The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 6, 1904, Page 3

AIMITS Hs EMT SHERIFF CUDIHEE RECEIVES HIGHLY COMPLIMENTARY LET- TER FROM WARDEN YELL OF FOLSOM PENITENTIARY— STORY OF PRISONER'S WANDERINGS Once well on his way back to Fol-| eom penitentiary Harry Eldridge, the Callfornia prison breaker who was recaptured in this city, threw aside the mask and frankly admit ted his identity, telling the full story of his wanderings the bloody dash for Uberty on July 27 of last! year | Among other things to be gleaned from Bldridge's narrative, as told to & Sacramento newspaper reporter, is that It ie exceedingly unlucky to break out of prison with a party of 3. Of the 13 convicts who 1 from the penitentiary with seven have now been caught or ef- feotually dispored of. | Allison was killed by a posse, Mil- | ler accidentally off his own bi head while trying to crack a safe in Colorado, and Weed and Murphy, | captured at Reno, Nev. have been | tried and sentenced to death for the! murder of a guard in the prison) break. view of the speedy conviction of Wood and Murphy It is probable that Eldridge will also stretch hemp within a few months, Nevertheless he takes his misfortune coolly and | says he has no complaint to mak except against the “stool pigeon who “clucked” on him in Seattle. “I had treated that fellow like a brother,” Bidridge said to the Sac-| ramento reporter. “I worked with | him in Oakland before I fell and| gave him money time and again. 1} met him in Utah after I beat Fol- sam and took up with him. “We went east together as far as Kansas City. There it was cold as the very —— and I told this fellow that I wae going back to Hritish Cetumbia to work In the fisheries. He came with me to Seattle and after I had eut my last 20 bucks on/ earth in two with him he turned me| up to the sheriff.” Eldridge boasted in his interview of the fact that he was arrested tn Ogden, Utah. and also in a Colorado town on suspicion of being one of the but managed to talk himself out of Jail Folsom convicts, Kidridge left the main bunch of convicts with Miller, ‘They became separated at Halleck, Nev Sheriff Cudihee this morning re celved the following highly complt mentary letter from Archibald Yel), warden of Folsom, inclosing a clip- ping of the Sacramento newspaper interview Dear Sir: My Meutenant of the guard, Cochrane, arrived in Sacra- with Eldridge on March a1 experiencing any trouble with him. After leaving Portland Eldridge came down off his high horse and acknowledged his identity. He spun quite a story regarding his wanderings since he e#eaped on July 27. 1 enclose a clipping from a Bac- ramento paper regarding him. “1 wish to most sincerely thank you for your courtesy and king treatment of my deputy and assure you that If you ever happen to visit} California it will give me much pleasure to reciprocate your marked kindness in any manner possible. I must congratulate you upon the rare discrimination and goed judg- ment you exercised in holding Bl- dridge under all ctroumstances, Gridge says that he was arrested once or twice before, Dut managed to talk himself out of custody, Mr. Cochrane Informs me that he ts #0 without changed In appearance that unless one was intimately acquainted with him ft would be a matter ef consid- erable trouble to identify him as positively as you did. “I apprectate your services in holding Eldridge such @ leng time, especially since I learn that so many insisted that you had the wrong party, and also owing to the strang mistakes made by the telegraph op- erators in transmitting the messages I sent you, Again thanking you for your kind courtesy I beg to remain, very respectfully, “ARCHIBALD YELL, Warden.” WILL ENFORCE THE ANTI-S PITTING LAW IF A MAN EXPECTORATE INA STREET CAR HE WILL BE HANDED A LITTLE CARD HEREAFTER Passengers aro notified that epitiing the street cars is forbidden by the regulations of @ the board of health and ts detri- mental to genera! health cond!- tions. Your attention te called to this matter with the hope @ that you will assist the railway BReompany in abolishing this @ practice on the part of its pat- rons.