The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 12, 1912, Page 1

BY FRED L, BOALT. stairway leads from Washington at. to the second story ‘once given over to vice, but now tenanted by Chinese, ghere is a tiny “lockout” window, whieh commands a view and the door below, The door at the top was locked. seter H, Jennings hammered the door with beot and fist, A wait, Then the unseen bolt was shot back from its socket stood open, We stepped in quickly and found ourselves in eorveder. it was empty mi eWho wntecked (h« 4 wait,” HE BREAKS A DOOR ! At random Jennings chose a door to a room which was dark.|“%be clumped down the stairs, res where I break and enter,” he said, and drove his foot, with the OTHER ROOKERIES wolght of his heavy body behind it, against the lock, At the third kiek | Afterwards we visited th similar rookeries—two run by Chinese the lock broke, and the sergeant shot the rays of his electric lamp into | and one by Japanese, They were harder to get into than the first the room One must pass the lookout first, The little window is always A game here 10 minutes ago, said. “Watch me prove it.” | there, Then the heavy doors, reinforced by two or three layers of Two fantan tables, Red paste i markers left by the gamesters | planks 1 vy bars, operated by the lookout by clever contriva: “of in their fight. Wet saliva on the fc Fresh, smoking cigarette butts | Wire-pulls, some of iron, some of oak, which fall into sockets to bar and burnt matches, also. the policyman's progress, More doors and more doors, all a Yale And the tric Nght bulbs were still warm locks, Padiocks and chains, Ordinary hooks and staples, locks Returning to the second floor, we found two lighted rooms where On. these doors aré like fringe on a rug were about 15 Chinks, Five of them were smoking opium, ‘They did} The doors opened to the sergeant’s knock only when it hot speak to us as we passed through. They scarcely looked our way,| those within to admit us It wan as if we were ghostly visitors whom they could not see. | To enter the Japanese rookery, Jennings again used force by Off one of these rooms in a closet, And there we found the look-|opening with pliers a link in a chain, Though we traveled through out window which commands the stairs, Convenient to the “lookout's”| perhaps 40 rooms, most of them underground, and found signs innu hand in a wire pull which had unlocked the door for us, Then we left,|merable of human habitation, we did not meet a single soul The door we found conveniently unto Hut there were men all about us, We heard their muffled voi he Sea “Hell to get in, but easy to get out,” was the sergeant’s comment | We heard their soft, padding footfalls as they fled before us in the pitch darkness Gambling paraphernalia everywh And doors, doors, doors, all equipped with bars and some encased in armor. The last place visited was at 416% Eighth av S., and at last the sergeant’s persistence was rewarded The “lookout” saw him coming, and stout doors closed. bolta were shot into sockets, Jennings waited patiently after a long while, the doors opened and the sergeant en- found Orientals smoking and reading newspapers, but no sign Bare and he GF tered, hi of a game. BAGS 81X IN THE ACT Feeling he had arrived too Jate, Jennings was making a perfane round of the rooms, when, from a side room, came the: remark, Hit me,” a phrase used in blackjack. The sergeant sprang to the door, flung it open, and surprised #ix men engrossed in a game cards, whom thelr companions had neglected to warn At the point of his revolver, he marched the prisoners to the near- est patrol box. At headquarters they were booked at Ah Moy, dealer Ah Tune, K, Yamaguchi, R K, Hirniki and T. Ogunl por T asked aid Jennings . was still as the grave We explored dark, empty rooms and the floors above--empty, that ta, save for the fan-tan were in nearly every room, We came to rooms the doors were locked, Lights were wi hin, but black cloth was hung Le ple amoking opium,” sald the sergeant, pleased | tory Nakamura ttle Star in Woodrow Wilson's We don't know, but Jessie Fowler makes some in- teresting guesses