The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 14, 1911, Page 1

HOME EDITION The silver lining to the cloud is on the inside, and you've got to dig for VOL. 13, (OP FRONT i” ALTOGET Oo SH HIRE ONLY ACROBATIC ConpucTORS WITh 4 FORCEPH PERSOWAUTY TREY CANDO A LO? To Mane rhe PASSENGERS MOVE FoRwaRD iN THE CAR Tn a great stone palace on famed Fifth av there lives today a woman whom “the world” most fortunate on Christmas day ~ Crowning the top of heaps and heaps of gifts will be a| $500,000 pear! necklace—the gift of her husband. Here's the story of it, told in a dispatch to The Star today: NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Perhi the most magnificent Christmas | in New York this year will bea pearl necklace, the teday of Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the steel trust, to his wife, Reckiace consists of more than 100 pearls, each said to be abso. One Fifth av. jeweler appraised the vatue of the string New York,| ‘will call the) / | For this woman it will be the most splendid of all Christmas days In an old, tired looking shack of | a house in Seattle there a lives e little girl who “never had a good Christmas yet.’ Twelve Yuletidles have passed over that. shining little head,| JUROR INSANE; NEW TRIAL FOR HYDE © Runaway Juror in Dr, Hyde Case Comes Back, but Trial Is Stopped When He Is Found to Be Mentally Unbalanced. (By United Press Leased Wire) = plunge, he hesitated for a whi KANSAS CITY, Dec. 14—Pale the brink. changed. his ‘n pa eae end haggard, as a result of dodging went fo, Meporia. Kas, where he| im for three nights and days, "emained until yesterday, He dis Seago ey Waldron, vidine then ee by shaving off his ‘pearance stopped the Hyde trial, re- Reading in the papers yesterday | @ppeared at his home today, hung that he was supposed to have com | 8 his hat and calmly asked hie mitted suicide and fearing that the | ann if breakfast was ready. shock would kill hie wife, he re} He was immediately arrested by turned last night. He went to the | the potice. home of a friend, Mrs. McG@araugh, | Story of Disappearance. who telephoned to Mrs. Waldron. | Te was learned th Waldron When the wife arrived, however! turned up at the house of a neigb-jthe juror had once more vanished, | Bor last night. only to disappear|whereupon Mra. Waldron tele when his wife was apprised! phoned to Judge Porterfield the news May Order New Trial, Waldron advised Judge Por-| This mor*ing Waldron entered of her husband's returp,|his house through a cordon of po-| this morning the judge went |lice, who recognized him as be Waldron home. The juror | passed, and-asked if breakfast were #6 bide in a closet, but was | ready. eed to come out and tell hit! Judge Porterfield sald that it] Waldron is insane he will order a} new trial splendid] } to Commit Suicide. said that he left the} Jury Discharged “emp hotel, where the jury! Judge Porterfleld eatly thin af-| : red under guard, with ternoon dixcharged the jury on ac The intention m of committing sulcide count of the mental incapacity of account of homesickness and Juror Waldron. ness worrtes. Reaching the! A retrial of Dr. Hyde probabl river me wh whieh a to Fe see be bos the Bina ee OBLIGATION TO aoe PIONEER | DIES OLD SOLDIERS” satan © Saag Rag aad me James J. (By United Press Leased Wire) airymple,- pioneer merchant of | WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—-Sena-| he itmte city, died at midnight last | for John D. Works of California, fn | might, syed 75 years, He was a fhe senate today. emphasized the Dative of Salew, Mass. coming to government to OTesom in 1866. ns and recommend: | » soldiers, whe —— for the North, but also con- federate veterans be cared for. This, he said. would be the proper | Riethod to “obliterate sectional | Mines and to restore the good will \. between the North and the South.” The senator supported his resolu. tion providing for investigation of the national soldiers’ home at Saw- _telle, near Los Angeles att ITS WAY Waited Prose Leases Wire] ITOL, SACRAMENTO, Cal., 14.