The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 4, 1911, Page 1

se HOME EDITION ~~ True, madam! He doesn’t bring youl Hy flowers and candy any more, but hash ff Hand potatoes count for something HAD $4,000 IN MARKED BILLS one of the parties concerned | wei! and good in the robbery of the Bank of Montreal at ster in September last, when a sum of $258,000 was taken. He) had in his possession $4,000 in marked bills. The arrest took place in the simplest manner possible. Bo- zeyk was coming out of a gambling den in Chinatown lyon do what wants just you pay big monopoly leoncern wants. Web ward E. pla, while the being argu A broken pledge. sum of $700 was found in his| possession. On the way to the“! 0 ou, station and when there he gave said Corpora several other accounts of his houn this morning. movements and mentioned that | ©" pay the in he was a roomer at the City, = hotel. A visit was promptly paid to/ the hotel and his effects) searched. The sum of $4,000 in Bank of Montreal bills was then discovered. * of GOVERNOR HAY RODGERS 6 PEOPLE BUM BOTH WAYS BY THE PHONE DEAL If you quit the Independent com New Westmin-| paey and take the Sunset service the a higher price. | Now goes up the howl for ONE|E That's what the Bell Mr. Webster—Iif the commi today, and on being searched, a| put the increased rates into effect certainly what's that with the Bell monopoly tion are open, Counsel Scott Cal s and general” sentiment i }legislature to pass a pres You know or ought to know that there and general” sentiment in favor of the people making their own choice of president You know or ough League of Washington, the State Fe The Seattle Star ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER It’s not at all hard to figure where] retain their pho the public gets off on this telephone | city wins in the supreme court deal, as a result | increane of the attempted |¢ 9 ive of Indepen- (By United Press Leased Wire) ¢ ~~ dent rat VANCOUVER, B.C, Nov.| 7, i res bale, wets |p 4.—The police have under ar- The Bell rest a man named John Bo- nopoly gets the | zeyk, a native of southern | os “ Europe, charged with being| 4 ae eet | dont te asking i) {1 monopoly Here's what General Manager Ed. er said before the public service commission at Olym- raise in Stenographic record jon | is willing to have the Su rates jubsertbers axe under protest, | ship of telephones: THE PEOPLE ASK? You say you have been unable to find any “widespread lential 1 cand to knoy PED | subserit an tnjuneti mo- | court. weriber. | $2.60 to $2 gladly | at thie rate st; | dence phones, wan | party .| beth comp But | « joyed to do it favor “VOL, 13, NO. 213 and then, if the the will be refunded, Or, if any removes phones after ret r only the old rate, may be asked for to prevent removal of the phone until he case ix decided by the higher he ce ‘The former course if more inex pensive for the individual sub Here te the advance the Tn: Business, one-party ine, formerly $4, now $5; two-party Ine, $3 to $4; residence, one-party, two party If you discontinue your ph Rell will receive you into the fold giving you a Sunset phone Business phone, unlimited service, 100 calls, $5; 150 calls, $6; rest. four party, $2; two ; individual service, $3 the Belt set do all ‘That is one reason W when he was asked by the po-| wii) relieve me, | am willing to stip-| the bi lice to give an account of him-| ulate that | will not put them (the| Competition There is none now self. < increased rates) into effect until the| Hut the Independent service bas} His statements were of such|s¥preme court has passed upon| been cheaper because of franchise unsatisfactory character that them.” restrictions. The scheme Is to mo-| y “ | "The supreme court hasn't passed the whole firld at the he was at once taken into CUS-/ upon them, and Mr. Webster has rate, The Bell owns on, and if the Sunset | Independent sub-| high rates of the] it will be over: | the the corral re at an rit The only way out ia public owner of a special session of the mary law Pp IS “widespread jates that the Direct Legislation eration of Laber, the farmers’ Union and the State Grange have all endorsed the linovement, and that they aré circulating petitions for sig- natures. Tl | Washington NEAR lS. RSA PASADENA, Cal, Nov. Aviator C. P. Rodgers experienced at imperial Junction this morning, and it was stated that he probably | would not take the air until 10:30) c’clock. His mechanicians hauled his aeroplane for a distance of two miles, near the bed of the Salton | for a start the landing place. 