about it in her article on page 4 today OU will have your turkey, of course. on Thanksgiving day and all the trimmings that go with it, but how about Mother Ry- ther’s boys and girls? Do you “THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1912. ONE CENT ON THAIN INS A NEWS STANDS 5 want to help? ss: HOME EDITION PANISH PREMIER VICTIM OF ASSASSIN HIM SHOT DEAD Press Leased Wire) DB Nov. 12— | then committed | “He is reported to) ‘ an anarchist, who- on Canalejas his) the death of Prof. tion of the premier my of the building of | ry of the interior, which) “the Puerto del Sol, a center of Madrid Both bullets en- head behind the} fell dead on the pave- making sure his dead, straightened ap Rimself dead before the from Lisbon this af- that Zarrate was ar. id not commit suicide. of the Madrid} he ended his life is be bare been intended to 7 | accomplices off their er eee as wal was packed at the was shot down, and ent followed. Po- guards attempted and the throngs | . Scores of loaded | Were passing at the frightened with the adding to the con! finalty scattered} fy yo Arrested @very prominent an- city was arrested) minutes aft er Canale. Row have no more! make arrests without deputy sheriffs. An) by Griffiths prescribing B and limitations was) touncll yesterday Hi instances when a Warrants may be) iy committed in er suspected of fel- re officer acts on own of facts communicated, delay in procuring} enable guilty sade | OND ON | AGAIN Raymond, whone convic- yj charge was re- the supreme court, was trial hefore Judge Ron Judge Bell @ his counsel. The jury was 4 i at noon today a, oe | Y Will begin this after Was formerly a “He is married and has "§ FUNERAL AZES WOMAN a RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 12.| r bereft of her reason as/ Mot her grief over the death i Robert Spotswood, frandmother caused a his funeral which necess!- of deputy sheriffe! tse While the service was bunder the direction of I The child's grandmother her seat in the front up her chair and struck * cit Seva down. Under- ° Preach Mterfered but was eee Gown also. in the excite- one ran ago the fell to the out, s RG collected elec Feturns by wireless from est as Denver as New Orleans Conductor has just Years of service It was more run, RUIT has been in- Germany. They muse. cee RE’S WHEN POL CAN MAKE ARRESTS | D. JOSE CANALEJAS, Spain's Premier. jas’ assassination, but despite this a general uprising is feared. King’ Alfonso was greatly shock- ed when he learned of the tragedy He hurried to the ministry of the interior and prayed at length be side the body. Immediately after- ward a cabinet meeting was held and Minister Prieto was appointed acting premier. ‘This afternoon the corpse of the) dead statesman lay in the main ball} of the ministry of the tnterior) building, while sympathetic crowds | viewed it. The palace ts heavily guarded and only persons known to the authorities are allowed In the vicinity. ‘The assassination of Canalejas oc curred at 11:30 o'clock this morn ing, but the censor held up all tel egraphic and telephone connection for four hours. | ICE } peace in his presence Persons violating nances In his presence. 5. Persons suspected of carrying) concealed weapons. } 6 Persons interfering with of} fleer making arrest | In all cases of hue and cry. | Persons within courtroom or) arrested by magistrate. Persons drunk and disorderly. | 10. Night prowlers; persons loitering in highways, alleys. streets and yards, where there is) reasonable grounds for suspecting} felony about to be committed. 11, Insane persons. Persons guilty of breach of! city ordh / 8 dered 9. GUNMAN MAY CONFESS NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—With the jury box filled, the taking of testi-| mony in the case of four gunmen | charged with the slaying of Gam bler Herman Rosenthal, started to day It was hinted about the court- room today “Lefty Loule” Rosen berg, one of the four defendants, is| contemplating a confession | Representatives of former Police | Lieut. Hecker, under sentence of | death for instigating the murder, | were present taking notes from the testimony. His appeal for a new trial is pending. MYERS’ THIRD DAY ON STAND) Edwin F. Myers, requisition clerk in the navy department, who Is charged with complicity in the navy yard pay frauds, continued his direct examination thie morn ing, which is conducted by his chief counsel, Will H. Morris. This is his third day on the stand. My- ers is going over in detail the transactions complained of by the government and is making a gen- eral denial of guilt or complicity with Kettleman and Wheeler, who have already been convicted, WILSON DENIES TRENTON, Nov, 12.