—Assembiyman Young's} Presidential preference primary Bill, Which provides for a direct vote for choice of president by the peo- Die, and the popular election of Pledged delegates to the national Party conventions, today passed the lower house by a unanimous vote. LET IT RUN! morning. For the first time in three weeks she turned on the faucet and let the cool, sparkling Cedar river water | fun merrily on, without werry- ing about boiling it first. All danger from typhoid or any | ether bacilli has been pro- nounced positively eliminated by Dr. Crichton, and the city this morning _ collectively turned on its faucets and let the water run for two minut as a last precaution. Alleged Smugglers | (By United Press Leased Wire) { OAKLAND, Cal, Dec, 14.— Charged with smuggling worth of opiuin, M. O'Brien and J Hansen are in the city prison here today, and police and federal au thorities are searching for a Chi nese confederate who got the drug ashore at the Pacific Mall dock here. When arrested it is alleged the prisoners offerea Patrolman | Frank Rossick $2,000 if be would | releaye them. SPECIAL BON MARCHE BARGAIN FOR STAR READERS $1.50 “Griffon” Shirts for Men 99c Ea. FRIDAY, AND FRIDAY ONLY. CLOSE PORTLAND SCHOOLS | PORTLAND, Or., Dec, 14 mined to forestall any possible ept- | demic of smallpox or scarlet fever among children here, the city health lofficials today closed the Haw |thorne and Arleta public schoois, | where several students now strick- len with one of the diseases at tended. WORD FROM THEM AT LAST SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 14.—A. C. tant secretary of thi | Building Trades Council here, re leeived word today from Olaf A.| Tveitmoe, the San Francisco labor | er, that he and Antone Johann- sen will arrive in San. Francisco | Saturday afternoon from New York on the overtand limited, FOR Men's 41.50 Bhiris on wale at 9c aple than factory price—all now winter in neat stripes and fe ¢ither plain or platted. Ali Sinem Main Floor, Union St. Store. ffon” brand apl lose “J | sun is thoroughly demo- cratic, It will shine on any man who gets up in time, | |whose attempted murder lunusually bad night and his tife is/ | repo | ance. $4,000 | —Deter: | jexpected to be finished tonight. | \* NDEPENDENT NE NO. 247 SEATTLE, WASH,., THURSDAY, To AVOID THE FIGHT POR SEATS —RE fe ALL SEATS ~ aps (rot m More soars) but not one of the great days has been a “merry” one for MER. You probably read her little letter in The Star yesterday about “a little girl who has never had one good Christmas,” She said she was 12, and had never had a good Christmas yet, and added; “I want a pair of roller skates real bad, two little sisters that want a big doll money, was out of work two winters, and mamma believes in paying old grotery bills, so we don’t get any Christmas pres- ents. The child signed her letter “Blue Eyes. And now you have that picture before your eyes woman in silks and satins, with the dazzling $500,000 necklace clasped proudly around her white throat, sitting in the mighty Palace of Dollars, surrounded by liveried flunkies, with mill-| ions at her command, and the little girl in the House of Want, lying awake in her poor bed, wondering if next Christmas will be like all others, or if the WONDERFUL thing will happen and her sisters will get a BIG doll. ,GIRLS ACCUSED OF SHOOTING STOKES; PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN COURTROOM ETHEL CONRAD MILLIONAIRE STONES DYING (By United Press Leased Wire) NEW YORK, Dec, 14.—It was re- ported to the office of District At torney Whitman today that W. E. 0. Stok: the millionaire for Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad are on trial here, ia dying. Stokes had an) LILLIAN GRAHAM ($50 Per Day for Anna’s Dog SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14.