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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06
HOPE FOR
ANGELINA

(By United Press Leased wire.)

(By United Press Leased Nire.)
2 LEADVILLE, Col, July c.
Hope for Angelina Napolitano,
the woman sentenced to be hang
ed in Canada for killing her hus-
band, is seen here today in the
finale of a similar case, that of
Mrs. Assunta Capra. The Capra
woman, who is about to become
a mother, will be set free, Dis
trict Attorney Hogan having
yielded to the pleas of the women
OF Leadville and refused to prose
cute.
In many respects the Capra case
parallels that of Mrs. Napolitano.
Capra, roundhouse employe
here, drank heavily, refused to
support his wife and she eked out
a livelihood by selling bread. On
the Sunday preceding the tragedy
Capra was drunk and threatened
to kill his wife. That night he
was intoxicated again. On Mon
day morning after a boarder in
the Capra home had left, the
woman entered her husband S
room and split his skull with an
AK.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06
McNamara's On
Trial For Life

having the indictments quashed.
Every court decision has been run
down and the defense presented a
great mass of legal authority in
support of its motion.
State Is Ready
District Attorney j. D. Freder-
icks and his assistant, w. j. Ford
were armed with more than SO
legal reasons as to why the indict-
ments should not be quashed.
Long before the hour set for the
hearing the court room was pack
ed. When the McNamaras were
brought in every neck was craned
Both men were neat in appearance
They appeared to be in the best of
health and neither showed that he
is under a mental strain or has
been worrying as to the ultimate
outcome of the case.
All Of the attorneys for the de-
fense, except Rappaport, appeared
in court. The array of legal tai
ent for the defense is the most
able and brilliant that has ever
been connected with a criminal
case in Southern California.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06

Dies In
Jail Cell

Oscar Thompson, pencil vendor
and dope fiend, is dead.
Last night Patrolman Calkins
picked him up on the street and
led him to headquarters.
He's drunk again" he said.
"And seeing snakes"
Oscar Thompson had been in
Jail many times before. Dope and
whisky-or both-had made him
a familiar figure there.
Better give him little brom-
ide,' suggested the night jailer.
They gave him the stimulant, and
Thompson went off to sleep.
He never woke up.
He appeared to be still asleep
when Jailer Crocker went on duty
this morning. About 0 O'Clock
Croker looked in again. Thomp-
son seemed still asleep. He went
In, shook him.
But Thompson troubles, what
ever they were, were over.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06

warm hearted people. AS moth
ing has been done we will start
in again.
WhattTo Do.
Cut out the petition, sign 1t and
mail it to the Pardon Editor of the
Times. Better still, paste It on a
strip of paper and hang 1t up in
your store, or the store you trade
with and get your friends to sign
it. Many people have pasted the
slips up this way and taken them
around the neighborhood asking
people to sign.
Every name helps. Let's keep
it up. Let's hammer on the doors
Iof the Canadian government
building and on the heart of the
governor general of the Dominion,
in the name of humanity and JUS
tice, till he has to hear us.
Remember the execution is set
for August 10--a little more than
a month from today. The Times
will forward the petitions as fast
as they come in.
The petition will be found on
page 8 today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06

Twelve thousand, two hundred
fifty.
That's the number to date of
the petitions sent into the Times
office and forwarded to Earl Grey,
governor general of Canada, ask
ing for the pardon of Angelina
Napolitano, who Is sentenced to
die on August 10 for killing her
husband to save her own honor.
A baby is expected within a
week now. AS soon as the moth
er is able to stand the strain of
being hanged, the Canadian gov
ernment expects to take her out
TO the grim court yard at Sault
Ste. Marie and execute her.
Petitions Pour In.
However, petitions by the thou
sand and ten thousand have been
pouring in on Canada's executive.
Premier Laurier has intimated
that something may be done. The
flood of petitions can not but have
some effect. Governors general
and premiers are but men after
dlI with mems sympathies, and
mems emotions.
Perhaps Angelina may yet be
freed to the new baby which needs
her so badly and to her four older
children, who ignorant of the ter
rible fate that hangs over their
mother, wonder why she doesn't
come back to them.
If Angelina Napolitano goes
free Tacoma people may feel that
they have done their share in a
big work.
In the petitions arriving within
the past few days are 215 which
were laid on the editors desk last
night, $40 which were signed at
the Circuit theater and over 60
sent in by Mrs. Ada Nickleson
and Miss Helen Stout from the
town of Morton.
Beginning today the Times will
print the petitions again. We had
hoped that before now the Cana
liam officials would have answer
ed the prayor sent up by SO many
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06

