The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 1, 1911, Page 1

. Neg oly OE es eee - a VOL. 13, NO, CORES = fl heli ~ A ida al i li aaa Na tine at Dee 4 * * *® “THE JURORS BY NUMBER-—No. |--Henry Schwarble, real % estate, \No. 2-H. B. Miller, machinist. No” 39D, M. Deutsch, ® valesman. No. 4D, J. MeCartney, tailor. No, 5—J. J. Wilder ® nuth, ¥, P exbressm: No. ¢- Vander Wel, sbip captain. # No, 70. Gunderson, carpenter. No. 8—W. H. Shorey, book- ® store. No, $—J. M. Kohler, carpenter. No. 10-—Geo: Ry Gray, % merchant.” No, 1!—Conrad” Olson, farmer. No. 12.—John Lang. etteenee * > ‘ . RARE ARERAAATHEER ARATE Y’S PROSPERITY Hone vesenes staal het rl gre , 2 WHY 4} alPagea toon vestede will bal CELEBRATES 4 be illuminated as a climax vo the w oPisher fouring mills opened. # | celebration. fc serosa J.C. Sani to be w {from the gates S aaoee wey last night and cheered neat uniforms were ie a laingd to i visitors. 2 Big Parade. “Of police and W: ineluding Is, county of Commerce and “ciub members. the |w through heart. ‘Women's Commercial elub, Bulldt* Ernest Kisenschmidt, native »(% Of Switzerland, electrtetan. Despondent. and | © hallucinations t Kirk oer {|e Bnglish and aga ~” = Oe | y Revolver wi sit The procession filed” up, Second | * head. a i Pike Ww here * Unidentified man, “la ; spite seated te ety the | * marked “M. JB” Belleved % to *% to be native of Salt Lake City, * ay. and Ewing. pers ihe Tar eo Ps &® Axe Had" been drinking © healt i te believed to # starts. * ie Lo gece * ‘Speeches. & Revolver wound in 4 * eeches were scheduled there by | * * Dilling, AL A. Pairchiid, S| keke aR x W. H. Paulhamus, Howard ,|eThree men in Widely different spheres of life-committed suicide AR STRAP-HANGER | “GETS THE $5 THIS: TIME , betwiet & und Fremont Ballard i have another Star for $5, which to the first man * ne * RARER évening' I boarded an Alki t car with the order for $5 gold Jn wY-handy, ly to bel. to the first man who offered seat. The car seemed crowd-| ed, but when I got in I spied one} feat away up front. I ignored it} and stood in the back where several | men Were seated. A lady glanced back, “saw me and pointed to the) seat. I to@k it, rode a few blocke ard got off. I waited what seemed an endless time for anothes/ Alki Point car. Finally a packed one “came along | ond 1 made/my way tm. I had! kearcely secured a strap when a} yuan, John Pete,som, No, 1, Cift Terrace, Alki Point, kindly and unt apingy ottered me his seat. he $6 is. yours,” I sald, and inded him the order. Hé took it {sree Hetold-me afterward that had read of Betty Graham's rides, “It is the fipst seat I have had in & car for a jong time," he said. “I'm @ regular straphanger on thls | JOHN PETERSON. BY BETTY GRAHAM. “I am a machinist by trade,” explained “But on account of the Noe. strike (can't get that kind of work, Mr; Péters6p came West to take} ro I'm doing cement work on the tare of hig sleter, who 1» in poor! new Bom Marche building.” - Wappenstein and the Twelve Me INT AGAINST W a = Cc. W. WA of SEATTLE, WASH., THURSD. n, Who Will Decide His Fate PPENSTEIN sae Scag SE ; 1 Unidentified shooting themselves, and next. Elsenschmidt came to Se} each case being practically; attie two months ago from Milwau-| ink was responsible in one financial ruin in another, and speak English, and con- it in getting work, caused the third. What's Use of Living? . N. Holden, East Seattle real man, was the-first. Standing float at the foot of Spring st 5 he sent a bullet {nto Oppled over into the He was pulled out by Stan. ley »Malloy and Hans Anderson, ideckhands on the steamer Fair- ‘haven. Holden is survived by « widow and wo brothers, residents of Be- attle. He left the following note To Whom it May Concern: After carefully considering the matter | have decided to off this mortal coll. | have committed financial sui- cide three times in this city. What is the use of living and having @ business if you can- mot enjoy life? 1 have had one of the best helpmates in the world and am sorry to cause her this sorrow and disgrace. * (Signed) N. D. HOLDEN. Couldn't Get Work Ernest ' Eisenschmidt, 28 years old, native of Switzerland, was the| were purchased In Salt Lake City. | kee. He was an expert electrician, but could not get work, as he could not speak English. Local Swiss }Chudeey shared him room at the St. James hotel with Eisenschmidt Tells Friend Goodbye He became despondent, however, jand had hallucinations that some one was pursuing him. Last night jhe was drinking in the Post-Keller bar until about 10 o'clock. He was not drunk, and when he left held id to Carl Gohm, the bar- Carl,” be