100 Mil INDIO, Nov o'clock today altitude of about G00 fei ed over Mecca at 11 about 100 mi! were bette The weather was excellent, and Rodgers declared his confidence of reaching Pasadena on schedule time. His special train, bearing his wife and mother, will follow to Pas adena. x Scores of men were started out today over the roadbed of the Southern Pacific, laying sheets by which the aviator might direct his flight. An enormous tarpaulin was spread at Tournament park to mark! ry G. C. I “He Was Cad to Me, Help It, (ABANDONED WITH BEAT HER LiKE TWO LITTLE GIRLS A SLAVE A woman wept becausd she had to get a divorce. That was the un- usual scene in Judge Frater’s court- room yesterday afternoon, where |r the uncontested cases were heard. |b the Varying from the usual merciless| bronght in Pierce arraignment of defauiting spouses | county told by the plaintiffs, Mrs. Edith M.| Cochran wept out of pity -for her| husband, James R. Cochran, former | James Pieett 4 secretary to Alexander Pantag' was but 12 years old. guage. She is earning [hood now as a milliner ade yesterday GOOD Doctors Have Given Him Up. The last sb down as she added: creditors. he left “But the doctors will not take bis} him sla case any more. his arrest. Bout I told him about it) Mexico. and urged him to go away, and he| Ami ‘was not arrested. He left and say-| that there is widespread se 40,000 names on their petitions convince ye Unless you call the special session the and rightly so, that you ARE OPP SED TO THEIR CH ING THEIR OWN PRESIDENTIAL C ANDIDAT ‘United Press Leased Wire| Ithat you WANT THE MACHINE X lING, ON BEHALF OF STANDPAT TAF Me difficulty in getting off the ground a= - 4 Match Caused Eight Deaths CHEHALIS, Nov. 4.—Secre- of the imper- | her Then he got so| baby, about a year ago, was that nights bad that I swore out a warrant for|he joined the insurgent army in| during the rest of the we | sata ican Husband Deserted Her.| would Frank Richardson, an American, | languag “se organizations represent a majority of the voters of Isn't their endorsement enough proof to ye From Pasadena. | Aviator | re passed over Indio at 11:55 He was flying at an He pass clock. | from Pas ‘But He Just Couldn’t ” Sobs Wife Asking for a Divorce) ALWAYS CAME HOME DRUNK her livel) | Nine applications for divorce were| Ofte was denied, guit should have been instead of King Lived Alone 20 Years. | Anna Agnes Picett was married to| “ars ago, when she| | “The first year or two he treated Then, after the| She has had to find HE WAS AN OPIUM FIEND, SHE TOLD JUDGE FRATER | me in a fair way. , “HE WAS © L WH UN-| first baby came, he became shift- DER THE INFLUENCE OF 1 | less,” she sgid. | work for ntm, and finally, in 1891, he 20 years after lhe abandoned her, she was grant- DRUG,” SHE BUT at COULD? 4 |left her with five children to take} THER THING | care of, Yesterday LEFT | ed @ divorce. abandoned them six years ago, children are now grown) Mrs. Richardson said, A CHANCE told Judge Frater, “and| Her husband, Robert F. Dee, FEET WHEN HE GOT , too.” |beat her up so badly on some oc-| I WOULDN'T GIVE HIM UP. i| Edgar H. Bracey accumulated casions, sald Mrs. Anna Dee, that THOUGHT HE COULD BE | debts, said Bertha Edna Br y, she could not go out to work, He CURED.” and would not show up from early|began abusing her, she alleged, | morning tll late at night, so that! three weeks after thelr marriage, And Mrs. Gochran’s voice broke|she would have to stand off the|in 1907 heard of| and their) ¢ Will nt for the extra session? Peete eee eee eeeseeeee ee people ‘will infer, OS and | TO DO THE CHOOS ial Powder Co., today advanced the theory that a match, con: cealed in the powder, was re- sponsible for the disastrous fire at that plant Tuesday, in which eight girls lost their lives, He said: “A match dropped on the floor could have gotten into the powder in the drying room. if struck by a tamping bar in the packing room, just such a flame as the survivors saw resulted. While it possibility, a match head might have been purposely mixed with the powder by some one | | 3 DRuGs CAUSED HER, UNHAPPINESS Jefferson J me home and Morgan drunk on Sundays—tfre regularly Saturday | ently K, too— Mrs. Chrissie Morgan. He beat her and use profane in the presence of an 18- ed me from that humiliation.” married Rebecca Richardson, a| year-old daughter, she testified ‘The couple were married in 1907.| Mexican, in 1893. Two children,| Divorces were also granted to Mra. Cochran ‘s a frail young wom-| Eva, 13, and Bertha, 7, are now! Robert from Hattie Finney, and an, of refined appearance and lan-!in the Sisters’ home, Richardson! Homer E. from Theresa Harris, |has a shock of tawny hair, Four Day looking up at airboat. RRR RARER ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. 4.— Melvin Vaniman and his ba loon, with which he hopes to cross the Atlan(le are be lieved to have fallen into the ocean north of bere, and mem bers of the lifesaving crew have started in boats to render assistance tf needed. The top of the airship only can be seen, and to every ap pearance it is in the water or resting on the mad banks, After a good flight over the ocean, Vaniman steered north here, and watchers in the life saving station saw the balloom suddenly descend low towards the bay : AFSPC eee eeeeeeteneeseeees HERE ROR In the following special story to The Star Vaniman, who Is reported to have had an accident with his balloon today, tells how he hopes to fly across the Atlantic in four days. Today's reported mishap lends ad- ditional interest to his story. (Special to The Star.) ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. 4.—Vani- man will cross the Atlantic in the dirigible balloon “Akron” this fall, Vaniman says so. Sneer at gas-bag navigation of the air if you will. But talk to Vaniman ten minutes and be con vinced that the forthcoming trans- atlantic expedition is one in which the most prudent of men might en. gage without fear. “We'll Cross Van- iman. only question how long it wifl take us, I expect to make the voyage In four days. But we bave food for 15 days and gase- lind for elght days Vaniman's steady gather fire with y hold and convince bine eyes his earndetndas. you. He ite tough, woll-knit frame, seen under the huge, perfecto-shaped airship, makes you think of a Norseman, @ viking The airahip {8 astonishingly bean: tiful for a thing so huge. From beneath, as she is held down in ber “hangar” by a hundred anchors, she appears ke an ocean leviathan in dry dock “Hydr vator” is the new word ‘Millionaires Fighting to Buy Blake Island t Blake Istand Wm the owner of the and ck, to late ing against each other the south half of Blake buy and. The state cannat sell this land ®. Mr of part for les» than $600 per o ‘Trimble purchased the ot Inland at $10 per were, He & to pay $700 or $800 per the rest ows Seattle real him richer, He He knows that a Seat best plant vy in the t you follow Trimble's t $400 north on terms of One trip. dally Boulevard to n month, ke Forest ome in. seo It OLE HANSON 4& CO. Third Floor New York Biock THE BIG DIRIGIBLE “AKRON” EMERGING FROM THE HANGAR RRARKARHRHREREH Arctic balloon trips, starting out Bttesets | that being th: & the air will mo ®t) tam on the way. ife of ti RRA RRAEKRKRHEE HER it henceforth it te Vaniman’s invention and the most imiportant part of the “Akron's pment. It takes the place of man's lamented equiibrator, Bow cast on the junk heap. Coins New Word. Hydrolevate Latin, = means “water lifter,” and that's what it fea sort of long-distance pump. “Our motors will continually be burning gasoline, and the crew will be consuming food, which means our cargo grows lighter and ligh % we go on,” said Vaniman ‘Therefore, since we lost litle ges ‘oF lifting power, we must