The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 23, 1909, Page 1

TA NO. 104 TEN PAGES SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, W EDNEBDAY, JUNE 23, 1909, TEN PAGES ONE CENT “ORD NO. 2 > WINS RACE | r — IS WHAT APPEALED TO FRENCH ARTIST AT EXPOSITION t WITNESS [5 SILENGED BY BY LOUIS CANTELOU. (French caricaturist who ie pic- turi ve A-VeoP. impressions for The To feats your exposition ex ceeds all words of admiration I have at my command; to picture it as a whole would be a task of years; so it must be that i confine myself to a representation of lt- tle groupe and incidents, few jamong the many that formed be | fore my eyes as | wandered about |the magnificent grounds. Your | totem pole combined with the Ort} t Had Money cata! pagoda effect, and to this | Black Hand Murder Trial Death, But {rcscsaions of plenty as traits, Suddenly Halted When His Body trvinnce, thorousily American || Mysterious Signal Is Giv- in Lake Union. reece Sous bok et] en Man on Stand. & cosmopolitan stroke of genius. — this bringing of the old of Asia, pent el nag Avrsd the barbarian of the north, and the ie | present day civilization in rela (By United Drees) CHICAGO, June 13.—The trial of on yesterday Joseph Bertucel, on a charge of afternoon. |tiouship 20 close murder, suddenly halted in Judge foul play? | Your Forestry building 1s well) windes court here yesterday when Dolice place little | wort the journey from Paris. To| 41, ttalian entered the court jan Buropean who treasures every | : F theory, there|irce like so much gold it appeals | 024 Waved @ handkerchief at Bruno & pp | Nardi, the star witness for the Surrounding the /as a reckless dieplay of arboreal eo had font takea the olhnd wealth. But it is beautiful, bean-|" who had just taken the stan tiful, indeed. I have seen most to tell of the murder. The goknown Jot what the world bas to offer In| !talian fled from (he court room architecture, the symphonies in| “fer giving his stenal of warning carved stone that abound In Ew} Nardi re a 4 se plows ea rope, the gorgeous splendor of | Westions asked by the prosecutor jAsiatic palaces, but none has *4 r tenth struck me with so primitive a de kame Nght as your Forestry buliding SOLD SUBURBAN LOTS WITHOUT PROPER TITLE room Was found near the br It was removed Making establishment of Y, at Fremont own Schultz jeft the Olive Happy morning at & Mat time he had $40 Pocket. W the from the Inke ma single five found on his per Fight hand trousers Inside out fied against The fear was expressed by Nardl's wife material witness, and the | prosecutor was forced | the trial. In the ing made to find the jgave the mysterious paled the lips of the chpal witnens siso a meantime efforts are be Italian who signal that state's prin Clatming that William H. Whiet which he} eens. Hr ee te Fanute brom this morn.| WILL WELCOME examination no! i. tied information against Whist-| PRISON WORKERS Were noticed en t charging that he had obtained however, will make ‘ oeithaes. - Mim committee on tation of the body f The fh an effort to detin egal edad ns at the cause of death : a P the iy to Seattle from | which is to me Mate, last Wednesday. | 14 to 19, was the home of Frank Mr. Fairbanks in Korean Capital.|). \iavor Miller. Ax soon as | nad av. The next) sfOUL, Korea 23,—Ex| sible the committee will arrar oom at the home| vice President "Chark Warren | details of the local rece war by, and left) Fairbanks and Mra Wholextended the visltors. Dr Blown at 10 o'clock arrived y rda tour of the |jy named ae chairman #0 get his baggage. Orient d to the em t keen of him today by Vis Was dragged from t resident rnoon BMA cukcH arrange reception for thé American Prison association in Seattle, August day appointed menta osit on some conventi Park ption to be TARGET PRACTICE AT FORTS. (By United Press.) FORT CASBY, Wash,, Jum Target practice with the big mor tare and disappearing rifles w take place at the forts on the | during the Target practice usually draws a number