The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 13, 1911, Page 1

EDITION 1 AINCHER IS AD Former Circus Dwarf Accused| of Shooting Allen Brooks, | Wealthy Valley Farmer, With a bullet embedded near thi base of his brain, Allen Brooks, wealthy rancher of Algona, near this city, chased, for a half a mite, the man who he alleges fired t shot at him inst evening. The alleged assailant is “Shorty” iis, a dwarf, formerly with: th Floto circus. Wells is only a little over three feet tall An X-ray picture of Rrooks’ head was taken Kent hospital te day to locate the bullet. He is rest- ing easily, but it is not yet certain whether he will recover The wounded ranc’ ims that Wells harbored a gri against | him. Last Sunday the little man went to Brooks’ house and, finding no one there. crawJed under the bed and went to p. And there Brooks found him Monday morning. He spent the day at the ranch. Tn the evening, while milking a cow, Brooks was shot by some one who came up behind him. The rancher claims it was the dwarf. He said that, in spite of the agony of his wound, he jumped up and chased Wells for about half a mile,| tp ® hil! behind his house. Then Be lost sight of him and, becoming Weak. returned home and told) neighbors of the shooting Early this afternoon Wells was} still in hiding, and deputy sheriffs | had found no trace of him. His fos-| ter father lives in this city JS CO-ED AT 80 Wis, June 13—Mre Poa Dw Winship of Racine wif! en ter the university next fall as the octogenatian co-ed in the Unit-| States, and probably tu the! world. Mrs. Winship, who is com. her second year In’ the arts course at Ghio State University, | war a par 5 soreoset friend of Abraham | BEANS ADD YEARS © oosaege oe Ok., June 12-—-A. D. 2, who attributes his lon ae to his regular habit of eating| beans, was married to Miss Rebecca | Jane Galeway, 24 years old “You might say,” Dutton remark-| ed, after bis wedding, “that I have} eaten the bean of perpetual youth.| I refuse to grow old.” CAT IS SUICIDE NEW YORK, Jun 4arie over the departure of her mistr: Mrs. Alice M. Payne, a big yellow eat leaped from the 13th story win dow of the Plaza hotel to her death to the pavement below. Wome and children who saw the cat jamp "fos and covered their eyes the i ing WHEN ISA NOISE rst is | AND WHY ? Our faith is justified | Scores of earnest readers are hurrying to the fray with answers to yesterday's {fling query— wH 18 A NOISE | True, the answers don't and some fail to touch auxiliary questions WHERE? WHY? Bit the forty-eleven Print today show it’s ject. Pe always vital subjects One of our m mined a limerick, wouldn't mind i that. This is it alf agree, upon the HOW letters al gree we sub-| on| a dis poet thinking thing even we like Mf my wife makes a noise, like slam, anger Blam! Although I'n I know I w I'm a f a Or in remarks: “Zowle! not near it | hear it; husband, 1 am, | We print answers below, ‘em {6 prosy flict, however, grist of the prose though none of] Amid so much con the big question re A FUR-AWAY NOISE mains unanswered, Having an-| Other engagement at the ball gam today we call once move for help.| | rotten.” | public of the | pounded | ert [though no man | though no man has smelled it and | bury The Seattle Star ONLY VOL. 13, NO. 95, LILLIAN GRAHAM’S FATHER IS LIVING AT RENTON the actress who Is char ing W. E. D. Stokes, New Yor millionaire, Graham has pald taxe in King county for 35 years, but hi has spent much of this time | Alaska I haven't seen was so high,” and he held his ban out even with his hip, “Yes, sb was only a little girl when I las' saw her. I built the first hotel in Rento }Y¥ears ago, and soon after it burne }down my wife and I had trout and got a divorce, I made a har fight for the children, but the Ju said they were too young for me take care of. The Inst I heard of Lily she jin Parle studying music, whe NYOTEM [a ROTTEN one time, but his cottage and tw b shown the thing up father of Lillian Graham, th Lity since sb Pat Graham and His Heme at Renton. wa Mr Hl fixed large jots are largest part of f worldly possessions now