The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 29, 1911, Page 1

Ty EDITION TUPPER NOT 80 SURE NOW > Btate’s Star Witness Against Wappenstein Changes His Testi- _ mony on Vital Points in Second Trial Today. Gid Tupper’s testimony, on which} “I'll declare myself in for $10 ‘the state is relying principally for for each girt per month," Tupper “the conviction of Charles W. Wap-| testified during the first trial as in in the bribery charges being a statement made by Wap laos him, fet! down on several penstein. tant points this morning. In| This morning Tupper refrained first trial Gid Tupper made the | from using any direct quotation of paiti latement that Wappen-| Wappenstein'’s alleged remark’s, said to him “Go get the Mid-|saying that they figured Wappen 1” after he had been introduced | stein'’s inier at $10 per head. Geraid. This morning Tupper | Still! implicates Wappy. he was not sure who.said that,/ Tupper's entire manner was in it was either Gerald or Wap- | distinct contrast to his appearance and that he thought it on the first trial. He spoke direst Wappenstein. jly a fearleasty then. Today, he Changes on Other Points. |euarded his language, and tm had also testified in the/ plicated Wappenstein as little as trial that Wappenstein was the! possible. He repeated his story one to suggest that he get that he paid Wappenstein $10 for Jease for the Paris house. each girl in the Midway and Paris “You ought to get another house,” houses, between the first and tenth stein told him, according to of every month. testimony on the first trial.| Judge Ronald has not yet passed is morning, however, Tupper|on the question of whether Tup ‘awore that he had suggested his/per’s testimony will need corrob: getting the Paris house hirnself, and eration. The state took up only came down to the chief's office half an hour in Tupper's examin merely to get his consent. jation. Tupper cross examination onde was resumed this afternoon. CITIZENS’ NOTICEN wine tue SENT TO DILLING " " ‘cuyEs? no? a attle, June 29, 1911 “George W. Dilling, Mayor of the} ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, June 29 ee nas a public mass|—Sbavely girls here have refused ‘Dear eh e718 pte adopt the harem bathing skirt ‘Meeting, held June 27, 1911, In A hall, a motion was passed re-| after seeing one worn on the beach ing the Citizens’ Recall asto,|today. ‘The trousers obscure the fon to convey & the mayor Of) graceful lines of the figure. a the ponerse y hegre A woman wearing such a skirt Tees terteeithin five S87 jappeared on the strand when the jcrowd was at its greatest The - petitions will be issued) suit was of black silk. What the | and circulated for the - eager beholders objected to was the fact “George W. Dilling from the office | tha: the “pants” extended clear to ef mayor of Seattle ‘ |the ankles. The contrast was too * Citizens’ Recall Association. »|much for the wearers’ of the ap- : “By F. A. Stirtan, Secretary, ed abbreviated style. - The above notice was sent to t's like going back to the old ‘Mayor Dilting pan rey aM a ankle length skirt,” said one. cording to ee . ne fs therefore given till Tuesd: eS a ee ek ike * » iets Stale aa din dint 4 « lk CHRIST'S SERMON MAY 4\e SAVE CONDEMNED WOMAN j® Rik eather een * WEATHER FORECAST * * For Seattle and vicinity % Showers tonight and Friday, # light southwesterly winds * Temperature at noon today, % 57. sense RRERARAAHRAHHREEE « WASHINGTON, June 29. Pres “dent Taft leaves here tomorrow for Beverly. Mass, to establish his! ly in their summer home be-! he goes to Indianapolis Sun- Bay to spend the Fourth of July ‘with former Vice President Chas, OW. Fairbanks. ] In a speech at Indianapolis Taft “will define his position on the tariff. He will leave Indianapolis for the - eapital on the evening of the Fourth.) | (By Colted Press Leased Wire.) HULL, England, June 29.—A strike of dock laborers here, in sympathy with the striking sea/) men, today has absolutely tied up all the fish and provision trade of the east coast of England. LOONYLINES RRA KHKKhhh * * ss CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT. 1—Christ ending His ser. mon on the mount reproveth rash judgment; judge not, that ye be not judged 2—For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again * *) zeeteeeeeteeee St, Matthew vii seeeeeeeee bn ll ie ln in in Min ie ie te ie i te Accompanying a letter and a pe-| tition signed by scores of Seattle men and women, Mrs. Mabelle N Driscoll of 705 Columbia st. ts send ing this Bibieal quotation to Earl Grey, governor of Canada, tn hope of saving Mra. Angelino politano from the gallows. She is condemned to die because he killed her husband when tried to force her into a life of hame. She must die this summer the stern Judgment of the Canadian law says; that 44, as soon as her babe ts born Countless thousands of Ameri cans have forwarded a petition urging clemen or @ commutation of sentence, to THEN, FOR THE LAST TIME, HE THREW HI SELF FROM THE TOP OF THE Earl Gr TOGO SAILS TO U. & FOR A VISIT. | Admiral Togo is sailing today, | ADMIRAL, he (= either a pardon) ALASKA BLOG Everybody is writing loonylines. The banker, the barber, the wait- |The Japanese rior is this He’s welcome in May As long as he comes with an jeaded Ly ress, the author, the elevator boy amical suite, the motorman. Gee, it’s an| Yelling not his designs in Nip- awful strain. ponese deceit Look at ‘em on page three today. And not at the head of a belli- ™ Are you writing loonylines? cose fleet. proverbial flowers| ‘Watery Grave Gives Up the Rusted Old Warship Maine This picture, taken especially for The Seattie Star by Arthur Ruiz of IN ina, Cuba, shows the rusted, The Seattle Star ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1911. SEATTLE ONE CENT. MURDER OF CHILD Io HINTED (By United Prem Leased Wire) OROVILLI June 29 Working on declarations by physl Clans that only a sudden jerk by strong arm could have broken t ck of 13-year-old Helen Rumball, whose dead body was sound hang ing in the home of her step-mother here, District Attorney G. FP. Jones and Sheriff J.B. Webber today seeking evidence for tomorr preliminary bearing that murder was done If the sta w's ements of the physi clans are corroborated, a charg murder, already found by the oner's jury, will be formally ma at the hearing against the girl's stepmother, Mra, Emma L. Rum ball, and her broth Archie Lewis both of whom are held in jail he in connection with the girl's death. District Attorney Jones de. clares he has already dis. covered some new evidence which he believes showed the girl's neck was broken either by Lewis or the step-mother Jerking the rope while the child, her hands bound before her, was unable to maintain her balance. As she fell, Jones believes, the two left the attic, not realizing until later that the child was dead. Both Mra. Rumball still maintain their the girl's death Body Covered With Fiowe: The, slab in the morgue at Grid ley, Where the body of Helen Rum bail awaits burial, was covered with Mowers by the residents o' that town today Public indlg- nation at the child's piteous end still runs high, and generous = re sponse is being accorded a sub- seription, through which she will be given proper burial of persons visited the child's bier today and threats of reveng lagainst her supposed slayers a Lewis ot and Innocence barnacle-covered Maine. The picture was taken when the water in the caisson had been lowered 16 feet. | freely made. The United the night of ates government is recovering the old battleship, ruary 15, 1898, Hurrah! They Are Going to Bury the Hammer Saturday Night which was blown up and sunk on the| Denny regrade district, just north of Pine at Arrangements were made this morning with the Hitt Brothers Fireworks Co., at Colum. bia, for a handsome pyrotechnical display Fully 10,000 persons are expected to be present to watch the weird ceremony, hear the funeral oration Fireworks will burning of the 20-foot hammer that phe Seattle Publicity club will draw through the streets next Saturday night, surmounted on a huge black watafalque, preliminary to ite immo Jation on a huge funeral pyre in the accompany AFTER GIVING BLOOD TO SAVE ANOTHER, FAINTING WOMAN FALLS TO HER DEATH (By United Press.) NEW YORK, June 29.—Weakened by loss of blood which she had sacrificed to save the life of a dying woman, Mrs. Ida Schiff fell in a faint from the balcony of her tene- ment home today and was killed. Mrs. Schiff and her hus- band had been saving money for two years to bring their children from Russia. But a month ago Schiff lost his position and has since been unemployed. Hearing of a woman whose life might be saved by means of blood transfusion, Mrs. Schiff last week under- went the operation to obtain money with which to pay her children’s passage across the ocean, Schiff said today that the woman died and that his wife did not receive the money promised her. Doctor Performs Operation With Scissors on Man on Moving Train (By United Press Leased Wire.) suffering great pain, hie wound 08 ANGELES, June 29-— having closed too soon, Dr, Delegates to the American Eaves had no surgical Instru- Medical association in conven- ments with him, and the tion here, are talking today of | man’s condition was critical, an operation performed with a | borrowed a pair of scissor pair of scissors by Or, James The scissors were sterilized, Eav of London, England, the patient stretched on a while en route from Denver to berth and while the train was Los Angeles. A passenger re in motion the operation was covering from an operation was successfully performed. “A SUMMER CAMPAIGN A FOR AND SANE” CHRISTMAS 29.—With Rabbi Joseph Leiser of organization has started a move- Christmas, Bruce Calvert of life,” is the Aiston of Chicago the treasurer. required to sign the “SAFE June its secretary, a new for a “safe and sane’ “re ment Griffith, Ind., an editor and preacher of the “simp! president, and Dr. R. 