—eattie Electric Com- A Mttle printed stip making the foregoing request will be given here- after to the careless citizen who ex- pectorates in street cars operated by the Seattle Electric Company. Strange as tt may seem the electric octopus has become interested in en- forcing the law and the reason is that Its pocketbook has been touched. The-company wishes to avoid the trouble of cleaning up af- ter the tobacco chewers who would convert « street car into a barroom. For years it has been necessary to wash out every few days the pools of tobacco juice left in the cars. ‘The practice of expectorating in the cars is, moreover, unsanitary. It is especially objectionable to women whose skirts necessarily dra, through the filth on the street ca floors. It was for this reason that the Green Lake Improvement Club, at its Inst meeting, passed resolu- stellate ip aabiatontoannenencnapamsinsilitnonn Spring Suits ‘There af¢ many go00d styles if our Collection for spring. One of them is the three-button wack sult; It’s comfortable, and the work- manship is @xcellent. Men who must make a little money Go a great deal of Gressing will find this model a revelation of econ- omy. Priced trom 12.50 J. Redelsheimer & Co. Strongest Topcoat House in the Bt 800-804 First ave., cor, Columbia tions asking the co-operation of the Seattle Electric Company, Mayor Ballinger and Police Chief Delaney in enforcing the city ordinance which forbids the practice under a penalty of 3. F. Weyant, secretary of the has received replies from Mayor Ballinger and Manager Grant. The letter of the former is as follows: “T am tm receipt of your letter en- Closing copy of resolutions, which will be given prompt attention by the police department. “R. A. BALLINGER, Mayor.” Manager Grant says: “1 beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the ist inst. with copy of resolutions passed by the Green Lake Improvement Club in refer- ence to the spitting nuisance, and thank you for the same. We have recently taken this matter up with our conductors, furnishing them with printed slips, a copy of which LT enclose herewith. They have been instructed to quietly hand one of there slips to any passenger who may be seen spitting In our cars. We hope that in this way we may be able to do away with this prac- “H. F. GRANT, Manager.” TWO CONVENTIONS PULLMAN, April 6—The Whit- man county central committee de- cided yesterday to hold two con- ventions. The convention to select delegates to the state convention will be held May 7, the primaries May 4. The convention to nominate county and legislative candidates will be held July 9%, the primaries July 1. HELPED MANY Three hundred and four persons were included In the families which came under the care of the Charity Organization oclety during the month of March. The families cared for include seven in which the distress was di- rectly due to the desertion and abandonment of wife and family by the husband and father, Of the cases cared for there w: referred for complete or partial care }to individuals eight families, to lother societies seven, to churches five, to the county poor commis- sioner six, and to city departments tour. The Charity Organization Soclety secured the following aid from co- loperating sources: Material relief | In twenty-four cases, medical aid in | three, hospital care in two, employ- | ment in ten and transportation in seven Instances, WANT PEACE WASHINGTON, D. ©, April 6— The executive board of the Interna- tional Association of Machinists in in sension here considering the Santa Fe dispute. Pending the returns on the referendum vote the board ts endeavoring to obtain an amicable settlement. Cit—<—. MT Soe THIS PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS THE BARR IN TROUBLE PRIVATE SLEUTH ACCUSED oF! MISDEEDS AS EXECUTOR OF HARMAN WILL W. H. Barr, the alleged private detective who gained unenviable notoriety a few weeks ago if con ection with the arrest of “Prince Rubel,” the soothsayer, on @ charge of attempted ortion, is now in| trouble on his own account Barr had insinuated himself into the good «races of Anna 8. Harma: late proprictress of the Savoy hotel, on First avenue, and when she died, last February, it was found, greatly to the surprise of her