The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 30, 1911, Page 1

Blooded American Heroe ria} feature that begin boy They are lively. te the VOL. 12, NO. 294, MAY CHARGE GIRL WITH BLACKMAIL Barr and “the Girl Had Just! Married Under Sign of Cap- risom When Alleged Assault on Robey Occurred. An information charging either extortion or blackmail will be filed by Prosecutor John F. Murphy this afterncon against Mrs, Harold Barr, formerly Miss May Richards, proprietress of a beauty parlor in the Victorial hotel, 1211 First av. Harold Barr, her husband, and H. W. Carroll, who says he is a real estate dealer. The information will be sworn to by John C. Robey, president of the Golden West Baking Co., following an alleged assault in a room at the Martinique hotel Friday night. A check for $250 is held as evidence by Prosecutor Murphy. At the city jail today Mrs. Barr and the men admitted obtaining the check from Robey, but insisted that their act was justified by circum stances. Barr, according to his own state ment, is a great believer in signs of the zodiac. The Almanac Involved. “‘Mame’ and I were born under Capricorn, which was at its senith January In order to make cer- tain our happiness we decided to get married January 26. The cere- mony was performed at 20 minutes to six o'clock and then we went to Gerald's cafe for our wedding supper. From there we took in the Breakers and then the Olympus “At the Olymps,” interrupted Carrol, “1 remembered that I had to cinch a real estate deal with two! joung women at the Newport cafe. | rr went along and ‘Mame’ went Some, where Robey attacked her.” “Why did you for Robey to @gn the check for $250 Carrolt was asked. “Well, you see,” he replied. We are all business men and we figured | that it wouldn't do if the newspa pers got hold of the affair. Any way, Barr had been borrowing money from me right along and I grew tired of that system.” } To Prosecutor Murphy the trio told varying stories Saturday after- noon. (By United Press) WASHINGTON, Jan, 30—At ther hearing today before the senate committee Gov. Sanders, of Louiat- ana, attacked the claims of San as the site for the Pan- ama exposition. He said that under both the reso-| lutions presented by San Francisco end New Orleans the federal govern- Ment would be equally responsible to the foreign nations whom it Would invite to make exhibits. Un- der th eSan Francisco resalution Gov. Sanders said the government ‘would have the responsibility with- out the power, but under the New Orieans res resolution it would have the Attend Funeral Then Go to Pen EDWARDSVILLE, IL, Jan. 30.— Guarded by deputy sheriffs, Mrs. Veronica Rebstock and her daugh- ter, Anna Rebstock, went to the, fu- neral of their husband and father, Wm. Rebstock, and today were taken to Jollet to serve sentence of 14 years for the murder of Anna Rebstock's four-days-old baby. SHE SAYS HE'S CADEL Mary Roberts asks the court to grant her a divorce from P. A. Rob- erts, who she married in Seattle fn 1906, and to allow her to re sume her maiden name. She claims) that Roberts is cruel and inhuman fn his treatment toward her, and that he is otherwise untrue to his marriage | vows. Tidal Wave Kills 50 | MANILA, Jan. 30—That at least 50 persons and possibly 300 have perished through a tidal wave which overwhelm an island on which t! volcano Taal Is situated, is reported here today. An American school teacher has informed the government that all the villages along tl western shore of Lake Taal have been inundated. He be- lieves that 30u had perished. NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HICKTOWN BEE The tire sale in the drug, store Hat. night was a fiesie, Hen Toler wed so much tobacker he put the out Mine J. prout te visiting Her first name sound #0 nice as Hazel Budde has gone to Beattie Her grand~ ne. 100. Will Legitt haw sent to Heattle for an injunetion ae hin wite's mother, and expects It any day now, Lafe Watertower is recovering from his Saturday shopping in attle today, The Ladiew Ald will hold a bene- Mt tonight for Mra. Late Watertower, title of a new SEA ee 7 ee Man Who Told on the Woman Dan Phillips, Btrayer of Mrs. Schenk, | Fi spleen Him, From City That De WHEELING, W. Va, Jan. 30.