The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 22, 1909, Page 1

Remains of Girl Murdered Brings Testimony. ieee: ) JORK ine #2.—Bul , down under a exam ton by the the , a Chinese, that he saw Leon Ling, | to death jef in hie 4 a keyhole from room. | Siinsiion, and finally! ss the Chinese to tell the/ h Bisie arrived in + £8 0% Jine § He voluntartiy and fag. Lio in the reom.| he ! tpoughout and finally went to io Leon Was in the room we wes pert to Ling’s,”| meant 1 Wooked through | . “geteral during m * 1 heard a through the Ling Killing the her on the bed her with a fight > and to do with the | Kept at the stockade but they have/city’s criminal men and with only | to} through the} sotne | think it was) 22.—Caimly many love Sigel, whose fh a room Chu Gain, a ae a witness at | r the girl's remains | iWiee } that he had never | ‘Sigel, who ot Major Gen Meran of the Civil le hever made love sald that she he was with mother his ree he was he was not the Sigels at Hackettown, Went to Co Sigels’ frequent Chu said , Mra. Sige! to my ree once each of the girl's Visited them ‘Were on close 1 met them - Y | the cor Gain be held fo aasure his fur ? Released, ADY, N. Y., June 22 r of Elsie murdered in New aly by Leon Ling, for te in ali parte of the ‘searchin, | | Shu Hop, . the murderer, | fought, Hop} because hin Brion ¢ fo that of Ling. He afternoon — Let off, B.C., June 22.~ om but that a yesterday in the al on the. ©. P| Ling, the of Blaie Sigel e here state was a harm-| Way back to} th on hi trains are being | orev detectives, 7 3 a } Missionaries, Of Miss Elsie sive fo have fallen a| admirer, Helen F. Clark. of the Clark | #, today decried 0 mission ‘QWarter, aries are Men than Jerome conduct: | | ranged that a space of two feet is/| ithe lower bunks being almost shut TEN PAGES {Women Are Indignant Over Scheme of City Of-) ficials Which Has Just Now Developed. , BY BONNIE | 1 | wentyfour women prisoners | herded small bunk house, and this small bunk house only a fow feet away from those occupied by the efty’s criminal men, fa the condition that will exist unless something t# done to prevent It When the eity prison stockade on Beacon hill is completed, In al | Week or #0, according to a state | ment made by Mayor Miller and jother officials, twenty-four of the} Women prisoners are to be moved j out to the elty’s “open ar” prison. | Will Have no Matron, There without a matron they jare to serve their time. No place | jhas been provided for a matron }and so she ts to be done away with, }in all probability, Bunks for three guards have been placed by the jside of the kitohen but no place | whatever has been planned for a matron. There has been no denying on | the part of the mayor and other etty ofttetals that women are to be | WHEELER into a elie Mi. wy | | aa! WOMEN’S BUNK HOUSE TO THE LEFT IN THE PICTURE. just neglected their reports, to mention it in three guards |e even contemplate Mra. Catherine Stirtan, one of Something must be done and the the foremost women workers to Women's clubs have taken the mat better prison conditions, reported |ter under advisement. Mayor Mil the matter to the women’s clubs ler, when interviewed by Mra and things have been stirring ever Stirtan, expressed no surprise but since. sald that the women must work The conditions, if allowed to ex- as well as the men. What work ey bg be appalling. All the oust they will do was not stated. the women's clubs will be for naught. The conditions that exist Move Not a New One. ed at the county jail in former ad That the decision to move the mintatrations will be repeated, It women into the stockade is not a is small wonder the women of Se | new one was shown by an exam attle are up in arme. |tnation of the blue prints by which jthe buildings were constructed Women Herded Together, §— | Those show the plans for women's Twenty-four women in a small quarters, And the carpenters in bunk house, twelve by thirty feet charge stated yesterday that the and eight feet high. To be herded quarters for the women were to be like cattle in this small space {s just the mame aa the two bunk bad enough but when the arrange houses for the men with the one ments for ventilaten are consid: exception that the lumber with ered the situation becomes fright-| which the bunks were constructed ful | was a better grade of lumber, with The ventilation consists of eight | pot so many “slivers” In It small windows each one and one! No sepa