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Four secret indictments were re-the indicted persons secret until the arrests are made, and deputy turned by the grand this morn- . neghc sheriffs are busy thie afternoon ing at Lc16. Judge Main again! rounding up the defendants namod. cautioned all to keep the names of | It ts believed that at least two of the Indictments have something to do with an alleged “wildcat” coal mining company. Recess Until October 9. The grand jury also turned tnto the files of the | | GRAND JURY 1) 0. KS Jal CONVIC EVERYBODY WILL FOLLOW court @ partial re | Main granted, port dealing with elty jaf! condi tions and the coroner's office, At the same time Foreman Corliss, wpeaking for the jury, asked for | | Mates the coroner's office for al lowing deputy coronér's who ‘e employed by undertaking establish- The report off the grand jury! JURY TAKES RECESS UNTIL OCT. 9: FOUR MORE INDICT E:- cifically, the name of Deputy Cor- oner Bosthwick, who in employed by Butterworth, {® mentioned in connection with the death of a man | recess until Ooctober 9° This Judge |mentw to abuse thelr office for the | named Phillip H. Starr. The Sea ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE LA YEP, IT’S WARM; 83 AT HOON 5 ein dil aes Z Poe eee ee ba 4 [benefit of their empl joyers. Spe SEATTLE, WASH,, SATURDAY, JULY¥ 15, 1911. + Scene of the Double Murder The grand jury makes the follow- | point tle Star |ing three recommendations: | | That = public morgue be at once} | established. |nera within the limits of the elty | That a competent person, pre-|of Seattle, who are connected wit ferrably a regular physician, be ap-|or employed by undertaking ed deputy coroner, at a sal-|lishments, be removed ary sufficient to pay him for hx whole time, That all deputy coros EXIR OF COUPLE BY « ON TRAINS N AND KWH BTANDS be, BLOODY * TODAY'S HOURLY * THE TRAIL! ” a TEMPERATURES * me, a But, Strangely, the Probers Didn't Mention Most Serious bidei8 6. ae Made Corbett—Investigated Three Com- * 6am. ; plaints, Two of Which Were Unknown. 1e ae ee J | ‘The grand jury, in a report made|had to be removed to the Tacoma + 9am, a today, puts its O, K. on the city/ hospital. This case, too, has never * 10 a, m, ‘ fail and exonerates Jailer Corbett. | been heard of before. *ilam F | But the grand jury, by its own re-| The jury says nothing about the *# 13m... ; | ports, shows that it investigated | Indtan girl, Eligabeth Daniels, who | Me : | only three complaints, and two of|was kicked and beaten by Corbett | i Seeeeonedkbasee yi these were never heard of before. | and dragged through a corridor be- The more serious charges made fore getting a chance to dress aod against Corbett are not mentioned | thrown headlong into the dark cell, in the grand. jury report. Instead,| where she remained, without food the jury names two cases, besides |or water, except that Matron Mrs. | that of the famous “nude parade”! Berry handed her food and drink | case, which they have run down. [contrary to Corbett's order. Mrs, | ] They investigated a rumor that|Berry admitted to the counct! com- ‘Axel Nist, convicted of murdering | mittee that she had done this, and | Patrolman Davis, was nearly killed | that the girl had marks on her body | in the “black bole.” There was| where she claimed Corbett had | never such “& rumor printed, and of | struck her. course the grand jury found there Helen Grant was also mistreated was nothing to the charge. The| by Corbett. She made affidavit, grand jury also spent a week, the|and was corroborated by the affi- ia report says, investigating a case | davit of another prisoner. She was wheres man whs supposed to have/ rearrested after having been re been Kicked in the city jail and | leased from the county. he Little Home of Archie Coble at Rainier, in Which He and His i Young Wife Were Killed While They Slept Dukes Meet King at the Arctic Club | equaled or exceeded late this after- noon. Whew, but it 18 warmish! That is, it's rex! warm for Seattle. Of course, if Chicago, St. Louis or New York had that temperature of at noon, ple in those villages would feel irly comfortable. They've had it around the 100mark for so long now that anything below it seoms like a whiff from the Arctic PRINTS: Swan Peterson, Suspected of Killing Coble Couple With Ax, Ig Arrested—Bloody Finger Prints Left in Hotel Roony Strongest