TWO CHUMS ARE MARRIED TO TWO CHU Two chums met two chums in the little town of Bellevue, across the lake, and Dan Cupid got yery, very busy. This morning the two chume ca up with the two chums they met to the courthouse, and got out marriage licenses. Robert W. Boyce, former secretary to HI Gill, swore he knew Richard Saxe Jones, Jr. a newspaper man here, and Dick Jones he knew Bobby Boyce Marriage License Clerk Gage then made out two - licenses. The first was for Bobby Boyce and Helen L. Campbell. The second gave Dick Jones and Willisene A. Randiett permis sion to marry QUAKE SHOCK “ree This is the opinion of County Treasurer Hanna cornering the leystem in connection with prelim jinary expenses for the Duwamish waterway project “L will be bound by the opinion | of the prosecuting attorney as to | whether I have a right to hold up the salary and other warrants, said Hanna, “but I have dor duty. 1 called attention to wh believed is a rotten system, I can not hire attorneys when the prose cuting attorney says he cannot back me up. It is now up to the Attorney Murphy 2 no written opinion yet. Until he does, Hanna will contin to refuse payments on warrants drawn by the waterway commissioners, except the salar 4 commissioners, which have | been ordered paid by the court Commissioners Paul and Hamm re- cotved ir salaries for seven months yesterday. Prosecuting has given Ha MEXICO other sev, today oper west side cano, and pouring Lava a Cisa, June 13 re earthqual ed a new crater In of Mount Colfma both craters today ut fire and lava stones the mountain into the y, wher Culdad situated. More than thousand persons were killed the great earthquake of 1806 uake today station at shoc th ar Colima City Obey that Impulse. Write to “The itor” of this newspaper at Anawer the problem ax pro by ‘Constant Reader of all this excitement words GIRL WANTED TO the in thes “Sdppose a ton of dynamite were set off by electricity, out, of everybody's hearing— say in the middie of a desert or an ocean—would there be a noise where the explosion took plac 14, wanted some §! Her mother started any | Miss Lois Day, aged to go to Portland with friends this morning. aid “No,” but Lois jway, and now she is being held |by the Tacoma police, while he |mother is on the way over afte her. Mise Day's grandmother sald thi: FROM TODAY'S FISTFUL OF|morning: “We don’t think tha LETTERS. |Lols intended to go any furthe: Mr. Editor: Just as a hole isn't |than Tacoma, but for fear that he a hole until it gets into something, |friends might coax her to go o so & noise is merely vibrations | with them, we decided to have he until it gets into the ear and ham mers against the ear drum. v She only |this morning, but they |to go with them.” AL coaxed he To the Editor: ‘There are five senses: Taste, sight, touch, «mel! and hearing. The salt of the des- is salt though no man has tasted it; the sunrise of the desert in red, though no man has seen it; the sand in the desert ts gritty, has touched it; desert is stifling * * One bath, $73 * what M. McDonald & at., paid last night &® He had gone to take a bath # about midnight when some one * broke Into his room and stole # $18 and a $56 gold watch the air of the explosion in- the thou no man COMMON SENSE. therefore the desert is noise hears it 1 | Editor: If an ostrich shou | his head in the sand and al namite bomb were touched off] The his side would he hear the ex-/it at with what happene | plosion? Quick, Sherlocko! We | terd when Marriage Licens tried but can’t find the ostrich. | Clerk Gage got busy with the Cupi C.W.G. |Muff. The little fellow sent 1 |right over the home plate, A yea a on the same date there was nothing doing at all. The lid wa on tight on account of 't being Sun day last year, The score, June |to 12 Mr CUPID SCORE dy h of June, 1910, wasn't t Dea Editor explost off h out of everybody's b there be a noise wher sion takes place No.” An explosion out of he W. B M Suppose an electricity, aring, would the explo set cent Gain 00 ing H 1910 1911, 1s noiseless 134 - 173 Noise Editor, Daily Star: That's — old gag. It was settled years| 4 4 eM ye My grandfather told me how |® but I for-|# ©. BE. M an ago. it was settled Dy sclenc got which way he said Editor: In answer to your ques tion, I would say: There would be no noise, because nolse ts the effect of the air waves on the ear drum of @ persoh or animal H, 8. HOQUIAM, June 13.