The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 15, 1911, Page 6

accompanying facsimiles jotographs of the copy Miss Abbott made of the original to Dick” letter when she across it while going the files of the Interior ment. Note that the pho shows that she made the on letter paper of the in department, paper that she picked up for the pur when she discovered the fa “Dick to Dick” eptstie. “This letter or “postscript” on, Controller bay grab, was writ: | Richard 8. Ryan, Alaske of the Guagenheims, on July to Richard A. Ballinger, then of the interior. } of this Controller bay scan- and the use of the name of t's broth: Charlie by R. S. Ryan, was told ex in The Star. } White House has vebement-| that Charlie Taft talked the it about Controller a as the “Dick to Dick” “bien RESIGNED AS ‘Steve Kane, who formerly held indicator in the National league, as umpire in the North- with this league, and his has suffered as a conse He will leave for the East and hopes to land in the Na ison eesia. THE MARKETS prices ANTIC|PATION. HERE’S A PICTURE OF “DEAR DICK” LETTER ~ WHICH SHOWED UP CONTROLLER BAY GRAB FIRST PAGE OF MIS 6 ABBOTT'S COPY. ¥ es aT | OLPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 14 hy Pulley a INA DETERMINATION. REALIZATION COUPLE KILLED BY GAS FUMES IN ROOM Kiled by the fumes of gaa, the;fact indleat icide. However, bodies of Bessie Baxter, 61, and/the police are inclined to yon the accident theory as the couple Harry Robinson, 60, were found) (sete have dB viaking "ot in the woinan's room, 413 Yesler Thursday night. It is entiyely pos- w late yesterday afternoon. C.\ sible that the gas might have been M. Chey, the proprietor of the/turned on again after the fire was rooming house, was passing dowu|extinguished by the twist of the the hall, when he smelled gas, He uncertain hand of a drunken per- traced the fumes to Miss ter's m, room, where he found the door hile the woman is well known locked. Ip the room he found the! in the elty, litle own of the | hat ca be ‘ood, 6. iD. abouts deadly poison still pouring forth) man, ex from the open jet. All the win-\ from Des dows were securely fastened. This) month ago, It's Certain Every- | Will Follow the J A SS A a RE | THE WAIL OF THE BOOTBLACK Do we Beattlettes wear cheap shoes? Ob, pahaw! it can't be possible— or words to that effect. But, our dusky informant, who has shined his way clean across the country and back again, says! we are cheapekates when it comes to shoes. | About a $2.50 shoe je our limit, be moans. How does he know? |. Hist! A cheap shoe doesn’t take kindly to a shine. “Yeas sab; it am a fac,” he confided, “th’ folks in elty done weah shoes dat nct'liy refuse to haf anything to do wif a @hine. Cheap shoes, boss, dat ts all Ab can figuah out.” we are pretty good fellows even if “But eliminating the contention most of us do wear cheap shoes, . that our ‘extremition are) “But why is ft, Moses, that roughly do we compare gentlemen in your profession propitiously with other gentry met |brush some more thoroughly than with during your periginations?” he | others?” . bows,” heah old Scent piece an’ Ab jes’ gib you ® couple swipes wid de brush, jen’ like dat. Gib me 10 cents, boss, an’ ‘ll jew’ nateh'lly brush you all de place—dat's the diffrence, no Scent customabs a'tall ‘ce kid glove class, an’ dey do de kickin, yaas sab.” By which it would appear that AGES ti Gene sa IE New Way of Loading Freight Cars Quickly. This combination locomotive and crane is of the type now being introduced on all the national railways of Germany. It saves time, | money and labor in transferring freight from car to wagon, from wagon | to car, or from train to train. The crane is operated by the locomotive steam. Se: SERRE ERE HEHE EHS SITHINK OF ANE * * AND KEEP COOL. APPLICATION WINS FIGHT FOR NICKEL FARES ences Court Sustains Judge ‘ebster's Ruling That Ken- ton Line Cannot Charge Two Fares in City Limits. | Despite indiscriminate restrain: | ing orders and temporary injune tions, the people have won out In| their fight