'T Members of the league are pledge: “| will, from this time forward, neither give nor receive Christmas presents outside of my immediate household, and I will do all I can, by distributing Mterature and other propaganda work, to discourage the sensele practice of indiseriminate Christmas giving, to the end that true human love and brother hood may reign in the hearts of mon, instead of the maudelin in- ganity which now disgraces Christmas day.” following ==NATIONAL G. A. R. CHAPLAIN, 81, TO WED WOMAN 75 ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., June 29.—Thé Rev, Thos, Harwood, national chaplain of the G. A. R., today is @reparing to wed Mrs, Mary Clark of this city, Chaplain Harwood is 81 and his bride- to-be 75, jot the hammer delivered by Ole Hanson, and take part in the fes tivities and merrymaking that will follow the last rites of the knocker's weapon. The Publicity club ts go ing to destroy the hammer, in the belief that it is po longer needed in Beattle, and that the city can do jowt aa weil without it (Ry United Prews Leased Wire.) (CHICAGO, June its case against Evelyn Arthur See, “revealer of the absolute life,” for his alleged causing the delinquency of Mildred Bridges, one of his disciples, a minor, the state today closed its case. The defense there |wpon moved that the court instruct the jury to acquit. ene tre tee | Tree Dedicated to Religion. \® SANTA CRUZ, Cal, June | ® 29. giantsRedwood tree in |® the heart of the Santa Cruz * grove, which stands beside |® and towers above the tree * dedicated to Robt. G. Inger % soll years ago, today stands * consecrated in behanf of chris ® tlanity, The dedication cere. *® mony was performed by the ® officera of the International *® Bunday Schoo! association. SRE EE EEE EEE EK * REE HK KEREK NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HICKTOWN BEE The Ladies Ald is going to give a al on the Fourth y won't be «mate and at hab hired a box in the iting the age of nak Thure- dayed in Hicktow No man ever learned to be a drunkard on short beers, Late Watertower observes. iRACE WITH DEATH DAVENPORT, Ia, June 29.— A 6,500-mile race with death was started here today by William iting, 14, in order that he might |repeive ‘the blessing of his dying mother in Honolulu. His mother, who left here in April to visit her danghter in Honolulu, te critically il, and pleads that her boy be sent taj her. iCOMPLETE CASE | AGAINST SEE. —Completing | Clothes Soaked With Perspiration. One of the chief witnesses for the prosecution when Mrs, Rum |ball and Lewis come to trial will be Harriett Plants, the first out- sider to visit the Rumbail home after the tragedy. She declared today that the child's clothing was soaked with perspiration and that the erature in the attic, where ¢ was committed, was at 0 degrees when she arrived Tied hard and fast as she was, the |ehild’s last hours, Miss Plantz de clares, must have been a time of rte tortar the intense heat, Jadded to her sufferings from wounds Mrs, Rumball inflicted in an admitted beating, making com bination that would be almost un endurable even by the strongest man DECIDING ON CRINKING CUPS Shall we germ laden pub drinking cup be abolished and replaced by the sanitary, bub- bling fountain? That's the qu streets committe council is required to answer this afternoon. Councilman Wardall’s drinking cup ordi- nance is to be acted on. tion which the of the city SLNER FREED, WN HISTOR People of Southern Oregon Charge Judge Coke With Not Doing His Duty, When He Caused Acquittal of Man Charged With Murder. June Southern Oregon is trying to recall the first judge in the United States ROSEBURG, Or., 28.— to have the “yank-em-back-to- private-life club” swung at him, He is John 8, Coke, circuit judge of the second judicial district of Oregon, with a territory larger than several New Wngland states. In the MecClallen-Mahan murder trial here Judge Coke gave this in. ° Hundreds | ITY EDITION OPIUM RING IN SEATTLE Wholesale Smuggling So Successful That Price of Forbidden Drug Drops to Half the Normal Rate Here—Wily Chinese rg sits With Employing White Agents to Bring Opium © Seattle. In the suitcases and boxes shown in this news h photograph se | cured by The Star, $7,000 worth of opium is concealed. Th pil and alleged opium smugglers were captured near Blaine, Wash, a few days ago by U. S. custome officers. How many Seattle men—white| great commercial combine in thie men—are there engaged in the dar-|country, has its headquarters im ing trade of smuggling opium into| Shanghai. Sailors on board the this port? tramp steamers are employed to | That is what a equad of govern-| stow away a few thousand tins of | ment secret service agents are try-|the drug. It is believed that at jing to find out today. least four shipments out of five get | Seattie is the main gateway to/into the country in some way. United States for the opium| The opium ring can afford to lose the watch at San Francisco is the other shipment by seizure. It 100 sharp—the chances for passing |js rarely possible for the govern- n a few hundred tine of the drug|ment to get a conviction against re not so favorable as in Seattle, | the sailors. the | But this much The) In China the five-tael tin is worth | price of opium has dropped from/|about $5 im gold. In the United $45 a can to $20 within the past | States, wholesaled to the small |month. ‘The reason is that there is plenty of the stuff on the market Chinese dealers in opium in Chi ARO, w York and the other big/ eastern cities, admit that the sup IF T | . merchants, it brings about $20 af the present time, the authorities have learned ‘R’S FRIEND, DON’T DO IT {By United Press Leased Wire.) WASHINGTON, June 29.