The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 21, 1909, Page 1

4 a TEN PAGES me HOT ON TRAL Gel MURDERER Wig CAPTURE. CERTAN Chinese Assassin of White Girl Being Tracked from " City to City and Capture i of Man to Be Made Soon REVELSTOKE, B, C., June | | Ste—The police here have re ceived word that Leon Ling, ac cused of the murder of E Sige! in New York, has been ar r ad on the westbound Cana dian Pacific Vancouver train. | The message does not state where the arrest was made. Ef forte to verify the report a now being made. (By Untted Press) | WASHINGTON, June 21—A jmysterious wouian who gave the }name of “Mrs. Mann” and claimed P years over to be a trained murse, may furnish ihe United States|a claw to the detectives who are him the} searching for Leon Ling, suspected fortune by re-| of the murder of Eiste Sigel, grand ‘he privilege Of | daughter of the late General Franz of § \t Sigel Theodore} In thelr efforts to trace the move German, | ments of Ling and his supposed ac- Bis troubies|complice, Chung Sin, the officers Mie residence | tiveg to a boarding house, where James Hall.) “srs. Mann” stayed for two days KB, yesterday j tee landlady, who admitted the two : Jeg gees ted gr pene be t ed to see dei suicide W** | titled them from shelegvenhe po 4 atter 10) mitted by the detectives her return) Mrs, Mann, the landiady said. The body | came to the house Thursday and an- i" ing © ' nounced that she was a trained Rafferty, &t nurse and en route to Baltl for thé more to take charge of a “case. completed. She remained only a short time Of Mre. Hall) after the two Chinamen left the next Wed-| house, din Life Work, “Krantz Puts Discover a Clue. ry Officers of the Washington Y. W. sul¢ide Yi ©, A. today informed the police that Swhich hag} Tuesday they received a post card ot Coroner | ##KIng for accommodations for sev- " | Siftee xe to card was signed, ‘condacted. latin, 440 Malo st. m ¢ Bast Orange. No I” an parentage. x the Wednesday e¥ening, according to gee. | e0Clation, the woman arrived. car Misa, Mary O'Btien,. matron of the raduated |T¥iae & walt case, As there was no ties of Ber. }4¥allable room in the association Lin every field she was directed to a iad ced to g| DOArding house wext door, where the } by the ord- two Chinamen called on her Thare- day afternoon. inventive! Miss O'Hirien said that the woman fponsewsion | 2200unced thet she would take her With two Meal in the association dining Beret process TOM. bot refused to sign the reg- wit, which | Mater. CS as fadustry | hinese Are Helping. u th fort The Chinese legation today wired P what he thought. a!! Chinese consul generals, consuls 8 deaf “n4 diplomatic attaches to assist in ATH HARRI ~ REPORTED | Rumors Created Great Panic in Wall St.— Friends Place No Cre- | dulence in Sensational Statements. (My Volted Press) NEW YORK, June 21 | firmed rumors that BH. Harriman died exe Uneon ay in Austria created great nt In Wall at The origin of the been en rumor has not traced Harriman la sup posed to be at Vienna, but no word from there aa }has recetved j yet } A sharp break in the market fol lowed ciroulation of t rectors of the Unton F personal friends of the rallway Magnate have not received ang In formation indicating that there ts any truth in the report The fet that none of the friends of the raftroad magnate have hoard anything to make them fear for bis state of health haa had the effect of nerally discrediting the ru mor, There is a growing belief ithe effect it would } market BANKERS: ARE IN CONVENTION | have on the BANKING MEN OF COUNTRY ‘| ASSEMBLE IN SEATTLE IN } ANNUAL MEETING, j Today the convention of the jAmerican Inetitute of Banking ts |in geasion, ‘The A. 1. B. tx com peed of bank officials and clerks rom all over the country, and com sequently, today there are 250 banking men from nearly every lelty of consequence in the United Btates tn Seattle today This marning they convened In Elke ball at 10 o'clock, where May- lor Miller gave an addrese of wel- come and several prominent bank- ing men talked on money matters. | This afternoon at % o'clock spe- jelal street care were provided and jali the visiting