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

Ne % j DL. 13, NO. 111, e Seattle'Sta ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1911. SEATTLE ONE CENT. CED PASSENGERS ARRIVE HOLD -TRIAL SEA AT. NIGHT Will Rush Wappenstein Case ‘in Effort to Finish by July 4. Mike Poirers, taspector of polte: A. Braymer, secretary of the city ith min isafon ; Sergeant ) and Patrolman John Don Were called by the defense in Wappenstetn trial this morning bad previously been called & witness for the state. The chief purpose of his being called behalf of the defense was to have lm testify to the system of getting Weekly Ista tn confunction with health department, showing the ber phe ogee tn the houses of ges, however, failed to jeharge the health department with RE responsible for his getting up @ Weekly reports. Lists Were for Police. “I started doing that,” he testi- fled, “because 1 was asked how many girls there were. They were i@ of talking about it at head fers. So I decided to get up Hat to make sure about the number, 1 don't know he? T started doing that before examinations of the girls start. , r or after. The state has been attempting to yw that Wappenstein had these! made in order to keep tab on number of girls for whom he was to et $10 per month. Mike Powers testified to substan. lally the same facts ax he gave on first ‘trial. Brayn denied that health department ordered the Weekly reports, saying that for a long time his office knew nothing ‘about their preparation ‘At noon, Judge Ronald announced there would be night sessions gsourt until the trial was over. efforts are being made ‘Om the part of attorneys to have the ease concluded by Monday night in @rder to give the jury a chance to Celebrate the Fourth of July. ISKY BOTTLE SSS P 3 INES Anis Striking Photograph of the Wrecked Steamer Spokane Was Taken Especially for The Star. SAVED THEM (Bip United trae Leased Wires BERNARDINO, Cal, July 1 finding of a bottle of whisky | B® discarded coat on the desert two prospectors to win a aguinst thirst, and they have sided, it was announced today Bame the rich mine they fou: death, the “W. ©. Tt claim, witit—is-Tocated in Silver mountain region, is said be rich tm gold and silver bearing | Ii ES | RRRKEKKKKRARHHK NO LIQUORS EXCEPT IN ‘ SALOONS / 8ST. PAUL, Minn., July 1— jaw went into effect today frobibiting the ‘sale @f malt 1 ors except in licensed i saloons. The measure was ‘# known as the Hanson Malt eeeeeeeeeee bill. Rakkkkhk heheh we vB Hoisting passengers ™ WHISPER IT (By United Press Leased WASHINGTON, July 1 Sisson of Missi: baggage from the Spoka the Admira | Sampson. Putting Refu s Aboard Admiral Sampson 's lifeboats aboard introduced a resolution in the to investigate the whispered that congressmen interest- in ownership of land here are ing to sell it to the govern- BIES CAN GO 0 BALL GAMES Daited Frees Leased Wire.) ‘Sr. LOUIS, July 1—Cor- _pelius Campbell, when attend. (By United Press Led Wire.) SALT LAKE, Utal July 1—Be- fore thousands of pe who gath- ered at the mouth of the Whirlwind mine, in American Fak canyon, to- day, Timothy Smith and Walter Durrant were rescued after having been entombed by atavein for 34 hours. Both were almost exhaust- when a wife objects to a ball game the husband should go y. esmobel! said that he and his wife could not agr _ thing. When asked mpbell 3 fussed when | wanted to attend a ball game.” That was enough for the judge. BURNED TO DEATH United Press Leaned Wire.) BA MENTO, July 1 on, an aged teamster, Clarice Whitter'slife. her life heal quickly necessary Wm. was to death early today in a} in which he was sleeping. The following Seattle firms are co-operating with thip newspaper ih conducting The Star's First Fourth of July Festival forepiidren IEATTLE ICE CREAM CO. ATTLE DAIRY. MEADOWBROOK DAIRY CO. PACIFIC COAST BISCUIT Co. IMPERIAL CANDY CO. QUEEN ANNE CANDY CoO. SUPERIOR CANDY & CRACKER CO GOLDEN WEST BAKING CO. MUTUAL PAPER Co. SEATTLE PAPER CO. Every boy and girl in Seattle, ‘This means all of the chil- inder 15 years of age is invited|dren—and The Star will see come to The Star's first an-|that they all have a mighty wal Fourth of July festival at} good tive. Woodland park is ‘oodiand park next ‘Tuesday | the place for the safe and sane forenoon. | Fourt®, There willbe as much | | hereafter. Two Resued From Living Tomb | Smith and Durrant were saved from their living tomb only through erate exertions of 150 men in 46-minute shifte day ince the two were working and night since The tombed in @ hollow containing less than 300 cubic feet of space, and/ly, and there was no crowding or| were kept alive only by air pumped ed, but will recover ina few days.