of visitors to the various posts THINKS PROWLER MAY HAVE SHOT AT HIM»: Conrad Michael, doorkeoper of the Lolse theatre, is puzzling his | wits today in an endeavor to figure |whether a shot was taken at him or some other person shortly after 1 o'clock thie morning. Japanese (YSSINN'S KING 1 REPORTED DEAD gat Ualted Press ) ROME, Jane 23 Reports from MOY, Cai, Juy Abyssinia state that King Menelik Hho Alleghany-Downie-|{s dead and that Empress Tatty ts Miles from he in charge of the government. The! iB lote highwaymar, cosages say that the king's death Mere of $200 tn cosh is being kept secret while the em-| f WY, G04 carried press is organizing the new regime Stpress box cont and making her posttion secure Bherit? Walker Officials here are not inclined to the bandit. The belleve the report until verified, but Biowt daring road 11 is generally believed that Menellk ted In the weat n very poo alt ‘ot yet|. Michael was just about to enter teriedier "a M not yet! ii, residence, at 423 Seneca st ee SOUR While Kearse = when he hegrd a revolver fired near hhh * hee eek tte him. Michael turned and saw a man standing In the shadowa, But no further shot was fired. week * * * IRRIGATION TONIGHT, * «Irrigation will be allowed to * night only i * » * * * * * * * *| from 7 to 8:30. Bon Ingures Father. EOAST meters also. #| BARTLEBVILLM, Okla,, June jon, to. * * * * * V Woderat+ 1 applies to No irrigation will be allowed mtil |—Harrlson Day, 20 years old, last night perhaps fatally wounded his father, James Day, The elder Day had bitten off a joint of one of the son's Gngers during a quarrel, further notice. lL. B. YOUNGS, Supt SHWH HH OI III AIT A H h WARNING BELIEIED HEAT WAVE. “TO AILUING BY SCORES - | Suffering | in ed York In- tense—Hundreds Sleep in Open Air—Hottest of Weather in Frisco. j } (iy United Prem) by NEW YORK, June peredna are dead and peores pre trated today na the result of three dayn’ sweltering heat in New York eity, Suffering je intense on the crowded east wide, where the pov erty stricken inhabitants are un able to buy ice at t prohibitive rate of 40 cewte per 100 pounds Thousands of persons slept in the parks, on roofs and on the sands of Coney Island fast night a ¥aln attempt to alleviate thelr eufferings It ie catimated that 20,000 person slept outdoors at Coney Island last night At 3 o'clock this morning the mer joury counted to §1 degrees and stead limbed upward, Later in the day the heat became | unbearable Conditions on the enet side beg gar description. At every window & head on a pillow might be seen af mothers, bent up lives of their Tittle upon the sidewalks. Matireases were ewn slong thé streets wotl) they resembeld large bedrooms, and scores of heat vit tims lay upon the bare eldewalke The most the poor residents of th waa the Incre in th sooner had the heat the elty than it wns }40 cents per 100 pounds would be for fee, which had pre viously been sold for 35 cents. Fourteen crue) blow dealt ans wide tee of tee. No wave gripped announced that Hot In San Francisco, BAN FRANCISCO. the hottest day Ban Francisco ha need for five years, according to an anno ment made from the United 8t weather bu At ne the thermometer red degrees, which an increase of 22.5 degrees the temperatur d for ame day Iast year All the ba near test day of the At the Chabot yeervatory in Oakiand the ther ter reached 92 degrees before to adjourn | FRANCISCO, Juno 24 Ruth. co) or uneot scious in Steiner at. toda He waa treated at the Central mergency hospital, where it ed he will reco PREAA AAT ARA GORE : TUESDAY'S A.Y.P. ATTENDANCE 18,168 10,411 ® Tuesday's attendance *® Total to date * ee MAY LAY TRACKS ON + seeeeee | OCCIDENTAL AVENUE There will be a special meeting yard of public st noon at of discussing the several buainews houses operating on Occidental av., who desire a spur ltrack bullt along thelr section of the street The business mon state the track is necessary for loading and wn . handive® This matter Aken up before the week ago, but was post petition of wae board a lponed on account of the absen of the chairman LUT Lee ry +9 ties * BANK CLEARINGS. a Seattle * Clearings today * Balances * Tacoma. w Clearings today * Balance “ \* Portland. \* Clearings today .,.. # Balances ....5. eseees \* eee ee BAR SILVER QUOTATIONS, NEW YORK, June 23.