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

star’s Carrier Army whele city and the suburbs, ~ five you may have The Star te your door for 26 per month, SLAP AT ABOR ME Metal Employers Try to Dictate Terms by Which Men Shall Work —Use Panama Fair as Club, bitterly 12, NO, 23! in Seattle is so opposed to labor that Business” to carry the war tr California, even though it has no terest there “4 the construct Seattle labor men put on a resolution ' by the Northwest Metal Trades Association to the jp Prisco who are ying to bring the Panama exposition to that “ir congressmen to bring the fair to ty is built and maintained on the open from Seattle. It was signed Northwest Metal Trades Associa it help you ¢ eco provided siple,” this wa ee AH vot this city Pie commenting on egran of the Garris: e te Garrison sald We have won againet the scrik throughout the Northwest, though th ‘gere aided by San Francisco money We will insist that th employers estadlish the open shop and no longer ald the rancl re have already signed up with thet and the strike in Seattle ach on, with the men having ewe are going to © fight In Seattle and the Northwest Wiliam Hanno: Yr president of the machin who ls in charge of the strike here. “The employers here are Se this as a club over the heads of the San Franciseo employ Want to see the fair go to their city, by demanding that g@ back on the closed shop agreement fle will probably ald San Franciseo, the labor men say, r of the M Trades Association and its attempt to force employers ¢ sk their agreement with the men AND WAPPY TAKE NO CHANCES have, er, He was left in ignorance that n tc gambling Was going on, be stated ‘testimony before the | Sad so far as he knew, thore wasn't iy committee, Chief W @ poker or black jack game, elther @isobeyed the sum-|in or out of the r tricted @fetrict eat by the probers on the| If any protection was given he desired his law pve © promoters and gambiers, th fa addition to a » | mayor teatified, it was up te Ch Wappenstein to explain. He « [he is going to make an investigat lof Wappenstein himself. He was lawfully misled by bis chief, he in | timates, if things were reaily bad Wappy Scared. Despite all the precautions taken Gapating each otber's my. Gill had two days in which the testimony of his chief) SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, KILLED BY GUI 49 YEARS OLD While burnishing relica of civil war, hie annual custom for many years, Edward Morris, o Kanizer of the Morris Realty Co. with offices in the Leary butlding aceldentally shot and killed him j self yesterday afternoon with a re jYolver he did not know had been | loaded for 49 years. | | When found by his 13-yearold | son Robert, Morris was seated in |an easy chair, In one hand he held }an olly rag with which he had been polishing the weapon which ended his life. The revolver was lying on | the floor, It required considerable effort to extract the old cartridge | The bullet pierced the breast and | entered the right jung. When Rob-| pert entered his father’s den, in the | basement of the family at 1018 Summit av, N residence Morris was still alive but unconscious A physician was called, but Morris Hdied before he arrived. | No Sign of Cause As is often the let enters either lung seen, ard It Coroner body at that the death was members of Lt at the a bul no blood was Was not until Deputy Borthwick mined th the Butterworth morgue real cause of Morrix discovered. Although his family were at time of the shooting no report was heard by them, The funeral will be held Monday afternoon from the family dence. Morris r, Mee rietta Morris * old Chicago Seattle Morris te and th Henrletta brothers. associated business Max and with local when real Hen left t for widow children, Catherine, 18 15, and Robert, 13. His Joo and Louls, were with him in the realty Two other brothe Jullus, are conm dry goods firms Three brothers de in the East time of his death last nig Aves ted and four sleters was ry ime an old fa see Southern feast, and bad sent to Dixtetand fe possum, hams and} bacon. Before jeaving Kentucky, | his native state, Morris was «| prominent positician ; ee ee \* LONG BATTLE OVER. * * years Hilda Jones # }@ Por three + also the chief graft de : v of |® SAfeguarded herself fr atb* the commitice having grant: |} acvic, the chin owe cot lw tack by ber husband, Edward # | 's plea to have his own fright when the time cae for hin | ® Jones, by having near by, . present i® night and day, the family rey scheduled appearance before the in-| “ having been given the . - stove poke vepne | Yeatigators. He couldn't stand the} : . yesterday, Wappy, H For three years Edward * could easily ot | idea of facing the probers without | ciate ent within arm's me astly pOStinaving his attorney along. The ° gg fae what the mayor bad} mamittee refused to be bothered length of his razor to guard make his testimony wah age ca himeelf against any attack his and assured the eatment Was the motive of the | *Mlef of fair treatmen was scared, and was tp demanding their 1, hers has just dawned founci] committee, and as hee they have little hope, Disgusted by Wappenstein's fail any evidence of value|ure to appear, the three main characters in have sent him another summons re the municipal mess questing bis appeara tomorrow ted. Mayor Gill professed They will stand pat against allow of conditions in the vice ing Wappy's attorney ta be present He told the committee and unless the chief comes willing nothing of the North-| ty tomorrow, the coramittee will of which his friend Clar.| take measures if possible to force was a heavy stockhe!4./ him to appear ’t Bear to With it playing for Summon Him Again. (By United Press.) i, Nov. 18—When one fet bts Wright aeroplane sud § collapsed, Aviator Ralph , who held the world’s! for height. fell like a rock } to an awful death at the) meet here yesterday 7 landed almost in of the spectators, who ¥ from the human me Berowded i: on the mass of flesh and broken bones is of cloth and steel and & moment later to delve ira. Mae police had to clea mt from the wreck had died in fe his body was dead aviator my and Brookick b ering flights and « t to outdo th Jol pme Reight of 400 fee downwar thrilling spica hed made but one Rs collepsed. Jo bis nerve £ And the wreckag tried by mair Biline into position t BS ¥orking coo! He had partis the machine ed entirel ad the next inst a crash the} away the} Jobn } Every | owed | Some mes a ae, this with the aviator standing established jy/unharmed and iling beside it for height at 9,714 feet at etimes there is only the wrec PBeimont meet tw: ks ago of the machine, with tt ais ambition to ; Mark at Den radad ONE FINE ey SAYS WRIGHT YORK, Johnstone, widow a at Denver mh, Marted for K We attend the tune and broken form of sring aviator beneath BY RALPH JOHNSTONE, ame on and caught me high ir ash as I have r beer Up. where I His hile folks down that he w wiow were Permit any one to beat dark. I M48 dissatistied wit) equa figure on og achieverer x ept right on When J When I gtarted f | to come them q | ohnstone down it kept get take ker, and I couldn't make out wt I at. There were lights Im he place, but I couldn't 7 it keep yam ch wan Belmont, Final 4 i whieh the glare of @ bonfire yD hiatad 1 lighted outside the Wright Ws seen” M tu five 4 1 started to plane down tely fied, for I - i : : but Wappy | investigators ; What Happens When ship ike | might make Judge Tallman this morn ing gave Mra. Jones a decree of divorce, after listening to eteeetteeeeeeee * most sensational charges preferred by both parties. The evidence disclosed that the Jon home presented a com | @ ttouel miniature Boxers’ op riving, and everything from spuds to bat pins were used ® a6 inetromente of warfare. * Mrs. Jonen was allowed $7 * per week alimony * * * * * * * - * . * *. * * * * 3 * * * ttt Ati HOW JOHNSTONE ESCAPED, AS HE TOLD IT A WEEK AGO LAURA SCHENK couldn't house with Mife on acce condition. Fifth av after and strychnine He w in his room # little # hy ke no relatives ne the Mitte months ld. INDICTE WHEELING, W. Va. Nov 18.——Mre. Laura Schenk was indicted on a charge of at- tempting to poison her hue band, John ©. Schenk, the millionaire packer, by the grand jury here today. SUICIDE Evidently despondent becau make his tittle } profitable, and dixco: Chas. thin 10 oelock taking & dose T Marshal), morning of earboli « found or 12 o'cloe in body still warm He was 66 yoars old. Little nown of him. He apparently in the city. He rippled in ome arm lodging house about aKo. He left no word. an Aeroplane Falls This picture Tho eat | carried Moissant’s aeroplane dropped 125| cot,” Moissant explains, "I climbe leet over and over at the He it | UL on One of the planes and jur races. There'll be a dif c-|fust before we bit the ground ¢ when the mails ¢ gh| guess the cat did fe thit from Denver w e results of {Tt ran 1k Ralph Johnstone's fa of er the g a terday afternoon |w j Archie Hoxsey, bosom chum jead aviator, was at his hang buigh 1 early, and with } dupleate of that in w hort th ignal was giver Hox wis’ deen efi jknew there were obstructions all], Me ss ously; ax hed fortably i | such thing thro ng flirtl front of tents, ¢ 1 to the | mien thines ne ; it's like a football game or : an automobile race,” he said Within a week Ralph : “You go on the field with your leg yesterday at 1 friends, and the next thing you ro Oe tenay os know one of them is carried off espe from death in th But the game doesn’t stop ex xperlepge had ’ cept for a few moments. We me She least a Jobs fellows