delegates were shown the beauties of the eclty | ‘This evening o trip around Lake | Washington ending with a dinner lat Fortune Park and @ late arrival home will finieh the day. Will Visit Fair, Tomorrow a abort session will be ‘held, and then all will repair to port. Di} e amd! \n jthat the report was cireulated for | SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1909, THE SEATTLE ‘TAF TEN PAGES HENEY PRESENTS MOTION FOR NEW CALHOUN TRIAL | | | 8%. tie \ took five months and one week. | Maguire, Merchant: | ehiniet. Theo. Binner, Plaste LEGISLATORS ARRINING IN CAPITAL CITY Investigating Committee Is, Already Framing Report) —Interest Centers Around Reorganization) (iy United Press.) OLYMPIA, June f1.—The advance guard of logisintors has arrived in Olympia preparatory to the opening of the wpectal session of the legle- lature Wednesday, At noon today the Investigating committee went to work on {t# report, which will ac- company the governor's meseage to the legisiature. | Interest at present centers around \the reorganteation fight. In Olym- lpia it looks as if Melge would be | again chosen for speaker, and the) | friends of the governor assert that president of the senate. rants came every manner possible to apprehend the fair grounds in the afternoon 1, tne likely man. ago in the | Ling. The officials stated that Ling Secret would 's unknown at the legation an: {has never communteated with It, The members of the Chinese diplomatic circle here stated that his head that | they are anxious to dispel any idea fovernment | that the Chinese of the country may Mangfacture,|aesist the supposed murderer to Manufacture evade the police. It is announced t6 human | that every good Chinaman In Wash- |ington and New York @ his great dis-|the capture and punishment of the brooded and| man, in payment for his supposed Sao his mind | crime. , but he made | it harm. New Clue Is Given. Mt BOSTON, Mass, June 21.~—Young : at Jame) Dan. & Christian Chinese merchant . the after-| of this city, said today thet Ling to hi A ger bore a thoroughly bad reputation & When she pat | among the Chinese, He stated that | Ling had threatened to kill him on -e sight. Dan formerly was associat Pete is | with the Sigels in New York tulelde’s wate | He, AVerred that Elsie was a “good Whieh reed girl,” and advanced the opinion that she had been coaxed to the room where her body was found, and Arugged. City Ticket Agent Howson, of the | Baltimore & Ohio raliroad, told the | pollee that he said tickets for Hong | Kong to two Chinese June 15, Four Kl days later he sald two other colen- tlals purchased tickets for the same port. He te of the opinion that neither couple are the men wanted «| bY the police. ME-off. The buliet| A. theory that the police hoped Marve, lodging in| “°2!4 be productive of remults was shattered today when it was learned Hall, Krantz | that a ge = Chines® Ws a ? i white woman, who were seen in a seer etltes | National Hotel automobile driven Was highly bY Chauffeur Tortitlo iant week, bors. Until the Chines immigration tn- OF showed *Pector and hia wife, on their hon- Fepidly failing | “700 His Brains, were and Funeral of Victim, NEW YORK, June 21.-—-The body ment near her home today, The funeral tomorrow, Mra. Sigel, the dead girl, 1a critically i Suspect Is Caught. YORK, June 21 MT DRIVERS on were Placed un-| i, charged with their automo. NEW Mes- Harry | sages received by the police from} * taken | Weet Gateway, a hamlet near Am re by Patrol-| sterdam, N. Y., state that Chung . mery. Sin, roommate of Leon Ling, the d by Pa-| supposed murderer of Hlale Sigel, Hh On @| was arrested there early today and #8 According to the dispatch, Sing |to bring the man to thls city. i[| UE 10 lof Miss Sigel was removed from the| t | morgue to an undertaking establish will be held late today or) mother of} and evening. I the morning while th will ride in automobiles around the ‘elty. | Wednesday morning will wind up ithe business of the convention and in the evening a banquet will be given in the Hotel Washington jeafe, with Hon. John H. Powell as ‘tonstmaster. The Indies will be atre in the evening at John Drew