaupell in an advanced state of {n- toxication. She held the child tightly by hand, dragging the superton . the little girl broke down and cried bitterly when the court announced that she would be separated from her parent She grabbed mother by the dress and there was bardly a dry eye in the entire court as the penitent and broken-hearted mother and weeping child went back to their seats. According to the story court, Mrs, McDonald had husband and four children in St. Paul and was in Seattle, apparently spending most of her time about saloons drinking. The litle girl accompanied her on her trips to the grog shops, and it was this fact which led to a complaint to the police and the subsequent ar told im left a back innocent little girl In and out of rest of the woman. the saloons at which she had ob- Judge Frater roundly scored Mra, tained so much liquor ~ that she McDonald for hér neglect, and an- | could scarcely walk nounced that she would be allowed Today, in the juvenile court, a/to have nothing more to do with pathetic picture was presented to/her child until she could brace ap the judge and the spectators. The and live a different li A VARSITY CONTEST BEING SETTLED The controversy over the editor ship of the Pacifie Wave, the stu dent publication of the University is being finally set tled this afternoon with Thomas E. Latimer, representing the independ ent voters, and Ray Rudio, of the Campbell-Dunbar-Rudio “ring,” as candidates. The polls were open from 11 a. m. to p.m, and it is thought that more than 800 votes have been cast What was previously announced and advertised as a Rudio rally at the gymnasium last night, very nearly endorsed the candidacy of the independent candidate. The fact that the chairman of the me@t ing was A. H idard, a Rudio supporter, alone prevented a vote being taken, which would have un- doubtedly resulted in Latimer’s favo The campts was littered with posters yesterday announcing the Rudio meeting, but when all the speechmaking was done, and thé motion to endorse him was made, the chairman called the meeting ad- journed The lie was passed two or three times between the opposing forces. jay posters showing a man with a gun in hands and calling for the support of Rudio, if such con ditions are not to exist, were seat Latimer tered all over the campus. SCHMIDT STILL IS IN IN ‘DANGER ‘There was no change in the con dition of Bernard Schmidt, one of the victims of the Interurban wreck near Georgetown yesterday, dur last night Mr, Schmidt is the only one of the wreck victims whose condition has developed alarming symptoms. His skull was fractured, and fears for his recovery still enter tained at the county hespital, where the injured men were taken The condition of William Morof Whose internal injuries were be lleved yesterday to be dangerous was greatly improved thts morn ing, and it is now believed that he will recover. MITCHELL FOR GOVERNOR, (By United Prose.) are CHICAGO, Feb. 14.-)ohn Mitch: | ell, president of the United Mine | Workers of America, has been brought into the — political nA, |and he is already veing ment(. 5 is a socialist, and that reason only is urged against him by the Rudio men as candidate for the democratie nomination as governor of Ilinols, Insurance Company. ¥, FN 14.—Attor skson has made ae iver for the Receiver for ALBANY, N ney General J plication for ar tual Re ve fife Insurance con pany, on the und that the con cern is hopele insolvent CARROLL SUSTAINED BY THE COMMISSION The gotion of Comptroller Harry W. Carrol in discharging P. Hy Wilson was this morning fully sus y the civil service commis« ‘he commission heard th tained n case y decision Wilson was Jay.in the work of ‘the’ petitions for the lation atendm cil, He appea ‘sion for reingy@emest, ; copimission fs deciston. sustane the oonpcralier,