— Dan Z. Phillips, “the man who told on the woman,” is paying the pea alty in the social ostracism of a community which despises bim. Phillips was the star witness for the state at the triel of Mrs. John/ 0. Schenk, accused of attempting to poison her millionaire husband He told, before a courtroom full of DAN Z. PHILLIPS. sensation-seeking women, of his| Was true: “This boy was drag: midnight joy rides with the ac-jhere. He knew he was ruined the| cused woman, of attentions and / minute et foot in this eourt-| presents she showered upon him.| room. -I made him come.” He all but told, in so many words,| But Handlon's explanation failed of the supreme gift to be accepted as an excuse f Ostractsm was bis froth that mo-| Phillips when “he peached.” ment. He had called up the prosecut It followed him when, nervous|by telephone immediately aft and almost sobbing, he rushed from | Mrs. Schenk’s arrest and offered to the courthouse. It passed him on/| tell all he knew the street with an averted face. It| Phillip» was reared here, was waiting for him at his place of | everybody knew him and he ko business. He rode home with it in| almost everybody” of conseque the street car. | He was invited to the Phillips immedia' served his| homes.” He played well, connections with the C. A. House/easily, and was thoroughly con Music Co. in which he was a stock-|genial.. He was popular among holder. His resignation was de-| “the fellows. manded. } Dan Phillips’ father and mother He has fled from Wheeltng, nojare dead. Over in Martins Ferry one knows where. just across the river, there is a girl “Dan Phillips has peached,” says|who used to play with Dan when | * Wheeling. they were children. They were ex No one who saw the youth on| pected to be married soon. the stand can have the least doubt! She, at least, is lucky to know that what Prosecutor Handlan ears 3 it was too late. Nearty | ew | eee WOMAN WHIPS _ BANK CASHIER Hotel Washington Mrs. Carbonneau said sho would remain in Seattle | Jong enough to allow Ruser to} prosecute her if he dared. “He won't dare do anything of the sort I believe he’s had enough,” she said. A. FP, Ruser, formerly employed by the Dome City Bank. of Alaska byt at present a real estate man of Seattle, and Mrs. Belinda Carbon- neau, a well known woman of Alaska, are both agreed that the lat- ter gave the former a most thor-|“Although I hate the notoriety that ough horsewhipping {n a room at/has resulted in this matter, still it the Archibald hotel Saturday night. |was the only thing I could do with Ruser says he didn’t deserve the |him. I did the only thing possible, castigation. Mrs. Carbonneau says|afd that was to thrash him with a he deserved it and more. horsewhip, and 1 don’t regret my And then their stories begin to | action.” differ widely. “He tried lle to me, but I Ruser claims two burly men held| went after hin. with a horsewhip. him while Mrs. Carbonneau wallop-|He squealed just like a pig, he was ed him merrily and finally knocked |so scared, 1 hit him with the butt him out. Mrs. Carbonneau says she|end of the whip on the jaw, and I did it all alone, with her little horse-| guess It knocked him out, Then whip. I went to my apartments at the “Ruser is the tool of Jesse Noble, | Hotel Washington.” | the divorced husband of my sister,”| Raser gives another version of said Mrs, Carbonneau. There is a/the fracas. judgment of $10,000 and one year's “When I entered the room two} alimony in favor of the former Mrs.|men grabbed me and threw me on | Noble against Noble in the state of |a bed face down. Then this woman Washingt ccording to Mrs. Car-|laid it on hard with a horsewhip. | bonneau. “Ruser has been trying to|I tried to yell for help, but a towel effect a settlement between both|was thrust into my mouth. After parties for the past two years, but|beating me up, they left, warning finding that he can't do business |me to keep quiet for 15 minutes or with us, resorted. to treachery,”|they would ‘fix’ me.” continued Mrs. Carbonneau Ruser resides at 210 18th av. N.