—850) per day fs t ice Anna Held will pay for the privilege of hous- ing her pet dog in a private Pull man car during her two weeks’ et gAgement The St. Francis hotel refused the dog quarters. U. S. FORCES here ed to be hanging in the bat-| Employes of the Ansonia hotel, where Stokes is ill, refuse all information of his condition, Stokes’ case against Lillian Gra. ham and Ethel Conrad will go to the jury tonight. A new feature jot the trial during the final day's session was the testimony of Mra Stokes, who ts a bride of a few month She contradicted Miss; ‘onrad’s deciaration that the de fendant had met Stokes at the An sonia hotel, May 29. Stokes underwent an operation on Tuesday night for an abscoss of the kidneys, when it was reported that it was necessary to administer stimulants to keep him alive. The millionaire Is reported as rallying slightly later today. (By United Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Karly recognition by Russia of American Jews’ rights, to avoid the tion of the treaty of 1832, is expect ed to follow the a*option of the Sulzer resolution in house. is understood that President Taft has tip the Russian embassy that he will not sign the resolutions until diplomatic negotiations now in progress with the Rusisan gov ernment have been concluded You Will. Have Time in the last statements given out the his physicians admitted that he was | in a dangerous condition. | Holiday Mrs, Singleton, sister of Lillia Week ham, one of the girls accused of | hooting, is suffering with ner To see our North End Acres. We will make two trips daily, « vous prostration Closing Arguments. rain or shine all during holiday week, Be sure to make an ap- The state closed lis case against} Miss Graham and Miss Conrad this | pointment to visit this acreage, Prices— morning, when the motion of the} defense to dismiss the indictme tt Per Acre on the ground that the defense had | TERMS—$10 CASH, BALANCE not been permitted to complete its | crossexamination, was denied by | $7.50 MONTHLY Judge Marcus, The closing argu: |} ments of the opposing attorneys are Oe eed WEATHER FORECAST * Rain tonight and Friday; *| *% moderate south, ta southwest * * winds, Temperature at noon, * : x if OLE HANSON & Co, ied «|? Third Floor New York Block : Beelialiehaliehelieiaieiehalahal | DECEMBER +f and I have} Papa only gets a little} ty The} RUSSIA TO ACT) abroga | WSPAPER i4, 1911 time p revious to the explosion. | BE Mabe rose eet we LES, Deo. 14 ‘wo ieaiemente it wi in absolutely ret \day, will be returned Saturday by the federal grand jury now prob ing! the alleged dynamite gonspir- lacy againet two men prom: ahaa in said to have been ble for the order which {tedsaames B, McNamara to place | 16 aticks of dynamite under the wilting in the persons. y More Indictments, I addition to these, It is also ex tremely likely that indictments will H against two f San The nam the two men pouitively will be indicted are y ip the hands of the United marshal and bench war for. thelr arrest will be issued day. : Clue to Caplan. Apeistane District Attorney Ford faa ce, today that the arrest of {Da¥id’ Caplan and M. A. Schinidt Radon only a watter of tim Ajl Frisco Men. “We know the exact Qn ) ‘Indictments for Two — More Labor Leaders’ abouts of the men we want at the | present time “i they canne « cape,” said Ford. All of thei men, according to Ford, assisted Jas, B, McNamara in various ways, all of them being from San Fran eleeo and Onkland. Although sev 1 promi leaders have tell what pers behind the Mc of blowing ap the not gue has answer poenas. summoned to if any were ras tn the work buildix the been imes FRANCISCO, Dec. 14 Olaf A. Tveitmoe, secretary Building Trades Council, and Johannsen, his companion, have not been heard from here for two weeks, and federal authorities searching for them with sub- poenas, officials b ve that be fore another day hes passed Johannsen at loact will be ae his little danghter dead his home in C Madera, acre the bay fromm t today. She was Johannsen’s idol and his relatives expect him here for the funeral. Once Johannsen is located the gov ernment leves Tveltmoe also where | will be found, LAUGHS HERSELF TO DEATH NEW YORK, Dec York is dead today, death at some new Catherine Phillips. uswatly funny story, which ® Violent laughing fit, she othe? which Mrs causéd by the 14 j After and weaker, the weaker chugkle, having literally es told her by Mrs foll Sperber had not heard combined humor of ed"in such convulsions that Mrs and ‘as woman was found to be Mrs. Annie Sperber laughed herseli to a neighbor, Mrs Phillips had told an un Mrs. Sperber into qu with an merriment wri had rwed sent kly The the two s erber's laughter grew ended in a last faint dead it result it MEMORY OF ALLEGED SLAYER IS A BLANK 7).