The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 18, 1910, Page 1

SON TO ACT GUGGENHEIM Also Breaks Into Famous Case—Sen- Letters From Seattle’s City Engineer Are at Hearing at Capital — Perkins, Morgan's to Be Called to Stand. (By United Press.) HINGTON, D. #3 May 18.—The prediction that| . Perkins, of the J. P. Morgan company, auld be was a feature of the Ballinger investigation | marked “personal” and “confidential” on record | ‘committee, show that Ballinger, soon after he be- t of the interior department, was in communica- | (Perkins concerning the plans Perkins and R. H. ity engineer of Scattie, had made for a trip to summer. That Thome © will be called to the d ve | competitors The Star ‘TAR: Why An Official Want- ed Leave of Absence,” He Says. FREDERICK M KERBY, BALLINGER'S STENOGRAPHER. Documents Taft Said He Read feapondence, ch was brought out by Frederick Mormer stenographer for the interior department finger wrote a personal letter to Thomson Ma Of a visit of the secretary to Perkins a guest of Perkins at Yonkers last Sunday,” Ballin-! fe “Perkins i is the head of the Morgan company. told me he had arranged { Phis party, including fe the feasibility of exploiting ‘and other lines in w he y Sil from Seattle about the middle of Ju ITED AN ENGINEER sata i syamedegues 38 insistent th Dim who is connected in no we ith _ Failroad or other private concern whict ght in eas. wip is one of ‘Occurred to me y« 7 e “il Rot understand by this sugg ac teh abandoned hoy »¢ about ng your services in the rao” Oe feplied in a personal letter to Ball We jist wired, ‘Can arrange northert p, t na) ee one ss." { : held in ‘thi W ash ngt mi cit of) your let Went to the mayor with refer continued sy ence. I said to him that you had asked me to make Fan unknown purpose with unknown gape to an un PPagt of Alaska begin Ho my surprise this wo Most Wonderful way. F Me to tell something vould reveal the purpose, He said to me late this afternoon he had made up you wanted to catch a bunch of thieves and he} fo help, and would like to know who they were. He| wire Judge Ballinger you can go but will miss the Congress.’ Under these conditions, Judge, please @ blind letter which I can show him to satisfy his| St if not his curiosity I must confess that considerable tment and curio ing about the middle of July honor’s curiosity upon have been manifested. If you will wing Aalska this statement will be isfactory to the on’s letter <a that he expected to visit variow a ase 2, 1900, Ballinger wrote Thomson asking him to find vis Secompany Perkins, who, after ning of the in ny) “our going, was quite insistent that you assist him 4 man.” Will call on you. In the meantime, you write George Confidentially. iis address is New York, care of the Sompany, and you can state that you have written at my ¥ further information that you want from him he will ft hesitation, { have assured him be could place im in any statement you may be willing to make. Also in Confidence Beer ended his letter by saying: “I am sending you un Cover, also in ¢ y of an opinion by At t Wickersham, 1 at my request, in With the rec work, and which fully sustains Thave heretot 2 Feplying to this letter a Be OmUNg Perkins to say 1 will have a man ready upon I am not fectly clear as yet om I will send, @ Bomebod ao $90 ger wrote eas for the invitation extended the party on the Ala nt Saying he had planned to the to keep ip thanking bim and son Edward to ger declined the Former Mayor John F. Miller. and Digested in a Week that the victory comeurrence by t for what purpore. | bition fight was ur ie chy we CLOSE PLAY © Tuecday, Sept Wednesday, Sept Thureday, Sept on missions Friday, Sept. Saturday, Sept 1 of tariff board wi 6s to dinner and automobile Sunday, Sept tried to see if he} Monday, Sept. Lawler brought do spent most of the usual auto r Hallinger casé signed and sent to Ballinger his order discharging Glavis. clean bill of Praising the adm dent Taft aud defending the health and | documents which President during this very busy pamphlet in which th roximately 400 novel of tod » individual about eight less reading of eight , two solld days '3:000 MILES AFTER JOB AND GETS NONE presid celve the against the tariff bill Sherman at tributed to “false staten: inference, Sherman conmpared Ta and Roosevelt, indicating his lief that the present president | improvement over his predecessc TO PUT PHONE RATES week cover 6 finally printed th congre They amount | fave been chosen to be taken on a vacation trip| (by Cotted Press) WALLA WALLA from Owensbor and 16 hours over at $175 a month and full of deta judicial opinion wa for himself wher CONVICTS — IN PANIC: (By United Press.) res that had to be mastered It is left to the the president found the Works in a day or twe | complicated based upon them. Kentucky jobless, and without even » return of his exy | | hiring Shifley that the city charter } a that all elective Mobably will be in Seattle about July 4,” the letter con < | by the prison official guard will be history ! preceding of conviets| election appointment 4 confirmed toda Washington. | displacement 1 and a marble good neighbor Staying Away From Sche in attributed th prisoners inelined to use a tenant Sunday Extra precaution STAR CARRIER ROUTE CIRCULATION THE LARGEST IN SEATTLE Taking the statements of its prepared to prove to any merchant in the city of Seattle that its carrier route circulatign is the largest in the city of Seattle by from 3,000 to 4,000 per day. The Star’s circulation books are open to any advertiser who may desire to inspect them. HE SEATTLE THE SEATTL DENVER WET BUT REFORM ORCES WIN Judge Lindsey's “Beast NS TAF aT NOT 100 CURIOUS, SAYS JOHN M “I Had a Right to Know ONE CENT Yiws srampe to METEOR RIPS THROUGH ROO and the Jungle” Turns Red Hot Projectile Crashes Into Office Building in Tide Against Corruption in Colorado. (By Untied Prows DP VET c M 1 A A oh t ' Ben 1 wh the “Beam the Jung ing in an Easterr “e mun The rm were v r The