| have been after him since he start-|He saya he Intends to prosecute | to ed these methods and I got him at|Mrs. Carbonneau. Mrs. Carbon: the Archibald last Saturday night.” | neau's second sister, Nellie, is di- When seen this morning at the! vorced from Noble, WOMEN’S MEE TING COMES TOMORROW The most unique political meeting| and decency. ever held in Seattle will take place | One hundred of the most prom!- tomorrow afternoon at the Grand/nent women of the city will be on va house when newly enfran-|the stage and it is expected the chised women of the city will/ opera house will be crowded with gather in a great mass meeting to| women interested in sweeping Se protest against the Gill administra-|attle clean of its ttolerable vice tion and to plan work for Dilling|and vicious element, A TO DECIDE TEST CAR FARE CASE and John E. Carroll. The case, which was taken under advisement The test case in the damage sult brought by L. V. Fox against the Crawford line to ascertain the | Saturday, is one of five similar legality of the demand of a second|suits, each for $20 damages, nickel to ride beyond Kenyon st.| brought after Judge Gilliam's de. cision In which the court that the corporation could charg® only 5 cents, will be decided within a few days by three Seattle Justices of the peace, Fred C, Brown, R, R. George TTLE, WASH., MONDAY, J The Seattle Sta ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE ANUARY 30, 1911. DILLING CROWD BLOCKS AT NO A rally and demonstration by Se only in en thusiasm and earnestness to the memorable Poindexter meeting at Deramiand rink last fall, occurred at the Dilling noon meeting at the Grand opera house today. Before the speakers had arrived the whole down stairs of the thea tre was full and mobs of people rging up the in the galleries. By 12 o'clock every seat was taken and atill the people came. Soon the crowd had blocked Cherry st. from side to side. OUTDOOR MEETING HELD. An overflow meeting was im: mediately arranged. Ole Hanson and other speakers from the steps of the theatre addressed the crowd on the iseue of a decent city govern: ment. the denunciation of the deal with the vice syndicate and with the Seattle Electric by the speak nawered by a storm of from the crowd in the were inside, Dilling and the other men who were speaking with him, eway- ed the crowd. Dilling’s speech in part follows Mr. Dilling discussed Seattle as a buge corporation in which every taxpayer is a stockholder. “It is the greatest corporation | that any man in thix hall, no mat ter how extensive may be his tn yestments, In interested in, and the question today is the selection of @ manager or chairman of the board of directors, if you please, to com duct the affairs of as ite chief executive How deeply every property own the smallest home t corporatfon er, Including builder, is interested is shown by the fact that the city soon after Gill became mayor ordered public improvements to cost $11,000,000, which’ means a per capita asi ment against every p or stockholder, of $48 ty owner, Th ation put squarely be every property owner Is W you want GUI or myself for the manag this great corporation Mr. Dilling then told of the Gill promises of a year ago, of how Gill had promised a business admini«: * z * TONIGHT’S DILLING MEETINGS. * * — Ie Gatewood Meeting House, Wate station, on Fauntleroy * \* et George W. Ditiing, George H. Walker, * * Dr. Cora Smith Eaton, U. 8. Bikenberry and W. A. Brady . * West Side Hall, opposite school house on California ave * & nue. The speakers—-George W. Dilling, Councilman Max War ® * dall, Harry B, Wilson, Ole Hanson and Mrs. Peter Bettinger. * . First Christian Church, Broadway and Olive st. The * *% speakers—C, J. France and Albert H, Beebe. . * [ERPSESE PHD DY RESIDENCE WARD SHOWS BIG GAIN Of the total registration 71,175, the Seventh ward shows an increase over 1910 of 75 per cent. The First watd shows ar™-iner of 20 per cent. The large number of women residing in the uptown ‘hilt ward is responsible for the marked increase. Comparative registration by wards for 1910 and 1911 follows 1910. 