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

Star (ITY SEATTLE The Seattle ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER a 5 e VOL. 13, NO, 110. SEATTLE, WASH RIDAY, JUNE 3 EDITION ONE CENTs Siwi"AttodT? ORRIS ACCUSES JUDGE RONALD |WHO WILL GIVE UP SKIN (By Untied Press Leased Wire.) VANCOUVER, B. C., June W—Wireless reports to Point Grey say that the steamer Spo- kane ran on the rocks shortly Defore midnight last night and was later beached. Two prs- Sengers were missing this Pporcing but all the others were n small boats. The acci- happened in Seymour ws and the passengers were landed at Plumper’s bay. © The stermers Prince Gcorge ‘and Admiral Sampson are ) Standing by the wrecked I'ner, The Spokane was bound for Southeastern Alaskan points. ‘Captain |. E. Guptill commands Sher. She was ona specially | chartered excursion trip. _ The steamer Spokane left Seattle Wednesday night with 1$1 passengers. A “PIONEER” BOAT. No further details of the accident to the Spokane had been received at the Merchants’ Exchange this afternoon. The excursioniste were largely composed of people from this city and other northwestern pioneers in the Alaskan trade. STEAMER HITS _ STEAMER (My United Prew Leesed Wire QUEBEC, June 30.—The steamer Aranmore, a few miles below Mur- » May Bay, in a dense fog early this ling, ran down and sank the General Wolfe. Both boats were owned by the same firm, Hol- Bros. Ph this city. Those on Gen. Wolfe report that even from the the, other ship until the occurred. The Aranmore the Wolfe on the starboard causing her to swing around then, after the recoil, struck in on the port side. ‘The Gen. Wolfe sank in 55 min- and now lies in 30 fathoms Of water. She carried down with her valuable cargo, two or three red cases of salmon destined for the United States, specially bought up by a dealer for the Fourth of July market. Both ships And cargo are insured. Immediately after the shock both | Vessels Jaunched their life boats ers and crew of the jife were rescued and atonal uth to town. seis TO SAVE GIRL'S LIFE? ‘The steamer is one of the \ LITTLE CLARICE WHITTER. | Taken by Star Photographer in City Hospital. If the doctors at the city hospital;not lived bere can find somebody who will yield | have no friend whom they can call very long; they two or three inches of cuticle—|upon for the slight sacrifice, and| from the back of the hand or the/they have no money to hire one arm- the life of “seven-yearold | who might give two or three inches Clarice Whitter will be saved. jof cuticle, There is a spot nine inches long|Next Monday the doctors are to jon the little girl's back devoid of |attempt another operation. A lit jskin; it is the wound left by fire| tle bit of skin, say one by that severely burned the child last} inches, will form an on November. lthe girl's back and skin Since then she has been a| will grow from this and speed her patient little wufferer at the hos-| to recovery pual But where js the volunteer? Six times the dgctora have tried| Little Clarise was burned last to graft skin from her father and|November. While she was sitting mother, but the operations have|on the footrest of a stove at her | not been successful home, 1448 West Sist street, her | “If we could graft skin from|dress caught fire and before her }some person outside of the family,’ mother could help her, the jthe operation would probably be )was terribly burned successful,” said one of the doc-| With all her suffering, the child | tora today. [has born her confinement in the But the little girl's parents have | hospital with extraordinary pluck and fortitude. SIX KILLED; THIRTY INJURED Hines Springs BUFFALO, N. Y., June 30.—Six persons were killed and 30 injured today when the pumping station at the foot of Porter av. collapsed. Th mecident occurred shortly after 9 e’clock. Ambulances have been fushed from ali parte of the city. The financial joss more than $1,000,000. } The victims of the aceldent were machinists who were installing new machinery. They were buried under hundreds of tons of brick The dead were in a pit 50 feet be- }low the floor. It will be hours be fore they are recovered. The | walls, 200 f long, as well as the | roof, collapsed, a Surprise’ |: WASHINGTON, duction of bills from the Washing ton hotel, which Indicated that he could not have been in Chicago at time Clarence S. Punk swore he had asked a contribution to a | “slush fund,” was the surprise Ed June 30.