tables for the third feet square, covered with | women are provided in the plane screening, and placed directly Op-|in fact the announcements have posite each other, and a row Of been that 72 meu were to be kept small the cetling and within the city prison stockade floor, .two inches aquare. | But the blue prints, the statement In this house, with only of the carpenters at work on the 8 few inches of air, twenty-four of | pulidings, and that of Mayor Miller the city’s wafortunate women are jand other officials would Indicate to be housed for months at a time. | that 24 women and 48 men are to be Beds Too Narrow. kept within the stockade unless jsomething is done to prevent such Bogen: through ~~ M wp: Ne a state of affairs. @ building are the bunks. ey F are in tiers of three and are so ar Women’s Clubs Aroused. too revolting allowed from each wall. The! going to do about this? Juat walt women who occupy the upper!and see. They are aroused and the bunks will be within two feet of city officials will have to account the zine roof. Each woman will|to them. Not long ago the women have a bed two feet wide and sx sought a winning fight against the feet long, and the beds have only gwful condition that existed among a low board dividing them. Thit the women prisoners who were arrangement makes the two beds) ,ept in the same quarters as the practically in one, the women On| men, before Bob Hodge was sheriff This time the same conditions have not been allowed to secure a fe thold but the victory will be just as far-reaching. CARBOLIG.AGID off from the ventilation except what they can get through the small holes near the floor, There are absolutely no accommodations and the women must Iny their clothing on the floor, as there will be no place provided. There is not a single place where a moment's privacy can be had. The condi tions that will exist when these women are herded in with the Star Starts A Man in Business Read the classified testimonial on page 6. You can see how easy it is to make money if you get started right and advertise in the right paper. Watch that space daily. There is the spot where you get the news. AND FINDS LIFE NOT WORTH LIVING. Despondent because of a quarrel ahé had with a young man, Har riet Weininger, & young worman landed her life in room 701 of the Plaza hotel, at Westlake ay, and | Pine st, shortly before 4 o'clock thie morning. A half ompty bottle jot carbolic acid was found on the floor of the room. The girl came here from the east several months ago, and since her rival appeared to be despondent \Barly this morning the man and | girl engaged {n & wordy battle, and lin a rage the girl is said to have |gone to a drug store for the acid [The body was found thie morning by @ chambermald, The remains | will be held at the undertaking }tablishment of Butterworth Bons, pending a search for | Uves, lh kk RIO I tk & rela * | MONDAY'S EXPOSITION \* ATTENDANCE, \® Monday's admissions. . 16,048 #® Total since the opening 498,255 \* | ROR ROR ROR ROR RR * * * * * What are the women of Seattle | ENDS HER LIFE |GIRL QUARRELS WITH MAN| w | kane. %| the train at the depot the coach In} da ITION CO TV SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1909, PLAN TO HERD WOMEN WITH MEN IN STOCKADE BANDITS HOLD UP Five Masked Men Raid C P, R. Passenger Train (iy United Press.) | | for INTERIOR VIEW OF WOMEN’ QUARTERS SHOWING BANKS AND NARROW WINDOWS. SUNYDEN NOT VANCOUVER, B.C, June 22 The Canadian Pacific Express, No 97, to the coast, was held up by five masked Dandits at Kamloppa, this had evidently mists large qWantity Of sliver to thiy Whed the error wae discovered ugde thelr escape in Shudwap lake, and a large posse ie now tm hot pursuit Bo far as known here roybara wee Ducks ng. The the carrying mo men en train which Was a they in a boa the would be ured no todt Owlhge to a wreck on the train Né, $7 and train No changed achedulos. the worth sbamt $50,000, was The rabbers let No prairie and allver bh the lat ter 0 go un | molested, bot made an onsiaught| breaking | on the shad} car of No, 97 © the doar with axes. The @ar was a “dend-head and thetbandits, evidently frighten ed, madb away di when they found @ut thelr mistake Five Killed in Wreek VANOOUVER, B.C Bulletiat-Five men were & Wreck on the Canadian Pacific June 2 killed In WINNING 0 MANY VOT Appears to Have Stopped in Race for Honors— Governor to Recom- mend Impeachment. —— (Star Specia! Service.) OLYMPIA, Wash. June The preliminary battle over the contro) f the special seasion of the leet | ture will be the fight tomorrow for | the organtzation of the tive houses, The Hinyden forces have | ttle headway in their car palgn (0 oust Speaker Melee the ant!