2,623 2,696 First ward .. Second ward. « . aire to get! Poca! 1 y Aatallalt si RiabhadteaaBalbed of, STREET ON RALLY |tration that would bring new In dustries to the city, that would pro- vide more work for the wage earn ers. Gili talked much of smoke stacks and new enterprises, he said, he added, the only new enter 6 the establiehment of a ict, of sure-thing gambling in which only gamblers, thugs and other lawbreakers were enriched Mr, Dilling told of the vice « ditions which had b ne intoler able during the past 10 months told of the mismanagement of the city Nght department, and called at tent! to $500,000 deficit, as Cla)ced, the unlawful and unwar ranted borrowing of money from the north trunk sewer fund, a trust fund, to cover that deficit In conciusion Mr. Dilling gave definite promises of what he would do when elected mayor, ‘The Crowd Cheers. John C. Higgins, in opening the meeting at the opera house, ox corlated the Gill administration Herman Craven whipped the crowd into & frenzy in his denunciation of the Wappenstein regime Former Mayor William Hickman Moore, hin voice so hoarse that he jeoyl hardly speak, made a painful | but determined effort to talk for TAMng, and at every paune the hovee yelled and applauded | Pormer Mayor John F. Miller put | |himeelf unquilifiedly against Gill] and for Dilling John W. Roberts read the Hodge telegram, and stigmatized the ef [forts of the Gill gang to put Hod in @ false light as the dirtiest } teal trick ever attempted in S¢ Dilling’s promise to fire Arms and puta competent man in charge of theelty lighting department brought | a storm of applause. M'KEESPORT, Pa., Jan, 30.-— Police were required today to keep crowds from gathering In } front of the ho where Miss Margaret Shipley, aged 25, Blind since birth, lies in a trance expecting to awaken to- night with her eyesight re- stored. She hai in a co matose condition for five days. | EEE EES Third ward ... Fourth want . Fifth ward . Sixth ward Seventh ward . Bighth ward .. Ninth ward Tenth ward . Eleventh ward Twelfth ward .. Thirteenth ward Fotirteenth ward petals : 'SOAP BOX EVANGELISTS CLASH WITH THE POLICE Richard Phillips Clark, who claims God has called on him to preach the gospel at all times and places, and G. W. Kesterson, “The Lost Disciple,” a familiar figure with long hair and pink whiskers, clashed on Washington st. last night land precipitated a near-riot After order was restored Keste son, along with Louis Schmidlin, W B. Warner and Edward Forrest three of his enthusiastic followers, Who’s Who at MoT YELLOW m4 Jusy LiKe Here's Senator Falconer, of Sno- homish, as the artist sees him Senator Falconer is a good insur. gent, and considerable of an orator when he gets started. He's ong pt the war horses of the legislatur and when he gets busy, busy, Indeed. Senator Falconer is chairman of the committee on appropriations, one of the biggest committees in the senate, and {s a member of a bunch of minor committees, he is very were s whopilgha toaeea in the city jail | Patrolman Waechter, who n the arrest, testified that “The Lost Disciple” was most abusive, calling certain well known minister ‘lomplegged, blood-sucking pire,” and referring to priests and policemen in unprintable terms “God has called. me jand I was obeying that {night when this long-hatred pe came along and mounted an appl |box right in front of my stand,” | testified Clark. Mobbed Patrolman. “Patrolman Waechter tried to dis |euade him to cease his abuse and} | wag, nearly mobbed by this man’s | folidwers.”” ghmidiin denied that he laid hands on the patrolman, and Kes terson interrupted scornfully with | the information that he could handle | Waechter as easily as a baby | Waechter weighs 220 pounds, “The Lost Disciple” tips the beam at 160, When “The Lost Disciple” was} hustled into the police auto, War ner yelled, “I'll back you for $50, brother.” , too,” echoed Forrest When searched at headquarters not a penny could be found on War. ner, Forrest had $1.50. The court} room was crowded with followers | of the disciple, who appgaled to} them to testify in his behalf, When |they started. to crowd — forward, Bailiff Topping Scipio Rinald Ri- naldo Winchell had a hard time keeping them outside the gate Police Judge Gordon directed Pa- trolman Waechter to swear to a complaint that “The Lost Disciple” | was mentally unbalanced, In the meantime he and jare in jail. Hard to Place. Old Gent—My little man, what nationality are you? Sammy Shutter—1 don’t know pa works for a moving-pleture con. cern, and he went away yesterday as an Arab and came home a Brit igh goldier, and I heard ma ask him | to try to be a Chinese mandarin, so he kin scare our laundryman into doing better work, (MAY YOHE WARNS his companions | § t « CHICAGO, Jan, 30.