friends and relatives, that Barr had been made One of the executors of her wi Yesterday the relatives put Gissatiafaction with the divorce case sleuth inte legal form by filing an/| application in the supertor court to have Barr removed from office and also beginning @ sult to restra! from in any way handling any of the funds of the estate pending an investigation into his accounts, The suit is brought by George W Thomas, Mrs. Harman's brother and Barr's co-executor, Themas alleges that Barr has converted money of the estate to bis own use and has deposited some of It in hia own name in the London @ Ban Francisco bank and In the Beattie Safe Deposit | vaults, The officers of both tnati tutions are restrained by the order signed by Judge Beil. Fred 3. Harman, the 19-year-old son and only heir of the deceased, makes a sensational affidavit in the case, He says Barr has never ac- counted for money received from the lodging house business and has de posited in the bank In his own na - $2,100 received from the sale of the} 000 life in- business and from a surance polioy. Young Harman fur- ther says that Barr bas threatened 0 “fight him with his own money” In case of any attempt made to oust him as executor and has been spend- ing money freely although having no resources of his own. “Fred, you may hear that I am spending considerable money. 1 am working for an English lord who has more money than friends.” This ts a telephone message young Har- man says he received over the tele- phone from Barr a few days ago Barr was cited to appear in court April 9 to answer the charges. HE WON'T MIX IN RIDE REFUSES KING COUNTY GOVERNOR TO DISCUS! SENATORSHIP —1S CONFI- DENT OF RE-ELECTION “The Republican convention years ago adopted a platform whic declared for the railroad commi ston. I stand squarely on that plat- form. I believe the rank and file of the Republican party are of the two same mind and that I will be nomi- nated for governor by the state con- vention and later elected. This was the declaration that Governor McBride made this morn- ing when seen at the Hotel Cecil by a Star ma not in a talk- ative mood. rinen late after @ night of long political conferences and said he was in a hurry to eat jome breakfast and leave the city He refused absolutely to enter into any discussion of the King county senatorial situation and wh the subject came up side-stepp gracefully. T did not come here for polltical "he said. “A meeting with the St. Louts fair commiasion of this ate was the object of my visit We arranged to have the exhibit transferred from St. Louis to exposition at Portland, as indeed was arranged when I appointed the commission, Of course I talked ver 1 it with some of my political friends) here, but no formal or particularly bien | the! Be ge Y BM JAPANESD LANDIN wan ne i wt tink t think T ha any more than the can didates for t ate ould have ip right to ent » the guberna tortal mu er will I state just how or by what or whe votes I expect to be elected. 1 might not jbe right In my caleutations and 1 would be yet to myself to let enemies know all that | know be elected by ot my |i expect plurality after |a ratiroad That and the equal taxation of porate and private se my campatgn doctrine “I know that the ratiro state, and I suppose in King as much or more than in any other unty, are not carrying a Just share eine nomina ade of their taxation burden. 1 wer them to be aasessed the same amount in proportion te thetr mar- ket value that other rty is Qsscesed. ‘That is why I am tn | favor of the appointment of « re read commiasion, wh duty would be to find out just how much the state is loning every year be une It does not get & fair amount taxation from the railroads | “The establishment of the com- mission would also be an Important | factor in the abelition of the cor ir | rupt and corrupting railroad lobby 1 stand on this principle solidly and will not forsake it for the sup port even of King county with her} 118 delegat FEADY FOR MN ATTACK NEWCHWANG COMMANDANT I8 PREPARED FOR THE JAPS (By Boripps News Ass'n) NEWCHWANG, April 6—General Kouropatkin arrived here today and reviewed $000 troops, composed of horne artillery, several field