The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 25, 1911, Page 1

JOIN THE JOY FAMILY HOME EDITION oR ah IN THEIR JOYOUS EXCURSIONS!—SEE THE S a ee I'm glad the Potlatch is all done, ‘Cause now my spirits lag, | wilt admit that it But, Oh" you Potlat DID UNKN KILL MRS. Ty United Press Leased Wire) RICHMOND, July 25.—That the killing of Mrs. Beattie w the result af a triangular plot in which the parties were her husband, his cous Paul and the unknown man who did the killing, was the allegation of the police this afternoon, They they have found decided repancies in the story told told the pawnbroker he bought the shotgun 4 Mra. Reattie, that he some one else. Jacob lt-year-old son of the r who sold the weapon, I want this man a Vemstel pawnd fasists that Paul said, for work as on a Pani that he did not need a gun be cause he would never shoot any and that Paul rep Don't deli hat Ive the nerve, all right.” Don't Think Beattie Did it. Discarding their former t that Beattie himself killed his \ lice now believe that Henry confided to his cousin that he wanted to get rid of his wife and that Paul found a man who did the killing A repe his wife quarreied that on which the tra that on the evening Beattic “made up,” ax her to take an automobile him, is under investigat police. got » with the (Ry United Pees Leased Wire) NEW YORK, July 25.—That th $10,000,000 National City rm pa to be operated by directors of the National City bank ‘ to nullify the su cisions the Standard Tobacco Trust cas current today in Wall st concern, It is asserted, is to holding company for bo was fun, oh Jag! OWN MAN BEATTIE? Giri Tells Life Story. RICHMOND, Va, July 26.—De }claring she wanted no bail and was | willing to remain tm jail until she | has been freed of all suspicion in connection with the murder ot | Henry ©. Beattie’s wife, Beulah Binford today told the story of her | life. “I never knew better,” shi When a child my mother was too jbusy to care for me or to reveal the things a young girl should kthow, When I went wrong, ¢ y one was against me. When I tried to be straight some one would dis cover who I was and what I had been, and would give me another push down bill. I was ready to die for Harry, but I was thinking of his father and bis haby when I tora | sald that. Harry had them and aj future to | for. and nothing in sight Th den that red of his wife, wa “a her killed in order that he might be to marry his childhood sweetheart “Harry is a good fellow, but he knew ¢ kind of a girl | wast couldn't pect him to marry me, and never did,” she said. Her t7th Birthday. celebrated her 17th srday in her cell with afterward reading 1 had nothing Beattie, free girl nner, said she did not regret the death of her child, saying the child was better off dead. The police assert girl will testify before ‘the grand jury Bank Organized to Beat Cour rdict? th court's decis control of t Ve ter the T compan is consic there is lit gold nod that ITTUE BO DROWNED Little 10-year-old Roderick Me Cloud, son of D. S. MeCloud, 8026 Sunnyside av., today lies dead at the Beitz- Rafferty undertaking partors at Green Lake. Last eve ning he and another boy con- structed a raft to go sailing on Green Lake. They used an old piece of cloth for a sail. Every thing went nicely for a while, but suddenly the poorly constructed raft fell apart. Roderick dropped into the water between the boards. The water was about nine feet deep, and spot was 30 feet the shore. The body was found shortly after. LOVE IN A COTTAGE IS NOT SO CHEAP AFTER ALL. Love in a cottage is all very well, But it costs like the dickens to do it; Why, even a bungalow’s ‘spensive as—well, L\ @ Just take two or three thousand dollars and attempt to build a simp- le little structure for that money and then— When the bills are ii in, you will THE TELEPHONE PEST. Today we discuss briefly one of the most common household pests —the tele hog. The are found chi on party lines, and they operate at the most inconven- fent time hen you wish to tele phone your grocery order it {s annoying to be obliged to walt 20 Minutes tii] Mrs. Gadabout tells her friend all about last night's Darty. It is also annoying, when You are in the midst of telling Mrs. Stepanfetchit how to make quince reserves, to have a neighbor butt in on the line elght or nine times with: “You goin’ to use this phone &ll summer?” These pests are not all bad. By listening when they're On the line you can get a lot sof Belghborhood gossip. from | ——— FEAR POPE IS NEAR DEATH Ty United Yress Leased Wire.) ROME, July 25.