performance, LONGEST DAY OF THE | YEAR 13 WITH US | Although It might not seem longer than any other June day, today ts lin fact the longest day of the year The sun rose this morning at 4:09 and will not set tonight until #:12 giving us @ little over sixteen hours of sunlight. This ts the longest stretch of sunlight that we will have thix summer | RH * * i* WEATHER FORECAST. * % Bhowers tonight or Tuew ® i® day; light southeast to south # ® went winds * | \* PrCCRECeEC Creer e) men are talking shep the ladies | | Ruth and Slaydon are holding ses: | force & reorganization in the house and prevent one in the senate. From Left to Right, the Jurors Aret Geo. G. Gillespie, Contesetor; A. B. Smythington, Civil E tom Row—Jos. 8. Cashman, Clerk; Chas. i 0, H, Mackroth, Grocer; ©. K. Ruth, of Thurston, will not be the | moge rs \ Tep Row—Jos. Dixon, Clerk inder, Rea Graft | Prosecutor Not by Failure of the , to Bring in a Vv in the Hard Fi Bribery Case. SAN PRANCISCO, June 21.— moneeh ons tod. set next Monday, June 28, for the open- ing of ae second tris! of Pat- ri Calhoun, The defense has announced that it will affidavits in support of all ions that Judge Law- lor te Biased and that Francie J has never been ap- ao y a8 assistant dis y, and it ls prob able there will be consid- erable delay before the actual work of selecting a new jury ie begun. (By United Press) BAN FRANCIACO, June BL Making good his declaration that he was ready to begin the second trial of Patrick Cathoun, president of the United iwaye, for the alleged bribery Ex Supervisor Nicholas, without delay, Bpectal Prosecutor hHieney today presented a rigtion th court asking that the case be eatied tomorrow The was bitterly contested by the ‘s wension of Judge Harry | Lawlor’s eourt was occupied in tis- | Rosenhaupt, of Spokane, 1 ald (9 toning oy eéntentions of the op- posing lawyers. Charging Judge Lawlor with bias sions today in the Arlington hotel| ang tha Meney had fever been In Seattle rallying their forces to eaally leieaeed assistant district attorney of -Ban Francisco, A. A. Moore, attorney for the defense, de- fo tar as can be joarned, the Ol4 | manded that he be given sufficient “thirty-eight” opposition bas not | time in which to get rulings on these added any new members, and the! pointe probabilities are that the house will be practically divided along the same nxious for | treated to & party at the Moore the: ings ae during the regular session, THETIS AT NOME. NOME, Alaska, revenue cutter |tle has reached here, after bucking | the fee floes for over a week ‘WEATHER ORACLE SEES | SOME WET WEATHER | Weather Man G, N. Salisbury hag | that Heney Makes Good. ‘When the jury in the firet Cal- houn trial disagreed yesterday, ten wtanding for acquittal and two for pu conviction, Heney announced that co Bit a pase he Intended to bring about a second trin! of the troiley magnate without delay. He said hie health was wuf- ficiently goed to carry him through another year in court If necessary and that he did not intend that the “graft prosecution” should be drop- ped, / When Weney made his motion Moore addrpered the court, declaring Judge Lawlor had = plainty promised showers for tonight and |Gemondteated that he could not give tomorrow. They might not come till tomorrow but he said that it would probably start in tonight and rain off and on all day tomorrow. The rain, however, is only for the woat- orn part of the state and it will not ‘affect Kastorn Washington until to- morrow night or Wodnosday TODAY'S TREASURY REPORT, WASHINGTON, June 21.