|to them from the mouth. MAN AND WOMAN OFFER TO GIVE SKIN TO SAVE LITTLE CLARICE Two Seattlepeople have come forward to save little A man and a woman have offered to give a piece ofthe skin off their arm or any other part of their body to help the poor little seven-year-old girl who has suffered in the city hospital for the past seven months. A little more citiele, to be grafted on her body, will save “* The man sajs his L-lood is good and cuts and scratches He offers six inches square of his skin, if The woman had an operation performed on her last fall and is not very strong, though otherwise healthy. She was advised by her physician that thee would be no par- tittilar danger inthe removing of the skin from her arm, and she will be glad to help the little girl if necessary fun as any Fourth of July since 1776, an | there will be no dan ger of burned fingers or crip | pled limbs There will be free ice cream and cake. and mountains of candy for the kids. You don’t need any money or any fuss or bother. It is all free; and every boy and girl under 15 is invited. The Star will give this big party every Fourth of July It is for the very special enjoyment of every kid in Seattle ? ‘The refreshment tables will two men were en-| FRISCO MAN LEAVE The last passenger to leave the sinking Spokane was Isadore Lev enthal, a member of the firm of Leventhal Brothers, wholesale merchants of San Francisco. Thursday night he gave a little party to his friends on board th north-bound steamer, They were | Just enjoying.a late lunch when the | steamer struck on the rocks | “I hurried up to the upper deck and saw that it was said Leventhal at the ington this afternoon. | "I heard the captain tell some of jthe crew to warn the passeng to get dressed, but not to make any noise about it, I tied on a Mfépreserver and just then the steamer seemed to pitch over on its side. “A lifeboat loaded with women was capsized by this, and they were struggling in @ water Li helped three or four of them back onto the tipsy deck of the steamer, [but the water again forced us to olimb to the deck aboye. I saw my |atateroom fifteen feet away and tried to get into it for some fruit jand stuff I had there. But it was impossible “The captain was calm, cc |brave. The crew behaved #p pretty Hotel Wash and ndid- |hysterics at all. The women were |taken off first; then the passengers |—and then the crew quit-the ship.” Leventhal lost everything. He secured an outfit of clothing as soon as the stores were open here |this morning | She Kept Her Nerve. Although she found her gling in the water, her sho much of her outer clothing gon: Mrs. H. H. Brown of Philadelphia, « frail little woman of about 55 years, didn't lose her nerve. She clung to @ floating oar until a small boat, manned by the ship's crew, came along and picked her up. When she landed this morning he made ao bee-line for a millinery shop and bought a new bonnet, then with borrowed shoes she managed to find comfort at the Washington hotel. Night Watchman’s Story. Mat. Kearney, night watchman STAR'S FIRST BIG ANNUAL FESTIVAL FOR SEATTLE ree Ice Cream, Free Cake, Free Candy; a Lot of Fun, a Lot of Sport; Everybody Invited, Everybody Will be There, for It’s The Star’s First Fourth of July Festival for Children—Woodland Park Is the Place—Next Tuesday Is the Day jbe all ready for the rush at 11 o'clock ‘Mesday forenoon Come as early as you like—the earlier the better. Mountains }of ice er lgolden cak pure candy | of course. mountains of all Seattle-made, Go out to Woodland park bright and early. Don't “mon key” with dangerous fireworks and shun the big firecrackers. Come out where there is plenty of running room, There will be ball games, and a special program of sporting events for the youngsters, bad,” | am, mountains of rich} a _/ Ean ore LAST 10 SINKING SHIP on the steamer Spokane, eaid to: day: “I firat heard the stop signal at 11 o'clock at night, and immedi ately afterward the signal for full speed astern, It was about a half minute afterward that the crash | came. were two inches of water on saloon deck, and there would have to be about 22 feet of water in the hold before it could reach the deck. “Very little excitement followed. Some of the crew took their stations and followed the direct fons of the officers In getting out the lifeboats, While