The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 8, 1916, Page 1

LAST EDITION Never mind, boys, we can spend Sun- day in the house with our tatting. Just looky what George Salisbury slipped us over the phone today: “Tonight and Sun- day unsettled; probably showers.” IT SOUNDS FINE, Doesn't it, when the governor of our own state comes out for state-wide nonpartisan- ship. That's what Gov. Lister did in an nterview with The Star today. VOLUME 18 CHIEF LANG IN TROUBLE AGAIN J eo Police Make No Progress in Murder Mystery | STATE OF WASHINGTON / WILL OFFER REWARD IN SEATTLE MURDER GASE ‘Governor, in Seattle, Says Slayer Must Not Go Un-! punished; Police Have New Theory. Aroused by the atrocious nature of the double murder of Mrs. Corinne Wheeler . and Miss Kate Swift, Gov. Ernest Lister Sat- urday conferred in Seattle with Prosecuting Attorney Lundin with a view to offering a state reward for the arrest and conviction of the murderer. “The brutality of the crime,” the gover-| por said, “makes it especially imperative that 2 guilty one = apprehended. If anything state can do, by way of offering a re- taining isha ch a result, it is TRAINS AND Ws TA & SEATTLE, WASH, SATURDAY, APRIL “The Ward of Tecumseh’ Is a White Girl; He’s Red ak WARD OF TECUMSEH,” from SUES SOCIETY WOMAN Artist’s Wife Asking for $100,000 NEW YORK, April & Effort in being made, it is uncerstood here. to bring about reconciliation be tween Mrs. Maicolm Strauss, who before marriage, was one of the prettiest of the Winter Garden MAYOR INVESTIGATING CHARGE THAT PRISONER 5 JAILED UNLAWFULLY Attorney DeclaresChief Dis- obeyed Gill’s Instructions; Mayor Angrily Says It’s an “Outrage.” Mayor Gill started an investigation Sat- urday of what he terms “outrageous actions” peice rib on hepa peor’ of ge Lom yee ows & i e police chief, it is charged, unlawful- Don’t Miss the First Installment Mont ly jailed a young married man because he would not tell who sold him two quarts of liquor Thursday night. The mayor declared Saturday he would \“sift the matter to the bottom,” and spend the afternoon and evening interviewing. bers of the police department to find the truth about the chief's latest admin- istrative mixup. A letter to the mayor from Attorney C.| the pen of Crittenden in The Star, beginning Interesting way, Marriott, is the next novel-a-week Monday, ending Saturday Marriott weaves into his story LOYALTY—: white man is dying, He knows the In- dian. He is sure of his loyalty. He leav his daughter, a child of tender age, in his keeping, to guard her t an unscrupulous British relative who plans to marry her when she comes into her for. tune. The girl, raised by the Indian chief, adopts thi trait of loyalty. “My face is white; my blood is red she says. HISTORY The Indian chief is Gen. Tecumseh, famous —"in American history. in the war of 1812 he allied himeelf with the British against the Americans. The girl offers to serve as a spy for Tecumseh and dresses as a white boy In his powerful, Removed from the direct infiuence of HEREDIT Y¥—!:7"::,; blood begins to tell, White or red? She is red by environment, white by hered- ity, In this conflict of emotions comes LOVE—*"3"2 Telfair is thrown by circumstances with Jack Telfair, a truebdlooded American from Alaba- ma; her true identity is discovered, and love proves a greater determining power than either environment or heredity. It is an all-sufficing answer to the claims of Indian loyalty which environment alone failed to BOV, LISTER DECLARES FOR NONPARTISANGH a.gnn. nig in. obtninee it sha’ itt fe ne is not so much from a ‘Mitre for re- y sider “the matter In the 1915 ses venge—tho the fiend in the case deserves little sympathy—but the object of society’s law is to deter others from crime. Thi ob-_| } ject is seriously hampered whenever a mur-| der of such an atrocious nature remains a| between $3,000 murderer didn’t Poe, counsel Mrs. Chrie beneficiary pecome did not $400 in ca fore V or will Augu: ce of le her note was found written on a f ruled st and signed by H. J. King nephew, showing he borrowe from Mrs, Wheeler the da the mtirder