—Pro- ABE RUEF WRITES HIS COMPANIONS IN PRISON “ihe billy Hines produced indicat: | PUT MORE LIFE INTO IT, Abe Reuf is writing plays. Re member Abe had a 14-year term ladled out to him because he cut In on the graft in San Francisco? The news dispatches from San Quentin, Cal., where Abe fs serving hig term, tell of the new plays that is writing. One of them will be presented by the convicts at the Fourth of July celebration in the prison next Tuesday. In the meantime Abe is busy re- hearsing the actors in the drama. Here is the plot: Act I. ck Dalton loves Winnt Winnie is a candy- Honest J fred Nudge. dipper. Act Il. J. Donald Black is a villain; also fMleor-walker in the candy factory where Winiie dips. He, too, loves Winnie, but she has spurned him “Ab. Vil win you yet!” the little lawyer who| mutters | ward Hines, millionaire lumberman sprang today at the his examination by the vestigating committee Lorimer in of the sen PLAYS FOR ed that he was in this m February 7 until March 2 be tween which dates Funk placed his Jalleged conversation with the lum Jberman in tho Union League club, | Chieago. | Boys |e ete tk tk tk tee * |® MRS. GAMBIER'S LOVE |® TROUBLES END FOR TIME * NEW YORK, June 30 je 1 troubles of Mrs, Edith * Gambier, the “unkissed bride” # who is involved in cross suits *# for divorce and separation * here with her banker husband, * Edw. Gambier, ended suddenly * their public phases today |® Justice Pendleton gave attor * neys for both sides 10 days to * file briefs. He referred th | Act til, | r . @ # motion of Attorney Van Wyck, | To turn Winnie against Honest!) for Mrs, Gambier, for a jury Jack, the villain, J. Donald Biack,|* {9F eet Cree sticks n box of chocolate chips tn ats Gast tet Tate eae fonest Jack’s hip pocket when he SP ai te calls to escort Winnte home, after |% tes the case over until Octe the 6 o'clock whistle blows. Biack calls a cop and has Jack pinched for | theft, | But when they get the lad to the police station the chips have all) melted and they can't find ‘em 6m him, Honest Jack has Black pinched for false arrest, and then Winnie |learng that her sweetheart has been |George Goldust, the washing powder magnate’s son, all the time. the. had Abe Reuf may play the part of a pitcher of ice water which Is used ' 1h in the second act when Winnle gives " al! tht PANSY. TIDDS, the floor-walker a chilling rebulf! Beclety Maitor, ° “3 Black, lighting a cheroot (There is a rule against jettes In San Quentin prison, clgar be a a a i ie ie ie ie in ne ie NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HICKTOWN BEE There will be no Iamue of The Hee that the three} child resumption of|few hours later th PEeteresie tite e te tt eee ALLEGED /DYNAMITER fo CLUGHT David Caplin, Wanted in Con- nection With Big Los An-| geles Case, Reported Cap- tured in London by M, J. Burns. SACRAMENTO. Cal., June 30.— That David Caplan, one of the originally indicted persons in con: nection with the Los Angeles Times dynamiting, has been caught in London and requisition has been asked for the return of the alleged fugitive, the asked whether of State Knox had been issue & requisition for Caplan’s re- turn to this country, Johnson said “It is a matte? 1 do not feel at liberty to discuss. Ho positively refused to say another word. He would neither deny nor affirm any question about the case, repeating emphatically that he could not say any more for publication asked to SRE ER eRe EEE LOS ANGELES, June 30— When E. R. Mills, head of the Los Angeles branch of the Burne detective agency, w: proached today for confirm. ation of the report that David Caplan had been arrested in Engiand by William J, Burne, he intimated that he had com. # | a! plete and full knowledge of #| the whole matter. } “Of course it = “but, you see, 1 not any information regard. | it because it would defeat * the ends of justice.” HHRRNHR ER AKER ER eeteeees is true,” he & * he 4 i pdelnds piabdudedbbdebubtes | Are you reading the Loonylines? The whole town is going cyazy about |them. Better xe ‘em on page § to- day Prize winners | tomorrow. to be announced ® featod the ANNE MODROW One of the petition for thi Angeline Napolitano |“fter the probable birth of her baby Miss Modrow Ives near Colum: bia City, and comes to this city to tthe «l work She says that she is certain Miss Modrow was intensely