they were doing this the rest of the crew helped to put lifepreservers on the passengers. “One woman became excited and |jumiped overboard, and Harry lBrown, a walter, pulled her on board a life boat and took her asho but she died about half an hour afterward. | “L-was talking with the woman | who drowned, just a few minutes | before it happened. She was stand. ing near a stateroom door, and |very shortly after I left her the (beat suddenly tip toward the }alde on which she was | This must have thrown her ghrough |the ewinging doors, and being an jelderly woman, she couldn't make jthe uphill climb to get out. Then |the boat leaning that caused ay the water to rush in and flood the / room.” ‘Women Kept Cool. Miss Clara Adams of Dillon, Mont., told her story of the wreck of the Spokane to a Star reporter 4\at the Savoy this morning “Myself and two aisters had a tercom on the main deck. We |had retired but the Nght was still burning, when I heard some ladtes outside call to their friends to come | and see how close they were to the shore, They went and about la minute afterward the crash came. I didn't hear any stop signal nor a change in the speed until after the boat hit. | “There was very little excitement Jom the part of the women; in fact the women were more composed than the men. oe : And cash prizes, too. | The distribution of the good | things to eat will begin at 11 lo'clock. ‘The sport events, with cash prizes, will sty at o'clock sharp. Here are_ the anybody mayeq Fifty-yaid s— and Fifty-yard dash for girls under 15; first $1, second 50¢, Potato race for all under 15; first $1, second 50c, Three-legved race for boys under 15° first $1, second 50¢, The races start at 10 o'clock standing. | P| The ice cream and cake and —~SaecTAR'S FIRST BIG FREE Daagersns Rocks Within five minutes there | the| Ripple rock, In Seymour Narr and all navigators know its positio vessel out of her course. Riwrraod oe IN SEATTLE | —-- in Seymour Pass ows. Although this rock is charted, n well, it is, nevertheless, danger- | ous, owing to the strong currents which might at any time pull a| SAILS OVER NEW SCRAPER DISTRICT IN AIRSHIP | i NEW YORK, July 1.—Duplic tying cross-country flight, Aviat new laurels when he sailed leisu in Jower Manhattan and circled th YORK SKY ating his record for passenger car. r Harry Atwood today acquired rely over the sky scraper district ¢ Singer building tower. He is the first man who ever sailed a machine over the canyons of Broad way and Park Row With bis mecnanician, Edward London, Conn., to New York, lan maining in the air two hours and estimated, 136 miles. This is thi terday from Boston to New Lon passenger carrying record || NEWS ITEMS FROM__}) || THE HICKTOWN BEE || | Aah lawn party Willing § ft ting In Lower Mills today t atay with. friends this city, Mine Willing Sproat r turned to ber home tn Lower Mills this afternoon. | v a wan educated in wall paper the future CHILDREN near the ball grounds and the} zoo. Every youngster is in-| vited to come early and see the j fun. candy will be served to the youngsters right after the races. SO REMEMBER THE | FESTIVAL FOR SEATTLE CHILDREN. The place, Woodland Park; the time, 10 o'clock in the morning; the day, the Fourth of July! Fleet, Atwood sailed from New ding on Governor's Island, 5 minutes a making, it is e same distance as his flight yes- ion, which broke the American MAS. SHONTS. Wife of Former Chief Engi- neer of Panama Canal and Traction Magnate Starts Sensational Suit. (By United Press Leased Wire.) PARIS, July 1.—Theodore P, |Shonts of New York, friend of J.| Pierpont Morgan, former chief en- gineer of the Panama canal, and now president of the Interborough- Metropolitan Street Railway com. pany of New York, is to be the in the millionaire class to face a divorcee court. Mrs. Shonts’ attor. ney, & G. Archibald, admitted here today that she had instituted pro- ceedings for a separation under the New York law. His client, he said, would not # ibsolute divorce, “at present.” Archibald refused to state the nature of the suit instituted by Mrs. Shonts, who, prostrated by her mar- {tal troubles, is at present staying here with her daughter, the Duchess de Chaulnes. After considerable pressing, At- torney Arehibald finally sald: “Mrs. Shonts is reluctant to have. the public know of her differences with her husband, but conditions were such that she was eventually compelled to appeal to the courts for relief, As both she and her hus- band are residents of New