The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 27, 1908, Page 1

BRILLING FALL IN = = DROPPED 8,000 FEET IN SEVEN MINUTES - cin TO JUMP FOR THE t ‘ c ~ MUELLER GAVE ME AN : \\, ; ¥ THE “UNITED STATES” IN THE AIR, AND W. G. SHEPHERD, WHO WRITES OF HIS THRILLING EXPERIENCE. aetna idea dnasehy encnabaseeinatinatntie WARSHIPS MAY BE ORDERED TO F IRE the natives against the Venerulean Towns in Prospect by the counsel, and all things Venzuelan, German has increased greatly the belief that the situation is critical and that summary gction is necessary. a of the rights of other na tons, Reports from the island of Cura | cao of & movement of the Dutch and | Mob After Consul. WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, July 27. AMSTERDAM, July 27—In retal-}—The Venexuelan consul, Senor Lo- lation for the summary ipulsion | Pen, tw guarded by soldiers, who) of Minister De Rues, it ia ‘officially | wurround bis hone today to pre- announced today that al! Dutch war- | vent 4 repetition of the attacks of | ships in Ameterdam waters have Saturday nicht and Sunday, when! been ordered to make a demonstra-|the natives engaged In a furlous) tion against Venezuela. joutbreak, occasioned by their Untess President Castro makes hatred for President Castro and the) an immediate to this coun. |-Venecuelan government in general lowlands was rendered try it is qyokebtas thet the Outeh| The residents of thin island be | deep by & light cloud that| ships wilt bombard Leguy Heve that Castro has been leading us. | Puerto, Cabetio and other principal |p to an actual attack upon the the north, wh we had | Saat towne of Venezuela. | Dutch potsessions, and have be The opinion ts expressed freely | come so incensed that they will not Ray ® heavy black cloud.| here that Castro at last has ex-| listen to the counsel of their lead: | sky. At the other end | ceeded all bounds in bie Interna-|ers, who urge against public dem-| © basket stood Capt. A. B.| tonal insults and that nothing but cnstration, promising that the home | }an actual attack upon Venesuela | government will take the necessary per pilot, facing south and | oi) ring him to a proper recogni Taction to hold Castro in check our progress. I looked at) sn and then at the distant WEAVER WILL SUPPORT ter Minneapolis News. Mina., July 27. We) feet in the alr. dusk of the evening settling down over the = 4 | we began to fall at @ terrific speed 3 | Capt. Mueller told me to keep my yatiny Hight twinkled eyes on the wateh-like face of the blackness, then faded./aneroid barometer, which hung the captain, | from the ropes over the basket. The © it,| hand pointed to 5,000 feet. At that ed again. jaltitude paper envelopes, uxed for finger on my electric | ##nding hewapaper messages, 40,000 feet in the dropped like bnilets. Capt Mueller | @ blackness, came the | beean using them as ballast. when * the num-| the balloon began to drop. Shortly | United | they began to flutter about the bal by Lieut. | loon. At 6,000 feet they seemed to with it the | dart upward toto the air when they of Burope by! Were thrown out. Capt. Mueller, channel tn the | still cool, came upon a five-pound of 1906, bag of salt tn the hamper. He rip- | the Chicago. ped it open and emptied it slowly tH - The salt fell upon my head and his. flashes in response.| we were falling faster than it was. way back to Lincoln from Chicago. Bamber of the bal In the minute between 4,000 and Bryan held @ conference with a owned and piloted | 3,000 feet were read, Capt. Muelier | number of prominent democrats. Coey, of Chicago, irriedly placed revolvers. instro- | Wea f announced his intention to A ets we did not know | ments, fruit, bread, shoes, a pair of | support Bryan vigorously. Jerry B. Met our departure from | trousers, a pair of overalis and tele | Sullivan, who was recently nominat graph blanks into a coat which he ed for governor, introduced Bryan can catch any other had laid on the bottom of the bas-|to a large cro Bryan referred the captain. }ket. Meanwhile I was reading off/ to lowa as the pioneer state in the tiny light to the sky | rapidly every tall of 60 feet. The| matter of reforms. He devoted! ; only the stars! champion stenographer of the world | much of his speech to reforms | could not have “taken” me. |which have been promulgated by lowa, and spoke on the reviston of Seat of Fisting Doane. the tariff and the election of United The captain finished his bundle, (By United Prees.) DES MOINES, July 27.