The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 4, 1908, Page 1

TWELVE PAGES Ru R COMMITTEE RETURNS > WITH SCANDAL EVIDENCE 5 to Olympia Next to Get Testimony of Supreme *Court Justices. MERE SHOPPING DAY'S BEFORE GHRISTMAS: H. Powel! H 1 Préstor membe th i tigation ¢ this morning g kane, ha g at the ] dnesday night « elled their sleeping car reserv night. | They remaine evid we that t y « ible — - oehie ‘ PLENTY OF be for Ay I ng ROOM FOR the New a ck ¢ an Ul decli t BIG BUNDLES the mature of ¢ « « ISS any way, | the ent that while — fe might hay ego ¢ in Spokane, it was pretty well | picpardson it, and to that 4 with res: t ate end sent him a telegrat e tele a 4 cram was carried to Soap Lake NEW MAN BROUGHT IN. sed When iichaedeee ‘vecutrea f Nuzum bre pa noon a man who has never | te pOcAMe Kreatly ag C my Mack the wed, and in re of the er, that Richard known, h ane hote! y tared in t his friend, ram was dine the me nVewtl n, and who was introduced ~ ? * ts i * & wae to Powell as “the Powell was overheard as f ie of. P ip Tony Richarddson gone to Cal stranger It $1,500, wasn’t it? this ifornia. Will not be back antil com ¢ was to a ve great extent success pring (Signed) TONY MACK Approved by Committee. with the aphic omession that we of Richardson, with the approval of individual men . that we | sought the commit tue so car tly desires to secure. f Richardson's conduct during the rs by L. C.) past few day iMcant. If While nee desired, it is bel These Richard E there is no doubt they were unable to ob Nel the documentary Secared a portion of it Of either Frank in have been reta the Committee to any GILMAN HELPS COMMITTEE. committee was a eved It this te correspondence in went In d it was papers were or are in both and who declined to Nuzum, Graves or di by Gordon, very great extent d greatly in its la western 1 or the Great Northern, who - story 2 , the com : mittee is fals ardson, as a e fo have secured for the committee transcripts of friend of Pale be the e Mitten by Gordon to Root. J. J. Lavin, now in the, Mrt.to deat © it dlape . it te na es: possible, of course, « iehard ihe Great Northern, and who was Gordon's confi-! son, being of a suspicious nature pgrapher when Gordon was in the employ Said to have + MEET AGAIN NEXT WEEK. fe will be no further sessions of the committee wntit| ek when the members will meet in Olympia, where it derst-n they will have as witnesses members of the st | mart, who have been shown the documents in cab artis OF B FYI F case. In mee of the supreme cor bese Duke Mich: Michael Is the Victim of an Unlucky Love Affair. has acted as he has tro tives than attempt anyone. of that tant evidence the absence of the doc ents them rt judges will be bd RDSON FOUND AFTER CHASE ACROSS HILLS TH ©. BEATON. fore there had been four and capture of Tony, | went on through to the rear lle being associated of the house and found that Smith grave and serious af- bad captured Richardson.. We ex-|the czar brother, Grand De down {n the annals ®PPreciation of ‘his successful im | Michael, ix reported to be in dangor plained to him our mission, telling | of exile to some lonely military com Miavestication 68 an ex him that the Root tnvestigation |!{and in Siberia until he rece ting, Mf not aD committee was very anxious to | {em his infatuation Jt, hear from him | Under orders from the the fath (By United Press.) PETERSRURG (via tler), Dec. 4—KFor persisting in his determination to wed the daugt of a rte land owner near Odexsa. game, where a few moments be-| st Fron ror of the r We told him the st | general of 4 Bia lonely bat Of | 11, related in circu vt Bical og grand duke's sweetheart has already iat Soap Lake, seve | tai to the members of the commit.