The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 8, 1911, Page 1

The Seattle Star ONLY VOL. 13, NO. 117, $8 INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1911 EATTLE, WASH., IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. FIRST WAPPY JURORS MUST “EXPLAIN | WELL, MAYBE On March 7 the people of Seattle |an to purchase ¢ voted overwhelmingly in faor of an proverty at its appra $800,000 bond issue for a city owned { ‘Aken time to make ehrest é0r tine to ron from the south | BUbt,,Valeatine of the ties department end of the city through Rainier al Delays Unnecessary ley to Ballard. Yesterday just four 1 con t these delays unnecces monthe had passed since the people sary,” sald Councilman Erickson. told the officials what w anted. “There is no good reason why we As yet nothing real has been done. should not have been as far ahead Resolutions have been passed in/in the elty car line project four the city counci) instructing the en-| weeks after the bond issue was gineering department and the cor- voted by the people now, four poration counsel to do tain months after. It looks to me as if} MISS MARGUERITE ADAMS things. After many delays an ap- the offices of the city enginee nd Our Michigan praisal was finally made of the the corporation counsel are juggling |sends along this property of the Seattle, Renton & the matter between them to gain isays Miss Adams Southern. The engineering depart-.time for the enemies of municipal! nated by popular vote the pret ment has been instructed to make ownc anes oes. ne tlest coed at the University of 25 Babies Die Roe In One Day! Well, while pitting Miss Adams’ many excellent quaiifica tions for a beauty contest, we have a feeling that among own girls a the University Washingtor United Press Leased Wi he can be found a coed to give he Chicaso, duly 8—Chicago A cards and spad also dimples and today is sweltering in heat as |», beauty spots dwt win the deadly as any it has ex peach medal perienced within the past week, and no relief is in sight. There were 25 heat deaths here yes- ent charging him with ran terday, not including 41 burial 2 certificates for babies—a rec- Persons driven insane by the Pi OURING IN 44% ® juror for next month | asked Judge to be excused, | heat are ‘Wnereasing. ardon of Mrs man condemned oe request was preety | month after are still pour Over 1,000 jon printed ved today » Crawford d value, But | offer, says | public utili as correspondent photograph and has been desig = “ARGUE. WAPPY. MOTION ON JULY 26 motion for a new trial made Wil H. Morrts, chief counsel Wappenstein, has been set for} mt on Jnly by Judge | — are 26 | Ron Clancy, who under an He and | grante Day, the Portland sleuth vial to rum away to escape from summoned as a witness for and jury, left the city last and has been traced to Aber de Wash, the home of B Bean, Wappy’s brother-in-law” and his chief witness. Rane nehheeenent > Petitions fo * Napolatino, the w to hang in August, one the bi h of her child ing into The Star office names sign in be Sta and several wome a deep Interest tr woman are out secu of names. From present Indications Star readers will send fully 60,000 peti tions to the Canadian officials ask ing for ¢ eney for Mra. Napolw tino. These, added to the stream pouring in from other American Jelties, will fairly «wapm the men in whose hands the fate of the woman rests. A MYSTERY IN MILLIONAIRE'S DEATH : (By Uniied Pees Leased Wire.) HIGHLAND PARK, lil, July 8—Mystery surrounds the death hore of James Pettit, mil lionaire treasurer of the Peavey Grain company, who was found dead today in inches of water on the edge of Lake Michigan. An inquest has been ordered to ascertain whether Pettit was drowned of was the victim of assassination. Pelt Whales With Paper. *® NEW YORK, July 8.—Pools ® were made by the passengers * on the liner La Touraine on a % 10-hour race which the ship %® had with a school of whales # Women passengers entered *& the entertainment by peiting ® the whales with wads of paper * PRPERESHER EE END Red Ink in Cope’ Lemonade | CHICAGO, July &—During the heat wave here the police of the) Chicago av. station made iced lem ‘* conade to keep cool. Some come made it “pink” by filling the lem-/ onade with red ink. A Sako, has been issued. night eee eee eee The Napolitano petition ts printed on page 6 today. Clip it out gn it, get your neigh bors and friends to sign, then send to The Star. The Star will forward all petitions to *® Governor General Grey eee ete teen ee * * * * . . . _Seeeeeeeet | Eo Maliaiiaiiataiaialelaieleiel “MIGHT BE TRUE” {By