-Ruth faction In the senate beginning to make a formidable ja splay of strength in support Senator Rosenhaupt for pre that body | As inatters now stand, the senate | contest te very clowe and will be de- | cided by the votes of Benatore Abie | Bair, Davie and Stewart Allen wante his ¢ mittee } tinued and Ruth te opt policy, but Allen wants to vote for Ruth for president in return for Ruth's action in naming him on the mittee, made eed to can cauew aid the three eimitar abut * whut vertheloas, Allen does not want | Huth elected. Biatr, Stewart and] Davie are claimed by both factions An offort fe betng made to have the senate fight settled in republt which we wt | democratic members , A} | effort in the h » would out seven democrats, of « for Molge | committee's report and the} © © in the prt The report le a re J eltal of facte without recommenda- tions exeept that the probe be con- tinued. The meseage urges Schive- lye Impeachment esentative Palmer of King. who arrived here at noon today, is circulating a petition pledging members signing it to retain the old organization, make an appro | priation to continue Investigation, abolish the insurance department jand adjourn. This program without an nrance com| field for the making trust t) ation ROBBED BY A ONE BAND Armed with two big revolvers, a masked highwayman boarded a com-| bination observation and h in the Northern Pacific yarda) shortly before 11 o'clock this morn ing and compelled Grogg Willams, | the observation car porter, to turn} over at least $180 in gold and bills,| After agouring the cash the bandit locked Williams, L. H. MeDonald,} 1 colored waiter, and H. D, Wolff, cook, In th The robber then |dropped from coach and ran] toward First The hold-up occurred about one hour after Northern Paeifie train No. 17 reached Seattle from Spo After the passengers had left alx who Th vern inter’# hands re moeann are the regu and loave Insurance in would leave Agency anes fire to contin car ‘ the av }which Williams and his eompan lions were stationed was switched south to the “Y," which fs fully a from the King at, station, It j mil the robbery occurred, was here | tle gp laliPei ce reliroadypat Notch LUN, near Kam loops, tddmy. when the wheel of « frotghtytar broke and ditched sev oral Two @ the bo the wreék are evidently trampa, but one of the train crew ie missing The other two victims, whose bodies Bre still in the debria thought to be tramps who stealing & ride, _ TUNNEL 18 FLOODED. GRAND JUNCTION, Colo, June $2.—- Traffic the Denver & Ri Grande fatiroad tx blocked becaune of @ flooded tunnel at Tunnel station, 32 miles Geet f this city trains ate now tied up. ered fron are wore Twe *:| WILSON IS TO RESIGN (hy Prtted Press) WASHINGTON, June 22.— it is rumored today that James Wilson, of lowa, secretary of agriculture, will retire from public He at the end of this year, It le understood that the name of Charies E. Scott, of Karas, is receiving serious consideration. KiloWitat Lands to Be Opened, HUSUM, June The territory con thie | tpcluded Im the south boundary line of the Yakima Indian reservation ir northern Klickitat county thrown open for settlement July 3. SS a THIS S$ WAS A Robbers Money Instead of Certifi- caté for $2,000, Which! They Can Not Cash. The carefally arranged plans for a big swindle came within an ace of working In the of Antor Walter, the who German and a eortificate walt for $2,000, near Bitter terday morning It faflea in that Walter & certificate for the $2,000 Instea of the feal money, The will have @ hard time casht certificdie. It ia the bellef police and deputy sheriffs wh been working on the Walter's partner, who knowr to Walter ne Adolph Stofogen, wa aimplyothe stoerer to a gang of or ganized bunco artista who have MRS of dey Lake early yes carried robbo: th « of the case tha was a ALWA buffel| BERVANTS TESTIFY TO GOOD CHARACTER OF MISTRESS AND STAND UP FOR HER. (fy Untied Brews.) NEW YORK, June dieting witnesses who swore tha Contra t Howard Gould drank and sed profane gunge ants formerly employed at Gould testified to the good charac ter of thelr former mistress, wher called to the witness atand tn he sult for separate inaintenance to Mra. Nang of the