|(ut* hi# daughter from the coun ta. be bid away | at! try, supposedly to Switzerland. sadaotay Sax) tee, iu effect as follows |}Court rumor has it that Michael tried to follow them, but fatled. He BE tue, naves coe is virtually under arrest ome to see him had ‘The «rand a Involved in Divorce Some months ago Richardson be-| ke, who, after the ‘bad came involved in a divorce suit Heh, ts next to the Russian 3 with his wife, which was vigorous. hax been suggested as a to Tent. ly contested, the object of the cor ve suitor for the hand of 2 test Bel b fl King ward's daughter, Princeas the Soap Lake sani | tes ving the div{sion between | yjet he hae he a Richardyon time, short! after a sev train on Wednesday spends | husband and wife of the commun-| valid. does not want to marty, but fore |ity property. The case was tried | Edward is understood to regard the »imile out In the superior court of Doug. | mater with considerable § f r las county at Waterville, where it| had gone to his; became Involved in a sails CRAZED BY LOY’ and we determined scandal which has been widely E the morning to see | aired throughout the state. Later court of the state. While the case was under con Arrival was discussed |sideration in the supreme court, Who remained up after BE. B. Palmer, former law partner Bed by those who arose |of Judge Root, approached Rich Pas im the morning. We|ardzon with.a proposition that for {By United Prone) @scuasion because the |a certain consideration he, Palmer,| 4BERDEE a. Mie the Soap Lake sani-| Would exercise an influence upon |Noaske, a ye if the “leaking” port. | the supreme court which would ren- | 69 Writing love letters to Miss fs of opinion seemed |der the court more favorable to Mary Dinse, a prominent young so WW@ Were cither lawyers | the legal contentions of Mr. Rich-|“l¢ty #irl, and hounding her every and that we had come | ardson where, was taken to the asylum at on. The efter Salem, Ore, a few W SUT pictestees ge his relatives. Noaske would sit for ithe advice of one Tony| A* the story runs, Mr | hours on the bank of the Wishkah Hittend of his ond a former 8° went river waiting to see Miss Dinse on : r, net out to the regular attorneys, Merritt & Mer-|her way to her home, and wrote fsa us, and though we “tt, of Spokane, who advised bim| many letters a day declaring his M through miles of sace |“ have sothing to do with it, de-|love. Finally he wrote a and, Mseanned a creater dis | Citing that it was inconceivable | placing it at a point where she was MB Our eyes, Tony was lost that any ontelde attorney could ex-| accustomed to pass, declared that | Bot many people at at this time of the TO MURDER GIRL Frank Didn't Believe It. Richard with this story to his | Miipletely and we retarned eTei#e upon the supreme court of | wetess he could live with her here ell stat 1 the state any such personal ‘influ-|he would see that they lived to ence as was suggested in the as-| gether on the other shore, Through mn Appears tonishing proposition the note a butcher knife was left OMS announces that we But there is this further intima. | sticking. The father of Miss Dinse finally took the affairs into his own hands and compelled the rela tives of Noaske to look after him, there was some connec tion between .Palmer and the su preme court. In the proposition Palmer mentioned that in his opin jon the judgmegt against nichard-|from which he wou in the supreme court could be | 4% cured, kept down to $19,000, Later, when the decision of the court was an pald by hardson to his wife. MAN'S SUICIDE Pam any longer and when tion that eeeenger automobile thet ta came along we and departed. A Tater Tony left the Bhd within thirt with Ric n seach reli MS few hours in iphrata Anstead of taking the ar the automobile on had been released y min rdson Can’t Remember. oY and carried Hoey Laie course | , Dut Richardson couldn't remem. i pelied ep yor, There were so many things : “ Tain 1 np 18 | to bother him, be sald, devin’ te _, _, (By United Press.) GIA Bee throuck tha M¥Orce proceedings, that 1 ST. PAUL, Dec. 4—Timothy R ibe ic: liting Cidents had been forgott who resigned last Friday We haw nici hue | Wouldn't deny that the story as | Minnsepts se fee trom his sng told the committee was true, but | company, com Me Way to tne , 24 | neither would he affirm it, He ad-| mitted sulcide by shooting himself the Jong ; ‘©| mitted that Palmer had been to hg head, At Dis residence p Stught in Rear Cit te Mad cone to ese hee out | Mr. Palmer had been in 111 health ON, Joe bh, of|a land deal, in which they w for the past year, ond at times he re to attend to the HF: Sumaped trom 1). unable ‘ nd | jointly interested. He couldn't re-| had been Fear door, andi went call that anything had been said | dtles of his position as president othe ofti There during the visit regarding the py.