vault and steal the gold or wheth-
|er he took the men in to watch
him.
Anyway, he brought out the
gold and it had its picture taken.
Then, when they took the gold
back in again, they counted it
three times to be sure 1 hadn't I
slipped a couple of sacks to the
reporter, and then swept the lit
tie truck
One of the men took a brush
and dustpan and swept all the dust
off the truck. He saio that about
20 cents worth of gold had been
scraped off in handling the big
bars They don't throw away
even 20 cents worth of gold there,
l guess.
But there may not be any more
gold coming to the Seattle assay
office.
The government has ordered
'em to charge double the rate for
handling it, and they expect that
the miners will ship 1t all right
down to the mint in San Fran
cisco.
That will be bad thing for the
assay office.
The chief clerk said 1t was too
bad, but he couldn't help it.
AS left L was still wondering
how the dickens George Edward
Adams ever got away with that
million
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06
To Help Get
Right Of Way

After looking over the ground
last week ]. F. Fitch has con-
cluded he can help out some In
getting the right of way for the
Green river pipe line and he has
been employed by the city as an
extra attorney to take up the
work at $500 for month.
His whole job will be to get
that right of way so the contrac-
tors can hurry through.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06

Showers have saved the crops of
the middle west. AS a result OF
the rain, corn, which yesterday ad-
|vanced 4 1-2 cents per bushel, to-
day dropped 2 IA cents. Scatter.
ing rains are reported today. from
Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Him
ois, Michigan and Missouri.
Forecaster Hershey here says
the hot wave is broken to stay fol-
some time. The temperature here
today is Is degrees lower than
yesterday. That the relief came
none too soon, however, was evi.
dent from the statement made to.
day by the coroner.
"Roughly speaking" he declar.
ed, there have been 150 deaths
here from heat since Friday and
there have been far more than
that number whose lives were
shortened by the hot SPELL"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06
STORK VISITS
FAST TRAIN

CBy United Press Leased Wire.)
LOS ANG ELES, July Over
taking the fast Overland Limited
of the Salt Lake route, the stork
perched on the forward Pullman
early today and brought a seven
pound girl to Mrs. H. F. Alters
of Las Vegas. Although the baby
was born several miles beyond
San Bernardino, Mrs. Alters con-
tinued into Los Angeles, where
her husband met her.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06
Troops Called To
Save Negro Slayer
(By United p

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
LA JUNTA, Col, July 6.--Bob
Harris, the negro who murdered
Police Chief A. B. Craig and IA
tally wounded Night Marshal Kip
per Tuesday night, was captured
in a negro parsonage at Rocky
Ford this morning. He was rush
ed here in an automobile and
placed In the county jail before
the Rocky Ford people knew he
had been arrested. A mob of
100 men surrounded the Jail here
threatening to lynch the slayer.
The feeling here is nearly as in
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06
BY FREDDIE.

BY FREDDIE.
always had an idea that il a
kind fairy came along and slipped
me a cold million / could get away
with 1t, but after an experience
yesterday 1 found l had a bum
hunch.
l went along up to the Seattle
assay offices yesterday with the
Times photographer and a repor-
ter to pose with about a million
dollars in real gold in my arms.
When I got ready for the picture
] was going to pick up about three
of the shining bricks, worth $18,-
600 each, but l didn't. might
Just as we'll have tried to lift the
assay office.
$50, 900 His Limit.
next tackled a few sacks con-
tanning "twenties," mind you $5,-
900 to the sack, but two was my
limit. They put me In a chair
then and l held two sacks in my
hands and they put five more in
my lap, but | couldn't have run
away with more than $4,000.
Watch EN- Sharp.
You bet they watch 'em sharp In
the assay office. When the chief
: clerk went into the vaults to get
us the gold, he called two other
men to go along In with him. !
don't know whether he thought I
was going to tackle him IN the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06
Maine Blown Up
From The Inside

one of the three magazines of the
battleship. He said that no such
effect as that produced on the ves-
sci could have been caused by an
explosion from without.
"What the primary cause of the
explosion was" said General Blk
by, will never be known
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06
But How Would Tt
Appeal to Hubby?
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire
PASCO. July 6. = Prosecutor
Charles O'Brien will test the Sun
day law and has arrested ]. No
Ian, who got a gang of men and
unloaded a car of bananas Sunday.
Nolan says if he is convicted oi
handling perishable goods on Sun
day he will have housewives stop
ped from cooking Sunday dinners,
all of which would not make the
housewives a bit sore.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06
NEWS ITEMS FROM
THE HICKTOWN BEE.