—President- elect Wilson denied today that he had discussed the possibility of his ‘TURKEY TAKES j eald, RARE ee hee OM, VERY WELL WASHINGTON, Noy, 12 ® With the return to the White & House of Mra. Taft, the final ® social season during the pres. ® ont administration began to ® day. Despite the election re ® sults, it promises to be a bril. & ® Hant one. * — va : \ WAS FIGERIN ON Git TIN' "Bout A BARL oF CIOER OUTEN THEM THAR wine-SOPS Si. BUT Gor DURN FI KNow ! eeteeeeee * * SERRA RERHRHR ERE JUROR SICK; STOP TRIAL INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 12.—The trial of the 47 union men charged with illegally transporting dyne mite was brought to a sudden bait here today because of a sudden at tack of apoplexy, suffered by Jur or Allen Spaulding. At the end of a half-hour'se recess, Spaulding showed no improvement, and court Was adjourned until 2 o'clock this afternoons. Ortle E McManigal had just resumed the witness stand to continue his chronological story of dynamitings when Spaulding was stricken If Spaulding should fail to recov er, @ new trial would have to be held. Judge Andervon refused to grant & recess until tomorrow. CARROLL GETS MORE TIME Harry H. Carroll, convicted of conspiracy with Mr. and Mra. M Barr of working a “badger game,” has been given another respite (rom the penitentiary, when Judge Ron- ald this morning extended his orig inal order prohibiting the sheriff from turning Carroll over to the penitentiary guards anti! Novem- ber 22. The first order set today as the thme limit Barr is tn the penitentiary now, and Mrs. Barr served some 15 months In the city jail when she was pardoned. It has been charged that Hay, through his manager, Pliny Allen, made a dea) with Car-| ea." AT PUBLIC’S EXPENSE THEY HUNT HAY VOTES fluence. yhat is the state tax commis year, and Secretary Koors of the Bap r jcommisaion, who gete about $2,000, a and Fred Leghorn, one of the $8 Taxpayers over the state have DOO sr ors, hiked up to the asked the question many times be-\eourt house and spent the day long fore this. County seseasors have! (while their salaries continued reg GoL DuRN | ‘F) Dew NutTHER! BLANCHE RING MARRIES ACTOR WwW YORK, Nor, 12.—Blanche Ring, the actress, who has been starring this sea son in “A Wall Street Girl,” ix to- | A 3-CENT LEAP Common People connected with @ good piece of luck last No vember when he “ponied” through J. Winninger of EXPLOSION KILLS SIX GARY, Ind., Nov. 12 persons are known to have been killed today in an explosion which wrecked the pack house of the Aetna powder plant at Aetna, near here. The bodies of Wm. Halpin, Oscar Carlson and C. Carlson have been reco ved It is fi ed that lother bodieg are buried in the de bris Twenty persons were injured, 12 probably fatally STRUCK BY CAR G. Frazer, 2516 Third av ceived several scalp wounds when | } j } re day the wife of C, | At least six |% ° ed, showed the fhtensity of feeling U.S. | | PHILADELPHIA, Noy. 12.—Bail ing under rush orders, the armored crulsers Montana and Tennessee left here today for Turkish waters j fo protect American lives and prop erty jeopardized by the Balkan war and the probability of an anti-Chris tian uprising The orders to sail today aroused | Kreat enthusiasm among the sailors and marines aboard the two war ships he sailors on the Tennes bet $ with those on the Montana that the Tennessee would | reach the scene of the war first new 000 | SOFIA, Nov. 12 the Bulgarian front before Adrian ople today declare that the city }bas fallen. No details have yet |been received as to whether the | Turks surrendered or whether the jcity was carried by storm. GIRLS ARMY | SOFIA, Nov Reports from Among the re WARSHIPS SAIL FOR SCENE OF WAR - | jerults who presented themselves in response to a call for military sery- fee of all young men born in 1898, were three girls and two married women. All were accepted and given uniforms. WOMAN SPY SHOT SOFIA, Nov i2—-A wealthy young woman, the wife of a Bul- garian officer, who lived in one of the finest houses bere, was sum- marily shot as a spy, having been detected selling military informa- tion to the Turks. QUEEN IS NURSE SOFIA, Nov, 12.