—Vatican of- ficials today admit confiden- tially that they are worried over the condition of Pope Pius, despite reports that the pontiff is suffering only from a slight cold. His closest ad- fear the death of the pope may come without warn- ing at any time. The fact that the pope's sisters occupy quar ters where they can reach his holiness at any time is cited here as an indication that his iliness is more serious than has been admitted. $10,000,000 10$5 y United Presse Leased Wire.) CONSTANTINOPLE, July 25.— |With unknown numbers dead and |injured and 20,000 persons already , fires were still raging un- checked today in the Stambout quarter. One-third of the Stamboul land Ceutari districts has b de- stroyed and all available troops have been called out to patrol the |Galata and Pera section Sixty- lfive hundred homes have been de- |stroyed and the damage amounts to $10,000,000. It is believed thé wires were |started by political incendiartes. SITE FOR FAIR SAN FRANCISCO, July 25.—The directors of the Panama-Pacific ex- position today selected as a site for | } | homel lthe 1915 fair Harbor View, Golden Gate park and Lincoln park, all ‘0 be connected by a boulevard system. BOTH LEGS BROKEN With both legs broken, and but small chances of his recovery, R Grazzini, an employe of the steel works at ¥ ngstown, was brought to the Providence hospital yester. day. A large piece of fron fell on him. —_ VOL, 13, NQ, 131, PLAN TO aid. | St} he Seattle. : ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER_ IN SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1911. Let Government Itself Open Alaska Coal Lands PROPOSITION PRESENTED WHICH WILL ENABLE SEATTLE PEOPLE »- TO HEAD MOVEMENT TO DEVELOP ALASKA IN RIGHT WAY FOR BENEFIT OF WHOLE COUNTRY. ae the people, through the government, mine, ship and sell the billions of tons of Alaska coa That's the big pr through, Right now in the midst of the Controller bay land grab sensation this remarkable move ment proposing to end all grabbing by knocking the bottom from under the coal monopoly is sweeping over the progressive state of Oregon | Oregon's people are sounding the battle cry against coal grabbing and against the monopoly | “We, the people, own these vast coal fields. We are paying extortionate prices for coal be cause the railroads and the allied gouging special interests have a monopoly. We want to mine }our own coal. We want to ship it and sell it and we will pay the bills.” It's the Seattle people's move next Seattle is the gateway to Alaska, and Seattle people should take the lead in this movement which is destined to become nation-wide, a movement which simply proposes to open up the Alaska fieldgin the RIGHT WAY—for the benefit of ALL THE PEC )PLE instead of the spe jcial few. yosition which readers of The Star have an opportunity to help put coal THE PLAN IS SIMPLE The plan {s a plain, simple and easily understood one, The government, that is all of us, owns coal beds back of Controller bay. The petition which The Star prints herewith demands that cong pass a law establishing an Alaska coal commission; that this commé build a railroad from Controller bay to the coal beds; that the beds be mined; the coal shipped to Controller bay, there placed in bunkers for reshipment to the chief ports of Washington and Oregon in government colliers so Const ports the coal will be shipped to interior points by railroad, the interstate commerce commission fixing @ rate for this government commodity so that the railroads cannot charge exorbitant rates The coal to be sold to the people at cost of mining and delivery, plus @ small amount per ton p thin profit to be placed in a sinking fund that will retire the bonds issued by the government for initial cost of the work These bonds, it Is planned, shall be offered to the people of the United States so that the people's money shall bring the people's own coal to the people at about half the present price