Will Bittercat has hired box in
the postoffice
There is strange dog in the
pound He was arrested by Con-
head often Mrs. Cradd's cat.
Miss Euphemia Todd has just
finished tour of the world by
post cards. 1t cost her $2.S3, and
Miss Todd will rent out the whole
set for 20 cents a week. Apply at
yellow cottage back of blacksmith
shop.
No man ever learned to be a
drunkard on short beers, Lafe
WateItower observes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06

tense as at Rocky Ford. and when
the mob began to gather the sher-
iff telepnoned to Denver asking
that the governor send troops at
once. Gov. Shafroth ordered
company II at La Junta out i'm
mediately and at IL O'Clock they
had surrounded the jail where
Harris Is confined.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
WASHINGTON, D. c., July c.
Gen. w. H. Bixby, chief of en-
gineers, U. S. A., who has return
ed from a personal inspection of
the work of raising the battleship
Maine, asserted today that the ex-
plosion was caused by ignition in
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06

CHICAGO, July 6. = c. oling
showers and breezes broke the
backbone OF the terrific heat wave
throughout the middle west today
and tonight may see real cool
spell which will bring relief to the
millions who for days have gasp
ed and all but died under the
blistering rays of the sun.
The torrid spell has been the
most enduring and severe in Al
years.
Rain Saves Crops.
The cooler weather prevented
an ice famine, which might have
reached dangerous proportions.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06

SALEM, Ore. = Governor West
granted a requisition for Albert
Winslow, held at Seattle for al
legged theft of gems and money
from Mrs. Vera Mueller who
claims he duped her by mock
marriage.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06
Rain Saves Liues
OF Hundreds In
BHstered East
Heat in East Was Worst in Al Years. But Rain and
soOer Weather STOPS r9s and
SIX HUNDRED AND SEvENTy-FIVE
DEAD BY HEAT IN CROWDED c
Q Q . Q Q ea .

Gathering statistics all the
the fact that less than lives
within week by the suns torrd In the crowded
cities 67 deaths been tab uated Could all the babies
whose have flickered be numbered,
} doubt the toll would reach 1000. 49,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06

SEATTLE-Prof Herchel Park
er of New York, who exposed DR..
Frederick Cook, is en- route to
Valdez today on the steamship
Admiral Sampson. In February
he will make another attempt to
scale Mount Mckinley.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06

WASHINGTON. - A great col-
lection of labor saving devices
was put on exhibition here today
by the Economy and Efficiency
commission. appointed by Presi-
dent Taft.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06
WEATHER FORECAST.

Fair tonight and Friday. Light
westerly winds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-06

NEW YORK, July 6.-Eight
deaths from heat were rep, ted
here up to noon today.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-27
PHIL scHLosssERe WOULD
 LIKE TO MEET PAPKE.

CHICAGO. July 26-Nate Lewis, who handles Phil schloss0erg, the heavyweight champion. rises to an nonnee that if Bill Papke starts out to defend the middleweight crown at 1e0 six hours before, Steam boat Phil" wants to take whirl with him for ten or twenty rounds.
 Nate says Phil can do the above named weight without the least trou- ble and if that notch is 10 stand wants .it understood that Schlossberg is a middleweight now, not light heavy. Mates other mid5leweight, Knockout Brown, is having a hard time getting matches.
 He says Willie Lewis, Leo Houeh. Jimmy Gardner and Johnny Thompson all refused to meet him before the Twentieth Century Athletic club in New York. Lewis hopes to put the Greek on in Gotham before long with Frank Klaus. the Pittsburg crack
Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-27
AL KETCHEL AND
 VARNEY SIGNED
Will Meet in Tucson August i for Side Bet and 60-
 40 Gate Receipts
WILL WEIGH IN AT i5C