—Bar sil \ver woe guoted today at 52%, 0,005 009 $620,391 67,508 almost! *seeeeeeeeeeex GHINESE ADOAGGIN I Dob __ AND MAKING ESCAPE: | bicsatres of Elsie Sigel Is Thought to Have Gone South as a Woman, and! Ie Along Boundary. diy Colted Pres) EW YORK, Jone 23 —Leon ng, Cugittve slayer Of Bise Sige! Foe oP a Chifedg woman, is in 1 ng TW sofie city du the Pacific f, Weoording to the belléf foday of the "New York detectives. ‘his! vellet 16 based of the discovery | mate hy Assistant Diattict Attorney Ward todey that Ling came to the | Valted States 11 years ago with a Chltese theatrioal troupe and that} he gu adept in the art of female mpenire Wiowing this dineovery, the po- | Hee out A Hotite to authort tiem fh all payte of the country | where Chinese live to sea: the | portion of the Oriental | Where. the Women are hidden belleg@ that udiess Ling is found on the Pacific coast he will be locategeaither in Galveston or New Orleahe, where the Chinese colonies are quarter They Various Tips Followed, The theory of Ling’s fighi. accepted as most course of probable by the police is that he went from} Wasttington to New Orleans and was Mumagiod Into Mexico, It is thou@$t that he then re-entered this countty through end Was then soruggled Frang¢isco. Ling's membership in the Gee Clong Tong, a revointionary society, would ,be a great aid to bim if be fed Over the course named. T offleere think that he represented hinagit to be an agent of thie ton: and thereby persuaded hin fello comntrymen to conceal his move monte. from his pursuers Tragedy jn Re-enated. Reewnacting the tragedy of the murder of Elste Sigel, the white misslopary, by Leon Ling. her Chi nese admirer, Chung Sin, who wit nossed the crime, today demonstrat ed (6 the pollee what took place in hie friend's room on the night of Jahe § Ching showed how he had peep of through the key hole of his room adjoining that occupied by Ling and the girl, and declared that he saw hia connutryman strangling Mine Sigel with @ handkerchief. He r alfirted ail of hie statements made to District Attorney Jerome yeate day, bat refused to reveal anything bewW although he w eweatod constantly by the detectives Gubjected to Third Degree, Afier making the demonstration in Ldhg’s room, where the murd took place, Chung was removed to polle@ headquarters. wher he iden@tied the trunk in which the gir’é body was hidden. He also Identified th nket it which the corpse was wrapped. Detectives, who are attempting to extrdct farther information from the Chinese, have not allowed him to rest since he was taken Int custody, They have worked tn r lays, one ting while another kept Chung anaw & queations mited in the y that l they in the into San canvas | tactics finall These ta in re prisoner's confes sful has Alla Robert Gus atulati Bo wae est from the effic;” anid during th hinpafter th bi day, “that ont doubt 1 range for a similar cont from 110% 1am delighted with the in while th ic ve Was t nd fe pald in ¢ cong that too much eannot ymmendation of the d of the different ran, Of course ers and mechantes tha’ the car made the themaelve me in f of credit ORR * NO WORD FROM THE * SHAWMUT, *® Nothing been heard from # the Shawmut, the car which # “was sitpposed to be able to fin * ish second In the New York to ® Heat tle race. ® §=The last report of the * mut was when It tore out of * * * * * * * * Shaw Ellensburg at a terrific rate of speed In an almost hopeless en to catch up with the No, 2 at 6 o'clock Jast night At 1:30 this aft oon tio Shawmut had not sed © Novttt Bend * deavor Ford +eeeeeeeeeee Lower California | and the others of | would RO AOI tt tot exposition gates Hlong racing car |grounds was thrilling. The crowd | 