The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 16, 1910, Page 1

TA HO GETS VICE PROFITS? ‘ yOL. 12, NO. 124. ee PPEN GETS WAY; POLICE BUNGLED JOB Mystery Still Unsolved and Scotland Yard Is Denounced as Incompetent — Doctor De- to Swear That Dead Woman Is Wife of American Dentist. in the cellar Crescent, Islington, are {Ry United Pree) of No 0 July 16—Baffied at g tre bythe ingenuity of the | Mrs. Crippen. Dr. Pepper believes of the Woman supposed that the matilated remains are Hawley Crippen, former-| those of the famous singer, but he Singer of noble Polish | declines to swear to that belief. are being scored | Meantime the police are seeking and public as clumsy Crippen and his alleged companion. ho have let a criminal | Mile. Ethel Lene throug their hands Even though they have nothing Yard bas nothing but «| legally to show that Mra. Crippen Bf suspicions to enmesh Dr./ is dead, this has caused them to ‘Crippen, the American den- | postpone holding the inquest until ma they charge with the next Monday. The latest official tangible clew has | announcement from Scotland Yard alley and in dew is that Crippen fied from London ? have called | with $250 in money and $25,000 the government | worth of jewels belonging to Mrs i criminologist, to assist. Crippem. They believe that his Wen't Swear. funds soon will be exhausted, that ‘has been of little com: : Yard men, as refused to de { s lime-eaten remains | “"* concrete flooring ‘The police believ that Mile. Le neve is no longer with Crippen, if she ever was in his company. They assert that she te hiding in France. The authorities have discovered a dressmaker who declares that shortly after February 2. the day on which it is believed Mra. Crip pen was killed, Mile. Leneve came to her with a hamper of clothing to have the drexsen altered. The [clothing nas been Identified as that jot Mra. Crippen. According to the seamstress, the young woman said she intended marrying Dr. Crippen and that the gowns had been left to her by an aunt. Mile Léneve called and took away the dresses on the day before she and Dr. Crip- Will Make First # |pen are alleged to have fled. Address Some Popular ciamor against the meth Next Week-—Sev-|04# of Scotland Yard ix growing hourly. The press Is almost unant Meetings in Tacoma | mous In criticising the work of the | foremost English detectives detatl th e det f the 2 Mies Poindexter, ed on the case, The defense o candidate for the senate, will arrive in 39 Hilldrop those of and that they will the trail as ure identified. 4 a } IRRIE TONIGHT oe | storm of dteapproval. ve odlieait where he crrived iy where an enthusias-| have been perfect- Meeting in this city in Seattle 4 Miers support}, OM the ground that he is a dis turber of the public peace and an undesirable citizen, J. B. Osborne, a traveling socialist lecturer, was \this morning forbidden by the Been enthusiastic ad-| British Columbia immigration in Course in congress. epector permission to board the terested wet immigration service can be modi “48 opportuni fied or revoked, will be compelled einai satets them and to socialist leaders in Pisoniy o faspiting | the province, who will set In mo- police that they had no warrant to arrest Urippen or the woman is Seeing and. will re seemingly unavatiing in turning the ‘over asa and wntll | comes her ‘Was given him by " Atl ST 5 inst set g le Poindexter at aS +4 FORBIDDEN 10 be held some night | “y Most of next week wil! | iby him in Tacoma, where | . Meetings have already | toa public tm one or two days! pithe candidate to his Prters, mnany of whom | personally but /M8 Arrangement | steamship Victoria for Victoria. Beeflected a bis Poin | Osborne was billed to deliver a * will be held at|#eties of lectures in British Co i ‘Mheeting place | humbfa, and unless the order of the to hear! and becoms on ito cancel his dates. He has in A vith bi *°"“"” | tuential friends in the British Co- i Poindext r has an | ‘dmbia parliament, and has wired to 2 é | tion efforts to have the order re- rg “Dthuslasm | voxed: A socialist attorney . will = also be procured in Seattle to take [eA %% ¥ % xy x {BP the matter from this end Claasified * The total excavation on the Pana- intor ee 4 | ina canal for. June was _ 2,616,600 