|0f the insurance company thy “J = is pled | preme court divorce proceedings, | steamer Northland arrived at [ov ‘ony Ma , ast Monday the committee, wit-|erett yesterday from San Francisco 4 Alwo, 1 Spokane, dete with « part cargo of redwood. which three jr aciauix ao aekeee arto od, St pos. | Ith m Bart cane Of fearon Mg presence of| wegian bark Movdaing. knowledge of man who has| days ago by | and he was returned to the asylum, | THE SEATTLE STAR SEATTL FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1908, WASH,, PLANT MINES DESPITE TREATY WASHINGTON, Dee. 4 between the officials of the ate Despite the entente cor diale the members of the department and Japanese diplomatic corps, it w learned today that the government has quietly trans; »marine mines to all the harbors of importance on Iso learned that several cargoes of the under ves have been seit to the Philippines, th lers for their immediate placing Arthur ¢s coast artill It the protec > and the Col for some ti a progtamme of se ed, itrespective of « been mine planting have om Fortress Monroe and two rk of mine t, and addit the eastern POLICE AUTO ROBBED BY LOSES 11S MEN TREY OD PRISONER DRAGS HIS MISPLACED TRUST Is, CAPTOR OUT OF | CAUSE OF LOST MACHINE. WEALTH. City Jailer Falls Heavily Ingrates Repay Acts of and Has His Arm Kindness by Robbing Fractur od. | Benefactors. | on —-— conan the | vatdpnaced gonfiderce resulted in after | UclP*pecuninry lows last nicht tc ls o'clock thie morning, Jailer |"¢¥@t! citizens Charles A. Coralag wes erengnel © tr MeMahon, of the steamship from the police patsol auto by Jo-| Missiurlan, was robbed of $90 tn | While attemp ape of a prise ng to r shortly seph Dwyer, an agent, and both! goign room 17 of the Columbus men were hurled to the pavement |» ie at Third ay, and Marion et. with peg 167 Washington st. McMa.| such force that Corping’s right arm | SOR Pays be took a pennticss young was fractured above the elbow, and) man t6 tile room and both went to! Dwyer is at Wayside Emergency | bed. When McMahon aw this eg oy Deusen from & dislocst| ormieg his gold und friend were » 4k somali miaeipg. Found In Street. . The absence of jailer and pris} lepry Heneen, & tenant of the oner was not diseovered by Poltee | Queen City hotel, 112 Occidental Chauffeur Murdock until the ma® Av,.¢aye a man took $6 in goid chine reached police headquarters. | trom Ais pocket in a xaloon on Sec.| | Murdock turned back up Third @Y. ond ay. B last night and found Corning lying In the Hansen says the man is a good street. Dwyer bad disappeared. He | trieng of bik, but still he wants the was captured by Patrolmen New| goliee to arrest bim man and Potter on the waterfront) p J. MeCormick, of the Cadillac half an hour tater hotel, Second av. 8. and Jackson Condition Seriove. st. réperted to the police today | Corning was taken to bis home,/that Be took a man named M at 1024 Fifth av. N, whore he-fs/Gipning to his’ room last night When he arose this morning he tion found that McGinnis had left, tak Sane r was arrested shortly ling MeCormick's brand new suit of fore 4 o'clotk this morning by Ps. clothes with bi : trolman Humphrey on a charge of) Mike Paluda, a laborer, who indecent conduct at a Pike st. ho | rooms at @ lodging house at Went tel. He was od over to Jailer | @™m AY and Seneca «t., was rob ‘orning when the patrol arrived, | bed Gf4850 in gold and wills while Corning says Dwyer tried to leave Be _ the room yesterday the anto at Third av, and Marion alee ae ge AR st. while the vehicle was traveling ait t Ketehikan from Seattle about 12 miles an hour. The jatler u grabbed Dwyer, but the prisoner! jerked reported to be in @ s¢flous condi HOBART HAS RESIGNED | — WASHINGTON, ATON, Dee. 4 “lar. ence L. Hobart, collector of cus |tome for Alaska, haa realigned, to | take effect sepuery 1, and Presi dent Roosevelt with regrets bas accepted. John R. Willis, at prem | ent chief officer in the custome | office at Jnneau, Alaska, will be} appointed Mr. Hobart’s successor. Mr. Hobart will engage if business in Seattle. BOY’S REMARK LEADS: | TO RECOVERY OF JEWELS (By United Pi NEW YORK, Dee. 4 |remark to Pollee Inst ferty, of thin city, by the young son of one of his friends, that he knew aman who had a fine necklace for led to the recovery yesterday |by Garrett IB. Lamb of Clinton, Ta, of a pearl necklace, said to b $15,000, which had been lost February. McCafferty called to see the neck- lace and seized it, He was told by the man who had it that @ Low An eles pawnbroker had sent it to him! }for disposal