—Gen. | James B. Wea’ populist cand. | late for president in 1892, greeted) William J. Bryan when the Com moner arrived here today on his the only one faid the captain. watch behind and Ill) States senators by popular vote. with the coat as a wrapper. I read/ — & balloon race; We | down into the one thousands; above | ahaa Sraseaaty ies JUDGE GROSSCU ‘Was 2 grim contest./ assume a parachute form. I re | my first ascension.| membered that the Eiffel tower is | limit to) 1,000 feet high. Into the hundreds REAL HUFFY I read. put all the al Capt. Mueller bad told me to their machines, bat | jump for the ropes acrows the bal } not mean death |joon ring, upon his signal. As || DENIES THAT HE 18 TO DINE facer goes the iimit, 00" he yelled “Jump!” 1 did) “ Time desperation. But partied talon ces fan SA? Bo | WITH ROCKEFELLER’S SON he runs ts not the | tight with which } had been egdtta | IN-LAW IN PITTSBURG, that faces the yacht® | the barometer. Still clutching it, W the auto driver. Nothing | caught the ropes, just as our Seat death faces the halloon | ytiryck in the center of an oat fleld. Bis sky race, he mects|{; bounced, 30 feet high, a distance (By United Press.) of 56 feet, when Capt. Mueller sud-| PITTSFIELD, Mase., July 27.—In dently pulled the rip cord that open-/ dignation was expressed today by ed a 32foot gash in the monster | Judge Peter 8. Grosscup while dis-| Risked His Life. peration of ype of sports. | bag The last of its 72,000) cussing the story that EB. Parmiee hes sprung up only in the | cuble feet of gas rose like smoke | Prentice, son-iniaw of John D. P¥éare—occurred when, the |into the air. The yellow cotton can-| Rockefeller, had invited him and Attorney General Bonaparte to din ner at the Prentice summer home| here. The judge, a member of the vas fell over the standing grain and lthe race was at an end. We had made the descent of 8,000 feet in to fail, our balloon | th the direction of a iarge SMB the 200-pound drag and his family are, | am 4, 1am the guest of Mr Bishop, old time Chicago entic told, at and Mre between the | friends.” Phe | utes. federal court of appeals at Chicago a ting Pind -merg Most sige oor | read the decision Invaitdating the et hestiating only a moment, | $29,000,600 fine Imposed upon the the drag rope from the COMMERCIAL CLU Standard Ot! Company of Indiana Me ting and allow it to crash | | by Judge K. M. Landis. file trees. He didn't want tol “The story you refer to is not Ie the earth by the rope, TO OPEN GRILL ltrue,” Judge Grosscup said, “Mr Willing to take of shoot-ng » the alr it height, wit ballast s desper: On next Wednesday, he the fall w he knew eee, This was a resource | hours of 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. the| may gSUTTON'S SISTER TO MBich & pleasure Dalloonist| seattle Commercial club will for FIGHT FOR CHAMPIONSHIP. | MM ever. for the of hi® | mally open to the public its new | - Ehave fallen lyrill and buffet, at First av. and] (By United Press.) gen shot into the air, all! Columbia st | LOS ANGELES, July 27.—In an I went to an ule of ore W. Shriner, formerly man-| erfort to wrest the championship of he matkdly that the rush | ager of the hotel, AIK! | southern California from her sist Ae ued of the gas from | oint, will have charge Of} Florence May Sutton has entered ore gigi bot-| the service, Formal invitations for! the woman's tennis singles at Long fh vanigee | 'nt0 | the opening day have been issied. | Heach today, She will be forced to ag , ee of the |play all the way through the wom the t POR reflecti« ‘eared FORT WORDEN WINS. jen's events, winning al) her matches ans 4 ght Ito for the final event with fie bag. 1 wi hat he| day afternoon the Pacific) por b though the K £8! sp e5 vaseball team went | MP oUF basket n un-|to Ple leach and was defeated | Chamber to Meet ae amanner. 