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| The Seattle Star ONLY VOL, 13, NO. 80, ¢ INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER BA’ FRIDAY, MAY 26, IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. ON TRAINS ND MEWS STANDS ba 2, WASH., 1911. Cora SELECTING JURY TO TRY EX-CHIEF OF POLICE DIAL IS OUT; LA BARBA | a Old Tyrant Creeps From His Threatened Throne — New President Serves Until Elec-| tion (By United MEXICO May Former President Diaz's condi. | tion today is reported to be most grave and his intimate friends admit that he may never be well enough to leave the re public, The unchecked jubila tion over his resignation depressed the dictator greatly His death in the near future would surprise no ones Diaz resigned late yesterday when Madero threatened to re new hostilities. Madero Will Quit, Too } JUAREZ, Mex, May 2¢ cisco Madero, jr. was today lant ov resignations dent Diaz ral. In Press toda Diaz now of the the hea burden they I shall go to Mexico City in s eight days too, shall resign as provision al ident. If the people want mel shali run for the. presidency | at the new election. hands thé po to pr { them Will Resist Madero. selves from mistake indif SAN DIEGO, May _26——Gen.| ference of their representatives, | Pryce, who captured Tia Juana, has SENOR DON LEON DE LA BARA jthat ¢ recall will enable taken steps to pel any p bie | Succeeds Diaz as Mexico's president. He has been a prominent/to dinmise those represent on attack by Madero's forces yee | figure in the republic for years, and served as ambateador to the United ver they abal! to nerve f has recruited 800 men, the pr | Stat the publi Interest, Then no jack- | ty Americans. = cians can hold office in of the will of the cow ¥ whose commission he has | Magon Scores Madero. LOS ANGEL May - now leok upon Provisional fent Madero with the same trust as we did Diaz,” said Ricardo Flores Magon, head of the liberal junta here today, “and Gen. Vil foen will certainly meet with o warm reception should he try to crush the insurgents. Madero has proved that he is of the same cu ibre «s Diaz.” De La Barra on Job. MEXICO CITY, May % Pledged to rule only until order shall be restored and a president and vice president are populart elected, Francisco Leon De La Barra, former ambassador to the United States, was sworn at noon today as tem ry de of Mexico. Not a single cheer for Dias, and but few for De La Barra, greeted | the ceremony, but In the packed streets about the palace the crowds made the air ith shouts of “Viva Madero. De La Barra at o eireulated a proclamation declaring that he will not be a candidate for the presidency at the coming elections This marks the complete triumph of Madero, who will without doubt be Mexico's -next constitutional LINCOLN, N Bryan castigates says trust law by the be rejoicing in who must that no court can The decision jet justice third eb, May In The Commoner today Wm. the supreme court's Standard O1) decision Recs ‘The meat of the decision is found in the amendment of the anti courts at the demands of the trusts. Th will Wall st. but sadness in the homes of the masses justice wh of the odiun to Taft in March business public in “The people will | tong known—th. reaching powe WATCH MR. BLAINE!}:: now begin hy the republicans out of a bol New Mexican President GH COURT a campaign for a low repeal it explains severa) things—first ad of Harlan; second, why president selected democ by making the dem fourth, m of this decision and April to doing #0 in November the power of appointing federa’ wo ¢ why White wasn Hughes why Wall st 1908, and coerced its employes and the ar, was made tie party rn after a while what the corporations have far. judges is a so explicit ade vuld help bear went over Wappy and His Attorneys UAFOLLETTE - LAMBASTS ~ LORIMER (By Cnited Prem Leased Wire) | WASHINGTON, May 26.