here, After diligent wale, linquiry by the New York police, a Jelrcular was obtained offering $2,000 | for the return of Just such @ neck« that had b followed the visit of a. here. Then MED PREPARE fiercely and both plunged | ach part o 5 of : to the pavement, while The auto j F ; ot Hectite an ale caaawedic me begat e- WOMAN LLS OF PAC speigg yg Mags . ‘ her with the arrest and detem- 1 of said Riplinger p | i T riated therefor the sum of $5,000, «OF DEA i Wi H DOC R- song erode you will pme: or 1 was THE WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. LIGHT PRICE O CENT NORTHEAST WINDS SELL OFFERS $3,000 PRIZE FOR KIDNAPING JOHN RIPLINGER ARMY CAPTAIN IS READY TO DELIVER THE FUGITIVE | REPORT READS LIKE A ' THRILLING DIME- NOVEL STORY. Council C ommittee Is Wel} Satisfied With Work Performed. BEACHES STEAMER TO SAVE HIS PASSENGERS en, newly ap ter, who, while elty |Charmer Almost Sinks as shollows on the northern side of |, the Result of a the OF gt co Aen a” tr let With the Collision. ta ‘ oho Ripling i tb , f city comp With 100 souls aboard on her wa h a ites of eight lives ie a _ ete fro ouver to Victoria, the e Cha k to the counel m Vancouver to Vietoria, the C.| | The Charm gg at lg An P. R. steamer Charmer collided total expenditures of 27, and a certified check for alance of the $5,000 fund ap veral serious while her way fre 4 1 was basti steamer Wil with ated at the time it was de her sinking. The armer Was pro- | ualties and rie 1 to capture Riplinger if pos coding her regular course, and raised and renar the r $3,206.63 1 over to uid have pansed the w at a Last October she again ded | th stody of F. 8. Sawyer, chair ate distance had it not been for With the steamer Tartar f the finan committee, 4 strong current, which rgia, and sustai ell was given @ receipt for the swept the coal laden hulk agatnst the starboard side of th at, tearing a great hole in her 20 {ns members of the ng over the nimously action of b nee is to committee, report In de expressed their feet in length, through d, an beach’ water rushed into the f the lives of all on board, as she Mr. Russell for the ex- The amer mt egan Was sinking so rapidly that by th howing he had made and wettic by her head, " tir he i m bh ypeliers | the thorough manner In which the Hunter headed her were showing above water hvestigation had been carried for ward Seattle. Wash. Dec. 4, 1908, Fr fick Sawyer, nance Committee of Council, Seattle, Wash, In answer to your re r & statement in reference © search for the absconding comptrolier, John Riplinger, . nd otr attempt to recover from moneys belonging to the city of Seattle, I have the honor to re port as follows: Mr, Riplinger’s term of office as eity comptroller of the city of Se attle expired on the 19th day of | March, 1906. It was not, however, FOR WAR (By United Press.) | RELGRADE, Dec. 4.—Reports to- | j {By United Press.) day show the situadion in Rosnina Dec. 4.—There is | until May, 1907, that any knowh to have reached & serious stage ondino actual government In Hayti, ac-/ edge of his defalcations gi er sealie 4 . jcording to advices rectived today | {?. non cemtionein tae wae the Bight thousand Hungarian infan- | e state de on % . of the city coum pal uw ngarian infan- |at the state department trom Min-|ei1, or to any othef member of fortift he Boania | Ster Furniss. Gén. Legitime ae yet city government outside of that de border, and the country side ts flood. | bas not, been prociaimed president, | partment ed with military and a provisional government has| J received no Information con Another mutiny i reported ati not been established. cerning this matter until it was Viecerad and throughout Bosnia The government will be ofgan-!| published in daily press on midnight executions are taking | ized after the arrival of Gen. Simon,| May 8, 1907. Your committee de Pi lite In the teotated villages has | W8O {# near the city cided to place in my hands the in The situation, however, becorn imost imposible. Most of quiet. | vestigation of these various funds, the Austrian troops under canvas and, to that end, I employed are suffering from cold and are ex Shorrc c hauated horrock & Co, erin Messrs. E.G. SI hansted be sane of ae f i and whose reports are now on file in every where . the city clerk’s office, The total An Austrian soldier was shot yeas Si GHTED amount of these shortages, as you