Evidence. today denied any knowledge of th ——s = EF iL (By United Press Leneed Whi rc ce eset r*Tnureday, Friday and today have The grand cOuncil of Royal |Dageant and e Wttle rest, the court TACOMA. June i8--Bloody. tin-| crime | ‘ Dukes, about 40 of ‘em, tu jy. | will convene at the State Armory > #) “4 been the hottest of the season for em, abou of "em, met in vol- | 1M he grand ball. Thin will be| Ker Prints are the strongest evi-| Newspaper descriptions of Seattle. In Spokane yesterday the/emn conclave at the Arctic club maximum temperature was 96 46 | today grees. A good attendance at lake dence Sheriff Gaston of Thurston | son made his capti county has against Swan Peterson, men in Puyallup arrested at Meeker Junction, near} Senator Lea, Who Gave Blood to Save ure easy, yesterday one of the big numbers of the mad, All plans were then com-| mad week. Hie Wife, Must Now Save Her Second Time (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C., July 15.—Having saved his wife’s life recently through the transfusion of his own blood into her veins, United States Senator Luke Lea of Tennessee is today racing westward against death, which now threatens Mrs. Lea from pneumonia It’s a dead certainty now~-every. body wili follow The Trail of the | Golden Girl! She will be the big sensation of the merry week! | predicted for Sunday | | And jot this down now—she wil) an and sound resorts in confidently | GATES SINK PARIS, July 16.--Although Joba ¥. Gates, who is tl here, passed mely bad night, there was pleted for the reception of Most Gracious 4 All-to-the Mustard King Edgar d'Oro L, who | Will arrive in the carnival city next | Wednesday at 1 p. m. , Weather permitting, the recep | thon will be ® very classy event And the weather will probably do part, since Salisbury, the gov: There will be plenty of Dukes on hand to see that the King and his beautiful escort haye all the en- tertainment necessary, too. Here are some more who were conferred with titles yesterday: E. G. Anderson, Duke of Royal Merchants, Puyallup, last night for the fiendish | murder of Archie Coble and his young wife at Rainier, Wash., last Monday night Doctors J. 8. and R. C. Cathey of Portland, who have been work- ing on the case, declare that In con-| nection with the Hill murder of a/ month ago at Portland, taat a study nized him and at night Meade of Puyallup and Berry of Meekers Junction him at Meeker and held him Sheriff Longmire. Peterson admitted his identity 4 made no resistance. Blood on Bedding. Peterson, who was working witht Geo. W. Miller, Duke of Win- unmask Monday; that is day after | little apparent change today in his ment weather sharp, has been Soon after Lea and his wife were discharged from | the hospital here as convalescent they went to Deer Park, Md., to recuperate. While there pneumonia attacked M tomorrow, best bet of Golden Potlateh. Lea and a physician told the senator the only way to save his wife’s life was to get her to a dry climate. Lea at once put his wife aboard a special train and rushed west- ward. Today they are somewhere in Colorado. Everybody will follow The Tralt! HERE’S HOW The Golden Girl will be the one | Charles G. Gates, are in constant at- naa THE STAR condition. Mra. Gates and his son, tendance and have becoem almost exhausted from the long vigil. GAVE SEATTLE manded by the Royal Person to to it that we have real Seattle Diver on that glorious occasion. After the reception, the historical eet tonia. William Wallace Chapin, Duke of Royal Proclamations. William D, Skinner, Duke of Co- lumbia. Fred T. Congdon, Duke of Daw- son. Leroy Sanders, Duke of The Star of the finger prints prove that the | the section crew here, disappea same man committed both crimes |the morning after the murder. He and that he stayed the night of the | failed to draw his pay, and the seo» murder in room 10, the Waddelj “on men declare he did not sleep hotel, Rainier. veterson oceupled room 10 that | night. | The doctors say also that the} in his cabin the night of the mur- a Instead he took a room at @ lodging house, and an Investigation there revealed blood spots on the bedding. g é : ‘ man who committed the two almost le The only passengers on the train “agen oa ag 2 ‘uae Tt Royal) carallel crimes was left hauded Weeterburg Not the Man, * if and his wife, are 4 physician and nurse and Mrs, Lea's eee, Skinner, Duke of the| Peterson