servants testified that they had been present on oo casiona, apecitied by Gould's wit nessen times when they under the THA Searching for $50,000) Coin Placed on Another. |, near will be after WINDLE Expected to Get for tn was beatemand robbed of $200 in money | - GOULD WA heavily saw influence THE SEATTLE AING AUT SAT YAK ~ININE SHAPE Two Other Automobiles in Lower Valley Expected to Pass This Morning En Route to Seattle. (ty United Press.) NORTH YAKIMA, Wash When the Ford | which is maintaining in the oceantoocean race, arrived here at }this morning Mechanic Bmith was asleep Driver Bert Scott ly in need of sleep. almost completely exhausted by the long journey, After a stop of | two hours the car resumed ite trip| on to Ellensburg. The car wae in tairly good condition when it reach ed North Yakir Only a few minor repairs were necessary The Ford Car No. 1 and the } Shawmut machine are In the lower valley and ure expected here at} noon today The leading car scorched in Prosser last night a byst mateh on the rear of the car jamal) flame ignited the oll cover ing @ part of the machine and a blaze followed, The damage wor hardly noticeable. | June *\ a2 Car No, 2 a good lead automodl #0 o'clock | Charles wae also bad Both men are 1 was slightly when early jer scratched a} J The | TEN PAGES NO TA ON THEW Will Block “Dividend MEN ORDERED TO BUY 000 TIMEPIECES The Seattie Electric company has tusued an order requiring all motor-| men and conductors in tte employ | to purchase 17-jeweled watcher of) a standard make, whereat there te) consternation and much indignation | throughout the ranks of the 1,500 employes affected The order comes, it fa wald, as the result of a recommendation made by G. H. Drown, official watch inspec tor for the company, Mr. Brown, in- cidentally, it fs also alleged, is the proprietor of a retail watch and clock store in the Colm building And many of the Interested em ployes who must discard their old watches and spend half a month's salary for the new timepleces are Inclined to think that they are “get ting it handed to them.” Are Expensive » new watches, several jewel cannot be bought under $30) }each, which will mean a total ox penditure of $45,000, The facts in the conse have been reported to sev eral of the council members, with & request that they make an inves tigation, ae a majority of the men in the employ of the Seattle Electric | company Insist that they cannot) really afford to spend such a sum/ of money at this time, and they also) inelet that it le a needless expense, as they are not in powitions similar to those of ratiway trainmen. ——— FAILURE playing for Waiter's je lant three weeks All yesterday afternoon the dep-| uty sheriffs tramped through the | woods in a search for the scene} of the fight, but to no avail Thie morning another party of |deputies were detatled on the case and they beat the brush on all sides, but discovered nothing If Btofogen had been wounded he would have showed up by this| time, but If he were, as suspected, simply a member of the gang, then his disappearance is accounted for Recent talks the police and sher ffs office had with Walter through an Interpreter, have elie ed the fact that Stofogen he peatedly od Walter to cash the} draft for $2,000, which he carried. and that It was through influence | which Btofogen brought to bear that Walter came to Seattle. Walter is now resting easy at the city hospital and it is likely that he will be physically able take the officers to the scene of the holdup within a day or two. ee | been money have A i] t YS A LADY a of liquor. And they deny the as-| sertions in toto William M. Lynn, |the Carroll house at |Va., testified that he knew Mrs. Gould well and had dined with her. He sald that she had always | behaved in a ladylike manner and that he had no criticism to offer as to her actions. Jam R. Paulsen the “Virginian” in Farnum played in 1906, testified 1 | that he had never seen the aotor rjand Mra, Gould together except on the last night of the show's Brook lyn engagement, when he accom panied them to New York in an automobile The chauffeur who drove the car that night had tes tified that Mrs. Gould and Far num were the only passengers. propriewor of Lynchburg, | manager of | which Dustin | | tariff measure congress SENATOR BY GILGON GARDNER, ONE CENT WEALTH LOAD FOR CONSUMER AMOLS TRICK |How the Income Tax and Inheritance Tax Amend- ments were killed by Aldrich and Taft-—-House