—Declar ing that the initiation of direct l¢ lation by the will be the out-| come of the ure by the renate | > fulfill ite public trust, Senator Lafollette ied his speech on| the Lorimer case For 70 this govern ment wa: he sald, | this senate was not humiliated by | @ call to the election of any men t 1 sen bar to answe y The dec itmer case stands arid’ page in the history of lowered petiatorial stand: | ards. Blind are thos® men who de not wee the | vult-—the abe of ¢ conven ttons, the inetite nation by direct ¥ remiden tial candidates, and the putting tt operation of the initiative, refer dum and recall, the logical outs t this al of public trust | It has become popular with some} persons to refer to the p« as | the and the people's rule as mob rule | “This ts pee & gnverpment They will not destroy ft They witi |not permit organized privilege to |deatroy Hx vital priwalph The people know that the tnitia tive and referendum plages in thelr dishonored. “a ‘ mont falls, — entatives tent | Snapshot by Star Photographer Taken at Court House as Wappy and His Attorneys Were Leaving at noon Today. Wappy is Walking Between His Attorneys, Morris and Shipley. The latter carries a _cane. ‘Will Judges Try to Draw Pay June 1? ® | incomp trust Hotter’n the Dickens in Chi’ CHICAGO, May 26.~-Chicago awakened today with the prospects been co decided in quarterly Murphy today have Prosecutor |Gounty Auditor Case that he could |» Davis Scores of another sitziing day jway the judges’ salary, including am not try | Yexterday's temperature oke | the $1,000 a year ch a withhold tt |the M cord of a decade. Th eas Jos Smith, who filedias a tax it mereury registered 94 degrees, Juat /@2), Unless hoe nin Mate jar ion ITCRCOC. oat “ quit against the alleged 2 nethe y 2 410 4 higher than the » eet 6 ON - extra $) United Press Leased Wire.) thew rd set during the Inst |tee tt The jud WASHINGTON, May Dub , against | : | week he wav m3 Hn King county judge would have |their salarte bing Po: ie er General F. Hitch : despot of the postal serv See ee EEE EE HH OS leave a restraining orde mg!) y May 26—-F. Mo Worth n 7 a m ice Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas ees to dee with:her fost | Same ore, AY... Hows ngton, superintendent of the South: | yosterday arraigned Hitchcock's at | * & sebt to sleep with her feet # | vay stated that any judge would be i rose vagy ‘ a ‘ itch 8 a #% inher husband's face, or, at ® : ¥ titude tow ub rs. “It is be dh | Wilns to do this i ling camp ng t generally understood meee the bebenes t #1 am relying on the constitu: | now wing in this county ¢ t yp institution or citizen wh Ses a % said Joe Smith this mornir The long railroad rights of wa | eax aoa anaiitidins * Mrs. WB. Derringer % | constitution on that the nds writter to the fed- system extends into every phase of all be paid quarterly. As they . tha.work | private. na fo si # a rich manufacturer and club # priva and never forgives > * ey Wels ediarion on May 1, 1 to that effect ye a HE COMMITTED THE CRIME OF EATING WHEN HUNGRY president 4 - How Diaz came to resign yester Keep your eye on Councilman Blaine eoperccrer aie rate kop row a fo Comore Bite, NOW HE MUST SPEND SIX DARK MONTHS IN PRIS Pere teeny, Piar's hand. While| Blaine, when seeking election, pledged himself to work for Diaz temporized, Madero ordergd|the people. H ¢ the people his pledge that he would stand] pecause he ate when he was hun lives today in California and is left his troops to advance on Chibua-|on their side, giving them justice anda square deal gry, William Lewis, broken tn without @ helping hand by the in hua, then on ee cit 5 Now this same Blaine, having been elected, talks differently. | back, » in spirit. om . Bi ; sa : , Ay said aos A cared De La and ; : ¥* | subject a sanitary mn ewis had been walking steadily enZnat, geared De La Barra. 808 te doesn't want the people to bother him. He speaks of the [sublet for & waniariam. tio Piel Benson np nese | people trying to intimidate him, and thereby he admits that he]o; nardened criminals suburbs of attle looking r JUAREZ, Mex. May 26.—Fran-| has to be intimidated into doing exactly what he promised to do He's not a criminal, he never work, looking. for something to cisco Madero today telegraphed Blaine and several of the other councilmen seem to have|committed # technical crim someway earn an honest living De La Barra ‘ in t not until the hunger f« {One day it w ining. But Lewis bid lost sight of the factgthat the people are their masters. They life, the f Init the tie f Milwauke “Congratulations upon your al the hunger for 5 \"‘h he t the Milwaukee eension to the presidency. In| Seem to be thinking in the past, when the people of Seattle were | againat death forced him to st |road bound for Maple Valley. He keeping with my promise to Diaz,| accustomed to grin and bear it bread and butter ane —_. iio’ jsot nearly there when he slipped | I hereby resign as provisional pree | But it’s different now, The people, as always before, want Bet bé pra ie ahd cow ~ = —— tee Nag PT conside J pri- | ‘ stole to save his ni a 5 renched and p lay ere (pag eng mee der me in the |@ Square deal, but now they demand it, and from some very |) "must apend the darkest half year a gulley six hours, helpless and vate citizen at the Mexican gov.