1 | by the team from Fort Worden by| ‘Tomorrow afternoon the Chamber | ¢ ee. whic ac core of 3 to 1 Jof Commerce will‘meet to discus bag during the salt water matin proposition park Ward Club to Meet The question of the bid for the new Fall at Terrific 8 4 od meeting of th Fourteenth | fire boat will also be brought be lize After 1 i Ward ublican ¢ iil be held|fore the chamber, The chagnber | my $000 foot os th , at Madrona hall, West | will ask the council that 1 nitract Yong, that ¢ P matt Frank B MiPiting exver' nee. ‘I Kian. will address the club. hile axatete tie Rage CRGHEereS BRYAN: | tee that has charge of the WEATHER FORECAST: } FAIR TeNIaHT AND ND TUESDAY; GENTLE SOUTH TO WEST BREEZE, DOLF AND OSGAR VISIT CANDIDATE TAFT AT CINCINNATI AND TELL OF IT IN THE STAR TOMORROW VOL, 10, NO. 132. ‘THE SEATTLE STA atl 4 ATTORNEY DIES IN MASSAGE PARLORS (By United Press.) SAN FRANCIBCO, July 27.— Chemical analysis is being made to- day of the contents of the stomach of Wm. Hale, a well known attorney of this city, who died under extraor dinary clreumstances at the mas sage establishment conducted by Mme. Nina Williame on Van Nes]™ ave Hale visited the massage parlors about noon Sunday, and his death occurred at 12:30. The corond? Was not notified until three hours later, An autopsy resulted to the agnouncement that he died of val vulat heart trouble. But the polier have decided that the most exact- ing Investigation in necessary Mone, Willa told the police that she was fn adjoining room paring a bath for Hale, when she feara him gueping, and, rushing in, | saw him fying on the Noor with bia coat off struggling for breath, She called Dr. Tuchler, whore of fice ts nearby, but Hale was dead when the phyeleta: said the delay in notifying the ag | therities was caused by « minun standing between her and the phyal- ¢lan, each thinking the other had done 40. Hale had been accustomed to go to the massage establishment for t tment regularly during the last few weeks He was 60 years old, and had been widely known here for many years He made hie daughter, Mre. Vincent 6 tellt, PT eee CET eee eee es home with his Maree BASEBALL TOMORROW. see Seattic and Butte play ball & here this week, beginning to- * morrow. Franklin will piteh ® and Rowan and Fisk will also ® be in the game for Geattic, * SEPSEFSESEAHES VED UMATILLA HERE) FROM NOME Right days and five hours from Nome, the steamer Umatilla, Capt. Hanna, arrived at 9 this morning Treasure amounting to $14,000 from Fairbanks, assigned to the N. A. T. & T. Co., besides $80,000 in the mails from Candle, was brought down. Whalebone and ivory, the cateh of the whaler Norwhal, valued at es eeeeeeeeee $60,600, constitutes part of the cargo, The Umatilla brought down 76 passengers. BALLARD MAN DIES. 68 years old, morning, at the family Taliman av. He is two sons and and another body Joshua J died this residence, 6237 survived by a widow, a daughter in Ballar daughter in the east. The Trickey, lwas removed to Mayfield’s under [taking parlors, Funeral arrange ments will be made later, TAFT READY FOR BIG DOINGS (By United Press.) CINCINNATI, O., July 27.—Jndge Taft spent thie morning In confe ence with the arrangements commit notifica tomorrow. This eting of which pow ‘aft cam tion ceremonies afternoon he attended a m the state central committe has been called for the infusing harmony into the paign in Ohio. of Hitecheoek Is oe! AGO. July 2 left at 1 Glock k this att Cinelpnatl to be at the notification of Taft CHIC Hitcheock ernoon for tomorrow of bis nomination for the presidenc by the republican convention present THUG WEARS WHITE MASK (By United Press.) AN FRANCISCO, July 27.-—The thug that ha been operating in th downtown district in the 1 hours of the morning, under a white The man had held {ctiras within antl but no one had beer a few minute ta glany tt arrived. She DITION Sem ee ee ACCIDENT PREVENTS THE GREATEST ROBBERY IN HISTORY OF THE COAS ANOTHER “GREATEST SHOW” renga sis INDEPENDENT PARTY WILL SEATTLE, WAS , MONDAY, JULY 27, 1908. my VIOLET _ MEET IN CONVENTION Thomas ‘Ren Slated to Head Ticket—Hearst Says no Fusion With + Democrats. inited Press.) cittedoe: duly 27.