The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 25, 1905, Page 1

EXTRA! The Seattle Star peer EDITION TOWN IS IN ASHES SEATTLE, MURDER RAMPANT HOT SPRINGS, ARK, THE FAMOUS HEALTH RESORT, VISITED ‘i CHIEF OF POLICE KONDRATOVITCH, OF BALSU, KILLED BY BY A DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION—HUNDREDS oF | : | STRIKERS—ASSASSINS ESQAPED HOUSES AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS’ WORTH OF PROP. | ERTY DESTROYED ——) ee (By Rortnps News Ass'n) | military mageaine at Kieff, An im frrrtreteroolr leet eer rerrrr rr err rere rer ST. PETERSBURG, Fev, 25.—|™*" ty of mrain, hay ang * sat yiight this stray * SUMMARY OF THE FIRE. * [morning asee inated K mainte * ¥ itch, chtef of police of E aon : lv chief of police of Baku, as he & Batimate Sean eaV $ 00 * | was passing through the street * Busine mt 4 0 * |The assasaina escaped in a vehicle H a ing ) & [which was waiting for them. Th " jreport that the chief of police at| s Mass * | Ratoom has been assamsinated ts | ONE REPORTED ETE CSSOCOUCSSOOOOSS OSS eee ee ee eS ee | (By 8 News Ass'n) Jin the new city jail. The owe MURDERED AT 1 FOUDOM, ~~. be ry a“ — MOT SPRINGS, Ark. Feb. 25.—A digastrous conflagration of unknown sause ewept through the business and residence district of this city during the early morning hours and wrought fearful lows ‘The beet ost mates place the prop arty loss at $2,500,000, the number of Dusiness how burned at 100, and the number of dwellings in aghes at 200 and the number of per sens homeless at 2,000. Three bodies, two of men and one weman have been recovered from the ruine of the Grand Central he tel where the fire started, and it io believed th many mere persons were caught ke rate in a trap in the buildings in the direct sweep of © charred re d as soon as @ebris has cooled sufficiently was shortly efter 2:30 this morning wh ne flames were seen sheeting through the roof of the Grand Centra Fanned by a gale-like wind the hungry flames fed on the tinder house was soon in ruins, Government troops from the res me ervation and squads of police formed @ corden around the devastated dis triet and kept the crowds from dash ing in to search for missing friends. ~ WARSAW _, MARTIAL LAW The Arlington, Alhambra, Maje: LONDON, Feb tic, Eastman, Imperial, Park and | from Warsaw announce < Palace hoteigrand the Army and| Vasiltehykoff 1] Navy sanitarium threw open their = part od by ae | doors to the hundreds of homeless | *udents and strikers in his capa . ek ity as head of tne military. He iy Retain Meee nae The clething en the bedy of ond was the second on the list of those y } who 8 th at the hi LONDO’ Feb. 25.—The of the men found bore the laundry | WhO must suffer death a = sen an mark “R. A. 1." This peor fellow | tne Fevolutioniota gi tens gagged Three others are notified that telegraphed a was burned in full sight of hundredn | 4.90 or, net Min ne ‘ re al law has bee of people who were watching the} direct Count Priesdtistent batted | de ies ii flames sweep through the deomed | snated Count Priesds e city, He was hemmed in between | 10 SON) te — - the flames in two buildings on| | = Set Tet tad Santen etc” | tnd Baron Nolken S| STULL ACTIVE men made a desperate effort to! io Ga) or two he nd t reach him, he was burned to a crisp) ooour piace ae - betore he could be rescued. 4 See, WARSAW, Feb. , Se hot was the fire that tho! sronEHOUSE BURNED at ntinue in differen glass in windows @ blook away from] the empire. At Mark!, this morn the fire were melted and ether! ST. PETERSDt b. 2 ing. strikers wrecked the railway buildings caught from mere heat be- | revolut tod fire to the| stat SHOWING BIE t ted States ™ and the { t r t a sate, though . the Lake Reser a magn ees, an 1 with ficial lake t and a pa n, at ate f se and plea t ad all of th he Grand Ce h 1 swept toward part of the city sh 4 th 1 oe shown in -th at Were destro a ‘ a nur t ings In the fo: t at the right, where the famous spr € m th wr Ory buildings contiguous and soon pe eet of Quapaw avenue for a of more than a mile wae 8 wething cauldron into which the fire-fighters poured streams of hot Weter without avail The wind drove them from one point to another and soon the water tupply ran low and the department 8nd the police began to dynamite buildin, © path of the fire in - ravages to the uth and west parts of the city. This alone checked the fire and wn under control, Bed the wind had died down suff Bindtly to allow the firemen to ap- thr Rear enough to fight effect Idings destroyed Garnier fiats, Morris Drug Co., & Bousiey, dry goods; Byrd Alhambra hotel, Palmyra ho hotel, New St. Hart house, Guinn house, Seigier flats, Grand Windsor betel, IHiincis hotel, Alamo hotel, Biumenstein block, Woodeock, dry foods. And scores of other smaller struc+ From Quapaw street the fire and attacked the residence and before the fire was un ter contro! 