|recent experiences, THEY KNOW THEY CAN GET IT. ~ [of that same hard life behind pent suffering terrible pains ecnoat” The fact that a man is elected for two years no longer |tentiary bars, thrown with murder ‘Thiba tics wikis eka , means that he will serve two years. He will serve only so long | ers and thieves, treated as 1 T » and THE PEOPLE, FORTUNATELY | ¥icts @ lost man Then he crawled into the woods awnbrokers ARE THE SOLE JUDGES ON THAT POIN' Come but Ilttle water, for three days be i pies When he comes out—If he comes | fore he sueceeded in cutting tw : it ‘i out alive—he'll be a stamped man | sticks which he used as crutches In rotest PARROT ROUTS A BURGLAR. close in the night, but thought noth-|~—stamped with the stigma of bey-| a0) dragged his mleerahle body. ta IEE. y 26. ing of it. The parrot scolded the}ing once been a convict ple a nearby ranch house There he Pawnbrokers and second hand| MUSKOGEE, Okie. May ae intruder and commanded him to get| Will not stop, to consider that his) hoped to beg food and drink, he fealers were out in force at the|parrot in the home of James Wat) 7 MutT ont ct vere aroused in| crime—the-crime for which he was} hoped to beg life, but Ife found no- council chamber this morning to| kins at Okiulgee saved the house! it ihe famiy wore aroused Mlrobbed of liberty vee wealing t body at home. The curse of hun protest. against the proposed ‘t-| trom being robbed. Members of/ making a hasty exit and the parrot | *omething to tal, Stetiik when ger was pressing upon Rim. Th crease in license fees. | vg * meant death ne ) ate ery of life swelled up in him e y hea “ or op | talks to bi , ewls told P Thomas B, McMahon, reprosent-| ‘he family heard door open and tal —_ a But that 1s not all, Levis tole He did what you or I would have ing them, contended that the in-|= _ ~ ia story of more pitiful —_ R done—he bro! into that ranch crease ia far too high, and asked Judge Main Feeling tha nie house He helped himself to bread lor two weeks’ time, which was) heart was softened his soul and butter and milk., He ate all he rranted : | touched by the ery of an unfor: could with safety. And then when "Several second hand dealers our ea 0 tunate age pened pat Bae he went to leave he took with him | vieaded with tears in their eyes BREE ee OS oniens ed some more food to lay by for the hat the increase would mean ruin} Watch for Betty Graham on the PHIN Y AV. cars tonight considered P ong aes ie a Ae He few days of ihability to work that | © them and starvation to thelr|]| between 5 and 6:30 o'clock, She will have an brder on The Btar J] could have Rot baer Lewis’ alae loomed before him. He was pen vives and children However,|§ office for FIVE DOLLARS that she will hand to the first eral a de we at a8 Boman here niless and perhaps he should have ere are 187 licensed second hand || to get up to give her a seat and “ " om 4 ea gud helped himself only to enough food tores and 28 pawnbrokers in Se-| Wednesday night Betty Graham spent an hour and a half Gone, has 7 ye, Rrra ie! eee to eat on the spot. But he took ittle, indicating that business is by|f| on Madison st. cars looking for some one to get up and give ,fj Would you nav wave fon tlle too much—too much in the sight so means dead in their line. her a seat, But nobody did, So a whole lot of people missed J) PPOP WC ia von not have of the law—and now he must go tc : . 