—The treasury report today shows: Re ceipts, $2,292,117; disbursements, $1,960,000. = a weenie I ‘STAR’S CONTEST TO HIDDEN WORDS ARE WORTH TWO TICKETS TO GREAT sHOW. —— In this ieaue of The Star will be Hfound a sentence containing 12 words, The sentence is broken up and scattered through the amuse ment columns and articles referring to thie contest. Each word may be distinguished because ft is in dif lferent type than the word preced ing and following it, “The Servant in the House” will be considered as one word when enclosed in quo {tation marks One hundred best seats at and fifty the Moore of the theatre Patrol-| admitted his identity, but refused fe éxceed- to give further information, Detee-|have been purchased by The Star jictsms from newspaper and maga Wore | tives have beenssent-t@ the village |for this remarkable play and these will -be given free to Star readers BE SPRUNG TODAY | who are skillful enough to find the | words and plate them In proper or. der, correctly punctuating the sen. jtence which {t makes, Neatners }and care in submitting the answer |Is taken into consideration in mak: ing the awards. The seats will be given away in pairs, Twenty-seven pairs for the first sentence and twelve pairs each for the four other sentences to fol low on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs |day and Friday, respectively. Bach [sentence is a separate hidden word contest and competition Is open to every reader of The Star, “The Servant in the House" comes to Be jattle with a strong cast and will be ween here for the first time, It has met with phenomenal success - in the East and received amazing crit- | zine interviewers of international reputation, the defendant a fair trial, He then alleged that Heney war on aseidtant ‘attorneyapaneral of the United Btates and thentere could not legally ac Copt an mppointment as aesistant district attorney Heney hotly denied this allega thon ' Mot Retort of Heney. "I never have been an a attorney general,” Heney erie "l was offered the position but refused becausethe salary would not enable me to Hvedn Washington, D.C. 1 was employed by the attorney gon eral to prosecute certain cases and in eadly one T was employed for that case only, never being permanently in the employ of the government.” In defense of the charges against Judge Lawlor, Heney continued “Their pniy purpose for making these charges againat the court ts so that he might, as any man might, become angry at their bitter insulte and let fall sore remark that they might twist and turn until they mado {t appear that the court was | prejudiced.” Denying that he was employed by Spreckels, Honey declared that these charges had’ already been disproved and that his appointment as aw ant district attorney was made at the request of William Randolph Hearet and other disinterested parties, ee ees * * * Sunday's A-Y-P, E. Attend. * * = ance, * * Yentopday's admissions, *® Total since opening . ‘ * * RRR HARK juydam, Grocer; for the defense and | The jury in the Calhoun case at San Francisco, which disagreed on a verdict, ending a trial which + Peter Anthes, Miner; Michael ineer; Joe. Granville, Ma- Hildebrecht, Designer; FIRGT CAR IK LONG RAGE AT WALLA. WALLA Ford Number Two Crosses Into Washington and Is Due to Arrive in Seattle WALLA WALLA, Wash, June 21.—-The Ford car No, 2, which in leading in the coast-to-coast auto mobile race, arrived here 6:45 o'clock thie morning and, after Driver Bert Beott and Mechanic | Charles Smith, the occupants, had |breakfasted, immediately departed for Beattl Scott says he should reach the [exposition city either tomorrow inight or early Wednesday morning |The drive from Baker City, whieh \place the car left yesterday after boon, was made without mishap. | However, the car bears many patches, showing the numerpus breaks that have undergone repal though it fs still in good running jcondition. The party Jeft here at 8:15, after a few minor repaire were made. The Ford ear No. 1 ie 24 hours behind the leader, Shawmut at Baker, BAKER CITY, Ore, June 21.— The Shawmut car in the ocean-to- |ocean automobile race reached this jelty at 8 o'clock this morning. Acme Starts Again. LARAMIR, Wyo. June 21.