The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 21, 1905, Page 7

; $e THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1905 7 EE A Le ee ——— 7 3 CHARGED WITH “ | A. Bridge & Co., Pop : : | GRAND LARCENY a : | . Hertha Robinson, charged with ~ . | limigary exam! on before Pate Judg® Gordon } lay afternoon . is alloged in the formal complatng : inet woman that «ht . gu Yosler wa lodg! ogy {some money with the $646 Nels a ene arried with Jim at the time Pp took it in the house and ran 5 s que GANG OF CROOKS WHO OPERATED THE STOREY COTTON Istters® received Im reply to adver. | th sok way. ‘el ported en Ss u g an urnis ngs . 4,500, ¢ tislng, mar kors” shied at heft to Clty Dete B 0, GOT AWAY WITH $8,500,000 ton speculation, ‘They didn’t know | Mennedy, who promptly arre : _ - anything aly tlon. This was a| Madame Lev and Madame i . 3 ow idea to ank ore | bourne, forts t na , : petapLISHBD BRAN HES AND HAD AGENTS NOT ONLY IN THIS rene: Scag Phag ag me igs ate : ipo alleged th € ‘\ NE DAY > they di tn the bait Bo the i in lad " + a COUNTRY nut IN CANADA AND ENGLAND. on — see the bate, dhog ; ‘ Sp ecia | ' miata The first bait was the Provident In-| The Robinson woman claints that a ; : Pee ese vestment Co,, brokers in gra} » bay, | Nelson to a di rem ver, wh Prices that ; aaaaeae +e RRR ER EERE BRB HM [eto In charge was W. H. Latimer,|#he ts trying to rid t if of w f ; pee a profes gambler, known as|that she never took nt will hold the atten- 4 $terey Cotton © and allied fra ud $8,500,000 ® | “Handsome Harry It, ike all the | him, Nelson ts traveling und ’ 4 Franklin Syndicate $ » ® |other concerns of the gang, was a| assumed name and, it ha | tion of every per- J * Swindle = m * | blind pool, The sucker put In } has a wife and children tn Bal “ : te State Provident 1,000,000 @ | money without know! h an 4. The prosecution will show that! ; . ‘ a BS Seectean Finance Inv osters $1,500,000 * |to be done with i The crooks | the wah Guan out 40 0 eT son who has a dol ; ertcan Investor's Trust $1,250,000 & | took care of the rest lard bank on the day the theft was " . . : 2 * | This coded nearly an well ns| Alleged to have been committed lar to spend for the SEEPS EEE EEE EEE RE RH HR HHH | the Storey Cotton Co, but other | an’ ro? ae Yeators held out. 80 to please al Men’s or Boys tastes and get everyone's money BY WM. B. KENNEY } Fomance and adven puts fiction ; © following concerns were organ cial to the Seattle Star shame zed Balt Spc! The swindle was born in A sweepstakes company, a racing PMLADELPHIA.—Inch by tnch,! when the firm of Arthur E pool; a new light company, a patent peer by Rour, United States secret | & Co., cotton brokers, was started. | Tabt concern; un Kngtish company gerke men are uncovering the | 5 Francie was manager,|mited, to control the light pat : of the Storey Cotton O ents; a trust company, to guarantee Hat the moat | the ks and bonds of the or ever im concerns; an autom company — to manufacture automodties; and a : ‘ va novelty company Resides § the in as dide ver (ures t t ru ned | The postoffice tnspectora estat : At least ished the connection between tt “has resigned, | ‘nother scandal, greater even aaa the Machen-Coft-Tyner affalr the concern | concerns by sending to the & Cotte ©o. for li atere, under a fictitious name. Tt eame, and a day literature of several flew many victims concerns. Of course, afte pal, pe one knows A vague ideal the exposure, employes told of the ieap be gained when it ts known connection of the different pr Gat the crooks maintained big of- pain Gem ia every large city of th For nearly f years these con qaptry, England and Canada, and cerns thrived elr boks showed fiat Bo hamlet was too small for that as moch 0000 was them to have an agent in ite heart posited hy a client, at a ; Pesteffice officials say the list of single tn Every few ities will run up tn the three months “stat were | my Petre’ thonsants +, a? declaring vidends t4 or THE STAR ACTORS, ent per m ot n The Har actors this titant STANLEY FRANCIS. Vestora collected these fend gheme to rod are Stanley Francis a a and