4 | began collecting MAKES GREAT TRIP ACROSS THE AMERICAN CONTINENT Crowds on Streets and at Exposition Cheer the Winner and Drivers— Record Is 23 Days. Gcean to ocean race is finished, Ford ear No. 2, with Bert Scott and Frank Gmith, driver and mechanic, aboard, amid deafening cheers, slowly rotted through th of the A-Y-P, exposition grounds at 12:56 o'clock this afternoon, and the great rece was over—all but the cheering. Worn out and dusty, TOHD~ DRIVER SCOTT AND MECHATI FORD CAR NO, 2, WHICH WON THE NEW YORK-JO-SEATTLE with faces RACE, Ah * * * *® * HISTORY OF RACE. * * * *® Start—New York city hall, ¥ *% 1 o'clock p, m., June Tet. * * Startere—Fords 1 and 2, ® * Acme, Shawmut, itala, Stearns. © * Where They Dropped— ® Stearns, in Kansas; Itala, in & * Wyoming; Acme, in Wyoming. ® * How They Finished—Ford © *% No. 2, Shawmut, Ford No. 1, ® * Place—Main gate A-Y-P. * Time—1 o'clock p ® June 23. % Length of Race—3,055 miles, ® * * * * Time Consumed—23 days ® * )ORIVUR —— RA MESSER MECHANIC exactly. THE SHAWMUT, WHICH 16 PICKED TO FINIGH SECOND, WAS LAST HEARD FROM AT ELLENGBURG YESTERDAY AFTER. NOON, * RRR HE all the way out through the residence section of the city through which the winning car passed on ite way to the exposition inds, had walted for more than half an hour efore the siren that serves as warning of the approach of Chiej Bringhurst’s car walled out the word that the big race was nearly over, Sidewalks Crowded, Hefore 12 o'clock the curbs and sidewalks had become filled with people, and as the hour grew towagg 12:50 the throng swelled out Into the street. Early reports had ft that the winning car would reach the city about 12 o'elock, and as that hour passed rumors made thelr way up and down the streets that an accle dent had happened, Then some onp with a full grown tmagt n start- ed the story that the Pord No, 2 and the Shawmut car had passed through Renton Junction running “neck and neck Following rumors came patrol, followed by a low land Pike et nany authentic reports from Renton, then racing car, containing Robert Gug 9 of people, First came the from The Meadows, and afterwards xonheim, hie wife, and secretary nt chief to as from Georgetowg. “These reports Then ih known |fite department > aroused the interest of the throngs throughout the contest as Ford No. te f people lining, the streets and the winner, the car that stood | geted as pilot rowding into Fortson place, ang one of the greatest tests an auto Then the when the long drawn wail of the fire mobile was ever put to. Stripped! the fire chief's 1 chief'« siren arose above the din of ab every ghted of attra weight 0041 tre credo oe the traffic and the crowd, the cry of iaared for notion, the du dirty |" Phe winning ¢ Here they come” arose from a thou- car waa. the most pleasing sight to| with dust en sand throats, and then changed to a 1s who have watched with | Somseasing, but the ct vniseg Cheer a8 the gallant little racing ma- the race from New| hine with its escort sped through Sik tabled te osame the narrow fenced with human > had sat Md tin just 2% day : , Delnge at a speed of about 20 miles winner by 0° | power an hour Be etl dy knows th eer the Winner. are that formed the escort during Foltow ta Hor Wake All the way through the South Ena@ he triumphant Jast quarter fol streets, up Becond ay,, and across on 4 into the exposition ig | Wer tt es Pike and thence to the exposition he fue t grounds the stregts were lined with as this ering pe ople, and as the cars . p before the the greatest cheer of all wer » the car that first aut ‘ CONTEST WINNERS ARE NAMED TODAY = — OP eae “ The Star's contests are be | Tt haniclan and shook their handa,| SMing famous, and Judging About the f 1 Scott had! fom the accumulation of mail | will upon. th awaiting the Contest Editor's trying Mast arrival this morning, “The Ser- | the naka Sa toant te ninatoe vant in the House” contest will |columns of tne paper, Your an- Really the hap man of all| Prove MO exception to the rule, swer must be sent in before noon win 3. 