ts left handed. The man arrested at Yelm yes | i mother and Columbia . The man, who is 60 and looks|‘erday was supposed to be Peter } Here's the biggest and best bunch of publicity that has ever been given to a live, hustling city. Joseph Blethen, Duke of the| 45, speaks fair English and strenu-/s0n, but it turned out differently, H And Seattle got it, even without asking for it. Times if ously denies the killing. The Yelm man’s name ts f , The picture below, typical of the Potlatch, and the accompanying: artiele concerning the Potlatch, Fred T. Congdon, Duke of the “Didn't See Blood Stains.” Westerburg, and he proved_a eg a has been printed by ieading newspapefs in 70 different cities in the Eastiand South, and in Californi * Dawson. . “I left suddenly because I was plete alibi. Westburg was taken ° s That publicity, of course, couldn't be bought, buit if it could, it weuld cost, if used in advertising Frederick L. Stewart, Duke of |20t getting money enough,” he says. from Yelm tm the sheriff's auto 30 ife 0. 1 e| ps u ry m space, over $100,000. But it didn't.cost Seattie a cent. Kelso. P “I quit without getting my pay | miles to Rainier, and didn’t know, The Star gave Seattle and the Potlatch this publicity through thegreat ‘Newapaper Enterprise asso- Henry W. Po'eman, Duke of| because I figured my board bill | that he was suspected of the crime, b! bs “4 2 clation, composed of 70 progressive newspapers throughout the country, The Star being one of them. | Royal Labor. . bad taken about all I made. I) When the section wen said Westers ait tt we 0. The picture and the article were sent out by The Star to the association, which, in turn, sent it to all Chas. W. Doyle, Duke of Royal|/don't know anything about any| burg was not the man, the she members for publication early this week. Through this publication miflionsief people learned of the Pot- | magies. rs blood stains in the room. I did not | took him back to Yelm tn his pd latch and of Seattle. How many visitors it wilt bring to Seattle during Potlatch week and later can Ralph Schoenfeld, Duke of Con-|#ee any.” | “Peterson could not have got ou® It pays to be regular in digging, and also ordered him to put up &/ only be guessed. cordia. Finger prints of the man will be/ of the country,” said Sheriff Gaston up the monthly alimony. Your | $4,000 bond for the return of some The Star, through association with the Scripps papers and others throughout the country, was Theodore M. Haller, Duke of the|taken today. Sheriff Gaston is on| today. “He is either in Pierce on former wife may do a good turn for | furniture, which Mrs. Gallagher No.| able to give Seattle this publicity where it would do the moet jood—away frem home—and The Star was | Duwamish. his here now to take the| King county, and we ought to be 2 says was turned over to Mrs. Gal. lagher No. 1, Gallagher appealed from Judge Frater's decision, and Mrs. Gallagher No. 1 put up the bond for him, qualifyipg yesterday as the owner of $22,000 worth of property you when you need it. At least, Frank Gallagher, a con- tractor, found it so. He was di- voreed from Mrs. Gallagher No. 1 several years ago, and was ordered to pay $100 a month. He never missed a month. A little more than @ year ago he married a much younger woman than himself, and | soon domestic discord began. Gal-| While running at full speed today, Iagher started suit to get a divorce | passenger train No. 5 on the Brie from Mrs, Gallagher No. 2. | railroad ran into a switch engine Judge Frater, however, allowed half a mile east of the high bridge the second Mrs. Gallagher $225 at Portage, derailing the train and attorney's fees and $50 a month, | demolishing the express car. FAINTS AS SHE HEARS HER LIFE 1S SPARED Mrs. Napolitano Gets First News of Freedom From Gallows From Condemned Burglar Who Talks to Her From Prison Cell. (By United Press Leased Wire.) | vived her she cried, “I'll not be SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont., July | hanged, I'll not be hanged!” Then, falling to her knees, e grasped 18—-A condemned burglar yester-| 1. nem of the matron’s skirt and day gave Mrs. Angelina Napolitano kissed it passionately, while tears the firet news that her death sen-| streamed from her eyes. tence had been commuted to fife, The petitions from hundreds of Imprisonment. When she heard it | thousands of American men and she fainted, women, asking for the reprieve of Seated on her prison cot, the con-;the sentence for the woman con- demned woman was sewing on|demned to hang for the murder of clothing for her expected child.