they id promptly, fo ; faek © Marrin. A. 0. Howard. W./ About the same time Marrin, as] this prom led the vietim to Bilatimer and Sophie Beck. Each | “Judge” Franklin B. Stone, startea | tell bis friends of the “ood thing ; SM thee has enough Aliases to fill] the firm of “Storey & Co.,"’ import- | But most or cHents let their Dat these are the names un-| ers and exporters of wines aud deli-| dividends “ride.” that is, they let Which they played their roles} cac the mpany keep them as added fee Of these, Franc under ar Foster & Co. did a good business | principal for “re-investment.” Of Gebend the others are fugitives| for three months, Their circlars = : fem jastice, presumably on a yacht.| were wonders in luring suckers Tach of these people, expecially invest.” But. one day, P Beerin, has had a career that for) Inspector Dice dropped in ¢ gate. He identified Francis | man who had been arrested in Easter es | Oleans once, on suspicion Of waing the mails to defraud. A fraud order | REE FR FREE) wes terued nna Poster & Co. was put . }out of business, after a fight, in i @e Friday and Saturday the Lang | wmich Marrin acted as attorney for i ; Drag Co. will give a S-comt package | pra nots i . Bes Dye with cach and every! 4 tow weeks later, “Storey & Co.” | changed its style to “Storey & Co,” | Matler whether you make 4) bankers. Then, Dec. 7. 1900, it was : or a $ purchase. | incorporated ws the rey Cotton @Ht one just the same, free of |, Neither Francis or Marrin ap iby name in th | You can have your choice of such | Straw men were used fs as Storey” was president alias used by Howard, al FAAS. PICTURE, CALICO, RAB. | 8 Jenex But Storey did not ap- BIT AND PLAIN DY pear often around th offices, In | them, Marrin known as “Har aang per” and Francie Marten.” They MACKS COMBINATION TABLET | assumed absolute control of the con AND POWDER DYES | odours ofihen Frances prepared the Storey Cot FRANCIS FE. MARRIN Remember, a package of dye free | ton Co."s literature and duplicated 4 as | Wererytoty making a purchase, | the Foster Co's booklets even [0/ course, this was at the gang | Se mstier bow small. the half tone cuts of cotton plants, | Vanied and it was enabled to make ete. Money began to pour In. The | its paper dividends larger. And yet " Uterature was seductive and the! the books show that only two in-| —_ . at vestments were made during the entire four years. One was for $2.-/ . 250, the othér for $4,500, and both | : COLMAN BUILDING Sane ba | Middle of Block. Poraistent efforts of certain news. | : Columbia and Marion. papers to xet at the concern’s condl-| tion failed. The postal authorits Were strangely lenient and said the company was all right. Investo themaelves refused to help and sailed the papers for “meddling The business grew ike a mosh | room. Fi February last, | a clew. Deposi-| tors grew alarmed. There waa aj} panic, a calm, another pane and | 4 crash cam Latimer, Soph have a little uned $175.00 Beck, her hasband, Howard, Mer Mims Asto-Bi-Motocycle which rin and his wife fled,. Francis re Paced on sale Thursday at} mained and was caught ; Festeriay it was $99.00.) pie b, & i $95.90 The on FF Be stone te worth more than ws WILL DISCUSS THE : fer motor complete to ride.| | : is no Sport that quite equals | REGRADE | ing. The 5 ill be re ' Wi tech ay 0 bpd . WM. H. LATIMER u : rn’ for Kaster we| crooks had lista of people all over! 4 meeting of the Jackson atrect |. Price stand in your/the country. They opened branch | property owners will bo held the : “ offices and named agents. It ts on-| first Wednesday in May at the of } “ase Mase?’ y fair to state that these agents} tice of J. B. Metealf for the pur . . +s++ sel | acted in god faith and only the| yose of deciding the regrade que Me Assorted Fancy Ginss Vases crooks themselves knew that the|tion. At this meeting the ratlros 2s sereees Qe | concern was a fraud company will sub its report Waney China Vases... 