Al Ketehel yesterday signed the ar ticies of agreement for the match with s. J. Varney of Tucson, the mat match to take place in that city on the night Of August 1. for a side pet of $50 and a 60-40 division of the gate receipts.
 According to the agreement, both men will weigh in at the mat On the night of the match at 150 pounds or less. The style of the match will be catch-as-eateh-can and the strangle holds and the one finger holds will be barred from use. The stakeholder Of the event will be the TGson Daily Star
 The referee has not been decided upon, but he win be a Tucson man. A number of the Bisbee mat fans are planning to attend the match at Tue son and all who intend going should report to Ketehel at the Y. M c. A., so that a cheap rate on the railroads may be obtained.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-27
BASEBALL NOTES

Charlie CDuke) Farrell, the former Highlander scout, is scouting for the Washington team.
 'The New York Americans have purchased Pitcher George Clark. of the Sioux City Western League team.
 Ty Cobb. of the Tigers. is still the best hitter, run-getter and base stealer in the major leagues.
 Harry Steinfeldt, of the Boston Nationals, is at his home in Belle. yue. Ky, nursing an injured finger.
 The Cleveland youngsters are showing class and helping the Naps to climb in the American league race.
 Germany Sehaefer is stin on the job at first for Washington and playing the bag like a real first baseman.
 With Baltimore and Toronto fight ing all the way, Rochester will ind league pennant
 Russell Blackburn, who has been out Of the game with an injured knee. will return to the White Sox while the team is in the East.
 III kodItes I1dfuED0 anu 2IGGle lEE St Louis Cardinals have three pitchers that look good enough to work in a worlds championship series.
 Veteran pitchers are fading away. The two greatest twirTers in the major leagues today are youngsters, Gregg of Cleveland and Alexander of Philadelphia
 A large sign at the White Sox park in Chicago prJclaims the fact that Goteh and Hackenschmidt will wrestle on the grounds on Septem- Der.
 Pitcher Harry Mcintyre is the diamond king of Cuba. When Harry dons his rocks he has the front of a moving picture theatre looking like a farmers lantern.
 President Taylor of the Boston Red Sox is trying to land Tex Jones, now with St. Joseph in the Western league. Jones had a trial with the Chicago White Sox this spring but was sent back to the minors.
 Minor leagues in Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas have been up agains; it this season. The Kansas state the Missouri state and the Arkan sas state leagues, and the Western association have closed up shol and gone home.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-27
GROW GETS ANOTHER
 DEFEAT AT TUCSON
Hard Luck Mat Artist Goes Down in iffy Before
 Brown

Chester Grow, the Michigan Demon, got his bumps over at Tucson Sunday when he was thrown two straight .alis by Brown, called the wonder Of all Mexico. In a match with BroT about A month ago or more, Grow atte;npled to throw Brown three tines in ar hour and failed 10 put the Wonder down once. The match Sunday was a straight match and was won by the Tucson man easily, the hrst fail being secured in eight minutes and the second in g minutes. The following from the Tucson Star, ie- garding the match. will be of local iE- terest:
 Brown was fast and sure O. him self. He didn't allow his bigger oppou- ent to have the least advantage al any stage cf the game and kept on the safe side at all times. Grew was not very aggressive and let Brown do most of the work. As a result he was thrown in comparatively easy style. The noticeable feature of the match was the good nature which Grow exhibited all the time. Brown has improved 8 great deal over his former style of wrestling, due to his teaching. He has simproyed in speed and in the variety of holds which he possesses. He mas nearly all of Var neys holds now and used the scissors and half nelson 10 get his falls.
 The men came to the center of the mat for the opening of the match aud started in business almost immediate ly. Brown quickly went on the mat and Grow began to work on him. Brown kept out of all heles and es- oaped a nelson. Finally he took a good scissors and nelson and got the first fall after eight minutes and four seconds.
 The second fall was rather long but this was due to a great deal of sparring at the opening Of the round. Both men spared for a hold for a little over fifteen minutes. Finally Grow went on the mat of his own will and Brown went 10 work. He worked hard for a short time and then Grow got to his feet in a lively mixGp. Brown tried to hold him on the mat, but was too light and Grow came to his feet They spared for a few mo- ments and then CHOW went Co the mat "a second time. Both men worked hard Brown got in a bad hole toward the last of the round, but worked out of it on quick twist. He finally took another nelson and scissors and got Grow 5 shoulders on the mat.
 The announcement of the Varney- ketchel bout was made for the first of August.
 Roberts refereed the bout for the two men and his decisions were sat isiactory and popular with all. The -time of the second fall was 3z mia utes and 8 seconds.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-27
Personal Mention