Many ibors said Fri day the ers were peculiar in thet and were believed ationer the 2 befor of the n mystery, and the murderers go un- ” hampered. After 60 hours of investigation, the po-) have made no progress toward solution of the Wheeler-Swift murder mystery. found with thelr heads c lying in the unfurnished rooms « their ave. home, p tieally no idence has b ered to # ain any of the theories advanced by the city detectives i The police are not certain wheth | er one man or two men did the} job. | quiry {nto the death of the women, | at police headquarters at 1:30 p, m | Monday | a Will Question King Singularly enough, tho the Howard J, King, nephew of the; murdered sisters had not so | women, who slept in the same room| Intended It, several thousand | With them for three weeks previous dollars owned by them will go | to the murder, will be called to re $. Christian, of Stephenville, | the bodies, and how he spent the Tex time from Wednesday noon until he Only thru their «simultaneous | told neighbors of his grewsome dis. deaths could this coincidence have | cove at midnight resulted, Mra Wheeler and Miss Altho it has been established! Gwift had both made their wiils,| that the women told neighbors they bequeathing their property to each | were being watched from the apart-| ither ment house across the street, and Had éither died first, the money|that an unknown man stole into| Christian was named in the will of | mained there on the night of the Mra. Wheeler, however, as the re-| murder, the police are Inclined to! cipient of $1 give this phase of the mystery lit Both wills were filed in probate | tle consideration court Saturday Discredit Robbery Theory “They each had Ea 5 : ? and $4,000 that th They say that if they accept all get,” said Charles such evidence, thelr problem would for the dead wemen t too complicated After checking over the legal pa as a matter of course. f Mrs. Wheeler's will was en, Captain of Detectives Tennant January 10, and was witr d, he says, the women RR. HW. MacMichael and have more than $300 raves He is Inclined, there Miss Swift n to discredit the theory that , int w motive of the tn urphy anc the nephew Myrtle Spanish aris tocrat and granddaughter of John! paper at Carson, one of the early ploneers|the shad of this city, was committed to the| o'clock, when he insane asylum at Steilacoom today,| je did not re fol a somewhat startling! \+ gown at that time nature’ venture of the Since the aged si WILLS OF TWO Coroner Mason will hold his fh to their next of kin, Mrs. Prue | cite in detali bis story of finding would have gone to the other. Mrs.| the “observation room" and re tian will become the pers found in the home of the wom “BACK TO NATURE,” Mrs, Jorgenson habits TACOMA April 8 to be De Montis, wife of Mra by many Johnn mith, who delivered a the women's home, say rawn down at 4 eached the house ber ever seeing before. a neighbor, who had keen one of at the window (the day of the Friday that it last saw her definite the police in the that the crime een noon and and that the than $2,000, woman TRIS SPEAKER SOLD LAND, Indians Tris Speaker, according tc MeRoy, vice of the a toda re public, sald Thurad the women aitting at 3:30 Wedne murder) was noon when she About the or fons reached b last 36 are was comm bet conclu April 8—The conclu purchased Robert In not 4 o'clock We robber got le ans, made Gov. Ernest Lister of Was h- ington, In Seattle, Saturday, declared himself in favor of nonpartiean election for all state and county and city of- fic He ia the second governor In the United States to do so. Gov. Johnson of California already has come out In favor of this movement This {s no sudden or recent de cision with me,” Gov, Lister sald Twice I have recommended to the legislature the abolition of party ines in city and county offi d the removal of the party la altogether. “Experience, moreover, has prov ed in an all-eofficient manner that the work of the legislature, as well as of other public offices, is sert ously hampered by partisanship. “Again and again it has been demonstrated that great measures receive scant