106 ENTER SOPHIE BECK to whether it will take the re { ey Ce =Be been aperating three months DC strikingly handsome woman wa 5e ton Co. ha Fancy China Vases. . Ohiid’s China Copa Fancy Chini amer i 4| quired amount of earth away at a} &/ certain price, or whether it will re- | *| tune to * anything to do with | be ° made manager at $500 per week.|the project. It is the intention of| tems 4) ce ea ae ©8 | She was known as Miss Estelle Col-| the eopesty owners that Jackson Wek. They wou ia wens > rs lina, but her real name was Sophie | street will b4 made a second Pike! Wp were paid tor OY OOF” | Beck, the queen of confidence wom- | street before they are through. This esl en, afterwards known at Jenkin-! regrade will open the Rainier val-| . town, where she lived as “the | ley and the Beacon hill districts and Spinnin g's Satisfactory Store | woman with money to burn ee tues 45 toe a comeeaes Or} Seen 2? Second Ave. Business grew rapidly. But in the trict as can be found im the city J . ; ; ' ; . . 4 , q j : 7 : ; . nee woud fail Leather $4.00 I ) ne guaramtoe (he patent lt the beat made They por 4 gcd Shoe The f Wi you F. McDonald Ke Teale-Hills - __ look’ for the Burto’s Head ¢ ern , suten, jap ts sold with » . t a a i : j Burt & Pack Korrect @hape Shoos have distinetive style, au- | . porter finish, «re otortaWie, and have unusual durability, Burt & f | Packard, the makers, have » reputation extending over 40 yenr | they only ma The Korrect § If this Shoe bn nat make itively must athor he sel | | Men's Fancy Worsteds and in faint ipe Easter Apparel. weeds, plaids, ‘AT THE THEATERS | Every department checks, etc, all the in (eee RAR ’ a . * 4 very newest spring the Big Store has some & Grend—Pollard Opera com: #] patterns, cut to latest unusual Bargain Snap for : n A hv ay Girk ‘ * 4 a Seat, Gcistancen eutae fashion, serge lined, Saturday's Sale. # produced by clever young peo- ® best trimmings, hand * ple, Well worth seeing * felled collar and hand * attle—“The Bar *| padded shoulders, >. Shed Avenue-"ta the den ae with silk, fit like best & Fast we wed made to order, regu- Men's Black Vicuna Worsted Suits, th west and richest - o> coining ues lar value $15.00, black goods made, never 1 double & Star Va ite. #| urday’s Easter breasted sacks ar ; stouts and & bright and sn pert of cial extra longs; perfect and trim- eee eee eee eee ; ! everywhere for The vffer $12.50 122 $18.00 Suits Pollards will can Mill tre’ $18.00 Imported $ $8 25 Mixtures ae of any latest ES erformance. $12.50 Easter Top Coats All Wool Plain Bla aying at the evening is a tuneful opera and stare are, usual mounced hit ilar in tweeds, fancy worsteds, in all the new shades, browns and grays, tripes ; also Genuine Imported Scotch ed serges, in all the different Saturday’s Easter special fads good nall che Worsted Top 3 2.50 an Top ¢ 1905 ks and nfin Good Friday In the Par Bast,”| the Rasso-Jay bs the tt | Great Easter Snaps for the Boys and Children ext weed mg Pants Suits Boys’ Long Pants Suits, Children’s 2-piece Suits, Children’s 2-piece Suits, ocbeoe 4 dura- { the new brown mix tn browns, and small checks and nobby Seotech an in grays in and single tans, patterns Scotch new browns and grays; small mixture also mixtures, tures, double : Htallan band i IY Urbano’s Reyal regular meat and dressy, detighting large audiences at the | 15 to 19 breasted, very nobby, regu- Star this week The vauder| value; Faster |] regul $12.50 value; lar $5.00 values; regular $3.00 value; le fentures r v the r i b ae > he o@ $5.50 Easter special. .$7.95 SNIAL o<cences Easter special. .$1.95 nary WOMAN KILLS BABY BEST LINE OF BOYS’ CAPS IN THE CITY 25¢ UP. NEW DEPARTMENT BOYS’ SHIRTS AND WAISTS OPENS SATURDAY WITH BIG SPECIALS. New Hats for Easter } s00 Drummers’ Easter | 1 BUTTE, Aprit t.—Mre W. Hen- | Samples, in dorson at Anaconda last night, while the new light temporarily insane, struck her ff Spring fant danghter on the head with.» | ec wear Bhades, hammer, fatally wounding the chil@ u picked up at a big snap ad = worth up to $3.50; on sale Sat- urda Then she yed the body in a/ shawl and took it to Father Leit ham, @ Catholic priest, and asked if 8 had done right. A series of/ misfortunes have unbalanced her | mind The child died in an hour. GALE SWEEPS FIRE THROUGH PORTSMOUTH Swell Four-in-Hands, in ‘the bright, new choice rseeece spring silks, Saturday... ies Mle inca i oe Eee 25¢ 25 Cents Splendid quality Dressed and Un- Gorgeous new effects, in best quality dressed Kid Gloves; Saturday spe- Neckwear Silk Four-in-Hands 50¢ onan ebb < jana ee $1.25 in good ec, well de Neat new Spring P. Madras an seoice ona .. .