—Queen Eleam ore, wearing the uniform of a Ked Cross nurse, who spends many the hospital at Phil- station to render first aid to the latest train load of wounded soldiers brought from the front. SCHRANK PL (By United Press Leased Wires MILWAUKEE, Nov. 12.— John Schrank | Theo weeks Roosevelt here three the entering an automobile to go to the Auditorium for an ad dress, pleaded guilty today to assault with intent to murder. Schrank was brought into the court room heavily manacled, He pleaded to the charges before Muni \elpal Judge August Backus. “Did you intend to murder Theo dore Roosevelt, as charged?” asked | District Attorney Zabel. “Do you plead guilty or not guilty? ‘I plead guilty to shooting that if that is what you mean,” ed Schrank, Nd you intend to kill Theodore Roosevelt?” r “I did not intend to kill Roosevelt the citizen,” responded Schrank. “Hut I did intend to warn Roose- velt, the third termer.” ago as latter was } | ans | who shot Col.| EADSGUILTY BUT MAY BE INSANE |. “Did you imtend to kill cr murder Roosevelt, the progressive candi- date for president?” asked Zabel. 1 want a direct answer.” I intended to kill Roosevelt, the third termer,” Judge Backus adjourned the hear- ing until 2 o'clock this afternoon, when 4 commission to investigate Schrank’s sanity will be named. Attorney Christian Doersler was appointed by the court to defend Schrank, Roosevelt will be asked to come to Milwaukee to testify |against his assailant, if examination shows Schrank to be sane, accord- ing to District Attorney Zabel. It is generally believed that the man is insane. EXTRADITE WOMAN. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12.—Sher , iff M. T, Henderson, of Sedalia, Mo., arrived here today with extradition papers for Mfs. Pansy Ellen Lesh, who confessed to the murder of two women in Missouri during 1904 and 1905. —_ DEDICATE STATUE OF CHIEF SEATTLE | Dedication ceremonies and the unveiling of the $12,000 statue of Chief Seattle, which has been erect ed at Fifth ay. and Denny way, will take place tomorrow afternoon at 3 jock, Both Mayor Cotterill and Prof. Meany will make addresses. The descendunts of the chief, of whom there are many in and the Red Men will participat The statue shows the Indian chief clad in a blanket, facing the sound It stands 15 feet high. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12.— Gustav F. von Warner, who claimed to be a German count, and whose arrest on a charge of forging the name of Mrs. L, da Common to a check for $50, caused a sensation here, was sentenced today by Judge McCor- mick to 2% years in San Quentin, Charles 8. Smith, 4463 Morgan st., wound up a night of pleasure last night with a joy ride over the in the company of Miss Shady He rode into slumberland and awoke at 3 o'clock in the Stew- art, minus $90. THE HIGH COST |hit last night by a southbound Bal ite ibharbtaaegeg ang ba |lard car on First av., between Vine | whieh sripped eng nig cog bes | |tendent Curtis says they kept their land Clay sts. spirits, with hope that the verdict |¥ Aa CaS. Tt elke of ble not the fault of the motor jof the people would be “thumbs!y gay brisk to high southerly #/man, as the man ducked across the |up.” * winds. Temperature at noon, * | street directly in front of the street ® 63. ® | oar, * * OO Re WILLIAM J, BRYAN, JR., has been elected president—of the freshmen law clase of Georgetown university. WASHINGTON doctor at tended a local financier who died. He sued the invalid’s cousin for her hand and the dead man’s estate for $27,476, and