or no consideration members of one party if pro posed by a member of an opposing party In the bitterness and jealousies for party advantage, the the measure itself are lost sight of “Take example, the recom mendation I made for the legisla ture to submit to the people the ling a constitutional rel by merit# of candidate for lican nomination for governor is today urging thie-—they are all for a constitutional convention “Yet, because my national poli tics 1s democratic, the republicans} in the legtslatare | did not even con the repub sion The result that a delay two years has ited, due entire ly to the evil of partisanship Character Should Be Guide “I cannot see any re why @ county commissioner, city treasurer, state auditor, counciiman or member of the legislature should be either a ublican, democrat, or a par in of any other nature. “He in fit or unfit for office on his own personal qualifica tions “The character of the man— not his views on a tariff ques tion or some other matter with which he has nothing to do— should determine his fitness.” “1 favor a nonpartisan initia tive bill which is purely that. It ought to be free from any other questions. On a plain question of partisanship against nonpartisanship, | am sure the people of this state will be glad to vote for a meas ure which will remove the par. ty yoke.” th e THREE CHEERS FOR JOE! LONG MAY HE WAVE MILWAUKEE, Wis. April § Joseph Hasenmiller wanted to » he wasn't a hyphenated ican he ro’ A 8 erected a 60. on the lawn In his home here, and an American flag will fly there from now until the end of the European war. “p front o! |Beautiful Sines Who Spurned Banker Now Central Figure in Poison Mystery | NANA ANU ANAAANAAAANAAH AH HEE ETE RAN "A ees Deve! AALANSALTOLT CAL ADOOLDALOLELALDLLLLLUL LIL LLOUPOLLODULLILALILILODALLALELLILLIDIDOLIDDE ANN SANA Tranny DORIS REBER Miss Doris Reber, a singer, who has been the “toast of Chicago,” is now the central figure in a polson After she rejected a Montana banker city. mystery that has Stirred the while at dinner a in fashionable hotel, she hurried to her studio, where her friends later found her In a serious condition from the effects of poison: now fighting for life in a Chicago She is hospital lin the t1 F. Vanderveer, telling of the affair, was re- °t ceived at the city hall Saturday. The communication stated that the young man in the case (his name was with- held) was arrested a t 9 o’clock Thursday night by officers who searched him as he left a downtown drug store and found two quart bottles of whiskey in his pockets. Policeman W. J. Carey made the} arrest Carey had no communication. had he seen the man commit any offer ° He was sent to atation in an ordinary patrol wagon,” and after being interviewed by other officers, taken to the residen © Judge John B. Gordon quested to sign an affidavit. ane a search warrant, which he refused to do.” Lang Comes In Auto The party had been at the judge's house a few minutes when Chief Lang arrived there in an au tomobile. They took drug store the clerk liquor The warrant nor says the the young man to the| asked him to point out} who bad sold him the said the clerk ng man aken to n and booked on He was boo the letter known as tne aman and where he wa an an open open charg charge nced ina strong box,’ wi a four other prisoners, held without bail Vanderveer states t upon Lang {n person day and told him the been of ho i discharged 1 demanded half and the r him discharged,” says Vander eer 1inded him that . pst and detentio was violat ity rai understood It says called n Fri pr had at he at noc priso no offense ane hi harge on refused t the young man’s tances An out citizen to carr the cireum unlawful, but right tent net only rage upon his I st 1 that or further Invited to Write Letter He Go ahead, and d heard my bark before. is written ir suggestion The quite unlawful act Hee, the youn position was said that This obedience to he letter his letter sadded that your man that “It is thru the un chief of po wil hi possible of lose f ihtr the said the mayo to find out rituation is out Saturday today just It looks nan's