200 homes had been de- H Hi flames attacked the| Court house fifty prisoners we ro-|#& well last night. | Moved from the bastile and placed pyyyeyeeyeeyyyynyyyygyyy thing Will be in readiness so when fore the fire actually reached them. | Several narrow escapes ocourred | in the Grand Central hotel, where | the fire started. Most of the guests were asleep at the time the alarm! was g They had no time to save clothing or valuables, and most SWEENEY 10 BUILD ven. of them reached safety by jumping | from the windows. Every house on from Central avenue to was destroyed. Beginning at the Columbia hotel, Market street | Pro et} the fire swept Oak street almost | a clean as far as Grand avenue. Only | one block in the path of the con-| 4 hotel 4 t work Is done the'et flagration was spared. The mayor has requested the citi-| be crected on Second avenne be- |" 5 con zens to throw open their homes tol swoon fini Ht r the destitute, and many of them | re doa of Le ave already complied. , — ore P Steps have already been taken to) "*¥: Th act je | The vu eather * start a relief fund for the suf | one of the finest hotel t . * Sindee: | will be built betwee pa Spotter * The burned district covers about |&P0 the eeney Brooklyn Univer a square mile. | eee stated t to a Star r RR ee ee ee eg! porter that his plans were as yet! pair Thig Afterneon; Tonight and ®\ immature, but would be 1 . &% OLYMPIA, . Feb. — bone petagtnce th Sunday, Light Sauth Winds # Doolittle, of Spokane, intro. #| The hotel to to be built in the fat- | _Waten this hand—t. moves and # duced a bill in to the house to- #|est and most modern plans of ah tell the lowes temperatare Sov # day making it unlawful for #| American hotel. The inside will be pest 9 Rew * any one not a physician to at- # | finished in the finest kinds of wood. . — * tend to sick persons for pay. #| work and decorating that could be temperature reg * The violators are subject to into a hotel. There has not intered on the * {mprisonment or fine, or both en any orders for the present o¢ official thet o *|cupants where the proposed hotel KKK KKKhhhhh th kee | is to be built to vacate, but as they mometer in the past 24 hours | in| morning. ‘This are all renting on the monthly plan |they can be notified at any time. | The property belongs to Sweeney and a more suitable place for a first 7 class hotel could not be found dtkhhih ith hk hithhkieeties | Sweeney is already the ownor of one MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 25.—The American Bowling congress has de cided to hold the 1907 meet in New | York # Senator Van de Vanter {s #|of the largest hotels on the cost % stjll improving. He 1s notic- | the Butler. The building will prob: is the highest # ably stronger today and rested #| ably not start until the Third ave reminter thin | nue regrade is fintshe year #o early in the morning. , but every WASHINGTON, SA’ ANOTHER BIG HOTEL TURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1995 FIGHTING -RE-OPENS The Only FP im Seattle That Dares to Print the News VOL NO. 4 PER AGAINST RUSSIA! MONTH | THE STARTLED CRAY OF LITTLE ELLEN BASKETT, CHILD WIFE OF MILTON LANDERKIN, WHO A FEW DAYS AGO SWORE SHE LOVED AND HONORED HIM—A REMARKABLE STORY OF HYPNOTIC INFLUENCE WHICH HAS RUINED A ] YOUNG GIRL'S LIFE | —— — on as = ie I aid his |t With these words th etty ja 2 ft hild-wif M Landerkin rf rushed from b i . ° H my husba I love b | threw herself mot . I stay ¥ t ave 1 sovered h ¢ 2 behind he the ay porartly ba was t and that who, aceor ELLEN BASKETT, (Foto by James & Bushnell, Arcade bvilding.) she télls, had lured the girl from] An interesting bit of material is her happy home, forced her to] here furnished th to re | marry him, and who, when she had t upon. escaped him, had twice exercised his| Is hypnotism a seient fact, or mpted to kidnap |is it merely a “hob-goblin of little evil spell and at her after the manner of a pirate! minds? | Of the high seas, the last tir 1c-4 ‘This ts the question that is vex | ceeding and carrying her off for a|ing the practical mentality of the three days’ cruise, the events of| present day, and such instances as which she says are to her furnished by the Landerkin but an | ar hould give pause to © away the subject | indtetinct memory kett affair And yet, but two days before, this} those who wa ———_——= ——__—. THE JAPS AND RUSSIANS RESUME ACTIVE OPERATIONS | NORTH SEA COMMISSION HOLDS THAT ADMIRAL ROJEST> SOUTH OF MUKDEN | VENSKY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR FIRING ON THE BRITISH ii DOGGER BANK FISHING FLEET My feripps News Ass'n? Jott 1 «. The Red Crom ———w MUKDEN, Feb, 25.