The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 4, 1912, Page 1

Graduation School girls are planning dresses. Prize offer, page 5 The Jinx Ever see one? See sport page for further particulars he Seattle ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN. SEATTLE star NO. TO WED WID OF HIS DEAD SO ea nt New Hampshire Legislator and Young Woman Stir New England State to Its Depths by Problem Presented by Their Intended Action. BY MARLEN E. PEW © CONCORD, N. H, May 4.—Should a man marry his Wanghter-in-law? That question is a political issue in this oped became state wide when Bry er, discovering that a century-old state law forbade the marriage, an - law, found in Le |Rounced: “Through my friends aarat Moon tte pg and| the legislature I hope to have the be t for a vio-|!@W annulled or a bill passed en + both bride | @bling me to take Katherine for my sia we read| Wife. an aa ; ; Py lon, plowing this, antagoniscic gos pe Meaty the ft civiltestioe. it | sin flamed up like a volcanic eru . father-in-law to wed his|tion, The matter became a politic M sidow, providing she bas| (sue, fading all other questions Horne a mele child. Rrothers| Four years ago Charles Bryer ly married the widows of married his schoolmate, Katherine | Fleet, then of Belmont, Mass. As jehildren they had played about the )home of Charles’ parents, On March 29, 1910, Charlie and Kath erine, while driving, were struck 4 jaw of New Hampshire for gy wedding of a man to the of his deceased son ‘And now, at the noonday enlightenment man and AN their intention of the ak ce unare ualere Chartle was inwtantly killed. Kath jerine had a miraculous escape | Grief over the lows of her only | Pronk A. Bryer, formerly a mem-| son fell heavily upon Mra. Frank A. ‘ef the legisiature, has annonnc-| Rryer, and although Katherine was engagement to his late son's) aimost constantly at the woman's Mra. Katherine Bryer Poth | side to aid her father-in-law in giv 7 they can see no wrong in sveh ing comfort to the stricken mother ‘contract, as they are not blood) Mire Bryer finally took to her bed , and love, from Cupid's) and died om Sept, 6, 1911 sighs heavily) sympathy arising from our - double grief drew Katherine and me “Gbe shall be my wife. in apite of close together,” Bryer now rays Hampshie law or fent con-| Grief healed quickly under the ton,” Brver fervently deciares.|balm of the pine-scented country "I love Bim.” the widow frankly | roads through which Bryer und She is 23 and he is twice | Katherire drove daily, and the sor age Both are wealthy |row of yesterday metamorphosed “The local controversy thus devel-| into the love of teday. we “Both of them snal! surely be put to death. They have confusion; their blood shall be upon them."— “No woman shal! marry her deceased husband's father.” —Chapter 174, Section 2, Statute of New Hampshire. , the father-in-law says: 1 “We are not blood rq@ticns, and I will marry her."— >) Frank A. Bryer. it is a grave question, © © © Iam opposed to it.” —Ger. Bass. by a train on a dangerous crossing. | 55. 4 CANDIDATES WOOING THE VOTERS Roosevelt, Taft, Clark and Har- mon Tearing Madly Around / Maryland Today in Fight to Capture State, SEATTLE, didates for the presidential nomina- tion, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Presi- dent Taft, Governor Judson Har mon of Ohio and Speaker Champ Clark, are today busily engaged in telling the Maryland voters just delegates should be te support their candi- The most interest, however, in the fight being waged be- tween Col, Roosevelt and President Taft resident Taft left Washington jat 8:30 o'clock and started to woo jthe voters right after breakfast, speaking first at Hyattsville, At the sa ime Col. Roosevelt war | addres an enthusiastic crowd at Westminster. Both Roosevelt and Taft claim victory, but poll tielans here belleve the contest for | Maryland's delegates will be close. In Coal Mining District ition to speaking at West Col. Roosevelt addressed big crowds at Heymar, Frederick and Hagerstown. He will wind up his campaign tonight at Camber }land, in the heart of the coal mining jregion. The former president will |start for Oyster Bay immediately after he finishes bis address, and will arrive home Sunday President Taft's itinerary includ. ed Laurel, Aberdeen, Elkton, Belair and Havre de Grace. Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey will make his appeal to TEDDY WANTS ‘EM ALL WESTMINSTER, Md. May 4-— ie told me not to waste time coming here,” said former President Roosevelt, addressing a large crowd in this city today. “They said we would get the votes of thie section tand anyway. But | don't want merely to elect delegates, | want you to vote for us four or five We must have a three to one majority to win.” MISS RICE’S INJURIES ARE FATAL Mise Dean Rice, the 20-year-old girl who was fatally injured In an tomobile accident Thursday morning when a big Packard auto- mobile overturned on the Bothe! road, died this morning at 12 o'clock at the New Providence hospital The young lady was getting along well when a change for the worse took place yesterday afternoon. Dr. WASH.,, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1912. PRETTY “PAT” MAKES HIT WITH MR. FRED HENRY ONE CENT vam, HOME ‘DESPERATE FIGHT WITH GREAT FLOOD Baton Rouge, Louisiana's cap- ital, May Not Be Saved— Flood Loss Already $60,000,- 000. (HY United Prem 4 Wire) May 4 Baton Rouge, Louisiana's capital, is making a game fight today to save itself from destruction by the flood waters of the Mississippi river, ac cording to the early dispatches. Mil Hionaire, laborer, convict and negro, forgetful of all social barriers, are working desperately side by side in a united effort to prevent the levees surrounding the city from giving way. Despite heroic efforts, reports today say the pressure of the flood waters has left ever wobbly and small crev: are reported in several places. It is doubtful if the levee will hold until night Five bundred Louisiana state unive ing in Baton Rouge kave the levees $60,000,000 Loss. reaching here today from sections show tha 6,000 square miles of Louisians under water. It is estime the loss has already 600,000 and that the will « ¢ a lows of The lows to rie 000, to wheat, ¢ crops $7,000,000 2 BOYS GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE Dunn Mm. O. © abo h e ane. the happte men today ‘or Deputy Pros Siivain this mornin, saved ‘om a reformatory term, and then er chance to make students of ity are he in efforts to Re t various 000) tton and other gave good The boys went out on a spree And then they fell. They attempted to get away with » pair of horses be longing to & teamster. And they were caught. A charge of grand larceny was placed against them But Siivain investigated their rec ords, He found that their past rec ord Was good. Bo he drew up a document and the boys signed it. It reada: ney every two weeks for a year.” SIX-YEAR TERM FOR PRESIDENT (By United Press Leased Wire) ae enormous | ° center EDITION Convicted Ex-Chief of Police Yet. WALLA WALLA, Wash. (Special to The Star.) WAPPENSTEIN IS NOW NUMBER 6539 AT WALLA WALLA Arrived at State Prison This Morning—Work in Penitentiary Not Assigned to Him f , May 4.—Charles W. Wappen- stein was received at the penitentiary at 10:30 this morning, | The number assigned to him is 6,539, Warden Reed at the penitentiary, under whose adminis- tration as chief of police Wappenstein first entered the Seattle police service, has not determined what work he will assign to Wappenstein. It is probable t! hat the convicted ex-chief may ‘be given an opportunity to work in the prison office as a trusty, police in Seattle for two terms, is today in the custody of penitentiary officials. His vigorous fight to the last for a stay in his sentence of three to ten years for bribe taking failed. He ‘eft for Walla Walla at 7:20 last night, in the custody of Deputy Sheriff Liner, and was re ceived there this morning There wax no one at the depot to him The man who one year ago was the storm of Seattle politics, passed practically unnoticed yesterday Wappenstein was neatly dressed, bought his’own ticket to Walla Wal la, with a berth reservation, and | smiled to the newspaper men as he boarded the train | Hie Final Statement. | “Politics got 1 he sald before the final “All aboard!” of the train conductor signaled the end of one of the hardest fought cases in this | eity 1 am innocent of the charges and jcould have saved myself by per |iury. I might have sald others were to blame. But I stuck to the Good-bye! Charles W. Wappenstein, chief of ; MEXICO EXCITE truth, and I am paying one of the jes of politick. I made lots Seattle L made some of them um administration. I body when I police. I aimed to who gave me the them der the Humes couldn't please was chief of please the man job Wappenstein said that in ordk nary times he could never have been convicted, but that his trial took place when feeling ran high and people were demanding a view tim. The jury which competed him, be said, did so in order fo out and celebrate the Fourth July. Otherwise there would sure jly have been a disagreement a& east, as in the case of the first jury “That's the way it goes,” he said. “What did those men care that they voted my life away? still hope that my good friends will be able to do something, for this blow falls heaviest on my family, on my wife and my boy and girly who are in school now. And that D OVER RUMORED INTERVENTION le (By United Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, May 4.