charged by the road trust, POINDEXTER SIGNS PETITION nator Poindexter is the first signer of The Star's petition. By a telegram from Washing ton to the edit The Star this morning, the senator asked. that his name be placed on the pe tition. Here petition. Sign it, get your neighbors, your friends, your fe workers to sign it, then mail your petition to The Star. The Star will forward them to the Washir Jelegation at Washington. Make Seattle head the procession for this people's measure. | A PETITION TO HIS EXCELLENCY, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND CONGRESS ASSEMBLED rom | ofit the own rail i | } s th ow | | i bas relief from the oppression as herein set forth, Firet—That the undersigned are dependents either directly o production of hi Second—That there are no public coal fields within the chased, and that the only coal to be had is that delivered within said tate by Third—That the tariff fixed by aforementioned private corporations is se hi coffaumer to pay ah exorbitant price for this ne ; Fourth—Therefore, your petitioners pray that a law be enacted providing for and establishing an Alaska | coal mining commissicn, for the purpose of mining the public coal lands In Alaska, establishing a railroad to deliver coal from sald mines to tidewater on Controller bay, Alaska, building a dock and estab! coal bunkers on said bay of suffic rve not only as a shipping point, but also as a coaling station for the navy, providing collie coal from said dock to other ports in the United State of America, establishing government coal bunkers at certain ports inthe state of Washington, hereinafter named, and for the seliling of sald coal direct to the people at the cost ef production pius the cost of hand ling, plus an amount sufficient to provide a fund to pay interes named. Fifth—That the government fix and provide, through the Interstate commerce commission, the rates to be charged by common carriers for delivering coal from the government bunkers to be established at the points in Washington, to be hereinafter named, to the places designated by the purchaser. | Sixth—That government coal bunkers be established at the follewing named points in Washington: | Seattle, Tacoma, Everett and Gray's Harbor, Seventh—-That bonds be issued similar to those issued for building the Panama canal, and be sold direct to the people by popular subscription, to provide funds for the carrying out of projects beforemen | tioned, the same to be carried out under the direction of the aforementioned Alaska Coal Mining Com mission. For relief from existing conditions and the immediate enac we ever pray. NAME ate of Washington at which coal can be pur private corporations; and gh as to force the ultimate tment of legislation herein set forth shall ADDRESS NAME ADDRESS Ties “Wet” by Only 3,780 AUSTIN, Tex. July Unoffi celal returns just completed give the wets « majority of 3,780 votes in the statewide prohibition elec tion. A meeting of the executive com | mittee of the prohibition organiza. | tions at Fort Worth Saturday has |been called by Chairman Ball to joutline plans for contesting the election. The legislature, which is controlled by the prohibitiontsts will begin a spectal session next Monday BLAINE TURNS TRAITOR AGAIN Clause 1 in The Star platiors, haacing” bill was hie It wes » nine co »assed by the council over a mont signed by seven of the nine coun ee EA ok mage ah aia re cilmen before the spring election: | TRO. | o ocatime Griffiths wa “We will compel street car Com-| pelted to leave the city panies to furnish a sufficient num-| day was the last day that the coun ber of cars to stop overcrowding | cil could act on the bill. Blaine, and straphanging.” | Haas and Steiner voted to sustain Councilman Blaine yesterday|the mayor, while Erickson, God. afternoon apparently forgot that he | dard, Hesketh, Kellogg and Wardall had placed his signature below this | voted against. It requires a two statement, when he was seeking | thirds vote to pass & measure over election. ‘Blaine, by his vote, de-|the mayor's veto. feated the bill, which, to a limited} Blaine’s. vote would have done extent would have curbed strap-|{t, but Blaine after election is not hanging and overcrowding. the same man as Blaine