inter- to get hundreds of names on ber he 9 tle at because nearly everyone wor n ¢ has talked with has read The emned to die for killing her Star's accounts of the case, and ix nd, after he had tried to force her eager to help, n pretty So Legislative bill introduced yesterday in Massachusetts provides that street car passengers who are unable to get seats need only pay half fares. Wouldn't do any harm to have such a law in this state. Even straphangers are en- titled to some consideration—and compensation, ‘TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN GOLD, | THAT’S RECORD OF SEATTLE ASSAY OFFICE If the government exacts th creased charge for handling gold In the Seattle assay office, ax is now | proposed, the assay office may go out of business | Since the office was opened in July, 1898, the neat eum of $199,346 661.23 In gold has been recetved this office, That is the figure up to December 31 last; since then there have been gold shipments that bring the total well over the two hundred million mark 5,561.22 mentioned showing from what dis-] gold was shipped is vision the lows tricta an f Nom Ta | Iditarod |Balance (U. 8. A.) | British Cotumbia | Yukon Territory Other sources How Gold is Bought. Much of this gold is brought to the assay office by the registered maila and express companies, com- ing direct from the miners in the north. Some gold, too, 1s brought down to Seattle by the owners themsolves, and they toss it over the counter. The clerks weigh ft out on halr-trigger scales, and a expert assayors tests, Then for every ounce of pure gold the owner re celves 67, which fs pald in a | draft ne draft Ja “as good as gold” anywhere in the world, of course. \Ryan’s Trip Abroad j. | May End Fatally THOMAS F. RYAN Will Thomas Ryan's trip to Europe end as did the late E. Hf Harriman’s Jast journey to foreign climes for health destroyed in the strenuous money-getting campaign k make thelr k to America to die? question Wall st.ly financiers are asking themselves, | long been public knowledge Ryan's health has been shat. tered in his quest for financial sw premacy. A year ago he practically 1 from active business life and | ¢ |bagan to build up physically, but re- | leently it is sald that he has grown] y worse. On board the steamship Adriatic it was noticed that his face | q was pale and drawn and his shoul-|¢ ders bent. | Ryan has already shifted much of |his financial burdens upon the |shoulders, of his son, Allan, coming That is the | tet te RTT THK RK RE KIT wit \I © u REBELS ON “EXHIBITION” © SAN DIEGO, June 30.—A * dozen genuine rebels, the men *& who helped capture Tia ® Juana early in May, are on ® * * * * eeeeeeeee exhibition in a le store window, They play cards selves. KKK KIRK EK K o he waged, and which resulted in hia} m® a cold million I could get away with it hanch. offices ye: photographer and a report with about a million dolla | bricks, taining to the sack, but two was my | > : bes As the gold, men to go along in with him, I Freddie holding $35,000 in gold “twenties” at the assay office. truck beside him are eight gold bricks On the} Freddie Thought He Could Lift a Million in Gold But $35,000 Was His Limit BY FREDDIE. had an idea that if ind fairy came along and slipped lon't a) was know whether he thought I going to tackle him in the vault and steal the gold or whether he took the men in to watch him Anyway, he brought out the gold and {t had its picture taken. Then, when they took the gold back in jagain, they counted it three times to be sure I hadn't slipped a couple of sacks to the reporter, | swept the little truek I alway but esterday I after an found I had a experience bum fiong up to erday with 1 went the The assay Star to pose s in real When I got ready | dustpan and I was going to pick| the truck 1) about three of the shining|cents worth of gold worth $18,000 each, but I] scraped off in handlix idn't. I might Just as well have|They don't throw away even ried to lift the assay office cents worth of.gold there, I guess. $35,000 His Limit. But there may not be any more tackled a few sacks con-|gold coming to the Seattle assay twenties,” mind you $5,000} office. mit.