-¢ steals Several days in the city jail. Then a period in the city hos pital. roe @ coroner's Inquest hese three episodes, following o shooting and killing of Frank Bressi by Frank Lombardo, a boy hood acquaintance, have compiete- ly left the memory of the man now standing trial for murder in the first degree, That was the testi mony he gave this morning | “1 have no recollection of any thing after I pulled the gun,” Lom }batdo told the jury through an in erpreter. “I got a blow on the head, and 1 remember pulling the gum, Then everything is blank, and thé next thing I remember is find ing myself in the county jai) and with my money gone. A remarkable feature in the | trial of Lombardo is the fact that the jurors are not being sheild togeth id | fed to separa and to go home for the night. | . This is the first murder case | Jn the first degree in ten years In King county, where the state and the defense agreed to such ocedur According to the advance heory Santa is good to the millionaire kid, |Hinds out his stockings wherever | they're hid, | Pills them with air guns and gold painted sleds, |Horses that rock, with glass eyes in thelr heads, Wagons and engines and first base | men’s gloves, livery old thing that loves. | All's fine and dandy, hitch— |Boys do not get them unless they | are rich. every . boy barring one ‘Though I've been good as any boy's been, |@anta behaves like T was not in, | Wonder if Santa, in doubt which te which, Means things for me to the rich? that he takes | | | ed by the state, Lombardo, who was employed “ss janitor in the American Savings bank, bad been nursing @ grudge against Bressi who ran a grocery*in the lower part of town, for suspecting Bressi of having caus him to be slashed across the with a razor some time in March stifled that trouble be m started when he was asked to give false testimony in a damage suit against a street car company. When he refused, Br is alleged to have said to him fix you,” Then came the razor slashing. On the Sept. 30, unele, he drinks tog k morning of the killing, Lombardo met Bresst's said, and they had some Lombardo had a check for , which could not be dat any of the bars they 1. So they went intathe Bres store, There they lingered over some beer bottles for several hours. Then they sat down to din. ner, and when Lombardo announced that he was about to leave, he heard Bressi say something in a language he did not understand, he said, and then the blow fell on his head t San Francisco labor | - four helpers played two miles un- located, | several months, The Seattle Star IN SEATTLE A man out looking for sympathy gets \to be awful careless about the truth. Throng at mouth of mine, showing shed over the entrance to the haft into which the entombed fniners had gone to their work but a short TRAGIC NOTES LEFT BY DOOMED MEN ntombed Miners, by Scribbling on Walls, Tell of Unequal Battle for Life—Forty-Nine or More Known to Be Dead. (By United Press Lessed Wire) their 6 will brought to BRICEVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 14— alive Death won in the hide and seek game which Sam Miller and his E famil be urfac A Certain Stoic Bravery d children have re desolate homes hopeless. But stole bravery om afflicted that only pathos, Death has 1 on every little cot from every other der earth in the wrecked Cross Mountain coal mine, rescuers today following the miners’ chalk-marked trail for miles through the galleries only to come upon the corpses of victims, Miller and his compan- ions have been groping through the burning tunnels since Sunday, leav ing the story of their wanderings written on the walls. | “Guess Jig Is Up” “Well 1 guess the fi up.” reads the Jast message