|the husband who tried to force her Hearing a tapping on the floor be-|to live a life of shame, have been neath her feet, she placed her earjanswered. At a meeting of the to a small rivet hole and heard|Canadian cabinet yesterday it was the good news from the lips of the decided to commute the sentence burglar in the cell under hers. to life imprisonment, and then pa- As soon as the jail matron re-|role Mrs. Napolitano. ——o a Sa THE TREASURE SHIP BY JOHN COPLEY 97 Out of the Frozen North there comes an ark, A motley crew of grizzled men aboard; Faint with the long, long struggle in the But rich with the richest of Nature’s h Rich with the dross that Rich with the precious stuff that makes m: Rich with The Pile, with future.things made Ah, what a stern and silent way they had! 1911 Out of the Frozen North there comes an ark, The Royal King d’Oro is coming now; Upon his breast litt’ring mark Of gold; a crown surmounts his regal brow. Hall to the King! What subject le e9 base— What mortal In the city le so bold Who stands before his People, face to face, And dares deny allegiance to KING GOLD? mad; sure— more than glad to do it. The h CHINOOK SEATTLE, Wash., July 6.—Seat- tle will have a Potlatch—a Skoo- kum Potlatch, if you pl July 17 to 22. In the days when the first Eng ase. ish and French tradres .mingled with the red men of this region, the Chinook jargon developed as a traders’ language. [t {8 a strange mixture of:the native dialect with French and English. “Skookum Potlatch” ig Chinook for “Big Do- ings.” Of old it. was customary for an Indian chief, in Chinook the “Hyas Tyee,” to call his tribesmen about him at least once in his lifetime for @ grand feast, which ended in the mittee, today. jing, the picture and the story, a Seattle to Have a Ripping Skookum Potlatch in Celebration of Beginning of Golden Era licity campaign for the Golden Potlatch, “And we appreciate it all the more because it was entirely voluntary. certainly believe that this is one of the most far-reaching and important pieces of promotion work that has been done for Seattle and our big carnival.” INDIANS chteftan stripping himself of all his worldly possessions and giving them awa: distributing them among his people, This was called in Chinook a “Potlatch.” Evyentu- ally the word came to mean any great picnic or celebration. It also means a general giving og gifts. — | eSattle Is to have some Potlatch} ~a Skookum Potlatch, to be ver-| nacularly precise, “Skookum” means “good” in Chinook. From July 17 to 22 Seattle will hold a grand carnival in ‘celebra- tion of the arrival of the first gold laden ship to arrive in any port fole lowing the discovery of fabulous riches in. gold in. the Yukon terri+ tory and Alaska, The pubicity committee is grateful to The Star for this generous and remarkable pub- said James C, Marmaduke, chairman of the com- printed by the Eastern papers, follows: IN FESTIVAL GARB. For Seattle dates her era of great prosperity from July 17, 1897, the date of the arrival of the steamship Portland in Seattle’s harbor with the first cargo of goid shipped down from the North. The hill cutting, the paving, the rush of public im- provements that reached the stu- pendous amount of $10,000,000 a year started with the arrival of the Portland And now Seattie will celebrate with a Golden Potlatch, a golden picnic, a golden gift time, a golden celebration, which will include an entertainment combining the origi- mal Potlatch sports and other feat- ures with all that is modern in great public entertainments. I bdadndiaind dant dada iaiaiadiad * ETHEL IS COMING * STOCKTON, Cal, July 15. * Ethel Barrymore has recon. * sidered her decision to cancel ‘|® her Coast engagements, ac- PREPARING FOR BIG LEGAL BATTLE Jed Irene Now that the McNamara case is actual- ly set for trial, the attorneys for the defense of the accused union men today settled down to earnest work in preparation for the legal} battle. They say that to get the case ready for October 10 will re- quire the hardest and most persist ent endeavor. Not only will the 5,000 pages of the transeript of evidence have to be gone through and classified, but trips will have to be made all over the country, to Chicago, to Indiana, to Wficonsin and to San Francisco and many other points where dif. ferent phases of the case leads, and many witnesses summoned. * * * * * * * * cording to the announcement *® * her manager today, Miss Bar- * * rymore is booked solid until ® * July 29, * * * * KARR RRR MAIDEN DISCLOSES THE CAUSE OF HER SORROW The maiden sat, id and forlorn, She wished that she'd never been born. Had her fiance left her? Or what had bereft her? She explained: “It is only my NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HICKTOWN BEE v when it was prisoner to the Olympia jail. TACOMA, July 15.