—The * law prohibiting aliens from car * rying weapons occurred when * Domenico Sabatino wa * rested yesterday * This is Pat Graham of sented nd with shoot OPENS CRATER An vor | rolling down damaged the rail G0--SHE WENT held ther until we could get her. intended to see them off Cee eee oe ee ee ee + Thats what * 1106 Pike # * * * * * * Tee e eee eee eee ee | * * * | ® first arrest for violation of the * ee ee INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1911. IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. ON TRAINS aND Nitwi"asoe te Ty EDITION CHENK MYSTERY. «WHEN JUSTICE SLIPPED A COG | Two Men Sentenced to Long Terms in Penitentiary Were Inno-| cent of Crime—Court Discovering Blunder Cuts Sentence | Down From Five Years to Six Months, Justice slipped a cog in Judge Gay’s court last week when two men were sentenced to serve from five to twenty years in the peni tentiary. And the third degree system of the police department was part ly responsible for the slip, in the present oase the third degree was mild, it merely made two men plead guilty toa greater crime than they actually committeed, The court didn't discover the in juatice, and the two men stood powerless as their sentences were proneune But tee did not quite slip. Adaima aff others tn the police departn that they would get off with a sf months’ seatence if they p ed guilty taking $30 from one Ed Johnson during a @runken braw! In which all three had been engaged the Saturday before, The two men were Eugen Schuttes and Fred Mattson, long shoremen So visibly were they shocked when Judge Gay imposed a five year minimum as thelr sentence that The Star investigated their and the result has been that Judge Gay this morning changed to a six-months’ mintmum. Instead of being gu ot it was discovered that they were only guilty of and | They were told by Detective put to e x| | n} 6 e a | re the facts e men had been friends for some time drank heavily that Saturday night, and started a quar with Schuttes, the smallest of the took no part Johnson fle, and Beh Mattson. This was the anked to plead gu sentence of five got, apparently, that of property by for money which had t may be grand ‘How di first br J Johnson three it seema, 1 Mattson n ing the seuf- $10 to it, and lost a purse out of bie up, found $30 which both Mattson A robbery charge the penitentia constitute rob! He forgot that lost by another it seems ttes pleked it in € 4 . Schuttes mir nd were and re Dete ery th merely is not on for king return ive ® A must be failing robber t ‘ at though n arceny dyou h ght up. ° to do thin?’ Judge Gay asked when they ppen «| were Coming Back to Newport Because Dowdy Queen Mary Bars Them | MRS. AVA WILLING ASTOR: with them le to the And bes do mK to hess has |which amc in England |too much to Queen Ma | dowdy “ ckings sa devil of aration, | * same thing Jes, both ru Qe | CONSUELO, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH LONDON 13 America, when « of town June ' the won't Over ate stick m simply and for your none alr ty all own. a sock We w Jef that they Just drank,” they answered, st were up for larceny instead of robbery. Judge Gay had no alternative. The mer and he sentenced them from five to 20 years The Star investigated the ease, ealled the and. Prosecuting Attorney Lundin to the real of personal investigation, Judge Gay concluded been charged with the wrong offense, and this m wan rectified confessed their guilt, | ntion of Judge After a few that the men ning the mis at Gay te | h take —— = HAS WIFE THE RIGHT TO KEEP HER HUBBY AWAKE? Has a wife the right to keop the [family domicile, and he has ‘put light burning while she reads in |B to Judge Ma He also accuses a of being too busy leading | bed, when you want to get to sleep rfly existence in cafes, as quickly as the Olympus cafe in And bas « attond to her household you awake bed? These are monial qu | Rettler has beer jentirely satisfact wm SHIP HAVE THAT TREASURE? (Dy United Press Leased Wire) GAN DIEGO, June 13.