Ualted Pree Leased Wire.) NEW YORK, Joly &—Jack Bar tymore said this afternoon that he had information about the re ported intention of his sister, Ethel | Marrymore, to divorce her iillion aire husband, Russell Colt | “Of course,” said Barrymore, “it #|might be true and I not know] bout ft De ecceacaeieeaal * %& WEATHER FORECAST. % = For Seattle and vicinity: Fai ® tonight, Sunday fair and warm # er; light westerly winds. Tem *% perature at noon today * eee wal Two “Big Guns” Celebrate Today JOE CHAMBERLAIN {JOHN D. IS 72 75 AND SICK AND FEELING FINE (By United Prees Leased Wire.) CLEVELAND, Ohio, July & LONDON, July 8&—*Joe” —John D. Rockefeller, presi- jin, pri lor, dent of the Standard Oil Co., is a eee ee oe birthday here. Although Rocke- ment for West Birmingham, is feller is agile en@ugh, he re- teday celebrating his 75th cently compassed an unusual birthday at Cannes, where he feat which surprised his in. has a splendid villa for the sea- timate friends. Two weeks ago gon. Chambert sa he took a private trip to New paralytic, is in better Mealth York, which was almost un- than he has been during the known to the members of his past few years. own household. aoeaaenasintiedteeoenesesaee NOW ITS CASH REGISTERS ON STREET CARS | * * * * * * RRR Goon nbpt tte eres GATES PROBABLY DYING. PARIS, July 8.—Irrespec tive of the secrecy maintained at Hotel Maurice, it is known here today that John W Gates Is a very sick man, and his recovery is regarded as doubtful. Five physicians and three nurses are in attend ance. Gates has undergor seven operations on his throat Seeeee eee eee ES wt HK ‘DEMAND FACTS: ON CONTROLLER BAY | | | | (By United Preas Leased Wire.) | WASHINGTON, July 8. | Congressman Cox (democrat, | Indiana) today introduced a resolution in the house demand ing that President Taft imme- diately send to the house all information in connection with his order for the Controller bay rights of way, including state- ments regarding the parte taken in the affair by Chas. P. Taft and Richard Ryan. TKR tk ad “All News t& Me,” Says Barrymore's Husband NEW YORK, July &.—Of the report from Los Ang that hel Barrymore is about to enter sult for,divorce, her hus band, Russell Colt, said here today that “it is all news to m Colt was very much excited when seen 1 do not know anything bout the matter,” he said, ‘and do not wish to discuss It She has not notified me of any thing like this, I do not un derstand why she should sign papers away out there. I did not go west with her AUsE I had businéss here. I do understand this.” If the strapnangers on ne asl Cay, 4 he it give tol Hill line don't object to the change. Then you must drop scheme, all patrons of the Seattle nickle into the cash register and Flectric company cars will have to listen to the little bell ding. That help the poor old company keep proves that the conductor has got tabs on the conductors after this. your fare—no, that means that the The conductors are going to be| company has got your fare O. K fitted out with individual cash| The new cash registers will not registers and patrons must drop take tickets. You hand those tothe the coin in. The cash registers|conductor and he pockets ‘em, will take dimes, nickles and pen-|ringing ‘em up in the old way nies. If you've got only a half-| The company trusts the dollar, you slip it to the conductor ductor with the tickets your com UNITED STATES SENATOR PREACHES CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN, CONGRESS (By United Press.) VASHINGTON, D. C., July Speaking in the senate today in opposition to a bill creating a department of public health, Senator Works of California, a disciple of the cult, preached a remarkable sermon on Christian Science. Ten years and he turned to Christian Science as a last resort. found an immediate improvement in his health. then, he said, his wife, an invalid of 15 years’ standing, cured, and his son had been broken of a taste aleoholic liquors through Christian Science. SeCTecreerrrerertrrrre trees: I i i le i KIN, LONG PARTED, MEET, TRENTON, July 8.