ba and four regiments of Siberian eke and the reg General Kondratovit jing at Newchwang, says he is pre- pared for a Japanese attack, wh | wan expected Tuesday failed te materialize. The relations between the Russian authorities and foreign residents are improving. u/ TTLE | HAPPE. NINGS orien iften, alry lar ¢ been made clear by the officers, ¥ anes command: } A non-sult wan granted by Judge} LAWIERS ARGUE BOTKIN CASE WILL GO TO JURY TOMORROW ripps News Ans’n) The in| April 6 defenne the I Att of: the ading ning WENTTO \ MICHIGAN WHISTERS DITROIT, Mich., Ap De toes of whint from many parte o the state filled the assernbly rooma of the Hotel Cadiliac this after-| noon at the opening of the ninth an-! nual meeting and tournament of the| Michigan Whist Association. The] meeting is well attended and prom-| inen to be one of the most success-| ful in the history of the associa. | tion. HELENA AT SHANGHAI WASHINGTON, D. ©. April 6 ‘The United Staten gunboat Helena, | which has been stationed at Yinkow Manchuria, all winter, arrived at hanghal this morning Ps TH » TORTURED THE JEWS FURTHER REPORTS OF BRUTAL! iar y TREATMENT OF THE VICTIMS }ucir NRAR FU + Frog Ries BOUGHT COAL CL LANDS IN ALASKA perty 4 are OF THE LAST RIOTS r hands leet and placed crowns of thorns on their heads, The authorities took ener to, Meanures to crush the out oak. pressed the news, trying to prevent the antagonizing of tr tiona Jewink Cuyanciers in hand Bul gerian loans. (By Beripps News Asn'n.) | ees es WAPHINGTON, Db. ¢ |The navy department ‘ MB) ves out the telegrams 1 } | ce wre of which was Investi- th the bat HAVE WIRELESS F ": a jcc ceiving any m from one | corees jin Washingt ncerning the sub IF (Special to The Star) | finding of the VICTORIA, B. C., April 6 , @ The United & on treasury de- HOL @ partment establishing Hl wireless telegraph #tation here Captain Torler of the United tates revenue cutter Grant in B here conducting the expert B mente He had long communt H eations with Port Townsend ‘ last night and today by the | Op Sees Sans system, which worked success- @| ST, PHTERSBURG, April 6—A fully, The station here will be @/ proclamation was texued tn Siberia in connection with Port Town- | today prohibiting the holding of any send and the system will be public meetings, the corrying of ff 4 to Tacoma and Seat arms, the purchase of ammunition or | the taking of any action toward rals- Ing the price of provisions, QUAY Ih CONTROL HARRISBURG, Pa., April 6—The} state convention assembled Grand opera house in thie city | DIRECTORS ELECTED | tee | “The convention ts under the control | f Senator Quay and his followers, a} which seemed to ansure th | vernor Samuel - tnation of G b andidate for the Albertson last evening in the sult} of I, L. Grindie against the Port) SOUTHERN PACIFIC HELD ITS was nominated tet, au- " age by & for Susan Logging Company | ANNUAL MEETING 7 nypacker refusing to ac- $25,900 for alleged malpr | t at the last moment | the company's hospital surgeons. Pennypacker, James Biverson of] The jury found for the defendant Philadelphia, O. D. Blakely and Fran-| last night In the case of C. H. Crow (ay Déttone Hews. Asie. Jcls Robbins of Pittsburg were oh der against the Seattle Milectri d t-large for the national Company, tried before Superior] LOUISVILLE, Ky. April 6—The| conv: ». Robert Pitcairn of Pitts Judge Morris. annual meeting of the Southern Pa-| burg and Calarence Wolf of Philadel The damage sult of B. A. Penner| cific railway was held today at! phia were chosen presidential electors against the Great Northern Rail-|Beachmont. The following directors | at-large. The convent endorsed | way Comp: is on trt efore | Were elected’: W. D. rnish, George | President Roosevelt | Judge Alb wn without a jury tn{J, Gould, BH. Harriman, Edwin} — 7 a ad the superior court today. Penner| Hawley, B. E. Huntington, James| | was hurt in the company’s Seattle| Hyde, C, MH. Kahn, D. ©. Mills, W $0 LONG, PIERP tunnel a few months ago and asks). Pierce, J. H. Schiff, J. 8. Peyer for $2,000. J. Stillman, C H. Tweed, Maxwell Evarts, A. K. Vandenventor These will meet next week in New (Ry Seripps News Ass'n.) STORIES |e Ss EE) wee wee ras tr $176,400,000 worth of stock by proxy.