ere. cuble yards, against 77,418 for htieliallaliBa tha | May. Ems desires to settee: to ite readers for having fh ite: columns for some days past advertising of Dr. doing business at 2123-14-15 People’s Bank build~ of being a graduate osteopath, The Star now be- B Lathrop, or white his name may be, to be nothing & fake. It has reason to believe that his medical Conaists only of several years spent in the barber er * statement he to the human system” h Which investigation $6 an impostor, and should be fom any ailment whatsoever. that “successfully treath every dis- led to an invertigation by resulted in the conclusion that shunned by all persons A a Me Ba Be ad Bees ttseneaneaeaenneneses | he will be forced to sell the jewels Intelligence to be pessimistic HOME = EDITION — —“o GUD SEATTLE, WASH , SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1910. THE SEATTLE “STAR ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS be. Sa ONE CENT. BEHOLD THE FISHERMAN! YES BFR THAT Long Se Sees “Behold the fisherman! emeiiing of strong drink, and the truth ie mot in him.” une eer UNCLE JOE INVADES KANSAS — AND ATTACKS VIC MURDOCK Cannon Lauds Tariff, Him- self, Rules and Machine in Heart of Insurgent WINFIELD, Kan., seph G. Cannon made pearance today as a Chautauqua lecturer, and announ that he was not being paid for it either, and therefore wasn't sure how act Cannon vigorously defended the old house rules. He spoke ardent ly in favor of the tariff act He characterized the new house rules as iniquitogs, and the insurgents, particularly Congressman Murdock, of Kanes as ignorant publicity seekers “The rules never were partisan, said Cannon. “There always bas been a minority attacking the rules, and it certainly is the easiest way of attracting attention to make | up for deficiency in legislative work. Attacks Victor Murdock. Murdock, insurgents July 16.—Jo his first ap “Representative counting what the won, pointed with pride to ‘calendar Wednesday’ and ‘unanimous consent calendar, Murdock voted and spoke both. He hoped others would for get those es, hoping he justify his cooperation with th minority by claiming he had accom plished the things he and denounced had or the ye | “| hope he may take the advice William Allen White gave Kansas in 1897 to ‘becomé less interesting and more frequently right.’ “After we bave made the greatest progress in the creation and the use of wealth that i# on record by | any people in the history of civil ization, we are advised to become progressive. You probably have heard of the tramp on the brake beam who criticised the engineer of the 20th century limited.” Who Woyld Have Thought It. Speaker Cannon last night, in an address before the Knife and Fork club at Kansas City, claimed that Maj. J. G. Howell, at one time di-| rector of the geologic: the father of conservation the speaker Claimed he was one of the sponsors. “Twenty years ago we began the policy of conservation,” said Can non, “In 1888 we withdrew arid lands that we thought were suit- able for irrigation. ‘Two years later the Western states protested, and the development was arrested The hardest fight I ever had in congress was against the absolute repeal of that act.” Defining the tariff, Cannon said “It requires neither energy nor pocketbook nerve is one of th most sensitive in our civilization and {is always affected by gen discontent.’ against could | had opposed | Today | The | oer eer penre-eernaee 18 MONTHS HE LISTENED TO HARD LUCK TALES AND THEN HE QUIT JOB (By PORTLAND, July 29446 persons in Ore., tion today, “because 29,000 hard sought work got on his nerves.” “The work got the better of me,” » “For the first six months | did not steer stead | spent my time going over the p women and children who for ork. “Finally } be much for my nerve PLEDGE TAKEN WHERE WILSON = BEM WHO FLED TOON | Candidates for Legislature Promise to Vote for Re- | publican Popular Choice | for U.S. Senate. Fourteen republicans filed notices at the direct primary ty or this morn ing, Fo legislative candidates filed, and in each instance k the direct primary om the senatorial intext idates who filed morning were: Charles lips, for sheriff; J son, Justic of th tle precinet; H. E senta from the L. Hamilton, comminst