befor Councilman Griffiths’ “antl-strap- | election. GREAT LAKES $1.50 Boys’ Wash Suits $1.15 MADE OF ee ” * * * * Sheeeeetee Children’s NEWS ITEMS FROM teohet City, ix the op the new girl clerk- ing at Jenks’ Emypertum, Hen Totler, our vigtlant constable, \ooking for dog polsoners, No been pol 5 you ‘too careful these days, Gert "0, is dogs t can't be any Hen says Warm, ain't it? fe [tended a meeting of the cabinet. /|department of justice by telegraph, Straw Hats $2.00 AND $2.50 VALUES 96 WASHINGTON, July dent Taft arrived at House today from Beve ‘The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania State associa tion will be held at the Cham- ber of Commerce rooms Fri day evening at 8 o'clock. If DETROIT, July 25.—Heavy dam-|% ¥o% hall trom the. Keystone age hax been done, many boats are) 4 200. acon in and get ac- missing and scores of other vessels) % Giainted are reported wrecked as a result) arn ealo which last night and today|* * © & Xx *# ww # eee & he swept the Great Lakes, The lum- ber barge Lucky Lucy was picked WHITE SLAVE BAND up near Traverse City without al crow. The barge was in bad con-| gaAN FRANCISCO, | July A dition and it 1s feared the crew was! state-wide search for members of drowned. ‘The sloop Mavourneen 18/an alleged white slave band was pounding to pieces on Mackinac|bogun here today, directed by beach and the yacht Vencedor Wa8| prank H. Depue of the State Bu- wrecked at Beaver island. =, {reau of Identification. It is be- The gale reached a velocity of 70) Heved that Helen Johnson Whitson, miles an hour, who disappeared from her home mete June 15, is the victim of the slav- 25.—Prest-jers. The eral authorities havé the White|been requested to act in the mat y and at-|ter, and it has been put before the We, the undersigned, residents of the state of Washington, do herewlth present a most earnest prayer 1 indirectly upon the use of coal for the t and principal on certain bonds hereinafter | HOME EDITION | = « Upon my soul | hate to boast, Star j= SEATTLE ONE CENT. The kind of fodder | like most ON TRAINS NEWS STANDS AND Is huckleberry ple. KILL THE COAL TRUST CONFESSES T0 COBLE MURDER J. H. WILSON ADMITS HE BUTCHERED COUPLE AT RAINIER—SAYS A MANIA TO KILL POSSESSED HIM—TRIED TO SADDLE GUILT ON PETERSON. (By United Press.) _ OLYMPIA, July 25.—J. H. Wilson, section foreman on the Northern Pacific railroad at Rainier, Wash., today confessed, according to Sheriff Gaston of Thurston county, that he killed Archie Coble and his young wife as they slept in their home at Rainier July 9. | TRIED TO SADDLE GUILT ON ANOTHER. j Following the discovery of the fiendish crime, Wilson fu nished information to the poe a upon which Swan Peterson was arrested on suspicion of having killed Coble and jhis wife. | Peterson since has proved an alibi and been released from custody. _ Four days ago Sheriff Gaston arrested Wilson after having ascertained that Wilson had left his home on the day following the Coble murder. Blood stains were also found on a tent that Wilson had slept in. His wife was the first to direct suspicion toward Wilson, telling the sheriff that her husband had washed blood from his clothing the morning after the murder. He said that a week before the murder he was walking down the railroad track when something seemed to urge him to kill someone. The murder mania grew and finally impelled | him to kill Coble and his wife with an ax as they lay asleep in their beds. He could give no. other explanation for his action, and told Sheriff Gaston that he must have been insane, for he had no grievance against the Rainier barber. FINALLY CONFESSES. Wilson's confession will be repeated this afternoon to a stenographer, after which he will sign it in the presence of a notary. Since his arrest, Wilson has been extremely nervous and today, replying to questions at ve him by officers, finally confessed that he killed the Cobles. .He said that he killed the obles. Oh See! Coolest and Hottest Spots in all Seattle Today COOLEST | sarc |" HOTTEST = place in Seattle probably feel very sorry today for the men who work in the place where it is the hottest men who we fully ling in De y watched t ccasionally 6 the doors the e gauge on 1 sked ¢ f } hot son was br | ne € oe