rights as were grossly rageous I'm gol what orders Lang as tho this young an American citizen violated Lang very orders aust 2 impress upon him ‘8 JURORS OBTAINED ANGE ES, April 8—B were i anelled Fg A ul ot David Caplan ber issued have tried the mayor nid, Los uror : ADMIT GUILT : OF U'BOAT.N SUSSEX CASE BY CARL W. ACKERMAN United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, April 8—If the channel steamer Sussex was attacked by a German subma- rine, its commander violated in. structions, it ally stated here today. The English channel passen- was uncondition. ger ferry came under the pro- tection which Ambassador Von Bernstorff assured President Wilson would be given all un armed liners, after the Arabic affair On the other hand ir volved in the four other recent sub: marining which inquiry vessels concerning t Wilson made freighter many never has ple arn freighters befo ing. than While the allie th polfey ed itself torpedo: the vtinue with munitions to supply and food their starva never will reighters, reliably allies continue many and tion yield the United formed AWAITING ANSWER BY ROBT. J. BENDER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 8&.—-Official dom today awaited Germany's liminary rep nment’s inquiry re bmarine attach Ameri cans It was ved thi decide wh slomath between the United broken The document wa h ador Gerar eign Minister Von Jagow Ge ht to Press stroy was in pre to this ge rdin els recent 8 carrying answer would relations tates and the kaiser should be wa cvisently vtotated the PRESIDENT RETURNS “*: WASHINGTON, April 8.— President Wilson will return to Washington from his week-end trip at 4 p.m. today. His | yacht, the Mayflower, wire. | iessed this information to the White House today, No rea son was assigned. | | years and as a result he | Mre. Malcolm Strauss, bove, and reproduction of portrait of Mrs. Se- ligman, sued by artist's wife for $100,000 girls, and ber husband, an artist of national reputation Mrs. Strauss has sued for separa-| tion, and has sued Mrs. Arthur Se- ligman, society woman and wife of a New York millionaire, for $100, 000, charging alienation Before marriage Mrs. Seligman was GJadys Snellenberg of Philadel. phia, ay gaged Strauss to paint her port Mrs. Strauss objected, it is said, but Strauss accepted the commis sion. The suit lowed Mrs. Seligman denies the charges made by Mrs Jeff Davis Now Has Nice Fat Bankroll; Plunges on Stocks by Mrs. fol Strauss Strauss. Jeff Davis, weal NEW YORK King of the H thy man Several ee Aire whispered stocl ff too plunged ¥ April 8 yes, IS NOW a months ago one of his friends on Wall streat the ime of a certain to him. the! t th the savin has $5 Ne rs 0! 000 to his credit Jeff established bis Hote! de G in Seattle three years ago to for jobless brethren thru the winter and later duplicated the idea in New York } REMEMBER THE TIME Don't be a slacker. If you can testify about the un- heated condition of the rvice commission hearing Monday morning at 10 o'clock in the Chamber of Commerce as gag room, Central buildi Or telephone aS Assistant Corporation Counsel, Main 8500. $1,500,0001N “MAIL STOLEN; “THIEFNABBED SAN DIEGO, April § shal Carse is in Los Angeles today with James Moran, who has con- fessed, U. 8, authorities say, to, the theft of $1,500,000 In registered mails at the Liberty Street ferry in New York on Jam 18, Moran made his confession in writing to U. 8S. Commissioner Bareh He asserts he was double cross- ed by George Laughlin, who engt- neered the theft. Moran says ne got only $200 of the amount stolen, The robbery was planned in harkey'’s saloon, in New York, A mail clerk and driver of the mail were accomplices, Moran The confes —U. S. Mar- jon recites that ran, a taxicab driver, with Laugh: lin as a passenger, followed the mail wagon to the ferry The key to the locked truck was xiven to Laughlin by the driver, Moran states, Several pouches were taken from the wagon, whieh was then locked again SNOWFALL IN EAST YORK, April -Snow- are sweeping the Atlantic Altoona, Pa, reported snow Mo- NEW storms slope 8. | was eight to ten inches deep there.