—The Acme car in the ocean-toocean race, which has been delayed at Bosler, 26 milos west of this city, wince Friday, having a shaft re paired, took a fresh start yesterday jatternoon, Since then no word | from the party bas been received { WIN IGHT ON j | WAITERS FORCE H, L. JAFFE | TO RETRACT STATEMENT ABOUT THEM. The waiters of the city are now jubilant, claiming that they have |won @ signal victory over Herbert L. Jaffe, of the College Inn. Jaffe fe blamed for a statement publish ed June 15, stating that since the walter had suddenly sprung up on all sides, and was reaping a yor itable harveat from the gullible public The waiters of the city took of. fence at the alleged interview, and vowed to make Jaffe apolégize or call & walkout on his house. Jaffe failed to do this and the waiters at College Inn walked out last Saturday afternoon, just before the buslest time of the day : At 7 o'clock Saturday evening it ie sald that Jaffe, fearing an empty house, sent for the waiters’ com mittee and signed a paper to the effect that the statement as pub lished in an evening paper were not his views on the subject; and alao stating that ff he did accel dentally make a statement similar to the one quoted it was to be taken jas not authentic, | WICKERSHAM COMES WEST. WASHINGTON, June 2t.—Als jka Delegate Wickersham left yes \terday for Seattle en route to Fair banks, Alaska, Tomorrow or Next Day.| COLLEGE INN advent of the exposition the greedy | ONE CENT BEATEN ALMOST 10 DEATH AND. AOGB OF ALL tl MONEY GERMAN VISITOR IS VICTIM OF BRUTAL AND BOLD ASSAULT AT BITTER LAKE EARLY THIS MORNING. entliRiennitianaticiaminias | Crawls to the Interurban Car and Then Falls Uncon- scious and Is Brought to the City, and, While in a Semi-Conscious Condition, He Tells a Meager Story of the Assault and Robbery. ; Walt Cerman, wan eeaulted and bea over c i with a gun and rotbed of & check for $2,000 and $200 in cash, jar partner, Albert Btowken, was | prob murdered and also robbed jin the woods near Bitter lake thig morn vy alieged real estate Imen ff Beattie | Antone. who le ng in & precari- ous condition the efty hospital and who can speak but little Bng- Heh, says that he and hie partney } met the real estate men by appoint. | ment to look over some farm lands Peter Didrikson Found Bit by bit between groans, and in jbroken English, the sorely stricken Dead and Letters He mn wammered forth hie story i : We had seen one of these men Left Will Result in an In- poycras times betore,” he sald, “and ‘at wishing to locate on some farm vestigation. landa which they sald they knew of, a we arranged to meet them near Bit+ ter jake. Under clreumstan which Coro: | nok the car thie morning and ner J, C. Snyder believes warrant t “ 4 thorough investigation, Peter} |, , rand laos tate via ake Didrikson, & Norwegian, 64 years \. : 4 ed nothing but thought was a long way He Is Assaulted. idenly the two men attacked old, died In & room at 316% Yesler | ,, Way last night. The body was) found by Andrew Sater, the propri-| etor, shortly before noon today | | Didrikson cording to the pro- | me beat me brutally over the | prietor, had been under a course of | head with a revolver, I fell uncon- | medica! treatment at the hands of | scious and then they robbed me of the State Medical Institute, with | all my savings which I had in my | offices at Washington st. and Sec pocket, amounting altogether to ond &Y, south, Among Didrikwon’s | $2,900. 1 lay for a moment and then effects were found two letters from | came to realize that the fiends were the Btate Medical Institute. The | chasing my partner through the ' first one, received June 9, reads a8| woods. 1 remembered that at the | follows moment they attacked me he had | He Is Threatened. | started to run, and now I euppose “The medicines prescribed for | ‘Ny have killed him.” | you the last time you called at bod Walter then made his way by office must be used up by thin | *hort crawls te'the car terminus of time if you began thetr use prompt. the Everett Interurban and was ly and have since been taking them | »*lped onto the cer. regularly and according to direc News of the attack was telephoned tions. It is our desire to have you|‘'® Ballard-and the police met the cured of your troubles at the very | Cat and-to@ie the half dead man to jearlient possible time, and for this | the stations Here he received medt- reason we do not want you to miss | cal aff mn@'waw sent to the city hos & single dose of medicine until we | Pita! fn at ambolanee, ‘ pronounce you cured. Then you| A sheriff # pose tx en route to may rest assured that your trouble Bitter lake jwill not return in the future, But| Walter says that lis partner had do otherwise, and