Second district; James E. constable from Seattle Daniel Landon, senator from the 42nd distriet; George BH. Clen nt- n, judge of the superior court Frank H. Rentck, h senatortat dixtrict; Albert Parish, county, assessor; J. K. N, Martinson, jus tice of the peace for Seattle pre cinct; F. BE. Brightman, represen, tative from 47th district; Frank B. Wiestling, prosecuting attorney; L, E. Peterson, commiastoner from the Second district; J. J. Wolf, consta- | ble from Seattle precinct candidacy with the audite ur Phile Ander peace Foster, re 47th district; M ner from the Shariffon, precinet Prison Worker Here. Flora M. Bilkiss, prison and evangelist, arrived in Seattle today from Walla Walla, She will speak tonight on Occidental be ltween Main and Washington and tomorrow afternoon and evening at Sixth and King worker He riseth up early in the morning and distuebeth Mighty are hie preparations. He goeth forth full of hope. When the day ie far spent, See United Press.) 16.—-After 18 months, C. M. Rynerson, municipal free employment bureau of Portland, luek stories came to my office and begged and cried accustomed te them, | tical bos | promoter this | court | presequte Worn YOURE LATO a Mena THAT YOU wore THe BAGY | VANDERVEER’S AGENTS SELL RED LIGHT DISTRICT STOCK Private Detective Church, on County’s -ayroll, Spends Time Handling Deal to House Women of the Tenderloin as Agent for the Hillside Improvement Company What interest has Louis K. Church, private detective of Prosecuting Attorney George F. Vanderveer and on the King county pay roll as such, in the establishment of the new restricted | district for which buildings are now being erected on lots in the rear of the Bayview brewery? The new restricted district, as now planned, is to consist of four immense frame buildings, jeach containing from 200 to 250 rooms, and planned to have a capacity sufficient to accommo- |date the whole traffic in white slavery, Recently the city very kindly vacated a portion of Win- |throp st. for the benefit of the promoters of the new district, and a large force of men is now at |work, under contractor J. F. McQuade, grading the sites and the adjacent street and erecting an clevated roadway for the accommodation of automobile and other street traffic into the | district. 3:00 Am ORGANIZE AN IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. Certain friends and supporters of Vanderveer have organized the Hillside Improvement Company and have acquired four lots and a fraction of two others as a site for two of the |buildings. Supporters of the Gill administration have acquired other lots as sites for the other |two buildings. These two independent financial ventures will be operated side by side under some sort of a gentlemen's agreement regarding protection at the hands of the police depart- ment and the prosecuting attorney's office. Louis K. Church, private detective for Vanderveer, is take ing @ very active interest in the promotion of the Hillside com- * | pany, even to the extent of personally soliciting subscribers to * its stock from among saloon men, politicians and others of the Chief of Police Wappenstett # | class who might be attracted by such an investment. Provided wald that the Arcade ®; ape cseunira pomr: with an automobile, he has recently taken a number of pros- purchasers of stock to view the site of the proposed SRWHERERRRRRKEREE * * * WON'T CLOSE ARCADE. * * the whole ne household. vareeaamn, tox that they were not selling any #] pective feating liquors in the ®| buildings hers res Aone ne SOLICITED SANDBERG, TACOMA BOSS. aie y* me weeks ago Pete Sandberg, boss of the Tacoma under= ay * | w rid © invest in the new Seattle venture, but - turned the proposition down because those were unable to assure him that they would be tion for thestraffic there after the end of term of « which ends next January dis the new vice district is that the center of the city that persons to travel by automobilesy street cars or On account of the new increment of un m account of it, be crowded into mmoters of the district have are Co. to put on a special five- and as sete eee ee eee ee eee ee wre were in He wrt of any re der S« ted an ntinue wa: dented reeet bb) o have him afford prote is reported t