—“If the United States attempts to inter- vene in Mexico, every Mexican, be he rebel or federal, will forget all internal differences, unite in mighty army, and fight to the last ditch.” | This was the warning note | sounded here today by L. Guitterez Ide Lara, who traveled through Turner to write his famed | barous Mexico.” De Lara's activ. jitles angered former President | Diaz to such an extent that he jeaused De Lara's arrest in Los An- geles on trumped-up charges, and [will abdicate within four months. He said: “A crisis in Mexican af fairs Is expected to come with @ battle to be fought near Torreom within two weeks. The rebels have an army of 14,000 men, are well drilled and have several ma chine guns. Gen. Huerta’s federal force numbers only $,000 men. The lrebels are experiencing but little | difficulty in smuggling in arms and ammunition from the United States, “I promise to quit ‘boozing, and | Mexico with John Kenneth Turner, They have plenty of money and are will report to the prosecuting attor-| pointing out atrocities which led| well supplied with provisions. “Bar- | " “Most of the stories sent out that the lives of Americans in Mexico are endangered are pure lies.” | Ordered to Border. MONTEREY, Cal, May 4—The the latter lay in jail for months };2n infantry, U. 8. A. received or |before his release was ordered by |ders from Washington last night te jthe department of commerce and|pe prepared to embark at ® mo it the preacher says: “It would tend to undermine the idea] concerning the WASHINGTON, May Prediction that early consider: tion of resolutions urging a six- Wiitze was attending her. Compli- cations set in from which she could holy marriege contract. We must keep marriage upon the highest plane of parity.”—Rev. O. N. Bean. not recover. DISAPPOINTED year term for presidents of the United States, and prohibiting re-election, would be had in both houses of congress, was voiced |labor at Washington } Predicts Madero’s Abdication. De Lara, who is in Washington |to oppose American intervention, ment's notice. Company G, of the 12th, is sleep jing in shelter tents beside the rafk road and will entrain early today that President declared “PATSY” HENRY BY FRED HENRY ‘ jo there was the addition to the Henry family, and Columbia “ They named it Rosie, Right (like any @ther squalling brat) jocks hanging down over ber shoes here today by Senator Works of California. Opinion is di- vided concerning the merite of the proposition. Senators Bourne of Oregon and Bristow of Kansas are op- posed to the measure, while Senators Penrose of Pennsyl- vania, Johnston of Alabama and Clapp of Minnesota think a touryear term is sufficient, without it to six Madero | for Yuma, Ariz. \Reniains of Colonel Astor Buried; First Wife Not at Funeral (By United Press Leased Wire) Thee,” was omitted from today's NEW YORK, May 4.—The body | services, as relatives feared that its of Col. John Jacob Astor, recovered rendition might cause the collapse IN LOVE, GIRL ENDS HER LIFE) swiss Secosa” from the start she * Disappointed ina love affair, Mian | "gi “years Inte Minnie Gallagher, 31, committed | and her Rosle stall to organise ber fret theatrical suicide last night at the home of) company The company consisted of neighbors’ kids. They pulled off | Fred Baxter, 1104 First av., by turn-| their first show in a basement. It waa)"Uncle Tom's Cabin.” Ordinary ing on the gas. She was employed | seats were three pins, and soap boxes dost twice as much. Rosie played asa maid. Mr. Baxter, smelling the | jead. 9,000 WOMEN MARCH IN "BIG SUFFRAGET PARADE (By United Press Leased Wire.) NEW YORK, May 4—With nearly 20,000 women and D0 men in line, the largest suffragette parade in the history M the United States took place here this afternoon. Among Marchers were many men from Harvard, Yale, Columbia and other universities Members of labor unions, and all were pledged to the suffrage The parade was headed by 100 women on horseback the leadership of Mrs, Chas. Knoblauch. Behind them the “old guard” band, ¢ ng the Marseillaise. Behind the band marched the members of the Women’s fical union, headed by Mrs. Harriet Blatch, then the teach- and students of the suffragette cause, headed by Mrs. Flor- te Cabot. ter Soup as You Find It, or Don’t, in Seattle Just Now Again the menial sprang to his mumbled something side. the diner did not catch, but Was in an indifferent mood; #0 eettes affirmatively, and re lo the brown study which waiter’s coming had disturbed, Waiter brought the soup. diner shifted and tasted — an expressior Walter!” the Menial Sprang to