| ‘The government has ordered hey put me in a chair then an@/to charge double held two sacks In my hands andi jing it, and they expect that the hey put five more in my lap, so| miners will ship it all right down to really held $35,000 in gold, but I/the mint in San Francisco. ouldn't have run away with more| That will be a bad thing for the han $10,000. assay office. latch 'Em Sharp. The chief clerk said it was too You bet they watch ‘em sharp in| bad, but he couldn't help it, he assay office, When the chief} As I left I was still wondering lerk went into the vaults to get he called two other id in my arms. r the pieture swept all the had been I next how the. dickens George Edward Adams ever got away with that mil lion, hundreds of girle who into a life of shame, and whose time | fare circulating the {Pardon of Mra #/is Mise Anne Modrow of execution ig set only a month | |the Wappenstein regime, | Ronald had | Long had testifi | trial, | fled again that the "SENSATION IN WAPPY TRIAL The biggest sensation in either of | penstein had recommended Tupper the Wappenstein triais was sprung| to him, when Nichols refused to today, a few minutes before 12 lease the Paris house to Tupper be- o'clock, when Will H, Morris, chief | ca he did not think him finanel- counsel for the indicted former po- ally responsible. Prosecutor Murphy lice chief, accused Judge Ronald of | laid especial stress on the words intimidating T. J. Long, a witness, nela) responsibility.” who had been called by the state., Tupper offered Gerald as refer- Long, who was manager of the ence, sald Nichols, but Nichols was Big Casino, a bawdy house, under not satisfied. Then Tupper said he failed to could get Wappenstein, the witness give ti timony against | said Wappenstein as on the first trial Either He fell back on a weak memory as next, W his excuse. sald J Ronald. the same afternoon or the penstein rang me up and Tupper was all right.” 3 er excusing J. 8. Williston, orderly to the the jury, turned to him at Iast | police chief, repeated his testimony and said ‘Court will now |that Tupper made frequent visita take a recess until 1:30, By |to Wappenstein. Chi Bannick that time, you ought to be able {identified Tupper’s card, found on to refresh your memory. The | Wappenstein’s table. He was not court ts the whole truth, I | asked to identify the writing, which don't want anything concealed | Seeretary Sullivan said was partly What Did Wappy Say jin Wappenstein’s writing. This statethent was made after! James Valentine, teller of the both Prosecutor Murphy and Judge) Canadian Bank of Commerce, teat ought to have the wit-/ fied to Wappenstein’s deposi ness answer what Wappenstein| showing enormous increases ‘Satna said or did to cause him to go to| his jncumbency in office. F.C. Oub Tupper and say that Wappenstein|jand, manager of the Seattle De had sent him and try to leave! jand, manager of the Seattle Safe money with Tupper for the chief.) Deposit vaults, said that both Wap » 48 on the first | penstein and his wife had boxes ia that he ¢ d at the chief's | the institution. That Wappenstet: office one day when his house was | box was entered only five times im summarily closed up, and that the) 1910, and then not until February chief said to him “What are you|15, 1911, when Mra, Wappenstelm trying to do down there? Run al entered it, using for the first time bargain counter?” Long also testi-|her privilege as Wappenstela's eblef had told | deputy. This was the day after the m to come back later alone. He grand jury was called. had come ith John Armin, proprie-|” John Armin and T. J. Long were tor of the Casino, first | the . Aha whet did! the chiet say to|*t® Boxt witnesses. you when you came back?” Murphy | then asked him. | | jin the first | |tween Wapr | not | 1 | wekkkhtntnkkhhhhhh * PUGILIST CHARGER * WITH STRIKING WOMAN & “And he told me to go to Gid—he|* , PORTLAND, Or. June 30.— # kind of left it to Gid what to do.”|* “Kid” Morrison, a pugilist # Today, after relating that he in-|* Well known on the Pacific troduced the subject of a bribe by |* Coast, was arrested today for # offering the chief a new suit or a|* Striking Miss Beatrice Smith fancy vest, the chief left the room |* !