York, the suit willbe brought there,’ i DOMINION DAY VANCOUVER, B. C., July 1— From Vancouver to Halifax Cana- diang are today celebrating Confed- eration Day, or Dominion Day, as it ig more generally called, being the annivergary of the fusing of the scattered provinces into a national whole. THRILLING EoUAPLS Two Women Meet Tragic Deaths, But Rest Escape, When Steamer Spokane Strikes Rocks — Vessel Al- most Total Loss. Almost éhansted after their terrible experience, but never« |theless happy over their fors |tunate escape from death, the hundred and fifty passengers jof the wrecked steamer Spo- kane arrived in Seattle at 6:30 | o'clock this morning on the res cue steamer Admiral Sampson, _ That only two lives were lost in the disaster is considered | marvelous, for a dozen passen- |gers were swept off the decks by the rushing waters and all were thoroughly wet and chilled. . ;, Williams, of | Washington, D.C, was sucked jback into @ cabin by the rushing |Waters and drowned, while her |frantic husband and two daughters, |Gertrude and Dorothy, could do jnothing to save her. Mrs. J. B. | Straus, ot Philadelphia, died from jthe shock Immediately after being Vivid Story of Disaster, Dr. Martin A. Meyer, of Sam Francisco, one of the shipwrecked | Passengers, told a very vivid story, of the wreck this morning at the | Hotel Washington here Was a party of us cardé Thursday evening in oe * jthe cabins. At a little after 11:16, the lighthouse on a big rock hote | in sight close by. We saw the being pulled t toward the rode by the strong current “We could feel the rudder tryt to keep the ship in the chanel but it was all in vain. The e1 rent was too strong. At 11:18 jheard a crashing sound. The side of the boat ripped wide open be low the second bottom. “The next few minutes were probably the most terrible of every, [passenger's life. 1 have never jheard anything more awfol tham the sound of the water sucking jinto the big hole in the ship, while we were slowly going down. “Every one of us was in the water, More than one third of the passengers had re- tired for the night, and in the excitement did not even get time to dress. But | have never seen better order. There was not a scream. No sign of @ panic. Every woman was as coolheaded the captain him- self, who gave his orders in handling the tifeboats. | Not Too Wet to Laugh. | “Half an hour after we had When the whole crowd of drenched |people gathered on the shore, we |looked at one another and laughed at our good fortune, “We had crackers for breakfast |the next mornin And we had |campfires. There was a lot of good dry wood, and-we took advai of it. Considering the circume stances, we were all in good mood, “When the Admiral Sampsoh tools |us aboard, we were all glad to go, jhoweves, And a finer reception no jone everreceived than we got there. Passengers and crew alike gave up their own Comforts to give our women and children a chance jto rest from their bard experience, |Many of the men were without,, |berths last night because they ha@ ¥ {given them to the shipwrecked wo- men and children of the Spokane.” | CAUSE OF WRECK Here is the reason that the pioneer Alaskan steam- er Spokane is pounding on the rocks today, a total wreck; In going through Seymour narrows, east of Vancouver island, Thurs- day night, the current prov- ed too rapid for the old boat to stem. A determined \f effort was made to keep her \f in the narrow channel, but she was forced out of it just enough to strike one of the great jagged rocks which border the narrow water roadway. | | The surviving passengers of the steamer Spokane have planned to hold a meeting at the Hote! \yeaninaned late this afternoon, when fo resolu. tions Fagot A ecgerte and the crew pe Tw their courage and management in time of disas- ter will be adopted. Captain’s ond: Pee The Spokane was built in 1902 a€ San Francisco, of steel and fron, was 270 feet over all, 40 feet with a bese von ee tons accommodations for 270 passengers, She entered the Alaska service seven years ago, this being Capt. Guptill’s second trip in command of the ill-fated steamer, . Only Twe From Seattle. Mf the 151 passengers only two from Seattle. reat wer@ from cities throughout the country, The trip was to cover 13 days and was to take in all Southeasterm Alaska points, TAFT AT SUMMER CAPITAL BOSTON, July 1. — President Taft and his family arrived here today, at 8 o'clock, and left imme. diately for the. summer White House at Beverley. truck the rock we were beached.—-————) 4