—-May Yohe machine he made a nice .start booths on election day. q today predicted that Edward Mc from the warship’s deck and The challenger is to be allowed 4 Lean’s gift of the famous Hope continued his flight here. to inspect the ballot boxes before ‘ diamond to his wife would result in KE Ps $ es - the polling begins and to sit in.on =~ misfortune. EY W Fla,, Jan, 30.—In the | the official count. The bill following he diamond was @ ‘jonah | presence of thousands of spectators, | contrary opinions by Corporations q me,” sald ae # toueh Aviator McCurdy started at 7:30/Counctl Calhoun of Seattle and At- everyon ever owned it! this morning from ‘Trumbo field, to |‘0™e¥ General Bell as to whether fly to Havana, and was. sighted | Challengers could be present at a re- BARS WHITES three hours latée by gunboats sta-|/C#!! election. Calhoun said they 4 toned off Morro castle at the en-|C0Uld not, so the senate took no trance of Havana harbor. mene. i : er 30a | McCurdy ran out of lubricating| , Teh Dill was introduced by Col- focal colored theatre. was today|0ll when 10 ralles from the. en- |/ne following a Session of tha daak granted permission by Mayor {trance of the harbor and landed in| Clary committee If passed by the Skain to put on the Jeffries-John- | the water. His pontoons easily sup- house it will take effect at once, 4 son fight pictures, on the condition | Ported the aeroplane on the surface. | yw aK ' that no white persons be admitted| McCurdy made a fine start ee oe ee : to see them, jcircting the field twice befo) 8 7 3 machine darted away on it, ross|% °X,SONS FALLBEARERS ’ ocean flight z py he ania, ’ a * Jefore 5 c. 4 \HE HAD TO FIGHT before starting on hist’ <¢ Me)% WOQUIAM, Jan, 80.—Six ® 3 cil a “The weather ts by #9 means] yon. ((c7oCn eo “1 simply must fight,” sald Peter|{deal, but I hope for the best. Much |% {10 wcting as pallbearers at # 4 Brovina, addressing nobody in par-|depends on the condition of the|% mother Mrs, Catherine as ticular, Saturday night in Washing-|8e@. If forced to drop I think 11% ien, lowered the remal mr * ton at. Nobody pald any attention {could pull through, but I fear that! their last resting place. Mrs. 4 to Peier and he decided to start|! Would lose the aeroplane it the] Sunggren, who was 80 ae ; mething, Patrolman Roseler was | Water 18 rough, I will fly at a speed! Orage at ‘the time of” her ne vietim, Peter landed in Jail and {Sf Rbout 80 miles an hour at aniy Soath was the mother of 14 today pald $10 and costs for his|#ltitude of about 1,000 feet. Une | hou” “at ‘ne mother o “s tecuentant, less my motor fails T am co “ meres = that I shall make the passage ARPLUENGE. On board the Paulding, a govern-|* * * ** * * * * * * * eA ® Kind Lady—"How ald you Jose | nt, ship, is Mary 1 Darhall, a] OLD CHARACTER DIES Can never tell when a particularly apt story or special feature will be missed if you don't have The Star a daily visitor to your home, One cont—and always the leader in everything. ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS be HODGE REPUDIATES WHOLE GILL GANG ONE CENT. Sheriff Who Was Duped and Buncoed by Desperate Backers of Gill Sends Telegram Exe posing Their Trickery. ‘POSTA TELEGRAPH —- COMMERCIAL CABLES RECEIVED AT Oce an Seat tie,iwn. publication of such a I never Gigned nor authorized the statement us that you have wired me as appearing in the times I signed u very brief statement to the effect that I personally intended to vote for Gill because of my Opposition to tho recall and because I was Agformed by Gills friends and understood from Gill himeelf that if he wore electod he would fire wappenstein and clean up the town I nover authorized John Dora to go back to Souttle and suy ffom the platform or privately that I dosired my friends to vote for 6111.2 E do not usk my friends to vote for Gil1.