-—The little steamship Eureka, re ported to bear treasure found in the old Spanish main lost years ago from a Chil ship, is expected to arrive here from the South in a few hours. A. G. Sloan of Los Angeles is here as representative of the treasure seekers, He said tha the Eureka must come in for fuel Months ago a party, equipped with maps and other data left San Francisco in search of treasure said to have been sunk near the bay of Frisco, close to Nicaragua. J. C. Mellen chartered a ship which, in command of Captain Burtiss, cleared from San Fran cleco May 13, and delayed a day at San Pedro. DELMAS AGAIN (By United Press Leased Wire.) LOS ANGELES, June 13.—Del phin Delmas, who officiated as chief counsel for Harry K. Thaw at his first trial for the murder of | Stanford White, appeared in the guperior court here today in de fense of Mra. Robert Davis, who is being sued for divorce by her aged husband. Davis is a multimillion aire gnd is the active head of the so-called baking powder trust Davis alleges in his complaint that his wife confined him to thelr Summit, N. J. home for weeks, claiming he was insane, in an effort to gain contro) of his property. ar | pecially coma, to dutios Mre. Reitler, wha started the =e ceedings for divorce, charges bh husband with staying up late =| a oe seible? right to keep alking you im of which nable the matrh Solomon te wer|oight playing cards, and falling own 'pake suitable ee for bh ee FELL 4 STORIES, WALKED HOME : (Ry United Press Leased Wire.) OAKLAND, Cal, June 13.— dames Barry, hod carrier, fell this) morning four stories and landed on @ cement sidewalk. He suffered only trom a fractured wrist and nu-| merous cuts. Barry walked home| alone k af RRR Reeeeeeeeeee eee DON’T LIKE “MURPHY” ST. * The residents on Murphy place ct to the name of thelr street. "They want s name “which will cause | comm The city counc yesterday received a petition from residents of many nation alits some of them even Irish, asking that the name be 4. The streets commit handle the grave ques tion next Thursday a r eeeeeeeeeeeee e REE A RE A r r Woman Has Offices Arrested LOS ANGELES, Jun Ault son Li McCaleb, for three months member of the Los Angeles polic force, is under arrest here today on & warrant from Arkansas, charging him with a “felony.” The charge was made by a young woman of |Newport, Ark. where he formerly lived. OPENING BATTLE ON RECIPROCITY WASHINGTON, June 13.—The opening battle in the reciprocity fight was scheduled to begin in the it r r mn | r r NEW YORK—On the ground that he is still a resident of Montana, exSenator W. A. Clark, who lives in a $7,000,000 Fifth Av.|senate at 2 o'clock this afternoon, mansion, escaped execution in a]when four separate reports on the sult of debt against his son pill were expected to be presented — by the finance committee. Chatr MICHIGAN CITY, Ind—Johna man Penrose is ready to present thanSnook, 75; who married more|the majority report, referring the than 1,000 eloping Chicago couples, |bill as passed by the house, with | for forty years justice of the peace | Root amendment, without recom here, is dead mendation in id 4} r 6 8 Woman Carries Mail Every Day for Over Two Decades gence sticking out all over her vOund face, Miss Markham ix the living demonstration of her creed of “outdoors, alwnys outdoors.” She} considers the outdoor life the cure: all for ills of every description, and advises women who are listless and careless to occupy themselves with wome outdoor work Has Never Mi a Trip. No better proof exists of the ad- tage’ of outdoor living in her| own case than the fact that in thewe | twenty-two years in which she has carried the mails for Uncle Sam she | hus not missed a single trio, making twoveach day BOSTON s, June 13.