—"If you jare a friend of Roosevelt's, don't jgo into. that.” This was the answes | But so far, the Chinese smugglers | RePresentative Hinds of the Hard have ontwitted the shrewd agents | !¢k Sugar investigating committee of the government. Only a few |0t today when he asked Geo. H. days ago a Madison st. tailor was|©arle, Jr, of Philadelphia, for ime arrested with scores of tins of jformation as to the former presh jopium hidden in bis clothing. jdent’s action when he urged that He was a tailor by day, an opium |the head of thé sugar trust be prow smugeler by night, the government |ecuted for wrecking a real estate agents say ‘ gga gd \ “The Chinese pay their white al-| Earle said he did not believe that les $2 and $3 commission on each | Roosevelt had carried out his oath | five-teal tin deliver at “head-|of office in that he did not see that quarters” in Seattle, Each man/the law was. enforced against the | usually brings in from 100 to 140/heads of the sugar trust. He de |tins. Two suit eases will accommo-|clared Roosevelt had left the mate | date 160 tins easily. |ter to his attorney gener | One favorite method for the white} nabeapneigzr smugglers is to get their supply ix SRR ERE REE EE | somewhere nea Wi ome r New Westminster, lp. ra Train Robbers Got Little. | ply fs coming straight from Seattle. The Chinese emugglers are ém-| ploying white men for the work; most of these men are Seattle men. Strangers would excite sus-| pleion, the wily yellow leaders of the opium ring believe. ) Who Are the Agents? , take a train for Bellingham, * |go by boat from Bellingham tv MEDFORD, Or., June 29.— ® |Everett and enter Seattle on the} * Assistant Postmaster Wood- & ford stated today that the reg- & istered mail leaving Medford ®& Wednesday night on train 16 & was unusually light and that & he did not believe it contained & much of value. Between 15 ® and 20 pieces were sent out. & SRRERERME REE EERE SO, PEOPLE FOR FIRST TIME INVOKED RECALL AGAINST JUDGE The following are the reasons cited in the petition for recall of Judge Coke: “That said John §, Coke, circuit judge, in th® month of May, 1911, while holding circuit court in and for Douglas county, state of Oregon, and presiding over the case of the State of Oregon vs. Roy McClallen, charged with murder, demonstrated his gross in- competency and unfairness by giving the jury in said case, at the instance and request of the defendant’ ittorneys, unfair and er roneous instructions as to law, intended to bias the Jury in favor of the defendant and secure an acquittal, and did so bias the jury | and cause an acquittal; while at the same time he (said John 8. coke) failed and refused to give the jury fair and legal instructions | which were asked by the prosecution. All of which contributed to, j and brought about, the defeat of the ends of justice.” of Judge Cook: struction to the jur, When the jury returned ite “Gentlemen of the jury, the plac-| forced verdict of acquittal the peo- ing of a hand at the hip pocket|ple all over the judge's district constitutes an overt act." This|rose and yelled in wrath. The means that McClallen was justified | people, almost tg.a man, of South- in killing Mahan if he had his hand|ern Oregon felt, nd publicly stat- in his hip pocket! jed, that had McClalien not been an The evidence showed that all the| influential man there would have four shots fired at Mahan were|been nothing in the trial, on the from behind, and that the fatal|evidence produced, to warrant any+ shot was fired almost directly from |thing but a verdict of first de the back, proving that the mur-/gree murder. dered man was neither advancing; Southern Oregon felt that a man on his slayer, nor facing him when|had been killed wantonly, and that he was killed! his slayer had escaped punishment. The coroner reported that it was/through the twisting of the law, impossible for the murdered man/|So the voters of Southern Oregon Jelectric Interurban line. Once in Seattle, they are safe. Thelr pay for the dangerous job is |generous—they dare to take the | chance. Rich Profits in “Dope.” The Chinese opiom ring, which is just as firmly established as any err rrr ess to have had his hand at his hip when he was killed, but this, and all other evidence of like sort, was overshadowed by the judge's tn- structions, and also by his refusal to give a single instruction —re- quested by the prosecution, while giving every one asked by the de- fense. bi invoked the Coke. To every town, and especially in the country districts, there are referendum petitions being cireu- lated. They are being signed gen- erally, and there seems to be slight doubt that Judge Coke wil} be recalled. recall against Judge a