$L.7. quality 4 Per g, soft bosom, made, tachable dinary Extraor . Be cuffs; Saturday Special cial n of this olty ; ¢ wale, The fire de ts Unable to cope with the fam: OLDEST FEDERAL JUDGE wy m@ Next Door to the Bon Marche 1415-1417 Second Avenue PUBLIG OWNERSHIP applied to transportation and com-|cations are being prepared to pur= munication, have brought the re-|chase 600 freight cars and other mote sections into close proximity | equipment, which will add materiale one to another Industrially and{ly to the capacity of the road, ece ally they are the same the parish, the village, the tow and the | SHOWER OF NAILS ounty were 100 years ag |Then the publie road was owne [amd operated by the. tocal govern INJURED WORKMAN CHICAGO ELECTION CAUSES A RUN ON THE GOVEBNMENT | iment for che people. There is noth 2 ane | w or radical tn the propost eck! FOR INFORMATION—UNCLE SAM COULD OPERATE RAIL- | nistic. control ena}, Fred Case, a longshoreman, was | utifities The} @dly Injured at 3 o'clock Friday ROADS | new ie the mechanical| Morning while assisting in load nm which has wiped out mere/!ME @ cargo of nails on the steam- BY GILSON GARDNER [man We am hilvanced etodent of pe-| secsraphical dlstanc [ship Mimsesota at the Great North WASHINGT D. C.—The result |litieal economy and inclines toward! pn nsus bureau ts er in |erh doe was tending the Bib remgnat ¢ election and thelebciaiions tm his views, ‘Ble tabel lye compilation of a volt (Mixing Slinger and had whistled al of the subject of | the position that the senate com-| Wealth and Taxation,” in which | fF the 20 kegs of nails to be holst- nt ownerst of public | mittee, in seeking for light on this |the valuation of railroad properties | ae Ww “ Wore pa JUDGE JOHN J. JACKSON ties Is ed strongly Jn/ important topic i poi ens . mt dered in one chapter. jracned @ height of more than 40 PARKERSBURG, W. Va Jobn Washingtor ‘ ndicathe f the | #ide only, but . er * Ss tollt is expecte that it will « ain feet from th sy 2 4 one of the ro J. Jackson, the oldest fed rift of publ ypinton is the av the attorneys f ratiroads, the some valuable statistics for those hanks cae ‘ K, « * ban t beng In the United States, | anche of requests hieh ha mittee should give attention to | who are studying the problems of | broke = ha ene aes Sa Fe feeble health and his death amy/ Poured In upon the department of | & aes va lar h es! Dep ge in |rallway regulation and ownership. | o..5 dodged right and left, bet ne Wetae sat Se Wannneen. as EEeeeeeres BNC leDon She Ce Gia Re Jone of them knocked him down, in- Jadge Jackson, who resigned #000". ie enor state, appealing for| Secretary Metcalf, of the departs | | ficting a painful scalp wound. He contty, 15 6S years cd Gnd wae GP iT vistica and Iterature on the ewt+|ment of comm and labor, has jWas picked up unconscious and re pointed to the bench by President] statisti Soin . ‘ewnerenip of] been aieed whether he intends og | moved to the Wayside Emergency Liacotn in 1861 He was a demo [aed of goversmen ¥ iatiietiey a-epdatas teventianiien abl ~ hospital, The attending surgeon erat then, and a member of the leg oe : orousty and it wan on this aeecam | #ay of the consular sheets having to| of public utilities particularly |.97he bodies of the five. miners |{™Ury dangerou a cy ese fi Boge coe ido. with 1 in nment ownership of railrond | killed in the explosion in the Kay Jack t the | Ben he spond ty M fo ine yesterday were found this|GO7 IT IN THE toon Soden,” 1 ot t tp. | oblet ' ’ I 1 and all removed, The mine | organized labor res of whape} that « Pages Paggress A : , eee ti vo lenders he had sent to jail for cdpr|® spect! report, and thin may be |) a hte tena: ahane wt ana nl Beye 1; | Charles Siegal, formerly motors tempt