said, in you won't see me again. I am going to shoot myself. If I jdon’t shoot myself someone else will shoot me tomorrow.” johm thought he was joking, but Eisenschmidt went directly to his room and curried out his threat This One Unidentified. Av unidentified man was the last of the trio. He shot himself through the brain in the St. James hotel, Second av. 8. and Washing ton st., shortly after 10 p.m. He left $2.57 in cash, but no papers or letters. He was well dreseed. A pint bottle of whiskey, partially empty, was standing in his room. The man had been seen in Second ay. saloons for several days and has acted queerly. His shoes s aaaniaaniE Sree ’s False Teeth A unique robbery took place early, was asleep in her bed, directly be-| Steals Sleeper [this morning when some one stuck up an arm thfough an open win dow into the bedroom of Mrs, Mar garet Grace, 1929 First av., rear, | 4nd stole her fals teeth while she 26 ARE INDICTED (By United Press Leased Wire.) TACOMA, .June 1,—Four men |who acted as enumerators in the|John, don't stand with your bare} census taking last year were arrest ed today on indictments found by the grand jury, charged with pad- ding the returns in this elty v jeral others will be arrested this af. ternoon. Of the 36 indictments, | were in connection with alleged ir- | regularities in the census return Those arrested are: Charles 'T. Jaeger, Alphonse Carbone, ©. J Foley and Fred H. Allen, All were released on $1,500 bonds eC eee ee eee ee eee * * * THE WEATHER. * Fair tonight and Friday * moderate westerly Winds tk tt OK KK KI * * * THERE are. 206 lawy House full of lawyers sentative government ! Senate full of millionaires. low the window. Mrs. Grace, who is 68 years of age, was frightened almost into |hysteria. When Sergeant Wilkes jarrived he found her mouth ble | ing. | NOT DECOROUS EITHER. | The wife of a clergyman warned |him as he went off to officiate a funeral rainy day: “Now, one {head on the damp ground; you’ leatch cold.’ THE ABANDONED TOWN, | Tourist—You must get conventions and parades here with these nice wide streets of yours Citizen—We don't get a one Look at the distance you'd have, |to run from the center of the ling to @ saloon. Puck “We think a lot of that man. I |has done much for our tow | “Did he give you a Mbrary or @ hospital?” “Nothing Hke that. He endowed our baseball team with a first class pitcher.”—Kansas City Journal. ers serving as congressinen Repre Writes | tried to help him, and a man named} a lot of}, AY, JUNE 1, 1911. BANK BOOKS SHOWN AS FUDENGE ‘The state this morning scored | several decisive points in the trial of Charles W. Wappenstein for ac cepting a $1,000 bribe from Gid Tup |per and Clarence Gerald, when it showed That Mra, Wappenstein, who had been carrying an insignificant ac- count in the Ca in Bank of Com-| merce, deposited $5,000 on Febru-| ary 15, 1911, immediately after the | convening of the grand jury. That Wappenstein’s bank account | |ahowed, except when he was police lehief, an average monthly deposit lof approximately $200, and that in 1906 in ran higher, and was as much ae $3,000 some months 1910. ; That Chief Bannick and Seor a tary Sullivan of the police depart-| Ment found one of Gid Tupper's cards in Wappenstein’s 4 | the figures “850” written & bolumn four times, evidently by | Wappenstein, according to Sullivan. | That Sergeant Bryant really did not know what the lists of the girls in resorts, turned in to the inspec tor, were gotten up for. That the lists were not sagt on reguiar file in the departmen ‘hat the orders issued during the |Wappenstein administration relative to the vice district came directly ector Mike Powers to the | serg: d of through the! | captains. | “tkdars Charles Sullivan, secretary | of the police department, & morning created the b exest een: Ieation in the Wappensteto Arial fo far, when he recognized Wap penstein’s handwritting on a card belonging to Gid Tupper, on which numerous f had been whit ten. Sullivan was that he had but did not b he was quite the face of the card w made by Wappenstei "I am not #0 sure (igures on the back, card bore in printed words "G.,Tupper, Wines, and Cigars, Indep Sixth av. Bo. Was this t | firet sure rd before, to say that figures on | evidently about the sald. The} letters the Liquo’ rd you and Chief Bannick found when you cleaned lup Wappenstein’s desk in police jmeadquarters on the day re aigned?” Sullivan was by | Prosecutor Murphy #1 am not sure. I only saw it a himute before I gave it to Chief | Bannick. | never saw it again. {910 ask to look at the iffmres,” anid Prosecutor Murphy, Swnd tell the jury if you can recog ize them “Yes, those written on the face or, card made by Wap Penstein. | am quite sure of that t are the figu are written in a column. 