% c have not even asked the men in my office to \wote for him you know that almost to o man 3 ‘they are for Dilling r und Roberts have their inetructions 5 to see that honost vote,is cast.wa ein who is : the biggest grafter in + police business in the united % Statos will try to seo thut the fraudulent vote goes é [an but Roberts can stop that. R.T.Hodge. 115-Pu. The above is a photographed reproduction of a telegram sent by Bob Hodge learned that the Gili gang was trying to use him to bolster up its lost cause. DAYS AFTER HE HAD LEFT mit his name to be used to ine TOWN. fluence his friends against @ Hodge never authorized John decent city administration. Dore to urge Hodge's friends to The Gill gangsters thought vote for Gill. they had sprung the biggest The whole thing was a most card of the present compaign. monumental fraud. .-They did—for Dilling. .. .. « They counted on Hodge's be- The Gill gang's lies have Ing cut of town. ‘hey thought boomeranged. he would never hear of that The whole thing shows the statement t they had put his desperation to which the mem- last night when he Doctor Cook looks amateur this morning. The above telegram tells its own story. That the Gill gang, desperate at the prospect of losing its hold on Seattle, attempted in the alleged Hodge statement the most monumental fraud in the whole political history of like an Seattle was shown last night name to until too la They | bers of the Gill gang have been when Hodge himeeif learned thought they could swing driven by the uprising of senté what had been done behind his Hodge's friends by this decep- | ment against them. back by his false friends. tion to vote for Gill. They Forgery, lies, misrepresenta Hodge did not endorse Gill. didn’t think the sheriff would | tion, deceit—this is the back- Hodge did not ask his friends | have the nerve to call their | bone of the Gill-Hodge false to vote for Gill, | bluff. | statement. Its exposure today But Hodge has come back at them. The sheriff will not per- FLIES OVER by the sheriff assures Gill's de- feat. SENATE. ADS. THE RECALL Hodge did not sign the state. ment dated coenety 26, TWO Miss Pankhurst “| Coming to Coast’ (By United Press.) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30.—Pank hurst methods of trying to get jequal suffrage are not adapted to (By Staff Special.) like ‘West, according to local set: | | OLYMPIA, Jan, 30-—The Landen |fragets, who refuse to become en Nichols bill wiping ot | Nichols bi ping out the in thused over the report that Miss | |ciple of constructive contest anal Christobel Pankhurst, daughter of | making the state law follow the fed 4 England's famous militant suf jeral statute, was palced on the sen- fraget, probably will come to the} ate c rv this morning, and will state in case the California legisla-| | f Dp robably come up for action tomor- ure favors woman suffrage. ainsi row morning. It was report , ; i « 0 8 reported out . In Chicago Miss Pankhurst an HAVANA, Jan. 30—Picked of the judiciary committee Thurs 4 nounced her {intention to come| up from the water where he | day night here. had alighted ten miles from the The senate this morning passed harbor when his oil gave out, McCurdy’s aeroplane was hois' an emergency measure of consider able importance to Seatt] in th re | ed to the platform of the {call election. It provides that both destroyer Paulding.. After the [sides may keep one challenger in (By Onitea Press.) aviator had examined the |the different precinct election correspondent of the United Press, who observed the aviator’s flight. Portugal has reached that state | the death here of Capt. Joseph H. of republicanism where it probably | Sloss, & former resident of Ed- doesn't care whether the Taft ad- |The tngt et 7. pote agen’ inistrati oe T p n the last of the ni [ministration recognizes her or not [he leak ot te ei (By United Press.) your job, my poor man?” MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan, 30—With Handout Hal—"l was with a ctr cus; used to carry water fer de elephant an’ he got a raise in sal ary and now he won't drink any- thing but pop.”