The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 1, 1904, Page 9

HELD UP| ONE GOLD ROBBERY EFFECTED AND ANOTHER ATTEMPTED IN TACOMA—PLUCKY WOMAN FOILED ROBBERS IN HOTEL (Special to The Star) yon the case | TACOMA ng the early part ht Dery was efte ten after 11 o'ele with dra Hartwi Bansen A man tered Tobbers and while one watched Ha Ben the ott ve Sa ¥ out volver. No attempt was ma ly rifled the til and twe and § yea 7 two masked men et ted and a last k two unma n revolvers, en aJ PETER SELLS, THE SHOWMAN PROBABLY DYING OF APOPLEXY COLUMBUS, 0. Peter Sells, the vete nnaylvant ge of the who lies at his-home tn bipping in foller & Probably stricken with apoplex Andrews, the parent firm of the adout as familiar to t ’ present Standard Ot! py @s to the child of 10. For me ‘om the last named omy 30 years the circus tents tol ton. Ia. ¢ Brothers have travele yantry k east, west, north and south, and |» Auction Frow he that must be a strange youngster) went to ¢ and t ( ag Qnd a queer oldster, too, who doesn’t} he and his broth 4 dry feel a thrill when the name Sells | goods. Then f +4 “comes to mind of an auction store «in Peter Sells started life at the bot tnership with his | Aller tom of the financia Ider and ' Sells, with his broth rose to a rung close unto the top Ephriam, Louts and Allan His wealth is estimated to be! founded the « Bre 1. He around the million mark. But it b t . a ever not strange that a man with M tis the sawdust ring that Sells’ energy, ingenuity and indom- | ) the family Ithy. It Mtadle spirit, cc tutelage a wag but #0 under John t prospered that in ISTS it became a become a miltionatre road show. Sells B went tanto Poter Sells was one of 11 children | the cireus trust a fe ago and Of Peter and Hannah Ranney Sella, | their interest is represented In the meers of Franklin county, Obie. | Po: et n fivision of s tather was a farmer ener at Dublin, near A gar-| the « mbus | a manage the publicity end of t | Peter Sells has tra }many miles and ke about as many different people as anybody on earth at the present t There is perhaps not a tow 5,000 oF North over on the merica nent that he has not visited which he canont call the several persona. By . he picked up a « { diver equaint & in the ance in Ausi when ‘Ma, he took his show there He ts a man of remarkable mem lory and exactness of dates and cir cumstances. Ask him where he was m a certain day 10 years ago. and he will instantly tel! you, naming an incident at a certain hotel street corner, ete 4 recall the names of persons with whom he talked at that time and place. fortunes made by the Sells eireus are largely based upon the personal judgment of Peter Sella It has ever been his trait to travel about the the show's eding season trips have be h year before tor route is made up PETER SELLA. aa a sae Th on pulae-feel Peter was born in Columtua, in ers er would observe the cond! April, 1846. In 1854 his father re- tion of crops and learn from busi moved to Cleveland and until he mess and laboring men alike the was 13 yee ob y re condition of ade and ries tended the Mayflower « jin that ff @ certain mmunity should be ay. 7 wae t ' t is found p pering. [t was marked for echoo ing wit the « ption of a ay the show. otherwise it be comr } course taken in Ch a black spot on the cireus) in 1863. s first m er Selle’ chief t en indefatina n 3 planning and . a * nature, and yet he s cireniation manager ta 1870 had anatch f socie hat © returne te Oo a. @ m an agrers bie bh on fre h t iis quent occasions: tied only reece The divorce sult brought by F Peter