—At £20 thie! hompit in the. district mt ming action ned on the cen~| structed to mmodate (By Borippn News Ass'n (pr with siege eu The firing cons | 60,000 and 100,06 nde PARIS, Feb. 26 nm of | ABANDONED BEREGNEF HILL ie ay i — sie GENERAL FIGHT YESTERDAY | was made public this morning. It! Je + Vr ERSHURG, Pet All v to the Russians me THINKHPTCHEN, Feb 6.—4}en pe fated Febr af . jon states that Admira c jeral fehting alor the whol “ h Th Jaw ed ky was not fied ir Jin this district waw progressing yer-|the Rus Aetachme t Teink- | fir the British Dogger bank \terfay, and the Jupanese drove the | hetchen t b n t f g fleet some months ago Ruasions buck to their fortified po-| Beresnet bh he buttle haw be » was signed by = ma-|f | sithona« ye trouble la ex 1 pere t rit of th ommissioners, the | f today. k " nly dissentix te et t { en | ‘ D t Russie has| CLOSING IN ON RUSSIANS | STILL AT SHAKHE RIVER SHENKING, Manchuria, Fet PETERSBURG, Fet tela — nvened at 3: military valor of Rojestvems MEE Gesanest G fauaried ¢ 4 rs : ve “el ot e y ap i s men They make no closing tn or Russ ‘ the f eet oment regarding the indemasy flank, and the movement ts expe k N « ¥: khe A lth h msen Wil thetetone heve 50.Be Gee d@ to result important ¢ It & bd F ed by ect negotiations between - gg Mealy ha here, paths: | slane ba tmost! F a and Englan Indicates that ope a will be . ‘ ' ff i* few week | Amother great battle south of > c | Muleden ie ccietea toe th WARSHIPS SIGHTED future, | is reported t t Ge ! 1 Y } A ¥ ’ Kurepatkin iy re to throw battles 1 by f the hope of F f ) _—_—_—_— Oyama in equa elk t pig) enh an eee of} ing, going (y Scripps News Ass'n.) : | . GERMAN COLLIER CAPTURED A . | dition an@ have been re-enforced ROME, Fet Twenty thou that the future s TOKIO, Fet The 3 the f which inundated the city and persons are homeless ar 6 mont 4 the } ae bound for V P of i, Italy. ————_——_—= | ve she was drugged Landerkin again © boat, the girl says, ceded in carry- ne acquiesced « at i Elle a aw I n t her «a hb frie ed and 1 away Ther he girl say they do was ® eque r marriage to t t e e ff ts on ang 4 playing with claim . t A tim t er w nma T as she “l ! u she ® exercise of he is near, she his j a ‘ no longer r and $s willing t Ba Q it - w him to the end of the jorkin. He followed th Quit without d 1 the he mai t ent ef. the we received was 1 t eculiarly warm. morn- I tly held " 5 t tt re , I ar { as any- yr two of these Elle I and I fear ame hy a gC ul but r b 4 A ‘ hen Il w € ® lerkin I have said. He would make me go then n x him and I w t have any go } iin ¢ t. It is awfully hard on e with her, keeping her | my folh here the g hoked night and then telling | dowr and I rry for all lid not marry him her | tt Iam ca it I can- would be Palace. ‘Ther lect helo &. th being a fy 1 he Dalles, Ore.,|in a spider's web I can’t uring a tra rom |struggle, lke the fly would. I k as a wit gues at man hypnotizes Ellen says, Lan Landerk former w ame abhorrent to her and | with her mother, Mrs. Al s able to break away from |at 1321% Third avenue, an 4 influence. Her relatives had|kin, the gtrl says, spends much of her movements, and she was | his time there, practically making brought back home. Later Lan-|the place his home when he is on rkin got into communication with |shore. It was Mrs. Cowan, Lander her, and, according to her story,|kin's mother-in-law, the girl says, who first coaxed her to elope with Landerkin. lured her promise down to his tugboat on of returning to her som ordingto the pretty furs and a typewriter he had On that occasion, ac given her. At the boat a struge rl's story, this woman took her, jtook place between Landerkin and |against protest, into the Louvre Olaff Olsen, a young man who saloon and tried to get her to drink corted the girl to the boat. It is be- | beer, after which she presented her lieved that Landerkin atte i with a cheap tailor-made dress and kidnap her » was carried h hat, burning the gtr lothes, plicated ia unconscious, in which condition gh fear of being ix remained for more than two hours. !the affair.