for nickel fares within the city limite on the old Renton line. The supreme court yesterday affirmed the decision of Judge J. Stanley Webster of Spokane, wh: sat in King county when the Ren- ton case came up, t drawn out sult known as J nigon, et al. inst the Seattle, Renton @ Southern railroad is at an end, with victory for the people ang The Star, © Crawford line contended that it could charge extra nickels | beyond Kenyon st, which marked the old boundary line of the city The patrons of the line insisted that under the city charter the company could than a nickel for any in the city limits ax they now exist ‘The ruling means thousands of dol lars saved to the people every year. ‘Those who have received “rain checks” upon paying the extra nick- ele will now get a chance to get ir nickels back from the Craw- tine. [THE RORTHWEST NORTH YAKIMA~—The city will vote on the commission form of government Monday. Only about 2,000 votes regiatered out of a total | 0f 6,000, HOQUIAM—George Vanrork, a logger, was killed as he stepped be- tween two logs to gather bark for fuel, and was shoved againe! one of the logs by & logging engine. VANCOUVER, Wash.-Women jurors will, according to County Clerk Derr, be seen in Vancouver at the coming term of court, when Chas. W. Hammond will be tried for murder in the first degree. RAHAT PORT TOWNSEND — All records are broken {n the bust: ness of the customs office dur- ing the fiscal year ending June 20, 1911. A guin of nearly $8,000,000 in imports and $10,000,000 in exports over last year, is shown. The total imports this year amounted to $26,654,075. Se attle contributed about one half the business. eeeetereeeeeeee steeeteeeeeeeeee Rake ethethhhhh SPOKANE—The Mining Men's ‘club yesterday passed a resolution memorializing congress to estab: lish a mint at Seattle HOQUIAM—The flotilla of 12 torpedo boats, which arrived here yesterday morning, left for Paget DECLARATION. a = | ] Italians Cleared of Murder Conspiracy Tom Vella, Fedella Vella and; ound asleep Tony Avena were yesterday after noon dismissed on the charge of conspiracy to kill Joe Coscenza Avena was arrested in Beattie, and the Vella brothers were brought from Franklin, following a sense tional story told by Coscenza to the offect that Avena was to receive $50 for killing Coscenza. The evidence disclosed that Avena’s story was the vagaries of & demented man. Instead of want ing to kil! him, the Vella brothers have shown their friendliness by sending Coscenza transportation from Italy and by paying his bills and giving birt money after he came here last fall, Tom Vella,| who was supposed to be the ri Jeader, testified that he had spent over $130 to help bis friend. dropped bis gun. . Malone's Narrow Escape. | Tom Vella has been in this coun- Scott Malone and Tom Vella both try 10 years, and is well thought of toatified a» to their narrow escapes |by bis friends. He and his brother from death at the time of Vella’s|}said last evening that they would arrest. Vella, who was working «| give Coscenza a ticket to go beck night shift in the mine, where be | to Italy. | A baby, not more than three s {old was discovered abandoned Conductor J, M. Rector, on an O-W, | train, which left for Portland Thurs Jefe licited and Ac Bribe | thing was found yesterday morning. From San Franci Water | Rector says that a middieaged cow Company. | ple, which got off at Tacoma, (itp Uaned 1 4 Wire.) brought the baby Into the train and OAKLAND, July 18. — Found then deserted it. The man is de guilty of having solicited and ac. | S¢ribed as having @ full beard and cepted a bribe of $5,000 from the | wearing @ black slouch hat. Spring Valley Water company, | THinKS CHARGES FOR Henry P. Dalton, assessor of Als-| CONNECTING WATER STEEP meda county, is in jail here today,| jcciding that the charges for com heid without bail to await sentence |... ting elty water are extravagant, Tuesday morning. Jowiah Collins yesterday sent a let- The jury returned their verdict te, of protest to the board of publie after a consideration