hi eWalter,” said the diner stu bis excitement, "I detec Of oysters in this x up.” nly,” the waiter replied My, wir. It is oye soup. fear fell upon the diner. He the menu w hi e found—" ri?” asked the waiter, his found an Sound have Puget letor came running to This is @ proud day for me “Mine Is the only restaurant in all Seattle t serves'an oyster in oyster soup.” oe To of e¢ Tut, tut, gentle reader. It didn’t really happen. But it may—oh, ye it may! The crop of Olympia oysters has failed, dealers say. Blame the spat Spats are the spawn of shellfish. Three years ago the catch of spats was poor, and it takes a spat three years to mature. The spat catch -\last year was good, so two years hence there will be oysters for all. Cold comfort for hungry men. bg that much mon Rte slowly, thoughtfully ying Sach spoonful. Then Mer!” he screamed Half of the men participating were) |gas this morning, broke into her} |room, and found the lifeless form of the girl stretched on the bed. She! | was dressed in her nightgown To another girl working in the |house she confided a few days ago that she was engaged to be married to a chauffeur. The engagement | was broken, and this is the only| reason assigned for her action LOT LEAGUERS BREAK WINDOW | The vacant lot league in trouble again Some of the kids in the vicinity of Fred Engle’s house, 945 22nd av didn't do a thing to Fred's bay wi dow yesterday. The pitcher was working fine until a beautiful one, nicely grooved, looked good to a fu ture Tyrus Cobb. A full swing and the bail perforated the molecules on the line of flight. But it didn’t stop traveling until it found a resting place within Fred's home, after a crash that could be heard all over |the neighborhood. Engle com plained to the police this morning, asking the officials to make ground | rules for all future scheduled games TEEREMRUEERE EY BE WEATHER FORECAST * Fair tonight, with light frost, mer; light * % westerly winds, Temperature * * at noon. * et tek ttt OK tO tt Kt tk L. L. TEACHOUT DEAD Leonard L. Teachout, manager of the ngraving company, died jat his home yesterday, 1511 34th ay., lat the age of 32 years. ‘The de leeased had been sick for a few 8. He leaves a wife and mother. chout acquired quite a reputa. |tion a8 a motorcycle racer a few years ago. BAIL AT $5,000 A continuance of one week was secured in the case of Hazel Moor frested Thursday and charged wi violating the, interstate commerce regulation in bringing Mena Barrett from Vancouver, B. C., yesterday afternoon when the woman appear. ed before Commissioner W. D. Totten for a hearing, Ball was fixe at $5,000 | when he “growed up, | played jn their hon Jvnen Domenico and she went to the Rosie used to fight, too. When.her brother disobeyed Ma's rules, Rosie-would take # band and beat him up in fine style, She was two years older, At that time the brother, who was going to be a fighter decided on another career Rosie got the stage “bug.” And, believe us, she got it bad. As she grew older she played in various entertainments, and finally she join Mrs. Lang's Minstrel Migses, At the that season she went In vaudeville. Later she joined the Juvenile Bostonians, which com the Metropolitan theatre next week, aad soon became their come It was then they shelved “Rosie” &* being too mushy and gave her the name of “Pat” instead. It’s a good moniker. all right. You ought to see her play the sou she can handle her dooks in swell style. Lote of tim hers” have waited for her at the stage door and got beaten up by “Pat's” lily.whites. Naturally, it makes them fee! sort of sick and ashamed to be punched by a skirt. Next week will be the first time the Juvenile Bostonians have ever e town, and out on Summit av. Rose (Mx won't stand for “Pat,” which, she says, is a punk name, anyhow) Henry and Daisy Henry, and all the other Henrys, big and small, are going to hold & reunion. at” has promised, crons her heart and hope she chokes, that she won't maul her kid brother and show him up the way she used to do. Some day “Pat,” when she gets tos big for the Juveniles, hopes to get a big part in a swell company, She probably will, because she ts very clever, and pretty, besides Note.