was only fat the Sells in 1900 was one of the most time be left the Lee t at that sensational ever tried In Obie. age he had gained a world of ex The trial lasted for almost two perience. Just before to the months and then abruptly” ended Office of the Leader he was n an agreement by Mra Sel's t ductor on & hore ca In Cleve resiat no further She . ven land young Peter Se ttracte bout $20,000 alin 5 got attention of Je R eller, the di © t * who had then just tarted om Selle charges sw the foundation of the fortune that | tty and the evidence is sow has ama t “sy Hoek the at St t 4 bef and “Attracting Much s==~ A boy” of Mra Sel and ship t loads of kinases wer conveyed from Attention Sante ot bes wave commas fee tralia when the show a there The evidence showed that during . ane the long periods of the absence of deopted Slane Sati r Sells, his wife held high carnival Teen teen and Gaal with other men at the Sells man sion on Dennison avenue. struments, recently replenished by Mra. Setis made counter charges large shipments, is attracting buyers’ 16 inridelity, but failed to prove from all directions, many of whom | stew geile was Mary Laker, daugh express surprise at the great valu we are offering. It doesn’t require! ™ money to buy « Piano nowa days; just a small amount down, say | from $10.00 up, and easy monthly | payments from $6.00 upward. The DROPPED DEA. steamboat nk W. Parker, « instrument is delivered to your home| staward. died yesterday evening | upon receipt of the first payment, | about 8-30 o'clock as the result of and you enjoy the Piano while pay: |a fall whi s thought to ha ing for it. caused cc a if you have an old Piano or Organ, had been irinking hard dur and you think some of exchanging | ing the day tell several times. | for a new one, let us talk it over | While § ing in the New Ze as with you. Wf you have a good Piano | Bar talk ng ~ mi , Sans - be and no one to play it for you, let us agg ' . Desety < - phen} coll you a SIMPLEX that will play ee ee eee ase and atte any kind of music at sight, without wards ordered the remains reme © the Bonney-Watson morgue a moment's practice, if correctly op erated, and it's so can play it. y that a child MEAD AT NORTHPORT NORTHPORT ¢ LA. 8 — 4 i, gube ! . B. SOMNGTON CO le — Raita msctings bela bs 903 Second Avenue, Burke Building. Ins 7 THE SHATTLE STAR SATURDAY. QCT A NEW PICTURE OF A HURT IN RUNAWAY (Special to The Star.) “INTERESTING ANECDOTES | ARRANGING | LADY MARY GURZON CHEHALIS, Oc. Thomas So + ja “4 \ n fare from ee , 3 Riffle, was dar y hurt in @ 3 unaway accident near Ethel ye 3 | terday. He w wn from the $ FAIRBANKS’ SENSE OF HUMOR » |PLANS FOR PROTECTION AT|Wason and on fh “ns went -) 5 through the vom The limb was | ms nial, 4 | THE LAUNCHING OF THE NE-|broken and horribly crushed, Jor je ¢ ' y 1 nike y | BRASKA BEING COMPLETED Gas was brought teen miles to + hur | | . Le t I « ' and the un hip-} ' a t t rem att 1 ~ . . ie th aun r f th Pr socgs 1D | FOUNDLING HOME AT HILL. ' Bailing Ha ter| MAN CITY BECOMES A THING ‘ Jensen and two representatives of . ’ ‘ » |e H ding mpany we OF THE PAST IN THE ENEMY'S HANDS. . atten and h . oO al has been set w I eth Harp bogus akan att an City, : : i h ha ho i After wa vain ’ a 4 foithfu ° tating that he ha r t 2 ' nh e | ain ‘I to place hia fleet at | 2 take ne action in the matter i 1 r he 1 Mt * . for ser-| i@tther than to p the wom , beer ‘ pat Three | Dey ' ting At- . r | u 1 and has t w ¥ t pur ‘ mm to these the | went 1 Har means of * 1 representing th Kae F . a Bang sethenns F & charita per- rs . will