terday in an attempt to visit. the emember, was $68,178.91 8 rb w Sefes It is not necessary in this report (By United Press.) go into a full detail of the ex of those accounts, which your order under my . HALIFA 8. Dec. 4 ection as city treasurer, as Asiting steame c bound for N here be filed with you a atte ee. Sydney rt au Basque complete report of those investiga hoe a day paste d the wreckage of s tion mer on the lifeboats oft which An ordinance, No. 16,57 was In- celved the offic » name “Soo Cit | troduced in the city council on July Borel offiesrs on duty amer of that name is listed /18, 1907, directing the city trea» fm duties as bverdue at Montreal rer to enter Into a contract with such parties a the recov part of th he may select to ry and return of funds of the city unlawfully in th ttle as are Riplinger, to- d appro 000, . unwilling at of thi || Abbie Rice Recounts alsa’ however that | Grewsome Tale in ea tag eg: far, it was bi to take You insist. inasmuch as [ ions so hat the Court. | re t of the work hould devolve (By United Press.) bd bol heaitas y ns I realized the OMAHA, Neb, Dec. 4.-—Mrs. Ab-| 8 borage mecacsary 16-28 le Rice, the woman in the famous | 2Yercome, owing to the length of triple death pact,” was the star| "me intervening between Ripling- witness today in the hearing of the | ©''® leaving the city of Seattle and case of Charles E. Davis, accused |e discovery of the existing short- of having killed Dr. Frederick Rus. | 888. Nevertheless, I consented to tin, as mart of that nercement, {9° the work, and have since that Great crowds thronged to hear her | U™e prosecuted the search to the testimony, many coming in car | b&st of my ability Upon this matter being placed in my hands, I took up with Ahern, a nt for this division of the Pinkerton’s Detective Agency, the estion of the 1 thods to riages and automobiles, Fashion ably dressed women fought for place the front rows of — the court room | Planned Own Murder. l ND Dr. Rustin told me when 1 pursue. It was 8 at that & ited him in his office that he had| Ue make finite cogtract = arranged to have a man shoot him,” | W!th any detective agency Ac- = the naid. “Ho teld we thar ’t}complish the end desired. ‘There would not have to do it. He told me| WS no means of calculating the that the man he had found was|*™ount of work to be done = Gates Davia Having reason to belfeve that Mr z 1 saw the man and got the pot-| Kiplinger was still in the vicinity = eon to ill _myaaif, ‘Then { lett, | Of Los Angeles, Cal. 1 went there = Afterwards I met Rustin and walk. |!" August, 1907, and, in conjune- tion with Mr head of the (now dead) Bacon " staff of that ed toward the house with him. 1 Pinkerton |then left him and went back to my own house. When near the Rusti, | astrict, commenced an active |Rouse T anw aman ike Davie. Af. Search for the absconding criminal. ter the shooting which followed 1) We ra ae ed Be nee . what hag sg Py a itained a household lost m nerve and didn’t take any | Gena Cal, at 192 We Lith ay lien ae Sane }that he had gone from that neigh- | After the noon recess the crowds | bethood hurried back to hear the rest of the Riplinger Located, story. Mra, Rico, under cross ex-| Many reports were coming to me amination, adhered to her original} that Mr. Riplinger was in Mexico, story, and her estimony remained | and also In Honduras Reqnest was wnshaken. After she Was excused | made of the Pinkerton Ageuc w to discover, if possible, Mr. Lamb to New York and the/ ja few portant Ww es were) York City | ye perce lg a klace called to corrot { t Move if Riplinger v in either of those the Lomees tans oe . MRS. ABBIE RICE, WHO TESTIFIED AT THE CORONER'S [Monts as sho had odescribed thom. | two places. Aftor considerable cor | phis ‘enn, last Febroary, when | INQUEST REGARDING DR, RUSTIN'S INGENIUS PLANS FOR HIS | eau. today, and te ag fr on re meee Page ibe ere ty oi ne | burglars oe the et e and wot OWN MURDER, TWICE HE ERSUADED HER TO FIRE THE | probably open tomorrow der date of Oetober 1907 vitae Se len tae (ieee. sone yan DEATH SHOT, BUT, WHEN THE CRITICAL MOMENT CAME gn cemeteries ' \ |The price axked for the necklace by |SHE LOST HER NERVE AND BACKED OUT, SHE 1§,NOW THE |»alnon for shinment 1 , ) acknowledye recelu Of | the man holding it here was $8,000, | STAR WITNESS IN THE CASE. Ploy 1% i a t Tehaw i “ | — " nian wees sole