% the face and stealing her # immediately. Long's testimony be-|* Purse, containing $10. Am te came confused after this, and he|* other charge of having stolen # said that he went to Tupper be-|* $60 from woman is filed # cause he wanted a bridge built be-|* against the pugilist also. * tween his house and the Midway, |* * and that the chief told him to see ¥ HREM EEE RR EE EE Tupper, as the latter was owner of | ESERIES cape the Midway 2 a BUILDING FALLS This “brid As a result of regrade work on Fifth av. and Terrace st, a thre-story bullding is about te crumble down. When the re grade was farted, several months ago, a new concrete foundation was placed under neath the building. But now it seems that it did not reach solid footing. The work of a steam shovel for the last couple of weeks has caused the foundation te settle. Today the whole south side of the building is twisted out of shape. The rest may come down at moment. Windows are broken and twist- Falis Back on Poor Memory. Long pondered for a long while. | trial Long had said conversation nstein and Long was mentioned in the first trial. | Murphy tried to get Long back to| that conversation which led him to} go to Tupper and try to leave jSome money with him. But Long} emed to be in a daze and could | not recall the incident Court Asks Question. “What was it that Wappenstein | said or did at any time to cause} you to go to Tupper and say to} him that Wappenstein sent you and then try to leave money with | him,” asked Judge Ronald He never told me to leave| mony with Tupper,” Long replied. | After several efforts of this kind to get the witness to answer this | question direct Judge Ronald| @4 because of the settling of the jury, and made the| the building. |ntatement to Long to which Morris| - Pica [ge eee see Seen * PACKAGE DELIVERED ® IN AEROPLANE & YORK, June 30.—A ® delayed package was delivered #& here today by Aviator Sop- & with in an aeroplane from a ® store to a passenger aboard ® replied Judge Ronald. “You 3 the outbound steamer Olym- & note an exception, but this court! * pic. * will see that the truth is told, even | % * if the state or the defense must] y yx ME RMR ME MEMEM cross-examine its own witnesses. I don't want the truth concealed. | Neither I want statements | volunteered that were never made.” | Judge Ronald had been giving the Paul Pletcher. 4 (9 dead here br defense a wider latitude through-|f burns recelved when he fell Inte out the trial than Judge Main did.|* tb of boiling water. This was the ifrst clash between jthe court and the counsel for the fense State "The manner of the court in tal% ing to his witness is an intimt dation, Hewaid that nothing Wap- penstein said or did caused him |* to go to Tupper with the money proposition,” said Morris. Court Wants Truth, 1 will stand by what 1 NEW bot ak IN BOILING WATER PEDRO, Cal, June 30.— There will be a PET of the | Tenth Michigan Cavairy held on Senator Nichols this morn-|July 4th, in the White Front | ing Tpperated the story that Wap-| hotel, Georgetown, \the }is on and then } - | Mrs. One of the men took a brush and |his other girl disciple, dust off |# He said that about 20) | ‘em | the rate for hand-| ‘Skirts of Women “Disciples” United Press Leased Wire.) CHICAGO, June 30.-—-Outlining trine of free love. defense of Evelyn Arthur See, Stephen Bridges, father of the ‘revealer of absolute life,” who girl disciple, was the first witness trial here on charges of|today, Cantwell tried to show that having corrupted Mildred Bridges, | Bridges and his wife were recon= his 17-year-old girl disciple, Attor-|ciled last night, and that they had ney Robt. Cantwell today indicated jagreed on the testimony Mrs. that See would try to hide behind | Bridges is to give when she takes his woman adherents |the stand. His questions were over- Cantwell promised to show that ruled. Bridges, Mildred’s mother,| Attorney Julius Geweke, who rep Mona Rees, /resents Mra, See in her suit for d her mother, wrote some of the |divorce, said that if See tried to national passages in See's |hide behind the women, he would “Book of Truth,” parts of which |give the state proof that See him- See's whole philosophy is the doo the the big bars, |are said to ) Breve that the basis of |self wrote the “Book of Truth.” 20 | e = | Jo ———— JEFFRIES, IN LONDON, SLEPT THROUGH THE WHOLE CORONATION NEW YORK, June 30.—While Jack Johnson, attired in giddy raiment, was crowded up close to the front row to see the king go by on Coronation day, James J. Jeffries, ex-champion, slept peacefully in the room of an obscure London hotel. Jettries and his wife returned today on the Mauretania. “We were forced to stop at an obscuré hotel,” said Mrs, Jeffries, while James grunted an assent. “I saw the parade, but Jim stayed in his hotel room and slept.”