won both suits, A PIE NATURALLY! with but 32 cents for each pound|aigo asked the question many |wlarly on), in an effort to find Wausau, Wis bold” ts going to cost just exactly | countaney, with some forty “$8-per-| there, too. And they “discovered” pany would be hard to get along minus|paye been asking that, too. Hutishowed them they couldn't count} the wedding, orite Thanksgiving sauce. § Cran-| covered and Expert Leghorn are off to Spo-|ton. She ts at present appearing Carrigan and T, D. While Carrigan and Koors are still) “Pa, please pass the canary.” eal performances in a Second av. mov-| the charge of drunk and disorderly | lee p i night 1 was drinking different | fold at the state penitentiary is be lother prieoners, and are now await said the judge, as he fined him $25. | tye men are doomed to be hanged — (By United Press Leased Wire) [day's election to abolish capital }at his home here today, suffering behAlt of the city In the Duwatidh | eee a ined the two phy will perform the operation. This amount tallies with the sum ne - Glardo Pantemoni, who this morn-|concerned the will of the people! hand was caught in a “frog” owing| The five. men—Mike Morgan, of turkey. Mr. C. P. will have to times. yotes for M, E. Hay to offset the who has a minor 36 cont per pound the present No-| day experts”? 400 votes until George Ryan and Miss Ring wired the cranberries, the food trust®/ at jast the mystery has been solv-| straight, which occurred a berries sell thie year for the same |” yesterday |in her play at Worcester, Mass. who each get $2,000 per,on the fob here. « | CHANGED BOOZE pE¢p] F’ eis sie"e.<| SEND FIVE TO GALLOWS this morning. “You see, judge,” he | ‘ e hei pcution, kind of booze and it got my goat.” |ing put in readiness for the fateful ee eve ny Se CASE: ORnaetien . | Thelr execution. will follow the CHICAGO, Nov. 12.~—Former U. $88,000 AWARD punishment |from appendicitis. An operation is! condemnation proceedings In Judge fienvn Marts ace’ cian which the council yesterday agreed The loss of two fingers on his| Gov, West reiterated his dectara- ing brought sult against the North-jshould be carried gat and all five to the carelessness of a section| Prank Garrison, H, KE. Roberts, No- make up for it this year. . The Why ts the state bureau of ac-|Lister plurality. Pliny Allen was) part in her com- vember. Despite the fact that ft| County officials all over the state) Clay Allen, representing Lister, friends here of have not tied 4 balloon to that fav-| oq ‘Their function has been dis) So. now Commissioner Rockwell | week ago in Hos- State Tax Commis kane, to make “discoveries” there, | price, 15 cents a quart leoners M. J Se a Williem Hough, whose pugilietic V ERDI ed him In jail, pleaded guilty’ to 1 know I was drunk Jast| SALEM, Or., Nov, 12.—The scaf- have bee segregated” from the “You'd better stick to the old kind.” | gay of Friday, December 13, when | LORIMER ILL lrefusal of the voters at last Tues 8. Senator Wm. Lorimer is very il An award of $88,000 was made in Py out tl mipense after |deelared necessary. Dr, J. B. Mur-| Mackintosh’s court this morning. | ere ie was appeal. to accept right hand is valued at $1,500 by |tion today that so far as he was ern Paelfic. He alleges that his|be hanged on the day set. boss at Kalama in March, 1911. |ble Faulder and John W. Taylor- calling an extra session of congress with anyone. He insisted that he had not made up his mind in the matter. The accident was ap- | OF LIVING is a subject of vital interest to all of us. But how to reduce that same cost is still more interesting. One good way to do this is to watch for the money saving opportunities presented in the advertising columns of The Star. For instance, on page 6 to- day you will find a good sized ad of Frye & Co, which will tell you of money saving prices on meat. You have something to sell or trade, haven't you? Something which, while of no particular use to you, may be just what your neighbor is looking for. A Star Want Ad is one of the best “get-together” mediums in Seattle for buyer and seller. 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