0, VaR tht ? th answers being received from |tomorrow, and to the twelve send: , people of all and ail jing { orrectly erranged aud He moet the winner at th pas atuatea . Summit Inet night and traile Among : re igs ie iF eka ts renare with the leader from th t Lavavas perfori lee eR RRR Re stained by travel, the weary driver st. and responded with amniles as the crowd cheered and cheered again, as the slid over the line and the contest of speed and en urance Was won. * Ford car No. 2 won the ® ocean to ocean race today by crossing the ribbon at the A * YP. E. gates at precisely | ® 12:56 p. m, A Thrilling Seene, |® Total elapsed time from the & start was 23 days and 52 min ® utes. The total time consumed in * racing wae 20 days da 52 & minutes, three days being al. potion patro’ car | lowed for control 4 " a gates hag \OK The winner was driven by the way for the Ford ear, the crowd | © Bert Scott, with Mechanician Increased every minute. When the | 4 Charies Smith ae his partner. winner of the great race hove tn sight the cheering began and lasted | * ** RR ARARA RRR eRe until every car in the escorting party had entered the grounds and disappeared from sight of the gates on their way to the Stadium. The seene at the exposition around the gates shortly after 11 and from that the on until the big charged up to ee ee eee ERE Ee safe paneage ination. Crowds Cheer. 1 proach of the and as a result Becond ay Entrance Spectacular, The entrance to the crounds was | wore Firat in line WA8 | winnor these very spectacular the poll were lined with the car two ahead eager intere After Fo under the worth and the gr lane wire th w many length ' { general consra ’ extended by all the official the A-Y.P, E. in the New York buflding When the car stopped within gates W. M. Sheffield of the « the ¢ atulations of the exposi company to Bert Scott, the driv consisted contest the officta Mr. Robert Guggenheim and compan sentence In today's paper fs d of thirteen words, which found scattered through art- icles referring to “The Servant tn House,” and in the amusement and omy » AY Was a com lap over very poo owner 0 all th to th found and placed the words of the ce contained in the Monda of the paper. To those ter therefore, will be given a pair of OF the Deawtitel 1666 lees Density Catherine Conroy, “The Servant In the House Raith We Dace in ye suthel th Lochow, day's paper was ty not 80 | Mes Le » 2 difficult to pick out, as dozens of IN) corgect answers lrave been recety a c ed, As yesterday t includ: | x haw wou ed only twelve pairs of Mrs. Hb. Ha A. Ry Giles. entirely correct Be Wet morn) hme selected, and to make up the balance | Mrs. J, MeRvoy Pearl Kottenstein of the seats for the Sunday evening | John Kelley & Pain om) performance Mrs. ©. Ht Miss Sal seven’ n of thos sending in correct answers Mrs. W. A, mund leader tho! terday's hidden word the Fire Depart! be given seats for th darted up the/day evening tide flats, then A celebrated critic for the n poet Profon-| publications in the Rast says that crossing| this 1@ a remarkable play and the flattering press notices given to it all over the country proclaims the fact that it is one of the very best attractions that has veen at jance h be aeoUr Moore theatre this season, inauc aphone anking for bi nd ae the course of the leader performance was traced fr play 1 early The pas: sentence contai Helland A Brennan s conte Murris Speeds Toward City, eats, twelve anawers have been next report came fr which town the leade t The next report ¢ Annet, through at 11 and then Georgetow to yes contest will play on Sun under ment Bringhurst plank road over the trical pening ip to Yeoler way, d Raster, taine place Jamon st into Becond av at 12:96 Second av, Pthe st, and other thoroughfares through which the car have to to get to the beon cleared) the Mies Irie Grows will be given the Sunday evening perte 1 by calling at The urday between the and 8 p.m pass seen had he SE RES ES