—After having been parted 18 y #, Herbert W Bradley, a Trenton engineer and contractor, and his sister Durban, South Africa, met yesver day in New York, the means of recognition being little bows of rib: bon, The young woman made the trip alone on the steamer Philadel phia, She will spend two months with her brother. ago, Works said, his life was despaired of He Since ad for KESEEEEES ESE EEE EEE EEE Murlel of | ALL CALLED BY GRAND JURY The persistent rumors that the first Wappenatein jury had been “fixed” are being run down by the! grand jury. Last night all 12 mem bers of that Jury were subpoenaed to appear as witnesses before the grand jury. Geo. &, Gray, who acted in place of Foreman Shorey when | the latter became Ill, gave his testi mony yesterday afternoon } Seven Appear. | This morning seven more jurors appeared, three of whom, Miller McCartney and Lang, were excused on account of business reasons until Monday morning. The four who testified this morning were: W. Shorey, forman; H. Schwarble, J W. Kohler and &. Vander Wel. this morning who had voted for Wappy’s conviction D. M. Deptsch, J. J. Wile and Conrad Olesou, who vote conviction, and O. was for acquittal the court house th nas apparently ing been served upon them Baxter First Witness. W. H. Shorey, the foreman of the first Wappy trial the first juror b re the jury this morning. J was called W. J. Baxte tive was in for Baxter took into the © Wapp: Star iat jury box Run f tamp jury were rife fr of the f t trial |, the rumor Two men yned as havin etimes suspicion Trailed by Detectives. The disagreement of the seven for acquittal and conviction only served t rumors more persiate es, 1t is known, have trail of the jury since Judge Main, about ermuth | ad for who | show up morning not hav a th Gunde id not wae gran before he the Burna det a few minutes. jury room the stein} drawn owing t keteh by in ing with frequently bobbed persistently K be: Bn more up were me and 9 under jury five make u fe the operat on th discharge by month ago. Men Who Voted for Acquittal. | The seven who d for acquit: tal at the first trial were: Henry | 8chwarble Mil hiniest; D. Vander W ang, bakery store t Or O, Gunde ter | For Conviction. The for conviction were: D. M. Deutsch, salesmen; J. J. Wilder muth, expresemar Conrad Oleson, farmer; George EB. Gray, merchant, land J. M. Kohler, carpenter | Two or three of the seven whé voted for acquittal are reported to Ihave turned several shades paler when rved with the ‘subpoenas last night DIVORCED 20 YEARS; PITTSFIELD, Mass George Gray, 63 years old, and his former wife, Mary Long Gray, 6 ears old, who were divorced years ago, were remarric night by the Rev. Charles P in thetr a tatlor} John Shorey, store carpen. REWED. July 8 last Mac Gregor of the First Baptist ebureh. | Pe ee eo SPLASHES WATER; KILLED IDABEL, Okla, July § penalty William Sappington paid for splashing water Walter Phillips while they were swimming near here to- day his. life. After he had been splashed Phillips ob tained a revolver from his clothes on the bank and shot Sappington while the was still in the water ee ee ee ee LABOR TROUBLE EXPECTED IN SPOKANE SPOKANE, July 8.—Sending Spokane of C. O. Young, natio organizer of the American Fe ation of Labor, is construed t to mean that the anticipating with the and are Seeteeeeeee ee was latter * * * * * * * . in the iilder wr it Spokane b preparing are future exchange NEWBURYPORT, Mass The famous Chase triplets in thi who are said to be the New England and possibly in the today celebrated (0th birthday anniversary by taining many relatives and friends at their homestead I a at th th * The Barber Asphalt Co, was * * the lowest bidder yester * * for the paving of 248t av., * tween Madison and Roy * The bid for asphalt paving * * was $1.45 per square yard, the * % lowest ever offered In this ge * city, while $2.40 per square * yard was the bid for vitrified # % brick paving, ‘The contracts # * will be awarded next Tuesday. * FOTO OTOTOTOTOTO KR ttt in country NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HICKTOWN BEE » men ought ftoring elub divide it men and Funny 10 without an loves th latte 1 how . wedding volin tor her amoll o' tobacker ‘4 Watertower, smoke, Koh. | ler Is the only one who testified | local labor aniguel CHASE TRIPLETS CELEBRATE. | July 8.] oldest } thetr| enter | ‘Dear Dick: | Controller bay affair. self. That's a lett was that Ricl who engineered the Cc And that letter 8 addressed to was rd Ry ntroller written by Dear Dick It written by Now read that letter « “The president aske suggenheim man to his ACCORDING TO OL myself.” lent frienc R COPYAIGNT | REMARKABLE PICTURE OF ETHEL BARRYMORE AND THE BABY gE trene Barrymc 5 t eal wife who m for love, of a tiny | babe. | lant | Today a messenger across the continent with the | pointed wife's plea for divorce | Less than two years ago Barrymore married Russell G the son of the Colts of Rhode i at’ the head trust; his for mare. ‘oung Russell Colt and were very, very happy carcely ever out of each other's society. While Ethel acted » the stage her husband sat in