have bal last to take the place of gasoline and food-weixht lost, or go up so high we would freeze to death. And the ocean is full of ideal ballast water. Vaniman proposes to fill the emp- tiéd gasoline tanks (built under the figor of the car) with sea water, and alvo emergency tanks in case grpat expansion of gas occurs. The hydrolevator will do thie, It con sists of & series of six galvanized IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., SAPURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1911 BY MELVIN VANIMAN I'm @ot a daredevil now, though | was once. only a donkey engine for motive powe: My wife Is the gamest woman that ever lived. first man ever to cross the Atiantic in than make up for any worrying she may do while Sing a song of sixpence, if Hi but it takes dollar notes to get you any ONE CENT. lithing these WESTMINSTER BANK ROBBER CAUGHT? Daring Man Who Expects to Fly Across Atlantic in s Reported Wrecked in Balloon GREAT POISON PLOT ALLEGED Chicago Woman Accused of Being a Modern Lucretia Borgia Length 258 feet. Diameter 47 feet. Three engines. Combined horsepower, 280. : Investment—$100,000. —Ten People Die Mysteriously—Thought ‘to Have Been Poisoned—Arrested, Charged With Murder. (By United Press Leased Wire) | lice offi Page od henge 4-—Under the! gation, eed to await service of pi ‘ant one ba Agron so — the warrant until late today, but } a ison plotiadded several men to the £ in the history of the country may | watching the suspected wena be disclosed in the case of Mrs.| Exhume Bodie i Louise Vermilya, suspected of hav-} Coroner Hoffman became active ing poisoned 10 relatives and asso- and procured permits from rela- ciates, who have all died in the tives of former acquaintances of same mysterious manner within the | the widow, whose deaths now have past six years, the Chicago police | come under suxpicion,.to exhome in charge of the investi ordered the arrest of the woman on / the bodies for toxic a a charge of murder. | ination *® for toxicological exam The warrant for Mrs. Vormaiiys's} There is a state law forbidding arrest signed by Judge Nolan,|the use of arsenic in embalming, |and was put into the hands of de-|and the coroner announced that if | tectives for imm the poison was found in the bodies | was sworn to by F dug up, the undertakers would be brother of Arthur Bissonette, as: certificates owing | policeman who died last Thursday | whether the law was disobeyed, and in Mra. Vermilya’s-home, and the if it was not, an effort would be examination of whose stomach, dis- | made to connect the widow with the closing the presence of arsenic, | administration of the poison. | caused the woman to be tak | custody. l engaged Re RR eK ee) Vermily *| Mrs. Vermilya bad been il] with %| pneumonia, and her condition wa %|such that Captain Harding, the po en into The dead policeman was to be married to Mrs. Woman Collapses. Mrs. Vermilya collapsed when Ine formed tliat the experts had found poison in the viscera of Bissonette, but she showed no concern after re covering, and declined to make any statement. ' ‘Killed His Baby Because ‘| He Couldn’t Support Him 1 made two 300 miles from civilization, with She says ee ee ee fron buckets, the cone-shaped bot-| tom of one fitting into the neck of ighbor, strung tog and (By United Press Leased Wire.) SANTA BARBARA, Cal, Nov. 4.—"You aska me why I keel my leetle baby? Listen—1 tella you someting. How { gonna sapport my. wife and leetle boy on dolla day and bringa da baby-up to be one fine, beex man? You tella me dat! I love my leetle Dominick. J goan say I keel him, but how I gonna support him when living cost so mach? buckets are ¢ Four Propeller Akron” has two sets of big close together, a The propellers little forward of amidships. The second pair may be turned by a You tella me dat, ha! The above questions were plied at Sheriff Stewart early today by, Jobn Rech 30, an Italian gardener accused of the murder of his two lever, #0 as to propel the ship up, down or straight ahead, The votal of 280 horsepower, three engines be set to work turning the four Hers s! 1 Z