-At confer- neces held today by the leaders Of the independence party, the na opal convention of which opens here tonight, it was practically de- | cided that Thomas L. Hisgen, of Massachusetts, will be the candl. date for the presidency, and that a southerner not yet chosen will be | mominated for vice president Delegations are arriving today from many states, but there is sect enthusiasm so far and littie cheer ing. It le understood that the lead. | re fear that the democrats may make an attempt to capture the convention and bring about the en dorsement of Bryan. | promise with the democratic party and that any attempt to endorse Bryan would be futile. He says | that the Independence party is out to make an independent fight againet both the old » and that It je gathering strength every \day. Though his quarters in the Abditorium Annex were near those . the week commonly called Sunday of Bryan Saturday, he exchanged MINERS’ SCALE Therefore, we, the undersigned no courtesies with the Commoner qualified electors and voters resi and there was no show of friend dents of the city of Seattle, King lipess of any kind county, Washington, do hereby re The program for tonight is as! Committees represent the | #pectfully petition and ask that the janes iiss, Wodhans’ tales con) |/@¥ in regard to the closing of thea 7:60 p. m.—Convention called te tres, vaudevilles and kindred shows ofder by Charles Walsh, of Iowa, | OPerators are still In nh at the | during the day of Sunday be en secretary of the national commit-| “bor Temple to decide upon the | forced in the city « attle Br seale of wages which will go into| ‘The support of the ministers and 8:05 p. m.—Nominations for tem-| @ffeet September 1 _ | laymen of other denominations will porary chairman of the convention.| The miners have & 5/ be sought by the Methodists $:10 p. m--Blection of tempo iss 4 rhe iT rt mite i how A aie ‘ors have submitted a sho the scale now. in force com | eeeeen m=—Roll call of delega.|mittees will arbitrate yosed Pat a tions for nominations for members | 8°4!¢* f credentials, rules, resolutions | (By United Press.) and other committees of the con | PROHIBITIONISTS WILL’ QUEBEC, July 27.—The maiz ip ceaag | feature of today program of the ter-centenary celebration ts the re town, which is cr with gaily | Pia decked pleasure craft There will be a grand naval display tonight ee ene | Prohfbitionist dietrict | participated in t the warships By United Press.) | wil 1 @ meeting ut the| which gathered here for the cele LONDON July 27 \ large | Prev Asbu to | bration. crowd was present at Ryde today | perfect an organisat vot to see th tart of the first da ‘ ho are in favor local GEOGRAPHICAL CONGRESS. racing In the international yacht |o » that th n vaces of the Olympic game trate the £ (By United Press The yachts are divided ature who fave GENEVA 1, Jul three clasne The course is a Amon the peake i The t € f { and a half in te th Hor ! i kpatr f ath . The w itta, to be held|W. Raymond, of nit , toe h alt t William KR. Hearst, head of the) independence party, declares posi tively that there will be no com: MINISTERS ASK MAYOR TO ENFORCE SUNDAY LAW se *® Balances is * Balances ® Balances |* LONDON, July With repre-|on, is highly detrimental to the sentatives from civilized | morals of the young people and the country on the globe in attendance, | Children of our city, and whereas, the 17th gress opened ton hall The in session a week ‘STILL CONFERRING ON eague, The Sarre ee REC er ee BANK CLEARINGS. Seattle. # Clearings today Tacoma. ings today Portland. : Clearings today deanna neennannne KING OPENS THE PEACE CONGRESS (By United Press.) international 06 92 = 3 = & Ss 944,510.00 & congress will remain he the Future. seeeeeeee association | the vaudeville shows on Sunday. The request was made in the fol |lowing resolution unanimously pass Jed at their meeting To the Honorable--the a nina = Seattle, wi “im "the re is no doubt but vaudeville as now carried | that the influence of the and kindred shows ge on the first day of the week, com on Bey .. |monly called Sunday, these young Cax-| people and children find most eastly the opportunity to visit these vaud eville and kindred shows; and Whereas, the laws of the state of Washington prohibit these thea tres, vaudevilles and kindred shows to open and run PRICE ONE +» Want Seattle V Vaudeville | Houses Closed on Sunday Mayor Miller was petitioned by 163,829.00 * the