approaching able t | Vanderveer’s tfice, mo One of the advantages of open days in removed fror will > far roughest ¢ isiting it have 4g nveyances Pp Llectric district, } ch w employment for ee peice secretary of the Bl mmm ~ . spe bay resigned his posi : Seattle ia aati of the George- WOULD BRING IMMENSE PROFITS. nle pes of the promoters of this enterprise fail pr 5 ew venture should be enormous as ‘long as pe tection fo: n be guaranteed. Rooms in the present re- a rental of $20 a week. Exclusive of ver sources of income, a district of 800 to 1,000 rooms would these rates command an income of $16,000 to $20,000 a week or $600,000 to $1,000,000 a year. Much of this would, of course, ave of necessity to be distributed in perquisites and graft to the but even liberal expenditures in nels 1 still leave rich pickings for the promoters “ABSOLUTE DIVORCE. FOR MRS. AUGUSTUS HARTJE traffic wl seouring ated from 1 p. m d Rynerson. half of any night. In- tiful tales told me by men, but the work is too lify political clamor (hy United Press) CHICAGO. 16 Mary The ex war Wilson, a who July amination of Mi beautiful shooting « Southern girl saw a f Mrs. Ww committed Deufex BETO aUPPORT IN SPOKANE These of Spokane declared themselver « Jobu L. Wilson for these E. F. widow, by C Rigdon, broker who afterward suicide nothing. The young woman the first in She was defiant and refused information So Miss Wil coroner finally | st until July 28. revea was witness at the quest un o's to give any satisfactory we tate nts that the postponed the ing Maintaining a haughty air, Mis Wilson refused to give her address She refused to say Hinsdale was her home, saying that she lived with her mother “in a suburb.” So indifferently were the young woman's replies given that it ts Heved the coroner will order under arfest instead of holding he a witness Miss Wilson finally denied knew what prompted Rigdon Mrs, Deufex. She said she met Mrs. Deufex on the § accompanied her to the John C, Feber, where Rigdon waiting said she was not| listening to what Riagon and her companion were saying when sud-| denly a shot rang out and Mrs Deufex cried, “I'm shot.” Joseph Rigdon, son of the dead broker, | citizen have of pporters reasons diseredite Waggonner, d po and big business me Senger boy Charles P. Lund, electric railroad D. T. Ham, beneficiary of a bill be put through congress by Senator Jones giving him a valuable power in the Priest River reserve Patrick Clark, premoter WN. BE. Nuzum, democratic lawyer, who procured the Great rthern railroad the premise not to prosecute M. J, Gor dop for embezzlement, and boasted that the railroad was afraid to Gordon because it had authorized the use of the embezzled meney for the corruption of the Washington supreme court testified that his father had no per 1 Ny Peyton, millionaire railroad | manent address. Most of the time, promoter he said, his father traveled, = “* GOOD TIME AT THE WHITE CITY? INDEED THEY DID, EVERY SINGLE ONE water forest a | she} millionaire mining shoot police from wheel, minia- - dancers the roulette Ferris wheel, the tiekler hall, balls on the bil- and in the bowling al Star |ley, chickens In the chicken ranch, and p in the skidoo from the gates and back to aagin it was a merry whirl fun, Was everybody happy They're going again. the City, the , ry-go-round, {cireular swing, ture rafiroad, jin the dance Hard tables Oh, fun we did have White Madison Star day at MRS. AUGUSTUS HARTJE, (By United Press.) , ing. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 16.—Mrs.| The Hartje Augustus Hartje, wife of the mil-|which has drag along house—|lionaire paper manufacturer, was|score of months, was oi the gates|granted a decree of absolute | most disgusting in the sensational of dizay j divorce by Judge Fraser today. The | history of Pittsburg. The Hartje’s |decree gives beth plaintiff and de-|/negro coachman was even dragged Le ndant the privilege arry-|into the park, yester From early morn day, moonlight hundreds of presenting their al rates at all the attractions, The mothers and the kids spent the and everybody and his girl arrived in the evening Everything going—the 1 late ing ti la scandal, for a of the divorce people were pons for spec day Sure was mer of re case.