of only about | works He wae charged $86.19 for four hours of evidence presented at | laying 82 feet of water pipe to bis the 23 days’ trial. Dalton’s attor- building at Bighth av. and Olive ney, Chas. H. Fairall, probably will| «: fe was charged for 16 hours’ move for a new trial before sen-\ tine for the team which hauled tence ts passed. the plpe and the material to the Hard Fought Trial. | building. The bill, he claims, should The conviction ends one of the | %¢ $95 or lees, hardest fought trials in the history | of the county. Dalton was an ex-} e ti tremely popular official, and had! HW To do a certain thing a ie an engineer, was after about three hours’ sleep when Scott Malone and Detective Dianehi came to his door demanding admis- sion. Vella, who had in mind several recent robberies in the vicinity, awoke @azed, and shoutcd (hat any- one attempting to open the door would get killed. Malone kicked the door in, and he and Bianeht were faced by the determined look ing Italian, flashing his revolver, He was commanded to drop it. Not until you leave my room,” came the reply. “We are officers of finally suggested Malone “Show me your star,” said Vella, still determined not be fooled. Malone and Bianchi displayed thelr badges of authority,and Vella the law,” held the same office for 17 years. | Dalton’s wife and his niece were | with him when the verdict was if read. The former almost collapsed | and the younger woman placed her | arms about the defendant and at-) tempted to console him. Dalton | turned very pale and then flushed. | 2 pepiermarn nas | | eRe * «6 * MRS. SHONTS WITHOUT RENT MONEY. PARIS, July 16.—The rent due and no money to pay it with, is éhe embarrassing sit- uation which Mrs. Theodore P. Shonts; wife of the well known New York multi-mil- dionaire, and mother of the Duchess de Chaulnes, in said to face here today, her recent nog with her hus- Shonts, who has been renting an apartment in the Avenue Hoche for $3,40¢ » wave notice that she certain way often consti- tutes financial success. If you have singleness of purpose in saving, you will succeed. One great element of stability in this Strictly Savings Bank is its single- ness of purpose. Open an account in this bank and you will be aided by its determination to aid you. aH #E Bes Figag cceit : Ute * AEROPLANES’ BUZZING | SPOKANE, July 15—At mid WON'T SPOIL MILK ® night Thursday, the water depart. WASHINGTON, July 15— #/ ment pumped 46,000,000 gallons of Failing in having been con- ®/water for the 24 hours preceding, vinced by medical officers in ®) making about 420 gallons for every terested in the naval academy ®/ human being in the city The dairy that the bussing of aero * heat, which reached 94 degrees at planes near the cows’ pasture #|2 o'clock, was responsible for the would spoil the milk, Capt. #/heavy drain. Chamb t! rt. —— — eee Ot tne naty depart &| DOWAGER DUCHESS Dies, | + ment has definitely decided to establish the first navy aero- LONDON, July 15—The Dowager drome on the site at Greenby #| Duchess of Devonshire died here point. *learly today following a sudden ® | collapse due to the heat at the San- a «4% ¥) down Park race meeting, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. lnc dla So Mess : “ Washington. 18 July ‘10. Ryan to Ballin ~enclosing letter from bankers Probst, Wetzlar & Co,, New York—Heading—Controller Railway & 7 Navigation Company, 27 Williams Street, New York Important Postscript. “Dear D—I went to see the president the other day.. He asked me who it was I represented. I told him ACCORDING TO OUR AGREEMENT that I represented myself. But that did not seem to satisty him (!) So I sent for Charlie Taft and told him to tell his brother, the president, who it was I really represented, The presi dent made no further objection to my claim. = <= = = SS =—- : A JOB FOR REMARRIAGE IS } OLYMPIA—The supreme court ie Wee ee MT. VERNON, 0, July 16 of clothes, @ suit case, a revolver, PUEBLA, Mex, July 15—-Fran-| William Maxwell, charged by his AD jon Bt pecially 4 ctaco I, Madero