copper and wish jhealth. They | shirts, thick-sol | didn en kno The tempe And they eight hours a day at the hotte is the munictpal ¢ rd th measures of foamir other good vy woolen boots and hot bec 1 wore out de. there * ie rat inside O, joy whew! » inein: stay It } “ of Lake Union tering in the flere deep-mawed urn at pile of aff that s for the furnaces reg ast 666 in every parti that room about fa” ve zero, m the wait ed at mak degrees | men w to save that ts, could ‘em from b if anything unc pocsibly induce ithin sun y were tly assumed an under-| but you betcher t cast] aside when they trudged back into the fic fierce heat, where they toil the blazing red Joors for e ours a day How would you like to worn the coldest place in Seatt would like to swelter hottest place ey in you Pee ee eee eee ee eee re |x WEATHER FORECAST. * THE HOT PLACE * Fs night and Wednes- * | Just Outside the Door of the Roar day; a Tempe * se «6Where Six Mei * ture at noon 7 They Shovel—the we OR a RR KR ew City’s Garbage Incinerator. sped off up the “=” LEMONADES TODAY the red auto is} If you had seven chilled lemon- | still making his way about town, | Ades or grape sundaes yesterday to but the police haven't got a line on| help you ward off the humidity, you him yet, they say need only five of ‘em today because | averaged 10 degrees cooler all day Sull the humidity got in under the hide in pretty good shape and there was plenty of need of a palm leaf fan, a shady nook somewhere off up In the mountains, and a tall, thin glass of something with ice tinkling a tempting tintinnabulation alongside. THE COLD PLACE Refrigerator of One of Seattle's Breweries” and the Lucky Mor-| tals Who Work There. RED AUTO BURGLAR {a AT IT AGAIN How much longer will the Re Auto Burglar keep at it—and much longer will the Seattle police stand feebly wondering where he is? Twice used a red away more certain tle homes. His victims were man Piepsch, of 706 10th ay., Mrs. H. Krahn, 518 23rd av. In both these instances he was de- tected by children and when} frightened away sprang into his red motor car and disappeared in a cloud of dust Yesterday he resumed operation bolder than ever and still depending upon the automobile to escape cap: ture, In the forenoon he made two at tempts to force his way into 30th av. homes. In each case he was foiled, Mrs, Carl Nelson at No, 802 met the motor car burglar at her front door. Tam Dr you call m =) Doctor painted red and street. He tried to get » on the street but jened off. | ‘The burglar in d into a waiting auto - | Pee ee eee eee eee ACTOR REALLY DIES IN THIS FILM DRAMA. NEW YORK, July * While acting the part of a res: &| cuer for @ motion picture * drama, Albert ‘Brighton, an * actor, Was drowned in a pond * near here, The man at thy *| But why draw word pi! > camsta kept right an: with bis linen: oot ly oa hurataiey pictures, believing that Bright: *| abroad to make each sun-blighted on was only adding a touch of *| idiot remark that it is real warm, realism to his acting * | isn’t it, and we rapidly replied that FOR IRI ROI RIK ITO! Tt was, ’ ORT " ” mo}.| It isn’t the heat, as you well PORTLAND, Or. July Fol: } y lowing yesterday's torrid spell, the} *"0W. It’s the humidity! hottest in four in western| Officially: 5 a. m., 62 degrees; 9 |Oregon, decidedly cooler weather | 4 + 65 degrees; noon, 74 degrees, Jobtained today in western Oregon | “4 }and Washington Though the mercury 99.3 in Portland, 102 Oregon City, 100 at Ri 100 at Walia Walla y noon, no deaths were r eral persons were prostr ever. * * * *| *| last week a bold thief who | auto to make his get plundered Seat Her and PSrTrtrrrrr res ss ye we BANE SE AAA MRS. POINDEXTER HERE Mrs. Miles Poindexter, wife of the insurgent senator from this e, is in Seattle today, the st of her sister, Mrs, Ww quire, 3619 Second av. » will remain here sey- . eral weeks. This ts the first Dear Bill: No, we never heard|* visit of Mrs. Poindexter to Se- of a paragrapher getting enough |* attle since the election of her money to travel @round the world. |* husband climbed to| % degr at | x burg, and | sterday after: | % rted. Sev: | ated, hew |* \* * niiott,” Mrs. aid; “did son didn’t RAAAAAAAAAA ° have 1 time to answer before the Yours, WEB, [eR RR ER REE °