the the doting mothe sn't has learned that love doe: is speeding ai Miss Colt Mine 000,000 or time Shields, widower father serious Ivory a , and doughter, he had help out a 4 upon whom a family a escaped prose a felon charge, because sacrificed his own welfare |to friend who was in need, a of kindness, which came Deputy Prosecutor Kennedy and Judge |vtx depended This set to the ears of Caldwell and Jena aa to plead guilty. His escape is due |to one of those rare instances when | | the real kind of juatice sw 5 Jaside legal technicalities and * | humanely. Shields became intoxicated he remembered, until he a friend that he should |go home. Somewhere between that time and his landing in Jalil, |he drew a check for $26.50, signing the name of a former employer, the a forgery | him, | Shields, | check, jbut swore that he }about it His story |Caldwell and he mime a thorough Jexamination, ‘Then he learned of | Shield’s sacrifice for his friend. He had a good job as janitor one of the ble affice buildings the city. His friend, who had re covered from an illness, could not find wowk, He could do no heavy Jadvice when confronted by the knew nothing rang true to in | went to see the pri The president | told him, ACCORDING TO OUR AGREEMENT, that | represented my. That did not seem to satisfy him, so | sent for Charley Taft and | eeked him to tel! his brother whom | r dent made no further objection to my claim, dug bay ‘and than Richard A. Ballinger, who was then in Taft's cabinet. i wh AGREEMENT, grown-up | |to the dd Shields from a forgery | charge, to which Shields was ready | on | June 17 80 thoroughly that the last | found him: | */self In the county jail, was some | on} Metropolitan bank, and for this | horse wos isis" HURLED TO DEATH admitted his handwriting, | in| ked whom | represented, and lly represented. Then the presi (Signed) = “DICK.” ip in Washington yesterday Guggenheim representati land grab n, the uggenhei “Dear Dick representative is none other ain m I Dear ed,” writes the and I told him, that I represented repre Dick ETHEL BARRYMORE, IDEAL WIFE OF STAGE SEEKS DIVORCE FROM MILLIONAIRE HUBBY 7909 DY PACH BOs WY. star's dressing room, impatient for the curtain to end the act, After the performance the young couple would drive to their _hotet, they'd have a midnight dinner guests were ever bidden; the cepted no invitations. Then the baby Barrymore was an She insisted upon making tiny garment for the little gentle man; she bathed and powdered and tended him. She was a real mother stage hasn't known like where No came Ethel id r moth one her But when Miss Barrymore came to the Coas: tuis summer her hus. band wasn't with the company. I summering in New York told his friends “\Man’s Kind Act Saves Him work, and his little ch You to his fri family, his wife en were suffering. vhen n have my job,” he said nd. And thus it was ranged. The nd { janitor the building. Shields went to work in the woods at old job could get The little celebration on city in June serious trouble. plead guilty and judge's clemency Helped Out of Tight Place Don't plead guilty,” both by Deputy Prosecutors Kennedy and Caldweil and by Judge if you do, the law requires that you be sentenced:” So Shields did not have plea this morning, and motion of the prosecutors. was dismissed Shields, happy and thankful, could hardly restrain the tears in his as he shook hands with Caldwell and Kennedy gn his way out of the courthouse to freedom ar any he returning got him was going for the nearly He ask to enter on the case eyes, (By United Press Leased Wire.’ WINLOCK, Wash., July 8.-—The body of Night Marshal Martin Prehm was found in a ravine under a small bridge today, and the sup position is that he was hurled from the bridge and killed by some cul prit he was pursuing. The coroner's jury began sitting on the case thf afternoon. Prehm is survived by a widow and three | children, he was warn- | KEES ERERE EEE EHH HE the | EAR DICK ident the other day about thie | Note that it y aceé r ) \ iT Dear lent that he (mean- r) that Ryan ggen- and represc TO Ot He scented the presi- dent's brother, and th You remember when after the rdest fi n, that exposec Well, he read that secret cx yesterday afternoon? What does Taft think about * ut of his cabinet nest press of the I the papers job, nati that ght ever Taft lauded his schemes Id be y« Dear Dick mne what w Taft said when as brought to light nfidential lette “Dear Dick” now? SANTA ROSA “CPTAN BLAMED Passengers of Wrecked Boat Say He Refused to Put Them Ashore Until Forced—Death i ! | List Probably Greater. SANTA