as sure as night @ check on @ Ban Francisco hanks for jfoliows day, serious complications , $4,000, and 36,000 In cash. He was |are bound to arise which will make | “ble to give @ meager description of your cure difficult, {f not impos-| the robbers. j sible to restore your health, Trust- z ing that you will abide by advice | contained herein and to neglect! yourself no longer, we remain, “Professionally and sincerely yours, “STATE MEDICAL INSTITUTE.” The second letter writtén under| date of June 16, Inst Wednesday, reads as follows: Another Letter. “We are certainly surprised that you have not called in the office long ere this. We trust that you will not think of stopping treatment at this time, and we shall hope to see you in the office in order that you may continue the treatment to |a successful lasue, and you may rest assured that we will give your ease our special attention and | bring you out a sound and well man lat the very earliest poselble day | Hoping to see you in a few days } time, we remain, “Professionally and sincerely yours. “STATE MEDICAL INSTITUTE. Andrew Sater, the proprietor, who found the body, thie noon stat ed to Coroner Snyder that Didrik- SHOW GOOD PROFITS FOR BUSINESS DONE FIRST MONTH, The immense business being done | by the shows on the Pay Streak at the A.-¥.-P. exposition, which ig | breaking all records for an amuse~ ment street doing its first month's '| business, is shown by the report complied by the department of con- ceastons for the first 12 days’ busi- ness. The big attractions, such as | the Scenic Railway and the Oriental) Village, did more than $8,000 bust- ness during the first 12 days of the | ’ fair, and all the big shows show po te aa last night in the ad hatuin Approximate ae tee, |The smatier shows, with an invest- . or wi oat Coroner Snyder will hold a pos iat DDE Go greek, all 4i4 a week | mortem examination of the body to | morrow morning, in order to ascer tain the cause of death “Many complaints have reach- ed my office since | became coroner, of state medical o business and are in a flourishing | financial condition. The early sue- cess of the shows along the Streak | has resulted in numerous applica. tions for concessions, show men who cern operating in Seattie, | were dub about Investing large From an examination of Didrik. | Sms at the exposition now falling over one another to get a chance son's body | am unable to state at this time whether he came to his death from natural causes or died because of some injuri | ous drug.” | Didrikson w » baker. He came to Seattle five years ago andup to | within a few months followed his trade. He is survived by relatives lin Chicago. The body will be held at the undertaking establishment of Butterworth & Sons pending the along the Pay Streak. GET MANY DESIGNS FOR SEATTLE BUTTON Four hundred designs have been submitted to the A.-Y,-P. day com- mittes of the Chamber of Commerce in the competition for a button ‘ 4 trom the relatives. arrival of word from the relatives. | vittanie for advertising the day, | Tonight at § o’clocR the time mit | expires and tomorrow the judges will begin thelr examinations. . Hu | The case ot K. Hirade, tho | SY" bye Sie lay hi ap asthe wealthy Japanese merchant of Be I sin ghae will ‘vialt Sp Ry - re fattle being detained at the Cana lien Pactfie extheltior = rine hg }dian border by fmmigration offi-| o. ‘the Po i Ah, SIriving, clals for alleged connection with a | Seattle about August 2, bawdy house, is now being consid 4 ered by immigration officials, now % KKK KEE EE ay at Vancouver, In whose hands rest | ) BANK CLEARINGS . his fafe, The local officers have 2 forwarded all of the evidence In|* » Seattle, * thelr possession > statement | * Clearings today L* could be gained from the local do-|* Balances ........ * tention station as to the probable|* Tacoma, * outcome of the case. ® Clearings today.. .$1,097,614.00 % saan * Balances 85.00 Ballinger Receives Degree. \* Portland, * MIDDLEBURY, Mass., June 21.—|* Clearings today... $1, * | Secretary of the Interior Ballinger | % Balances ..¢ ree a degree of LLD, at Wil |® Hams’ college today, Ceeeeerereeeeeene |