fight before the Bpectac ular with Lane the f mous Ju he Der r heen one © hardest workers for reformer ¢ republican organ n was wamped, Seven citizen leaguerr are the fficers ‘The republican x nting on the e tatements of Lindsey | and the Jungle” art pite of ah AT CORT’S THEATRE (My United Pree > CHICAGO, May 18—The club women of Chicago won a victory for morality today, when the man agement of the Cort thea was ordered by Judge Scanlon to stop the production of a mus cal farce which the women declared im moral. Judge Scanion made an order dissolving an injunction | straining the police fr closi |the doors of the theatre The show at the play, Cort theatre & FE. synd le “G is itr but prov & for Chicago. Mr, Cort had nothing to do with the play, of course,” said Carl) Reed, manager of the Moore the-| atre here, today He ts y owner of the theatre ‘SUNNY JAMES DEFENDS TAFT (My United Press.) KALAMAZOO, Mic May 18 ration of F ne bill, Vie sident today opened th apatgn here. The rred to Taft as Aldrich Jan tariff president re ent who “doesn’t try to de The feeling ts. By ft UP TO COMMISSION A committee of three was named by the president of the Seattle Commercial Club last night to go before the state railway commis sion and ask that body to make an investigation of the increase of tele phone charges in the city of Seattle. This action was taken following a vote by the club members that an investigation be demanded, The club also decided that if it were found necessary, the club would employ competent attorneys to pre sent the telephone renters’ side of the controversy to the commission. Se es * Probably fair tonight; * * Thursday fair; light west * * winds, * eR RO RR ke will steadily for two months the » and probably th from the ¢ eiuced by Al COMET CROSSES Official Busy | suggestive in| toned down| ican taste,| Halley's comet will begin its transit across the face of the sun at 7:39:10 p. m. tonight, Pacific standard time. This is The the latest and most authentic computation, and was made by Prof. A. O. Lueschner, astrono mer at the University of Cali fornia, at the request of the | Astronomical and Astro Physi. cal Society of Washington, Bec final computation of 8:08:46 p. m. and time of egress] helion distar VASHINGTON, D. C., May 18 Capital of Kansas and Clerks Flee in a Panic—No One is Injured. (By United Press.) Le t I st € j J not ‘SUN WILL SHINE THROUGH COMET’S HEAD, SAYS GOULD 1” WASHINGTON, SEAT May 18,—“Last o'clock Jas. E. Gould, of the (i ern sky stretching F « ction gle of 20 degrees with 8 o'clock the head cro ¢ © face of the ead is so rare as t the sun's rays te thout 4 he transit one of the = things from a view, because it of the density earth to pass an approxi will take from l, depending om ng spectacle and t distance from n will steadily increase and in a s most of the tail entire comet can be seen ONLY 14,000,000 MILES AWAY. # head is today a little less than 14,000,009 miles “The tail at that time. telescopes tonight, as can focus on but naked eye w met will be xe. portion of i at a time nt people will seek for evidences wers and trical radiations. It be |STOP, THIEF! UNCLE SAM IS GOING TO STEAL PIECE OF COMET’S TAIL PASADENA, Cal., May 18—Uncle Sam is going to steal a piece of the tall of Halley's comet today. Inasmuch as the comet has several million miles of caudal appendage, it may not kick on this bit of petty larceny Members of the United States geological survey have erected a high tower at the observatory on Moupt Wiison. On this tower ‘is a plate coated with glycerine. This Blycerine will act on the fine particles of the comet's tail much as tanglefoot on the un suspecting fly After the comet has passed the glycerine plate will be taken down, the dust carefully scraped off and analyzed by the geo logists. That is, if there is any dust. ued here today set ng facts concern SUN AT 7:39 P.M. (oc), (iy United Press.) BERKELEY, Cal., May 18.— enters the comet's tail o'clock tern thickness of the of interception by 000,000 miles length of the t 20,000,000 m tance between the earth d of the comet is com- 14,000,000 miles. of the western is eati- metre located ia bul- t west are neare the tin, excerpts of which follow and the in t the latest moment that the comet was visible Nearer to Earth Tomorrow. America the photographs and| “T sest approach of the com- yservations taken along the Pa to Venus t place on May 2 coa are regarded by « n rT « rr ach t » earth ts as the most data f " ab tomorrow. Ow- comet's arent mo- age. For this reason Prof the comet at the present hner was asked to compute it wa ecessary to test the time of the passage of the nputed posit of the met by comet ac es the face of the sur bservat re 1 as ch to the passage of the earth through| transit across the sun as possible. comet's tail. T e figures are| The f position ( red for this ent out by the United Press today| purpose — wa ured yesterday Prof. A. O. Lueschner morning at the Lick observatory by The comet will be in transit|/ Astronomer Aitken, On the basis the face of the sun tonight.| Of this observation a final correction me of ingre will be 7:39:10) was pr to the adopted time of The middle of transit will be| perihelion passage and to pert- 6 p. 0 Th figures are | of the ¢ on is that the pre dard time tion of u transit is fully verified The transit, theoretically, may} The t en referred to the bservable from points enly in| time of transit and of entry by the Pacific ocean although it is to the tail of the comet as rbtful astronomers of the pre y by Leuseh ient will be able to discern the The bulletin then says the ansit comet not be nearest to the The earth will enter the tail of] earth at the © of tt wit thes et tonight a p. m, and! closest ecur @ day rge at i passing tw i tant is A te of ) mil a d therefore Ly en that : A hours longer in through | through tt ' the tall,” the tail of the comet than the f t eee comet will take in passing across | U0" "i face of the san —_ The Washington Figures. \* |