With the finding of the bodies of Miller and his companions. who had, from the wording of the * agreed “stick togeth ilies of the other ent have given up all he the 50 men still missing. Divide Last Crumb Before writing the last message ve miners divided the ab of food left them. Then Miller crawied to the wall, and, as he was dying, scribbled the words that told graphically of the he ism and fortitude: with which the unfortunate miners met doom. placed it tage door tod pass thr burden cre ngs f nd silent str grave yard. n rescued alive ss Mountain mine, would die, had written ssages to loved ones, They had but one litle plece of pencil, hard- ly an inch and each took hia turn with Milton Henderson wrote th 8 ehild-wife: Dear Wife You have been a ® little wife, but if I don't get to eee you any more on this earth told you where \1 want to by ried, at Pleasant hill. Now, sweetheart, do as I tell y Bye-bye.” cru written at 9 o'clock ning. Evidently young turn with the pencil me, but it came back to hands again, and then he wrot We have to f ith our coate to live, know half the cow ts t get out of here, help you get my it 1 don't hap pen to lay ‘ay s on you again on this earth, I bope to see you im heaven, I am sure we will meet im heaven. 1 want you to tell mam ma that pay d Tare all right so If they don't send nothing worse on us, | hope we can get out, If we don't get out, I hope to meet you in heave! MIL’ AMERIGAN KILLS. SEVENTEEN BANDITS MEXICO CITY, Dec. 14—Die patches from Oaxaca, Mex., declare that John Wilkenson, an American, single handed killed 17 out of 78 bandits who attacked him at the Gelondrina mine and escaped un- scathed.. Wilkenson was armed | with a shot gun. son's their 61 Bodies Sixty-one corpses have covered up to noon today Five fires are still raging in the mine and this a e danger and difficulty the helmeted life ring in thelr 20 miles of of the r crowd about the pit, hoping against missing members of ® been > sl from the miners no lo mouth of thi hi that the IN HENDERSON.” Yl Baby’s Money Baby Hadley made his first Christmas present last night, and the gift was $10 worth of nickels, dimes and pennies. The recipient of the Yuletide offering was a bold thief who, without any qualms of con- science or sentimencal notions of Christmas for the little folks, broke into the Hadley home, at 2527 11th av. W., and carried away the baby’s small bank. Mrs. Hadley and the children were away from home and Mr. Hadiey was down town. The Too Much Booze B the habit- of Jamborees with resting up only length of time to call at home for a new supply of the wherewithal, house prowler had easy sailing. oe ake So complaineth Ruth A. Smalley in the superior court this morning, Excessive cost of living is taking back. alleges that she mar an indefinite vacation, and while Tie dSmalley in Chesaw, Washing most eatables are hoiding theirown, ton, in 1905, and that his first two of the most distinguished ne- “toot,” shortly after the marriage, cessities—sugar and egge—have be- has been in the nature of a contin. gun coming back from the unrea-| uous performance. sonable to the normal. .Beet sugar | came down towards the earth 25 cents worth in the past week, and hen fruit is working its way down | to the soll gradually. "REYES LOCATED | (By United oa Wire) | WASHINGTON, Deen d4eethe |. Tt wit pay Shristmas shoppers state department has located Gen. |) ie Tih be | Hihan, Se oraetan Bernardo Reyes, but he will not be |} Hyerything to glad |molested as he is under bond toj} of men will be fo: Jappear in the federal court at|} Prices throughout are Laredo, Tex. Offic! here refuse | }to divulge his whereab Smalley has been in ping on fortnightly precis® regularity, for a sufficient Christmas Gifts for Less the hearts nd, and the reasonable. ADLER'S: . $1.59 . DENTS MAKE L- $2.00 - $2.00 - $2.00 Lov nS IAL HATS oN HATS TTED BRADLEY ILK HAND-K tractive box AL PACK two in box AL-PACK ‘quality, HANDKERC! HIRES, HANDKERC HIRES, fin one in box Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex three, five, six, eight, One, tye. four,