—With a yecord of having carried mafi for the government for twenty-two years, during which she has covered over 62,000 miles, not to mention the feat of being the only “express: man” in the neighborhood, Miss Florénce Markham has a unique dis tinction among New Hngitnd women. Besides this, Miss Markham does marketing and, being a shrewd bu inoss woman, many of the farn wives intrust their buying to her, feeling secure that she will get them We very best at rock-bottom prices Erect, breezy, bright, with Intelli- * * * * * | kive he | saloon keeper, | ing Not so in Merrie If the 1 we the queen won't smile ath from ac The your Engl aren't howdy and | if the as you look | may on't say m our Who's Who For one the ni the ui wor your town house ur mn ugh, lormer will port duchess and Mrs. Ava Wi wife of John J soon leave London Both are classy dressers and | nc derable cut-ups well # but Queen Mary won't have dowds as long as her match ge: a New Stunt; Woman Faints for Profit ' one | the the last..three weeks an worked this game at Pantages three consecutive tim |Under a mild “third 5 confessed to Manager Edws Milne that “the boys had tre her so nice and the brand w 80 delicfous” the first time whe shé really did have a fainting spel! that could not r t tempt to faint each time lean show One faint equals one drink. One drink equals 25 cents. Cost of admission, 20 cents. Profit of one faint, 5 cents. ya Figure | In | wor er math reelf Kood faint ma of it out for and get if you can i wee the drink 8 bation You see a show drink thrown in, at the right tim than to t getting th 'DYNAMITED BY BLACK HAND (By United Press Leased Wire.) CHICAGO, June 13.—Hundreds of persons .were thrown into a panic early today by two dynamite explosions, occurring almost simul taneousfy, and caused, it is alleged, by members of the “Black Hand” society. Ignosia a ation to the destroyed. Lottisanto showed the letter to Sam Remilla, another sa- loon keeper, who said he had re- ceived similar demands. Neither paid any attention to the threaten- | ing letters. At 3:15 o'clock this morning Lot tisanto’s saloon was wrecked by a| terrific explosion of dynamite While an immense crowd gathered, Remilla’s place nearby was blown up by a similar explosion. Lottisanto, a wealthy recently received a demand that he pay $500 under threat that his property would be Wa ago voted of granting the yesterday 7 spoke in favor Park noon led th The da Counetim who two. position. The against council voted unani years mously renewing the If Luna sale 1 evidently in support of » has disgusted and dodging on the (By United Prea Leased Wire.) LONDON, June 13 John m continues to be the coronation. liowing the uniwsual demonstra. tion yesterday when the husky champion arrived to attend the big show, London today 18 still shower ing honors on the negro. No visit potentate ever attracted half attention that Johnson has re At every appearance today enormous crowds have followed him at and even the well-trained made a grand effort to win back » women whom h his hedging il reform bill. | leensne fight curious part of {t was that Wai 8 fighting wind. He had a against renewing it London police have found a traffic | problem that has kept t them ing. At in the crowd was so dens constables summmone & way through for Jack's automo- he pugilist, silk hatted and | 4 automobile duster, | himself, constantly | displaying the golden smile as the wds cheered him, At Piccadilly & group of girls stopped Jack's car and presented him with a bo ruquet ORGANIZE PUGET (CHOLERA ON SHIP SOUND PORTS) cre iscsi cholera on an incomin; i steamer for nearly a year, was re The fourth ported by North German-Lloyd the Pacific horemen Jack noon 1 in an the car the annual convention of district of the Long union began actual work rday. The opened in the mornin, dresses by C. O. Young zer, and J. A. M Seattle liner Berlin, which arrived in today from Mediterranean was | One of the.passengers in the ad. | ®8e becam 1 with the dr of L.| ady after the Berlin pres.| from Napjes and died the next No other ‘cases were noted ‘NOBLECITIZEN” LOS ANGELES, June 13.