| Moran and his daughter sailed for) Peeere oer morning ked by a permanent hor had any such intentiOn, although emeesntaye ON APRIL 20\ ro stater that he might remain} abroad for some time. TWO MEN ARRESTED IN CON. —— NECTION WITH BRYANT MUR- peerepernes Mare Seene - WASHINGTON, D. C., April 6 MUST TELL WHY DER A resolution will be introduced tn the senate this week fixing April 20 am the date of the adjournment of the present session of congrens.| (By Scripps News Ass'n.) , ——- ERBEY ¢ r pril 6.—Counse (Special to The Star) The schooner Mald of Orleans,| representing the Continental Securi- | EVERETT, Wash, April 6—|which was recently sold by L. H.| ties Company today secured from| Frank Lacross and Carl Berg, ar-|Gray & Co., to Freeman Tatro for| Vice Chancellor Bergen an order re rested in connection with the Jack|a consideration of $4,800, is a of | quiring the Northern Securities Lebros murder at Bryant, tell con-|the fastest vessels of her class ply-|Company to show cause why it fileting stories. ‘The were in a/ing the waters of the Pacific The | should not be strained from voting reom adjoining the pon when the| vessel, which will be commanded by| to reduce its ik at its annual shot was fired and had a 88-caliber| Captain McKay, will make a trip to| meeting, April 28. | | Tevolver, one chamber of which was|southern F ific ports, after which an empty. ‘The fatal bullet was of the|#he will sail for Nome some time| PORT TOWNSEND, April 6—The lane wien dering tub test Yee th Jone Twa | department of commerce and labor Berg was o bartender in the #a-| years ago this schooner made an un-| he™AbPointed Sheriff C. L. Intermeta | loon and a brother-in-law of the|usually fast trip from Valdes tat Seterees a t pr ntem jae dead man. ‘The motive has not yet|Cape Fiattery, covering the distance | tive to prisoners and crimivals In Jef-| in @ trifle less than five days. ferson ce unty | business of mining promoters THE WALL OLD BOARD OF TRADE COM- PANY 18 BANKRUPT (By Scripps News Anw'n.) CHICAGO, April 6.—The Wanze- Rand Company, doing business for forty years on the board of trade went into voluntary bankruptcy this norning. It# Habilities are placed ut $108,000 and annets at $225,000. No statement was given out ex- plaining the failure SEA TTLE S SAILS With @ large list of passengers onalsting of miners, prospectors and nen, anwPell as & number bound for the oust and interior points In Alaska the Pacific Coast Steamship Com. ny's steamer City of Seattle sailed for Skagway and Lynn canal points 9 o'clock this morning. 100 dozen Children's and durable hose, sizes, special 200 dots and set ok in niety of pr cial next Friday at, a RELIABLE GOODS ONLY. BARGAINS IN fine ribbed, a 4 Next Friday ieces Printed Batiste, this season's ne in all color effects, stripes and i McCarthy Dry Goods Co. ‘MONARCHS MAY MEET ARRANGEMENTS UNDER WAY FOR THE KAISER TO VISIT PRESIDENT OF FRANCE BERLIN, April €~The Mamdee burs Zeitung reports that litm peror helm will visit President Loubet before returning home. Owing to the difficulties of the ceremonial character of meeting French on Italian ® s alleged that Prince Monace has asked to invite the monarchd to hie home, simultaneously. The ree port bears the mark of authenticity BIG CARGO OF GOLD N YORK, April 6.—One mil- Hon eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollare in gold was ene | caged for shipment to Burope today, LISTENED TO ARGUMENTS (By Scripps News Ass'n.) WASHDD ON, D.C, April Ge The supreme court today listened to arguments in two important anen, the United States ve. John Turner Englishman ordered to be deported by Secretary Cortelyou under the ant!-anarchiatic section the immigration law, and the United States va, Thomas Walsh or James Linchehaun, whose extradi- tion was sought by the British gov- ernment for an alleged murder in Ireland The steamer Rainier, L. H. Gray @ Co. will sail for Ban Francisco at # o'clock this evening. The ves- 1 will carry about thirty passen- gers end @ full cargo of general merchandise. Fast Black Hose, i12ie a va- = de abt ed TEALE-HILLS FURNITURE & CARPET CO. 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