must not allow such preme confidence it fra , we would lose our nerve and that carried him | eds of feet| would either have to stop flying into the air, The lay prints) oF be killed ourselves.” Johnstone's article aa ainulad aia el cended, Johnator bod MEET GOES ON panied by Walter | DESPITE DEATH °,* "iv for DE ER, Nov. 18,--In t SWEAR NS SY Y ET ** the death of Ralph Johnatone, which|% | Occask raln “toniigh abruptly ended yesterday's perform-|# Saturday; moderate sou ance at the Overland avia field | # erly wind here the meet went on today. |A kaa AKAKKK ERR AK int of hie ertppied 1410 wbortly committed suicide acid is left war He bought two but couldn't make it) municipal plant from the Be Beaten, Says Wright of Dead Aviator Johnstone h eee | meant busings: Scared y The Seattle Star PROBE CITY Council Committee Begins Investigation: Arms Administration of Municipal Lighting Plant. The ecoune!) the GULFurth deal appointment of R. M pertatandent of light resulting, mismanagemen Subpoenas we late pemterday on several employ ity plant H igveutigating mittee today began tts inquiry inve Arma as «U and of com into iving the the the nerved of the department and some of the business men whose contracts have been turned down by Ross Before Probers Today 1 D, Rona, construction in | partment, the the plant next | periftendent, neem betore boon the highest will be ity to that superintendent of Webt de position in the au the chief wit the probers this after Rose has been identified with the bof itr existence. He first day was the chief man onder Superintendent Youngs, and ‘when the water partments were the prevafling would be made lighting depart the nt Thé Ballard Deal Ross is the man pared the plans last pe ae | SHOMO and separated opinios had intended who Night de it was that he of the pre PAYS UP Ares discov to jail under | yeste if he didn’t fine the day or lav , ng he the ¢ paid over County ¢ the sum of $581.40 f RECALL Tlie Public Welfare circulating reca t ing p00! fc Th JURYMEN LOS ANGELE ing on the Tin ul grand gating the disaster SAN FRANCISCO D. Newmar tt a viee pre lin treasu at th eotlr Pacific ( ring that and would « a commit PETITIONS. CALLED. nd him issued up his San nomic wh LIGHT DEPT. Don’t Hesitate to Phone The Star, Main 9400, or ind. 441, if your pa per tails to reach your home regularly every night. You are entitled to good service. ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS to | OLD MURDER MYSTERY IS REVEALED New York Police Find Body of Victim in Trunk Where It Had Been for Eight Years—Suspected Slayer Missing Five ONE CENT. Years, (My United Press) Meagher stored the trunk in his NEW YORK, Nov, 18-—-Con-| basement until yesterday, when it fronted with an eight-year-old] was opened to see if it contained murder mystery, with the supposed | anything of value. murderer five years missing, New| The detectives traced Lewis’ York detectives today began un-| movements about New York until raveling the circumstances sur-| five years ago, at which time they, rounding the finding of a human| learned that he went West. Cir- body in a trunk in a West 54th|culars bearing his description are st. tenement house last night | being prepared and sent through- Until an autopsy is held the eX} out the country. of the | determined, murder but Newspapers Dated 1902. victim cannot be | Newspapers found wrapped outward appear ances indicate that It was the body|about the body were dated April, lof a woman 1902, and reports of women who | Trunk Zine Lined | disappeared during that month are The trunk, heremetically sealed,| being investigated. Meagher was |zinc lined and sprinkled with|clowely examined by the detectives. | chlorite » formed a vault|He said that Lewis had told him jand effectively mummified the|the trunk belonged to an artist body, which b hacked to/friend, who had left it in his jmake it fit into the by %-foot | charg and that it contained | coffin artis materials. The police are seeking W. Lewis, The police say the trunk had & teamster, who left the trunk with|been kept by Lewis in his room its present holder, Philip Meagher,|from April, 1902, until he turned seven years ago. lit over to Meagher, nearly a year [MUST FACE TRIAL FOR KILLING HIS STENOGRAPHER Lewis owed his room rent, = ee) ALVA, Okla., Nov, 18.