850° written four he asked you were Bank's Books Introduced. On the day following the conven ing of the grand jury Mrs. Minnie Wappenstein, wife of the ex-chief, deposited to her account 00 in the Canadian Bank of Commerce ‘This was shown by the bank ac ognnts, which » permitted to go into without apy ob: @% months previous to Janu: 6, Mrs. Wappenstein’s account faite bank amounted to $3.13. She }itien deposited $150. This suddenly furoped to $5,153.13 on February 15, ) im | “Wappenstein’s accounts were lalgo allowed to go into evidence Without objection, His deposits la¥eraged about $200 a month, ex Gept in 1906 and 1910, when they} Were much more, In 1910, during} geveral months, the deposits were much as $2,500 and sometimes re. Sergeant Bryant, continuing his testimony this morning, again re | peated that he made the rounds o }the bawdy houses with one of the jhealth® officers every Saturday | jmight for the purpose of helping | lout the health department to ¢ol-| lect the weekly fee of $2.50 from| each girl. Murphy questioned him closely) las to his knowledge of the purpose of the reports he turned in to the inspector as to the number of gtris| in the district ‘You@ay they were made to help the health department. How did they help?” asked Murphy “That's it. I don't know,” yins forced to say finally |had brought out the fact Bein department issned be" good for one week and that | Bryant Murphy | that the certifi: | ¢ cxaminations were made on dif. went days of the week for each) house, so that a Saturday night round up would not accomplish any particular object. Murphy also brought out the fact that the health department made a nightly investt gation of the number of girls PLAINTIFF'S SUSPICION, Magistrate—Then when Wife seized the weapon you |from the house Plaintiff— Ye sir. Magistrate—But she might not have used it | Plaintiff—True, your worship. Maybe she picked up the flatiron just to smooth things over your ran HIS CHOICE, ‘A boy went Into a shop to buy a \eént’s worth of nuts. 1 the egunter, a cheery, good-natured soul, sald to him “You an have you like “AML right,” sald the boy, “You may put one or two cocoanuts in, |i you please.” them mixed if | he eattle Star. nd ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. GIR TO DEATH Her clothes ignited by the explosion of an alcohol lamp on which she was cooking her dinner in her room, at 819 Spring st., last night, Mise Anne Ostrom, 24 years old, a stenographer, ran screaming into the street, foiling th ef- forts of a man lodger to ex- tinguish the blaze, In a few seconds the girl's clothes were burned off her her body a mans o ne A crowd quickly ¢ girl, her sens blunted by the pain she gone, exchanged remarks eral bystanders Dies in Agony Chief Char leaving and had under with sev Fire who had TOLD SP ATE | sponded to the alarm. jhis automobile, and blanket around the girl, opened up jhis car and took her to the city hospital, The gir) died at 6 o'clock thig morning in 5 | Miss Astrem gradua from a ttle busin college several mouths ago. She came to this city from Puyallup, where her parents are ranchers, and got employment stenographer for the Lynch Subscription company Saving Her Money She rented a room on Spring st meals on a litt lamp say ex pensen A hb her salary was all ed money and had a bank f $50. drove up tn Se small cooking all her aleoho! to ban she » account of about ‘FIBS’ throwing a) nS Miss Ostrem’s parents fied Inst night, but her father was unable to reach tle until thig morning, after daughter was dead. BRYAN CAN SAY N (By United Press Leased Wire.) | PAUL, June 1—Wm. J. Bryan will not be a candidate again for president in the coming |national campaign. Speaking at & | banquet tendered bim by the demo cratic club of the Northwest, Bryan aid; “I am not a candida president, I can be of gr vice in the ranks. Besides theve is enty of good material from which to choose presidential timber.” were notl his OMAN WHIPS MAN WHO ABOUT HER ~ Knocks Him Down and Sits on Him, But Victim Endures Awful Beating Rather Than Strike Back—Judge Releases Woman After Her Arrest. | J. H. MURDOCK 60 Years, 175 Pounds. He Was Too Chivalrous to Fight Back, But He Had Mrs. Doran Ar- rested. Note His Breken Hat Brim. REBUILD SNOHOMISH SNOHOMISH, June 1—Before the $150,000 fire had been out 24 hours, owners of the destroyed buildings in the business district were plan ning to erect new structures. It is assured already that blocks of unt form brick buildings will be erect