Sheriff Stewart, believing that the man would returp, spent all last bes oe Rg rey pb e mgd night hiding in the Rech kitchen. Rech’s arms were about his: wife's — Fars Hay nds neck when the sheriff ordered the alleged murderer to surrender, With a the fury of a tigress, Mrs. Rech sprang at Sheriff Stewart's throat, and “We will walt for a storm, wait) w, , : 8 only subs aft er until the storm center has traveled | Yue Ouly, subdued after s terrific struggle. She insisted ea ring a day out to sea, then put out and chase it meee? “One storm center | observed went 800 miles the first day, 1,200 the next, and the third day it wae over Ireland. With our power and | driven by winds, we ought to follow | very close.” day-old child, when, after eluding a sheriff's posse, he retirned to his home at daybreak to bid his wife farewell, WIFE DEFENDS HUSBAND eS ee —— | i'm GeTTING TIRED OF LOoK AT THAT F be a “red letter” day. theatre management as ho blessed one of ‘em, at the v: attle will see the Wednes Mother.” Nwill enjoy, Watch The Star the big day for the children OLD RESIDENT SEES RAIN AHEAD The Old Resident admits ue is somewhat. baffled about this Seattle weather, “It aln't Hike it used to be,” he muttered, as he pounded his cant with a thump on the sidewalk This morning it looked like we'd about set In for the rainy season Thinks 1, ‘It's here at last, and from now on it’s umbretias and rain coats.’ I hadn't got it mor'n fig ured till the sun popped out and the weather looked like May time. But,” he cautioned, and he lifted Dia finger in warning, “when it does eomg, look out! We're gonna make up for these nice days yit.” MAN ENDS HIS LIFE “Farewell, all near and dear to me, This is the only way out of my #itkness,” wrote Oscar Peter gon, 35, Just into bis brain. re “Ht has hold of me so that I can-| mot control my brain,” continued the note. “Forgive me for all, 1 eamo to this world poor and that fe the way I go out. Forgive m Fred and Hilda, If there is a her after, look for it while there is yet time.” Weather man says we're going to enjoy a fair Sunday. By “fair” he means it may be cloudy find overcast, but that it will not rain, Moderate northwesterly winds are also due, OR || The noon temperature today was 1 degrees. f or, about 400 kiddies Wednesday of next week will With The Star It's just the kind of a play the youngsters before firing a shot | | | f LueGing My RAIN COAT | IY LOOKS LIKE A FINE | DAY SO ILL LEAVE IT Home PooR DUB WEARI and the Moore His RAINCOAT ON: all the children, every rious orphans’ homes in Se- || lay matinee performance of sts, Mone | for more news about | | WVLEAN WOMAN ~ISSET FREE | After both Judge Gay and |Jeanette MeLean were deluged with letters from prospective hus bands for the latter, the discovery Re ae is announced today that the Mc BY GEORGE ,! BELIEVE y woman is already married. r Judge y had the state TLL HAVE TIME TO ij ment that if he knew an honest] [WEARING RAIN GO HOME AND GET MV. man would m » McLean girl MINE YET It he would have her sentence of six | months to fifteen years in the pen itentiary suspended. Immediately all kinds of letters began pouring | into the court house fren? would-be grooms. his morning Judge Gay Jeanette McLean, anyhow, she had turned state's evidence when arrested with Marie Bernard for {stealing $110 from an Alaskan’s | pockets while out on a Joy ride. | She will be provided with em. | ployment by a local housewife, and |will be required to report to the Judge once each month. paroled Independent Telephone Company Announcement TO OUR PATRONS: Inasmuch as hundreds of our subscribers have, without pro: test, already paid the increased rates authorized by the Public Service Commission, thi Com. pany desires to announce that if the Supreme Court does not sustain the position of the Com: pany, and it shall appear that the excess collected over the old Now L&T IT RAIN rates is illegal, this Company stands ready and willing to re. fund every dollar so collected, whether paid under protest or not. THR ,DENT TELE PHC COMPANY By EDWARD EB. WERSTER, Secretary and General Manager.