BARBARA, Cal,, July 8 at] i | (By United Press Leased Wire.) so Cariton of the steamship | Santa Rosa, which flies a total jwreck at the mouth of Canada ‘|| Honda, two miles off Point Ar- guello, admitted here early today |that he had been unable to check off his list, and that he was by no |means certain that all of the pas- lsengers were saved. Survivors of |the wrecked vessel declare that, in laddition to the four seamen who |are known to have given their lives jin an effort to save the 290 passen- gers, at least 25 passengers went jdown to death a few minutes |fore the vessel cracked The Known Dead Are Second Officer Edward Hew. | son, San Francisco. Seaman Fred Jensen. Seaman Edw. W. Jepsen. Seaman John B. Siffer. Saw Woman and Baby Sink. | Charles Miller of San Francisco, | who lost his coat, vest, hat, a large sum of money and valuables, swam |from the Santa Rosa to the beach, a distance of 300 yards, In his |statement today Miller declares th he saw a woman with a baby in her arms sink beneath the waves. Neither she nor her baby red. Miller's statement wi ed by F. A. Fairbanks Diego and John Tufts of pe. | re | corrobo sought |of San Auburn. Gigantic Wave Was Fatal. The passengers say the officials of the steamship company are en- deavoring to keep the casualty list as low as possible, but not one of the officers of the Santa Rosa would say that the four men of the jerew w the only ones to lose their lives when a gigantic wave, rolling mountain high, split the ves- is engaged to}! in halves. Seven of the sur this sun vivors were met at the depot by Pe igs At ,/ambulances and carried to a hos her husband will |Pital for treatment oe ay gg tore amber of passengers today are Colt 19.89. yeare ned fix the responsibil- ty for the delay in transferring the . | passengers from the doomed vessel. ° | Officials of the company are being vigorously criticised for not giving jreach the shore soon after the ves el struck passengers con tend that Captain J, A. Faria was mplored set them ashore at before ne assert th the vessel t his was that he was only obey« uctions from headquarters Ship Split by Wave. Collins of San Francisco, that Captain Faria was forced to land the passengers, today told the following story: “To me it looked as though there | was too much whiskey aboard, and in my opinion that was the cause of the whole affair. “Why, if I had had a gun IT would have shot the chief officer and several of his assistants down on the spot, There was no o sion for such an unreasonable lay Yesterday Miss Barrymore out an obscure notary in Los Ange les, where she is playing this week, and signed affidavits accusing her | husband of being too friendly with rtain New Yerk society, woman. | asks for a separation wita 90 cash alimony for the sup- herself and the year-old a c¢ She $ bab And this is the end of a romay that the stage has boasted as one great love match Miss Barry play in Whether seek fre atfect known old her dom fro’ this eng She tl to KR KKK KERKEREE MORE ROYAL King Edgar I isi edict this morning, em Now as easy life insurance seems The royal ed: Harry "UNS d anothe he is 8 he issues wolicies it folks thus creat W. Treat, Duke of Seattle; Falcon ‘Joshi Duke of Alaska; John B, V Dyke, Duke of Legislation; Charles A, Dean, Duke of Royal Forests; Stoddard, Duke of Roy antry RENEE RM HH FRIEND DEAF, HE DROWNS SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 8 Alfred Lafreniere, 19, while swim ming across the Connecticut river today with Robert Ray, was seized with cramps. Ray, who is an ex pert swimmer, is deaf and dumb, and Lafreniere’s cries were un availing, J.D. who says etree ee eee ee eee eS de- “For hours during the early after« noon the water was smooth, and the passengers could have been landed without any risk, but he waited until the vessel was certain to be wrecked, and then the excites ment incident to removing the pas- sengers made the danger to passen- gers extremely hazardous. Women Cried. fhe women cried and prayed, men threatened, petitioned and sed. This was at 4 o'clock p, But the captain remained ob- and refused, At 5 o'clock a of passengers went to the dope lly forced him land the pas» RM S, July 8— refuses to a statement regarding her marital troubles. But she will close her road tour here, although she intended to play Seattle week after next. Her manager says that she is cut ting out her engagements in the Northwest ® that she may hurry back to her baby in New York. RRR RRR Ethel Barrymore the bei m. durate number captain a to give the ¢ t sengers See ee teeta ee SESE EEE EE BK *