—T. L. Mil-| pressed and he finally had lar, the wealthy business man and | declared he would marry the ve veo i ak girl ax soon as he could get a di- prominent figure in municipal af. vorce. A post-mortem examination fairs who is under arrest charged! showed that she was soon to be with the murder of Mabel Oakes, come mother. his 19%yearold stenographer, said The body of Miss Oakes was jtoday that he feels confident that | found lying on the Qoor of Miller's & speedy trial will vi him. | office with her hands folded across of the Gill-Furth-|" The girl's body was ) the her breast as if she had died natur- jrear room of Miller's mely | al The or which she had |furnished suite of offices Tuesday | worn to the office was tied around to cover the entire city with light! morning her neck so tightly that the doc distribution. Hix plans were sp-| According to the testimony given, tors who made the post-mortem ex- proved by the city council at that) at the inquest by the girl's father,/ amination said she could not have time, and included the supplying |he had accused Miller of being too tied it herself. An examination was of to Ballard residents 48) friendly with he Miller, the made of the girl's stomach, but ne well as other suburbs [father testified, denied the charge poison was found It ie an undiaputed fact, bowever,| and said that their relations were Mins Oakes was 19 years ob that Ballard bas been ignored ever |only those of employer and em-; Miller is 35 and has a wife an since Arms came into office, al-|ploye. Oakes said that he ~ had! children in pursual of bis plans, | = == —) Ross, under the direction of Su lee es GIRL PLAYS STATUE work im Ballard to the extent of 20,000. This has been Ross has not ted to pro. 4 with his plans 1 lous, | eon permit IN THE BULL RING It te ewpected that Ross will tell (By United Prem.) ~[@ statue to remain perfectly still, be pe le ~ awe * MADRID, Spain, Nov. 18—For It nearly always happens that th ned Arma, ax head engineer of " the plant. that there wer en ebund.|the first time a woman, young bull approaches the object, sniffs D . os eae at it, and, finding it motionless, ance of water pow at the time Rosario Sevilla, has been permitted . leaves it without further investigae the American Bank butlding, Lon: | to appear in the bull ring as “Don| tion, and “Don Tancredo” is safe. ar ae gl Rae concerns: were | Tancredo,” The performance is a very risky coe feat the plant was short of! ‘The person representing Donjone, for the least movement of the Tancredo is drew TRIS tiki aden Wai “Machkd entirely “statue” would be immediately, Prec Revs sry , white, to appear as much Hike ajnoted by the bull with disastrous he committee to testify to this! statue as possible, and takes his|results to the impersonator water shortage” excuse. W.jor (in this case) her in the! Under the late conservative gove Schaeffer, trustee of the Ameri nter of th the bull ernment this spectacle was forbid- Bank building, has also been » ix let in. N important |den, but under the liberal regime a to appe before | for the person playing t part of it is once again saat CURIOSITY KILLS TWO. BRISTOL, Tenn., Nov. 18 cording to Hen D. uations a member of the Kor in Florida, curiosity Poindexters Carried ‘Spears i in <= micas Normandy 1,000 Years Ago two members of the colony. They had, Stiverfriend says, opened the Poindexter, meaning “Striking ri grave of Dr, Tween, who had an-| Enterprising Writer in Isle of | pain bg right nounced at his deaih a year ago] Jersey Newspaper Shows! The Poindexters in Jersey who that he wor ‘se from the tomd,| Early History of Insurgent’s| spelled their name Poingdestres, Oo see at become of b Family. became gov ors and writers and body wt thelr reason du ? knights, and fought in all the battles ing the. proce f the work, were!) am, 1 off the |there were. When Cromwell came committed to an asylum and died. |, Ane Ute sey cows|in they fought for the king, and ; : Miles | When he was ¢ d they went PRAYS FOR DEATH; DIES enator |0ver to Fran ght for the DETROIT, Mich. N 18.—"Oh Protes ane take me 1 ' art printed he| Four ¢ ons of Poindexter r.” wa =. Pc 4 on| Were gove of Jersey, and five he coffin cc nto | ee \ ans ea i thou-| When America was discovered, . Rapin: "\sand year 0, when the Nor-|the Poindexters hurried over to & : ; tan | mans first ied the island Virgin and settled there. A The er tells a legend that|George Poindexter, who followed sae the £5 back timés | John Smith to Jamestown, was the Grahame-White Tribute of N Py ro Phar on ee ee PHILADELPHIA, Nov . , a ae he te Oy race Hoo Ute ae J tone was manly, and m Of it, walet aa ig FN hoses Say SEY Sete tee K oa i ) 8 yen This | about his past was not d by His death w 1 whisk und | They keep t such in Paves i ut, and|the island whe Jersey cows , he airmen. Such |! i, was th ander n the reo pen, as all know who t 2 © PAPA PULLS THE COUNT | FIREBUGS START BIG Will Bring EW HAVE Conr Nov & BLAZE IN WALLA WALLA, pirey menace aime ewes! = Gardner Back wana Wat, Non tour ; € in Hoh ir bry < . <i pono all irred t the “tn Toston. or sosie oe/ Wanted—-An Unknown Person onan gece bed to Testify Against Saloons talkin him and Ki alle n Jan Woodward for ol h 1 a \ ‘ t tent! ft with ed day Hquor law. But } . ne