—The author of the foregoing, Mr. Fred Henry, hap-| us office boy of The Star editorial department, who really does not need to shine in the reflected glory of his talented sister, “Pat,” having basked In the limelight more than once on his own ac count. We feel this expianation is due the reader, as Freddie, with the best intentions in the world, may have allowed brotherly affection and pride to bias what ought to be an unimpassioned statement of facts con. cerning the clever little girl who happens to be his sister.) Girl Says She Didn’t Know She Was Getting Married Of all the original tales that hav been: recounted by unhappy spouss in the King county divorce courts, the story of Raffaele Vigna, related in her complaint for an annulment of marriage to Domenico Russo this morning, holds a place of its own. wle says that she came to at the solicitation of her sister, who wrote to her that Do- menico fell in love with her photo- graph, and urged her to come to this country. Raffaele alleges in her complaint that “she was not partic. ularly impressed with” him, but owing to the urging of relatives and | friends and his own persistence, she finally agreed to marry him. The complatnt then alleges that in Italy, when marriage is contem- plated, the bans are published for| some time preceding the ceremony, and because she Was unable to um derstand English, she supposed that and obtained rage leense, it was for the bann As she later discovered, she says. #he had been legally married by minister at the court house court house a mar riage, however, until that evening February 10, 1912, and she objeeted with Floretta Wh: Sage to Floretta. might see his child. , returned to New York tohay with the assur. ance that his youngest child may live. that his boy was dying, he left New York secretly. he stood at the door of Mrs. Kessiah Whaley’s hom@ and sent a mes. She pleaded with her grandmother that the father Cooke stood with hat off, his head bowed low. Then the old woman motioned that he might enter. There still is a warrant out in Hempstead for Cooke's arrest. extending years. Senator Cummins of lowa and O'Gorman of New York both favor the measure, | and believe it wil carry. | Steamer Aground (By United Press Leased Wire) PORTLAND, Or., May 4.—With the sea comparatively calm, the steamer Geo. R. Vosburg, with her crew still aboard, at noon today lay high and dry on the south spit of the |Nehalem river bar. It is believed |the ship suffere |was at thought, An attempt will be made at high tide late this |afternoon by @ tug to pull the Vos | burg off the spit is | Old Lady—Bad boy, wh tle that can to the dog's tall? Boy—It's where I allwuz |Do you know a better place did you tie She wants the marriage set jobject ground of fraud laside on th: law “that hé empstead, ty When Cooke received word ” At Hempstead less damage than | from the sea where the liner Titanic went down, was buried this after- noon beside that of his mother, in Trinity cemetery, on Washington Heights. All flags in Rhinecliff were at half.m and_ business jwas generally suspended. The Episcopal church in the village was packed with mourner The hymn, “Nearer, My God, to of Mrs. Madeline Force Astor, the girl-widow of Col. Astor. Following the service the body was brought to New York city by special train, Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, Col, As- |tor's divorced wife, did not attend the services, although she was espe- cially invited by Mrs. Madeline Astor. The family will hear the reading ‘of the colonel’s will this afternoon, — = But Never “Going up!" the elevator boy re- marked when the butcher told him the price of a soup bone. The aeroplanist said that Seattle was due for a spell of “aviation meets.” The aeroplanist, you see, considered himself a bit of a humor- ist. Meats are coming high,” he elu- | cidated. But the ordinary consumer, who | has seen the price of eggs and but- jter, and coffee, and sugar, and about everything else “aviate,’ butted in abruptly Beef Prices ‘‘Aeroplaning,”’ Bump the Earth “You never hear of any accidents among the price boosters. Prices never flop to earth, do they?” Wholesale meat packers are sell- ing beef today for 11% and 12% cents a pound, which is a boost of 1 cent over last year. “Can't tell you how long this price will stay, or whether it won't go still higher,” the Frye-Bruhn Co. manager said today, Let's hope it will not go higher,” was the encouraging remark from | the Carstens Co. | The wholesalers say the boost was caused by the scarcity of cattle, Rafaelle did not discover her mar-| strenuously, and has continued to} ‘UNFROCKED PASTOR BRAVES WRATH OF LAW TO SEE HIS BABY NEW YORK, May 4.—Braving the wrath of the | might bend over the sick bed of his infant son Chester, Jere Knode Cooke, the unfrocked pastor, who eloped from Every night over 40,000 pe Circulation managers figut average of five people. blanket. matter what your want realize your need by"using Star read by most people as the or cople buy The Star. e that each paper It’s easy to see that over 200,000 read lhe Star every night, and that The Star covers Seattle may be, you are almost sure to want ads, which are as eagerly dinary news columns, Over 40,000 Paid Copies Daily.