b on ' the I " Rit ’ a. om | All th harper got out of ; : gather upon eal was a from her . George Harp, which was M ) extablinh dead t by Superior Judge ; : : lines on the water at a safe dis this morning " tar from the place where big more than year M Harp > : “ will take her initial dip, bees wIDK ney for the ‘ nfairness @ | | Sapte ge or ort of her alleged foundiings* . : ° | a t . e line The hans’ asylum con- ‘ ‘ ; sary |sisted of @ little cottage at Hillman, ° Fairt e | ft regula emen and | ** she had picke p in her r Fe - 4 { apecial officers and fire- | ‘T®¥ lived. These children she * wr . ' M > t alled her orphans and only a little ‘ 1 w a > of the money she 1 wes x } . k Cea- @ wij! |#pent on them, An expose of the or ‘ ; — : after. |!nstitution was made several o'r a > sey {9 Months ago by The Star. The Char- 4 > an |'tY organization started to investl< . V I ' ‘ his Sate the seandal, but did nothing . ' } dent 5 ‘ > n and the affair blew over - be Le b . harge f the arran nt Mrs. Harp sue er absent hus- s a l* . band, George Harp. for divorce and . ’ "4 oo the case was called last Saturday, © ‘ane » | The old story was revived, with the . FAIRBANKS i8 FOXY, > result that the case was continued ‘ PS unti! today to allow Deputy Prose- . “ rm ' ke ts - Sdreas he glances $ cuting Attorney Murphy time to -t h ' ‘ith . look into the matter. In open court " pap ie " . © today he charged Mrs. Harp with & quick o* ‘talks « } k. Fairbanks 4 t° |swindling the public and is now * y ker a . |trying. on bebalf of the state, to ne- ’ " apap wnt ' ' ‘ . ps sit cure possession of the four children. THIS PHOTOGRAPH OF LADY CURZON WAS TAKEN SHORT. | # hin * raph v 1 @ Fearing that her stock in trade LY BEFORE SHE AND LORD CURZON LEFT INDIA FOR EN : . « * | WHILE SUFFERING FROM MEL. | ¥#* to be taken from her Mrs. Harp, LAND. SHE POSED@'R IT ON THE TERRACE OF THE VIC * | during the last week, has placed the REGAL RESIDENCE 4 ¢ SIMLA : KING 18 A WONDER. * | ANCHOLY, CAUSED BY DEATH children in other homes. The 4 * youngest the woman, who claims to ee aa ' ' . h the Patrbarke o proba ° OF HER SON, MRS. RICHARD te « good Christian misionary, gave i : RE EN ye 2, Le, it. $ and ape . : nited . OLESON SUICIDES to a woman of the underworld who ae “ os when works in a concert hall. This little had seme sleep during the aight and he or Se oe ob ae a . ae lone has been taken from its terrible a o De » > environment and js in the Washim r ‘ <deyme — 1% > & \ : ° Suffering from melancholy caused |tom children’s home. An effort is sinter, Mrs, and Mine Leite i > being made to find the other chfl- at A egectal ts om Letters Wale atl : ~ . a : : we by the death of her son several dren. Mra. Harp claims to have oe 2 ol ~ 7 ae placed them with a Mrs. Henberger, a Y a a x satiatactory manner. ® | months ago, Mra, Richard Oleson, | but says she cannot remember the oi a . at he h , araphers with @ |of Thirty-second avenue, com- | ®44ress. ill Mov e ‘ Pree n c wh 1 the @ Deputy Prosecutor Murphy has . x . bowed hin ape. @ | Mitted suicide by hanging herself | evidence in hin possession which he | Church to : > says will prove to the court that the | . Stine te 6 s » : . during @ |! her bedroom shortly before 9} woman i* not a fit person to rear | i ~ fel, - » | ck this morning. Her body was | the children. Exposition RANGDELL'S EULOGY OF HOAR > |found a few minutes after death| Neighbors of the woman at Hill: | - : F ares S Ma Gi nent eal teenage oA and # | and every effort was made to start| man City say that they have heard | " - er al. f he 4 . ® | reapiratic but fp vain. Since the ber taunting the Wttle girls with } (My Boripos News Asw'n) . Pt x nyt He @ h of her four-year-old son, the |thetr unfortunate parentage until > tee 2 ‘ newe to @ | woman has hard ight ones would ery with BROKE UP FRESHMAN MEET EUGENE, Ore., Oct A . x oo 1 @ | mind She secured the children Method et . 