T. A Hughes left yesterday for San Francisco.
 Mir. and Mrs. John Delbridge have gone to San Francisco to spend sey- eral weeks.
 Mrs. J. J. Bowen left yesterday af- ternoon for Los Angeles for a stay of several weeks.
 H. D. Anderson left yesterday after noon for Los Angeles, where he will spend several weeks.
 Mrs. Phoebe Oldham left yesterday for Bay St. Louis, La. to spend sew eral weeks with relatives.
 Dr. L. D. Ricketts, general manager Of the Greene interests in Cananea, spent Tuesday night in the city.
 Mrs. J. J. Bowen left yesterday for Los Angeles, being called there by the serious sickness of her mother.
 Mrs. Sterling. Mrs. Stimmel and Miss Fitzpatrick have returned from 9 stay of several weeks at Berner's resort in the Huaehueas.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-27
REVISIT OLD HOMES.

NEW YORK, July 26.-Little par ties of Welshmen. nearly all Of them accompanied by their wives and families, have been dropping into the city the past few days from points throughout the United States and Canada. They are rounding up here preparatory to starting on a pilgrimage to their native Wales. More than three hundred have booked passage on the Cunard liner Caronia, which will sail for Liver pool Friday. Some of those who are going back have not been in Wales tor forty years.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-27
THOMPSON TO MEET LEWIS
 BEFORE NEW YORK cLI

NEW YORK, July 26.-The appear ance of Cyclone" Johnny Thompson, a claimant of the middleweight cham piOnship by virtue of a victory over Papke in Australia, will be the chief event of the present week in New York pugiBstic circles. Thompson will oppose Willie Lewis tomorrow night at the National Sporting club. This will be Thompson's first appear ance in a ring contest since his return after a long tour in Australia and Eur ope. When he last performed before a New York crowd he vas 6 contender for honors- in the lightweight division.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-27
DOOM fNJuREn

sI. LOUIS, July Manager Doc in of the Philadelphia National base bal team sustained a fracture of the right leg in the game here today. Ta eoiiaed with Cakes of the local club ln a close play at home plate in the fourth inning lie was taken to the hospital. Physicians announce he will De out again in six weeks.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-27
JoHNsON-cURRAN BOUT
 HAS BEEN CALLED OFF.

LONDON, July 26y--lt is reported tonight that the fight between Cham pion Jack Johnson and Curran. the Irish heavyweight, which was sched- uled for Belfast on Aug. 5, will not take place.
 While tbe definite cause of the abandonment Of the contest is not known, ii is stated that Johnson has declined to box in Belfast.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-27
'26 PROBES WILL BE
 PUSHED BY CONGRESS
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 industrialists in the United States, and has furnished the public with some information that perhaps could not have come out by any means.
 If this committee follows it's in. quiries, as it promises to do, it will recommend at the regular ses- sion of congress some constructive legislation with regard to trust con troi, and regulation which may jus tify is hard work and the pangs it has given some of the leading steel magnates of the country.
 Then too, the committee now probing into the Controller Bay af- fair indicates that it will lift the lid on the whole of Alaska and the alleged attempts being made by the Guggenheims and J. P. Morgan to exploit that rich territory It therefore has the opportunity to do the country a service.
 All About Sugar.
 From the Hardwick Sugar com mittee may come a comprehensive report as to the domination of the sugar production of the United States and the necessity of more law to protect the independent interests and to prohibit any coalition be- tween the beet sugar producers Of the west and the refiners of the east.
 In the senate only one inFestiga- ton of national importance has been instituted. That has to do with the methods used in the cleo. ton of Senator Lorimer of Illinois. This committee will not make it's report until the regular session Of congress in December, and will once and for all settle the status of LOT imer in the senate.
 All of these committees are bling up work for the next session of con gress. Each of the committees will make a report. Some Of these reports will not be important, but others Will. In every case reform of some kind will be proposed and all this means rebate, work and legisia- ton.