ed and that a disastroys conflagra tion will be the means of bringing about a greater and more modern Snohomish. AFTER SALOONMEN About 30 saloon men in Seattle have failed to pay their state liquor license of $25 during the last two years. So says Secretary Koors of the state tax commission. He has applied to the prosecuting at torney for warrants. The penalty is between 30 days and six months in the county jail, or a fine of $100 to $500, or both, LOYALTON, Cal, June LJ. J Miller, cashier of the Sterra Val ley bank, has disappeared and with him the combination of the bank's safe, Miller had full charge of the bank and was the only person who could open the safe. MAYOR ACCUSED (By rn Leased Wire.) TOPEKA, Kas., June 1.—To oust them from office, Attorney Genera |Dawson today started action In the supreme ourt against Albert Dodge, mayor, and J.T, Taylor chief of police, of Leavenworth, It ig alleged that these officers are gulltylof neglect of duty, MRS. SUSAN DORAN 102 Pounds. She Knocked Man Down and Sat lon Him for Telling “Fibs” About | Her. RICH, YET BROKE (By United Press Leased Wire.) LOS ANGELES, June 1.—Despite jthe fact that his wife is heiress io jseveral millions left by her father, |B. J day declared he does not possess $2,000, and says that in Februa 1910 he did not have a dollar Stoker's statements were made in janswer to a suit by Wm, Ander. son, an attorney, for $4,000 In fees. TROUSERS STOLEN Sam Bertola, rooming at 814 Washington awoke early this morning, just in time to see a burly |negro escape with his trousers con taining $40 In gold and some small change and an old country silver watch, He reported to the police and now city detectives are on the negro's trail Baldwin, Harry R. Stocker to-| Because J. H. Murdock, 60 years jold, weighing 175 pounds, told fibs” about her, Mrs. Susan Doran, 19 and 102 pounds, but a strong ath- lete, clenched her fists, knocked Murdock down, sat on him and beat his face black and blue. Murdock, too chivalrous to fight bactyelled for help and Mrs. Dorag. jet him up but began pounding him again. He fled, and pi of sticks by the petite woman strucls back, Has Her Arrested. dock rushed into police head |quarters and demanded that Mra, |Doran be arrested. He said he wouldn't strike a lady but he'd have her punished by the law. Before Judge Gordon, Mrs, Doran admitted she thrashed Murdock and added, 1 whipped him good, too.” Mure | dock’s face showed that. But Judge Gordon thought she had fairly good provocation, Murdock admitted have ing made some “remarks” about her, so she was released on her owm recognizance. In Her Back Yard. It all happened yesterday after. noon when Murdock was crossi the back yard of Mrs. Doran at 291 First av. 8. Murdock was leaving his home next door. “You have been telling fibs abou€ me, haven't you?" Mrs. Doran de manded, stepping in front of him and blocking his way. Murdock stuttered for time an@ tried to pass on “Take that, and that, and that! shouted Mrs. Doran, as she let Murdock have jabs right full in the face from her doubled-up fists. Stop! Stop! The idea; I can't fight a lady,” protested Murdoclg as he tried to #hield himself with his arms. Sits Right Down, Then he tried to fly. But Mra, Doran used to live on the beach, go swimming every day, and was am outdoor girl. So she gave Murdock a smasher on the jaw that sent him to the ground. She sat her 102 pounds right dowm on him and pounded him hard an@ fast In the face. Finally, after Murdock had yelled himself hoarse, Mrs. Doran got up and Murdock fled. Sticks from be hind made him travel a fast clip for an old man. He hardly stopped before he got to the police station, Her Former Landlord. Murdock, who is @ contractor, was unable to work today. His face was swollen and colored and both his eyes almost closed, She might have killed me before I'd strike a lady,” he explained, “She got me down in some way and then let me have it strong before I could get up. But she ought to be punished, That's why I had her arm rested Phe bottom of all this trouble to some time ago when.I ordered her out of a house of mine when she was one of my tenants. She didn’t keep the house clean and I told her so. I have told | others so since, and that's what shé ns by accusing me of saying things about her, I guess.” | iatheethimemniac SEYBOLD HAS AER ANLED Mrs. Nettie Miller, alias Seybold, was taken to the county jail this morning on the charge of threaten- ing to kill L, Seybold, at whose apartment at 219 Belmont av, @ scuffle took place in which Mra, Miller was burned by acid, and re- Heved of a revolver, swore out the | complaint. APPENSTEIN BURNS