Tax” and the Burden of the Tariff Measure Will Yoke Common People and Rich Will Escape as Usual. a «< ON W. ALDRICH, | was outspoken, “It Is only anothes WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22— Way to sbift the burden of the tax The light is out in the pipes of th people who thought there wa chance for a tax on wealth in the ig about to consummate. Taft and Aldrich killed the income tax amendment at a time when it might have be come a law, and this is the story of how the “trick” was turned. The income tax is dead, there will to Taft's proposed dividend tax,” and there you are. 1 quote avery distinguished sen- ator: “There will be no tax on wealth—the burden ie all upon the) consuming public, and it is the most infamous piece of political trickery of a decad Two or three days before Taft ts- sued his “feeler” in regard to a divi- dend tax, he had been seen by Al- |drich, who was excited and scared. Aldrich Informed the president that there wag @ majority of three in favor of the income tax amendment, and that unless something was done | he amendment would pass, Aldrich Hed upon Taft to help him out of The president responded Whether the idea was his is not disclosed, but shortly after Aldrich had-diown out of the White House the dividend tax scheme was sprung on the public, Deadly Work Done. th ca the hole Refore Taft's special message rec ommending a tax on corporation incomes had h sent to congress the deadly work had been done. It had broken the forces In favor of an income tax. It had pulled away Bourne, Jones of Washington, Brown of Nebraska, Sutherland and Nelson, This meant that the Cum mine-Bailey-Borah = tax amend ment could not possibly pass The house bill contained a pro. vision for an inheritance tax, That was left out of the senate bill by | Aldrich’s committee, Senators like Commings, LaFollette and Bailey all agree that the action of President Taft in send. ing his recommendation in &@ sp message Was distinctly hosttle, have talked to them dnd the of no uncertain mind. The-repub Heans are not anxious to rush Into print with eriticiems of the White House, but they are frank enough in their ordinary speech Borah's Views. “7 have no objection to voting for} * a constitutional amendment now or any time, making an {neome tax poyond any legal question,” sald Senator Borah. be understood that a constitutional ay amendment is no substitute for genuine Income tax proposition,” , On the Borah, | Hut I want it to|® Thie applies to meters also, subject of the effect of (the proposed corporation tax, Borah to the consumer and the producer at the bottom,” sald he “If @ man’s income is $60,000 and the law |telle him he must pay 2 per cent ‘on that income to the government, there is no way for him to shift that tax, But if it is a corporation that has an income of $50,000, and the government comes along and puts a 2 per cent tax on those earn- ings, the corporation turns around and adds the tax to the price of the goods it sells, or takes enough from the wages of !ts men to make |up the difference,” Taft's Blunder. Many friends of a genuine income tax believe that President Taft has |made a very serious blunder» One republican said: “Mr. Taft is on record as favore ing 4 straightout income tax, He has said in speeches and official messages that he considered it un- necessary to amend the constitus tion in order to have a perfectly sound and legal income tax. And now, as soon as there Is danger that an Income tax law is to pass the senate, Mr. Taft rushes in with a message Asking for a constitutional amendment, and for a corporation tax tn place of ag income tax, How in the world is he to reconcile his {present conduct with his past declarations?" LR RIOR OR IOI tote * * BANK CLEARINGS. * Seattle. *® Clearings today ,.$1,8 * Balances ....... Tacoma, * Clearings today . Balances «$1,150,502 160,835 | Portland, |® Clearings today * Balances i* [RRR ERE RR PLACES BET ON HENEY, SAN FRANCIBCO, June Robert E. Batnes, a dry goods mers chant of this city, today od in | Tom Corbett’s hands $1,000 to bet at even money that Francis J. Henoy would bo elected district at- torney of San Francieco at the com- Ing election, The money was covers ed immediately, 87 4,207 KRREA AAA AAAEAE Ter ccre es * IRRIGATION TONIGHT. | Irrigation will be allowed * tonight from 7 to 8:30 only, * No Irrigation will be allowed *® until further notice. * L. B. YOUNGS, Supt. BERAHAAA AEE * RO RO OK Kk