—Swan Peter TAKEN TO COUNTY JAIL son, missing section mi wanted) TACOMA, July 15.—-Swan Peters to explain his disappearance fol-|son, arrested in connevtion witht lowing the murder of Archie andthe double Coble murder at Rainier, Nettie Coble at Rainier jast Mon-|was taken to the Thurston county, day night, in the county jail here! jail at Olympia this afternoon. a {able to rind him. Judge Says Man’s Case Arouses Sympathy, But Gives Big Sentence * IRELAND AND FARLEY MAY BE CARDINALS *% * * ROMK, July 15.—That Arch- bishops Ireland and Farley will become cardinals’ when the next conclave is held is the assertion which is being made here today, apparently upon good authority. In vat- fean circles it is said that Archbishops Walsh and Poyne of England will also receive red hats, Peete ee eeae ears. * * * * * KEE eee ee ES +tey ] * yuwary Who Ww the barber, is thinking of getting ‘one of them red-white- and-blue p pretty soon, It would make Depot Square a little more lively, Art Aunt Zephyrio Tidda of Lower Millis came down town today without her i» for the first time Ain't you getting careless, year. jeophyrie? fome self-made bush jobs of it, di from Lafe men made pretty idn't they? This Watertower. “The defendant had much to suf-| The evidence disclosed nothing to fer. His c: is one to arous sym. | Show that the men had ever known " Berecochea’s wife was killed a€ his troubles in excessive drinking, | her home about a year ago, and this, and, having a gun, he took a human | his attorney claimed, upset his san+ Following this statement, Judge|of manslaughter, although charged Gay sentenced Seraphin Berecochea| with murder. The punishment for to a term in the penitentiary of| manslaughter is fixed by the max shot to death J, Libado, a Mexican, | sentence is left to the discretion of in the Magnolia bar, on First av. 8. | the trial judge. =o se Sees See = sd CHICAGO, July 15.—Mildred} you a fit person to care for the Bridges, the 17-year-old girl whom | girl.” Evelyn Arthur See stands convict-| Bridges offered to take the girl raigned in the juvenile court here | receiving her refusal to, this plan, today before Judge Pinekney in an|he offered to purchase her a bun- action to determine into whose cus- | galow in California, This offer wag “Your application will not be would go nowhere in company with even considered,” the court said to| her father. The court took the case Mrs. Bridges, “I do not consider | under advisement. MMMM EM MEH HH (By United Press Leased Wire.) NEW YORK, July 15.—-Because * | lawn with a hose, J. Plerpont Mor. 4 * | gan was notified today that an ads ® \ditional tax of $5 had been ‘iret *%|and Madison av. Morgan, even | =» lit cripples his finances, must pay. ee = Se ee ee ee | HEAT BOWLS SOLDIERS OVER IN DOZENS. MELBOURNE, July 15.—A remarkable incident marked the opening of the state parliament.yesterday at Brisbane, Great heat prevailed and the soldiers composing the guard of honor of the the hospital in ambulances, An unpopular officer detailed to drill a number of cadets at Adelaide was mobbed by the lads, and only that the police pathy. He thought he would drown ach other before. life.” jity temporarily. He was found guilty from 10 to 20 years. Berecochea|mum of 20 years. The minimum IT ed of having abducted, was ar-|to Europe for.six months and upon tody she should be remained. also declined, Mildred declaring she peeiseaiiaal ‘eaaiiiieenn mRNA ee [KING PIERP. * lone of his servants watered hie * | againet his property at 36th, sti ax % (By United Presse governor were overconfe in dozens and had to be conveyed to caine to his rescue he would have been seriously manhandled, preerrere srs SB ASAAKAAAAEDA SERRE EERE EEE ER EER HERE RE RE

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