—Rally ing to the defense of Col. Garel commander of the insurrecto forces in the state of Sonora, who is soon |to be tried on charges of having ac cepted bribes from federal officials in connection with the execution of “Red” Lopez at Agua Prieta, for |mer Governor Redo of the state of naloa, who was arrested and de \tained a week in Nogales by Gat jcla, today stated that the insurrecto colonel was of Mexico's nol citizenc yeste convention with A ‘orkle, soon ident union The efforts of the convention will} ntered on thoroughly organiz-| ing the Puget sound ports, especial: | ly attle Special attention will also be paid to Grays Harbor, Sev eral changes looking toward ‘the ser cementing of the local orga will be recommended be ¢ izations re | ei i ela ee WEATHER FORECAST * Fair tonight and Wednes: * day; light west winds. * RRR OR Rk tk * * *| * * * GIAL VICTIM UF POIGON PLOT By United Press Leased Wire.) DELAWARE, 0., June 13.—Mrse Jessie R. Way-Henkle, arrested for | the alleged poisoning of her step- daughter, Merl Henkie, 21, Is out’ under bond today, and protests her innocence of a charge which, in many ways, parallels the Schenk. case in Wheeling, W. Vae Mrs. } Henkie is a friend of Mrs. Laura| | Farnsworth Schenk, recently tried |for the alleged poisoning of her’ millionaire husband University Favorite Henkle, the pre alleged jvoning, was ® with Ohio Wesleyan unt students. A month ago she returned from to Athens, O., suffering fr breake wn. Her her. ® the Case hour’ physicians pumped two of rom her Or that sucky a large quan poison na been given her life, physicians tectives Merl victim { nded taken to ad an me att stomach fact the saved ed am adminise julee ve her the en to the ich her before hospital. epmoth she was Lived in Fear From the moment I was takes 1 was afraid,” said Miss Henkle, we 4 alous of tome. After I noticed In the frequently to see Mra. night gown Then came an I thought I wag Papa's wife entered room and related an awful eam she had during the night, told me how she had seen @ hearse stop in front of the six men walk up the stairs me out. I was too weak and was forced to ene tention pede a few days i d peculiarly middie of the night I up with a start din -her standing above me awful day, when going to die house test dure it ANOTHER “Y” ATTEMPT FAILS egation of Rainier valley citizens went to see Mayor Duting yesterday to show him why a “¥* uld be put in on the Crawford at Kenyon Among them w. W Phalen od other Iumbia City residents, known Crawford supporters in all moves. em that Orawe admitted to him that it intention to charge an a fare beyond Kenyon st. after “Y" had been estabushed, and therefore he could not favor »position another effort movement for the plac- ing of a. at Kenyon st. for the benefit of Crawford's purse seems to have been in vain SPANKED HIS WIFE (By United Press Leased Wire.) DES MOINES, Ia., June 13.—Mrs. Christine Devine is today divorced from her husband, Irvin Devine, be- witnesses testified that, in the sence of friends, he spanked his wife. T rd mayor had told t the that the Thus popular pi to start @ FATHER OF DIRECT | ELECTION HAPPY SENATOR W. E. BORAH (By United Press Leased Wire.) WASHINGTON, June 13.—Assert ing his belief that the resolution for the direct election of United States senators would be ratified by the state legislatures, Senator Borah, (Rep. Idaho), father of the resolu tion, expressed his pleasure today, its passing. Personally,” have over he ‘I would much preferred to see the dl election of senators resolution adopted it came from the ju- diciary committee, but it in exceed- ingly gratifying that the measure ssed as tt did. I think that tf it hes the states they will ratify I believe the ratification would been more certain if the reso had been adopted in its or iginal form. I feel, however, that it a great victory, and that all to be satisfied.” as ought shelichrtobatabebeote ha ol ONLY 123 WHEN SHE DIES © (By United Press Leased Wire) BAKERSFIELD, Cal., June * 13.—-Mrs. Mary Roderiguez, a *& native of Mex is dead here * at the age of 123 years, ® born November 1, & * ERE RR * today was Perret ete es