in the violation of his injuno-| Te" ms is tha * Is) Commissioner Garfield left for To- |. oot Capit rar, Sean tis Steady, keceeen, Maat , nt ownership of th of the private management of city | peka today on his way to California i Paday caeicn | See ives bua anaes Bee apparently attracting |nd national rallway systems. Post | where he will Investigate the condi-| iday morning agaiust the reely of the public's atter tes are more satisfacto pan the | tions of the oll fields. | hlectric company cc The 4 jurist was the last wt] Reareel ft the pubil - |Fee wor : besarte “y f the oll fleld 195,000 dasmagee, which “x ianeiaee the old sehool judges. He rode | Hon ee noel crete whlots Rave coatite acieweeal > . {suffered through the negtigeses ot horse-back to the federal court | traction ny Pict Dd oie peated nie spain PALM BEACH, Fla. April line defendant in allowing defective house every day that court waa in| Chicago plage Maia ae oy dee : pag tey Boe Prpenieay Bae i sgt Sau sai ne pas anoth= | brakes to be used on his @r, Im on ht a heitied ¢ preliminary step to federal |try, and whi r storiously ox night. Hits conditt this | he-colliston-whick . Ho threw wer his hip e¢ the. interetete higi | & sd Regge MP ose. aoe ead eMt Improves |q Capitol Hill and Pike and Broa whe he 4 diaemount and ¥ way Goemmmaras a avaee rere ss oe s : i we . 0 7 wavn He had Mesour nd WORE tT caliway COnteeh, pnd partion: |unen of betting e b00 eeeldsor j way ann oe Nevemtet 17, Siegal heots, just as he did in ‘61, and his |l@tly the study of rate making tox ny; it has for tv en Nmw YORK, April 21.—Nan Pat- peer gpet ae sor . nike standing at his linen ‘was always the most spot-|!slation, has raised — the tien |sn@ed in invest In} torso and her sister, Jutia Smith, |POst Of duty he was struck in the |whether 4t might not be r to|dame and dite f ferigating | attende hureh servidee ehGhs | “‘solar plexw ny the rapidly re- : start if on atrnight fe larme tracts in mme 10 Raton af the! the Prosbyterian. chapel in the /YOlviNg motor crank, which had Lola Williams, a colored — piek-|shiy t. The ative trend «#f the gev omba, Wien the sermon was over | 50m set In motion by fthe runaway, | pocket and ex-conyiet, escaped frome The secretary of the senate com- ernment has beon todnr® a kuegor | the two women were taken to a hos- |S? When the brakes refused to the Way fmergency hospital ¢ tt nterwtale mme re asure of what is sometimes called | pital cell, which is a double room, | 2M: that the blow he recelved Friday morning, where she w ed a terrible sh by | ‘paternalism, But it ls noteworthy | wi they spent the fter , | made him “sick, lame and sores @nt by the @rection of Dr, Buckley, |a request from a prominent “settte-| that little c@hplaint t# heard of ge | reading and conversing, jand disabled him for bard mang@l who, after examining her at the city |ment” worker in New for an! practical opération of the gove: n= | pm labor for life jail, decided that she was in such alopportunity to make an argument|ment-managed. utititie t 20 taTON N nse condition that the case demanded |before the senate committees on the {reason or other, the ft wa | erutaner es : ‘a wt 1.—) Two hundred shares of st be- Lremoval. The pol{ye say that this|advisabijity of substituting for the! sponsive to the de ds of the| Wall f the Penama rallrond thig | ene to George Park. were iia is an old gamo of Hers anu that she|Exch-Townsend bill some meamure| great majority than those which are |attecnoun@ontenctad ity oad this | by Mr. Bernard in an olf shack ti | was shammdng. She will be picked |looking to the government owner-| managed in the intorenta of private ican Loommotive camer ce Amer: {the southern part of the city. ‘The up and compelied to serve out the |ship and operation of the rattroada, |capttal, ‘The world is smaller than | 34 ended eet ey ‘stock was in the mining and mills large double-ended Mobile en- this gentle. it used to be, Blectricity and steam, gines, to cost $12,000 aptece, Speciti« - : ing company known as No, ortgine] sentence If aprpehended. 1897, 5, dated [At ie understood that i