Methodist Episcopal Ministerial | this morning to close | on the first day of CENT 'ChanceVisit Saves Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars to Patrons of Local Safe- | ty Deposit Vaults. | Seattle suffered from a carni« val of burglary Saturday and | Sunday nights, plainly indicat- jing that the police department |is unable to identify and round up the criminal element of the population. But for the merest accident, trained safe blowers would have been able to perpetrate the biggest robbery in the his- tory of the Pacific coast last night, and a long list of bur- giaries, committed Saturday and Sunday nights, which have ‘not been followed by arrests, completes the proof that the police have no knowledge of control of the criminal popula- | tion. | The fresh outbreak of bur- glary indicates that Seattle has | become the target of newly ar- jrived criminals who have come unheralded from other cities, ‘and are likely to operate un- hampered unless chance leads to their detection and capture, After gaining entrance to the im side corridors of the Beatle Safe Deposit Co., at 701 First av., and placing & heavy charge of nitro glycerine in the door leading to the inner vault where money and valu ables to the value of more than $1,000,000 are stored, burglars were pre ed from making one of the richest hauls {n the history of crime only by the accidental attempt of Manager A. J. Elwell to enter the vaults at 8 o'clock jast night. He entered the building through the front door and unlocked the door to the corridor leading to the safety deposit vaults. He could not open the door, however, as it was braced shut with heavy timbers, At once surmising that burglars were inside, be ran out onto Firet i and around to Yesler way, where he notified Patrolmen F. W. Blacker Frank Keefe. With drawn re- s, they ran to the rear en- trance to the safe deposit vaults at | Post st. and entered the building. |A thorough search was made, but burglars had fled. Surprised at the Job. ? The thieves were evidently sur prised in, the middle of thetr job, |for in their haste to flee they let jall their tools and a suit case cor taining silverware valued at $750. The police found empty jewel cases, sealskin wraps, furs, pieces of «ilk, Insurance papers and deeds | covering the floor of the corridors, The thieves had rifled several trunks and cases in the outer vaults jin a search for loot. Only the barest accident prevent- Mayor of |e the robbery, Edward Bastheim, State of representing Al Judis & Co. of San Francisco, jewelry dealers, bad trunks contatning $75,000 worth of jewels in the vaults. He received rush orders to leave the city last uight and called up Manager Elwell to get his trunks, Manager Elwell took his keys and at once went to the building, while Nr. Bastheim telephoned an express man to call at the rear door. If the expressman had been there when the burglars were alarmed, some shooting might have resulte Chief Ward's Theories. Chief of Police Ward believes the burglars were professionals who fol- lowed Mr. Bastheim here from Port- land. They knew he had trunks con- taining valuable jewels and they found out where they were located and then made their plans to rifle the safe deposit vaults The amount of the burglars’ haul is unknown, They got $400 in cash which was in @ cash drawer outside the vault, Of this amount $200 be- longed to the Rainier Laundry Co, It is probable that the burglars got }away with jewelry valued at several usand dollars When the police entered the cor- idor leading to the vault they found ut 30 broken and empty jewel cases on the floor, People do not | put empty jewel cases in safety de | posit vaults, These cases contained ewels, buc the actual loss will not be known until the owners call to claim their goods. The loss may total several thousand dollars. In their haste te t away the burglars also left a suit case full of olid silver valued at $750 Work of Experts. he job was planned and executed in a daring and workmaniike man ner that stamps the robbe 8 pre fessional cracksmen of long experi enc The thieves, probably three t through a wind per ' \ vacant room that opens on I t. The police believe that 1 e hidden in tl m ta t. "Phe roam cor