today is doing his|wife with nonsupport’ of their ee pag Raped utmost to harmonize the warring minor child and bound over to the ged ca factions of Diazites and Maderistas|grand jury, is today in jail in de sulle ie who have been conducting a guerril- fault of bond, la warfare here for days. Revised| The Maxwells have been married figures of Wednesday fighting twice. Divorced, they revived their Cy Sow tiat 8 Maserialad tod Tiilove ent’ kad the bees vetied, pe ta federals were killed, moving to Ironton. Within a week bag - me - | Maxwell sent for Mra. Charles E. kh hhh th th tt hth t th Metoalt, then the wife of the boot > oat &|leeeing case witness, murdered o % here Maroh 20. Mrs, Maxwell had | . air arrested. Both were given ences, and upon Maxwell! Telease there yesterday, he was rearrested and brought to Mt. Vernon. First En; Re old Dodder has been fecent pies Be 1 iret feBman (ew - Se lial a a il A ie ee Of course -"Baltinnore Aamorions” would not renew her lease. Certain charges, amounting to several hundred dollars, are now dus and Shonts, it is said, has refused to send the cus tomary remittances, sound today The Bank for Savings Cor, 3rd Ave. and Pike St. NORTH YAKIMA—State High- way Commissioner Roberts stated that an automobile highway from the American river to Bear Pass in the Cascade range, ix feasible, and would cost about $5,000 a mile for 20 miles ‘icste ate Wiki eke casi Stone av. and Ewing st. j FSS SESE SEES EEE EES APES EEE EEE EEE EEE ORR ER EE i ee ee ee eeeeeeeeeee SU FEEERDERERETE SPOKANE — Santa Claus could not have been better to Mr. and Mrs. D. McLaughlin, than the practical Jokers who, for the last six months, have been ordering goods from leading business houses in the elty by telephone, and sent The above photographs of M iss Abbott's two-page copy of the \* “4 * * * * * * * + *® them to the McLaughlins. The * + * . * * * * * * “Dick to Diek” letters, including the filing notatiom at the top, read | ® as follows: * stuff was charged to promin. ent citizens of Spokane, The MecLaugblins cannot explain it, They say that they've been called up frequently by peo ple who asked tmpertinent questions, and hung up the re. celver with a laugh “ne 16@ Kteeeeee eee eee ee EES ie . FRIDAY HARBOR—The San Juan Lumber company’s mill was destroyed by fire. The loss is about $10,000, OLYMPIA—A writ of mandate was issued against Superior Court Judge Chapman of Pierce county by the supreme court, commanding him to approve the $8,000 bail bond | of a ne offered by Roy. Moorhead, con. etter Half newspaper often turns out to be the “want” pages victed of manslaughter. ‘ The business news that fills the “want” columns of ¢ aper is not only vitally te q ften exce RITzViLLE = dudge Holeemne| profitable, y yY interesting, but often exceedii yesterday decided that part of the Nowada ; % Rew weed law is uncoustitutiens! Owacays one is not a real newspaper reader unless he she reads the “want” ads every day it : Thie part was that which allowed “ the costs of removing the weeds to St In Seattle the best “want” news appears in The Seatt ar, be collected like other taxes. OLYMPIA — The supreme court sustained the verdict of $500 in favor of Mary Harvey against the Tacoma Railway & Power Co. The case arose out of the Fern Hill 5-cent fare controversy, when a car was backed into a siding and kept there for 19 hours, EF Map shows the situation of the Nalf civilized, parbotled country of Morocco, over which Europe has just given us @ lot of war talk. Spain had entrenched itself in the north. France bad butted a lot of soldiers into the interior as far as Fez.’ The ether day Germany sent a warship to Agadir, in the southern part, to “succor frightened Germans.” Of course the boat was to stay, and France, Spain and England began to look magenas at Germany. Then when something was about to bust, the four @ecided to hold “conversations,” and of course, during coffee, cigarets and talk, they'll divide poor aun-baked Morocco. SSeeeee sees Seeeeeeee é ‘ OM ine Sessile ees menttnmencat TT ee