5 ry ? Pipe 4 prison ee — a chance to earn $6 saved him from the convict starap And his dear old mother, who Oe ee eel * WEATHER FORECAST. * * Pate tonight, with light * * frost, Saturday fair; light ® » weaterly winds * ee ee Bome Phinn Miss Graham is ay ermined to get rid of the de S80 be watching for her TONIGHT betw the PHINNEY AV, line. You'll be apt to see crowded cars, Watch for ther. man will get that money tonight, because five spot on 5 and 6:30 on her on the most Walked for Weeks. WILLIAM LEWIS “knows her son is an honest man, Lewis, who i# 45 years old, had “Broken in back, broken in spirit, a fit subject for @ sanitarium, |must fight life alone without been out of regular wok for}he must spend six dark months in prison. funds; without friends onthe, te had walked Mi ov oe Segre — | For her son committed the awful Beattle, getting an odd job he qpough to live on decently, Never +share what he did earn With his|orime of eating when he was hun-| wud dre, Sut never smaking'theless“%se always managed %o| decrepit mother, 70 years old, who gry ou waPP' * AGGEPT BABE? JURORS ON FIRST PANEL, rn, H. B Miller, i Deutch, Clifford Wiley, H. Boltz, G. E. Tilton, Willard Bur b t, W. R. Calder Kohler, J. Albert Johm 1 Olson Wor son, Ce “Charles D. Wappenstein asked, |accepted and received a bribe of +$1,000 Gideon Tupper and |Glarence Geraid on August 5, 1910, for permission to operate the Paris |and Midway cribhouses in the re stricted district unmolested by the police department.” from Th € charge om which the forme of police was put A rning i z roceeded in ship morning. A few fter $:30 o'clock Judge ca State against ready,” responded al I tor George H. Rum | men }_ “The defendant is ready,” sald ; Will H. Morris, chief counsel fog Wappenstein With this simple the court ordered Clerk Patterson 2 mes from the jury list, panel took its place OX “First Talesmen Up. V. Whyborn, a carpenter gnoulder, 34 years old, lve mality done, rd av. S, was the > be examined. Why- wering questions of Prose- imtmens, said that he had ader of The Seattle ontributed $2 or $3 ublic Welfare league and oneered after working ail election day against to th had elec hours on re | Gill, and that while he had formed | an impression of the guilt or inno | cence of Wappenstein, it was not am abiding conviction, and he believed he could give Wappenstein a fair = | tral was subjected to a rigid cross nae nation by Will H. Morris in re ations to his pronounced views against vice He Explains Views. rning to Judge Main, ed for permission to statement / It will save 60 minutes time pen hape,” he said. Judge Main allowed him the privilege over the protests of Morris. Yhyborn make @ I want to say that I have read the newspapers like any other elt zen, and I have naturally formed impressions. But if I am called tm to referee a game, I'll referee it according to the rules, not accord- ing to my likes or dislikes. If am called | according | dence as a juror, I will try ft to the law and the evk Stays in Box. challenged Whyborn Rummens resisted the challenge jand Judge Main allowed Whybora }to remain on the panel Second Man Passed. Sin B. Miller of 437 24th av. 8, an employe of the Stetson-Ross Me achine company, was the second juror mustered, He, too, in reply to questions, said that his news paper reading was confined chief- to th Seattle Star. He said that he took no active interest im Morris | | 1; | politics and that he was free from }any opinions as to Wappy’s guilt or innocence. He was passed by } doth sides. | D. M. Deutch, formerly employed |by a morning paper, was the third man examined. He was passed by the state, and at noon today Mor ris was plying him with questions, Deutch is at present employed be | the Seattle Lighting company |Salesman, He stated that he had paid but passing attention to the call agitation, Questions by State. Rummens asked each juror con- cerning an effort made to learn their ancestry for the purpose of leading them to believe that they might sudd-nly fall —. to a for {tune in the Fast. Each of the | jurors, however, denied that he | had ever been approached with | such questions. | “I want all of the juror to see \J Underwood and say if any of t know him,” Rummens in t ipted the examinations at one time. Underwood, who is a local he wspaper man, was asked to stand up. None of the jurors recognized any acquaintance with hi During the progress of the exam- | ination of jurors Rummens charac terized Gid Tupper and Clarence Gerald as “the bosses of the un- derworld The examination of jurors is pro- ceeding much more rapidly than evvected, and it may be possible that late this afternoon or at the noon, the complete jury will have been sworn in Judge Main announced that the Wap tein trial will go on con tinuously until finished, and wil not be interrupted by the regular ion calendar, aturday mc