2 . Neigh nformed th roner’s| from girls whom she nursed ING AT HIGH SCHOOL BY he : ‘ - ; at ‘ . © letties this qnevadag out Dette 4 ) sickness In Minnesota yurch in Oregon City to the Lew tthe bent t 1 . 3 ‘ . ¢ was sent out to invest! Tallman granted the wom- KEEPING QuIeT ead Clarke fair & t : - . P . a - polis a orce this morning, as she was given | we 0 7 ' . ° 7 mit a clear case of deser- © * ® br he he tonney -Watso and apes ial . a leat and mos i : . Ra ey Tw atso® | tiom against Harp. Another divores . n Meson is well known in = The clase ting of the high | ™ rae b. ng was © | cats elty 9 has boom & enconsstal t. which she brought against the b , the vt & aane ae. . ’ f what t « » © roa \ tielda in Alnaka, @me man under the name of Hart + upted and aystemat “~, . = ww ' 4 ©. | Fokdes her hesband, the end we was dismissed without prejudice, f . r ~ = | man |} two small ch a ay : ollins oros 5 H : dpa roy ; ; a Undertakers P . . . ‘ " " 1407 Firat ave. t Pay nels B os ne " : rT therr Phones, Main 1029, Ind. 102% a “CHARLEY” FAIRBANKS’ CHUMS. . ’ : . My Seriooe Nows Ansa) “ ' . ‘ || WASHINGTON, Oct ' ‘ “ ® . t neral f " emt t Phi @ The following wa tie AF ‘ . the whole delega tu S FAIRBANKS AND THE MOUNTAIN ‘ fatten the freahme _ WILLIAM O8LEF ° a 4 to h @ Cc eling ham be cr aacoheeld on tas wir k soy M t 1° GOING FASTER than ever now that work is being freshmen an avebe: ffice this morn’ L t . pushed on the Seattle-Everett Inturban. WE EXPECT to ‘ nd lively t ten from Silas White “Talle at|* ' ° sell the ontire 1,200 acres in 90 days, but at the rate they dir Baten Fi hal. Whatcom, that Lee You and Les ' § * are going now they won't last half thet time. People are \ging Nem, tw Chine nder t J .. > buytng these tracts for homes. Every day new families har f being " h . . y ¥ 9 are moving in; men are clearing land, grading streets, United 1 bee 1 . " . a 4 building houses, bullding a wharf and building a school- Pehgee edge ee Bagong “ ' re . house. DON’T YOU BUY a ptece of land until you have county ja Ur " f A Bn . . : seen these tracts. Postively the best land for the least S 3 sissioner H, B, Williams, of By 1s > money ever ed on the Seattle market. Some very ling) “0 > c ten-acr me at $250, some at . a ‘a Ae I was « " hen ¥ . $200 and e at $150. 0 per acre, but $160 for The board of works thie mors 3" ce : a the WHOLE TEN ACRES. Just a little cash down, and mitted na ' i . mall monthly payments. GO OUT and SEE THEM. Take ve yout MRS, WINSLOW'S ; me Great Northern trata any morning at 8:2, Buy round trip vst “ f ‘ " 1 t M tk a ket to Mo Office and restaurant on grounds gv een ee SOOTHING SYRUP - , ; to 7 t on th, and on | Saebeen need bp Milttont of Mothors for the F ‘ " ° th, fron } + t A BOTTLE | : 1 ° TBY B90 sOTTE a | 3 WHEELER MAL The grading b t t ’ ‘ t ' Jarn t nd @ 409 and 410 New York Blook, trom Lauine to Gartie REDUCED FREIGHT RATES) : Giurtaanea Union Bleak estima ts 1% Dn household goods to all era i ® M f x 4 é t m ¢ nerete | points. T eb cars, & cot 8 t at ’ alk hirty-nixth avenue from | te lo per cent 13 ; C ° East » Bast was estt-| if lor (f le ~ Raaceahe te Bat The Seattle Transfer Company : Peet eet eeE 44 COPS ORREPERRDEDERDRE DRED ORLD aa aa ae a la CS